Call the broken era city council meeting to order.

We have an invocation by Pastor Conley.

If you would bow your heads and close your eyes, prayer with me.

Dear Heavenly Father, we come to you today and we're just so thankful to be here.

We're thankful for your great love for us and for this wonderful city that we live in.

We ask you today that as we move forward and and all the things that we have to discuss that you'd fill us with wisdom and discernment.

We pray these things in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Thank you, sir.

All right, roll call.

Here.

Excuse me.

Um Green here.

Ford.

Here.

Parks.

Here.

Wimpy.

Here.

Please stand and join Councillor Lisa Ford for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Attention, salute, pledge.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.

One nation under God with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you, ma'am.

Are there any items to be removed from the consent agenda?

I'll make a motion we approve the consent agenda as it stands.

I'll second.

Y'all call.

Item seven, hearings, appeals, presentations, recognitions, and awards.

7-8 update on the upcoming December presentations to the city council for the 26th go bond.

Well, good evening, Mayor, members of council, those in the audience and that are also watching the meeting uh on home at home tonight.

Uh just wanted to mention two things to the governing body and and our in our community.

The main one is is that I wanted to share the exciting news that December 2nd, the administration is going to give the council members a I would say proposal or presentation with regard to what projects we would like for council to consider in each of the various propositions for the uh basically build our future phase two, which will be before the voters if council approves the appropriate ordinances and and resolution for April 7th of next year.

And then I'm gonna ask the council members really just to take it under advice and then for two weeks to let it lay over.

And at that time, we'll actually make sure that the city clerk's office has the complete package that the staff is as recommended to the governing body for the public to come in to look and we'll also place it online for those folks that may be interested to see what's being uh before the council.

And then I'm excited that on the 16th I'm I'm going to ask the council to take the package under consideration and actually vote to move forward to to officially allow our legal and special council to work together along with the engineering construction with Kenny Schwab to bring forth the ordinance and the resolution calling for the the actual election and pretty much finalizing the the packages proposals for the for the the bond the bond package on April 7th.

And so as council knows as we we've narrowed this down from over 600 million dollars to to where now we're right right around 400 million, maybe between 405 and 414.

And I'm very excited for the public to see this uh um this package.

Obviously, the council has the the final decision on what goes in each of the respective propositions.

And so I do know that many of the user groups that uh have been participating all along, maybe in attendance, asking counsel, they may be some you may be some folks that are here asking for you for them to for you to support some of the projects that we've we've presented, and they may have there may be some folks that have questions.

Uh and that'll essentially wrap up the actually the preparation of the of the package itself, and then legal will take over, and then there'll be one really one phase left, and that's the the actually the funnest phase, I believe, it's the public education.

That's where the the council members and the leadership team as well as many of the community organizations get to go out for approximately 60 days and actually working with Build a Better Broken Arrow, share the proposed package and what these amazing projects are that the voters will be voting on April 7th.

And so we are nearing the end of that of this phase of actually finalizing the projects.

I know the council is excited.

Many of the organizations are as well, and I just want to let the council members know where we're at and the public more importantly.

So hopefully they'll be tuning in and we'll have some folks that'll show some interest in looking at the package once council accepts it after December 2nd.

And I'll be glad to answer any questions if you have any.

Now I will say there is one thing later in the agenda which regards to the roads or plasma.

So council is going to actually have to make a decision tonight tentatively on which design so that way we can make a full for the full presentation.

And I'm really excited about the options that are coming before you so that way the public will first time get to see what those are.

And so are there tulips in it?

If you want two lists, we'll have tulips.

No, I do not.

Thank you.

Okay.

Item eight is citizens' opportunity to address the council, and there is none.

Item nine and general council business.

9A consideration discussion and possible approval of the creation of a citizen's engagement academy.

Michael Spurgeon.

Thank you, Mayor.

So I've had a couple of conversations with council members, and as everyone knows in here, is our citizens police academy is incredibly successful.

And in fact, I don't know if there's ever been a time when they haven't had enough folks to actually make a class.

And as a result of that success, you now have the alumni association, and they become very important in assisting the police department, the council, and making sure there's great education about the roles and responsibilities and the relationship that the police department uh has within our community.

And so there are other cities around the country that have what I will call for a lack of a better term, right now, a a citizens academy to where folks go through a similar program over eight to ten weeks, like you do with our police academy, where they learn more about actually their form of government and and about the various departments that basically operate on their behalf on a daily basis.

And we did some research and have some models that we feel like if council gave direction to go forth, we could actually put something together and come back to you in the first quarter of next year.

And essentially what we're talking about is a similar curriculum like we have with the police, where it'd be for a set period of time.

We would go in and it would include obviously some some high-level discussions about certain departments, but then there's other departments that probably need a little bit more time with.

I all the directors and leadership team would be involved, but also you look at the user groups, you look at those, the our partners at the school district in the chamber, I would hope that they would be a part of that as well, because that's really who who make sure things move forward in our community.

So it'd be similar format, and obviously, once we have a proposal, we would give it to the council members to look at and critique and finalize.

And and then we would begin the process of actually going through the same applications and say taking applications and probably keeping it, I believe, to 20 or 25 residents if council is in agreeing with that each year.

And obviously, we do get the uh surveys afterwards and see how we could critique it.

But I think what overall, from the idea of the council members, and I'm gonna be quiet because I know some council members uh want to speak about this, is really just to educate our citizens more about how our former government works.

A lot of times people think we have the same form of governance also.

Sometimes people don't realize how much is involved in some of the data operations.

Each time you go through your orientation, that it's it's never surprising to hear I didn't know.

I had no idea that there was so much being done by so few people.

And so if we're gonna improve everyone's understanding about how do you how you prepare a utility bill and what consists of your utility bill, for example, there should probably be a whole night just on utilities.

And so it's wide open, nothing's etched and sewn other than I just would like to discuss it and see excuse me, see if there's direction, then we'll go forward.

Okay.

So no action that needs.

Well, I I would I was waiting if anyone else no one else is gonna talk to you.

Um so um I I was in charge of the Citizens Police Academy, and we also created a master's academy because they wanted more, and then they kept wanting more, the citizens.

So then that's when we uh did the alumni association.

And I just see all these comments on Facebook of people that know they think they know it all, but they just know about half of really it all.

And so I just feel like if we can educate our citizens to the truth and how our city works, the utility bills, all the things, that then we would just have that many more supporters to be able to tell the truth on well, this is how it really is, just like the just like the police department.

So I'm excited about it.

I think it'll be successful.

I think once a year definitely is enough.

But yeah, I think we'll have a waiting list for the first few years anyway.

I uh uh I was excited about it also.

Uh the meet and greets just didn't uh you know what I mean, didn't function the way that we really uh wanted it to or turn out.

Uh and maybe I'm making trying to make something simple that's more complicated in this, but uh our youth city council.

We do uh kind of the same thing over a three-year period, help them to visualize and know what kind of government that we have.

I know uh uh Justin and I uh visit with them along the way.

So and they've really used that, you know what I mean, and in their futures.

So I think it's I think it's a great idea.

Uh especially if you get kind of uh quite a few areas that might get new people running for city council once they understand it.

So I think it has a lot of uh attributes, and so I was certainly pleased when I saw it.

Yeah, I like it.

Okay, and without any if there aren't any objections, then uh probably with there's a little thing called the bond package public education coming up that's gonna take a little bit of priority, but I'll start working on this uh I would say in later December and early January, and then we'll get something as soon as possible to bring for you, and then we'll look at starting off.

I want to find out timing about the what would be an appropriate timing for if for for this type of program, and I want to check with a couple other committees to see when they hold theirs.

You know, our obviously we've got public safety that is in involved in some of these, so I do want to speak to them about just some of the logistics of taking applications.

I work all that out, and then I'll bring stuff for council to consider next year.

Okay, okay.

Thank you, sir.

Item 9B is consideration discussion and possible approval of and authorization to execute resolution 1721.

Curtis.

Good evening, thank you, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council, Mr.

Spurgeon.

Before you this evening is just a resolution to formalize the current practice we have, which is just the acceptance and use of electronic documents and electronic signatures through document sign.

It's a practice we've had for a number of years, and the legal department uh has asked that we bring this to you just to formalize this practice, and that's the purpose.

Um entertain any questions you have.

Any questions?

So this is not like auto pen, if not somebody putting our signature out there.

No, sir, no auto-pan.

Just wanted to clarify that.

Yes, we have to actually sign your signature.

Thank you.

Thank you for clarification.

I entertain a motion.

I'll make a motion to accept uh item 25-1575.

Second.

All right.

Item 9C, consideration, discussion, and possible appointment of members to the downtown master plan advisory committee.

Rocky, good evening, madam mayor, Mr.

Vice Mayor, members of council, Mr.

Spurgeon, Rocky Hinkle, community development director.

On October 21st, 2025, City Council adopted ordinance number 3898.

This ordinance allows for the creation and formation of the downtown master plan advisory committee.

This advisory committee will be instrumental in establishing the vision and future opportunities for downtown broken arrow.

Each counselor is nominated two people.

The planning commissioners were two planning commissioners were selected, and a representative was selected by the city manager, the Broken Arrow Chamber of Commerce, Economic Development Corporation, and Broken Arrow Public Schools.

At this time, I'd open up for a discussion or recommendation for approval.

Any discussions or questions?

So I will just throw out uh just for transparency's sake, and I don't believe there's anything wrong with it because we've discussed it.

Um I did nominate two candidates myself.

Uh one of those candidates, um, like a lot of our fine folks here in Broken Arrow.

Um let's see, Mr.

Jim Mantz, uh broken arrow through and through, lives or works, worships children go to school here, but technically his home is a couple of houses outside of the proper city limits of Brooklyn.

I think there's just a few that they have to live in Broken Arrow and that's the planning commission.

Yeah.

Before we ratify anything.

Yes, it's not a requirement for this committee.

And needs a BA grad.

Yeah, you're a grad.

I graduated with his brother.

Of course, I didn't have it.

Of course.

All right.

I'd make a motion that we approve the uh the uh appointment of these members is listed in the downtown master plan advisory committee.

I'll second that motion.

Yeah.

We're getting there.

And I see we have one of our our former UC council going to be on that committee.

Mr.

Corbett.

Get some young young ideas on there.

Okay.

All right.

Item 90, consideration discussion and possible approval of a design concept option for the master plan for Rose District Plaza.

Shannon.

I'm sorry for me.

I'm assuming that somebody will reach out to them and let them know what next steps are gonna be.

Yes, sir.

Thank you.

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

Spurgeon.

My name is Shannon Marshall, Special Project Division Manager.

I've been told to take my time and make this very, very long.

Oh, okay.

I'm just kidding.

We'll keep it brief here as we have kind of discussed one-on-one with you all about these potential options.

But we've been working with a consultant, um, FSB and Kimley Horn to develop a Rose District Master Plan for the farmers market and expanding the plaza along with the grain silo that we um have recently purchased.

And so um, let's see.

We have two options to present to you tonight.

Um both of them have all the same similar elements, it's just a different in arrangement.

As hopefully you all were able to attend the Christmas um ceremony last week.

It sounded like it was a great success um with the tree lighting and had great turnouts.

So shout out to our TED team and our building maintenance team.

Um but it was a jammed-packed event.

So and farmers markets seem to be doing very well regularly throughout the season, so it's looking like we need to expand out there.

So, like I mentioned, both options have similar features.

We are looking at doing an expanded pavilion, creating a more open lawn space with a permanent stage, expanding food truck area, um closing off and expanding the envelope around the building at the south, the depot with additional restrooms, and incorporating the silo along with any potential designs here.

So, with all of those features, we're looking at two options.

The first option centers the open lawn and stage area more central to the plaza.

We are keeping the existing splash pad, and so aligning the open lawn aligned with the farmers market, so it seems very open and relocating the plot uh the pavilion, excuse me, off to the north along El Paso Street.

This would kind of keep a similar architectural feel along El Paso and can create a boulevard kind of dissecting through the site.

This leaves the lawn very open for events.

The white square kind of just in the middle there is potential location for the Christmas tree, keeping it very open around that because I know it kind of got crowded around the tree itself last week, so keeping it very open around that with this open lawn option here.

But then it way by moving the pavilion to the north.

Um that's one of our weekly events that sees a lot of traffic, and so that would not be nearly as visible from Main Street as it would be today.

If you're driving or walking down Main Street, you immediately see hey, what's going on under the pavilion or here at the market?

So relocating that to the north along El Paso Street might re-look relocate that visual interest, but then it could maybe keep it open for visual interest at the lawn with games or a show or an artist maybe playing music on the stage there.

So then option two.

Oh, excuse me, let me, these are all option one photos as I fly through here.

Option two puts the pavilion in the center, kind of keeping similarly where it's at now, but expanding it once again, doubling the size, and then relocating the stage and lawn area on the north side along El Paso.

So with the pavilion being in the center, you'll see a lot of that market activity being utilized underneath there.

But we'd probably have to relocate the tree and the stage and open lawn off to the side along El Paso.

These are still option two here.

Creating this is that boulevard with that open lawn on the right and the existing museum and mural also on the right.

So with both of these options, I'm gonna leave it up to you all for discussion.

And if you have any questions, I'm here to help.

With that one, could you put where that big flowers are right there?

Yes.

You definitely could it'd be a similar location as it is now.

Yeah, we're talking about the playground.

No, no tree.

She said where the big flower.

What's the big flower?

Yeah, can you go back to the back of the road?

It's on the that right there.

See the flower on the grass.

That's the playground, isn't it?

It could it is currently designed as maybe a play feature, some sort of steps or something like that that they could tumble on.

And maybe um maybe some undulating hills and things like that for kids roll down a little bit.

I uh some bumps.

I like either one of them, but I kind of favor a little bit the stage uh back in the center because there's times when we do have a lot of people, and that would push the people all the way up to maybe even main street and give it more area that they could uh view the stage.

Whereas if the stage is over there to the right, it's going to be kind of bottleneck, you know what I mean, in there.

Now the farmers market, I mean, uh people know where it's at.

I mean, I don't think they have to see the market.

They just they know people have come for years, you know, to the farmers market.

So I yeah, I like either one of them.

I just like it with the stage being more open to the uh to the east, you know what I mean, to the main street.

If you up on a stage the other night during the lighting of the uh Christmas tree, you could see that people were for a block and a half or two blocks, you know, down Main Street.

So if you try to get a stage with people over, you know, if it's over just along the street over there, I think it would kind of uh make it where a lot of people couldn't see it.

But other than that, I like I like both of them.

I think it's gonna add a lot to our uh downtown area.

The pavilion basically the same size, yes, no matter where it's at.

Yes, this one's a bit more square in shape right now, and the other one was a bit more long okay.

Mayor.

Yes.

So can we go back to the first one?

Yes.

So in the first one, if you look up where the museums at, there's the open space there, you know, they're in there could be an expansion of the museum.

Does that take in account for that?

Okay.

Okay, so on the if you go to the second one.

I don't see that in my can my concern to for councils just to discuss, you'd have to actually move the stage further to the west to accommodate that, right?

Most likely.

If you want it to be centered within that space, it could also be off to the side and be more angular.

But yeah.

You know, and taking into account what happened last Thursday night and how many people.

I went down there intentionally at about 6 15 just to watch people just move down there.

There were so many people around the tree.

And the going back to the first to the first one.

This if you just imagine that if last Thursday night council was standing on the stage with Grady Nichols and the tree was in there, how many additional people you could actually get around?

And like Vice Mayor said, you'd see all those people filled right to the street.

Right.

You'd have more room to actually have a more visual to be in that area whenever the tree the tree comes on, as well as so many people to enjoy the music up there long after the the uh the lights come on.

It just seems more more conducive to actually having events down there.

And that gives more space, like if you did a movie in the park or in there because there's more space for people.

Here's here's a question.

All those food trucks on the on along the railroad track area, all that's gonna have the appropriate power for for connections and so forth.

Yes.

Okay.

Yes, that's awesome.

And it helps kind of activate that space, what in theory is the back of that depot building right now and is just a gravel drive.

We would definitely do a fence system, maybe even a buffer landscape uh between the railroad and this improvement there, and then activate that with food truck vendors as well.

I thought I liked the pavilion in the center, but the more I think about it, I think I like this.

Well, that also gives you uh a chance to increase the size of the pavilion.

You know what I mean?

If you needed to, you know what I mean in the next bond issue, you know what I mean?

Extend it some a little bit more to the uh uh to the west.

Both of them when with whatever item is in the middle there, logistically for offload unloading and loading might be a little bit of a concern.

We'd have to definitely coordinate that.

I know a lot of our vendors bring in like refrigerators when they sell their meat products and big you know trucks or baskets and things like that.

So it kind of serves a little bit stronger to have the loading and unloading for all the market vendors off of El Paso with the pavilion off of El Paso.

But we will definitely coordinate and try and figure out some sort of system for any of those using the stage because they'll need to unload the page.

Yeah, I'm just thinking like unloading for music equipment and stuff like that, like behind the stage set up for musicians and such.

Yes, we'd keep it open and then we definitely would have to coordinate um with them on the entry points and where they can get to and get out of it.

I think we also need to take in consideration.

I'm not saying one way or the other, but just take consideration which is going to be used more.

Um I know we're just talking about farmers market, but we're we're not just need to think about today, but tomorrow.

If we're gonna be expanding and expecting growth, are there gonna be other activities going on in the pavilion that we want to be visible?

Uh will there be more activities going on on the stage that we want to be visible.

I mean, we're just talking about Christmas and we're talking about farmers market, but there's a whole lot of other years.

Well, because I think we talked about doing like summer concerts there and maybe movies and the movies out there.

Um so you'd be able to get a lot more people with that way.

But do you have a an upward view of the second one?

Like this or this up, up this one, I could tell.

Yep.

Thanks.

Yeah, you'd probably have to move the stage further towards Ash, right?

Most likely.

You know, almost every event we have the special events puts on, for example, the uh Fiesta de Mayo, we bring out the stage, now you have a permanent stage.

You look at uh basically Shamrock the Rose permanent stage.

You look at chalk it up and the in the Rose Festival permanent stage.

You basically will draw everyone into this area and you're starting to see the uh Arch 302 and the area between A B B and you could actually kind of tie those in those together is for for for larger events, and so you know to me that's just a really I think the gathering area is what council councilman uh green's talking about because uh that's the whole purpose of this.

If we're gonna make this upgrade, then I think that the TED team and special events need to actually grow grow more opportunities for people to actually play make is what it's the technical term.

Yeah, I agree.

And if you I mean, even if you just look at the farmers market, all the vendors want to be under the pavilion.

It's not necessarily they want to be out in the open, they want to be in front of the pavilion.

But isn't that about double double the size?

Correct.

Okay.

That's awesome.

I came in thinking option too, but after listening to this discussion, I think option one is a lot more beneficial for future expansion and things like that.

I I you know I like either one of them, but I really feel like it gives it with a stage up center of the uh uh tower.

Center of the tower there in the center of it, it does give you a lot more space to enjoy that and people to see it.

Have we taken consideration what we're gonna use a tower for?

We've come up with a very creative idea.

Can we move the tower any more?

Oh yeah.

Not that creative.

Um I think so.

That one so we've talked uh had some initial thought about maybe turning a portion of it into an interactive playground.

Okay.

That is that is cool.

I I think both of them, I mean it it was hard.

I both of them are very good quality, and it I mean it it is a hard decision.

I think I kind of lean towards the first one, but I I think either one of them would be I just think from loading in and out of everyone that comes to the farmers market, it makes is it it will be utilized more.

It makes sense to have that pavilion on the north side, you know, where we'll still have events that will need the stage, but not as much as you know, two times a week for the farmers market.

I did hear that they were gonna call that grassy area in front of the stage, uh smurge and landing.

No.

Um, we say the green pickle playground or something.

Not happening.

All right.

It's it's interesting.

Just just looking back the last time we had this conversation, just about everybody who spoke on this option versus the other one said, Well, if people are driving by, they're not gonna see what's going on in the pavilion if we tuck it back in the corner and now it's a complete one eighty.

But I know I'm flexible.

But I just think it's interesting that everybody's opinion has changed from month to the month.

Well, mine hasn't changed a lot, but I could really go either way.

I did take some pictures from up in the uh history museum uh after the event the other night.

Well, there was some pretty pictures.

I mean, there's still a lot of tremendous amount of people, but the uh the grain elevator just looks so outstanding the way it was uh decorated up, just uh really uh really look great.

All right, what do you need to do?

Oh, probably stay neutral.

I just I'll stay neutral tonight.

Um I would just love some direction from you all on which options to go to.

I don't know if we need to say option one in favor, yay or nay, or option two, what what do you recommend?

Well, I would just say is that council has to make a decision between now and the 16th of December.

Right.

And so if you could give direction this evening and my recommendation, and I'm like just Justin's right, everybody's gone back and forth, but looking at this logistical, visual, I would recommend to council option number one.

That's what I would do too.

How about cost-wise?

Since the same program elements, there would be the same cost between the two.

Um, and we actually after this, um, our consultant will finalize this master plan and provide us with an updated cost estimate so that we can make sure it's within the boundaries of the bond project.

Circling back to that.

Well, I'd make a motion that we lean to option one.

Second, all right.

Yes.

There you go.

All righty.

Sorry to put you on the spot, Shana.

She likes it.

I have E.

Consideration discussion and possible approval of Visit Broken Arrow's five-year tourism strategic plan, Michaela.

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

Spurgeon.

On April 15th, 2025, Council approved the selection of Clarity of Place as the consultant for the development of Visit Broken Arrow's new five-year strategic plan.

Over the sack of the last six months, um, our team has been working closely with Clarity of Place to develop uh what we believe is an authentic and actionable plan to help guide our work over the next five years.

Here today to go over the highlights of the process, and the plan is Tina Valden Conis, principal with Clarity of Place.

So she flew in from North Carolina to join us tonight.

Um so I will let her talk to you all about the plan.

All right.

Well, good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council Member, City Manager.

Uh, thank you for taking the time on your agenda to talk about the comprehensive tourism strategic plan.

Um, as Michaela mentioned, my name is Tina, and I had the great pleasure of working with the Visit Broken Arrow team, our colleagues at Kimlian Horn, um, and many of your stakeholders in the tourism industry uh to put together this pathboard uh for vis uh for visit broken arrow to leverage the visitor economy in the city.

Um before I dive in, um I do want to recognize and thank again uh all the stakeholders who took part.

Uh my colleague and I were back here along with Jeremy from Cameleon Horn in July, I think.

Um and held a series of focus groups and interviews and got a lot of great feedback uh from the community um in building this plan uh because at the end of the day we wanted to make sure two things.

One, that it was a plan that Michaela and Aaron could action on, that we didn't want to build something that was um too off the walls and and not achievable.

Uh but then we also wanted to make sure that we created a plan that demonstrates and shares the authenticity that is broken arrow.

Uh, because in tourism we get to share experiences, uh and so our destinations get to share what's special about them and share those with our visitors.

Um and so before we jump into kind of the imperatives itself that we came up with, um, I wanted to just take a step back uh and talk about the goals and the objectives of the plan.

Um so basically our mandate uh was to take the great work the visit broken arrow has done and find ways that we can leverage and optimize the visitor economy.

Uh we heard very clearly uh that broken arrow likes being the small biggest small town in America, and we didn't want to do anything that to grow the visitor economy uh that would jeopardize that.

Uh so making sure that whatever we came up with was genuine, was authentic, and was true to broken arrow.

Um and then also knowing that this is a city that makes great quality of place investments, uh, just as the master plan for the Rose District shows, we wanted to make sure that we connect all of that great infrastructure, all that great quality of place that you built in the city uh and make sure that others that our visitors could enjoy it uh and then it also would stay uh true to this to the city, and so that residents would continue and enjoy this place that they call it home.

And so to do this, uh we did so looking at tourism, kind of how it fits in its uh community, not looking at tourism as just inviting visitors to come, they spend money and they leave.

And so to do this, we did so looking at tourism, kind of how it fits in its community, not looking at tourism as just inviting visitors to come, they spend money and they leave, but how do we show off the genuine authenticity broken arrow?

How do we show how it differentiates itself from the other communities within the region within the Midwest to really differentiate it and make it a place where people want to come and visit and spend their money?

And so to do so, we kind of followed a progress like you would see in many other Sujeto planning process.

First got really smart about what Visit Broken Arrow in the city needs out of this plan.

Again, wanting to make sure that it's actionable and that it's something that will be useful going forward.

Then we got really smart about what Broken Arrow has.

So did your situational assessment, kicked a lot of tires, did some secret shopping, figured out what were those experiences, what is that essence that makes visit that makes Broken Arrow special and how Aaron and Michaela can continue to inspire visitors to stay overnight, but then also to just visit and have these experiences that you can have in the city.

As I mentioned, we took the time to kind of speak to your stakeholders to understand kind of where tourism fits within your goals as a city.

And then also what was most dear about the city that people wanted to make sure that we uh steward, that we keep and we don't allow to grow too big so we would lose the authenticity of Broken Arrow.

And then lastly, understanding that we have to fight for visitors, uh, that uh tourism promotion is a competitive sport.

We looked around the nation and the world to see kind of what other successful destinations are doing, uh destinations like uh Broken Arrow to make sure that we inspire visitors to come.

And so, in doing so, uh, we also when we did all of those assessments, we also looked at kind of what are those strengths and those weaknesses of Broken Arrow as a destination.

And again, with the lens of how can we use these strengths and opportunities to make an optimize the visitor economy in Broken Arrow, we came up with a number of imperatives.

Um I wanted to pause here to make the point that when we were making the plan for Visit Broken Arrow, we wanted to give direction, but we didn't want to necessarily prescribe specific action items.

Because Michaela and Aaron are the experts.

They know this community, they know what what makes the community special, they know how to inspire visitations, and so more to give direction than to give uh prescriptions.

And as you go through the plan, you'll see that we have five imperatives that we call them of if we do these things or if we make uh progress in these things, then we can optimize a visitor economy in Broken Arrow.

And so starting off with, and it's um I think you got uh a copy of the plan, uh, so I won't go into too much detail.

But the first imperative is around using the great infrastructure that you've built, the quality of place, assets that you have in the city, um, and connecting those better to inspire more visitation, but also to extend stays.

Uh, because in tourism, one of the one of the main revenue streams is that hotel lodging tax.

And so, what can we do to get people excited about coming to Broken Arrow, looking around the city and not just visiting one aspect of it, uh, and using those uh those infrastructure improvements that you've made to really catalyze that visit and extend those stays.

The second imperative is around again, building into that authenticity, that genuine aspect of broken arrow, making sure that we don't sell broken arrow as just a generic destination that someone can experience anywhere else in the country country, but leaning into the essence, the specialness of the at the city, um, and making sure that we target our visitation uh to those areas, uh, leaning into those niche markets, leaning into those areas of specialty, again, to brand broken arrow for what it is, uh, but then also to be able to cultivate into steward the authenticity of the city.

And the third imperative, uh, we called it strengthening the visitor ecosystem.

Understanding that you have a lot of great uh small businesses, local businesses, uh, businesses that make you special, and making sure that all of those businesses who want to take part in the visitor economy have ways to do so.

So looking inward at the things that visit broken arrow already does uh and seeing how we can network those businesses together, making the city more visitor ready, but also making those individual companies or attractions more visitor-ready as we go forward.

The fourth uh imperative leans into something that we heard resoundingly uh when we came here to visit, uh, the idea of really leaning into and really optimizing uh the veterans' heritage that you have in the city, knowing that you've already got a strong foundation, knowing that you're already doing a lot to promote that foundation and show how welcoming the city is to veterans, but taking that to the next step and tying those experiences together, being more proactive in that outreach and showing the welcomingness that Broken Arrow has towards this very important community.

Um, but taking that to the next step uh in tying those experiences together, um, being more proactive in that outreach uh and and showing the welcomingness that Broken Arrow has uh towards this very important community.

And then the final uh imperative is more long-term looking, uh, building on the great momentum that has started with a film incentive, um, and leaning also into the creativity and the vibe that you have here in the Rhodes District of Arts and Culture.

Um, but looking at ways that we can kind of tie those together, build those more as a brand for the the city uh and is showing uh folks why they should come to Broken Arrow to experience that, to feel the culture, to see the arts, to see all of the great things that have uh taken place uh in the city.

Um so as you can see in the imperatives, uh, what we're trying to do is give visit broken arrow a roadmap uh for optimizing the visitor economy in making sure that we have a positive economic impact through tourism.

Uh it's taking that solid foundation that um has been built for inspiring visitation and giving it uh even more fine-tuned strategic direction, uh clearer priorities, and a framework uh for doing uh better and even more impactful work.

So, with that, uh thank you again for the time, and I'm happy to answer any questions you have.

Any questions?

All right, well, thank you so much.

Thank you.

I'll make a motion to approve uh visit broken arrow's five-year tourism strategic plan.

A second.

Well called.

All right, nine F.

Consideration discussion on possible approval of resolution 1723.

Graham.

Thank you, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council, Mr.

Spurgeon.

Uh, this is a resolution to authorize the city attorney to enter into a final journal entry of judgment and suit realty versus city of broken arrow.

Uh this will authorize the foreclosure of a utility easement that's located about one half mile north of Dearborn Street and one half mile east of 37th Street.

Uh this will basically just foreclose our right to reopen it uh from now till forever.

So I'll have you be happy to take any questions.

From now and for till forever.

Forever.

Forever and ever.

And ever.

Any questions?

No, I'll make a motion to approve 25-1618.

I'll second that motion.

Roll call.

Item 9G, consideration discussion and possible approval of drainage advisory committees recommendation for expenditures for of 2018 general obligation bond funds.

Charlie.

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

Spurgeon, Charlie Bright, Director of Engineering Construction.

Um, tonight's talking about uh approval for expenditure of proposition six funds from the 2018 general obligation bond.

Um this item did go before the DAC, which voted 6-0 in favor of the item.

Um, wanted to quickly um show the item to you, explain it to you, and then hopefully uh get approval to move forward with the project.

So the 6100 business center is located um what is it, west of Aspen, there just south of Albany, 61st and Aspen.

Um I believe it was developed approximately 1985.

Um the way it was developed, obviously, our criteria, you know, our first drainage criteria I believe was in 94, you know, detention requirements for early 2000s, so obviously it was before all criteria was needed for the enhanced drainage improvements, um, how you would do channel design and all that.

So it was done prior to that, and what happened is they moved all of their water.

If you'll keep going down to kind of some of the pictures, um they designed for all their water to move to one channel on the side of the property.

Um that's kind of like a utility easement the way it would be today.

If it was today, it would be a re-easement, reserve, a drainage easement.

Um, but back then they didn't do that.

They moved all the water to that side and collected all the water and moved it out.

Um, I believe I'm gonna mess it up, is they use what was called fabric fabriform.

So the material we see here is what's called fabriform.

It was super popular in the 70s and 80s.

Um it was somewhat successful for a short time period, but then they realized it started losing its life and failing after a while.

Um but anyway, it this is on private property.

It is a ditch that runs behind the businesses.

The reason that they brought it to us and the issue is it's among it's spread amongst about eight or nine different property owners.

Um, and so it's hard for any one property owner to fix the issue because now they all have to work together.

It is also dangerous because um I don't think we have pictures showing it, but it's getting right up against some of the buildings in that industrial complex.

So some of them are more urgent to fix it than others.

Um, but it is needed to be fixed.

And then Broken Arrow does have interest in there because Broken Arrow Sanitary Line actually runs on the east side of that channel, only a few feet off of the channel.

And our fit our line's five to ten feet deep.

The ditch is deeper than our line.

So as that line fails and continues to move, it is approaching our sanitary line that's in the way.

All in all, it's a bad situation.

I mean, there's no access, it's hard to get back there and do work.

Um it's failing.

There's water eroding towards the buildings, there's water eroding towards our sanitary line.

Um so ultimately they put in a prop six fund, which was what it was intended for us to help on private property for issues like this.

Um what we're asking for tonight and what the drainage advisor committee have recommended was funds so we can move forward with a design.

Um we don't have improvements designed or anything to date.

Um we want to move forward, figure out a design, and then come with what we have talked about with the business over owners is potentially having some sort of cost sharing after this.

So we've kind of made the business owners know like we probably will not pay for improvements of this entirely, but maybe Prop Six will come back with some sort of cost share agreement where they're gonna pay a portion of it and the city will pay a portion of it.

But at this point, we would like to just move forward with the design.

Um I'm recommending approval of the expenditure of the DAC funds.

Um I don't can you scroll up.

I don't remember exactly how much we were asking for.

Okay, 50.

You all see it.

I don't, but um for 50,000, and I'm happy to answer any questions you guys have.

Okay.

Oh, we'll we'll say that probably when that was built as we was looking at it, it probably looked pretty good.

Uh, you know, in there.

Uh it's just uh it didn't hold up for that amount of water, and as you say, uh we didn't have any local codes to really uh enforce anything at that time today.

I think that we would have uh uh happened to do that.

So uh it is going to be a bad situation.

I mean, from what I recall, they looked really, really sharp, the ones I remember seeing in the past for quite a while.

We also got to remember 1985 is 40 years ago.

So I mean it gave a good life for a while, but it's at the point that it needs to be fixed.

And unfortunately, the way it was platted and designed, it's not an easy fix for any one property owner.

Um you know, today that would be in a uh that would be in a reserve where the whole business association has to pay for it, you know, and those property owners rightfully so, they're like, well, why aren't the businesses on the other side helping us, you know, because it's on private property.

So it's something where we can step in and help.

So my one question, um, since you did mention it's multiple business owners.

If we were to do this, do we have to get permission from each of those business owners or an agreement from each of them?

Or what happens if one of them says, I don't want to participate?

Yeah, so Mr.

Schwab and I have already um gone to their business owners association meeting and they've tentatively all agreed for us to move forward with this step, which is design, um, but they understood they will have to sign agreements, maybe some sort of drainage easement or something will go there in the future.

Um, but they'll all have to give permission to be on the land and provide some sort of land before we'll ever move forward with construction.

Copy that.

So and if I may, the first drainage advisory committee meeting, uh, we didn't have a quorum, but sixteen showed up from this uh property owners association in support.

Okay.

I make a motion that we uh approve uh G25 1620 for funds to at least do the engineering on this project.

Second.

Okay, welcome.

All right.

Item 9H, consideration discussion and possible approval of an authorization to award the lowest responsible bidder to go over construction.

Charlie.

Good evening again, Mayor, Vice Member, Council members, and Mr.

Spurgeon.

My name is Charlie Bright, Director of Engineering Construction.

Um just to state up front, this item is actually uh tied to an item that is on the uh Bama agenda, but it's on consent, so I'll talk about it here, assuming if it's approved and everything, it's on consent for any reason.

We'd have to talk about it at that point.

Um but this is a construction project that we bid along Houston Street in Old Town between Main Street and Lynn Lane.

Um it's for water line and primarily for water line improvements, but you have a lot of drainage issues there in the way, and so we had to do some drainage design in a company with the water line improvements that are in the area.

Um so we bid it out uh actually just to save money and be as fiscally responsible as we can.

We actually bid it out to where our utility team is gonna do most of the waterline work, and a contractor is gonna do all the drainage work for us and do the borings for us under the road because we don't have the equipment to do the borings.

Um Gober Construction is who we're recommending as the lowest responsible bidder.

I will point out in this situation is unique that Gober was not our lowest bidder.

Um we have uh stronghand, we do have a past history of working with them.

They have done a project since then successfully.

But when we got their uh low bid award, we checked in with all of the references that were provided.

And based off of the feedback we got from the references plus our own past experience, we decided as staff that we felt Governor Construction was the lowest responsible.

Happy to answer any more detailed questions on that, but uh you know, I know that we've been for this governing body recently where we've had trouble with contractors and issues, and uh we feel like this is the most appropriate way to proceed.

Yeah, they're all across the board, aren't they?

Yeah.

Any questions?

So with that, we are recommending um for the city portion.

We are recommending a ward to go over construction for the number that you see of $565,940.

Um, the other portion will be under the BAMA portion later.

Okay.

So I'll make a motion to be approved.

25-1580.

Second roll call.

Thank you all.

Thank you, Charlie.

All right.

Nine eye consideration discussion and possible approval of a contract with Brink and Motorola solutions for the DFR takeoff program.

Chief.

Good evening, honorable mayor, vice mayor, counselors, and Mr.

Spurgeon.

My name is Lance Arnold, and I'm very privileged to lead the exceptional members of the Broken Arrow Police Department.

Um, what you have before you tonight is an incredible and unique opportunity, and it's one really that through this council and Mr.

Spurgeon's vision and leadership has set Broken Arrow apart historically, as we've heard tonight with a lot of these great projects as an innovator, as one that is concerned about progress and certainly committed to public safety.

And this is an opportunity tonight that came to us because of our reputation in those areas.

It's also an opportunity that you have before you to uh to further our efforts in those areas and to really set us apart uh not only as the the uh number one place to live in Oklahoma, but certainly as an a uh a leader in public safety and in innovation.

Uh a little bit about the DFR program.

Uh so it is a relatively new uh program in public safety.

You I'm sure you've seen the advertisements and things with the autonomous drones for Amazon and Walmart, and that's becoming a thing.

What allowed that to really kind of become a thing in those industries as well as in in uh public safety was uh the allow to fly the drone beyond line of sight.

So you may remember or know that we have a current UAS or drone team, uh, and the way that drone team works is they are always within line of sight.

So when we have a need for a drone, we the officer responds, um, they deploy the drone and it stays within line of sight.

It's more reactionary to an event that's already occurred, uh, and their response time is just like our normal response time or wherever they happen to be in the city and wherever they're needed.

The way the DFR works is it would run out of our real-time information center, so this is an expansion, um, kind of the next evolution, if you will, of our real-time information center.

Um, they would be uh piloted, it's primarily autonomous, but still would be piloted by uh members that are currently assigned to the real-time information center.

So, as our real-time information center grows, that's part of their regular duties assigned in the real-time information center.

Uh the the value of the real time or the DFR program, quite frankly, is is that uh the average response time for those drones is about 70 seconds to get on scene.

So when you think about a priority one call or something like that, the target response, whether you're talking about a fire call or a police call, is typically within four minutes.

Now we try to be there faster, but that's the targeted kind of average response time for us.

And so we can have a drone on scene within 70 seconds.

Historically, also in some of the the places that they've established DFR programs, those drones are getting on scene 70% faster than any responder would, whether it be a police or fire type call.

Uh, and so those are the some of the advantages.

The other advantage that we see with it is quite frankly, where we see a lot of advantages are uh being able to respond to instance that are maybe even your lower priority, a priority three or four call that is maybe a check the area for us or check the area for the fire department, a smoke investigation or something like that, uh, where the drone can actually go make scene, provide valuable information back that maybe a response is not needed, and that uh those those firefighters or those officers are then able to respond to higher priority incidents.

And so that on average is is taking care of about 25% of the calls for service in the cities that have done that.

The other thing I'd like to point out when I talk about being an innovator and the commitment to public safety is so far in Oklahoma, only one other city, Oklahoma City has actually deployed a drone as first responder program.

Um the other thing that I mentioned is why it's an opportunity is because it's a very unique situation in that this opportunity with Brink and Motorola allows us to set the program up, get it going, and run it for a year at no risk and no cost to the city.

Um the contract is that you have before you does account for a payment for years two through six.

That would be 79,000 apiece for each drone, but everything for the first year would allow us to really be able to justify or not justify the true need that we have in broken arrow for the program.

And that's something that's truly unique for somebody.

They may do a try before you buy, but very seldom do they actually uh let you try it for a year.

And they do all the work and set up and all that kind of stuff.

Um, as far as the cost that may not be included in that, they're all minimal and can be absorbed within our current budget.

Um there are things like maybe running the network pro the network cables, training some additional pilots that would work in the real-time information center.

All of those are very very minimal costs and things that we could absorb within our our current budget.

Um so that's the proposal that we have before you tonight.

It's one that it would be a part of our real-time information center.

It doesn't cause additional people in the real-time information center, but we are currently working on a staffing plan as we know that the real-time information center starts to come up in all of its capabilities.

This is an additional capability, but it would be operated under our our staffing plan that we do plan to present to Mr.

Spurgeon during the budget season this year.

So I saw that it can deliver Narcan and EpiPins.

It can, yes.

So, like, how does it where is it holding it?

It has a delivery system attached to it.

Okay.

Um, similar to the what you see with the Amazon or the Walmart.

I use those two, there are others, but very similar to that.

And so it can be used for those things.

The the cameras and the optics in those things are incredible too.

So it uses thermal imaging, infrared imaging.

Um, the other the other great thing about it is they're already have developed and and are in the final testing phase of their even bigger drone.

This would be a part of the same program, and part of this program with brink allows or uh has them replace the drones that we would have set up in year three of the contract and in year five of the contract.

And and in addition to that, one so other thing that's really unique is we get to keep the drones that we had already deployed up to that point.

So they replace them with new drones, and then we get to keep the ones that we've already had deployed.

So is this like a year-by-year contract, so say your third year, some newer flash year thing comes up.

You could just say there's always going to be a misappropriate or not appropriation, not a misappropriation.

We don't want to do that by any strength.

Um, but a non-appropriation clause that's in there, and yes, it is.

And on this, the the even for the within the first year, within 30 days of that of the first year, if we went to them and said for no cause, for no reason that we're just not interested, they come get all their stuff and we don't owe them anything.

Wow.

But but I will tell you as far as that new f New Year Flash year thing, we we've seen and we had the uh incredible opportunity to go to the International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference this year.

That's where we actually got this uh original kind of discussion going with them and and what they have in the works that that would be that drone that would place us the initial ones that we would get this year in year three of the contract is that new year flash year thing.

So for certain there they're constantly in that evolution stage.

Yeah, I think when it comes to public safety, um, you know, obviously it's a priority for for our city.

Um, and when it comes to public safety being top notch and cutting edges, our police department is you have to stay on top of technology, and this is uh just a further way of doing that.

Um I've heard a lot about this technology and actually got to see it uh in action um actually with Chief actually both chiefs in Colorado Springs.

Yeah, uh it's pretty incredible the capabilities uh of these drones and the time it can save and the resources it can save.

Um so I'm definitely in favor of this.

Thank you.

Any further discussion or question?

Okay, entertain a motion.

I'll make a motion for approval of 25-16 feet.

Thank you.

Second roll call.

All right, item J received bids for the purchase of 14 million five hundred general obligation bonds, series 2025.

Cindy Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council and Mr.

Spurgeon.

Um tonight um the council authorized um the solicitation of bids to sell 14 million five hundred thousand dollars from the 2018 authorization on the regular October 21st uh council meeting.

Bids were received this morning at 11 o'clock.

Um we did receive four bids.

John Wolf here to go over the bids.

Okay.

Good evening.

Don't want to slow down the pace.

Keep it moving, keep it moving.

Keep it moving.

I'll talk why you pass these out, but I did want to at least provide the the bids that did come in.

They're gonna have to go all the way around.

You'll see the detail, but uh we did receive four bids.

Um low bids was actually from T D Financial Products LLC.

Thank you.

This is on the 20-year term bonds, and we had a bid of 3.669651.

Uh the reason to go to that extent of all the decimal places is that was very close to the second low bid.

Um the market's kind of been up and down.

Um, you guys think about this big picture, 20-year debt.

All our projections going forward are in this three-six range, and so we we accomplish when we talk about 400 million a little bit more.

That's what we've assumed going forward.

There's a there's a lot of positive movement in the market, keeping the market uh to a position to where you guys can meet your objectives.

Uh we recommend that you award to TD Financial Products LLC as a low bidder based on the award at lowest TIC or true interest costs.

Be glad to answer any questions that you have.

One thing, I don't know if you had already mentioned a previous meeting.

Uh you had the bonds rated by standard and poors.

Uh have you already addressed this?

No reason to go into that.

That was a change, a change for the good.

So thanks for all you do, John.

Thank you.

Even though the the difference is very minimal, those decimal points when it comes to that mean dollars.

Yeah, yeah, correct.

Um staff's recommending to receive and approve the bids of the ward most advantageous bid of the sale of the um 14 million five hundred thousand motion to approve.

Second we have a motion and a second roll call.

All right, item nine K is to res uh review bids for the two point five million geobond series.

Any of those to pass out?

Oh, you don't have any space?

I do.

Okay, yeah.

Cindy is passing these out.

We actually receive this is a 10-year term bond.

This is uh the B series, this is for uh basically drainage that you don't exclusively own.

We have to do it separate.

It's a 10-year term, half the term.

We receive one bid uh on this from TD Financial Products LLC.

And in case you say, well, why did we got four on the other?

Why do we just get one bid?

There's so much out there in the market, so many everybody's trying to obviously uh buy bonds on a on a big sale date today nationally.

Uh but the positive thing, uh we got a bid of 3.11% on a 10-year term, and uh which was lower than we were rejecting when we put everything together, so uh same low bid as you had on the 2025 A.

So we recommend awarding to T D Financial Products LLC.

Glad to answer any questions.

Any questions?

We'll make a motion to approve 25-160.

Second, all right.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

Thanks, Sean.

There are no preview ordinances.

Item 11 ordinance eight.

Consideration discussion on possible approval of ordinance number 3899.

Cindy.

Um, yes, uh, good evening.

Ordinance number 3899 um authorizes the sale of the 14 million five hundred thousand dollars.

Um, then we just went over the bids.

Uh staff is recommending adopting ordinance number thirty-eight ninety-nine and approve the emergency clause.

This is just the formality of it.

Okay.

Any questions or discussion?

I'll make a motion to approve ordinance number thirty-eight ninety-nine.

Second.

I have a motion, a second roll call.

I can't vote for him, so wait.

Sounds like he's almost finished.

Just kidding.

Anyone have any Japanese music?

There's quiet in here.

We're just waiting for you, but you didn't hear me holler, yes.

No.

No, we did not.

Thank you, sir.

Okay.

Item B is the emergency clause.

So moved.

Second.

Roll call.

All right.

Item C consideration discussion and possible approval ordinance number 3900.

Um ordinance 3900 is the um is the final steps to adopt um to move forward with the 2.5 million dollar bond sale.

Um staff is recommending adopt ordinance number 3900 and improve the emergency clause.

Any questions?

Discussion.

No will.

Okay.

Entertain a motion.

I'll make a motion to approve ordinance 3900.

And these both will fund in December.

Okay.

Item D is the emergency clause.

Make a motion to approve the emergency clause.

Second.

Second.

Roll call.

Thank you, ma'am.

Thank you.

All right.

Remarks and inquiries by governing body members.

Huge thank you to our staff.

The Christmas kickoff was amazing, as always.

Picture perfect.

Yes.

I think that was the goal, as always.

And the vests were really nice too, weren't they?

The vest.

Sweatshirt were really nice on that really toasty evening.

I wish it would have been cold.

Yeah, that would have been great.

Yeah, but it's all right.

We have time.

We still wore them.

We had snow.

Yeah, we did have snow.

So Christmas parade is December 6th, 10 a.m.

on Main Street.

So hope to see everybody there.

And then happy Thanksgiving.

Because we won't be back together before then.

So anyone else.

I'd like to give a big shout out to the Pride of Broken Arrow.

Yeah, fourth place, yeah.

At the Grand National Championships, there were four uh marching bands from Oklahoma that went and they all represented very well.

And uh Jinx made it to semifinals and broken arrow made it to the finals and came in fourth.

So big you know, continue to represent Broken Arrow in a a true life.

Do we have a rotary pancake breakfast before the um 12-6?

Before the well, we all attended um Trader Joe's very quick ribbon cutting this morning.

I mean five tail, we cut the ribbon, and then we were.

But um the the Broken Arrow students were there in full force.

It was really exciting.

There was a long line to get in, and you know, there's been people that have made comments on social media is like I don't know what the big deal is.

Well the big deal is that's that is sales tax that's gonna stay in our city and not go to another city.

And so um I reminded the whole line of people to shop BA.

This whole I in fact I tried to get the cheerleaders instead of go BA by BA, but I think I was a little too late for all that.

But anyway, um it it was real exciting.

I think a lot of people were definitely glad to be there.

So Justin didn't think he'd ever shop there, but then I made him walk through the store and I pointed out all the really cool and different unique things, and he said, Okay, maybe I will.

I did.

So anyone else.

Well, and we'll we're all leaving for the week, so it'll be up to you guys.

You have to just hold down the fort while we're gone.

So okay, thank you.

City manager.

Yes, Mayor members council.

Four things quickly.

Um I apologize when counselor green asked the question about notification to the folks that are gonna serve.

There's already been a draft letter prepared and signed by the mayor and myself that Rocky's team is going to be sending out on behalf of the council acknowledging that they've been appointed and to get ready to get busy.

So that's gonna go out in the next day or two.

So I apologize.

I meant I meant to say that in uh when you asked that question, sir.

Uh secondly, I do want to echo the mayor's comments and the council members about the hard work for those that have been around a while.

The first 10 years ago, there might have been a hundred to two hundred people at the most that were at the tree lighting ceremony and waiting to get the numbers back to see exactly how many we have.

And what I asked the staff to do is eventually is to grow the program to where it's actually going further to the north.

And we've accomplished that now.

Is that I'd like to also do some additional expansions in New Orleans Square next year.

But obviously, if you want to do additional programs, you've got it, you you've got to provide proper notice because it's a busy time of year.

But I do think it's an important area where we could have some opportunities.

We always have success with a couple of things we do there, like the Hobson Bops, for example.

So just great shout out to all the city employees led by Aaron Hoffner, uh Ryan Bayes, his folks.

I mean, it was amazing to watch them do everything.

And so, Ryan, please pass it along to your folks, all the hard work that went into this.

Uh, two more things.

So I want to mention something is trails are important to our community, and I asked the question today, and Lori Hill got me the information.

Is I think in January, sometime the Department of Transportation is going toward the next phase of our trail program, which is on first place from New Orleans to Washington.

And so that's going to be a great addition to continue that trail because eventually, as we know, we want to have the trail to where you can come from the downtown, get on that trail, get all the way out to Liberty Trail, and then you can actually get on all the way over to the other side of Tulsa once you get on that trail.

And so we're just a little bit a little bit away from being able to have that phase.

So it's we have grant money, so that's why we the Department of Transportation is going to be involved.

So that's the one thing.

And then last, I want to I want to follow up.

I didn't say anything at the time, is that the contract that you approved for the police department for the drone program?

Uh, first off, I can tell you that the number that was initially presented was much higher.

And so I I asked the chief to negotiate that, and he did a really good job of actually reducing the overall cost for years two through six.

So the chief's efforts needs to be acknowledged.

And the other thing is is that uh the one thing that I'm sold on about this, I mean, is the fact that I was in Phoenix yesterday, we were playing we were playing ball, and as I'm watching a uh Amazon drone actually delivered something to a house in the and in the outfield behind, I watched the drone the whole time go down, deliver it.

I it went in front of the house, it had a package, a big package, and then it went up and then it was gone.

And you see that on television, but to actually see to see it in real time is is it's very very interesting to watch.

It's a very large drone.

And my point is is that we're now in this, okay, and I think we should be in it.

When we created this real time center, it was all about not only officer safety, but the proactiveness that is needed to be able to give our officers and firefighters real time information.

70 seconds is that's I mean, most of us can almost hold our breath or at least twice.

The next thing that drone's gonna be there and giving them real time information, so as the officers are en route, they'll know how to prepare for that situation.

And so to get these drones for six years, and I'm sure there's gonna be a need for additional drones, but now we've we've moved into this area, and I think it's very important that we do that and we be a leader not only to say we're a leader, but it's gonna benefit the safety of our citizens.

And so great job, chief.

I appreciate so that's all I have.

Well, I appreciate you just you know, thinking that it's too too expensive and just asking the chief go back and see what you can do because you know they could have said no, yeah, but they didn't.

They said yes, and it was that's our taxpayer money.

Yeah, and so like you say, people think we just have all kinds of money, but we don't, but what the money that we have, we definitely try to get the best of sure.

So I'm excited about it.

I think that we need to obviously give it the chief, he's PIO and promote this because it it is going to be something very dynamic for our city.

Because obviously, I could see South Broken Air neighbors, the drone going overhead, watch the drone there, and there'll be 800 comments.

Uh I mean, obviously, and I say that with all tongue in cheek, but all sincerity is I think we need to promote this because it's another.

I mean, broken air is known that if you if you do something against the law in broken air, you're probably gonna get caught.

Yeah, and so it's another way to be proactive, and that's what I really liked about it.

But when you're talking about adding 150,000 a year in the budget, there needs to be justification.

The chief provided that, and I'm I'm I'm I'm a big believer in this, and so I'm just letting council know when you buy into this, we're now we're now in it, and I'm excited about it.

And I'm I would anticipate there'll be additional additional need for personnel as well as additional equipment to to better provide protection for our citizens and and in both police and fire.

So maybe emergency management as well.

That's what I was getting already say, even though it's gonna be housed at the police department or wherever, you know, the police will be over it.

Um I could see where a lot of our departments could utilize it on different things.

So yeah, I think it's not good.

Thank you.

Um talking about New Orleans Square.

Um, do you remember when I used to do the holiday pop-up shops?

But it'd be like in one location.

What if we could do something like that in one of the big parking lots where we I'm picturing like little sheds, you know, and make it a little Santa Village kind of thing and have vendors that come out and Chris already had some ideas, and obviously I'm a little concerned about timing.

Because you're talking about spending a little bit of money to to do sort of, but I'm gonna ask Rocky, we already spoke about it right before the meeting.

Is that we're gonna put together some suggestions for New Orleans Square for next year, and then we can get the advertising advertising port going to make sure that it's well attended.

So but I'm very excited about it because there's a lot that's happening, and and we just want to continue and also just let the council know with regarding Christmas is that uh I advise the mayor, and so is Laura for the veterans, is that we're gonna be able to make the the banners out at the events park on the edge of town.

Uh that's going to be to be able to put the veterans on those banners.

And they've also the electricity's been set up, and we're gonna have look in the SECI for next year about actually putting lighting out there to basically to coincide with the with the amphitheater itself for the holidays.

And so uh it's it's just a great opportunity that it's just the armor on the on the tire, so to speak, about that just really sets things off and so and sets us apart.

Yes, yep.

So I'll have thank you, sir.

We have no executive session.

Motion to adjourn.

Second roll call.

All right, call the broken air municipal authority meeting to order.

Roll call.