City Council - Regular Meeting

Call the Broken Arrow City Council meeting to order. [clears throat] We have imitation by Pastor um Miss Maganeero. I know we're just switching it up a little bit today. Just keep everybody on their toes.

That's right. I'd like to start with a scripture from Proverbs 2. My son, if you receive my words and treasure my commands so that you incline your ear to wisdom and apply your heart to understanding. Yes. If you cry out for discernment and lift your voice for understanding, if you seek her as silver and search for her as hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. For the Lord gives wisdom. From his mouth comes knowledge and understanding. So, if we can bow our heads. Lord, we come to you and ask for your wisdom, understanding, and knowledge. We seek your will for the many decisions that are made that affect our great city and the people who live in it. We want to hear you and walk with you. Bless Broken Arrow and our city counselors who are charged with guiding us. Protect our first responders and keep them safe. We thank you for them. We ask this in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen.

Amen. Amen. Thank you, ma'am. Roll call. Nickel here. Green here. Ford here. Parks here. Wimpy here. [clears throat] Are there any items to be removed from the consent agenda? Oh, please stand and join councelor Green for the pledge of allegiance. Fantastic. Attention. Salute. Pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, sir.

Okay. Now, are there any items to be removed from the consent agenda? Make a motion to accept the consent agenda. A second. Roll call. All right. Item seven is public hearings, appeals, presentation, recognitions, and awards. 7A presentation, discussion, and possible acceptance of the 2025 2026 Broken Arrow Youth City Council. Um, big ideas. Uh, mayor.

Yes. Thank you very much. I would like for uh Lizzy Grounds and Kaylee Morris, if you'll come forth, please. [clears throat] They did tell me right beforehand in case anybody has any questions about their presentation, they'll be happy to answer those. Is that correct? Yes, sir.

Okay. [snorts] All right. Good evening, council. I hope you are doing well tonight. I'm Lizzie Grounds and I'm also here with Kaylee Morris and we serve as the m the mayor and vice mayor of the Broken Arrow youth city council program. We wanted to come to you tonight and speak to you about our big idea project. This project is something that our youth city council works on all year and hopes to improve the Broken Arrow community. Students in youth city council collaborated on ideas, participated in committees, and truly put their hard work and dedication into this project. This year, we would like to propose the idea of an addition to the current ba.gov website for volunteers to connect with local organizations to receive service hours. The general idea is that local businesses would be listed and provide any forms for volunteers in need of these service hours. This puts all the businesses in one place and makes it easier for volunteers to find these service hour opportunities. In order to assess whether or not local organizations would be interested, we sent out multiple emails and received positive responses from the following organizations: Broken Arrow Senior Activity Center, Filling the Void, Inc., One Hope Tulsa, the 111 Project, NSTA, Irongate, Domestic Violence Intervention Services, Green Country Habitat for Humanity, Keep Broken Arrow Beautiful, and Happy Hands Education Center. We hope that the addition would look similar to that of a Signup Genius. Signup Genius is an online signup software to simplify volunteer management and event planning. Our council believes that the community service is an integral part to the betterment of our community and we understand that in a digital age paper signups can be difficult and often get forgotten. In order to best connect the Broken Arrow community, a one-stop page that connects our local businesses and volunteers is what we believe is the best way forward. According to Volunteer Matters, which is a website that outlines the importance of community service, they say that when signups are on a paper sheet, about 30% of volunteers do not show up on the day of the event. Our hope is that this page

will reduce the number of no-shows by adding email and text reminders. We hope that you'll consider our proposal and we appreciate you for listening to us and giving us your time. We would also like to thank our youth city council members for helping us with this project along with Lorie Hill and Mike Godfren for their contributions and continuous support of our council and us as leaders. Thank you all and have a great night. Thank you all. I love that idea. I get I get questions or emails all the time um looking [clears throat] for ways to volunteer. So that that might be a really great Awesome. I have a question too and and and certainly we can continue following up with that. But Lizzie, you seem like all year, especially today, you have a lot of energy. What do you have for breakfast? [laughter]

Wow, that is a wonderful question. Big [clears throat] shout out to Chick-fil-A. I had [laughter] an egg and cheese biscuit and a lemonade. It was delicious.

I love it. They they work on this all year long uh back and forth vacasillating on what to bring before you. But I knew they was talking about this. So I'm excited about it and able to if we can uh front that uh because we're all of us are involved with a lot of nonprofits even in our own city all the council are. So I'm really pleased with that. So but I don't have any other questions but other than what what brings me so strong. [laughter] I I do love that idea too because like Tulsa Chiefs, you you're they're people are always looking for um ways where they can volunteer and we want them to volunteer in our city because you know like keep narrow beautiful like pick trash up you know in a mile keep our city clean. Um so that I love that idea and you're right like someone write their name down on a piece of paper you know if they don't put it in their calendar or whatever they just they're like when did I sign up or what time what time was I supposed to be there? Um and I think we could make that list a lot longer too.

Moms broken our neighbors. Yes, absolutely. Mhm. So, just for [clears throat] for context, um our youth city council, they do a tremendous amount of things here in our community. Um they come alongside of us as a council and they take opportunities to learn um and grow from us. But the big idea we every year they are responsible for coming up with a project and presenting it here before council. And um this is not something that uh Lori or Mike or myself or Johnny um gives them direction on. It's something they collaborate together on and I'm very proud of the work that they have done this year and I'm very proud of you all for your leadership. So, thank you very much. Thank you.

I think that's a great idea just from the aspect of getting involved with the community and laying that groundwork. If we can make it easier access for them to be able to figure out, you know, where to plug in, I think it's it's an amazing thing for you guys. Great idea. Love it. Thank you. Thank you. I'd like to make a motion to accept uh the um big idea of our youth city council item number 26-538. I'll second that motion. We have a [snorts] motion and a second. Roll call. I didn't even press [clears throat] someone just automatically. Click. All right.

Good job. VERY NICE JOB. [applause] SO, FOR OUR NEXT STEP, WHAT I will will do on behalf of council, if you're in in agreement, is I'll have the you city council mayor and vice mayor and Lorie Hill have a meeting with Aaron McCauic to actually take their vision and what it's going to look like on paper and determine what we would need to do on the website to accomplish the the big idea. That's probably the most practical way to move forward. And is council okay with that? You bet. Yeah. Okay.

Then Lori and I will coordinate with Aaron and obviously there may be other members of the YCC that would like to participate that have comments and so we'll we'll determine who would like to participate and then go from there and we'll update the council when we've accomplished everything. Maybe even actually come in and give a short presentation showing where it is on the website and how actually how to navigate it. Well, definitely like our user groups like I know a few of them that are presenting tonight. they may want to also sign up. So, we'll need to make sure that we can connect to some of those that um we haven't been able to connect with so far, too.

And we kind of started off everything. We didn't do our introductions. Behind us, you see five of our wonderful youth city counselors. These are our seniors that are in the program. I know Lory's going to talk a little bit [snorts] more about that, but just so you you know who's sitting behind us up here tonight. They're watching over our shoulders. [laughter] Yes. All right. Item 7B is presentation, discussion, and recognition of the youth city council graduating seniors for the school year 2526. Lori Hill.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Mr. Spurgeon. Tonight, we have the privilege of recognizing an exceptional group of students, our graduating seniors from the Broken Lu City Council. These young leaders have dedicated their time, their ideas, and their energy to bettering our community. And this is our opportunity to acknowledge all that they have contributed over the past three years. These students learned how local government works, participated in service projects, and represented the city and their schools. They demonstrated curiosity, leadership, and a genuine desire to serve. Qualities that will carry them far in whatever their paths they pursue. This year's seniors are um also embraced the chance to shape the future of the YCC program itself. They have shared suggestions on how to continue to make this program even stronger for the students who follow them. To our seniors, you listened, you learned, and you led. Gosh, I'm going to miss you guys. Um, we are proud of your accomplishments, grateful for your service, and excited for all that is ahead of you. Whether you are heading to college, entering the workforce, or exploring new opportunities, we hope you carry with you the understanding that your voice matters and that engaged, passionate young people truly do make a difference. So on behalf of the city council and city of Broken Arrow, we congratulate you. Thank you for your dedication to our community and we wish you every success in the years ahead. At this time, I would like to bring up um this year's graduating YCC seniors to receive their certificate of completion of the program. But first, I would like to recognize a few that were not able to be here this evening. And that is Isaac Fowl, Savannah Henry, Stephanie Hill, and Autumn Mkhitrich. There's something about the end of the school year that makes it a little bit challenging for them to come on certain evenings. So, at this time, I'd like to introduce Kaylee.

Come all the way up. Yes. Come all the way down. Come on down. Lizzy.

Yes. Ra, Everett, [snorts] and Hector. And I told them earlier, um, behind their certificate is their essay of what they submitted when they applied for Youth City Council. And what I should have really done is told them that they needed to read it in front of everybody tonight, but I figured they would rather just reminisce of um what their vision was when they first started this program. So, it has been an honor, seriously, to be with you all and I cannot wait to see what your futures are. So, at this time, I'll invite Vice Mayor Parks and Councelor Green to come up. They have something for you.

Oh, and while they're coming down, I also want to recognize that we have our incoming city council mayor um in our audience as well, and that's Graham Bowser. [laughter] Congratulations. Good breakfast.

I would like to make another comment. I'd like for the rest of the council to come down in this picture because Justin and I are doing the sponsors for them, but we have sponsors and that's the other three councils. So all five of us are involved. So I think it's important that all the counselor be in that.

It's it's truly been a pleasure to be able to work with these young people. Um I said in the other room, but I think we have some of the best and brightest right here in Broken Arrow and um I appreciate you guys making the sacrifice because I know as you're in school, there's all kind of opportunities, student council, sports, jobs, college, all these other things. But uh you guys chose to be a part of this program. That means a lot to us. Um and I wish you the best and you all will have bright futures ahead of you. Um, don't forget it's when you get big. Does anybody else have anything they want to say who didn't get to speak? [laughter]

Ever's always got something to say. It's been fun. But [laughter] let's give him a hand. [applause] [applause]

We got to work it back this way. My chair. Thank you. Lizzie, good job. Missed you. That's all right. Good job. She's running away. I understand.

I [laughter] thought they were going to hang out with us the whole night.

[snorts] All right. Item C is a presentation and annual programming update by the Museum Broken Arrow Laura Hill. The next three presentations are going to be from our annual user groups. So rather than coming up all three times, I'll just have you introduce them coming up. So the first one is obviously Michael Yance with the Museum Broken Arrow.

Good evening. Thanks for uh having me tonight. Appreciate it. That's tough to follow though, but uh very proud of those kids and definitely a bright future for Broken Arrow. Um going to do a quick recap of Museum Broken Arrow. and Michael Yans, executive director, been here about a year and a half and I can say 2025 was an amazing year for Museum Broken Arrow and appreciate all the support not only from the council but from the entire community that supports what we do. Um, want to briefly we've refined our mission and our vision that we have up here. Um, basically the grand scope of the museum broken arrow is to hold the vision of keeping Broken Arrows history and memories alive through the cultivation of vibrant inclusive community. and we refined our mission and our vision to serve the community even more. And we did this uh by creating a brand new strategic plan through this uh we worked all together. Our board member came together all day session and we worked with the um nonprofit center of Oklahoma to get this together. So we now have goals and a plan all the way through 2030. And that includes everything from attendance to exhibits to education to collections. And so we're very excited about that. we're on board. And I can tell you, even with the first quarter of 2026 already being done, we're already reaching some of those goals. Um, in 2025, we had over 10,000 people walk in our front door and we had over 1 million views on our online social medias. I can tell you already, uh, this is actually a map that we have in the lobby. Whenever anybody comes into, uh, gets attendance, they put a pin in the map. It's a 1902 map because they got to realize what Oklahoma looked like uh when Broken Arrow was formed, Indian territory I should say. Um but what's amazing is already in the first quarter we have had triple the amount of visitors internationally globally coming to Broken Arrow that we saw the entire 2025. Uh they're fascinated by Broken Arrow. They're coming here. They want to learn the history of Broken Arrow specifically. We're really excited to share that with them when they come in. Um we have a couple we have our temporary gallery. So there's something new every single month at the museum.

This is some of the uh shows that we had in our temporary gallery in 2025. Typically we focus on either Muscogee Nation citizen artwork or Broken Arrow citizen artwork and all those that rotate or a history exhibit of course. And 2026 looks absolutely amazing. We have local partners, local groups like the senior activity center and we have a couple uh Native American artist groups that are joining us this year which we're really excited about. Also, our education programs, we tripled last year, and we've already added more of this year. Uh, some of those programs are are family movie nights that we're going to have again this year. Uh, this year we had our first ever homeschool day where we had over 120 participants come even after the snowstorm uh that we had in January and had to reschedule. And we are just hitting different audiences and different local community members in Broken Arrow from homechools to our public schools and our families. Um, we also still host over 16 different vendors in our gift shop. Those are all local Broken Arrow. We believe, you know, shop local and support the local artists and artisans. And so, we keep that. And so, it's a win-win situation where they have their consignment pieces on on sale and we get to sell them. And we're really grateful. We got grants from Rotary, Broken Arrow last year, and uh, four different Walmart stores here in Broken Arrow to update some of our permanent exhibits that needed to be refreshened. Some of those were um in partnerships. You see we did Broken Arrow Sings. We added Christian Chennowith uh right next to Ralph Blaine in our exhibit uh thanks to our partnership with the performing arts center. We also updated our rooster days thanks to the Rotary Club and some others like the Broken Arrow ledgers that we have on display. So we're updating our permanent and changing also our temporary ones. And our fundraising has been a great success so far. Um we added murder mysteries to the museum which has been great. We had another sellout this year. Uh we had a sellout last year also. And we have uh upcoming in two weeks the 90th annual Pioneer Dinner. That's going to be the Saturday of Rooster Days at the senior uh event

center downtown, which is another wonderful partnership that we have. So if you guys love fried chicken, which of course we do, and we have the competition, we have the competition. It's the King Cluck Award for the best fried chicken at Broken Arrow. Um so we're going to have at least six to seven different chicken restaurants represented. And we have a pie auction. So I mean, you come, you have chicken, you have dessert. It's an amazing time. I think it was so well attended last year. I think we ran out of chicken. We almost ran out of chicken. Technically, we still had chicken, but chicken's [laughter] gone. I I the good chicken was gone. The good chicken like went fast, but yeah, it was an amazing time. The pies still there.

The pies were of course always there. Um, and we want to take a moment to thank the citizens of Broken Arrow for um, approving and voting yes on Proposition 4, which the museum was a part of. And we're looking forward to working with the city moving forward in the next few years and planning the expansion of the museum. We have many ideas. We know the community has a lot of ideas and we can't wait to hear that. Um, one last thing with my remaining time, we do have one problem. Uh we're missing an egg and so there is an egg loose somewhere in Broken Arrow that we're trying to find and we really need to find that egg before Rooster Day starts. So we're asking the citizens of Broken Arrow to please help us find that egg. Check out our website. There may be some clues on there for you and we do kind of have a reward if you're able to find it. But uh thank you for your time. Appreciate it.

Thank you, Michael. That was great. Yeah, you're doing a good job. Yeah. All right. Item D is presentation and annual programming update. um regarding the genealogy society. [clears throat] Good evening. Good evening.

Uh Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Mr. Spersian and council, congratulations on the bond issue. We look forward uh we're waiting for the trickle down effect [laughter] of what will happen in my neighborhood. Um and I do mean the genealogy center. Uh we've had a busy year and we can tell the museum is doing well and uh it helps us expand our own outreach in the community. There's I I cluttered up your desk with some colorful paper. Uh I wanted to talk to you about the uh homeschool day when when Michael says there were 120. I think at least half of the children and the parents did come through and spend time with us in the in the uh library because we have one of the largest Civil War collections uh in the area and we had a Civil War reenactor for the day uh and took some of the artifacts that the museum has uh uh given us and also um uh the man himself brought artifacts. He brought a pack uh that was typical of the Civil War Union soldier and demonstrated the use of the rifle of the time. Just even picking up the rifle was an astonishing effect. Um children had no idea how how uh the strength that they would have had as soldiers. But moving on, we have an outreach uh in our community. there is there's often opportunity for us to go out to heritage uh societies and present programs. And so we know at least six community agencies were recipient of programs that were developed probably

first of all within the library for our quarterly meetings and then uh the amount of time that we uh spend in research is actually greater than the hours of the library itself. The library has traffic and people who come and we sit down with them and begin something with them. But we walk away and they walk away knowing that if they left us with a question and enough information that we are actually going to search further. So um we expand the hours of the library by uh probably 166 hours in research just for the individuals that have left something behind as a question. One of the questions that came this year um early in the year was from Vermont. I mean just a kind of a startled but one day the question came from a woman who was working on her doctorate u and wanted information on a family of uh Creek Freriedman and so that's the kind of question that yes let's go do that one and uh it excites us to go in new uh areas of research others have been families uh the Dan and uh McKinnon family recently. Uh he was very involved not only in the genealogy societies but in the historical museum society and brought a lot of artifacts to the museums of his family genealogy. And so we we can say are now very available through the computer. We don't need them on our shelf. and uh we'll find a space for Dan McKinnon's collection. Um thank you. I hope uh you come and visit us. Next week is a

quarterly meeting. We're having uh uh we're excited about Thomas Gil and the Gil Museum for the year any day now kind of expectation. But we're focusing our program this time on the Native American uh artists that Thomas Gilree sponsored and uh contributed to the entire nation as part of his collection. So, thank you for this report and encouragement. Thank you for all that you do to keep our history alive. Thank you. [laughter] Okay.

All right. Um, last program is from Arts. Okay, Miss Jennifer Deal. Good evening. I appreciate the opportunity to come and talk to you. Um, would love to have you come and visit though. I I we've done a lot of thinking because we're on our I can't believe it's we're have made it through our fourth year. We got into the building four years ago right after spring break. So pretty exciting. I mean, I remember Ryan bringing me some furniture because I didn't even have furniture in the building, but I was determined to start programming. So, I can't tell you how much I appreciate all the support from the city of Broken Arrow and everything that you guys have done for us. So, this presentation, do I do I use this?

Yes.

Okay. So this presentation I'll give you a little bit of a snapshot of where we are right now. So we've had probably it's hard to estimate approximately 6,000 visitors in the last year. We are really really excited because when people come into the building they they don't come in to just visit. They don't come in just one time. They come in and they engage with us. And that's truly our goal. Those of you that have met Caleb know that our so early early on he was adamant that art is for everyone and that's truly our mission as we move through everything that we do. Um and the the building I know I've talked to some people and they're surprised at how much use we get already. Um but the building is used every day all day long all the way tomorrow night it'll be used all the way till after 9:00 at night. So we love that all those people are coming back all the time. So it matters because we offer those hands-on hands-on experiences to everyone that comes in. We have um every event that we do, we try to be have some way that people can engage with us and it can ga can engage in making art. So a couple of things that have come up over the last year, one of them is our 5x5 fundraiser. It'll actually be, I believe, the third time that we've had the 5x5, but we are starting to gift 5x5 canvases to local artists. Last year, we received over 200 canvases August 13th. Put it on your calendar because that's the day of the opening for the 5x5 show. You can't buy one until that night. And last year, we had people lined up in our window. I have this great picture of someone in trying to get an advanced view. um we brought in over $10,000 because we did end up finding donors to match um a certain amount of the 5x5s

that were sold and all of that money that we raised for that event went to scholarships. So, we're trying to give back to the community, but that's just one way that we get the arts community and not always just the arts community. If you guys want to do a 5x5 canvas, I'm totally all in. You come talk to me and I'll give you one. [laughter]

I can look at that. The other thing that I don't know if you've heard about, we've actually been doing our second Saturday art activities now for a couple of years. So, the second Saturday of every month, we we get the community come in and work with a local artist and they get to make art. And I have adults that come in and make art with us. But I what I love is I have families that come in all the time and the whole family will be making art with us. We did a kickoff event this year in January and it was hugely successful. We called it the Imagination Spectacular. We will do it again as a kickoff next January. It's a ticketed event. So, but people can come in and for just $10 or a membership to the art center, they made art in every room in the entire building. And I was worried because I thought people would come in for an hour and then go on their way. No, we had people that stayed for the whole four hours of the entire event. It was crazy. So, just looking for lots of different ways to get people engaged. Um, so what what do we have going on that's new? We're working on some grant stuff and the we've got film making equipment and we've got sewing machines and so we're anxious to add some new programs into the mix. Um, we have a had a a show in February and March that was a mental health focused show. We're trying to connect with other organizations in the community. So, we connected with Divis for that show. And one of our goals in the upcoming stuff that we're doing is to try to connect careers and the arts and show people all the different things they can do in the arts that can impact not just be a hobby, but also be a career path. So, we can't tell you how much we appre appreciate being on the bond issue and all of the work that you guys did to support that bond issue. It was

absolutely amazing and anything I can do to help you. I'm I'm a little terrified about four or five years from now when we grow. But I'm also really really excited. So, [laughter] so that's that kind of is the culmination. I feel like it's working. what we're doing is working and uh up for any ideas and would love to have you come over and take another tour because the last time you made a tour it was probably a little bit different. We just keep adding stuff. Wonderful. Thank you so much. I just like to add Jennifer, thank you for your passion.

Yeah. for what you do at Arts and then also um how much you love our community because I love the ideas that you come up with and how you can incorporate so many different things to make Broken Arrow a beautiful place to live. Well, I have an amazing team and so I wish I could take credit for all of it, but there we're lean but we're mean. That's right. [laughter] Don't let Caleb know that. It's our secret. And I always share that she was Addison's art teacher. So she was my daughter's art teacher. So very special. It's I feel like I've gotten to have my have two dream jobs in my career. So that's pretty awesome. Most people are like get one. [laughter]

It actually it was I I enjoyed teaching your daughter a lot. So I do love when I walk by there. I mean even at night there's always people in there. Always people. So fun. It's cool. Cool. Cool. Yep. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. [clears throat] All right. Item um 7F is public hearing consideration and possible action regarding PUD219-2025 and BAZ 2633-2026. Rocky.

Good evening, Madame Mayor, Mr. Vice Mayor, members of council, city manager, Mr. Spurgeon. I'm community development director Rocky HL. PED219-2025 is a planned unit development for single family residential development. This property is located north of Tucson Street and approximately 1/4 mile east of Olive Avenue. The land is currently unplatted and contains approximately 90 acres. PUD 307 was created for a master development including multifamily residential and commercial uses. PUD 307A amended this PUD and changed the plan location of the multifamily development to where the now constructed multifamily development, the trails at Aspen Creek, is located. along with PUD219-20225 is a request to abrogate the portion of PUD 307 that is on this property. BAZ 2633-2026 is a resoning request to change the reasoning of the property from CH commercial heavy to RSC single family residential compact. This area is currently classified as level two urban residential under the land use intensity system via comp plan amendment 1296-2024 that was approved by city council on May 7th, 2024. This comprehensive plan designation does support the resoning request to RSC. This proposed PUB development details that the maximum number of dwelling units or lots is 350 with 225 of those dwelling lots having a width of at least 52 feet and the remaining 125 lots will have a width of 60 ft. The minimum size for all lots will be 6,000 square ft. Building setbacks will be 20 ft from the rear lot lines, 5t from the side lot lines, and 25 ft from the front lot lines. Due to the amount of land area needed to be dedicated for the Tucson Street Rideway and the Future Creek turnpike frontage road rightway, staff and the applicant have come to a compromise of a modification to the open space standards for RSC development. Normally RSC developments have a 15% open space requirement. However, this development does include 125 lots with a minimum

width of 60 ft in width, aligning with the RS standards. RS has no open space requirements. Considering the above specifics, staff and the applicant have reached a compromise of 8% open space requirement of the gross development area. This open space would still need to meet other requirements for open space such as flood plane usability and accessibility. There have been previous discussions on the widing of Tucson Tucson Street in this housing development. On April 7th, 2026, voters in the city of Broken Arrow approved Proposition One of the Broken Arrow General obligation bond package, which included bond funding for reconstruction and whiting improvements on Tucson Street between Olive and Aspen. The initial public hearing for this request was held during the February 26, 206 planning commission meeting. An adjacent property owner spoke with concerns about potential drainage impacts from the development. Planning Commission members posed questions regarding the need for a frontage road dedication. the existing billboards on the site along the creek turnpike and a preference for a mix of lot sizes. This item was tabled to allow the applicant time to revise the PUD document and conceptual site layout. The revised conceptual plan includes an 80 foot wide frontage road dedication as well as reserve area for the existing billboards on the site. The revised project was reviewed at the April 23rd, 2026 planning commission meeting where it was recommended for approval 50 vote. No members of the public spoke in favor or in opposition to this request. We did receive an email uh late today from a citizen who raised a few concerns. One was the ingress and egress, two was public safety, and three was school capacity. The citizen also stated that they would like to speak uh be part of the process but was unable to speak tonight and would like this meeting to be or this item to be tabled to the next meeting. Madame Mayor, I would like to suggest that we table this item until the 19th. Um so that um the the uh people have a chance to come and speak uh when they were originally told it was going to be

the 19th uh that they're able to make accommodations to come and uh be represented um with their concerns. Yeah, we do have two signed up to speak tonight, so I think we [clears throat] should allow them to at least speak on that. Absolutely. Um, okay. The first one is Steve Hackwood. Oh, I destroyed that. I'm so sorry. Ah, okay. A good telemarketer. [laughter] Most people put an in or something on it. I I I tried real hard.

So, anyway, uh, mayor, vice mayor, uh, Mr. Spurs, council members, I I appreciate the time to come up here and talk. Uh I will be short and brief. Uh my wife and I are residents of Riverstone, uh which is uh across from a proposed uh u uh new uh housing development. Um we've lived there for uh about 5 years. And uh one thing we've noted uh on Tucson is the pickup and traffic. Uh there's backups. Uh definitely at the four-way stop. It's a two-lane road. It does not have a uh uh shoulder. It pours into uh or moves into um Olive, which is also the same shoulder, two-lane road. Uh I do appreciate the fact that the voters uh have passed the bond issue, and I think it's wonderful because we we need better roads and wider roads, especially in that area that is growing. However, uh currently uh we are experiencing continued backup. This project is uh um if if it's moved forward uh the streets uh and the bond issue, pardon me, the um bond issue that for the streets, those are not going to be something that you pass a bond and tomorrow we have a new road. Same thing with the four-way stop. So, as those houses go in, and I watched houses around us and housing developments and how quickly they develop, they develop very, very quickly. They put them up. Uh, they're probably going to outpace what we're going to be able to do with development of those streets. So, we're going to experience a lot more of that. So, it's almost like we're putting the cart before the horse. We don't have the infrastructure. Infrastructure is not there. There are other concerns of safety uh safety of pulling on and on the street as we get more uh cars. The other problem is and it's not a problem.

It's a good thing for growth, but we have developments west of there which is the uh uh Home Depot. Uh we're putting in a um um uh Hobby Lobby and other stores, which is wonderful to see that kind of development out there. But that brings more traffic down from the west or from the east. Yeah. from the west into the east, I should say. So, we're even adding more cars to that. Uh, this development, if it's 350 homes, is going to add about 4 to 500 cars to that road. And and there basically streets are not going to be ready for that yet. Uh, and then there's safety issues of uh heavy traffic periods, particularly uh uh in the evening when people are coming home, when people trying to get to work, the backups are tremendously long. And if you have an emergency vehicle trying to come down that road, it's going to have very difficult and it's the last thing you want is an emergency vehicle being delayed getting to an emergency. So for those reasons, I would like to see this not move forward at this time. Not against it, but but not at this time until we can have the development of the infrastructure that's there. Okay. Okay.

Thank you, sir. Thank you.

And then we have um Ken Sandival. Thanks for letting me speak. My name is Ken Sandival. I also live in Riverstone Estates. I've been there about 5 years. Um my my concerns are basically the same. Um schools are also a concern. You know, they're overcrowding. Um, I think if this is going to be tabled, I requested a speak because I thought had to speak, but if I would like time to research everything and be able to say what I need to say and like was said, we planned on coming the 19th and all of a sudden heard it was today. But, um, I think that we need to get the road straight. Um, even if they widen Tucson in between Olive and Aspen, they're still narrow once you get past there. So, traffic is still going to back up. So there's a lot of concerns that need to be taken.

Okay. All right. Thank you for your time. Great. Thank you, sir. All right. So, we we do have a motion to table it until the 19th. Is there a second? Do we have anybody else who needs to speak? Does the developer? Okay. If you want to respond to any comment, does the representative the property owner want to speak? Oh, we usually do that. So, all right. I didn't see you back there. Mhm. Maybe in space.

Um Allan Bchon, AB Engineering, 200 North McKinley in Sand Springs. Um we're perfectly okay with tableabling it. That's never our goal is to sidestep anything. We've we've been on this project for a minute and I'm not afraid of a couple more weeks to go through it. We've we've went through a lot of iterations. This is a a a pretty significant change from what even came before um the council nearly a year ago. Uh we were cognizant of the road. Um our original PUD submitt actually happened prior to the bond package approval and we built language into the into the PUD that required that the bond be approved and the road be fully funded prior to any final plat being allowed to move forward. So that's there is already contingency specifically about the road built into this. Um I think this is a good blend project. We've made a a lot of compromises to try to get to something that we think can be supported and um we're happy to move forward whenever we can. But um answer any questions in the meantime or if we need to wait till the next time I'm happy to do that too.

And how many houses was it again? 350 total, which is about 80 almost 90 less than the original submitt and 75 less than the submitt before we made revisions that were conversations with the planning commission.

So that's a combination of reducing density overall and blending the product types. So it's not just one uniform 52 foot. So there's actually two different product types. It's a mix it's a mixed type subdivision. um also went through and worked through alignment in arguably far more detail than you would normally do for a PUD um for the collector street trying to make sure that those issues were addressed and that we were being mindful of that and knowing how how that would go. So the frontage road is already accounted for in the development plan that the numbers all account for that. So, I think this is something um I I welcome the input, but this is something that this is certainly not the first time we've rolled through this, and I think this is something that that the council should be able to support.

I appreciate you guys um taking the time to make those revisions and taking the input from the planning commission and from the community and [clears throat] from the council and going back and doing that. It speaks highly of you. Appreciate that. Yeah. just want to get this one across the finish line. I think there's definitely um some common ground that we can come to on that. Um I just want to make sure that everyone gets an opportunity to speak. Um and so that's why my recommendation was to table it until the 19th. Completely agree. I don't want there to be any perception that we were trying to

professional municipal clerk is the oldest among public servants and whereas the office of the professional municipal clerk provides the professional link between the citizens the local governing bodies and agencies of government at other levels and whereas professional municipal clerks have pledged to be ever mindful of their neutrality and impartiality rendering equal service to all. Whereas the the professional municipal clerk serves as the information center on functions of local government and community. Whereas professional municipal clerks, you just wanted me to like say that over and over [laughter] continually strive to improve the administration of the affairs of the office of the professional municipal clerk through participation and education programs, seminars, workshops, and the annual meetings of their state, county, and international professional organizations. Whereas it is most appropriate that we recognize the accomplishments of the office of the professional municipal clerk. Now therefore, I Deborah Wimpy, mayor of the city of Burkner, do recognize the week of May 3rd through 9th, 2026 as professional municipal clerk week. [snorts] So congratulations. [applause] I'll just say that uh the Green family is very proud of [laughter] my brother over here and all the hard work he does for for the city makes mom and all of us honored

tear to your eye doesn't it does it does I get a little of a climpmp every now and then [laughter] you know anytime I'm at an Oklahoma municipal league function um Curtis I always have people come up to me and tell me how wonderful you are and when we host um training here and how helpful you are when you know they have questions or whatever. Um, and it it says a lot on your professionalism and how people trust you and it's a big job that you have and Well, thank you. I appreciate you. All the support we have. You know, we've got a great team. You do have great team. We appreciate you. Thank you.

All right. Item eight is citizens opportunity to address the council on general topic related topics related to the city business or services. No action may be taken on matters under this item. All right, we have one signed up. Uh Mr. Michael Jimmy Morgan, and Joey Strickland are going to discuss a topic that they would like to share with our council. I hope you're in agreement. All of the same topics.

I know they're all coming at the same time. Thank you, Mayor Whippy, Michael Spurgeon. Thank you, Johnny and Lisa, Justin, David. It's an honor to be here. Trevor and also here also u to be in front of you today. Uh started a new journey. you know, I deal a lot with veterans and this I've come into a new uh I thought I was retired, but they brought me out of retirement again. So, now I'm working on with Patriot Rehab Services uh helping our veterans with PTSD, drug and alcohol abuse to try to find a facility to service our veterans uh non-tribal and tribal veterans. Uh, and we'd like to address that to the city of Broken Air because this city is so oriented for veterans and I thought it was such an honor to uh bring this before you and everything. And I have two gentlemen uh from Walker, Louisiana, which is Colonel Joyce Strickland, retired uh 30 years of military service. And then I have uh Jimmy [snorts] [clears throat] from uh New Iberia, Louisiana, Jimmy Morgan. And so they I'll let them have the time to speak and talk about the program that we're want to bring forward to you all.

Thank you, sir. Thank you.

Thank you, Mike. Uh Mayor Wimpy, Vice Mayor Park, members of the council. I'm, as Mike said, I'm retired Army Colonel Joey Strickland. served our nation for 30 years in peace and war. More importantly, I'm a father of soldiers who served in Iraq and and Afghanistan. My two daughters are members of the Louisiana National Guard. We're a military family. Uh after serving for so many years, uh I uh retired and I became the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for the state of Louisiana on the governor's staff. I also served as secretary of veterans affairs for Arizona for about seven years. So, uh, a total of 22 years working with our veterans after military service. I retired from the state and I started cutting grass and doing things around the house. My wife owns a restaurant that's very popular in Louisiana. She didn't need me to wash dishes, so I had to find something to do. So, I became a partner with Patriot Rehab. Patriot Rehab uh facility is a 28,000 square foot state-of-the-art rehabilitation facility with 24 private rooms, doctors, nurses, therapists, a state-of-the-art cafeteria, and we're located in New Iberia. and we work very closely with Federal VA New Orleans and Alexandria to take care of Louisiana veterans and we do a very very good job. We're now ready to expand. And you say why why this area? Why why Oklahoma? Why Broken Era? It's simple. I have deep roots in in uh in Oklahoma. My uncle's cousins served in war and are buried up in Arlington, Olusty in that area. So

Oklahoma is not a stranger to me. My bio is in the back of that uh paper there. And so uh we we thought uh after talking with Mike uh and knowing that a lot of native veterans also need help, we thought why not Broken Arrow? So we came here. This is the third time we've been here. We were very impressed, mayor, with the uh museum, the military museum. We were extremely impressed with the veterans museum and the beautiful park, veterans park that you have. And we said, why not? Sure. And so we are not looking, this is a very unique thing that I'm going to say. We are not looking for money.

We have money. We are looking for opportunity. We're looking to partner with an existing social services organization so that we can go ahead and bring people in and get started taking care of veterans, taking care of their families. And now I'm going to turn it over to my senior partner, Jimmy, so he can talk about the health care side of things. Thank you, mayor. Thank you, Colonel. Thank you all so much for allowing us to speak. Uh I've been doing this for 40 years. That kind of tells on my age. [laughter] Uh, I am not a veteran, but I am the son of a disabled World War II veteran.

And my great uncle fired the first shot in the SpanishAmerican War. I've had numerous family members graduate from Annapolis and serve in the military. I'm very proud of them. But I have a passion for helping veterans. Um, we started the very first residential addiction and behavioral health treatment center for veterans in the state of Louisiana. We're a veterans only program because we feel like the veterans can do better when they're together rather than mixed in with a general population. We are so impressed with the dedication that the city of Broken Arrow has to veterans. And we have that same dedication where we are in Louisiana right now. And that is a great format for us to be able to have a program that in a place in New Mexico I ran a in New Mexico I ran a I opened and ran a entire nation and we got referrals from all over the nation. We honored the Native American traditions, spirituality, ceremonies together with modern therapy treatment and it worked. and we want to do the same thing here in this area. Um we are um we're looking for an existing health care facility that is either in operation or maybe not in operation to be able to start in. We could start rapidly if we partner with someone who's already in operation. So that's one thing we would ask for your help from is if you're aware of anything like that, if you would support our endeavor to start this type of a program. Our reimbursement comes from the Veterans Administration. So we do not take any funds from Indian Health Services, from state Medicaid. It all

comes from the VA. We are what's considered a VACCN facility which we've been approved by the VA to receive uh veteran payment payment for the treatment of veterans. Uh we have to be authorized by the VA to treat the patients. We basically treat them for 45 days then we put them in an outpatient program and then we transposition them into some sort of community support program. Okay.

So if y'all have any questions please fire away. We're very transparent. Um, we do know what we're doing. I am a healthc care nerd and I really like making things work. So, thank you again for y'all's time. Well, it sounds like a a much needed opportunity. So, um, look forward to trying to brainstorm and help you guys figure out what we could what we have available or what kind of

we can even rent a floor on an existing hospital in an existing hospital. We can take a wing in an existing nursing home. We can take a portion of an existing addiction treatment facility. There's numerous ways that we can make it work and where we can start quickly rather than having to build something and it taking years before it ever gets off the ground. Perfect. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you for your service and your family service. Yes. Thank you, mayor. Thank you, members of vice mayor, members of the council. We're going to keep coming back until we achieve what we want to do. Yes. I I Well, you've got Michael with you, so yeah, I I believe it. We don't have this energy, though. [laughter]

I think you guys hit it right on the head. Um the the city of Broken Arrow, we do love and support uh our veterans and all that they mean to our community and to our country and to our nation. Um and we always look for great opportunities to to find great partners and um sounds like what you guys are doing is amazing. We look forward to hearing more about it and figuring out ways that we may be able to partner going forward. We we owe our veterans. Yes. This what's happening right here right now, this great city, this great life we have is all thanks to what our veterans did for us. It really is. And we we from what we've seen, we truly love it here. Yay. Fantastic. Thank you. Love to hear that. Thank you.

All right. Item nine is general council business. 9A, approval of an authorization to execute an agreed judgment in board of community or county commissioners of Wagner County. Trevor. Uh thank you, mayor, vice mayor, council, Mr. Spurgeon. Uh Wagner County had exercised imminent domain on some property over at South 273rd East Avenue. City of Broken Arrow is named as a defendant because we have a drainage easement on the property that they [clears throat] took.

Uh the parties have settled this case and they have agreed journal entry of judgment and as part of that agreed journal entry of judgment. It preserves our drainage easement and so explicitly recognizes that that won't be affected. And so we were requesting permission to enter into that greed journal entry of judgment so that they can close out the condemnation case. I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. Any questions or discussion? Okay. I'll go ahead and make a motion for approval of 26-630. I'll second.

Roll call. Item B is consideration, discussion, and possible approval of resolution 1747, Cindy Arnold. Good evening. This needs to be uh I guess tabled or until we go through um the authority. Oh, yes. Okay. All right. Item 10, preview ordinances. 10A consideration discussion of possible preview of an ordinance closing in an easement on property uh located south of Jasper Jasper Street. Rocky,

good evening again, Mayor. These next series of preview ordinances are for easement closures. Uh the first one is located off of south south of Jasper and east of 9inth Street. Uh we recommend preview the ordinance and set it for adoption. Okay, questions or discussion. I'd make a motion to preview ordinance and set it for adoption. Second. [clears throat] Item B. This one is located uh north of Albany Street and east of Aspen Avenue. We recommend preview the ordinance and set it for adoption. So move.

Second. Item D. This one is located south of Omaha Street and west of 209th East Avenue. I recommend preview ordinance and set it for adoption. So moved. Second.

Item eight. This one is located north of Houston Street and east of 9inth Street. We recommend that you preview the ordinance and set it for adoption. So move. Make a motion. Second roll call.

All right. Thank you, sir. Should be one more. We do. Yep. E. Just said E. Okay. E. This one is also located north of Houston Street and east of Ninth Street. Recommend you preview the ordinance and set it for adoption. So move. She seconds. Second. Roll call. Thank you. Now you're done. Thank you. You're done.

You're done. 11 is um ordinances. There are none. Remarks and inquiries by governing body members. We have so much fun stuff coming up, you guys. Um, National Day of Prayer is going to be at our uh, farmers market this Thursday, 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. Love to have everyone come out. Um, the Rooster Days rodeo is this weekend, Friday, um, and Saturday, which is an amazing time. Rooster Days is the following weekend. Looks like there's a Bigfoot run. I'm not sure what that's going to consist of, but that's on the 16th. And then the Gold Star family's memorial honor Ride is going to be on the 16th also. So, basically after the parade is done, they're going to um close off a section right in front of uh the community pool and the veteran center and tons of motorcycles are going to be coming down Main Street and and parking there for a little a brief ceremony. So,

anyone else? Uh we have the exceptional rodeo. You want to talk about that? That's Saturday. Saturday. We just had Fiesta de Mayo and Camp Bandage. Both of those were very well attended. Um, we got a lot of positive comments from both events. Um, people from inside and outside the community attended and I think it speaks highly of our community when we have people coming in from other places to attend what's going on here and they brag about um our city. So, I think it's great. And there is a rooers's egg that is out there somewhere. So, and you can find the clues on the museum.

I'm shocked that it hasn't been found yet. And they give out a new clue every morning at 10:00 a.m. I think we changed the name from not a rooster egg, but something else. Chicken egg. The committee did. Chicken egg or rooster day rooster day egg or something. It just didn't look right to have a rooster egg. Something wrong with that. [laughter] Anyway, I might I might add to to the u uh dinner that they have, the Pioneer Dinner,

that uh it's kind of a contest. Well, it is a contest. So, different chicken places donate chicken across Broken Era. Uh, and they have a contest. You vote on it. So, it's pretty interesting. Uh, last year it was won by uh, uh, Royy's out of Kawita. So, I'm hoping the broken chicken people really step it up a little bit. So, we have a lot of chicken places here. You think we'd win. I know [laughter] we did, too. All right. City Manager,

I do have one item. Mayor, members of council, first off, good evening and I just want to thank the subcommittee of the council working with the youth city council. Lori Hill had so many uh she does every year, but this year especially had some really wonderful things to say about about the students and I'm excited for Aaron, Lori and I to visit with them about their implementing their big idea. just it's just incredible to see the the level of talent as Council Member Green mentioned and to see the things that they'll go on to do because I've been here long enough to know that many of them have have actually graduated from college uh university and have gone on to be excellent contributors to to our our society. So, I just wanted to mention how cool I think that program is. And also the one thing Justin didn't say was how many other cities around the country want to be like Broken Arrows program.

I know that when we go to National League of Cities or the council does, it seems like we're the envy of of many of the other cities about how we go about that. So it's a lot of time and effort in addition to what council members already have to do. So thank you very much to both of you and the support of the council. The only other thing I wanted to mention I I think it's important um last Thursday I completed and issued a press release regarding a consultant representing a data center wanting to do a pre-development meeting and I wanted to share with the with the council and the public that uh we made it clear in that press release that in in in concert with James Bell and his team at the chamber in EDC uh we do not know who the company is. Uh that's the most important thing. They have not come forward and asked for any pre-development meeting. But I but that doesn't mean we're going to sit around and wait for them uh to come because I believe that there is the potential that they will is we've already started identifying our items that we need to do d do due diligence on in order to make sure that should they go forward what areas do we need to look at and also what questions that we need to ask as a part of any pre-development meeting that would be held with the community development director and the other applicable members of staff and I want to clarify something is that that part of broken arrow 's development process. And I think this what makes us so successful is that anyone that's interested in developing Broken Arrow can request one or multiple pre-development meetings to learn what is expected when it comes to the the uh land use ordinance requirements within our city to to be able to develop. And we have people take advantage of that on a regular basis. A lot of those never go beyond that stage. And most importantly, sometimes developers, builders, select consultants that don't know our local codes. And so it's important that they understand that the code could be

different in in Indiana or Ohio versus what at the expectation here is in Broken Arrow. And so obviously we want to be prepared that should they decide to go forward, the consultant that the EDC and the city are going to be doing our due diligence in really two parts. what are the questions that we need to ask and what what type of follow-ups now do we need to be doing with um current you know utility providers for example to find out uh certain things that we can until we know more specifics and the other thing I wanted to mention to close this out is uh because of the controversy surrounding uh data centers and other communities uh I want to be fully transparent and so probably on about a 3-w weekek basis we're going to be sending out uh an update to that press release that's going to focus on uh what we do know, what we don't know, and then a little bit of overview of what we've done in the meantime to make sure our community knows that uh we're not we're not sitting around waiting for them to come uh to our committee. We're going to be very proactive and transparent in what we do. And so the community um obviously needs to be kept a breast of that. Uh there's been a suggestion at some point uh there may be a need for uh a public meeting or two to give those folks even though it's a third of a mile approximately for development housing development there may be a need for us to actually hold um some discussions just to make sure we address any concerns that folks have. So that's something further down the road. But obviously I want to let the council know that that's what we're planning right now to see if the council members had any any additional suggestions. obviously uh any any type of approval because if it did come forward, it's not zoned um by right, which means ultimately the council members would have to make a decision if it got to that point. And so this is the first time I've had a chance to talk to all of you collectively. If there's anything you wanted to share with me or share with the public, uh I just want to give you that opport give you that opportunity.

I'm just appreciative of um I mean because we hear a lot from other cities and what they've gone through all the way across um the state and the nation. So obviously there's concerns. Um there's benefits, but there's lots of concerns. And so just making sure that we that the the community knows that we are going to be transparent from day one. We're not signing NDAs. We're not um you're not signing an NDA. So we're going to do our due diligence and and get all the information and and continue to share that with the public so that they're they're aware of what's going on.

And I just like to reiterate that um no decisions have been made because we don't have all the information. And um we do hear the concerns and we will listen to those as the process goes on and um you know because that that's part of our job is to hear the concern of our citizens and we will we'll do that take that in consideration. Yeah. Thank you for being so proactive. Yeah.

And I do appreciate the citizens. Um I posted the press release um on my political page and um you know at first people were like no no and I'm like tell me why tell me why no. And they've been very respectful and they've given me reasons because I'm like we need to ask the questions you know. So if you I mean it's okay to say no, but like tell us why you're saying no so we'll know what to ask. But I mean no one's really lost their mind yet. They're just concerns which I mean clearly we all have concerns. Um so I do appreciate their patience and just like let the process, you know, pan out, whatever that process may be. So um I do appreciate that. I like I like I like the feedback. Like I like the interaction. So thank you

and I and I certainly agree. Uh I just tell people that just like every other decision we make, we look at the data. In this case, we're looking at the data for the data center. Uh uh but we will really, you know what I mean? Uh concentrate on it and use that uh data because I hear a lot of different stories, how much [clears throat] water they use, how much they don't use, the electricity, where it comes from. We're concerned. We don't want to run our our bills up either, I'll tell you.

So, uh we're going to look at it closely if it comes about. Yeah. Well, let me close by saying is I understand that there's a house bill uh 2990 that I believe passed the house and the senate today with related to data centers uh and it in a nutshell. I'm going ask Trevor to get a copy of it and then make sure the council members have a summation and that essentially says that any type of improvements they have to pay for and there's certain notification requirements. I'm not sure if it did. I think it got final Senate approval this afternoon, but obviously if it's it's been approved by both both houses, then it would go to the governor for consideration. So, I wanted to let the council members know. I'm going to get that to you and let the public know about that bill because it's been brought to my attention by multiple people just in the last couple of days. I was aware of it, but obviously it's it's there went to the House and and Senate committee for review and I think they worked out the language and now was back before the houses for approval. So that's something that obviously could could have an impact on the process of how we go forward and also the developer that becomes law understanding the obligations they would have and we need to hold them accountable accountable to that what would could be potentially new law. So that's all I have, mayor.

Okay, we do have executive session. So I entertain a motion. So move. Second. Pickle, yes. Green, yes. Ford, yes. Parks, yes. Wimpy, yes. Call the Broken Air Municipal Authority meeting to order. Roll call. Pickle here. Green here. Ford here. Parks here. Wimpy here. Um, are there any items to be removed from the consent agenda? Make a motion to accept the consent agenda.

Second. Presentation, recognitions, and awards. There are none. Item approval of and authorization to execute agreement for waterline relocation. Charlie Bright the Charlie Bright. Oh.

Uh good evening madam chair, vice chair, uh trustees, and general man general manager Spurgeon. My name is Charlie Bright. I'm the director of engineering construction. Uh before you tonight is an agreement with Tulsa County. um one that I think we can all be excited about partially because it includes road construction of Omaha from Lind Lane to County Line, which I know we've all heard about many times and people believe is our road. Um excited to say that they've bidded out for construction and are ready to start construction. Um they they are awarding they either have awarded or will be awarding the project to Beco um very shortly. Um, as part of that, our the governing body passed many years ago, I think in 2023, an agreement that said we will relocate our water line as part of their project. Um, and it was always what's waiting for what that cost was going to be. We didn't know until bid day. So, we have an agreement saying this is what we'll do. Um, before you today is a new agreement now that we know that basically outlines what our responsibilities will be, what their responsibilities will be, and commits our funding to paying for our portion of relocating the water line. We did have funding earmarked for that. um that we've been saving through our loan program with our utility rates and everything else. Um but thanks uh to your efforts and uh general manager Spurgeon's efforts um we actually did secure additional funding through the state of Oklahoma and the ARPA rebalancing money. Um so the total for it is $1,295,270 and that relocates the whole mile of our line. Um we are expecting $800,000 of that to actually come from the state now through the ARPA funding and then uh we will just cover the port the other portion of it from OWRB loans. So happy to answer any questions you guys have.

Do we have all the needed right away to move it? Yeah, Tulsa County been working on that for a while to uh um do everything. This was completely a Tulsa County project. They did everything like we would normally do. Um I'm not familiar with all the details of the project, but I know they did rightway utility real they'll provide the right make sure the rightways provide they did all that well before bidding. So, something mayor,

uh, you know, I I all of our state legislators support this, but I I want to specifically mention, uh, Representative Ford because I know for four or five years, he has consistently asked for projects at the innovation district, for example, how could he bring back some some funds to our community? And he came to us a couple of months ago and was looking for a project that was related to water or sewer. And fortunately, this was perfect. and it's a part of the partnership. So, I need to send a shout out to Representative Ford for leading that charge and getting the support of the other legislators to bring those dollars back to our committee because that's a significant amount of funds back to the city of Broken Arrow. We don't have to borrow.

Yeah, it's it's a great point and we had earmarked over a million dollars in our money and we've just been sitting there waiting for Tulsa County to get to that point and you know now we're using less than 500,000 of our funds. So, that's $500,000 that we can invest in other capital projects. So it is a very good thing for us. Great. That's why he's my favorite representative. [laughter] Rebias there slightly. All right. Thank you, sir. Make a motion. Approve. Second. No, it's already been I seconded it. Sorry. Would you back out and I'll go ahead. You're fine.

Item B, consideration, discussion, and possible approval of resolution 70 1746. Good evening. Cindy Arnold, finance director. Um, before you is resolution 1746, which is a resolution of the Broken Arrow Municipal Authority authorizing a loan from the Oklahoma Water Resource Board in total aggregate principal amount not to exceed 27,930,000 um, and the issuance of the 2026A promisary note. We're doing this a little bit early this year. Um during the workshop, we're going to go over the projects in more detail, but some of the big projects is one of them is on place tour phase one, which is $12 million. The reason we're going early is that Edmond's doing a large deal, and we're jumping on the tail end of that in order to save money, and it saves about $100,000. So this um resolution authorizes um to apply for the loan and to approve the issuance of the series 2026 a promisary note. So staff recommends the approval and authorization of resolution 1746.

Questions or discussion? I'll make a motion we approve the resolution. Second. The goal is to hopefully close in July. So it will actually be next fiscal year. Thank you for being creative to save money. Yeah, it's always big. That's a John Wolf. He calls us. He calls us says, "Edmond's doing a large deal. Do you think you guys want to go early?" Money is money to counsel. Money's money. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Remarks by governing body members. Seeing none, if I'm Oh,

does this tie back into the one we table from? Do we have to wait till after executive to do that? Leave it on the table. City manager. Thank you for advancing this. Appreciate the authority. That's all I have. Mayor. Okay. A motion. Make a motion to adjurnn. Second. Roll call. Did we do Jay? Who? I am J. I'm sorry. I'm looking at the consent. I'm on the wrong page. 10:22. Never mind that. No, we did, Jay. [laughter] Sounds like we need the uh

motion for the adjournment. I'll click it. [clears throat]

All righty. All right. Call the Broken Air Economic Development Authority uh meeting to order. Roll call. Pickle here. Green here. Ford here. Parks here. Wimpy here. Any items to be removed from the consent agenda? Motion to approve consent agenda that stands. Second.

Need to talk to Cox about getting some faster internet. [laughter] He was just here last week. Item five is public hearings, appeals, presentation, recognitions, and awards. There are none. There is no general authority business. Any remarks from governing body members? City manager.

I do, mayor. Just one item. It's related to venue and the amphitheater is I anticipate sometime in the next 30 40 30 to 45 days. The governing body and the community will start to hear some announcements with regard to the venue it itself. um things uh announcing the operator, uh more information about possibly naming rights and a few other uh I would say just important announcements related to transitioning uh in early October from the construction into the the actually the the entertainment portion of it. And so I'm very excited to let the council members know. Uh we're looking at I believe around October 19th as the substantial completion date based on the current schedule and that these announcements are are going to be a part of this. Once we make the announcement with regard to the operator, that's when uh Kenny Swab's team along with public safety and other members of the leadership team will get together and begin the the logistical and operational planning associated with uh supporting the events and understanding in exactly how we're going to work together, you know, in terms of traffic management, emergency managements and so forth. So it it is that time and it's exciting that you know literally approximately six months from now we'll be transiting out of the construction and as you know last week Mr. Schwab mentioned this exciting news about the railroad and then securing the the final ride ofways we needed to finish the road. So everything's actually coming together moving towards that date to where they start having concerts. So this is just a little bit of preview of the things that are to come and obviously Aaron McCaulay working with venue will be making those announcements to the community.

Teaser. Yeah. I was in Fort Worth last week for a a conference and um got to drive by McKenna and you know it's so exciting to see how far along ours is and theirs was just just getting a little sick [laughter] of you know so I was like oh I remember when we were like that. Did you stop and let them know? [laughter] You should see how far along we are. Um, all righty. We do have an executive session, so I'll entertain a motion. So, move make a motion we go into executive session. Clear the clear the room. Don't we need to adjourn from um No, no, we're in this. It's in this meeting here. Oh, it's in this meeting.

Mr. Parks made the motion to clear the room. We need a second. Second. It also included to go into executive session. Is it after executive? We we're going to do executive session in beta. Then we'll reopen in council. Pickle. Yes. Yes. He's like, am I here? [laughter] Am I here? Am I here? I'm not sure where all that was going. Ford. Yes. Parks. Yes. Wimpy. Yes. All right. So, we are clear the room. play the