Comments, please state your name.

Thank you.

Good morning, and welcome to Fort Worth City Council meeting.

Today you're in for a treat.

We have a visiting mayor for the day.

To my right is Miss Bonnie Bell Hickman.

Bonnie is eight years old and a student, a second grade student at Fort Country Day.

She's a passionate reader, artist, and fishing enthusiast who brings creativity and curiosity to everything that she does, a compassionate and inspiring leader.

She captains her back to back, undefeated Falcon basketball team, serves as president of the Falcon Fishing Club she founded, which I love that, and has been the Fourth Country Day Ballet Conservatory's lead performer for two years running, and is a four-time Fourth Country Day Kindness Award recipient.

Ms.

Bonnie is going to call our meeting to order.

How's that sound?

You want to have the microphone, Bonnie?

My name is Bonnie Hickman.

I'm gonna call the meeting to order.

Today's invocation by Pastor John Reed from Walls of Jericho Deliverance Church.

Please rise for the invocation and remain standing for the pledges of allegiance.

Mayor, Council members, let us pray.

Heavenly Father, we thank you for the city of Fort Worth, Texas, and for those entrusted with its leadership.

Grant them wisdom and integrity to the mayor and council members as they serve this community.

Guide their decisions toward justice, unity, and the well-being of all who live in Fort Worth, Texas.

May this meeting be marked by respect, clarity, and a shared commitment to the common good.

In the name of Jesus we pray.

Amen.

Our first item will be a special presentation recognizing in recognition of commemorating the Holocaust Remembrance Week.

Good morning, Council.

Today we have the opportunity to recognize and designate Holocaust Remembrance Week in the state of Texas, which is observed alongside Holocaust Remembrance Day, which was held on January 27th, marking the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

This week invites us to pause and reflection and remembrance, honoring the lives lost and the survivors who carry its history forward.

Through education and thoughtful reflection, we affirm our commitment to fostering understanding, empathy, and respect for all people.

As we remember the past, we also renew our shared responsibility to ensure that history is never repeated and to let the enduring values of humanity, justice, kindness, guide us into the future.

We have several representatives today from our Jewish Federation of Fort Worth and Tarrant County.

Allow me to personally state how thankful I am for their leadership across Fort Worth and Tarrant County, and of course, for bringing this recognition forward for us today.

I'd also especially like to thank Councilmember Elizabeth Beck for bringing this forward.

I know that she regrets not being here present, but we did feel it was important to go ahead and make note of this.

Originally, we were going to have this recognition during the ICE week, but for obvious reasons we weren't present.

Gentlemen, I'll turn it over to you at this time.

We want to express our thanks.

And we're very grateful to receive this proclamation.

And the lessons of uh remember, do not forget, are very, very important today as we know that the lessons and things we learn from the Holocaust are still very relevant.

And we hope it someday uh the world will take heed and we will learn how to be at peace together.

But again, thank you so much for this proclamation.

Yeah, okay.

Through here, yeah.

Next will be items to be withdrawn from the consent agenda.

We have two.

We have two items to be withdrawn.

MNC 26-0126 and MNC 26-0132.

Mayor, that gets us to the consent agenda speakers.

Our first speaker is Bob Willoughby.

Bob Willoughby will be followed by Chris Wood.

Yeah.

Okay.

I hope everybody knows.

We used to get three minutes on all these MCs until Mayor Parker became in office and decided we got to divide our time up.

And if I had one more, I wouldn't have but a minute on each one to speak about.

This is not a game show.

This is reality.

This is our city.

These are these are on our agenda.

But we're cut down on our time.

So the first one up there, the MC, is about the uh Fort Worth Professional Firefighter Association.

Well, one thing is I met with some of the firefighters, the chief or whatever the not chief, but the people of the firefighter association, they are very, very aggroant.

They are rude, and all they do is buy candidates.

You watch.

So people need to learn not to vote for candidates that take money because that's all these organizations are becoming an organization with a good name and bad people behind it.

Same with the POA and the other law enforcement.

Now there's another one, a third one.

So these three groups have good names, but they are evil people behind them, unless you meet them and find out for yourself.

I wish you would.

You know what I'm talking about.

So I'm not for doing anything with the firefighter association.

I do not recognize it.

And the other one, let's see how much time we got.

Okay, I've still got two minutes.

Oh, the other one.

Oh, that goes back to C CPD funds.

And that's the one that Maddie will probably shut me down if I start talking about it because she doesn't like me putting stuff up about Carlos, our uh the one that's the chair of the CCP funds, and this is something I've gone on about many times.

They've never answered.

They run away.

You'll see the fim.

If anybody watches this meeting from home, the video I had tonight on the comment, which we're on the bottom of the agenda now.

We're not on top.

They put us on the bottom and they put themselves on top, so that's bad.

Nevertheless, I don't want to get off track because Maddie will shut me down real quick if I get the least back off the track.

Although I've seen plenty of people come down here and speak off track, and they don't say a word as long as it's good about them.

Watch this, watch how fast they'll they'll come down on me.

That also, so what my main case is here, if they don't answer us about C C PD funds, there's millions of dollars we're being ripped off, people.

This is crime in broad daylight.

What's the difference?

If you saw someone robbing a bank, would you call the police?

Even if it wasn't your bank, would you call the police?

Well, we're being robbed by Mayor Parker.

Go to my website.

You can see the videos for yourself.

Don't take my word.

I like to put substance.

I don't like when people come down here and they say things, but they don't put substance with it.

I put substance with what I say.

I back what I say and I prove what I say.

And I wish other people when they have points to make.

I wish they'd prove what they say with something behind it so that I can agree with them or disagree with them.

But I uh but anyway, Matty, you gave me more time than you usually do.

You'd shut me down by now.

Thank you for your time.

And uh neither one of these organizations are worth looking at or being a part of our city.

I want a better city.

Our next speaker is Chris Wood, followed by Rachel Yates.

I'm Chris Wood.

I support the purchase of property from St.

Stephen Presbyterian Church to expand Forest Park.

Access to nature is one of the simplest and most effective ways cities can support public well-being.

Time spent in green spaces helps reduce stress, improve mental health, and create opportunities for quiet reflection in an increasingly busy world.

Parks give people a place to slow down, think clearly, and reconnect with something larger than the pace of daily life.

Forest Park in particular serves as a shared space where residents from all backgrounds can experience calm perspective and renewal.

Expanding the park strengthens that role by preserving open land and ensuring future generations continue to benefit from it.

Green space also contributes to environmental sustainability, neighborhood quality, and the long-term livability of our city.

City parks offer something rare.

They are open to everyone without cost or barrier.

They invite people of all beliefs and backgrounds to step outside, breathe, and feel grounded.

In that way, parks quietly support physical health, emotional well-being, and community connection all at once.

For these reasons, I believe acquiring this property is a wise investment in Fort Worth's people, environment, and future.

Thank you.

Hello.

Good evening, Mayor Parker, Council members and council staff.

Thank you for the opportunity to speak today.

This is my first city council meeting, and I'm here to show support for funding the Presbyterian Night Shelter of Terrant County.

I'm uh coming here as a student of social work for uh University of Texas at Arlington.

And uh one of the things that um they encourage us to do was ask questions.

Um, with many families paying uh 30 to 50 percent of their monthly income on rent, uh would you mind sharing the city council's plans and strategies to address the issue of increased cost of rent and systemic causes of homelessness?

What are your plans to create more affordable housing options in Fort Worth?

Um I wasn't sure if this was a time to ask questions.

Um if you if it was like uh interactive It's actually not a dialogue, but we can make note, Rachel, and if you'll just provide what what you'd like answers to, we're happy to at a staff level provide all those as well after the meeting.

Thank you.

Did you have anything else you wanted to add, Rachel?

That's all.

Okay, thank you for coming.

Our next speaker is Adrian Smith.

Adrian Smith, District 6, I am one with the people for individuals who have uh handouts regarding this agenda.

Uh page three of 12 item four is what I'm speaking to.

Mayor and Council Communication 260133.

It is a contract due to the voted on in the amount of 7 million 100,000 dollars to a company as it relates to uh software, etc.

etc.

Development process, worth floor management software solution services for city departments.

Why are we always dulling out taxpayer dollars in long term without having vetted particular companies to see if they even can you know give us what they say they are going to give us?

I mean, you had one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, five potential companies uh who bid it on this particular who bid it for this particular contract.

So why not give this particular cunt uh company that you selected a one-year trial run to see even if their software is going to work?

And if it fails, you can probably revert back to another one of these companies who offered the same services.

But again, this is taxpayer money.

I guess we just continue to blow it in the wind, and that's why we are yet here back asking for another bond initiative.

You know, because you continue to waste taxpayer monies on initiatives that haven't been fully vetted.

So again, what are we doing?

I mean, this is a lot of money, and I'm all about X's and O's, checks, you know, balancing, you know, checks and balances, making sure our dollars are spent the way they need to be spent.

You know, the uh Terran County, they went through this maybe a year ago or so when they didn't vet a particular company and they gave millions of dollars to for some technology that didn't work and now they are stuck with it.

You know, they don't worked out the bugs or whatever.

But again, what are we doing here?

Why not limit these contracts to maybe a one or two-year term before just giving out these four or five to ten year terms?

Thank you.

Council, what's the loss of our consent agenda speakers?

Got a motion and a second.

Any other discussion?

Please vote.

Motion carries.

Next will be announcements of upcoming and recent events, recognition of citizens, uh, and approval of ceremonial travel if needed.

Councilmember Flores.

Thank you, Mayor.

Slide show up, please.

All right, love was in the air uh during Valentine's Day for our community centers.

Uh the seniors celebrated in grand fashion at the Northside Community Center, also at the Diamond Hill Community Center, and then a special celebration from a very special club.

Uh the best years club also uh met up there, and also Geeky's Club for special needs uh children and adults at the North Side Center.

All right.

Uh to help them out, shopped over at Walmart and bought them some party supply so they could have a good celebration.

So thank you all uh to the staff, the community center, and I'm glad the seniors had a good time.

All right, on the bottom part, uh meals on wheels.

A few of us I think have already done uh some rounds and delivering some needed hot meals and cold meals to you know those folks that can't get out and supplement their own nutrition.

So uh great interactions with people, and I learned a lot in that uh what Meals on Wheels does, especially when it comes to counseling and assisting uh those folks on their lists with other things that they may have and need beyond food.

So thanks to Meals on Wheels.

Next slide, please.

All right, soup tasting.

That was something that I tried here for the first time over their Kirkpatrick uh middle school.

Uh staff, teachers, and the principal uh got together and uh you know whipped up their best soup uh concoctions and uh you know the winners prevailed.

It's posted on my uh council Facebook page.

So I want to thank them all uh you know for doing that and go Wildcat Nation.

All right, and then a few of us uh the mayor, uh, council member Hill, uh myself, and uh council member uh Martinez attended the employee milestone luncheon over at River Ranch in the Stockyards.

Uh so lots of milestones achieved by our hardworking staff, and I want to say to them all that are here, we really do appreciate the work you do, and thank you for staying and making a career here at the city of Fort Worth.

And that's all I have, Mayor.

Councilmember Peoples.

Oh, actually, Councilmore Crane and then Councilmore Peoples.

Yeah.

Should be.

Councilmember, we didn't get a slide presentation.

Okay.

There you go.

Uh, I don't see him in here, but I just want to wish Jason Felman that's in my office, has been my district director for the last two years.

He is uh sconding to Florida, much warmer climbs, and where his wife is now having a new position, but I just want to say thank you for all the work that you've done on behalf of District Three and helping out.

Appreciate it.

Council Mayor Peoples.

So thank you, Mayor.

I only have three slides, and I'm gonna go through them quickly, but I want to again thank the entire council and staff for honoring Kirk Franklin.

He had never been honored before, and just the fact that we did that was so meaningful to him.

He again, he has 20 Grammys, and he is a wonderful uh citizen uh in this city.

So thank you for that.

And then I want to go to the next slide and just thank the city of Fort Worth for doing what we do best, and that is welcoming and surrounding those that we love.

And uh we had the walk for peace that was a national walk that began in Fort Worth and ended in Fort Worth.

It was a hundred and eight days, these monks were walked 2300 miles for a peace, and over 2,000 Fort Worth citizens welcomed them back.

Uh Mayor, I took your greetings to them, and uh they were very grateful for that.

Also, you can see uh the chief sent um a badge.

They received uh badges from law enforcement all over the country for safe passage, and I was so excited that they carry the badge from Fort Worth, Texas.

So just an amazing uh uh journey that they took, but the citizens of Fort Worth welcomed them back.

And then the final thing is you are all cordially invited to Mosier Valley for the park groundbreaking, and this is something that has been in the making for some time.

I want to say thank you to the late councilwoman Gina Bivens for being a champion for this effort.

We are going to get that part done, and uh groundbreaking will be Thursday, uh, this Thursday at 11 o'clock, and and you can see the address there.

So all are welcome.

Uh this is a historic community, and we want to ensure that we are uh adequately um building up the park for those residents.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Deborah.

Council, I believe that's the last of our council recognitions, unless somebody tags me.

Nope.

Okay, Jeanette, you can continue.

We have one, Adrian Smith.

So I'm going to be speaking to the resolution that you all are due to vote on.

Page nine of 12 for those who are following.

It is uh in reference to the ordinance change as it relates to the distance that um sexual offenders can reside in.

And it's interesting that the individual who has been the loudest voice on this particular proposal is in present.

And that's I'm speaking to you, Mr.

Larstor.

Yeah, I'm talking to you, sir.

And there was another council person who stated something so I think disgusting when she was here last that she said that for those who are just trying to advocate for just right and wrong, uh, you know, basically right, what's right.

She said you don't have any allies in this particular matter.

So to this to this mayor and council, my question to you all before you all vote on this, like I stated at the last council meeting.

Oh, any of you willing to go on record as to why it's necessary to change this ordinance.

Is it any or any of you willing to go on record as to why we should change this ordinance?

And please don't say it's about the children.

You know, that's that's that's the easy, easy copy out to say it's about the children.

I shared information that a simple Google search will let you know what type of individual stay around you as it relates to sexual offenders.

It is controlled by the Fort Worth Police Department.

I stated at the last meeting there were 200 plus, almost 3,000 individuals listed in this particular database who are complying with the requirements that are set forth by courts.

Maybe one or two, maybe two to four who are not in compliance.

What 2,000 plus who are in compliance with this said with whatever requirements that they are deemed to follow whenever they you know uh alleviate le alleviated from the court system?

So my question again to this council what are we doing here?

What are we doing here for the individuals who already live within areas that will have within these areas that would have new restrictions for the ones who maybe live in apartments or live in temporary housing, or they will they have to move once there are leases up, or well, I mean, what are we doing here?

And I would love to hear from you all, but I'm sure none of you all will answer.

Mr.

Lorestor, you the one.

So speak to it, sir.

And we're doing it in the daytime where there are we know a lot of more people will be here if it was a night leading, but again, it's wrong.

You can't convince me that it's right, and again, it's not about the children.

I think it's something personal.

You smiling, but let me hear you, sir.

You smile and let me hear you.

Mayor, that gets us to 26-5818.

Thank you.

I can entertain a motion, council.

Got a motion and a second.

Any other discussion?

Please vote.

Motion carries.

That gets us to 26 5721.

Councilmember Larsdorf, I know you had comments on this resolution.

I did, yes.

Thank you, Mayor.

I just really want to say thank you to staff and legal for working so hard and making sure that we're doing this the right way.

Um the fact that there's any opposition to this is quite surprising.

And for those like Adrian, who are so against this ordinance and try to protect the sex offenders further, but just makes me want to question your uh, I guess, circle of friends.

Last time we did, I have some speakers who mentioned that behind every sex offender there are families and etc.

But what they felt to mention was that behind every sex offender is also a victim.

But yet we never brought them up.

So I'm glad that CFort Worth is finally moving forward on this.

Um I'm glad we did change it to 2,000 feet.

I think this is about protecting our kids.

So, Adrian, I don't know what that rant all about.

Um I hear that there's zero chance um of recidivism or that there's zero that is a sex offenses caused by strangers, then I think this ordinance is going to protect children.

And if it protects even one child over the next 30, 40 years, to me, it's completely uh worth it.

So the staff, uh, thank you again for all the hard work you've been in this.

I enthusiastically move to approve.

Got a motion a second, Councilmember Flores.

Thank you, Mayor.

I just want to say and back up um Councilmember Laura Store's uh reasoning.

Uh, there are 22 states approximately across the country that have implemented uh ordinances similar to what we're considering here between 2,000 and 2500 feet.

I think Fort Worth is striking a reasonable balance here, and I don't think it's a cop out to consider children because that's one of the primary concerns, certainly not the only concern that council considered in making this uh decision.

So I I will support it.

Thanks, Carlos.

Council, any other discussion?

Councilmember Hall.

Uh thank you, Mayor.

I know that these questions were brought up during um, I believe when we talked about this in work session, but there was a question posed today during uh public comment with regards to um those being grandfathered in that currently reside in certain areas.

Would this preclude them from renewing a lease?

So if they're already there, would this preclude them from renewing a lease at the termination of a lease?

Um, do they have an option to renew or do they not have that option?

Just to clarify.

Okay, let's just coming up.

Good afternoon, Mayor, City Council Titia Coleman Brown with the litigation division of the city attorney's office.

The way that the ordinance is written is that if you are currently in a location, you are grandfathered in.

So, yes, you would be allowed to continue to renew your lease at that location.

So yes, you would be allowed to continue to renew your lease at that location if you decide to move to another apartment complex or another house, however, then the ordinance would kick in and you would not be allowed.

Um then that you would be implicated by the 2,000 feet requirement.

Any other questions for staff counsel?

If not, I've got a motion and a second by councilmember Hill.

Please vote.

Motion carries.

Next will be MNC 26-0120.

And mayor, I believe we do not have any speakers for this item.

Okay.

Are there any questions for Crystal Hinahosa or staff council?

If not, we can move for a motion.

Got a motion and a second, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is MNC 26-0122.

Counselor, are there any questions for Stephen Murray or staff related to the subdivision ordinance?

If not, can entertain a motion.

Motion a second, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next is ZC-25-212.

Councilman Martinez.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, Mayor and Council, on behalf of Councilwoman Beck, I motion to continue ZC25212 to the next zoning council meeting to allow the applicant the opportunity to reach out to the District 9 council office.

Gonna motion and a second council, please vote.

Motion carries.

Next will be MNC 26-0154.

Councilmember Boylock.

Excuse me.

Bridge over this road is very much needed.

It's in the adjacency between district seven and 10.

And uh we just need to get this done, so I'm excited to motion to approve this application.

Motion a second.

Council, please vote.

Motion carries.

Council that concludes all the action items and gets us to public comment.

Thank you.

We'll turn this into public comment.

And our first speaker is Chris Wood, followed by Bob Willoughby.

I'm Chris Wood.

A few years ago, I was in a heated discussion with my stalker, and the police were called out.

Imagine my surprise when the first officer on the scene made a B line to my stalker, called him by his nickname, and became engaged in conversation with obvious familiarity.

This officer never asked for my version of events.

A few months ago, when I was running errands in Fort Worth, my stalker's friends decided to stop me from accomplishing my tasks.

How are these men able to go undetected?

Thanks to the Fort Worth Police Officers Association, the POA, Fort Worth police officers are not held to the same legal standards as citizens.

According to Texas local government code, chapter 143, section 307, this union determines their own rules for disciplinary action that supersedes any law to the contrary.

The actual law does not apply if it conflicts with and is preempted by the union contract.

How does the POA have so much power?

A major contributing factor, no pen pun intended, is donation to politicians in return for silence to all complaints regarding police personnel.

So if anyone wants to have influence over police officers, they only need to have great influence over the POA.

It is no coincidence that my stalker's house is only one block away from the Fort Worth POA building.

He also made a detective follow through on his false allegations against me, while he made another detective ignore truthful allegations against him.

To bow down to the Fort Worth Police Association is to bow down and serve my billionaire stalker.

Now I know why you're on your best behavior.

You got a guess up here.

Go ahead and play the video.

This is part one.

Unfortunately, Bob, your video is not going to be played this afternoon.

If you'd like for Leanne to explain why, I'd be happy to have her.

Now, why couldn't you explain me of the last two days?

It was dropped off early third Friday morning.

It was dropped off.

Yeah, Friday, Monday, and no, no uh no email, nothing why.

You know why it's not played?

People go to my website, FW District5.com.

They don't want you to see something.

That is all the reasons in the world why you should want to see it.

And somebody left their phone up here.

Um I did send it.

But uh, okay, so I don't play my video.

I still got my three uh two minutes left to talk, okay.

Now, ain't that something?

I take time, work to bring my drive down here, my gas, submit a video, and this mayor does this, and then she asks for a raise.

That's just unbelievable.

It's just totally unbelievable.

You people are about the most corrupt there is in this city.

You are you're just corrupt, you're bad.

You're not good, you're not decent.

We need a decent mayor.

Why don't you step down?

I'm asking you again.

You know, I don't think you like the signs and the stuff I do about you while you do this childish stuff.

You pulled a quorum on me, Maddie, along with Beck and two other council members.

They set it up where I couldn't speak one night, and Beck walked out the end, so I couldn't be here.

Matty moved my name to the bottom of the list.

Is that the way a mayor and counsel supposed to act?

Crane over there.

Hi, Crane.

It's good to see you sober.

Okay.

You know, peoples.

I saw about peoples too.

I offered her a hundred dollars when she's running against me for office, a hundred dollars to my campaign fund or her campaign fund, and she'd answer five questions for crying out loud, God's sake.

Premise of this job is to answer questions.

She wouldn't do it.

And even make the deal better offered another hundred dollars of St.

Jews Children Hospital to those kids.

If they're peoples, would just answer five questions.

She wouldn't do it.

But she sits up here as a council.

I don't want her, she's in my district.

I don't want her to count.

I want a better council member.

I want different people here across the board.

But where it starts at for all these issues, number one, is the mayor.

The POA's rotten, starts with the mayor.

They own her.

She gets all of her money from the POA.

So did Baylock.

Now, as long as these people step down, they want to raise, but they won't leave here.

Beck was crying when she didn't think she was getting re-elected.

So they don't want to leave and they want more money.

Baylock's going for another job.

That would be all right, Baylock, if you were moving up for another money, if you did good here, but you didn't do good here.

You voted against our right to speak here.

You voted to give the postchief five and a half million dollars of our money.

You don't answer questions.

You know, this became really you all look like a bunch of gang show hosts to me.

You really do.

You're worthless.

I wish you would realize that there is a spiritual world and a material world.

You live in the material one.

All this stuff you can't take with you when you die, Maddie.

Oh, I've got another one real quick.

Take a million dollars of your campaign funds and give it to the arch.

Take the arts off the bond and use a million dollars your campaign fund of them.

That would be a win-win.

Thank you for not playing my video, but it shows how you are.

You're exceptionally grouchy today, Bob.

Our next speaker is Carla Courney.

Is Miss Courtney available?

If not, it'll go to George Childs.

Good to see you, Bob.

Have a great day.

Unfortunately, I know your name.

Yes.

Hi, George.

Good to see you.

Bob, please leave.

That's enough.

Don't harass people.

George, floor's yours.

My name is George Childs.

George Vernon Childs.

I live in uh Fort Worth.

Hello, Mayor.

I got something to say to you.

You're not going to like it, but I believe every word is true.

On the big money, your defendant and the basses don't need the First Amendment.

In 27, you will hear from those of us who do.

And Mayor, it's time for you to realize in 27, we'll remember all your lies about those you hold in disdain because the video records remain.

And we see the claws behind the smooth disguise.

And mayor, that for all money sure is good.

And one day there were people there from Hillwood.

In fact, the money was so pleasant, you decided speaker rules are for peasants instead of doing what an honest presiding officer would.

And then there's a rule about changing topic, which you enforced with attention almost microscopic.

And one time you cut some slack, that's true, when the new topic was $70,000 more a year for you.

And I can't think of anything else that rhymes with microscopic.

And Mayor was your very top priority to pose those pretty lights on a pagan tree at a square name for a career criminal.

So speaker time was cut to a minimum.

And in 27, we'll vote because freedom's never free.

Oh Mayor, I didn't forget the POA with money and signs if you do what they say.

Against the POA, the public has to guard.

Because I read all four books by Ronald G.

DeLord.

And buy and bully is their only way.

And Mayor, have you ever heard that there was a plot about Betsy Price and a big old parking lot?

And then it finally came to grief because of Joel Fitzgerald, the chief.

Is that why she picked you to fill the slot?

Positive postman.

Adrian Smith.

So at the previous uh City Hall, I I was um I stood to speak for the survival of a particular people, but I was made to be a sympathizer for a particular group who which I knew nothing about.

But however, since we chose to use this space today to give reference and preference to a particular group, I would like to highlight another group.

The Gaza genocide is ongoing, intentional, in systematic destruction of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, carried out by Israel during the Gaza War, which is currently ongoing.

It encompasses mass killings, deliberate starvation, infliction of serious violently and mental harm, and prevention of births.

Other acts include blockading, destroying civilian infrastructure, destroying health care facilities, killing healthcare workers and aid seekers, causing mass forced to placement, committing sexual violence, and destroying educational, religious, and cultural sites.

The genocide has been recognized by the United Nations Special Committee and Commission of Inquiry, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, multiple human rights groups, numerous genocide studies, and international law scholars and other experts.

And I'm gonna stop right there.

I feel like we shouldn't use this space to give one group preference or treatment over another.

Now, no one event since the creation of mankind is greater than any other.

So I'm sorry.

Well, I'm not sorry that as far as it relates to the Holocaust or any other world event, there are no levels with me.

No one event is more important than the other.

You all chose to just like the second proclamation you've done as it relates to the Jewish faith, et cetera, et cetera.

But you you you have really just forgotten about other people who are on the receiving end of the evil that's coming from the state of Israel, and that's the Palestinian people.

And this conflict has been going on since 1948.

None of us were even born.

So this this he has nothing to do with us.

This particular conflict has a has biblical implications.

But again, if you say anything about anybody of a Jewish faith, you are anti-Semitic.

But I I heard I stand here to say that the Palestinian people have a right to exist.

So let's not use this space any further to give preference to any other groups.

If you're gonna do it for one, you gotta do it for all.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Erica Christianelli, Christiatelli, James Smith.

Counsel, that is the conclusion of our public comment speakers.

This meeting is adjourned.

Bonnie, do you want to close us out?

Good girl.

Thank you.