HomeMy WebLinkAbout2022/05/03-Minutes-Other-City Council CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS
PUBLIC COMMENT MEETING
TUESDAY, MAY 39 2022
Present:
Mayor Mattie Parker
Council Member Carlos Flores,District 2
Council Member Michael D. Crain,District 3
Council Member Jared Williams, District 6
Council Member Leonard Firestone, District 7
Council Member Chris Nettles, District 8
Council Member Elizabeth Beck, District 9
Absent:
Mayor Pro tern Gyna M. Bivens, District 5
Council Member Cary Moon, District 4
Staff Present:
David Cooke, City Manager
Laetitia Brown, Interim City Attorney
Jannette Goodall, City Secretary
CALL TO ORDER
With a quorum of the City Council Members present, Mayor Parker called the City
Council Public Comment Meeting of the Fort Worth City Council to order at 6:04 p.m.
on Tuesday, May 3, 2022, in the City Council Chamber of the Fort Worth City Hall, 200
Texas Street, Fort Worth,Texas.
INVOCATION-Pastor Ben Weiss, Grace Community Church
The invocation was provided by Pastor Ben Weiss, Grace Community Church.
PLEDGES OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE UNITED STATES AND THE STATE
OF TEXAS- (State of Texas Pledge: "Honor the Texas flag; I pledge allegiance
to thee, Texas,one state under God, one and indivisible.")
The Pledges of Allegiances to the United States of America and the State of Texas were
recited.
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CONSIDERATION OF MINUTES
Motion: Council Member Crain made a motion, seconded by Council Member Nettles, that
the minutes of the Regular meeting of April 12, 2022, the Work Session and
Public Comment meetings of April 19, 2022, and the Regular meeting of April 26,
2022, be approved. Motion passed 7-0, Mayor Pro tern Bivens and Council
Member Moon absent.
22-1984 Minutes -April 12, 2022 Council Meeting
22-1985 Minutes - April 19, 2022 Work Session
22-1986 Minutes - April 19, 2022 Public Comment
22-1996 Minutes - April 26, 2022 Council Meeting
PUBLIC COMMENTS-The City Council may not discuss or deliberate about a topic not
specifically listed on the Agenda,including those presented during the Public Comments
section of the Agenda(Tex. Gov't Code§ 551.042)
22-1969 Public Comments
Mr. Malikk Austin, 6008 Meredith Lane, appeared before Council via conference
call relative to violence in the City of Fort Worth.
Ms. Natasha Nelson, 5200 White Settlement Road #1269, appeared before Council
via conference call relative to awareness to Ms. Atatiana Jefferson's case.
Mr. Bob Willoughby, 617 Fay Boulevard, appeared before Council relative to the
City Council.
Mr. George Chiles, 74, 2901 Travis Avenue, appeared before Council relative to to
the Police Officers' Association.
Mr. Gerald Banks, Sr., 6861 Routt Street, appeared before Council relative to
profiling, police brutality, wrongful arrest/killing, wrong prosecution, ending
qualified immunity, etc.
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Mr. Adrian Smith, 3625 San Rose Drive, appeared before Council relative to the
Fort Worth Safe Initiative and community patrolling.
Mr. Thomas Torlincasi, 1515 6th Avenue, appeared before Council relative to
alleged criminal offenses by Fort Worth police officer Benjamin Johnson and
Tarrant County Sheriff's Department.
Ms. LaSondra Huggins, 8504 Ohara Lane, completed a speaker card relative to
housing, JPS connection, Blue Zone city goal, and voting, and was recognized by
Mayor Parker but was not present in the Council Chamber.
ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business, Mayor Parker adjourned the meeting at 6:26 p.m.
These minutes approved by the Fort Worth City Council on the 17th day of May, 2022.
Attest: 4Apved:
J;tySecretary
tte Goodall ae Parker
Mayor
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