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From YouTube: From City Hall - Meg Salyer OKC Ward 6
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Councilwoman Salyer welcomes guests from the YWCA of Oklahoma City and Chief Bill Citty of the Oklahoma City Police Department.
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Hello
and
welcome
to
the
ward
6
council,
show
I,
have
a
great
pleasure
today
to
introduce
you
to
two
of
my
dear
friends
and
two
of
the
dearest
friends
of
the
Oklahoma
City
Community,
Leela,
Sullivan
and
Rita
more
and
we're
joined
with
chief
ill
City
chief.
You
come
on
frequently
to
talk
to
us
about
issues
in
our
community
and
today
we're
going
to
talk
about
something,
that's
incredibly
important
and
I.
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I
think
one
of
the
things
it's
so
important
with
the
YWCA
is
really
not
any
other
entity
within
Oklahoma
City,
that
that
does
what
the
YWCA
does
with
their
shelter.
We
Oakland
City
Police
Department
works
very
closely
with
the
YWCA
in
dealing
with
domestic
violence,
victims
and
their
families.
You
know
we
work
probably
about
125
cases
a
week,
I.
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And
that's
just
the
tip
of
the
iceberg,
because
there's
probably
another
fifty
percent
they're,
probably
about
fifty
percent.
More
than
that,
they
don't
report
it.
And
then
you
have
to
realize
you
may
work
125
victims
of
domestic
violence,
but
probably
fifty
percent
of
those
there's
children
involved.
So
you're
not
just
dealing
with
125
victims,
you're
dealing
with
probably
close
to
300
victims
involved
in
this
125
cases,
and
so.
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The
shelter
where
and
now
was
we
moved
in
in
1989
I
believe
and
we
provided
a
safe
place
that
Oklahoma
really
didn't
have
at
that
time.
Now,
there's
shelters
in
other
counties,
but
we
have
gone
forward
with
programming
and
involvement
with
the
people
that
find
their
way
to
the
shelter
we
turn
people
away.
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We
complete
the
new
shelter.
Then
we
will
repurpose
the
existing
shelter,
which
is
still
it's
smaller.
It
is
a
55
bed
facility,
but
then,
if
once
your
physical
wounds
are
healed,
you
give
your
space
up
in
the
emergency
shelter
because
others
need
the
safety.
If
a
woman
doesn't
and
her
family
don't
have
a
place
to
go,
that's
violence-free,
they
tend
to
many
times,
go
back
to
the
same
situation.
Thinking
it'll
be
better
this
time
and
they
return
and
sure
enough
the
violence
resurfaces.
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The
hope
is
that
with
a
shelter
where
they
may
stay
long
to
be
nurtured,
programming
will
help
them
see.
They
don't
have
to
choose
that
life
of
violence.
They
can
choose
a
better
life
and
they
can
stay
longer.
Till
they're,
emotionally
more
stable,
their
physical
wounds
might
be
fine
healed,
but
boy,
if
you
don't
heal
within
then
you
tend
to
go
back
where
you
came
from
and
there's
a
better
life
out
there
for
all
in
Oklahoma
City.
So.
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Will
refurbish
the
shelter
that
we
have
now
into
the
extended
stay
shelter
for
those
more
desperate
cases
that
she's
talking
about,
and
it
will
also
refurbish
McFarland
to
better
serve
the
northeast
segment
of
Oklahoma,
City
and
included
in
this
there
will
be
a
5
million
dollar
endowment
fund.
We
need
that
for
endowment
fund
for
programming.
Absolutely
it's
very
badly.
Now.
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Rather,
ecstatic
about
that,
there
have
been
others
that
have
come
forth,
7-eleven
I
that
has
been
publicized
announced
last
week.
They
also
have
given
us
a
million
dollars.
That's
the
community
really
understands
how
important
this
is
and
the
impact
the
economic
impact
on
business
is
enormous.
We
don't
have
the
figures
for
just
Oklahoma,
but
the
national
figures
are
are
just
mind-boggling.
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B
B
Value
we
do
not.
You
know
a
large.
A
large
portion
of
victims
do
fall
into
a
lower
economic
status,
but
it's
not
limited
to
that.
It's
it's.
It
really
does
it
stretches
across
all
economic
status
it
within
the
community,
so
it
affects
all
of
us,
and
you
know
knows
those
if
you're
not
directly
affected
by
domestic
violence
or
indirectly.
You
know
teachers
in
the
schools
and
have
to
deal
with
kids
that
are
constantly
in
fear
for
their
pair
answer
for
themselves
and
even
having
to
go
home.
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They
can't
they
can't
they
can't
study
they
can't
concentrate.
You
know
some
teachers
have
to
deal
with
that.
We
have
to
deal
with
those
types
of
things,
so
it
indirectly
affects
all
of
this.
Obviously,
there's
a
dollar
amount
there
that
it
affects
us
having
to
address
this
issue,
but
it
does
affect
so
many
I
can.
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D
Be
amazed,
you
would
be
amazed
at
the
number
of
women
from
around
Oklahoma
who
have
come
to
the
shelter
you
would
be
even
more
amazed
at
the
number
of
women
from
around
the
United
States
will
come
to
the
shelter.
Very
recently
we
had
a
fun
a
member
of
the
Thunder
come
and
bring
pizza
and
all
of
the
children
in
the
shelter
came
out.
The
mothers
came
out.
He
was
wonderful,
he
was
absolutely
wonderful
with
them.
He
played
basketball
with
those.
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C
Oklahoma
City-
and
you
know
this
repurposed
facility
when
it
is
done,
we
can't
find
another
shelter
for
domestic
violence
in
the
country.
That
is
doing
anything
like
this.
How
exciting
and
it's
going
to
be
on
the
forefront
dealing
with
our
police
effort,
our
community
effort,
our
volunteers
of
the
accomplishment
when
we
break
the
cycle
and
start
getting
it.
You.
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Know
it
is
one
of
the
things
that's
so
exciting
about
being
in
Oklahoma.
City
I'll
take
a
bigger
picture
as
we
wrap
up
here
today,
but
Oklahoma
City
is
really
setting
the
bar
so
high
yeah
in
areas
across
the
community
and
and
whether
it's
dealing
with
difficult
social
problems,
I'm
so
proud
of
our
West
Ham
campus
and
the
work
that
the
homeless
alliance
has
done
over
on
Schwartz
in
Virginia,
whether
it's
in
the
arts.