Speaker 1: And good morning, good morning, good morning, welcome, welcome, welcome
Speaker 1: me to his time now for another community connection right
Speaker 1: here on K one the one you trust and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: who's right now on your camera is Tim Sherick and
Speaker 1: you're running for Ward one City councilor We saw you
Speaker 1: last night in action at the forum, and thank you
Speaker 1: very much for your participation.
Speaker 2: Oh, thanks for hosting it. I enjoyed being there. Well,
Speaker 2: i'll tell you what it was a.
Speaker 3: We've got a lot of people interested in city politics,
Speaker 3: that's for sure.
Speaker 2: We had a big table, we sure do. There's a
Speaker 2: lot of folks.
Speaker 4: And actually I was just told that it's a ninety
Speaker 4: minute wait downtown for early voting, so the electrics got told.
Speaker 4: Definitely excited about this thing.
Speaker 2: Very good.
Speaker 3: Tell us a little bit about yourself and also about
Speaker 3: your ideas for Ward one and the city of Bartlesville.
Speaker 4: Okay, I am a third generation Bartlesville citizen. My grandparents
Speaker 4: fell in love and raised the family here, and my
Speaker 4: parents decided to move back here after my father retired
Speaker 4: from military service, and now my wife and I are
Speaker 4: raising our own children right here.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: It's a very special place to it and it's a
Speaker 4: place worth defending.
Speaker 2: We believe that family.
Speaker 4: Values are at the heart of Bartlesville and always have been.
Speaker 4: That's something that we want to make sure is preserved
Speaker 4: so that we leave our children and potentially our grandchildren
Speaker 4: a city that's worth inheriting. There are lots of things
Speaker 4: that are going on in our community right now that
Speaker 4: are concerning, and we.
Speaker 2: Address some of those last night.
Speaker 4: So if I could, I'd like to hit maybe a
Speaker 4: couple of eye spots off of that.
Speaker 2: Let's do that.
Speaker 4: We didn't. We didn't get all the way down into
Speaker 4: the weeds on some things. When you have two minutes, right, yeah,
Speaker 4: well it's right, two minutes, and you've got to try
Speaker 4: to condense your data, so it is always a challenge
Speaker 4: to try to get everything in. One of the things
Speaker 4: that we didn't cover was a concern that I've heard
Speaker 4: raised around the city around do we actually even have
Speaker 4: laws on the books that could help us to enforce
Speaker 4: decency in our public spaces? And I just wanted to
Speaker 4: share with you we actually have Ordnance number twenty six,
Speaker 4: twenty seven, twenty six, twenty eight, and thirty five eighteen,
Speaker 4: and they define some of the terminology that's important now
Speaker 4: they get into the definition of lewd and lacivious behavior
Speaker 4: meaning licentious, lettererers, dissolute, debauched, impure, silacious, or pornographic. And
Speaker 4: as you know, some videographic evidence was produced, particularly after
Speaker 4: the twenty twenty two event that certainly qualified as some
Speaker 4: of those descriptive terms. And so if any of that
Speaker 4: is going on, for example, if any person wilfully or
Speaker 4: ludey exposes his person private parts or anything like that
Speaker 4: in a public place, assists anyone to do this, that's
Speaker 4: an offense to decency and they're guilty of a misdemeanor
Speaker 4: at least depending on the seriousness of the incident. Every
Speaker 4: person who conducts himself in any manner suggestive of lewdness
Speaker 4: shall be guilty of an offense. And any person who
Speaker 4: commits an offense by knowingly allowing a person under the
Speaker 4: age of eighteen on the premises of an event like
Speaker 4: this could be guilty of an offense. And the most
Speaker 4: important thing I think that we need to emphasize here
Speaker 4: is that the city Council has power and it is
Speaker 4: their duty, by definition in this Ordinance to provide for
Speaker 4: the regulation and control of the use of our city
Speaker 4: parks and other public spaces, So we certainly have the
Speaker 4: right to address that issue in the City Council, and
Speaker 4: as I stated last night, I believe it's well beyond
Speaker 4: time to have the ordinance that was originally mandated delivered
Speaker 4: on this issue. One of the things that we have
Speaker 4: heard coming back are, of course, people who don't wish
Speaker 4: to be identified because of the potential fallout. But we
Speaker 4: have friends among first responders who say, and listen, we
Speaker 4: were mandated to be there when we didn't, as a
Speaker 4: matter of conscience, want to even be required to provide
Speaker 4: security down there.
Speaker 2: What was the cost all day?
Speaker 4: You remember the cost on that There was a Freedom
Speaker 4: of Information Act query and it was delivered back. I've
Speaker 4: actually shared that around some of my social media. Thirty
Speaker 4: two thousand taxpayer dollars were used to provide security for
Speaker 4: an event that the vast majority of our constituents who
Speaker 4: spoke in the council chamber and voiced their concerns on
Speaker 4: social media did not want to have happened in the
Speaker 4: first place.
Speaker 2: Interesting, very interesting.
Speaker 4: They also violated people's Second Amendment rights who were trying
Speaker 4: to just attend and observe. In order for an event
Speaker 4: to require that you do not carry a concealed weapon.
Speaker 4: According to Oklahoma law, you have to have eight foot gates,
Speaker 4: you have to have a perimeter, you have to have
Speaker 4: people that are enforcing all the regulations around that. They
Speaker 4: had a three foot perimeter, but they had some members
Speaker 4: of law enforcement questioned some people in my consistent constituency
Speaker 4: as they were entering as to who were they there
Speaker 4: to support? Were they there for the event or for
Speaker 4: the protest? And were they carrying a firearm? And they
Speaker 4: were challenged without cause. And that is a violation of
Speaker 4: your Second Amendment rights. And it's also a violation of
Speaker 4: your Second Amendment rights when they don't adhere to the
Speaker 4: actual laws of governing the event.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the explanation of that.
Speaker 4: So those are some of the things that we didn't
Speaker 4: get to around that is issue last night. There have
Speaker 4: been some other things that are going on right now.
Speaker 4: We didn't really get into a lot of the details.
Speaker 2: We just couldn't.
Speaker 4: When you have a comprehensive plan that's like four hundred
Speaker 4: pages long, we can't get into all the.
Speaker 2: Detail around get it ninety seconds, surely not.
Speaker 4: But there are some very concerning things in the comprehensive plan,
Speaker 4: one of which is an item that talks about tree equity,
Speaker 4: and anytime that we talk about equity, we're talking about,
Speaker 4: you know, disproportionately balancing to try to guarantee an outcome. Sure,
Speaker 4: we believe in equality, which is equal access and equal opportunity,
Speaker 4: not equity. The tree equity score that is required says
Speaker 4: that a tree canopy plays a crucial role in a
Speaker 4: community's ability to reduce heat and enhance public health. The
Speaker 4: tree equity score evaluates how effectively the benefits of urban
Speaker 4: tree canopy are reaching those who need the most. This
Speaker 4: score sets an equity first standard to guide investments in
Speaker 4: low income communities, communities of color, and those disproportionately impacted
Speaker 4: by extreme.
Speaker 2: Heat, pollution and other environmental hazards.
Speaker 4: Then it gives Bartlesville's scores in eighty six, with multiple
Speaker 4: census blocks achieving a one hundred. The lowest scores in
Speaker 4: the city are clustered at the east and west edges
Speaker 4: of town. But what this is saying is that they
Speaker 4: want to go and do a tree planting initiative, but
Speaker 4: they're targeting a specific demographic and honestly, it's based on
Speaker 4: whether you are a person of low income, a person
Speaker 4: of color, it's absolutely not an equitable distribution of a
Speaker 4: resource like this. They're basing this as they do for
Speaker 4: a lot of things within this initiative on DEI. The
Speaker 4: company that they hired at an undisclosed cost to provide
Speaker 4: the comprehensive plan has action items all the way through
Speaker 4: the plan, many of which are do another study, which
Speaker 4: I think is very self promoting. Actually let's do another
Speaker 4: study to see what else we need to do. But
Speaker 4: when you have things like this, it's it's very troubling.
Speaker 4: There's also a mention of a community development department, and
Speaker 4: that department has one of the responsibilities to inspect private
Speaker 4: property to enforce public nuisance, property maintenance, and InHand codes, and
Speaker 4: they're talking about going on to private property.
Speaker 2: Private property to do these things.
Speaker 4: They will review building site plans, inspect construction projects for
Speaker 4: compliance with all of these other issues. They are responsible
Speaker 4: for developing and maintaining the short and long range plans
Speaker 4: for the development.
Speaker 2: So they're going to have a lot of control.
Speaker 4: Efforts to engage communities of color and residents with lower
Speaker 4: income and provide services and support to.
Speaker 2: Improve health outcomes.
Speaker 4: This is all around DEI Initiatives and the company that
Speaker 4: provided the plan. If you go to the website and
Speaker 4: look at everything that they do, they are very big
Speaker 4: into DEI.
Speaker 2: As you know.
Speaker 4: The state of Oklahoma just said we don't like DEI
Speaker 4: and they told, oh, you get rid of it or
Speaker 4: you're not getting any more money. They forced the University
Speaker 4: of Oklahoma to close their DEI office because they're receiving
Speaker 4: state money.
Speaker 2: And the state said that's not good for us. We
Speaker 2: need to stop it.
Speaker 4: And looking over the plan, there are a lot of
Speaker 4: ties to UN goals. The United Nations has seventeen sustainable
Speaker 4: Development goals that are being slipped into development plans. It's
Speaker 4: kind of a cookie cutter if you will that they're
Speaker 4: just spitting this out. They put your community name here.
Speaker 4: It's almost boilerplate if you remember that old term.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So one of them, or some of them rather are
Speaker 4: gender equality, responsible consumption and production, climate action, justice and
Speaker 4: strong institutions, affordable and clean energy.
Speaker 2: These are not good for Bartlesville.
Speaker 4: In the UN documents they discuss how crop land and
Speaker 4: livestock grazing lead to deforestation.
Speaker 2: Aren't we a farm and ranch state? Yeah? Bye, large
Speaker 2: we are?
Speaker 4: I mean, do we not have friends up around Dewey
Speaker 4: and copan then engage in these things all around us,
Speaker 4: all around us. So the state statute that was referenced
Speaker 4: night does have a few dictates. Now, it does not
Speaker 4: include a mandate for this type of comprehensive plan. But
Speaker 4: the state statute right here, it's Oklahoma Title eleven forty
Speaker 4: three one three. It says the purpose of the regulation
Speaker 4: for a comprehensive plan. Municipal regulations as to building, structures
Speaker 4: and land shall be made in accordance with a comprehensive plan,
Speaker 4: and be designed to accomplish any of the following objectives.
Speaker 4: To lessen congestion, to secure safety from fire, panic in danger,
Speaker 4: to promote health and welfare, including peace and quality, to
Speaker 4: provide adequate light and air, to prevent overcrowding of land,
Speaker 4: to promote historical preservation and avoid undue concentration.
Speaker 2: There's no DEI in there.
Speaker 4: It also says that it wants to facilitate the adequate
Speaker 4: provision of transportation, water, sewage, schools, parks, and other requirements,
Speaker 4: so they have to be made with reasonable consideration, among
Speaker 4: other things, as to the character of the district, it's
Speaker 4: peculiar value of buildings, and encouraging the most appropriate use
Speaker 4: of land throughout the municipality. The governing body shall provide
Speaker 4: the manner in which regulations, restrictions, and district boundaries shall
Speaker 4: be determined, established, and forced amended, and so forth. You
Speaker 4: get to decide here when the plan is supplemented and
Speaker 4: changed if you like the direction you're going. There's nothing
Speaker 4: that says that you have to go pay a consulting
Speaker 4: company every ten years, twenty years, or fifty years to
Speaker 4: amend the plan. As long as you're progressing along the
Speaker 4: plan course that you deem appropriate. There's no provision in
Speaker 4: there that says it must be updated on a certain schedule.
Speaker 4: So the things that are most concerning to us, of course,
Speaker 4: are all of the things that relate to the UN plans.
Speaker 4: And the Kansas legislature actually in twenty twelve past the
Speaker 4: resolution opposing sustainable development plans as an attack on the
Speaker 4: American way of life. They said that it is an
Speaker 4: effort to redistribute wealth and war warned of the harmful
Speaker 4: implication of these kinds of strategies.
Speaker 2: That is right here. I've got a copy of the House.
Speaker 4: Resolution number sixty thirty two from their session of twenty twelve,
Speaker 4: which is a resolution opposing and exposing the radical nature
Speaker 4: of United Nations Agenda twenty one, and it's a destructiveness
Speaker 4: to the American principles of the Founding Documents of the
Speaker 4: United States.
Speaker 2: So the state of Kansas no longer participates. They have
Speaker 2: already passed this and protected themselves. We need to do
Speaker 2: something just like that.
Speaker 4: If we have to do it at the Bartlesville municipal level,
Speaker 4: that's what we need to do. If we need to
Speaker 4: call jud Strom, John Kain, Julie Daniels and get them involved,
Speaker 4: that's what we need to do. We need to be
Speaker 4: protected from these kinds of things. And the Bartlesville Endeavor
Speaker 4: twenty forty five plan should be tabled by the city council.
Speaker 4: Anything that is this all encompassing should be left to
Speaker 4: a vote of the people after a thorough review, not
Speaker 4: pushed through the night before an election to try to
Speaker 4: get approval and then leave perhaps the challenging candidates with
Speaker 4: the problem of rescinding an action that the outgoing council
Speaker 4: has taken.
Speaker 3: Hey, Tim, we're bout at the end of our time,
Speaker 3: but I want everybody to know where they could find
Speaker 3: out more information about these topics that you brought up.
Speaker 3: And more about you the candidate and what you stand
Speaker 3: for in Ward one.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, we have a Facebook page out there. You can
Speaker 4: find me at Shark for Ward one. You can find
Speaker 4: our website at Shark for City Council. I put my
Speaker 4: phone number and my website on absolutely everything that we do.
Speaker 4: My phone number is nine one eight two eight zero
Speaker 4: nine four zero one. Right here you can see sheryk
Speaker 4: Forcitycouncil dot com. I have been calling constituents, returning calls,
Speaker 4: talking to people. I've had people from multiple parties call
Speaker 4: me and say, hey, listen, we're concerned about these things.
Speaker 4: They've talked about their concerns about the Blue Whale initiative
Speaker 4: and why that didn't go to a vote of the people,
Speaker 4: considering all the hazardous materials that are going to be
Speaker 4: brought into our community. I know that was done by
Speaker 4: the Bartlesville Development Authority, but we talked with someone who
Speaker 4: has HASMAD experience, and they warned us that if they
Speaker 4: have a fire incident at Blue Whale, it will burn
Speaker 4: for days, if not weeks. The hydrogen gases that will
Speaker 4: be released will go up because it's lighter than air,
Speaker 4: but the toxic gases will remain low, and the prevailing
Speaker 4: winds will blow that across our city, probably requiring the
Speaker 4: evacuation of most of East Bartlesville.
Speaker 2: Tim Shark, thank you very much for being with us.
Speaker 2: Thank you Tom. I enjoy being here.