City Council - Regular Meeting

Call the Broken Arrow City Council meeting to order. We have invocation by Pastor Richard Edgar.

GOOD EVENING, BROKEN ARROW. HEAVENLY FATHER, WE TAKE TIME BEFORE THIS MEETING TO HONOR YOU, GOD, AS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF OUR RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS. WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE ACCEPTED THE RESPONSIBILITY OF SERVING OUR CITY AND ITS PEOPLE AS AN EXTENSION OF YOUR AUTHORITY. WE ASK THAT YOU GRANT OUR CITY COUNCIL WISDOM, DISCERNMENT AND UNDERSTANDING AS THEY CONSIDER THE MATTERS BEFORE THEM TONIGHT. I PRAY FOR SPIRIT OF COOPERATION AND UNITY BETWEEN THOSE ELECTED TO SERVE AND THOSE THEY REPRESENT. We pray for a blessing for our city, our families, our schools, our businesses, and all those who call this community home. May the decisions made tonight contribute to the peace, prosperity, safety, and well-being of our city and glorify you, Father. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

Thank you, sir. 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. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you, ma'am.

I have a note to pull double a off the consent agenda are there any other items.

I will make the motion that we approve the consent agenda minus item double a second.

And double A is approval of an authorization to clear canine officer Thor as surplus property and retiring said canine to his handler effective August 21st, 2026. So retiring. Officer Thor, yes.

Yes. So his handler was Officer Mike Ryan. And I just wanted to give you just a little snippet about what our canine Thor and how he served our city while he was able to serve, while he was healthy enough to serve our city. Thor started his career in 2018. During that time, Thor was certified in narcotics through cleat. He was actually certified every year. He also held a utility license through North America Police Work Dog Association, which was a yearly certification in obedience, narcotics, building searches, article searches, area searches, tracking, and aggression control. Over the years, Thor assisted federal, state, and local agencies with narcotics detection. He also assisted patrol in apprehending several felony suspects from different crimes to include burglary, domestic violence, larceny, and violent felony warrants. He was also deployed alongside the Special Operations Team. So we just wanted to, I wanted to thank, I know you all would like to go with me to thank Thor for his service to our city and let him go into retirement with his family and be able to just enjoy retirement. Yes.

I'm sure many of us that went through Citizens Police Academy probably got bit by him.

I was going to say, yeah, definitely. I've had the pleasure of meeting Thor a couple of times and wish him nothing but the best in his retirement because he served Broken Arrow well.

And if anyone's interested, the promotion for tonight's city council meeting, they actually show a video of Thor working. So if you'd like to see what Thor looks like, you can go back and look at our promotion for tonight. So with that, I would like to approve item 26.12.24 for Thor, our police canine, to be retired. It says surplus because that's the legal thing we have to do, but to retire.

I'll second that motion.

Roll call. And I want to thank Officer Ryan, too, because it takes a lot on the officer and the family, too, for the training. Because the canine lives with the family 24-7, so I'm sure they're going to be glad to have him with them all the time.

All right. Item seven is public hearings, appeals, presentations, recognitions and awards. 7A is presentation of a citation of recognition signed by the mayor and presented to court clerk Michaela Payson, recognizing her being awarded Oklahoma Municipal Court Clerks Association's Sarah Bizzle Court Clerk of the Year Award.

What award was that?

Do you want me to say it again? Are you being serious? What was it? court clicker of the year or whatever. That's what I would say. Sarah Bizzle.

For Rizzle.

For Rizzle. Michaela, can you come up, please?

Congratulations. I'm so excited for you.

Oh, that's your award?

Oh, that's so pretty. This is very fancy. That's very nice.

It's quite an honor. Yes. All right.

Thank you for representing our city so well. I'm going to read this proclamation for you now. Or citation, rather. Citation of recognition presented to Michaela.

Did I say your last name right, though?

Yes, you did. Payson. Okay, Payson. Whereas the Oklahoma Municipal Court Clerks Association provides municipal court clerks opportunities to enhance knowledge, skills, and professional development through education, training, and valuable resources. And whereas each year the OMCCA recognizes one municipal court clerk whose exemplary service, dedication, and meaningful contributions reflect the highest standards of the municipal court clerk profession. And whereas Sarah Bizzle Court Clerk of the Year Award honors municipal court clerks who have served for fewer than five years and who demonstrate outstanding performance professional growth, dedication, and the commitment to excellence. And whereas through her high ethical standards, professionalism, and integrity, Michaela Payson has made substantial contributions to the Broken Arrow Municipal Court and has earned the respect and admiration of her colleagues and the public. And whereas, through her commitment to service, exceptional attention to detail, and dedication to professional excellence, Michaela Payson has distinguished herself as an invaluable member of the Broken Arrow Municipal Clerk team. And now, therefore, I, Mayor Deborah Wempe, Mayor of the City of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, on behalf of the City of Broken Arrow, proudly present, oh my goodness, This citation of recognition to Michael and Payson honoring her selection as the 2026 Sarah Bizzle court clerk of the year award and commending her exceptional dedication, professional excellence and service and witness where of I have hereby unto set my hand and cause the seal of the city of broken era to be a fix this 18th day of August, 2026. So Okay, cool.

Thank you guys. Congratulations.

Thank you so much.

Congratulations. Thank you.

That was awesome.

It's beautiful. Thank you. Can you see it? That's good.

three two thank you

Always good to have our outstanding employees get recognized.

I don't know how many court clerks there are that have five years or less. I bet there's a lot. I mean, that's for the whole state of Oklahoma, right? That's a lot. So that's a pretty big deal. Congratulations.

All right, item B is update on Northeastern State University activities. Oh, we're going to table that until September 1st meeting. Scratch that. Item C, presentation of design option selection for Tucson Street improvements from Olive Avenue to Aspen Avenue project. Charlie Bright.

Good evening. Didn't know we were table on the other one, so it's a little late getting here. Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, council members, Mr. Spurgeon. My name is Charlie Bright and the director of engineering construction before tonight. Just want to really present and talk about Tucson Street from Aspen to Olive. A lot of discussion has happened in this council chambers about development in that corridor. We know there's a lot going on in growth. Obviously, we were very excited that it passed in the 2026 bond as a road that we're widening. And as identifying that as knowing our citizens, one of that is one of the primary roads. We started prior to the bond working on that design using interest money from the 2018 bond and Proposition 1. So we've been working on the design for a while. Coming out of it, just due to development that was going on here, I know in one of the last discussions that you guys had about development, Mr. Spurgeon specifically mentioned that we would come before the body and talk about what the design options were and look at those. When we came up to the very last of the bond and we were trying to finalize the dollars for each project and move everything else, one of the big discussions was how expensive Tucson was going to be to improve due to utilities on both sides of the road. And so what we've kind of identified there on the typical section is you see in the yellow, you have a high pressure gas line on one side of the road and in the red, you have a large PSO transmission line on the other side. Both of those would be millions of dollars to relocate. And so what we identified right at the very end of the bond and talking with city leadership was a plan for how we would widen Tucson, but also keep it the cost down as low as possible where we weren't having to cut out other projects in that process. So what we came upon doing, if you want to go to the next slide, our primary concern was the east side of the east side of the corridor where you're not the commercial development. You have the intersection and then we know the other corners are zoned commercially or that in the comp plan they're at commercial. And so we're primarily showing a five lane section, getting you through the entire commercial zoning area and then bringing it down to a four lane section. Once you get out of the commercial area, we would love for it to be a five lane section to continue going through. But there's a few things. One, traffic counts really don't dictate that it needs to be five. It actually could stay three. While I understand that there's backups in the traffic in the area and the citizens don't and we get a lot of city complaints in the area. Traffic counts are still relatively low on the corridor itself. I think we're in like the 7000 range for vehicles. We know that's going to increase, but nowhere near like the 17,000 that is needed. The real problem for delays in that area right now are because of the intersections of Olive and Aspen, and those are both getting addressed. So the delays will go away once we improve the intersection. The corridor itself, we don't feel like necessarily needs to be five lanes. By bringing it down to four, we avoid having to hit both of those utilities that we showed on the template. We're only gonna have to move one of them. I don't think we fully have decided which one we're gonna move. We're gonna look at which one's the most cost effective, but our goal is to try to avoid moving both of them. So we just want to talk you through what our plan was on the corridor. So you guys had an understanding of that as you make future decisions and welcome any feedback you guys have. And I'm happy to answer any questions you guys have.

Well, I just appreciate all the work that your team has done because obviously that's in my ward, and I get a lot of people that reach out about those things, and it's nice to be able to tell them what the plan is for that area because I think it's much needed, and it's a great opportunity. plan from a cost effective approach as well. And then also it will fit the concerns that people will have as that area continues to grow. So thank you.

Appreciate that. The one thing I left out, I mean, it's up there and I want to point out, but so obviously I said five lanes, the commercial area, four lanes, we neck it down. And then most importantly, the intersection of all of will be five in all directions. So That's where your delays come from. We've talked about it many times in the chambers here. That's where your delays come from, is that intersection. The intersection will be fully built out and ready for all future improvements.

And you hear it every day on KRMG traffic.

of four lanes is going to be to both directions and they're going to be termites correct yes sir yeah and that's the trigger point in a perfect world on every other intersection we even though a road is not needed for five we would usually go five just because it's cheaper to put it in now but the cost estimate jumps five to six million dollars by adding that fifth lane so in this one situation that one lane cost us a lot of money but having a 40 can still go around absolutely

But if somebody, and this is not an opposition, I understand and I agree with you. But when you have that four lanes, then you get caught up like we do over on Kenosha. anytime when you have the four lanes, somebody's going to turn left, then it's going to hold up all the traffic back behind.

Yes, sir. And I think what's important to note when considering that, that especially gets bad when you have very heavy traffic and you want that update to the fifth because that left turn slows down traffic. And like I pointed out a little bit earlier, traffic counts on this corridor really aren't that high. So the other problems where we've had The other locations where we've had problems with that is like Kenosha, Birema, and Date Street. And then we have it over on Elm Street between New Orleans and Florence. But traffic counts in those areas is almost triple what it is in this location. So typically with a little bit lower traffic flow, that left turn, it's not too big of a deal to move over to the other lane and keep going. Once you get into those extremely high traffic numbers, that becomes more of a problem. But we don't expect that for this corridor within the next 20 years.

OK. Any further discussion?

Thank you all.

All right. Item D, update on the data center study committee and the data center regulatory study and development of permanent zoning standards. Mr. Spurgeon.

Yes, Mayor, Council. Good evening, members. I wanted to take a couple minutes, as I mentioned at the last council meeting, and let you know where we are with regard to the review that the council asked to be done in connection with the moratorium that you passed back in June with regard to data centers. And just a reminder for folks that may be in the audience or at home, what has taken place is the council passed an ordinance establishing a six-month moratorium in order for us to study data centers, the land use aspect, as well as the impact they could have on our community. And that ordinance also include the provision of being able to extend it for additional six months of additional due diligence as necessary. So in, in discussing this with Trevor Dennis, our city attorney, I determined that the best way to go forward would be to do what I would call the creation of a data study committee that was made up of the expertise within our organization as well as our partners to take a comprehensive approach to reviewing this emerging industry that's both in our cities and the counties around the country and specifically California. here in Oklahoma. And I also spoke to Trevor and members of the team about the possibility of adding some professional help in the industry. There may be some experts out there that have actually helped cities that had concerns about land development policy and regulations regarding data centers. And so right now there is an RFP or an RFQ that is out for consulting consideration Should there be one that we feel could meet the expectations that we would have to help us in this process, we bring a contract forward for the city council to consider. The first thing I decided that I wanted to have someone that would lead this on behalf of the administration. And so once again, in consultation with Trevor Dennis, I asked if James Walters, our assistant city attorney, could serve as the chair of that committee. And what I have on the one slide I have this evening is I wanted to share with you just a little bit of the areas that each member of the committee is focused on. And so actually, James Walters, who is our deputy city attorney, He will be the overall coordinator. He'll be responsible for the legal regulatory policy and consultant oversight. He'll be the liaison to myself and to the council in helping with drafting the ordinance. And the core members of this committee in their areas, I mean, obviously community development, Rocky Hinkle, We'll be taking a look at the land use, the comprehensive plan consistency, the development of the regulations should we move forward in that area. And you heard Tim and I talk about some areas that we're going to be focused on in utilities. Mr. Robbins and his team is going to be looking at water demand, wastewater capacity, utilities, long-term impact, and cost recovery. This also includes the review of the impacts that any type of data center can have on a water partner that we have, such as Rural Water 4. Charlie Bright, you just heard from Charlie. He'll be focused on site development, transportation, stormwater, roadway infrastructure, and construction. Cindy Arnold, our finance director, looking at fiscal modeling, incentives, tax revenue, cost benefits, long-term financial impacts to the city. Travis Stevens, our Economic Development Director, will be looking at areas in economic development, which includes jobs, recruitment, tourism, peer competitiveness in other cities. Our Chamber CEO and President, James Bell, will be looking at business recruitment, industry trends, site selection, regional competitiveness. James will be helping find communities that we will be talking to that actually have regulations with regard to allowing land use. What processes did they utilize? What do their ordinance say to help us identify those cities and the appropriate committee members can actually talk to those or go on site and visit with those communities about their land use regulations with regard to data centers. Amber Miller is also going to be assisting in economic development impact, workforce project evaluation, and stakeholder engagement. Our assistant city manager, Norm Stevens, will be focused on public safety coordination, cross-department policy, governance, strategic alignment, interdepartmental governance. collaboration with regard to public safety. Assistant City Manager Kenny Schwab will be looking at operational impacts, implementation of feasibility, and ongoing operations. Trevor Dennis, our city attorney, will be looking at the legal authority, litigation risk, development agreements, and zoning amendments that might be considered before the council. And Scott Carr has a technical responsibility to help us with understanding data center operations, AI infrastructure, emerging technologies, and the primary technical liaison to the committee. So what has happened is we've had a couple of meetings. And so the committee is going to be meeting every two weeks and we're going to be having a overall committee meeting. But then there's going to be each of these areas going to be having their own subcommittee meetings. And then at each each actual committee meeting, they'll be bringing back information for the full committee discussed based on action steps that came from the previous meeting. They'll be looking at what milestones that we need to meet and also focusing if we do get a consultant partner involved, how we involve involve them in this process, what we want them to focus on and so forth. And the last thing I want to mention is obviously the ultimate goal is to bring a recommendation back to the city council either by the end of this year or if council decides to extend the the moratorium for another six months, sometime within that period. And I put to the far right some decision points and James came up with these. Essentially, are we looking at an over an overlay or a specific use standard? What kind of tear thresholds within the zoning, the stringency of noise and design standards? I would also include environmental impact, elevate major policy choices to the Planning Commission, have a work session with the council and ultimately have a discussion before the public. before we would actually bring anything to the council. So obviously the environment is important. The infrastructure is important. Noise. I think that this committee has taken a look at every aspect and broken it down to manageable parts for each committee to look at bring back recommendations to the full board that can eventually present something to the city council have you take a look at it get your input and then have a public meeting at the appropriate time take the public's input and then come back with a final recommendation for the governing body so that's an overview we're not doing this because there is a data center looking at our city i just wanted to point that out we were just doing our we're doing our due diligence

If there ever is one, we want to make sure that we have all the information that we need for our community. That is correct. I just wanted to put that in on the record.

I know whenever the RFP, RFQ, when it's listed, there was a social media post that basically said the city was considering a data center. That obviously, when it was proposed, it didn't take the time to read. It was actually the city was soliciting proposals to have someone that has an expert information in the area of data centers that we know they're out there that have helped other cities, especially in the area of environmental. Tim Robbins has talked about some of the water quality conferences that he's been to. There are experts that have helped establishing the guidelines and the ordinance regulations for pretreatment for wastewater and water. And so obviously, if the council is going to take a holistic approach to this, we need to make sure we have, if we need an expert on board to help us give us that guidance, we thought that would be a good idea. And so really, this is just to give you an overview of what we're doing every single day. James has done a great job so far of pulling everything together. And I appreciate the chamber being involved, as well as all the directors. And that's just the primary individuals that are on the committee. There are other individuals in their respective areas that are actually assisting as well. And so with that, that was just an overview, and I'd be glad to answer any questions that the council has.

Any questions or discussion? All right. Thank you, Sarah. Item eight is citizens' opportunity to address the council on general topics related to city business or services. Just a reminder, no action may be taken on matters under this item. So first... Craig Stewart, I have you here to speak in opposition, but I don't know the item number. Is there Craig Stewart in the audience? Do you know what? Can you just let me know what item number you're? 26-1310. OK, so pause then. All right. OK, Alan Jackson. Come on down, sir.

My name is Alan Jackson, and I gave you guys a packet of information. Is that correct? Yes, sir. Three items? Yes. And has my time started, as I need to know? Right now. Yes. OK. Because I didn't see green light. OK. Well, the first item is, oh, there it is. Exhibit A would be, this is the notice that I was actually able to serve the Planning Commission on the Islamic Trust Center back in December. Item number two is I was unable to attend the meeting because this was early January, and January 4th I was in ICU with pneumonia and the flu, and so I didn't think it would be wise to come to public meeting and bring it, so I emailed this to you. But it was also, I had a notice that I wanted to submit, but I wasn't able to because I wasn't able to be here, and also very limited on the discussion. For the Islamic Trust Corporation. So what I want to do was basically say that If anyone brings an action against the city of Broken Arrow for a request for the joining zoning change by a corporation Which was the North American Islamic Trust Corporation would they would be the only ones that would have standing and NOBODY ELSE HAD HAD STANDING BECAUSE THEY'RE THE ONLY ONES THAT WOULD BE INVOLVED WITH THE ACTION THAT GOD CREATED MAN, MAN CREATED ASSEMBLED TOGETHER AND CREATED CONSTITUTIONS. CONSTITUTIONS CREATE GOVERNMENT AND INDIVIDUAL LIBERTIES ARE ANTISEMITIC TO ALL GOVERNMENT AND GOVERNMENT CREATES CORPORATIONS AND YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO REGULATE CORPORATIONS WHICH YOU DO ALL THE TIME. THIS IS NOTICES AND AFFIDAVITS THAT I SUBMITTED. to serve the Planning Commission and the City Council in support of their official acts. So this is basically information that I had, that I gave you, and part of it I wanted to read while I still had time. I, Alan Jackson, one of the people as seen in the Oklahoma State Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, Republican informed, Surrey jurists do present this notice by necessity for you and your agents to take immediate due care. VOTE NO ON THE CHANGE BY THE AGRICULTURAL TRUST CORPORATION. I WANT TO EMPHASIZE IT'S A CORPORATION, NOT A GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE TRYING TO SEEK AND PROTECT THEIR RIGHTS AS ONE OF THE PEOPLE. ALL POLITICAL POWERS INHERENT IN THE PEOPLE. THIS IS ARTICLE 2, SECTION 1 OF THE OKLAHOMA CONSTITUTION. ALL POLITICAL POWERS INHERENT IN THE PEOPLE AND GOVERNMENT INSTITUTE FOR THEIR PROTECTION, SECURITY AND BENEFIT AND GENERAL WELFARE. And then I'll quickly go. New Hampshire, government is instituted for the common benefit, protection, and the security of the whole community and that the private interest and emoluments of the one man family or class thereof. And then as agents, servants, and magistrates, vote no. This notice is sent to you in the peace and love of Christ so that you may provide immediately due care for the people who have all political power and the trust protectors, the people. Thank you.

Thank you, sir. Radom Rowland.

I didn't think I'd get to speak so fast.

I just wanted to ask you a couple questions. So you guys have started communications and probably implemented, because we've seen them around town, different various flock cameras and license plate readers. And if you guys were to implement those further, I'm just curious if you guys have been given full disclosure that the police officers that would be using these license plate readers would be conducting an unconstitutional search Every time they access it and would be personally like Personally liable for any searches that they do so I'm curious if you guys have been given full disclosure that you would be subjecting our officers, which I wouldn't want any of that. I want to protect our officers. I think that's a vital and critical part of city governance, and I wouldn't want to put them in jeopardy. So I'm curious if they've been given full disclosure through your contracts that that is an unconstitutional search.

Trevor. I know we do not have flock cameras in our city, so we don't have to worry about that. But we can, I guess, find out the answer to his question.

I'd be happy to research that for you if you'd like to hear it.

Yeah, if I've got time, I can answer for him. Because the Supreme Court of the United States has issued in Carpenter versus United States and both in Chattory versus United States, which you guys can go read, that the people we the people, people of the United States, the citizens that live here, have security in the whole of their movements and no search that is done by a flock camera or by any other third party member is constituted as a valid search.

So are you saying that reading the license plate, finding out who the vehicle belongs to is unconstitutional?

Yes, that's considered a search under the Supreme Court. So Justice Kagan said this in 2026.

Is it also unconstitutional for an officer to sit in his car and put the license plate in the computer and find out who the car belongs to?

Does that constitute as a search?

Well, you're the expert. You tell me.

Well, SCOTUS would say that the people have a constitutional protection under the Fourth Amendment in the whole of their movements. So cars, phones, those are things that are off limits for people to be tracked. Thank you.

All right. Any other questions? No? OK. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you.

Chuck Rowland.

My name's Chuck Roland. I live on 97th Street out by 101st and County Line. And we are having the land back there torn up by a for-profit company. And I have sent affidavits to all the city council members talking about this is illegal, informing you guys it's an unlawful purchase of PSO lands. I wanted to read this. It's short. Affidavit of Attack Against Public Good and Maladministration. Notice to agent is notice to principal, and notice to principal is notice to agent. I, Chuck Rowland, one of the people as seen in the Oklahoma Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, suri juris, as a trust protector of the Constitution, do serve you this affidavit by necessity so that you and your agents do provide immediate due care. Effient claims that on 8-11, I, Chuck Roland, observed the destruction of property improperly sold to a for-profit company contrary to the terms of the PSO original grant. Effient claims that on 8-11, I, Chuck Roland, observed the Broken Arrow City Council allowing attacks against the public good without regard to harm being caused as noticed in the notice I sent you on 4-28-2026. Affiant claims that as of this day of 8-18, no response to this matter has been given from any government servant for the 4-28-2026 affidavit or the 8-11-2026 affidavit. I'll be sending this to you guys this week and the attachments of the earlier affidavits will be there. So I was not given due process of law for what has happened. I am going to receive harm of the value of my property not only the value that perhaps someone else would put on my land but for the reason i moved out there that's my value that i put on the land that i have a right to protect and so i've been violated because my property values are going to go down and my personal reason for buying is going to go down i'm losing the benefits of the reason i invested out there in the first place i was given a substitute Due process, I was not given due process of law, which requires the use of maxims in settled court proceedings. So I just wanted to let you guys know that and have it on public record. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. BJ Jennings.

Good evening. I'm BJ Jennings, here to speak about the PSO contract that Chuck just talked about. I'd like to begin with some familiar words. All political power is inherent in the people. That's us. All of us. And government is instituted for our protection, for our security, and for our benefit. All persons have the inherent right to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and the enjoyment of the gains of their own industry. And that's why we're here. All men are created equal, are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And governments instituted among men derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. It follows, then, that any powers exercised but not consented to our unjust powers. The people have the right peaceably to assemble for their own good and to apply to those invested with the powers of government for redress of grievances by petition, address, or remonstrance. That's why we're here. The corporation public service of Oklahoma has violated their grant of authority given by the city of broken arrow in the sale of property to a private company for development. The contract says PSO does not have the right privilege or authority to use the public ways of grantor to engage in any other business within the city other than the transmission and distribution of electric power in the city. But they did. And now Calera, a private company, is clear cutting property they obtained improperly. And this is contrary to the terms of PSO's original grant. This is causing, with the city's knowledge, an attack against the public good without regard to the harm being caused, and despite having been served notice to the same. Each of you has been served this notice and not responded. If you are looking to an unelected attorney for guidance, may I remind you, attorneys do not swear an oath to protect anyone's constitutional rights. The contract terms are very plain. The constitutional law I just reviewed is also plain and clear, and you don't need an attorney to understand this. The situation is a contract violation interfering with God-given rights and the peace and happiness of Broken Arrow people and needs to be corrected. Thank you.

Thank you. I will note that we received these notices this evening, so there's not been a chance for us to reply to them.

Oh, I was wondering what she was talking about.

Yes. OK. Martha Schmidt.

Good evening. I too live in the area we're speaking of. This is a notice and a demand for liability of all attorneys advising on the rights of the people. It's a notice to the agent is notice to principal and notice to principal is notice to agency. I'm Martha Schmidt. I'm one of the people as seen in the 50 state constitutions of right and exercising power over all jurisdictions do present to you with this notice that you and your agents may provide immediate due care. Please take notice that we the people have assembled and realize that as servants, you may have attorneys who advise you on what you can do in regards to unconstitutionally exercising power over the people. However, as servants, it is you who put out the action often by your hand or decree. And please take notice that as explained in the recent Supreme Court case, Trump v. Slaughter, attorneys have been taught and promulgating many adventurous theories that are foreign to and directly opposed to the fundamental principles of law and constitutions of the states in America, and are therefore transgressions and crimes against the people. And please take notice that the Bar Associations have made much wealth in creating tribunals and powers through the people's servants without right, causing much harm and an atmosphere whereby counts courts are not fair, nor just towards the people who they were created for. And it is my wish order and demand that you compel any attorney dealing with the rights of people or training law enforcement agencies, agents, or officers to swear by affidavit that individual orders commands and Training protocols align with the state and federal constitutions. Furthermore, if officers are not trained, instructed, or given information that ensures to protect the rights of the people, that all connected attorneys will be liable financially and or criminally. Not receiving training regarding protecting the rights of the people or not understanding the fundamentals of law is no excuse as government services, attorneys, or law enforcement. If you believe that you should have a right to act against the people without knowledge of law or liability for what you do, instruct our servants to do. Please respond by affidavit sworn under penalty of perjury within 10 days, showing where you have the authority granted in the state or federal constitutions, allowing you to interfere with the rights of the people or advise our servants to do so. If you should fail to respond based on the both terms, you will agree that any act moved moving officers to carry out unconstitutional acts or failing to inform them of what the state and federal constitutions demand shall be considered done with malice, intent, and knowledge. This notice is sent to you in the peace and love of Christ. Thank you. Al Poole.

Good evening. Good evening. Counselors, ladies. I don't have a big introduction. Some of you are familiar with my name. I've been sending you emails directing your attention to next door where I posed the question, who thinks we need an airport? So I have a question. Hopefully I can get an answer. You guys were sitting around one morning, coffee, Danish, and somebody says, hey, let's spend $150,000 and see if we need an airport. I wanna know who made that statement. Who decided we needed to spend $150,000 on an airport feasibility study? That's why I'm here tonight. Who floated it first?

I don't know about this float, but I can tell you the float many years ago, it was looked at also because it felt like there was a need for it.

I'm sorry, I can barely hear you, sir.

Many years ago, it was floated that we might need an airport, and so the city did look at it 30 to 40 years ago.

uh to uh say about in the future they would need an airport okay but so i don't know i have a minute and 33 seconds left who this time said let's spend 150 000 and see if we need an airport was that you was not was it you mr spurgeon wasn't you

I don't answer your questions. I'm sorry. Oh, I'm OK.

I apologize. I didn't mean to be out of order.

Can I find out who in this section? No, no action is able to be taken by the council. It's an opportunity for us to hear what you say.

You mean you can't answer my question?

Not at this time.

We can take your question. We can get.

OK, great. Great.

I just like I read at the very beginning.

OK, so I did not realize I could not get a question answered tonight. OK, so I would like to write a paper that you signed.

I'm sorry.

OK, I apologize. I did not. I did not see the yellow paper. So to to sum up, I put the question out on next door. I've got about 500 nos. I've got about four. Well, maybe. And I've looked at the map and I don't see two contiguous square miles in the city limits of Broken Arrow where we could do such a thing. And the only way we'd be able to do that would be to annex and or eminent domain. And it would always be a millstone on the city. It would never be a net positive. Thank you.

Thank you for sharing. All right. And that is it for Citizens Opportunity to Address. On item 9 is General Counsel Business. 9A is Consideration, Discussion, and Possible Approval and Direction to Publish a Legal Notice of Annexation for the Voluntary Annexation of approximately 75.48 acres located one third mile north of Washington Street, west of Oneida Road. Rocky.

Good evening, Madam Mayor, Mr. Vice Mayor, members of council, city manager, Mr. Spurgeon. I'm community development director Rocky Hinkle. At the request of the property owner, the city of Broken Arrow has been requested to annex approximately 75 and a half acres located one-third mile north of Washington Street or 91st Street and west of Oneida Road or 241st East Avenue in section 16, township 18 north, range 15 east in Wagner County, Oklahoma. Pursuant to Title 11, Section 21-103 of the Oklahoma Statutes, The City Council must direct publication of a notice of annexation in a legally qualified newspaper of general circulation at least 14 days prior to the public hearing notifying property owners of budding any public right-of-way that forms the boundary of the territory of proposed property to be annexed. All adjoining property owners of the requested annexation request must be notified of the public hearing by regular mail unless their property is five acres or larger and used for agricultural purposes. To accommodate these requirements, all notices shall be sent by certified mail. These approximately 75 and a half acres contain one parcel which is currently used for a single family residence. The property is projected to be developed for a single family residential subdivision. To begin the process of adding this property to the city limits of Broken Arrow, staff is recommending that the city council approve the publication of the notice with the attached legal description and direct the city clerk to publish the legal notice of annexation in a legally qualified newspaper at least 14 days prior to the public hearing and no more than 30 days before the city council hearing and mail all notices as required and set the public hearing and preview ordinance date of september 15 2026. i do want to clarify should the governing body approve the annexation down the road that this property would go through the entire development process which would mean rezoning engineering all those things but this is just to annex the piece of property into broken arrow and i'm here to answer any questions and there's a representative of the property owner here that can address any of your questions or concerns you may have also so it's a private

property owner that wants to annex this property into our city.

Yes, ma'am.

Okay.

And I don't have a question, but a comment that I'm pleased with that is to see a large piece of property like that coming into the city. So much development today out there is not within the city of Broken Arrow.

Correct. And this touches the city limits on which side there?

North side.

Bonita Road there.

Yeah.

north to the subdivision that backs up to the north of there, the south boundary of that property.

Rocky, what is the specific reason for voluntary annexing the property in the Broken Arrow?

I'll let the representative of the applicant speak to that.

Good evening, Madam Mayor, Mr. Vice Mayor, City Councilors, Mr. Spurgeon. I'd also like to say good evening to Norm and to Kenny as well. Staff is very well aware of the plans for this project. If you don't mind, I'd like to take just a couple of minutes and give you a very high level overview of, let's just almost call it a preview of coming attractions of what's happening. The 75 acres is currently not within the City of Broken Arrow. It is bounded by the City of Broken Arrow on the east and a portion on the north. The property that is way off to the west and north section is property that's currently in the Robbins Company's portfolio. That property is already within the city of Broken Arrow. That property and property that is also within the city, within the Robson Company portfolio north of 81st Street are all part of properties that are going to be utilized for an outfall sewer that is being developed and built to help the Cambridge Estates people with their current sanitary sewer problems. That outfall sewer will include also major upgrades to a lift station. So we are already working with the City of Broken Arrow on the alignment, on the final designs and everything for that outfall sewer that is a necessary improvement to Cambridge Estates in order to resolve some of their ongoing issues that they have. But as far as the overall project is going in, this is a very exciting project. In fact, this is the most exciting project I've worked on since coming to this part of the world three years ago, which just real quick on a side note, because of all the exciting projects and because of all the wonderful work the city council has done, the planning commission has done, staff has done, and the fact that we were just named, I believe, number 12 in the nation. Mr. Spurgeon, number 12, best place to live, work, play, shop, all of them. in the nation of all cities of all size. That's amazing. That is truly amazing. And that shows the trajectory that the city of Broken Arrow is on. as the Robson companies have been committed to eastern Oklahoma for over 100 years when they first moved here. We own a tremendous amount of property. We've been committed to the development and growth, excellent development and growth, high quality development and growth of eastern Broken Arrow for the last 40 years when we brought you the original Forest Ridge project. The path forward now that Forest Ridge itself is on the last few parcels, parcels out near 71st Street, which we will begin developing with new mixed use developments and everything else here in the very near future, will only further enhance the quality of life. When this property came for sale a few months ago, Davis approached me immediately and told me to start doing a due diligence on it and said, look, we've got to find out if we can add this to our other properties. That combined with the work we're already doing for Cambridge Estates and with the city. We need to be in control of this property because we want to make sure that the development not only aligns well with the new city zoning ordinance which is Quite honestly never been tested on a project of this scale but also brings in all the design and development standards that forest Ridge established The total project itself is 215 acres. It will extend the city of Broken Arrow and extend access from Oneida all the way over to Evans and then north to Houston or 81st. Unlike traditional projects that have maybe one or two exits that dump onto your primary arterials, we will have seven. So we will be distributing the population, distributing, getting them away from the school and any interface and any conflicts there. That's just as part of our traffic study that we're doing right now is ensuring that the design meets that. With respect to flooding and everything else, you can see if you look at one of the other slideshows, there's a pretty significant flood hazard area going up through our properties. We are going to protect to that, respect that, make sure any impacts to Cambridge Estates and adjacent property owners are dealt with, and that their on-site flooding problems will be alleviated. Further beyond with the sanitary sewer and some of the other infrastructure issues, we're looking at alternative outfalls. We are going to be building a secondary outfall, in addition to the one going to the north, we'll build a secondary sewer outfall going over to the east behind the school district, behind the schools, the two schools, which will connect into another forest ridge project where we have capacity. The intent of that outfall sewer and that additional infrastructure is to give the school district the opportunity to connect to new facilities should a enhancement or should there be the need for additional classrooms and other facilities for the students. Speaking of the students, there will be a fully interconnected walkway, trailway, and sidewalk system internal to our development that will provide a safe route to school. And we're working, we've intentionally separated, like I said, the conflicts with the main entrance of the school. Our entrances will be north and south of that so that there are no additional conflicts turning movements during peak periods, turning threats to either vehicular traffic or to pedestrian traffic. All of those are in process. I don't have final answers on everything yet. But we have reached out to the community as been requested by the city of Broken Arrow many times and by the planning and development department. We've already held our first community engagement meeting. We notified not just the people surrounding this annexation but we notified all the people around the entire perimeter of the entire development. We had a very well attended meeting a week ago Monday which I personally chaired. The residents came in with a list of their concerns. We are taking all of those concerns very, very seriously. From the flooding to the sanitary sewer to timing of development to everything else that goes along with it. Our goal is twofold here. Number one, to make sure that this development meets the new standards of the city's new zoning ordinance. And not only meets it, but exceeds the standards of the city's new zoning ordinance, which is why you will be seeing a full, once all the properties are annexed, actually we already have the zone change and the PUD for the development in place. And we will be presenting the entire development so you can see how it's all integrated. So you can make a very sound decision on the project. But what you will see when this project comes forward is a project that will maintain the open space standards that were established by Forest Ridge and the kind of open space standards that the city would like to see based on their new zoning code. We have somewhere between 35% and 40% open space in this project, a combination of passive open space for the walking trails and a combination of active open space. The existing home that's there will remain. In fact, we are dedicating and giving back about two, two and a half acres to that existing property owner. They will continue to remain in that beautiful home that's already there. Some of the existing outbuildings and barns that are there will actually be repurposed for recreational facilities. for our own facilities internal for the use of the residents that plus multiple pocket parks to provide internal recreation so that we don't overburden the recreation system within the city of Broken Arrow. Multiple exits out onto primary arterials to distribute the traffic. At the same time, though, we've been involved. We've reached out to public safety officials. Cambridge Estates has not one but two very long streets that have too many residents on them to meet current standards for accessibility in terms of fire and emergency services. We will go ahead and tie into those to provide secondary access in the event of an emergency for emergency services as well to meet their standards. The bottom line for the city of Broken Arrow, this is a very exciting project. It will meet the quality standards we believe. Not only will it meet the standards of the 12th best city to live in the entire United States, but actually enhance those and provide that kind of standard of development that you've been relying on for 40 years coming out of Forest Ridge. That will just continue to enhance that. We combine that with our willingness and our history of working directly with the city of Broken Arrow in terms of the Public Works Department to resolve ongoing infrastructure issues now and in the future. We are committed to the long-term benefit of the city and the long-term benefit of the adjacent residents. We've already started moving in that direction. We are making final amendments to our PUD application pretty much as we speak. We finished those amendments yet. We've got them done. All right. We are updating our preliminary site plan. We will have a second community engagement meeting prior to the planning commission meeting for the PUD and the zone change. It's already been scheduled. Invitations went out today. They went out by regular mail via the standard 300 foot radius notice. And they also went out by email for those 60 people that showed up at our meeting. original community engagement meeting most of which had very positive questions the feedback we got was very positive and they gave us actionable items which we are taking actionable okay I don't have all the answers for you tonight but I can tell you that's a preview of coming attractions we are working on all of their concerns but this annexation again it's a single property owner So 100% of the property owners are agreeing to this annexation. It is the first step because we need to have this property transferred into our portfolio so that we can bring it into the city of Broken Arrow so that we can integrate it into this really exciting new development.

When was your first public forum meeting?

I'm sorry?

When was your first public forum meeting?

Our community engagement meeting, the very first one, was a week ago yesterday.

Okay. And then when's the second one?

It'll be next Monday night.

Next Monday. Okay.

Yep. And you are more than welcome to come, Counselor. Okay. If you'd like to.

I'll be in Arizona. All right.

Oh, okay. Well, this is standard operating procedure for the Robson companies. We do not like... having disgruntled or upset or concerned citizens showing up at a public hearing and dump something on the city council and the planning commission that we have not personally investigated, that we have not looked at the alternatives and the options. We're looking at those alternative options right now in depth. Those options will be explained fully in the PUD that's coming forward as well as in the zone change. And again, once we get this into the city and we have full control, the property is scheduled to transfer to our portfolio in early December. This is also a project that has been budgeted and looked at from an economic standpoint, one way and the other. I just want to kind of give Norm a heads up. We'll probably be working with some of your staff with the impending, the future Build Act provisions and possibly a TIF and other things too. So don't think you're going to get away with this clean. You're going to get involved one way or another. Kenny's already involved. We got him pulled into this. But as always, it's been fun. And just on a personal note, because of all the wonderful work and because of all the things that are going on in the city of Broken Arrow and because of the positive vision that the city has, my wife and I made a conscious decision. We are not only finishing our careers here, but we're retiring here. So I am personally now committed to the city of Broken Arrow.

Nice.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you all very, very much. And I appreciate the opportunity. Appreciate you putting up with my long witness. But I think it's all good. I think it's all good.

Well, we have two citizens signed up to speak. So if they have any questions, we might have to bring you back in.

Thank you, ma'am.

Okay. Craig Stewart.

Is one Dan Bell? Dan DeBell? No.

Okay.

I have an email from him. We'll see what he has there. Yeah.

Hello, my name is Craig Stewart. I'm not sure I was, well, I was a little unprepared for this, but my question about what the gentleman just spoke about is not necessarily the annexing of that particular property, but the property that is to the west of Cambridge Estates, which is where I live, and that being in a flood zone, and knowing that every consideration has been made for that because i literally back up to that flood zone and once building starts i know he mentioned doing everything properly and installing new devices and runoffs but what assurances do we as the homeowners have that that's going to be done correctly and there will be no impact to our properties in the way of flooding which would obviously have very negative impacts to our values of our properties. So that's why I'm here. My question, you know, again, is what assurances do we as homeowners have that that's going to be done correctly? And if it's not, what recourse do we have, if any, you know, to make corrections once it's already built?

we do have city ordinances that protect that and they don't allow our development doesn't allow for additional runoff that's more than what's already there so we already have something in place that protects that because that's a large flood zone right through there um so okay i mean so the city has a plan and they and that's i guess that's all i need to know

Mary at the nail right on the head. Uh, we do have an ordinance in place. You cannot increase the runoff onto your neighbors. So, but we are a ways away from that process. Uh, this is just to annex a property into it. But when, if it is annexed into the city, we will kick the can down the road and go through the process where our engineering team will meet with the property owners, engineering team, and they will hash all those things out to make sure that the buddy property owners are not impacted. And, um, with stormwater increase runoff and then what's there before.

And that's one of the benefits of annexing it to the city of broken areas, because we really stick with that. Uh, as far as any flooding engineering report and, uh, making sure you don't add any more water runoff than what's there before it's developed. So historically we've had that if we have problems with subdivisions, it's a subdivision that was developed outside the city. not by the city, and then we go ahead and annex it. Then we have to go in and kind of repair it, repair the streets. So all the structure, all the planning will be under the umbrella of the city of Broken Arrow because it's in the city. It makes it easy for police and fire to get to there and know where they're at.

If it remained part of Wagner County, it would have lesser standards than what the city has. That's a great point.

All right. Chris Cochran? Co-Chan. Co-Chan, so sorry.

Well, my last name's Wimpy, so I mean... Well, I, too, live in Cambridge, and I'm no expert. I'm just going in baby steps, and I'm just asking about the annexation. And I'm looking for basically confirmation that is this area zoned agricultural currently? And if the annexation proceeds, does it change, or is this an opportunity that you will change it, not you personally in the council? or does it inherit the current zoning? Because we have concerns, all due respect to the development, and we'll hopefully have those opportunities downstream, just taking one step at a time. I don't want anything to happen that we look back and say, gee, I wish we would have known that. So I'm looking for affirmation of what is it zoned now, and will it stay that zoning when the annexation is pursued? What are the rules and guidelines?

Appreciate the question, that is a very good question. So if this property is approved to be annexed inside the city of Broken Arrow Limits, it will be annexed as agricultural, and then the property owner would have to go through the process of rezoning the property for their development. So there will be another public input process that the citizens could participate in when the rezoning application. Representative of the property owner indicated that the PUD will be coming forward with the rezoning request sometime soon. So that would be the opportunity for public engagement at that time.

OK. Thank you. That's basically what I was looking for. Thank you.

Absolutely.

And having a PUD is a good thing. Because they are held to a standard and they have to follow what the plan unit development is.

Yep. The PUD is a deviation away from the zoning ordinance. So it's kind of give or take. The property owner is asking for something, but they're willing to give up something. So it's a good compromise and it's an overlay for that piece of property. Okay.

I think we all got an email from Dan DeBell, but I think you've answered the questions that he had. I mean, for the most part, I mean, some of them, I mean, know traffic of course there'll be a traffic study if the pud and everything gets approved and then of course is wildlife and environmental impact i mean we've all lost that yeah everyone's lost that and so um i think all those questions have been answered so that's i lost the wildlife behind my house to the robsons sorry

But I did ask when they were going to be developing, because I knew that I didn't own the land behind me. So at some point, it would get developed, unfortunately. All right. Any further questions or discussion? Seeing none, I entertain a motion.

So what we're voting on tonight is just the annexation of the land into our city limits of Broken Arrow.

This is the hold of public hearing to have to annex the property.

To notify. OK. I'll make the motion to hold the public hearing.

I'll say it.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir. Item 9B, consideration, discussion, and possible approval of construction variance for Myers-Cherry construction for concrete pours for fire station number eight. Charlie.

Good evening again, Mayor, vice mayor, council members, Mr. Spurgeon. My name is Charlie Bright, director of engineering construction. Kind of a common discussion we've had here, but it's another contractor asking for a variance to the noise ordinance for construction. The unique part this time is it is one of our contractors working on our project for Fire Station eight. But it's a common theme of what we talked about. Really, these requests are heavier in the summer because the temperatures are so hot. for the schedule to move forward with the project. They can't start pouring concrete at 7 a.m. because it'll be too hot by the time they're done with it to finish the concrete. So they're wanting to start early at 2 a.m. to get the concrete poured. When it's cool, they can work on it and get the finish. We have not talked to anybody because the last time this was up, it was a private developer asking and they were on a much shorter time crunch and what they were trying to do. We have not been presumptuous, so we have not talked to anybody because we want council approval first. But assuming we do get council approval, we will approach the residential areas and the directly adjacent. I believe there's two to three homes straight across the street on Omaha, and we will make sure the contractor and somebody on my team goes and talks with them. So happy to answer any questions you guys have.

probably they don't have a choice. I mean, it's just too hot during the daytime to. Yeah.

So say, say you guys did not want to do it. And I would understand, um, really the only solution would be we would post, we would, we would postpone the project. I mean, not permanently, but we would hit a pause where we can't really do anything until temperatures cooled down outside.

I had one of the questions, if you could just kind of give me some clarity on it is at one point in it, it said three to four occasions. But then another point, it said Monday through Saturday for six consecutive weeks. So

That must have been a typo on my team's part. I'm sorry. It should just be three to four occasions, and we'll pick the date specific based off weather and when concrete's available and stuff like that.

I was a little thrown off. I was like, well, is it three or four occasions?

Honestly, it shouldn't have slipped past. I'm going to have to double check that. It shouldn't have slipped past me, but I'm guessing my team copied. the Amazon RFA just because it's very close.

We were wondering how large this fire station just grew.

What else are they building?

I'm assuming if we do, there would be proper notification given 24 hours, 48 hours notification. Yes, sir.

I'll make sure my team specifically goes and talks to each of the adjacent property owners. So the request is formally coming from the contractor, not from us, but it is for them to keep the schedule that we've asked them to keep.

Because 2 o'clock is pretty early, but if it's only three or four times, that's a little easier to swallow.

Yep. Do we need to have a public meeting? We did on that. I'm not saying that we do.

I'll make a motion to approve item 26-1307. Second. Thank you all.

Thank you. All right. There are no preview ordinances. No ordinances. Remarks by governing body members. It's hot. It's hot.

It's hot. It is. I'm sorry. Go ahead.

No, you go ahead.

No, you go ahead.

I was just saying this deal with the public service. I've got these that I haven't opened also because I just got them this evening. Could we get some kind of feedback from the city staff? sometime this week, what they're talking about. Yes, sir.

Vice Mayor, I've asked Trevor to put something together for the governing body. I appreciate it. Because it came in actually yesterday. Trevor had a quick analysis, and I said I anticipated they were going to come tonight. I'd like for him to update the governing body on exactly his legal opinion on where we're at.

Okay. Well, if we could just get a little bit of information about what's going on.

Yeah, I was just going to throw out there, we did an approval for a 24-hour lacrosse tournament, the Shootout for Soldiers. There's a picture right there. It was a huge success. I know they had about two dozen teams, over 120 participants, and all the participants got these really cool patriotic jerseys. Nice. 250 on them for America's 250. There you go. I got one too but uh it was too hot and I'm too old for all that but uh it was a really cool event it was a lot of fun to go out and watch uh they raised quite a bit of money uh for to support soldiers uh through sales of merchandise donations and people sign up to play so they want to say thank you to the city for approving that I think it ran it did not go 24 hours I think it went 13 hours before they were able to get all the participants through playing they had adult teams, they had youth teams, they had parents versus kids teams, women's teams, men's teams. It was a lot of fun. So it's a great opportunity. And they said they'll be back next year in 27.

That's exciting. Thank you, sir. You're welcome.

Mayor, members, council, I have several things I want to mention if I can. First off, I wanted to share with the council the downtown master plan advisory update committee that you appointed. They've been holding meetings last Thursday night. They had a public forum which they were calling. We want to hear what your big ideas are for the next for the next phase of our roads district. and apparently that was extremely successful and as a result rocky informed me this morning at our leadership team meeting that at some point in the near future the advisory committee has recommended a joint city council planning commission meeting so they can actually present the ideas that they have at this point to both the governing body and the planning commission to share with share with you where they're at in this process and hear some of those ideas and so I'll be working with Rocky, the city clerk's office, and Lori about trying to find a date that works for both boards to be able to come in and basically hear where we are in their ongoing efforts to look at making recommendations ultimately to the council. Secondly, I wanted to let you know that there's been a large project undertaking infrastructure on South Main from 81st to 91st. Tim Robbins advised today that the water line repair work has been completed and all of the 1903 water lines that were in the ground have been basically replaced. They've done the temporary work, and now Tim Wilson, over the next two and a half weeks approximately, will go in and actually do the milling and overlay, and hopefully, I would say, safely, whether depending by Labor Day, we should essentially have all the paving work done, and then the striping will follow for that major project that was done by water, and also our street department, which Tim Robbins talked about, The talent that we have inside the organization to be able to do that kind of work is amazing versus having to contract it out. So I just want to send a shout out to them. The next thing I want to mention is a week from this Thursday, the 27th will be the kickoff for the Citizens Engagement Academy. That'll be the first night of the new initiative the council approved earlier this year where 20 citizens, we actually had about 35 that applied. council selected 20 they'll hold six classes in phase one which will be this year and then curtis green his team are working on the phase two classes for next spring and so we'll have those the night the first night of the class let them know those dates so they can lock them in for 2027 and so first up is the the mayor council and myself and so lori may be asking if you're attending and to be able to make comments and so we can plan accordingly. So it's very exciting to have basically 20 residents that want to learn more about how their local government works. And so I just want to say thank you to the council. It's another it's another night out for all of us, but it's I believe it's going to be extremely important that we actually engage our community, get more folks to have an understanding of how local government works. Also, as you know, school is ready to start once again. And this is the last year of Superintendent Chuck Perry. His last four years are Superintendent Steve Dunn will be taking over next year. But I just want to send a shout out to Chuck Perry. He has done an amazing job of reestablishing the the Actually, the school district and their function of actually taking care of our kids, working with the teachers, the support staff, the administration, working with the city. They've been great community partners. And Chuck has been wonderful to work with. And I was very happy to see that they stayed in-house. Because that culture of understanding that the school district is a part of the three partners that actually make Broken Arrow the great city that we are. Kevin talked about it tonight. It's not just the city. It's the chamber and the school district working together with the private sector to basically create the environment for most people to move here and to stay here. And Chuck's been a part of that for five years now. And I couldn't be prouder to call him a partner. I want to send a shout out to Tim Robbins, water production. We got up to 26 million gallons because of the heat. And the plant is working as it's supposed to. And I'm just proud of that. It's a lot. It's a lot of stress when you're actually pumping that much water. We had a slight break and went down around 12 to 14 million gallons with a short amount of rain. But there's actually not a rain in the forecast. So I just want to thank Tim and his team for all that they're doing there. Uh, also it was mentioned just a little bit ago about the, uh, the build act. I sent a communication out to the council earlier today that we had a discussion about the build act that goes into effect November 1st. And so we're going to continue to have some meetings. And then eventually we're going to ask for the council either during a regular meeting or a special meeting, like we did earlier today to give you a presentation on, uh, what the build act means, how it benefits. the communities, or in this case, Broken Arrow, how it has to be implemented. And so actually, we're going to be gathering all the information. We're going to involve our lobbyists, because obviously, there's state-level oversight that has to be monitored. And so we've been working very diligently. Travis Stevens has been spearheading that, along with Trevor Dennis. So just a quick note that we are working on this. And I do believe that we'll have someone next year And it was mentioned this evening that we'll come forward and show interest in the Build Act. So I want to make sure council members prepared when that due diligence begins. It's time we started planning for the state of the city already. It's just a few months away. And, you know, this year, my theme might come up a theme every year, but I think this year actually is going to focus on taking care of the people. It's doing the people's business. And so we're doing a lot more to come. But that's been my my theme I've decided to use this year. Also, one of the council know that the schematic and design discussions and planning for the new municipal services building are ongoing. Obviously, we're trying to finalize the design so we can show it to council. also being very conscious of the budget. And so I know Charlie Bright and Shannon Marshall are doing a great job of managing how that's going and the expectations of making sure that we're working for today but planning for tomorrow in terms of having space. Those are the items. I noted the resident that had a comment about the airport left. I do think that he deserves a response, and I'd be glad to put something together for the council. Obviously, it's a council meeting, not mine, and so I'm not going to speak out of turn, but I do think it's important. I remember last year when I first brought it up, I actually announced two things. Number one, I announced that I believe there should be a review of a feasibility of a municipal airport, not a Tulsa International 2, but a municipal regional airport, and the need for a solid waste transfer station. and so it was not just just one it was actually two long-range plans and if you go back and look what the city has done over the last 11 years this council has been diligent not only taking care of the citizens today but has focused on making sure that the citizens in the future that are here and will be here the businesses that are here And we'll be here, have the amenities that that we need to continue to be a great place to live, work and raise a family, a place where people come to and not go from. And to do that, council has implemented a long range plan for water. We've implemented a long range plan for sanitary sewer. We have implemented a plan for stormwater management. Council has asked the voters for two bond packages in 18 and 26, which means 20 of our roads are gonna be widened over the next 15 to 20 years. 10 to 12 intersections are going to be actually widened to accommodate the amount of capacity. Plus, there are many other quality of life projects. And if you go back, we have done everything that you're supposed to do as a governing body administration to plan ahead for those people that are going to come after us. Well, part of that is economic development. And I can tell you in the last seven years, I've had three chamber presidents, I've had the former director of NASA, former congressman. I've had two senators. I've had probably two dozen business leaders within this community, outside this community, and probably 25 to 50 pilots basically ask me why Broken Arrow doesn't have an airport. And my response was, I know they looked at it many years ago, but obviously they were not in a position to move forward as Vice Mayor basically tried to say today. By the way, I don't eat Danish. Okay, just real quick. Never have, never will. But anyway. But anyway, my point is this council has never gotten together in the inference of a smoke-filled back room and made any decisions. This was the recommendation that came. I believe every single member of this council has had somebody that I mentioned approach you about should Broken Air have an airport. And it was decided by me to recommend to you that we look at this to determine if it is financially feasible, is there a business case for it, and if so, what the cost would be to go forward in the future to make that amenity to attract more business to the Broken Arrow area. Now, the one thing I wanted to mention was the amount of development that is happening in East Tulsa, around the Creek Turnpike, the amount of development that's happening in Broken Arrow. You heard the representative of the Robinson Company come tonight and talk about the development. They didn't even mention the other development that's a little bit further north. Plus, there's a bridge planned to go across the Verdigris. So if you look at the synergies that exist, because communities are not a destination, they are perpetual. So it is the responsibility of the council to look at every single aspect that's going to promote opportunities for primary jobs. And that's what a municipal regional airport would do was attract businesses, attract pilots to continue to grow our economy, to continue to maintain the great quality of life. And that's what I'm going to reduce to the email when I send early later this week.

Well, I'll just piggyback on that. He wasn't ignored in his email. So he thinks he made it sound like no one was talking to him. I know personally, I responded to the email also that you responded to his email. Council forward responded to his email, so he received answers. He may not like the answers he received, but he did receive answers from this council.

I appreciate that, Councilor. And so I understand some people are unhappy about this. But one of the decisions that I have to make is to look at what is going to be necessary to continue to grow this economy. Because obviously, the services we provide are one of the reasons combined with the great citizenry we have and businesses that makes us a great place to live, work, and raise a family. And so a municipal regional airport could be something that down the road could actually benefit this community by creating more primary jobs, more opportunities to actually shop local. Plus we have an amphitheater, which also is another reason that could actually generate more traffic into our community. And so there's so many reasons that actually it could be viable. This report may come back and the council may decide that it was an investment that you're not going to go forward. So in the future, you could be able to say is that we looked at this and it was not something broken air felt like we could afford to do or there was going to be a benefit. And to me, I think that's extremely important to be able to answer those people that have made investments, like some of our 300 of our manufacturers, when many of them have private jets that have to land somewhere else when they come to town. These are all part of the bigger picture of trying to look and see how we maintain the great quality of life here. And you just can't stay looking at today. You have to look down the road 5, 10, 15, and 20 years from now.

Sounds like you read my email. And for the record, we don't all live in Forest Ridge. I don't.

I don't anymore. Yeah.

That was one of the comments made.

All right.

Thank you, ma'am.

Thank you. We do have an executive session.

I'll make a motion to go into a brief recess and move to... the next one before we go on to executive session thank you thank you for that yeah there you go okay we have a motion in a second i second it lisa pickle yes green yes ford here parks yes

Wimpy. Yes. I want to say here. Call the Broken Arrow Municipal Authority meeting to order. Roll call. Pickle. Here.

Green.

Here.

Ford. Sticker.

Parks. Here. Wimpy. Here. Are there any items to be removed from the consent agenda?

I will make a motion to approve the consent agenda if it stands.

Second. Roll call.

All right. Item five is public hearings, appeals, presentations, recognitions, and awards. Five A, presentation to the Broken Arrow Municipal Authority of Solid Waste and Recycling Gold Lid Recycle Program.

Trevor's all dressed up.

I know, look at him. Fancy. It said Jerry, but you are no Jerry.

No, no, no, no Jerry tonight, even though he did say the same thing when I walked up. Good evening, Madam Chair, Vice Chair, members of the board, and Chairman Andrew Spurgeon. I'm Trevor Bowe. I'm the Recycling Average Coordinator with the Solid Waste and Recycling Department. And I'm here tonight to present you with a new golden program that we're kind of rolling out to residents a little bit. Sorry, a little cheesy. I know that. Am I able to use this clicker at all or no? You should be able to. Click away. Appreciate it. So the gold program is a way to highlight selected residents that are a shining example of what proper recycling looks like in Broken Arrow. The residents that were selected have a very consistent set array for the recycling cart, and they always keep it very clear of contaminants. We are distributing 100 new recycling carts with gold lids to residents that have met with those qualifications. So our goal with the program is to give recognition to residents that are knowing or unknowingly contributing to keeping our recycling stream free of contaminants. So we deliver the gold lids, and it's kind of a way for residents to display them for their neighbors so they can kind of show off like, hey, not only am I recycling the proper way, but it's the city kind of giving me recognition that they're kind of saying like, hey, I'm doing my part in recycling properly. So our current recycling program started in 2020 after our pilot study was conducted with a very small amount of residents and with input and support from the authority and a recycling committee that was formed, it was decided to move ahead with a recycling program to roll it out to our all utility building customers. And with a curbside recycling program obviously comes contamination within the recycling stream. So a inspector and educator was brought onto the team to conduct contamination audits to educate residents on items that, hey, don't recycle these, please recycle these, and just keep a watchful eye on anything that's going on in the recycling stream. So for a data collection for this program, we first started by looking at driver comments that were left when our drivers were servicing recycling carts, and then notating any contamination that was spotted when they were servicing them. And then when we started our field reporting, we had created the contamination audit tool, which was created to decrease the amount of time it was needed to input data when we flip lids and look inside. This is basically just a program that an inspector can just click, not out, clean, or it's contaminated. and then once they do click contaminant they have a pre-selected amount of options where they can select what type of contaminant was was actually on the cart so i briefly mentioned this before but goalie candidates were selected with the criteria of having a consistent setup rate and also making sure their car was free of contaminants and i also should add in here that if there's a resident that is looking to get a gold lid in the future when we look at data to see what candidates are going to be selected, we're looking at this data at six months at a time. So we're not looking over the entirety of sort of your contamination history and then judging it based on that. If someone sees their neighbor has a gold lid and they want to get one as well, we're going to be looking at that data in a six month time frame. So there's a lot of time for people to improve and kind of work on sort of bettering themselves as a recycler. So I just have on there also just remember that the criteria is having a very consistent setup rate and making sure that it is free of contaminants. So up here I have some most frequent items that we see in recycling carts that are contaminating it. So we have styrofoam, bag recyclables, plastic wraps, leftover food, clothing, entanglers, wires or hoses. And then at the bottom here I have items to focus on when actually recycling. One thing is when these gold candidates, when we were looking into them, and we were seeing what actually recycling was here that they were recycling they always kept it extremely simple with what they were actually putting in their cart so aluminum cans let me see beverage cartons glass bottles paper cardboard and plastic that's located in their kitchen laundry or bathroom these are just simple simple items that they just threw in because they knew for a fact that it was actually going to be recycled i tell residents all the time where It's like, do I recycle this? Do I not recycle this? If you have any doubt in your mind, it's like, oh, I don't know what to do. It's better just to go ahead and throw that away because when it actually gets to the TRT center, it's just going to end up in the landfill anyway. So you're saving everyone a trip. So for the future of the gold program, one of our overall goals is to reduce contamination within the city and then continue to educate residents on the difference between material that should be put in their blue cart and items that need to be put in their black trash cart. And then also to relocate gold lids to new residents that have displayed excellence in keeping their recycling cart free of contaminants. So good news is we've already started delivery with these gold lids. It started last week and continuing into this week. And all 100 gold lids will be delivered within the next four weeks. And we're making sure we're keeping track of all the delivery dates. That way, every resident that does receive a gold lid, they're going to keep it for the entirety of the six months. And when the six months is over, it will be grabbed and then relocated to a new resident that is going above and beyond with their recycling cart. I'm sorry, with their recycling efforts. And I should mention, it was on the slide before, but I didn't mention it, but these 100 carts, they're divided up into four different sections. And so 25 carts are being delivered to each ward Council over here, into individual wards, yes. And so I'm hoping at some point you all might see a gold lid sort of nearby, maybe in your neighborhood. It's quite sporadic. We had a vast list of candidates, and we randomly selected 100 to receive this. But again, they all met the criteria of making sure the car was free of contaminants and also having that very consistent setup rate. So for my last slide right here, let's see if it'll play. Hopefully it does. Can you? Anyway, it's a short video of some of our crew assembling go-karts that are getting them ready to be wheeled up to a resident who was actually pretty excited to get a go-kart delivered to them. I would say this time when the video is playing, if there's any questions for me, I would be very happy to answer them.

So when you deliver the gold cart, if the people aren't home, do you put a letter on there to let them know about the gold cart? Do they know they did something cool when they get the gold cart?

So there is a letter that is delivered with the cart. If we make contact with the resident, we'll make sure to inform them of the program, and they get a letter as well. But if they're not home, we will leave a letter with them that explains all of the information, why you were selected, and just a congratulatory, you're doing a great job recycling, and this is how we're recognizing you as a resident.

I know yesterday on my way to work, I was at a stop sign or a stop light at 111th and Aspen. I looked over and here's a city truck with a gold lid. And I'm jumping out, getting my phone out, taking a picture of the truck with the gold lid. I felt like I found a golden ticket. They stand out, right? Yeah. And so I posted on my social media and I had people reach out and even ask. How do I get one of those? And so I was able to send them back to the city.

Well, that's one of our goals where residents and neighbors can see these gold lids and think to themselves, like, man, I've got to get one of those too. Why does he have one? Why don't I have one? Exactly. They step up their recycling efforts a little bit, yeah. Yeah.

And just for a point of clarification, you said when at the end of the six months you're picking up and taking them somewhere else, they will be clean between, you're not going to just give somebody else's dirty old cart.

Yes. So these carts that are being delivered to all these 100 residents, they are brand new. So they're nice, sparkly clean. We even wipe them down before we deliver them. So the next resident that will receive it as well, it'll be clean for them.

Scott Carr and Casey, clean them. Did you see that video? Scott and Casey cleaning the trash. All right. Maybe we can get this sent to us, and then we'll have it. Yeah. I'm excited about this program. I think a lot of our residents are competitive. I could see where this would be a big deal to get the golden lid for recycling. I like it. I like the idea.

All right. Well, thank you for that presentation. Thank you very much. You look very nice today. Yes, you do look very nice. All right, we have no general authority business. Remarks by governing body members?

I do just want to clarify, I was bragging last month, which I still am supporting my bragging on when you can call the... them to come pick up some trash. I said our deep freeze was unplugged by a vendor that came out to do some work at our house. There is a charge for that. It's not much, but it's not free. So I just wanted to clarify that. I think it was like $10, though. I mean, it was very inexpensive. So it's cheaper than putting extra, like tags out you know so anyway i just want to clarify there is a small charge which when you call and order it they'll let you know but um it's still a great service so there's a lot of services i honestly you need to go on our website like we offer a lot of services that um our residents may not be aware of so check it out that's all i got how's that jerry

All right. City manager. I have none ma'am. Okay. Okay. Uh, let's see. We do not have an executive session. We do. I'm looking right at it too. Sorry. Yep. Got it. Okay. Entertain a motion to take a brief recess to jump into, um, beta.

So moved second.

Pickle? Yes. Green? Yes. Ford? Yes. Parks? Yes. Wimpey? Yes. All right. Call the broken error economic development authority meeting to order. Roll call. Pickle? Here. Green? Here. Ford? Here. Parks? Here. Wimpey? Here. Are there any items to be removed from the consent agenda?

Make a motion we approve the consent agenda.

Second.

Roll call. All right. We have no public hearings, appeals, presentations, recognitions or awards. No general authority business. Any remarks by governing body members?

So it's exciting. We just approved our first amendment for CSI. It's going into Aeroforge.

Yes, it's a great point. It's exciting. Very much so. So, manager, I have no man then. All right. There is no executive session on that one, so we can adjourn that measure to adjourn.

Second.

Roll call.

Mayor, I'd request that we go into Bama first. OK. That's what I was going to ask you if that's what.

OK. All right.

Motion to clear the room for executive session.

Second.

Pickle?

Yes.

Green?

Yes.

Ford? Yes. Parks? Yes. Wimpey?