The Tulsa City Council held its regular meeting on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, at 5:00 PM in the Council Chamber. The meeting began with the Pledge of Allegiance, a moment of silence, and recognition of city employees for years of service: Donald Snow (Parks and Recreation, 25 years) and Janet Lyons (Finance, 20 years), along with acknowledgments of other award recipients not present. The council then proceeded through a consent agenda, appointments, mayor's items, ordinances, council announcements, and a brief public comment period. No public hearings or new business were on the agenda, and the scheduled appeal hearing (Item 10A) was pulled.
All right, good evening, and welcome to the five PM Tulsa City Council meeting. You can view this meeting on our Facebook page, our YouTube channel, uh Cotch Channel Twenty Four, or at Tgovon Line dot org. Assisting the council tonight are Jack Blair, our city attorney, Lori Doring, our Secretary to the Council, and Catherine Ong, uh, council staff. If you wish to speak on an agenda item, please see Catherine to complete a request to speak card prior to that item being read. You will not be allowed to speak on any item that has already been read. Please join us in pledging allegiance to our flag of our country and remain standing for a moment of silence. And we have the cheering section. We have the chairing section. How come you guys don't have shirts? You guys should be wearing shorts and size. You do the intro. All right. Quiet down in the peanut gallery. Good evening. The city of Tulsa has an incredible team of over 3500 public servants. Dedicated to making all aspects of city government run smoothly. Each month the city council is pleased to recognize some of these exceptional public servants who have committed decades of their lives in their career with the city, and obviously we welcome their fans who are here with us tonight as well. That's right. Whereas these employees have dedicated years of service to the city of Tulsa, its officials and its citizens, and therefore we, Mayor Monroe Nichols, by the way, this is what the proclamation say, and the city council do hereby express our sincerest appreciation for these employees' hard years of service and dedication and continued service to the city of Tulsa and its citizens. And in witness thereof, we hereby set our hands on this 19th day of August 2026. And obviously, we really do mean that we are very appreciative of the work. We know you guys spend a lot of hours. You spend decades of your lives in service to the citizens. So we're really grateful. And this is only a small token of that appreciation. So thank you again for all your hard work. So our two individuals are. All right, we have Donald Snow from Parks and Recreation. Where are you? I don't know if you're embarrassed, but I'm embarrassed clearly. And Mr. Snow has served 25 years to the city of Tulsa. Thank you so much. We're gonna do pictures. So yeah. We'll go down there. As soon as I saw that Donnie made that one. He did. Oh wow. As soon as I saw that sign crossing the screen, I was reading. Do you do you want to do individual or group? All right, our next one is Janet Lyons from Finance for 20 years of service. Thank you so much. All right. Picture time. This is so awesome. All right. Many employees who are receiving their years of service award this month could not be here tonight. We would like to acknowledge their contributions to the city for 40 years of service. Kenneth White with police.