I don't have a gavel, so I just oh I was hiding.

Call the broken air city council meeting to order.

Roll call or invocation by Pastor Rich.

Sorry.

I was just ready to go.

But first prayer.

Okay, guys.

The last prayer for the uh year.

So here we go.

Father God, we thank you for the many blessings on broken error.

We thank you for the spirit of prosperity, protection from your divine presence.

We look forward to 2026 with expectation and excitement by the work of your mighty hand.

May this city be put their trust in you.

May the leaders put their trust in you.

We ask for your spiritual awakening that would go along with the expansion that's happening.

May this city become a city of hope, a beacon of light to this state and nation.

Please watch over these leaders, their families.

Please watch over them and help them make wise decisions and please give them vision to move our city forward.

May every plan of evil be overcome with light.

May this Christmas season be filled with joy, hope, peace, goodwill towards the men.

And then of your son who was born in a manger.

May his message of his name Emmanuel, which means God is with us be so evident in the lives of every person in this city.

Amen.

God bless you guys, and thank you on behalf of the Ministerial Alliance that you let us pray before these city council meetings.

Thank you.

I think it means a lot to him and to the city.

It means a lot to us.

Thanks, guys.

Thank you.

God bless.

Thank you, sir.

Absolutely.

All right.

Roll call.

Pickle.

Here.

Green.

Here.

Ford.

Parks.

Here.

Wimpy.

Here.

We have item that's going to be removed.

Oh my gosh.

What is wrong?

I just am ready to just wrap the whole meeting up.

Please stand and join Councilor Pickle for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Salute.

Pledge.

If you're going to the flag of the United States of America.

And to the Republic for which it stands.

Indivisible.

With liberty and justice for all.

Okay.

Now we have item M that needs to be removed and we'll be back on at the next meeting.

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

Make a motion to approve the consent agenda.

Minus item.

Oh IRL second that.

We have a motion and a second.

Roll call.

All right.

There are no public hearings, appeals, presentations, recognitions, or awards.

Item eight is citizens' opportunity to address the council.

There is none.

Okay.

Let me get to my RFA here.

So we're presenting this to the council this evening.

So I just got to step back.

I always like to just focus where we started from and where we are.

Several years ago, the city council actually implemented a policy with regard to the banners.

Not only for the downtown, but also in the uh shops of Aspen Creek.

And what we found is the partnerships that we formed with several different entities, mainly the Military History Center, and they follow the policy that we have in place.

Well, I'm pleased to say that one of the improvements that the council agreed to was actually having banners out in the events park.

And so we're asking you to amend the ordinance to include those banners to fall under the policy, because obviously the the venue team will want to do will more likely want to do something, and I see that as an opportunity for our military history center.

Another example would be is that uh the mayor and I were speaking briefly today, is we're gonna recommend that we do banners for a 250 uh anniversary of our country, birth of our country nation.

And so we just want to make sure that all those banners that we use fall within that policy.

Any discussion or question retain a motion I'll make a motion to approve item 25-1616.

I'll say it.

We have a motion and a second roll call.

All right, nine B as consideration discussion and possible approval of the 2026 Go bond final uh projects package package.

Sorry, Shannon and Mr.

Spurgeon.

Okay, so if I can I will start off and and first off, I want to uh thank the council for this opportunity to to speak again on this very important topic.

I also know there are a lot of citizens that are in the audience that have asked for an opportunity to address the governing body.

And on behalf of the mayor and council, I'd like to thank all of them for coming out and to be a part of this discussion.

It is very, very important uh meeting for the governing body.

And just to reiterate, because I know a lot of people are watching, is that um the council decided really almost two years ago to embark upon this dev endeavor to actually present to the voters the next phase of our uh build our future broken error bond package.

And it's hard to believe that that is gonna culminate in uh just under four months that should council decide to move forward tonight and then ultimately with the appropriate legislation on January 6th, that that two-year initiative is is in its in its final phase, which is probably the most important, which is the public education.

And so now that I've shared that, I want to just step back just a couple of weeks.

The administration presented to the council on December 2nd the proposed package for the eight propositions, and the council decided to take to hold any decision and to allow a two-week comment period.

And during that period, I was pleased to say that we received over 200 comments about about the bond package.

Council has been provided with that information.

If I could summarize what we received, is that there was uh the a raw total of anyone that actually expressed support uh or opposition to the package, and then there were a number of comments, and there were three categories that we included in terms of of support, yes or no or neutral.

And we actually had uh 133 people that actually said that they were neutral this time, which demonstrates that that the most important phase, which is the public education phase, needs to be implemented should council decide to go forward.

There were 54 comments that were in support of all eight propositions, and there were 29 comments that were opposed to the eight propositions, and so I believe that's good feedback.

The comments are are uh very specific, but I am a little concerned about a couple of the comments because they seem to be consistent all uh along the uh the same line of uh believing that's the federal government has something to do with our bond package, when in reality it it certainly does not.

So uh presented for you is the feedback, and I wanted to know if you had any questions or comments or wanted to share anything particular uh that you that you saw from from that that limited feedback that we did receive I'm sorry.

Okay.

Well, um I'm like is on.

I did uh have a little bit of time to review those.

I was hoping to get those a little bit earlier so we have some more time to spend um with those uh with the feedback because it's definitely important um to me and I believe for the rest of the council.

And um I spent a lot of time you know talking to members of the community and and listening to them as far as uh the information that put forth here on the package.

Uh I even ventured out into dangerous waters and went on to social media and uh and heard some feedback on there uh and responded to the folks on there as well.

Um so I think there was a um a good amount of feedback, but I think there also was people who didn't fill out feedback forms that had um some strong opinions.

Uh like I said, I've personally talked to to several folks and I encouraged them to go on there and fill out the feedback feedback forms whether they did or not.

Um I can't tell you because I'm not in their heads.

Uh but I'm I'm a supporter of this package.

Obviously, I'm supporter of doing things that are gonna better uh our broken arrow.

Um there was one proposition um specifically that I've got a lot of feedback on that I wanted to bring up uh for discussion and kind of see where we are on it.

Uh I know we're trying to finalize it tonight, but with the time that we had, this is I guess the best time they'll have to do that.

Um obviously for for those at home, those watching as a council, we're not allowed to have group discussions uh unless we're in a public forum.

So this would be that opportunity for us to have that discussion unless we call a public uh special meeting, which would also have to be a public forum.

Um so I don't I'm not sure where the other counselors' heads are on this particular item, but the one that I did want to discuss tonight is the library proposition.

I've had a lot of comments on that, and uh I'll start off by saying obviously I'm a supporter of education.

I am a supporter of literacy, I'm a supporter of our library uh systems.

I have children who are in being educated currently, and uh I I my wife is an educator, so I I understand that.

Um but some of the concerns that were brought to me as far as that particular proposition goes was the dollar amount going to that.

Um, and is it more beneficial to put some of that towards other things uh in our city, be it roads or you know, the the dog parks or public safety, et cetera.

And uh the other concern was um the fact that and I think I've expressed this before the fact that we and I'm not saying I'm not one to give anything to the library, I'll get there, but um we also currently part of our property taxes go towards the library.

So I'm trying to to be wise in our kind and have this conversation so we can make sure we're making the the best decision to be a wise doer of the people's money um and to support the things that need to be supported here in our community.

So I'd like to have a little bit of conversation to see where our other counselors are on this particular item.

Um I know for me, again, I'm I'm not saying I don't want to support it, but I want to hear what any of our other council members have to say, and uh if anyone else has anything to say on this particular topic.

If nobody has anything to say, that's fine too.

Well, I do have I was just waiting for somebody else to say first.

Uh I I think that uh my fellow counselor raises a uh certainly a good point because they the library does have a uh the resources from outside uh here in Tulsa County, uh and they do get money from that.

Um but my certainly my support of it is not just to the library, but it is for the concept of the library.

I think it's important for the city.

I didn't know they would have the availability, but have the the right to go in and help build whatever they're building four million dollars stronger.

Now I voted for five million and they backed that down uh to four million, so four million dollars stronger.

I have I I mentioned the last time that uh this last conference we went to, uh went on up to Boise, Idaho, and toured their uh uh library.

It was on a uh a holiday, but yet it was full of people.

And I did ask them uh where their books because I know that reading is kind of out, if you will.

Some of us old people, we still read a lot.

Uh and so the young people do also on their computers.

But uh they assured me that their books were on the next level, and they were keeping them, especially their references one.

But they were really busy inside there, like the Tulsa Library was when we toured it downtown with a uh makerspace uh innovation area, places where if kids have questions or something they'd like to learn to do, learn to build, then the library at even at Boise State in the middle of the of the holiday afternoon had staff there to help them do that.

So I was just for this because whatever they were going to build the library, I wanted it to be four million dollars better and do that much more for our uh youth, and it and as my fellow counselor said, he has kids, uh, he likes for them to go to the library, uh, as I do my grandkids, uh, like for them to go to the library.

Also, the library was a turning point in my life.

I never studied uh all the way through high school.

My major was football, and uh that's what I did, and I wasn't bad, I was pretty good.

Uh probably a B, maybe a B minus somewhere in there.

But uh when I went to junior college to play football, I found out what a library was and how useful it was, and I started utilizing it, and my grades started coming up.

While bachelor's grades came up, my uh degrees that I got even after my bachelor's degree, I'd go to the library.

Even till today, I'd go to the library just to relax and and go from there.

I at one time got a law passed when I was a young councilman on a very important issue here in Broken Era by going to the library of Congress.

Now it's a little bit more difficult to get in there, but they were very accommodating.

All the information that I needed, they gathered for me in a two-hour period, and then I uh came back into the library, they invited me back in, and they had it all in a room for me to uh uh go with.

So my experience with it is very positive.

I know it's changed from what it used to be, but I just feel like that I'd like to see us add that four million dollars to make it that much better than it normally uh would.

So I'm in favor of uh uh going out and uh uh giving them the money as on the bond issue, very much in favor of it.

So we're saying it won't happen if we don't give them the money.

They're gonna they're continuing to raise funds, I believe.

Yeah, and I'm saying it won't happen as well.

I think it gives them a better opportunity for it to happen if they had the money.

Uh I honestly do.

I uh uh I understand uh certainly what you're saying.

I just uh am very pro library, and even more so after I see how they've uh uh modified the library system, and it's not full of books, although the books are there, but my uh grandkids still go in there.

The library gets in touch with them to make sure they do their summer reading.

I I think they will do that.

I just think this would give them opportunity over the years here in Broken Era to do a little bit more than they could without it.

I'm I'm definitely in agreement as well, and and I understand the concerns as well when it comes to that.

I know we've had lots of conversations about um learning about how busy that particular library is, how much it's utilized within the Tulsa library system, and um, you know, from when I think about it from just that standpoint, like you were saying, you know, you have um you know kids that still go to the library and things like that.

Um I go back and I think you know, when we're looking at broken arrow and having that quality of life for our citizens, do we want to have something that you know maybe it is this state of the art library to have you know when people are moving in and those types of things, or do we want to say, well, we have a state of the art uh extra mile of road, you know, and I think there's just much more of a payoff to uh be able to partner with them for that.

And maybe Kim can address this, but I think regardless of whether we give them four million, five million, or two million, I think it will still happen.

It may not happen as fast because we're still collecting property taxes.

We still have philanthropists.

Um I don't know.

Did I know they remodeled some libraries in the city of Tulsa?

Did they double tax that they didn't take property taxes and sales tax?

Sure.

Come on down, man.

That was another question that was posed to me.

I'm like, I don't know that answer.

Good evening.

I don't know what your question was, but I do want to say good evening to um the mayor, the vice mayor, counselors, and Mr.

Spurgeon.

I would love to answer your questions before I sure speak.

Um so one question is would the library still happen regardless of the amount given by the city, whether it's five, four, or two, or whatever.

Thank you for that question.

Let me also I remember your first question just a little bit ago was about the uh taxes that already that the library receives.

So the taxes the library receives now is for regular operations.

We have 26 locations, 24 public branches, and all of the property taxes from the county go to one pot for all branches.

And so the reason why we're asking for additional dollars, and the reason why we are in a capital campaign is because that is to keep our libraries consistent with the needs of the community.

So the dollars we receive now is not for capital needs, and so that's why we're coming forward.

But to answer your second question, I can't say we will move forward.

Um we do have a capital campaign.

We opened um the Brookside Library in October.

We did the two, we did the four libraries in two phases.

The first phase was the Bronson Brookside Library and then Rudassill Library.

The philanthropic community in Tulsa supported that 100%.

And so phase two is South Broken Arrow in Owaso.

Um we don't have the same level of philanthropic community support in Broken Arrow or WASO, which is why when we brought this project forward, um, we were really excited about um Mr.

Spurgeon's um interest in the library in the library expanding, and as well as the council.

So the library is not just expanding its building for the sake of expanding buildings.

Our library system is one of the best in the country.

We ranked fifth out of every public library, including both coast, and that's because we've been able to keep pace of the needs of what the citizens need.

Throughout this two-year process, what I kept hearing is quality of life.

And that stuck out with us because that it that resonates with what the library does offer.

If you have a uh a growing city like Broken Arrow, an innovative city like Broken Arrow, an award-winning city like Broken Arrow, it also deserves a library system that keeps pace with that.

So you have, as someone just mentioned, new roads, new spaces, but you don't you have an antiquated library system.

So we are building not just a space to expand a space, but we're also building the quality of life of those who use our library.

So when you think about the number of people who come to our library, over 50% of them come to our library to fill out an application for job.

Every job is online now.

Not everybody has computers, not everybody has um Wi-Fi.

We offer all of those things as well.

In a new library system, we are proposing and will have a makerspace.

I've heard through the city of Broken Arrow, how much innovation matters, how much technology matters.

Well, your library can support that as well.

So one of our, I think if you you took our tour at Central Library, we have a makerspace, and all sorts of things are happening with our makerspace, not just for children.

We have a gentleman who needed to um a car part, a handle for his car.

He only needed the small part, but the dealership was asking him to pay for the entire handle for $600.

He came to the central library, made that same part for one dollar.

So we are we are in equipping people in the technology space.

Um they can do anything they can imagine without three 3D printing.

So you you what we're asking for is a library that matches what the direction the city is heading in.

And so I'm hoping that tonight that you also feel that this is a worthy um endeavor.

We are um the the total cost is 13 million.

Um the four million would go toward construction costs only, the construction cost is 10 million.

The three million is the library's owner's cost, and so the four million would go to the construction.

I cannot say that we would go forward with the new library if we if this does not um pass at four.

And how how much is the library used in South Broken Area?

So I have I may made a point to bring that with me today.

The the South Broken Arrow Library is the fifth busiest library.

I may have just mentioned that.

Um it checked we checked out over 50,000 books this year, which is 19,000 more books that will fit on the shelves.

And then we're on track to hit 855,000 people visiting that library this year alone.

So the need is there.

Broken Arrowins love their library.

I think that's evident by the survey that was also put out to the public.

The number of folks, I think it was the largest participant of those who filled out the survey.

So we're literate city, we're innovative city.

This this is a this city is moving forward, and we don't want to be left behind in that process.

And so I think we have an excellent track record of how we use our dollars.

You go to any one of our libraries, they're they're in best condition.

We're ranked five fifth in the country because we are innovative.

So we are books are the cornerstone of what we do and what we have, but we're also always looking at the next thing.

How can we continue?

Because we have a responsibility to those who do provide property taxes to us.

We don't just buy books and keep those dollars.

We buy books and we're also looking to see how we can expand to meet their needs.

I think you guys, so you've already opened several locations, which is amazing.

So congratulations on the new locations.

Um I know you guys were going on with my voice, sorry.

I know you guys were looking at still kind of maybe tweaking what the plan would be as far as the concept of the new library.

Has that changed at all?

That would that affect how much it would be that you would need to raise for the library at South Broken Arrow?

Yes.

No, we pretty much have the plan in place to include the makerspace.

Um we have we have a large homeschool um support families.

We have about 21 homeschool groups at that library with one meeting room.

And so with a new space, we'll have a larger meeting room, we'll have flexible classrooms for those 21 school groups.

Um we also will have a large children's space because we have so many children's uh families for storytime, they are bursting at the seams.

Um manager Kelly McDowell is also here who can who can attest to that.

Um so I I don't know, space and use is I don't think is on is is a question, right?

So we we can show how busy we are.

I think when the library opened in 1993 at 6,000 square feet, it was small the too small the day we opened.

But the plans we have in place are set, um, and so we don't plan on changing any.

We are pretty much building all of the four libraries on the similar model, except for South Broken Arrow will have flexible classroom spaces that no one else has.

I think one of the things that counselor green said is that you guys would you still be would you have continued to fundraise to try to to reach the differences?

We will have to because at 13 million, if if we were successful tonight and the council uh councils approved the four million, we still have a balance to raise.

We feel confident in being able to raise those dollars to meet the total the total goal.

Well, Councilor Green, I appreciate you bringing this to the council where we can talk about it because you're right, a lot of people think that we can chit chat about this.

Um and I I like that you put it on um South Broken Arrow neighborhood, so you get a lot of input as well.

Yes I I was raised in the library, my grandkids, my kids, like we all have library, and I partnered with the library a lot when I worked at the police department on different different levels.

Um and I've been in those meetings where our alert neighborhood meetings where we have standing room only.

We have to take the chairs out because there's not enough room for the chairs and all the people that are in there probably broke some fire marshal laws, I'm not sure.

But there's no doubt that there's a need for that there's a lot of it.

And I was like, sorry.

Um there's no doubt that there's a need, and I guess what makes me feel the best is that people's gonna vote for it.

If they want it, then they need to get out and they need to vote for it.

So it's that they're making the decision.

On we're just making the decision to give them the opportunity to vote for it.

And so um quality of life is a huge thing for the whole council.

Yes.

And I see that that's a huge piece for our home schools, um, and then just every kid and adults, because when we toured the downtown library, it it was pretty amazing.

It's not the library when I was young for sure.

So um I'm really hoping that we're gonna be able to get that quality in our city.

Good.

So I just want to say thank you for taking the time to come up and address uh these concerns been brought forward.

Um again, I like to start out.

I said I'm not opposed to the library or to the expansion, but I feel as a counselor it's my job to bring forth the concerns of the citizens, whether that's a hard thing to do or an easy thing to do, um, it's my job to do it.

Um so that's why I wanted to bring that up and um I want to give you the opportunity to come up and clear up or address some of those concerns that were out there.

That way when we do continue to go forward in the education phase, et cetera, the information is now available.

Thank you.

Well, can may I say thank you?

Because over these two years, uh, this is exactly what the process should look like to be able to sustain our case to take questions and answer them.

It has been a very thorough process.

I want to thank um again, Mr.

Spurgeon, for allowing us to go before the public on I think three or four occasions and have those face-to-face dialogue.

Um so I appreciate you bringing it forward as well.

So I just want to say thank you all for your team also at the city, uh, Mrs.

Spurgeon is amazing, and so I want to thank all of them as well.

And thank you all for your time.

Thank you.

Thank you, Annie.

I think I had the same that I had heard the same concerns and about well, they receive property tax.

I didn't, I didn't fully understand that those the property tax goes directly to operations and would not be going to building this new center.

So that's an important education piece for citizens to know too.

Um that that'll probably clear up a lot of questions.

I I love the discussion, and actually I'm making some comments, and so should council decide to go forward with proposition number seven.

I mean, the executive director uh Johnson is given a number of items that'll be a part of the public education package about usage, the home school, the size, and so forth.

And so uh that's just a part of the public education that whatever council chooses, and you know, ultimately, I will just say this you know, council can actually give direction uh as a total package to say uh we want to go forward and have legal do all the documentation for all prop all eight propositions, all seven propositions, or the council could actually, I believe, could actually vote individual on each on each proposition, uh however you choose to do it.

Um is good to have a discussion because a lot of people watch the meetings, and so it it's great to have this conversations because it's a very important decision for for our community.

So I was happy with the number of people that actually took the time to review the review the packet.

Um obviously what the feedback said to me is that while there is meaningful support on a number of the of the propositions, there's still a need obviously for a lot of additional public education.

The council members are gonna, as I've said jokingly, is that you know February and March is going to be full of HOAs, uh, community organizations and getting out and and working with Building Better Broken Arrow to make sure everyone is well educated, you know, when they go in to if should you we go forward into the uh into the booth on April 7th.

So I think it's very important that we have a very under understandable package.

And the uh Kim Johnson, who who lives in Broken Arrow and very much cares about this community, um, has given some great talking points for helping with the public education.

So thank you, Kim.

Um so on December 2nd, I um my my uh office on behalf of the administration presented the um the package, and since then there have been some suggested changes that either was related to some feedback from the public or feedback from different entities or with with my staff, and they relate to three different propositions, and it's in the documentation that council has, and what I would like to do now is I would like I would like for for Shannon to actually we can go through the package as as extensive as the council would like to.

Uh notwithstanding, I would like to start with the three propositions where we made some changes.

So council is aware uh if it if the change is not noted up here, everything remains the same as it was as presented on December 2nd.

So with that, I turn it over to Shannon.

Thank you all.

Good evening, everyone.

My name is Shannon Marshall, Special Projects Division Manager.

And yes, to um continue on what Mr.

Spurgeon said, we did receive some additional um feedback on some suggested changes from the previous proposed project list um presented on December 2nd.

So this is kind of more of a narrative response on the changes.

Um within proposition one, two, and five, we worked on making any financial project fund changes within each proposition.

And then some of the strategy here once again is to hit that 70% of project named funds as required by state law.

Um, and that is in order to provide um a list of projects that are we are legally obligated to complete, and then 30% of the funds is what we call unnamed projects.

So those are our backup contingency plan.

As we have a crystal ball that goes only so far, we can't always predict what happens in the future.

So some of the strategy here as we've redistributed some funds, in particular in proposition one and five, are to consider what is named versus unnamed, and then two additional projects.

Under proposition one transportation, we are suggesting to name a project for widening 23rd Street slash county line road between Houston and Washington, and we suggest to add an additional 150,000 dollars to help us reach that balance of 70% named project funds.

Part of that we would remove 150,000 from the unnamed project of the intersection between Tucson and County Line.

That's how we change the funding there.

The project ad that we are suggesting is based off of multiple citizens' feedback.

It is to help do store road improvements along Aspen Avenue or 145th between Omaha and Dearborn for a total fund project of 2.5 million dollars.

This is a multi-jurisdictional road, so we will be working with our local partners here with City of Tulsa and Tulsa County.

We know that there is projected neighborhood growth in the Tulsa side of that area.

It's a widely traveled road.

We have improvements done at the intersection of Aspen and Omaha, and so this would be looking at making street improvements closer to those turning movements from the residential areas within Broken Arrow.

For this project ad of $2.5 million, we looked at redirecting and challenging our scope on some of other projects.

Item 2A, removing 1.3 million dollars from 37th Street slash 209th between Dearborn and Rockford.

This was identified as a street improvements, looking at maybe doing a lot of drainage improvements, as that's one of some of the high high risk areas for stormwater being of its age and built standards or built not to standards.

And I know we've had some recent improvements with our streets and stormwater team, so we think we can reduce the fund scope, funds projected here.

Item two B is redirect funds on Kenosha slash 71st between Sycmore and Juniper in front of Juniper or in front of Rema.

This one we're looking at maybe some additional turn movements there and definitely some sidewalk connectivity.

It does have the railroad there, so there's some challenges, but we're gonna try to be a little bit more creative in our potential projects with that and reduce that project by 2.5 million.

Item 2C is to redirect funds from the grant allocation fund for streets.

As a reminder, this was kind of a bucket of money to help when we get hopefully receive federal and state grants for potential street and transportation projects that we would match with, and so this would kind of reduce that match fund balance.

And then change proposed change number three under proposition one is to unname the Garnett and Florence intersection project to help achieve that 70-30% ratio of project fund balance.

Changes proposed on proposition two for public safety.

Um I know Mr.

Spurgeon has worked and you all have met with the local fire union president, and so based off of those discussions, suggested changes is to name Fire Station 9, which once again was in the southeastern portion of city limits, and it is a new station proposed and new crews.

And then the change also would be to unname Fire Station One, which is a suggested relocation of the central fire station at Kenosha and Main Street and move that closer to the north and the west for increased response times that direction.

So this is based off of citizen feedback and working with our stormwater division.

Um citizens requested additional funds put towards Indian Springs second edition drainage improvements.

There's currently a project under design now to help with some smaller impact drainage improvements, and this would help increase erosion control and just improvements along the channels along at Indian Springs 2nd edition.

Through that, we've looked at redirecting the funds from the downtown drainage improvements, taking away $300,000, as this was also a similar approach of a pot of money to help put forth drainage improvements throughout the square mile between Elm 161st and 9th Lynn Lane, and then Kenosha 71st to Houston within that square mile of our historic downtown.

Um B for project redirection would be um trying to reduce the scope on a long Aspen Avenue detention pond.

This project is currently under design.

Um and so we think we can find some strategies there to keep this project funds um scope reduced.

Item one C the Park Creek channel improvements, looking at reducing it by $50,000 and working more with our internal crews here to make those channel improvements at our various city parks with our streets and stormwater team and our parks and recreation department.

Item one D is to uh reduce 100,000 dollars out of the unnamed drainage project suggestion.

And then because of that, once again, 70 to 30 percent ratio out of the downtown drainage improvements.

Um previously we had proposed downtown drainage and rose district drainage, and we combine those into one singular downtown drainage improvement fund, but we would separate it as $700,000 suggested to be named and $500,000 is suggested to be unnamed.

So those are all the changes um proposed.

It's a little easier to see um in the suggested uh graph here or list table, excuse me.

Um the changes are highlighted in red showing the um total suggested change values and or the named versus unnamed.

So on proposition one transportation, um we have county line road between Houston and Washington at 2.95 million suggested to be named, and then adding an aspen between Dearmorn Dearborn and Omaha at 5.3 million suggested to be named, and then we have Kenosha uh between Sycamore and Juniper at 2.5 million suggested to be unnamed, and reduced project funds, and then grant allocation reduced project funds.

Um proposition one street intersections.

We are suggesting to for Garnett and Florest Florence intersection improvements to be unnamed as the change here, and then proposition one street improvements 37th, Dearborn to Rockford, uh project reduced scope down to 4 million.

Proposition two, uh name fire station nine at 10.2 million, unnamed fire station one at 10.2 million.

Proposition three, no suggested changes.

Proposition four, no suggested changes.

Proposition five, downtown drainage improvements suggested for a named fund of 700,000 dollars.

Indian Springs second edition drainage improvements for a named project at $500,000.

Downtown drainage improvements as an unnamed project for $500,000.

Drainage pond improvements along Aspen Avenue for an unnamed project at $200,000.

The creek channel improvements at the various city parks, unnamed project at a reduced fund of $200,000, and an unnamed drainage improvement project at a reduced fund of $400,000.

Proposition six, no change suggested.

Proposition seven, no change suggested.

And proposition eight, no change suggested.

So keeping within the $415 million general obligation bond suggestion package.

What is the deadline to know what we want to do or what the total would be on the proposition eight?

Actually, later this week, engineering construction team is meeting with the user groups.

I think the amount that we would be asking the voters would be like $56 million.

That's based on half a cent generating approximately 10 more 10.6 million dollars per year.

And so we hope to later this year and well before January 6th to have how that would be broken down by the different sports.

And obviously, it's very important.

I mean, if you remember step back.

So we're working off of their list.

Okay.

And so obviously you may hear from some of them this evening, but when we come back to you, there will be uh like I said before that a list of how much we're recommending the council be included in that in that total total amount that the voters will consider.

So uh thank you, Shannon.

And just to the last comment I have is that what we're ultimately asking for is really direction from the governing body with regard to the proposed package.

And just to the last comment I have is that um what we're ultimately asking for is really direction from the governing body with regard to the proposed package, and if council is in favor of this, then legal will finalize the the ordinances that are required by uh by the constitution and state statute to actually name and unname and put all the language in or there that reach any reasonable voter going into the into the to the booth will understand what it is that they're actually voting for, and then you have to have a resolution that calls for the election.

And so that's what you would be considering on January 6th, and that's a couple of weeks ahead of the deadline.

That's 75 days before the election.

We wanted to get this.

You could do this on the 20th, but that's like bumping up against I think the day before the deadline.

And I know Council Parks, I mean Biceparent Parks remembered that back in 2014 that that happened and didn't go real well.

And so that's why we're trying to be in advance of making sure that if should there anything come up, we still have plenty of time to act upon uh the package.

So with that, I turn it over to you.

And I know you have a lot of comments, and um council may want to wait before you uh decide until you hear from from those that are here to to address the governing body.

Yep.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you, Shannon.

All right, we have a good stack of um citizens that want to speak.

So we'll go with uh first one is Lily Hilligas.

Did I say that right?

Okay.

My name is Lily Hilligoss.

Um I'm speaking tonight in support of agenda item 9B, approving four million dollars to help build a new South Broken Arrow Library.

My Girl Scout trip meets most Thursday nights at the South Broken Arrow Library.

We started meeting at Broken Arrow Libraries in November 2017.

We've used the meeting room at South Broken Arrow 97 times.

It would have been more, but with only one meeting space at the current location.

If someone else has it reserved, we'd have to find an alternative location or cancel our meeting.

It has been a great resource for us.

We use the room at no cost.

If we had to pay for another meeting space, even with a conservative $25 per hour, we would have to raise $2,425.

That's 12,120 thin mints.

While we have been meeting at the library, we have been able to research countries like Egypt, England, Japan, and Australia for our thinking day celebrations.

We have earned badges like babysitter, democracy for juniors, and new cuisine, where we learned to cook eggs and attend a and we attended a canning lesson at the library.

We also packed packed bags for unhoused people with personal items like socks, snacks, toothpaste, and toothbrushes.

We also just planned a regional holiday party where we collected over 400 hats, underwear, gloves, scarves, and socks to donate.

The South Brook Canaro Library is incredibly valuable to our whole community, and I fully support building a new and larger space to serve even more users.

Thank you.

Very good.

Good job.

Thank you.

Very eloquent.

Thank you, Ms.

With a minute to spare job.

Great job.

All right, Don Tee.

Ted?

Hi, thank you.

My name is Dawn Teeve.

I'm a homeschooling mom of five children.

Ages range from 15 to 6 years old.

We've lived in Broconero a long time since uh 2011, and we love going to the library.

We our lives pretty much revolve around it.

Um have a few notes.

Um things we do are like my kids will get obsessed with specialized subjects.

Like my middle boy has we've had to do this library research with our lovely librarians, has mat suits, biohazard suits, tanks.

We've checked out every book, and we exhaust it, and we love the hold shelf.

So um it's real small now.

We're hoping for a bigger one because five kids interested in five uh interested in multiple topics.

We've I've maxed out the limit.

Summertime we get a bigger limit of books, and we've maxed out that too.

Like it's in the hundreds.

So we've looked up inventions, Rube Goldberg, um, so many different things.

When we go on road trips, um, we uh stock up on Hank the Cowdog.

I don't know if you're aware of him, but audio books, we love that.

So Hank the cow dog is essential.

Um the library is amazing with exciting opportunities, and I know you guys love the library, but I'm just giving you a snippet of my life.

Um this is every day.

So writing contests, the library will do that in February for my younger kiddos.

There's drawing contests, essay writing, poetry writing.

We love those.

And my daughter even won one year, and um she was actually she met all of you up here, and she received an award and she donated the thousand dollars.

She was they gave her 500, and then they said she could allocate where she wanted to give this other one thousand dollars, and she chose South Broken Arrow Library because that is our heart.

Um we love, let's see.

I have uh we love our librarians, they are so important to us.

I have 50 seconds.

Um I thought I couldn't get three minutes at all.

Okay, what I'm looking forward to is labs makerspace.

Um during the summer reading program, there's instruments like at the central library and things that I want my kids to go to.

It's too far for me to go drag five kids, figure out parking, all this stuff.

I and you know, South Broken Air is bursting at the seams.

Every time we drive every day, we see something new is being built.

We need this library.

Um, my son is currently the one that likes tanks and everything.

He wants to build a 3D printed catapult, mini catapult.

Oh my goodness.

Um, so anyway, we need like a 3D maker space type thing for that too, because I just can't uh it's not feasible for me to go every day.

Four seconds, love you guys, thank you so much.

Good job.

All right, thank you.

Kimberly Johnson.

You went you've shared already.

Okay, uh Robert Schaefer.

Good evening.

Uh I'm Robert Schaefer.

I'm uh representing uh Broken Arrow Girls Softball.

Um thank you very much for the opportunity to come up here and address the council on the geobond issue.

Um just to start before I really want to get to the proposition eight, which is what I want to talk about.

I think we need to give the opportunity to the voters to vote on the library system.

My grandkids love the library, and I know you're gonna hear this quite a bit.

We're not even part of the South Broken Arrow one.

We go to the downtown one, but we love it.

We need to give the opportunity for the voters to to at least say we gave a little bit to help them build the uh building.

So anyway, I'm gonna move on before I run out of time.

Thank you very much, Mr.

Spurgeon and your staff.

Um the citizen steering committee and all those folks that uh added uh that did the surveys and came to the forum.

I think this is a truly community effort to put together these geo uh bond packages.

You got everybody's inform uh input.

I'm a longtime citizen of Broken Arrow.

I strongly support all of these proposed uh propositions, but the one I really really want to talk to you about more is Proposition Eight.

Um I think this is a magnificent example of thinking outside the box to treat to create revenue to make our sporting venues not only better, but first class.

I think this would be perfect opportunity for us to get those tournaments that we're missing because we don't have dirt, uh we have dirt instead of turf.

All the venues have certain little things that they need to do.

I think this is gonna be great for the city with the proposed half-to-printing sales tax increase.

I think we'll be able to see the projects and the upgrades uh happen at the parks sooner than later, as you know with geobonds, that could take anywhere from six to eight years before we finally see something happen.

Now that's there going to be narrowed down from what I understand to two to three or even less, which I think is an awesome uh uh idea.

Not only that, instead of the citizens of broken arrow paying for these uh upgrades and uh projects with each one of these.

Um I think the outside people, this we're also gonna have the outside people help pay for these things.

Um when they come visit us for tournaments and such, they're gonna be eating at our restaurants, uh staying at our hotels, buying things on in the Rose District.

That little bit of penny sales tax will also help pay for these facilities.

Bottom line, I think the proposition should be on the April ballot.

Um for the citizens to vote on, and as I said before, I strongly support uh all of the propositions, and I encourage you to include proposition eight to the bond package.

Thank you very much for your time.

Appreciate it.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

I just throw something out there real quick.

Sure.

Before anybody else comes over here.

Looks at me like the I'm not the crinch who's trying to steal the library.

I'm telling people streaming looks.

I didn't say I was against the library.

I said I'm just trying to put it out there what people have brought to me.

My name is Green, but I'm not the Grinch.

Okay.

You know, um onto you.

Yeah, on your um on your talk just now about um the sports facilities.

I ran into someone the other day, and they're like, I can't believe Broken Arrow is trying to be like Kansas City, and are we ever gonna get there?

And I said, you know what?

I don't really care about Kansas City.

Our kids deserve better facilities.

So let's do it for our kids.

If we bring people from other areas, then that's just icing on the cake.

But our kids deserve it.

Yep.

And adults.

All the people speaking of adults at heart.

Brad Gold Gordon.

Kids at heart.

All right.

Good evening, Council Mayor.

Thank you for having me.

I appreciate the time to speak and talk about everything here.

I'm Brad Gordon.

I'm the president of Broken Arrow Adult Softball for several years.

I do manage the Challenger Sports Complex, which is our newest sports complex, and it it's the top notch with the synthetic turf.

And then I uh manage the two softball fields at Indian Springs, or which are one of the oldest fields we have, and it needs upgrades.

Um anyway, I just wanted to say that I've been I've lived in Broken Arrow for nearly 40 years now, and this is probably one of the most exciting bond packages that I've seen.

I support just about everything we see here.

Um Broken Arrow has just become I think it's probably the fastest growing city in Oklahoma.

We're like a race car.

I'm I'm a car guy, so I'm gonna have that analogy, but I just I feel like these sports complexes that we we have, this is a huge economic driver.

And if you don't keep them upgraded with everything else we're doing, you know, the the new amphitheater, the the water tower, the way we've done the Rose District, um, we've got us got to keep growing and we've got to keep our facilities up to par, or we're gonna get left behind.

So I'm I'm in support of the entire package, but I'm here to tell you that I'm in support of uh particularly proposition eight, because we really need all these upgrades to our sports complexes.

And I was just gonna tell you, you know, just uh I can reference the challenger sports complex.

We just finished finishing up our fifth year tonight, is our final night of the Grinchmas season.

And uh you know, we we run spring, summer, and fall and holiday season because of the synthetic turf.

It eliminates the weather issues we can run all the time, and and it also we have become an attraction outside of Oklahoma.

And I was gonna tell you that I I met with the uh president of the National Seniors Association out of Florida.

They came in today.

I gave them the full tour of the Challenger Complex.

They went to take a look at Indian Springs as well.

They were going to TU, and uh they were gonna look at some parks in Tulsa.

But they are coming to Tulsa area in 2027, and they already told me today we want the Challenger Sports Complex for our senior games.

And it's not just softball, but it's they do track and field, they do uh pickleball.

I mean, we got pickleball courts here, and so they do cycling.

This is a massive amount of 11,000 athletes coming in here, uh, 26 different sports that they'll play.

They'll be here for a week and it's during the summertime.

So this is the kind of stuff that will attract out outside entities like this to come to Broken Arrow by hat by upgrading our complexes.

You know, I'm in support of the soccer and the the girls fast pitch, boys' baseball, but I run the adult softball, but I'm seeing what challenger can do, and uh I mean, we're out of space, so anyway, but I'm in full support, and I hope you put the put it on there for the ballot in April.

Thank you very much.

Okay, Michael Yance.

Good evening.

Uh Mayor, Vice Mayor, Counselors, City Manager.

Thank you for this time.

Um, my name is Michael Yance.

I'm the executive director of Museum Broken Arrow.

I'm here to support Proposition 4.

Uh, part of that is hopefully an expansion of the Museum Broken Arrow that we have here on Main Street.

Um, like Mr.

Spurgeon, I'm gonna take a step back so we understand why we're moving forward.

And in that bond measure is when we built the museum that we're currently at right now.

Since we opened over two decades ago, we have hosted literally thousands of visitors from around the world for the sole purpose of sharing the history and stories of broken arrow.

But there are more stories to tell, and I think we can do even more.

Um being director for the past 14 months, one of my goals was for the museum to be the center of activity.

In doing so, we hosted almost 50 different events, including new educational programming, temporary exhibits, art shows, community fundraisers.

We completed projects and our collections and our archives, and we're putting the finishing touches on upgrading our permanent exhibits on the second floor.

Our third floor, which is our rental space, which is open to all broken arrow residents, hosted an additional 50 events, which included birthdays, celebrations of life, baby showers, we have a wedding coming up in a couple weeks, but was also the center of city activities like Shamrock, Spooktacular, the tree lighting ceremony, and all the city parades.

We did almost a hundred events while still being open five days a week with a staff of four, and we're very proud of our success.

But what I really want to share with you, and we're excited about is our board this year has spent the time to build a brand new strategic plan.

This new strategic plan, which is going to be voted on this week, has goals that rededicates our vision and our mission to share the history and to preserve the history of Broken Arrow.

With this strategic plan, we have goals for the next five years, but it also includes goals for the next 10 years if the voters of Broken Arrow support the 2026 bond measure and expand the museum.

What we'd like to say is an expanded museum gives us the opportunity to share more stories, share more artifacts, and host more events for the community.

We're here to serve Broken Arrow.

We're proud to be the heart of the Rose District, and we love being on Main Street.

And I just wanted to let you and the city of Broken Arrow know that the museum has the plan and the people in place to make the 2026 bond successful with the votes.

Thank you so much for your time.

Thank you, sir.

Laurie Lewis.

Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council, City Manager Spurgeon.

I'd first like to thank each one of you for allowing me to sit on the Citizens Committee for this bond.

Charlie and Shannon did an amazing job.

They had a space for us where we could review the plans, ask questions, and have discussions in a supportive environment.

Shannon, thank you so much.

Tonight I'm here on behalf of Build a Better Broken Arrow.

Build a Better Broken Arrow is a committee that the only time we work is when the City of Broken Arrow or Broken Arrow Public Schools has bond measures.

If there is not a bond measure, you don't see us, we don't bother you, nothing.

So we're looking forward to 2026.

Each one of these eight propositions is important, but they're important for different ways.

Proposition one with quality roads and transportation.

All of us need that.

We all need to be able to get where we're going in a safe way, but also in a convenient and fast way.

That is why people dream of moving to Broken Arrow.

Without those propositions, we cannot continue to be the city we are, which by the way is 12th in the nation.

The library.

I'm at the library every two weeks.

I check out books, I meet people there.

Sometimes I just sit there and read my book in the silence.

I grew up on libraries, and libraries are vital to the growing community.

The sports facilities.

Sports tourism is the number one tourism entity in Broken Arrow.

Having families come here for tournaments is important.

When you're a family that sports is your travel, that becomes your vacation.

So coming here and spending time in our hotels, shopping at our small businesses, eating at our restaurants, walking through the Rose District in New Orleans Square, it's important.

But I also agree with you, Counselor Ford.

Our children deserve those sports facilities.

So Build a Better Broken Arrow is here to support all eight propositions.

I encourage you to vote.

Yes on all eight.

And we are your partner for 2026 Go Bond.

Thank you.

Thank you, ma'am.

I'm sorry.

Travis Kelly.

I have a comment.

Uh yeah.

You can go ahead and come down.

Not a comment about you.

Unless you want us to, Travis.

The comment about uh Laurie Lewis and the Build a Better Broken Arrow Committee.

They are extremely important.

A lot of us haven't been in a bond issue, or if we have, we haven't been when we had to see out was come together.

But they are the citizens group that brings it together.

So you'll find out that it's illegal for us to do a lot of things as far as campaigning.

And uh the Build a Better uh Broken Air Group and Laurie would be great uh with that group, uh, is always there to uh help sell our bond issue in the future.

So I thank you, Laurie, for uh being on that uh that committee and for that committee.

They do valuable jobs for us in this uh time of uh bond building.

Thank you.

Mayor Wimpy, Vice Mayor, Council, Mr.

Spurgeon, thank you uh for having me.

I am Travis Kelly.

I uh currently serve as president of Broken Air Youth Baseball.

Let me tell you a little bit about Broken Air Youth Baseball.

We're 54 years old, and at that 54 years, we've been the exact same facility since day one, um, with the exact same dirt with the exact same fields.

We have a wonderful facility that the city works extremely hard on.

Uh we work extremely hard on.

We're very proud of it.

We're a top-tier program.

We run a thousand players in our spring league, 600 players in our spring, and 600 players in our fall.

We are the largest youth baseball organization in Northeast Oklahoma.

Uh we hold and host tournaments, not only U Triple SA, but National Championship, and we're looking at some others uh from the Midwest area.

With Proposition 8, if we are able to uh get that passed with the voters, uh the upgrades that would happen at the ballpark would do amazing things, not only for our program and the community and our players in the community, but it allows us to become a destination.

And with that being a destination, we can put heads in beds, we get people on Main Street, we get people shopping, we get people interested in coming to Broken Arrow for the sports with the with uh with other um uh amazing things to do.

Sorry.

I feel like with the the growth that we have in South Broken Arrow right now, uh the things we're asking for, turf and and simple upgrades to uh the parking lot to the facilities that we have uh would do nothing more than make us shine.

Uh we support proposition eight.

Um we have about sixty-five uh people that uh work for us with whether it be umpires, whether it be uh the youth, uh some I I can name about 150 kids if that's the first job they ever had in Broken Arrow at 13 years old and 14 years old working in our concession stands.

Um we're gonna be around for another 54 years.

It would be awesome if you guys would consider putting proposition eight on there.

Our kids deserve it, like everybody said.

Softball stole a bunch of my thunder, so I don't have much to say.

But I appreciate the opportunity that you've given us.

Thank you guys and have a good evening.

Thank you, Travis.

My daughter had a she worked in the concession stand as well.

Yeah.

All right.

Justin Sharp.

Last but not least.

Sharp trust man, might I add.

Well, last time I spoke in front of this body, uh it was unexpected, and I was in shorts.

And uh Mr.

Stevens called me out on it, so I figured I better step up my game tonight.

But mayor, vice mayor, counselors, uh, Mr.

Spurgeon, thank you very much for the opportunity to speak.

I'm Justin Sharp.

I'm the president of the uh International Association of Firefighters, Local 2551, the representatives of the professional firefighters serve in this community, and I want to speak on behalf of all the firefighters working here tonight.

Um we're in full support of all eight propositions, but specifically I want to address proposition two, and I want to thank this body and the city's leadership for listening to our concerns about proposition two.

You know, I know uh this is a major bond package, it spans over a course of 10 years.

It was a concern of the firefighters as it came down to the end.

It didn't look like Station 9 was potentially going to be able to make the cut, and we realize hard decisions have to be made sometimes.

Now we realize hard decisions have to be made sometimes.

But in our in our position, just with our growing city, ever growing calls for service, we felt it was really important that in the next 10 years we looked at uh adding another fire station.

So I really appreciate the meaning meaningful conversations I had with a couple of counselors.

I appreciate Mr.

Spurgeon for having a couple of really meaningful conversations, and ultimately the city was able to find a way to make that work, and we can we can uh get fire station nine added in there.

And while I've got a little time left, I will say uh build a better broken arrow, come see me, we'll be glad to help.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

All right.

Any further discussion or questions?

We're just told B, aren't we?

Do I we're just on letter B.

I know I know we are.

We're just on letter B.

If there's no further discussion or questions, then um, I'll make a motion to uh move forward with our 2026 go bond.

Second as amendment is brought to us to be able to do that.

The changes as recommended, as recommended.

Yes.

All the recommendations.

Thank you, thank you.

So I didn't want another meeting, you know.

400,000 dollars or 400,000 and 14 or 15 million million is twice as hard as 200 million.

And it took us twice as long to go through all that visiting and meetings, and uh just unbelievable.

So don't call us for a couple of weeks.

Uh so at this point it becomes the the uh things get handed off to Trevor and his team, and they'll put together legislation for the council.

Um we'll make sure everybody has it as as soon as possible to walk through it because there is a lot that like I said, you have to make sure that any reasonable voter can go in there and understand what it is they're voting on.

So he's got to walk you through the state statute and the constitutional requirements, which is um which is it's a good conversation, it's very interesting how we have to get there.

Anything you want to add?

No, you covered it, sir.

Basically, there'll be a resolution, there'll be an ordinance, and then there also will be a separate resolution and ordinance for uh the sales tax part sales tax proposition, but they will all be on the same ballot.

And that'll be our next meeting.

Is that correct?

Yes, sir.

If I may just throw this in there for those who are gonna come at us, I mean, uh voice your concerns on social media.

We did not just vote to approve all these things and say that they are happening.

We voted that it will be put out to the people for a vote because I know that it will be said, oh, they just approved all that stuff without our knowledge.

That's not what happened.

Well said.

They live under a rock if they don't.

And it's been very deliberate, very deliberate in making sure there's full transparency.

Yes, and that's why there's an additional comment.

So I mean, council, when we actually you've asked new direct to give forward, but obviously the the what matters is April is January 6th.

That's a day where you actually have to pass the ordinance and all the uh related uh legislation.

All right, item 10 preview ordinances 10 a consideration discussion and possible preview of ordinance number 3902.

Trevor, uh thank you, Mayor Vice Mayor Council.

Uh the item before you for consideration is a preview ordinance, among other duties, the City of Rokinara Fire Department is tasked with remediating hazardous waste cleanups, evacuations, and disposal of the hazardous waste.

We currently do have a code that addresses these issues and allows for recovery of costs for these incidents, but because of some ambiguity in the statute, there is some uh need for clarity over the billing of uh our remediation of hazardous wastes from uh in materials from outside the city limits and inside the city limits.

So, what we've proposed in working with uh Chief Moore is an ordinance that centralizes and codifies the process to recover the costs when our fire department does respond to hazardous material incident.

Uh in addition, it also allows the city manager uh or his designee uh to waive in certain circumstances those fees uh as he would deem fit.

Um, but it also provides a mechanism uh for recovery of those costs when it's appropriate.

So uh Chief Moore is here and is available to speak to any of the specifics as to uh the types of hazardous waste material calls that we get.

My understanding is we've had some pipelines.

I think you could have like tanker type type trucks, uh things of that nature.

So with that, we're happy to answer any questions you may have.

Do you have any questions?

If we have any questions, we can probably ask Miss Teve's son about hazardous waste and mitigation.

And yes, but is there any questions or do you need questions of the chief?

Um well I did have a uh utility reach out to me, and uh their concern was you know, you call 811 to get to mark where they dig, and then if they dig and hit a gas line, then we were called out, obviously, to take care of business.

And um that was a concern to them.

But what I what I told him is, you know, that if if 811 didn't mark the lines correctly, then they need to go to 811.

We shouldn't have to have the burden of the cost.

So I definitely support this ordinance for our city.

Absolutely, Councillor Ford.

And to your point, I mean, it can be various folks that could be responsible.

It could be the person who had the accident or the person who was reckless.

Uh, it can also be the the entity that owns the line.

Uh and it could also be somebody who might uh maintain or or has control over it, maybe they're leasing it.

So I think the important thing is my understanding is it costs about 750 dollars an hour for one of our trucks to respond, and it's not reasonable for the city to bear those costs because it's not our responsibility for it.

So we'll well that's well said.

Okay, and welcome back.

Thank you.

It's good to be back.

All right, any further discussion?

Entertain a motion.

It's just preview.

Oh, it's just preview.

It's just a for preview.

Okay.

Just kidding.

I do not entertain a motion.

Well, you can entertain a motion to set it for adoption at the next meeting.

Yes.

Oh, see, I can entertain a motion.

I'd like I'd make that motion.

And I'll second it.

Thank you.

Good job, Mayor.

Thanks.

All right.

Item 11 ordinances, 11A, consideration discussion, possible adopt adoption of ordinance number 3901.

Trevor.

Uh, thank you, Mayor.

The city currently has a disturbing ordinance, uh, disturbing the peace ordinance on file.

Uh it's come to our attention that there have been uh incidences of loud and unnecessary noises at what we've determined to be places of public assembly.

Uh places of public assembly are basically uh defined as community centers, auditoriums, uh parks, event centers, lodges, clubs, houses of worship worship, and similar facilities.

Typically, the issues have been arising uh with these places of public assembly that are within 300 feet of residential district uh residentially zoned areas.

Um things have happened, such as uh folks being able to hear noises with their doors closed and their windows closed for prolonged periods of time.

And so what this ordinance does is it defines those places of assembly as we've we've just discussed and applies clear standards uh that that says that if you are inside a dwelling unit and your doors and windows are closed and you can hear the noise for 10 minutes, uh then that's gonna be a violation.

And so um it clarifies the enforcement parameters, uh it addresses those concerns over some residences that are close to these places of public assembly, um, and it does it in a manner that is uh content neutral.

Uh so we're not discriminating against anyone, it's it's specifically for that noise.

Um the existing exemptions to the noise ordinance are not changed.

So, for example, we had a question of well, what if the broken arrow band was playing in a in a park?

Uh that's currently exempted under our noise ordinance that doesn't change.

Uh so with that being said, I'm happy to answer any questions.

This is uh requested for final adoption, and then there would be an accompanying emergency clause uh for your consideration.

Trevor, I do have um a clear, I just just was thinking about this today.

So if there's an existing building um place of assembly now, they won't have to do it.

But if they remodel, would they then have to also follow the new ordinance if they remodel after we adopt this?

So my opinion, if there is a place of public assembly that's within 300 feet of property that's zoned for residential purpose, uh, that this noise ordinance will apply to that.

We're not changing the zoning, we're not changing the use, we're just adding an additional clarification on what constitutes a disturbing the piece.

Thank you.

So um you may refresh me, I may have may have missed it in here.

When you said you can hear it inside of a dwelling, um is there a certain what's that definition?

Is there a decibel definition?

Or if you know I have really good hearing and I can hear a hum now.

Can I go and call the police on them?

Or does it have to be a certain decimal level?

I mean, because I I can see that getting in the weeds there.

That's a great question, and it's always the issue uh when you're dealing with noise type ordinances.

So we did not go the route of having a decimeter or set decibels.

Uh the definition that we had for plainly audible is basically any sound where the bass rhythm or melody is clearly perceptible to a person of ordinary sensibilities.

And so it's a reasonable person of uh ordinary sensibilities.

So obviously, if you have some of these sound directional headphones that you can super hear things, that's not that's not gonna qualify.

But if you're just a regular person and you're in your home and you're hearing with your doors and your windows closed, noise for for 10 minutes, the melody, the bass, uh things of that nature, then that then that would be clearly a violation.

Okay, I'll make a motion to um adopt ordinance number 3901.

The motion a second roll call.

Item B is emergency clause.

Make a motion to accept the emergency clause.

Second when it comes up.

I'm clicking, it's not doing anything.

We're stuck.

Okay.

All right, item twelve's remarks and inquiries by governing body members.

I uh did uh attend a wreath uh ceremony on uh Saturday morning, and uh it was very well attended is that at our cemetery here in Broken Arrow.

Uh they're about 25% short on wreaths.

Uh the mayor and I was talking beforehand, and she acknowledged that they're a little bit higher each year.

So I think it's right under 20 dollars.

But uh there was uh probably 25% of those veterans uh in our cemetery that did not have the wreaths.

I don't know the solution to that.

I just told them that I would bring that up for you uh uh the person in charge of it is with the um the VFW in our organization down here.

So uh it will do wreaths across America does a thing, um, I believe at the beginning of the year where the wreaths are half off.

So that's a great time to go ahead and grab if you're if you normally support wreaths across America to go ahead and grab a good chunk of them then because they are right now they're 17 dollars apiece.

Well it is and um if if you do it through an organization like we do through the center, um that organization gets five dollars from each wreath, so it is a great fundraiser, and it gets the the wreaths out on all of our veterans' graves.

It is really sad when we have 700 and something grades at Park Grove, and only 400 get, you know, like how do you pick and choose?

And really, we're just grabbing wreaths and laying them down.

So um it would be amazing if we could raise enough funds to get all of the wreaths taken care of.

I know there's some businesses out there that support uh our honor guard works with Walmart every year.

Um they send reads, they participate in wreaths across America, and we do a ceremony for them at the distribution center up in uh Oceeleda, and then we escort the semis through the county.

Yeah, um, so maybe we can touch base with some of these organizations that participate as well.

Right, that'd be good because it was bad after the wreaths laying, I saw several, and actually people that I knew well.

Uh and you can't go get a wreath and lay it on somebody else's, so uh, they just ended up without a uh wreath, and I felt pretty bad.

Thank you for bringing that up.

Um anyone else?

I'll jump in to say that um, you know, it was uh the Civitans do an amazing job with our Christmas parade, and it was so much fun this year.

Uh Mr.

Spurgeon, you and your staff in the city, I'll tell you what, it it's hard to uh top a float that spins and smoke smoke levels and all that kind of stuff, and um just for our own personal point of privilege on myself.

So the we always do the pancake breakfast with rotary, it was one of the largest we've ever had, and where 300 people came through it.

We got some we got rid of all of the food, and we are gonna be able to uh contribute all of that back to our citizens and keep it in the community.

And then as well, just this past Saturday with shop with a Rotarian, shop with a cop, shop with a firefighter to see all these kids and their smiling faces, it just really warms your heart about our our wonderful community family we have in in Broken Arrow.

Just want to wish everybody Merry Christmas.

It was large riding on that float and looking down Main Street.

It was just a mass of people down through there.

So uh it was a little cold.

It was great.

I know it was covered getting back to City Hall.

And the parade was still going from the other end.

Yeah.

Yeah, it was amazing.

Ride back to City Hall.

I wasn't gonna take as cold as it was.

They got a little touch and go on the sides too, because it was a quiet.

So no, they outdid themselves as always.

So yes.

Enjoyable day.

Yeah.

Um, all right, city manager.

Well, you've all covered it all.

The only thing I want to say is the water tower's not leaning.

Yeah.

Okay.

That's you know, I don't know, I Charlie Previous on top of it.

I don't know.

Sure.

You know, what was impressive about that video was the fact that Charlie didn't have a cue card in front of him.

He actually memorized all that line.

And so they've made it even more impressive.

So no, just thank you for the council members.

I appreciate your support tonight.

And and uh we've got four months to go, and uh I I love all the questions and love all the engagement, and that's a lot of words, so I have nothing else.

We did a great job at State of the City.

It was amazing.

You I know how much effort you put into that, and the communications team and whoever else helps you with all the things.

Um it was hilarious when Charlie was saying all those words.

I had no idea what they were, and then the overlay of all these, you know, yeah, different math equations or whatever, and it's like, oh thank goodness we have people in our city that are smart that can take care of all that stuff.

Yeah, it was awesome.

You did a really good job at at State of the City over five 509 people.

Yeah, biggest ever.

I don't know where we're gonna go when we outgrow Stony Creek.

That's James's problem.

Yeah.

No, I will say is that they worked very, very hard.

They were incredibly diligent in terms in growing it because James's expectation is such I believe is the same as ours, is that uh we want people to be here to to know find out what's going on in our city.

So absolutely.

So next year, Mike Scrimshire will make a encore perfor uh appearance.

Okay.

And I'm not saying you all might be on the stage at the amphitheater in some way, shape, or form, but we may be finding out your singing skills.

Oh never know.

Never know.

There's a lot of elected officials that talk to me afterwards and they're and they're like, you know, I I'm not you may have talked for an hour.

It it doesn't seem that long, you know, because there's so much going on, but they appreciated the videos that you did, like to kind of break it up and you know, where they really absorbed the information.

I had several elected officials tell me that.

So I want to make sure you knew that.

Thank you.

And that you did a really great job of making sure that you thanked everyone that partners with us all year long, our staff and everything.

So yep, it was all positive.

Thank you.

In a lot of words.

Yes.

Yes, so have an executive session.