Green.

Here.

Ford.

Park here.

Here.

Any items to be removed from the consent agenda?

Make a motion to approve the consent agenda.

Second.

Roll call.

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

5A, presentation of exemplary employer award as presented by the Oklahoma Water Environment Association.

Well, good evening, Chair, Vice Chair, Trustees, General Manager, Mr.

Spurgeon.

I am Timothy Robbins, Utilities Director for the City of Broken Arrow.

Well, there's a lot going on this evening, and I am excited to say I probably have the easiest agenda item because all I have to do is stand up here and say how amazing it is to work for the City of Broken Arrow.

For the past 11 years, I have had the uh pleasure to work for an organization that treats leadership within an within the organization within the city and the state and nationally as a priority within operation.

It is with that that we're presenting this award through OWEA as an exemplary employer status for the 2026.

Um through our years with uh the guidance of uh the general manager, Mr.

Spurgeon and Mr.

Schwamm, our engagement within organizations like OWEA and even the the women she were talking about this this uh just this evening.

We bring back such critical aspects of what other communities do nationally and in the state that we can bring back into or our organization and really benefit the citizens of Broken Arrow.

And then likewise, our involvement in these organizations like OWEA and WEF.

We can take our knowledge of what we've done on critical things like our odors on county line or things that we've used to diagnose our issues over Bluebell that we talked about this evening.

We can teach that to other blossoming communities that they can take and grow from as well.

So it's been such a pleasure to be a part of an organization that we are able to engage with other communities and help all of us grow.

So one of the uh I wanted to read one statement from our application this last year from uh our assistant utilities director, Brandy Parks wrote this for our application for this award.

The City of Broken Arrow has a long-standing commitment to supporting employee involvement in these organizations through intentional leadership, professional development support, and an organizational culture and structures that value engagement beyond the day-to-day operations.

The City of Broken Arrow consistently empowers its utility professionals to actively participate in and contribute to the broader water sector to help grow blossoming communities in their times of need and help collaborate with seasoned professionals to help operate and grow their own systems.

And it just kind of really spoke to a lot of what our our root goals are.

So with that, I'm gonna introduce uh Cole Nibblett.

He is the vice president of our OWEA chapter, and he'll tell you a little bit about the organizational and the ward.

All right, thanks, Tim.

Good evening.

Uh Tim just made my job incredibly easy.

So it's getting later in the evening, so I will keep my portion brief.

Uh again, my name is Cole Nibblett.

I'm the Oklahoma water team leader for Garver.

It's always great to be in Broken Arrow, and of course, tonight in my capacity as vice president for OWA.

So we are the Oklahoma chapter or member association of the Water Environment Federation, or WEF, like Tim mentioned.

Um that organization uh in its uh uh national capacity in our state chapter, we're focused on uh encouraging and advancing the water environment in our state through education, leadership opportunities, networking, and the like.

And so this award that Tim described, um, it's open for utilities, private contractors, consultants, uh suppliers, anyone in our sector in our water industry, um, applies for this award.

And so Tim really highlighted a couple of the key things that we really liked about uh Broken Arrow's application, of course, a dedication to excellence and operations, but also a culture of supporting uh your staff's participation in uh organizations like ours, and not just participating, but leading our organizations.

Um anecdote I'll give I'm I'm wearing my golden shovel lapel pen tonight.

This is one of the highest uh uh honors in our society or from our organization, uh the Select Society of Sanitary Sludge Shovelers.

Uh don't worry, it's not as glamorous as it sounds.

Um, your environmental division manager, she has recently uh uh circulated through our board of uh leadership over the last several years serving as president and a few other roles.

She is also a five S uh member of the Select Society.

So just one example of where Broken Arrow staff are uh truly leading the way in our organization, helping advance our industry here here in Oklahoma and and abroad.

So I have a plaque for you tonight, and if we want to get a photo op, um we'd love to do that, but otherwise, congratulations again on the award.

Yes, I can take your picture of your parents.

So just in front of the phone here?

Yeah, yes.

Yeah, we'll go right there.

Okay, it's right in front of the side who wants to be the little team.

Does family have one of them?

Sure does.

Oh, squeeze together like you like each other.

All right, there we go.

Here we go.

Three, two, one, decou.

Fantastic.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Absolutely.

Congratulations.

It's good to get up and stretch your legs.

I just did a one slide.

All right.

Thank you, guys.

There's no general authority business.

Remarks by Governing Body members.

No, madam chair.

We have no executive session.

Make a motion to adjourn.

Second.

Roll call.

Call the Broken Air Economic Development Authority to order.