The Broken Arrow City Council convened at 12:30 PM UTC on November 4, 2025, to review the 2026 General Obligation bond package progress, award construction contracts for Houston Street widening, approve a jail expansion Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP), handle multiple zoning requests, and celebrate a credit rating upgrade by Standard & Poor's.
Call the broken era city council meeting to order. We have invocation by uh Pastor Piles. Let's pray. Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, we thank you, we praise you for the great God that you are. Father, we acknowledge you as the giver of every good and perfect gift and the author of every good thing we have known in this life. Father, I give you thanks for uh this city. I give you thanks for uh our mayor and each counselor who is here tonight, everyone who serves in this community for uh the betterment, the welfare, the safety, and the prosperity uh of this community. And Father, we thank you for the blessings that we enjoy and for every person who makes that possible. Uh those who work in public service, those who work in public safety, for our first responders, our policemen, our firefighters, DMTs, and uh paramedics. Father, I thank you for the educators uh into whose care we uh entrust our children, and we thank you, Father, for uh the the confidence that we have in them for the the safety that we that we know that they will be enjoying. We thank you for the instruction that they receive, the guidance they receive. And Father, we just ask uh your blessings on these proceedings tonight. I thank you that they seek your wisdom and your counsel. So, Father, please grant them the uh insight, the the clarity, the discernment that they seek in the discussions that are had and the decisions that are made. And Father, most of all, we pray that your will be done on earth as it is in heaven, and may we be a part of making that possible. We ask in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Thank you, sir. Real call. That's good. Pickle, here green, here forward, here Wimpy. Here, please stand and join Vice Mayor Parks for the Pledge of Allegiance. Salute Pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the Republic for which it stands. Are there any items to be removed from the consent agenda? I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Second. Okay. We have a motion and second roll call. There you go. Thank you, sir. All right. Item seven is public hearings, presentations, recognition, and awards. Excuse me. Item seven A update on the 2026 general obligation package. Mayor, Council members, good evening, members of the audience and those watching at home. I as I have this whole year is try to provide a brief update to the governing body and those in attendance who also who are watching just where we are in our bond package. And I'm I'm very excited. Um because we spent the month of October analyzing the results from the public forums that we had and through the help of our engineering construction department and other staff members, we tabulated those and they're being shared with the governing body members. We also use the month of October for my office to actually work on coming up with the proposed recommendation to the governing body members. And this week we've actually had a chance to share that with individual council members. More importantly, is I'm going to be asking the council members uh to number one on December 2nd, we will have a formal presentation from the administration that will consist of some comments from myself, Mr. We will have a formal presentation from the administration that will consist of some comments from myself, Mr. Schwab, and primarily the engineering construction team to actually present the tentative package to the governing body members for the April 7th, 2026 vote. I'm not asking for any action at that time because I would like to lay over the package for two weeks and then make all the documents with regard to what's being proposed available to the public in the city clerk's office, uh more than likely something online, and then come back on the 16th with action council with a mini presentation similar to the budget, where we actually have a larger presentation, then we'll do a summary, and then we'd ask for direction to move forward. Now concurrently, legal and engineering have been working uh with Trevor and Special Counsel on the language for the for the ordinances that are needed as well as the resolution calling for the election. So if council gives the direction and move forward on the 16th, and we'd come to you tentatively on January 6th with all the legislation needed to call for the election and to specifically outline what was in each what will be in each proposition. And so this is a month for council members to review what's being uh considered, and the public will have their opportunity to review uh starting in early December.