 that hearted up. She is at a game doing mommy duties and I'm glad to be here in her stead. We will have the invocation presented by Pastor Chris Wright from South Hills Baptist. Please rise for the invocation and remain standing for the pledges of allegiance. I'm a Baptist. Thank you so much. Let's pray together. Father, I thank you for our Mayor, our Mayor Pro Temp for this wonderful council that works tirelessly to serve our city and God for them and for Chief Noakes and our officers that you would guide and direct them, first responders in this city, all other city's officials that strive to make Fort Worth the best city in the country and God I pray that we continue to rise above the rest and be on the cutting edge of all that's needed to help this city to grow and flourish and prosper and God I pray for this council and others that you give them wisdom, that you give them prudence, that you give them tenacity to endure and serve in the best way possible under your guidance and under your care and God I pray for myself and for our church and fellow pastors and churches that we can have wisdom to know how to partner alongside this city to help make it a better place and to improve any and every way that we can helping anyone that comes along our path. God grow this city, watch over, protect, keep those who are safe out on the streets to provide everything that they need and God we're so grateful for the chance to enjoy this beautiful day that you've given us of all that we're thankful for more than anything we're thankful for your son Jesus and it's his name that we pray. Amen. And please remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance followed by the Texas Pledge. Thank you. Now to proceed with the orders of the day. I need motions for the minutes from the April 11th, 18th, 18th public comment and April 25th council meetings. Moved approved. It has been moved and seconded. All in favor, please use your finger and vote if you can. Looks like we're missing Melissa more than we thought. Ron, can we do a hand vote? Thank you. You just earned your pay. And with that, our public comment session has started. I'll let the staff call the names and give the rules. First speaker will be Bob Willoughby. Okay. Leigh Ann, the attorney here. I sent a video in for the night to play about co-compliance thing. Anyway, they stopped my video for this reasoning. In the video, I stated that co-compliant officer Cisa Bell will abuse the power she is entrusted with. Now that's why they stopped my video because I said that. And I have reasons why I believe she will trust it and this is a comment meeting. We should be able to comment, but I wouldn't allow to. Okay. Anyway, also, Leigh Ann and the city, what they do now, when you say stuff like that, they call it an attack and it's not an attack. That's the way they protect these employees. If an employee is doing something wrong here and you say anything about it, let's say you're attacking and that's how they protect the employees. So that's what this is all about. But anyway, I asked the attorney, can you defend that it is not an abuse of power, that this is not an abuse of power by the code officer Cisa Bell. I say it was. I want her to defend that it wasn't one. Okay. To give a command to me, to me, or a $300 fine, if my campaign sign is not removed, even though it was sitting right next to another campaign sign at the same spot. Okay. But this is no abuse of power. Okay. Anyway, she only gave me six hours, no notice. So I called, we got that stop by Tony Hill or he stopped it. All this is recorded. It's on the video and you can email me and I'll send you the video. You can go to my website and see the video to explain a whole lot of this right here. But what I'm after here tonight is that we need guidelines. I've been asking, this is what got me started 13 years ago. Code Compliance has no guidelines. When they go out and give you a ticket in six hours time, you need at least a five-day notice. The officer should have said, okay, Mr. Willoughby, but you have five days but you had to take care of it. I'm running out of time. Here's why it's so important to get back to City Council on the Council agenda. Here, what makes it different? They do not answer questions here. You get us on the Council meeting before zoning and these questions will be answered. Okay. Just like me asking five days for Code Compliance before they write a citation, some kind of guideline. What is abuse of power? Leanne, if she asked me 30 minutes to get it done, would that be abuse of power? Four hours? Six hours? Where's the line at that you would call it abuse of power? There's not a line. Okay? We need a line. And this city is full of stuff like that. Best of luck. I'm going to start a long time with Code Compliance to find out if they won't do a thing. And this here is worthless. It's a waste of taxpayers' money, our time and everything unless they make it a Q&A because they do not answer or do anything they don't want to do. Now we should be over on the City Council agenda before the zoning and we'll get answers and we'll start taking back our city. Otherwise, we're under government control right now. Thank you. Call the next speaker. Next speaker is Jim DeLong. Good evening. I'm Jim DeLong, Fort Worth resident. I've entitled this bullet number three. So I'm on a little bit of a series here to recap. My first one I talked about if you get shot with a bullet, don't just dress the wound. You need to address the bullet. Last time I talked about the bullet is man's compulsion to dominate. We have, history is full of that. And then I mentioned that we've spent over 20 trillion dollars since the Civil Rights Act. That equals 20 trillion dollars. That equals 20 million dollars for every man, woman and child in our city. And what have we got for that money? So the point is, how can we be effective? What we've been doing in the past has not been effective because we still have the racial problems that we do. And so tonight I want to address the bullet. Every one of us has a bullet in us. Every one of us is born with a bullet inside of us. And how we deal with that bullet will depend on whether we turn and become angry, cause division, cause strife, cause anarchy, or if we address the bullet within us, then we can bring unity and work with people and reconciliation. And that's the main reason why I'm up talking about the subject. We've gone too long in our country, too long over hundreds of years at least. And we fight one another. We fight one another. That's just man's propensity. Unless they'll take stock within themselves, first we have to deal with the bullet inside of Wilson. How are we going to act and react? Am I going to get mad at you guys? Cause I don't like what you do. Am I going to get mad at you because I don't like the way you talk? Am I going to get mad at you because of the color of your skin? That's one way, but you're not dealing with the bullet. You're letting the bullet infect you. We are all men and women, and hopefully I'm hoping to make a point where let's address the bullets that's in us. I can be nice to anybody. Like I've said before, I could come into agreement with anybody. And maybe the starting point is you like ice cream and I like ice cream. We can start there. If you start with the big issues, we'll never, we'll never span the chasm. Let's come together. Let's be men and women and grown-ups. Look at ourselves, address the bullet, and be nice to one another and kind to one another. Thank you. Next speaker is Stephanie Halstern. Go ahead, please. My name is Stephanie Halstern. I am a resident. I've been here in Texas for several years, most of my life. I lost my 16-year-old son during COVID, and it wasn't due to COVID. It was due to fentanyl. My son thought he was trying a percocet pill for the first time, and it wasn't just laced with fentanyl. It was pure fentanyl. I'm not sure if you know about what fentanyl is. It is a leading cause, number cause of death right now between ages of 18 to 45. Two milligrams, two milligrams kills you. My son died with 12 in his system, and no one's talking about it. My son's death was not even investigated. It was immediately closed, and they acted like because it was an acute fentanyl intoxication, they saw my son as an addict. He was not an addict, and even if he did, nobody deserved to die in that way. I haven't had a lot of, why I'm here today is I haven't had a lot of community and people and councilmen coming to any of my events. I've thrown three events here at the Tarrant County Courthouse, and on Saturday I'm throwing another event. I know it's election day, but I'm just rallying, trying to bring people and awareness because we need education, as well as Narcan. If you don't know what this is, this is a preventative of to reverse this side effects of it. Right now, two out of five kids, it was two and five, now it went to three and five kids, are gonna die from fentanyl. And can you tell which pill here is a fake one? You can't. So we need to educate people about this. We have several brochures, several things that we're gonna be giving out at our event. I have now started the North Texas Fentanyl Coalition. I have over 60 members in my group. It first started with just a few of us, and now it's just grown and grown and grown. So like I said, I'm here today because I am asking everybody to come and rally upon and come to certain events that you notice, but I'm also trying to get into the schools and everywhere else. It seems like here I'm not having much precedence, but my governor, I've been on his panel twice, and he has now have, we worked on all these different education awareness. There is emojis that our kids are using and they're literally you can buy drugs or alcohol or anything from Snapchat, social media, and there's codes that our parents and everybody needs to know. There was a crisis in my school and I was not aware of it. Thank you for coming. You still have time. So just like I said, I'm just trying to bring awareness to not only the parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters, or anybody that has kids. We need to be talking to our kids as young as three and four that fentanyl is being mixed in with gummy bears, nerds, everything. I know there's false facts and things coming out there, but it is being mixed with everything. It's actually in vape pens right now too. It's coming from China. Thank you for coming and you do have our sympathy. I see your phone number signed in. I'll put you in touch with the president of the school board. Thank you so much. Next speaker is Kenner George, Mr. George. Next speaker is Gerald Banks. Both of them John liked ice cream, too. He got a bullet. When a cop named James Matt, number 4645 and a cop named in Sonny's or whatever his name is, and number 4570 of the South Division, Nettles District, refused to give their names and badge number. Upon request, I filed a complaint. Upon filing the complaint with open and the police department of which I detected Matthew B. Price, number 39, threatened me after I refused to sign a complaint form that he filled out in the area that I left blank because my complaint was three sheets, three sheets, and I had attached them so that there was no reason for him to write in the box. Besides what he wrote was a lie. They did nothing to the cops and open was just a joke because they can only recommend after the cop do after the cops do what they want. Just the front, I have proof. What we need is a real oversight board with citizens from the community nominated and voted in to get justice in this city. How can this city be safe with thug-like cops who cover up for each other? A drunk driver hit my car or hit a customer of mine's car, knocked it into my truck almost killing me and my son. The cops were called. This is about two o'clock at one. Cops were called and after two hours they still hadn't arrived. The drunk driver, we had to go ahead and let him go. This is still in Nettles District. This is the three ring circles in this rotunda and it's the shame what's been transpiring. Childish like acts displayed from city leaders and to walk out with a temple tantrum is showing the lack of respect and to get respect well that's surely not the way. We all know that racism exists and that Klan and the Klan has been a part of white folks' lives and there is no denying it. The Willie Lynch and Jim Crow era still lives in each day but in different ways. Police uniforms, suits, roads, even teachers in school. We have to understand the dignity and professionalism no matter what is being said must remain intact. Your character is who you are and will eventually show the truth. Atati and adjusts. I appreciate you listening. Next speaker is Tara Rice. Are you in the audience? Good evening. I didn't expect Mary to be here as always. She likes to walk away. Well, I'm glad the chief is here because his officers are the reason why my son Javier Rice is sitting in detention right now for over 30 days. He was picked up. He was the only one arrested out of five children on March the 25th and the whole time they go there and they see him they're talking about my family. We had to move the plano to escape the footwork PD harassment. They made they changed the narrative and made it look like they changed the narrative of the report. So many lies that it changed the whole narrative and made it about me and my family. The retaliation of them speaking of them retaliating against my family for me speaking out publicly of the criminal injustice that they did to Jalen Rice. Vivins, I don't walk I don't teach my children to walk away from their problems and I don't understand why this council council walks away from theirs. And they like that you had so much to say to Peyton. You got something to say now about the officer lying about my son and not to mind you March the 20th. I mean back in the summertime he was having a mental health crisis. The footwork PD took my son to the police station to give a false statement against me. It's the one same one that's sitting in Kimball right now said I was trying to shoot him in the head if that was the case then why would y'all send what he was supposed to go to JPS they kidnapped him and took him to the police station. That is kidnapped. He was never supposed to be in the back of a cruiser. Never. I never gave this permission to write in the cruiser. That is my son. He was supposed to be in the back of MedStar going to JPS to get a mental health evaluation. It is pure evil to sit up there and you mad at me be mad at me but you don't take it out on children. You don't take it out on children. Maddie is the most weakest person and she runs her household like she runs the city. I feel bad for her children feel bad because you guys are complicit to the acts of the footwork PD officers. Every last one of y'all they use CPS they use your neighbors. This lady they got her a victim from her home they told they told her a landlord that lives in California that the police been on there they're 20 times and she had to move within 30 days and yes she has proof to back it up. They told her that the house was raided. What is that footwork PD's job description? They come into Plano talking to my landlord. They're taking their way out of line. The retaliation and harassment. You've got to be the most miserable city council and police department I ever met in my life. Next speaker is Adrienne Smith. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in that sight oh lord my strength and my redeemer Adrienne Smith. You all don't have to give me your attention but as long as you can hear my voice hopefully something that I'm seeing or individuals who come to this podium we got the week says something that pricks your heart. Now Mr. Williams you know I call people out when I'm standing here and I don't see anything funny considering what you're facing. So remember sir there are people who support you but there are just as many as people want to see you from off that seat and we know where it comes from but I have nothing personal against you sir. So check this out so the mayor is not here like we expected that you know we expected that right before election you know it got a little hot for we know it did we got a little hot for but something I take issue with was something that was said at work session today and I quote Ms. Vivins you you brought up an issue regarding this new technology that they're trying to implement and her particular quote was I'll just say on the record that this may seem a little cross but I do not want to be compared I do not think we want to be compared to Chicago when it relates to gun violence. I would like to ask the question of this council and the mayor because I know she's somewhere listening she's probably watching what's the difference what's the difference between Fort Worth and Chicago when it comes to gun violence we know that violence in the city is not going down it's really on a continual uptick and Chief Noakes your presence sir where is the quarterly crime data report that hasn't been submitted up on the Fort Worth PD website since the mayor since the mayor is talking about crime is down where are the numbers at we know that's not the case but anyway I digress from that I want people to know this May 6th keep that in mind you have an opportunity you have an opportunity to change whatever it is you do not like concerning your elected representative if you haven't voted vote if you haven't voted vote there's nothing wrong with change until the lady that's the woman who stood up her in regards to the fentanyl situation God bless you and the loss of your son but let me be want to say that this council is not ready to handle the fentanyl crisis thank you is James Smith in the audience yeah we've tried him three times and he's not answering and he hasn't called called us back next speaker will be Maria Lena Tillman right good evening everyone I am here on behalf of the Waterview Tenants Association again our issues with the landlord and management company have not been resolved in addition to arising issues with Fort Worth code compliance they have no idea what they're doing I would like to pray first that the Lord would give each of you on this panel ears to hear in the spirit that follows suit I'm here just to make a statement just to say that the businessmen that are providing our basic necessities in Fort Worth are actually price gouging it is written in article 17 section 46b of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Consumer Protection Act that it is a false misleading or deceptive act or practice to take advantage of a disaster declared by governor under chapter 418 government code or the president by one selling or leasing fuel food medicine lodging building materials construction tools or another necessity at an exorbitant or excessive price or two demanding an exorbitant or excessive price in connection with the sale or lease of fuel food medicine lodging building materials construction tools or another necessity tri-county electric and their wholesaler is in violation of the Gas Price Gouging Prevention Act passed in March of 2022 they still provide service to residents that were drawn into Fort Worth District 4 the rule of thumb for a cap on price increasement is set forth by the state of california at 10 percent the cost of electricity natural fuel and rent are in excess of a 50 markup specifically in district 4 of Fort Worth and the former district 2 of keller before i make my request i would like to make it very clear to everyone in this room that this floor belongs to me as much as it belongs to everyone in this room and all the residents of Fort Worth it is my understanding that the government is employed by us and it is impossible for me or us to impose something on a system that is already mine or ours we have been in a state of emergency since the year 2020 i i really need an additional three minutes because i am proposing a solution to what i'm complaining about there is no additional time well i'm proposing that the city of fort worth declare as local state of emergency in order to get a local rent control in ordinance next speaker is patin joxson miss joxson good afternoon council i'll keep it short i'm actually yielding until parker is back so no no no no it's okay i'll wait i'll wait till she comes back thank you guys next speaker is carolina rodriguez if you're looking online so lizis my my lady up there so carolina so we just spent a million dollars on a report i'm just to tell us that the police were using excessive force and that there were punks right has anything changed since we got that report oh yeah we spent a quarter of a million dollars on somebody named abraham perrano last week somebody know about that we had the city had to pay him a quarter of a million dollars for some kind of excessive force from the police quarter meal and beat my ass up for a quarter meal i'd take it so i was looking at the excessive force report for march of 2023 i saw that the excessive force was used 192 times on the self on the monthly um um brutality or force excessive force report that they put out 192 times but of course they self report so the number is probably much higher than that since it's done on the honor system um last month in in uh march they brandished their weapons 132 times but they didn't have to use any kind of weapon on brandon zapata all they had to use was a knee on the neck that's all they needed for that so i guess that i don't know what part of the excessive force report that's going to be on um we got a body cam footage but we had minutes that were blacked out redacted i wonder if those what was on those redacted minutes um we can't rely on the numbers for the car reports that's not how you judge they can manipulate those numbers too you gotta you gotta rely on excessive force reports and how many people are suing for a quarter meal a cool quarter meal and plus the way they falsify reports i just happened to have Manuel Matas a arrest report from his last arrest um where he was arrested over um a very street i think it was or alan as on alan and it was it's written by deputant rodriguez it took them nine hours to write this because they had to get it right he was arrested for uh he was arrested for interference with public duties and interference with public duties is written as interference with like an officer you impede them you um interrupt him uh that's that's how that's written so deputy rodriguez she was on routine patrol and she she stopped it she got an lpr hit on a gray dodger she conducted the traffic stop she approached the vehicle advised the reason for the stop the driver stated she would identify herself only only she would identify herself after i told her why i stopped the vehicle with an upset tone i responded with no problem how her vehicle was hitting the lpr system that my patrol car is equipped with and alerted me that someone in the vehicle um has a warrant the driver identified by herself to sultanapo the the passenger refused to even look at me making my awareness and safety more heightened she immediately pride it brought pride it's me i had the warrants like she like that like that machine knew that she had warrants because she was the passenger but anyways it goes on and um there's no interference written in here she starts saying that i was on the phone with her warrants office confirming active warrants i heard a male voice loudly walking up from behind with the vehicle and the front passenger window of my mark patrol car i'll have to put this on my website so you can see it thank you for coming and with that the meeting is adjourned for this evening you have a half hour to vote if you haven't voted today have a great evening