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The Shawnee City Commission held a regular meeting on September 21, 2026, at 6:00 PM in the Commission Chambers. Key actions included recognizing outgoing Commissioner Mark Sehorn, swearing in new Ward 5 Commissioner Johnna Ervin, appointing a new Vice Mayor, approving several consent agenda items, and hearing public comments on short-term rentals, data centers, and community events. The meeting also recessed into the Shawnee Airport Authority and Shawnee Municipal Authority meetings to handle aviation and capital improvement items.
Note: The meeting included multiple recesses to convene the Shawnee Airport Authority and Shawnee Municipal Authority meetings; actions from those are embedded above where applicable.
Welcome everybody. Let's get this meeting underway. Can I get a declaration of a quorum, please? Matthew. Sure. Here. Here. Stevens. Here. Here. See more. Here. Here. We have more. Thank you, ma'am. I'm going to get you all to rise, please. To leave us a prayer. I thank you for these who are willing to serve their community. I pray blessings upon them and their families and their service tonight. I thank you for these who are to participate here to participate in their city government. I pray that you be with them as well. God may good be done in this meeting and be may good be done in our community. Please, in the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen. Amen. Thanks, sir. Join me in the Pledge Allegiance. Pledge allegiance to the United States of America. And under God in the visible meeting, just to scroll. Good evening, everybody. I'm going to start with item number one, citizen participation. As usual, three-minute limit for person, twelve-minute limit for topic. And first up, we have Miss Linda A. I'm speaking to you this evening as a resident of Charney Lake. I sent an email to all of you and to the city manager about a month ago about the short-term rental ordinance and relation to the Twin Lakes district. And I'd like to thank the mayor and commissioners O'Neill and Fickner for responding or acknowledging my email. I appreciate that. Some of you were not on the commission at the time this ordinance was passed. So what I'm asking is that you look over this handout and bring it back to the commission at a future agenda for discussion and possibly some changes. And they don't take as good a care of these properties as what the full-time residents do. The roads around the lake were not designed for heavy traffic. Except during peak summer months when there is a lake ranger on site. Emergency services are about 15 to 20 minutes away, so there's definitely some safety issues there. And it's a strain on city resources with very little revenue in return. The city must issue licenses, inspect the rentals annually, and respond to nuisance calls. At one time, most of these were vacation rentals, but that's I mean vacation properties, but that's not the case anymore.