The Public Works Committee convened at 2:30 PM on July 22, 2026, to consider several agenda items including an appointment to the Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA), a condemnation resolution for a trail project, and multiple license agreements for fiber optic installations and a hospital sign.
Thank you. We're live. Good afternoon. And welcome to the 2 30 p.m. Public Works Committee meeting. I call this meeting to order. Agenda item number two, feel like in junior. We appoint me to the emergency medical services authority. Time expires June 30th, 2029. Attended five of seven meetings. Representing council just I want to get on the list originally. I think that's actually still a higher percentage. I was at a Tulsa City Council meeting when I missed the IMSA meetings. Excuses. It was either here or there. You made the right choice. Yeah, how long do I have? Do you want 10-minute version or 30 seconds? I really have appreciated the opportunity to serve on the IMSA board. I've been doing this since 2013. We've gone through a lot of change over that period of time, which everybody knows. And that is outstanding compared to even what the contractor, um, AMR and others did previously, and then um just right during COVID. We were down in the uh 80s and 70s. So very strong healthy organizations, just like Councilor Bingle said uh during his presentation. Um I do feel like uh very um I'm very humbled by the people sitting around the table because they are so sharp in the health care space, and we have former city managers, a lot of people who are providing health care to uh many people across our hospital systems across Oklahoma as well. So I appreciate being asked to serve, and I'm willing to continue. That was more than 30 seconds, sorry. Yeah, well counselor. Yeah, you must do all the heavy lifting by the brace on the right arm. Obviously, you've been on this for a long time. Um, what's changed since the beginning from the time you started initially on this to today? What would you say is the biggest change from then to now? Just contractor to really perform the the services ourselves. So there's um we were just paying a contractor, we wouldn't hire AMR or some other entity, and uh we would hold them to the performance measures that we put in place. Uh now we're holding our all the employees are are ours, and we're holding those employees to our measurement standards, and we just have a lot more ability to control the outcomes rather than relying on a third party to do it. And we've seen really, really spectacular results over the last few years. Since since Johnny came on, yeah, she had to write the ship. But um, yeah, if you look at all of our performance indicators that are out there, and our just our dashboard, it usually glows green. That's good. Yeah. Well, we appreciate I appreciate you. And we're saving a lot of money too. We haven't had uh raised rates in a long time, and you know, that's ultimately what our goal is to provide superior services at very low cost. Thank you for being willing to do it. Thank you. I know it's a huge or huge responsibility. I I um would put up the offer again if anybody wants to go on a ride along. Um we don't have to go sit in the hospital and walk around the corridors of the hospital to ensure that our implies are working there and then getting back in the field. Uh we can just go call the call so you can see what IMSA does on its own, then how IMSA relates and interacts with fire and police too. Do you have your badge on you?