 we ask all others to step forward to the front podium. Each podium has a timer located to the speaker's right, which will indicate how much time is remaining. A bell will sound when you have 30 seconds left, and when your time has ended, the bell will sound again and you should complete your comments. Before you begin your comments, please state your name and city of residence. Thank you. Microphone, there we go, check. Good evening and welcome to your Forest City Council meeting, I'll call us to order. Tonight's invocation will be by Priest Pandit Morali Krishna from the Hindu Temple of Greater Fort Worth. Please stand for the invocation and remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance. Gnana Nandhva Gnapatigham Hava Mahe Kavin Kaveena Upamashra Vastamam Vesta Rajam Bramhanam Bramhanas Pada Anashram Vannote Vessidasadhanam Vavihavesh Vastu Vayanthvenna Vantam Pradishastha Tastrasthvaya Dhyakshana Prudhana Jayayama Mahadeva Vihavesh Santu Sarva Indravanto Maruto Vishnuragni Maman Tarikshamur Gopamastu Mahakyam Vadafavad Mai Deva Adravinam Aja Janta Maiyashirastu Majidevahuti Avanishanta Purve Vrstasya Madanvasvira Ejasvinavadheetamastu Mavidvishavahi Vamsham Tishyantihi Kale Varshat Prajanyaf Prudhevisasya Shalini Desho Yamksho Bharahito Bramhanasamto Nirbhaya Asatoma Asatsura Sat Lead me from darkness to light Lead me from death to immorality. Peace, peace, peace and let all be happy Let all be free from debilitation. Let all see goodness. Let there be no victims of sorrow. Thank you. To the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. On the next slide, I pledge allegiance to the city, exasperated, one state, under God, one and indivisible. First item of business is approval of the minutes from the April 5th work session and the April 5th, 2022 public comment meeting. Thank you. And a second council. Any other discussion? Please vote. Motion passes. That concludes the business. Mayor, we're ready for public comments. Thank you. Our first speaker is going to be Tanya Carter by phone. Ms. Carter. Good evening, Mayor Parker. Good evening, Mayor Maddie Parker and Council. My name is Tanya Carter. I am a District 6 resident. I reside in Lake Como, Texas. I would like to make a plea to the city of Fort Worth and the Fort Worth Police Department to show leniency, I guess I suppose. As far as over-policing in our disenfranchised community coming up this July 3rd and 4th. I also would like to address concerns about the attack on a Jefferson trial where Aaron Dean is being on trial. I do apologize. I misspoke. Madam Mayor, I saw on Michael Crane's network a show that you had contacted several people from, like, a protest group. You know, there was protest in doing George Floyd and the attack on a Jefferson murder about peaceful protests and things of that nature. I've talked to several people and no one that I know of has been contacted. I just want to be sure that we do have a right to exercise our constitutional right as far as a peaceful protest and not to raid. Also, I would like to know if there are any plans of action coming forward in case there is a guilty verdict. Is there any plan of action other than martial law or, you know, over-policing the citizens and residents in the community? I'm running like I always do. Thank you for the opportunity to speak. I appreciate you, Mayor Maddie Parker, and seated council. Hopefully, we can work together to truly reimagine a new Fort Worth one that is all inclusive of everyone, regardless of race, creed, color, social dynamic. It's been two years, sister. Grief is happening. Okay. It's coming up for trial. I just want peace in the city. I want justice. This is the attack on us, Jefferson. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Carter. Our next speaker is Bob Willoughby. My name is Willoughby and start off with here on this. Mr. Cook, I appreciate your return call on your time. And yes, we're just calling the ward on my machine when we can have a date. I would like to have a meeting with the next couple of weeks. I'm sure you'd like to get it over with too. I know it needs about 20 minutes. At the same time, if you like, I'd like to invite Michelle Cook if she wants to. I believe when you are talking about someone, they should have the right to be there to defend themselves. I believe in transparency and wide open with that, okay? So please just leave the ward on my machine. What date and time. We'll meet your date and time and you can invite her too. Okay, let's move on to this. CCP funds, okay? When I called them, man, those people are very nervous over there. They don't answer questions. I invited them to be on the show and the response I got from them was unacceptable, totally unacceptable here. And when I get a response, I want a name. I don't want partners share. You know, I don't want a group answer me. And I think I hide behind that. I want a name. But anyway, the response is unacceptable. There's a lot of money being dealt out. I'm getting a lot of calls to our show that money's not going to the right people and things are kind of shady there. Real shady, especially when council took away the independent people that oversaw the money and put themselves in charge. And then they complained or overworked and want to raise. Okay, another thing on the CCP fund. I got a question. Should Gina Bibbins be sitting on that board while criminal charges are filed against her? I think she should excuse herself from that board until this investigation is over. Let's move on. Let's keep on city council. My thing says city come. Just keep going. Just keep going. Just keep going, Bob. You want to finish your comments? Would you like to finish your comments? Okay, let's go on then. You're not going to let me speak. Okay, let's move to the next one then. How about the next one? Okay. POA and city council members. Okay, are we okay there? Oh, he can barely speak here. I'll tell you. You know what? I just come down here for y'all here. Let's see if we can still do this or not. Please, Bill, put a picture on the screen. Can you still do that? We'll not do that. Not endorsing any candidates. I'll just make a picture and talk about the POA because they took down this sign. $140. Okay. When you move to five, I'll answer your question. But the sign is about we need to get the POA to quit buying candidates. Okay. And I've asked the police chief and I don't get a response. That's another thing. I want to invite the police chief to a meeting here in their future. We'll see if he comes. I got 30 seconds left. But anyway, this is what's going on. Mr. Bollock would be placed in Mr. Moon's replacement. He won't be elected. He'll be placed because these people are right here. They buy the POA needs to stop paying millions and POA goes to the POA. The place needs to stop paying millions because the POA uses that money and buys candidates like this one here. They need to get out of that business to help us get real council members up here. Okay. Thank you. Next speaker is Dan Hayes. Move to District 5 and I'll talk to you on your show. On your way here. Okay. Hi, Dan. That's a hard act to follow. My name is Dan Hayes. I live in Central Medabrook. Tonight I wanted to bring an issue to your attention that is definitely not the most important thing you'll deal with this year, but it's something I think needs a better solution. The issue is cars parked in the front yard of a residence. For many older working class neighborhoods like mine, this is a significant problem and one that tends to spread up and down the block if not proactively addressed. The current method of dealing with this is with cars in the grass is the police get the call unless code has some other reason to be on the property. As I understand it, this is an arrangement that Brandon Bennett worked out with former police chief Jeff Halstead undoubtedly in an effort to reduce the workload for code compliance. Halstead left the department in 2015 so that decision is likely a decade or so old. I'm sure Mr. Bennett could provide more specific information as to when that arrangement was put in place. But I can tell you, A, this has left the public confused about who to report such issues to, B, if they do understand that the police get the call, which avenue do they use, 9-1-1, non-emergency, NPO, my Fort Worth app, some other way. And there's rarely the desired result without repeated efforts to engage the police. Let's be honest, this has to be the lowest of low priorities for an understaffed police department. But by the same token, I sympathize with code's position of not wanting to deal with these since they already have an ever-growing workload. But in the end, we the public are not getting the desired results. Our state parked in the yard and nothing gets addressed for sometimes months. This is a quality of life issue which can directly affect property values in a neighborhood. So my ask is that the city council take a fresh look at how the ordinance is enforced and determine if this issue needs to move back to code or some other arrangement. Something that actually produces the desired result without a lot of confusion on the part of the public. Nobody needs the additional workload, but if we have an ordinance as we should, then the funding of the necessary staff needs to be part of that. As an aside, I would also encourage the communications folks to redouble their efforts to educate the public on topics like this. There are many, many things people do without necessarily being aware that there's an ordinance prohibiting them. So even though they should know better, education can help too. A more aware citizenry can even slightly reduce the workload for code and others. In all seriousness, I am willing to do whatever I can to help collaborate in this area. I'm already trying to do so with Next Door and would love to be part of a solution there. Thank you. Thank you, Dan. Our next speaker is George Childs. My name is George running Childs, my residence address is number 742901 Travis Avenue, Fort Worth. On the 12th, a call in public comment referred to three council members being in disfavor with the POA because they voted their conscience about a third bear cat. The conscience part seemed to sum it up so well that I decided to file off to serial numbers and act like I thought of it myself. A handbook for police union leaders titled Police Union Power, Politics and Confrontation of the 21st Century Second Edition clearly shows that it is flatly impossible for any elected representative of the public to vote his or her conscience against the police union's goals on any subject and not encourage wrath for two reasons. The first reason is what a police union expects in a candidate, found in the following statement in that book, quote, police union should endorse candidates based on the candidate's position on the organization's goals, unquote. So an endorsed successful candidate going against any of these goals could be, would be just plain treason. On the part of an unendorsed elected official, it would be a clearly hostile act. No reason. Not conscience or anything else can change that dynamic. So much for the part conscience plays in what unions expect of others, which is to say none whatsoever. The answer is the same for what the public can expect of conscience influencing any union's decision. The guidebook counsels union leaders, quote, you've got to leave all of mama's childhood prechins outside the front door of the union hall, unquote. It goes on to state a union leader must throw out all those traditional notions of right and wrong. I will say that again. A union leader must throw out all those traditional notions of right and wrong. I believe that conscience is generally viewed as being inculcated by social example and influence. That is the result of nurture, not nature. Is there a more prevalent and enduring symbol of nurture than motherhood, the source of all those mama's prechins, which union leaders must cast aside? This book, co-authored by the person who has negotiated every POA contract with the city of Fort Worth ordered union leaders to cut the very fabric of conscience to pieces. So of course, the concept of conscience would be not just foreign to them, but highly dangerous as well. Is this not warning enough to the voters of Fort Worth about what a PA endorsement actually means? Thank you, Mr. Charles, our next speaker is Gerald Banks. Mr. Banks here. I haven't seen him yet tonight. OK. He comes in. We'll go next. James Smith. Good afternoon, council. My name is James Smith. I live in District 8. Mr. Nettles is my councilman. October 12, 2019, I stood before you regarding Otakiana Jefferson. The prior mayor said that the process going forward with that tragedy would be transparent. For 2 and 1 half years, I've experienced no transparency whatsoever. Almost a month before this trial starts, I thought I had brought myself to a point to where I was going to be prepared for the trial. And then I fell across an article in the Fort Worth Weekly. In the coming weeks, the Fort Worth Weekly magazine will receive documents that indicate when Judge Coffey and other judges preside over cases without oath and whether other judges are being assigned senior judge cases erroneously. Coffey said that he is scheduled to fill in for Judge David Hagerman, who provides over the 20th to 297th District Court in June, two weeks after the start of the former police officer, Aaron Dean's murder trial, which Hagerman is assigned to. They requested a copy of Coffey's assignment to Hagerman's court. It remains unclear whether or not Hagerman normally requested a constitutionally unqualified visiting judge to preside over the 297th District Court. Following Coffey's retirement in 2014, Judge Charles Van Dove will field the vacant criminal court and serve their sense. On the most recent campaign, Van Coover lists Coffey as a retired senior judge under the endorsement section, the State Commission on Judicial Conduct that enforces judicial ethic laws based on the commission's public statements, bars judges from endorsing candidates. They've reached out to Van Coover to learn who provided that description of Coffey, but they haven't heard back. Coffey's name was listed without the permission of Van Coover and was recently removed. The mayor, your counsel, you guys are planning contingencies. You're talking to different organizations. I haven't seen whatever organization you were talking to in this room. That's problematic for me. Mentally, it's problematic for me. Fort Worth, Transparency, a major trial, I don't feel like you're taking it seriously. I don't feel like you're taking it seriously. I take it seriously. And to read what I just read you, I was going to say some other things, but I was discombobulated because I had to rearrange my mind to address you tonight. The talk sounds mother died. She's not here. I'm here because she would be here if she was alive. Thank you for your time. Thank you, Mr. Smith. Just confirming Gerald Banks is not here. With that, then the meeting is adjourned. Thank you.