Councilor Councillor Green.

Councillor Green.

Counselor Green.

We're time.

It's time.

Call the Broken Arrow City Council meeting to order as soon as Councillor Green takes the seat.

We have invocation by Pastor Rich Magnera.

Which is it?

Oh my good company.

Well, Father, that's what we want.

We want the blessing.

We want your blessing upon this council tonight.

We want your blessing of wisdom and understanding.

We want your blessing of joy.

You're doing so many great things in the city of Broken Arrow.

Lord, we want to raise our expectation on a bar of what you're going to do here in this city for the future.

That this city would be known as a city of light.

So I thank you, Laura, that your wisdom and your understanding and your strength and power of your Holy Spirit is upon this council.

May they hear your voice tonight.

May they go by the peace within their hearts.

May you watch over them, protect their families, and Laura just prosper this city in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Amen.

Go for it, guys.

Thank you.

Roll call.

Pickle.

Here.

Green.

Here.

Ford.

Here.

Parks.

Here.

Wimpy.

Here.

Will you stand and join a representative from Troop 935?

He's going to lead the Pledge of Allegiance for us.

A representative.

Salute.

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

And to the Republic for which it stands.

Thank you, sir.

All right.

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

I make a motion we approve the consent agenda.

Second that motion.

Is there much in a second?

Roll call.

Item eight is citizens.

Oh, let's just not skip over item seven.

Sorry about that.

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

7A is a presentation by Oklahoma Municipal League and recognition to city employees reaching 25 years of service.

Kelly Cox.

Every year we have the privilege of honoring and um showing appreciation to our employees who have reached 25 years of service.

This year we have 14 employees who are on our list.

We have Mayor Joyce Calvert from the City of Glenpool here this evening.

She is going to acknowledge those employees who have hit their 25 years from Oklahoma municipally.

So Madam Mayor, thank you.

And she happens to be my favorite mayor, by the way.

The following employees could not attend tonight, but they can be recognized.

Travis England, fire captain with the Broken Arrow Fire Department.

Carrie Harper, the police administrative secretary for police operations.

Jeffrey, someone's gonna have to help me.

Thank you.

Driver for the Solid Waste and Recycling Department.

And Karen Wilkie, police officer for the Broken Air Police Department.

Those individuals are not here tonight.

We'll hold their lapel pin and their certificate until they are here.

Let's give them a hand of recognition.

Attending employees that I would like to recognize tonight are Chris Chris Anderson.

Are you here tonight?

Yes.

You want to come up and get your award.

Here you go, sir.

We appreciate your service to the city.

And I have a little pale pin for you.

There you go.

Thank you so much.

We appreciate you.

The next person on our list is Mark Back.

He is one of the sworn police officers.

Are you here, Mark?

Yep.

Mark.

Okay, we'll set his aside.

The next one on our list is uh John Keith.

He's a driver for solid waste in the recycling department.

Are you here, John?

Man, I want to take some of these home with me.

Okay, our next one is um Cindy Lane.

She's one of the 911 dispatch supervisors.

She's coming down.

Thank you, Cindy.

Thank you for your service to the city of Broken Arrow.

He's not look old enough to be here 25 years.

Thank you.

Thank you again.

After Cindy, we have uh Ron Middleswart.

He's one of the firefighters.

Ron, are you here, please?

No.

That's another one I get to take home with me.

Scott, Scott O E L K E.

Okay, thank you.

He's one of the police sergeants.

I smelled the O K I E people would get it, but that's the Listrous.

Service to the city.

You have a beautiful word here.

You know, he may not attend.

Maybe we should.

Yeah.

I know he had at least 20.

And you also have a pen.

We appreciate your service to the city of Broken Air.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Michael Schumer, he's the service order technician in the utilities department.

Michael, are you with us tonight?

Yes.

Thank you, sir.

One item that makes it happen.

Here we go.

Oh, actually Scott Oaky on that.

That's Scott.

Scott's what's what's the wrong one?

Yeah, we don't want to get in the wrong one.

I took my glasses off.

This one's for catching that.

Why didn't she do?

Oh, sir.

This might certainly go.

Thank you.

Thank you again.

We appreciate your service and their command.

Thank you, sir.

Last but not least is Jerry Schuber.

Jerry's the director of Solid Waste and Recycling Department.

And we have an award and a certificate here for you.

All right, Jerry.

And here's a point.

I know I was like, wow.

Thank you for your time really flies, Doug.

It just sat yeah, it seems like 25.

Thank you so much, Mayor, for allowing me to uh present tonight.

It's been my pleasure, and we look forward to talking to you soon.

See you in the morning.

Yeah, we will see each other in the morning, Brian Everly.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right.

Item B is update on the 2026 general obligation bond package.

So thank you, Mayor, members of council, members of the public, good evening.

For over a year now, each council meeting, I've actually had permission from the governing body to provide an update on our general obligation bond package.

And I want to thank the council for that opportunity at your meeting.

And I just felt it was important that every step of the way we share with the public exactly what's been accomplished.

And I wanted to take just a couple minutes tonight and uh make some comments.

Uh the first one was as many of in the room tonight know, on January 6th, the council approved which projects were going to be in the eight propositions.

And that came as a result of well over two years of discussion, uh reflection, um, feedback from the community surveys, all that came together.

And once council approved that on January 6th, we moved into the public education phase, and that's what I wanted to mention this evening.

And many of you have been at uh many of the meetings that have taken place since about the middle of January.

Uh what I wanted to share with the public is that since we moved into public education phase, we've had a considerable number of meetings at community groups, uh, the chamber of commerce, our EDC, uh, we've had HOA meetings.

We implemented a 10-week uh HOA initiative for those HOAs that uh weren't able to bring their communities together.

We're uh actually had a 10-week initiative to where once a week we're sending out something including all eight propositions and then a final close asking people to make sure they were to remind them to get out and vote.

Uh we put out communications and utility bills, we've had social media, and we've basically been wherever we needed to be in order to communicate to this point to our citizens and our business owners operators uh more about all all eight propositions.

And what I want to share with you tonight with regard to feedback and support is first is that I'm pleased to let the public know that our chamber of commerce in EDC actually endorsed uh the the bond package at their at their meetings last week.

And I'm excited to say that next week, members of the city council administration are going to go to the school boards to both the Broken Air Public School Board and then Union Public School to actually make a brief presentation to the school boards uh with regard to our bond package and make sure that they're aware and hopefully to provide some communication to their employees, uh especially those that live here in town, the public education about the propositions.

And I want to thank council for the willingness to actually go to the board meetings uh with uh these the leadership team next week, and so we're very excited to actually go to the the council's counterparts to talk about the bond package.

I will I will tell you is that we've held uh uh I would say probably close to 30 meetings so far between all the all the meetings that have been held.

Uh the directors, some of the directors, and I appreciate their f uh filling in and covering some of the meetings.

Council members myself, um the the comments that we've received overall have been have just been very positive and overwhelmingly supportive.

And it's been it's been great to make those um those presentations and to get questions, and believe me, broken errands never shy away from asking questions, which is really good because that's what you want is to hear the feedback and so we can try to address those questions uh with answers, and then we can incorporate what other questions we're receiving into our presentations.

And the two main questions that I wanted to mention tonight that we received so far, uh one of them was related to how did the city develop the estimates for the projects?

And I want to address that for those that are watching the meeting tonight because the package is in propositions one through seven is four hundred and fifteen million dollars, and then for the proposition number eight, it's approximately fifty-three million dollars.

And the way that we developed those estimates is that we hired a consulting engineer, Jacobs, which has been with us every step of the way, and what they did was working with our engineering construction team, they looked at contracts that were awarded either in the city for road projects or in other communities, and they came up with with really good estimates about what it would cost to say build a road or to build a facility based on square footage.

And so it wasn't uh something that we just did on the back of the envelope.

I mean, we used our consulting engineer to work with Kenny Schwab's team and Charlie Bright's team to come up with these estimates.

Now, the reality is is that should the projects be approved, once council sets the schedule, we will have to go back in and do the do the fine details of actually getting those estimates for like for a fire station for the expansion to the public safety facility for training the training area for roads, all of those improvements we'll have to go back and actually fine-tune those estimates.

And so uh to be able to go out to public bid, have to do all the bid documents.

And so that question's come up uh online uh many times, and it's come up in the meetings as to how we developed those estimates.

So it was done using our professional engineers, and we have an incredible engineering team.

And then the majority of the other questions came about proposition number eight.

And we explained to everyone that the anticipated cost is is fifty cents for every hundred dollars you spend at Reese's or Walmart or Target.

The the one question that's come up more than what the cost is that is the is the city just going to come back and ask to extend the tax.

And so that's question has come at every single meeting I've been at.

Is that in other words, in three and a half years or four years with the tax sunsetting on June 30th as proposed 2030 uh one?

Is the council going to come back and say let's go back to the voters and repurpose that?

And I've I've assured everyone is that I have no intentions of recommending that, and the council members said publicly there's no interest in extending sending that tax or considering other some of their attacks at this time.

And so I just want to let the council know is that that question has probably come up.

Um I know Aaron's nodding his head.

That question has probably come up more than any other question.

It wasn't that they had a problem with the with the projects, they're just concerned that is this just going to be something something temporary to make these improvements.

And I've assured everyone is that this administration and government has no intentions of coming back to the people and asking for any extension of the tax.

And to add on to that, we would have to go to the vote of the people to get that approved.

And we have a history in this city of not extending a temporary sales tax.

Yes, that that's that's exactly right.

I mean, um, I wanted I want to hope as one of you were going to to actually mention that because it does take a vote of the people.

So should somewhere down the road another council or city manager decide that they think that there's a need for something in uh uh short term or perpetual, the voters still get to decide.

And so it's just been interesting.

Try to anticipate what questions you're gonna receive.

Uh I've only had a few people online mainly, but nobody in public has said we don't think those projects were proper eight or needed because our kids and our grandkids use those facilities.

It's just been I'm willing to pay this, but I don't want it to the tax to continue.

And so that's how I've been answering it.

Is there's no plans, council said publicly, and and even if council did have an idea, the voters still have to decide.

And so that's been my response.

But we do not.

But we do not, absolutely not.

So just want to reiterate, we do not.

So and so I just wanted to share with that with you because I know we have a lot of people watch our meetings, and obviously we won't be able to reach every single resident, but we will continue our public education for the next 34 days.

Uh, there's still a lot of videos to come out.

There's communicate other communications are happening.

There's more meetings that we're gonna have with HOA sports organizations.

In fact, there's uh a very big one later this week, maybe one of the largest sports organizations uh meetings we have.

Council members are invited.

I think I think we have uh a majority that maybe that be may be attending.

So it's gonna be exciting to be to be with him.

But overall, I'm very proud of the communications effort that Aaron has implemented and the support we've gotten from the directors and council to be wherever we need to be, whatever time it needs to be, day, night, or weekend, to be able to communicate with our citizens.

And so with that, I'll be glad to answer any questions or ask any council member to follow up on the feedback you've received uh from the public.

I'm sorry, go ahead.

I was just gonna say I've gotten a lot of positive feedback as well, and it's not too late to sign up if you still want us to come out and speak at your or your organization or neighborhood.

We will come out and talk until April 7th, 7 p.m.

We'll be there to come talk to your won't on April 7th because we'll be having a council meeting.

We will.

Yes.

Someone will come out to speak.

Yes.

Yes.

Just out of curiosity, do we do we know our uh new phone line?

Do we track that is that able to track like how many calls that we've gotten on that?

Is that been utilized pretty well?

Yep.

Yeah, come on up, Aaron.

Come on up, Aaron.

Good evening, Mayor.

Vice Mayor, Council members, fantastic, Mr.

Surgeon.

Fantastic question, Councilor Green.

Absolutely.

We're averaging about 15 calls per week.

I've usually been getting the data every Friday.

I didn't get one this past Friday, and I just realized that today, and I will.

Not a lot to glean from that, other than the fact that they're asking about the projects.

A lot of questions about uh the streets projects, that sort of thing.

Questions about the impact on taxes, but nothing really that we could sit there and say we need to pivot as far as our messaging is concerned.

And there's been a couple of pretty humorous ones, too.

Yeah.

Can only imagine.

Oh, you can imagine.

Thank you.

You bet.

So really it was just to give you just a just a brief overview of how how things are going.

Obviously, there's a lot of more, a lot of more work to do.

Uh a lot of number of HOAs, and some of the larger HOAs is are coming up.

And so we're very excited about to continue those meetings.

We held our last, I'm finally gonna say we held our first meeting.

We have three public meetings left on the 12th, 26th, and April 2nd.

Information will be put out about when those are at.

And I just can't uh begin to thank uh the council and and the and the administration, this the staff members.

I've had three meetings with the city employees.

We have about I think I think at least six, if not nine additional meetings we're gonna be having with the with the employees to make sure that they get the information they need for those, especially that live in the community.

So it continues through the month of March, and I just want to share that with the council.

So thank you, sir.

Item eight is citizens' opportunity to address the council on general topics.

There are none.

Item nine, general counsel business.

9A, consideration, discussion, and possible approval to grant the creation and temporary assignment of the honored honorary street name of Joanna Hamilton Cooper Avenue.

Laurie Hill.

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

Spurgeon.

Um I was recently contacted by Polly Porman and her sister Deborah Woodard.

They are daughters of Joanna Hamilton Cooper, who is the owner and operator of the Broken Arrow Nursing Home, and she has owned and operated this facility since 1956.

Um this August, Miss Cooper will celebrate 70 years in business in Broconero.

Um one thing that I thought was really interesting is that this is a third generation business, and it originally sat on the property, was originally the family's farm.

So Miss Cooper's children would like to honor their mother with a temporary street name assignment of Joanna Hamilton Cooper Avenue, and this would extend from North Date Avenue, North and South on Broadway and Kenosha.

And Miss Cooper's daughter Polly is here this evening to present this request to council.

Um she has been made aware of and provided with the documents for the street naming policy, and she and her family feel like they can meet the requirements.

So at this time, I'd like to bring Polly up.

Okay.

Hi there.

Hi.

I'm Polly Poorman, and I'm here in honoring my mom.

She doesn't know I'm here.

It's gonna be a disaster.

So we would like to put his a street sign with Joanna, it's his name on it.

Um she'll be she's still alive, she's 87, she works every day, and she is the heart and soul of this facility.

It'll be an honor for her.

She doesn't know, she'll see it when it goes up.

I had more to say, but I can't.

Thank you.

And I hope you all really consider this.

I I might uh add a couple of things while Pauly's up here.

I uh see what is it?

Uh was it how many beds is it?

100?

It's 101.

It's 101 beds.

Uh I I got to know her when I was uh her mom when I was eight years old.

Uh I had two aunts that lived with us, and they were the same age as uh Joanna is uh now.

And so uh I got to know her when I was a little biddy.

I was actually even skinny then.

Uh and I've known them all my life.

Uh I will say that a a lot of the people here in Broken Arrow uh have visited that place in the last years of their life from Coach Ragsdale, who was our principal uh in high school, uh, was in there.

My mother was there for uh uh two or three years.

It's just like a home away from home.

And my mother just loved it because she knew Joanna also, and my wife had two cousins that uh were it was in there, and and it was just really a great place.

So I think it's great to uh honor her in that way.

I know sometimes we're kind of reluctant about the uh the street signs.

Uh I was trying to think back of if we've done this before.

Uh I know the first time I was a I was older than eight years.

It's the first time I was on the city council, but uh our mayor died.

Uh he has having heart surgery.

His name is Clyde Wright, and we named a street going into Indian Springs.

Actually, at that time, it was the main street, Clyde Wright Boulevard.

Now it's not one of those temporary signs, it's actually a permanent sign.

Uh, you know, up there.

Junior Nips was another one that we had assigned for.

Uh he was one of the army veterans uh that uh from World War II.

Uh and we voted not too many years ago to to uh honor him.

Uh also uh Helen from Gatesway uh street in front of Gatesway with those temporary signs on it.

And then we also have one in front of our high school.

Uh I think it's called Tiger Way.

Is that Tiger Drive?

Tiger Drive.

So it is has a special name on it.

It's although it still uh has the street nine name underneath it, it says Tiger Drive.

So I think this would be a great honor to uh honor her.

70 years in business.

You say, well, we'll just have to do this a lot.

You don't know too many people that have been in business for 70 years.

So if you want some criteria that you can use, but it's such a loving family.

Uh and so I would really encourage us to uh to do that.

Um I also know Joanne.

I do not I have not known her as long as Johnny has known her.

Uh but she's in a couple of car uh car groups that my parents are in.

She actually bought my beloved Thunderbird.

And so I'm really she's really special to me.

Um and when uh her daughters first reached out to me, I'm like, you know, I don't know.

I know there's a lot of rules, and so let me get the rules.

And so Lori was able to track down the rules, and um so I I 100% also endorse this.

So it's very special, and I agree.

70 years is a long time to be in business.

And we're not done.

Yeah, yeah.

She is spicy to Joanna is spicy, like she would she does not act her age at all.

I chose Avenue because I looked up Avenue Boulevard, and I learned the difference between how you name streets, east and west, north and south, if there's a medium in between the road, so Avenue.

There you go.

Wonderful.

Yeah.

All right.

The other comments.

I don't have a comment.

And it's not for you, it's a question, I don't know if it's for Lori for Rocky or somebody on the staff.

Um, and I'm not saying one way or the other, but I'm just curious.

Can someone clarify for me the definition of temporary uh street sign, temporary assignment?

What does that mean?

How long does that mean?

Is there a great country gets to decide?

I could tell you that I we decided on Oscar Nipps.

In fact, I made the motion that we would leave it up as long as he could read it.

It's still up, actually.

And it's still and it is and it is still up.

So there's nothing in the was what I'm asking.

Is there anything in the ordinance for not that I know of?

Because it's just a it's a temporary sign.

So I don't think there's anything.

Yeah, it's right underneath the regular sign.

I don't think it defines temporary as a length of time, just that it's not a permanent street sign.

Okay.

Is that clear as mine?

I think it was that ordinance.

That's where my it is temporary, but it's not temporarily permanent.

If we had it in ordinance, it might end up putting up a lot of them, and I think it has to be a special occasion that that council at that time feels like it was important to do that.

Councillor, as I understand, the council can decide for how long, and by doing this, you know and not changing the name of the street, you don't require everybody to have to go in and change their personal effects.

Right.

So that so in the council wanted to have this wanted to avoid that, but this is a way to show recognition.

The council gets to decide what what criteria they use, and you set that.

You know, we've had veterans, uh we we've had uh basically contributors to the community.

So really it's up to council on the on the link, but once council does approve this, then I'll coordinate with Tim Wilson for have the sign made up, and then we can coordinate a special uh at the record getting putting it up and however the family would like for us to go about it.

Right.

We'll just join you.

Okay.

And you said there was a lot of rules and regulations, but I hadn't seen those, so I was just they're not they weren't in the agendas.

Yeah, when I talked to Lori, I thought it was upon her death, and the family would get the sign, is when I spoke to Lori.

So Linda says there's not as she's 87.

Yeah, but if Rocky said there's not one, then I'm not gonna rush it.

We'll leave it up until yeah, and it doesn't it doesn't replace the actual street.

So do we actually know what the rules are?

I hear everybody's talking, but we said there's a lot of rules, but I don't know.

I just kept telling I just kept asking Lori, make sure we we've got all of our uh ducks in a row.

So I don't think there's really any rules as the city manager said, it's just whatever the city council.

There are some guidelines, but it's a good thing.

In terms of the link is left to the council.

Sure.

I know two that's been up a very long time.

Gatesway and Helen Rainey's.

Yeah.

I I'd like to hear from staff what what they have for us.

I'll read the criteria.

I believe this was back in 2013.

It's 2006, it was amended in September of 2013 to add the honorary street signs.

One, the request will be submitted to development services for processing within the requests must be the desired honorary name, the name of the street where it will be placed, the limits of the street, which will be affected by the honorary name, the date when needed, and the applicant's contact information.

For example, honorary name, Tiger Drive, Albany Street from 9th Street to 23rd Street.

Number two, the development services director or designee will determine if the requested honorary name is appropriate for the location requested.

Number three, once approved by the director or designee, the request will be scheduled for council review, consideration, and approval.

Number four, upon approval by the city council, the applicant will submit the required fee, which will be the standard street sign fee as listed in the manual of fees.

Said fees will be due on all honorary sign requests unless waived by the council.

And lastly, upon receipt of the fee, upon receipt of fee payment, the sign department will craft the correct number of signs bearing the honorary street name, and the signs will be installed at the designated and approved locations.

Can you pull this street up on the map?

Is would that be a possibility?

So we can see so that the rest of the council can see the street that we're talking about.

It's long.

So I guess my next question would be um something act of God tornado blows down the sign.

Is it no longer go up?

How does it I'm just trying to understand the process?

I'm not against it.

No, I'm not saying that at all.

I'm trying to understand what our responsibility is.

There was a fee at the beginning.

If Act of God knocks it down, there's a fee at the act of God, too.

I know when there's a memorial bridge, like for the state, if something happens to that, then the whoever purchased the sign originally has to purchase for the replacement of the sign as well.

I don't know that we have that in statute.

That's a very good point.

I think we would that would be the same.

I would say we should do it the same.

Broadway to Elm.

It's a long way.

Broadway to Kenosha.

Broadway to Kenosha.

Okay, so you said Broadway.

I did say Um.

Sorry.

Sorry.

There we are.

North of Elgin.

Right there.

Go a little bit to the left.

Where it's broken around nursing home.

Yeah.

Did you need something with the map?

No, I was just wanting you guys to have a visual.

If you don't know that.

I know where it's at.

I know where it's at too.

So I just want to.

Okay.

So it'd be on the date side.

Yes.

Would it be that two-block area right there?

There is.

Yes, there's a lot of roads there.

Um date and Kenosha.

Date and Freeport or date and Elgin and date and Broadway.

Prefer Broadway, but I think Elgin's right in front, right closest to us.

That's you all's decision.

Which street we get.

Okay.

All right.

And we are the only family-owned home left in the in the town.

And we are a home that the city of Broken Arrow should be very proud of.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you, Miam.

I will make a motion to approve um item 26-286.

Second.

All right.

Roll call.

All right.

Item B, consideration discussion and possible approval of PUD 2592-2025.

Rocky Hinkle.

Good evening, Madam Mayor, Mr.

Vice Mayor, members of Council, City Manager, Mr.

Spurgeon.

I'm Rocky Hinkle Community Development Director.

PUD 2592-2025 is a major amendment to PUD 50 on 64 acres.

The property is located just south of Washington Street and west of Aspen Street.

This amendment is intended to facilitate site plan approval for an expansion to an existing building on site.

During the site plan review process, a parking requirement of one parking space per 200 square feet of building space was identified.

This would have required 29 parking spaces for the existing building and proposed expansion.

However, the site can only accommodate 12 parking stalls.

Parking requirements under current code require office, business, or professional uses to have one parking space per 350 square feet, which would require the existing building and proposed expansion to have 17 spaces.

The applicant is requesting to change this parking ratio from one parking space per 200 square feet of building floor area to one parking space per 525 square foot of building.

The applicant is also requesting to remove the fire lane standards within PUD 50 in favor of more modern fire lane regulations.

Any fire lane or other fire safety aspect of the site plan will be reviewed and approved by the broken arrow fire marshal.

There were no objections from the fire marshal to this change.

The applicant is also requesting to remove the requirement of Bradford Pear Trees along the rear of the property in favor of current landscaping buffers standards.

Bradford Pear trees are no longer on the list of accepted trees and the current broken arrow landscaping regulations.

The planning commission held a public meeting on February 12, 2026, where they recommended approval of PUD 2592-2025 with a 5-0 vote.

An adjacent property owner to the north of the site sent a letter with some concerns regarding drainage in a pile of dirt that was left around the power pool.

After the meeting, after the planning commission meeting, a staff engineer has spoken with the adjacent property owner and determined that the issues were pre-existing and are and are located on the adjacent property and not the property that is subject of this PUD request.

Staff is also reviewing a site plan, site plan 2086-2025 for this project, and the fire marshal and staff engineer have approved the site plan.

Planning staff will complete their review of the site plan after city council has acted on the PUD major amendment request.

At this time, we recommend staff recommends approval of PUD 2592-2025 for planning commission recommendations.

Any questions or comments?

Any concerns from any of the neighbors?

None get rid of the Radford pairs.

Thank goodness.

Yeah.

All right.

I'll make a motion that we approve PUD 002592-2025.

I think Lisa's second.

Yep.

Roll call.

Thank you, Paul.

All right.

Thank you, sir.

9C consideration discussion and possible approval of fiscal year 25-27.

Collective, excuse me, collective bargaining agreement with the FOP Lodge, Kelly Cox.

Good evening again to Kelly Cox, Human Resources Director.

This item before you this evening is a tentative agreement with a fraternal order of police for the 2025 to 2027 collective bargaining agreement.

This is a two-year agreement that we have tenantally tentatively agreed upon with them.

I will go over the major changes.

If you have any questions, please ask.

Effective July 1st, 2026, it will increase to $600 per year.

And then after June 30th, 2027, because we cannot obligate funds in the next fiscal year, we would increase that to $650.

We can do that in that fiscal year contract, but if we couldn't say July 1st, 2027.

And then vacation accruals.

We have allowed vacation accruals to be donated from employee to employee if somebody has a severe illness or injury and they may otherwise terminate employment.

We can donate leave as well as the general employees can do that as long as or as well as IAFF, excuse me.

And then retirement.

The employees have the option to take accessories on their weapon along with their rifle and accessories as well at the purchase price of those.

So happy to answer any questions.

We recommend approval.

This has been agreed upon by the FOP union.

Any questions?

Discussion.

Good job.

Thank you, sir.

I'll make a motion to approve 26-300.

I'll second.

Okay.

Thank you, Kelly.

Appreciate your support.

Absolutely.

Thank you.

Thank you for all your work on that, Kelly.

That's a lot.

That's that's a lot of words.

Yep.

All right.

Item E is consideration discussion and possible modification to request to appear forms and guidelines for city council meetings.

That's a point of order.

Did I skip one?

You did.

Oh, the fire.

I can't.

I can't.

You're still here.

I can't give an explanation on that one.

All right.

Let's talk fire.

All right.

Um, in the fire contract for 2527, they had a me to clause in there that if we change the wages or the longevity with the police department, they would get that up to a three percent wage increase in addition to what they've already received, or a me too on the longevity.

Since we had increased that longevity more with the FOP, they do receive that same increase.

This is just an acknowledgement, recognizing that you will accept that me to clause.

Thank you.

Is that you said or and or is it it was or it was both if possible?

Um, however, the FOP received the four percent wage increase.

However, they received a larger longevity increase than the IAF already had, so now we're giving the IAFF that longevity increase.

We have a motion and a second, roll call.

It's our discussion.

Thank you.

Awesome.

Yeah, Trevor.

Thank you, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council members.

Um, the item before you is opportunity to just clarify the speaking guidelines that we have for our public comment session.

Uh the city has adopted the um standard code of parliamentary procedure, and that provides very broad expansive language for powers for the chairperson, in this case, mayor or the chairperson of council, but also for the chairperson for a planning commission for a board of adjustments.

We want to take an opportunity to just explicitly state what some of those powers were in the public facing guidelines so folks could understand that, for example, the chairperson would have the opportunity to cancel public comment for a variety of reasons that are outlined in the public speaking.

Also, if a person becomes disruptive, for example, exceeds their time and explicitly states that the chairperson has the right to basically shut that down to maintain decorum.

Um we also had um updated the requests to appear before the city council and for the boards and commissions to reflect those changes.

Um I did hear from uh Rocky who mentioned that I think Mr.

Gorenson with the planning commission had wanted to have an opportunity to review these.

We're happy to table it if he wants to have an opportunity to review some of those changes and we can bring it back.

Um or if you have any questions at this time, happy to answer any of those.

Yeah, Bob did.

He texted me, he had several, he did have several questions.

Um I'd be okay tabling it until we had time to.

I mean, I'm I'm but I'm also okay just moving forward.

So you're saying we were able to do the things that we were doing, we're just making it more black and white.

Correct.

Like more understandable for the people for our citizens to understand.

Correct.

So it's not it's not typical for somebody to have a code of parliamentary procedure.

Nobody's a parliamentary nerd like I am.

So this gives an opportunity to explicitly state those in the guidelines that are handed out and that are available when people do sign up so they could they can see you know these are the powers that the chairperson has.

Yeah, no, I'm so I I'm totally fine with that.

Did he send those questions to staff?

So you said well, I don't think we even got themselves today, but he did talk to Rocky after Yeah, I talked to him roughly around 4 30, 4 o'clock, somewhere on there.

Did you answer any of his questions or uh the ones that he mentioned to me were pretty minor, they were just verbiage, but he did say he had some other uh things that he wanted to vet through the planning commission.

He didn't tell me what those were.

So you say we need to table it.

That's your decision.

Or Trevor, could the planning commission talk?

Because I think it was the form.

The form is what he had some uh just questions or recommendations on their form at the planning commission.

Can they just bring it up at their meeting to talk about it and then bring it to us for approval?

It was both forms.

It was it was the same recommendation for both forms.

So just with with giving him an opportunity to weigh in, I would recommend the council table it and then we could uh hear any concerns or or additional changes that he would want to make, and then we can address those with him, and then we could just bring that back to the board.

This isn't a time pressing issue.

Okay, okay.

I'll make a motion to table it.

Okay.

Is there a second?

Do I go ahead and click this?

Yeah, this is motion to the table.

That's quick.

Just one question, Councilor.

Rocky, is there a planning commission meeting between now and March 24th?

Yes, there is on the 12th.

So we we'll plan on bringing it back to on the 24th, Councillor.

Council, unless something is that extraordinary comes up.

Okay, thank you.

Item 10 is preview ordinances.

10 A consideration discussion and possible preview of ordinance 3907.

Uh thank you, Mayor.

Tim Wilson requested that we address uh some issues that the city has been having uh with some of our concrete haulers, specifically the residue from the concrete and the washouts.

We've had issues where there have been unlawful discharges, deposit spills, and though the right-of-way and stormwater uh areas.

Um what this ordinance does is it expressly states that the it imposes vehicle equipment requirements, but it's it's the same requirements that state law currently has, uh and it also makes it so that there's civil offenses and penalties if they fail to um properly uh secure their loads and if they're using the washouts in an improper manner.

Uh this just basically gives additional enforcement opportunities to make sure that our riderways or streets are are kept clean.

Uh and my understanding is that we'll have the opportunity to um the police officers also have opportunity to cite uh people who violate this operators who violate it for failure to secure properly secure their loads as well.

Um so happy to answer any questions that you have.

I know Mr.

Wilson is also present.

He can talk to you a little bit about some of the operational challenges if you had questions on that.

Okay, any questions or discussion?

Um totally in support of this.

Yes, sir.

Anyway, I'll throw I'll make a motion to approve.

You're just all over the place tonight, right?

Uh item 11 is ordinances 11a consideration discussion on possible adoption of ordinance number 1906.

Thank you, Mayor.

I think you'll probably be tired of hearing my voice by the end of the tonight.

This is a very short one.

It basically is a script's error.

Uh, we originally had identified that the point of contact for submitting your applications for heliport um uh applications would be to Curtis Green.

Uh it really should be to uh Rocky as our community development director.

Okay.

Questions or discussion?

So this doesn't change anything.

I think this was the ordinance that I brought to council on like when we had that situation where First Baptist they dropped the eggs and that type of thing, so nothing has changed except for where it goes.

Yes, correct.

Okay.

I'm I'll make a motion.

How's that anyone else to discuss?

Item B is consideration discussion and possible approval of an emergency measure.

Motion to approve the emergency.

All right.

Um last week we actually had one of our uh little treasures in our city, Ralph Pointer.

Uh, for he would have been 94 in May, but we he passed away um um Friday evening at I think around 5 30.

I did have a pleasure of going and visiting him that morning.

Um he's on hospice but went and saw him.

But um, if you ever shopped at Lowe's and got your keys made, he probably made your keys for you because he worked there forever after he retired.

But um he was the VFW commander in Broken Area for many years, so um just he's they're gonna have like um not really a funeral service, a celebration uh life for him at the Veterans Center on Monday from 11 to 1.

So if you would like to come by and pay your respects, his family would appreciate that.

So he put a million miles on a cart because he always had a cart with him, you know what I mean to help him walk.

And he worked an extra 10 years with that cart.

Yeah, in our veteran center board meetings, he'd always bring out an old cassette tape and click it and it would just tape over, like record over it over itself the entire meeting.

We're like, I don't think there's anything recording on there, but he just was so excited to do it every time.

So you're heading to the names in perfectly.

He was a treasurer.

He really was really unique for sure.

Yes, so any other marks.

It is uh Read Across America week.

Yes.

Um I know several of us are reading in schools uh this week with our students.

Uh I also had the opportunity today to speak with the uh PTA uh association group.

They had their big meeting today.

So I had the opportunity to speak there to them, and uh I did give a selfless plug for our bond package as well.

Yeah, so a lot of good things happen in our community.

Yes, all right, same Andrew.

I covered it earlier, Mayor.

I have nothing further.

Oh my goodness.

Okay, we do we do have an executive session, so entertain a motion for a brief recess.

So move.

Need a second on that click.

Yes, green, yes, Ford, yes, parks, yes, Wimpy.

Yes, all right.

Um call the Brook Narrow Municipal Authority meeting to order roll call.