Call the Broken Arrow City Council meeting to order.

We have invocation by Pastor Rich Marinero.

Okay.

If we can bow our heads for word of prayer.

Thank you, Father God, for your hand of blessing over this city.

Tonight as the governmental body meets to make decisions, please give them wisdom and understanding they need.

Let them hear the still small voice within their hearts, and may your peace which surpasses all understanding be their guide.

We commit this meeting into your hands as well as this city with all the expansion that's happening.

Please shine your heart and your light to help the vision you place in their hearts and minds as leaders.

Please place your hand of protection over our citizens, city workers, police, and fire, and all those who serve in some capacity.

We believe broken error has a huge part to play in Oklahoma in the nation.

And may this city be an example of prosperity, leadership, unity, and faith.

In the name of the greatest example, God's only son who came to serve with kindness and humility.

Amen, guys.

That's all I have.

Thanks, Rich.

You are roll call.

Pickle.

Here.

Green.

Here.

Ford.

Here.

Parks.

Wimpy.

Here.

Please stand and join Councillor Ford for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Attention, salute, pledge.

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

And she's a republic for which you stand.

Thank you, ma'am.

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

I'll have a motion button, but I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda as it stands.

We have a motion and a second, real quick.

Sorry.

We don't have buttons to press.

Now therefore, be it declared that the City of Broken Arrow hereby recognizes the semi-quincentenal celebration as an opportunity to educate, preserve, and innovate during this milestone anniversary.

So just wanted to make sure that we declared America 250.

So is that what Quincentennial means?

It does.

Thank you.

All right.

There is no action required on that item.

So item B, presentation and update on Broken Arrow's 250th birthday celebrations.

Perfect item after that.

Good evening, Mayor, Council, Mr.

Spurgeon.

You did that much better than I could have, for sure.

So I'm gonna provide just a little bit of an update on what activities we have for the 250th celebration.

And this is something that the mayor had um approached us about a several months ago saying this is a big deal, and Broken Arrow needs to do some great things and show off our American pride.

So as you said, we are joining communities from across the nation to celebrate the 250th birthday celebration.

So to kick it off, our first event is going to be the New Orleans Square Block Party event taking place on June 26th and 27th.

This is a family friendly event featuring entertainment activities and food, and both of those evenings will end with the fireworks display.

Then we are doing a time capsule ceremony on Tuesday, June 30th at Veterans Park.

City officials and staff will bury a 25-year time capsule, and the time capsule will preserve memories, milestones, and items that represent life and broken arrow today.

And each one of the city department directors have received a cylinder that they're gonna put mementos um for their respective departments.

Um and I just I do want to give a shout out to Ryan Bays and his team.

They've just done a remarkable job in putting that um task together for us.

Then the next event is Tuesdays in the park on June 30th at Central Park.

The city is hosting the fifth Tuesdays in the park concert, which will be grading nickels.

There will be live music followed by a 250-second fireworks display.

And then this year we also partnered with our blood institute, and we're we're working on collecting 250 pints of blood.

And so we're gonna be doing activities throughout the summer, and they our blood institute has several blood drives to help us reach that community goal.

And then the parks department is offering $2.50 pool passes on July 4th only.

So I think that's a great thing that they're doing.

And then lastly, um the churches in Broken Arrow.

I've been reaching out to, and we're hoping that they're going to join with us at um ringing at 2 50 on July 4th and ringing their um church bells for 250 seconds.

So I think we'll be doing a lot of things and looking forward to celebrating at the birthday.

And I learned um this week that on July 4th, between 12 and 1 p.m.

We will have some jets that are going to do a flyover down Main Street.

So nice.

I mean, just saying.

And it may be our spirit of Broken Arrow F 16.

I'm not sure, but probably.

Okay, that's pretty amazing.

So try to come to Main Street between 12 and 1 and just look up, you know.

You'll hear them coming.

Thank you, Lori.

Oh, I thought you said hey Mars or 94.

And welcome back.

All right, item D, presentation regarding fireworks enforcement in the city of Broken Arrow for 2026.

Justin Sharp.

Oh, I just skipped right over, Charlie.

I'm so sorry.

You guys wait.

Sorry, item C notification of road closure.

Not as exciting, but sorry.

I'd say road closures are not ever near as fun.

Kind of the opposite of fun, actually.

Uh good evening, uh, mayor, vice mayor, council members, Mr.

Spurgeon.

My name's Charlie Bryant, the director of engineering construction.

Uh before tonight is just a presentation of a road closure, as you guys know.

The we're just letting the governing body and the public know of the closure.

Um, the ultimate authority and approval falls with the city manager.

Um, but we want to be transparent when it's happening on our arterial road because we know that um has a major effect on people's uh uh day-to-day traveling.

This one in particular is at 9th and Washington, um, so Lynn Lane and 91st Street.

Um, active construction site right now, we're widening it.

It's gonna be excellent flow of the whole area will be a lot better once we're done.

Um but the challenge for this particular project is since we're only doing the intersection, once you get down to the very end where we narrow that intersection back down to the existing two-lane road, there's just not room to do those final improvements at the end without shutting it down.

Um you could shut it down one lane at a time and the other, but we think having only one lane open would actually be more confusing to the public than just shutting it entirely down and getting it done.

Um so what we want to notify you of is not just one closure, it's multiple closures.

It's potentially up to eight different closures, but it'll only be one leg of the road at a time, and we're gonna try to do it every time between the hours and nine and four, so we miss or so we miss rush hours as much as possible.

Um but shut down from nine to four, try to work on the pieces on that one leg, and then um a few days later we might turn and go to another leg, and then it might be a couple of weeks, and then we'll do another leg and so on.

Um we will make sure that we get video boards out to notify the public, and we'll probably do it on social media as well before each leg shut down.

So happy to answer any questions you guys have.

Any questions or discussion?

Okay, thank you.

Awesome, thank you.

All right.

Now item D.

Uh we have Major Garrett and uh Justin Sharp.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Counselors, Mr.

Spurgeon.

I'm Justin Sharp, I'm the fire marshal on Broken Arrow.

This is Major Garrett, he's with the police department.

We're just here this evening to give you a little bit of an update and uh discussion if if necessary on ordinances, state law changes, and then the uh both fire and police departments enforcement plans for the coming holiday.

I can do it.

Okay.

Look at that.

All right, first off, uh the current city of Broken Air Municipal Ordinance, Section 10.3.

It's gonna be your fireworks ordinance.

Fireworks are only allowed to be shot within the city limits on the third and fourth.

A couple of years ago, those rules were changing on permits were removed, so there are no permits required this year.

And then the hours of operation are only between three o'clock in the afternoon and eleven o'clock at night.

After 11 o'clock, uh fines double, and we are really a lot more strict on enforcement after 11 p.m.

The basic rules for safe discharge of fireworks are are listed in the ordinance, and it's non-combustible services, so driveways, neighborhood roads, uh parking lots with permission, things like that.

Uh, but it can't be within 25 feet of any structure.

And then another main requirements that all the individuals have to clean them up same day.

So we can't they're not supposed to be leaving it overnight.

That's something we'll be looking for.

And then the uh city parks, they're not allowed to be discharged at any time during the city parks on the third or fourth.

No streets larger than 26 feet wide or any of the main arterials, so that's something that the public needs to be aware of for sure.

And then that last one, the fines uh they start at 274 after 11 p.m.

They double, so they can go up to 549 dollars plus court costs.

Okay.

Good evening, Mayor.

Vice Mayor, Council members, Mr.

Spurgeon.

I'm gonna talk to you a little bit about the uh Rockets Red Glare Act.

It's Senate bill at 1948.

It went into effect on the 29th of uh May 2026.

This is a uh state law that uh prohibits counties from prohibiting outdoor consumer fireworks for commercial purposes.

That doesn't necessarily uh affect cities or municipalities from still being able uh to place restrictions and ordinances on uh the fireworks.

It allows firework sales to occur year round.

Used to that was restricted uh for a certain time window during the year, right around the fourth of July.

It's now allowed year round, and then it removes the band on ban on bottle rockets in Oklahoma, which were banned for about 45 years, I believe, until this act went into effect.

But not now.

What's that?

But not now.

Not now, no.

Uh the effect on COBA ordinances or city broken air ordinances, our ordinances are still in effect.

Okay, we can still enforce those and we can still put restrictions, which we do, times, dates, locations, things of that nature.

Uh the sales of fireworks on property not in the city limits can still occur year round, but again, there can be restrictions within the city limits.

And then we talked about the bottle rockets being um you know allowed, but those are still subject like any other firework to the restrictions that are also in the city, whether it's the time, the location, and the dates of when we allow it.

So you've probably heard of this bill.

That's a little bit of a rundown of the bill that's now in effect.

There was an emergency clause placed on it, so we went into effect immediately once it was approved by the governor.

Can we get it to go to the next one?

It's not going for me for some reason.

Okay, so both fire and police will have an enforcement plan in effect for for the holiday, you know, and the dates surrounding.

July 3rd and 4th, I'll I'll speak on the fire department side.

We're gonna have four enforcement teams dedicated to nothing but fireworks.

So each enforcement team is gonna have two deputy or you know, fire marshal or people from the prevention divisions, uh out policing, specifically city parks, uh roadways, and just answering typical calls for service that we get through 911.

Um we'll we'll address any sort of safety concerns that that we find out during the day, but you know, there's not unless they are actively violating the city ordinance, there's not a whole lot of enforcement actions other than just making sure people are safe and that they're not shooting off fireworks places, they're not supposed to be during the daytime.

So that's kind of our focus on the third and fourth, and then the evening time after 11.

Uh, all four teams will be focused on calls for service.

You're gonna get a lot of complaints after 11 o'clock.

A lot of people that aren't supportive of fireworks are gonna be calling at 1101, saying their neighbor is still doing it.

So we'll be uh we'll be uh you know addressing those situations usually up till one, two in the morning on the third and the fourth.

As far as the fifth goes, we will only have one enforcement team patrolling the city, but because the fifth this year hits on a weekend, just be aware the fifth will probably be one of our larger enforcement days because it's after the city ordinance.

There's not any time during the fifth that they're allowed to be shot off, but it's still a Sunday.

People are still gonna have fireworks, and they're probably going to be doing it.

So we'll answer those calls.

And uh the idea with the third and fourth with us being heavy on the enforcement side is we can focus on the fireworks on those days specifically.

PD is uh also gonna be assisting, and Major Garrett will speak to that, but they'd also have to deal with all the other calls that are coming in.

So we're trying to take some of that load off on those two days.

So the police department, we're gonna kind of work the few days before and the couple days or a day after.

So on the first and the second, we're gonna have, of course, our regular patrol bureau is gonna be handling normal calls for service.

We're also gonna assign a couple officers extra during that time on the first and the second, specifically for fireworks enforcement.

On the third and the fourth, our patrol officers will handle calls for service.

We're gonna have our friends at the fire fire department are gonna be heavy, they're gonna have four teams, eight people out, but we will also respond to calls for service on the third and the fourth.

But as you know, between three elevat 3 and 11 p.m., it's legal anyway.

Uh, but we'll have uh our regular patrol bureau out uh working, and we're expecting that to be a heavy call day anyway.

And then on the fifth again, as uh sharp said earlier, we're gonna have two more officers on that day assigned specifically for enforcement, and we are expecting that to be a pretty heavy day for enforcement because as you said, it's a Sunday, uh, and then we'll feel called for any fireworks related offenses as well as anything else.

So the two days before, and then the the one day after we're planning on having some officers specifically assigned for fireworks enforcement, and uh that's kind of uh what our enforcement plan is gonna be.

We're gonna work together collaboratively to make this work, and we'll be happy to answer any questions if you have any.

So basically, our ordinance supersedes the new state law, and so it's good just to have an update and let everyone know because I know there were lots of questions that about if we if anything changed.

So thank you all for that.

Absolutely.

I can foresee some concerns before the time because I know it says three to eleven, but uh I know folks with young kids.

My kids they want to get out and do their daytime fireworks in the daytime, and we're gonna have to tell brought bridle them back.

Can't do it till three o'clock.

It's still daytime at three, so that's good.

But when you have young kids and they want to get just like Christmas morning, they want to get up and they want to go out.

We we were all there once, but uh you know, it'll just be something that parents will have to deal with.

And just going back, thank you for all your work on the pre-planning for um everyone having a great um holiday.

Um, what's the best way if you do have a neighbor at let's say it's 1 a.m.

and they're still tying one on.

Um what's the best way for them to contact you?

The best way to contact us is just to call the non-emergency number.

Non-emergency not 911.

Not on not unless it's an actual emergency.

If your neighbor's just shooting a little late, 918-259-8400, uh, they'll assign the call and then we'll come out and we'll handle it.

If you know if we see violations, we'll handle it.

Awesome.

I'm sure we can post that number on our social media and websites and everything as well.

Exactly.

You know, I might uh uh comment that I certainly think you guys did a great job.

You know what I mean in developing is and protecting us as much as you can when you have fireworks.

But I have to say that again I'm opposed to uh fireworks inside the city for years.

We take our fireworks outside the city, you know, and and and fire them off.

Um I get uh quite a few complaints from uh veterans.

They say, well, it bothers dogs.

I haven't heard from any dogs, but I have from a lot of a lot of veterans.

And I so uh I'm I vote no, but it has nothing to do with it.

You guys have got it planned just right.

You kind of you know what I mean over what the state law was, and and I know it up to the city, so I really appreciate what you're doing.

So my vote no is not really in opposition to what you're doing or saying, so I thank you for that.

Thanks, sir.

Um, I think Aaron and the communications team's done a great job as well.

Um getting the message out because I think it was confusing when the state law came out.

I think a lot of people thought that did supersede our city ordinance.

Um uh Mr.

Spurgeon, would you mind also?

You know, we also have something in place in case it rains on the third and the fourth.

I know you're in charge of making our rain date.

Would you can you address that too for people to know if it does rain what happens?

Thank you for the thank you for the question, Councillor.

The city council a couple years ago actually gave the city manager or uh his designee the ability if there is rain on one of those two days to actually authorize an additional day.

So we'll be watching the weather closely, and we'd make that call uh in in base in in concert with uh the basically the fire chief and his team and the police department.

So that is always possibility.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right, thank you.

Thank you guys.

Thank you all.

All right.

Item E is approval of SP 2852-2026.

We need to vote on that.

Okay.

Okay.

Rocky.

Good evening, Madam Mayor, Mr.

Vice Mayor, members of council, city manager, Mr.

Spurgeon, I'm community development, Director Rocky Hinkle.

SP 2852-2026 is a request for a conditional use permit for an accessory dwelling structure to exceed the 5,000 square feet maximum floor area on a lot greater than two acres in size.

The property is located north of East New Orleans Street and west of South 9th Street.

Section 2-4-1C 2B specifies the lots that are greater than two acres can have accessory building dwelling dwelling units up to an air floor area of 5,000 square feet by permit.

Structures with a floor area greater than 5,000 square feet may be approved by a conditional use permit.

The floor area for the structure is planned to be 60 feet by 120 feet for a floor area of 7,200 square feet.

All setbacks for the current zoning are met in the exhibit.

The lot is approximately 13 acres in size, and it's created via a lot combination BAL 2154 to allow for the development of two single family homes.

A single family home is planned to be constructed on the lot.

However, his construction is not required before the construction of the accessory dwelling unit, as the parcel is larger than two acres.

The use for the structure will be limited to personal uses and those home occupation uses allowed under current zoning ordinance.

The surrounding land uses, zoning designation, and comprehensive plan designations are as follows.

To the north is comprehensive plan level one, zoning is agricultural, the land use is vacant.

To the east, comprehensive plan is level two, the zoning is ag and RS.

The land use is vacant.

To the south is level two, the zoning is RS, it is a single family residential home.

To the west is level two, zoning district is RS, and the land use is single family residential.

The planning commission recommended approval 400 of this item and their meeting held on June 11, 2026.

No one spoke in favor or in opposition to this item.

Staff recommends you approve SP 2852-2026 per planning commission and staff recommendations.

Any questions or did anyone sign up to speak for or against it tonight?

Did not okay.

One second.

All right, Rocky, approval of SP.

No.

Consideration discussion and possible approval of PUD 2802-2026.

Thank you again.

PUD 2802-2026 is a proposed planned unit development to alter setback lines on an industrial lot located at 809 East Jackson Place.

The property is located south of Houston Street and east of 9th Street.

Current broke broken arrow zoning regulations require that any industrial light zones have rear setbacks of 30 feet.

Setbacks from property lines abutting a different non-residential zone is also 30 feet, and this required would apply to the east property line.

However, the property to the rear is the railroad, and the property to the east is non-conforming use with a CH commercial heavy zone.

The applicant, on behalf of the property and business owner, advance alarms, is requesting a PUD for the property in order to reduce the required setbacks.

If approved, the applicant is proposing to develop a 2,857 square foot structure as part of an expansion for their business.

The proposed building will include a few offices, a bathroom, and a storage room.

This proposed structure will need to meet all other development regulations, including those within the fire code and building code.

The applicant is also requesting that no landscape buffer be required to the south against the railroad.

The applicant has included a proposed landscaping plan, and this plan does include all other required landscaping such as trees, landscape edge, landscape areas, and includes additional bushes as well.

The planning commission recommended approval 4.0 of this item on May 28, 2026 at the planning commission meeting.

No one spoke in favor or in opposition of this request.

Staff recommends you approve PUD 2802-2026 per planning commission and staff recommendations.

Did anyone sign up to speak for or against this item?

I did not.

I'm back a motion.

We re approve the request.

I'll second that motion.

Thank you.

See you soon.

Thank you.

All right.

Item eight is the citizens opportunity to speak before council.

There is no citizens.

Yeah.

Item nine is general counsel business.

9A is consideration discussion and possible approval of and authorization to execute resolution number 1755.

Michael Spurgeon and Cindy Arnold.

Thank you, Mayor Members of Council.

Good evening, everyone.

I just have a brief PowerPoint presentation.

The administration is recommending that the City Council approve the FY 2027 municipal budget.

This is just a quick reminder that the budget workshop was held on May 12th, 2026.

The City Council held a public hearing on June 1st of 2026.

The budget document has been available to the public on the city's website and at City Hall since the middle part of May.

And tonight we set the final adoption for July 15th by way of resolution 1750 1755.

The proposed municipal budget for FY 2027, which is July 1st of 2026 through June 30th of 2027, is 487 million 39,418 dollars.

In the budget book, as council is aware, there is executive summary.

There's proposed revenue expenditures for all funds, proposed department budgets, special funds, proposed expenditures and revenues and fund balances, the street maintenance plan, the proposed FY 2027 bond sale, the Oklahoma Water Resources Board loan program as proposed, and the manual fees.

Operational breakdown is personnel services a little over 119 million.

Other services and charges right at 61 million.

Materials and supplies 14.7 million.

Our capital outlay is 242 million seven hundred and twenty-three thousand, and debt service is 49 million six hundred eighty-six thousand seven hundred and thirty-three dollars.

And that's how we get to the 487 39,418.

I'd like to thank the council and then the staff for all their assistance, especially Cindy Arnold.

And at this time be glad to answer any questions.

And I'd ask council's uh consideration of approval of this year's of the upcoming year's fiscal year budget.

Any questions or discussion?

Can you say the uh budget book was very riveting to spend time going through?

Uh but we appreciate staff for putting that together for us so that we are able to make good informed decisions about the budget and the people's money.

So thank you, sir.

It is available for anyone that can come take a look at it for transparency for sure.

And throughout the entire year.

Yep.

Exactly.

Absolutely.

All right.

I I do appreciate Cindy, your and your team's work on that and uh your summary, Mr.

Spurgeon helps us a lot to get to get through that big thick book for sure.

And with that, I will make a recommendation for approval on item 26841.

Or second it.

Okay.

Yeah.

All right.

Item B is consideration discussion and possible approval to modify the existing back-end parking configure configuration on Main Street.

Mr.

Spurgeon.

Thank you, Mayor.

Council.

This this item actually, the mayor and I had a conversation.

Um since we installed the the back end parking several years ago, it's always been a question about if it's a its effectiveness.

And after discussing with her, I actually I put together a RFA asking the council to consider this.

And obviously, there are some um there's some reasons for it.

There's also some reasons against it.

You know, one of the biggest concerns we have is we've never we've never really done enforcement anywhere downtown because we we really don't want to drive our customers away.

And so we've been very flexible.

We we spent a lot of time the TED team does getting the employees that work in the downtown area to park elsewhere instead of in front of the businesses.

And so after much consideration, I have no concerns and would recommend the council go back to uh the uh the pull the pull in parking.

Well, I think the original thought was probably the safety of the bike riders, I'm assuming.

Um, but a lot of our seniors park down there are veterans for sure, and um they just don't park, they they're not doing it.

It's been how many years?

Three years.

It's been longer than that.

It's been it's been since 2019, I believe.

Yeah, 2021.

Yeah, you would think people would gotten the habit, but you go to stop to back in, and people are right on your tail, so then you have to drive around to come back to find a parking spot.

And yeah, and then they just don't back in.

They'll they'll pull right in.

So and again, if you're not gonna enforce it, what's what's the point?

And I think it's almost more dangerous the way it is now with no one knowing how to bark.

Was this a requirement with uh any of the funding that came with the bike lanes?

Great great question, counselor.

And I asked I checked uh with Charlie in his nine.

Some cities it was.

Okay.

I just don't park there because I don't like it.

So uh it's just awkward, you know, when you spend your life pulling in.

Yeah, awkward doing that, and you gotta be careful going out.

Hey, I gotta reverse this to get out and go.

So I'm I'm in favor of changing it to regular.

Well, and I've had several businesses also that are down in that way that complain all the time that people aren't parking there, and we don't enforce it, so why do we have to have it?

And so I think this is great.

Mayor, do you want to make the motion?

I'll make a motion to approve.

Second, you gotta click it.

You gotta click it.

Oh, yeah.

Sorry, I'm not used to making a motion.

So there you go.

Welcome.

All right.

And this is not going to negate the bike lanes, or are we taking up the bike lines?

Actually, we're waiting for council to make a decision so we can actually do the painting, and we'll be actually gonna repaint the bike lanes themselves.

And actually, as you know, we'll be milling the inner the uh inner part of the of South Main as soon as the sewer line work is completed.

And I encourage people to use the bike lane.

I've only seen a tractor on the bank bike lanes.

So I have neighbors.

I have neighbors that ride.

Yeah, I've seen I've seen bikes on the bike lane.

Wonderful.

Okay.

Brent rides them, drives down the road, Brent from the TED team.

This is oh, you're right.

You're right, you're right.

All right, item Consideration discussion and possible approval of and authorization to execute resolution 1756.

Cindy Arnold.

Good evening.

Um Cindy Arnold, finance director.

Um, as you know, we have a hotel motel tax, and we have one hotel that has not paid for a while, and that's the home with suites.

Um I'm gonna butcher his name.

Multaney, Mr.

and has ignored all um correspondence that we've done.

We sent a certified letter.

We're not sure if he picked it up, but we did get a copy back.

Um that it was certified, did go out.

Last time a couple years ago, we did the same thing.

We uh threatened to go to court.

He decided to try to make a payment arrangement.

He did it for a little while, and then he stopped paying, and now it's crickets again.

So we would like to pursue going after him for the hotel motel tax.

Um because he owes about $82,000 at this point.

It's a rather busy hotel.

His uh monthly 4% is quite good.

Um, so staff is uh asking for approval resolution of 1756 so that we can take the owner of homewood suites that's located at 4900 Madison Place, broken arrow, um, to the district court.

Okay.

Anybody we have sent we have sent letters and we send out reminders, we send a certified letter, and we get nothing.

This is on this on um garnett.

Is that right north of Kenosha and Garnett?

Between 61st and 71st, I think right on the colour.

Yeah, off Garnet, yeah.

So hopefully sometimes when we get to this point, we do send a letter that we're going to, they will come in and try to make good.

So I'll I'll I'll make a motion to first to proceed.

No, you got it.

Well, I got it.

Roll call.

Thank you.

All right.

Thank you.

Thank you, Cindy.

Item D is consideration discussion of possible approval of a noise um ordinance waiver for broken arrow lacrosse club to host a 24-hour tournament on August 8th at Nean Heist Park.

Matt evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor Council, Mr.

Spurgeon.

The Broken Arrow Cross Club has been approached by a National Veterans Lacrosse organization, shootout for soldiers interested in hosting a 24-hour continuous lacrosse tournament at the Nean Heist football complex on April 8th, excuse me, August 8th and 9th, 2026, that benefits American veterans.

The event centers around supporting those who serve our country.

So accommodate this event, um, Broken Arrow Lacrosse Club respectfully requests a waiver from section 1612 of the broken arrow code of ordinances, which was restricts public gatherings in city parks to the hours between 7 a.m.

and 11 p.m.

The requested waiver would allow tournament activities to continue uninterrupted between 11 p.m.

on August 8th and 7 a.m.

on August 9th.

And Chad Lott with the La Crosse Club is here, and he can tell you more specifics about that tournament.

All right, thank you.

This is Saturday.

Hey, good evening.

Um Mayor, City Council, Mr.

Spurgeon, and City staff.

My name is Chad Lott, and um I'm here on behalf of the Broken Arrow Lacrosse Club.

Um I'd like to thank you for consideration for this request for a waiver that would allow us to host soldier shootout for soldiers at Nee Heights Park August 8th through the 9th.

Uh shootout for soldiers is a nationally recognized 24-hour lacrosse event whose mission is to use the sport of lacrosse to support American veterans and strengthen community engagement.

For more than a decade, communities across the country have partnered with this organization to raise funds, awareness for veterans, and military families.

This event will bring together players, families, sponsors, and supporters from across the region.

Two of the largest private lacrosse clubs in our area have already committed to participate, and we expect more than 40 teams to take part throughout the event.

Most importantly, the funds raised uh stay focused on helping veterans through respected organizations that provide life-changing support to service members and their families.

We are currently working with several military-focused charities locally to ensure the proceeds have a meaningful local impact.

We understand that this request requires an exemption to the normal park hours, and we remain committed to being responsible stewards of the facility and respectful neighbors throughout the event.

We appreciate the city's partnership and support on behalf of the Broken Arrow Lacrosse Club and veterans who will benefit from this.

I respectfully ask for your approval of this waiver request.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

You guys have any questions?

I I do.

Other other than the notice of this meeting that he was going to present this, have the neighbors been notified at all that you're wanting to do this.

No, ma'am, not at this point.

Um I I kind of like to be able to notify the neighbors that this could be happening to give them a chance to either support it or not support it.

Um they may be fine with it, but I just kind of feel like they're probably not looking for something like that, you know what I mean, to be on the agenda.

I'd really like to be able to like notify them that it's coming, you know, maybe I mean it's 24 hours, you know, sleeping babies and I mean it's on the weekend.

I did look at Saturday Saturday, Sunday.

Um, it's not during school or work or anything like that, but people do work on the weekends and there are baby sleeping, but I I feel like if we just approve it tonight without notifying them, that's not being very transparent in my opinion.

So I I I would prefer to notify at least you know how we notify people within so many feet, you know that maybe they had notified them because we hadn't approved to be done yet.

But that's what but that's what I just but if we approve it, then it's happening.

And then we're like, it's happening, and then they don't have you know what I'm saying?

And we still have time.

So if we can um Matt, I don't know, do we do that through the parks or Mr.

Spurgeon?

How would we do how could we do that?

Well, I wanted to bring it to council members because this is one of the first uh event like this we've had, and I fully support this, but I do believe that Kenny and I had a conversation.

I said the exact same thing.

We're in the notified the neighborhood.

So I mean, obviously that he's here tonight because they need a little bit of lead time in order to get prepared for the event.

And so I I'm not in a position to say to recommend it conditioned upon because I think the council should retain that, but there isn't a meeting until the 14th, Chad.

So if the council waited to the 14th, is that too long?

14th of July?

No, sir.

Okay, then it's not then and I can work with our communications and Matt, and we can actually make it make notice and actually hold something there at Nina's for folks to come in to explain it.

Yeah, and then bring it back to the case.

I just like I just like to do some kind of notification, and they may be fine.

You know, we may not hear from any of them, but I I think we should at least there's no direct neighborhoods abutting the fields, right?

No, there's a golf course, there's a fire department.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Okay, but not the sound.

I mean, you don't think they'll hear them?

I think you're gonna hear the players.

I mean, there's I mean, you know, there's probably gonna be chairing and and actually just loud uh voices that you would hear normally in any type of sport.

But I do think uh I knew that the council was gonna have questions about the neighborhood, and that's why we need to provide them with notice.

And then if it if it's not a problem, then on July 14th, we can come back and ask for council to approve it.

I I prefer that.

That would be my vote.

And and we are definitely okay with that.

And I will also add that uh I don't think that this will end up being a true 24-hour event because normally what they do is on one field, and with Nean Heights, we have the access of four.

So that'll cut event usage down.

And so, and and they've faced this in in other municipalities, so we are prepared to flex if need be.

So I mean it sounds fun, fine.

I think it's a great event.

Um, lacrosse is a growing sport, and I think they picked the right city because we obviously do support our veterans.

I think it would be a fantastic time.

I know my boys are already ready to sign up for it.

I want to sign up just so I can get one of these really cool commemorative jerseys that are coming out of the thing.

But uh, I think it's gonna be a great event.

So uh I'm definitely in support of supporting this.

Yeah, and thank you for supporting our veterans for sure.

Oh, absolutely.

You know, and I support it also.

I I do agree that the the citizens need to be notified.

But I do think also they're far enough away that it won't be a major, you know, one of the interruption of the same thing.

We just approved fireworks on two days and we didn't notify everybody before we approved that.

They know, yeah, they do.

They know we notify them because we hear from them.

That's what I that's obviously we didn't notify them before we approved extra firework days.

Well, you have your vote, and I have my vote.

My vote is to notify them.

Okay.

Well, it's really good because I I was just concerned logistically, but if you're good to go on the 14th, then Matt will coordinate everything.

You'll be there to answer questions, and then we'll come back and we'll put this back on the agenda for council consideration.

Let the council know what the results were of the public meeting.

All right, I appreciate it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right.

Item E is consideration discussion and possible So do we need to take some kind of action to table that or whatever, since it was up for approval.

I would say you can take a formal vote, just tabling it to the 14th.

Right.

I think it's a good idea.

Well, I think you guys should make that motion.

I make a motion to table it to the next city council movement.

A second.

Roll call.

All right.

Item E, consideration discussion and possible approval.

Uh I'm sorry?

No, we're good.

Okay.

Previously tabled item approval of, and I got me off there enough.

And authorization to award bid number 26 dot 148 opioid abatement utilizing funds from the um abatement settlement fund.

Chief Arnold.

Good evening, Madam Mayor, Vice Mayor, Counselors, Mr.

Spurgeon.

I'm pleased, Chief Lance Arnold.

This item was tabled on your May 19th, 2026 consent agenda uh to allow council additional time for the recommendation.

Just as a reminder, this item Section K of the RFA established five published evaluation criteria for the following weights.

Experience and qualifications was 25%.

Project approach and methodology was 30 percent.

Understanding of project goals was 15 percent, cost proposal was 20 percent, and references were 10 percent.

Omni institute earned the highest overall score and ranked first in three of the four scored criteria, including the most heavily weighted project approach and methodology and experience and qualifications, and staff's recommendation is to approve Omni Institute for this uh proposal.

All right, I appreciate um you guys taking the time to table that particular topic.

Uh it was brought to me with some some concern, so I wanted to definitely uh hear those out and flesh everything out.

And I appreciate you and your team taking the time to answer those questions for us so we can make an informed decision of how to move forward.

Yes, sir, thank you.

And I'm available for any other questions if you have them.

Any further discussion?

I'll make a motion to approve item 26-818.

Second.

Oh, second it, sorry.

Yeah, yeah.

All right, item app consideration discussion and possible approval to execute um authorized execution of a five-year master of service agreement with Exxon Enterprise Chief.

Hello again, uh Madam Mayor, Vice Mayor, Counselors, Mr.

Spurgeon.

Good evening.

Uh Lance Arnold, police chief.

You all received this uh and so did the public uh presentation.

So I'm gonna go through it really quickly, but uh and and not spend a lot of time on each item.

But really, what this represents is a major uh move forward technology technologically uh advancement for public safety in broken arrow, and certainly uh the city where opportunity lives and one that that forges ahead with uh innovation and technology.

And so what we are uh proposing tonight is an actual ecosystem that is got some items that we currently have, like the taser, like fusis real-time operations, uh, and our evidence.com.

It also includes items that we don't have in technology and soft software as a service that we don't have, and then it has some items that we currently have, but that uh are with a different vendor and that are sunsetting.

So we'll run through those really quickly.

Um the first one is Axon 911, and you can see this has been deployed in over a thousand emergency call centers and has handled over 800 million calls across those or uh 80 million calls across those centers.

We're really excited about this.

This is uh able to be online translation.

Right now we have to send those off to a uh language line.

There can be delay in that.

So this will actually do it on screen.

It actually transcribes the entire call regardless of the language.

Uh it also is able to handle non-emergency calls just with the AI, uh, which also reduces our workload and allows us to focus on those emergency calls.

Uh drone is the first responder.

You guys have already approved uh that technology for us, and so this is an opportunity to extend that uh as well.

And so probably not a lot of need to discuss that.

This one is exciting, though.

This is uh D-Drone, it is an uh it allows us to instantly locate not only the drone, but also the pilot.

As we start to host more events and as the amphitheater comes online, the ability to have the technology to uh find nefarious drones and where the pilots are uh is huge for us.

And so this is something that we don't currently have, and it's all built into the same ecosystem that we're talking tonight.

You guys are aware of FUCSIS and is our real-time information center comes more online.

Uh we'll we'll love to host you guys and let you see it in action.

But this brings not only all of the city owned and operated cameras, but all of our participating retail, uh the schools, restaurants, office buildings, all ones that want to participate into one location agnostic of the kind of uh camera system that they have in the Intro Real Time Information Center.

The vehicle intelligence, again, is something of building out our real-time information center.

It's technology that we have now, but it brings it into the same ecosystem as we move forward and continue to expand that.

Uh, fleet three is the in-car cameras.

We get a lot of questions about in-car cameras or about 70% of the agencies our size across the country currently use in car cameras, and we don't currently have that technology.

Uh so this is something that's really huge for us.

And I know that you guys have had uh items before you where you were reviewing uh maybe an executive session or something video from our body cams, and when the officers in the car, you get a great picture of the steering wheel.

Um so this is uh this is something that really we're looking forward to and will help us uh considerably.

We do currently have body cam.

This is our fifth year of our original vendor, and that product is sunsetting.

Uh so this would bring this into the entire ecosystem.

The great thing about uh Axon, you can see it's in 17,000 agencies in over 130 countries.

Uh the technology that they're doing now where have real-time translation on the device, uh, as well as all of the the be it be able to go live back to the Arctic, be able to have sensors on your body to where if you unholster your weapon or something like that, and the body cam is not on, it would automatically come on uh and alert the real-time information center all at the same time.

The stuff that they're doing nowadays is just amazing, but that's the value of having it within the entire ecosystem.

Uh, we do currently have taser tens.

Several years ago, you all approved a pretty large contract to outfit all of our patrol officers.

Uh unfortunately, that was only 115 of our 165 current officers, and so the other officers that are not assigned to patrol have tasers, but they are the not the latest technology, and so this will bring them online.

This was a purchase that we planned on making in the future uh to get everybody into the taser 10, which is kind of the latest and greatest in that.

Um, with that comes the ability to do VR training.

And so some of you got to experience all of you, in fact, experience some of the VR headsets, but the ability to bring able to do that training, do it before ship briefing or at shift briefing rather than having a full day of training uh and be able to do more of it in just a really short amount of time in realistic scenarios.

Um all of this goes through the secure cloud and an area that, as you all know, we continue to approve technology.

That's the cost a lot of times of doing business is that cloud technology and the storage and all that.

But this really is one price across the five-year contract.

So we get unlimited storage, unlimited cloud services without increasing that cost.

Um the the app we're currently using with our evidence.com that you all approved last year, and it has without question become super efficient and effective for us to handle digital evidence, uh, be able to share digital evidence with the prosecutor's office and others.

Uh it's been amazing, but our officers have really uh appreciated having this.

Uh it's it's it's helped us quite a bit.

Um, with that technology comes other AI features that that are part of this plan.

In fact, it includes the AI era plan.

So everything that Axon has uh has built up to this point, and then anything that they build in the next five years, it gets rolled into this with no additional cost.

Um in fact, this is one of the few technology contracts that you're gonna see where it doesn't have a built-in escalation over the course of the five-year contract.

The price is what the price is.

Um, and but it this is something that's being utilized again across the country uh that's really helping officers save time on writing their reports, and they're actually we've we've demoed it uh live and in person, and it writes really good reports.

The officers still have to verify them, and we have to disclose the fact that we use that technology.

Um is another one of those tools where as the officer just shows the driver's license to the body worn cam, it can already start to fill out your forms for you.

So again, you know, less errors and and quicker on doing our business.

Um a lot of our work, as you all know, is administrative as it is, uh, as much as it is being out on the road and and and interacting with our citizens.

Uh and what we're really seeing when we add start adding these features, we start to increase the amount of time that we're out interacting with our citizens and reduce the amount of time that we're stuck at the the PSC doing paperwork.

Um the other one that's really exciting.

You all know that we are a retail center, um, not only for uh the Tulsa area, but for the Northeast Oklahoma region.

Um, and a lot of our major boxes and all that already participate in uh Aura and Aura is something that is part of this entire package too.

So they will be able to share information across their spectrum into our systems, and we'll be able to have that uh all kind of seamlessly work together, which is something that we're really excited about as well.

Uh and then the final thing I'll just tell you is is that the cost of bundling all of this into one ecosystem not only is efficiency and effectiveness, but it is a savings of uh about six point eight million dollars over the life of this contract by being able to bundle all of these services into one.

Um and with that I'll open for any questions you have to well.

I appreciate the additional um technology that's helping you guys get more data on the street for sure.

Um I would I would assume that criminals don't want to come to Broken Arrow because we've we're watching, we're we're everywhere, right?

That's our always our goal.

Yes, so I know back in the day it was that way, you know, like you'd hear of a crime area, and then we you guys were always out there, and then all of a sudden it they just dissipate and they go elsewhere.

So I appreciate making sure that our city is safe.

Well, I'm sure you see too.

We share the uh our monthly Compsat uh with you all, and so you're able to see our real-time information center wins that we've had already, and we're still not completely built out in in that system, but just the amount of things that we're able to do now, especially in our retail areas and our really high volume areas, uh, to be able to make really solid cases and really catch those people if they do come into town, then we're catching them before they're able to get out of town.

So I just I just want to clarify.

So it says Axon 911.

So if I call 911 to Broken Arrow, am I still gonna talk to a real person?

You are absolutely, yes.

So this is to clarify.

That's a great question, Councilor Ford.

I'm glad you asked that.

So no, it is an overlay.

So it's two it's twofold.

One is next gen 911, which actually the Indian Council of Count the Indian Nations Council of Government had already selected carbine before Axon bought carbine.

So that was already something that was in the works to bring in next gen 911 into NCOG's region for 911.

And that's that's been something that we've been budgeting for really over the last couple of years, waiting for that selection to occur.

The other piece of that is an item called prepared, which sits on as an AI overlay.

It's the one that does the the uh voice translation, the real-time uh uh dictation and and all of that.

It it so it ran really is able to handle not emergency calls, but uh it doesn't it sits alongside the dispatcher and doesn't replace the dispatcher.

I'm okay with all of that.

I just want to make sure we're still talking to a real person when you call broken arrow 911.

That's that's correct.

Right.

That that part will not change.

What will change with next gen 911, which is part of this, is your ability to send video pictures for us to know your location based on your phone and not just the location that the cell tower you're hitting, which is gets us a much more precise location.

So those are the features that really are built into it, not the features of taking the the actual person out of a dispatch center.

So I think uh Broken Arrow Police Department is one of the premier police departments, not just in the region but in the state, if not in the nation.

And I think doing things like this forward thinking and being technologically advanced helps us to stay in that position and carry us into the future and ensure that we provide top notch service to the citizens of Broken Arrow.

So I'm definitely in support of this.

Thank you, sir.

Yeah, I would just agree.

You know, we are the number one safest city in Oklahoma.

We'll just go with that.

And thank you for all that you do and the forward thinking, because like you were saying, this is not only something that's gonna benefit the city and our citizens and and safety and also help your officers as well, but also I think I did hear something about a six point eight million dollar savings as well.

So that's always a nice thing too.

Yeah, and of course, we I I would be remiss if I didn't mention the the team that we have.

It's literally one of the most talented group of uh committed individuals and teams that I've ever been associated with, and that it really extends across the city, but but our uh our department staff is top notch in every way.

So thank you.

I would agree with that.

All right.

Thank you.

No, I'll make a motion to approve this item number 26-889.

I second roll call.

All right.

Award to the lowest responsible bidder of the Cherokee Pride Construction for the Liberty Trail Retaining Wall.

Charlie Great.

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

Spurgeon.

My name is Charlie Bright, Director of Engineering Construction.

Excited to finally be here to ask to award the bid for construction for the Liberty Trail Retaining Wall, as I'm sure many of you guys have gotten phone calls and emails over the past year.

I have gotten plenty of those as well as Matt Hendron and I'm sure many others.

I've been out your number a few times.

Yeah.

I appreciate you passing out my number.

Um I've gotten those calls.

It it is it is frustrating, and I feel the frustration of the citizens.

You know, this wasn't a project that was planned.

Our wall failed, it wasn't intended, and that's not something that was budgeted, and a lot of things like this, you know, we can make up for in our capital budget and everything.

But this this failure was a large project, and um and the failure also needed to be engineered.

Um so the wall needed to be completely replaced.

It's a long wall, it's 800 feet long and it's up to eight feet tall, so this is not small.

Um, and so that's why we've had the trail shut down for quite a while now.

But over that time, we have designed a new wall.

Um, we have coordinated with the OTA because we're gonna have to be inside their fence line.

We're gonna have to do some, we're not gonna narrow any lane, or we're not gonna like do any shutdowns on the turnpike, but we probably will have some cones up and stuff just to try to get people to drive a little bit slower next to it.

Um but I am happy to say we got the bid out last month following the state bidding procedures and Cherokee Pride construction was our low bidder for 861,086 dollars, and I am recommending award to them.

Happy to answer any questions that you guys have.

I think I say this every single time there is a wall that is being looked at in our city.

Let's not build any more walls in our city.

What's the time frame of the project?

Uh great question.

So 120 days is the construction timeline.

Um that doesn't necessarily start at approval tonight.

We still have to execute the contract and issue a notice to proceed, but once they do start, they get 120 days.

Okay.

I will make a motion to approve.

I'll say it.

Or Johnny got it.

Motion and second roll call.

So excited about this.

I know.

Why should they deal with the walls?

Just tell them to do a good job.

Yeah.

Yeah, we just want to go once.

One wall building.

Technically, it's building the second time.

But yeah, well, that's true.

It'll be the second time.

We don't want to do it.

Uh Johnny.

Counselor Parks.

We're waiting on your vote.

I did.

Thank you.

Item H consideration discussion and possible approval of award to the lowest responsible bidder, Cherokee Pride Construction for Sixth Street Widening Project.

Travis.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council, City Manager, Travis Small Engineering Construction Department.

Uh the Six Street Left Turn Lane Project has been on the books for a while.

We worked with a consulting firm to get that designed, adding a left turn lane on 6th Street to provide better access for the public safety complex.

Open bids last week.

Cherokee Pride was the lowest responsible bidder in this particular case with a bid of 227,405 and zero cents.

One thing I'd like to point out to council, uh, this particular project, similar to what Charlie talked about earlier with the 9th and Washington shutdown.

Uh this is a two-lane road that we're expanding out, and we have to tie in to a two-lane road.

So, in order to do that, we think the the safest, best and most efficient way to do that is to go ahead and shut the road down.

We have coordinated with the chiefs uh on this particular project, they are on board with that.

There is access to the public safety complex via fourth and Madison, and also uh off of Lansing, uh the public safety complex, the fire, and the and the police folks have access to uh to ninth street from Lansing.

So, with that in mind, uh we would recommend awarded this project.

Uh I'm here to answer any questions if you have any.

What about the church across the street from the public safety complex?

So uh we plan on phasing this construction so they will have access to to their church.

They will have to come in through uh uh fourth and madison, the backway, excuse me.

Uh we will put up message boards uh letting everybody know that the access they can get uh through fourth.

Okay, so I'll just ask for a quick this is the second item that uh we're looking at for Cherokee Pride.

Can you speak to their um their quality work and what you know how they uh assist the city that they're one of the lowest responsible bidders?

So a great question.

Uh we get this often because Cherokee Pride does win several projects here at the city.

Uh they've done a lot of work for us in the past.

They do uh good work uh and we stay on top of them to make sure that they get the job done.

Uh so we feel confident uh that they have the ability to do the work at this time based upon conversations we have we've had internally uh and we work with our construction division uh asking them their opinion with respect to the work that they do have ongoing within the city.

At this time, we do believe that they they do have the ability to do that.

Uh they as I said they do quality work uh and uh we we think they have the ability to get it done.

Sure.

Um sorry, I want to come up and because I had more conversations with my team than maybe Travis was even privy to on that particular fact, and so I do want to add with Cherokee Pride.

One, as I've discussed with this governing body in the past.

I'm not ever up here to say that they're the best contractor in the world and they're perfect and everything else, but they are very responsive when there's issues, they correct them.

And as we talked about last time over the past couple of years, they've saved the city over three million dollars by taking their bids.

Um with the discussion of uh of awarding two projects to them tonight.

Um, my question that I always ask my team before I even get to you guys is are they really gonna be able to get all this done and not put us off and everything else?

Um I had that same conversation before we had this uh meeting when I found out that they were a little bitter on multiple projects, um, and we went through the schedule of things we have.

They have several projects falling off the list of things that we've awarded to them in the past.

They've finished some residential rehabs and they've done some other things, and so we've worked with them and we are confident they have the crews to do this work as other work falls off, so we feel comfortable with them getting both awards.

Thank you.

Any further discussion entertain a motion?

I'll make a motion to approve 26-927.

I'll say that.

Roll call.

All right, thank you.

Item I is consideration discussion on possible approval of PUD 2820-2026 for Happy Hands.

Uh Rocky Hinkle.

Good evening again, Madam Mayor, Mr.

Vice Mayor, members of council, city manager Mr.

Spurgeon, I'm community development director, Rocky Hinkle.

PUD 2820-2026 is a planned unit development request allowing school uses within an office neighborhood zoning district.

Happy Hands Education Center is a nonprofit organization focused on families with children who are hard of hearing or deaf and provides license and accredited child care.

The organization also employs hard of hearing and deaf adults as part of its mission.

The organization is currently housed within its campus across from San Antonio Street.

However, families have requested elementary age education opportunities for their children.

This would require additional classroom space that is not available or easily added to the original facility.

Happy Hands has reached a tentative agreement with the owner of the subject property to lease a portion of the building to house additional classroom space for elementary age children.

The portion of the building intended for classroom use will be updated to meet the needs of Happy Hands Education Center, including updated security measures and an additional bathroom.

The main Happy Hands Education Center campus will serve all other functions needed for elementary education, such as gyms, playgrounds, cafeterias, and before and after care.

Students will be always escorted by staff when traveling between the buildings and when crossing San Antonio Street.

San Antonio Street already has deaf child area signs as well as traffic calming devices, but the applicant is working with the city staff to add more signage and striping for a crosswalk.

This PUD only amends the allowed uses for the subject parcel.

All other requirements of the zoning ordinance need to be met during the renovation process.

There would be no external change changes to the building or property as well.

Happy Hands is planning for a future series of capital campaigns to raise funds for a future elementary school in the Tulsa area and potentially within Broken Arrow.

PUD 2820-2026 was recommended for approval with a 3-1 vote on May 28, 2026 per the per the Broken Arrow Planning Commission.

There was one vote to abstain.

Staff recommends you approve PUD 2820-2026 per planning commission and staff recommendations.

And I believe the owner of Happy Hans is here.

It's across the street.

Thank you, Mayor, Council, for allowing me to be here.

We need more classroom space, and uh this is temporary, it's leased space.

Um we do look forward to a capital campaign in the I don't know how near future, five to ten years probably.

Um, but we need to grow our population in the meantime.

Um this office space has been sitting empty for over two years, and the owner has graciously allowed us to go through this process to see if this will be a possibility for us.

This office space has been sitting empty for over two years, and the owner has graciously allowed us to go through this process to see if this will be a possibility for us.

We can add immediately four to five classrooms, which will serve our elementary population.

This fall we have an enrollment of uh 18 students, and this can serve more than that.

Um be happy to have answer any questions.

Well, I I went and visited um and toured for the it had been a while since I'd been over, and um it is so amazing what you guys are doing and the impact you're making in our community for the hearing impaired.

Um the fact that you you even receive siblings of children who are hearing impaired.

We do at the free school that's amazing.

So was excited to hear that you guys are at that point where you have to expand.

And so thank you.

We want you to stay in Broken Arrow, too.

So hopefully you can we want to, yeah, yes.

Uh white broken error.

Any questions or what I would just like to add that I appreciate everything you do with happy hands.

It is a ray of light for Broken Arrow around the nation.

And it's been an honor for our rotary club in Broken Arrow to partner with you guys on fundraising and things like that.

So if anybody gets a chance to go and do a tour of it, uh it's it's exciting.

You'll leave there just smiling from an ear to ear from what you guys do.

Thank you.

I appreciate that.

So with that, I would like a motion to approve.

Well, I just have one more question for Robert.

Never mind.

Well wait.

Did our traffic unit go out to look and and like that we all the safety things are?

I mean, because they're currently in the process identifying where the crosswalks need to be.

Uh we believe there is already a crosswalk there at Eucalyptus or yeah, I believe there's one at Eucalyptus now.

Um so they're just trying to they're still firing that out.

Okay, but they will be escorted by staff every time they cross the street.

Okay.

Go ahead, council.

Uh six.

I like to make a motion to approve 26968.

I'll second it.

Thank you, Jan.

Thank you.

Thank you, Jane.

All right, item J, consideration, discussion, and possible appointment by the mayor of an alternate judge for the Broken Arrow Municipal Court and possible approval of an authorization to execute an employment contract for professional services as alternate judge for the city of Broken Arrow's municipal municipal court.

Trevor Burrus, Jr.

I thank you, Mayor, Vice Mayor, City Council, Mr.

Spurgeon.

Our alternate judge uh position has come open under our form of uh ordinances for this.

It provides for a judicial nominating committee to provide three names to the mayor, and the mayor then selects one of those three names to appoint uh for the next contractual term.

Uh the letter was attached.

The alternate judges that were recommended were Jerry Lundy, Hans Lear, and Teresa Webster.

Um really just gives the opportunity for the mayor to appoint the alternate judge and then execute authorize the execution of their contract.

Happy to answer any questions you may have.

Yeah.

So mayor, do you like sit down and interview them or you just read the letter?

We have a committee and then they send the recommendation over.

And then I've received further um referrals from people that knew that these judges were applying for this position.

So which is been fun to just learn the background.

And the committee members um you know shared some of the stories about how they went through and the questions, and really looking for someone who was community-minded as well as you know their role as a judge, obviously.

But um, and so my um nomination would be for Jerry Lundy to be that alternate judge.

Another thing the committee um considered or wants us to consider is possibly having more than one alternative because our city is growing rapidly, and so um that would might be something that we look at at some point, maybe going forward to have more than one alternate.

So what do we need to do to make I thought kind of thought we did have two alternate?

We never have had two alternates, I guess.

We could just change our ordinance to designate that we have another position, and as we you know, look to expand dockets and as we grow, that would definitely be a good idea to look into that.

Okay.

That'd be something we should take in consideration in our budget for adding additional judges.

I'm not sure how that works.

We did not include.

Thank you for the question, Council.

We did not include an alternate, a second alternate.

So if in fact that's a direction of council, I'd I'd let you know what what the amount we'd have to amend the budget to include.

Shouldn't be a problem.

Um I'll make a motion to approve the mayor's alternate judge recommendation.

I'll say it.

Okay.

Johnny Johnny have to.

include thank you for the question council we did not include an alternate a second alternate so if in fact that's a direction of council I'd I'd let you know what what the amount we'd have to amend the budget to include shouldn't be a problem um I'll make a motion to approve the mayor's alternate judge recommendation I did there you go all right item K is consideration discussion and possible reappointment of Dennis Sagely as presiding judge for the Broken Air City um municipal court I thank you mayor this is exactly what we just discussed but just for the presiding judge uh the recommendation was to reappoint the presiding judge Dennis Sagely happy to answer any questions you may have I'll make a motion to uh reappoint Dennis Sagely for our judge roll call okay all right item 10 is preview ordinances 10 a is consideration discussion of possible preview of ordinance number 3919 Rocky that's mine as well mayor oh had you dropped off of there sorry thank you if I may yes you may thank you um the city administration have received several complaints regarding uh mufflers in the Rose District approximately I think two years ago this body had carved out an exception to a new noise ordinance specifically to allow more music uh and uh that type of activities um but this ordinance preview ordinance before you will uh basically re classify uh muffler background noise in the Rose District as a violation of the the noise ordinance uh to address those complaints and so it just basically clarifies what that exception is for and it just clarifies that it doesn't include uh loud mufflers uh so how will we enforce that well it would be like any other uh noise complaint enforcement it we don't have a decibel standard we certainly could look at that but as it currently stands it's a reasonable and a standard so it would be either self you know reports maybe reports to the police department about you know noises that they would come to investigate um or uh they could observe it themselves okay I I mean I assume because I know sitting you'll sitting on Main Street and you might be sitting outside or even if you're inside and they they love just the heart of downtown to just read that you know motor write up as they go by to tell you how cool they are or they do wheelies on their motorcycles down Main Street which is also not safe so I guess just I I've been getting a lot of complaints it's really become a problem where people don't even want to go down to Main Street anymore to eat.

So I mean I think we do need to go to that next step if it is uh if do we if we need to do um a decimal you said like a whatever we need to do to get to that next point so like how it is now is our officers not able to enforce uh because we have because we don't have like the noise ordinance now so adding this they'll be able to enforce it or like I to clarify when a couple years ago we made an exception to the noise ordinance in the Rose District um for certain hours uh to allow music to play uh I think we had some complaints from uh folks that you know people are out at enjoying the restaurants enjoying the bars and so we made an exception for the noise ordinance in the Rose district inadvertently we didn't recognize that that would also include it would exclude issues with with mufflers and so this clarify this language clarifies and re and brings that back the the muffler noise back into uh making it prohibited so I guess what I needed just clarification on we have not been able to write tickets because it was not included but now that it's included we'll be able to write tickets for that so we've always been able to write tickets for modified exhaust and the the in this particular case I think what this ordinance does is we had people that were getting in parking lots or on private property like a car meetup uh and they were revving their engines and so the modified exhaust does not pertain because they were not on the city street um so this allows when when that does happen uh for us to be able to enforce as as a noise ordinance rather than the modified exhaust ordinance um there's been other complaints about modified exhaust that that is a little bit challenging just because you mentioned the decibel reading um it it's it's an alteration from the original manufacturer and so in some cases a car like a Corvette already comes with a loud exhaust or a Harley Davidson already comes with a loud exhaust so while those are loud and annoying at times to some people they're not modified from the original manufacturer and so that the those are a little bit of a challenge and so this is another mechanism by which to apply uh this try to get to the same outcome yeah I just I just the investment that we've made in our Rose district I don't want people to avoid the Rose district because of this so whatever that next level needs to be if it's this and it works great but if we need to look at that next level I think we maybe need to start looking at that we just have to be sure to figure out how to make it equitable across the board because like you said some some vehicles are just natural louder I mean I'm a man I drive a truck and it sounds louder than a car but it's not I don't know what you like you said modified on the term rice burner if it's uh P C or not but you know it's not that but it is louder because it's a truck and it has a Hemi but I mean is is that going to be you know something that we're gonna say oh we got a ticket because it's louder than you know how to how do

We just have to be sure to figure out how to make it equitable across the board, because like you said, some vehicles are just naturally louder.

I mean, I'm a man, I drive a truck and it sounds louder than a car, but it's not I don't know what you like you said, modified on the term rice burner, if it's uh PC or not, but you know, it's not that, but it is louder because it's a truck and it has a Hemi.

But I mean is is that going to be you know something that we're gonna say, oh, and we got a ticket because it's louder than you know how to how do we get that balance?

We have to be able to make it fair.

Put it neutral and rub it up.

That's what's annoying.

Not that you do that.

I'm just saying, yeah, I'm gonna do that.

I'm gonna say that in general, some vehicles are naturally Yeah.

Especially when you have the buildings on both sides.

And I I thought, well, I never really heard the the engines or whatever.

Just so happened the next day as a motorcycle, and I mean he really showed it off right in the middle.

I said, Well, there goes my vote.

Well, and I mean we are like I know we're um focusing on the Rhodes District tonight, which definitely we need to do that, but um I've even gotten complaints in my neighborhood, which I'm about a a block off of 71st Street that we can hear the pop up pop, you know, the loud ones, even uh even a block off of 71st Street.

And so um I don't know if we can obviously enforce that too, I'm assuming, because we've already got that out there.

We we do um again there are challenges with that, but but I did look up the stats on that, and so since uh 2021, we've written 104 citations for modified exhaust.

There they are the ones that are clearly um modified, and they're the ones like you're describing, Counselor Ford.

Uh there are others that again it can be a challenge because they came from the factory that way.

Uh and certainly we don't require our officers to be experts in exhaust systems that uh and how manufacturers do those, but there are the ones that are the clear violations, and so we we do certainly try to get to those.

Uh the other challenges exist when when they're in a group of cars or something like that, being able to figure out which one or get get the right car and not make a car stop that's somebody that that didn't do anything wrong.

So, but we have enforced it.

It it certainly is we've taken complaints, and of course, we've heard the from uh you as well on on what that is, and so we've certainly started to try to step up enforcement with that.

Well, 104 tickets, that's pretty impressive, honestly.

So that's good to know.

I'll let my neighbors know.

They've written 104 tickets.

I was saying, where's Major uh Garrett at?

He's got that core vet.

Let's ask him about it.

He's stepped outside.

He says this came that way.

Um I I will okay.

So we're just considering this right now.

This is a pre-cause I go ahead and I'd like to approve this.

No, we're just thinking we're just reviewing it.

We're just reviewing it.

Set it for adoption.

Set for adoption.

That's what I want to do.

I want to set it for adoption.

As long as we have clear standards of how we're gonna apply it.

Yeah, I don't think it's just because your truck is loud, it's when you're obnoxious down the street and you're revving it and you're those things.

If you're just kind of like I said, as long as we have as long as we are able to articulate to our officers how we want them to apply it, you know.

I mean, as long as you know the chief and his team is comfortable with it, sometimes um people who aren't doing the job every day set standard for those who have to do the job, and we don't necessarily make it clear how they're going to do say job.

We just want it done.

We have to make sure they can apply what we're setting forth here.

This is what I'm trying to get.

Right.

I'm not saying we don't need it.

I'm saying we've got to make it clear that they can apply it appropriately.

And don't put undue burden on them just because we sit up here and they're the ones out there doing the job.

I've been on the opposite end of that.

I'll I'll be like Trevor.

I think we came to an understanding.

Well, I'll I'll make I'll make a motion then too.

What what do you think, Johnny?

You got something to say.

No, I was just gonna say I don't think we need a motion that's just that we're in favor of it or not.

Because it's just reviewed.

So no vote.

Traditionally we would have a motion.

Thank you.

That's what I second it then.

Okay.

Real call.

We're complicating a lot tonight.

That is not adopted yet.

All right.

Item B consideration discussion and possible preview of ordinance number 3920.

Uh thank you, Mayor.

We've also received complaints uh about the Rose District involving scooters and motorized scooters specifically.

The ordinance before you is a preview that would prohibit the operation of motorized scooters on public sidewalks, pedestrian walkways, plazas, parklets, public gathering areas, and other pedestrian oriented public spaces within the Rose District.

City code all already regulates motorized scooters and restricts their use to streets with a speed limit of 25 miles an hour or less.

That will still be allowed.

This will keep them off of the streets.

Which I mean, I'm sorry, the sidewalks.

Yeah, I thought they were always like even bicycles and uh skateboards are not allowed on scooters are not allowed on our sidewalks in the roads district.

This just clarifies it.

Uh to make it make it easier for law enforcement to have a direct ordinance to site uh when it becomes an issue.

This yeah, this also came from a complaint from businesses in the road system too that there is a lot of scooters on the sidewalk on the sidewalk.

When I had my retail store, there might have an awning and bicyclist would come and grab onto the ion, like the awning and swing and broke it at one point.

So I'm like, and it was legal then too, but yes, so anyway.

All right.

Entertain a motion.

I make a motion we set it for adoption.

I made a bit more sense.

Oh, got it.

Second.

I'll second it.

Got it.

Item C consideration discussion on possible preview of an ordinance closing a utility easement.

Rocky Hinkle.

Thank you again, Mayor.

Uh, this preview ordinance is a closure of utilities made on property located south of Florence Street and east of South Aspen Avenue.

Staff recommends you preview the ordinance and set it for adoption.

Any discussion?

Motion to accept 26901.

I'll second it to set for adoption.

Item D is consideration discussion and possible preview of ordinance closing at sanitary sewer easement on property located west of Florence Street and east of South Aspen Avenue.

Rocky.

Yes, this is a closure of a sanitary sewer easement on property located south of West Florence Street and east of South Aspen Avenue.

Staff recommends you preview the ordinance and set it for adoption.

Any discussion.

I'll make a motion to set for adoption.

Second.

This is a closure of a 25-foot utility easement on property located south of West Florence Street and east of South Aspen Avenue.

Staff recommends you preview the ordinance and set it for adoption.

Any discussion?

I make a motion we set it for adoption.

Second.

This is a closure of a 20-foot waterline easement on property located south of West Florence Street and east of South Aspen Avenue.

Staff recommends you preview the ordinance and set it for adoption.

Any discussion?

If there's no discussion, I'll entertain a motion.

So moved.

Second.

Item G is consideration discussion and possible preview of ordinance number 3924.

This is a preview ordinance is amending the broken arrow zoning ordinance.

BAZ 2575-2025 proposed to change the zoning designation for a pediatric therapy farm on 14 and a half acres of land from RS and RM to CG and AG.

More specifically, about eight acres will be rezoned to CG to develop a pediatric therapy center, while the remaining 6.57 acres will be rezoned to AG.

The split zoning will allow for the rear portion of the property to be used for the farm aspect of the development.

Make a motion we preview it and set it for an order.

I'll second it.

I'll third it.

Okay.

Item H is consideration discussion and possible preview of ordinance number 3925.

BAZ 2489-2025 is located west of the Creek Turnpike and east of North 37th Street and north of East Houston Street.

This rezoning changed the designation for retail office warehouse and storage development to the north and many storage development to the south on 20 almost 25 acres of land from AG to CH NIL.

This rezoning request was approved by City Council on January 6, 2026.

Staff recommends you preview ordinance number 3925 and set it for adoption.

Any discussion.

Second.

Consideration discussion and possible preview of num ordinance number 3926.

BAZ 2505-2025 is a request to change the zoning designation on 99 and a half acres from AG to IL.

The property is located on the south side of Florence Street and one quarter mile east of Olive Avenue.

The final plat for Arrow Forge was recorded recorded in Tulsa County on December 2nd, 2025.

The applicant is requesting this change of the zoning designation for the purpose of the development of an innovation district.

Staff recommends you preview ordinance number 3926 and set it for adoption.

Any discussion.

Second.

BAZ 2238-2025 is a request to rezone approximately six and a half acres from A1 to CG for Harvest Church, a proposed commercial development with future place of assembly planned.

This property is located on the northwest corner of New Orleans and 9th Street.

City Council approve the rezoning request on August 4th, 2025.

Staff recommends you preview ordinance number 3927 and set it for adoption.

Make a motion that we preview the ordinance and set it for adoption.

Second.

We'll call item K consideration discussion and possible preview of ordinance 3930.

BAZ 2425-2025 is a request to rezone almost 11 acres from AG to C.

This is for Tower Corner, which is located on the northwest corner of 101st and Lynn Lane.

This development includes a municipal water tower and it is anticipated to have commercial uses along New Orleans Street.

City Council approved this rezoning request on November 4th, 2025.

Staff recommends you preview the ordinance and set it for adoption.

Any discussion?

Make a motion we preview it and set it for adoption.

Second.

Okay.

Item L, consideration discussion and possible preview of ordinance number 3931.

BAZ 25245-2025 is a request to rezone eight acres from AG to ON.

The property is located on the southwest corner of the intersection of Florence and Aspen.

This property is currently on platted.

The development will include a place of assembly for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Staff recommends you preview the ordinance and set it for adoption.

Make a motion to set it for adoption.

Second.

Consideration, discussion, and possible preview of ordinance number 3932.

BAZ 2200-2025 is a request to rezone approximately 23 acres from A1 to RS4 for Lynn Corner.

This property is located just north and east of the northwest corner of the intersection of Washington and 9th Street.

The property is currently unplatted.

This development will include approximately 79 proposed lots.

City Council will approve the rezoning request on July 14th, 2025.

Staff recommends you preview the ordinance and set it for adoption.

Any discussion.

I'll make a motion to set for adoption.

Second.

BAZ 2202-2025 is a request to rezone approximately five acres from A1 to CN for Lynn Corner.

This property is located at the northeast corner of the intersection of Washington and 9th Street.

The property is currently on platted.

The development will include commercial uses.

City Council approve this rezoning request on July 14th, 2025.

Staff recommends you preview the ordinance and set it for adoption.

So move.

Second.

Roll call.

Item N, consideration, discussion, and possible preview of ordinance number 3933.

You just did that one.

No, I thought we just did 32.

No.

No.

I said 32, but it was 33.

Okay.

I'm with you.

Got it.

Thank you.

I'm made a motion to 33.

Thank you.

Item 11 is ordin ordinances.

Um 11A, consideration discussion and possible adoption of ordinance number 3921.

This is a closure of a waterline easement on property north of West Fourth Street and east of South Azale or Mingo Road.

Staff recommends you adopt ordinance number 3921s.

Move for adoption.

Second item B is the emergency clause.

Move for emergency clause.

Second.

Item C consideration discussion and possible adoption of ordinance number 3922.

This is a closure of a detention easement on property located north of Houston Street, east of 9th Street.

Staff recommends you adopt ordinance number 3922 and approve the subsequent emergency clause.

Any discussion?

Motion to approve item 2689.

Second.

Item D is the emergency clause.

Second.

Consideration discussion and possible adoption of ordinance number 3923.

This is a request to vacate a 10-foot wide waterline easement on property located north of Houston Street and east of 9th Street.

Staff recommends you adopt ordinance number 3923 and approve the subsequent emergency clause.

Second item F is the emergency clause.

Make a motion for the emergency clause.

Second.

Mayor, we need your vote on the ordinance.

We're done with then we need the emergency clause.

Motion and second.

I made the motion.

I'll second it.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

Item G, consideration discussion and possible adoption of ordinance number 3918.

Trevor.

Thank you, Mayor.

This item before you is a final adoption for an ordinance we previewed two weeks ago, as you may recall.

It creates a no-knock list that basically serves as a do-not-call list.

You might have been familiar with with those back when we all had landline telephones.

You tip your phone number on the list, and then they would be prohibited from and then solicitors would be for prohibited from calling your number.

This is very similar.

It's just another method for us to allow our citizens to notify uh commercial solicitors that they're not interested in having door-to-door sales.

And so it would authorize the community development director to create a list and online portal for citizens to sign up, and then the list and the portal would be provided to commercial uh solicitors, and they would be advised that they're not allowed to solicit at those locations.

Um happy to answer any questions that you may have.

The recommendation is that we set up for final adoption.

We approve we adopt the ordinance and approve the emergency clause.

Did we have anybody who signed up for speaking on this?

I know some businesses went on the news to make comments about this.

I guess it wasn't that important to them they didn't show up at the meeting.

Yeah.

What kind of comments were they?

Um, I know one particular was I believe a roofing company who said their sales are going to be damaged because that's how we do most of their businesses to be able to interact and have face-to-face encounters with uh with the public.

And they can still do that on the list.

Yeah.

I'm not arguing it.

I would just letting you gotta watch this too.

I know.

I know we're gonna separate them.

Um I'm just gonna speak back on the microphone.

No, it's not a we saw that too.

Fundraisers, no correct it yeah, it doesn't uh we we classify them as canvasers and so it doesn't impact fundraisers.

That's correct.

Or political yes, sir.

That's correct.

Girl scouts or poor scouts.

It does place a fine yes, ma'am.

Okay, all right.

Any further discussion?

I'll make a motion to approve.

Second item H is the emergency clause.

Item H is the emergency clause.

Motion to approve the emergency clause.

I'll circle it.

Well called.

All right.

Consideration discussion of possible adoption of ordinance number 3929.

Trevor.

Thank you, Mayor.

Mr.

Spurgeon requested that we bring this matter before your attention.

In short, the City of Broken Arrow's current zoning ordinance does not contain the definition or use classification or any performance standards for data centers.

These facilities have unique and significant impacts, including very high electrical consumption, substantial water damp demand for cooling noise generation, heat truck traffic, and increased demands on public infrastructure.

Because of all these reasons, what this uh ordinance before you does is declares a temporary moratorium on the acceptance, processing, and approval of rezonings, specific conditional use permits, site plans, building permits, and other development approval for data use uh data center uses.

The ordinance also defines what data centers are.

It also provides reasonable exemptions and grandfathering provisions uh for certain vested projects that are already in the works.

Uh, and then there's also an appeal process uh for those who might want to uh go forward, even in the face of the moratorium that would be allowed that to them to go to the Board of Adjustments.

But the moratorium has an automatic sunset on December 31st of 2026, or upon adoption of a permanent data center regulations.

The whole purpose of the moratorium is to give staff time and the ability of the breathing room to develop the regulations that would be necessary to find places that make sense or regulations that make sense for data centers.

It would also allow for any studies that need to be conducted, any fact findings, any uh visits to other communities, anything that would be determined that would be needed for information gathering to determine potential regulation regulations uh of data center uses.

Um this approach closely uh follows the moratorium that was adopted by the Oklahoma City Council uh very recently, and again, it allows staff time to evaluate the infrastructure capacity, fiscal impacts, and best practices while developing appropriate appropriate permanent zoning standards uh with Adam happy as there any questions you may have.

Any questions at this time?

Do you want do you have a presentation?

I do, Mayor.

Trevor, thank you very much.

I would like to take just a couple of minutes to visit with council.

I did ask Trevor to put this together for the governing body after much thought.

Uh I've done several interviews today, and after watching what has happened in area communities around the Tulsa metropolitan area and the challenges that they face with regard to the land use applications for development.

You couple that with what we've experienced the last about 50 days when we found out in late April that there was a consultant representing a data center that had decided they were interested in a broken arrow.

We confirm with the property owner that there was a letter of intent.

We also confirm with uh PSO that they had gone through the phase one of their due diligence process, and so the three things I would like for council to keep in mind is from my perspective is due diligence, which Trevor talked about just briefly.

This will be an opportunity if the council approves this for us to do that due diligence and come up with recommendations for the governing body that that set forth uh ordinances, guidelines, and land use development codes should the decision be made to actually have a specific designation for data centers.

And one of the things I'm most concerned about is protecting the long-term interest of broken arrow.

And so, with that, I believe that we need time to fully understand the impacts.

Uh data centers are a unique uh form of development that can have significant impacts on utilities, infrastructure, the environment, public safety, land use, and long-term community planning.

While we have gathered a considerable amount of information, there are still some important questions that need to be answered.

A temporary moratorium provides the city with the time to conduct a thorough and thoughtful review before any decisions are made.

Next, this moratorium is it's a it's about a study, it's not about opposition.

Uh this recommendation should not be interpreted as being for or against data centers.

The purpose is to pause and ensure that we have the facts, policies, and regulations necessary to make an informed decision.

This council spends a lot of time listening to the public, also addressing having staff address you about being able to make good informed decision based on all information is available.

If data centers are ultimately appropriate for broken error, we want to ensure that they're developed in a matter that aligns with the community's long-term goals.

As I've spoken to many of you, cities and states are evaluating the impact of data centers and considering regulation studies or temporary more charters before moving forward.

As Trevor said, we modeled this off of Oklahoma City.

We also know that Tulsa did a moratorium earlier this spring as well.

Broken air is not unique in wanting to uh better understand issues such as power demand, water usage, traffic, emergency response, economic benefits, and compatibility with the surrounding land uses.

We believe it's prudent to learn from the experiences of other communities.

I know council will agree with this.

We owe our residents a transparent and deliberate process.

Residents have asked thoughtful questions to each of you, to myself, and e by way of email and on social media.

There's been wide range of opinions.

The city has a responsibility to provide a transparent process that allows time for public discussion and careful evaluation.

A moratorium allows for us to gather information and engage stakeholders and ensure that any future decision decisions are based on facts rather than assumptions.

And I would say that during this moratorium at some point, I would recommend that we have some type of public forum.

Uh, not that there's an application that will be before us, but an opportunity for the public to come in.

We can provide an update to actually where we are in this moratorium and the due diligence we're doing, and we can hear from them just as we do with many other uh types of uh uh public policy decisions council has to make.

And then finally, uh this is very important to me, and then several council members have mentioned as well protecting the long-term interest or broken arrow.

Every major development proposal should be evaluated through the lens of what is best for broken arrow in 10, 20, and 30 years from now, respectively.

The recommendation is intended to ensure that any future policy decisions are consistent with our conferencing planning efforts, infrastructure capacity, economic development objectives, and a quality of life expectations.

Taking initial time today can help us make uh better decisions for few generations.

One of the things I've heard repeatedly is is that with how quickly chnology changes, how data storage, the chief talked about that with our initiative.

Uh, what if anything that was improved hypothetically in broken arrow and and where will it still be in the business in 10 years?

Uh if there's multi ones that approved, then how's how's that gonna look?

And so obviously, I don't think anyone can prognosticate uh that per se, but at least there are we can have some discussions and try to find out where the industry is heading.

So with that, uh Trevor and I'd be glad to answer any questions, but it is my recommendation that council consider the the ordinance before you.

Thank you.

Okay.

We do have some people that are wanting to speak on um for and against this.

So uh Lee Ann Jackson wishes to speak in opposition evening.

My name's Leanne Jackson, and I appreciate your time to speak.

Um I honestly came here today to listen to you and to find out.

And you addressed all my issues.

If we do this moratorium, I definitely encourage you to vote on that.

Um that would address all of our concerns and giving the public like myself to be able to speak with you at some point.

Yeah, um, and also I'm so glad I was here because I heard the police and saw that wonderful um presentation that we did, right?

And which made me think about a whole different way of it because you know, as a beekeeper, I'm looking more as environmental issues where I do want to live in a safe community, and I do see the benefits of all the things that he talked about as well.

So as long as we can follow these things that you were showing in your presentation and give the public time to think about it and maybe more education to the public.

Absolutely.

Then I think we're on the right road.

Okay.

Thank you.

Just for clarification, you're not opposed to the moratorium because that's what we're doing.

No, I I am I'm opposed to AI data centers from everything I've read.

But I've never really I knew they were supposed to help be more beneficial to um big corporations or big entities like the police or hospitals or airports.

I can see that, right?

And how that can be helpful, but I still think it's gonna be terrible for the environment.

And I worry about our water and my electric bill and all those things, right?

That we that we are concerned about.

So more time.

I definitely encourage that.

Yes.

Thank you for being so open-minded though.

I mean, honestly, thank you.

Thank you for that.

Take care of those bees.

Yeah, we need we need the bees.

That's right.

All right, Mike Sanders.

Thank you.

And I never dreamed I would be here until I went to the gym Saturday morning and answered questions for an hour for people that didn't know anything about data centers.

I do have to preface this as you all have to make your formal statements.

I have to make this one to provide full disclosure.

I am a registered professional engineer in the state of Oklahoma and 19 other states.

Don't do that.

It's a lot of paperwork.

And I have no opinion for or against data centers.

What I do have an opinion on is the inaccuracies that go with them.

Now I also have to clarify that and say I deal with data centers.

I do design work for them.

I don't do the small ones.

So when you think of the biggest ones out there, like, oh, I don't know, Google, you know, that kind of stuff.

That's what I do.

They don't take power off the grid.

So my only purpose in being here is to answer any questions you have.

I'll answer anything you want.

Somebody was worried about power.

Uh no, they don't want power off the grid.

They bring in their own gas turbines, their own battery storage, uh solar cells, everything else, because they can't handle the power fluctuation off the grid.

Uh and that really gets into how these things work to begin with, but uh I'll I'll save that.

Um huge fan of yours after hearing you speak and seeing your presentation.

I'm 100% behind you.

I'll help you in any way that I can.

They don't consume some ridiculous amount of water.

So we can take care of that one.

The water that they do give back is cleaner than your drinking water because they run it through a D-min system.

So they're not as they do make noise.

I'm not gonna argue that one.

You can do noise abatement, you can never probably get to where everybody's happy on that one.

They are big, they make their own power.

They don't cause water pollution, which is another misnomer because people are saying they they pollute the rivers.

They don't, they don't do anything to do that, they don't have the ability.

Um I guess somebody could walk out there and dump chemicals.

I don't know, but the the facilities themselves do not do that, and that would be your Amazon, your Google, your Meta.

They're totally self-contained.

The smaller ones take power off the grid.

That is what, in my humble opinion, I would advise you to take an extra measure of care at looking at.

But the big ones, no, they're not a big deal at all.

But like I said, I'll answer any questions you have.

I think I'm actually premature because this is the moratorium where you're going to you know evalue better evaluate in the future, which is the appropriate approach.

When you say small, how small is small that we should be looking at.

I can't quantify that.

50,000 square feet.

I would say the bigger ones are much bigger than that.

Okay.

Yes.

Um I I honestly I deal with the power generation aspect and the cooling systems.

Those are the two main focuses that I have with them.

And I can tell you that one is putting in more turbines for its prime power than you have within a hundred miles a year.

Okay.

You're not even close to the power consumption this thing has.

Okay.

Yeah.

Those are the big ones.

The ones that are small enough to take power off the grid up are the smaller ones.

Okay.

Thank you, sir.

But yeah, like I said, I'll I'll help just any way I can.

All right, here's my my laugh for you.

Because you never expected this.

I was the New Year's baby of broken arrow in 1968.

Fantastic.

True.

Okay.

Awesome.

Now we know.

Yeah.

All right.

And then we have um Oscar.

He doesn't wish to speak, and I can't read his last name.

So but he is in support of the moratorium.

So I just wanted to put that on on the record.

Council have any further discussion or I actually wanted to extend it longer than six months.

Um, in my opinion, I would love to see our fellow uh cities that are in the process of building them, get them up and running and see how they actually do affect the cities.

But um I'm not sure that we're we've we've made this one off of Oklahoma City's ordinance, and so but we can extend after six months, so right.

Uh I think it's wisdom to not I know you use the term sunset, but uh have the option um to extend because definitely want to make sure that we do our due diligence um in making sure that we are well informed in the community's well informed and educated before we make decisions going forward.

So I think that we would know for sure that whether we needed to extend it or not, and we have that right to do that.

But I I'm I'm certainly uh in agreement to it because I had so much misinformation and no one ever applied.

There wasn't been anybody contacted you, right?

Uh Mr.

City Manager, no sir.

See, there was no contact, and we was already getting information the way to go, the water, and some of the stuff I looked up, but that's not the way to do it.

The way to do it, I think is professionally the way that the city manager and the mayor has uh agreed that we should uh to do.

And and again, I'm concerned about the long term.

Uh you know, 20 or 30 years down the road, you're gonna have a five-acre building out there.

Uh is that technology gonna be used at that time?

Uh I think our local uh rodeo club would like to have a five-acre building, but other than that, what are you gonna do with it?

So I'd I'd like to know technology-wise, what the future, what they feel like the future's gonna hold.

You know, back when I was going to school, IBM 360 was in a room this size that fed all of Oklahoma State University.

So uh things have changed now.

I've got one here in my pocket.

Uh so I'd like to see what they feel like the future technology is gonna be and with what kind of buildings we're gonna have 20 and 30 years down the road.

Yes, I I think it's smart for us to take a pause and and ask the professionals and um do it smart.

I I like your suggestion too, is let's see what the other cities do once they're a lot further along than we are obviously, and let's just see how it plays out with them and see what they come across and and um I think it's smart.

I know and we're we all serve on boards at the national level with National League of Cities, and it is a big talk across the nation, obviously.

Um what shocks me is that it's like it seems like it came out of nowhere over the last couple of years, like they've been around for decades, and yet they're now like in the last couple of years.

I feel like it's the big thing that everybody's focused on.

So I just really I think just diving in and getting as much information as we can so that we can educate the public and then and go from there.

Yes, I would just like to add I appreciate your leadership on this Tiffany guys.

The more data that we can get behind it helps us with the data centers, you know, and so we really do appreciate that.

Um, you know, and going back to what Johnny was talking about, there's more technology in your iPhone than what Apollo 13 had in it, from what I've heard.

So, you know, it is like you're saying what does that look like 10 years, 20 years, 30 years down the road in in the next generation.

Are we looking for making informed decisions for that next generation?

So I definitely appreciate that.

All right.

Well, then I will make a motion to um accept the adoption of ordinance number 3929.

So I guess if everyone's everyone has spoken right, yes, okay.

All right, item J is the emergency clause.

Make a motion to approve the emergency clause.

Second in a minute.

Um all right, item 12 is remarks by governing body members.

Um we have Tuesdays in the park tomorrow, 7 p.m.

So hope everyone can come out for that down at Central Park.

Um we went over the list of really awesome America 250 events that are gonna be happening, but sure we'll be posting about those.

And I want to wish our fathers a happy father's day.

We won't see you guys before then.

Um do you want to touch on the amphitheater going on tomorrow?

Isn't that a well we are touring the amphitheater tomorrow?

Uh huh.

Um I thought they were sponsoring tomorrow night now.

They are.

Oh, the Tuesdays in the park, I thought they were sponsored.

You're supposed to be tomorrow night because they're sponsored.

I totally miss that.

Yeah, I do tell.

I I just I ran it somewhere that we're sponsoring Tuesdays in the park.

I read it too.

Yeah, I read it somewhere, so I don't know.

Well, that's fantastic.

The amphitheaters sponsoring Tuesdays in the park.

And they are gonna be announcing their naming rights to the amphitheater tomorrow.

So anyone else?

Ready for a block party.

I know it's coming up.

Tomorrow is the 16th.

That's so there'll be some uh roads that get shut down and intersections because of the rock block party, so keep that in mind.

Tomorrow seven to seven.

Don't forget to vote.

Yeah, yeah.

Something's going on tomorrow.

Educate ourselves, make informed decisions.

Yeah, finally.

So we can maybe stop getting text messages and a thousand mailers.

So that'd be great.

All right, city manager.

I have nothing, Mayor.

Okay.

Uh we do have an executive session, so entertain a motion to take a brief recess.

So moved.

Second.

Yes.

Green.

Yes.

Ford.

Yes.

Parks.

Yes.

Wimpe.

Yes.

Entertain a motion to go into uh