Call the Broken Arrow City Council meeting to order.

Invocation by Pastor Rich.

Happy New Year, everybody.

Thank you.

Thank you, Father God, for the start of a brand new year.

All things are moving forward for broken error.

May the strength of your Holy Spirit rest upon our leadership.

May the wisdom of your spirit rest upon our leadership.

May the protection of your Holy Spirit be over our leadership and their families.

Please help them make the right decisions.

We look to you for guidance with the agenda before them tonight.

There's so much expansion and enlargement.

You have planned for BA.

And just as you spoke to the Prophet Elijah in 1 Kings 19 and said your voice is not heard in a great wind or fire or earthquake, but in a whisper.

Please whisper your will for BA in the ears of each council member as they leave the city for 2026.

May your mighty hand our citizens, protect our city employees, and may this city be a light to our state and country.

In the name of your son, a great example of a servant leader.

Amen.

Thank you, City.

Thank you.

Roll call.

Green.

Here.

Ford.

Here.

Parks.

Here.

Wimpy.

Here.

Please stand and join me for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Attention, salute, pledge.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

One nation and indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

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

I'll make a motion to approve the agenda as it states.

Second.

Mayor, can I point out one thing on the consent agenda?

This is just for the public's knowledge.

I was very excited about this.

Under K is a partnership that we're having, another partnership with Tulsa County to actually make some improvements to the intersection of New Orleans and Mingo.

And they're also going to be looking for assistance from both Tulsa and Bixby.

But this is something that right on the edge of our city, and so I just appreciate the Tulsa County Commissioners coming and approaching us and working together where our jurisdictions come together.

We've done that several other places, and I think there's potential for others, but I just want to acknowledge that partnership we have with them to make those improvements to part of our community.

Thank you.

Excuse me, Councillor Ford.

Did you click on your vote?

Please vote.

Thank you.

All right.

Um item seven, public hearings, presentations, appeals, recognitions, and awards.

There are none.

Item eight, a citizen's opportunity to address the council.

There is none.

Item nine, general counsel business.

Nine A.

Consideration discussion and possible approval of and authorization to execute a memorandum of understanding between the City County Library Commission of Tulsa County and the City of Broken Arrow to outline their cooperative intent to develop a brand new 20,000 square foot public library facility in South Broken Arrow.

Jeremy Moore.

Wow, that went much quicker than I maybe thought.

But here I am, General Council already.

Jeremy Moore, the Fire Chief, but discussing a memorandum of understanding between the City of Broken Arrow and the City County Library Commission of Tulsa County.

Definitely not the typical role of the fire chief, but uh my responsibility was proposition seven, as you know.

And early last year, you guys made some direct gave us some direction to move forward with proposition seven.

Uh and I think later on tonight, maybe the next item or two, we're going to be finalizing the election.

But because the library system is not an entity of the city of Broken Arrow, they're a third party to the city of Broken Arrow.

We felt it was very important that we bring forward a memorandum of understanding that clarified expectations between the city of Broken Arrow and the Library S for this endeavor for this future partnership that we're working on.

So this memorandum of understanding uh contains some obligations for both parties, and all of it obviously is contingent on the citizens passing proposition seven in the April election.

Should we have an April election, which I think is later in the meeting?

Um the obligations for the city include putting proposition seven on the April ballot and bearing all costs for the election.

Also, we would be reimbursing the library up to four million dollars or forty percent of the construction costs, whichever is less.

So that means if the economy does whatever it does and they are able to build the library for substantially less than what they're anticipating, our um burden or our what we would contribute would come down based on a percentage, but up to four million dollars.

Uh and we won't make reimbursements until January 31st of 2030.

That's kind of important because of our capacity to be able to sell bonds and award projects.

We have in this memorandum of understanding that we wouldn't uh make that reimbursement, again, reimbursement meaning they build the library and then we give them money after it is built and completed and they receive their sick certificate of occupancy.

So the library's obligation include constructing a 20,000 square foot state of the art library uh near their current location, and they would have that constructed by December 31st of 2029.

It's gonna be a wonderful sil wonderful new facility for our citizens that will include a maker space with state of the art equipment, much like we saw on our tour of the downtown Tulsa Library, also will be an outdoor children's amphitheater, and it's gonna be a wonderful facility for our citizens to use for many years.

Um if it's approved by the council tonight, Kim, the executive director who is here with us this evening, uh she will take it to her board on January 15th, and they will uh consider ratification of it also so that we will have very clear understanding of what they're expecting of the city and when we can deliver on that and what we're expecting of the library and when they're expected to deliver on that.

And I would entertain any questions, and I know Kim is here and would answer any questions and express her gratitude for this wonderful partnership that we've uh endeavored to take on.

Thank you, Chief.

Any questions?

Or I do know there's some um private money being raised, apparently too for this.

So what if they raise more money?

Like what if they raise money that we don't have to pay the whole four million?

Like how is that does that go back to the cost of the library or yeah, I and I can let Kim come and speak to that.

Um but our obligation per the agreement would be four million dollars or forty percent, and I'll let her speak to how the private dollars would be.

Okay.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, good evening.

Okay, good afternoon.

Um mayor, vice mayor, counselors, and Mr.

Spurgeon.

Thank you for having me.

And let me just say Jeremy has been phenomenal throughout this entire process, so thank you to him.

Did he pay you for that?

He did not.

But on behalf of the Tulsa City County Library Commission, we are so appreciative of this opportunity and realize um that this is uh quite a unique partnership.

Um to answer your question, it would be a wonderful problem to have if we were able to.

Well, it's it's been a difficult process, which is why we're before you today for the four million to raise the funds we needed.

The entire project is 13 million dollars.

Um, and the four million of that would go toward uh the 10 million dollars for construction only.

I don't know if we would have that wonderful problem of raising beyond that.

Um we don't intend to.

Um, and so we are at this stage we're raising money for the last two projects, which is the South Broken Arrow and the Awasle um library, and the the funding process has slowed a bit, which is why we're before you today.

I don't see that as a problem, but if you want to put a clause in the um as a result of that, we can certainly would welcome that.

Yep.

I'm okay with it.

I just was curious what to do.

I don't have a question, but I do have a comment.

Yes.

Um I actually got to go and visit our library this past week or so.

Uh I was at home trying to take care of some projects and my printer was out of ink.

And I was like, oh no, how am I gonna print my documents?

I can run over to the South Broken Arrow Public Library and print my documents there.

Um contrary to some of the comments that I've heard, there was a lot of activity and hustle and bustle in the library.

Um the staff was incredible, and they they helped me out and got me through the process and on my way.

So kudos to your staff.

I will pass that on to them as well.

May since I'm here, may I have make a um a question or comment about the MOU?

As Jerry Jeremy mentioned, um, in the second um looking at the MOU, this the second um article, obligations of the parties under city or obligations number two.

Uh it says reimburse the library of the four million only after, excuse me.

Reimburse the library to four million and forty percent verified construction costs only after January 31st, 3030.

2030.

Um and once the conditions of the section three are fully satisfied.

I wondered if the council will entertain a also an end date to that.

Um so not to reimburse until January 31st.

Would the counselors also entertain an amendment that would include um but um no later than a date uh to expect those dollars because again, as we're talking about four million dollars, that's a large amount of money that would be difficult for us to proceed with if we don't have a deadline of when we can also expect the money to be we know that's gonna be after 2030, January 31st, but we don't know how far afterwards.

So I mean how do you have a recommendation?

Yeah, I do.

I have a recommendation of after I have no later than December 31st, 2030.

That would be the year, the full year of 2030, once and once the conditions are meant as section three Jeremy and I talked about Chief Moore and I talked about that, and uh I I don't have a problem with that because we our sales have normally happened in the fall.

So we receive those monies.

And so, you know, the the challenge we have here is that we're nearly complete in building the the 10-year schedule, and we moved it out to to 2030 because obviously there's other commitments.

For example, council said that should proposition number one we want to get Tucson between Aspen and Olive going and Omaha between Aspen and Elm Elm Place going immediately, and that we've already done the design or work on the design for Tucson.

So obviously there's seven to uh could be fifteen to twenty million dollars with the road projects, and so uh I don't see any concerns of putting in end date because that would be after that sell.

And I I would say this, and I when I spoke to the chief, you know, when we when we build out the schedule, if there has a potential to be an issue, I can always come back to council and tell Kim that we may need to extend that further simply because of how the schedule looks in terms of when the sales are.

Because remember, it's not $415 million divided by 10.

It's based on bonds paying off and assess in this and anticipated assessed value.

So I would be okay with that with the understanding is that there might be a need to come back and amend uh if the voters approve Prop 7.

Yes.

Sound good?

Yes, that would that would work for us for sure.

So do we need a motion for that?

With that amendment.

I gotta get out of my hand quick.

Any more questions for me or no man?

Okay, thank you again.

We have a motion and a second roll call.

Did you get the language for that, Curtis?

Because I didn't voice that motion.

We will get that off of the video.

Okay.

Okay.

All right.

Item B, consideration discussion and possible approval of the allocation of the 2026 Go Bond proposition number eight.

Charlie Bright.

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

Spurgeon.

Uh excellent.

I'm excited that we're sitting here talking about proposition seven, and now we're gonna have a little bit of talk about potential proposition eight and the um potential election that we're gonna talk about a little bit later after this.

So um obviously we've spent a lot of time in this council chambers and meetings outside of this with staff um talking about what the projects could be for propositions one through six and then seven as well.

Um we have talked about the potential in a proposition eight that would go towards sports user facilities, but we have not talked a lot publicly about what those projects would be.

And the primary reason being is because those projects won't be named on the ballot at the time of the vote, since the way we're gonna talk about doing that was a temporary sales tax.

Um and but the council has made comments in the past that obviously they want to be transparent with the public about which print potential projects are there prior to saying we're gonna vote on it, and so tonight we're gonna talk about what those potential projects could look like.

Um as a reminder, the proposition A is considered at this point to be a um half a cent of a temporary dedicated sales tax that would last five years, it would start after the citizens vote on it and it would automatically end after that five-year periods happens no matter what, unless any changes are made in the future.

As part of that, the process that we want to make sure that's clear to you all and the public is the intent right now, and what we've seen with other communities, and just in general, it happens when you sell a bond a lot of times, you know, they don't see that for a few years because it takes time, as we just talked about to generate the money to create the bonds and everything else.

And so a lot of times, especially when you're talking about stuff like the youth, you know, the parents that vote on it, their kids don't see it.

And we've talked about that here in this situation.

And so the way we've approached it here is we anticipate the revenue being around $53 million total for the five years that is going to be voted on.

And in that, we have broken out what it would be if we took a loan in the first year to cover all projects on the front end, and then what the debt servicing costs would be here.

So we've broken that down for you here, and we show that if we get that $53 million that we estimate approximately 46 million in project costs in year one, and then having a little 5.6 million or so in debt servicing costs.

One way you could look at that is say, well, why are we paying debt servicing, not waiting for the cash?

But you also have to keep in mind in our industry that that's kind of a wash when you look at it because if we weren't paying for the debt servicing, then we wouldn't be doing those projects for four to five years, and then we'd be paying escalation on the cost because the cost of the project would be more in four or five years than it is today.

So it's kind of whether you're gonna pay debt servicing or escalation, it's one or the other.

Um but that's the intent and the ultimate goal being if the voters and the citizens choose to go forward with this, that we would get these projects and these improvements done in a very quick time frame so the kids of the parents that vote for it would get to use the amenities.

And so our schedule would be to start design immediately.

Um I'll tell you now, if this goes out, my team will go out for consult if they if the vote happens on April 7th, my team will ask for consultants on April 8th.

And so we will start that process April 8th, and we will work on the design as quick as possible with the intent that later in 2027 that we would start construction on all the ball fields.

We'd coordinate on what season and all that kind of stuff, but get going as quick as possible.

Um so we want to provide you guys a breakdown of what we anticipate that 46 million going to.

Um so we've broken it down by complex, um, and then we broken it down towards uh facilities like what would actually be used for the playing surfaces and then what would go towards the common areas.

And so, as you see here, arrowhead for the softball.

Um, the biggest ticket items here are converting the fields to turf, and we've talked about this before.

It might not necessarily be artificial turf, it could be a Bermuda grass on a sand base or something.

We'd still go through that design and figure it out.

The ultimate goal making the playing surface nicer, making it drain faster so we can hold events right after it rains.

Um we would be regrading and soding, we'd be um adding LED lighting to again extend the playing time, get uh kids out there more, and it also reduces our uh electricity costs, um adding backstops areas, uh renovate the warm-up areas for all the teams, and then landscaping tree improvements, and then we kind of drop down to just overall site amenities that aren't really next to the fields, and we talk about adding a more um uh appealing front entrance, so you kind of should come and it looks like a much nicer place.

The parking lot's obviously in rough shape if we can improve the parking lot, um, sidewalk repairs, access gate control.

That's talking about where we've tied this to the senior center on the side for extra parking.

We may provide another entryway into the park over there and kind of do some gate um gatework over there, and then that's what you see at the end secondary gate entrance.

So feel free to interrupt if you want to spawk about any specific site, but I'll just go on to the next.

Um, over at Indian Springs, we're gonna first talk about the overall because it's obviously many many user groups over there, but the overall improvements are very expensive.

There's a lot of parking, but the parking again is in rough shape, it just we haven't updated in many years.

So park lot improvements, um, improve the roads, parking throughout the area, common area upgrades.

Um, we're talking about picnic areas, shade areas, maybe shade structures, um, and maybe playgrounds.

I don't know, we haven't fully gone through what that'll all be.

And then uh, and then the park maintenance building that at one point was in proposition three, and we discussed since it is part of the sports user facilities that we would move it out and put it in proposition eight, which is ultimately a maintenance building for our staff to be able to maintain everything that we have out there.

For you this one, I know you said parking lot improvements.

I know this would be a huge thing.

I don't know if this is included or not.

Um, I know it hadn't been finalized, but is it is there any consideration to uh making that dreadful circle any more efficient to get in and out of?

Yeah, I mean, to your point, as you said, we haven't we haven't designed and gotten those details, but it has been discussed.

I think if approved when we start the design process, we'll see what we can do.

I don't know what that looks like, but I think we'll I think we'll become we'll try to come up with some creative ideas.

And I don't know if that means adding lane width where we can or trying to make up reduce some parking and make up for the parking somewhere else.

But we'll we'll look at some options.

We'll do the best we can.

You are limited on space and what's available, but um we'll definitely try to make it the best we can.

Um staying out at Indian Springs, moving to the soccer fields.

Uh we're showing turf conversion of four more fields, LED lighting again um throughout, and then a lot more sidewalks.

Uh you know, obviously you guys are familiar with the area, but if you go out there, there's not a lot of sidewalks connecting the fields and everything, so we wanted to add a lot more sidewalk connectivity through the area.

They already do have their four largest fields as turf, and this would be giving them four more to increase their playing time quite a bit.

And then going over to baseball again.

The the primary theme here is turf conversion, which could be artificial turf or solted areas, um, and then regrading and siding for the outfields, LED lighting, more restrooms and safety netting um down the sides.

Um and then adult softball is the last uh user group that's out there, and so obviously we have a very nice challenger, very nice turf fields out there, which creates a situation where they don't want these probably get underutilized more than they should because they don't have the same level of um amenities that you have at the other facility, and so we'd kind of catch these up with what everything everybody else is going, turf conversions, um concessions and renovations, LED lighting, and kind of get it on the same standard that Challenger already is for the two fields that we have in that area.

And then speaking of dot softball, moving over to Challenger Sports Complex, um minimal improvements obviously a new facility, very nice facility, but there's some things we could add out there.

Um playground because now out there you have more adults playing, but you have a lot of kids that come to the facility and this playing and you know sitting in the stands getting bored or whatever.

So playground for the you for the kids to go play on while um mom, dad, and uncle, whoever's playing, um some batting cages that could be used uh year round for warm-ups, um a bridge connection that we hear a lot.

You can see in the aerial right there, the sidewalk to get in goes way off to the right.

We do get a lot of complaints about just a bridge connection across the channel there.

Um so we've added that in, and then parking lot expansion, which will probably be dual use purpose.

They need more parking because they always overflow that parking, but that parking also will complement events park and complement the amphitheater, kind of have three purposes there.

And then moving on to Neen Heis.

Uh, again, uh the I will bring up the total at Nean Ice is a little lower than the others.

Um, but a lot of it is what you've seen.

We talk about turf and lighting and everything else.

We're kind of catching up the other facilities to some of the improvements that Nean Heist has already received.

You know, after the last bond, all four fields of Nean Heist are already turf.

Um and you know, their lighting is a little bit better, they already have a nicer entryway than some of the other parks.

So we definitely want to improve it and make it better because we want it to be state of the art, but everybody else is kind of getting the improvements that they've gotten in some of the past bonds already.

But it would include LED lighting trans um and include entryway plaza areas, they want more concrete space for gathering.

There's a lot of uh spillover, I guess, at the front front gates around their events, um, more lighting and security in the parking lots.

We've been told many times it gets dark in the parking lots, um, repaving some drainage improvements, and then one that we've heard a lot from citizens is a restroom facility actually out of the practice fields itself.

So this would uh you know, during the week, all the teams are practicing out there, the gates and everything are locked up on the inside, getting a practice getting a restroom out there for when everybody's outside during the week.

Um that's an overview of where we expect it to all go.

Um I will, as I kind of said at the beginning of this, obviously we want to be very transparent about what we expect, but the way this will be voted on, um, it'll be a sales tax.

We get we collect as much as we can collect over that five years, as much as whatever that number is, and then all that money will be required to go towards sports user groups.

And you know, that total could be 53 million, it could be 56, 58 or whatever, and this is generally what the plan is for the projects within that what the expectation is.

So I'm happy to answer any questions you guys might have.

So similar to uh council Ford's question, if we do collect more than the 53 million needed, will we add additional upgrades or will that just go to okay?

Council will council will decide to to do one or the other.

So if in fact we take in additional, for example, this does not take into account Hackberry Market or Adams Creek.

Right.

And so once we look at where the note is, council would have the option of because remember the one thing I was gonna mention at the beginning here is that council has seen these improvements and obviously there there was a much more request than there uh what was funding available, and so we have all those improvements, and so once we get a couple of years into this and make projections, that's when council would decide whether you want to do additional improvements or to basically pay off and and basically retire the note and then sunset the tax.

But to your point, and Mr.

Spurgeon's point, any anything we gather um based on the vote will be required to stay at sports user groups.

Sure.

So if we collect more of your choice how to use it, but it'll have to go to sports user groups if it's used.

But no matter what, it'll be over in five years.

Five years.

Yes, correct.

I know that.

I just want to make sure everyone else knows that yet.

Yeah.

Okay.

All right.

Thank you for the question.

Thank you, Charlie.

Thank you all.

Entertain a motion.

I'll make a motion to accept 25-282.

Or Johnny Will, and I'll second it.

Roll call.

Sorry.

All right.

Item C is consideration, discussion, and possible approval of resolution number 1732.

Trevor.

Thank you, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council members.

The item before you is for the closure or foreclosure to reopen a 2,000 square foot easement that's at the intersection of Houston and Garnett.

It's no longer needed for public purposes.

The landowner would like to remove it so that they can continue with the development.

Okay.

Any discussion or questions?

I'll make a motion to approve resolution number 1732.

Second.

We have a motion and second.

Roll call.

Okay.

All right, item D, consideration discussion, and possible approval of resolution number 1730.

Thank you, Mayor.

This is the first of several items that you'll have.

It's basically the legislation package for the 2026 geobond package as well as a resolution calling for the sales tax and the ordinances that go along with those.

We have Nate Ellis with public finance group here.

So the next three items are going to be legislation for the geo bond.

Then we'll have a little break to talk about a hazmat ordinance and then we'll finish out the legislation.

So with that, I'd like to turn it over to Nate if that's okay, Mayor.

Yes.

All right.

Hi.

Thank you.

Good evening.

Exciting time.

The end of a process that we've been working on for a couple of years now.

So yeah, so this is a resolution that calls the sales tax.

So you'll you'll see there's kind of some difference.

The GO is called by an ordinance, and the election language is built into that ordinance, and then there's a proclamation.

So the ordinance has to be adopted.

The proclamation gets published multiple times in the paper to give notice to the public in advance of the election on the and there is an emergency clause related to that as well because we want that effective immediately so that Curtis can take it over to the election board and file it and doesn't have to wait, which would be after the deadline.

So on the sales tax, it's a little bit different.

We call the say or the sales tax is adopted by ordinance.

The ordinance won't be effective until July 1 if the voters approve it.

So it doesn't need an emergency clause, but then the election itself is called by this resolution that's the current agenda on here, and then the next couple of items are approvals of the proclamations themselves.

So these are maybe kind of out of order as you're adopting them, but it doesn't really matter.

I'm happy I'm happy to answer any questions.

But that's that's kind of the whole package.

So there's eight total propositions.

One through six are general obligation bonds, similar to what you've done in the past.

It's kind of same category names that we've had.

Uh proposition seven is a general obligation limited tax bond, uh, which is a different constitutional provision.

Uh that's all on the geo bond package together, and then proposition eight is the is the sales tax.

So and it this is kind of the last chance if you want to renumber any of those propositions, but otherwise that's the order that they will appear on the ballot.

I was gonna bring that up.

I'm just kidding.

Just kidding.

Okay.

Any questions?

Uh nate.

Trevor, how do we start this?

I'll make a motion.

That would be it.

To the first one would be to approve resolution number 1730.

I'd make a motion to approve resolution number 1730.

I'll second that motion.

And uh roll call.

All right.

Item E is consideration discussion and possible approval of an authorization to execute a special election proclamation.

Uh the requested action on that would be move to approve and authorize x authorization to execute the special election proclamation.

I'll make a motion to authorize to execute special election proclamation.

I'll second.

Roll call.

Item F as consideration discussion on possible approval of and authorization to execute special election proclamation for propositions one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven.

And so the requested motion would be the same as above, basically the approval and authorization to execute the special election proclamation.

So moved.

We have a motion and a second.

Roll call.

All right.

Item 11 A is consideration discussion and possible adoption of ordinance number 3902.

Trevor.

Thank you, Mayor.

As you may recall, we had previewed this hazmat ordinance.

I think about two weeks previously.

At the request of Chief Moore, uh the legal department had worked with him to basically clean up our hazmat ordinance just to make it more clear about uh who we can go uh ask for for remediation or remuneration for when we have to remediate a hazardous waste spill.

Um and so my understanding is we spend something in the neighborhood of $750 an hour per fire truck.

Um sometimes you can have spills from uh a gas tank, or you could have it from a pipeline.

Uh there's various ways that this could happen.

So this just cleans up our ordinance and it makes it more streamlined and recovering fees for when we have to respond.

Uh I know Chief Moore is in the audience.

You can talk a little bit more about the details of the operations if you'd like some more details.

Would you like more details?

I would vice mayor would like more details.

I just have a uh question just to make sure, and looking through this, that we had a um we're gonna continue with hazmat, we continue cleaning everything up.

It's just what what are we doing differently here?

This really allows the city to invoice the spiller, the property owner, the responsible party for the fire department's time committed to that incident.

We're still going to respond, we're still going to clean up, we're still going to work with a local remediation company do the cleanup.

Usually it's an outside remediation company largely, and that spiller or the property owner of the involved entity will have to pay that remediation company to do the actual cleanup to make sure the environment is protected, but they have not previously had to pay the fire department or the city for the fire department's time and effort and energy into that.

And over the last year, we have seen our time and commitment for natural gas leaks increase exponentially.

And so there's a lot of time and effort and energy that the fire department is spending on these natural gas leaks due to directional underground directional boring.

Um and so this is going to hold those companies a little bit more accountable that are damaging our natural gas infrastructure for our citizens that they're gonna have to pay for those costs of at least the fire department being on scene in addition to the Oklahoma Natural Gas Company or whatever, whatever hazardous materials cleanup is is also going on.

So the city is going to be recouping some costs from the responsible party.

I knew that was going in that direction.

I just wanted to make sure.

Uh do I have any other questions, Dr.

Russell?

Okay.

I have no other questions.

And Charlie's team is working to let the contractors know that are doing this work.

This is coming.

And so if it's a contractor that creates this situation, which is likely it's going to be or has been a lot of in the past few uh past years, uh, they are aware this is coming, and he's working with them to get the word out and having regular meetings with these contractors that are doing this directional boarding.

So they're aware that if this passes tonight with the emergency clause, basically tomorrow, if they do this, they're gonna have $750 per hour per fire truck uh to pay the city for this.

That's good.

I do have one question, it may not necessarily be you, maybe Mr.

Spurgeon or uh the other chief.

Um is there any um remuneration in this type of incident?

I mean, I don't know, you know, how often it happens, but you often have law enforcement out there blocking roads and doing other things as well in relation to that hazmat.

And do we get any um payback for the law enforcement being out there as well?

That's probably not gonna be as much, but we're still having law enforcement out there.

I I don't Trevor may know something statute that put requires something separate.

Um I could speak to that.

The language that we have is pretty broad.

If you look under responsibility, it says quote uh the following person shall be liable to the city for payment of incurred costs, and it doesn't limit it just to fire.

And so uh my opinion of it would it be it would include everything that we would um calculate from the incident.

Sure.

I'd make a motion in that we approve ordinance number 3902.

That's what I was gonna let you know.

The motion and a second roll call.

All right, item B is the emergency clause.

Make a motion to accept the emergency clause.

I'll second that motion.

Roll call.

Item C.

I am not reading all of that.

That's a whole thing.

That's a lot of words.

Consideration and discussion of possible approval of ordinance number 3903.

Tell me more about that.

Thank you, Mayor.

This is the accompanying ordinance to the notice of the proclamation of election that was previously passed.

This is for propositions one through seven.

Okay.

Questions or discussion?

I'll make a motion to approve ordinance number 3903.

Okay.

Item D is the emergency clause.

Make a motion for emergency clause, approve it.

Oh second.

When it comes up.

Item E is consideration discussion and possible approval of ordinance number 3904.

Trevor.

And this is the ordinance for proposition number eight sales tax.

I'll make a motion we approve orders number 3904.

Second.

Roll call.

All right.

Item 12 is remarks and inquiries by governing body members.

I was just gonna let you all know that uh city manager and I filmed a short um video before the council meeting, just reminding everyone about the January 12th meeting and just um kind of explaining how the the special meeting will go and just for everyone to um you know have peace and come prepared to you know have a good professional conversation and and vote on that item.

So see all the council need to be there.

Yes.

That would be great.

Just asking a question, aren't you?

Aaron will release the video Friday, and obviously it's this this matter.

I mean, Council Hare's what dozens could be in some cases can be a hundred applications through the planning process, and obviously there's a lot of emotion related to this, and uh the mayor and I just felt like we needed to to do something to to remind folks that there are varying opinions.

The first amendment this council has supported continuously, and that uh let's remember that we're just friends, we're still friends and neighbors.

And and so it'll be it'll be Friday.

And it's but the besides that it's about Aaron's gonna come on at the end to talk about the specifics of uh when the doors will be open, uh getting getting your if requests to speak in by a certain time to allow the council time and and clerk's office to prepare everything administratively for those that choose to speak.

And so uh I was very appreciative of Aaron putting it together and on behalf of the council.

I I just appreciate um I know there's a lot of effort adding another meeting to our schedule, but um I really appreciate us giving the our constituents the opportunity so we can hear their voices all of on both sides.

Yeah, and I know it's a lot of extra work, so I appreciate everyone that's gone above and beyond for sure.

Um the only thing too, uh Chief Arnold I noticed came in today's says one year anniversary.

So the anniversary congratulations.

All right, anyone else?

I would just like to throw out now that the holidays are over, just another big shout out and kudos to our city and uh everything they did and the leadership that uh Mr.

Spurgeon has is absolutely amazing, and it's you know you can walk down the Rose District anytime and feel like a Hallmark movie, and we appreciate that.

Yeah, it was sad.

We had to take everything down.

It was really sad the last couple days.

You know, you get used to it.

Yeah.

So thank you.

I did just decristmas my house too, and I'm like, oh sad.

All right.

Remarks by city manager.

I do, Mayor Mayor Council.

Good evening.

Briefly, let me start with the bond package.

I mean, obviously, the council members have been in the throes of this initiative for for um at least two years, a little bit more with just all the pre-planning that was going into it.

There was a lot of hard work.

But I think Trevor and Nate Ellis uh need to be rec uh recognized because obviously all the legal documents is it's not as easy as everyone thinks to put everything together because there are specific laws and the constitution that that outline exactly how you have to have to present the propositions so any reasonable uh person can go in and understand what it is they're voting on, and then you have to put it in the uh 70 percent named and unnamed, and believe me, there has been a lot of back and forth the last month, and I just want to publicly acknowledge their assistance in putting everything together.

So thank you very much, gentlemen.

Um, a lot of heavy lifting, and I appreciate everything that you do, Nate and Trevor.

And also I want to mention, you know, I asked Jeremy to serve.

We have in such an incredibly talented leadership team.

And starting about two years ago, I started involving other directors in something that they probably know a little bit about, don't know anything about in some cases, because that's just so much talent.

All they need to do is they need to know what the direction are and what the what the scope is, and they can and they can they can take care of it.

And Jeremy's efforts is was uh was a demonstration of that, and and there you'll start to see more directors being involved in other areas that are not traditional if they have the time because I value their opinions and their their their servant leadership and and making sure we're doing what's best for broken arrow.

So I want to thank the chief.

I also want to thank Kenny Schwab and Norm for uh keeping everything on track and helping me, the sports organizations, all the community groups for actually their time and effort.

There was a lot.

Now the actual the uh probably the the funnest part of the proposition starts in just about less than a month, even though it's beginning now, but officially going out and communicating the public education phase, working with the Builder Better Broken Arrow.

And so that was very exciting.

So I want to thank the council for uh all of your time and efforts because there was a lot expected for you to go through everything, and I appreciate your your diligence and commitment.

The last thing I want to mention is the council members received an email from County Commissioner Kelly Dunkerly yesterday in connection with the project that I would pretty safely say most of us here on a weekly basis, or there's a post about it on social media, and that is Garnett from 91st to 100 First, also known to us as New Orleans.

And just to to uh paraphrase the email, they are trying to secure the remaining funding they need for the construction, and they've asked the city to assist with the resolution to uh uh the Homeland Security Secretary, Secretary Gnome, where the funds for the hazard mitigation funds are located.

And so what I plan to do is I plan to actually have Trevor put together the resolution and the letter of support for the mayor's signature on behalf of the council to come to the council on January 20th for your consideration if approval, then she can sign the resolution and the letter, and we will get it to Secretary Gnome as well as our our our federal delegation in support of the county's efforts because that's only thing that's holding us up.

Plans as I understand it, that the plans are done, they're ready to go out to bid, but obviously there's it's eight it's an eight million plus dollar grant.

And so anything we can do, there was a letter attached from Congressman Hearn, so you can see the level of support they're trying to gain.

Obviously, it's part of it is within our city, so I'd like council support next uh next council meeting on that.

Be glad to answer any questions.

I did speak with uh Commissioner uh Doncley last night as well regarding this issue and you know assured him that we were you know um as always willing partners to help participate in this.

Um he was telling me that this the particular uh grant they're going after was actually approved by the last administration and then with some of the things where some of the stuff got put on hold so they're kind of reviewing everything is held it up.

So we're trying to shake that loose so that we can get those funds.

I I talked to Senator Mark Bait and Marlene about it as well.

So I'm like, hey, next time you see that Secretary, we need that signature.

And we'll take those letters too with us when we go in March.

Yeah, it's always good to have something in our hand asking for stuff.

Yes.

All right, there is no executive session.

Make a motion to adjourn.

Second.

Roll call.

Call the vote.

Broken Air Municipal Authority meeting to order.

Roll call.