Board of Directors - Regular Meeting

Okay, thank you, Mayor. Father God, I thank you for this day and for your many blessings. Thank you for your grace, your mercy, and for watching over each of us. Lord, I ask that you continue to protect and guide all of our city employees and every resident of this city. I pray for your hand of protection, wisdom, and peace to rest upon them. I also lift up this entire board before you. Please empty us of ourselves and fill us with your spirit that we may serve with humility, integrity, and wisdom. Help us to make decisions that reflect your will and that benefit all who call this city home. M

Thank you, Mayor Scott. And I know we talked about this a couple of weeks ago, but could you explain again why We have to do number 24 the way we are doing it.

And thank you for that. Can you explain why it has to go through the chamber?

Thank you, Mayor. And I think, I mean, I'm gonna speak to the board because I think the speakers made some very compelling arguments. I agree with the speakers that this should only be the first step. And I think it was Scott who said, we've learned a lot in the last year and we will learn a lot in the next year. This is, and I've rewritten my notes in cursive. And now I'm having trouble reading because I keep marking out because you all said so much of what I had planned to say. This is temporary. It is legal. It is a sound pause. It is the first step. And regardless of our opinion about data

Director Hines. Thank you, Mayor. Keep my comments brief since we've been here such a long time. Judge Griffin earlier proposed that this data center is a scale that's not known. And if you want to take the logical conclusion to that, every new industry we've approved in this city was at a scale not known, whether it be Trex, Wellspun, Amazon. But the truth is that the scale is known. They're all over the country. We've seen good examples and bad examples. We have just up the road a good example of how they've operated in prior Oklahoma. My question and my logical conclusion to this, if you lo

I don't know if anybody seconded Lance's proposal.

Thank you, Mayor Scott. And I just want to remind everybody one more time that this is legally defensible. Again, I think Mr. DePippa said it very well. It is included in the moratorium. We do have a legal leg to stand on, and I think this is an important first step that we have an opportunity to take tonight, right now.