I'm trying to figure out why Karen Gilbert would have been getting calls. D-5 is largely east Tulsa suburbia style development.
I went back to listen to what Karen Gilbert said. The audio quality isn't the best, and I'm not a transcription expert, self-appointed or otherwise, but here's my best effort:
Karen Gilbert beginning at time mark 01:39:28:
"Yeah, so, I wanted to put this on because I had a few phone calls from a couple of developers that they were given the-- the thumbs down on moving forward on their projects downtown and was told that there's a moratorium on [It sounds as though a male voice interrupted Councilor Gilbert at this point (time mark 01:39:51), although David Patrick, who was chairing the committee meeting, had clearly given Councilor Gilbert the floor just 23 seconds earlier, and she had not yielded to any other person, male or female, as far as I could tell from watching the video. No one else requested the floor, but someone decided to start talking over Councilor Gilbert at this point anyway, less than 30 seconds after the chair had acknowledged her and had given her the floor. Although it's difficult for me, not being an expert at transcribing audio recordings, to hear exactly what's being said when more than one person is talking at the same time, the following is my best interpretation of what Gilbert said as she tried to maintain/re-gain the floor...] projects like this, and we haven't had that discussion. So, just wondering what was going on and you guys could update us, and just wondering how the moratorium was put into place without coming to the Council with that."
Then around time mark 01:40:11, it sounds as though Dawn Warrick tries to start her reply to Councilor Gilbert, but that Paul Zachary (or another male) almost immediately starts talking over Warrick. When Warrick tries to begin her reply to Gilbert, the camera is still on Gilbert, so I can not
see who is talking, but I can
hear more than one voice at the same time on the audio track, which is not customary during
orderly public meetings (or it shouldn't be, at least).
At time mark 02:10:46, Gilbert had one more comment [to Warrick and/or Zachary, I think -- it's difficult to tell because the camera is on Blake Ewing at that point]:
Karen Gilbert:
"I didn't mean to hit a nerve with you, but it was said in the paper that the Mayor's Office has set a moratorium on downtown development on sidewalks until that walkability study is done. So I know that there is so much development going on downtown right now that developers are depending on getting their projects completed, and then hearing a moratorium being put in place by the administration without consulting us was concerning to me--" [At this point in the meeting (time mark 02:11:20), Warrick interrupts Gilbert, and then Zachary interrupts Warrick a few seconds later.]
That's what Bamboo World heard. Bamboo World wasn't at the meeting. Bamboo World listened to the TGOV recording instead.