A reported recall petition has been initiated against Yukon’s Mayor and Vice-Mayor over the city’s efforts to negotiate development of a data center.
Social media reported this week Yukon resident Joe Horn requested Mayor Brian Pillmore and Vice-Mayor Jeff Wooten to resign and when they declined, Horn presented the city clerk a petition initiating a recall.
“We’re against the data center, we’re all against the data,” said Horn. “I’m here to ask for your resignation. If you don’t, we will issue for your recall.”
Some residents have openly questioned the City’s recently signed contract with Beltline Industries for the purchase of city land meant to be the site of a proposed $1 billion data center.
News 9 also reported the presentation of the recall petition came during a discussion of the city’s drinking water source contract.
“Voters have spoken and the voters have been ignored,” said Yukon resident Amy Walters.
Mayor Pillmore told those on hand the water issue had the “highest priority.”
But residents on hand for the meeting voiced their concern how the data center would impact the city
“People are unhappy about this data center stuff, locally, statewide, nationally,” said a Yukon resident said during public comment.
“Too many problems with a data center —water, electricity,” said Eleanor Shrine.
The proposed site of the data center is a half mile west of the city of Yukon and is located in the city of Oklahoma City, which voted in January to rezone two tracts of land totaling 295.5 acres near Interstate 40 and North Frisco road. The rezoning to allow light industrial use would also permit the creation of a 350-acre campus.
The rezoning applied to 111.5 acres of land at 3025 N. Frisco Road and 184 acres at 13921 NW 23 street in Oklahoma City.
Formal requests were made by the Gamma Resources LLC and The Tony R. Kouba Living Trust for the North Frisco site while the remaining site request was made by William Wulffenstein, Barton Davis, Gamma Resources LLC and The Tony R. Kouba Living Trust.