And good morning, good morning, good morning, welcome, welcome, welcome me to his time now for another community connection right here on K one the one you trust and gentlemen, who's right now on your camera is Tim Sherick and you're running for Ward one City councilor We saw you last night in action at the forum, and thank you very much for your participation.
Oh, thanks for hosting it. I enjoyed being there. Well, i'll tell you what it was a.
We've got a lot of people interested in city politics, that's for sure.
We had a big table, we sure do. There's a lot of folks.
And actually I was just told that it's a ninety minute wait downtown for early voting, so the electrics got told. Definitely excited about this thing.
Very good.
Tell us a little bit about yourself and also about your ideas for Ward one and the city of Bartlesville.
Okay, I am a third generation Bartlesville citizen. My grandparents fell in love and raised the family here, and my parents decided to move back here after my father retired from military service, and now my wife and I are raising our own children right here.
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It's a very special place to it and it's a place worth defending.
We believe that family.
Values are at the heart of Bartlesville and always have been. That's something that we want to make sure is preserved so that we leave our children and potentially our grandchildren a city that's worth inheriting. There are lots of things that are going on in our community right now that are concerning, and we.
Address some of those last night.
So if I could, I'd like to hit maybe a couple of eye spots off of that.
Let's do that.
We didn't. We didn't get all the way down into the weeds on some things. When you have two minutes, right, yeah, well it's right, two minutes, and you've got to try to condense your data, so it is always a challenge to try to get everything in. One of the things that we didn't cover was a concern that I've heard raised around the city around do we actually even have laws on the books that could help us to enforce
decency in our public spaces? And I just wanted to share with you we actually have Ordnance number twenty six, twenty seven, twenty six, twenty eight, and thirty five eighteen, and they define some of the terminology that's important now they get into the definition of lewd and lacivious behavior
meaning licentious, lettererers, dissolute, debauched, impure, silacious, or pornographic. And as you know, some videographic evidence was produced, particularly after the twenty twenty two event that certainly qualified as some
of those descriptive terms. And so if any of that is going on, for example, if any person wilfully or ludey exposes his person private parts or anything like that in a public place, assists anyone to do this, that's an offense to decency and they're guilty of a misdemeanor at least depending on the seriousness of the incident. Every person who conducts himself in any manner suggestive of lewdness
shall be guilty of an offense. And any person who commits an offense by knowingly allowing a person under the age of eighteen on the premises of an event like
this could be guilty of an offense. And the most important thing I think that we need to emphasize here is that the city Council has power and it is their duty, by definition in this Ordinance to provide for the regulation and control of the use of our city parks and other public spaces, So we certainly have the right to address that issue in the City Council, and as I stated last night, I believe it's well beyond time to have the ordinance that was originally mandated delivered
on this issue. One of the things that we have heard coming back are, of course, people who don't wish to be identified because of the potential fallout. But we have friends among first responders who say, and listen, we were mandated to be there when we didn't, as a matter of conscience, want to even be required to provide security down there.
What was the cost all day?
You remember the cost on that There was a Freedom of Information Act query and it was delivered back. I've actually shared that around some of my social media. Thirty two thousand taxpayer dollars were used to provide security for an event that the vast majority of our constituents who spoke in the council chamber and voiced their concerns on social media did not want to have happened in the first place.
Interesting, very interesting.
They also violated people's Second Amendment rights who were trying to just attend and observe. In order for an event to require that you do not carry a concealed weapon. According to Oklahoma law, you have to have eight foot gates, you have to have a perimeter, you have to have
people that are enforcing all the regulations around that. They had a three foot perimeter, but they had some members of law enforcement questioned some people in my consistent constituency as they were entering as to who were they there to support? Were they there for the event or for the protest? And were they carrying a firearm? And they were challenged without cause. And that is a violation of
your Second Amendment rights. And it's also a violation of your Second Amendment rights when they don't adhere to the actual laws of governing the event.
Thanks for the explanation of that.
So those are some of the things that we didn't get to around that is issue last night. There have been some other things that are going on right now. We didn't really get into a lot of the details.
We just couldn't.
When you have a comprehensive plan that's like four hundred pages long, we can't get into all the.
Detail around get it ninety seconds, surely not.
But there are some very concerning things in the comprehensive plan, one of which is an item that talks about tree equity, and anytime that we talk about equity, we're talking about, you know, disproportionately balancing to try to guarantee an outcome. Sure, we believe in equality, which is equal access and equal opportunity, not equity. The tree equity score that is required says that a tree canopy plays a crucial role in a
community's ability to reduce heat and enhance public health. The tree equity score evaluates how effectively the benefits of urban tree canopy are reaching those who need the most. This score sets an equity first standard to guide investments in low income communities, communities of color, and those disproportionately impacted by extreme.
Heat, pollution and other environmental hazards.
Then it gives Bartlesville's scores in eighty six, with multiple census blocks achieving a one hundred. The lowest scores in the city are clustered at the east and west edges of town. But what this is saying is that they want to go and do a tree planting initiative, but they're targeting a specific demographic and honestly, it's based on whether you are a person of low income, a person of color, it's absolutely not an equitable distribution of a
resource like this. They're basing this as they do for a lot of things within this initiative on DEI. The company that they hired at an undisclosed cost to provide the comprehensive plan has action items all the way through the plan, many of which are do another study, which I think is very self promoting. Actually let's do another study to see what else we need to do. But when you have things like this, it's it's very troubling.
There's also a mention of a community development department, and that department has one of the responsibilities to inspect private property to enforce public nuisance, property maintenance, and InHand codes, and they're talking about going on to private property.
Private property to do these things.
They will review building site plans, inspect construction projects for compliance with all of these other issues. They are responsible for developing and maintaining the short and long range plans for the development.
So they're going to have a lot of control.
Efforts to engage communities of color and residents with lower income and provide services and support to.
Improve health outcomes.
This is all around DEI Initiatives and the company that provided the plan. If you go to the website and look at everything that they do, they are very big into DEI.
As you know.
The state of Oklahoma just said we don't like DEI and they told, oh, you get rid of it or you're not getting any more money. They forced the University of Oklahoma to close their DEI office because they're receiving state money.
And the state said that's not good for us. We need to stop it.
And looking over the plan, there are a lot of ties to UN goals. The United Nations has seventeen sustainable Development goals that are being slipped into development plans. It's kind of a cookie cutter if you will that they're just spitting this out. They put your community name here. It's almost boilerplate if you remember that old term.
Yeah.
So one of them, or some of them rather are gender equality, responsible consumption and production, climate action, justice and strong institutions, affordable and clean energy.
These are not good for Bartlesville.
In the UN documents they discuss how crop land and livestock grazing lead to deforestation.
Aren't we a farm and ranch state? Yeah? Bye, large we are?
I mean, do we not have friends up around Dewey and copan then engage in these things all around us, all around us. So the state statute that was referenced night does have a few dictates. Now, it does not include a mandate for this type of comprehensive plan. But the state statute right here, it's Oklahoma Title eleven forty three one three. It says the purpose of the regulation
for a comprehensive plan. Municipal regulations as to building, structures and land shall be made in accordance with a comprehensive plan, and be designed to accomplish any of the following objectives. To lessen congestion, to secure safety from fire, panic in danger, to promote health and welfare, including peace and quality, to provide adequate light and air, to prevent overcrowding of land, to promote historical preservation and avoid undue concentration.
There's no DEI in there.
It also says that it wants to facilitate the adequate provision of transportation, water, sewage, schools, parks, and other requirements, so they have to be made with reasonable consideration, among other things, as to the character of the district, it's peculiar value of buildings, and encouraging the most appropriate use of land throughout the municipality. The governing body shall provide the manner in which regulations, restrictions, and district boundaries shall
be determined, established, and forced amended, and so forth. You get to decide here when the plan is supplemented and changed if you like the direction you're going. There's nothing that says that you have to go pay a consulting company every ten years, twenty years, or fifty years to amend the plan. As long as you're progressing along the plan course that you deem appropriate. There's no provision in there that says it must be updated on a certain schedule.
So the things that are most concerning to us, of course, are all of the things that relate to the UN plans. And the Kansas legislature actually in twenty twelve past the resolution opposing sustainable development plans as an attack on the American way of life. They said that it is an effort to redistribute wealth and war warned of the harmful implication of these kinds of strategies.
That is right here. I've got a copy of the House.
Resolution number sixty thirty two from their session of twenty twelve, which is a resolution opposing and exposing the radical nature of United Nations Agenda twenty one, and it's a destructiveness to the American principles of the Founding Documents of the United States.
So the state of Kansas no longer participates. They have already passed this and protected themselves. We need to do something just like that.
If we have to do it at the Bartlesville municipal level, that's what we need to do. If we need to call jud Strom, John Kain, Julie Daniels and get them involved, that's what we need to do. We need to be protected from these kinds of things. And the Bartlesville Endeavor twenty forty five plan should be tabled by the city council.
Anything that is this all encompassing should be left to a vote of the people after a thorough review, not pushed through the night before an election to try to get approval and then leave perhaps the challenging candidates with the problem of rescinding an action that the outgoing council has taken.
Hey, Tim, we're bout at the end of our time, but I want everybody to know where they could find out more information about these topics that you brought up. And more about you the candidate and what you stand for in Ward one.
Absolutely, we have a Facebook page out there. You can find me at Shark for Ward one. You can find our website at Shark for City Council. I put my phone number and my website on absolutely everything that we do. My phone number is nine one eight two eight zero nine four zero one. Right here you can see sheryk Forcitycouncil dot com. I have been calling constituents, returning calls,
talking to people. I've had people from multiple parties call me and say, hey, listen, we're concerned about these things. They've talked about their concerns about the Blue Whale initiative and why that didn't go to a vote of the people, considering all the hazardous materials that are going to be
brought into our community. I know that was done by the Bartlesville Development Authority, but we talked with someone who has HASMAD experience, and they warned us that if they have a fire incident at Blue Whale, it will burn for days, if not weeks. The hydrogen gases that will be released will go up because it's lighter than air, but the toxic gases will remain low, and the prevailing winds will blow that across our city, probably requiring the evacuation of most of East Bartlesville.
Tim Shark, thank you very much for being with us. Thank you Tom. I enjoy being here.