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.

We'll make that available at the same time council sees it, so they'll essentially have uh several weeks.

And if council is in a position ready to actually take action on the 16th, that's what I'd be asking for.

I would anticipate inviting all of our user groups and sports organizations uh to the 16th meeting or the second meeting if they choose to actually just to hear the deliberations of the governing body.

And so uh great job by the engineering construction team and all the directors to get to where we are today.

So I'm excited to share with the council members one more meeting later this week, and then it's in just your hands to actually deliberate.

If you have questions, please call Laurie or myself.

We'll get you those answers, and then we will actually come before you formally on on December 2nd.

So let there's any questions, Mayor.

That's all I have on this item.

All right, then we'll move on to item eight, citizens' opportunity to address council.

There are none.

Item nine, uh General Council business night a consideration discussion and possible approval of and authorization to award the lowest responsible bidder to TriStar Construction, Travis Small.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council, City Manager, Travis Small, Engineering Construction Department.

Happy to be here tonight to present to you for possible award uh the Houston Street project from 23rd Street to old Highway 51.

Uh this was uh put together and advertised for bid.

Uh we have received bids.

I want to just bring it to your attention.

We are still currently in design on the uh portion between 9th and 23rd street.

Uh it does have three million dollars of federal funds tied to it.

Uh but we that is one of the 2018 bond projects, but it's still currently in design.

As I said, uh 23rd from old uh to old Highway 51 uh advertised for bids.

We did receive bids and uh the apparent low bidder is tristar construction uh with a bid of just over four million dollars.

Uh this project did include approximately a half mile of roadway widening from uh two to five lanes along with about 2,500 linear feet of waterline work, which we do have a companion item tonight uh on Bama uh for the waterline portion of this project since it does have Bama and uh OWRB loan money tied to it.

Uh but this item before you today tonight is for the 2018 bond portion, Prop one.

Uh and I would be happy to answer any questions if you have any.

So it's a million less than it is.

That's not a concern at all.

It's not.

Uh so typically we have one particular contractor that ends up winning a lot of our work.

They actually came in second.

This is another another uh uh construction firm that we've dealt with in the past that's done a good work for us.

And um they actually beat out that one firm that usually gets a lot of our work.

Um we looked at the bids, uh, we feel comfortable with what we've gotten.

Uh one thing that you uh we kind of take into consideration is when our consultants put these bid uh these estimates together, uh they usually utilize a lot of information from ODOT.

ODOT projects generally bid a little higher than ours.

We get some good prices.

Uh contractors like working with us and and usually give us decent prices when we bid.

So uh we feel comfortable with this.

Okay.

And tri star we've used uh several times too.

Yes, sir.

Pleased with that.

Uh every every experience I've had with them has been fairly good.

So no issues there.

That's what I thought.

And this project also includes uh sidewalks in that area.

It does.

Yes, sir.

Okay.

Thank you.

Any further discussion or questions.

I'll make a motion that we uh approve 25-1513.

Second.

Well call.

Item 9B is consideration discussion and possible approval of an authorization to award to the lowest responsible bidder, Becco contractors, a construction contract for Houston Street widening.

Charlie Bright.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Councilmembers, Mr.

Spurgeon.

Um here tonight talk about another road which I'm excited about Houston Street from Aspen Olive.

So I'm really excited that Mr.

Small was able to present the one that we just talked about.

And now we're talking about a mile on the other side of town.

So it's really a mile and a half of arterial roads in our city that's important.

It's gonna go out.

Um both miles be five lane sections, so really good improvements.

Um I'd just like to take a quick moment, say excited about how many projects we do have going out right now, um, as you guys know, county line uh from where the high school is at Albany to Omaha, ODOT's talking about putting out in January pretty soon.

We're talking about putting out Tucson and Aspen Street, the intersection over by where the commercial development's gonna be, and we should have the Washington and Lynn Lane intersection going out very soon as well.

So just kind of important to highlight as we talk about the 2026 bond, all the work for the public to hear how much is coming really, really quick from that 2018 bond.

Um this particular item though to talk about is uh Houston Street Aspen to Olive.

Really excited about the bids we receive.

Very similar.

We just put it out, we opened bids the same day as the other project.

And on this one, Becco construction was our low bidder.

Um, we're excited.

We feel like we got really competitive numbers, and we're happy to get Becco because they're actually the contractor doing the project on the other mile.

So they're not gonna probably demobilize, they'll probably just move most of their equipment down and keep working.

Um I know we did have the other mile, we had the intersection shut down because it was a very difficult intersection, but for this particular mile, there is no intersection work.

Um, so it'll just be the mile stretch, knocking it out, shouldn't be any shutdowns or anything else.

So we had plenty, we had several bidders.

I think we had about five or six of them, but Becco construction are low, and we're recommending award to them.

Um happy to answer any questions you guys have.

What is the time frame for this low bidder?

Uh I don't remember the exact date, but it's approximately a year.

Um I can get you that information if you need to, but it's approximately a year that we give them.

Okay.

You know, I'd like to ask you uh working on the uh bond issue and bringing all these before us.

You guys are staying pretty busy in your department, aren't you?

We are staying very busy.

Um, you know, I'd I'd be a miss if I didn't um say how much great a staff we have.

You guys see me a lot.

You see Shannon, you see Travis.

Um, but there's a lot of engineers behind us that you guys don't see, and we have a really good team that um, you know, if you ever get the chance to meet them, they're they're good at what they do.

I just wanted to compliment you.

I appreciate that.

Great tokay.

Any further discussion?

I'll make a motion to approve item 25-1514.

I'll say it.

Real call.

Thank you all.

Thank you.

Item 9C consideration discussion and possible approval of and authorization to accept the guaranteed maximum price from Myers Cherry Construction.

Shannon.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council members, Mr.

Spurgeon, Shannon Marshall, Special Projects Division Manager.

Happy to see you all here.

Um before you today is a contract amendment with Myers Cherry Construction for the jail project.

Um, the Justice Center was built back in 2003, and as part of the 2018 Go Bond, which is a popular discussion item tonight, um, there was a funded project to renovate and expand the existing jail portion of the Justice Center as they look to see their numbers grow um and definitely update the security technologies that they have there today.

And so um after years through design, uh we've worked with Myers Cherry through pre-qualification process for a construction manager at risk project.

So it's a little bit different than the previous two projects you heard as the lowest responsible bidder.

Um we did the qualification process earlier this year and in March.

Um we awarded a pre-construction contract, so they've been with us for the several months now providing estimation during design along with our partner in NARAT.

Um, through that, at the 90% construction documents, they provided um a guaranteed maximum price bid um before you today at uh 4,512,299.

Um as part of that, we have two alternates that we're considering and working with the general services department and Ryan's team.

He's done a great job trying to prolong come up with a maintenance schedule for HVAC units and roofing, and so we have HVAC included in this base bid, but roofing for the entire facility isn't considering an alternate at $356,785.

And then we'll also looking at some additional flooring as a second alternate of $7,345.

So with all in the total GMP that staff is recommending to be awarded is $44,876,429 for both alternates.

Now this pricing, like I said, was based off of 90% construction documents.

That's the at-risk part for a construction manager at risk element.

And so now they're looking at on bid day.

If the numbers come in low, then we'll have cost savings that we will see, and we do not have to ward the full amount.

If it comes in high, then they would be at risk for a new portion over that.

Um with this, we do have a budget amendment nine as part of that fiscal year budget to help cover the potential roofing cost.

So there are options here to continue moving forward on bid day here in the next week and a half, I think.

Um but overall still a really great project for PD and to hopefully help service the citizens who need it sometimes the most with inmates.

So I think right now um our gel will hold like and if it was a perfect world, like 32 inmates.

How much many how many more people can we hold with this additional?

We're adding 10 additional beds to it, so that'd be 42.

Um we are rearranging the staff office and we are doing a large kitchen upgrade.

I'm expanding on your question, by the way.

A large kitchen upgrade and security upgrade.

Like a lot more microwaves.

That's what I think that's on the city.

No, no, we could food, I hear a full commercial kitchen, okay.

Ovens, stove, the whole shebang.

It's gonna be amazing.

Okay.

Yes.

Just just clarifications.

Is uh Chief Arnold good to go with this?

Okay.

Okay.

I know he was, but I just wanted to make sure that we had that on the record because I know being being relatively new, I know he's been looking at the other things we have going on in the bond package, and I just want to make sure that he's good to go.

Correct.

Okay.

This is a named project, so once again, we're completing what we set out to complete as part of the 2018 bond for the citizens.

Wonderful.

Great job.

Our construction manager is here today if you have any questions for him, but otherwise.

Okay.

I think it's great that we're doing the the upgrades and you know, keeping up with things we need to keep up with, but at the same time, we don't want to make it too comfortable.

We don't want them to be honest.

Here's spaghetti nights, real good.

Just throwing that out there.

We will give them a nutritional meal based off of our kitchen upgrades.

But they will be secure based off of our security upgrades.

Perfect.

Thank you all.

Thank you, ma'am.

I'll make a motion to approve.

No, right ahead.

I'll see item 25-1517.

All right.

Roll call.

Item 9E, consideration discussion and possible approval of PUD 2428-2025.

Rocky Hinkle.

Excuse me, Mayor.

Yes.

Item D is in David.

Yes, item D.

That's what I thought you said.

Yep.

Consideration discussion and possible approval of.

BAZ 2310-2025.

I pre I pre-marked it off, and so I just moved on past it.

Sorry.

Good evening, Madam Mayor, Mr.

Vice Mayor, members of council, Mr.

Spurgeon, Rocky Hinkle Community Development Director.

BAZ 2310 2025 is a request to rezone approximately seven and a half acres from CG Commercial General to CH commercial heavy for proposed commercial development.

This property is located on the southwest corner of Kenosha and ONEDA Road.

The proposed development will have access both from Kenosha Street to the north and ONEDA Road to the east.

No access will be allowed from 72nd Street to the south, which is a residential street.

The property was changed from comprehensive plan level 4 to level 6 on October 7th, 2025.

Level 6 supports a rezoning to CH commercial heavy.

During the meeting held on October 9th, 2020 25, the planning commission recommended approval 4.0 of BAZ 2310-2025 per staff recommendation.

Staff recommended the rezoning be approved subject to plating.

During the public comment period, one resident spoke on this item voicing concerns about drainage, screening, and lighting.

Staff recommends you approve BAZ 2310 2022 2024 25 subject of plating.

Charlie, could you help me out uh with just a question?

Um commercial general to commercial heavy.

What is that?

The the use that's allowed for each zoning district.

But I'm I don't know if you wanted Charlie or if you wanted me.

No, I'm sorry.

Sorry.

Sorry.

Sorry, that was that was my fault.

So the the particular use I believe the applicants here, I don't know if they want to discuss what the what they what they intend to use it for, but CG and CH has a particular uh defined use.

Okay.

On the resident that spoke with I'm sorry.

Oh go ahead.

With the questions, um, were we able to answer those questions for them and are they satisfied now with the answers or so?

It is actually a city employee, and they did not show up, but they sent an email.

So we haven't heard back from them.

All right.

Well, there obviously there's there's flooding issues across the street, so I'm sure that's why right there in the bottom southwest corner of the development there is, and the applicant is already has some sort of preliminary plan to address uh that area of stormwater drainage.

Yeah, I'd love to hear.

I mean, it's in my board, so I'd love to hear what's being planned.

Good evening, Mark Grubbs, 1800 South Sarah Road, uh in Oklahoma City on behalf of the application.

Um so the uh when we had our pre-development meeting with the staff on this property, uh, we were considering a straight rezoning from either uh from the CG to the CH or writing a PUD.

The only thing that we needed to change on this property was the frontage requirement.

So your current CG is a 200 foot requirement where CH is a 100 foot requirement, which allows for more parcels of retail and uh the smaller parcels would require it.

So that is really the reason that we are rezoning from CG to CH, and it wasn't about the uses.

So we I we did we did hear the comments that were uh presented and read into the record in the planning commission meeting.

We understand that there are some drainage issues there.

We have looked at those, we are addressing those.

The lighting, things of that that that they mentioned will meet city requirements to be shielded from the uh residential.

Um then I there's some screening uh there was a screening comment, I believe, and uh that's addressed by code as well.

So we'll be required to screen per code from commercial to residential.

And that backs up to county uh neighborhood, right?

That's not city, it's not a city line there.

Correct.

Do you have any letters of intent?

Do you have anything on that?

My uh our client does have letters of intent.

Um I I don't know that I'm available.

You're probably not.

I just thought I'd throw it out there and see if you can questions that I can try to answer.

That's a shirt right there, my friend.

You know, my wife likes me to look loud, I guess.

I don't shop much, but husband right there.

Very nice, very nice.

Thank you.

Thank you.

No further questions.

Oh, by the way, mine does mine's the only that doesn't cost you anything.

Um no no four million dollars or anything.

Okay, I know they're rather expensive.

Okay.

Any other questions or discussion?

I'll make a motion to approve 25-1535.

I'll second roll call.

Now 9E.

Rocky.

Good evening again.

PUD 2428-2025.

Jesus.

2025 and BAZ 2425-2025 are requested change the zoning to commercial general and PUD 2428-2025 on approximately 11.34 acres, generally located on the northeast corner of New Orleans Street and Lynn Lane.

The property is currently unplated and undeveloped.

The subject property is designated as level four in the comprehensive plan, which supports the requested zoning to CG.

PUD 2428-2025 is a planned unit development for a future commercial development and development area B and water and the water towers located in development area A.

And just a couple details in development area B.

There will be a 100 minimum lot frontage, and any drive onto Lin Lane Road must be at least 300 feet from the arterial intersection.

Access to development area A is available from Lin Lane Road at the planning commission meeting on October 9, 2025.

The commission requested a gate be required at the access point to development area A.

This requirement has been added to the PUD document.

PUD 2428-2025 and BAZ 2425-2025 were heard by the planning commission on October 9th, 2025.

We're planning commission recommended approval with the addition of an access gate for development area A with a 4.0 vote.

One neighboring resident asked questions regarding this proposal.

Concerns included access, locations, and development of time and development timeline.

Staff recommends you approve PUD 2428-2025 and BAZ 2425-2025 per planning commission and staff recommendations.

The applicant is here as well.

So the resident wasn't opposed to it, they just had questions and wanted some clarifications, it sounds like they're yes, inquiring more inquiry.

It's my understanding that this is just for preparation for future whatever may be coming.

I believe the applicant wants to speak too.

Oh, good evening.

Good evening again.

Good evening again.

Charlie Bright, Director of Engineering Construction.

So in this case, City of Broken Arrow does own this property, and we are the applicant.

So Rocky's teams worked with us on our behalf, spending it for us.

We're building it, and then ultimately I know this this council and our leadership will make a decision on what we do with the rest of that property, but we do intend it to be commercial of some size.

And then the commercial uh designation also allows us, and the PUD also allows us to use some other funding sources for economic development infrastructure and everything else to help build out that intersection.

Um so that's important for why we're doing what we're doing, but um what's important tonight for staff, so you almost have two different sets of city staff here tonight.

You know, you have city staff on Rocky's team who's recommending this for approval.

City staff from our perspective would actually actually ask you guys to uh override the planning commission's recommendation and sense of requiring a gate at Lynn Lane from an operations perspective of city staff.

We do not want a gate on Lin Lane.

The citizen showed up and requested it, and the planning commission made that a part of their recommendation to put the gate in.

Um, if we were to put a gate in here at the front of our of Lynn Lane, it does a couple of things to us.

One, it makes our staff unlock two gates every time they access the facility, one at the road and one at the back, where we have a fence around our our water tower.

More importantly, if we have large vehicles carrying a trailer or anything else, they will have to stop on Lynn Lane to get out to unlock this gate.

Um so I understand why the citizen asked for it, and I understand why the plitting commission did it.

I was not there at the time when the planning commission made that decision.

Um, but I would have spoke against wanting a gate out there at the front.

Um so I I get it, the citizen doesn't want people turning down that drive and driving adjacent to their property, but it's a drive to nowhere, it's a drive to our water tower.

Um, so we would ask that a gate not be required as part of the PUD.

Now, at the same time, this council and we we own the property.

So if you all choose later you want a gate, you can come back and say you want the gate, but I would prefer that language not be in the PUD because then we're required to always have that gate.

So and if I may, we could post a sign that says private property, no access, whatever uh whatever we want just to ensure that the public is oh, we can't go down there.

Yep.

Okay, that's what I was gonna ask.

I think I think that would be good, and that may help the resident be better about this.

So but as recommended today, if the PUD was approved, it would include the gate, so you would need to override that recommendation.

All right.

And I do concur with Charlie's position.

So was it unanimous through our planning commission that they wanted gates on both sides?

Yes, ma'am.

They didn't have anyone to speak to speak and to tell them what we could do.

Yeah.

So the tower itself will have a fence all the way around it in a gate.

That's the one Charlie talked about.

The other one is essentially at the right-of-way line.

It's a two-lane road.

So I think I think he presented very well what the concern is trying to turn in there with equipment and stuff.

Um we can just post.

Okay.

I'll make a motion that we uh approve 25-1536 with the amendment to not requiring a gate on said property.

A second.

In the PUD.

In the PUD.

Correct.

Yes.

Real call.

David, you're getting pretty fast.

Picking it up.

Yeah.

I knew you would.

All right, item 9F, consideration discussion and a possible approval of BAZ 2231.

Good evening again.

BAZ 2231 is a request to rezone approximately 2.42 acres from AG Agricultural to CN commercial neighborhood for a proposed commercial development.

The property is located on the northwest corner of Washington and Lynn Lane.

The proposed development will have access both from Washington Street to the south and Lynn Lane to the east.

This property was changed from comprehensive plan level three to level four on October 5th, 2025.

Level 4 supports a rezoning to CN.

During the meeting held on October 9th, 2025, the planning commission recommended approval of BAZ 2231-2025 per staff recommendations.

Staff recommended that the rezoning be approved subject to plating.

Two citizens spoke with concerns due to potential traffic and potential uses of bars, nightclubs, and medical dispensaries.

Staff recommends approval of BAZ 2231-2025 per planning commission and staff recommendations.

And the applicant is here if you have any questions.

I think we should make the comment.

Any discussion or further questions.

I'll say it.

We have a motion and second roll call.

Okay.

Item 9G, consideration, discussion, and possible action.

A PT 2421-2025.

PT 2421-2025 is the conditional final plat for Oklahoma IOS land company, which proposes to have two lots on 40.14 acres.

This property is located approximately one quarter mile west of County Land Road and north of Houston Street.

It is approved as IL zoning industrial light with PUD 1785-2024 and is currently in the process of being platted.

This item was reviewed by the TAC committee on September 20 or September 30th, 2025 and approved by the Planning Commission in their meeting on October 9th, 2025.

Since the planning commission meeting on October 9th, 2025, there has been a major change to the conditional final plat.

There was a cul de sac located in the uh in the version that was approved by the planning commission.

The property owner to the north and to the south are working uh on deal together to extend that cul-de-sac about 530 some feet to the north.

So this is a required or this is a major change to the conditional final plat.

So at this time I would ask that you table this item and we will bring it back up to you after the change has been made and approved and recommended by the planning commission.

I'll make a motion to table 25-1557.

I'll second that motion.

Item 9H, consideration discussion and possible approval regarding comp 2024, 2424-2025.

Comp plan 2424-2025 is a request to change the comprehensive plan designation from levels three, four, and f D to level seven and FD on approximately 99.52 acres, which is in the process of being platted.

The property is located on this on south of Florence Street and a quarter mile east of Olive Avenue.

The applicant is requesting this change to the comprehensive plan for the purpose of development of an innovation district.

Amending the comprehensive plan to level seven could potentially allow a future rezoning to CH commercial heavy, industrial light IL or Industrial Heavy IH.

The Arrow Forge Innovation District's mission is to create various job opportunities from advanced manufacturing to technology.

These jobs will offer competitive wages and the opportunity for career development and skills building, strengthening our workforce and preparing industries for the future.

This item was heard by the planning commission on September 23rd, 2025 and was approved with a 4-1 vote for staff recommendations.

Staff recommended approval of comp plan 2424-2025.

No residents spoke on this item.

Staff recommends approval of comp 2424-2025 for planning commission and staff recommendations.

Any comments discussion or question?

I'd make a motion that we approve 25-1564 on the comp plan that you were talking about.

I got it.

Second it got it.

Multitasking is hard.

Too many numbers.

Can you cut the numbers out a little bit?

Rocky, you only have 75 more to go.

Let's do this.

Okay.

9H, consideration discussion and possible approval regarding cops.

No, we just did that.

Yes.

Just kidding.

10 preview ordinances.

There are none.

Um 11 ordinances.

11A, consideration discussion and possible adoption of ordinance number 3895.

Oakmont Hills LLC has submitted an application requesting the closure of a 15-foot-wide easement on property located approximately one quarter mile north of Florence Street and east of Lynn Lane.

The property is currently in the process of being platted as Oakamon Hills.

Ordinance number 3895 was previewed by the city council during the October 21st, 2025 meeting.

Staff recommends you adopt ordinance number 3895 and approve the subsequent emergency clause.

Item B is the emergency clause.

So moved.

Second.

May have to click in the item.

All right.

Item C consideration discussion and possible adoption.

Ordinance number 3896.

Same piece of property, different 15-foot-wide easement.

Staff recommends you approve ordinance or adopt ordinance number 3896 and approve the subsequent emergency clause.

I make a motion we approve ordinance number 3896.

Second.

I'd never seen that before.

Item D is the emergency clause.

Second.

All right.

Appreciate it.

Thank you.

You're done.

Thank you.

Remarks by governing body members.

This Tuesday is the Veterans Day, and there's lots of activities, and everyone should join us at 50s Diner for breakfast.

That's where I'll be.

Okay.

You'll probably do that.

I'm I won't be cooking, but I will be eating their business.

For sure.

What else is going on?

Oh, the 13th, we've got something going on.

We do.

I was many for we're gonna have ourselves a merry little Christmas kickoff.

635 from the dot.

That's right, lights on.

It's out of our control.

Lights come on.

Wonderful veterans day parade.

Yep.

We had a very successful Halloween spectacular.

We did.

I was very impressed with even with the weather, we still had uh a plethora of folks show up.

So it was great.

Yeah, as I say for the Rotary Club, we probably gave out at least a hundred pounds of candy.

Spectacular, it was a lot of fun.

I'd also like to give a big congratulations to the Pride of Broken Arrow for winning their 23rd state championship in a row.

Um there's a lot of great bands that from Oklahoma that will be represented at the Grand National Championship in Indianapolis here next week.

So lots of exciting things.

Absolutely.

If I may take a point of personal privilege, you may uh I see newly appointed sergeant.

Got Oakie back there in the back.

Congratulations on your promotion.

Uh unfortunately I wasn't able to be there for your celebration, but didn't want to honor you, so I'll get in the room.

Congratulations.

Got promoted to the council chambers.

That's our stuff right there.

All right.

I'll yield my time.

Okay.

City manager.

I have just a few mayor members of council.

First off, let me follow up when the mayor mentioned with regard to the Christmas and Broken Arrow program and holiday holiday broken air season begins on November 13th, 635 is the actual when the lights are turned on.

Obviously, we're anticipating a very large uh attendance from our residents and area uh interested parties.

So I I'm there's gonna be thousands of people there.

Unfortunately, we have Placer that will be able to give us like they did for Spectacular to be give the estimates of the number of uh folks that that are attending.

I need to send a shout out to Aaron Hofner and the TED team for all the hard work that she and the team has done and the support from other the other departments.

Once again, we have activities the entire length of uh of city of uh Main Street, which I'm very excited about.

That was one of the things the council said years ago is to make sure that we have activities going from from all the way from the south to the north.

Uh all the council members are certainly in encouraged to be there.

There'll be a few words that'll that'll be said, then we'll turn it on.

Grady Nichols is entertaining uh again this year, which is bit just become a tradition, and so I'm excited for him to play.

And mainly mainly it's it's another opportunity for placemaking and and the gathering of our community, which is makes broken error one of the many ways that makes us who we are, and then the Hallmark S type type of uh events that we have throughout the season, and we'll be posting those so folks will have plenty to do during the Christmas season.

So I'm very excited about this.

Secondly, is the mayor mentioned the veterans.

Um that was uh a lot of effort by the by the elks to put that on.

I mean, all of you have been involved in a parade some way organization.

It's it's no easy task.

And what's really good is it seems the attendance continues to grow.

It was a six-annual parade, and obviously getting people to put it on their calendar for the first November was something we're gonna continue to do, and I think over time you're gonna continue to see more the number of participants this year was really good and the amount of effort that went into it, so it's very exciting.

I do want to mention regarding the veterans.

Uh I asked Kelly Cox, the HR director, to see if she could determine how many veterans we have within the organization, and she was able to determine that we have approximately a hundred ten total veterans, which means we have just over 900 full-time employees.

So you think about it, well over probably 12 percent.

Uh we which in this includes three current reservists and nine in the National Guard.

So we have 12 folks that are 12 uh soldiers that are that are serving currently, and she put together a large PowerPoint that really it's lengthy because there's a picture, and we had uh many of them, I think close to 90 that sent in a picture when they were in the service, and so it's gonna be running here at City Hall for to recognize those that actually send in a picture.

But if they didn't still, that's amazing to know that well over 10 percent of your organization uh served this great nation, and so uh obviously I think it's wonderful that we're able to gather this information and to put it out to let the council know uh how many folks that serve to have served this country that work for the city of Broken Arrow.

So that's pretty cool, quite frankly.

Absolutely.

Um I'm gonna ask Cindy to come forward in just a second because I wanted her to share the good news about the upgrade in our our um uh our financial rating because obviously that's extremely important.

It shows that broken air is a really good investment.

Before I do, uh the council members received the hot off the press, so to speak, edition of the Thrive Newsletter.

Uh this is once again our annual update on uh your your basically your money, your tax dollars at work, where it comes from and where it goes, and uh copies will be at the places for everyone for this state of the city like we've done the last couple years, and then we'll be sending it out online to everyone that's signed up, and we'll have copies available for our elected officials at higher levels of of government to take whenever you go to Washington or there's other meetings.

But this is a great document.

And Aaron McCulloch and his team did an amazing job and the input of all the directors.

So I hope you enjoy this.

You have questions, uh please let me know.

And so then finally, uh I'd like to Cindy come forward because we got some great news.

I shared it with the council, but I think it's important that we share it with the public.

Good evening.

Yes, we got no notification last Wednesday that uh standard and poorers upgraded us from a double A negative to a double A.

We have used Moody's for the last 10 years, but standard and poor's we had some bonds that they had rated years back, and they hadn't talked to us in for a while, so they've sat down, we sat on the phone for about an hour and a half with them, and they upgraded us.

So we're gonna be moving along with standards and poor's, which will also save us money because we just went through the review committee.

They sent us about five little questions today that we need to answer, and then we'll be ready to uh have a re-rating, which I'm sure will be the same for the next bond package.

Okay, and what does that mean for just a citizen that may?

What does it mean to have an improved bond rating?

The higher the bond rating, the better uh quality of bonds they are, and more people are interested in the market.

So there's only other the standards of poor as a you want all A's, they go in negative and everything, but um, but we there's only two more ratings in standard reports, and then we are at the top.

So wow thank you, Cindy.

Great job.

Thank you.

That's all I have, Mayor.

All righty.

We have no executive session, so I'll entertain the motion to adjourn.

Motion to adjourn.

Call the broken arrow municipal authority meeting to order roll call.