City Council - Regular Meeting

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Let me have a plug. Okay, it's time to get started. I'm going to call this regularly scheduled meeting of the lot and city council to order. Please stand for the invocation by Pastor Michael Logan at Galilee Baptist Church and remain standing for the pledge of allegiance. Pastor, join me in prayer if you will. Father God, we want to take time first of all to thank you for the day thus far. Thank you for the journey, God. Lord, we thank you for watching over us throughout the day. Thank you for giving us your grace tonight, God. We come praying, God, over this city. We pray over the men and women on our city council, the gatekeepers of our city. Pray that you would give them the wisdom that you once gave Solomon, God, that in every decision that they make, they make according to your will. We pray tonight, God, over our men and women on the police force, the ambulance, the fire department. Thank you for their tireless efforts that they have given, how they often time leave their home unsure to unsure not whether they will return, but we thank you that they do return. Give them God back what they've given out. God, Lord, continue to watch over this city. Watch over God, Lord, from every entrance way of this city. Keep your guiding lights over us. This is our prayer and we say thank you again, God, in Jesus name. Amen.

Amen. I aliance 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. All right. And um thank you Pato. And please call the role.

Hon Chapman Gil. Yes. Hampton here. Wager present. Williams present. Warren present.

Okay. A quorum is established. bringing up our excuse me our presentation on the clean sweep award is MacArthur Key Club here. MacArthur Key Club. Okay. All right. Come on down. Thank you guys. See And this is our microphone. Hello, my name is Danica Bridges and I am the president of McCarthy Club.

Uh, hello. My name is Joel Lee and I'm the vice president of Carter Key Club. Danica.

Okay. All right. So, listen. The Carter Key Club is giving our clean sweep award. And as most of you know, our clean sweep award is all about acknowledging citizens and groups like the Key Club that once a quarter come together to pick up litter on a designated uh place and and the Key Club happens to pick it up close to my house, don't you? Right down Flower Mountain Road there between Cash and Gourd. And you do a great job and I see them out there often. But also I want to call attention to the fact that the MacArthur Key Club if they don't win state awards they ought to because they have great leadership and are so involved and doing great things. And when you look at these kids you say hey our country's got a future. These are these are the kids of the future. So let me read this clean sweep award. MacArthur High School Key Club. This special recognition honors community groups and organizations that actively contribute to keeping our city clean by regularly picking up litter that celebrates their dedication to maintaining a beautiful and welcome environment for all residents. Let's give them a big round of applause. You guys all might just take a minute and talk about the key club.

Yeah. Talk a little bit about what Key Club does for you.

So, I this is my second term as president for Key Club. So, we just kind of do service around the community. We are a studentled organization. So, we just try to impact the community as much as we can in different areas of need. So, we work a lot with food insecurity and we do a lot of street cleanups as the word kind of talks about. We do Relay for Life, which is a 12-h hour cancer fundraiser. In January, we do empty bowls, which is a service project that directly impacts food and security within our own school. So, we give back 100% of the proceeds to our food pantry. And we do that with ceramics, which is our program in our school, and we make bowls that you can buy for $20. and all of the proceeds go back to our food pantry. So, we're just blessed to be able to help our community and just try to make a difference and an impact in London.

All right. It sounds to me like the key club is building good citizens. Thank you. Another group that builds good citizens and it's a Sai epsilon Omega sci-fi fraternity. Come on up. This is the guys in purple and every time I see them except except right now that have young men with them and they're always teaching them about how to be good citizens. Is that a good way to put it?

That's a good way to put it. focusing them on higher education and the future and and uh just kind of better, right? All right. And your name? John.

All right. So, let me read this and we'll learn all about Omega Sci-Fi. It's the first international fraternity organization to be founded on the campus of a historically backed college. Omega Sci-Fi Fraternity Incorporated was founded at Howard University in Washington DC. On November 17, 1911 by graduates Oscar Cooper, Frank Coleman, Edgar Love, and their faculty advisor Ernest Just the Sci-Fis Chapter. The Sai Upsilon chapter was chartered at the Patterson Center in Lton, Oklahoma. In 1952, the SC epsilon chapter Omega SciFi fraternity incorporated has maintained a commitment to the betterment of mankind, the enhancement of the community, and the enrichment of collegiate men through dedication to its cardinal principles of manhood, scholarship, perseverance, and uplift. Whereas the SC Upsilon chapter has carried out the goals of the Omega Sci-Fi Fraternity, Inc. and the Lton Portzill community by participating in events to uplift the community, including voter registration, scholarship programs, blood drives, and holiday food baskets for new families. Whereas during the fraternity's achievement week celebration, the Sai Upsilon chapter will celebrate more than 73 years of service to the law and Portill community in many diverse fields of endeavor. Whereas the scabs salon chapter Omega Sci-Fi fraternity will commemorate its contributions and promote its continued success during its achievement week activities during the

week of November 16 to 22 in 2025. I do proclaim November 16 the week of six November 16 to 22 SI epsilon chapter Omega Sci-Fi Fraternity Week with Monday November 17th as sci-fi chapter Omega Sci-Fi Fraternity Day saluting the valuable contributions of that me of that that members of the sci-fi chapter Omega Sci-Fi Fraternity that is a mouthful

it is has made in improving the lives of all citizens and I've seen it firsthand. Let's give them a big round of applause for what they do. Thank you very much. Thank you, mayor. First of all, it's indeed an honor to be standing here before you and to be recognized. uh as he said we we started in 1952 which is before I was born but achievement week is a very special time for us that gives us an opportunity to one recognize our members who contributed but more importantly we get to give back to communities just a little bit more things we have going on next week is that we're going to do do a blood drive also going to give supplies to hungry hearts ministry and on Friday night we're going to give out Thanksgiving holiday baskets to needy families. We will celebrate our banquet on Saturday night. And what I like about the banquet coming up is we have a member of our chapter who's been a member of the chapter since 1968. He's been a member of this chapter, contribute to this community for over 50 years, Brother Chick Ellis. So, we we do a lot. Uh we've given out a lot of scholarships to to uh students in this community, and we just want to do whatever is necessary to uplift the community. So if you need anything, reach out to the Southland chap because if we can't do it, no one else can. Thank you very much.

I like it. All right. Okay. So, y'all notice the tie. Everybody look up here. See my tie? Okay. It's Native American tie. And not only is this Veterans Day, it's Native American Heritage Month. So, this gift was given to me actually by the uh Julansky family. And yesterday when I was doing TV interview, I wore a different Native American tie that was given to me by the Kyway chairman, Lawrence Sputterberg. Also had a Native American tie handmade by Clary Yazzy, the young lady that you've seen here several times. And she does a she's a Comanche princess. And she uh also hand makes poppies to give away on Memorial Day. And then I had another one given to me the first year I was in office by the Cameron Native American Student Association. So that's why I'm wearing this and I've worn it all day and been able to talk a little bit about it. What's that doing better today? Did you know that no other people group serves at a higher rate per capita in the um armed forces of the United States than Native Americans? Isn't that neat? So, do we have any Native Americans in the room?

We got one down here. We got Miss Albert and she's going to come up here and get this proclamation. I guess normally we have several. Let's give Miss Albertie some welcome music. And we have other members of our reser relation commission here. So whereas the history and culture of our great nation have been significantly influenced by Native Americans and indigenous peoples, the contributions of Native American have been enhanced freedom, prosperity and greatness of America today. Their customs and traditions are respected and celebrated as part of a rich legacy throughout the United States. Whereas Native Americans are inexertably linked with the history of the United States. Yeah. Beginning with the pilgrims arrival at Plymouth Colony and continuing until the present day, Native Americans contributions are woven deeply in our nation's rich tapestry. During Native National Native American Heritage Month, we honor and celebrate the first Americans and recognize their contributions and sacrifices. Whereas Native Americans have influenced every stage of America's development, they helped early European settlers survive and thrive in a new land. They contributed democratic ideas to our constitutional framers. And for more than 200 years, they have bravely answered the call to defend our nation. Serving with distinction in every branch of the United States Armed Forces forces, the nation is grateful for the service and sacrifice of all Native Americans. Native American Awareness Week began in 1976

and recognition was expanded by Congress and approved by President George Bush on August 1990 designating the month of November as National American Indian and Heritage Month. And whereas Native Americans are a testament to the deep importance of culture and vibrancy of traditions passed down throughout generations, Native American men and women contribute to all areas of life in L Oklahoma, including but not limited to government, business, arts and sciences, medicine, education, law enforcement, and the military. Now therefore, I stand Booker, City of Lot, Oklahoma, Mayor City of Lton, Oklahoma to hereby recognize November as Native American Heritage Month and encourage all citizens to learn about the rich history and culture of the Native American people. I ask that you commemorate this month with appropriate program, activities, and celebrations. And let's give our Native American heritage a big round of applause. All right, our citizen of the month, Mary Fountain.

Thank you. On behalf of the race relations commission, we want to accept this proclamation from the mayor. And um Miss, like I said, Miss Albertie is is part Native American. Our lady um who is on our commission, Gail was supposed to be here today, but she is attending another Native American program. So, on behalf of the restorations commission, thank you.

All right, let's give another round of applause. And that brings up our reports by the mayor, city council, and city manager. And we're going to start down here with W 8. I just want to thank everybody for their service. Um it's it's interesting living in a lot, Oklahoma. I've lived here pretty much all my life. Um and it it becomes I don't know second nature. You just you just accept the fact that your neighbors and and everybody around you uh is is either in the military or has been in the military and has served their nation and you you end up owing your entire municipality uh thanks for taking care of you. Um, and I appreciate the fact that not everybody in the United States gets to have that honor. Um, there's a lot of places out there where they don't even understand the concept of veterans and and serving their nation. Uh, and I I I do just uh just want to thank everybody that has uh has and is serving the nation.

All right. I'd like to echo that what uh Councilman Warren just stated. Just like to say uh happy veteran day to all the veterans like to say thank you uh for your service and I'd like to say I am a veteran also myself. It's a blessing to still yet to be in the land of the living because when you've been in a combat zone for three different times, it's a blessing when you come back and touch the the US soil. Believe me, it really is. But um this was a very nice day to different ceremonies and things where we just actually uh recognize the veterans and thank you for all you do. And then for those who are still serving also

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Thank you, mayor. I would just like to say as well as as my uh fellow council folks have said, we appreciate the service of our veterans. I've had the opportunity to be on three different continents at different times over over my lifetime. And having had opportunities to visit these three different continents, I've seen something that other parts of the world don't have, and that is the patriotism and the freedom like we have in America. Truly, we have been blessed uh first by God and secondly by our soldiers and our men and women that have served in our military. And it's a privilege to live in America. Thank you.

Uh thank you, mayor. Uh, without a doubt, I wanted to mention the farmers market. I had a uh Samoan uh breakfast roll with egg cheese and and it was a special samoyan bread. It was delicious. And uh I encourage you to go try to get you one uh if I don't buy them all up the next time I go over there. It was that good. But uh there's that that's an opportunity also to visit with other uh Latonians and uh to to to get some fresh vegetables. Make yourself out make your way out there 8:30 to 1:00. I do want to say quickly happy Veterans Day to uh some of my family members. My father who's passed away but he was in telecommunications. My brother who was in armor uh my son who is a uh attack PE in the Air Force at this time. my wife who was military intelligence. That's a tough one to live with. Was military intelligence and uh uh all the rest of the veterans that are out there. And I just want to say this real quick. You know, we go to fight for freedom. And a lot of people think that freedom is to do whatever you want to do. But that's not really true. Here in the in America, it's a freedom to live together and make decisions on how you can help your neighbor.

Yes. Okay. So, so I I the reason I say that is because a lot of times I've been hearing people say that freedom is to do whatever the heck I want to do. That's a very selfish thing and none of us fought for that. But we did fight for the fact that we could live in this country, live together beside our neighbors and choose to do what we can to help them. Thank you, mayor.

All right. And I uh have been to four events today. And so I'm not going to spend a lot of time talking about uh Veterans Day today because before that I had three more events. So it's great to live in a community that cares so much about veterans. And I have a picture of a veteran hanging in my office and he is a Medal of Honor awardee and his name is Henry Wear Lton. And y'all learn a little something about him because our city is named after him. And if you were at any of the events I was at today, you heard me give lessons on that. But I'll keep you in suspense and tell you some other time board.

Couple of things. I am a proud veteran and I want to say something good to all my brothers and sisters that are veterans. If it wasn't for the veterans, we wouldn't be speaking this language tonight. It would be a different language and sometimes we need to remember that. And ongoing with that, this is the time of Thanksgiving. So, we can be thankful for them as well as living in this great city of Lton. Been a lot of progress the last couple of years. I think everyone here has seen it. We've got a year coming up that's going to be a whirlwind with new projects, new roads, new streets. Uh, a lot to be thankful living in Lman. Thank you.

Word three. I feel very privileged that my husband who was a a Lutonian brought me to Lton back in 1967 as a new bride and after we had graduated from college and he was commissioned as as a second lieutenant, served his time, went to Vietnam, came home with three bron. So I I I love this feeling of patriotism that we have in this city that we just need to pass it on to other cities also. So I feel very very blessed with that. Thank you board.

Well, we we should all feel patriotic today and uh certain I certainly do myself. One of the things is so surprising this afternoon I guess it just continues on. I drove by the uh park on 38th Street and it's just amazing how many kids out and families are out there playing and drove by another park and it's the same story. I mean that's uh the work that was done on those you guys prior to me coming here for sure should be congratulated on that. It's a beautiful thing. And our veteran city manager John R.

Thank you mayor. Um, I I just want to acknowledge the um the veterans that are city employees. We have over 200. We're really proud of that. And um I want to give a special thanks to um Larry Parks and Robert Burns. If if those guys can't get you fired up, if they can't get you excited, then you must not have a pulse because that was a great ceremony today, guys. Appreciate it. I don't know if Kelvin Ingram's here, but he did a great job as well. They did a great job. Let's appreciate it. was a very program and I might add it was the biggest veteran program that I attended uh today. All right, mayor. I've got I've got a few other items.

Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead.

Um so on Saturday we've got a community trash off event from 9:00 a.m. to noon and that's going to be in Central Plaza parking lot and this will be for paint, solvents, things of that nature. Um, so this is our fall trash off event. Um, you don't want to miss it if you've got some of those items in your home that are are difficult to get rid of. And then, um, finally, I'm going to call Jason Pudriier up to give a very brief update on, um, Holiday in the Park. We got a little bit of a late start this year, but I feel like we've got some good good momentum. All right. uh mayor, council, uh city manager. I just want to say that holiday in the park this year, uh kind of being spearheaded by the city of Lton employees, especially Larry Parks, Kelvin Ingram, our marketing communications department, as well as arts and humanities has really been working well with Holiday in the Park committee. Uh with also a little bit of help from the Chamber of Commerce, Matt Tranquil behind behind me. Uh what we've been doing uh having several volunteers out to the point that this past weekend, Sunday, we were like, you know what, volunteers, you can have the day off. We've got the tunnel almost completely done, which is the longest lit tunnel um with Christmas lights in the state of Oklahoma. Uh we have several of the displays up. Uh Larry Parks and Kelvin's guys have been out there um each day of the week kind of setting those up, putting them up with again guidance from one of our uh chamber committee members, Katie Madigan. And uh one of the donations that we received from Arvest in uh enabled us to hire on team challenge. Uh so it's one of those kind of we give we give and we give. So Arvis gives and we hire on Teen Challenge and then those uh those uh people get paid and then it also supports the community. So everything's looking great and we're just excited to have everybody out on November 22nd. That is going to be the parade and also Frost Your Fanny. Frost your panny. Um you can register today online uh swarts.com. You can also get information about the

parade if you're still wanting to enter the parade. But uh last chance to enter the run is going to be at 4 o'clock on the 22nd. It'll kick off at 5. And it's really one of the coolest runs in Lton because it's like running the Boston Marathon because you have all of those people coming out to watch the parade and they're watching you run and it's really just exciting cuz they run the basically the same path. So you have the Froster Fanny at 5 and then you have the biggest parade of City of Lton has which is at 6:30, the holiday parker parade. theme is misplaced boys. And Jason, Councilman Gil wanted to know if there's an age group for him for the run. Um I I'll have to have them extend the age bracket, but I'm sure we can do that.

Thank you so much. Oh, that was good. That That was so good. I would was it set up or was that Did you come up with that just like that? Set up, but I will remember. All right. Thank you, Jason. We're looking forward to the 22nd. Yes, it's going to be great. Thank you. Okay. Consent agenda. The following items are considered to be routine by the city council will be enacted with one motion. Should discussion be desired on an item, that item will be removed from the consent agenda prior prior to action and consider it separately. Council, I have no requests at this time. Are there any requests?

I have a motion. Council, I make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. Second. We have a motion and a second. Please vote. Are we missing something? No, my computer is spinning. But I do have the results that that passed unanimously. 7.

Okay. So the consent agenda passes unanimously bringing up item 21 consideration and action upon a resolution of the city of Lton Oklahoma this city approving and authorizes the incurring of indebtedness by the trustees of the lot industrial development authority the authority to be accomplished by the issuance of its sales tax revenue bonds or other evidences of indebtedness in one or more series either in series names or others determined as needed on a tax exempt or taxable basis at a premium or discount in the aggregate principal par amount of not to exceed $95 million and no $100 $95 million. the bonds for the purpose of financing all or a portion of the cost of acquisition, construction, equipping, renovating, and improving certain streets and capital improvement projects which are expected to include but are not limited to a p a portion of or all of the costs of the construction and or improvements to the law and youth sports facility, Elmer Thomas Park, the discovery zone, and other acquisitions, repair and improvements relating to city capital projects. All for the benefit of the city and pay cost of issuance related thereto providing that the organizational document creating the authority is subject to the pro provisions of the bond in indenture authorizing the issuance of set bonds. Approving the award of the sale of set bonds on a negotiated basis. Approving the waiver of competitive bidding in regard to the sale of said bonds and approving the proceedings of the authority pertaining to the sale of said

bonds approving and authorizing a sales tax agreement. the sales tax agreement by and between the city and the authority pertaining to a year-to-year pledge of certain sales tax revenues and all matters related thereto including execution of all related documents there too. Dwayne.

Okay. Mayor and council. Uh based on direction from council at uh meeting last Monday, uh this is the financial resolution, if you will, uh that we're looking for passage that will get us the next round of financing for the projects that you indicated you wanted included. uh primarily the sports complex and Elmer Thomas Park which will be addressed in phases. Um the package also includes funding for the park improvements, the museum lats fista construction loan and the fi or discovery zone. Um the total total project uh cost that we are projecting is 90.3 million and the budgets for those project was 40 million for the uh sports complex 24 million for Elmer Thomas Park um 2 million for the the park improvements 1.8 8 on the museum, 3 million for lats, 4.5 million for the construction loan on FISTA, and 15 million for the discovery zone. You have any questions? Any questions? Seeing none, do I have a motion? Move to approve the resolution.

Second.

Have a motion and a second. Discussion, please vote. Motion carry 7 to zero. Bring it up item 22. Hold the public hearing and receive a presentation regarding the proposed third amended lot downtown economic development project plan. the third amendment project plan for the purpose of providing information including an analysis of potential positive or negative impacts, receiving questions and comments from the public regarding the proposed third amendment project plan and announcing that a second public hearing on the proposed third amendment project plan will be held on December 2nd, 2025. Rich Bowski and Lisa Harden.

Yes. Good evening, uh, mayor and council. I appreciate you being here and letting us, uh, present this to you today. I'm Rich Regalsy. I'm the director of the Lton Economic Development Authority. Um, we manage the project plans for the city of Lton. This is the third amended downtown project plan. This is the original project plan that came that the city of Lton put together, the first project they used with using the local development act that created a tact finance district. It has TIFF one and tiff two in it. So, they're the first ones. Um, however, we're looking at an amendment today and Lisa Harden uh with the Center for Economic Development Law. I mean, they've been part of this process the entire time from the very beginning inception of our redevelop from the inception of our redevelopment uh uh work. And so, we love Let Lisa Harden go through the presentation.

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Thank you very much. Good evening, mayor and council members. I am Lisa Harden with the Center for Economic Development Law of Oklahoma City. I am here to present a third amended downtown Lot and downtown economic development project plan, which represents the next step in the city's continuing efforts to reinvest in and strengthen its downtown center. Although this amendment does not change the overall character or purpose of the original downtown plan, it does propose the creation of two new increment districts. And under the Oklahoma Global Development Act, that type of change qualifies as a major amendment, which requires that we follow the same procedural steps as adoption of the new project plan, which includes review by the review committee, the planning commission, and two public hearings before city council. And tonight's presentation is part of that process. So nearly 20 years ago, as Richard mentioned, the city adopted the downtown project plan, which was a bold effort to reverse severe decline that had taken hold of the city center. This first image shows just a sample of the conditions that existed in the area that made redevelopment not just desirable, but essential. This image taken in 2013 shows the site after significant acquisition and clearance activities were completed. This work transformed the area and under two separate development agreements came the Hilton Garden in and the Ltontown Center which brought national retailers including Kohl's Dick Sporting Goods, Petco and Alton as well as infrastructure improvements that changed the landscape of Second Street. Now, that plan accomplished a great deal. It revitalized Second Street. It attracted

major national retail anchors and funded key infrastructure. But the town center ultimately didn't reach its full potential. As economic conditions shifted and then came the pandemic, the pandemic impeding developers efforts to complete the town center and outpersonal developments or even maintain full occupancy of a shopping center. So, this proposed amendment helps position the city for new uh renewed private investment in downtown Watton. After more than a decade of limited development, a new private investment opportunity is in the works. Lita, the Latin Economic Development Authority is under contract with a developer for a full service grocery store and fuel station located at the 10 acres uh the north 10 acre end of the Lton Town Center. Now, this transaction is scheduled to close in early 2026 if everything stays on track and will represent a 16 to20 million in private investment that will bring a community need, new jobs, and renewed economic energy to the downtown area. The down the town center developer has expressed strong support for this project and fully appreciates its importance to the shopping center and the community overall. So this proposed amendment positions the city and Lita to move forward with the grocery store development but also lays a stronger foundation for future retail and mixed use growth. I should have had that up a second ago. So the proposed amendment provides four

primary things. It establishes two new increment districts by removing the two undeveloped parcels that are owned by Lita from increment district number two and establishing two new 25-year increment districts which is temporarily designated as tiff A and TIF B. TIFF A is the site of the proposed grocery store and fuel station development and tiff B is reserved for retail or mixeduse development. Number two, the amended plan expands the project area to include Elmer Thomas Park, Central Middle School, and Lton uh high school. This will ensure that future TIP revenues may be used to um for public facilities and school improvements. Number three, the amended plan reflects increased costs for public improvements and strengthens the ability to pay future project costs, including debt service and public assistance for new developments. You see, today incremental revenues for tip 2 have barely been sufficient to cover existing debt service, leaving limited capacity to fund any other project costs. So looking ahead, the new development opportunities will generate additional revenues, giving the city greater flexibility to fund those other eligible project costs under the plan. And number four, the amended plan allocates 10% of the increment revenues from the two new tiff districts to support the city's STEM strategic plan. These changes collectively make the project plan more flexible, more current, and better aligned with the city's long-term redevelopment goals. The proposed amended plan does not modify the boundaries of tip one or the

duration of tip one, and it does not amend or alter the duration of tip 2. The proposed amended plan is authorized under the Oklahoma Local Development Act, which allows cities, towns, and counties to use tax increment financing or tiff in areas that are unproductive, undeveloped, or blighted to stimulate economic development. TIF is intended for areas where development or growth is difficult, but possible when the tools of the local development act are utilized. The proposed project area and two new increment districts meet statutory eligibility requirements because they are located entirely within a state designated enterprise area by the Oklahoma Department of Commerce and qualify as a reinvestment area reflecting the need for public improvements to attract private investment and restore economic viability. The estimated budget of project costs represents the maximum expenditures that may be paid from increment revenues generated by the tip districts. These seven basic cate there are seven basic categories. six of which remain unchanged from the original plan. And those six are public improvements, project support for new development, school improvements, other public facilities, project implementation, and miscellaneous. A new project cost category category, which is support for the STEM strategic plan, has been added for the two new increment districts. For tip one, the total budget remains unchanged. For tip two, the budget is increased due to higher than expected public improvement

costs and lower than anticipated revenues to date. for tiffs A and B. Uh those um budgets are based on projected advalorums tax sales advorum and sales tax in increments expected expected from future development. For tip A, at full buildout, it's expected to generate roughly 200,000 to 300,000 annually in adver room increments and 200,000 to 400,000 annually in sales tax increments. Tiff B is projected to generate roughly 100 to $200,000 in both adul and sales. So, these revenues would fund the project costs such as assistance and development financing, public infrastructure, site remediation, school improvements, and STEM support. Together, these new districts will generate a steady and predictable source of revenue to reinvest in Lton's downtown and community priorities. The proposed amended plan does not increase the city's obligations or impose new costs on the taxing jurisdictions. Thus, the local taxing entities, the the Lton Public Schools, Great Plains Technology Center, Comanche County, and the Health Department are expected to experience positive fiscal impacts as new developments occur. The proposed grocery store and future developments will increase consumer activity, employment, and secondary investment within and around the L and Town Center. And based on our experience with other tiff districts throughout the state, we can anticipate a broad ripple effect with new or expanded businesses locating nearby to capture that increased traffic and retail demand.

So our next steps um in well before a project plan may be amended or approved the local development act requires three key steps. So first we have review by the review committee which is comprised of representatives of the city, the planning commission, each of the effective taxing taxing entities and three members of the public at large. They reviewed the project plan on October 24th. They assessed the eligibility of the proposed project area and increment districts, evaluated the financial impacts, and unanimously made a recommendation to city council to approve the proposed project plan. The local development act also requires that the planning commission determine whether the proposal conforms to the city's comprehensive plan. And on November 6th, the planning commission unanimously approved a resolution making that determination and a recommendation of approval to city council. Next, city council holds two public hearings. The first is to provide information and answer questions about the proposed project plan, which is on the agenda for this evening. At the conclusion of that public hearing, no action is taken. Then city council holds a second public hearing for the purpose of allowing the public to speak for or against the proposal. And that is scheduled for December 2nd, 2025. After that second public hearing, the city council may then consider approval of the proposed amended project plan. So that concludes the overview of the proposed amended project plan and required steps for adoption. In closing, the proposed third amended lot downtown economic development

project plan supports new private investment, expands employment and business activity, and strengthens the city's tax base. All without increasing costs or placing uh added burdens on the local taxing jurisdictions. While tip 2 has not reached its maximum potential, the grocery store development will generate significant new growth, creating fresh opportunities for the city to reinvest in downtown Law. Thank you for the opportunity to present this tonight. I'd be happy to answer any questions.

So, do you have any questions? This is time for questions, not comments. Saying no questions, Rich, do you have something you want to add? Just that's just just to you if you have any questions then otherwise you can start the public hearing. Okay. At this time I will open the public hearing on what do we call this the third third amended project plan. If anyone wishes to speak on this item please come forward. It's a public hearing. You do not have to have filled out the request to speak form. Do I need to?

If you want to speak on this project plan, you can come and speak. That's all you can speak on at this moment. We'll need your name and address. Okay. Good evening. My name is Joshua Jenkins. I'm a soldier at Fortville. I live in uh 23 Northeast Air Strip Road in Fletcher. Uh that's at 73541. I was curious with this economic development plan, are there any restrictions as to what businesses are able to to come in uh to this particular area? For example, I'd like to get a Chipotle into town if we could. Thank you.

Rich, you want to come and answer that? I didn't I didn't hear the last part of the question. Huh? Chipotle. Yeah, I'll take it. No. Um I think I heard they talk about restrictions. You know, there is an overlay district. We do want downtown redevelop. We want the highest quality development, but we're not restricting who who comes. I mean, we want every retail. I mean, we want it all. So, did that did that answer the question well enough?

Yes, sir. Thank you. Is there anyone else that would like to come forward on the third project plan? Third amended project plan. Seeing none, I'm going to close the public hearing. Okay. Now we take no action and we or do we have to take action? We just announced that the second public hearing is on December 2nd at at this meeting 6 pm. Right. Are we done with that item? Okay. Thank you.

Right. Thank you. I move this item 23. receive a presentation summarizing the 2025 Spirit of Survival event and consider accepting a donation in the amount of $5,000 from the Cancer Centers of Southwest Oklahoma and appreciation for the city's continued support of the event. Yes, ma'am.

Hello. Thank you so much for having me. My name is Angelina Baker. I'm the oncology program manager for the cancer centers of southwest Oklahoma and along with co-race director Lane Hooton. I'm one of the race directors for the spirit of survival. So very very proud of this event. Um it was a great year as you can see very short presentation. Um Saturday October 4th saw 99 cyclists leaving from Elmer Thomas Park. We'll kind of talk about the routes in a minute. Sunday October 5th we held all of the walk run events at the cancer centers of southwest Oklahoma. So 629 participants were running from the cancer center across Gore through Cameron University. It was a beautiful route. We had 326 participants in the spirit walk at 1:00 and then 399. We just needed that one more. There was one kid that just did not get out there at 2:00 on Sunday afternoon for the kids bubble run. So altogether a total of 1453 participants. That's about an 18% growth from last year. And we had participants from Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, and Colorado. All of whom reached out and said, "Hey, you know, we have family members here or we've come in the past precoid. We had we did take 5 years off. This was the 17th year. So, we are proud to be back. It was an excellent year. Very appreciative for all of our partners. U Major Taylor Cycling Club of Oklahoma. We could not have done those bike events without them. They were absolutely crucial. Kelvin Ingram, City of Lton, um, parks and wreck was absolutely amazing and just incredible. Cameron University again allowed us to use the campus for the 5K. City of Lton between parks and wreck, streets, the police department and fire. Everyone helped us pull together an amazing event. It was safe. It was enjoyable. The route, Lieutenant Malik from the police department was essential in coming up with that route last year. And then, of course, Comanche County Memorial Hospital. So, for those of you who don't know, we offered four

different distances of bike tours, 14, 27, 52, and 64 miles long. I can drive it, I could not bike that. The longest route goes up through Elgen, Fletcher, Suril, and Sterling. So, a chance for people to see lots of different parts of Southwest Oklahoma. We had a children's bike ride that actually stayed in the park. Again, lots of opportunities with the aquatic center. Lots of beautiful things to see in Elmer Thomas Park. And then Sunday's walk run events, that 5K again started and finished at the cancer center, went up through Cameron University. At 1:00 we had a spirit walk geared towards patients and survivors. And then at 2:00 the kids and all the bubbles. It was a blast. As you could see, pictures worth a thousand words, lots and lots of smiles, lots of appreciation from survivors, from people choosing to honor their loved ones. So it was a great event and we could not have done it without the help of the city. So again, thank you very very much. On behalf of the Cancer Centers of Southwest Oklahoma and the Spirit of Survival, we would love um to present you with a check in the amount of $5,000 as a donation and a way to say thank you very very much for helping us pull off another great event.

All right, it's a little hard to believe that we have to vote on accepting that, but I'm pretty sure that we can get a motion in a second. Lane would Oh, Lane said we got to recuse himself, I guess. We have a motion to accept and a second discussion. Please vote. It's got to be unanimous. But you know.

Okay. And the motion passes 6 to zero with one abstension. And of course the abstension is uh the CEO of the cancer center board one Councilman Lane Hoo. So I guess we accept that. Absolutely. And I'll be the happy camper that takes you. All right. Thank you so much. Let's uh And by the way, I noticed that I love Portion. Let's give the cancer center a great round of applause. Thank you so much for that great presentation and all that energy. I think some of it rubbed off right here. Yeah.

Okay. Item 24, hold the public hearing and consider approving the consolidated annual performance and evaluation report taper for the community development block grant CDBG and home investment partnerships home programs, activities, and accomplishments for federal fiscal year 2024. Are you talking on this? Come on. Are you going to sing it? So long a song to sing. I would go ahead. Thank you.

Thank you, city council and Mr. Mayor for having us. Uh I'm going to try to get through this pretty quickly cuz I don't want to belabor our time here. Um so as for our purpose here today um HUD requires grantees to submit um the consolidated annual performance and evaluation report which reports on the community development block grant and home investment partnership program activities um and accomplishments during the previous program year. This caper covers um 1 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025. From fiscal year 2024, um here's what we are here's where we started. We were um awarded a total of $1.1 million from HUD. $742,497 was uh CDBG funds. 374,800 81 was home funds. Here are some of the um the direct services offered through housing and community development and their um economic impact in in 2024. ER average uh cost uh emergency repair average cost for fiscal year 2024 was $5,314. Um exterior home improvements average cost was about $14,400.

Whole home repairs um averaged $32,900 and we only had one uh firsttime home buyer to complete participation last year. Um total monetary impact for 2024 was $185,000. These are just some examples of uh some of the work we completed this year. This home um you can see uh was it the issue here was the um sewer line. So, uh emergency repair. We spent $7,000 to repair um this uh damaged sewer line. Um, other examples of uh emergency repair, HVAC, hot water heaters. Uh, and this home, as a matter of fact, is in the wood the Woodhouse division, the Woodhouse subdivision. And again, it cost $7,000 to repair. You'll notice here on the right, on the left, uh, the roof. Um, this is an, um, this is a, uh, exterior home improvement. Um, this roof placement, this roof replacement project on a home located in Southwest Park on Southwest Park Avenue was an exterior home improvement and paid for for at the maximum entitlement of $17,000. Uh, just to give you an example. Um and um in order for for uh citizens to qualify for such work um they have to live in the home. They have to actually occupy the home and live there. Um and they have to meet the um the low income threshold.

Um and we also do energy efficiency for windows and uh doors as well. This next thing, this next picture is uh a homeowner re a whole home rehabilitation that cost about $34,411. This whole home rehabilitation is located on Cherry, not to be confused with another city undertaking in the same neighborhood. So, don't get this confused with we had another project that we worked on this year as well. uh whole home rehabilitation assist assist assistance will be provided uh in the form of a forgivable loan. The maximum rehab uh assistance amount is $40,000. The forgivable loan has a 10-year uh period of affordability. Housing qualif housing quality um standards have to be met. Um um particularly city code violations, lead based paint hazards, regulatory uh requirements, and health and safety issues are first priority. And here's our home uh cherry. This is this was a lesson learned. Um uh this was a flip for the purpose of recovering funds lost due to um a missed um time timeline by hood. So don't get this confused with uh what we do as a as a division for uh homeless low-income families. This was just um a missed opportunity here. So a project finished as well. First-time home buyer program.

Through the first first-time home buyer program, financial assistance is provided in the form of forgivable loans to qualified firsttime home buyers. The forgivable loan can be used for closing costs and down payments. The loan is forgiven for up to 5 years from closing on a property. As stated earlier, um we had only one firsttime home buyer to complete participation this year. Um that home was purchased on Dearborn Avenue uh here in Lton. We assisted with the family's down payment and closing cost to the tune of $14,999. as for community service projects through CDBG and home funds PSOS uh were enabled to assist over 9,000 clients through the combined efforts of nine public service organizations in this uh FY tenant based uh rental assistance was provided for six clients and expanded and expended $79,831 uh in service to individuals and families. This is uh just a list of um our public ser our public service organizations here in Lton. Our top performer uh our our top top performing uh family was family promise. Uh, as far as our um public service organization this year, the HC King Center received $73,464 uh to renovate their kitchen this year.

This was the only public facility that uh undertook a project this year. Others were planned. HC King was the only one that that uh completed their scheduled work. Total administrative cost this year was 4,000 431,620 $20. Uh total expenditures for fiscal year 2024 81,57464. As I stated earlier, Mr. Mayor and uh city council. Our purpose here um was to uh hold a public hearing for the purpose of obtaining um public input and approve the consolidated annual per consolidated annual performance and evaluation report for federal fiscal year 2024 for submission to HUD and to authorize the mayor to sign all necessary documents required to submit uh the cap for this year. Okay, this at this time I'll open the public hearing. Anybody wishing to speak on this caper consolidated annual performance and evaluation report, please come forward at this time. Seeing none, I will close the public

hearing. All right. So the recommended action approve the consolidated annual performance and evaluation report to caper for fiscal federal fiscal year 24 for submission to HUD and authorize mayor to sign all necessary documents required to submit the approved caper. Do I have a motion for approval? So move motion and second discussion please vote. carries. Motion carries 7 to zero. Bringing up item 25. Hold a public hearing and adopt a resolution declaring the properties located at 206 Northwest Paris Avenue main structure and accessory structure pole sign 925 Southwest 2nd Street main structure and all secondary structures 1501 Southwest Lee Boulevard main structure and all secondary structures 1516 Southwest Lee Boulevard main structure 2534 West Boulevard boulevard main structure and accessory structure pole sign to be dilapidated pursuant to section 651 L city code ordering the owner to abate the nuisance authorizing summary abatement and authorizing the city attorney to commence legal action in district court to abate the nuisance John here we go council 206 northwest Ferris Avenue no water account was found on this structure has damaged roofing uh broken windows and doors for sign damaged siding, damaged trim. There is a access accessory pole sign on this

property as well. We post on the property on 1029 of 2025. I did speak to the property owner and they have a contract with a demo company to have the structure torn down and to fix the pole sign. Any questions? Seeing none, I'll open the public hearing. Anybody wishing to speak on 206 Northwest Ferris Avenue, please come forward at this time. Seeing none, I will close the public hearing. You guys help me watch for people because those lights in the corner make it hard for me to see, but I don't see anybody coming forward. So, I'll close the public hearing. Council, John, uh I didn't hear that last part. Did you say that they were going to demo the sign?

So, they want to actually fix the sign. So, there are a couple of apartments that are left behind it as well. Okay. that we are not looking at. So they want to fix the sign and actually redo the whole entire sign to this is just one of the units that are on there. This is the main uh structure that has a the secondary space second story structure. Has there been vagrants in vagrants? Have you had to remove vagrants? Is it doesn't look boarded up? So there have been vagrants in there and we have been contacting the property owner about this and that's the reason why they're looking at they are in the contract material now.

Okay. Thank you. I want to make a motion to approve resolution declaring the structure on this property to lapidate public nuisance and authorized abatement thereof set forth in the resolution. Is there a second? Do you have a second? Discussion. Please vote. Mor, I'll call the role for the Please call the role. Newton, yes. Chapman, yes. Gil, yes. Hampton, yes. Weer, yes. Williams, yes. Warren, yes.

Okay. Motion carries bringing up 925 Southwest Street. 925 Southwest Street. No water count was found on this. The structure uh did have dam at the time of the pictures uh did have damaged roofing, uh damaged trim and soft as you can see on the second picture. They do have separation from the siding to the brick. Uh this structure has also been uh boarded and secured for over 6 months and there are two secondary structures on this property. We posted on the property on 1029 2025. Today we did receive a call and actually the structure the main structure at 925 Southwest actually has a new roof on the shingles and finished up with the 10 on the roofing on that as well. Any questions? Seeing none, I welcome the public hearing on 925 Southwest Street. If anyone wishing to speak on this item, please come forward. Come on down. When we start talking about the address you want to talk about, please come forward and sit on the front row somewhere or the second row somewhere close. Can we get your name and address, please?

Yes. Merlin Leay Mani address um for this property or Middle Oh, 1416 Northwest Taff Avenue, Lton, Oklahoma. Tell us.

Okay. Um has he mentioned the uh roof has been repaired? Uh there's a new roof on the back of the uh premises as well. Um, I am trying to work on this property and looking at selling it, but doing more improvements on it in order to sell it. I had a couple of uh buyers, but I have not made a decision on that yet, but I want the time and not to be placed on this related list so I could do what I need to do. But it's been voted. There's nobody going in it. There's I don't have any problems with anyone entering either building. So, they are sealed. Okay, I'm going to tell you the process here, and I encourage everybody that's here for one of these properties. The process is this. If the council put your property on the DND, you have 6 weeks, which is 30 business days, okay? 6 weeks to get a permit and start working. Then you have 6 months to complete the work. If you've shown substantial completion, you can come back to the council and apply for an extension. And we have a few on the agenda that are pling. They are not all granted. But what we what happens when you get put on the DND is you're basically put on a timetable to get the work done. Okay? Do you understand, ma'am? Because I don't know what the council is going to do. I'm just telling you if they do put you on the DMD, you'll be on that timetable. Okay? And the other property has a permit. I already have a permit from the city.

We're only on this one property right now. Okay. Is there anyone else that wishes to come forward and speak on this property? Seeing none, I'm going to close the per public hearing. Councilman. Uh yes. Uh I have council. I have uh spoken with uh this this constituent about this property uh and with neighborhood services. We have a list of things that she wants to complete and uh has already started on and I want to move for a continuation of this. John, the next DMV is January 13th. Is that correct?

That's correct. I want to move to a continuation on this matter fulfilling that attempting to fulfill that list until till the next DND which is January 13th. Second. The motion is to continue this to January 13. Is there a second? Second. Would you have a second discussion? Please vote. Hon, yes. Chapman, yes. Gil, yes. Hampton, yes. Wager, yes. Williams, yes. Warren,

no. Motion carries bringing up 1501 Southwest Lee Boulevard. 1501 Southwest Lee Boulevard inactive waters since 120 of 2024. This structure does have broken windows and doors, graffiti on the on the on the siding. Uh we have been called out here multiple times on vagrant issues. Uh and there are mult there are three, excuse me, two secondary structures on this property. We posted on the prop we posted on the property on 1029 2025. Any questions? Seeing none, I will open the public hearing. Anybody wishing to speak on 1501 Southwest Boulevard, please come forward at this time. Yes, sir. Give us your name and address. My name is Steven Crowe. I live at 1307 Northeast Cash Road. Uh my father is Harold Crow who owned this property for almost 50 years. I inherited this property along with about 13 other properties in various stages uh of disrepair. Uh in this particular case there was a trailer house on the west side that has been removed uh which was an issue. Uh second of all the photograph on the left is correct in the sense that it is all boarded up. Uh there is no access to the building. Uh there is a small piece of graffiti maybe this big on the one part which could be fixed in a few minutes. Now there is on the east side of the property a that right which used to be a container for uh tires. Now, that is not an accurate picture of it as it is now because it is completely cleaned out and all the people that were there have been removed and I do have a contract to have that portion of the property torn down. Uh, and that is going to be done and removed and I have no objection for

doing that. Uh, the other building, the main structure, uh, which is and the other two little buildings can be taken down is fine too. Uh, the main structure is completely secured. Uh there is no water, there is no electric on there because of course the city is very concerned that there might be a fire in that building. It is a concrete block building. Uh and it is not a fire hazard and we would be attempting to seek uh building permit and I do have a contractor to try to do the roof. I've had two of them look at it. It is incredibly expensive to have the roof fixed on that building. Uh but we are going to potentially do that. Now uh I have no problem in removing the other structures around there but the main building itself. Uh to have that condemned is arbitrary and capriccious at the least. Uh that is there is no need to do that. And if like I said we if it I I would ask that we give an opportunity to fix that uh through the timeline. My father paid properly. I think I think at the end of the day, you have plans to fix things up. You're okay with getting rid of some of it. Is that right?

Absolutely. And in fact, most of you all know that building. It's been there for a long time. And when I inherited that building from my father, it was a mess around there. And it has been vastly improved over the course of the last year. Uh there is still more to do, but it has been vastly improved. Uh the fact we're we're kind of I think we get the picture. Is there anybody else that wants to come and speak on this item? Okay. Before we go any further, I want to ask John, is this W five or W seven? It's on the south side of Lee. That's right. It's on the north side. It's on the north side. Yes, sir.

Okay. It's not what I thought it was then. Okay. So, it's W five. Is there anyone else that wants to speak on this item? Councilman, do you have any questions for the owner? Yes, I do. Um, first first John has have we brought this before the council before? So, we did serve so we did send letters out there before about the secondary structure that he was talking about and he did remove the secondary structure, but it was for the whole property. Uh when we initially went out there for the September meeting when we were going to take it, he was already removing the secondary structure and they were just now starting to board up all the broken windows and doors on this. Yeah. How long ago was that? September.

In September. And what was it? What was the results of that meeting? It it it was not brought in front of council because he was already removing some of the issues that we had that we were uh sending him notices about. So we were working with the citizen on this. That was in September. since September. How much has he uh completed as far as cleanup and ju the boarding and securing and removing of the trailer that was in behind the building? Just those two items. Yes, sir. And is there any permits pulled on this yet? None that I none that I saw this morning, sir. Yeah. Sir, have you

We have We have not pulled any permits yet to do that because I have not decided on a on a contract or on a bid. Uh a couple things from a legal standpoint. Uh and as I am an attorney, uh the first notice was on the property to the west. It's on a separate deed. So technically what he said is not correct. This is the first notice for 1501 leak. The adjoining lot to the west is on a separate deed. Uh and that was the one that had the original notice. Uh so number two, there has been a considerable amount of boarding and stuff on there already and has been torn off at various different times because of course they steal the wood off of there. And so it has been reboarded up. Uh and like I said, we are perfectly capable of removing some of the other structures on there. It is our intent uh to pull those permits and to try to get whether it can be done in 6 months or not, I don't know. But uh that is our position.

Yeah. John, uh, is that correct that that that there are these separate properties by the county accessory that we were going off of and by looking at the the deeds itself, they were actually that trailer part was part of this property. That is not correct. And he knows that and I've had that conversation with him before with two separate tax roles. I own all the properties, that one, that one, and then the one behind it. So, that is

Councilman, I'm going to recommend I haven't closed the public hearing yet, but as soon as I do, and I'm about to, I'm going to recommend you continue this to that January date. I forgot what you said. And let's see what the progress is. Then, I want legal involved and all of the proper notices. I want to I want you're being accused of not getting it right. I don't want any doubt when this comes back in January. Okay. Absolutely. Yes, sir. All right. I'm going to close the public hearing. Councilman.

Yeah. I move to make a continuence on this property deal January 13th uh uh the next D&D meeting and finding out and clearing clearing up all the the confusion that's with this legally as as as far as the property lines are concerned. I have a motion to continue and a second. Please vote. Putin, yes. Chapman, yes. Gil, yes. Hampton, yes. Wager, yes. Williams, yes. Warren, no. Motion carries, bringing up 1516 Southwest Lee Boulevard main structure.

1516 Southwest Lee Boulevard in active water since 1212 2012. Uh, this structure has damaged roofing, damaged siding, trim, and sopet on the property on 1029 2025. We spoke to the property owner and they are in the process of selling the property and the structure will be de demoed either by the current owner or new owners. Any question? Seeing none, I'll open the public hearing. Anybody wishing to speak on 1516 Southwest Lee Boulevard. Please come forward at this time. Yes, sir. And if you'll give us your name and address, please.

Uh my name is Mike Matson, 1305 Northwest Dash Avenue. We've been in a 2year lawsuit with the tenant that we've had there for seven years on this property. We finally finalized that lawsuit the end of August and we had to give him 60 days to vacate the property. We are under contract right now with this property be sold. Uh and the plan is whether they buy it, you know, uh close on it or whether we keep it is to demo the property. I'd just like to ask for continuance because we're set to close that any day. uh they've ordered an environmental study on it, a third party. I know they've already had an environmental study done on the property next door. U so we're moving forward to demo the property. I just don't want to uh complicate things by having it on the DND list when we're so close to closing this.

Your request is for a continuence, right? Is there anybody else that would like to come forward and speak on 1516 Southwest Le Boulevard? Seeing none, I'll close the public hearing. Councilwoman, our motion that we continues to January 13th. Do I have a second? Second. Do you have a second? Please vote. Hen, yes. Chapman, Dale, yes. Hampton, yes. Waguer, yes. Williams, yes. Warren, no.

Motion carries bringing up 2334 Westgore Boulevard main structure and accessory structure pole signs. 2334 Westcore Boulevard inactive water since 520 2022. The structure has damaged siding, damaged trim, damaged uh fascia of the sign. Uh inside the structure, you can see the moldings, the molded ceiling tile uh which constitutes as leak as roofing damage from the leaks. There is an accessory pole sign and we posted on the property on 1029 2025. Any questions? Seeing none, I'll open the public hearing on 2334 West Core Boulevard. Anyone wish to speak on this item, please come forward at this time.

Yes, sir. And please give us your name and address. My name is Henry Herszik and I live at 1102 Southeast Monro. Okay, Mr. What do you have to tell us? Well, I uh ran a business there for about 30 years and co took me out and I leased the building, but the owner had an option to purchase in the contract. He was supposed to maintain everything and he didn't do it. So, I just acquired the property back and I plan to renovate it and possibly open up my business again. So, I'd like to have a continuence if I can to give me a little time to find a contract. Is there anyone else that wishes to come forward and speak on this address? Seeing none, I'm going to close the public hearing. Councilwoman,

I was talking to Mr. Herszik and I did tell him that I had recently received some calls from businesses and neighbors that live in that area who have been very concerned about how it looks driving up and down on Gore Boulevard. And uh do you h do you have someone right now to start on this? if you pulled a permit to get it going rather they can No ma'am I won't have anybody but I plan to fix this up have it in

okay do you understand what Mayor Booker was saying about the process as far as if it goes on the D&D list you would have six weeks to pull a permit find someone to do some work and then have six months to carry on from there well I'm going to get rid of pretty quick. I'm sorry I couldn't hear you. I'm going to get rid of it pretty quick. I'm not going to wait that long and get get going on this. Okay. I just got this property back and haven't had time to really stop on it. But I'm going to fix this.

You know, we want you to we want you to fix it. That's the thing. We want you to fix it. It's got to be within

too. You It has to be within a time period here is what we're we're talking about. So u um I move that we continue this till January 13 city council meeting and I hope by that time because it will be brought back up and I hope by that time that you all have some great details on what you're going to do with that in a timely manner.

Okay, that will probably be a special council meeting. So, what we need some flexibility in that motion for a DND meeting if there is one. Okay, let's just say continue January 13th. Are you okay with that? We have motion in a second. Please vote. Putin, yes. Chapman, yes. Gil Hampton, yes. Weaguer, yes. Williams, yes. Warren, no. Motion carries. Okay, that's all of that item and brings up item 26. Good to see you, Mr. Herszig.

Thank you. Consider request from the property owner for additional time to complete remodeling of the main structure and all secondary structures located at 803 Southwest D Avenue pursuant to lot city code section 611508D which limits the maximum time for reconstruction, remodel or repair of a dilapidated structure to 180 days without specific authorization by the city council. John 803 Southwest D Avenue, originally brought to council on 1022 2024. Uh the property owner has had permits and and has had the water line replaced. Um after speaking with the property owner uh and the council member of the area, staff recommendation is to allow additional time for them to uh work on the property.

Okay. The staff recommendation is allow additional time. Councilman, so John, to be clear, you're asking for a 90-day extension. 90-day extension. That is correct. Yes, sir. Uh yes. I move to uh approve a 90-day extension on this property. Uh my recommendation and they they have been doing some improvements on the property, haven't they, John? So, as of right now, we're talking with her the other day. She does have contractors uh that are on board to get this place to get it remodeled and they're actually waiting for the electrical inspection as well. Yeah, they they had told me that they had finished the electric work and we're waiting on the the ability to pull a permit because the the LA it timed up last time. Correct.

Okay. Thank you. That's my motion here.

Second mo motion and a second to extend 90 days. Can we vote? Motion carry seven to zero bringing up item 27. I'm striking. Oh, I have a speaker on this one. I'm striking another one. Sorry. Um, okay. Consider request from the property owner for additional time to remodel the main structure and all secondary structures located at 159 Southwest Oklahoma Avenue pursuant to Lton City Code section 611508D, which limits the maximum time for reconstruction, remodel, or repair of a dilapidated structure to 180 days without specific authorization by the council. John 1508 Southwest Oklahoma. Originally brought to council on 225 of 2025. Uh property owner has had permits and and has worked on rough and trade work and is ready to start going in for inspections. As you can see in the picture on the right, the new picture before and after photos. You can see that he's actually also started work on the siding. He has installed new doors on this structure as well and new windows. Uh sorry, I just lost my place on this. The step recommendation is to allow him additional time to continue to work on this property for the 90 days extension.

Okay. 90day extension. Are you are you going to accept that? If you are, there's really not a need to for the speaker to speak. I'm accepted.

Good. We have a motion and a second for 90day extension. Please vote. Just a few more. Motion carry 7 to zero. And sir, I didn't I didn't let you speak even though you filled out the form because the council was accepting your the recommendation. Okay.

Thank you. Bringing up item 28, an ordinance pertaining to offenses and crimes, amending section 1651506, vision 1651, article 165, chapter 16, lot city code 2015 for the purpose of adding certain content neutral time, place and matter regulations on pan handling and soliciting activities providing for severability establish an effective Today I might be the information source on this council. Panhandling has become quite a public safety issue. At one time we considered this to be an issue of homelessness, but none of our service organizations that work with homeless recognize the people that we all see panhandling at our busy intersections. Now, the challenge is when somebody's standing at a sign on a 45 mph road, even though there is the stop sign, they are either requesting that somebody get out of the car to receive the money, which is illegal, or they're planning to step in the street to receive the money, which is illegal. This plan, and I'm sure that you read it all, would limit where you could go. as well. We received a notification last school year. That's how long we've been working on this because there is a lot of concern about getting it right. But we received a request from LPS to limit panhandling around schools for public safety reasons. So now with that, myself and the attorney will be happy to answer any question you you have and if you don't have any questions, we would appreciate a motion.

Mr. Mayor, I move to approve the ordinance. Wave the reading of the ordinance. Read the title only. Have a motion. Is there a second? Please read the title.

An ordinance. An ordinance pertaining to offenses and crimes amending section 16-5-1-506 division 16-5-1 article 16-5 of chapter 16 Lton city code 2015 for the purpose of adding certain contentneutral time place and manner regulations on panh handling and solicitation activities providing for severability ility in establishing an effective date.

Please and the motion carries seven to zero. Now I'm going to jump to item 30 and we're going to strike that item and send it to the fees committee and ask them to uh meet on that and make decisions and bring that back at the first meeting of December. Okay. All right. Now we're going back to 29. discuss the creation of the library of tomorrow committee approved by the city council on November 3rd, 2025 in order to establish the mission of creating the best library plan for the future of the Lton Fort Sil community, appoint members to the committee and take any other action as deemed necessary. Council So, we've spent some time putting this together and we actually have uh here they are right here. Of course, the original motion last time uh given me the guidance to do put this together, we amended and made Randy Worth the chairman at that time. Patty and I were contacted me. She is the chairperson of the library board. So, I'm nominating her. Councilman George Gil, Councilman Hampton, and Bob Waguer. However, Council Councilwoman Williams called me and wanted to serve. And Allan Hampton, Councilman Alan Hampton has agreed to come up. You want to comment on that?

Yeah, I'd like to comment on that, Mayor. It is indeed uh important to me what happens in W 5 and this building being in W 5. Uh uh I had I have some concerns and uh Councilwoman uh Williams and I spoke today and I think that uh she's uh probably would have addressed my my concern. So uh I I I concede my position to her mayor.

Okay. So we'll we will uh amend this to uh Councilwoman Williams and then Dr. the festa was mentioned and so we thought we better put uh Christa on there, Christa Riff, Dr. Christa Radith and Kristen her and Dwayne Burke as city employees we have his ex officio and so that's kind of where we're at and I need approval on the one thing that you may want to consider Dr. Rattlup is not actually a city employee. She works for a city authority and you may want her to be exeicio as well. That's your call. I'm open for discussion or a motion.

Second. Okay. You move to approve with Christa as a member or exeicio. I think you ought to make her exeicio because she's Okay, thanks.

All right, so the motion is to approve uh as presented with the exception of Councilman Hampton will now be uh Councilwoman Shireen Williams and Dr. Crystal Ratliff will be exeicio. Is that your second? Yes.

Please vote. While we're waiting on the vote, I want to tell you I'm pretty excited about this committee because I just can't imagine what can be better than a committee getting together and trying up to come up with the best plan for the future of something. What could be better and how could anybody not be for coming up with the best library plan for the community for the future? I think that's awesome. Motion carry 7 to zero and I commend the councilman for coming up with the idea. Bringing up item 31, consider approving an ordinance pertaining to nuisance of health, amending division 1511, 151 101, 15118, 15119, and creating division 151120. All in article 151, chapter 15, lot city code 2015, by adding definitions, changing numbering, adding shopping cart provisions concerning unlawful possession, and requiring retailers to play an active role in the public nuisance in the public nuisance of abandoned shopping carts within the city, providing for codification, providing forability, and establishing an effective date. Michael,

good evening, mayor, city council. Uh, as promised in our October meeting, uh, we mentioned that this is going to be coming in in November as a code ordinance for, uh, making shopping carts and or having provisions for shopping carts. As you know, we are currently in our no cart November uh, month or no cart November event. Uh, we are in our second week, which is area two. Uh, and this is basically trying to make it so that no cart November are a thing of the past and we have a forward thinking plan moving forward. Uh, and so we hopefully don't have this issue and we don't have to wait a year uh to to take care of these issues. Council, do you have questions?

Yes. U Mayor, Council Michael, um do we have enough employees or code enforcers to handle this policy as of now? So, it'll depend on how many shopping carts. Uh the hope is that by making this into more of a a retailer, putting more emphasis on the retailer that the retailers are going out there and taking care of these, thus putting less emphasis on the city workers. uh code enforcement as you know did increase the number of employees this last year to have one code enforcement person per ward but yes they do have a a heavy workload as well. Is it true that some retailers just don't want to be bothered with this?

Well council councilwoman Chapman I I can respond to that. Um, I I've been out in the community over the last couple weeks meeting with the retailers, um, socializing this ordinance with them because we need their buy in and we want this ordinance, um, to be more of a of a partnership. Like Michael was was saying, we want them to have more involvement because in the past over the past couple of years when we've had these conversations, it's been more along the lines of, okay, well, we'll just write the shopping carts off on our insurance policy. And there really wasn't much investment on the re retail side. That's not the case anymore. Um Walmart specifically rents a U-Haul um trailer every month to go around the city and pick up their shopping carts. And so there's going to be some more discussion from the retailers um in the town at the fee committee meeting next week and probably at that first council meeting in December when we talk about this is just the legal authority to pick up the shopping carts, but when we set empoundment fees, I I anticipate that we'll hear from them. Um, so that there's much more traction for this um than there has been in the past because um, you know, we've always had good partnerships with our businesses here, but I think that they're that they're seeing that it's not just a dollars and cents issue, it's a, you know, it's it's a community well-being issue. and and I I I think that there's more they have more skin in the game this time around if if that makes sense. But yeah,

other questions, comments or motions? Yeah, I have a I have a comment. Uh I I I too alone city managers have visited the Walmarts in my my uh in my ward and spoke with the managers. Uh uh u one of the uh important things I think uh and being a the chairman of the fees committee I think that this was important but one of the most important things I had been told at one time that they didn't care about the cards and and in my mind I thought they were riding mom but that's not true. uh she informed me that that that those cards are very important to them and uh they uh are probably going to come up maybe speak at the hearing, but but uh they they were at least she was very very uh engaging and really uh looked at this as being a a a partnership and and I too uh agree with that. I have done a bunch of research on it. There's many many states that have uh got uh shopping cart uh let's let's say to deal with this shopping cart problem and uh there is a a timeline as that needs to be worked out as to to when and how long the city is responsible for how long the the stores are responsible for as as as well as some type of of of structure for uh uh dealing with this. I when I spoke to her, you know, this is the the these ordinances that we make are not for the willing but for the unwilling. And so this really isn't uh something that uh we're doing to try to hold it over somebody's head. But but uh it is no doubt in W five, I take pictures of every car that I see sitting in an alley or sitting somewhere and and it is dollars and cents to them. So, I'm I'm looking forward to this being a a a very

good partnership with uh most of the uh shopping centers here in the city. Thank you, Mayor. And mayor, if I if I may add, um, one thing that that I think is also different this time around is, you know, in the past, we've just had the the Aldi example where they, you know, you put the coin in to use the shopping cart, but now you go to you go to Dollar General, they have poles in the shopping cart, so that prevents you from taking them outside. I know that Walmart has installed a locking mechanism on the wheel. So once you get it off the the premises, the wheel locks up. So the retailers are definitely doing more to protect their investment in the shopping cart. So So I really um I really feel good about the discussion we've had about this ordinance. Miss Williams.

Uh I did receive a um email from the Target manager and she was saying just need a little bit more time to be able to gather the parts because of the holidays that's coming up. Say that the Target manager, she did email sent me an email was just asking for a little bit more time where they be able to gather the carts up because of the busy holidays. Go ahead,

Mr. Mayor. If I may respond. Um, I believe under the way the ordinance is written now, after some changes, the retailers are, we certainly encourage them to go pick up carts if they know they are theirs. But the goal here will be for the retailers to come and recover the carts in a place and after a process determined by the city manager. So, um, we think we've made it a little bit better, um, on behalf of the retailers.

I think I can explain that to what happened was originally this was presented that the stores would be notified where a cart was and they would have 72 hours to go get it. But the carts are on wheels and are typically occupied by somebody that moves them. So that didn't seem to be such a great plan. And we came up with this plan. Let's see how it works. Okay. Do I have a motion for approval? Second.

Okay. This is an ordinance. You got to read your little ordinance. Motion to approve the ordinance. Wait a minute. I agree. Okay, we have a motion and a second. Discussion. Please read the title.

An ordinance pertaining to nuisance and health amending divisions 15-1.101, meaning 101, 15-1-118, and 15-1-119. and creating division 15-1-120 all in article 15-1 chapter 15 Lton city code 2015 by adding definitions changing numbering adding shopping cart provisions concerning unlawful possession and requiring retailers to play an active role in the public nuisance of abandoned shopping carts within the city providing for cotification providing for severability and establishing an effective date.

Please vote.

Motion carries 7 to zero. I misstated earlier that item 30 was a companion item to 28. That's incorrect. That's a companion item to 31. still needs to go to the fees committee and be fully ready the first meeting of December. Bringing up staff reports. Item 32. Receive a report from the housing and community development administrator regarding the current status of tenantbased riddle assistance with the lot housing authority and take action as deemed necessary. Robert Good afternoon, good evening, mayor and city council. Again, I'm Robert Burns here with housing uh community development. Um so, our purpose here is to receive report from the housing uh from from me. um in consideration of tasks performed by the Lon Housing Authority and between the dates of 1 February 2024 June 30th 2024, Lton Housing Authority is seeking to recover uh $86,000 So, we were asked to um we were asked to look into this issue of this $86,000. Um and while we were looking into this issue, we found uh we discovered some things about this $86,000 that um that uh raised raised some questions. Um, first of all, there was no agreement from which to uh from which L Housing Authority could could claim uh the

$86,000. The agreement previous to uh the dates between uh between February and June of um the last the last agreement we found was 2019. Uh from September 2022 to December 2023, um the HCD had record of payments made to Lton Housing Authority. So they were getting money, but they're now saying they're owed um this $86,000 against no agreement. Um, the latest agreement between Lton Housing Authority and the city of Lton was signed three October 2024 and one amendment signed 6th June 2025 having no bearing on this um on this um issue on this $86,000. L and Housing Authority has requested that $86,000 um be refunded for the time frame one February to uh 30 June of 2024 again with no agreement. Um this was corroborated through phone calls uh to Mr. Jervis Jackson and Miss uh Anna Richmond who sent me an email stating that there was no agreement. Here you can see where we um where we found the monies that were uh that were allocated and um issued to um Lton Housing Authority. this 17420 two 174,222 uh dollars was was given to them absent a an agreement.

Um you will note the dates uh from February from 2021 there was no agreement signed between the city of Lton and Lton Housing Authority. depending your questions. This is my report. Okay. Has this been taken to the legal department? Yes, sir. Um we we we took this to um Tim Wilson two weeks ago. And has Tim made a ruling of where we are legally?

I I don't think so. Tim is out sick. Okay. Then I don't with and and uh Judge Akins has doesn't know anything about this. I don't see how we can even discuss it without the lawyers telling us where we are on this. Um Tim wanted us to originally we were going to bring forth an amendment to the expired agreement. Uh but since it really since there was no agreement for that time frame, Tim said it would be a brand new agreement that would backdate to that time frame.

We just had a backdate discussion concerning CDBG and home funds here about a month ago and I think there were several council members offended that somebody even brought up de back dating. So I don't know. I don't think that we need to be talking about debt back daily. Why don't we table this until Tim is available to give us his legal opinion of where we are on and we do not have a current agreement because we haven't received funding from HUD due to finishing up the caper and the environmental and government shutdown. So there's no current agreement with them.

Okay, I understand. Now, the other thing I think we need to do is make it clear that the Lton housing authority is not a part of the city of Lton. It is not an authority of the city of Lton. Exactly who it's authority of, I've never been able to figure that out. I've asked for a copy of their trust indentures. I could see who the beneficiary is and have never received that. potentially we need to file an open records request or they are if I'm not mistaken they're federal and it may be a freedom of information request. Can we do that? I'd like to know who the beneficiary is. We we can we can do that.

All right. And council, can we just make a motion to table this till the first meeting in December? Do you have something you want to add? Just I just wanted to make a quick question to whoever. Should we suspend any further payments until such time that we actually have a contract to make a payment? That's up that's that's up to you guys. I don't I think you should. Yeah. I don't think they need to do anything else till we have legal weigh in on this. I'll make a motion that to table this item and make no further payments until such time as a legal review has been made. Second.

We have a motion and a second. Now I have one more question. Was the lot and housing authority notified that this was going to be on the agenda? Yes. Did they Is there anybody here representing the L housing authority? Okay. Please, mayor. Oh, I'm sorry. I I would just add that they do have new leadership. So, the long-term executive director recently retired. So, there is a new person in charge and that person's name is

I believe that's Anna I believe that's Anna Richardson. Anna Richardson was who uh responded to me as the executive director. Okay. Okay. Please. Maybe you better call the roll. Okay, I'm going to call the roll for this. Hooten Chapman. Yes. Gil, yes. Hampton, yes. Wager,

yes. Williams, yes. Warren, yes. We have I have a motion to go into executive session and a second. Please call the role. Hon, yes. Chapman, yes. Gil, yes. Hampton, yes. Weaguer, yes. Williams, yes. Warren, yes.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, I like

Hey, George. Yes, you guys challenged me today. I kept looking at my watch. I said, not go. You go. We got a lot of a lot of women talkers tonight. Oh my gosh. You almost land really worse, Alan or Randy.

Hey I'm putting Randy.

We are back from executive session. Can I have a motion? Have a motion. Did I get a second? Yes. Another second. Please call RON. Hen Chapman. Gil, yes. Hampton, yes. Weaguer, yes. Williams, yes. Warren, yes.

Okay. Quorum is established. Executive session item number 33. Jared. Pursuant to section 307B1 of title 25 in Oklahoma statutes, the council convened an executive session to conduct the annual performance review of John Rattle of city manager and an open session to take action if necessary. Mr. Mayor, there is no action to be taken. Okay. Can I have a we audience participation? No one filled out a request to speak and so I will entertain a motion to adjourn and a second. Please call the roll. Coutin, yes. Chapman, Gil, here.

Hampton, yes. Weer, yes. Williams, yes. Warren, yes. Is that dinner?