City Council - Regular Meeting

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Call the Broken Arrow City Council meeting to order. We have invocation by Pastor Rich Maranera.

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If we can bow our heads for a word of prayer. Thank you, Father God, for your hand of blessing over this city. Tonight, as the governmental body meets to make decisions, please give them wisdom and understanding they need. Let them hear the still, small voice within their hearts, and may your peace, which surpasses all understanding, be their guide. We commit this meeting into your hands as well as this city with all the expansion that's happening. Please shine your heart and your light to help the vision you place in their hearts and minds as leaders. Please place your hand of protection over our citizens, city workers, police, and fire, and all those who serve in some capacity. We believe Broken Arrow has a huge part to play in Oklahoma, in the nation, and may this city be an example of prosperity, leadership, unity, and faith. In the name of the greatest example, God's only son, who came to serve with kindness and humility.

Amen, guys. Amen. That's all I have.

Thank you. Thanks, Rich.

You're welcome.

All right. Roll call.

Pickle. Here. Green. Here. Ford. Here. Parks. Here. Wimpy.

Here. Please stand and join Counselor Ford for the Pledge of Allegiance. Attention.

Salute. Pledge.

Thank you, ma'am.

All right.

Are there any items to be removed from the consent agenda?

Well, I don't have a motion, but I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda as it stands.

So we have a motion a second roll call.

All right.

We don't have buttons to press. There you go.

Thank you. Thank you. All right. Item 7, public hearings, appeals, presentations, recognitions, and awards. 7a, presentation of a proclamation signed by the mayor declaring support of the United States, semi-quincentennial. So we were going to, Laurie was going to come up here, but we decided I was going to give this proclamation. One second. I'm going to read the. All right. So we have a proclamation from the city of Broken Arrow, whereas local governments are the bedrock of American democracy, providing 336 million residents with the most accountable, responsive, inclusive, ethical and transparent government in the world. Whereas from the nation's smallest villages to the largest cities, America's local governments have been essential in transforming the United States of America into the greatest, most influential nation in our world history. Whereas the City of Broken Arrow was first incorporated in 1902 and is proudly served today by Mayor Deborah Wimpey, Vice Mayor Johnny Parks, Councillor Lisa Ford, Councillor Justin Green, and Councillor David Pickle, also included in the municipal workforce of approximately 950 full-time dedicated public servants. Now, therefore, be it declared that the City of Broken Arrow hereby recognizes the semi-quincentennial celebration as an opportunity to educate, preserve and innovate during this milestone anniversary. So just wanted to make sure that we declared America 250.

Is that what quintennial means? It does. That's awesome. Thank you. That's great.

I wondered.

All right. There is no action required on that item. So item B, presentation and update on Broken Arrow's 250th birthday celebrations. Perfect item after that.

Good evening mayor council, Mr. Spurgeon. You did that much better than I could have for sure. So I'm going to provide just a little bit of an update on what activities we have for the 250th celebration. And this is something that the mayor had approached us about several months ago saying, this is a big deal and broken arrow needs to do some great things and show off our American pride. So, as you said, we are joining communities from across the nation. to celebrate the 250th birthday celebration. So to kick it off, our first event is going to be the New Orleans square block party event taking place on June 26th and 27th. This is a family friendly event featuring entertainment activities and food. And both of those evenings will end with the fireworks display. Then we are doing a time capsule ceremony on Tuesday, June 30th at veterans park. City officials and staff will bury a 25-year time capsule, and the time capsule will preserve memories, milestones, and items that represent life in Broken Arrow today. And each one of the city department directors have received a cylinder that they're going to put mementos for their respective departments. And I just, I do want to give a shout out to Ryan Bayes and his team. They've just done a remarkable job in putting that task together for us. Then the next event is Tuesdays in the Park on June 30th at Central Park. The city is hosting the fifth Tuesdays in the Park concert which will be Grady Nichols. There will be live music followed by a 250 second fireworks display. And then this year we also partnered with Our Blood Institute and we're working on collecting 250 pints of blood. And so we're going to be doing activities throughout the summer, and our Blood Institute has several blood drives to help us reach that community goal. And then the Parks Department is offering $2.50 pool passes on July 4th only. So I think that's a great thing that they're doing. And then lastly, the churches in Broken Arrow I've been reaching out to, and we're hoping that they're going to join with us at ringing at 2.50 on July 4th. and ringing their church bells for 250 seconds. So I think we'll be doing a lot of things and looking forward to celebrating at the birthday.

And I learned this week that on July 4th, between 12 and 1 p.m., we will have some jets that are going to do a flyover down Main Street. So, I mean, just saying. And it may be our spirit of Broken Arrow F-16. I'm not sure, but probably. Okay, that's pretty amazing. So try to come to Main Street between 12 and 1 and just look up. You'll hear them coming. Thank you, Lori.

I thought you said, hey, Lori.

And welcome back.

Thank you.

All right, Item D, presentation regarding fireworks enforcement in the city of Broken Arrow for 2026. Justin Sharp. Oh, I just skipped right over Charlie. I'm so sorry. You guys wait. Sorry. Item C, notification of road closure. Not as exciting, but sorry.

I was about to say, road closures are not ever near as fun. Kind of the opposite of fun, actually. Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council Members, Mr. Spurgeon. My name is Charlie Wright. I'm the Director of Engineering and Construction. Uh, before tonight is just the presentation of a road closure. As you guys know, the we're just letting the governing body and the public know of the closure. Um, the ultimate authority and approval falls with the city manager. Um, but we want to be transparent when it's happening on arterial road. Cause we know that, um, has a major effect on people's, uh, uh, day-to-day traveling. This one in particular is at 9th and Washington, so Lynn Lane and 91st Street. Active construction site. Right now we're widening it. It's going to be excellent. Flow of the whole area will be a lot better once we're done. But the challenge for this particular project is since we're only doing the intersection Once you get down to the very end where we narrow that intersection back down to the existing two-lane road There's just not room to do those final improvements at the end without shutting it down You could shut it down one lane at a time in the other but we think having only one lane open would actually be more confusing to the public than just shutting it entirely down and getting it done and So what we want to notify you of is not just one closure, it's multiple closures. It's potentially up to eight different closures, but it'll only be one leg of the road at a time, and we're going to try to do it every time between the hours of 9 and 4, so we miss rush hour as much as possible. But shut down from 9 to 4, try to work on the pieces on that one leg, and then a few days later we might turn and go to another leg, and then it might be a couple of weeks, and then we'll do another leg and so on. we will make sure that we get video boards out to notify the public and we'll probably do it on social media as well before each leg shut down. So happy to answer any questions you guys have.

Any questions or discussion?

Thank you.

Awesome. Thank you. All right. Now item D. We have Major Garrett and Justin Sharp. Board. Yep.

Good evening, mayor, vice mayor, counselors, Mr. Spurgeon. I'm Justin sharp. I'm the fire marshal broken arrow. This is a major gear. He's with the police department. We're just here this evening to give you a little bit of an update and a discussion if, if necessary on ordinances, state law changes, and then the, uh, both fire and police departments enforcement plans for the coming holiday. I can do it. Okay. Look at that. All right. First off, uh, the current city of broken air municipal ordinance section 10.3. It's going to be a fireworks ordinance. Fireworks are only allowed to be shot within the city limits on the 3rd and 4th. A couple of years ago, the rules were changing and permits were removed, so there are no permits required this year. And then the hours of operation are only between 3 o'clock in the afternoon and 11 o'clock at night. After 11 o'clock, fines double, and we are really a lot more strict on enforcement after 11 p.m., The basic rules for safe discharge of fireworks are, are listed in the ordinance and it's non combustible services. So driveways, neighborhood roads, uh, parking lots with permission, things like that. Uh, but it can't be within 25 feet of any structure. And then another main requirements that all the individuals have to clean them up same day. So I can't, they can not supposed to be leaving it overnight. That's something we'll be looking for. And then the, uh, city parks, they're not allowed to be discharged at any time during the city parks on the third or fourth, no streets larger than 26 feet wide or any of the main arterials. So that's something that the public needs to be aware of for sure. And then that last one, the fines, uh, they start at two 74 after 11 PM. They double, so they can go up to $549. plus court costs.

Good evening, Mayor. Vice Mayor, Council Members, Mr. Spurgeon. I'm going to talk to you a little bit about the Rockets Red Glare Act. It's Senate Bill 1948. It went into effect on the 29th of May, 2026. This is a state law that prohibits counties from prohibiting outdoor consumer fireworks for commercial purposes. That doesn't necessarily affect cities or municipalities from still being able to place restrictions and ordinances on the fireworks. It allows fireworks sales to occur year-round. Used to, that was restricted for a certain time window during the year, right around the 4th of July. It's now allowed year-round. And then it removes the ban on bottle rockets in Oklahoma, which were banned for about 45 years, I believe, until this act went into effect.

But not now.

What's that?

But not now. Not now.

No. Uh, the effect on COBRA ordinances or city broken error ordinances, our ordinances are still in effect. Okay. We can still enforce those and we can still put restrictions, which we do times, dates, locations, things of that nature. Uh, the sales of fireworks on property, not in the city limits can still occur year round, but again, there can be restrictions within the city limits. And then we talked about the bottle rockets being, um, you know, allowed, but those are still subject like any other firework to the restrictions that are also in the city, whether it's the time, the location. and the dates of when we allow it. So you've probably heard of this bill. That's a little bit of a rundown of the bill that's now in effect. There was an emergency clause placed on it, so it went into effect immediately once it was approved by the governor. Can we get it to go to the next one?

It's not going for me for some reason.

Okay, so both fire and police will have an enforcement plan in effect for the holiday, you know, the dates surrounding. July 3rd and 4th, I'll speak on the fire department side. We're going to have four enforcement teams dedicated to nothing but fireworks. So each enforcement team is going to have two fire marshal or people from the prevention divisions. out policing, specifically city parks, roadways, and just answering typical calls for service that we get through 911. We'll address any sort of safety concerns that we find out during the day, but unless they are actively violating the city ordinance, there's not a whole lot of enforcement actions other than just making sure people are safe and that they're not shooting off fireworks places they're not supposed to be during the daytime. So that's kind of our focus on the 3rd and 4th. And then the evening time after 11, all four teams will be focused on calls for service. You're going to get a lot of complaints after 11 o'clock. A lot of people that aren't supportive of fireworks are going to be calling at 1101, saying their neighbor is still doing it. So we'll be addressing those situations usually up until 1, 2 in the morning on the 3rd and the 4th. As far as the 5th goes, we will only have one enforcement team – patrolling the city, but because the fifth this year hits on a weekend, just be aware of the fifth will probably be one of our larger enforcement days because it's after the city ordinance. There's not any time during the fifth that they're allowed to be shot off, but it's still a Sunday. People are still going to have fireworks and they're probably going to be doing it. So we'll answer those calls. And the idea with the third and fourth, with us being heavy on the enforcement side, is we can focus on the fireworks on those days specifically. PD is also going to be assisting, and Major Garrett will speak to that. But they also have to deal with all the other calls that are coming in. So we try to take some of that load off on those two days.

So the police department, we're going to kind of work the few days before and a couple of days or a day after. So on the first and the second, we're going to have, of course, our regular patrol bureau is going to be handling normal calls for service. We're also going to assign a couple officers extra during that time on the first and the second, specifically for fireworks enforcement. On the third and the fourth, our patrol officers will handle calls for service. We're going to have our friends at the fire fire department are going to be heavy. They're going to have four teams, eight people out, but we will also respond to calls for service on the third and the fourth. But as you know, between three, three and 11 PM, it's legal anyway. Uh, but we'll have a, our regular patrol Bureau out, uh, working and we're expecting that to be a heavy call day anyway. And then on the fifth, again, as a sharp said earlier, we're going to have two more officers on that day assigned specifically for. enforcement and we are expecting that to be a pretty heavy day for enforcement because as you said it's a Sunday and then we'll feel called for any fireworks related offenses as well as anything else so the two days before and then the one day after we're planning on having some officers specifically assigned for fireworks enforcement and that's kind of what our enforcement plan is going to be we're going to work together collaboratively to make this work and we'll be happy to answer any questions if you have any so basically

Our ordinance supersedes the new state law. And so it's good just to have an update and let everyone know, because I know there were lots of questions that about if, if anything changed. So thank you all for that. Do you guys have any questions?

Absolutely.

I can foresee some concerns before that time, because I know it says three to 11, but, uh, I know folks with young kids, my kids, they want to get out and do their daytime fireworks in the daytime. And we're going to have to bridle them back. Can't do it until 3 o'clock.

It's still daytime at 3, so that's good. I know.

But when you have young kids and they want to, just like Christmas morning, they want to get up and they want to go out. We were all there once. But, you know, it'll just be something that parents will have to deal with.

And just going back, thank you for all your work on the pre-planning for everyone having a great holiday. What's the best way if you do have a neighbor, let's say it's 1 a.m. and they're still tying one on, what's the best way for them to contact you?

The best way to contact us is just to call the non-emergency, non-emergency, not 911, not unless it's an actual emergency. If your neighbors just shooting a little late, 918-259-8400, they'll assign the call and then we'll come out and we'll handle it. If we see violations, we'll handle it. Awesome.

We can post that number on our social media and websites and everything as well. Exactly.

You know, I might comment that I certainly think you guys did a great job, you know, what I mean, in developing this and protecting this as much as you can when you have fireworks. But I have to say that, again, I'm opposed to fireworks inside the city. For years, we take our fireworks outside the city, you know, and fire them off. I get quite a few complaints from veterans. They say, well, it bothers dogs. I haven't heard from any dogs, but I have from a lot of veterans. So I vote no, but it has nothing to do with it. You guys have got it planned just right. You kind of, you know what I mean, go over what the state law was, and I know it up to the city. So I really appreciate what you're doing. So my vote no is not really in opposition to what you're doing or saying. So I thank you for that. Thank you, sir.

I think Aaron and the communications team has done a great job as well getting the message out because I think it was confusing when the state law came out. I think a lot of people thought that did supersede our city ordinance. Mr. Spurgeon, would you mind also, you know, we also have something in place in case it rains on the 3rd and the 4th. I know you're in charge of making a rain date. Can you address that too for people to know if it does rain, what happens? Thank you for the question.

or the city council a couple years ago actually gave the city manager or his designee the ability if there is rain on one of those two days to actually authorize an additional day so we'll be watching weather closely and we make that call in base in concert with the basically the fire chief and his team and the police department so that is always a possibility thank you

All right. Item E is approval of SP 2852-2026.

We need to vote on that. Isn't that just a presentation? Okay.

Okay. Rocky?

Good evening Madam Mayor, Mr. Vice Mayor, Members of Council, City Manager, Mr. Spurgeon. I'm Community Development Director Rocky Hinkle. SP 2852-2026 is a request for a conditional use permit for an accessory dwelling structure to exceed the 5,000 square feet maximum floor area on a lot greater than two acres in size. The property is located north of East New Orleans Street and west of South 9th Street. Section 2-4-1c.2b specifies the lots that are greater than two acres can have accessory building dwelling units up to a floor area of 5,000 square feet by permit. Structures with a floor area greater than 5,000 square feet may be approved by a conditional use permit. The floor area for the structure is planned to be 60 feet by 120 feet for a floor area of 7,200 square feet. All setbacks for the current zoning are met in the exhibit. The lot is approximately 13 acres in size and it's created via a lot combination BAL 2154 to allow for the development of two single family homes. A single family home is planned to be constructed on the lot. However, his construction is not required before the construction of the accessory dwelling unit as the parcel is larger than two acres. The use for the structure will be limited to personal uses. and those home occupation uses allowed under current zoning ordinance. The surrounding land uses, zoning designation, and comprehensive plan designations are as follows. To the north is comprehensive plan level one. Zoning is agricultural. The land use is vacant. To the east, comprehensive plan is level two. The zoning is AG and RS. The land use is vacant. To the south is level two. The zoning is RS. It is a single family residential home. To the west is level two zoning district is RS and the land use of single family residential. The planning commission recommended approval for row of this item and their meeting held on June 11th, 2026. No one spoke in favor or in opposition to this item. Staff recommends you approve SP 20 52 dash 2026 per planning commission and staff recommendations.

Any questions or did anyone sign up to speak for or against it tonight? Did not. Okay. I'll make the motion to approve item 26-966. I'll second.

We have a motion and a second. Roll call. All right.

Rocky, approval of SP in east of 9th Street.

Current broken arrow zoning regulations require that any industrial light zones have rear setbacks of 30 feet. Setbacks from property lines abutting a different non-residential zone is also 30 feet, and this requirement would apply to the east property line. However, the property to the rear is the railroad, and the property to the east is non-conforming use with a CH commercial heavy zone. The applicant, on behalf of the property and business owner, Advance Alarms, is requesting a PUD for the property in order to reduce the required setbacks. If approved, the applicant is proposing to develop a 2,857 square foot structure as part of an expansion for their business. The proposed building will include a few offices, a bathroom and a storage room. This proposed structure will need to meet all other development regulations, including those within the fire code and building code. The applicant is also requesting that no landscape buffer be required to the south against the railroad. The applicant has included a proposed landscaping plan, and this plan does include all other required landscaping, such as trees, landscape, edge, landscape areas, and includes additional bushes as well. The planning commission recommended approval for, Oh, of this item on may 28th, 2026 at the planning commission meeting. No one spoke in favor or in opposition of this request. Staff recommends you approve PUD 2802-2026 per planning commission and staff recommendations.

Didn't anyone sign up to speak for or against this item? I did not.

OK. I'll make a motion we approve the request. I'll second that motion.

Motion and a second. Roll call.

Thank you. See you soon. Thank you.

All right. Item eight is the citizens' opportunity to speak before council. There is no citizens. Let me just double check just to make sure. But I don't believe there is. No. Item nine is general council business. 9A is consideration, discussion, and possible approval of and authorization to execute resolution number 1755. Michael Spurgeon and Cindy Arnold.

Thank you, Mayor, members of council. Good evening, everyone.

I've just had a brief PowerPoint presentation. The administration is recommending that the city council approve the FY2027 municipal budget. This is just a quick reminder that the budget workshop was held on May 12th, 2026. The city council held a public hearing on June 1st of 2026. The budget document has been available to the public on the city's website and at City Hall since the middle part of May. And tonight we set the final adoption for July 15th by way of resolution 1750, 1750 to 2027 is $487,039,000. As council is aware, there is executive summary There's proposed revenue expenditures for all funds, proposed department budgets, special funds, proposed expenditures and revenues and fund balances, the street maintenance plan, the proposed FY 2027 bond sale, the Oklahoma Water Resources Board loan program as proposed, and the manual fees. This is a breakdown of the operational budget for 2027. The operational budget is $194 million. $194,629,027. Operationals breakdown is personnel services, a little over 119 million. Other services and charges, right at 61 million. Materials and supplies, 14.7 million. Our capital outlay is $242,723,000, and debt service is $49,686,733, and that's how we get to the $487,039,418. I'd like to thank the council and the staff for all their assistance, especially Cindy Arnold, and at this time I'd be glad to answer any questions, and I'd ask council's consideration of approval of this year's, of the upcoming year's fiscal year budget.

Any questions or discussion?

Can you say the, uh, budget book was very riveting to spend time going through, uh, but we appreciate staff for putting that together for us so that we are able to make good informed decisions about the budget and the people's money.

So thank you, sir.

It is available for anyone that can come and take a look at it for transparency and throughout the entire year.

Yep, exactly. Absolutely. All right. I do appreciate, Cindy, your and your team's work on that. And your summary, Mr. Spurgeon, helps us a lot to get to get through that big, thick book for sure. And with that, I will make a recommendation for approval on item 26, 841. Or second it. Okay. Roll call.

Yeah.

All right. Item B is consideration, discussion, and possible approval to modify the existing back-end parking configuration on Main Street. Mr. Spurgeon.

Thank you, Mayor. Mr. Council, this item, actually, the mayor and I had a conversation. Since we installed the back-end parking several years ago, it's always been a question about its effectiveness. And after discussing with her, I put together a RFFA asking the council to consider this. And obviously there are some, um, there's some reasons for it. There's also some reasons against it. You know, one of the biggest concerns we have is we've never, we've never really done enforcement anywhere downtown because we, we really don't want to drive our customers away. And so we've been very flexible. We, we spent a lot of time, the Ted team does getting the employees that work in the downtown area to park elsewhere instead of in front of the businesses. And so after much consideration, I have no concerns and would recommend the council go back to to the pull-in parking?

Well, I think the original thought was probably the safety of the bike riders, I'm assuming. But a lot of our seniors park down there, veterans for sure, and they just don't park. They're not doing it. It's been how many years? Three years?

It's been longer than that. It's been since 2019, I believe.

Has it really?

Yeah. Excuse me, 2021.

Yeah, you would think people would have gotten the habit, but you go to... stop to back in and people are right on your tail. So then you have to drive around to come back to find a parking spot. And yeah, and then they just don't back in. They'll they'll pull right in. So and again, if you're not going to enforce it, what's what's the point? And I think it's almost more dangerous the way it is now with no one knowing how to park.

Was this a requirement with any of the funding that came with the bike lanes?

Great, great question, counselor. And I asked I checked with Charlie and it's not some cities. It was OK.

I just don't park there because I don't like it. It's just awkward. You know, when you spend your life pulling in awkward doing that, you got to be careful going out. Hey, I got to reverse this to get out and go. So I'm in favor of changing it to regular.

Well, and I've had several businesses also that are down in that way that complain all the time that people aren't parking there and we don't enforce it. So why do we have to have it? And so.

I think this is great. Mayor, do you want to make the motion?

I'll make a motion to approve. Second.

You got to click it, Mayor. You got to click it. Oh, I have to click it. No, you're not used to it. I'm not used to making a motion.

So there you go.

All right.

And this is not going to negate the bike lanes or are we taking up the bike lanes?

Actually waiting for council to make a decision so we can actually do the painting and we'll actually going to repaint the bike lanes themselves. And actually, as you know, we'll be milling the inner the inner part of the South Main as soon as the sewer line work is completed.

And I encourage people to use the bike lane. I've only seen a tractor on the bike lanes.

So I have I have neighbors that ride.

Yeah, I've seen I've seen bikes on the bike lane. Wonderful. Brent rides them, drives them down the road.

Yes. From the TED team. Oh, you're right.

You're right. You're right. All right. Item C, consideration, discussion, and possible approval of and authorization to execute Resolution 1756. Cindy Arno.

good evening i'm cindy arnold finance director um as you know we have a hotel motel tax and we have one hotel that has not paid for a while and that's the homewood suites um and i'm gonna butcher his name maltaney mister and has ignored all um correspondence that we've done. We sent a certified letter. We're not sure if he picked it up, but we did get a copy back that it was certified did go out. Last time, a couple of years ago, we did the same thing. We threatened to go to court. He decided to try to make a payment arrangement. He did it for a little while and then he stopped paying. And now it's crickets again. So we would like to pursue going after him for the hotel motel tax. because he owes about $82,000 at this point. It's a rather busy hotel. His monthly support percent is quite good. So staff is asking for approval resolution 1756 so that we can take the owner of Homewood Suites that's located at 4900 Madison Place, Broken Arrow to the district court.

Have you visited with him lately? Anybody?

We have sent we have sent letters and we sent out reminders. We sent a certified letter and we get nothing. It's not like he's not communicating.

This is on this on Garnett. Is that right? North of Kenosha and Garnett.

21st and 71st, I think.

Yeah. Garnett. Yeah.

So hopefully sometimes when we get to this point, we do send a letter that we're going to they will come in and try to make good. So.

I'll make a motion to proceed. Second. No, you got it.

Well, I got it. You're welcome. Thank you.

All right. Thank you.

Thank you, Cindy.

Item D is consideration, discussion, and possible approval of a noise ordinance waiver for Broken Arrow Lacrosse Club to host a 24-hour tournament on August 8th at Neenheis Park.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council, Mr. Spurgeon. The Broken Arrow Lacrosse Club has been approached by a National Veterans Lacrosse Organization shootout for soldiers interested in hosting a 24-hour continuous lacrosse tournament at the Neenheis Football Complex on April 8th excuse me, August 8th and 9th, 2026, that benefits American veterans. The event centers around supporting those who serve our country. To accommodate this event, Broken Arrow Lacrosse Club respectfully requests a waiver from Section 1612 of the Broken Arrow Code of Ordinances, which restricts public gatherings in city parks to the hours between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m. The requested waiver would allow tournament activities to continue uninterrupted between 11 p.m. on August 8th and 7 a.m. on August 9th. And Chad Lott with the lacrosse club is here, and he can tell you more specifics about that tournament.

All right. Thank you. Good evening.

Good evening. Um, mayor city council, Mr. Spurgeon and city staff. My name is Chad Lott. And, um, I'm here on behalf of the broken arrow lacrosse club. Um, I'd like to thank you for consideration for this request for a waiver that would allow us to host soldier shootout for soldiers at knee nice park, August 8th through the ninth, uh, shoot out for soldiers as a nationally recognized 24 hour lacrosse event whose mission is to use the sport of lacrosse to support American veterans and strengthen community engagement. For more than a decade, communities across the country have partnered with this organization to raise funds, awareness for veterans and military families. This event will bring together players, families, sponsors, and supporters from across the region. Two of the largest private lacrosse clubs in our area have already committed to participate, and we expect more than 40 teams to take part throughout the event. Most importantly, the funds raised stay focused on helping veterans through respected organizations that provide life-changing support to service members and their families. We are currently working with several military-focused charities locally to ensure the proceeds have a meaningful local impact. We understand that this request requires an exemption to the normal park hours, and we remain committed to being responsible stewards of the facility and respectful neighbors throughout the event. We appreciate the city's partnership and support. On behalf of the Broken Arrow Lacrosse Club and veterans who will benefit from this, I respectfully ask for your approval of this waiver request. Thank you for your time and consideration.

You guys have any questions?

I do. Other than the notice of this meeting that he was going to present this, have the neighbors been notified at all that you're wanting to do this?

No, ma'am, not at this part.

I'd kind of like to be able to notify the neighbors that this could be happening to give them a chance to either support it or not support it. They may be fine with it, but I just kind of feel like they're probably not looking for something like that, you know what I mean, to be on the agenda. I'd really like to be able to notify them. that it's coming, you know, maybe, I mean, it's 24 hours, you know, sleeping babies. And I mean, it's on the weekend. I did look at Saturday, you know, Saturday, Sunday, um, it's not during school or work or anything like that, but people do work on the weekends and there are babies sleeping. But I feel like if we just approve it tonight without notifying him, that's not being very transparent in my opinion. So I, I, I would prefer to notify at least.

you know, how we notify people within so many feet, you know, that may be notified them because we hadn't approved to be done yet.

But that's what, but that's what I just, but if we approve it, then it's happening. And then we're like, it's happening. And then they don't have, you know what I'm saying? And we still have time. So if we can, um, Matt, I don't know. Do we do that through the parks or Mr. Spurgeon? How would we do? How could we do that?

Well, I wanted to bring it to council members because this is one of the first, uh, event like this we've had, and I fully support this, but I do believe that Kenny and I had a conversation, uh, I said the exact same thing. We're going to need notified the neighborhood. So, I mean, obviously he's here tonight because they need a little bit of lead time in order to get prepared for the event. And so I'm not in a position to say to recommend it condition upon because I think the council should retain that. But there isn't a meeting until the 14th, Chad. So if the council waited to the 14th, is that too long? 14th of July? No, sir. OK, then it's not then and I can work with our communications and Matt and we can actually make it make notice and actually hold something there at Neenah's for folks to come in to explain it.

Yeah, I mean, I just I just like to do some kind of notification and they may be fine. You know, we may not hear from any of them, but I think we should at least there's no direct neighborhoods.

abutting the fields, right?

No, it was a golf course. It was a fire department. That's what I thought.

It is close enough that the lights will be on.

Okay, but not the sound. I mean, you don't think they'll hear them?

I think you're going to hear the players. I mean, there's probably going to be cheering and actually just loud voices that you would hear normally in any type of sport. But I do think I knew that the council was going to have questions about the neighborhood, and that's why we need to provide them with notice. And then if it's not a problem, then on July 14th, we can come back and ask for council to approve it.

I prefer that. That would be my vote.

And, and we're definitely okay with that. And I will also add that, uh, I don't think that this will end up being a true 24 hour event because normally what they do is on one field and with the mean heights, we have the access of four. So that'll cut event usage down. And so, and, and they've faced this in, in other municipalities. So we are prepared to flex if need be.

I mean, it sounds fine.

I think it's a great event. Um, lacrosse is a growing sport and i think they picked the right city because we obviously do support our veterans i think it would be a fantastic time i know my boys are already ready to sign up for it i want to sign up just so i can get one of these really cool commemorative jerseys that are coming out of the thing but i think it's going to be a great event so uh i'm definitely in support of supporting this yeah and thank you for supporting our veterans for sure oh absolutely you know and i support it also i

I do agree that the citizens need to be notified, but I do think also they're far enough away that it won't be a major, you know what I mean? Interruption of the same vein.

We just approved fireworks on two days and we didn't notify everybody before we approved that.

They know. Yeah, they do. They know. We notify them because we hear from them. That's what I, that's what I'm saying.

We didn't notify them before you approved extra firework days.

Well, you have your vote and I have my vote. My vote is to notify them. Okay.

Well, it's really good because I, I was just concerned logistically, but if you're good to go on the 14th, then Matt will coordinate everything. You'll be there to answer questions and then we'll come back and we'll put this back on the agenda for council consideration. Let the council know what the results were of the public meeting. All right. I appreciate it.

Perfect. Okay. Thank you.

Thank you.

All right. Item E is consideration discussion and possible.

So do we need to take some kind of action to table that or whatever since it was up for approval? You can take a formal vote just tabling it to the 14th.

Right. I think it's a good idea.

You guys should make that motion.

I make a motion to table it to the next city council meeting.

I second.

Roll call. All right. Item E, consideration, discussion, and possible approval. I'm sorry?

No, we're good.

Okay. Previously tabled item, approval of, and I got me all thrown off, an authorization to award bid number 26.148 opioid abatement utilizing funds from the abatement settlement fund. Chief Arnold.

Good evening, Madam Mayor, Vice Mayor, Councilors, Mr. Spurgeon. I'm Police Chief Lance Arnold. This item was tabled on your May 19, 2026 consent agenda to allow Council additional time for the recommendation. Just as a reminder, this item, Section K of the RFA, established five published evaluation criteria for the following weights. Experience and qualifications was 25%. Project approach and methodology was 30%. Understanding of project goals was 15%. Cost proposal was 20%. And references were 10%. Omni Institute earned the highest overall score and ranked first in three of the four scored criteria, including the most heavily weighted project approach and methodology and experience and qualifications. And staff's recommendation is to approve Omni Institute for this proposal.

All right. I appreciate, um, you guys taking the time to table that particular topic. Uh, it was brought to me with some, some concerns. So I wanted to definitely, uh, hear those out and flush everything out. And I appreciate you and your team taking the time to answer those questions for us so we can make an informed decision of how to move forward.

Yes, sir. Thank you.

And I'm available for any other questions if you have any further discussion, I'll make a motion to approve item 26 dash eight one eight.

Second. Second.

All right. Item F, consideration, discussion, and possible approval to authorize execution of a five-year master service agreement with Exxon Enterprise, Chief.

Hello again, Madam Mayor, Vice Mayor, Councilors, Mr. Spurgeon, Lance Arnold, Police Chief. You all received this, and so did the public presentation, so I'm going to go through it really quickly, and not spend a lot of time on each item, but really what this represents is a major move forward, technologically advanced community lives and one that forges ahead with innovation and technical ecosystem that has got some items that we currently have, like the taser, like FUSIS, real-time operations, and our evidence.com. It also includes items that we don't have in technology and software as a service that we don't have. And then it has some items that we currently have but that are with a different vendor and that are sunsetting. So we'll run through those really quickly. The first one is Axon number one, and you can see this has been deployed in over 1,000 emergency call centers and has handled over 800 million calls across those or 80 million calls across those centers. We're really excited about this. This is able to be online translation. Right now we have to send those off to a language line. There can be delay in that. So this will actually do it on screen. It actually transcribes the entire call regardless of the language. It also is able to handle non-emergency calls just with the AI, which also reduces our workload and allows us to focus on those emergency calls. Drone is a first responder. You guys have already approved that technology for us. And so this is an opportunity to extend that as well. And so probably not a lot of need to discuss that. This one is exciting, though. This is D Drone. It allows us to instantly locate not only the drone, but also the pilot. As we start to host more events and as the amphitheater comes online, the ability to have the technology to find nefarious drones and where the pilots are is huge for us, and so this is something that we don't currently have, and it's all built into the same ecosystem that we're talking tonight. You guys are aware of FUSIS, and as our real-time information center comes more online, we'll love to host you guys and let you see it in action, but this brings not only all of the city-owned and operated cameras, but all of our participating retail, the schools, restaurants, office buildings, all ones that want to participate into one location agnostic of the kind of camera system that they have into our real-time information center. The vehicle intelligence, again, is something of building out our real-time information center. It's technology that we have now, but it brings it into the same ecosystem as we move forward and continue to expand that. Fleet 3 is the in-car cameras. We get a lot of questions about in-car cameras. There are about 70% of the agencies our size across the country currently use in-car cameras, and we don't currently have that technology. So this is something that's really huge for us. I know that you guys have had items before you where you were reviewing maybe an executive session or something, video from our body cams, and when the officer's in the car, you get a great picture of the steering wheel. So this is something that really we're looking forward to and will help us considerably. We do currently have body cam. This is our fifth year of our original vendor, and that product is sunsetting. So this would bring this into the entire ecosystem. The great thing about Axon, you see it's in 17,000 agencies in over 130 countries. The technology that they're doing now where they have real-time translation on the device, as well as all of the, be able to go live back to the Arctic, be able to have sensors on your body for if you unholster your weapon or something like that, and the body cam is not on, it would automatically come on. and alert the World Time Information Center all at the same time. The stuff that they're doing nowadays is just amazing, but that's the value of having it within the entire ecosystem. We do currently have Taser 10s. Several years ago, you all approved a pretty large contract to outfit all of our patrol officers. Unfortunately, that was only 115 of our 165 current officers, and so the other officers that are not assigned to patrol have tasers, but they are not the latest technology. And so this will bring them online. This was a purchase that we planned on making in the future to get everybody into the Taser 10, which is kind of the latest and greatest in that. With that comes the ability to do VR training. And some of you got to experience, all of you, in fact, experienced some of the VR headsets. But the ability to be able to do that training, do it before shift briefing or at shift briefing rather than having a full day of training and be able to do more of it in just a really short amount of time in realistic scenarios. All of this goes through the secure cloud and an area that, as you all know, we continue to improve technology. That's the cost a lot of times of doing business is that cloud technology and the storage and all that. But this really is one price across the five year contract. So we get unlimited storage, unlimited cloud services without increasing that cost. The app we're currently using with our evidence.com that you all approved last year, and it has without question become super efficient and effective for us to handle digital evidence, be able to share digital evidence with the prosecutor's office and others. It's been amazing, but our officers have really appreciated having this. It's helped us quite a bit. With that technology comes other AI features that are part of this plan. In fact, it includes the AI era plan. So everything that Axon has built up to this point and then anything that they build in the next five years, it gets rolled into this with no additional cost. In fact, this is one of the few technology contracts that you're going to see where it doesn't have a built-in escalation over the course of the five-year contract. The price is what the price is. But this is something that's being utilized, again, across the country that's really helping officers save time on writing their reports. And they're actually – we've demoed it live and in person, and it writes really good reports. The officers still have to verify them, and we have to disclose the fact that we use that technology. Form 1 is another one of those tools where as the officer just shows the driver's license to the body-worn cam, it can already start to fill out your forms for you. So again, you know, less errors and quicker on doing our business. A lot of our work, as you all know, as administrative as it is, as much as it is being out on the road and interacting with our citizens, And what we're really seeing when we add start adding these features We start to increase the amount of time that route interacting with our systems and reduce the amount of time that we're stuck at the PSC doing paperwork The other one that's really exciting you all know that we are a retail center Not only for the Tulsa area but for the Northeast Oklahoma region and a lot of our major boxes and all that already participate in aura and and Aura is something that is part of this entire package too. So they will be able to share information across their spectrum into our systems, and we'll be able to have that all kind of seamlessly work together, which is something that we're really excited about as well. And then the final thing I'll just tell you is that the cost of bundling all this into one ecosystem not only is efficiency and effectiveness, but it is a savings of about $6.8 million over the life of this contract by being able to bundle all of these services into one. And with that, I'll open for any questions you have.

Well, I appreciate the additional technology that's helping you guys get more down on the street for sure. I would assume that criminals don't want to come to Broken Arrow because we're watching. We're everywhere, right? That's always our goal. Yes. So I know back in the day, it was that way. You'd hear of a crime area, and then you guys were always out there, and then all of a sudden it They just dissipate and they go elsewhere. So, um, so I appreciate making sure that our city is safe.

Well, I'm sure you see too. We share the, uh, our monthly comp stat, uh, with you all. And so you're able to see our real time information center wins that we've had already, and we're still not completely built out. in that system, but just the amount of things that we're able to do now, especially in our retail areas and our really high volume areas, to be able to make really solid cases and really catch those people. If they do come into town, then we're catching them before they're able to get out of town.

Okay. I just, I just want to clarify. So it says Exxon 9 1 1. So if I call 9 1 1 to broken arrow, am I still going to talk to a real person?

You are absolutely. Yes. So this is, this is, no, that's a, that's a great question. Council for I'm glad you asked that. So no, it is an overlay. So it's two, it's twofold. One is next gen 9 1 1, which actually the Indian council count, the Indian nations council of government had already selected carbine before Exxon bought carbine. So that was already something that was in the works to bring in next gen 9 1 1. into NCOG's region for 911. And that's been something that we've been budgeting for really over the last couple of years, waiting for that selection to occur. The other piece of that is an item called prepared, which sits on as an AI overlay. It's the one that does the voice translation, the real time, and dictation and all of that. So it really is able to handle not emergency calls, but it sits alongside the dispatcher and doesn't replace the dispatcher.

And I'm okay with all of that. I just want to make sure we're still talking to a real person when you call Broken Arrow on 911. That's correct. I do not want to be like a neighboring city where you don't talk to a real person until three transfers down the road.

Right. That part will not change. What will change with NextGen 911, which is part of this, is your ability to send video, pictures, for us to know your location based on your phone and not just the location that the cell tower you're hitting, which gets us a much more precise location. So those are the features that really are built into it, not the features of taking the actual person out of a dispatch center. Okay.

I think Broken Arrow Police Department is one of the premier police departments, not just in the region, but in the state, if not in the nation. And I think doing things like this, forward thinking and being technologically advanced, helps us to stay in that position and carry us into the future and ensure that we're providing top-notch service to the citizens of Broken Arrow. So I'm definitely in support of this. Thank you, sir.

Yeah, I would just agree. You know, we are the number one safest city in America. Oklahoma we'll just go with that and thank you for all that you do and the forward thinking because like you were saying this is not only something that's going to benefit the city and our citizens and safety and also help your officers as well but also I think I did hear something about a 6.8 million dollar savings as well so that's always a nice thing too

And, of course, I would be remiss if I didn't mention the team that we have. It's literally one of the most talented group of committed individuals and teams that I've ever been associated with. And that really extends across the city. But our department staff is top notch in every way. So thank you.

I would agree with that.

Thank you, Chief. Entertain a motion.

No further discussion. I'll make a motion to approve this item number 26-889. I second.

Roll call. All right. Item G is consideration discussion on possible approval of award to the lowest responsible bidder, Cherokee Pride Construction for the Liberty Trail retaining wall. Right.

Good evening again, Mayor, Vice Mayor, council members, Mr. Spurgeon. My name is Charlie Bright, director of engineering construction I'm excited to finally be here to ask to award the bid for construction for the Liberty Trail retaining wall. As I'm sure many of you guys have gotten phone calls and emails over the past year, I have gotten plenty of those as well as Matt Hinger and I'm sure many others. I've given out your number a few times. I appreciate you passing out my number. I've gotten those calls. It is frustrating and I feel the frustration of the citizens. This wasn't a project that was planned. Our wall failed. It wasn't intended. And that's not something that was budgeted. And a lot of things like this, you know, we can make up for in our capital budget and everything. But this this failure was a large project and and the failure also need to be engineered. So the wall needed to be completely replaced. It's a long wall. It's 800 feet long and it's up to eight feet tall. So this is not small. And so that's why we've had the trail shut down for quite a while now. But over that time, we have designed a new wall. We have coordinated with the OTA because we're going to have to be inside their fence line. We're going to do some, we're not going to narrow any lane or we're not going to like do any shutdowns on the turnpike, but we probably will have some cones up and stuff just to try to get people to drive a little bit slower next to it. But I am happy to say we got the bid out last month following the state bidding procedures and Cherokee Pride Construction was our low bidder for $861,086. And I am recommending award to them. Happy to answer any questions that you guys have.

I think I say this every single time. There is a wall.

that is being looked at in our city let's not build any more walls in our city what's the time frame of the project uh great question so 120 days is the construction timeline um that doesn't necessarily start at approval tonight we still have to execute the contract and issue a notice to proceed but once they do start they get 120 days okay i will make a motion to approve i'll say it or johnny got it question a second roll call

A lot of people so excited about this. No, thank you.

Just tell them do a good job.

Yeah. Yeah, we just want to go once Council reports waiting on your vote

Thank you. Item H consideration discussion and possible approval of award to the lowest responsible bidder, Cherokee pride construction for six street whitening project. Travis.

Good evening, mayor, vice mayor, council, city manager, Travis small engineering construction department. Uh, the six street left turn lane project has been on the books for a while. We worked with a consulting firm to get that designed, adding a left turn lane on six street to provide better access. for the public safety complex. We recently bid that project, opened bids last week. Cherokee Pride was the lowest responsible bidder in this particular case with a bid of $227,405.00. One thing I'd like to point out to council, this particular project, similar to what Charlie talked about earlier with the 9th and Washington shutdown, this is a two-lane road that we're expanding out. and we have to tie in to a two-lane road. So in order to do that, we think the safest, best, and most efficient way to do that is to go ahead and shut the road down. We have coordinated with the chiefs on this particular project. They are on board with that. There is access to the public safety complex via 4th and Madison, and also off of Lansing, the public safety complex, the fire, and the police folks have access to 9th Street from Lansing. With that in mind, we would recommend a ward of this project. I'm here to answer any questions if you have any.

What about the church across the street from the public safety complex?

So we plan on phasing this construction so they will have access to their church. They will have to come in through 4th and Madison, the back way, excuse me. We will put up message boards letting everybody know that the access they can get through 4th. Okay.

I'll just ask real quick. This is the second item that we're looking at for Cherokee pride. Can you speak to their, um, what their quality of work and what, you know, how they, uh, assist the city, um, that they're one of the lowest responsible bidders.

So a great question. Uh, we get this often because Cherokee pride does win several projects here at the city. Uh, they've done a lot of workforce in the past. they do good work and we stay on top of them to make sure that they get the job done so we feel confident that they have the ability to do the work at this time based upon conversations we have we've had internally and we work with our construction division asking them their opinion with respect to the work that they do have ongoing within the city At this time, we do believe that they do have the ability to do that. As I said, they do quality work, and we think they have the ability to get it done. Sure.

Sorry, I want to come up, because I had more conversations with my team than maybe Travis was even privy to on that particular fact. And so I do want to add with Cherokee Pride, one, as I've discussed with this governing body in the past, I'm not ever up here to say that they're the best contractor in the world and they're perfect and everything else, but they are very responsive. When there's issues, they correct them. And as we talked about last time over the past couple of years, they've saved the city over $3 million by taking their bids. With the discussion of awarding two projects to them tonight, my question that I always ask my team before I even get to you guys is, are they really going to be able to get all this done and not put us off and everything else? I had that same conversation before we had this meeting when I found out that they were a little bitter on multiple projects, and we went through the schedule of things we have. They have several projects falling off the list of things that we've awarded to them in the past. They've finished some residential rehabs. and they've done some other things and so we've worked with them and we are confident they have the crews to do this work as other work falls off so we feel comfortable with them getting both awards thank you any further discussion entertain a motion i'll make a motion to approve 26-927 i'll save it roll call

all right thank you item i is consideration discussion on possible approval of pud 2820-2026 for happy hands rocky hinkle good evening again madam mayor mr vice mayor members of council city manager mr spurgeon i'm community development director rocky hinkle pud 2820-2026 is a planned unit development request allowing school uses within an office neighborhood zoning district Happy Hands Education Center is a nonprofit organization focused on families with children who are hard of hearing or deaf and provides licensed and accredited childcare. The organization also employs hard of hearing and deaf adults as part of its mission. The organization is currently housed within its campus across from San Antonio Street. However, families have requested elementary age education opportunities for their children. This would require additional classroom space that is not available or easily added to the original facility. Happy hands has reached a tentative agreement with the owner of the subject property to lease a portion of the building to house additional classroom space for elementary age children. The portion of the building intended for classroom use will be updated to meet the needs of happy hands education center, including updated security measures and an additional bathroom. The main Happy Hands Education Center campus will serve all other functions needed for elementary education, such as gyms, playgrounds, cafeterias, and before and aftercare. Students will be always escorted by staff when traveling between the buildings and when crossing San Antonio Street. San Antonio Street already has deaf child area signs, as well as traffic calming devices, but the applicant is working with the city staff to add more signage and striping for a crosswalk. This PUD only amends the allowed uses for the subject parcel. All other requirements of the zoning ordinance need to be met during the renovation process. There would be no external changes to the building or property as well. Happy Hands is planning a future series of capital campaigns to raise funds for a future elementary school in the Tulsa area and potentially within Broken Arrow. PUD 2820-2026 was recommended for approval with a 3-1 vote on May 28, 2026. Uh per the per the broken arrow planning commission. There was one vote to abstain staff recommends you approve pud 2820-2026 per planning commission and staff recommendations and I believe The owner of happy hands is here I would love to hear from jan I know I was thinking where are they going to put this extra room?

But now it's across this it's just across the street Thank you mayor council for Allowing me to be here. Um We need more classroom space. And this is temporary. It's leased space. We do look forward to a capital campaign in the, I don't know how near future, five to 10 years probably. But we need to grow our population in the meantime. This office space has been sitting empty for over two years. And the owner has graciously allowed us to go through this process to see if this will be a possibility for us. We can add immediately four to five classrooms, which will serve our elementary population. This fall, we have an enrollment of 18 students, and this can serve more than that. I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Well, I went and visited and toured for, it had been a while since I'd been over, and It is so amazing what you guys are doing and the impact you're making in our community for the hearing impaired. And the fact that you even receive siblings of children who are hearing impaired. We do at the preschool level. Yeah, that's amazing. So I was excited to hear that you guys are at that point where you have to expand. Thank you.

We want you to stay in Broken Arrow, too, so hopefully you can.

We want to. Yes.

I don't know why you say Broken Arrow.

Any questions?

I would just like to add that, Jan, I appreciate everything you do with happy hands. Thank you. It is a ray of light for Broken Arrow around the nation, and it's been an honor for our Rotary Club and Broken Arrow to partner with you guys on fundraising and things like that. So if anybody gets a chance to go and do a tour of it, it's exciting. You'll leave there just smiling from ear to ear for what you guys do.

Thank you. I appreciate that.

So with that, I would like a motion to approve.

I just have one more question for Rocky. Never mind. We'll wait. Did our traffic unit go out to look and, like, all the safety things?

So they're currently in the process of identifying where the crosswalks need to be. I believe there is already a crosswalk there at Eucalyptus. Yeah, I believe there's one at Eucalyptus now. So they're just trying to iron that out.

Okay.

But they will be escorted by staff every time they cross the street. Okay.

Go ahead, Councilman.

I'd like to make a motion to approve 26-968.

I'll second that.

Thank you, Jan.

Thank you.

All right. Item J, consideration and discussion of possible appointment by the mayor of an alternate judge for the Broken Arrow Municipal Court and possible approval of an authorization to execute an employment contract for professional services as alternate judge for the City of Broken Arrow's Municipal Court. Trevor.

I thank you, mayor, vice mayor, city council, Mr. Spurgeon, our alternate judge, uh, position has come open under our form of ordinances for this. It provides for a judicial nominating committee to provide three names to the mayor and the mayor then selects one of those three names to appoint, uh, for the next contractual term. Uh, the letter was attached. The alternate judges that were recommended were Jerry Lundy, Hans Lear and Teresa Webster. Um, it really just gives the opportunity for the mayor to appoint the alternate judge and then X authorized execution of their contract. Have to answer any questions you may have.

Yeah. So mayor, do you like sit down and interview them or you just read the letters?

We have a committee and then they send the recommendation over and then I've received further, um, referrals from people that knew that these judges were applying for this position. So, um, which is. It's been fun to just learn the background and the committee members shared some of the stories about how they went through and the questions and really looking for someone who was community minded as well as their role as a judge, obviously. Um, and so my, my, um, nomination would be for Jerry Lundy, um, to be that alternate judge. Another thing that committee, um, considered or wants us to consider is possibly having more than one alternative because our city is growing rapidly. And so, um, that might be something that we look at at some point, maybe going forward to have more than one alternate. So

Yeah. What, what do we need to do to make, I thought kind of thought we did have two alternate. We never have had two alternates.

I guess we could just change our ordinance to designate that we have another position. And as we, you know, look to expand dockets and as we grow, that would definitely be a good idea to look into that.

Okay. That'd be something we've taken consideration in our budget for adding additional judges. I'm not sure how that works.

We did not include, thank you for the question counts. We did not include an alternate, a second alternate. So we have, in fact, that's a direction to council. I'd, I'd let you know what, what the amount we'd have them in the budget to include shouldn't be a problem.

Um, I'll make a motion to approve the mayor's alternate judge recommendation.

I'll say it. Okay. Johnny got it.

There you go. All right. Item K is consideration, discussion, and possible reappointment of Dennis Sagely as presiding judge for the Broken Arrow City Municipal Court. Each other.

Thank you, Mayor. This is exactly what we just discussed, but just for the presiding judge, the recommendation was to reappoint the presiding judge, Dennis Sagely. Happy to answer any questions you may have.

I'll make a motion to reappoint Dennis Sagely for our judge.

Roll call. All right. Item 10 is preview ordinances. 10 a is consideration discussion and possible preview of ordinance number 39 19. Rocky.

That's mine as well, Mayor.

Oh, I had you dropped off of there. Sorry.

Thank you. If I may.

Yes, you may.

Thank you. The city and administration have received several complaints regarding mufflers in the Rose District. Approximately, I think, two years ago, this body had carved out an exception to a noise ordinance specifically to allow more music and that type of activities. But this ordinance, preview ordinance before you, will... basically reclassify muffler background noise in the Rose District as a violation of the noise ordinance to address those complaints. And so it just basically clarifies what that exception is for, and it just clarifies that it doesn't include loud mufflers.

So how will we enforce that?

But it would be like any other noise complaint enforcement. We don't have a decibel standard. We certainly could look at that. But as it currently stands, it's a reasonable and a standard. So it would be either self, you know, reports could be reports to the police department about, you know, noises that they would come to investigate or they could observe it themselves.

I mean, I assume, cause I know you'll sitting on main street and you might be sitting outside or even if you're inside and they, they love just the heart of downtown to just rev that, you know, motor right up as they go by to tell you how cool they are. Um, or they do wheelies on their motorcycles down main street, which is also not safe. So.

I guess just well, I've been getting a lot of complaints. It's really become a problem where people don't even want to go down to Main Street anymore to eat. So I mean, I think we do need to go to that next step if it is. If do we if we need to do a decimal, you said like whatever we need to do to get to that next point. So like how it is now is our officers not able to enforce because we have because we don't have like the noise ordinance now. So adding this, they'll be able to enforce it or like I

to, to clarify when a couple of years ago we made an exception to the noise ordinance and the Rose district, um, for certain hours, uh, to allow music to play. Uh, I think we'd had some complaints from, uh, folks that, you know, people are out at enjoying the restaurants, enjoying the bars. And so we made an exception for the noise ordinance in the Rose district. inadvertently we didn't recognize that that would also include it would exclude issues with with mufflers and so this clarified this language clarifies and re and brings that back the muffler noise back into uh making it prohibited

So I guess what I needed just clarification on, we have not been able to write tickets because it was not included, but now that it's included, we'll be able to write tickets for that.

So we've always been able to write tickets for modified exhaust. And the, the, in this particular case, I think what this ordinance does is we had people that were getting in parking lots or on private property, like a car meetup. Uh, and they were revving their engines. And so the modified exhaust is not pertained because they were not on the city street. Um, so this allows when, when that does happen, uh, for us to be able to enforce as, as a noise ordinance, rather than the modified exhaust ordinance. Um, there's been other complaints about modified exhaust that, that is a little bit challenging just because you mentioned the decibel reading. Um, it's, it's an alteration from the original manufacturer. And so in some cases, a car, like a Corvette. already comes with a loud exhaust, or a Harley Davidson already comes with a loud exhaust. So while those are loud and annoying at times to some people, they're not modified from their original manufacturer. And so those are a little bit of a challenge, and so this is another mechanism by which to try to get to the same outcome.

Yeah, the investment that we've made in our Rose District, I don't want people to avoid the Rose District because of this. So whatever that next level needs to be, if it's this and it works, great. But if we need to look at that next level, I think we maybe need to start looking at that.

I think we just have to be sure to figure out how to make it equitable across the board. Cause like you said, some, some vehicles are naturally louder. I mean, I'm a man, I drive a truck and it sounds louder than a car, but it's not, I don't know what you, like you said, modified, I don't know the term rice burner. If that's, Uh, I see or not, but you know, it's not that, but it is louder because it's a truck and it has a Hemi. But I mean, is that going to be, you know, something that we're going to say, Oh, we got a ticket because it's louder than, you know, how do, how do we get that balance? We have to be able to make it fair.

Put it neutral and rev it up. That's what's annoying. Not that you do that. I'm just saying. Yeah.

I'm just saying in general, some vehicles are naturally.

Yeah.

Especially when you have the buildings on both sides. And I thought, well, I never really heard the engines or whatever. Just so happened the next day is a motorcycle. And I mean, he really showed it off right in the middle. I said, well, there goes my vote.

Well, and not, I mean, we are like, I know we're focusing on the Rose district tonight, which definitely we need to do that. But, um, I've even gotten complaints in my neighborhood, which I'm about a block off of 71st street that we can hear the pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, you know, the loud ones, even, uh, even a block off of 71st street. And so, um, I don't know if we can obviously enforce that too. I'm assuming, cause we've already got that out there.

We do. Again, there are challenges with that, but I did look up the stats on that. And so since 2021, we've written 104 citations for modified exhaust. There are the ones that are clearly modified, and they're the ones like you're describing, Councilor Ford. There are others that, again, can be a challenge because they came from the factory that way. uh and certainly we don't require our officers to be experts in exhaust systems that uh and how manufacturers do those but there are the ones that are the clear violations and so we we do certainly try to get to those uh the other challenges exist when when they're in a group of cars or something like that being able to figure out which one or get get the right car and not make a car stop that's somebody that that didn't do anything wrong so but we have enforced it it certainly is we've taken complaints and of course we've heard from uh you as well on on what that is and so we've certainly started to try to step up enforcement with that 104 tickets that's pretty impressive honestly so that's good to know i'll let my neighbors know they've written 104 tickets i i'll say where's major uh garrett at he's got that corvette let's ask him about it he stepped outside no i'm kidding he says his cane that way

I will okay so we're just considering this right now go ahead and I'd like to approve this I think we're just reviewing it set it for adoption set for adoption that's what I want to do I want to set it for adoption as long as we have clear standards of how we're going to apply it yeah I don't think it's just because your truck is loud it's when you're obnoxious down the street and you're revving it and you're

those things if you're just like I said as long as we have as long as we were able to articulate to our officers how we want them to apply it you know I mean as long as you know the chief and his team is comfortable with it sometimes People who aren't doing the job every day set standard for those who have to do the job, and we don't necessarily make it clear how they're going to do said job. We just want it done. We have to make sure they can apply what we're setting forth here. It's just what I'm trying to get. I'm not saying we don't need it. I'm saying we've got to make it clear that they can apply it appropriately and don't put undue burden on them just because we sit up here and they're the ones out there doing the job. I've been on the opposite end of that.

I'll be like Trevor. I think we came to an understanding. I'll make, I'll make your motion then too. What do you think Johnny? You got something to say?

No, I was just going to say, I don't think we need a motion. That's just that we're in favor of it or not. Cause it's just review.

Traditionally, we would have a motion to preview and set up for adoption.

Thank you. That's what I would.

Second it then. OK.

Roll call. We're complicating a lot tonight. But it's not adopted yet.

All right. Item B, consideration, discussion, and possible preview of ordinance number 3920.

uh thank you mayor we've also received complaints uh about the rose district involving scooters and motorized scooters specifically the ordinance before he is a preview that would prohibit the operation of motorized scooters on public sidewalks pedestrian walkways plazas parklets public gathering areas and other pedestrian oriented public spaces within the rose district City code already regulates motorized scooters and restricts their use to streets with a speed limit of 25 miles an hour or less. That will still be allowed. This will keep them off of the streets.

I mean, I'm sorry, the sidewalks. Yeah, I thought they were always, like even bicycles and skateboards are not allowed on, and scooters are not allowed on our sidewalks in the Rose District.

This just clarifies it to make it easier for law enforcement to have a direct ordinance to cite when it becomes an issue.

This, yeah, this also came from a complaint from Businesses and the Road Sisters, too, that there is a lot of scooters on the sidewalk.

On the sidewalk.

When I had my retail store, I had an awning, and bicyclists would come and grab onto the awning and swing and broke it at one point. So I'm like, whew. And it was legal then, too, but yes. So anyway. All right. Entertain a motion.

I make a motion. We set it for adoption.

I made the motion.

So I'll second it.

Got it. Item C consideration discussion on possible preview of an ordinance, closing a utility easement. Rocky Hinkle.

Thank you again, mayor. Uh, this preview ordinance is a closure of utilities meant on property located south of Florence street and east of south Aspen avenue. Staff recommends you preview ordinance and set it for adoption.

Any discussion?

Maintain a motion 26, nine Oh one.

I'll second it set for adoption.

Item D is consideration discussion and possible preview of ordinance, closing a sanitary sewer easement on property located west of Florence street and east of south Aspen avenue. Rocky.

Yes, this is a closure of a sanitary sewer easement on property located south of West Florence Street and east of South Aspen Avenue. Staff recommends you preview the ordinance and set it for adoption.

Any discussion?

I'll make a motion to set for adoption.

I'll second.

Item E is consideration discussion on possible preview of an ordinance closing and vacating utility easement on property located south of West Florence street and east of Aspen Avenue, Rocky.

This is a closure of a 25 foot utility easement on property located south of West Florence street and east of South Aspen Avenue. Staff recommends you preview the ordinance and set it for adoption.

Any discussion?

I make a motion to set it for adoption.

Okay.

Item F, consideration discussion on possible preview of an ordinance closing a water line easement on property located west of Florence and east of South Aspen.

This is a closure of a 20-foot water line easement on property located south of West Florence Street and east of South Aspen Avenue. Staff recommends you preview the ordinance and set it for adoption.

Any discussion? If there's no discussion, I'll entertain a motion.

So moved.

Second item G is consideration discussion and possible preview of ordinance number 39, 24.

This is a preview. Ordinance is amending the broken arrow zoning ordinance BAZ 2575-2025 proposed to change the zoning designation for a pediatric therapy farm. on 14 and a half acres of land from RS and RM to CG and AG. More specifically, about eight acres will be rezoned to CG to develop a pediatric therapy center, while the remaining 6.57 acres will be rezoned to AG The split zoning will allow for the rear portion of the property to be used for the farm aspect of the development. This zoning ordinance was approved by Broken Arrow City Council on February 3rd, 2026. Staff recommends you preview the ordinance number 3924 and set it for adoption.

I'll make a motion we preview it and set it for adoption. I'll second it. I'll third it.

OK. Item H is consideration, discussion, and possible preview of Ordinance Number 3925.

BAZ 2489-2025 is located west of the Creek Turnpike and east of North 37th Street and north of East Houston Street. This rezoning changed the designation for retail office warehouse and storage development to the north and mini storage development to the south on almost 25 acres of land from AG to CH and IL. This rezoning request was approved by city council on January 6th, 2026. Staff recommends you preview ordinance number 3925 and set it for adoption.

Any discussion?

I'll make that motion.

Second.

Item I, consideration, discussion, and possible preview of ordinance number 3926.

BAZ 2505-2025 is a request to change the zoning designation on 99.5 acres from AG to IL. The property is located on the south side of floor street and one quarter mile east of olive Avenue. The final platform arrow forge was record recorded in Tulsa county on December 2nd, 2025. The applicant is requesting this change to the zoning designation for the purpose of the development of an innovation district. Staff recommends you preview ordinance number 39, 26, and set it for adoption.

Any discussion?

I'll make a motion to set for adoption 30.

26 second roll call. Item J consideration discussion and possible preview of ordinance number 39 27.

B a Z 2238 dash 2025 is a request to rezone approximately six and a half acres from a one to CG for harvest church or proposed commercial development with future place of assembly planned. This property is located on the Northwest corner of new Orleans and ninth street city council approved the rezoning request on August 4th, 2025 staff recommends you preview ordinance number 39 27 and set it for adoption.

Make a motion that we preview the ordinance and set it for adoption.

Second. Roll call. Item K, consideration, discussion, and possible preview of ordinance 3930.

BAZ 2425-2025 is a request to rezone almost 11 acres from AG to CG. This is for Tower Corner, which is located on the northwest corner of 101st and Lynn Lane. This development includes a municipal water tower, and it is anticipated to have commercial uses along New Orleans Street. City Council approved this rezoning request on November 4th, 2025. Staff recommends you preview the ordinance and set it for adoption.

Any discussion, make a motion. We preview it and set it for adoption.

Okay.

Item L consideration discussion and possible preview of ordinance number 39, 31 B a Z 25 to four or five dash 20, 25 is a request to rezone eight acres from a G to N. The property is located on the southwest corner of the intersection of Florence and Aspen. This property is currently unplatted. The development will include a place of assembly for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Staff recommends you preview the ordinance and set it for adoption.

Make a motion to set it for adoption. Second.

Item M, consideration, discussion, and possible preview of ordinance number 3932.

BAZ2200-2025 is a request to rezone approximately 23 acres from A1 to RS4 for Lynn Corner. This property is located just north and east of the northwest corner of the intersection of Washington and 9th Street. The property is currently unplatted. This development will include approximately 79 proposed lots. City Council approved the rezoning request on July 14, 2025. Staff recommends you preview the ordinance and set it for adoption.

Any discussion?

I'll make a motion to set for adoption.

Second.

Getting lost. Consideration, discussion, and possible preview of ordinance 3932.

BAZ 2202-2025 is a request to rezone approximately five acres from A1 to CN for Lynn Corner. This property is located at the northeast corner of the intersection of Washington and 9th Street. The property is currently unplatted. The development will include commercial uses. City Council approved this rezoning request on July 14th, 2025. Staff recommends you preview the ordinance and set it for adoption.

So moved. Second.

Roll call. And I'm in consideration discussion and possible preview of ordinance number 39 33. You just did that one. No, I thought we just said 32. No, I said 32, but it was 33. Okay.

I'm with you. Got it. Thank you.

Thank you. Item 11 is ordinance ordinances. Um, 11 a consideration discussion and possible adoption of ordinance number 39 21.

This is a closure of a waterline easement on property north of West Florence street and east of South Azalea or Mingo road. Staff recommends you adopt ordinance number 39, 21, and we approve the subsequent emergency clause.

Move for adoption.

Second.

Item B is the emergency clause.

Move for emergency clause. Second.

Item C, consideration, discussion, and possible adoption of ordinance number 3922.

This is a closure of a detention easement on a property located north of Houston Street, east of 9th Street. Staff recommends you adopt ordinance number 3922 and approve the subsequent emergency clause.

Any discussion?

Motion to approve item 26891. Second.

Item D is the emergency clause.

I can motion we approve the emergency clause.

Second.

Admit it.

Item E, consideration, discussion, and possible adoption of ordinance number 3923.

This is a request to vacate a 10 foot wide water line easement on property located north of Houston Street and east of 9th Street. Staff recommends you adopt ordinance number 3923 and approve the subsequent emergency clause.

Any discussion?

Question to adopt. Second.

Item F is the emergency clause.

Make a motion for the emergency clause.

Mayor, we need your vote on the ordinance.

I was going to make Rocky stand up here longer.

I got none of the time tonight.

All right. Must be nice. We're done.

Now we need the emergency clause. Motion and second.

I'll make the motion.

I'll second it.

Thank you. Thank you, sir. Item G, consideration, discussion, and possible adoption of ordinance number 3918. Trevor.

Thank you, Mayor. This item before you is a final adoption for a ordinance we previewed two weeks ago. As you may recall, it creates a no knock list that basically serve as a do not call list. You might have been familiar with those back when we all had landline telephones. You put your phone number on the list and then you'd be prohibited from and then solicitors would be prohibited from calling your number. This is very similar. It's just another method for us to allow our citizens to notify commercial solicitors that they're not interested in having door-to-door sales. And so it would authorize the community development director to create a list and online portal for citizens to sign up. And then the list and the portal would be provided to commercial solicitors and they would be advised that they're not allowed to solicit at those locations. I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have. The recommendation is that we set up for final adoption. We adopt the ordinance and approve the emergency clause.

We have anybody who signed up for speaking on this and those from businesses went on the news to make comments about this. I guess it wasn't that important to them to ensure that to me what kind of comments where they. I know one particular was, I believe, a roofing company who said their sales are going to be damaged because that's how they do most of their businesses, being able to interact and have face-to-face encounters with the public. They can still do that.

They're not on the list.

I'm not arguing it. I was just letting you know. I know. I know.

We're going to separate them.

I'm just going to scoot back from the microphone. Yeah, I'm just saying I think it's something that doesn't argue.

Yeah, I saw that, too.

But just to clarify, this doesn't impact fundraisers. No, it doesn't. Correct.

Yeah, it doesn't. We classify them as canvassers, and so it doesn't impact fundraisers. That's correct. Or political folks. Yes, sir. That's correct.

Or Girl Scouts or Boy Scouts.

It does place a fine.

Yes, ma'am.

All right. Any further discussion? I'll make a motion to approve.

Second.

Item H is the emergency clause. Motion to approve the emergency clause.

I'll second it.

Local. All right. Consideration, discussion and possible adoption of ordinance number 3929. Trevor.

Thank you, Mayor. Mr. Spurgeon requested that we bring this matter before your attention. In short, the City of Broken Arrow's current zoning ordinance does not contain the definition or use classification or any performance standards for data centers. These facilities have unique and significant impacts, including very high electrical consumption, substantial water demand for cooling, noise generation, heat truck traffic, and increased demands on public infrastructure. Because of all of these reasons, what this ordinance before you does is it declares a temporary moratorium on the acceptance, processing, and approval of rezonings specific conditional use permits, site plans, building permits, and other development approval for data use, uh, data center uses. The ordinance also defines what data centers are. It also provides reasonable exemptions and grandfathering provisions, uh, for certain vested projects that are already in the works. Uh, and then there's also an appeal process, uh, for those who might want to, uh, go forward, even in the face of the moratorium that would be allowed to them to go to the board of adjustments. But the moratorium has an automatic sunset on December 31st of 2026. or upon adoption of a permanent data center regulations. The whole purpose of the moratorium is to give staff time and the ability of the breathing room to develop the regulations that would be necessary to find places that make sense or regulations that make sense for data centers. It also allow for any studies that need to be conducted, any fact findings, any visits to other communities, anything that would be determined that would be needed for information gathering to determine potential regulations of data center uses. This approach closely follows the moratorium that was adopted by the Oklahoma City Council very recently, and again, it allows staff time to evaluate the infrastructure capacity, fiscal impacts, and best practices while developing appropriate permanent zoning standards. With that, I'm happy to answer any questions you may have.

Any questions at this time? Do you have a presentation?

I do, Mayor. Trevor, thank you very much. I would like to take just a couple of minutes. to visit with council. I did ask Trevor to put this together for the governing body after much thought. I've done several interviews today and after watching what has happened in area communities around the Tulsa metropolitan area and the challenges that they face with regard to the land use applications for development, you couple that with what we've experienced the last about 50 days, when we found out in late April that there was a consultant representing a data center that had decided they were interested in a broken arrow. We confirm with the property owner that there was a letter of intent. We also confirm with PSO that they had gone through the phase one of their due diligence process. And so the three things I would like for council to keep in mind is from my perspective, is due diligence, which Trevor talked about just briefly. this will be an opportunity if the council approves this for us to do that due diligence and come up with recommendations for the governing body that, that set forth ordinances, guidelines and land use development codes should the decision be made to actually have a specific designation for data centers. And one of the things I'm most concerned about is protecting the longterm interest of broken arrow. And so with that, I believe that we need time to fully understand the impacts. Uh, data centers are a unique form of development that can have significant impacts on utilities, infrastructure, the environment, public safety, land use, and longterm community planning. While we have gathered a considerable amount of information, there are still some important questions that need to be answered. A temporary moratorium provides a city with the time to conduct a thorough and thoughtful review before any decisions are made. Next, this moratorium, it's about a study, it's not about opposition. Uh, this recommendation should not be interpreted as being for or against data centers. The purpose is to pause and ensure that we have the facts, policies, and regulations necessary to make an informed decision. This council spends a lot of time listening to the public also addressing, having staff address you about being able to make good informed decision based on all information is available. If data centers ultimately appropriate for broken error, we want to ensure that they're developed in a matter that aligns with the community's longterm goals. As I've spoken to many of you, cities and states are evaluating the impact of data centers and considering regulation studies or temporary moratoriums before moving forward. As Trevor said, we modeled this off of Oklahoma City. We also know that Tulsa did a moratorium earlier this spring as well. Broken Air is not unique in wanting to better understand issues such as power demand, water usage, traffic, emergency response, economic benefits, and compatibility with the surrounding land uses. We believe it's prudent to learn from the experiences of other communities. I know council will agree with this. We owe our residents a transparent and deliberate process. Residents have asked thoughtful questions to each of you, to myself, by way of email and on social medias. There's been a wide range of opinions. The city has a responsibility to provide a transparent process that allows time for public discussion and careful evaluation. A moratorium allows for us to gather information, engage stakeholders, and ensure that any future decisions are based on facts rather than assumptions. And I would say that during this moratorium, at some point, I would recommend that we have some type of public forum. Not that there's an application that will be before us, but an opportunity for the public to come in. We can provide an update to actually where we are in this moratorium and the due diligence we're doing, and we can hear from them, just as we do with many other types of public policy decisions council has to make. And then finally, uh, this is very important to me. And then several council members have mentioned as well, protecting the long-term interest or broken arrow. Every major development proposal should be evaluated through the lens of what is best for broken arrow in 10, 20, and 30 years from now, respectively. The recommendation is intended to ensure that any future policy decisions are consistent with our comprehensive planning efforts, infrastructure capacity, economic development objectives, and a quality of life expectations. Taking additional time today can help us make better decisions for future generations. One of the things I've heard repeatedly is that with how quickly technology changes, how data storage, the chief talked about that with our initiative. If anything that was improved hypothetically in Broken Arrow, will it still be in the business in 10 years? Uh, if there's multiple ones that approved and how's, how's that going to look? And so obviously I don't think anybody can prognosticate, uh, that per se, but at least there are, we can have some discussions to try to find out where the industry is heading. So with that, uh, Trevor and I'll be glad to answer any questions, but is my recommendation that council consider the, the ordinance before you. Thank you.

Okay.

We do have some people that are wanting to speak on, um, for, and against this. So, uh, Lee and Jackson. wishes to speak in opposition.

Evening. My name's Leanne Jackson and I appreciate your time to speak. I honestly came here today to listen to you and to find out and You addressed all my issues. If we do this moratorium, I definitely encourage you to vote on that. Um, that would address all of our concerns and giving the public like myself to be able to speak with you at some point. Um, and also I'm so glad I was here because I heard the police and saw that wonderful, um,

Presentation presentation that he did.

Right. And which made me think about a whole different way of it, because, you know, as a beekeeper, I'm looking more as environmental issues where I do want to live in a safe community. And I do see the benefits of all the things that he talked about as well. So as long as we can follow these things that you were showing in your presentation, and give it the public time to think about it and maybe more education to the public, then I think we're on the right road. Okay. Thank you.

Just for clarification, you're not opposed to the moratorium because that's what you read.

No, I'm opposed to AI data centers from everything I've read, but I knew they were supposed to be more beneficial to big corporations or big entities like the police or hospitals or airports. I can see that, right, and how that can be helpful. But I still think it's going to be terrible for the environment. And I worry about our water and my electric bill and all those things, right, that we are concerned about. So more time. I definitely encourage that. Yes.

Thank you for being so open minded, though.

I mean, honestly, thank you. Thank you for that.

Take care of those bees.

Yeah, we need we need the bees. That's right. All right. Mike Sanders.

Thank you. And I never dreamed I would be here. until I went to the gym Saturday morning and answered questions for an hour for people that know anything about data centers I do have to preface this as you all have to make your formal statements I have to make this one to provide full disclosure I am a registered professional engineer in the state of Oklahoma and 19 other states don't do that it's a lot of paperwork and I have no opinion for or against data centers what I do have an opinion on is the inaccuracies that go with them Now, I also have to clarify that and say I deal with data centers. I do design work for them. I don't do the small ones. So when you think of the biggest ones out there, like, oh, I don't know, Google, you know, that kind of stuff, that's what I do. They don't take power off the grid. So my only purpose in being here is to answer any questions you have. I'll answer anything you want. Somebody was worried about power. No, they don't want power off the grid. They bring in their own gas turbines, their own battery storage, solar cells, everything else, because they can't handle the power fluctuation off the grid. And that really gets into how these things work to begin with, but I'll save that. I'm a huge fan of yours after hearing you speak and seeing your presentation. I'm 100% behind you. I'll help you in any way that I can. They don't consume some ridiculous amount of water. So we can take care of that when the water that they do give back is cleaner than your drinking water, because they run it through a demon system. So they're not as they do make noise. I'm not going to argue that when you can do noise abatement, you can never probably get to where everybody's happy on that one. They are big, they make their own power. They don't cause water pollution, which is another misnomer because people are saying they pollute the rivers. They don't do anything to do that. They don't have the ability. I guess somebody could walk out there and dump chemicals. I don't know, but the facilities themselves do not do that, and that would be your Amazon, your Google, your Meta. They're totally self-contained. The smaller ones take power off the grid. That is what In my humble opinion, I would advise you to take an extra measure of care at looking at. But the big ones, no, they're not a big deal at all. But, like I said, I'll answer any questions you have. I think I'm actually premature because this is the moratorium where you're going to better evaluate in the future, which is the appropriate approach.

When you say small, how small is small that we should be looking at?

I can't quantify that.

50,000 square feet?

I would say the bigger ones are much bigger than that. Okay. Yes. I honestly, I deal with the power generation aspect and the cooling systems. Those are the two main focuses that I have with them. And I can tell you that one is putting in more turbines for...

Thank you, sir.

But like I said, I'll help just any way I can. All right, here's my laugh for you because you never expected this. I was the new year's baby of broken arrow in 1968. Fantastic.

Now we know. Yeah. All right. And then we have, um, Oscar, he doesn't wish to speak and I can't read his last name. So, um, but he is in support of the moratorium. So I just wanted to put that on, on the record. Council have any further discussion or I actually wanted to extend it longer than six months. In my opinion, I would love to see our fellow cities that are in the process of building them, get them up and running and see how they actually do affect the cities. But I'm not sure that we we've made this one off of Oklahoma City's ordinance. And so but we can extend after six months.

So, right. I think it's wisdom to not I know you used the term sunset, but, uh, have the option, um, to extend. We definitely wanna make sure that we do our due diligence, um, and making sure that we are well informed in the communities, well informed, educated before we make decisions going forward.

I think that we would know for sure that whether we needed to extend it or not, and we have that right to do that. But I I'm, I'm certainly in agreement to it because I had so much misinformation and no one ever applied. There wasn't been anybody contacted you, right? Mr. City Manager?

No, sir.

See, there was no contact, and we was already getting information on the way to go, the water, and some of the stuff I looked up, but that's not the way to do it. The way to do it, I think, is professionally the way that the City Manager and the Mayor has agreed that we should to do. And again, I'm concerned about the long-term impact You know, 20 or 30 years down the road, you're going to have a five-acre building out there. Is that technology going to be used at that time? I think our local rodeo club would like to have a five-acre building. But other than that, what are you going to do with it? So I'd like to know technology-wise what the future, what they feel like the future is going to hold. You know, back when I was going to school, IBM 360 was in a room this size that fed all of Oklahoma State University. So things have changed. Now I've got one here in my pocket. So I'd like to see what they feel like the future technology is going to be and what kind of buildings we're going to have 20 and 30 years down the road.

I think it's smart for us to take a pause and ask the professionals and do it smart. I like your suggestion, too, is let's see what the other cities do once they're a lot further along than we are, obviously. And let's just see how it plays out with them and see what they come across. And I think it's smart.

Well, I know we all serve on boards at the national level with National League of Cities, and it is a big talk across the nation, obviously. What shocks me is that it's like it seems like it came out of nowhere over the last couple of years, like they've been around for decades. And yet they're now like in the last couple of years, I feel like it's the big thing that everybody is focused on. So I just really I think just diving in and getting as much information as we can so that we can educate the public and then and go from there.

I would just like to add, I appreciate your leadership on this, Tiffany, because the more data that we can get behind it helps us with the data centers, you know, and so we really do appreciate that, you know, and going back to what Johnny was talking about, there's more technology in your iPhone than what Apollo 13 had in it from what I've heard. So, you know, it is like you're saying, what does that look like 10 years, 20 years, 30 years down the road in the next generation? Are we looking for making informed decisions for that next generation. So I definitely appreciate that. All right.

Well, then I will make a motion to accept the adoption of ordinance number 3929. Second. If everyone has spoken, right? Yeah.

OK. All right. Item J is the emergency clause.

Make a motion to approve the emergency clause. Second. In a minute.

All right. Item 12 is remarks by governing body members. We have Tuesdays in the park tomorrow, 7 PM. So hope everyone can come out for that. Um, down at central park. Um, we went over the list of really awesome America, two 50 events that are going to be happening, but surely posting about those. And I want to wish our fathers a happy father's day. We won't see you guys before then.

Um, do you want to touch on the amphitheater going on tomorrow?

Well, we are touring the amphitheater tomorrow. Um, I thought they were sponsoring tomorrow night now.

Oh, the Tuesdays in the Park? I thought they were sponsoring Tuesdays in the Park.

They're supposed to be tomorrow night because they're sponsoring it in the park.

I totally missed that. Do tell. I read it somewhere that they were sponsoring Tuesdays in the Park tomorrow. I read it too. Yeah, I read it somewhere, so I don't know.

Well, that's fantastic. The Amphitheater's sponsoring Tuesdays in the Park. And they are going to be announcing their naming rights to the Amphitheater tomorrow. So, yep. Anyone else?

Ready for a block party.

I know it's coming up. 26, 27.

Don't forget about that. Tomorrow is the 16th. There'll be some roads that get shut down and intersections because of the block party. So keep that in mind.

Tomorrow, 7 to 7. Don't forget to vote. Yeah. Please go out and vote. Something's going on tomorrow. Educate yourself.

Make informed decisions.

Finally.

So we can maybe stop getting text messages and 1,000 mailers. So that would be great. All right. City Manager.

I have nothing, Mayor.

Okay. We do have an executive session, so entertain a motion to take a brief recess.

So moved.

Second.

Pickle?

Yes. Green? Yes. Ford? Yes. Parks? Yes. Limby?

Yes. Entertain a motion to go into Brooklyn Air Minnesota Authority. So moved.

Second.

We're in Bama, Mayor, so you can just call the meeting to order.

Okay. Are there any? I thought I did. I'm sorry, I didn't hear it. Sorry. I was like, wait, I think I did.

All right, so I need to call roll for Bama. Pickle? Here. Green? Here. Ford? Here. Parks? Here. Wimpey?

Here. Any consent agendas to be removed?

Any items? No.

I can motion to approve the consent agenda.

Second roll call. I am six general authority business consideration discussion and possible approval of a proposed fiscal year, 2027 financial plan.

Good evening. The city council earlier. Should I approve resolution 1755, adopting the proposed fiscal year 2027 budget for the city. The fiscal year 2027 financial plan is included in the budget document adopted by City Council. Staff is recommending the approval of the fiscal year 2027 Broken Arrow Municipal Authority financial plan.

Any discussion? Can we take a motion?

I'll make a motion to approve.

Second. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Any remarks by governing body members? City Manager?

No, Madam Chair.

We have no executive session. Question to adjourn.

Second.

So we had a motion to enter into session.