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The Norman City Council met on October 15, 2026, beginning at 22:00:55 UTC, to discuss establishing turnpike cost-tracking accounts and reviewing monthly revenue and expenditure reports. No agenda or minutes were available in the source transcript; this summary is based solely on the transcribed discussion.
On the agenda is discussion regarding establishing accounts to track costs associated with the term pike. Do we have anyone here to anything? I'll speak up. I'm I'm in Kim Kaufman uh sitting in for Clint Mercer today. Um and I understand this a little bit um from what I understood. Um it was it was a discussion about uh setting up a project to track uh staff time and any other costs associated with the turnpike. Um but if it's uh you know, like emergency response that we're wanting to track, that would be up to the police and fire department to kind of establish a fee schedule to do that more in line with uh the September 29th study session. So a couple of ways to do it, first and foremost. Information systems are designed to ask questions that are known in advance. So the ability to have this conversation today and recognize what questions we want answers for in the future, perfect timing. Um and we can we can do it a couple of different ways. There's codes they can set up through dispatch that are I guess geocoded for lack of a better descriptor that when calls for service come in in these corridors, they just push a button, set a flag, and that data for those responses is collected. Um other departments who may or may not incur uh costs related to an emergency response, we would track those like a capital project. And typically when we have a weather event like the Fourth of July wind storm, um first thing we do is call finance and say set up a capital project, you know, call it Fourth of July wind event, and then every department knows if you've got expenses related to that, that's the account number you cut it off to. So um happy to establish those uh accounts, and um when uh that bell rings and expenses appear, uh we can bring those to you uh as part of a finance update. Council members still I guess just as a general question, um, I know this is before my time on council, but you all had like the the water wells that you you did the OTA deal with. Is there been any kind of cost or or revenue? I I guess if you want to look at it that way, that have been associated with the OTA since, or is that was that kind of like a one-off? So the yeah, that check as per that relationship cleared the bank at about 8.9 million. It's been deposited in the water uh utility fund. The water wells on I-35 just north of Indian Hills, uh, I think those probably have already been taken down as part of the big pipe project you see laying up there behind Hayday. Um so those wells may not exist, but they'll be capped and and uh abandoned properly in accordance with DEQ. Uh, but I don't think we incurred any expense in that uh so far. So really that check they cut for those assets, it's about the only activity we've had, and it has been accounted for in the water fund. Fair enough. Yeah, I I guess for my part, you know, I I imagine that it's uh you know, there's there's nothing going on now so much with expenses, but if down the line, you know, there was an expense that you know from public works or or something like that, just as an easy way to track it. I I do think we should be tracking kind of like the the fire and police as well, but you know, we've talked about that in other study sessions, and I don't want to create like an undue burden for them. So that's kind of like a maybe a future conversation for them, but at the very least, like setting up a cost code just to track both money coming in or money going out. I I think would be good to see long term what the term pike has, uh the effect on on Norman in that sense. You bet so we can uh we can bring you that activity on a monthly basis as it occurs. That's it. Anyone else? Oh sorry, council member Gandersbury. I kind of go along to the same point there, and then definitely the track, like you said, that system works perfectly for catch-off for all departments, nothing. Um it comes to thinking about you know, fire and police collecting that or whatever, because the actual cars on the pavement is still so far out. No real need for them to have to vamp something now that could start over the course of the time, seeing if it's coming to fruition and everything like that, then they could put it into the budget for those unnecessary upgrades in their departments for any kind of software data collected services or anything like that to get those. Yeah, we try to get somebody on how to collect the data or whatever. Um officer training when they're in their cars and the report comes up on the mobile data terminal. Uh anticipated traffic west of I-35 at uh the Indian Hills leg is is yeah, end of 2027. So we do have a little runway in front of us to be able to make sure those systems are in place. Uh council member Bryce. So