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Okay, you're on. Okay, everyone, please rise. Councilman Williams. And our pledge to our flagg 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. Please remain standing for our prayer. Please pray with me. Almighty God, thank you for the city of Guthrie and all of its citizens. As we approach Valentine's Day, may we focus on love, loving you and loving our neighbors as ourselves. Please watch over all of us and bless our thoughts, words, and deeds during tonight's meeting. We ask all of this in your name. Amen. Amen.

You may be seated. Okay, we can call to order our regular city council meeting on Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026. Uh item number two is public comments, community announcements and recognitions. Uh we have one person to speak but it is an agenda item so we will wait till then. Um item number three. Yes, both are [snorts] two people both on airport. Uh item number three is the consent agenda. Items A through I approve as written. Okay, we have a motion. We have a second. Second. We have a motion and a second. There's no further comments or discussion. Please cast your votes. All votes are in.

Unanimous approval for the consent agenda items A through I. Item number four is items removed or uh number four is items removed from consent agenda. There were none. And number five, Guthrie Edmund Regional Airport Board discussion, consideration, and possible action to remove city councilman Grant Giri from the Guthrie Edmund Regional Airport Board. Councilman Buffer. So, I wanted to there I saw both articles that came out and only after I was called multiple times from citizens in the town. Uh, so I looked at them. Um, it looks like there's a bunch of controversy in it. I wanted to give Grant an opportunity to explain to this council what went on. Um, and I wanted to do that first is give him an opportunity to talk about it. Do

you want to talk about it? I'm happy to talk about it, but in order to talk about it, I will have to reveal names and contacts with multiple [clears throat] people. And I want you to know that after I do that, all of those contracts that we have that are potential for the airport will not be coming to the airport. So, if you want me to do that, I'm happy to do that. As to why I felt like I should be the chair of the airport. You don't

need to name names, Grant. generally we're not I have to like in order to do that I have to provide you with names and contacts and backgrounds and the minute I do that those will become public those people will not come to the I'm as a result of this controversy will not come to the airport so I'm happy to do that um okay that's not the context of what I'm talking about you're not the chair okay [snorts] I'm asking I'm talking about the conversations and everything that led up to uh this whole not being the chair thing even coming up the whole coup so to speak

in order to in order to provide context I will have to tell you why I felt like I should have been appointed as chair or or elected as chair and I'm happy to do that but I want you to recognize that that the results will be that there will be significant negative impacts on the airport as there will be [clears throat] anyway from this item even being on the agenda. in my opinion. And why is that, Brian? I mean, seriously, I mean, I just want to know why that is. Or I can just ask you some questions. [clears throat] So, but let's just do that then because you won't have to reveal any names, right?

There you go. Okay. So, you know, you there was a quote. Some of these are quotes and I don't you know I don't want to do a he said she said that's why I wanted to talk to you about it and I thought that you would if you had wanted to talk to me you would have pulled up the phone and called

I'm talking well I'm talking to you as a council member at this board okay is what I'm talking to that's that's how you become a body at this shoe right here okay not as an individual you have no power no nothing as an individual councilman okay this is where things happen. So the question is uh you know the quote that you said you became aware of a coup by Edund board members that were going to put Ryan on the board as a u as the chairman I mean why do why why I don't recall saying that well that was quoted I mean I'm that's it's a quote of a quote

okay Brian it is not my it's not what I said no that's fine Brian That's a That's a Grant. Ryan Wallace says Grant Tiger says cannot be That was a quote on the Guthrie newspage. Correct. Okay. And I talked to the author of that and they said that that was the quote. That is not the quote. You cannot quote me through somebody else. Okay. Did you state that you knew that you would not were you told you would not re receive the support of Edmonds? No, I don't recall that as a told you would not have the votes for the chair. No, I don't recall that.

Did you at any time? Now, this is back to the statements made, true or false. The reason the airport board gets so much support from the city of Guthri council, Guthri city council, is because of my position on the council. I did not say that. Okay. Did you say I report airport activities to the council members and have sway over them? I have a special relationship with the mayor. I I never said anything about having a relationship with the mayor. this special relationship. Never said anything about a special relationship. So much support for the airport. That is not what I said in the call. Then what are you about to say first that you're going to reveal things that means no longer contracts come to the airport because of you. It's

again I I would be happy to do that. I the reverse of that tells me that you think that all this success at the airport is because of you. And that's also quoted in here. True or false? I don't know. that you bring because your relationships to representatives so on and so forth is the success of the airport. I did not say that and anything close to that. I gave a list of things that I was working on to bring business to the airport as an example of why and I'm happy to provide again those names and contacts.

I don't care one way or the other. Did do you think that you because of you we have the grants that we received at the airport now for terminals and taxiways? Is that you? I think a big portion of it is yes. Did you write the grants? I'm just Did you have a part of the grant writing? I'm not going to I'm not going to. Okay. Well, you did. Uh so Stephanie Bice that office that allotted these grants to this airport and this year three other airports was because your relationship to those representatives. Yes or no? I am okay. Does it just

I think I think at some level there's nothing wrong with somebody having confidence in what they bring to the table to a degree. Well, and saying, "Hey, I was a part of something happening." Well, how were you a part of it? Did you talk to the vice office about it before it was these earmark funds were released? Did you have any to do with those funds and those choices and decisions for the airport to receive? Simple question because I don't know. I never said anything about Stephanie Bice, by the way. Representatives. She is a representative. I gave a list of things that are potentials that are coming to the airport that I have made contacts with that no one else has those contacts for a variety of reasons.

And who's so you you never mentioned these at the board. So you hold them close to your pocket to release at a certain I have I have mentioned them to city staff and city manager. However, if we release I'm not aware of it and I'm on the board so I I don't know what you're doing behind the scenes there. I was just going to clarify too that to just for public you Tracy you are on the Guthrie Edund airport board. I didn't realize that up until I came on city council. So just to just to bring that forth that you are a member of the board as well.

Well we had a board member that resigned and and of course this is his word against his. But still these statements some of these statements are alarming and that's what we're trying to address. Yes or no? Did you did you make a claim that if if Ryan was Royal was seated there that that you would be it would be expected of Eddie Falner to uh take him off the of that board? Absolutely not. Okay. Did you ever say that to Eddie Faulner that why would you put Ryan in a position where one of your bosses was unhappy with you? Did you say that? I don't believe I said that now.

Okay. Let me quickly on something. I didn't. And he's right. I've seen it's all over Facebook. It's all over the uh emails that I've had sent to me. Who's lying is what I want to know. I mean, is somebody lying or is somebody just kind of is it a conspiracy to Right. And here's the here's the real kicker of it all. Okay. Is that board is an advisory board to the council. That's what that board is for both Guth.

Yeah. The airport board is an advisory board to the council. Uh, and so it is not making decision decisions on its [clears throat] own. Uh, and so I don't know if Eddie if you know about all these secret dealings that are going on with all these names that can't be revealed. Um, it's discerning. It's a little disheartening that you say that you didn't say that uh to Eddie right here that why would Ryan want to put one of your bosses in a position to be unhappy? Well, he just said he didn't say that, Brian.

Eddie, did he say that? That's a yes or no. Well, look, for the for Grant for Councilman Aguire to think his conversations with Eddie are solely his conversations and nobody else can have conversations is foolish. And anything that threatens your position from a councilman should be widely known if that's the truth. Okay. When I came on the airport board,

I'd heard horror stories about the chaos, the division, and everything that was on there. I don't Stan was on there for how many years? Many years. When I got there, we had a new city manager and a new airport board director. So, I thought it was pretty peaceful to find out that Edund so supposedly Edund would not support Grant as the chairman was news to me. I don't know. Have I ever talked to you outside the airport board? And none of the others either. Ryan Wallace a few times, but that was concerning Crescent and their growth. Councilman Williams, if I might, if you're gonna speak directly to him, could we have him come up? Yeah. What? Well, he's registered. He signed up to Wait, I got a question on the table. We can't answer. I got a question here on this table. I'm sorry. Go ahead.

Okay. And the question is, did Grant say that or did he not? Yep. Okay. You're saying you didn't believe I said that. Okay. Let me ask you this question. Okay. Did you know that Eddie was told we needed to get Wallace to support a Giri for the chair position at the airport board? And if Wallace didn't didn't support a Giri, then Eddie be pressured to remove Wallace from the exeicio board seat. I don't recall that. You don't recall?

I recall talking to Wallace about the things that I said and I recall talking to Eddie about the items that I knew that I was involved with that I think are important. Okay. for the chairman to be able to

give these people an idea of what our capabilities are in terms of hosting events and things like that. And I'm happy to provide those names, numbers, and emails. No, the question I have and again the only question I have here that's on the table is was there a a statement to Eddie made and by whom that if Wallace needed to either support you in this position where he was going to be expected to remove that person as exeicio? I don't recall that. Does anybody at this shoe know that? Has anybody said that? No. I didn't. So hold on. I'm not done. Eddie, did anybody up here say that?

Yes. And I don't want to be in the middle of this. I understand you're not in the middle of it, but let's get down to the bottom of it. Who said it? So, that was a conversation that was had with me and the council. Yes.

Okay. So, a council member had that conversation. We don't want to drag all this out. Okay. But, you know, it's let's let's get down. Let's tell it the way it is, guys. Okay. uh a good man. And from I don't know Ryan, okay, I've talked to him twice, but from everybody I've talked to, he's about one of the most upstanding guys that there is, okay? And he was felt just jammed into resigning, okay? And it's not right. It's an advisory board that people give their time free and voluntarily. They don't get paid. Okay? This isn't a position where you're going to speak to Stephanie Vice or Governor Stid or anybody else out there. You're not talking to anybody about getting money. Okay. From the articles I read, you're responsible for bringing all the money in and that you have counsel. You have counsel.

That's not what I said. That's what the Well, okay. What did you say then? That's what I'm trying to get to. Do you want me to give Do you want me to list names? Yes. List. Okay. List it all. No, I want it all listed out because Eddie's not He doesn't know about it. I don't know about it. Brian, even if he did, so what? Adam, I don't know about it. And I'm part of this council, just like you. You know what? Here's the deal. Everybody on this this shoe right here, with the exception of our city attorney, is one vote. Okay, that's what they are.

Somebody thinks that they're the reason why something happened more so than others. I'm not saying that's the correct attitude to have because we're a team. I'm just saying I I can probably go down the road here and think everybody's more responsible than others and things happening. If somebody thinks that in their own mind, that's that's not illegal. I'm not saying that's good to think it. I'm just saying we are we going to hold this because somebody feels like they were deleted imported. Well, whatever. I believe what you're saying. What? It's a personality trait that whether you like it or not, right? It's not grounds to remove somebody from a board. That's all I'm That's all I'm saying.

I'll state that. However, that's all I'm saying. Let me go back to the where this began with me. I called Ryan Wallace the day of or the day the day of and asked him if he would accept a nomination. I think I talked to him earlier at some point, but would you accept a nomination as chairman of this board? And he didn't know at the time. He said, I'm not sure. So I said, "Well, let me know through the day." And here's the reason why I wanted Brian. Number one, he's a successful businessman. He's a pilot. He's been on the airport for two years. And he's a city manager, which understands city government. With the with all the projects coming forth and this this cha this division, I I really didn't know existed. I thought we were pretty good board, but I knew that Ryan was kind of the neutral and he would be that neutral person for both sides. And with the projects ahead, we already went from Dick Guy to Grant back to Dick Guy to Grant. I mean, it was time for I thought fresh blood and I thought Ryan was the obvious choice. Now, by the end of the day, I'd not heard from Ryan. He showed up at the uh board and then went out and had a meeting with Grant, a personal conversation, another one with Dick Guide. He came in and sat down. I said, "Did you resolve it?" Meaning, am I to go ahead? And he said, "I'm resigning. That's all I know." And when I left the meeting, I called him to what happened. This is when he gave his talking points to me. I see the same, not word for word, but pretty much the same as the newspaper, the same as Guthrie newspap. So, I don't know Ryan well. I've probably only talked to him a few times. I said I

believe him to be an honest man. But the point is is why why is there such opposition that he shouldn't be the chair? Why did you think that you deserve that so much than him? And again, if you want me to name names and list them, get the names. What you told him was you were better qualified. I am better qualified to run an advisory board. I am better qualified. You're you're so qualified that you're going to bring in all this money because of your connections under any objective standard. That's pockets might be. So look, there's no

shouldn't be this division that you're causing now with the board. Tracy Tracy's right on on that [clears throat] the conflict between Ryan and Grant personally, whatever that was, is not justifiable to remove Grant from the board. But, and there's a big butt. Let me tell you what is. Okay. Why would Ryan want to put you in a position where one of your bosses were unhappy with you? One of your bosses were unhappy with you. Well, there is not one of the a boss. The boss is when we're at this shoe and there's four people that agree on a situation. That's the boss. Okay? There is no other boss singular other than that. That is, let me let me finish please. That is one thing. And it's already been confirmed that that was said. Okay. The other thing is, did you know, and this is even bigger, okay? This is way bigger in my opinion. Okay. Hey, did you know that Eddie was told that he needed to get Wallace to support Agiri for the chair position at the airport board? If Wallace did not support Agiri, then Eddie would be pressured to remove Wallace from exeicio on that board seat.

I don't recall. Those are the two issues. I don't recall saying that. First of all, the problem first of all, I didn't initiate the call with Mr. Faulner. He initiated the call with me. Yes, he did. I I wouldn't have known anything was going on about that. I had planned on asking Ryan for his support. And when I talked to him, I again gave him a list of reasons why I felt that it was important that I be chair. Again, I am happy to provide names, email numbers, email addresses. That's that's deflecting that purpose. Go ahead, Dian.

I have a quick question. So, okay, let's say uh I'm just gonna bring up some names here and I'm confused, a little confused as to what anybody's name, I don't care if it's Jack Smith or Mary Doe. What would those names have any impact on what you said or didn't say or the discrepancies that we're trying to figure [clears throat] out between

the what I said? These were the things that were potentially coming to the airport as a result of my contacts and that is why I felt that I would be a good chair because I could see those through to fruition and I am happy to provide those names and contacts and and and that was the gist of the conversation from my perspective was these are the things that I am working on that I am bringing to the airport as a result of the fact that I am interested in the airport and I would be happy to do this and I think that saying that your chair has a certain amount of leverage with those individuals that doesn't if you're just a board member.

Okay. So, Brian, hang on a second. So if Dick GB had been the chair, would he have got the same people? He would not. I I I can give you I can tell you exactly why. I don't care about that. Let me clarify. Please, please, please, as being on the board, you're saying if you don't get to be chair, this business potential doesn't come to Guthrie, correct? Unless you're in the chair. So where do you care about the airport or this city council or the city of Guthri? If you're saying, I'm going to pick up my toys and go home. If I'm not the chair, none of these people who want to bring money to the city, who want business at the airport for their own benefits, will not come unless I'm the chair. That's what that's what logicians call

that shallow. I don't think we need that's what logicians call an argument at absurdum. Well, that's what are you saying there? You're you're saying if you were if not chair, these entities will not they wouldn't have known about Guthrie or Guthrie wouldn't be on the radar. Well, it's on their radar now. You're saying they will not come and do business for their own profitability if you're not there. That's what it sounds like. That's not what I'm saying. Okay, then clarify. What I'm saying is that if you want me to tell you what I said to Ryan and why I believed I should be chair, I will have to reveal these names. I don't think those entities would be interested. If they decide to come and do business, they're going to come whether you're here or not. That's not true.

Well, then I don't So be it. There'll be people lined up. If we built a hanger today, we'll have a list of people applicants to get it. We know that, don't we? I think that there is a greater need for hangers. Absolutely. There is. But events and things like that is a completely different issue. Events. So, it's not it's it is it is hangers and events. Yes. Okay. Well, okay. So, then I just take our chances. Um, Mr. Williamson, I hear you correctly whenever you stated that you serve on the same board and you had no idea that there was this big of an issue. Nope. Okay. So, what we have is an issue between two individuals. Yep. On a board, but as a whole,

apparently it's more. I don't know. Right. But as as a whole, you weren't aware that these issues existed at all. No. Up until there was this one That's correct. instance and this one circumstance. That's correct. Which disagreements happened. will say things in the heat of being upset that they don't truly believe or they're just upset. You know, I I recognize that as I'm human. I kind of say things that I don't mean sometimes or, you know, maybe overexaggerate where I might have had a greater hand in something and maybe I didn't, but I felt like I probably did because I made initial contact or initial phone call. That can happen.

Yes. But when a board actually functions and it seems to have functioned fine apparently and it's I mean we have great movement there. We're getting new airport and it takes an entire advisory board to do so to make all of these things happen. Everybody brings something to the table. So if there is a disagreement between two parties, one was it preemptive maybe a little bit too early um for the resignation for a heated argument or um uh uh not being able to agree on who was chair and who is not chair. I mean we just had that same issue here. Nobody resigned because of it. you know, things can be settled and arguments can be um made to fruition and you can have a solution and that's what I would like to look for here is a solution to everyone on this airport board because everyone brings something unique and important and qualifi qualifications that we need on this airport board. So, I brought this agenda item to to to the table here. And there's there's two reasons why I did it. I didn't do it for anything about two people having issue. Okay? I brought it about because of two things that were said to Eddie, okay? That are veil threats. And the people that said it know it's a veil threat. Okay? If you don't know what a veil threat is, it's a threat that you're not going to take action on, but you try to terrorize someone with it. That's a veil threat. Okay? And that's what happened. And that's why this is on this table. Okay? And you did it.

Okay? According to according to who I'm talking to over here to my left said that you did it. Okay? You say that you didn't. I don't know. You're not telling me who did this other one, which is as big or bigger. I know who did that, too. Okay. And I know a lot more that we won't even bring up here. But go ahead and name all those names and everything that you were going to do and email addresses and stuff. Let's go ahead and go through that. That makes no difference. Exactly. Because if they want to do business, they'll come.

Okay. Well, he's he's already went over that about what that is and what those items are, whether they're named or not. I'm going to go ahead and have uh Stan Young, Mr. Now, can you please come to the microphone?

It says here that you're not a Guthrie resident. Just state your name, please, and your title.

Okay. My name is Stan Young, and I'm a member of the Guthrie uh uh Edmund Airport board and have been for seven years. and I I was asked to come up uh just to kind of observe and and possibly talk. Like I said, I've been a member for seven years. It's been my privilege. Uh I've been flying since I was 16 back in 1967. So I've got a few hours under my belt. [clears throat] Uh I flew for the FBI for 27 years and was the uh aviation coordinator in Oklahoma City for [clears throat] for about 15 years before I retired. I've flown in just about every state in the continental United States and I've been in good airports and bad airports and a few very good airports. Guthrie has a a good airport, but we have the potential to be a very good airport. our location. Uh the the city the the the the thing I see right now is Guthrie and Edund have to work together. Uh we we have some construction going on, but that's that is that that was laid the foundation was laid years ago before this this started and you know we just don't snap our fingers and it starts the next day. It's been going on for a long time. uh there's more stuff we can do uh but we have to work together and and u uh the last last few years I felt like there's been kind of a division between the Guthrie people and the Edund people like the Edund people have kind of been pushed out and if we want to make an an excellent airport we're going to have to work together and that means the board members that means the council members that means our local and and state and uh federal politicians

and we can make this where it is a magnet to draw the businesses that he's talking about. I've had people approach me uh that, you know, we we would like to uh we like the location, your your runway needs to be a little bit longer. Well, we've got a trouble with with the south end of the runway because we can't extend north because of Walmart, but it would take a lot of money. But if we want to really get the business in here, we we've got two great cities. We got great school systems. We got UCO. Uh we can include Langston in this region. Uh and we can get all kind we can get aviation businesses. We can get ancillary businesses if if if we work together. And that's that's all I wanted to say.

Any thank you m Okay. Thank you very much. Um, Mr. Leam, please. And if you would, sir, just state your name. And if if you live in Guthri, just say you live in Guth. You don't have to do your uh actual address and then tell us if you're on a board or what your title is.

Brad Leam. Yes, I'm here in Guthri. I'm just outside the city limits, though. So, uh before I get started, uh we'll say Ryan Wallace is a great man. I think everybody that knows him uh can speak to his integrity. So, did want to get that out. Um, I'm an avid supporter of the Guthri airport and I've enjoyed serving on the Guthrie community as a enjoyed serving the Guthrie community as a representative on the Guthri edund regional airport board for six years. I was elected by my peers on the board to serve as the chairman three times despite never have nominating never have nominated myself or voted for myself. I am the airport regularly and in touch with airport activities and the people at the airport. I don't want to take up a lot of everybody's time, but I want to express that I am in full support of agenda number item number five to remove Mr. Guer. More importantly though than my opinion on this matter is the is that of the current chairman of the airport board, Mr. Guy. Mr. Guy really wanted to be here and talk to you, but he couldn't. So instead, he has asked me to say something on his behalf. Mr. Gueri has swn division and put politics ahead of the good of the airport community. also his personal agenda above serving the community. As a leader, you are to held you are to be held to a higher standard, but instead Mr. Greer has abused his position of authority to serve his own interest. The most recent example of his this is his lack of action to remove his wrecked airplane off the airport. It's an eyesore and to everyone else that airport that airplane would have had to be moved a month ago. But instead, it's wrecked there on the side of the runway since December. Once again, speaking on behalf of multiple airport tenants, the current chairman of the airport board and Dick Guy, we are in full support of the removal of Mr. Aguiri from the airport board.

Thank you, Mr. Leam. And Mr. Young, I'm sorry to hear that you feel as though the admin side has been pushed out. I certainly don't want you to feel that way. I'd like to meet with you sometime in the next coming weeks if you'd agree to that. Thank you, sir. Okay, that's the only two uh that we have for public comments. Any other comments, questions, Brian?

Uh yeah, I mean, yeah, I've got a lot, but I don't know that um I got a lot. I got a real lot. Uh I don't know that you're necessarily going to want to hear it, but I got a lot. Um, Councilman Danning, do you want to say something? Are you are you wanting to elaborate on what you're wanting to say or No, go ahead.

Okay. I just wanted to say um as a newer member of the city council, I I kind of had to go back to um after speaking with Mr. Wallace myself and um reading both of the Guthri newspage and the Guthri Daily Leader articles um and I've I've said from day one if if anything was ever published or or said about me, I would hope that um my fellow city council members would do their due diligence to um try to get to the bottom of of what was said, what wasn't said. um not just read a news article and take everything for um truth. So I feel I have I have done my due diligence um and trying to get um answers to questions that I had. But I I always go back. I I pulled out my big three- ring binder, my new city council um binder. And I I want to read just a couple of things here. um which I think [clears throat] whether he said, she said, um whatever happened, um I want to read the uh preamble on page one, which says, "The citizens and businesses of Guthri are entitled to have fair, ethical, and accountable local government, which has earned the public's full confidence for integrity. In keeping with the city of Guthri's commitment to treasuring our past while forging our future, the effective functioning of democratic government therefore requires that and there are four bullet points that I'd like to read. Public officials, both elected and appointed, comply with both the letter and spirit of the laws and policies affecting the operations of government. Number two, public officials be independent, impartial, and fair in their judgment and actions. Number three, public office be used for the public good, not for personal gain.

Number four, public deliberations and processes be conducted openly unless legally confidential in an atmosphere of respect and civility. And that's all I have to say. Thank you. You didn't state specifically this is the resolution estabics we all sign. Correct. Yes. Thank you. Tang's on the wall out there. Well, yeah. I go back to the two reasons that I brought this to the table. Uh, which is being utterly denied. Do you know anything about it, Adam? About either one of these things. Which comments are you referring to?

Either one of them, cuz Grant apparently doesn't. Okay. The Why would Ryan want to put it put you in a position where one of your bosses was unhappy with you? I mean, or do you know anything about that? Or did you know that Eddie was told that he needed to get Wallace to support a Giri for the chair position at the airport board? And if Wallace did not support a Giri, then Eddie would be pressured to remove Wallace from the exeicio board seat. Well, Brian, you're asking, do I know about these private things being said by other people? Uh, by anybody on this on this? I know about them turned in the same manner that you do. I'm sorry. So you don't know about that in the press. So you don't know about either one of those.

Okay. So neither one of those things were said. So I mean then none of this in any of these articles was said or quoted, so they're all wrong. Okay. None of these things were said, but yet our city manager says they were. Okay. Uh, and so I mean, do we really have to go through this and go down into the ditches and trenches here? Well, Brian, I think I think a lot of the the quotes you're reading are from the other individual saying he heard this individual. No, just go look at the articles. We can pull them up. Right. Right. Those articles. Those read the articles.

Those articles. So and so says the No, I'm talking about some of the I'm talking about the stuff Grant said. And yeah, I am talking about some of the stuff Ryan said, but I didn't bring this to the table for that. Mhm. None of that. Mhm. I brought this to the table for the two reasons I just told you, which both of you deny knowing anything about. I know about them like you do, Brian. I read the article. But okay, but no, these I mean these two particular issues [clears throat] that were said to our city manager Yeah. apparently nobody up here said them, right, Eddie? So Eddie's lying. Is that right? Mr. Faulner, are you lying? I've given you my answer. That's You've heard my answer.

Okay. So, do I have to ask you who said the second one? Uh because I'd like to know who that was then, Brian. Your council members respectfully, this [clears throat] this needs to be handled within within the council. This is not a a good position for this discussion. So So you're not going to answer the question, huh? I think you go ahead. No, you go. Um, Brian, do you do we have enough as far as the the agenda item that you brought forth? Are we at a point with the speakers that came this evening to to lend their um information? Do we have enough information as we sit here now to proceed and without just repeating the same thing over and over?

Again, Deiana, the issues if it's not going to happen during this meeting here, it's going to happen. Okay. Uh so I wanted to get it out in the open now. Uh and it will come out in the open. So um but yes, to answer your question, there's enough. But there's no And again, I'm not looking for guilt. I'm looking for there's Okay, it's just like with our kids, okay, or anybody else out there. Things we say matter, okay? And there's consequences to our actions. And there is, okay? And I don't think everybody on this board realizes that. So, uh, I'm not going to bring up a, you know, we all had conversations with everybody out there, right? We know that, but I know what they all were, okay? And I have them, okay? And I don't think we want to bring all that up, okay? But right now, at this point, yes, we have enough. So, if you want to make a motion, make a motion. I would like to um what two things I did hear from uh Mr. Young and Mr. Leam was alarming in that there's a division between Guthrie and Edmund when it comes to airport board and I would like to look at a possible solution to that. I don't uh think that that could be all on Grant on his own that he's the only divider. He's the only one and uh Mr. Williams also stated he didn't realize there was an issue. So apparently there is some inner workings that needs to happen on this commission in itself to work better together. And if we need to work with Edmond to help figure out what that solution is, I would love to do that.

So since all of this came up, have you talked to the Edmond board members? I have not. Okay. So you don't know? No, they stated it. Okay. Well, they stated it right here, but there's other ones as well. Well, which is why I think that's more important that we look for more of that together to find a plausible solution. Yeah, I had I had 100% of the people that I talked to wants Grant and Giri off that board. Okay. And but the kicker of that is not why I'm here. I'm here because of these two questions that I'm asking and it's being blatantly lied about. Well, bro, it's been denied. So, what are you going to do? Not going to do nothing. Yeah, there's not.

Okay. Somebody like I'm going to I'm going to do another I'll I'll make another motion on the next agenda. And those those comments are both based off of so and so heard so and so say that's your say. And then you just keep going back to you know I mean just like the the I can't remember the first one. The boss sorry I'm speaking the microphone. The boss comment. Which boss comment? The one of us is your boss or something. Read it again please. The two. You keep saying the two. What's the first one? Why would Ryan want to put you in a position where one of your bosses was unhappy with you? Right. Which would be a veil threat. Unless Unless I'm on the phone. Why do you keep asking me looking at me like if I I didn't. I was asking Grant cuz I know who said these things.

Okay. I was going to say, well, I was looking at you on the second one. Well, I was I didn't say the second one either. You didn't. Nor am I in the room. No. Okay. [laughter] So, move. Really? There's it's Yeah. Would somebody like to make a motion? I'm going to make a motion to remove Grant Gary from the board.

I'll second it. And we have a motion in a second. Okay. There's no further comments or discussions. Please cast [clears throat] your votes. All votes are in. All right. and a vote of four to three, which the motion fails because you will need 2/3 to remove someone from a ward. All right, item number six is city manager report.

Yes, mayor, council, been a busy season around here. Last week, myself, Mayor Rob, Councilman Giri attended the ACOG legislative power brunch as we prepared for the legislative session which kicked off this Monday. Um, in addition to that, the westside booster pump station is complete. We will be reaching out to schedule a ribbon cutting soon with both the city council and the CIP committee. I appreciate all the work from public works and Betty Co. as well as Myers Engineering on that uh project completed quickly and again replaces the oldest booster pump in the station in our distribution I'm sorry, oldest distribution pump in the um oldest pump in the distribution system. I'll get there. Sorry, [laughter] four times. Uh Owenfield bid open bids opened last week. We are working with Crossland and Myers Engineering to review those bids and prepare a recommendation for the city council. We anticipate we'll have that at your second meeting in February, possibly your first meeting in March. We are currently advertising and accepting bids for ground maintenance services mowing of Summit View Cemetery, the center medians on Highway 33 as well as on Highway 77 or Division. And then we're also uh soliciting bids for the ground maintenance services out at the airport. So we've had some staff turnover. Uh we're soliciting bids to see what that cost would look like. And then uh once those bids have come in, we would have a recommendation both to the airport board and to the city council. Uh airport terminal design committee met last week and is making good progress. Uh fire station number two currently in the design phase and progressing nicely. The chamber banquet is scheduled for Thursday evening at Meridian Technology Center. I believe we've received all of your RSVPs. Thank you for that. Uh Boxcar Bakery has moved into their new location on Oklahoma in the old Rick's Chocolates and Coffees. Uh we do have several openings within the city. One couple of within the police department, couple out at Animal Control. We

encourage everybody to take a look at those uh opportunities on our web page. Uh, last but not least, I will thank public works authority, uh, the p the police department, the fire department, and our dispatchers, all of our first responders for their response during this, uh, snowageddon that we we had take place over the last week and a half. Uh, if you drive through downtown, you'll see, you know, piles of snow. And I'll tell you, the downtown is kind of it's it's kind of tricky because it doesn't get a lot of sun. So, uh, as our plows come through, unfortunately, we have cars that don't move as often as they probably should or or folks who were parked overnight, residents downtown, uh, doesn't allow us to plow all parts of the streets on both sides. So, you'll see now that the temperatures have come up and

almost gone, Eddie. Yeah, it's good. Yeah. And now that the temperatures have come up, it is has started to melt uh quite a bit. So, and all of that to be said, we only had one water mane break uh during that whole cold spell, which is tremendous. Uh knock on wood, I won't say anything about the future, but uh that is great. So, appreciate the team's response. Police department was out pulling folks out of out of ditches and helping them uh roadside as well as the fire department. Of course, our dispatchers are taking those calls and and getting them out there. So, with that, mayor, that's all I have. Thank you, sir. Uh item number seven, request comments from members of city council. Councilman Williams, no comment. Thank you. Okay, Councilwoman Denny.

Um, I just want to say the flu is running around rampant right now. So, everyone, please, if you are not feeling well, stay in, stay home. It's not worth getting everyone in the office ill. Um, because as more elderly folks um and small children, it can be um detrimental. So, wash your hands. Wash your hands. Wash your hands. And if you don't feel well, stay home. Thank you, Vice Mayor Ch. That's good. I like that. [laughter] Tenny, did you get to go out and work on the the hole that was broke for the with the water man? Sure. 28 hours straight.

Yeah. I kind of figured you did. Well, thank you. I appreciate your hard work on that. Thanks the police and the fire department. You guys, I thought I heard y'all were pulling people out. So, that's great. I I really appreciate that. So, otherwise, staff, Eddie, I appreciate all what you all guys do all the time. That's it. Thank you, sir. Uh, Councilman Gary, nothing. Thank you. Councilman Bothan, nope, nothing tonight. And Councilman Gibbs.

Um, I actually would like to congratulate Filmont Festival for receiving uh officer of the year. Um, I wasn't at the last meeting, so I think that that is fantastic. Um, he's a great officer and an asset to our town. And also officer Lenoy [clears throat] on his retirement. Uh, and his badge was retired as well. Correct, Chief? That's correct. badge was correct was retired as well. Um, so I I will miss seeing him around. Uh, and also

are they still going to feed you guys on Thanksgiving because uh Mike and his wife come and they come to the department and uh they they feed everybody for Thanksgiving for those who are on ship. Um, and also congratulations to Drew Heimer at the fire department to captain and uh on Captain Ray's for retirement. So, there's a lot of great things happening. We're missing a lot of experience and I uh look forward to seeing new fresh faces around as well. So, congratulations to them. And uh Missy's So, Boxc Car did move into Rick's. And last night, we approved signage for uh business going into where Box Car was already. So, we will not have a sit sitting empty building. Uh it'll be a a business called Whimsy Pop and it'll be a retail store with different kinds of backpacks and [clears throat] um some bamboo clothing. So uh look forward to seeing that new business as well here in town.

What I got? Okay. And uh tonight there will be uh nothing from me. So uh with that we will do item number eight proposed executive session pursuant to the authority of title 25os307 as follows. So move second. motion. Please cast your votes. All approval to executive session

What the heck? Okay. Attention. Okay, I'll entertain a motion to so moveive session. Second second. Okay, motion second. Please cast your votes. All votes are in.

Unanimous approval from all those present to come out of executive session. Um, okay. So item number 10, Young Contracting LLC versus City of Guthrie public works authority. Motion to approve as discussed in executive session. Okay. Second. You have a motion and a second. Please cast your votes. I'll vote. Um Okay. Did you Did you mean to do that? No. Okay. [laughter] If you say no, you say no. got a dual [laughter] vote going on down there. Well, we did have seven votes.

So, we'll let the let the record reflect that Tracy's vote was in the affirmative. Is that correct, sir? Yes, that's correct. Thank you. Okay. Unanimous approval for Young Contracting LLC or City of Guthri Public Works Authority. Item number 11, um, contingent legal represent representation agreement. Motion to approve the agreement as written. Second. Okay. Have a motion and a second. Please cast your votes. I got it right. Want to hit the wrong

unanimous approval for the contingent legal representation agreement. Item number 12 is we are adjourned. Call to order our Guthrie public works regular authority meeting again Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026 for those who are just tuning in. Item number two is the consent agenda items A through F. So moved. Second. Have a motion and a second. So further comments or questions, please cast your votes. All votes are in.

Okay. Unanimous approval from all those present on the consent agenda items A through F. Item number three were items removed from the consent agenda. There were none. Item number four is the sole source purchase and installation of water AMI base station. Mr. Maker, you got five minutes. I'll try. I'll try. Sorry.

Mayor, council. Um, first off, I may defer some questions to Kim. Kim worked very hard on on putting a lot of this together for us and and working hard on this. So, um, the census flex net uh, base station is a critical infrastructure that receives automated um, water meter readings from all of within the city of Guth Guthrie the customers and transmits that data to our regional uh, network interface which is considered the RNI of our system. Um failure of the base station can result in loss of meter data um collection um billing delays, increased manual reading cost and customer service disruptions. The city currently operates two base stations. One unit was replaced um November of 2024. Um the remaining unit is located at the JobCore uh water tower. It's approximately 14 years old and beyond this typical 7 to 10 year life expectancy. Um to improve the systems reliability and create uh operational redundancy staff request a UTI a utility technology services um known as UT uts sorry um to perform a u radio study. That study evaluated the terrain um elevations, the signal modeling and determined that the westside water tower provides the strongest signal and coverage uh for the the overlapping of the network. The city's AMI system is a census flexnet radio network. equipment must be fully compatible with the existing meters endpoint and regional network uh makeup. Utility or UTS um is the sole regional authorized supplier and in integ in

integrator of census flexnet infrastructure. There's no other vendors um that is compatible with this equipment configuration or certification and integrated services. UTS provides a turnkey quote of $67,595 which includes the equipment uh installation configuration certification, the testing and a 5-year protection plan. Staff will uh need to provide a 120 service at least 50 ft from the tower base. Um the projects budgeted of 55,000 in this year's budget. the remaining 12,595 uh funded from available savings within the GPWA funds. So staff would ask for uh approval to move forward.

And this is mayor and council just to add to this uh you'll recall when we had the utility billing issue, we had the base station that went down. This third base station will cover and I don't I don't think the studies covers everything, doesn't it? 95% is that correct? Is that number? Okay.

Yes. Yeah, approximately [snorts] 95%. It's a it's a good majority of the city adding that third base station. So, it is an expense, a $67,000 expense, but we're replacing we're kind of getting ahead of having to replace that one on the job core toner. So, when the time comes if we have to take that one down to replace it, we've already got that third one that's covering a majority of the city and it also creates a redundancy. If one were to go down, hit by lightning, etc. we're we're ready. We don't we don't have a lapse in coverage. There's not a failure. And so when when that utility billing issue happened, staff went to work with, okay, how do we prevent this in the future? Well, this is one of those several key things we've implemented to make sure that doesn't happen again.

So move. Second. Motion in a second. Thank you, Kenny. Further questions for Kenny, please cast your votes. Right. Unanimous [snorts] approval for soul service purchase and installation of water AMI base station. Item number five is Young Contracting LLC for City of Guthrie public works authority. Is this just same item? The same item. Same item. We can do motion to approve as discussed in executive session. Correct. And second. Okay. All right. Just cast your votes.

Unanous approval for Young Contracting LLC versus City of Guthri Public Works Authority. Uh item number six is the contingent legal representation agreement portion. Motion to approve is written.

All right. Please cast your votes. All votes are in. Approval for the contingent legal representation agreement. Item number seven. We are adjourned.