 30 seconds remaining and you should wrap up your comments. Before you begin your comments, please state your name. Thank you. Good evening and welcome to your Forest City Council meeting. I'll call us to order. Tonight's invocation will be by Dr. Cedric Belcher from the Grace Temple Seventh Day Adventist Church. Please rise for the invocation and remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance. Let us pray. God of grace, God of mercy. Thanks for your benevolent blessings. We have allowed us to gather for another city council meeting. Bless the agenda. May it speak to the issues impacting our community. Grant our mayor and council members the insight and full sites to make decisions that will make this community a better place. May they see as you see through the lens of righteousness, justice, and service to this community. This is my prayer. This is my plea. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Council, the first action item is the consideration of the minutes from the May 24, 2022 joint city council meeting and the October 11th, 18th, and 25th council meetings. Motion and a second and a discussion. Please vote. I don't think that we have...do we have vote buttons? May I just have to do manually? Okay, all in favor say aye. Aye. Any nays? Motion carries. That concludes the business mayor. Now we have just the speakers. Thank you. Our first speaker will be Barbara Netus, followed by Bob Willoughby. My name is Barbara Netus. I represent the U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Disaster Assistance. So basically I'm here due to the disaster that happened on August 22nd through the 25th. It was the flooding and severe storms. It was declared an agency declaration and where the government agency offering low-interest government loans for businesses of all sizes, homeowners, renters, nonprofit organizations, including places of worship. For home loans we offer up to $200,000 to repair a place, physical damage to your home, and up to $40,000 for personal property, anything that's inside, and your primary car. And this is where the renters come in. They can get to $40,000 personal property and the primary, but has to be your primary residence. For businesses we offer up to $2 million to repair a place of physical damage, inventory, supplies, equipment, anything that was affected. And also economic injury disaster loan, if you were closed during the timeline of August 22nd through the 25th, it's a working capital and to regain your business back. And this goes for the nonprofits, the same thing up to $2 million for physical damage, and also the economic injury disaster loans. For home loans it's as low as 2.18% for businesses low as 3.04, and then for nonprofits low as 1.87. It's basically to help everybody recover for the uninsured and the uninsured losses. They're up to 30 years. We cover deductibles, no closing costs, and we can, you know, and basically we also have medication to prevent for future damage. So people can apply on disasterloanassistance.sba.gov. They have also a 1-800 number if they want to do reconsiderations, ask for status, any other questions that they have, and also get paper applications if they do have issues applying online. So that's 1-800-659-2955. And I just want to also mention that the deadline is November 14th for physical damage loans, and then economic injury is June 14th of next year. And it's basically Dallas County and the surrounding counties, that's why it's including Terri. So thank you for having me. Thank you, Barbara. Appreciate it. Make sure, Barbara, there's a gentleman here from Councilmember Beck's office, Anthony, you don't raise your hand. Just make sure y'all connect because we have one neighborhood in District 9 that was pretty badly affected. Thanks, Michael. Our next speaker is Bob Willoughby, followed by Mona Kissentainer. Apologize, Mona. I butchered that. Looks like I have to speak tonight. Anyway, I had a video lined up for the night to play, and it's the same video I had here two weeks ago to play, and I sent it in on Monday or Friday or whatever I got it in. And I never got any word from the city council or the lawyer, the attorney, no one's saying that the video wouldn't play last two weeks ago. And that reasoning was they weren't planning on letting me speak two weeks ago. Three of them were gone, and Elizabeth Beck, the fourth one, got up and walked out before it was my turn to speak at the end. Now, close they put me to the end, too. This is all a planned thing. When your city councilmember's plot to do something like that, that ought to send up flags, that's really wrong. The plot to stop someone from speaking. It's really embarrassing. It's in maturity, and we don't need it in Fort Worth. Now, what I want to get at here, here are the emails from our Shannon or from our Code Compliance, and I made a mistake here. I put one on twice. The first email from Shannon, the Code Compliance didn't say bully, and the first one was I asked for a meeting. I asked some questions on email, and she wouldn't answer them, and I asked for a meeting. She sent me one back saying that she was afraid to have a meeting with me from a city employee, okay? I even thought we could have it downtown, and she'd be safe, and there's no one there. The second one she sent me was saying she would not be bullied into having an unproductive meeting, so this is from an employee, okay? And the reason is they're not answering the question that I asked. So now, we take it further. I get one from the attorney here saying that she received my voicemail about the same case. Now, I can't put it all on there, and I'll share all this. If you join my email list, you'll get everything. I just can't put it out here. Answering all kind of things about this case that I'm working on, I've been working on, and the first question I sent back to her, and I have not got a response yet from Leigh Ann. I sent one back. I want to know why are you doing the co-compliant director, Brandon Bennett's job? If he can't answer these questions, why is he director? He's well overpaid. Bennett does not have to answer any questions. The attorneys do it for him. I think he should do it, but anyway, if she wants to do it, and she's gonna do it, then you need to answer the question I'm putting forth to you. Here's the question. Why was it a violation, a bunch of violations to get a court order and cut a man's padlock and go on his property and have a bid over $3,600 to take the stuff off his property that was valuable? Why did you get that? And when we show up with a camera, they run off. It's been over two years, and it's not a violation no more because we showed up with a camera. I want you to answer that question, Leigh Ann. When we had a camera, it's not a violation. When we don't have a camera, it's a violation. Can you explain that one? I don't think you will. Join our email list. You can sit. You can go back and get that, okay? Our next speaker is Mona Kissentainer, followed by George Charles. Is Mona here? Next speaker is George Charles, followed by Jim DeLong. My name is George Ronald Charles, my residence in Fort Worth. The rasty of what follows can be evaluated by observations and video of the public comments of October 18th, 2022. As the video begins, a council member for district nine is conversing with a city attorney at the latter's usual location during meetings, leaning over to do so. At 11 seconds, she stands up, but the conversation continues until she faces away at 17 seconds. By 25 seconds, she is by her usual chair. At two minutes, six seconds, the mayor pro tem begins to give the guidelines for speaking. During this, the city attorney leaves the chair she normally occupies at two minutes, 19 seconds. At two minutes, 27 seconds, the mayor pro tem states, and with that, we welcome the first speaker. At two minutes, 32 seconds, the camera angle changes. The city attorney is watching a monitor normally used by the city secretary's office. This continues until two minutes, 28 seconds, when she leans over to talk to the acting city secretary. At 30 minutes, 57 seconds, Adrian Smith finished speaking, and the camera angle changes to city council. The council member for district nine appears to be utilizing her thumbs for phone operation. This continues as the acting city secretary says the next speaker is Will Dryden. At 30 minutes, 58 seconds to 31 minutes. At 31 seconds, said council member ceases this, places the phone to her left, then places it in the direction where her two bags, unseen at this point, later proved to be. At 31 minutes, 19 seconds, the camera angle changes to Mr. Dryden. At 34 minutes, 11 seconds, the bell rings. Mr. Dryden continues to speak. At 34 minutes, 16 seconds, the camera angle changes to city council. At 34 minutes, 17 seconds, the acting city secretary begins to say your time has expired, sir. At that point, the council member for district nine has risen from the chair. She has been occupying and at 34 minutes, 18 seconds, the action recorded by the document provided takes place. Said document will show that no member of city council or staff appears to see this. At 34 minutes, 29 seconds, the acting city secretary begins to say our final speaker this evening is Bob Willoughby, concluding at 34 minutes, 31 seconds. Council member for district nine is off camera. At 34 minutes, 33 seconds, the city attorney back in her customer position looks to her right, then to her left, concluding at 34 minutes, 36 seconds. At 34 minutes, 37 seconds, she leans toward the mayor pro tem. At 34 minutes, 38 seconds, the latter states it appears we have a lost core. Our next speaker is Jim DeLong, followed by Tara Rice. Good evening. I'm Jim DeLong, district seven and I want to speak tonight on the expert panel review and I'm quoting from page four of that document. The subheading is excessive use of no knock warrants and unnecessary SWAT deployments and I'm quoting the panel's review of the justification calls into question whether the no knock was legally justified. It appeared that no knock warrants were routinely used as de facto training exercises for the SWAT team when safer alternatives were clearly available and should have been considered or applied. So the review is this review board expert review panel is saying and accusing our police department of this excessive use of no knock warrants. Let me share the rest of the story and what preceded this quote. They quoted on page four 19, I mean 2018 there were 154 occurrences of the excessive use of the no knock warrants. 2019 there were 90 so we've come down 64 and the police department made changes. Now this is in the report. Get this 2021 there were zero and then the review panel goes back prior to 2018 and says man they used excessive force on this no knock policy and they were implying that our police department was using excessive force where in fact the police department did their due diligence they saw this they corrected it to the extent that in 2021 there were zero occurrences. I would say that's great work by the police department finding out there were some things that needed to get adjusted and fixed and they brought it down to zero and I have one more comment to make and I'm not doing this tongue-in-cheek I'm doing it very seriously what I witnessed in the work session today mayor I would encourage you to schedule de-escalation training for everyone on the dais. I'm serious the what I saw today and heard today. Emily Young. That's Tara here. Ms. Rice. Oh sorry. Ms. Rice. What's on here? Please go ahead you have three minutes. Hello my name is Tara Rice. I am the mother of Jalen Rice who is right now being held hostage at the parent county jail in Green Bay which he's waiting trial on December 1st. Well actually December 8th he also minds you he has a court date coming up November 11th and somehow I noticed that it was scheduled for a Friday and they don't um no one in no one in parent county uh works on a Friday especially the the upper officials they don't work on Fridays um also furthermore um on on September 30th um I called I came back in my I came to my home and I called out the Fort Worth uh city the city of Fort Worth um fire department made a 911 call because there was carbon dioxide released into my home um I called the city of Fort Worth and somehow and also because my home was broken into and I can tell that the furnace was tampered with um because I it was showing it wasn't it wasn't how I left it and my home was vandalized by Deja Singleton and Hannah Martinez. Also uh the the city of Fort Worth fire department came out to my home and they called Tri-County Electric. Tri-County Electric then sent someone out to my home by the name Joshua who was an employee for Tri-County Electric um and he was trying to deplete eventually arrived about two hours later after the fact um I had power fine until the officer that showed up to take my report um I will mention his name at a later time but he uh he showed up and he he did not even take my report because I was I was scheduled to do a interview with Fort Worth Weekly. Mind you what he did was he told Joshua the Tri-County employee to turn off my power. I then go around and I noticed that my meter was tampered with. Why is Joshua listed on that report as a victim and no report was ever found from the vandalism that someone breaking in my home taking a whole bunch of items out of there the officer walked away and had and directed Tri-County Electric to turn off my power then bill me for three thousand dollars and for for for whatever unknown reason um so therefore I would like an investigation opened up in reference to that in reference to and and and they know why there wasn't why there wasn't even a police report filed when the officer walked away when I told him I'm getting ready to do it do a zoom meeting for Fort Worth Weekly and he walked away he didn't even care he didn't he had an attitude when he came to my home mind you these two individuals I asked several times not to come back to my home thank you Tara you know and they they were our next speaker is Kamala Young. My name is Kamala Young I live in District 9. um I'm not gonna be before y'all real long I was in the work session and heard the discussion on police oversight and I just want us to all kind of come back to the center on this why did the who asked for police oversight think about that for a second who asked for it was it the police was it this council or was it the community then we think we know the answer is the community who in the community asked for it people who have been directly impacted by police abuses not people in District 7 maybe who you spoke with who think police are doing a fine and dandy job but the countless people who are represented in the police report that Mr. DeLong talked about from the police experts they are many I'm one of them and these abuses continue today those are the people that you need to have in mind when you're voting on creating this board implementing this board approving this ordinance not any political situations parties whatever or friends but people who have been directly impacted by police abuses in this city and who continue to be to this day those are the voices the only voices that you all need to be considering when you make that vote because putting that board in place it doesn't hurt anybody it only helps the community who asked for it and the police department who says they want to be better who continues to get padded on the back so again we can put our money where our mouth is and say okay we want to give you all the resources to be better to be great and we want to support the people in this community who have been historically abused disadvantaged profiled and all manner of evil by rogue police in this city and not just the city we know is all over this nation and world for that matter so do the right thing is what i'm asking you vote yes for this police oversight review whatever you want to call it board thank you thank you pamela council that's the last of our speakers meeting adjourned