An emergency meeting was held on February 4, 2026, at 1:00 PM to address water leaks that threatened county documents. The board declared an emergency under 25 O.S. § 312.B and authorized measures to preserve damaged records.
That is so funny, we'll do it. It's fine if you can get like a tower. Okay. Okay. Okay. So the one you need right here. Block is stretched. Here we go. Uh-huh. But if you'll put something on this, down the window of catch on the road. Okay. Cause it's like my office, like if I go sit on this side of the roof, it's fine. And like, do I move my furniture? Yeah. Last time. Yeah, the mic was a little bit. I noticed that towards the end of the meeting. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Got my light coat on and my thank you. So the open records request. I don't think they'll find too many emails. No, they shouldn't. Because that would be a problem if they did. Another kind of problem. You all ready? Call the uh emergency meeting of the Cleveland County Commissioners. Uh, real quick, please. Here. Here. Please then. We have a quarrel. Uh, notice of the meeting was properly posted on February fourth, twenty twenty-six. Um item number one is described nature of emergency as re uh required by twenty-five OS three twelve B. This emergency meeting is necessary because a situation exists involving immediate injury to persons or injury and damage to public or personal property or immediate financial loss. Time requirements for public notice of a special meeting would make such uh procedure impractical and increase the likelihood of injury or damage. Uh, or immediate financial loss. Specifically, this emergency relates to one or more public entities to preserve documents from the damage due to water leaks. Uh Brian, you might just give us uh like just for the minutes, kind of give us a briefing of what happened uh to the board, and then that way um get a little bit more context for the situation. So over at the uh twenty uh East Gall building in South Anyways. Yeah and it could also be that the snow may have you know hardened up one of the joints and cracked one of the joints open that it was in the roof and okay and you know if we have a rain too it's absolutely I do have roofers that have been on the roof today they're gonna send me the public and log next and I can have some things patched up to keep it from getting worse. Okay. But we did suffer some damage to some records that are water log um that were sitting on the floor water seeped into the records we've had been picked up um we need this uh approved so we can take them start the freeze drying process and uh it's pull all the moisture out of the documents and it's obviously what we are and then we'll say go through another go into some more steps but they'll be with Maryland and you guys to second determines the more we've saved the records we've got to get this process they've got to get them in a freezer ASAP or we could basically lose the document 2500 was not to exceed uh we got the information here uh the freeze drive process won't reach that 2500 mark but okay the first part that's absolutely critical sounds and we had probably thirty to thirty five boxes of I think you told me court clerk's documents when we actually came up with some boxes oh wow okay some of them just have minor damage minor some of them are full soaks so we we had to replace at least six boxes that were completely distributed the box itself the records inside we didn't spend a great amount of time looking at the individual records how much it's so records but we do know that it wasn't until yesterday about three three thirty that we see the cancel that's we are we approving the contract with the for the clerk on behalf of the clerks the court clerk and she's gonna sign that contract to get her records. I know at this point we've got to get started I don't know that's that's a reasonable need to figure out is who is fine this portion of these extensions. I didn't know I just commissioner I had a conversation with Pam and Maryland yesterday. I'm not trying to throw anybody in the bus but uh according to her office that they had alerted at some point in time building maintenance and they were under the understanding it was going to get covered by plastic I don't know what happened in it but uh they were just wanting the the records fixed. I you know we didn't even I didn't have a conversation with them I just assume at this point in time we come in and fix it. Uh they've got it housed in one of the county buildings but you're welcome to talk to them. No that I just asked I was just asking that question if that if if if we're doing on behalf of them would think if they're if they're gonna be managing that or or if we as commissioners office being you gonna manage it.