City Council - Regular Meeting

The President of the United States.

Good morning. We're going to start this morning with an invocation by Pastor Sarah Stewart from the First Baptist Church, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance by Christian Oster from Scout Troop 177. Please stand if you're able.

Good morning. Meet me, O God, in the stillness of this morning. Move me, O Spirit, to quiet my heart. Mend us, O Father, from yesterday's harms. From the discords of yesterday, resurrect our peace. From the discouragements of yesterday, resurrect our hope. From the weariness of yesterday, resurrect our strength. From the doubts of yesterday, resurrect our faith. From the wounds of yesterday, resurrect our love. Fill this place with wisdom and compassion and kind hearts. Be in this room. Lead this meeting. Let these servants make honorable decisions for the people of Oklahoma City. We pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.

Will you please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance?

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, with liberty and justice for all. All right, I'm gonna call to order the joint meeting of the City Council and the Oklahoma City Housing Authority regarding joint resolution with the Oklahoma City Housing Authority finding it in the public interest for the Oklahoma City Housing Authority to provide for the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, improvement, extension, alteration, and or repair of housing projects. Amy, is there anybody signed up to speak on this? No, there's not. Housing Authority will make a presentation, and I'll let City Manager introduce them.

Thank you very much. Mark Gillett, the Executive Director for the Housing Authority, will introduce these projects that we're going to see today.

Good morning. Thank you, Vice Mayor and City Manager Freeman, members of the Council, members of the Oklahoma City Housing Authority, Board of Commissioners. We're here for a very exciting day, a day when we talk about adding six new affordable housing properties across Oklahoma City, and then also over 750 units of affordable housing across Oklahoma City. It's a tremendous day. Everyone's familiar with the members of the council. Mr. Rocky Chavez is the chair of the board of the commissioners. Ms. Annette Jacoby is the vice chair of the board of commissioners. Waylon Cubitt is a member, as is James Hudson is the other member of the Board of Commissioners. And we're excited to be here today at this joint meeting. And I'd like to introduce Mr. Greg Shin, who will give a detailed presentation on the properties we're talking about today. Thank you.

Good morning. Mark referenced these projects six different projects different types of affordable housing in Different areas of the city and we're making these investments Partially with the maps funding that we have in our maps for homelessness operating agreement with the city next slide, please So I would like to call your attention to the different models and the locations of where we're going to put these projects into service. The first one is Vita Nova. This is permanent supportive housing intended for chronically homeless persons. experiencing unsheltered homelessness or long-term homelessness that have disabling conditions. This is 76 units near Reno and Martin Luther King Avenue. It's a hotel conversion, and we have $3.4 million of MAPS funding in this project budget, which is a little over $14 million total development costs. And the construction is in progress as we speak. next project please Greg before you go to before you go on to Oak Grove yes could you tell us again what the qualifications are for this supportive housing you must be chronically homeless and referrals will come through what's called the continuum of care that's key to home here in Oklahoma City and referrals will come off of the by name list of known long-term homeless individuals with disabling conditions They also could come from Diversion Hub or other places like that, because we're going to implement a no-look-back period on the criminal histories. There are some exclusions at the federal level, like lifetime sex offender. You can't be on that. HUD can't fund that. So there are some exclusions, but it's really intended for people that have been experiencing long-term homelessness. A lot of folks that might be unsheltered that you might see in encampments around the city and so forth. That's helpful. Thank you.

I see the funds that are coming from MAPS, but we have total development cost of $14 million. Can you kind of break out the sources of funding on each one of the projects?

I do. We have many sources of funding for this project. We have home funds from the city of Oklahoma City, HUD money that originates and then comes through the city. We have private funding from the Arnall Foundation. We have Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka funding. We have capital magnet funds, which is a source that originates with the feds also. And then we have Community Enhancement Corporation puts its own funding into it. And then we have the maps for funding. And I can send everybody on the council a detailed financing spreadsheet, which I actually have in the the presentations that I've been making to the subcommittee and the Citizens Advisory Board, but I didn't know if you wanted to spend that time to get into that level of detail of the financing on each project.

I'm happy to send that to you. Thank you. Yes.

Every one of these deals has a complex financing model. The next project this is this is Oak Grove apartments. This is rehabilitation substantial rehabilitation and preservation of Existing public housing which will convert and no longer be public housing It'll now be affordable housing no longer 100% financed by the federal government under Department of Housing and Urban Development the total development budget is 109 million dollars that's actually increasing as we speak unfortunately we have 270 units of preservation and there'll be 36 units of new construction on this property and then at the same time we're working with on cue to do commercial development right across on right across the street from the Dell plant on Southwest 15th so this is actually a mixed-use development it's an economic development project as well as preservation and expansion of affordable housing so a total of 306 units next project please Creston Park we've been working closely with councillor Pennington and the neighborhoods surrounding and we have a community partnership for a hundred and seventy units in phase one at Creston Park and you can see with the site plan there we have phase 1a which will be affordable housing replacing part of the existing 95 units there we actually have 90 units and then we have a request for qualifications which actually closes this week that went out nationally to have a developer partner come in and work with councillor Pennington work with the neighborhood restore OKC Northeast Oklahoma City Renaissance the Housing Authority and the partnership that we've put together and work together with the community and engage and come up with the design for what you see there as a Representation below phase 1 a phase 1 B that is not designed yet But it's going to be a mixed housing model a mixed income model that comes up on Martin Luther King Avenue between Northeast 26th Street and Northeast 29th streets Next slide please West Lawn Gardens, this is a project that we're doing with the Inasmuch Foundation, Kiwanis, and Engage Learning in the neighborhood around Mark Twain Elementary School. And we are securing site control to build up to 40 units of workforce affordable housing here. this is where the area median income is in the 80 to 120 percent of area median income and there's a lack of affordable housing in this area and it's actually a part of this part of these part of these Lots that you see outlined here is actually a brownfield site and there was some petroleum contaminant spillage there. We're working with the brownfield program to clean up that lot and to make sure that it's appropriate for residential use. And so that's in the works right now. That shouldn't take too long and we'll be moving forward with the plans to what we're going to build there. We know that it'll hold up to 40 units of affordable housing there. Next slide, please. This is another permanent supportive housing project with a development partner called We Host Alliance, and we've given $1.7 million in MAPS funding to this project. It's going through final HUD clearance right now, And when this project is done, we clear that HUD clearance in the next 30 days, it will begin construction very quickly. So this project will be under construction in the next 60 days. 38 additional units of permanent supportive housing. This is across the street, catty corner from the Homeless Alliance, where the Homeless Alliance campus is right now. Next slide, please. This is another project with a development partner called Elmington Affordable Housing. This is West Haven Flats off of Southwest 59th Street in Southwest Oklahoma City. This is 132 units of workforce affordable housing. Again, trying to target that 80% of AMI. level household incomes, but at the same time, we have 55 project-based vouchers out of 132 units to allow low-income individuals that qualify for a housing voucher subsidy to live in this opportunity-rich area of the city where there's public transportation, grocery stores, shopping, jobs in this part of the city, and there's no affordable housing there right now. So, next slide, please. So altogether we have six projects, 762 units of housing, permanent supportive housing, public housing replacement, rehabilitation, new construction. Family workforce housing and all of these are the needs that we know have been documented for the last several years. We've been hearing we're 45,000 units short of affordable housing in Oklahoma City that we're going to need over the next 10 years. These projects using the MAPS money as seed money to leverage other sources are intended to intentionally target those parts of the housing need for different sectors of our population across the city. Keep homelessness in check, try to reduce homelessness, try to have family workforce housing and rehabilitate the public housing and convert it to affordable housing that's already in existence. And the timeline is three of these projects. One is under construction now. Two of them will begin very shortly. That's West Haven and We Host Alliance. Those three will all be under construction this year. And then the other projects will be under construction in the next 18 months after that.

So if you had the perfect scenario, when will you come back and see us and say all six are complete? Is it three years, is it two years, is it five years?

Within two years, yes. I believe the tax credit financing for Oak Grove and the mixed-use development with OnCue, that's going to take a while. That's a big project, 306 units, but it's a huge economic development project. In two years, I will be able to give you substantial progress. Many of these will be closed out within two years.

and then also when you send materials to us can you give us an accounting of what we've spent out of maps for for these projects all the projects so far yes I have that in there and I actually have it all calculated of what the maps contribution is and what the leverage dollars out are that are coming back from other sources although the leverage dollars is a moving target but I also want to see remaining maps dollars after this what remains

yes so we got two allocations of 10.7 million dollars all of those funds out of the first two allocations are committed to projects um that you've seen here and including the veterans residence which we opened last year which is called dorset place for veterans that's already open it has 37 veterans living there and you saw the point in time count for veterans dropped in the homeless count by 16 so so we're north of 21 million right now Yes. Yes, that's correct. Thank you. And the leveraging is in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Moving forward from this, five years from now, is there a fund set up to maintain what we're building and maintenance?

That's a very good question. So every one of these has budgets in it for capital replacement reserves and that will make sure that those reserves are there continually for the operations of each one of these projects. When you go for tax credits and some of these other sources of financing federal home loan bank, those are requirements to get that funding.

Yeah when you say you mentioned the capital need just Going off of what councillor Hinkle just said with the permanent supportive housing Does that also include funding ongoing for any case management those workers or what does that situation look like? I

Yes, thank you for that question. Yes, so for Dorset Place for Veterans, we have the VA Medical Center and the HUD Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing Team coming there five days a week, providing the services on site at Dorset Place, which is permanent supportive housing. Vita Nova, I have signed MOUs with five different local agencies. which includes NorthCare, Metropolitan Fair Housing, Goodwill, and some other providers to bring services onsite for job training, for self-sufficiency, to learn how to be a good tenant, what tenant rights are, mental health care, and so forth. And at Vita Nova, we have community space to bring all those meetings right there to the facility. And at at the we host Alliance permanent supportive housing the homeless Alliance is going to be providing the case management services They're working with Megan Mueller and her team and the developer So so with every supportive housing project the services will be baked in to every one of those projects It's a critical point to success. Yes, I

I just want to say publicly a thank you to you and to Mark and the board for their support of the work that is going on at Creston Park. It's been a long time coming with us trying to find a way to get the project going and I'm really excited about the direction we're headed in that's offering both affordable at scale options and then trying to bring in some mixed income because we know the future of Northeast Oklahoma City is dependent on our ability to bring in density that is respectful of character that gives people across incomes an opportunity to be to live in our wonderful community and so i'm grateful for the work that we've done and just excited to see the project get finished so i want to thank you greg for your help thank you we wouldn't be where we are now without your leadership counselor appreciate it any other questions from council is there anyone from the housing authority that has a question

Did we have anybody sign up to speak? All right, I guess we're ready for a motion. And it passes unanimously. And Amy will take a roll call from the Housing Authority.

Can I go ahead and have a motion and a second from someone on the Housing Authority? Okay. And then I will take a roll call. And if you can just say maybe aye and raise your hand. So Annette Jacoby. Aye. James Hudson. Aye. Waylon Cubitt. Aye. and Rocky Chavez.

Thank you. And that passes unanimously. Thank you for attending. The joint meeting is now adjourned. We'll get on with the council meeting. And we have nothing from the Office of Mayor today. Any items from council that anybody wants to bring up? Or to the city manager's report?

All that we have today is claims and payroll and that can be found on OKC.gov.

Item six is the Journal of Council Proceedings and we can take that with one vote. Need a motion, please? And that passes unanimously. Item 7 is request for uncontested continuances. We have one listed, item 6E. Craig is there?

11E. 11E, I'm sorry. Yes. We have a few more of these. We do have on page 17, item 11F, SPD 1840 will be deferred to the 4th of August. Continuing on page 17 at item 11, I1, dilapidated structures. All of the items that we list on dilapidated, unsecured, and abandoned will be stricken from the agenda, beginning with 11, I1, item C, 3831 Northwest 10th Street for a new owner. The item D is 2024 Northeast 13th Street is to re-notify. continue on page 17 on 11 j 1 unsecured structures item c 409 kings of leon lane and other addresses owner is secured item f 509 northwest 37th street along with other addresses the owner is secured item g 22 23 northwest 38th street to re-notify item h 4505 southeast 81st street the owner has secured On page 18, on abandoned buildings, item 11K1, we will strike item A, 2024 Northeast 13th Street, to re-notify the owner. And that is all the items that I have.

Thank you. Item number eight, revocable permits and events. We have a speaker, Karen Medina, to talk about the Downtown Oklahoma City Partnership and the Out West Music Festival.

Good morning, my name is Karen Medina. I serve as the West Village District Coordinator and also Event Planner. This is our second year of hosting Out West Music Fest. It's an annual event that was recommended by our strategic plan to help draw more visitors to this next up and coming neighborhood. Out West Music Fest takes place this Friday from 6 to 11. It's a free, family-friendly event. All ages welcome, pets included as well. We'll have headliner Bo Jennings and the Tigers starting at 7 p.m. And then following at 9 p.m., we have a 70s, 80s disco rock band, Super Freak, coming out. And so we will have a portable stage in the middle of Sheridan Avenue, lots of free activities, food, drink, and overall just a music festival happening that day. Yeah.

Councilman?

Sounds like a great time. I heard you all recently had a really wonderful festival to celebrate Puerto Rico, so hopefully it sounded like it was a very big turnout, so let's see if we can rival it with this one. Happy to move for approval.

Thank you.

And that passes unanimously. And item B is the Oklahoma City Water Utilities Trust and the Bodies Race, Summer Sizzler 5K, 10K, and 15K. And we have Morgan Danker with the Parks Department.

Hi. So again, the Permini is out of state. They weren't able to come to talk about their event. But they will be having a 5K, 10K, and 15K out at Stars of Stripes Park and the Burt Cooper Trail. Again, they're going to be partnering with the Animal Welfare to have adoptable dogs who can run with you during your race. So they get some exercise and hopefully get some more adoptions out there. If you guys have any other questions, please let me know.

This is wards one, two, and eight, so take it away, somebody.

Well, all on behalf of ward one, it would never speak on behalf of ward eight if he wants to add anything. But yeah, I would move for approval, Mark. Would you like to add anything?

Thanks. Thanks.

And some are sizzlers, right? Yes. Ready for a motion. And that passes unanimously. Gonna recess the council meeting and convene as the Oklahoma City Municipal Facilities Authority. We have one person signed up to speak. That's PPI. Oh, I lied. We can take this in one vote. And that passes unanimously. Gonna adjourn the OCMFA and reconvene as the public property authority. And we have someone signed up to speak, two people signed up to speak, Steve Hunt. Just to remind everybody, state your name and address and you have three minutes. And the lovely Miss Amy will let you know when you're 30 seconds left.

Steve Hunt 6300 Westbrook Drive. So once again I'm speaking on a rather banal item on the agenda. One hundred fifty thousand dollars to Los Angeles transom capital private equity owned journal record. And I speak on these matters because this is the core of what requires so much need for what they were doing today affordable housing homelessness equity firms are preying on everything so the journal record is published by journal record publishing company an affiliate of bridge tower media bridge tower was sold to private equity firm los angeles based transom Capital Group the leverage was funded by Cerebrus in New York City They are a Los Angeles firm with more than 600 million dollars in assets under management a deal announced November 3rd 2020 transom describes itself as and this is important a operationally focused private equity firm that seeks buyouts and controls investments in middle market companies middle market is us Not very vibrant phrase, as the Chamber likes to say. But before that, Bridgetower had passed through Gatehouse Media and then became a subsidiary of Gannett in 2019 before Transom Private Equity bought it as a standalone unit. So the $150,000 that Oklahoma City citizens are having to pay, I'd say about 60% or probably 40% of that is servicing their leveraged debt. But the biggest problem with this is why did we not give this to the Black Chronicle, a locally owned Oklahoma City company on the east side that could do exactly what they are doing, could, and I emphasize could, Because in May of this year, a House bill was passed to make it more difficult for people like the Black Chronicle to publish these notices. And that's what these firms do, is they prey on middle market companies, they take them over, and then they effectively hollow out the functioning of government in a style that someone in 1995 wanted and were doing it. So yeah, that's really it. I don't know if any of y'all noticed this, but the journal, if you ever look at the journal record, it's like a confessional booth for exploitation. A lot of it is press releases from equity firms. There was a big front page thing about P.F. Chang, which of course is Anyone with half a brain knows to go to the Asian restaurants on Klassen rather than a private equity owned food service trucked in crap like that.

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But I do think it's important to contemplate why Three years ago. We didn't give this to Perry, you know, we screwed them over with the Thunder Mr. Perry wanted to be part of the ownership group and it never happened. We're not even talking about cumulus radio Going bankrupt and handed over their creditors. We're not even talking about giving the Thunder broadcast to them and That's the core of why we need what these guys were doing.

So thank you very much Thanks, Steve And next up is Francis Smith with the OKC farmers market district I

Good morning, City Council. Thank you for having me. I am Frances Smith with the Farmers Market District. We have a big address. So we're from Block Welder to Chartel and then I-40 to Oklahoma City Boulevard. Fiscal year 2026 has been a year of tremendous growth for our district. We continue our mission in preserving our historic district and improving access to local food, expanding our environmental education, and creating a vibrant community gathering place. Throughout the year, our events and other fundraising efforts generated more than $46,000 in revenue. Those funds have been reinvested in district beautification, educational programming, and future community initiatives. Beyond our events, we have focused on creating lasting improvements in the district. Just a few of the revitalization efforts that we've done as a district include painting three major structures. We had three storefront improvements, nine total art installations including our volunteer driven barn quilt art project. This was a very fun six different pieces. You guys should come down, it's on the antique mall. It's very cool. We did new way finding signage and we installed a certified pollinator way station. One of our greatest priorities is connecting community members with healthy local food. This year we fed more than 300 people in our cooking demonstrations that we did year round. And in those cooking demonstrations we use local grown food obviously from our farmers. We distributed 290 emergency SNAP baskets, food baskets during the SNAP disruption. And we shared over 750 seed packets to encourage people to grow their own food. and pollinating plants. We've continued expanding opportunities to community members on how to learn to grow, prepare, and access local food. One of our big initiatives this year has been our Growing Resilience Educational Series. This happens on the first Saturday at the market every month. This program is in full swing. We're having great metrics on this and we hope to expand it even further next year in 2027 and hopefully expand our funding for that so we can pay our lovely experts to come and speak to the community. These are free classes, they're come and go, first Saturdays at the market. Behind the scenes, we've completed our first year of our strategic plan at 100%. Strengthened our organization and governance infrastructure. 30 seconds remaining. We have expanded community projects, secured additional funding. We've became a network-level Main Street organization, and we are a very active Keep Oklahoma Beautiful affiliate. As we look forward, and we have our centennial for the building coming up in 2028, we just hope to continue this and support local food initiatives. Thank you. Any questions?

Thank you, Frances. Thank you. Thank you. All right, we can take items A through I with one vote. And it passes unanimously. Adjourn the OC PPA and reconvene as a council meeting and it brings us to the consent docket. We have a presentation on item CC. Is there anything else anybody wants to pull out for a separate vote or talk about?

Yes, Vice Mayor. I just wanted to briefly hear a little bit about item AB and acknowledge that work ahead of us. Same with... Oh, you're fine. A as in Adam basketball? Okay. And then, item A.S. I'd like to hear a little bit more about that from Public Works. And then, I know we're about to do some really cool work on our first youth center, so I was just hoping we might, and I'd already made this request, so I hope they're ready for it, but I'd like to see some of the plans for, oh, you got it, never mind. CC. I'm back.

We'll start with A.B.

When you get there.

Public Art Commission Agreement.

Yes. I just wanted to acknowledge a Ward 2 resident, Matt Goad, who, after an RFP process, will be doing this work. Okay. pretty sure people across the city know his work, from the airport to God knows where, all across the city, and I think he's in attendance. So I just wanted to take that moment to say how excited I am to see that. I think we might have someone come up and give us a little bit more information about it.

Good morning, Council. My name is Leondre Lattimore, Public Art Project Manager for Arts and Cultural Affairs Office. I'll give Mark here a moment to set up the presentation. But yes, we do have some information about this great work of public art. And as you mentioned, local artist Matt Gold is a popular local artist and designer. And he has lots of experience throughout the city working in the arts. And he also has lots of experience in the public art sector as well. He's also the same artist who completed the terrazzo floor at Dua Rogers Airport. So I'll just leave this image here and I'll read a short statement here from Matt Gold. So Matt describes the terrazzo floor as a monumental visualization of the voice of Oklahoma City. Composed of overlapping concentric sound waves, the design radiates throughout the concourse in a rhythmic composition of softly gradated blue terrazzo. Inspired by the collective energy of thousands of voices becoming one, the artwork transforms sound into a permanent architectural expression of unity, optimism, and the Oklahoma standard. You can go to the next slide. So here's a rendering here of what that will look like. And as we mentioned before, it's the blue terrazzo, the gradated blue forms that you see here. So Matt presented this concept to us a while ago. And it's worth mentioning that this is conceptual. So the plan is for Matt to continue to work with the design team and stakeholders to further refine this design. So the final work that you'll see when the arena opens may not look exactly like this, but this image here that you see is a pretty good representation of what the final design will look like. You can go to the next slide. So as I mentioned before about the sound waves, there will be 24 total concentric sound waves that radiate inward from the exterior glass curtain wall and their origins are aligned with every other of the structure's 48 columns. So there's a lot of symmetry here in this design and Matt was very intentional about that as well. And this is just another image here. And this is another rendering here that shows. So I'm happy to answer any questions that the city council may have. And Matt is also here as well. I'm sure he'd be happy to answer questions if you have some for him as well.

I don't have any questions. He's welcome to speak if he would like. But otherwise, yeah, go ahead.

Hi, Matt Goad, 201 Northwest 35th Street. I don't know if I have to do that. Thank you all. I'm very honored to have been selected for this project, project of a lifetime. One of the things I kind of said when I pitched this was when you walk into this building, temple, if you will, for Oklahoma City gathering. I don't want you to come in and say, look at that floor. I want it to be an overwhelming, wow, look at this space. So the intention of the design was to be really one with the architect's architecture and this space. We've used blues, which is the most human-loved color. It also is an Oklahoma color, our flag. But the voice of OKC I thought was so poignant because we're known now as Loud City, and we've been Boomtown, and this is the location where Elvis played, and all these memories were made with sound. So I thought the idea was really kind of a powerful one, and I thought it was a lasting and timeless one. The design is intentionally minimal and very austere. to last for decades. I didn't want to go crazy or wacky, which a lot of artists can do. I love to do it, too. For this, we wanted something that totally complemented the architecture. With that, I guess that's all. Thank you. Thank you.

Thanks, Matt. Yeah, I mean, I'm just excited about it, whether it's the airport. I believe there's some work on some basketball courts as well. Am I wrong about that? And I thought so, over there in Memorial Park. So this isn't his first rodeo with basketball. So I'm just excited about this, and I just wanted to draw attention publicly to the work ahead of us. And thank you to your team for what you're doing as well. And I hope I did not. I have this horrible idea that I might have said library earlier. Of course, I meant the airport if I did.

um councilman cooper a.s let's go

Good morning. Debbie Miller, Public Works Director. This item is for contract for an engineering services to start on a trail, multimodal trail, at Northwest 66th from Walker, and it goes east over to Northeast 36th and Kelly. It's about 1.7 miles. The total cost is going to be about 3.7 million, and we do have ACOG funding for an 80-20 split. So we expect final plans next fall in 27 and construction to begin late, like December of 2027.

It's wonderful. I have to say, Council, I hear inward to regularly a request for residents to have safe passage from Central Park neighborhood, Edgemere Park, Crown Heights, Douglas Edgemere, Edgemere Heights. from the west heading east under 235, which is essentially a barrier right now. I have biked 36th to go to the groundbreaking of the homeland when that was happening. And it was truly like taking one's life in their hands. And that's on a bike, let alone walking. So the idea that we're about to now connect these parks and these neighborhoods that are 100 years old over to Homeland, a grocery store, and then to a senior wellness center in Ward 7, right, a MAPS-built senior wellness center, that's incredible. And I cannot be clear enough. When I have knocked doors in Edgemere, one of the guys, and I was like, what are your concerns for your neighborhood, hopes for our city? He's like, well, I think we're doing fine over here. I think we need to better connect to the east side. And so this is now something I get to go back and say to them. So I really appreciate this public safety work is how I see it. So thank you.

And we have a citizen signed up to speak on item AF, which is a professional service agreement with the old Capitol Hill Council, Marion Campos.

Good morning. My name is Miriam Campos. Address is 2812 Southwest 54th Street in Oklahoma City, 73119. On behalf of Cayedo Cinco and Historic Capitol Hill, thank you for your continued partnership and investment in our district. In 2025, we celebrated the groundbreaking of Plaza Cayedo Cinco, a historic milestone that brought years of vision and collaboration to life. This transformational investment reflects what is possible when the city and community work together. As we celebrate this achievement, we also recognize the responsibility that comes with managing Plaza Calle 25. While continuing to serve and support our business district requires sustainable resources and strong partnerships as we navigate this next chapter of growth. that work extends well beyond the plaza. Calle 25 continues to be a destination that brings people together through district programming, business engagement, and signature events. This year, we're proud to celebrate the 21st anniversary of Fiestas de las Americas, our award-winning festival, a tradition that showcases our culture, supports local businesses, and welcomes thousands of visitors each year. We are grateful for your support of the year seven bid renewal and the city's additional investment and commitment to help position our organization to sustainably manage the plaza. This funding allows us to manage essential bid services, including district beautification, marketing, business engagement, plaza operations, public safety, and ongoing maintenance that directly benefit our businesses, residents, and visitors. We are proud of the progress we've made and recognize there is still work ahead. We ask for your continued support as we build on this progress. Before I close, I want to acknowledge the tragic events that occurred in our district this weekend. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and everyone affected. It's heartbreaking, but we are We remain committed to working alongside our partners to support our businesses and build on the positive momentum in our district and ensure Calle 25 remains a vibrant and welcoming destination for all. Thank you for your continued partnership and investment in Calle 25 and Historic Capital Home.

Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. We have a presentation on item CC.

Yes. David Todd, our MAPS director, will introduce this project for the MAPS projects.

Good morning, David Todd, MAPS program manager. Remember in MAPS 4 we have four youth centers, and I'm really happy to be bringing you this first one. We've worked really hard on finding a spot for this, working on the budget and the design. So today we have a representative from Boys and Girls Club, Tina Belchick, is here. And Colin Fleck, our architect from Bacchus Payne, is going to take you through the plans.

Good morning. I'm excited to be here today to bring you final plans for you Center one at Woodson Park It's been about three years since we started working with the maps office several of you folks we've met with Boys and Girls Club other Stakeholders in the community to begin planning and programming these facilities to select the sites for these facilities and as David mentioned this is the first one at Woodson Park and Part of this is that it's an after-school program for affected youth in areas of high need, and part of that site selection was determining where those needed to go. So we anticipate these will serve up to 500 kids throughout the year. It's an after-school program, and in the summer with camps, it becomes a community asset for weekend activities, basketball tournaments, futsal, soccer, all sorts of things. The project site if you're not familiar with Woodson Park I 44 splits the the park on the west side has been fully developed with soccer and softball and parking and then on the east side There's been a recent project that finished last year for those baseball fields and parking and so this middle section here on the east side had a swimming pool and thanks to the parks department for demolishing that to make way for this site there's an existing gymnasium there in the middle and then there's a former senior center that's currently occupied by the boys and girls club and they run an elementary school club out of that site So our plan to just be as frugal as possible, we're gonna try and reuse as much of that parking that's there now. And we're also gonna reuse Southwest 33rd Street as much as possible. So we zoom in here and go to our diagram. You'll see this parking on this portion will be reused as our project site. And that pool that's shown here now in the pool building is actually gone. It's a lovely grassy field now. And we'll be extending Southwest 33rd And this is our proposed site plan. So there you can see it's a 48,000 plus square foot facility. We're adding some accessible parking to the south side and around about. The biggest need for these youth centers is not parking, but drop off and pick up lineal footage so that we're not spilling out onto the main streets in the community. So we've got a primary drop-off pickup lane here on the south side of the building. That's the primary entrance for the younger kids. And then the older kids who like to have their own entrance will have one here on the east side. And so we separate those two traffic streams to try and alleviate some of the traffic issues. We're locating some of the fields, the soccer, futsal, playgrounds will go out on the west side of the facility. Our floor plan, and I know you mentioned wanting to take a look at these. I don't know how much detail you'd like. We generally have the children only spaces partitioned off from the public spaces. So where you see the gymnasium here, it's kind of the central hub. and it's got a large lobby space outside of it as well as a large community event space. Those will be open to community events and weekend type of events by appointment. Not just anybody can walk into this facility just due to safety concerns. The teen lounge is on the east side of the gym and it has its own set of entry security doors. And then the other side for the younger kids has its own set of doors. And back here we have an elementary school and a middle school lounge and we have art We have a music studio. We have a dance studio, weightlifting, a dining hall. And all of these are in conjunction with the programming that will be happening at the Boys and Girls Club to give these kids outlets for creativity, life skill, job training. They've got just an extensive list of programs that they run there. Our exterior palette is an economical but colorful selection of materials. We've got different colors and textures of concrete block. We've got some translucent wall panels. We've got some architectural metal panels as well. And we wanted to bring color as this is a space for kids. So we've got some accent colors of paint that you'll see in these renderings. This is the main view from the south, so we're looking north at this facility. This is the primary entrance for the younger kids. And you'll see we've lined that entry with some of those accent colors to welcome them in, to have it be a warm, inviting space. And this is the main lobby space. You'll see there's views into the gym from this space. Up above, we've got these translucent panels that are clear story windows to bring natural light into the space. We'll have spots for youth of the year celebrations, sayings, dream big, sueñan grandes, which is just Spanish for dream big. Looking back towards the west, you'll see the main reception desk there at the back in green. The community space is to the left. You'll see in the ceiling plane one of the things that we wanted to bring into this was some color some some art So this is our proposed art installation. This is just a placeholder for now. The RFQ has not been formalized to my knowledge to go seek an artist to do some sort of a colorful light transparent installation in the ceiling space there and then we're looking back at the front desk and into the The use spaces, this is the gymnasium. It's a double gym. It's got a small amount of seating space here for spectators, but it'll be multi-use. And as we walk back into some of the interior spaces, whoops, sorry. It's okay. You'll see we've got an outdoor dining area just outside of the dining hall, and the right would be our weightlifting area. And then this is a view taken from the southeast at dusk. Those translucent panels will glow at night. We think it gives us a good opportunity. It's a billboard opportunity. You'll be able to view this from I-44 going northbound. And so we've got lots of great signage opportunities here. This is just our budget I just want to point out that we had a project about a month ago the Clara Luper civil rights center come in about 30% under Budget and so we're very optimistic in our numbers here To to meet this budget and build as much of this building as we can we have a few alternates as well here and And with approval today, bidding will go out and the following week, I believe, and we'll have a construction start this fall in September is what we're anticipating. It's about an 18-month construction timeline and duration that we've been given. So we look to be opening in the spring of 2028. And that is what I have for you today. I'd love to take any questions.

I do have a few questions, but first I just want to say thank you all for I really appreciate seeing that community center space in there. I know when we had that community meeting, I think about a year ago, maybe a little longer than that. There was definitely a sort of consistent message from many of the attendees there that some multi-generational options for event space, for different kind of community events, quinceañeras, birthday parties, reunions, et cetera, would be very welcome. So it's really nice to see that space sort of set aside. And the problem solving of like, I know one of the, crunch points was like where do you put it so that it's not sort of behind the the seal of where youth youth would go so you can have that layer of protection so that's very exciting to see can we pull the presentation back up and just go to one of those bird's eye view i recognize this might be sort of like you're more focused on the building layout than sort of the space around it. But I think one of the things I'm a little bit concerned, I just have a question about, is will there be sidewalks that connect all the way out to Southwest on 33rd out to May? Or is that just like not included in this because it's not the focus of the design?

no no that's a great question so there's an existing pedestrian path bridge across i-44 and we'll be interrupting that and reconnecting that with some some additional sidewalks back to the to the east there's a separate sidewalks package and and my understanding is that there will be sidewalks brought to the facility as part of that package we just just not part of this office

I just wanted to confirm, because I've made that walk to different things over in this area, and it's, you know, it's tough on foot to figure out, and so just recognizing that kids might be coming from, like, the neighborhood across May, I just want to make sure that connection's there, so appreciate it.

Great question, thanks.

Thank you for all of your work on this. It's a big undertaking, so it's exciting to see it kind of in the next phase.

Yes, I also I'll echo counselor Hammond's gratitude and appreciation for the work. I think it's wonderful. I do have a couple questions Sticking with this slide. So I'm happy to hear about the sidewalk connectivity just a question possibility that crosswalk both crosswalks connecting. Is it possible that those might be a bit elevated? And my thinking is, I've been on Western a few times, or Southwestern around Wheeler, or Northwest 39th Expressway, and something I've learned about Oklahoma City living here is people sure do love to pretend they're in Speed Racer, the cartoon, and I'm just wondering, especially since there's so much of a drop-off pickup, but then there's gonna be a moment later at night when this is closed, and I can just envision it like the rain coming that someone might use this as a speedway. So I'm just thinking that might help with that, but also just thinking about someone who's in a wheelchair, this might give them that extra safety access. So has there been any talk about maybe just having almost like a table-type elevation?

Yeah, so I think that's a good suggestion. One of the things that I think we'll rely on here is that this is actually gated during the day and at night, so it'll only be open. You'll see on this east end right here there's a pair of gates, so people won't be able to just fly through here. Anyone who does get through to the gates and goes in and parks would have a relatively car-free environment. access point there so what actually as we have it shown is it's actually down at the at the drive we did not explore any sort of bump stops or tabletops to slow traffic down there just because we anticipate that folks who are arriving here are actually slowing down to pick up kids We could certainly look into that if it's something that, when we look at it with the maps office, it's an area of concern. I appreciate the desire to slow cars down.

I'm just always thinking about that. My first point of focus is not necessarily the person who's walking. I'm always now thinking about the person in the wheelchair and that accessibility. I appreciate that consideration. I love the colors. I am a huge fan of those portal windows into the gymnasium. I think that is a wonderful addition. The exterior lighting, I think also, I'm glad to see it from I-44. I also think it's gonna help with safety for everybody. The landscaping looked very rich. And so I'm curious, is that something we have in the budget to kind of help our good friends at Boys and Girls Club in terms of maintenance ongoing with that?

We met with our landscape architect at Laud, and a big point of emphasis was color and texture for the kids, just as a tactile sort of thing, but also low maintenance. So they selected plants that are low and easy to maintain. So we share the similar concern. I think for the renderings, it's a little punchy, just looks good. The actual installation will be a very low maintenance installation.

OK. And then, yes. I think I mentioned this to Tina when Councilwoman Hammond and I visited a year ago for the community meeting, but something that, and it will take coordination, I think, with Embark and with the Boys and Girls Club to pull this off, but I think heading into the opening of this facility, it would make a lot of sense to tap into Embark's Road Scholar program, right? That's where, for those of you who don't know, but I'm already seeing some nodding heads, that's where our youth in our schools can use the public transportation system for free for field trips. I've used it several times as a former middle school teacher bringing them Jefferson kids on the south side here to City Hall, to career techs, universities. While I think this is an incredible building and so much love and effort has gone into it from all sides, I think a level of intentionality in terms of outreach, getting those kids there at the start so that they can experience this building themselves. Because something we heard at that meeting, you'll recall, was actually from some parents, and I remember Gloria Torres, a former principal from Jefferson where I taught, You know, talking about, well, what about parental access to this building? And so I think by having the students there so early on, so they get to, you know, lay hands on everything, I think that will be like, oh, mom, dad, abuelita, you know, tia, tia. I want to go to that building. That's where the fun and the support system is. So I just want to speak that into existence to the city manager and back to you all and just elevate a private conversation we had now in a public space that's less architectural. Oh, and then my final two things are I saw hopefully this does come in under budget, but I know we set aside funding in the bond for either an additional youth center or to use that funding to help supplement so i guess we'll know a little bit more about that when the bids come in is that about right that's right okay and finally and i know a lot of ward 2 residents are going to be thrilled to hear this if i'm doing the math correctly this will open either slightly ahead of or around the same time as the new arena in 2028. i don't know the date on that but the arena's 2028 yes That's an important marker for a lot of Ward 2 residents. A lot of them love the thunder. They love their youth as much. And so to see us putting that prioritization on this first youth center, I think, is going to symbolically really mean a lot to people. And then it will actually deliver beyond symbolism. So just wanted to acknowledge that as well. So thank you. And thank you for your work. Thank you, Tina.

Thank you. Thank you.

Well, we can take the consent docket with one vote. Ready for a motion. There we go, passes unanimously. Brings us to item 10 on the agenda, the concurrence docket. And we can take one vote from item A through M. And that passes unanimously. Item 11 is items for individual consideration. A is ordinance on final hearing, emergency recommended for approval for PUD 2139, the rezoning of 7300 Southeast 164th Street, AA Agricultural to PUD 2139, planned unit developed, Ward 4, Councilman Stone.

I do have a couple of questions on this, but mainly it's for city staff. So I'm curious as to the TE was stricken. I was curious where that was stricken from.

Caitlin Turner, 525 Northwest 11th Street, here on behalf of the applicant. If I may, that TE was stricken. If you see the site and the surrounding area, this is all AA.

Oh, I totally get why it's stricken. I'm just wondering who struck it.

The applicant.

Okay.

At the Planning Commission.

That's correct. I was also curious on the city side, when it talks about... Their approval, which is always kind of up there, but their approval said, oh, not if it's denying the TE, but I'm wondering why that came from the city when there is no way to put sidewalks out there. Just to be clear, this is a five-lot development that ranges between two and five acres on each lot. It's over 17 acres totally, and it just, and it's off 164th and Air Depot. There's no sidewalks out there, so I was curious what drove that.

Sure, Sarah Welch, Planning Department. The reason for that is we are trying to make the PUD state that whatever the city's rules are about sidewalks would apply here. It wasn't trying to say sidewalks are required currently, it was just trying to say whatever the city's policies are about sidewalks would apply, instead of having this straight up just say sidewalks are not allowed.

Gotcha, all right, thank you. Maybe when we talk about some of the updates that we're doing on zoning and things like that, maybe that's something that we need to look at as well, I think.

Certainly.

Cool. All right. Thank you. With that, I'll go ahead and move for its approval.

And it passes unanimously. Item B is an ordinance on final hearing for Spud 1820 rezoning 1714 Northwest 30th Street from R1 single family residential to Spud 1820 simplified planned unit developed district. Ward 2.

Thank you, Vice Mayor. Fallon, do you want to speak on this item, please? Thank you.

Fallon Brooks Magnus Jolly Bird Design 11 Northeast 11th Street representing the client the applicant sorry So this is just We originally thought we could get six six units on here We were a little ambitious and we had some feedback at our first planning commission hearing and we reduced to four units We kept the same amount of parking. We reduced our lot coverage. So You know pretty responsible development near the University for

small micro apartments.

They originally were supposed to be like 400 square feet. I think they're probably gonna be closer to seven now. So larger one and two bedrooms.

Yeah. Yeah, I like what you're doing here aesthetically and materially in terms of the units themselves and someone who lives in about a 700 square foot apartment. This will do for the one person, so I would move for approval.

I just want to add that this is amazing. Thank you. This is very cool. And if I was on the Planning Commission, I had to vote it for the six units instead of four, so.

Parking was a huge problem, and there's like no street parking on 30th, so it made sense.

And it passes unanimously. Fallon, thank you for all the neat things you bring to Oklahoma City.

Oh, thank you.

Item C, ordinance on final hearing, SPUD 1825 rezoning 1220 Northwest 33rd Street from R1 single family to SPUD 1825 Ward 2.

We have to stop meeting like this. Go ahead, tell us about this one.

Fallon Brooks Magnus, Jolly Bird Design, 11 Northeast 11th Street, representing the applicant. I will say, this was my first render on this building, and it's really ugly. It looks way better now. I just wanted to point out, the house that was on this site, this is one of the questions that James asked me, the columns here, they are mimicking the keyhole columns that were on the original house that was on the site. We couldn't say the house, but we can kind of pay a little homage to it. And this, even as ugly as this render is, it is... Still a pretty good indicator of what will get built there. I don't know if anyone is is Familiar with the development that happened at 22nd and Ellison right behind Walgreens over here near the Gold Dome That's the same developer and he did a fantastic job with the end product. It looks really beautiful It fits the neighborhood really well, and I think we'll have a similar end product here. Um So just a couple of quick stats on this one. We're also only 70% lot coverage. So we were real responsible with our lot coverage on this. We worked with our planning commissioner and neighborhood. So yeah, we're just happy to bring some nice looking housing to OKC. I love the name Caddyshack. How did you come up with that? It's actually Chaddyshack because the builder is Chad Rice. And I will say, I was a little disappointed that the planning department did not put that on the label, because it was in the application.

I'll never forgive you for that. For the rest of the day, I'm going to hear, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Caddyshack references. I deserve that. This will come back up later in the meeting whenever we're talking about the policy parameters for the affordable housing from the bond. But I just wanted to say as I did in private, now in public, thank you for hearing the neighbors out in terms of how do we honor the architecture from the previous building in terms of those columns, right? I think something Ward 2, a lot of us have a struggle with is, oh, we have a housing crisis, but then we got these vacant houses. Why aren't we rehabbing them? We got these infill lots. And so when we lose something, it's It's confusing, and so we appreciate that when this came down, you listened to their request that there be some sort of acknowledgement of what once stood here, and that's what those columns, and I look forward to seeing the eventual renderings.

We just don't want to see any more front-facing garages. That's our thing, man. So I just want to make that on public record.

You know, I made someone gasp earlier this week in a public meeting when I said that I don't like Chip and Joanne. And they literally gasped. I'm like, I don't know what to tell you people. But anyway, thank you for this.

Don't ask me about my opinion on that either. All right, I'm good. Thank you.

And it passes unanimously. Item D is an ordinance on final hearing, Spud 1832, rezoning 1401 Northwest 9th Street from Spud 1407 to Spud 1832. Ward 6.

Yes, this is just some infill development on an empty lot over on 9th and Douglas, so I will move for approval.

and it passes unanimously. Item E has been deferred till August 18th. Item F has been deferred till August 4th. Item G is an ordinance on final hearing rezoning 6017 Northwest 23rd Street from R1 Single Family Residential to Spud 1841 Ward 2. And no Caddyshack references on this one.

but you said it and now it's happening again. Yeah, was the applicant here? Oh, come on up, I thought I saw you out there.

Good morning Braden Schaefer 300 point Parkway Boulevard representing the applicant. This is an application to rezone from r1 to a spud Currently, there's not any specific plans for this site. The developers just trying to move it into a more favorable zoning Everything around this other than the lot directly to the east is all commercial based and I believe that Based on the letter of support that we received from the neighbor. I believe they they potentially have plans to also Move to a more commercial aspect as well. So Happy to answer any questions short

You wouldn't know this unless you dug down into Bike Walk OKC and Maps 4, but MacArthur, just a bit from here, is heading toward some sidewalk infrastructure, and we're also looking at maybe doing some streetscape stuff, kind of similar to what's going on on 23rd. to the east and uptown. For your consideration, since you all don't have the specific plans yet, I would suggest, I see that detention pond up front. I almost would reverse and move the property closer to the sidewalk to kind of anticipation of where that corridor adjacent to it is heading I have my eyes on this entire property right here on the southwest corner I think that needs to be redeveloped to meet the needs of the residents there I hear things like grocery store except just retail options generally so bend your imagination a little bit and imagine not the world as it is but what could be there and the precedent you all could be helping to set And then, if you have time, you might stick around toward later in the agenda. I know something you and I have talked about previously. I'm just excited that you're doing development west of I-44, and a lot of it's very responsible. We're gonna be talking about some of the bond project stuff as it relates to economic and community development.

Anyway, with that, I'll just move for approval.

Thank you.

And it passes unanimously. Item H is an ordinance on final hearing for SP 613, establishing a special permit to operate use unit 8300.33, drinking establishment set down alcohol permitted in the I-1 Light Industrial District, 2830 Northwest 10th Street. Councilwoman Hammond.

I will move for approval.

And it passes unanimously. Item I is a public hearing regarding dilapidated structures. Amy, has anybody signed up to speak? No, they haven't. Brings us to the resolution declaring the structures are dilapidated. Any motion? Passes unanimously. Item J is a public hearing regarding unsecured structures. Has anybody signed up to speak?

No, they haven't.

So we need a motion. And that passes unanimously. Item K is a resolution, anybody signed up to speak?

No, they're not.

Okay, need a motion? And that passes unanimously. Item L is a resolution creating the South Oklahoma City Tax Incremental Finance Review Committee. I'm gonna turn it over to Craig.

Yeah, Kenny Sudel with the Alliance for Economic Development is here to present this item and what's included or intended in the TIP district.

Thank you, Mayor and Council. So this resolution today would be the first step to create a potential new TIF district. This involves some properties down around I-35 and I-240 on the south part of Oklahoma City. So this resolution, just as a reminder of the process laid out in the Local Development Act, this would appoint Todd Stone as the chair, it would create the committee, The committee would have representatives from the six taxing jurisdictions that are affected. They would all appoint who they want to it. The committee would then convene, and the committee would have to choose three out large members, and then any recommendations for an actual TIF district, et cetera, would have to be then brought forward back through the process, which involves going back through city council, planning commission, et cetera. So that's really what the, you know, this is the first part of the process, and that's what the resolution does today, but just, again, wanted to be transparent, wanted to show you what staff is contemplating and what we would intend to put before the committee. But it's really, and I should say this is not a widespread TIF district that we're looking at, and the impetus behind this is there's been several housing projects that people have approached us on, some retail projects and some industrial projects. Really the highlighted areas on the screen our intent would be to just capture those Properties only that are undeveloped here or underdeveloped. So it's not something we're trying to do like a widespread Tiff to divert taxes from other areas that we're not targeting Development in but really there's a couple areas around Walker and Shields just north of 240 that have some, they're pretty much green space now that have some projects we're working with folks to bring forward on housing. Also the one near Shields and 240, there's some potential retail projects there. We did include a lot of the properties, or we intend to propose and include a lot of the properties around Crossroads. I will tell you I don't have any imminent projects there, but just over the years there's been many talks on and off about what potential redevelopment opportunities might be there. And then the other one that is on the east side between Eastern Bryant, OKC 577 which is a joint project between the city and the Oklahoma Industries Authority Again, we tried to carve out Properties that have already been developed, but this is one of those as we've gone through now for several years on this We have had several different Major employers and projects that have taken a look at this side. It's a really good side It's near the BNSF rail yard, but it's become apparent that in order to land some of these we may need to have Some incentives available and be able to do other things We also you know can use our SIP program which we're going to talk about late in some later items For those types of things as well, but it would be nice to have TIFF available there as well so That's, again, first steps. All the details, data, all the things that are required under the law would be brought back after they're vetted with the committee if the committee recommends moving forward on it. So that's first step today.

Happy taking this for the general public. Can you tell everybody the length of the tip tip when it would be acted upon?

And what it would be used for in this instance Those are still details that would have to be worked out and brought forward. I mean under law tips can be up to 25 years Typically, they would be used we would be looking to use this like we've used it in In the past as incentives on projects to either help fill gaps on for example housing projects things like that or infrastructure or Potentially incentives for employers with site development costs or things like that on on the 577 project But that all has to be looked at by the committee and brought back I

Todd, I think it's an exciting project. I hope we get to call you chairman soon, and I don't know if we'll be around 25 years when it gets finished.

I was just looking at the map, the Google map, and a lot of those sites, especially along Shields, resonate with me. Todd, I look forward to your stewardship of this if council approves it. Just seeing this particular map, even though I represent Northwest OKC, I had never been to Northwest OKC but like two times as a child until I was 16. We always went from Midwest City to Crossroads Mall and to June and Jody and Sons and so Shields and 240 have long been a part of my memory bank and I am excited to see what we do here because it deserves so much more care and love than the city has given it. I'll say that for now, but thanks.

And it passes unanimously. Chairperson Stone. Item M is a joint resolution with the Oklahoma City Economic Development Trust.

So this is an update on our policies for the gold policies, strategic investment plan, but the affordable housing as well. So Kenny's going to cover M and N as he presents this now. And I happen to take any questions after that.

Thank You mayor council Kenny Soudal at the Alliance for economic development on item M is the actual Geo limited tax bond the gold bond economic development bond policy and guidelines and is the affordable housing Criterion guidelines they're connected they work together. So I'm just going to cover them both in one presentation here So just as a reminder, we first did the economic development bonds in 2007. We also did a second tranche of that. The voters approved a second round of that in 2017. And then we just recently, thanks to our voters, had that approved in 2025. And $175 million, this last round, reminder, $50 million of that goes towards affordable housing. So just very quickly, I'm gonna focus, I'm gonna do a little bit, very quick overview on some of the main points of the policy, but this policy has been in place since 2007. It's been amended multiple times as things have changed over the years, I think in, 2012, 2018, we've amended it to bring things in like film and affordable housing and things like that. So I'm gonna cover a little bit on that, but if you have specific questions, just feel free to jump in. But I'm gonna try to focus mainly on the changes to the policy. So just as a reminder, this covers our strategic investment program which which it really focuses on job creation is what the council has had us focus on with this program and there's a list in the resolution of under the state law lots of other things that can be used for but really focuses on job creation and that's really the infrastructure program leverage Fund program so infrastructure can go towards it, you know putting in infrastructure support job creation The leverage fund program theoretically could provide low-cost loans and things like that We really only use that in the past kind of loaning it to TIF districts for example You know, we've loaned it to the northeast side TIF. We've loaned it to other things before The land assemblage program, this can be used to acquire property for job creation programs or projects. And then the emerging technologies program, which is really saying we could use these funds to look at some emerging technologies that could grow into something larger. I don't know that we really ever use that, but that's been in the policy for a while. Obviously affordable housing is in there and we're gonna talk about that. And then one kind of new call out in the policy is the small business and innovation program. I will tell you, just being transparent on this, we've really put this to say, you know, try to focus on partnering with efforts through our maps programs at Innovation Hall and Foster Center. We've left that a little vague as this is still something that's developing, you know We all had some experiences through the ARPA program with small business But this is some another area that really you know, I could see us having some more development on the policy in the future But it's it's one of those those projects are still developing. So trying to figure out how that moves forward and then of course film continues. I So really on the proposed amendments to a policy, a lot of it was removing, kind of making the language evergreen. There were a lot of references to the old bond authorizations and things like that. So kind of taking some of those out, making it more evergreen. The major change on our job creation program, so really in the past, this is really focused on employers that are bringing 50 or more employees and there were, There was a dollar amount that was not adjusted for inflation or anything and then there was also a percentage of the MSA average wage in the old policy So what we're doing is kind of having worked through this for updating that to really just say that minimum payroll requirement can adjust it's really tied to the MSA average wage, but the biggest change we're making is we're really saying that to qualify for this you need to have a hundred and one percent your jobs have to be on average a hundred and one percent of the MSA wages now we do have some provisions in the policy that if there were for example in Distressed or lower income areas if there's a project that fell below that that the council could consider that but really trying to make a statement whereas previously the policy said ninety We could do 90%. So that's the big change is we're trying to say, no, we want jobs that are over the average. We want to raise the average. We also added a historic building renovation program, which really this is just saying generally you have to have 50 employees. It's saying you could do 20 employees if you're part of rehabbing a historic property. And that's really just kind of looking at really trying to put an incentive to help smaller historic projects be able to attract maybe like a law office or a smaller office or something like that. And then we did add some provisions that you could have increased incentives for higher impact projects. So what this means is generally speaking, the policy says, you know, we get with the chamber, there's a financial model, we take your jobs, your capital investment, you know, all those things, we put them in, it runs out and says, here's how much, you know, positive impact to Oklahoma City there is from this project. And we generally say in the policy, we should keep that incentive to Five years or less of impacts what that means is that the city should start realizing benefits at least in year six You know you keep your incentives where it's within that range This policy says you could go up to the 10-year impact level for an incentive if certain things are present and those things are If the wages are particularly high, 120% of the MSA average wage, if it's a really large number of jobs, like 500 plus, if it's something where there's really unique high coverage levels of employee healthcare, daycare, training and then also things like if or if they provide second-chance employment so it really kind of put some things out there that we could potentially do some you know a little bit higher incentives than we normally do if if some of those things are present again I will remind everyone it's always a negotiation you know we we work together Chamber Alliance city staff To come up with you know, these incentives and it's always something where we're competing with other, you know Communities and other states and sometimes other countries and so it's a negotiation But that's the policy kind of sets that upper limit of keeping it within the five Five-year impact to the city unless it meets some of these other big requirements Really the rest of the areas in the job creation program Have pretty minimal changes there Affordable housing, I'm going to talk about that here in just a second, but just, it puts a specific, in the GOLT policy, it puts a reference over to these affordable housing guidelines, and I'll cover those in a moment. Mention the small business and innovation program, that this is a new program in the policy, and that it, you know, activities support entrepreneurship and small business growth, and it really tries to point those towards partnering with some of those MAPS projects I talked about earlier. And then the film program, you know, with film, there's a couple things as we've gone through this that we've tried to update from our experience, and that's just adding the television movies, because we've had movies, and we've had television, and then there's television movies, so trying to clarify that. And then we clarified what is a slate of projects, because it's one of the things, there are certain minimum levels of investment you have to do to qualify, and there had been some questions about, well, what if I'm bringing like a part one and a part two, and together they qualify, so it it clarifies that, yes, that kind of qualifies as one project. Those are the major changes on the goal policy. Let me cover the affordable housing. So just as a reminder, this kind of started in 2017. That bond issue, we put 10 million of those dollars towards affordable housing. So we adopted these guidelines in 2018. So 2025, as I mentioned earlier, we have 50 million now dedicated to affordable housing. So generally the criteria here is at a minimum you have to, this has to be for a project that has 80% AMI or less with a preference really for 60% AMI or less. And it's really supposed to be used to bridge gaps in a project. So it can be used for grants low-interest loans. It can be used for construction rehab of affordable units It can be used the city could use this program to purchase property To use for affordable housing or to use infrastructure to support affordable housing or for conversions from like office to affordable housing Residential so those are the uses allowable in the policy just as a reminder So the big amendments on this policy, again, evergreen language, taking some of those specific references out to specific bond authorizations. And then really, there's some practices that have been done for a while. So this is like saying there's going to be a committee with some of the different experts and folks involved on this that will be appointed by the city manager. That's been a practice for a while. And then The limit is the big change here. So previously, it just said there was a $2 million limit for projects. And really, one, that didn't allow for inflation. But two, it also didn't really take into account whether it's a small project or a large project. So what we proposed here is saying that it's really a 20% limit to the total project cost would be the upper limit of incentives under this. And we've also clarified that that 20% From the affordable housing side includes all tools such as TIFF and other things combined So that really applies on this side It also again provides that we can do some can go above that limit if there are is deeper affordability proposed on a project so for example of you proposed 50% or 40% or 30% AMI. We understand that means there's much less revenue in the projects. This would allow us to take a look at that and go above that 20% limit. And then also the last thing, as we've tried to build in here and talk about trying to do, the last round in 2017, we did a lot of basically forgivable loans where that is still a tool that will be available, but we're trying to do more revolving loans that have some income generation to kind of keep the money revolving. So it states that if there's any program revenue generated that it must stay in this fund, go back into this fund to use for affordable housing. So I think those are, is that the last slide? Oh, and then preferences. This is the other one was just clarifying on our preferences that, you know, really we want to make sure that affordable housing works with other things the city's doing. So that, you know, looking at the location and how they integrate into neighborhoods, looking at, you know, Housing outcomes and and resident support providing amenities, you know allows us to use the incentives to help Make it a little bit nicer and provide amenities, you know, is it close to employment? Is it close to transit routes things like that? project design Sustainability and then again back to talking about financial stewardship and leveraging, you know We want to have a preference for loan structures that pay back into the fund as opposed to Forgivable loans or grants, but those are just preferences. So we still have flexibility But we're trying to signal to the market what our preferences are on these things So with that be happy to answer any questions on those two items. I know that was a lot

Questions? Just a comment. Appreciate the work that's been done and I know that every single time, without fail, that we vote for a new, the use of one of these TIF incentives, I get an email from a constituent saying, why are you supporting these out of state whoever's coming in and I have to remind them that we're gonna get all the money back, And two, we also are doing work like you are suggesting in this amendment to really help small businesses to expand. And so I hope that we can continue to have conversations about how we get homegrown people the ability to participate in this program. And of course, really love the fact that we're doing so much support for affordable housing, which is such a huge need. So appreciate your help, Kenny. Thank you.

I also forgot to mention, I wanted to thank Joanna McSpadden and Ben Davis and Shannon Ince, especially from planning, and Cassie Poor in my office, and there's a host of others, but there's a lot of folks that worked on this policy to kind of bring it forward, look at, talk to experts, bring practices forward in this, so appreciate all their work.

That's exactly what I was going to say. I want to thank you, and especially I want to thank all the people that worked on this, because I know it was an intensive, lengthy process. Thank you.

I'll echo that gratitude, Ben, Shannon, Kenny, Joanna. Just one question before I make a comment. When I look at the historic renovation program, is that something that if we went back in time and you look at the first Christian church, for instance, or presently in time, the gold dome or just buildings that have historic resonance with the city, is this now something that we could have if we had this in place or what are we thinking about with this particular?

Potentially so this is specifically I think what was brought forward and this really are our friends at the planning department are You know the brilliant folks that helped us kind of bring this forward that really most of the historic projects that are probably left around town are probably smaller and they're probably more like Small office renovations for like a law firm or a small, you know small company what this really says is we could give the company a if they don't meet that 50 person criteria for job incentives, but they meet at least 20, if they're gonna go into a historic, renovation project, we could still potentially give them incentives for their 20 or 25 employees as long as it's part of a historic. And it's really just trying to encourage some of the smaller folks to take a look at some of the historic properties. It doesn't go to the developer or the redeveloper of the historic property. You know, that's where oftentimes historic tax credits, TIF, other tools are used on that. But it's really saying, It's really trying to help that developer get a tenant interested in going into that historic property.

That's a good use of that, I would suggest. And then I really want to thank that team, your team, everybody, because For all the years since MAPS 4, I have asked from city manager all the way through for a connecting of the dots between the Henrietta B. Foster Center, just really thinking outside the box how it can all connect, you know, public transportation, et cetera. And I worried, because I'm an anxious guy. I was like, is this going to stick? And it stuck. And I'm really thankful that you all heard those requests. We learned a lot during COVID with some of those programs. And I'm glad you all are applying those lessons. So I just really want to express my gratitude for that connectivity piece. Back to what Councilor Pennington was saying, I think my additional request, and I think it might involve another partnership maybe with the maps for community subcommittee, just thinking about some of the people who are on there, but I think creating some social media graphics that highlight some of the additions that we've made here, whether it's on the affordable housing side or it's the job side of things. So like, for instance, the second chance employment, how that can boost your potential, right, for receiving these funds, or the daycare option, right? But then the affordable housing side of it, right, if you build along the transit line, if you are building something that complements the character of the area of a Capitol Hill of the Asian district, etc. Those are things that if we have those as like those kind of box social media graphics. that will get to our local folk, right? The people, tell me if I'm wrong on this, counselor, but our people need to know, and the word that's coming to mind right now is transparency, a transparency in the process. It's one thing, all this work is so important that you've done. Now it's about communicating that to our people in ways to be able to say to them, like, we've not had these tools before, and now we do. And those are tools that when we do our, for those of us who do, I'm guessing maybe everyone does, but when we do meetups with our residents, right, town halls, et cetera, we can have those images that are, you know, there's a lot of words here on the screen right now. So if we can distill that, and the reason why I mentioned the maps for community, board members, as I know a lot of those folk have done some of this work with CityCare, et cetera, and they'll be able to help, I think, with the distillation of language after you all create whatever you create, kind of just have people who've been at this as long as you all have as well, putting some eyes on it and be like, yeah, that's what's gonna resonate with folk. I think this is very important and I'm just very grateful, but I can tell you again, going back to my Ward 2 folk, so many people who are seniors just have memories of us not rehabbing historic buildings on Main Street, et cetera, and just urban renewal demolishing them, and they had been all but begging us to go in this direction so i think making this clear in social media that we're doing this will go a long way for a lot of residents that's my ask so thanks thanks kenny looks like we're ready for a motion on item m

Mine's not showing up, but I vote yes.

And it passes unanimously. And I'm ready for a motion on item N. Still not working, board seven votes yes. And it passes unanimously. Item O is a resolution authorizing the Oklahoma City Water Utilities Trust to incur indebtedness by the issuance of one or more series of its Clean Water State Revolving Fund promissory notes.

Vanessa Aguilar, our Deputy Utilities Director, she's got finance and administration, so I'll let her present this request to support debt with the Water Utility Trust.

Yes, good morning, Vice Mayor and Council, Vanessa Aguilar. And so this item that you have before you today is a resolution that authorizes the incurrence of indebtedness by the Oklahoma City Water Utilities Trust. To give you a little bit of background, Aquit has a part of its financial plan and management strategies is to fund its capital program with a blend of debt financing and cash for its capital program. From the debt financing portion, ACWT has been a long-standing participant and borrower of the Oklahoma Water Resources Board State Revolving Fund Loan Program. So we regularly access these SRF programs, both from the drinking water side and, in this case, clean water programs. On January 14, 2026, the Oklahoma City Water Utilities Trust approved the application process to submit an application to the Water Board for participation in the Clean Water Program. This loan is in the amount of $21,930,141, It funds seven wastewater projects. This includes a wastewater treatment plant improvements, a sanitary sewer relocation, and several sanitary sewer rehabilitation projects. On May 19, 2026, Oklahoma City the Oklahoma Water Resources Board approved that loan application and today we are Presenting this item for indebtedness and this afternoon the Oklahoma City Water Utilities Trust will also consider a similar item staff recommends approval of this item and both staff and bond co bond council are available to answer any questions and

I do want to clarify one thing. I said that this was a request for the city to support this debt. It's supporting the authorization of the debt, but AQUA's debt stands on its own. The city doesn't actually back that. You see other agreements that are on even today where we're supporting other entities like Economic Development Trust and this. AQUA actually stands on its own.

And ready for a motion? And it passes unanimously. Item P is a resolution authorizing the municipal counselor to confess judgment without admitting liability in the case of Dante Roberte, Jasmine Roberte, versus Oklahoma City. Executive session is not requested. Ready for a motion? And it passes unanimously. Item Q is claims recommended for denial. Executive session is not requested. And it passes unanimously. Item R is claims are recommended for approval. And that passes unanimously. All right, we're comments from council. Is that you?

Thank you, Vice Mayor. First, I wanted to thank our utilities team for a tour I was able to take recently of the water treatment out heading up toward Ward 8. It was insightful. It was informative. They answered all of my questions, and I told them as the tour wrapped up that it reminded me of reading The Divine Comedy by Dante a few years ago, where I was like, I think I retained about 50% of this, so I'm gonna have to reread the book, and that's how I feel about going back out there and learning again, because it's a lot of intricate work that they are putting in to make sure that we are safe, and they are so proud of our drinking water, I have to tell you that. Like, very proud. Our award-winning?

Award-winning.

Okay.

And with the new pipeline, 52-inch. Water until 2060 for our kids and grandkids.

that's something that I'm looking forward to touring as well. So, no, I just really want to thank Josh and Director Browning for their time. It was very important to me to get to experience that. And then I also wanted to invite residents on July 29th, 10 a.m., to Lee's Sandwiches. Our Asian District Cultural Association is hosting a public safety meeting with OKCPD. I've asked, and hopefully they'll be able to attend as well, for key to home representatives and for someone from Mobile Integrated Health to join as well. The reason why, as we've seen in the news lately, we've had two unfortunate events. One where a man who's experiencing homelessness found himself killed by another man who was experiencing homelessness. quite the dystopic moment, very troubling. And I have a lot of questions about that situation that I've already turned over to our city manager's office. So I'll look forward to learning more before I speak publicly more about that. But on that note, just a couple days after that tragic event, Councilor Hammond and I, along with stakeholders for our Klassen Corridor transit-oriented development work, there was a stakeholder group, and at that group, the founder of the Asian district, Toon, pulled me aside, so did its current executive director, Steve Lee, and they wanted to talk to me about homelessness on Klassen. And I asked them to reach out to Key to Home and have someone from Key to Home come speak to their board. And then I saw that this event was gonna happen. So to me it just makes sense that we should have people from the city from Key to Home there alongside Chief Basie. Additionally, another tragic event that I'm still learning more about is the officer involvement with this woman who is wearing a psychiatric bracelet that's been in the media. And as I learn more about that, I'll speak more about that. But I can tell you right now, a major question that I have I find that event very troubling, and the number one question I have is why the city of OKC did not dispatch our mobile integrated health team to that moment. I'm so proud of mobile integrated health. I'm guessing we all are as council members. A year in, over 5,000 calls, Lord knows within that how many lives saved, housed under our fire department. Just incredible work begun six years ago, right? Because we know that people in a mental health crisis or with mental health conditions, unfortunately, find themselves to be about 15 times more likely to end up dead during an encounter with law enforcement. Now, we can be mad. That's not just Oklahoma City. That's nationally. We can be mad about that statistic or we can recognize that's not an anti-police statement. That's a who do we send out, who is the best to respond to that situation statement, right? And so, that is a huge question that I have right now is why, what broke in that chain of process when someone is calling saying they are injured Why would we not send the most qualified person? I don't have those answers yet I look forward to learning that because I think it'll help us in the future And so and this just goes back to my written remarks from when I was out of the country regarding the budget I Really would like to see us further prioritize that service in terms of its funding. I'm going to keep beating that drum because it's working. It's working when we use it. And I want to make sure that we're using it. And I think the stakes are high on this because right now we're telling people call 911 if you're in a mental health crisis. But when something like this happens, that can erode that trust. And I will fight tooth and nail to make sure that trust is there. I think it's a vital service we're providing. And so I think having the mental health the mobile integrated health team there in the Asian district alongside Chief Basie, alongside Key to Home, will better help the district leaders understand who they need to call and it can communicate down to the rest of their residents. Who do you call when it's a crime versus who do you call when someone's in a mental health crisis episode? Who do you call when it's someone experiencing homelessness? And something I'm quite worried about is that for all of the great work we have here at the city, kind of going back to affordable housing, we don't think enough of our people know about who to call and about the services. And so it really challenged us to think about how we disseminate that information better to our residents. I don't know how many times this has appeared in water bills, for instance, mobile integrated health or key to home, but If we're not doing that, we should do more of it. But additionally, we have to remember not everyone owns their home. We have a lot of renters. So how do we reach them? And that's my challenge back. How do we let people know? Relatedly, I want to dig down deep. I want to ask rather a request to dig down deep into the mobile integrated health. I'd like to better understand from where those calls are coming, which parts of town, who is using this service? in terms of geography. And maybe that can kind of help us better understand who doesn't have an awareness of the service. So that's a pretty big ask that I have. But again, I just want to applaud people supporting mobile integrated health and key to home. I just want to see us further prioritize it. And when I know more in terms of answers to those questions, I will speak more publicly. But for now, I just want to speak responsibly. And that is it for me. So thank you.

Board Fork. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I would just like to say thank you to the Choctaw and Acoma Park School District yesterday. We did a ribbon cutting on their new elementary school located over around 29th and Westminster Road. Just a fantastic facility pulled up. There must have been 300 people standing outside in the sun getting ready to go inside and enjoy the tour of that new facility. It's amazing what they've done there. So thank them for that. Board 6.

Yes, thank you. I also would like to just speak to some of the events that happened this weekend in Capitol Hill and Ward 6, recognizing these are not isolated to the South Side or Ward 6. We unfortunately have acts of violence that happen all over the city, but for various reasons, some I think capture our attention a little bit differently. And I first just want to extend my condolences to the families of Adolfo Lopez and Moses Sandoval. it's really tragic when you look at the date of birth for some of these incidents and they're, you know, I think, oh, I was in high school when that person was born. That's a long time ago, but not that long ago. You know, when very young people, you know, in their late teens or early 20s are using violent weapons as a tool for, you know, I can't read their minds, so I don't know exactly what, but particularly when those things escalate and those folks feel like that is a tool to assert their dominance or resolve a conflict. And I just want to go back to research that shows that Expressions of violence don't come out of a vacuum. They have very traceable roots, and those things are often related to shame, isolation, exposure to violence previously, and a diminished ability to meet one's economic needs. I just want to communicate to Ward 6, to the city more broadly when events like this happen, when we see or hear about violence occurring, that we dig a little deeper, think about the root causes of that violence, and think about how we can holistically address um preventing that kind of violence not just you know for the sake of the people who might um find themselves on the receiving end but for those perpetrating violence because most often those folks have also either experienced or witnessed violence and seen it as a um a useful way to address their frustrations, conflicts, et cetera. So I live now near the Capitol Hill District, and I just want to express that I really hope that the business owners, the residents in that area continue to feel safe you know, the thing that we can do that keeps our cities and our neighborhoods the safest is have eyes on the street, have eyes on one another, and that really these, you know, these instances of violence are often people who know one another, you know, they're very, I wouldn't say isolated necessarily because they do have broad impacts, but, you know, that... what we can do is honor the people and the people who survived that instance and their families and help support them, because those are the seeds of preventing violence in the future. And so I just, I would hope that as a city, we can continue to invest in the time to develop our violence intervention strategies so that we can prevent more occurrences like this in the future. Thank you.

Board 7. Thank you and I'll just again just echo the comments from Councilman Cooper and Councilwoman Hammond in offering my condolences to the families. But I will lift up in a positive note that yesterday I went to speak to Oklahoma City Police Department's FACT efforts for out of school time for middle school and high school students at the Northeast Oklahoma City Community Center behind my alma mater of Northeast High School. And it was great to be there with engaged students who were really excited. The fact unit's providing a safe place for kids to go where they're getting exposed to college tours, having various speakers that are coming in and explaining things to them. They've got fun activities that they go and do. They're even doing some community service during the week. So it is, I just completely agree with what Councilwoman Hammond was saying about the need for us to address root causes, but I also want to lift up the things that we're doing that we're getting it right. And I think that that's one of those great examples of programs that we should continue to expand and invest in. So thank you for the opportunity to participate. Ward 8.

I got a call this weekend from a couple of people that were saddened, I think sad is a good word, that they had applied for the lottery tickets to the Olympics and they didn't get them. And so I called Mike, the president of our OKC team for the Olympics, and he was kind enough to send me a text. So don't worry, you're not out yet. And this is what he says. All individuals who registered for the Olympic ticket lottery earlier this year remain in the lottery for a chance to be selected in the second ticket on sale planned for August 10th. There is no need to re-register if they have already completed the registration process. So there's another tranche of tickets going out. You still have a chance and so we should know more on August the 10th. On Tuesday morning at 7.30, I was called down to City Hall to meet with a group of people. They were having a serious problem with a house in their neighborhood. And I've always said that we have the best city staff and the best city employees in anywhere in the United States. And if we had these cities' employees with our federal government, I think we'd be in much better shape. They do an outstanding job. And we immediately addressed their issue. I picked up the phone and called the mortgage company to ask them why it was languishing and they weren't moving forward and why they weren't protecting the house. I mean, it was abandoned. The structure was in horrible condition. And three years ago, that house, they said, was the prettiest in the neighborhood. And so, the point is, I want to thank Chris Smith, and I want to thank Chris Moses, who dropped everything to help these people, who had signed a petition of about 50 people, and they were really alarmed. And I think we got them calmed down, and I think we helped. And I would encourage anyone that's on this council, if you have a house that's having a problem, pick up the phone and call the mortgage company. It gets them beginning to act. They're not only moving forward on the foreclosure, but they're also maintaining the house now, which saves us money. Thank you.

I'm going to cede the word five times to city manager for some comments.

Yeah, I just wanted to recognize MT Berry, our longtime friend. MT served the city. He died this past Friday. He served the city for 49 years. He was our first black police chief, served as police chief for five years. He was an assistant city manager then for 16 years. So 49 years of his life he gave to the city and served. To anyone who knew him, he was a friend. He was kind, he was gentle, he was firm, he had wisdom. For me personally, I count him as a mentor and a friend and just grateful for his influence in my life. I know our entire city, the city organization and the council together that we mourn the loss of MT Berry. but are grateful for the investment he made in our community.

I would echo that. He always had a smile on his face. He and I went through a really stressful period on an event going on out in Ward 8. I never saw him lose his cool. He always stayed calm, and he always had good comments and advice. We will miss him.

May I also add, and I appreciate City Manager you bringing that to the council, It's significant, in addition to what you've named, that such was his work that when it came time six years ago for us to start work on the mayor's law enforcement task force, the community policing resolution that I wrote, that we turned to MT. Absolutely. Because he had trust within the community, he had trust within the city structure, and that's where I got to meet him some of his family, and so that's just a special type of person. And I would hope that beyond this horseshoe, there's some way, because I know we don't teach much about city government in our schools. I would love to see some way within City Hall, somewhere, that we acknowledge that history and that family's contribution. Thank you.

I should have also mentioned the funeral services will be Friday, July 31st at 11 a.m. at the Greater Mount Olive Baptist Church. So I just wanted to mention that as well. Thank you.

All right, that brings us to comments from citizens. First up is Noah Compton. I want to remind you, you've got three minutes. State your name and your address, and Amy will let you know when you've got 30 seconds left.

My name is Noah Compton, 16113 Quintero Creek Drive, Edmond, Oklahoma. I'm here to speak about the Flock contract the city has. Recently, the ACLU reported a story where in a city council meeting in Oshkosh, a council member asked Flock if their license plate readers created heat maps that revealed where a particular vehicle had been over a period of time, and the chief information security officer who was there told the city council that no, it did not do that. But then later the next day actually the City Council found that the information security officer had lied about that and then immediately revoked the contract and flock responded by attacking the council member or attacking the council saying they had not been afforded an opportunity to explain their lie and trivialize it by saying it was a small misconception and And also in Dunwoody, Georgia, sales employees had been accessing sensitive cameras to demonstrate their surveillance technology to police departments around the county. They had cameras. They were showing off footage from a daycare, a kid's gymnastics room, a playground, a school, Jewish community centers multiple times. and this was only discovered thanks to third-party audit log analysis. And in Missouri, an officer ran one woman's license plate nearly 400 times, and audit logs showed that that officer was responsible for about a quarter of the department searches, and he often used reasons like DWI or warrants without any actual case numbers or warrants. These cameras are everywhere. They have enough cameras to know where you work, where you live, where you go to church. I was on a run yesterday, and I passed two cameras facing a playground, which is unreasonable. There's not going to be cars driving there. They shouldn't have access to our kids' information like this. On their databases, you could search something like silver sedan with two bumper stickers, and you could see every single vehicle in Oklahoma in that description and see where they were at any point in time. These databases give officers the kind of information you'd only get by putting a GPS in a car or tracking a cell phone, which are both things that require a warrant under the Fourth Amendment. Flock has an incredible, almost godlike power to be able to fully analyze and be aware of an entire population's movements and know what that means about them. If they were a trustworthy corporation, it would be one thing, but they've proven to be completely untrustworthy with this information. They've blocked archivists from archiving their master security contract, and we only know this because people have manually gone through and compared these old versions to the new ones. And in their newest February update 30 seconds remaining they made 147 changes to the master agreement the most consequential being The previous cause saying they do not own and shall not sell customer data and they replace it with they have a perpetual irrevocable worldwide royalty-free data license that survives contract termination and These cameras have also been proven to be compromised easily independent independent researchers have compromised about 67 cameras in about 30 seconds including multiple pointed at Susan's playground I urge the City Council to commit to a vote and vote no on renewing his contracts. Thank you for your time Thank you.

No Next up Kenley Pope poor Going once going twice Next, Steve Hunt.

Steve Hunt, 6300 Westwood Drive. So last Wednesday, eight days after this council unanimously approved $19 million to the unaccountable private tyranny chamber of commerce, 3.751 million going to executive salaries, 390 for administration fees. They received another massive windfall through the state of the city, over $300,000 in revenue to come hear the mayor speak about a couple interesting things. First off, transit. I attended the One Transit meeting afterwards, and the board was comprised of people that were part of the destruction of the Union Station, of which Mayor Holt was a huge advocate of. I want to read a letter from North American Transit Institute Elmore from Wednesday June 3rd 2009 this was when Mayor Holt was running for Senate hi folks you may remember the incident a couple of years back when I stopped by the OKC mayor's office Cornett announced his support for transit development to ask if this meant they were ready to save the save the Union Station yard this was a group that was trying to save the functionality of the rail in the Union Station because they knew that its destruction would set Oklahoma City back 25 years on light rail Cornett's assistant, David Holt, met me in the foyer and then proceeded to tell me, you are so far behind the times. You don't even know that in a couple weeks we'll be down there destroying that old rail yard. And then we won't have to listen to you complain about it anymore. That was Mayor Holt, who's, I don't know where he is, probably... Having a good old time one more time. You're so far behind the times You don't even know that in a couple weeks. We'll be destroying the rule Okay, so the people who are behind this new transit system are the people who destroyed the functionality of the Union Station 2009 it was a beautiful facility and it would be the central hub of light rail had they not destroyed it on behalf of the highway lobby Gaining the political capital from those folks to go forward to this moment and support Zerp policy during that very difficult time when we could have been building it back then Okay, so the other thing, and this is a little bit lighter, there was an announcement for a city flag, and this is headed by Merrick Cornett and her propaganda agency. They're the ones that are going to take in the money and all that. So I've gone ahead and designed a flag that I think most represents Oklahoma City right now. So these are the equity firms that are taking over functionality of the government and the private sector, especially James Ward. So we've got Blackstone, KKR, Apollo. Apollo are the ones that are destroying some of the senior living facilities here in Oklahoma City. We've got Silver Lake. They're the ones that bought the baseball team. And you all did the Scrivener's Air so that they would get money for the pole with the Wi-Fi thing on it. We got Roark Capital. They've got about 20 different businesses in James Ward, including Sonic, who they bought in 2019, gutted, took all the jobs to Atlanta. We got Bain Capital. They're the ones that destroyed C.R. Anthony 30 years ago through stage stores. They now own Klass and Curve and Nichols Hills Plaza. So this is my flag. I think it's important. for flags to represent the places where they fly, and this private equity flag will be my submission, so thank you so much. And if you don't mind, one last thing I'd like to say. We lost an amazing, another amazing human being this week. My dear brother beloved as he always called me, Jimmy Bodine, who ran the Rolf Funeral Home. Jimmy buried my mother last year, and he touched so many lives, just... a wonderful human being. And I just want to say, Jimmy, I love you. And his memorial will be at St. John's on August 14th. And so, yeah, thank you. Thank you, Steve.

Next up is Celeste Warden.

Hi, my name's Celeste Warden. I live at 300 Northwest 12th. The who to call that James had just mentioned is really important. I live in subsidized housing. It's privately owned, but they get federal subsidizing for disabled and elderly people. My neighbor is ready to call the police because somebody else in our building is making noise instead of the management. People don't know who to call. Calling the police to get into a secured building because somebody is making noise late at night is not... Does not make sense. I want to add on to the flock camera discussion. One thing that concerns me is a police officer from anywhere in the world can search Oklahoma City and find our residents. Anywhere that has flock, they can search any other flock cameras. They are not limited to their district, their jurisdiction. And that is concerning. They have people in Texas that are tracking people across state lines. And that is extremely concerning, is police officers often develop PTSD, and police officers are just like everyone else, and sometimes there's some bad apples. I also have concern about the Oklahoma City Police Department being deployed to DC. Our police are already short-staffed. We're already short-handed. Why are we sending people off? Who's paying for it? None of that has been put out to public eyes, and that really concerns me. I do want to say one thing that I think has been done really well, the streetcar being... no cost right now is really helping the homeless community downtown be able to stay cool, because a lot of the places that are safe places to stay cool close at five, six, and it gets hot, it's still hot then, and that gives them some place to be able to stay safe. So that's all I have, thank you.

Thank you, Celeste. Next up, Ronnie Kirk.

My name is Ronnie Kerr. My address is 2328 North Missouri. You know, life has a strange way of working out. I came down today to talk about our independence, 250-year independence day. But the black people and the state of Oklahoma, the way things work out, the black people have two independent days. June the 16th, when I started Juneteenth in Oklahoma, still living today. I want to talk about 100 years ago, an old black man, George Washington Carter, he could do anything with a peanut. They still do it today. Truman had asked him, Is there any kind of way that he can make a protein bar or preserve food so our military could fight? Fred Jones also asked him. That volcano ash is too hard on the rubber. We're losing a lot of Jeeps. A lot of planes can't land. And he helped them out doing something to the rubber where it lasts like it is today. And there was also the Corps of Engineers. These are people that fought with no gun at all. They was all laborers. What they did for the Beechcraft to land, they had to get out there cut those bars all up, them old X bars up, where your craft could land. And that's how it was a four and a half year backlog of U.S. males getting home to the United States. Took four years. The bodies was getting here before the male was. They also had some black postal working women. They got over there and they straightened that up in six months. There's also, the guys went to fire extinguishers. No gun, went through the wall. Breaking up them eight inch walls thick, shooting them peel guns, machine guns. They didn't have no guns. These were labels. They was able to get the job done. And the Red Tails, Tuskegee Air Force. During the war, they took, the commander went to Truman, said, we're losing so many planes, them bombers, we can send 100 out and 10 come back.

Mr. Kirk, we're over time. You want to wrap it up?

Okay. And so they'd ask him, we already got people that can fly them, but they do people that work on them. So that's when they call them the whale tail. Once they gave all them black men the jobs of chasing those Japanese down, the ratio of B-52s were tremendously helped. I want to say thank y'all this morning.

And last up is Stephanie Burdine.

Good morning, Stephanie Burdine, 515 Maple, Yukon, Oklahoma. This recording was done in 2025 by the University of Texas School of Engineering to test sound equipment. It was recorded in Round Rock, Texas at a hyperscale data center at a distance of 1,500 feet. Pleasant sound, isn't it? PUD 2105 and PUD 2104 If passed, we'll allow that sound to be heard 24-7, 300 feet from homes in Yukon and Oklahoma City. That'll set a precedence. Every one of your districts will be subject and could have to deal with that sound. Do you want travelers on I-40 when they stop at Oklahoma's only Buc-ee's to get out of their cars and hear that? Because that's what they'll hear. That's how close it is. You all are about to set a precedent that's not popular anywhere in the United States. And you need to read that sound report that a gentleman in Yukon that's retired from the EPA put together. He knows what he's talking about. So, since I have a minute left, we'll just listen to how pleasant that is again. 24-7, it never stops. It never stops. Two miles away, that's what you get to hear. 24-7. I hope you all will seriously think about what you're doing. Oh, we'll hear just a second. The person who needs to hear it the most just entered the room.

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24-7, Katrina. That's what a hyperscale data center sounds like 1,500 feet away. There's homes only 300 feet away. 91,000... Oklahoma City residents in Eastern Canadian County, is this really what you want to do? I don't see how it could be a proud moment for any of you all if you vote and allow PUD 2105 and 2124 to set a precedence for Oklahoma City.

Thank you for your time. And with that, we're adjourned.

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