We do have executive sessions, so I entertain a motion to move.

Second, yes, green, yes.

Ford.

Yes.

Parks.

Yes.

Wimpy.

Yes.

Call the Broken Air Municipal Authority meeting to order.

Roll call.

Pickle.

Here.

Green.

Here.

Ford.

Here.

Parks here.

Wimpy.

Here.

Um are there any items to be removed from the consent agenda.

Make a motion to accept the consent agenda.

Second.

Okay.

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

There are none.

Item six is general authority business.

Item A is consideration discussion and possible approval of an authorization to execute agreement for waterline relocation.

Charlie Bright.

The Charlie Bright.

Oh, uh good evening, Madam Chair, Vice Chair, trustees, and gentlemen, general manager Spurgeon.

My name is Charlie Brighton, the Director of Engineering Construction.

Before you tonight is an agreement with Tulsa County, one that I think we can all be excited about, partially because it includes road construction of Omaha from Lynn Lane to County Line, which I know we've all heard about many times and people believe is our road.

Excited to say that they've bid it out for construction and are ready to start construction.

They either have awarded or will be awarding the project to BECOM very shortly.

As part of that, our the governing body passed many years ago, I think in 2023, an agreement that said we will relocate our water line as part of their project.

And it was always what's awaiting for what that cost was going to be.

We didn't know until midday.

So we have an agreement saying this is what we'll do before you today is a new agreement now that we know that basically outlines what our responsibilities will be, what their responsibilities will be, and commits our funding to paying for our portion of relocating the water line.

We did have funding earmarked for that we've been saving through our loan program with our utility rates and everything else.

Um but thanks uh to your efforts and uh General Manager Spurgeon's efforts.

Um we actually did secure additional funding through the state of Oklahoma and the ARPA rebalancing money.

Um so the total for it is one million two hundred and ninety-five thousand two hundred and seventy dollars, and that relocates the whole mile of our line.

Um we are expecting eight hundred thousand dollars of that to actually come from the state now through the ARPA funding, and then uh we will just cover the poor the other portion of it from OWRB loans.

So happy to answer any questions you guys have.

Do we have all the needed right-of-way to move it?

Yeah, Tulsa County been working on that for a while to uh um do everything.

This was completely a Tulsa County project.

They did everything like we would normally do.

Um, I'm not familiar with all the details of the project, but I know they did right-away utility real quick.

They'll provide the right sure the right-of-ways.

Yeah, they did all that well before bidding.

So the mayor.

Uh you know, I I all of our state legislators support this, but I I want to specifically mention uh representative Ford because I know for four or five years he has consistently asked for projects at the innovation district, for example.

How could he bring back some some funds to our community?

And he came to us a couple months ago and was looking for a project that was related to water or sewer, and unfortunately, this was perfect, and it's a part of the partnership.

So I need to send a shout out to representative Ford for leading that charge and getting the support of the other legislators to bring those dollars back to our committee because that's a significant amount of funds back to the city of Broken Arrow.

We don't have to borrow.

Yeah, it's it is a great point.

Um we had earmarked over a million dollars in our money, and we've just been sitting there waiting for Tulsa County to get to that point, and you know, now we're using less than 500,000 our funds, so that's 500,000 that we can invest in other capital projects.

So it is a very good thing for us.