Oh, there we go.

Perfect.

There we go.

All right.

Do you want me to call roll?

So we have a call.

Absolutely.

So that's that's what we're doing.

Okay.

Do you want me to call roll?

So we'll call Raw.

Thank you, Lexi.

We'll call Roll will start.

Guys, we're gonna go start.

It's about 6 07.

We're gonna go ahead and start here.

Alright.

Um go call roll if you can, Lexi for me.

Patricia Carter Breakner, present.

Marquise Dennis, Dwayne Dickens.

Present.

Simone Gittens, present, Brian Humphrey.

Present.

Margaret Love.

Tracy Love Chandler, Larissa McNeil, John Paul Ray, Jamila Stuckey, Mike Hell Bond, Maybelle Wallace, Judy Williams, Christy Williams, Tony Williams, Ray Cal Wilson, present.

Alright, great.

Thank you all for being here.

We will get started here.

And we are, you said we are at Corm, I think, or yeah.

So we are at CORM.

Great.

So I well to entertain us looking reviewing the minutes from our last meeting there, which were April 14th, 2026.

We can review those and so we can approve the minutes.

I'll give some time for people to review those shortly.

If they were emailed out, but please take your time if you see something there.

So move.

Okay, do we have a second?

I second.

All right, second.

All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed.

Perfect.

Thank you guys.

Uh, minister have been approved.

And we're gonna go to our Zed Committee report at the top of this.

I know it's not written down there, but I would like to welcome a new commissioner.

Uh we have a new commissioner to the commission here at the GTAC.

And uh if if possible, could you tell us a little about yourself or?

Um yeah, so my name is Simone.

Um, been in Tulsa about three and a half years, and obviously I like it enough to get really involved.

Um I work remotely for an ed tech company that uh services NYU's master's degree of mental health and wellness counseling during the day and the evening.

I do a lot of volunteering, just getting involved in the community.

Um I got two cats, are you a part of any other organization?

Um, I am.

Thank you so much for mentioning that wonderful uh commentary.

Uh I'm on the TIE PRO's leadership committee currently, or leadership team technically, um, as the DEI co-chair.

Um I'm also part of the junior league as like their chair for uh community uh council uh volunteering basically, and then um I'm also part of the Tulsa Voter Coalition representing Thai pros.

So, that's awesome.

Thank you so much.

Welcome.

Thank you for having me uh yeah, joining a commission there.

Uh I don't know.

Uh do you see familiar faces here?

If not, I mean we could definitely I mean I've been to a few meetings so far, so I feel like I've seen everything.

Okay.

We'll introduce ourselves briefly briefly if we can, that's okay.

I know we're waiting for one commissioner.

My name is, of course, Brian Humphrey.

I'm the chair there uh of the GTAC and my profession.

I'm a banker there.

Uh and if we could, uh Margaret Love, could you do Commissioner Love?

Okay, could you start a sign?

I would love social worker and everybody.

Dwayne, this is Tulsa's community college, and my commission seat is with the Donald Franklin Center for Reconciliation.

And I'm the media past chair.

Yeah, Dr.

Dickens is awesome.

Um I'm Jimmy Lisecki.

You know me already.

Lovely.

I'll take it to Miss Pen.

Maybell Lawless with Theater North.

Tony Williams, uh, aka Mr.

Greenwood, 918 Day Festival, go green for Greenwood Entrepreneur.

Um, Patricia Carter Bruchner.

I represent the Greenwood Chamber of Congress.

I have a business for the past 20 years on Greenwood, Natural Health Clinic.

You know me, you've already gotten too many emails.

Welcome Ray Cal Wilson with Race of our Investments and for our last names and serving as vice chair for this year.

Perfect.

Well, thank you again.

Thank you for joining us there.

Looking forward to uh to your interactions uh and joining committees and uh and just being just being able to connect with you, uh learn from you and uh and just be a part of the of our greater community we have here.

And so I'm next thing I would say here, um, I'm just gonna review some things we have that we did talk about.

Um we kind of have some big items that we talked about at our last meeting.

Um one of those was the um the strategic focus and framework we worked on and talking dealing with uh our three uh items that we're looking at, which is to retain, attract, and to help promote uh, you know, an opportunity for African American individuals and families to thrive.

Uh we did meet as a city folks committee um this uh past month there.

Uh we talked to all the chairs, the chairs uh for the or which are our impact or mission-driven uh committees, which are the culture and engagement committee, the policy and recommendation, policy recommendations committee, and our education committee there.

Um all those chairs are not here right now, but they are one of them will be here.

But I'll so I'll uh and but and also our excuse me, our executive committee, which is our former chair and our actual vice chair were at the meeting there.

Um, but we did talk about those items there as far as um working on a report we're working on, uh, just so people recall, which we were working on for the end of the year.

The chair of uh the um committee that we have, chief folks committee is Dr.

Dickens, Commissioner Dickens, and Commissioner Stuckey, which are heading this up there.

I um you Commissioner Mr.

Dickens was not able to attend the meeting, so uh, and I I actually uh I guess was led the meeting.

So I'm doing most of the speaking right now, but also Commissioner Stucky uh was there at the tail end.

Uh and we have also some feedback for Brendan.

Thank you so much also for attending too.

And so can you can you introduce yourself too?

I don't know if if do you do someone know who you are?

Okay.

Um we can find some time, WTP's uh mayor's office.

Um, getting a chance to work with the outline commissioners.

Perfect perfect and we are with the mayor's office there.

We're working together to try to uh formate some ideas as far as how to go about you know getting the information for this report.

Uh the original idea we've talked about was having each committee uh gather information uh from their committees and then reporting it up and formulating and creating one large report there.

Um we are um looking to ask me about.

Is that her phone?

Yeah, okay.

I don't know.

That's all right.

But we are looking to uh maybe pivot a little bit here, and we we'll I was gonna talk to some of the chairs, but I'll probably reach out to them afterwards and have uh maybe a large kind of census survey or census kind of be a part of this, uh, this research there.

Because we we after talking uh internally, um, we found that we may not have the statistical data just on just uh demographics, different characteristics, like you know, our African American communities, how many of them go attend public schools?

How many are actually attending private schools?

Uh kind of understanding just some of that information, uh, and still maybe layering on top of some qualitative data, maybe focus groups or things of that nature if our committees want to do that.

But I'm thinking that we're we're going to talk a little bit more and kind of engage uh the chairs uh to get information from each of their committees to formulate a kind of a census that we can kind of send out or questionnaire.

And so that's the process we're in right now.

We kind of have something that we're working with there.

Um, not sure I want to make sure I don't get too far ahead of anyone, but I do want to kind of uh bring everybody kind of somewhat up to speed what we're working on, uh and I know and so you guys if you have any questions on that, please let me know.

But this information should be disseminated out by your chairs of each committee.

Um I'll stop right there.

Any are there any questions at all on what I which went over?

Okay, great.

And then we should have each committee should be having a meeting this next month there going forward.

Uh I know the next meeting for the edgy, I believe it's the culture committee is tomorrow.

Uh, and we should have a schedule, and all the committee meetings should uh should should be on the calendars, it should be emailed to Lexi.

So if Lexi, please let us let me know if we are missing a date for a committee meeting.

Uh, so we make sure we just follow up so everyone understands where we're at.

Simone, you get the opportunity to join, you know, whatever committee you want to join.

It is it is a voluntary process, so uh you can attend as many community committees as you want to you find what you feel like is your niche or or uh we I would ask that you choose one or prioritize one committee.

I know some some commissioners like to attend multiple committees.

Um each committee has to have a list of minimum of two commissioners, but um I would like to uh have you know every commission at least focus on one.

Um it just makes it easier if you can.

You not you can attend many meetings you want, but just have one as your designate.

Sometimes we we do have uh in our bylaws sometimes little things for certain votes or appointments towards the end of the year or beginning of the year too.

Um so it's important to kind of know what committee you're kind of uh designating as your primary uh committee there.

Um and then the next thing we did have another meeting, which are quarterly meeting with our vice chair.

We have a chair and vice chair quarterly meeting across all Title V commissions, and I will let Raquel.

I stepped out of the meeting, so I'm gonna let Raquel kind of do that uh do that meeting and go over the recap of what happened there.

Well, thank you.

Um good evening, everyone.

Um to follow up on one of our items from our uh what is this?

Our April meeting.

What is this?

4C, the bank account and physical sponsorship status update during the vice chair and chair meeting.

We had quite a bit of conversation on what it looks like to create a bank account or fiscal sponsorship within the structures that the city of Tulsa is creating.

Um, in the process, we had a very lively QA discussion between the different Title V commissions, and they are working on creating uh a standardized approach to uh honor the work that fellow commissions have already done and also uh support the new work that commissioner commissions want to do, like create new bank accounts and fiscal sponsorship and things of that nature.

So if you do have questions about the city of Tulsa legal process for creating bank accounts or fiscal sponsorship, please go ahead and send them to our chair.

Um he's managing that process, but um there will be new updates down the line from the city of Tulsa's legal team on how we can uh work with the city and the city structures for uh contracting and financial uh organization.

Great, thank you for the update there.

Um, there are any questions on that.

That is a huge, it's it's not a fun, I guess, task really, but it is a huge undertaking that we uh just have to get something we have to get done so we can kind of ministry kind of move forward with things.

So, um, so we're working on that.

Uh the other thing I will say we mentioned our last meeting, that I do want to address here.

We talked about maybe strategic retreat or something like that nature.

I think at this point uh we are trying to make sure that should be focused committee kind of gets at least one or two more meetings under a belt and make sure we understand exactly uh the direction we're going as far as some actual items uh, and one of those is just a timeline or milestones there that we're looking for for the report, which is kind of our premier, or I guess say our one of our is our primary focus for this year.

So with that being said, we are still looking at some dates in the fall, which will be when we're trying to release this report.

And we just want to make sure that we're hitting those milestones and then report back, and uh we do we do want to also do have a time to actually meet with GTAC as as a for a retreat or strategic retreat, because the information from our report and talks about goals, uh our one-year goal, uh what we're trying to do in five to ten years, and just want to make sure everyone has a chance to actually uh share uh where that where their thoughts are uh and make sure nothing's missed actually in the report there, okay, from that standpoint.

So that's kind of our download checkpoint we have there.

Um that is all that I have from from the and I put a ZEC committee uh report there.

We did not really meet this past meeting as a second committee, but those are the items that are things that are going on.

Um, there are some little things that are going on behind the scenes there.

Um next thing we're on our agenda here are committee reports.

Um do not see that we I will talk.

I know that the education committee committee did not meet this past month there.

Um I think there was um a little bit of a issue as far as time and travel from the chair.

I know he was overseas there uh in Spain, but we should have a meeting this month, so looking forward for that to transpire.

The other report there, which I will give a report for um of Commissioner McNeil, um, who to me she unfortunately could not be here because she's ill, so she's not feeling well today.

Um but did she said she did not have a public report um that for the committee, the Q Culture Engagement Committee did not meet um this past month, but we are meeting um tomorrow at 11 30 on Zoom.

Um if you do if you want to attend the committee meeting.

Uh Lexi, do you have uh get the link there?

Uh if possible, if you could send that out, that'd be great just to make sure.

Um double check on that, and just want to remind people also there is an organization chart that um Commissioner Um McNeil did create for partner organizations for if you have a partner organization that we want to partner with or to add to the list that chart that you can compile that.

I believe it is a a link for a Google Doc.

Uh, the Google sell document there.

Um Commissioner McNeil also, and I'm gonna skip down to just because I have an email from her.

I'm gonna skip down to the liaison report right now.

Uh she is our representative also for the human rights commission, which is a separate commission.

Um, she did give me some uh notes on that.

Uh the most pressing uh is the fact that the Hispanic and Latinx uh affairs commission has create uh has created a Fourth Amendment work site playbook so that employees, employers, and employees know their rights and regarding to illegal search and seizure.

This was made for immigrant communities, but uh you can keep in mind for ours as well.

Um, and I believe that's something that you or if you want to speak to that, something you you uh could our chair, vice chair, uh something she was interested in and pursuing and getting some information on.

Absolutely.

Uh so to follow up on that, uh, working within the policy committee to also work with our Hispanic and Latinx Commission to uh translate the documents for our black and African American uh diaspora.

I guess you could say those who uh may be at risk or at additional risk uh from uh organizations that might not welcome them in the workplace uh to be politically correct.

Um so we're working through the policy committee to make that translation work happen.

Um and as we get more updates, you will receive more updates as well.

But we're keeping in mind our uh African American and black diaspora that is impacted by ICE and other organizations.

Okay, okay.

Perfect.

And before I move on too much, uh, I'm reading from Commissioner McNeil's report on the educ on the edu the community engagement and cultural promotion committee and also the human rights, which talked about.

She does do our newsletter also as well, as you guys have here, and it does highlight um our Commissioner Judy Williams.

Uh she's highlighted there, who has a manager of Tulsa Remote.

Um, she does a good job each and each month there.

Uh, and do want to thank her again publicly for that.

Um, it kind of highlights the different events that we have.

Please do um email and I'll try to get with the Commissioner McNeil.

Please email her events that you know of in the month there, and try to I'm trying to get what ask for her for a deadline that she needs this by when she creates this there.

Uh, please try to email this to her, uh, and we will uh make sure that it is on the uh newsletter going forward.

Okay.

Um it's a lot of great events.

Legacy Fest is one of those events I do wanna that's coming up there, and this week uh the Black Wall Street Rally uh is gonna be here.

Um I I uh have opportunity to be uh helped to participate as a moderator on Friday uh for our Five Foundation Empire Center there.

You don't have to show up to that, but it's a lot of fun things that you can show up to that but um but it should be a fun event.

Uh I believe over 2,000 people come here and most of them from out of state.

Um so it's a it's a huge event for Tulsa.

So definitely uh go down there and and participate if you can.

Uh, participate down there.

And then the policy committee, I was trying to wait for our uh policy chair, uh JP uh Ray, but I am uh today's meeting may be a little faster than normal, because we don't have a speaker today.

Uh and also there are a couple of events I know that uh are at 6 30.

Um one of the events there, and that I was not aware of actually till just now.

Um, and thanks to chair uh is the uh on our watch, emergency meeting, vote voting rights act, Medicaid and minimum wage and scholarship, that's at 6 30 and no priori church.

Um and I'm I'm saying this because it's policy.

I know usually we have our announcement section there, but I do know that some individuals uh mentioned they may leave to that.

I mean Commissioner Love, it's probably gonna lead to go to that right now.

Um so uh which is something that that is important for our community.

And then there is another meeting at 6 30 um that our council uh counselor counselor Hall Harper, uh Vanessa Hall Harper is over.

Uh she's having uh at Rudisau Library right now at 6 30, uh which which is regarding the Kirkpatrick Heights um amendment.

Um now I did send an email out to Commissioners and I will uh kind of go over that.

Thank you so much again.

Commissioner, thank you so much.

Um do want to uh recap the email.

And if anyone has any questions, feel free to ask.

But my uh our thoughts on behalf of GTAC is make sure we fully understand what the issues are and we're communicating clearly uh the information that's being laid out.

Okay.

Um so with that there is an amendment uh that has been proposed, which is being led by Vanessa Hall Harper, Council Professor Hall Harper, um, to amend uh the improve our Tulsa third package, which was a vote, a citywide vote for uh which which overall was 430 million dollars, okay.

Out of that 430 million dollars, five million of that was allocated for the Kirkpatrick Heights, which is in district one.

It's right north of downtown.

It's kind of right in this.

So there's actually placed by the Russo Library, which's gonna go on Greenwood as part of that, actually, actually part of that master plan, and then the land uh that is over um, I would say behind or to the east of the uh election board building over there.

Uh it's about fifty-five, about 45 acres I'm selling right over there that is actually a part of that as well.

Um so there are two amendments she's proposing.

One amendment is to replace um the CDC, which is a community development corporation, uh, a corporation that is created um for uh community development, okay, and that could be a variety of different things from you know housing to uh supporting businesses, but in this case it is mostly creating a neighborhood.

Um so uh she wants to replace that CDC, which is Greenwood Legacy Corporation.

You'll see you'll hear them say GLC, with TED C, which Tulsa Economic Development Corporation.

Tulsa Economic Development Corporation is also a CDC, and they have a certification.

You may hear this word out there, which is called a CDFI, which means a community development financial institution.

Means they give loans, okay?

They have the ability to give loans, and that's a designation applied by the US Treasury.

They can accept money from the U.S.

Treasury and they can give out loans.

They mostly give out loans to businesses.

It's an open seat, which we need to re-engage with them on, but they do have a seat on GTAC as well.

So you do know just the full scope of things.

So the other amendment is to expand the scope of the funds.

Okay.

The scope of the funds for the five million is is dedicated towards the master plan, which was created over a period of, I think about three years, maybe even longer, three years there for that area.

They would like to expand the scope for the five million dollars to be uh available for all of District One.

Okay.

Those are the two changes that are being proposed there.

Um the issue that Council of Vanessa Harper has posed is that she feels that the trust has been broken with uh partner Tulsa, who helped administer the plan and also GLC, and she feels that the funds need to be uh transferred to another entity uh to move forward with this, and would like for the area to the area that they're looking for for targeted development to be expanded.

Um GLC is uh of course wanting to want to move forward with the intended plan as stated.

Okay, that's basically what they want to do.

This has went for a first reading with the city counselors.

The second reading is tomorrow at 5 o'clock.

Um, if you if you are not familiar with the city's process, the first reading, they will listen to an issue, let the public speak, uh, and then they vote for it to move forward.

It didn't move forward, and to a second reading.

Um at this second reading, they will, it's unusual, but they are going to allow the public to speak.

If you want to speak, you I would encourage you to uh sign up now.

I believe you sign up online, I believe you can, or show up early and sign up because they will close off.

And when the meeting starts, I believe they do shut down the list.

So you won't be able to speak, I believe.

Um at least that's what I've been told.

Okay.

Um the safe side is to sign up before the meeting starts.

I don't work in the city council's office, so I'm not an expert, but something tells me that you can sign up up until they read that agenda item.

Up to they read it, okay.

But just to be on the safe side, sign up before the meeting starts.

Yeah, open the reading.

Now it was the first item.

I mean, they moved it up because it was pretty heavy item.

Go ahead.

When people call and speak, should they be going to represent GTAC on behalf of GTAC or on behalf of themselves?

You are going to represent yourself as an individual if you're going to speak.

This is something that it's a great question.

Something that touches our community as a whole.

Um there are meetings going on right now because of this.

To kind of nail this down.

Um I think I shared, and if you want me to share information, I can share the information again with you.

City ordinance and like that, that's on the email that I sent out.

If you just like get the small person, you get the email.

So if you're at if you ask for that, you I can forward you that information and you can uh go from there.

Uh and then also if you do search for both sides have come out with flyers and information that is available probably to you on the website too.

Go ahead.

So what trust has been broken, or is there a way to find out what the details of that trust is?

Because as you're reading, because you said they she's holding the meeting because the trust between Greenwood Legacy Corp and the community has been broken.

I'm confused on what trust has been broken.

Um if that's available to the public, how can we find that?

Or do you know?

Yes, I can tell you I will tell you factually what happened, but JP is here.

I was just gonna offer I um Councillor Hall Harper had come to speak to G Talk about this last year, so I can pull the minutes from the meetings where she came to speak as well as the subsequent meetings where there's been commissions.

Okay, as well as I should have the documents that she had provided to the commission at that time, if that would be helpful to you.

Yeah, just to briefly, um you know, I'm sorry for my absence of the board meeting, and straight here, but just for reference as well, um, you know, directly to your question.

In terms of you know, the trust that was broken, um I think that you know uh Vanessa expressed that the probably the biggest concern would be like the board governance that was created, um, the um CDC had established a board that would uh you know allow them to continue going forward and moving forward, um the board is to be comprised of nine members, um five of the nine were selected through uh through their selection uh process and with four remaining.

Um, Vanessa's opinion was that uh she would have preferred uh it was this election process to be different um to be allowed for uh you know uh in her opinion more community input.

Um, so in regards to your question of you know, was the trust that was broken it broken.

I think from her perspective that was that was her uh whatever issues with regards to that.

Um I'm not sure how far in depth we got.

No, uh no, I communicated both sides um point of view, the two things that are being will be changed in amendment.

Yeah, which is the scope of the area, Lannis, you know, be take uh that they're looking at, and number two, I guess, is the uh the actual organization uh who's receiving the money or administering the program to be T to C replace GLC, and that's kind of where I stopped off.

So yeah, yeah, just briefly.

I mean, I think the concern for Green Sol is um you know, like we were talking about the uh, uh does not believe partnered Tulsa should be the right organization to continue providing uh or implementing the Kirkpatrick Heights plan.

Um so she's kind of come with another plan that seems to expand beyond the initial um idea, which was for Kirkpatrick Heights area, uh the 54 acres of of land.

Um so it's a little bit of a change from what was initially voted on, you know, through the um the process of getting community input and all that stuff, uh but uh you know, based on her opinion of partner Tulsa and uh etc.

She's you know she's expressing new plan uh which she would like to implement, you know, uh, and that money would go if she's the rest of the district one, um, which would be a little bit would be larger than the original current package plan.

Does it?

Sorry, I have a question.

Do we know what the mayor's uh position is on this?

Officially, we do not know the mayor's uh um statement on this.

I do know this.

GLC has told me uh talking to John Hall, who's executive director, uh, and some of the uh individuals who are involved with the organization, he has sent them a letter um stating he does support them, moving trying to move forward uh and presenting their plan as is.

Um and the mayor also is a member of Partner Tulsa as far as he serves on the board or as a on that body there.

Um so I mean you can you can state that as that is the fact too.

So I'll that's what I can tell you is fact.

What I will say is that if you look at it from multiple perspectives, and most items are always going to be complex.

Most things are not cut and draw.

So there are political perspectives, there are historical perspectives, and there are voter advocacy perspectives that I'll just sort of say that that's at least three, but there are still many more to talk about.

What I would say, and so this is I'm just providing a perspective here to note that in any civic engagement, decisions are made, and there when decisions are made, there are things that I agree with, things that I don't agree with.

And when I know the full civic, uh my civic choices and responsibilities, if I do not agree with a process, I have the right within the civic rights to act, and my actions people do not have to agree with, but as long as it's legal, ethical, and moral, I can do it.

So we see at play both parties using their civic rights, and so as informed citizens and GTAC members, we we have responsibilities to say this is what my personal opinion is, and this is the side that I'm going to go with as my civic responsibility and right.

As a GTAC member, we have a right to inform and provide information so that others can make informed decisions.

So as a commissioner, our responsibility is to make sure we empower others to make informed decisions.

So we have to be informed.

So your question is quite legitimate, and we're all always grappling with what's going on because a lot of things happen.

Some things are personal, and some things are um could very well be wrong or right, but it really doesn't matter.

What I learned a long time ago, and I'm gonna be quiet because I'm what I learned a long time ago is that perception is reality, and so even if it's right or wrong, it really doesn't matter because my perception is that it's right or wrong.

So as a GTAC member, we have to determine how we present information, and then as a personal choice as a citizen, I have to make a decision in my personal voting and participation.

So we do have to be able to separate those and make sure that we're clear on what's ethical, what's moral, what's legal.

Just correct.

I was just gonna add along those lines uh we're talking to I you know I've had the opportunity to be with both sides of both people uh that were initially called the CDC and people that are involved now with the implementation of the curved practice plan um uh, you know, even with those in support of uh who has this change as well.

Uh I think both sides are very clearly uh understand the gravity of what's a state, right?

There's 54 acres of land that's coming available, you know, about five million dollars, if not, you know, the potential for more on the road, um you know, valuation on the land.

So it's a big opportunity for North Tulsa.

Um, and there's certain I think both sides certainly understand the gravity of that opportunity.

That's not something that just you know comes up every couple years, right?

That's that's you know almost once in a lifetime type of things.

So both sides understand that.

I think really what it boils down to is there's a difference in opinion on on how it should be ran, how it should be covered, and so I think it's important for GTAC to fully understand, you know, both sides of course of what's going on, but also to understand uh I don't think one is uh one side is you know try to maliciously do it something with the land or with the money, right?

But there's certainly a difference in opinion of how it should be governed and who should govern it.

Um, can I ask a question?

Go ahead.

Yeah, I just have uh a few questions.

One is uh GTAC partisan, bipartisan, nonpartisan, how how are we politically informed?

We are a recommending body uh advisory for the mayor uh in this situation I think it's situational we're still figuring that out to Commissioner Stucky that's a very that's a very good question.

I think for this situation uh and like most situations where it's our communities on both sides I think which follows with Dr.

Commissioner Dickens just uh just laid out for us there.

Uh we want to make sure we're understanding and discovering first both sides where they're at uh we we also want to make it okay for people to disagree it's okay to have disagreements okay at the end of it we want to always try to reconcile things so at the end and move as one towards wherever direction things go there's a decision's going to be made okay after the decision is going to be made what are we going to do with it okay and and so we can each side I feel they could say they're exercising their civil rights their duties there they can they can do that but after decision is made how do we move forward as a community uh support each other and what can be done in this area and I think that is what we really need to focus on as GTAC for this situation.

I will say that most situations are probably going to be that way when our community's on both sides unless someone is doing something that is illegal or something that you know we feel that um is a hard stance against what you know maybe what the city has already already you know initiated or something we're earn we're very we're we're involved in very early if GTAC was very involved very early in a process of something like this and we are clearly supporting one direction then that would be something else but this is something we were not a part of but it does affect our community and so that is why we're communicating it out we are making sure all commissioners understand the information on both sides uh and um so you can go support uh what you feel is right uh you know and uh at the same time advocate for unity at the end of this because the decision is going to be made you know so what are we gonna do with that afterwards I think that is the biggest thing there uh as we try to move forward um are the other questions on that I know it's kind of a what is partner Tulsa is we're that's a new organization partner Tulsa is a super authority so it is uh an authority of the parks authority TDA Tulsa Domin Authority uh they have a lot of all so there was an idea and uh by GT Biden a former mayor to combine all the authorities underneath one and so that is what has happened in the city of Tulsa so uh they control uh a lot of assets actually in Tulsa um so we we probably should actually have them come present someone from there uh and see they just have a new executive director uh we can look at that and see if we can maybe get her on the uh agenda come speak like see could you help the representative from partner Tulsa will be part of the Title V and Beyond Apology Commissions retreat on Friday July 24th oh so um when the time comes for you to select a breakout session if this is something that you're interested in learning about I recommend opting into the economic opportunity breakout session that'll include Aaron Persley who's um the chief economic developer or development officer for the city of Tulsa as well as a representative from partner Tulsa.

Okay.

There we go there we go so we'll be at the retreat so you can learn more information there.

Thank you for that segue thank you for that insight.

Anything else on that that was uh okay so you may have just one more I'll just say I really celebrate that there are differences and that there even though it creates a lot of tension I just celebrate that we're still having the conversation so I think that that's the harder part of disagreement is being a being able to celebrate that we can have the disagreement and we don't have to break out into a war because of it.

So I think it's an it's an opportunity for us to work through the disagreement and come out on the other end with moving forward.

Correct.

Correct, correct, correct I I don't really have to agree or disagree with anyone of the parties I just need to know that's a great thing.

We should all operate in awareness of why we should act.

And so it's it's an example of if you are convicted of something, do something.

And so I I do celebrate that.

Thank you for highlighting that because I don't want to, you know, say we want to skip towards uh to moving forward.

That is also something to celebrate.

All right, so um that will bring us to our our next point of the meeting, the old business, any old business there.

I don't think we do have the old business there.

Uh actually new business.

JP, you missed introduction, so could you introduce yourself?

That would be great.

Uh yeah, JP Ray, um, honored to be here.

Um, I don't know, like I don't know about your time.

I'm I'm an attorney here in Tulsa.

Um, I've been on this commission for two years now.

Um, Tulsa by a lot.

Do you lead any committees?

So you can I didn't know.

So good people leading questions.

You're right, right.

You might be the turn of yourself, uh, uh yes, I'm the chair of the policy committee.

Um, our interview committee as well.

I think it's yeah, the city focused committee.

Yeah, you're one yeah, one, yes, you are part of the focus committee, I want the chairs.

Which is all our chairs again and our executive committee there.

Uh, just on the on that committee there.

Uh so uh announcements there.

Um are there any announcements there?

I just have one that May 30th is the Capitol Cruise uh campaign Route 66 um situation.

Um, and so we we as in Tulsa um will actually be a part of the Guinness for a book of records, hopefully, um, if we get more than 3,000 classic cars to come down Route 66.

Currently we have almost 4,000 registered to come down Route 66, and that is on May 30th.

Uh, people can volunteer, it is open, it's free, it will be on 11th Street, which is Rick 165.

That's May 30th, just about awesome.

Go ahead.

You go first.

I was gonna add just briefly as well.

Um I can't remember the exact day, I think it's June 16th, but elections are coming up locally.

Um, elections are as we all know, very important for the house and times.

They really do, right?

Um, there's things going on in the world, sure, but there's also things going on here locally, and you know, in order to continue making change and continue making progress.

Uh it's important that we, you know, do a deep dive into who we're voting for and electing and who's in offices, not in offices.

So it's May, right?

I can't believe it's already maybe I was thinking about this in fact, February on the legal side of the stuff.

We get some, you know, early on, you know, for judges that are running locally as well.

Um so uh kind of kind of clued in on what's going on, but also there's there's more than just judges being elected, so it's very important that we're doing the research now, looking to figure out who who you know we want to vote for, who's on the ballot, and who has our best interests, an announcement for everybody?

Tell me, yeah.

Quick piggyback on that before we change topic.

And there's so many great resources to learn more about voting, Tulsifier.

Put out an uh webinar and article about it, um turbo vote, even uh local organization called politics on the go.

So lots of ways to learn more about what's going on in that area and stay up to date, including join our policy committee.

Right.

Um I have one more announcement, sorry.

Uh typos for 918 leads speaking about like voting typos, associate professionals is what the acronym stands for.

Um June 12th, and I believe the 13th, right?

Yep, the 12th and and the 13th, um, from 5 to 7 at the Hyatt Place.

They will have um the representatives that should be on the ballot.

They will be there having conversations.

People can learn um about the civics, how to engage, learn more from the individuals that are running, and that will happen June 12th, and how you place this right downtown here.

Um CM professionals will be meeting that.

I will also send this right now to um Larissa, so it can be in the June isn't it?

Perfect.

Perfect, perfect, perfect, perfect.

And if you're doing the 918 lead program that are there on the 13th, we might see a familiar giving a presentation and serving on a panel to encourage young professionals to serve on authorities boards and commissions.

Yeah, I don't know who that could possibly be, but in addition to the commission retreat, which I touched on already.

Oh shoot, it just like everything just left my brain.

What was I going to talk about?

The next GTAC meeting.

Do you want to make sure that we yeah?

We do need to announce that, and that is something it's gonna be on June 23rd.

And the time of that is gonna be at 6 o'clock still, I believe.

Lexi, right?

Or 5 30.

5 30.

Okay, 5 30.

5 30.

Our next meeting.

And it is a uh rescheduling because on the 9th, um there will be a community um listening session or community uh I believe the community meeting, excuse me, by the mayor at Rudusa Library.

Um, and we are asking everyone to attend uh if you can, and that meeting I believe starts at six.

I believe it does.

So, yeah, so it's um it's part of the mayor's office community conversations series.

This is his third round of community conversations, and so going to all of the different areas around Tulsa to um bring City Hall to them and give updates on his priorities as mayor, and the one um that is taking place in North Tulsa, unfortunately conflicted with the normal time for GTAC, and we thought that didn't really make sense uh for us to have that conflict.

So we are moving the meeting.

Um the community conversations are 5 30 to 7.

5 30 to 7, so it's 5 32.

Okay, and there are still a few community conversations taking place um between now and June.

So if you haven't already been to one, check like the city's website or social media or the mayor's social media to find one that um you'll be able to attend and hope to see you there.

Perfect.

That's that's on June 9th there.

I think we should know that that meeting is particularly important because we don't typically meet in July.

Yes, no, yeah, in June, yeah, in June.

That's yes, you're exactly right because that will be our last meeting and the and we're off in the month of July.

Yes.

Yes.

So please do attend.

Yes.

Um we did shift it to l to later in the month, knowing that we will not have a meeting in July, um, thinking that you know um that would help.

But we would prefer commissioners to attend the June 9th meeting.

I will also say that we are working on, um, if I said this earlier, working on the census or that questionnaire I mentioned before there.

We would like to, this is a push, but we would like to be able to get some of that information out uh in the month of July for Juneteenth for the for the actually for actually take in some data uh and thought that would be an event we can actually get some information in.

Um so if possible, um I will try to work with Lexi, but we're trying to we're gonna may need to take a vote on that.

Um so we will try to see if we can send something out via email so you know what you're voting on, but on that meeting, um, so everyone can see it exactly what we are sending out, um, which would be on June the 23rd.

So please be there.

We will have to vote on that, uh, and that will help us uh get some information to get the Architect Focus uh initiative moving forward.

Um that is all I have is a public com go ahead.

Uh one more uh this year's a fourth annual go green for Greenwood uh commemoration where we uh honor Greenwood obviously for those three days uh May 30th through June 1st, and we're supposed to uh we're supposed to have a press release on the 31st.

Uh Mayor Monroe's supposed to be there.

Uh time and date uh to be determined.

So May 30th through June 1st, Light homes, businesses, where your articles of clothing, and if you want to tag old green for Greenwood, you can do that.

So thank you.

Do we have any public comments?

Well, they're getting that together, one update uh that's also TBD on the location, but uh date of the June 27th, June 27th, Mark Your Calendars on Greenwood.

There will be the uh local launch of the for our last names app, which turns financial trauma to financial traction.

So I'll share more uh the Alexi in our uh community engagement and culture promotion.

Perfect.

That's great.

Anyone else have anything?

Okay.

Well, I will entertain a motion to adjourn.

So again we will not, in fact, because we're not a quorum.

Oh, that's right.

We just we just transitioned from just a yeah to a quorum to it's a meeting.

So you can just say the meeting is adjourned.

The meeting is a churn.

I guess that works.

That works well.

That works very well.

Though the amusements are long gone.

The lake remains a serene