The Fort Worth City Council convened on Tuesday, June 23, 2026, starting at approximately 12:30 p.m. CDT (17:30 UTC). The meeting began with recognitions for community leader Marie Love, Military Appreciation Month, America's 250th anniversary, LGBTQ+ Pride Month ("y'all means all"), and the Fort Worth Vaqueros soccer club. The council then considered a consent agenda, pulled items, and held public hearings on multiple zoning cases. A significant portion of the meeting was dedicated to public comment, with many speakers addressing data center development, ethics concerns, and community issues.
Join me on the dais. Good morning and welcome to the City Council meeting. Before Mayor Parker calls the meeting to order, we ask that you please be seated and silence all electronic devices. City Council meetings are conducted for the official business of city council and to receive input from residents. Members of the public attending meetings shall observe rules of decorum and shall not engage in the conduct that interferes with the ability of those present to observe or to participate in the meeting without disruption or fear of intimidation, threats or hostility. An individual engaging in disruptive conduct may be removed from the chamber and could be arrested for disruption of a meeting. Speakers who engage in disruptive conduct could have their mute mic muted and may be removed from the chamber and arrested for disruption of the meeting. Disruptive conduct includes yelling, screaming, clapping, and other noise creating acts. For those of you who have requested to speak, when your name is called, please come forward to the center podium. The countdown clock is displayed on the left monitor and will indicate how much time is remaining. The bell will sound when you have 30 seconds remaining. Before you begin your comments, please state your name and city of residence. Thank you. Good morning and welcome to Fort City Council meeting. We are now called to order. Today's invocation will be by Reverend Joel McMaster McAllister from First Christian Methodist Church. Please rise for the invocation and remain standing for the pledges of allegiance. Amen. Dear Lord God, we come before you this day, asking for your continued grace, asking for your loving kindness, asking for your mercy. We thank you, God, for we know that the earth and the heavens were created by you. We thank you for waking us for starting us on another day's journey. For giving us, O Heavenly Father, not only access to be able to breathe the breath of life, but giving those here, these elected leaders and officials and all these representatives with the privilege, the responsibility, as well as the opportunity to care for your people in this city, in this state, in this nation and in this world. Allow us, oh God, to hear the hearts and the cries and the concerns as well as the needs of your people. Speak to us, speak through us, use us as vessels for your glory. We thank you, O God, for what you've already done. We thank you, oh God, for what you're doing right now. We thank you, oh God, for what you have promised to do and will do. Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and lift them up, ye everlasting doors. And the King of Glory shall come in. We thank you, we praise you, and we seek you because we need you. Through Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. We will begin with special presentations, which in the first one is a presentation of recognition to Marie Love for her longstanding leadership and service with the United Communities Association of South Poor. All right, good morning, uh Council. Um, I want to take the time to acknowledge a special person and introduce someone to you as well to councilwoman Marie Love. Yeah, I mean, yeah, yeah, y'all got to know the councilwoman. And so all the things that is approved in District 8, if it's not ran by this beautiful young lady, um, it's a problem. And I don't know if y'all have ever heard of Eric Mays. This is the female lady of Councilwoman Marie Love. We really want to take the opportunity to really um acknowledge Miss Marie Love for her astounding work. Uh, what we do in Southeast is a little bit different. We try to be community oriented, and so we have a lot of neighborhood associations, and many years ago, and I think Marie will tell us uh they conducted our established United United Communities Association of Southeast, which is an association that oversees all the neighborhood associations and they come together and make sure that the uh businesses, the development, the homes that come to Southeast for Work is all the same. And so we really wanted the opportunity to really thank you, Miss Marie Love for uh your continued support. And so each year we do an all-star award, and this year, for some reason, we didn't wasn't able to give Miss Marie Love the award. So we wanted to make sure we take time out this morning and honor her for her community impact all-star awards, honor our community leader, United Communities Association of South Fort Worth, Miss Marie Love. It is an honor and a privilege to represent you on the Fort Worth City Council. Your dedication and your commitment to this city is well appreciated. Today we honor you and we honor your family and uh Fort Worth District number eight for all-stars. Thank you, Miss Marie Love. Thank you, Councilman uh Nettles.