And that is probably the biggest cause of like our existence water runs into the neighborhood because every building really allowed four houses to run.

It's an issue.

Oh my god.

Holy cow.

Right.

Showing off.

There must be someone special in the audience.

Everybody's special.

Everybody's special.

Yes, they are.

Call the Broken Arrow Municipal or the City Council meeting to order.

Sorry about that.

We have invocation by Pastor Scott Moore.

Hello, everybody.

Hi.

Heavenly Father, we come before you uh during this uh uh wonderful time of the year uh where we are preparing uh to celebrate uh the birth of the Savior.

And uh it's a beautiful place uh to live and and to do that, and we thank you uh for all of those uh who are here today uh who love you and who want the best for our community.

Uh Father, we thank you for great leaders and great citizens who are willing to work together uh to see our community continue to be a great place to live.

We're also reminded, Father, that uh you want to direct our steps.

In John chapter 16, you say, but when he, the spirit of truth comes, he will guide us into all truth.

And so for this meeting today, we claim that promise that everything that we talk about uh will be led by you and you will lead us in the right directions so that we can continue uh to live uh as a prosperous community and a community that shines as the light of a great example of how to be.

Uh be with us again, we pray, in this time together.

In your wonderful name.

Amen.

Amen.

Thank you, sir.

Roll call.

Green.

Here.

Ford?

Here parks.

Here, Wimpy.

Here.

Please stand and join Councillor Green for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Salute.

Pledge.

I'm glad to the flag of the United States of America.

And to the Republic for which it stands.

One nation under God.

Indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you, sir.

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

I'll make a motion to accept the consent agenda.

I'll second that motion.

The motion and a second roll call.

All right.

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

Uh 7A is recognition of broken arrow citizen Chris Lynham for exemplary broken arrow police.

Uh for the exemplar exemplifying, I cannot find my words today.

Exemplifying broken air police department core values of courage, compassion accomplished by intervening and assisting another citizen experiencing a mental health crisis.

Chief Arnold.

Good evening, Honorable Mayor, Vice Mayor, Counselors, and Mr.

Spurgeon.

I'm Lance Arnold, Police Chief.

To borrow your phrase, Mayor, it's always a great day in BA.

It's especially a great day when we can recognize our citizens for going above and beyond to help their fellow citizens.

On November the 6th, 2025, at approximately 1230 p.m., the Broken Arrow Police Department responded to the area of highway, State Highway 51 and Kenosha Street Bridge in reference to a young man on the bridge with his feet dangling over the side.

Upon arrival, officers met with Broken Arrow citizen Chris Lionel.

It was later revealed that Mr.

Lynham had pulled over when he noticed the young man in what appeared to be a mental health crisis.

The individual stated he was considering suicide.

Mr.

Lynnham exemplified the Broken Arrow Police Department's core values of courage and compassion by humanizing the young man, building rapport, and subsequently pulling him off the ledge when the opportunity presented itself.

Mr.

Lynham went above and beyond by holding and hugging the young man until first responders could arrive.

Mr.

Lynnham's selfless actions are recognized by the Broken Arrow Police Department and the entire city of Broken Arrow as exemplary and exceptional for the helping a person in need whom you did not even know.

Job well done.

And for this, we would like to present the certificate of recognition to Chris Lionel.

That's awesome.

Congratulations.

That's a great way to start our council meeting, that is for sure.

Thank you, sir.

Cool.

All right.

Um item 7B presentation of the government finance officers association's budget award.

Night uh not as compassionate and exciting as what we just expected.

No, I'm sorry.

It's not.

But it is in a way.

No, um I'm happy to announce that this year again uh we received the GFOA Budget Award.

Um, and this is our seventh year in a row.

GFOA budget um program, I'll be short.

Um was established in 1984, and there's approximately 1900 governments um that have been recognized.

You after your budget's adopted, you apply to the GFOA, and they have uh a panel of three reviewers that go through them, and they criticize every little thing.

And it's weird because some of them will outright uh say you're outstanding, and then someone says you need you need a little work on it.

So it's different opinions, but there's a criteria that you have to make.

Um to qualify for the GFOA budget award, um, you must submit your budget document um within 90 days of the day if it's adopted.

And the budget is evaluated against internationally recognized guidelines, and it's it's more for like a policy document, financial plan, operation guide, and communication advice.

Um it's supposed to be more for transparency.

Um benefits of receiving the award is enhanced credibility, recognition of excellence, public trust, and continuous improvement.

The feedback you get, they want you to keep improving your budget.

Like the first year we did it, um, was the first year I got here, and we had some criticisms, and when you just keep improving it, and each year it's getting better and better.

But it's it's a nice award, I think.

And that's what it looks like.

And it's in your budget book.

We put it in every year.

And um, this is our seventh year, and I want to thank the city leadership and finance depth to help achieve this award.

Wonderful.

Thank you, man.

Congratulations.

Great job.

Michael, is there some place on here where we like on our website or whatever that we show off this award if we've gotten it for seven years in a row?

Is there some place so our citizens will know the quality of work that that your department's doing?

Thank you for that question, Counselor.

First off, we'll do uh a public announcement that we received, especially six years is one thing, seven years.

And it I'm sorry, they scrutinize everything from my budget message all the way down to how we do our practices.

And secondly, is that I'll work with Cindy.

I know we know it, but I we we could probably put it in a more prominent place.

And they're very they really do one of the things they do love is they like your budget message.

So but I don't know if you remember some of you were not on council, but then but like eight years ago, our budget was only like 150 pages.

Now it's 300.

Yeah.

Because all the extra stuff that they require for transparency.

That's why we have all the years, we have um, you know, all our policies in there, anything that we adopt over reserve policies, all that's in there.

So well, you do a good job, and and I think it's important, and that just falls back on on what we all want is that transparency and to let our citizens know that we're award-winning, clearly.

Clearly.

You're stealing my thunder because I'm gonna mention it next Wednesday, so I appreciate you.

I appreciate you mentioning that because I mean it just demonstrates the approach we take to our finances and the stability and how we how we view preparing the budget and then not just the budget, but also how we manage throughout the year.

So it is a tremendous credit.

Council you have to go through the painstaking process in the month of May and June of reviewing all 300 pages of those documents, and so you're very familiar.

And then we have an audit committee, I'm actually an audit and finance committee, which actually looks at even further, which I know they like the fact that we have that so that we have that accountability.

So it is in a tremendous award for the one of the things we do add in too is that years thrive.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And they have commented on that.

So well, congratulations.

Thank you.

All right.

Item 7C presentation of the 2026 Go Bond City Managers Recommended Package.

Mr.

Spurgeon.

So good evening, Mayor Wimpy and the Council.

I'd also like to, we have a great attendance tonight.

I hope everybody showed up to hear my presentation regarding the because it is very important.

In all serious, I also want to uh welcome those folks that are watching the meeting or will be watching the meeting.

Um I want to thank you for the opportunity to for the administration to present its recommendations for what is known as phase two of the Build Our Future BA bond package program.

The first phase was in 2018 when we went for the voters with uh six propositions and all six of those passed which we were truly blessed, and you can see that work happening throughout the entire city.

And I have a uh PowerPoint, but I just have a couple of comments, and I think that it is most appropriate to start this evening with uh the thank yous on how we got to this point because nothing can be done by one person.

And the first thanks goes to the council.

You've had to sit through umpteam number of two two one meetings and actual formal meetings over the last really 20 months in preparation for tonight, and I want to thank you.

And secondly, to the city leadership team and the staff members that had put together the recommendations, followed up on those recommendations, prioritize them, and made sure that we had great projects for the governing body to consider.

The next is, and we have many of those folks in the audience tonight.

We have community groups, we have representatives from a number of organizations that are committed just as the council is to make sure that we maintain a great quality of life.

Also the sports organizations that uh provide recreational opportunities for our kids and adults, which is which is what Broken Air is known for in many respects, and so uh we appreciate their support.

We have tremendous partners in the school district, the chamber, and the economic development corporation, uh NSU, so forth that have contributed.

We have a number of HOAs that contributed.

We also did an incredible number of surveys amongst our citizens to get their input in order to make sure that this whole package is community driven.

Uh, we also have uh representatives from the the Tulsa City County Library, which could be a potential partnership, and then most important to the citizens that came to the public forums, also spoke to the council members' administration about what they thought was important because it is a package that I'll be presenting to the council that is community driven.

So tonight I'm asking the council to to really consider just a couple of things.

First is to receive the presentation that we're about to give.

And if you have comments, let us know what those comments are.

Uh secondly, is my recommendation is to let the package lay over until that need meeting on December 16th, at which time the public would have an opportunity to actually see what's been recommended by the administration.

And then third, on the 16th, give permission to finalize the package and authorize legal to prepare the appropriate documents.

What does that mean?

Is that there are ordinances and there is a resolution, the ordinances actually outline the actual projects for each proposition, and then the resolution will call for the election on April 7th.

And so that would all that action would take place on January 6 should council decide to move forward.

So at this time, I would I would like to know if you have any questions, and if not, then I'd ask permission to go forward with the presentation.

Any questions?

Yes, okay.

Okay, so actually you notice we have Shannon and we have uh Charlie sitting up front today.

Shannon's very excited to be sitting in the big C so uh I right now I think she's more enthusiastic than Ryan Bayes is, and which is the same exactly so the first item that I have presented here is I think it's important, especially with so many people in the audience is this is a timeline and what has taken place since I would say probably the late summer of 2023 when we first started having initial discussions about a bond package, and as you can see, it goes from top to bottom, leads us all the way to where we are today, and all the actions that the city has taken to hire a consultant to begin the surveys, to have the initial meetings with the user groups, with the council, with our partners, and to where we are tonight, which is the presentation.

I think that's important because council actually authorized officially in April of 2023, this two-year initiative, and to think that essentially we are just over four months from when the voters will go to the polls.

So it's been an amazing journey.

It's been a lot of heavy lifting, and I just wanted to recognize the timeline that we've gone through.

Secondly, is that it's important not only to have survey results, but also have a citizens committee that can come in and these are people that will actually be recommending and voting themselves on this package.

And I want on behalf of the council to thank the citizens that chose to participate, and also to the broken air public schools, the broken air chamber of commerce, the economic development corporation, the planning commission, build a better rocanaro, and many other organizations that took the time to meet for approximately six months, uh several times a month to come up with a recommendation they gave earlier this summer.

So where did we start?

The first round was there was an estimate of about one to 1.2 billion dollars worth of projects.

Now that seems like a lot, and that is a real number, as the council knows, but I want to make a point here, and that is when I asked the council to begin this initiative, I ask you to really do one thing overall, and that's to create a bond package program, not just look at a bond package as a singular event.

And the reason being is when I started in 2015 and Kenny Schwab, I had to do the one in 2018.

We really had to cobble together and grab information.

There wasn't a formal structured document that we could work off of.

And obviously, this package is set up with the 1.2 billion dollars, assuming there's approvals.

We've now set the city up potentially with projects for consideration in 2035, 2036, whenever that is, and as well as 2045 or 2046.

So we've given the current and the future leadership of this community the opportunity to come in, dust off the estimates, update what projects have been completed, see if there are new projects, go through the exact same process that we've gone through this time and make it much simpler for whoever is the city manager and the city council members in in the decade or two decades.

So we reduce the 1.2 billion.

As you know, there was a line of about 600 million.

And tonight I'm asking for your consideration of a total package for seven propositions of 415 million dollars.

So this next slide here demonstrates more specifically is this the seven projects.

The first seven, one is transportation.

We may change that to streets and roads.

I mean, transportation can be a little bit confusing, but right now I'm calling it transportation.

That's 205 million and represents 49.6, right at 50 percent.

As council members know from the history, is that the streets and roads is always been the most important item in every single survey we do, conversations with citizens about widening roads, maintaining roads and intersections.

Secondly, is the is also the important public safety, proposing 56 million or right at 13 and a half to 14 percent.

Proposition number three is quality of life, that's your parks and recreation, which includes a recommendation for a new community center in the southwest part of our our city in Enum Park, which came out very high in the surveys amongst the citizens.

Four is city facilities, and there's a whole host of city facilities there from upgrades to the user groups that we work with as well as some some of the city facilities.

Obviously, those need to be addressed.

And then there's the all-important Prop 5 and Prop 6, which are stormwater.

And as we know, uh stormwater addressing stormwater issues historically has been very important to our community.

And I'm proud to say is that I'm recommending a seventh proposition, which is a partnership with the Tulsa City County Library to actually build a new library in South Broken Arrow.

And so actually Shannon and Charlie will talk a little bit more about that during their presentation.

And then there is the proposition number eight, which is separate.

So let me just say this is that in the first seven propositions, those are all property tax-related propositions.

There will be no change in the current property tax rate, which means these will not be any new taxes, is the is based on the increase in the assessed value of our community and paying off previous bonds, gives us the financial capacity to be able to accommodate the debt service associated with with the voters' approval of these bonds.

So we'll keep the exact same tax rate should the voters approve these.

The eighth proposition is different, it's related to sales tax, and I'll talk about here in just a moment.

So here's what is required or necessary in terms of voter approval on April 7th.

Once again, you have the dollars amount listed there, the proposition and in propositions one through five, excuse me, one through four.

You just need 50 plus one vote.

And then in proposition five and six, we're actually going to use the state statute approved language, which would allow us to do public work on private property that's later to related to a private problem.

If you remember in the 2018 package, that was only proposition six.

And so this time we're recommending that we use the same language but separate them into where proposition five would be larger, more comprehensive projects that require work with uh not only private citizens but also other public entities because we're not we're not supposed to, and we really don't spend or make improvements on their on their property, and then the drainage because that's become very very important to the council would be focused on the drainage issues within the respective developments in other areas of our of our city.

So those would require 60 percent.

I will share that in 2018 proposition number six received well over 70 percent.

I think it was the highest vote or even a percent or two higher than the streets.

And then proposition number seven, should council choose to to go forward, it only requires the 50.1.

So with regard to the sports facilities or the proposition number eight that's related to sales tax, that only requires a vote of 50 50 and one vote, 50% and one vote.

Okay.

So as I mentioned, just to be more clear, is that there's no increase in the current property tax rate for propositions one through seven, which is consistent with what the city has done previously, and in proposition precision number eight, it does temporarily, and that's why it's highlighted in Indian Capitals, a dedicated sales tax of a half a cent with the five-year sunset clause within city limits on both Tulsa and Wagner counties for sports facilities for the improvements that we've been discussing over the last six to eight months.

Now, here's what council said if we were going to consider a proposition related to sales tax and sports organizations and improvements for each of their facilities.

First and foremost, if the proposition is approved by the voters, uh we want and essentially the goal is this.

Let me step back.

The goal is for the is for the uh the kids of the parents that vote for this initiative to be able to use the facilities.

We don't want it to be something like if it was property taxes or other entities that it takes longer.

The council said we want the kids of the parents that vote to be able to use this, and this exactly does that.

If the proposition is approved, city staff will work to get uh the loan requested because we'll have voter approval so we can use that to pledge going out to borrow the necessary money to do the improvements because we want to get started immediately.

So if there's an approval, we'll begin the design for all of the improvements in all of the facilities, which is Indian Springs that houses soccer, baseball, and slow pitch softball, arrowhead, which covers uh fast fits, girls fast fit softball, as well as our football complex, which has had a number of major improvements, but there's still some amazing improvements that could be built out there that are gonna further enhance the the play for for the kids, the youth, especially with our with our football program, which is so big, basically made it to the semifinals this year.

Those are the kids that are actually going to be moving up.

I think it's important that they have the facilities to be prepared when they move up into the high school.

Then once we've completed design, which will take one year, construction with the follow and take approximately 12 to 18 months, depending on the scope of the work, and this may affect uh obviously the seasons, but then we would go to complete the construction.

So we're really looking at in approximately three years, we would be completed so the kids of the parents that voted for this, and almost all of them would be able to use the facilities.

So we follow council's guidelines for for this initiative.

So if there are any questions at this point, I'm gonna turn it over to to Kenny Schwab, and then he'll he'll have a few comments on some slides, and then we will turn it over to Charlie Bright, Director of Engine Construction, and Shannon Marshall, the project manager for the engineering construction department.

Kenny?

Thank you, Mr.

Spurgeon.

I think uh Mr.

Spurgeon's done a great job of showing you the big picture, the overall uh scope of it, if you will, of the bond package itself.

Charlie and Shannon are going to dive into a lot more of the details of projects.

So I'm gonna just take three slides uh essentially and talk.

How do you get from point A to point B?

How do we determine what the cost of a project is going to be in the year 2035?

Um, we use a crystal ball.

That's what we'd like to do, but we use a professional team of engineers and architects and construction managers, and what they do is they actually take a look at let's say it's a road, okay?

We're gonna pick a mile of road, or we're gonna widen it from two to five lanes.

Um we're gonna have water lines on their ONG, PSO, what conflicts do we have?

So we get a really good idea up top, a high level of what conflicts and what we want to accomplish, and then we start determining how much uh construction activity there is.

But we're doing it in 2025.

We're not even voting until 2026.

So we're gonna calculate the best we can in 2025 all of those items.

Well, there's still other things like uh soft cost is what you'll hear a lot of.

Let's say it's a fire station, you're gonna have furniture.

Um we also have to have equipment in there, maybe uh ambulance and a fire truck.

If you're going to have senior center, you're going to do uh kitchen, you're going to have the appliances in there.

So there's other costs that we have to also calculate with that, including the engineering to design it, maybe architectural fees, certainly a survey fee, any per million fees.

So we have costs that go in that.

But I'll go back to we don't know all the details in 2025 of the project that we're going to design in 2030 and build in 2032, whatever the case may be, we don't know all the details.

So we have to leave a little bit of contingency in there.

At this level of planning, it's typical to have about a 25 to 30% contingency for all the unknowns that you you don't know until you get into the design of it.

That's pretty typical.

So we have 2025 cost plus those soft cost, you know, the hard cost that we just estimated to get into a project funding that'll include all the other fees that I just talked about.

So we come up with a project cost for every project.

I don't know, we don't know what year we're gonna build it.

We just talked about that earlier.

If you're Mr.

Spurgeon said 2020, 36, I believe.

So if the last sell is 2036, it may not be until 2038 that it's built.

So you still have to cover those costs today in 2025 to estimate how much it's going to be in 2038, possibly to actually build something.

So that's called an escalation.

We guessed 4% per year.

And I'm gonna touch on that real quick.

In 2018, when we did that bond, we used about a three, three and a quarter, and we used about a six and a half, seven year.

Right now we're using a seven-year escalation of four percent.

So four percent every year.

Norm told me not to do the math, but if you do the four percent to the seventh power, you get a 31.25% increase.

So if you take all your costs that we calculated for all the projects in 2025 and escalate them up 31%, that gets you to 2032.

That's the target date for the entire bond program.

You don't want to escalate everything to 2038, it'll be way too high.

You don't want to escalate maybe just a few years, you're gonna be too low.

The point of this slide right here to show a 31% increase.

In 2018, Shannon and I did this just last week.

We went out on the internet and Googled what was the price of a gallon of milk in 2018, the national average.

$3.4 cents.

Does anybody remember that?

I mean, it was just seven years ago.

No.

Go to the store today and tell me if you got $3.04, it'd be a half a gallon.

So $3.04 in 2018.

If you go now and take a look at the national average, it's $4.13.

That's interesting.

That's almost our bond program.

That is a 4%, almost a 4% over the seven years from 2018 to 2025.

That's the same escalation that we're using.

At 415 million dollars, if we were able to build everything today, it's 315 million.

That's a hundred million dollars of escalation over your bond program.

But that's the same that you see right there.

It's a little over a dollar.

So it actually is about a 30%, just like we're talking about.

So as we get into this, you'll see that we have accounted for all of those costs that I just talked about and an escalation.

So let's go to the next slide.

Um this is my last slide.

This kind of sets Charlie up and Shannon up to go into the details.

Proposition one, transportation streets, roadway, what we ever end up with that title is 35 projects.

Then proposition two is 12.

And you can just read down proposition three is 14, 10, 9.

Proposition six is that drainage.

That's that public private partnership.

We see it varies.

We don't know how many projects we'll have for that five million dollars.

We know there'll be multiple.

Um, and then one project for the library, and then to be determined because that's a sales tax.

It can generate we'll get as many projects as we can for that sales tax.

One thing I do want to point out a total of 81 projects, that's not quite apples to to apples.

We take a look at the 2018 bond.

We had a total of 99 projects.

We named a little bit more, uh, and then on this one in the streets, there are some money for STP, surface to transportation program, a match.

We're kind of safeguarding that.

That way we can uh file for federal funds.

It's an 80-20, 75, 25 percent.

We do the 25-20% match.

So that money will go a lot further and can create a lot more projects.

So even though we have a total of 81 projects here, it's probably closer to 100 or more.

So it the real comparison is we still have as many projects in this one, if not more.

So at this point, I'll turn it over to Charlie to go over to proposition one.

Uh thank you.

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

Charlie Bright, Director of Engineering Construction.

Um, so tonight we're gonna.

I know for the last time period that Mr.

Spurgeon's gone over.

We have talked about projects a lot.

We've talked about the 1.2 billion in projects, um, a lot of different ones, but tonight we're gonna focus on what the actual proposal is going to be for the bond.

And obviously, you guys make that final decision.

Um, so I'm just gonna go through and present what we're proposing.

Um, Mr.

Spurgeon and the staff are proposing as the final um representation of the bond, but uh it's really just a discussion at this point.

So if you guys want to stop at any point and ask questions about specific projects, pre please feel free to interject and we'll go from there.

Um I'm not gonna focus too much on the dollar values you see up there, they're on the screen.

Um you can see them, just be assured for anybody, the public, anybody watching.

Every single one of those dollar values is represented with a very detailed cost estimate that goes behind it, kind of what Mr.

Schwab was just talking about.

We've gone through the estimates of hard costs on every single project, we've added soft costs, we've added design fees, we've added land acquisition, and then we put contingency on there, and then we got to escalation.

And so the number you see up there is what we're proposing goes in the bond, which we project as the 2032 cost to build the project, and that'd be ultimately what the voters see.

Um so we'll start with proposition one.

Um a lot of exciting projects on here.

I think a lot of them that the public has told us through surveys and public meetings are important to them.

The big one, the first one is obviously Tucson, Aspen to Olive.

Um traffic counts are getting high today, but there's a lot of development in that area.

Um, and so that'll be a big project for us to widen that road.

Um next one that I think we hear about a lot is Omaha Street, 51st Street over at Aspen to Elm.

Um the twofold, this is the street itself, but then also improvements around the intersections, adding turn movements.

We know there's a lot of delays at that intersection today, and this will help give us some funding to work on that road.

Um Orleans Street, Garnett to Olive.

Um, for those of you that know this that project was actually in the 2018 bond for design money.

It was one of the last roads that got cut from the 2018 bond, but we threw money in there to design.

So my team is actually already working on the design of New Orleans Garnet to Olive.

We recently did a driving BAR uh video on that, but this bond would actually include the construction dollars so we can go build it at some point.

Um Washington to New Orleans.

Um, in this section, we don't and it's a smaller amount of money for a couple of reasons.

One, we don't anticipate um a large widening needed, it's really the turn movements that cause the delays.

So we're hoping to get some design money, um, some design money, some ride-away money, and then just add turn lanes in that area so we can get the turn movements out of the way.

Um, if it grows a little bit, this is one of the ones that we may go after an STP grant to support, as Mr.

Schwab mentioned earlier.

And then moving on Olive Street from New Orleans to the Creek Turnpike.

So this is about a mile and a half.

I think it's the only one we do have that long.

But uh obviously you get to that part of Olive Street, we're getting a lot of development in that area.

Um we've talked to developers.

We know that Olive Street around the Creek Turnpike is one of the future areas of expansion for commercial development in our community.

So we think that corridor is gonna be very important.

Um, and this would include widening it that entire stretch to get you to the Creek Turnpike.

Um Houston Street, state highway 51 to 209th.

So, as you all know, uh Houston from Lynn Lane all the way to Highway 51 was actually in the 2018 bond.

You just awarded a contract to start construction on the portion from county line to highway 51.

And as you also know, we've recently done construction on 209th as you go around the curve all the way down to 61st Street.

And so this portion in the middle of Houston Street as it loops around by bluebell right there, it's really the only left undeveloped portion we have on that corridor, and it's gonna be a complicated portion because you got um the industrial complexes on both sides, it's gonna be a difficult area, but we think it's one very important to improve just because of the safety in that area.

You kind of have it operating like an industrial park on an arterial road, and traffic counts are getting pretty heavy in that area.

Um to Elm, New Orleans to Florence.

So this is an area that's already fully developed.

It's a four-lane road.

We actually get a lot of rear-end traffic accidents in the area, and there's a lot of turn movements the way those neighborhoods were designed designed back then.

And so the goal here is just to get a fifth lane put in there so we can get the term movements out of the driving lanes, cars can get through the area in a safer manner.

Um Florence, 111th, Aspen to Elm.

It's uh this is just going from a two to a three-lane section, it's a heavy residential area.

Again, it's a lot of turn movements, but the traffic volumes aren't super high.

So it's just a way to get uh get those turn movements out and uh create a little bit wider, safer road in that area.

And then Kenosha Street from the Creek Turnpike to uh from the Creek Turnpike to Evans.

Yeah, there's a typo there.

I was like, I was confused for a second.

So there's a typo up there on Comnosha Street, Creek Turnpike, and that's supposed to be at Evans Road.

Um this is very similar to what the last two was.

It's already a four-lane street, but then this one actually does have incredibly high traffic counts.

I think you're almost 25,000 vehicles a day out there heading out towards Forest Ridge.

And the problem is it being a four-lane road, those left turn movements slow people down, you get a lot of rear-ending accidents and stuff like that.

So the goal here is just to create a fifth lane, um, a left turn lane to get those vehicles out of the driving lanes and allow people around them.

This is one we did get a lot of uh feedback on, um, and I think it'd be important.

Um, I probably should have said at the beginning, but just to clear because we're there at this point.

So, what you see in the white above, and everything I've said so far would be a named project.

And what that means for the audience and anybody else at home that might be watching, that means we would be legally obligated to perform those projects that I've said so far in the white.

What we're putting in the blue is what we are considering an unnamed project, which means we have every intention of building it if we can, but if the money falls short on the bond as a whole or anything else, we're not actually legally obligated to pursue those projects.

Um I will say in the 2018 bond, we've hit almost every unnamed project.

So, you know, we have every intention of doing them, but um that's basically what would be our considered our contingency money for the bond.

So going into the unnamed portion of proposition one here, you have Kenosha Street from uh Sycamore to Juniper.

This is basically Rhema area, and it's very similar to the last few that we talked about.

You have a four-lane section with a lot of left turn movements.

Um, it's not a whole mile, it's a smaller area, but it would be to put put in the left turn lane there, so we're getting those turn movements out of the driving lanes.

And then you go to County Line, Houston to Washington.

Um, this is a lower dollar amount, and the goal here um it would be an expensive road to widen, and there's not going to be a lot of development along the west side of the road there because you have a stream along the road.

So we're actually not proposing to widen it to a full four-lane section or anything.

We're actually just proposing to get it to us what we're calling a super two or something similar with wide shoulders.

Um, basically get a drive, a safer drive lane, um, wider space, less uh friction between vehicles, you get the vehicles farther apart, so speed limits can get a little bit higher.

Um, basically improve the road, but we're not necessarily widening it to a full um adding lanes.

Uh going on, Washington in first place.

So this this uh governing body has voted to uh move the future municipal services building, um the city hall down to Washington and uh Maine.

And this kind of ties to it, it's not it's not part of the project, but it ties to that area as the south part of Main Street redevelops.

This will be for road work and intersection work to improve the intersections at Washington and first, as we probably also will do Washington and Maine as part of that project to revitalize that area and improve that intersection.

And then uh as Mr.

Schwab mentioned a few minutes ago, the last section of 10 million dollars is just meant to be match money for federal product for federal grants.

As you guys know, we get um applications for federal grants on an annual basis through NCOG.

We're pretty much usually guaranteed to get a project every single year.

We try to plan out what those are going to be in the future, um, and this just gives us match money.

So if we want those projects to be something that's not in the bond, the money is available that we can match it and go start new projects in the next few years to give us some more flexibility as we go.

Um so moving on into the intersections, so those mostly our widenings and other improvements and going on to intersections.

Um we've talked about it in this chain in these chambers before how important intersections are to our transportation program.

Really, you get a higher bang for the buck when you improve an intersection over widening a road.

I know everybody wants five lanes, it allows you to get past people drive faster, but the real delays in you getting home to work in the morning and home in the evening is to get through intersections, and so we're really focused on getting as many intersections as we can because that's where the delays come from in our traffic system.

And so we have a separate pot of money here for Tucson and Olive.

I know we talked about widening Tucson, but this would just be a separate intersection project for Tucson and Olive.

Um we know that's a pretty significant delay, and there's a lot of improvements coming out there.

I should note on that this one's also like New Orleans Street.

My team's actually already started the design on this project as well.

So we're hoping to get construction funds from the bond, but we are working on the design to go as quick as possible on this one.

Um 23rd Street, a couple of intersections.

One would be at 101st.

Um, really, we're anticipating growth around the amphitheater development down that way.

That intersection's already developed in a couple of sides, but it's really widening it out and making it developed at all all four directions to help traffic get through there.

And then 23rd County Line as you get down to 131st Street.

Right now, which there's not a lot of traffic movements, but there is a lot of residential development going down there in that southeast part of the town.

And so this would uh it's not a subnet, it wouldn't be a significant intersection, but it would probably be able to get us to probably be able to get us to three lanes in each direction with a signalized intersection.

So you're not getting too much delays as the residential development comes to that area.

Houston Street, uh, and uh Evans, Evans Road out there, very similar situation, um, very busy and residential development in that area down Houston, a lot of residential in that corridor, um, be able to improve it to a signalized intersection so we can get vehicles through there faster in peak out rush hours.

Um Washington and County Line.

I'm trying to think.

Okay, so this one was already actually in the 2018 bond.

Um, but again, it was kind of one of the last projects added to an extent, and we also anticipate some federal grants.

The reason being we're putting it here again is because we really need additional funding for this project.

Um, in the rains we had this spring and really all major rains, this what this intersection goes fully underwater.

The intersection is entirely in the floodplain along with all the adjacent facilities, that whole area is in the floodplain.

So this is going to be a very, very expensive intersection to improve.

We actually have estimates currently of showing it over 10 million dollars.

We have some other funding sources going towards that, so we're asking for an additional five million from this bond to help improve it.

A lot of that's because of you're in the floodplain, we're gonna be raising it out of the floodplain.

We're gonna have to build at least two bridges that go to the intersection, so that's a very expensive area for us to improve.

Umosha um 71st Street and Midway, kind of similar.

The Kenosha and Midway was part of the 2018 bond in the unnamed portion that we just talked about.

And so when we weren't fully obligated to do the unnamed portions, we've we're probably not gonna have enough money to get to all unnamed projects and the 2018 bond, although we have done most of them.

We are working on a design for this project right now, but we wanted to go ahead and put this in the named portion of this bond and get some additional funds just to ensure that we get it done for the citizens out there.

20th and Hillside, um, as you know, Trader Joe's recently opened there.

We have other commercial development being built next to Lowe's.

This area already backs up pretty significantly, and so we're looking at adding potentially a signalized intersection and doing other improvements in that area to help vehicles move through there a lot faster in peak hours and kind of get those cues off of 20th Street and off of Kenosha because what's happening today is a lot of vehicles are backing up on a Kenosha itself.

Um, and then Garnett and Florence is the last one we're recommending for named.

And this is really just going with a lot of the growth that we have in South Broken Arrow, kind of similar to what we're talking about on County Line 131st, a lot of development in the area, improve the intersection so we can get people through that area faster as growth continues to happen.

Um, for the unnamed portion, we are doing county line and 121st.

We really fully intend to get to this and uh fully intend to do the project.

It's just due to the layout of that intersection, we do anticipate that to be a more expensive intersection to improve, so it's in the unnamed portion, and then Olive and Jasper Street, 131st.

Um again, it's a four-way stop, be small improvements out there, maybe a signalized intersection.

One reason this is unnamed is we don't own all four segments of that intersection, it's a shared intersection, so we hope the other entities might participate.

Um, but we'll make that decision as we go through the design process and we'll work with them later.

Uh last part of last part of uh prop one, and then we'll try to move on.

So improvements 37th Street, Dearborn to Rockford.

Um, this is 41st to 31st.

You're getting on the far north end of our community.

Um the road out there for the traffic counts is probably sufficient at a two-lane road, but if you're very familiar with the area, the stormwater issues out there are pretty significant.

You have a ditch right off the shoulder of the road, it's not the safest situation.

So we went ahead and threw in uh naming this project to make sure we take care of it and create a safer driving lane for the citizens that live out there.

Um the next two are just improvements to Main Street.

This isn't in the widening section, we call it in the improvement section because this is probably more streetscaping, beautification.

Um, this is more walkability, it's more of an overall improvement to main street, both on the north end to potentially extend the streetscaping that we have past where it currently is, and then on the south end as we grow main as we grow the municipal services building, main street, all that, um, doing streetscaping on Main Street as you go south, and then downtown alleyway money is uh as residential development happens in the downtown.

We don't traditionally have all the alleyways that exist out there, so this is just a pot of money that we can uh dig into as new homes and developments happen in the Rose District.

We can build the alleys that go with it.

And then finally, which is very popular, um 20 25 million dollars set aside for residential street rehabs.

We uh make a habit of we don't name the resident the the neighborhoods that we're gonna get into.

We go off the PCI index or whatever a future council or leadership wants to direct us to do.

But typically, staff's process is we uh rate the pavement condition index of all of our residential neighborhoods, and then we go from the bottom up, we work on the worst neighborhood scan, and we use this money to improve residential areas.

Um all the unnamed portions of this one and a lot of the unnamed of proposition one are really pots of money to give us one is true contingency for the rest of the pro of the rest of the bond, so it can help us with any of the projects that have the name that we might fall short on, but more importantly, is to give the council and future leadership flexibility and things that they might want to take care of that um they're not really aware of today.

So that's trail money that's sidewalk money, um, downtown repairs money, signalizations, all those are really meant to be general pots of money that we can use for future flexibility.

Um the one that is shown here is the innovation bridge because we contractually obligated when we bought the land for the innovation district that when the other half of that land uh develops that we'll build a bridge over the creek, and so um we contractually obligated ourselves to put this in here, but it we put in the unnamed portion because we only have to build it if and when they develop.

So if they don't develop, we don't build it in the time period.

And then we uh we did leave a chunk of money of eight million dollars for an unnamed street.

We assume at some point in the future there might come a street where the public is saying we want to do this, or a council saying we want to do this.

So we have a pot of money in here for one street that's not named yet today, and then finally um some match money for potential utility relocations in the New Orleans Square area or PSO, our franchise agreement and contractor PHO says that they'll split the money to actually put underground power, everything else in the New Orleans Square.

So I know it's a lot of talking on my part.

Happy to answer any questions you guys have.

Okay.

If nothing else, I'm gonna kind of tag team with Shannon so we can take a break talking and uh let her dive in the proposition two.

Okay.

Amazing.

Thank you all for all of your support over these last um year and a half that I've been here.

This has been an amazing project.

I'm super excited to present today.

So going into proposition two, this is for public safety, um, which a lot of these projects will help the police department, fire department, emergency management system, or emergency management department, some IT, uh so quite a breadth of improvements across public safety.

The first project that you see out here is similar to 2018 and doing additional improvements to the outdoor warning system, your defense sirens that go off during an emergency, and this would be both for to add additional siren locations throughout our city and to improve technology because technology updates super quickly, and when we want to make sure we are safe, secure, um, and we have the necessary improvements to keep that system moving, uh working well.

The next one would be an animal shelter expansion as our community grows.

A lot of them bring amazing pets and for animals, and so sometimes emergencies are needed where we need to house them in the animal shelter, and hopefully they can either find reconnect with their homeowners or find a new home.

And so, as our community grows, the need to expand the animal shelter is there as well.

And the third item is for fire trucks and or emergency vehicles to be added to the system and replaced and upgraded.

Once again, the technology comment, it updates very rapidly, and so in order to provide our first responders with the most up-to-date equipment, um, we need to keep up to date with improving um having a fun to update the trucks.

The next project would be a classroom addition up at the public safety training center.

We have multiple projects that are listed here.

Um earlier this year, you guys approved a master plan for improvements up to the public safety training center that would both provide benefits to the police department and the fire department, as both um both of those departments do training up there.

This one would be this project is specifically identified to provide a classroom infill between two existing buildings so that they have more interior space to meet.

The next item would be fire station one, and this is a new fire station to replace the existing central fire station and relocate the fire station one over to the northwest portion of city limits in order to increase the or decrease the response time in order to get closer to that four-minute goal.

The next item would be drainage improvements up at the public safety training center.

That area once again, as a popular note this evening is there's a lot of stormwater improvements that are needed, and that particular center and complex has a lot of stormwater there as a creek runs in the middle uh between the two sides of that complex.

So we'd like to do some drainage improvements for police and fire.

The next item would be perimeter security.

Uh there is no currently there's no secure fence around the entire perimeter, so we would um wrap the fence around the perimeter, add access control so that the trucks and uh staff can enter.

The following item for the last named project would be improvements to the outdoor firing range that police uses to train their staff.

This would include drainage improvements, structural improvements, and safety improvements.

The next unnamed project is a new Fire Station 9.

This would be a new fire station that currently we are have seven built, and we are working on the eighth fire station.

So this would be a new fire fire station.

Um the following project, the next project would be new equipment for the fire department, which is the self-contained breathing apparatus.

Each firefighter gets a custom mask.

Uh the next project would be um additions to the radio communication system or L3 Harris um system that would be technology improvements for that system.

And then the final project unnamed would be a new burn building in a quarter uh that would be used for training purposes for both police and fire out of the public safety training center.

And um, I know there's been quite a few amazing projects here, um, but in recent discussions, I think Mr.

Spurgeon would like to discuss fire station nine.

Yeah, actually, thank you, Shannon.

Charlie, thank you so much so much for for uh proposition number one.

And so um obviously public safety is extremely important, and there is growth happening within our community and the number of calls that our fire and EMS respond to, and with the growth that we're experiencing as a community, uh I believe that's going to continue.

And so my original recommendation in here in speaking to the chief was for fire station number nine to actually be to include the acquisition of the land as well as to have the the money for the design, knowing that it's still the number of years out before we're gonna need that station.

Uh station eight is planned to go out to bid next month, and so actually that station take probably take approximately 12 to 15 months to complete that station.

And so after discussing the uh the needs for station nine in the future uh with Chief Moore.

I also want to recognize that the IAF president Justin Sharp, who I have the utmost respect for, reached out at the council members and expressed the representation of the membership about having station nine including the packet.

And in in reviewing his comments, uh I do I do believe that it is important to have the whole station in in the package.

And obviously, with station eight coming online and addressing that part as well as relocating station one.

I do think at some point we will have to build station nine.

And I and I don't know if it's if it's going to be, I don't want to be waiting after looking at this and rethinking it to where actually we building it after 2036.

There may be a need to build it earlier because that's an area that is actually emerging with growth as well as a need for calls.

And so my recommendation has been amended to include it in as a complete package in in the recommendation.

So I appreciate that.

I I think that is important, and I do appreciate it being brought to our attention too, and that's what this is about.

Nothing's set in stone yet.

That's why we still have some discussion time.

So I appreciate that.

Thank you for taking time to consider that.

And you know, obviously, public safety is huge for our citizenry because you know, we want to live in a safe community.

But uh, I just want to say thank you to all of our public safety folks, police, fire, the unions, the chiefs, uh, everybody who is not just important to the citizens, but it's important to those who are providing it.

And uh they want to be sure that they are you know equipped and prepared to be able to provide the best public safety to our citizens.

So thank you all for your interest and uh passion about serving the citizens of broken air.

Awesome.

We um we have like Kenny had mentioned, we are taking a you know high-level review of these projects in order to provide these cost estimates, but it is great to have some great visual aids.

So we have some proposed drawings and renderings, um, and probably will never get built like this, but these are a big dream and great visuals to help aid with these projects.

I will give it back to Charlie for proposition three.

Thank you.

Um so yeah, definitely moving into the Shannon's part of uh Prop 2 and Al Prop 3 and the 4.

We're moving the more fun stuff sometimes for the to talk about.

But um proposition three, as Mr.

Spurgeon mentioned in his opening notes.

Obviously, the big ticket item right at the top is Elon Park Community Center.

So he actually I think said 47, 48 million.

One thing is just for to be transparent for you guys to see.

We're showing 30 million at the top, but we're showing that as the named portion of the bond.

Due to how large of a project that is, so state law says we have to name 70% of the projects, which means we can have unnamed 30% due to the size of the community center cost alone.

If the total package was 74 million and the community center was in the 45 to 48 million, that's almost the 70% mark.

So we could name the community center and unname everything else.

But we don't want to unname everything else because we want to tell the community like we are going to do these other improvements.

So what we've done is actually we've lowered the amount on Elam Park that's named.

So lowering how much we're committing to it up at the front.

But what you'll see is in the bottom at the very bottom, there's actually an additional 14 million for Elon Park and the unnamed portion.

So if we're struggling to do anything else, we'll take that money and help pay for other things.

But more than likely, that money is going to go to the community center.

We do expect it to be an awesome community center.

It's something to be very really proud of.

But moving past the community center, also at Elon Park, you'll have splash pad, splash pads, um, tree orchard, puckle ball, and then uh recently after our last round of meetings that we've talked about this, also adding pickleball to Elam Park as well.

Um country air, obviously the I don't know if everybody knows this, but the city of Broken actually owns a pool in country air, it's usually not that well attended, and it is a hard time thing for us to staff and maintain.

And so really excited that this bond's actually recommending the closure of Country Air Pool, which might not be taken well, but in place, we're planning on putting a very nice and high-end splash pad in the area that does a few things.

One, it's easier for us to maintain, two, it does not require full-time staff members and lifeguards on site, so it's easier to operate for the city.

And then three, I think it'll be more highly utilized than what the pools utilize today.

So I think that's a great improvement.

Um, a big one for the parks department as a whole is playground equipment upgrades.

Um, kind of like what we did with residential neighborhood streets.

We're not naming parks.

We have a substantial number of residential parks that the city's responsible for throughout the city.

A lot of them are age, some of them still have part uh playground equipment from the 980s or 90s.

I we might be getting out of the 80s, but I think we still got quite a few from the 90s, 2000s.

But this is a large chunk of money for us to go in and start replacing and modernizing equipment in those smaller residential pocket parts for the older neighborhoods.

Um pickleball courts, this one uh so we added Elon Park because of this one on here.

We were planning on putting pickleball courts in Neen Heis Park, which we're excited about.

And when we say pickleball, we're really um targeting something nicer than just a concrete slab.

We're really talking about a fence facility, shade structures, restrooms, parking lot, somewhere that's very nice for our citizens to go out there, sit in the shade, wait for their game, and then have a nice court to play on, kind of a high-end facility.

Um Central Park community center renovations, not a lot of money here, but we do think it's important with building the new community center that we also maintain and work on the existing community center we have.

It's the oldest one.

This isn't gonna change a lot for the facility.

We've recently replaced the roof and invested in that, but this will probably do some renovations to the interior when you walk in, the lobby area, the restrooms in particular, just kind of clean them up, modernizing them a little bit.

Um then the um I'm I'm just gonna say the wrong one then.

Rose Rose West Dog Park.

So we have an existing dog park on the west side of the city.

Um it is very, very popular, highly utilized.

This is just to add some shade structures in there to create um a little bit more comfort for uh the folks that are visiting there.

And then one of our current busiest parks in the whole city is Jackson Park, as you guys probably know.

Um it's a great recreation park, um, has a great splash pad, great playground, and so this puts some uh more money in there to grow the amenities there.

Um, one we want to put a shade structure over the playground.

A lot of our best playgrounds like Elon Park and others are starting to get that where you create more shade for the kids so it's easier to play.

And so this would put a shade structure over the existing playground, and then also create a new and larger pavilion out there because the pavilion that we do have, um, from my understanding from Matt in the parks department is rented out pretty much consistently in advance.

And so this just creates another opportunity for our citizens to reserve that pavilion for birthday parties, family reunions, whatever they want to do.

Um, and then the new one that I was skipping ahead to after our last round of discussions, um, we have added after talking to leadership in the council um a dog park, a new dog park for the north part of the community.

Um we at one point were pulling this off because of the expense and you know getting 1.2 billion down to 400 million, some things had to cut, but we did have the surveys and the feedback from the public at the uh open meetings, and this was a very popular item to the public, so we found a way to make get it back in there.

But this is anticipated to be a brand new dog park somewhere in the northern part of the community, because since our other one is more in the southwest portion.

We have not identified that location.

We have not identified the land, but the money in here is anticipated to buy the land and build the start of a dog park.

Moving into the unnamed portions, uh we have an expansion for the gardens at Central Park.

As you know, I think last year we did the ground opening for the Garden Center Park, very nice area.

Got a lot of positive feedback.

Um, this would be for a phase two to kind of grow it more of a tree orchard and more walking paths throughout there just uh and continue the investment we've made out there.

Then we have improvements out of the Battle Creek golf course.

Um this could be a renovation to the restaurant and also uh potentially a renovation to the driving range as well.

Um I know that the other golf course and the city is talking about going more private, and you know, we're one of the only remaining public courses in the area and improving those range um amenities so you know people can go hit the golf shade or have uh protection from the weather, rain, stuff like that, you know, get a head covering over them in the range.

Um adding and improving uh more sand volleyball courts at Nee Heist.

The master plan always always planned on expansion of more courts, they're very highly utilized, so getting more courts for sand volleyball.

Um next two are really just uh large ticket maintenance items for our existing facilities, pool equipment upgrades for the two other outdoor pools we have.

Those are big ticket items that are hard for us to get to, and you know, all the pumps, all the equipment need to be replaced, and this is a good way to fund that.

And then along a similar line along a similar note is splash pad maintenance.

Um we're continuing to grow the number of splash pads we have all across the community, and uh this just gives us money to make sure we're maintaining them and keeping them in high high order for what our citizens expect.

And then, as I've already mentioned, um we put a large chunk of the unnamed money for also the Elon Park Community Center just to give ourselves some flexibility.

But the intent is it will go towards the community center.

Kind of like Shannon said, we uh we've put some together some diagrams and some pictures that we can share with the public, um, especially when it comes time to market and share with the public of what we're talking about.

But I do want to um I guess warn anybody that's looking at these and you all stress the same thing that this might not be what the final product looks like.

This is a vision of what it could look like.

These facilities have not been designed.

Um, we have not gotten into details with them, but we've created a vision of what these things could be someday based off our cost estimates.

All right, let's go into proposition four public facilities.

Um, as mentioned before, we have a vast array of public facilities, both that are used by staff within the city, but also our user groups.

Um, if some people don't know that we uh have a partnership with lots of nonprofit and local organizations that utilize um city uh facilities and that they operate out of and provide programs and um services to the citizens from.

And so we'll start off our list with our first name project with the senior center.

We're calling it an addition.

Um I think we'll try to finalize what that is.

But right now there is two senior centers in Annex on the east side of Main Street in Washington, and the original senior center on the west side of Main Street at the one Washington intersection, and that we've seen a great great amount of people there.

I know we have um some board members here, and looking at having the both of those facilities across Main Street, um a lot of uh the people who visit have to cross the street, and although we've installed some hawk beacons and tried to ask add some safety amenities with that, um, it is inconvenient, and so with the popularity of the services that the senior center provides, we're looking at relocating the existing um amenities and experiences that are at the older building on the west side over to the east side and expand the current annex building.

Um so this would be providing an addition with additional square footage for the senior center.

The next item is the Rose District Plaza expansion.

Um, we've talked about that recently, uh, looking at expanding the farmers market specifically with the recently acquired grain silo and what that park and public urban urban park could look like.

And so this would help cover the cost of that master plan.

The third project would be an expansion to the Arts at 302 facility.

This is also a great program that provides a lot of different types and materials of art that one can take classes for and learn about.

And so looking to expand not only the great programs that they provide now, but provide new programs, maybe A V graphic design or culinary type art, along with the existing successful pottery studio that they have today.

The fourth project down would be to expand our veteran center.

I know they've asked for additional space as they host district wide and regional meetings for veterans to come, and then they always need more parking.

We hear that very commonly, of course.

Speaking of more parking, I definitely saw a lot of people comment about the Rose District Plaza parking as well.

So it sounds like parking along Main Street around this area, both for the Veterans Center and Rose District Plaza are very important to the citizens for us to consider.

The next one down would be the Military History Museum expansion.

Currently, this facility is on the north side of Main Street, and we would look at potentially relocating the Military History Museum, which provides obviously great interesting artifacts and museum displays.

There's so many things to look at there.

And so giving them a new facility to expand their displays and their library and relocate it down south, closer to the Veterans Park and Veterans Center area is what's listed here for the Military History Museum.

And then for the last name project, we would look at the history museum expansion.

This could be the um this would be close to that Rose District Plaza and expanding for them more additional exhibit space and storage space.

The next uh few projects are all city uh staff facilities.

So at our new operations center, which is kind of where the streets and stormwater building um is and the justice center, and now our new field services center.

Um, we'd look at adding vehicle storage building.

Um, we have quite a few equipment that is um currently housed at our Stark facility, um and they have to do a Tetris shuffle every season when it starts to get cold and wintery weather as we had this week.

Um so our snow trucks, our utility back trucks, a lot of uh these very expensive and large equipment cannot be left out in the cold or the elements, so we'd look at providing them an additional storage vehicle storage building.

Uh the next project would be to renovate and expand a traffic monitoring center.

This would be another technology element to where we can along with police department.

I know they've done a great job improving their real-time crime center and adding some cameras at intersections.

We'd look to expand our traffic control signal control program at traffic intersections, and this would be uh the central hub for that with technology furnishing and equipping a renovation project for that.

The second or well, the second to last project would be to do some uh renovation at the fleet maintenance um complex.

This is where I know they've recently built a new facility for the quick uh quick service for fleet, and then we'd look at renovating some of those existing facilities to make sure they have great amenities for staff and that they are safe.

And then the final project on unnamed is to expand the fiber optic network ring that is city-owned fiber, um, not through a third party, uh, but to expand our current city fiber to run to city buildings for security and traffic control.

Got some great visuals here on what these projects could potentially look like.

And if there's we will continue on if there's no specific questions.

So getting down to the faster ones and hopefully wrap them up, of course, pretty quick.

Um it's a lot of talking and listen to some words.

But it's important for the public to hear.

I know you guys have heard of this.

A lot of money, yeah.

Um proposition five is stormwater, and I appreciate Mr.

Spurgeon's comments earlier in describing the desire to go to a 60% vote on this one this year, um, whereas previously it was 50%.

And really, these are proposition fives about projects that the city wants done because it improves city infrastructure and flow of the channels and everything else.

But the real reason to Mr.

Spurson's point, and he was exactly right, is uh 60% because sometimes what the city needs for the city system bleeds over on the private property.

And so if we get to that 60% vote, that allows our our improvements to expand on the private property as well.

Um obviously, if anybody's listening and hearing that, that obviously comes with permission of the private property owner, we're not just going and doing what we want.

Um so first one is in the first one is the drainage pond improvements, the need a pond.

We've talked in this chambers before about need a pond, which is um on the northeast quadrant of uh Kenosha and Elm back behind the businesses there.

We talked in here because the developers talk about developing adjacent to that.

I don't know the status of that, but whether that happens or not, um that still acts as a regional pond for us and one of the original developed parts of Broken Arrow, and we still need that to serve as a better um regional detention pond.

So we want improvements there, so uh we're detaining water better in that part of town.

Um then generally it's just a pot of money for downtown drainage improvements.

This is significant because we've talked about often you know, original downtown was platted in 1902, and you think about it, there was not mass transit of vehicles back then.

There was not paved roads.

You know, the plat was not designed in the area of downtown for stormwater to run through there.

It's developed at a level that was never anticipated at those times.

Um, a million dollars is not gonna near fix all the problems that we could have down there.

I mean, you'd be talking tens of millions or um, I mean, I can't even imagine to fix everything that you could want to fix down there.

But this is a pot of money that as problems arise, we can use to spot fix some issues to try to help our citizens when things arise.

Um specific example that we are naming of exactly that is Elgin and Iola streets in the Rose District.

Um, if you're familiar with that area, there's actually uh residential roads right there with homes, and the channel runs straight along the road, and the channel's about an eight-foot drop-off right off the side of the road, and that's right in the middle of our rose district.

So we are naming that project to show that we're gonna get in there and do something with that channel in the road there to try to create a safer driving lane and get that water through there without that uh that issue where you could fall off.

And then uh, yeah, and then we I thought we had this in unnamed, I'll double check.

But then again, Rose District drainage improvements is more of like in the tight corridor of downtown, kind of along those same lines of improvements.

Um drainage pond improvements on Aspen Street, and this this is a good example for why we wanted that to go to 60% vote.

So the pond that is leaking on Aspen Street, south of 101st Street in New Orleans, um, you know, you see it leaking from time to time, it makes for a site uh soar source site and um leaks down in the street.

That's actually mostly on private land.

Um it's our wall holding the pond up, and it's it's probably our job to fix that wall and everything else.

But for us to really go in and do more improvements, the rest of the ponds on private land.

Um so we would like to do some improvements, get that to where that pond's operating better and it's safer for our for our road surface and not leaking onto our road surface.

But uh we'll have to do some work on private property most likely as we go through those improvements.

Um Hakey Creek Tributary Master Plan.

Um again, just highlight this as a master plan.

But obviously, Hakey Creek is one of the most developed channels in our community.

Um has uh is part of the original parts of the town that were designed that um developed, and a lot of the parts of those developments didn't have detention tied to them because they're before our ordinances for detention.

And so there is just a lot of drainage, a lot of water just in general, and a lot of drainage problems are on Hikey Creek.

So it's talking about just doing a master plan to look out how we can better um handle that creek in the future as we continue to grow and develop.

Um and then just a pot of money like we've done in some other locations for um future improvements at various city parks.

There's a lot of erosion and um a lot of erosion and issues at various parks that we own, and this just gives us a pot of money to go um handle those issues as they arise over the next few years, and then uh just a another pot of money and truly uh unnamed portion of the last bit, just keeping it as a contingency for whatever arises in stormwater, um just kind of truly keeping it unnamed.

Proposition six um also is that 60% vote for uh improvements on private property.

But this has been a very, very popular um program that we had coming from the 2018 bond, and this one truly is designed to be improvements on private property.

So proposition five is prop is projects that the city wants to push and do because it's good for city improvements for whatever reason.

Proposition six is actually for the citizens to come apply for um money for improvements on their private land that have to do with stormwater with the kicker that they have to have a public benefit to them.

Like we're not just gonna go improve somebody's house or yard or whatever, but if you know somebody owns land or whatever or a drainage channel going through their private property and there's a public benefit to it, they can actually apply as you guys know through the drainage advisory committee and ask the city of Broken Arrow to come in and spend city money on their private property to improve a channel erosion or whatever, um, as long as there is a public benefit to that.

And so proposition six is literally just us naming money and the basins that cover the city of Broken Arrow, um saying we will spend this much money in each basin.

Um as you can see, that is skewed towards Hakey Creek, because as we've learned through the 2018 bond, um Hakey Creek is probably our channel that has the most issues because it was all developed prior to those criteria of drainage that we have today, and so we get the most applications from the Hakey Creek Basin.

And so we get the most applications from the Hakey Creek Basin.

But this was a very popular program 2018.

We're actually coming up on the point that we're running out of all money from 2018, so it's been very successful.

And if passed, I know we'll get a lot of applications coming in for uh future improvements.

And then obviously we're trying to keep as much as we can in the unnamed portion, only for the portion, only for the reason that that gives us the flexibility to spend that money in whatever basin comes up.

You know, if we get a lot more requests in one basin, that unnamed portion gives us the flexibility to move it around in basins.

Perfect.

Um proposition seven is considering the light a library partnership with Tulsa City County Library.

Um they approached us about their capital improvement projects to renovate or um reconstruct some of their existing facilities, and South Broken Arrow has a great amount of citizens who use that facility, and so they are looking to partner with the city to build a brand new library for South Broken Arrow and relocate the existing one that is there today.

Um I know they looked at all of course expanding their existing library facilities with um new programs like a community room, um, maybe a small small one and a large one, a makerspace, um having an adults area, children's area, story time reading.

Um, as I we've heard from um Tulsa City County Library that uh we have a very high level or high population of homeschoolers, um families that come here um and utilize that facility, and so it's very popular with them.

So expanding on the successful children's program that is there today, um, having collaboration spaces for adults or teens who are um maybe considering starting their own business and can utilize the resources that the library uh has there in with this news new facility.

Um so they had requested um a various amount of money, and so uh to help complete in partnership with their money that they're providing.

So we are looking at uh city management recommendation of four million dollars uh to go towards the library and proposition seven as its own item because it would not be on city owned property.

This would be on property that Tulsa City County Library would own and they would manage and operate the facility.

And what's the total cost of that project?

Of this project.

I think it ranged between 10 and 12 million, um, but I'm not a hundred percent sure.

Some we can invite them up and talk if you want to ask questions that later, but they have told us that 12 million was approximately their total project costs.

We'd like for uh Mrs.

Johnson to come forward, the executive director.

She's here.

I think the only question I have is are we gonna have any kind of um or is it yeah?

Do you want to come on down?

Come on down, man.

Um is there our city logo, I guess is my question.

Are we gonna be anywhere for our four million dollars showing that we were a partner with them?

Or I guess that's my thought.

Like a flat.

I would yeah, like a black or something.

There should never be a city, but honestly, if yeah, I would say that we would work out something to where there would there would be some kind of recognition from the city.

Absolutely.

Good evening, everyone.

Thank you for the opportunity.

Absolutely.

There will be an opportunity for recognition from the city of um Broken Arrow at this facility.

The the cost is about 13 million, but it's about 10 million to uh for construction, um, but three million for uh FFE.

Okay.

Questions for discussion.

Yeah, okay.

Thank you.

Thank you for that.

Okay, our uh last proposition of the night, and probably the most unique and different.

Um so this is the uh proposition.

Everything we've talked about at this point, as Mr.

Spurgeon has clearly stated, was based off of property taxes and keeping the tax rate the same that has been in the past, no tax increase.

Um the eighth proposition is switching to talk about sales tax, and it would be for a temporary increase, and most importantly, for a dedicated cause, meaning that it will go, it is required by law to go towards the cause that is named in the vote.

And so that that purpose would be for the sports facilities that are city owned throughout the city.

Um in this one, we're not gonna give you a list of projects right now or anything else because that's not the way it would be presented to the voters.

To the voters, it would be presented as a half a percent sales tax increase for five years, it would fall off automatically.

There's if they vote for it, it stops after five years, no matter what.

And it would be stated that it's used for sports facilities.

But they the voters would not see a list of projects on vote day.

They would just know it's going towards the sports facilities.

Now through marketing and everything else, we might tell them a list of projects, but they're not going to see it on vote day.

But it's based off of projections.

You know, if we get the current projections are we assume we'll probably make a little over 50 million dollars over that five years of the half a percent.

But at the end of the day, we will get whatever we get.

You know, if if if continued growth happens, our retail grows, you know, we could get 60 million, 65 million, but we are required to spend all of that money on what the purpose was that was voted on in that day.

Um tentatively, just so we're being transparent with the public, we will come up with a list of projects that is proposed that I think we're going to show you guys in January.

Um, but as you guys know, we've already talked about it.

For the most part, it is getting all the all the youth facilities up to turf or a better draining grass, depending on what that organization wants.

You know, um, so that one of the big things we want is if people are going to travel to our community to play sports and it rains, we want them to still be able to hold their competition after the rain event, which either means a turf so it drains quickly, or B a more sand-based field, so it still filters quickly, and we'll have a drainage system that gets it out of there.

So we want to improve all sports fields, facilities.

We want to improve lighting, get LED lights in all of our facilities.

Um, it looks better, two, it significantly cuts down on the cost for us to operate the lights, and then we really want to improve the aesthetics of the facilities.

We want to, when you come into our facility, we want to be like, wow, this is a really nice place to play.

That's new fences, new signage, maybe playgrounds for kids, you know, all those kind of things.

So we have a large list of projects that um it most likely would include.

Um, but today it's just to talk about what the voters would see and everything else, and then we will work on a um a campaign of identifying what the actual projects are and come back and present those to you guys in the future.

One of the things that I think um I I tend to talk about all the time is how important sales tax revenue is to municipalities in the state of Oklahoma.

And when we have tourism and tournaments that come to our city, it generates more sales tax revenue.

So the this proposition would be five years, correct?

But it could be taken care of before then, I think, because it's going to generate additional sales tax revenue.

So if I can, I have three comments, Mayor members of council with respect to this proposition.

So let me expand upon what I talked about earlier to help uh give the rationale.

So first and foremost is that the estimated number of projects that the sports organization presented, I would say was approximately 70 million dollars.

Okay.

If you look at at in order to keep this a no tax rate change, we were at 415, and you can see that 50 50% of this goes for streets and roads.

The the other the other propositions essentially you had to come up with priorities to be able to fund those.

There isn't there was not enough capacity to put any of these sports facilities upgrades, and many of these facilities haven't been upgraded in 20 or 30 years.

Others some some basic some basic improvements, but in terms of the the play fields, the drainage, the lighting, those things have woefully fallen behind simply because a lack of money.

So when this when this notion came up, uh I've used the example that let's say there was capacity to to do this.

Um the challenge with that is if if council did agree to 52 million dollars hypothetically.

We couldn't sell all 52 million dollars in one year, which means it would take 10 to 12 years to complete all of the improvements because we would only be able, we're only able to sell so much of the bonds total package each year.

To do all the projects to do all the projects, yeah.

So you would have to, I would the council ultimately would have to decide who goes first.

Does uh fast pitch go first?

The soccer go first, does football go first?

And so forth.

And obviously, it would take the full uh 10 to 12 years to complete those projects, and I believe the improvements are needed needed now, especially the infrastructure improvements that are are needed in Indian Spring Sports Complex, the parking, the parking lots, the ingress egress, those basic improvements that it's simply, you know, our community at the time those were built.

We had the money to do so, but expansion and maintaining them has been has been difficult.

So the mayor's correct in her comment about economic development.

So the number one driver of this is improving great places and facilities to play for our kids.

The other reason why it's being done by a sales tax is because those folks that come into our community, which there are thousands of kids that come into our community just for league play throughout the week, throughout the year, plus those that come into tournaments by by actually using it through a sales tax, we will capture those dollars from those folks, and those folks that don't live here, they're helping to pay for them versus if you did it in a property tax, that means broken errands are actually paying the top the total bill.

And I believe about 50% of the sales tax that is generated, and I'm working on those numbers now, comes from outside of our community.

So in essence, those that are coming in to use our facilities, just like in many other communities, they're gonna help pay for the infrastructure, plus are gonna support the businesses, the hotels, the restaurants, uh Walmart Target, uh CVS, the ancillary expenses, plus with the other opportunities to spend money here in Broken Arrow.

Uh and I rarely ever get to correct Charlie when it comes to numbers.

Uh, but I will I will tell you this is right now, based on today, a half a cent generates 10.6 million dollars.

So it is safe to say that over five years you're looking at about 56 million dollars.

Net present value to be able to borrow on a vote of approval, you're looking at about 52 million.

Now the mayor's correct, uh, we have half a million square feet of retail commercial that will be coming online at the end of next year, early 27, plus there's additional announcements for retail commercial.

So I have no doubt that within five years we will actually we will actually be able to pay off the the uh the note that is issued.

At that time, we basically we would we would the council would look to sunset that tax earlier or no later because the law would say it ends in five years, and there are no plans to actually extend that tax beyond five years.

And so I wanted to share something because the council wanted to get the voters pulse.

So we conducted a survey.

3400 participants actually took the survey, 88% of those people were registered voters, 68% said they would support this initiative.

I recommend to council that if it doesn't get at least 60% in the survey, I would be concerned about whether it had an opportunity to pass and how it would affect the other other propositions.

And so, as you can see, this whole thought process of wanting to get the kids of the parents that voted for it to be able to play, not having to choose winners and losers who goes in what order, and to get it done within three or four years, that that uh temporary tax rolls off, and now we have an upgrade of all of our facilities to where now we're actually not only having great facilities to play, but it becomes a major economic driver within our community.

And what's important for the parents and grandparents to know too is if this does not pass, they don't get any money.

That's right.

I I think that's important.

It is unfortunately, but you look at the other priorities that we have.

Um I mean, council made it, and I can tell you there were quite a few people, probably just as many that won a community center.

And so you you've got active and passive recreation dis uh policies that council has to decide, and this gives us an opportunity with our community being the twelfth place to live in this country out of 19,000 cities to be able to provide the the amenities that the public in this community have said that they want.

And I believe this package will accomplish that with a lot of hard work and dedication and educating them on how this is going to benefit our citizens and and ultimately our businesses.

So, real quick, um historically we have passed all bonds in the city, right?

Essentially, yeah, for the most part.

Yeah.

I believe I believe all it's you have to go back in, I think into the late 80s, early 90s, where there wasn't one, but but since the early 90s, the answer has been the answer has been yes.

Okay.

So overwhelming support.

And that I mean, just will you explain if if any of these propositions do not pass, how would we fund streets?

Those projects.

Well, tell ask me what time it is, I'll build you a clock.

Yeah.

Okay.

I just want it on the record.

So people understand.

There are people who think that, oh, if we if we vote no, then we we get our taxes lower.

Yes.

But you also don't get your streets taken care of or your public safety or your quality of life projects or your storm or drainage.

Okay, let's let's go back to proposition.

Great question, Mayor.

Thank you.

Let's go back to proposition number one about the streets.

Okay.

Let's look how expensive it is to actually build a road.

Let's pick, let's pick a okay.

I can tell you, let's look at Tucson and Omaha or New Orleans.

Those are all three roads that fill right below the cut line in 2018.

15 million, 9 million, 11 million dollars.

All of the sales tax that the city generates right now, except for what's in the C S STCI, is utilized for operations.

So the answer to your question in the short version is voters don't approve proposition one, none of those improvements get done.

So what we would do is we would go back and we would do a survey to analyze why the voters did not support that initiative, and then we would actually have to go back out to the voters because the type of the type of money that is needed to build any of those facilities is not available without cutting operational services to this community.

Challenge number two 68% of the of the total operating costs is taken up with public safety.

And so essentially, someone can say that if we if we don't approve this or taxes go down, well I'm gonna be able to answer those questions during the public education, and for the first many few years, it's minuscule.

It's less than the cost of a cup of coffee, is what you'd be saving per month versus versus contributing for the growth and prosperity of our city to be able to generate those type of that type of revenue to widen roads to build upgrade intersections, do sidewalks, do street maintenance.

It's a very, very minimal cost to be able to say that you're keeping the property tax rate versus the reward of actually approving proposition number one.

Uh I have a couple of comments.

Uh one is not to contradict the uh city manager, but uh uh I was going to point this out, you know, to start with.

Uh there was a bond issue when I was a young city councilman that uh failed.

Uh and it was a big big thing here in Broken Era.

It was five intersections around Broken Era, and it was like four or five million dollars.

Uh and it and it failed.

And I immediately, even though I was new on the council, I immediately realized we didn't do anything for the downtown.

So as you were putting all this up here, I could see all the the in lines and strong the streets, you know, outside the downtown.

I thought, oh no, oh no.

But then all of a sudden, in the end, we did he did uh it does really do a lot for the downtown area for Main Street for the alley, so I compliment you because uh it looked to me like that you we've taken care of the whole city, you know what I mean, uh, around everybody gets something for the buck right.

So uh I was very pleased, and and I know you're not old enough to know that one about that one.

When he was a young council member, the next council meeting, we actually made a motion to have a new uh bond issue, and we put on there to four-lane main stream uh from uh uh sit the city downtown to uh 91st Street, and it passed like 70 some percent.

Everything passed intersection, so uh I learned when I was young.

Proposition six, very important, not because I'm on that committee, but because that has provided us a way to take care of some of the some of the problems that we had that was caused from private property, but it was affecting our public property.

So that one is a very important uh proposition uh to have before us.

Uh and I know it solved a lot of problems this last year, and and I think it will continue doing that.

And finally, I'd like to visit about the uh the library.

I had the occasion uh this last week of visiting the library and touring the library at Boise State uh in uh Idaho, and uh as going through the library, I ask them a question where are your books?

And they say, Well, they're upstairs, so we really don't use those books that much, you know, anymore with technology and all that for now we stored them.

What they had, and and this was during the Thanksgiving holidays, people in there in their maker areas, that means they're innovative areas where they're putting things together where they have something in their mind that they want to build, and the library have people in there even on those days helping them do that.

And I thought back that as our visit that we had with the uh Tulsa public library in downtown Tulsa, they had the same thing.

People were nearly standing in line waiting to go in that to see if they were able to do this, make this, use a 3D printer, use a 3D printer, and that's exactly what I saw uh at Boise State.

So uh my compliments to them, and I hope that is uh is something that our youth in Broken Air can take advantage of uh uh also.

But I think you did a great job, you know.

I think it's uh uh a lot of money, but it's I think it's gonna be well spent uh you know to start with.

So uh that's that's my points, and I'm sticking with them.

Any further discussion?

Well, only those citizens that live in Broken Arrow can vote on this proposition, but only if they're registered voters.

So if you still have your registration in a town that you used to live in, because we have a lot of people that have moved in, you need to take care of business now because you have to get that changed at a certain time before the election, April 7th.

So if you like what you see, make sure you can vote in the city of Broken Arrow.

If you don't like what you can see, then just stay the same way for now.

Don't do anything.

Don't go forward.

Just enjoy our parks.

Yeah.

We'll actually make a point of reminding people what the deadline for registration for the April 7th.

Should we go forward to make sure they know that and we'll push that out on multiple occasions for that very reason.

So I'm glad you brought that up, counselor.

Yeah.

I'm gonna ask a quick question real fast, if you don't mind.

Um kind of like the elephant in the room.

So if it's a half percent, where does that put our tax rate based on our surrounding uh cities and such?

That would put us we right now.

We're currently 8.4 just above that, have a cent would put us about 8.9 for Tulsa County.

And if you look at actually where we are right now compared to other cities, that would put us about right where they all are right now.

Okay.

Now obviously it would be higher in Wagner County, especially with the fact they passed the sales tax back in in February, I believe it was because of that judgment.

And so we're gonna have to work hard in Wagner County to to make sure our folks understand the the benefits.

And I believe it's safe to say that Aaron McCulloch told me today, I think 30, 38 percent or 34, 34 to 38 percent of the kids in the Broken Air Public School District live in Wagner County.

So there's a tremendous live in the school district, live in Wagner County, so it's a tremendous benefit for our Wagner County residents to support something because their kids are I I'm I'm quite positive are using some of if not all of our facilities.

Yeah.

And that I think that's very important to point out because you know uh people are gonna say half a percent.

Well, are we the highest tax right now and that kind of stuff?

And it just shows that even with that we're not, you know, like you're saying.

A cup of coffee, you know, is all that we're talking about here.

And it's temporary.

And it's temporary, exactly.

Yes.

Yeah, what the the the issue of uh or the challenge is we're gonna make sure we we address exactly what that cost is gonna be because the public deserves that, and we always want to be transparent.

The challenge is it's not like you're it it's going to equal uh ten dollars a month.

So you're gonna see a ten dollars.

If you go to to Sonic and you get my favorite cherry lime aid, and that's 239, it it basically you're paying, you know, the the the sales tax now, it might be you know six or eight cents, whatever that is, it's just a half a half percent more than that.

So it's gonna be small accumulations and we're gonna be able to demonstrate what that's actually going to represent.

I mean, Kenny has a number of examples about the cost of a Pepsi uh that you you know and so forth.

But we've got to get all the information and should council go forward, we'll have that for all the directors, the council, so when we go out and do the public education, the folks will know because they they they need to know what this will cost, although it's not quantifiable in terms of one time you're paying it, what they could be, but also remember is that not everyone in Broken Air is paying it, and which is a tremendous benefit, and that's what was a was a big seller for Wagner County when they passed that temporary tax in in February is is that so many people come into Wagner County help offset the cost of that judgment.

Exactly.

Versus property tax.

Well, and this is I'm not sure how many lawn packages you've gone through, Johnny in your a lot.

Well, it's my second.

This is the longest, I'll tell you.

Yeah, yeah.

It's my second, and I just want to thank you and the staff because it is immensely impressive what goes into building this and the fact that you start from the election date back and you and you figure out the timeline of what we need to do to get as much information as possible.

So thank you.

All of you for all of your hard work on this.

The heavy lifting goes to to Charlie and Shannon and their team have just been incredible.

Big binder.

Yeah.

That big binder.

I didn't even know binders existed that big.

Kenny has worked so diligently to provide the guidance because obviously not everybody has been through a bond package in the staff, and I appreciate Kenny's leadership and all the directors.

I mean, obviously, everyone had requests, and I appreciate their prioritizing those requests.

And so if if there are no more questions, my my guidance is for council to take this under advisement.

We'll begin the notice that it's available, and then we'll come back and we will do, I promise it'll be a shorter presentation on the 16th.

It'll it'll simply just be a summary.

There'll be a no-end and then all we're asking at that time is that uh we uh we direct staff to prepare the appropriate documentations for for the election for April 7th.

And when will we get input then from the citizens as you get them or yes for last one?

We have a form.

Aaron has created a form, they'll be taking that input, and it'll be summarized for the governing body.

And I would anticipate where there it could be longer, is if someone signs up to speak on the 16th.

And I do know that many of the organizations that uh have have it's in the recommendation.

I fully anticipate that they're gonna want to speak and to show their support for for council's decision.

So this we may spend the same amount of time on this because I know there's so many that want to to uh show support to the council, and I think it's extremely important that those that will benefit show support for this initiative in terms of public education and the benefits it's gonna have to to our citizens and businesses.

Thank you.

All right.

Item eight is citizens' opportunity to address the council on general topics related to city business or services.

Just a reminder no action may be taken on matters under this item.

We do have one um individual signed up to speak.

And hi.

So we have Amanda Drake and her attorney Ryan Folda.

Good evening.

Thank you all for the opportunity to appear tonight.

You may remember me.

I appeared a couple months ago with Matt and Jennifer Sellers.

I was honored to represent them.

I'm equally honored to represent Amanda Drake.

She's here tonight uh along with some friends and family that have come to support her.

And we are here to share with you briefly.

We will keep it brief regarding a sewer backup that she experienced at her home on August 17th.

Sorry, I remember it vividly.

Good job.

I'm gonna let her do the most of the speaking.

Uh I said I could not be more proud of her.

She will do a much better job than me of sharing how she has uh addressed what is really a tragedy, a hardship, with so much courage and perseverance that uh I I will let her share that with you.

So go go ahead.

Thank you all for the opportunity to speak today.

Um I've been a citizen of Brooklyn Arrow for over 22 years.

Uh raised my family here.

Um I've also served as a licensed clinical social worker here in the community and in Tulsa for uh 24 years.

Um my husband suddenly passed away four years ago.

Um I've made a lot of progress through that grief and with my therapy, still work to cope with this loss every day along with my children.

Um before this backup, my life was as good as it could be without your spouse.

I worked very hard to be positive and be proactive in my life and my children's lives and my friends' lives.

Um on August 17th, sewage city sewage backed up into my home, um destroying almost about half of it.

Um serving several rooms, including my room, which was the master room that I had housed many of my husband's prize possessions that I was not ready to move yet.

Um, due to the backup devastation, I was forced out of my home, which was inhabitable.

Um, after seven hours of sumping sewage water out of my house with a friend, if he hadn't helped me, my whole home would have been covered in city sewage.

Uh four weeks of mitigation, um, eight weeks of being displaced, uh sleeping on my friend who graciously let me live with her uh free of charge.

Um as of today, all the construction is finally finished.

They finally finished the last few pieces today.

Um so that's been about three and a half months of a process.

Um this has been a grief process on on top of another grief process.

Um I have a great support network of friends and family.

I would not have gotten through this process without them.

Um I had my home paid for free and clear, and I've had to get a loan to uh pay for the damages to my home so that I could live in it again.

Um this has been a very incredibly challenging situation, both emotionally and financially, and I need the city's help to put this behind me.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Uh I um we are drawing near on time.

Uh the PowerPoint presentation that has been provided includes photographs of the damage.

It also includes an outline of the expenses that Miss Drake has now actually incurred.

This is not an estimate, but expenses as she said that she has incurred.

And so um, we've submitted a tort claim to the city.

Um we're asking uh for uh the city's cooperation and attempting to resolve this so that it can be resolved sooner rather than later.

So thank you again for your time.

Okay, thank you, sir.

Do we have a copy of this?

It's not in our agenda copy.

But are we able to get a copy of absolutely okay?

Thank you.

I believe it does the next okay.

I don't want to see it.

I know I don't want to see it, but no.

Okay.

Item nine is general counsel business 9A consideration discussion and possible approval of the nomination of Madison Hicks to the Broken Air Drainage Advisory Committee with a term expiring December 2nd, 2029.

Kenny.

Thank you, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Counselors, Mr.

Spurgeon.

I'll be brief.

But uh tonight you've heard a lot about proposition six and twenty eighteen and then the proposed one going forward.

We are unique.

I don't know any other city in the state of Oklahoma that has done something like this.

When we actually did the proposition six in 2019, we or sorry, 2018, we didn't go and name anything specific projects.

I think Charlie did a great job talking about that.

We named it by basin.

Immediately what came up was how do we allow an application?

How do we allow the public's input, the public's voice on the use and the expenditure of the monies?

Mr.

Spurgeon, along with staff came, I believe in August, if I remember correctly, of 2019 to the governing body and came up with the idea of creating a drainage advisory committee.

Seven people, two counselors, vice mayor parks is on it, I believe uh councilman Pickles on it.

I believe mayor has served on it in the past.

Um but there's five citizens.

The citizens are each appointed by each one of the counselors, get they get one appointment, then it comes to you for approval.

In October this past year, Donna Wiedenauer, who'd been on the council committee for I think four years, a little over four years, uh, resigned and did great job serving on on that committee.

On October the 30th, we had a public meeting on a drainage issue of all things in the Rockwood edition.

And if you've ever been to a drainage meeting, um it's very emotional, it can get emotional, it can get aggressive.

People are venting, they're hurting.

Um, and it takes a lot of patience to go through those.

During the course of the meeting, uh, a young lady, Miss Madison Hicks, um, raised her hand, spoke up, and spoke very politely, kindly.

She spoke very empathetically and actually brought a lot of reason to that that group.

Immediately, I think myself and the other members of the staff that knew we needed a an appointee uh to replace Donna, said we need to talk to her.

Uh I asked her to come to the next drainage advisory committee.

She did.

She sat through it.

She goes, I I would like to be a part of that.

She's met with uh vice mayor, and staff would recommend that you appoint her to that vacant position.

Be happy to answer any questions.

Vice Mayor, you may want to speak.

Well, I just know that it's an important position to be in, and and money is well spent, and so uh she seemed like that she would really be up to task and uh ready to get on board with that.

And she is here if you have any questions on her.

Right.

And I would make a motion that we appoint uh Madison Hicks to the uh drainage advisory committee.

Second, oh but you can get up and speak if you would like.

Do you want to talk about drainage?

Ready to help.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you, can I have your committee?

Yeah.

All right.

Um, item 10 is preview ordinances.

10 A consideration discussion and possible preview of ordinance number 3901.

Graham.

Thank you, Mayor.

Council, city manager.

This item before you is an amendment to the city's diserving the peace ordinance.

The purpose of this change is to provide a clear and objective standard for addressing amplified sound coming from places of assembly located near residential property.

Um city occasionally receives complaints from nearby residents about uh recurring amplified sound and reviewing the ordinance.

We determined that while uh our ordinance includes a general prohibition on uh disturbing the peace, there's really not a specific standard for ongoing amplified sound that comes from public assembly places uh close to uh residential areas.

Um this amendment is content neutral, it applies uniformly to all places of public assembly and only regulates how loud the sound is and how long it continues, not the nature of the actual sound.

Uh what we came up with was to establish a 300-foot proximity threshold to residential property and use a clear enforceable, plainly audible inside a residence standards uh when the sound continues for more than 10 minutes.

Um happy to answer any questions you might have.

Any questions?

Uh let me just if I can, mayor members of council.

I mean, uh I've gotten complaints from from the public, and I know the council members have too about this, and obviously it very it's very sensitive.

Obviously, House of Worship.

enforceable plainly audible inside a residence standards uh when the sound continues for more than 10 minutes um happy to answer any questions you might have any questions uh let me just if i can mayor members of council i mean the uh i've gotten complaints from from the public and i know the council members have too about this and obviously um it very it's very sensitive obviously house of worship i mean we there's this is this is this is a godly town and you know we have a growth and prosperity and obviously we want to support our churches but I do know that in some cases that has gone outside of their property and affecting the peace and good order of of the residents around those it doesn't apply to any that are existing it would be for all new they would know what the expectations are and so I want to make that clear so should no misunderstanding is that any of our existing churches if there is an issue police department has has the ways to go out to try to work cooperatively with folks we've had to do that in the past on a number of different occasions but I think this is a proactive way for anyone uh going forward that could be aware about what the expectations are and I do want to note that we still have the exemption for bells chimes used for religious purposes in conduction with religious services national celebrations or public holidays so that still remains in effect as an allowable uh use so any discussion questions I I do appreciate this being brought to uh forth for us to vote on or to preview um I I think with the you know that we we want the churches to be able to save as much money as they can when they construct the churches but then that also does tend to be loud because a lot of people like all music and so if you're trying to sleep or have babies sleeping and they're enjoying their music then that does affect other people so I am glad that we brought this forward for review entertain a motion I'll make a motion to um approve the preview ordinance are we approving it or setting it for next year or setting it for next for I guess December 16th correct I'll second it.

Yep roll call haven't got to vote much tonight no we haven't I did want to just add on the item eight I forgot we do have that we have the pictures I just wanted to put that on record that I was like oh yeah I have seen that never mind okay so um there are no um ordinances remarks and inquiries by governing body members um just want to remind everyone that we have the Christmas parade and I'm sure Ryan and his team are bringing it I cannot wait to see what the float is gonna be this year.

I think we'll win right we always win I I know you are so cannot wait but um I want to remind um and I I think counselor pickle was probably gonna say but Rotary does have their annual pancake breakfast and it is delicious.

Sorry it's tube cube so starts at 7 a.m $5 all you can eat pancakes first Methodist church all proceeds go to the road club rotary club which we keep it all in the city of Broken Arrow.

Absolutely bacon sausage orange juice coffee it's a good time all that good stuff all that good stuff um and then I think that was it on mine other than an LC update but maybe you would like to share well I would uh a little bit uh we did uh we were out of town you might not have missed us uh but we were out of town for a week uh so uh we had a good conference national day city uh in Salt Lake City and she asked that I visit about that for one thing to tell you that uh we're all supposed to be and and on a a group uh advocacy group and uh the mayor is actually on the uh uh the board of the NLC uh and I left in the middle of controversy I haven't got to visit with her yet to see how it ever worked out yeah but everything was supposed to go real easy and smooth and all of a sudden it didn't yeah so uh and I was sergeant at arms for that one so I didn't leave white so my compliments to her mayor she really made us uh made us look good it's just that I got bored after a while didn't have to be there so I went I went late and let's be there also uh I sat down uh to eat one of our meals with Lisa and she showed me a plaque that she has received from her group of the National League of Cities and it's a council member Lisa Ford City of Brooklyn Oklahoma 2025 first tier suburbs council chair and first tier you have your great big cities and then you have all of your first tier cities and that's what that's we we are that uh we are that and I don't know what where's the cutoff point at do you know I think you just kind of determine it there's really not a cutoff so we have a populations from 2000 to 13000 so you're outside of a big city.

Anyway she was the leader in that group for this last year so they have this nice plaque that they presented to her and I wanted to make sure that you all knew that for leadership advocacy and dedicated service to Lisa Ford thank you.

Thank you.

And then she is also the incoming.

She's also the incoming president for the women in municipal government at NLC, which we're holding the convention here next year.

So we have a great committee that's planning it.

Yes.

And I had several people come up because my badge said Broken Air Oklahoma.

And they knew where that was at because they knew that they were coming here this summer.

Yeah.

Uh at Lisa's invitation.

So we're looking forward to that big event.

Absolutely we've been pump pumping them up for the couple.

We're gonna invite the boys to the beginning.

We'll introduce you guys.

Yeah, then it's chicks only.

So yeah.

Sorry.

All right.

Anyone else?

Um I yeah, I just want to remind everybody.

Um, December the 10th next week at Stony Creek, 11 15, you'll have the uh opportunity to listen to Michael Spurgeon, who has been been working very hard on his presentation for state of the city.

But there's a few more.

Um there it it's usually sold out.

There's a few more tickets available, but I think the cutoff is tomorrow.

So if you have not purchased your ticket yet, you can go to the chamber website and purchase your ticket.

And um, it's something you will not want to miss because he puts a lot of effort into letting people know the state of our city.

So I just wanted to make sure everyone had that opportunity.

Thank you, sir.

Yeah.

Uh also uh, you know, this time of year is a lot of things happening in our community.

Um the mayor already mentioned the Christmas parade coming up.

Um we do have our holiday market um that goes on every Tuesday where we have our farmers market folks out there plus some additional vendors, um, the ice skating's down there.

We have the igloos this year, the carriage rides.

There's always something to do, so come out to our road district and check those things out.

Uh, in addition, I know next week we have coloring and cookies with the cop coming up.

So if you want to come out and socialize with our fine folks from the Broken Air Police Department, come check that out, bring the kiddos out.

Um we also have uh I know the fire department used to do the big toy drive.

Is that still going on?

Big Toy Drive.

So if you want to come and you want to help somebody out, bring a new uh unwrapped toy donated any of our fire departments, help out someone who needs help in the community.

Um great way to bless somebody else and our one of our other partners, uh NSU BA has their what do they call their gazebo glow uh coming up next week as well on Thursday evening you come out and help support uh NSU BA as well.

Just a few of the great things happening in our community.

Yeah, I'll tag one more on there.

So uh yeah, there you go.

Oh my turn.

Um so if you're not able to make it to the amazing Rotary Pancake Breakfast, you're not able to make it to the parade, that's perfectly fine because at New Orleans Square, um on Saturday and Sunday, uh we have the um Santa's North Pole Village at New Orleans Square on Santa Santa.

I know him.

Yeah.

Yeah, you threw me off on that one.

Uh it's not even Saturday from two to four, and then Sunday from 12 to 2, and they'll have vendors and Santa Claus will be there and it'll all be set up.

So also that's available for citizens to go to as well.

Are you gonna be in costume?

Uh no.

I tried.

You tried.

But Norm will.

There you go.

Got those rosy cheeks and everything.

Fantastic.

All right.

City manager.

Uh I've spent said a lot of words tonight, so I really just have one item, and I thank council members for mentioning many of those events.

I need to send a shout out to Aaron Hoffner because she is the one that has literally taken uh the bull by the proverbial horns and actually made recommendations and created this amazing Christmas uh program from the time we do the kickoff all the way through uh Christmas, and so I just want to send a shout out to her because the events that you mentioned, Aaron has worked diligently to make sure that the two very important parts of our community uh have opportunities for the businesses to participate and also our citizens to go.

So way to go, Aaron.

It's it's been amazing so far, and there's events every single week.

So uh I do want to follow up on Councillor Ford's comment about the state of the city and and let the the council know, and those in attendance and the public is that uh the theme for this year is taking the city to new heights, and the key word is ascending.

And there will be a couple of lighthearted videos, and then we have an additional video this year, which I'll I'll save, but there are so many wonderful things happen in our city.

The part that I like the most about the state of the city, which normally takes the longest, is the part where I recognize and thank the people that help this council and this administration help the school district, help the chamber, help the EDC, because we can't do it by ourselves.

And so there are literally so many people from the organizations that we work with to our elected officials at other levels to our partners.

And so I'm excited because that's going to take a little while when you think about those that are contributing to the success and the growth and the prosperity and helping us to ascend to a higher level of expectation for our citizens and being one of the best cities in the country.

And so I am looking forward to it.

We do put a lot of effort into because obviously count accountability and transparency is our watchwords.

And so that's all I have, Mayor.

I'll be glad to answer any questions.

But I do appreciate your time on the bond package and allowing us to go through it project by project to make sure everyone understands what will what count what they could be voting on in April.

So thank you.

Thank you, sir.

All right, we do have executive session, so I'll entertain a motion for.