The Tulsa City Council Public Works Committee met on April 15, 2026, to consider several items including the sale of surplus library property, two residential surplus lots, a right-of-way license agreement, an ordinance amendment on insurance requirements, and an update from the Beyond Apology Commission. All actions were approved unanimously unless noted.
Good afternoon and welcome to the 230 Wednesday April 15th. It's public works committee meeting. I'm Councillor Dector Wright. I'm calling this meeting to order. Item number two is a joint resolution of the City Count the City Council of the City of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the Board of County Commissioners of County of Tulsa, Oklahoma, authorizing the sale and conveyance of certain property located at 1520 North Hartford Avenue, City of Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma by the City County Library Commission of Tulsa County. This is on for action tonight. Mr. Stevens. Yes, uh Eric Nelson is here who represents the library commission. Okay, we can just throw this right here. Thank you so much. Okay, okay, that's the year. Great. Do you all have a presentation for us? Are you just here as a reasonable? Just here to uh respond to any questions you might have. I think it's a pretty straightforward request. Um the library commission five years ago began exploring the uh replacement of the existing Rudassel Regional Library. Uh they selected a site in Greenwood, uh just southeast of the OSU campus. Uh the building will be about twice the size of the existing facility. It's uh been under construction for about a year now, and we'll open up in October of 2026. Uh so in late fall, we noticed for public sale uh the existing facility with the proviso that we would continue to occupy it until the new facility was constructed, and we moved. Uh we received one bid. The bid was uh acceptable to the commission, and the commission voted to approve it and sign the contract to all subject to uh title and due diligence and this uh city council approval. Okay, Councilor Bellis. Clarify question. I looked looked at some of the we um thank you, Sarah, for sending us some of those background just kind of procedural documents. It said it was a blind bid. How does that I think am I right about that? Sealed bid. A sealed bid, thank you. I was worried I was using the wrong what does that mean? Could someone tell me what that means? It just means that we put out a notice soliciting bids. Okay, and the bids are to be received by a particular date. Okay, they are opened and then they are referred to the city. I'm sorry, to the library commission for action, either acceptance or rejection. Okay, and under the city, under the library commission's policy, uh, they will they follow closely the school district's statutory requirements for the disposal of surplus real property. They first had it appraised, they'll offer it for public sale. If they don't receive any bids that are acceptable, then they will be free to negotiate for private sale. They could post it with a real estate broker or do anything else to sell the property. But in this case, the sealed bid process was successful. We received the bid and it wasn't acceptable then. Okay, thank you. Councilor Dartman. Yeah, and then there's the procedure also that it has to be public published, right? Correct. It's published in the Tulsa world, it's posted on our website. Okay, and that's 14 days. There's there's not a requirement in statute, it's only a board policy.