Broken Arrow City Council Special Meeting on Municipal Services Building – June 15, 2026
Broken Arrow City Council Special Meeting on Municipal Services Building – June 15, 2026
The Broken Arrow City Council held a special meeting on June 15, 2026, to receive a presentation and discuss the status of the new municipal services building project. The meeting focused on the design, site plan, floor plans, cost, and timeline. Council members expressed general approval and provided minor feedback, directing staff to move forward with the design intent.
Discussion Items
- Project Overview: Charlie Bright, Director of Engineering and Construction, explained that the project began with a needs assessment and space study, resulting in a 60,000-square-foot building scope. The design has gone through many iterations, and the team is nearing a final floor plan. The design emphasizes a "main street city hall" concept to create walkability on Main Street, with parking hidden in the back.
- Site Plan: Shannon Marshall, Special Projects Division Manager, presented the proposed site at the northeast corner of Main Street and Washington. The building will be located at the corner to address the urban context and connect to city properties: the senior center annex to the north and Arrowhead Sports Complex to the east. Vehicular access will be from the north (shared with the senior center) and from Washington (shared with the sports complex). Parking will be provided in multiple locations, including on-street parking along Main Street and a boulevard, with a total of over 200 spaces (over 250 spaces mentioned). On-street parking will be short-term guest parking; staff parking is primarily on the east side. The design includes a landscaped median to separate entries.
- Exterior Design: The rendering shows a brick and precast concrete/metal panel building, with a modern look referencing historic brick. The front entry is on the corner of Main Street and Washington. The building will be raised slightly to account for grade transition and safety. A gateway entry sign to the Rose District is being considered.
- Floor Plans: The building is two stories. The first floor includes a lobby with reception, one-stop permitting, utility bill pay, two consult rooms, a training room, a fitness area, IT, and back-of-house spaces. The second floor contains council chambers (over 100 seats, larger dais), pre-function space, hall of mayors, city clerk, legal, HR, TED team (tourism and economic development), city manager suite, communications, conference rooms, break room, and a future growth area. The council chambers overhang the first floor. Accessibility for the dais was discussed, with a ramp solution being developed.
- Cost and Budget: The initial cost estimate was over $30 million. After cuts (including skylights and other features), the estimate is now around $28 million, within the target of under $30 million as directed by the city manager.
- Future Expansion: The building is designed for future growth, with approximately 5,000 square feet of shell space that can be built out without disrupting operations. Employee capacity is currently just over 100, with future capacity for 140.
- Timeline: The project is expected to bid in early spring 2027, with occupancy in late summer or early fall 2028. The council was informed that the building is not part of any bond issues.
Key Outcomes
- Council gave general direction to proceed with the current design intent, with minor suggestions on accessibility and signage to be addressed.
- Staff will continue to work with the architect (Narrate) and construction manager (Napoltz) to finalize the floor plan, finishes, and details.
- The council subcommittee (Councilors Ford and Green) will remain informed as the project progresses.
- The meeting adjourned with a motion and second.
Meeting Transcript
Oh, very good. Thank you for joining us, Council. He learns for the best. Call the Broken Air City Council special meeting to order. Roll call. Pickle. Here. Green. Ford. Here. Parks. Here. Limpy. Here. Please stand and join me for the Pledge of Allegiance. Attention, salute. Pledge. I'm allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the Republic for which it is. One nation under God. Did I get this in your way? No, you're fine. I just didn't want it to be turned sideways and try to set it up. You're fine. General Council Business for a presentation and discussion of the new municipal service building project status. Charlie Bright. So just real quick, I want to thank the council members for uh agreeing to hold a special meeting so we could focus specifically on where we are with regard to the new municipal services building. I want to thank uh counselors Ford and Green for their assistance. Uh they were designated as the liaison to the governing for the governing body for the committee to actually help staff uh to this point. And so tonight, really I'm gonna turn it over to Charlie and to Shannon because we want to give you an update and get directions from the council with regard to where we're at. Charlie. Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council members, Mr. Spurgeon. Name's Charlie Bright, Director of Engineering and Construction. Um I'm gonna pass it over to Shannon Marshall to do a lot of tonight's speaking. I just want to give you a lot a little bit of background of the process we've had up until this point and kind of where we stand today. Um as you guys know, we've talked about it um uh previously a little bit. We first started with a needs assessment space study of how much space does this building really need. Um, and we went through that with all the departments, all the directors, a lot of other staff input, kind of zeroed into that 60,000 square foot building based off what the needs were. And then we took that and started going through a lot of schematics. We've been through, as this process, it's an iteration, we've been through dozens of iterations of what this can look like, and we feel like we're here today because we've really narrowed it in and we're really really close. But with that being said, it's still not final. I think there's still probably a few more tweaks to begun, but we're we feel pretty confident of where we're standing today. Um so that was the goal is to show you where we are today and get some feedback from you. I want to point out one thing that we've uh maybe been attention point as we design this has really been what kind of image are we trying to create um as part of a new municipal services building down there on the south side of the bay uh downtown. Um today, that south side doesn't feel really like a main street. You know, it's it's it's main street, but it's not the Rose District Main Street feel. And so one of the design parameters here of this building has been do we design it like it's a suburban city hall where you just pull up and it's convenience everything, or do we design it like a main street city hall? And so we've really geared towards going towards that main street city hall to where we're trying to create walkability on Main Street itself. So you see people coming in and out of the front doors on Main Street, you see people in and out walking and everything else, parking is hidden in the back, and the the goal is that this is that trigger point that creates and helps some of the other development where we have a more walkability main street on that side of Main Street as well, and not just in the Rose District itself.
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