City Council - Regular Meeting

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Yes. Everyone please stand. Hey, we have join Vice Mayor Taylor. I pledge algiance 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.

Thank you. Almighty God, thank you for your work in the world and in this very city. Please watch over its leaders here tonight and bless this meeting. Show us ways in which we may love our neighbors. Wherever there is fear or hate in our community, show us how to replace it with peace, hope, and love. And please bless the 2026 high school graduates. Amen. Amen.

All right, you may be seated. Okay, call to order. Our regular city council meeting on Tuesday, May 5th, 2026 in the city hall council chambers. Um item number two, we're going to move things around a little bit. Uh we have public comments, community announcements, and recognitions. Um Mrs. Hudson came and asked that the proclamation for tennis be moved all the way to the back of the agenda tonight in 3 hours. So everybody's going to wait. Joke never gets old. Uh just kidding. We are going to move the ceremonial dollar to council members um last in the public comments. So first we will do the proclamation for National Police Week for May 10th to the 16th and then we will do the proclamation for National Tennis Month. So I will come down to the podium and do both of those. Okay. Mr.

Okay. Whereas there are approximately 800,000 law enforcement officers serving in communities across the United States, including the dedicated members of the Guthria Police Department. Whereas since the first recorded death in 1786, more than 27,000 law enforcement officers in the United States have made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty, including three members of the Guthrie Police Department. Whereas the names of these dedicated public servants are engraved on the walls of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington DC. Whereas 363 new names of the fallen heroes are being added to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial this spring. And whereas May 15th is designated as Peace Officers Memorial Day in honor of all fallen officers and their families. Now be it therefore resolved that I, Adam G. Rob, mayor of the city of Guthrie, formerly designates May 10th to the 16th, 2026 as Police Week in the city of Guthrie, Oklahoma, and publicly salute the service of law enforcement officers in our community and in communities across the nation. Now we'll do baseball.

Okay. Is everybody else out there with this too? Yes. Are they allowed to crowd in or tennis? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Come on up here. Yeah. Uh Mary, you can however you want.

All these medals. Wow. Lots of metals in the bag. I love it. Wow. Just please put all the tall kids in the back. Mary, I didn't know we had so many champions. Look at all these medals. Yeah. Nice. Look at this girl here. Look at hers. This year? This year? Really? Does your neck hurt?

That's awesome. All right. This is great. Okay. Well, let's begin. This is for all of you. Whereas on May 21st, 1881, the USA, originally known as the United States National Lawn Tennis Association, have we dropped the lawn now? Yes.

Okay. Was founded in New York City, New York to create rules and standards for the emerging game of lawn tennis. hand. Whereas the USA is the nonprofit national governing body for tennis in the United States and leads the promotion and growth of the sport at every level of play from beginners to professionals at the US Open. And whereas the USA is the largest tennis organization in the world with over 550,000 members from every corner of the country. And whereas the USA proudly partners with local tennis programs to showcase the important health, social, and educational benefits of tennis and make the sport available to everyone regardless of age, environment, condition, or ability through its USA adaptive grants. And whereas the latest research by the Physical Activity Council shows that more than 25.7 million Americans play tennis in 2024, an unprecedented 46% increase in participation over 2019. Wow. And the highest number of players since the PAC study began in 2007. And whereas by increasing the accessibility of tennis for citizens of Guthrie of all ages and abilities, the USA has contributed to making our community happier and healthier. And whereas the USA has declared the month of May as National Tennis Month to encourage players, organizations, facilities, retailers, tennis manufacturers, and more to promote local programs and activities at parks and facilities to showcase tennis and spread the word about the sport and its beliefs and to help players and non-players alike find courts and play opportunities in their communities. Now, here we're almost we're almost done, guys. Don't worry. Now therefore, I, Adam Ro, mayor of Guthrie, Oklahoma, proclaim May 2026 as

National Tennis Month and hereby urge the citizens of Guthrie to become aware of and support National Tennis Month. There we go. Everybody get a little Mine's milkberry.

Yeah, I'm let I'm let the pick first and then I know. I'm trying to get out of the picture. Pretty bad. I didn't think we got

Here we go. Everybody here in three, two, one. Thank you. Excellent. When does it start again? Well, we'll start working next fall, but the season officially is March 1st. Awesome. Like I said, four girls are going to state this weekend. Which one?

These three. Where's Michaela? Right here. So, these three and Michaela are going this weekend. And then boys, raise your hand that are going to regional Friday. And then the majority of the rest of them are uh junior high and middle school. A very successful season. We don't have the biggest population like other towns. And I'm always just truly impressed that at a 5A level how well our athletes and our students play. We're looking for some of the best in the state always. That's good to you guys and coaching. So thank you for making look great.

Thank you. Thanks for coming. Thanks guys, too. I mean, it is a lot of medals and a lot of kids. Oh my gosh. These kids are wanting to play. It is. And then the whole crowd just gets up and leaves. tennis and I mean there wasn't any I mean there wasn't any interest in it or probably weren't enough people out there anyway right to even be able to play

they were great and then the crowd disappears the whole place out well now time to you don't want that bunk cake what take that bunk cake what are you talking about you guys are all real lucky They didn't turn around. Snatch Adam. See, he don't want

There's a bunch of brownies in the back. wishing you had some watch. Yeah, I'm going to beat you. Okay. All right. Okay, that's happened. That was really fun. So that was uh B and C for item number two. Uh so now that we are going to do the recognition of service for us, everyone clears out. I'm just kidding. Who wouldn't? uh presentation of the ceremonial dollar to council members. So if everybody along with myself will come to the front, we're going to do it all in one big

swoop. Yes. So if you'll come down from the D. So this is Yeah. dollar. Unlike you who gets paid weekly. Hey Right there, brother. Every week. You better take taxes out of that. taxes. Is it really only? It's only like That's right. That's right. Account for the account for the taxes. Yes.

Yeah. Let's kind of square up there. Fantastic. Mayor, council, thank you for allowing us to do this. This is one of my favorite nights, uh, council meeting nights of the year each year. Uh, Mayor Rob and members of the 68th City Council, it is both an honor and a privilege to express on behalf of myself, the staff, and our community our deepest gratitude for your unwavering commitment and dedicated service to the city of Guthrie. Your leadership, steadfast dedication have helped shape a stronger, more vibrant community. Through every decision made, policy enacted, initiative undertaken, your focus on the well-being and prosperity of our citizens has never wavered. Whether it was popular or not, you made the right decision. Though though there are countless responsibilities that come with your roles, including the many hours spent in meetings, constituent outreach, and community engagement, please know that your service has not gone unnoticed. As we honor the accomplishments of the past and look forward to the promise of the future, we extend our heartfelt thanks to each of you. And so, as is authorized in article 2, section 2-8 of the Guthri city charter, it is with great appreciation that we present to you the ceremonial dollar you have so rightfully earned. Thank you.

Frame or something? Yeah, of course. The frame was more We're not telling.

Ready? Here we go. All right. Thank you guys so

pulls it out of his pocket. I tried to give you dollars from my pocket. Kim wouldn't let you in. Yeah, mayor. I ran out of dollars. I've got some quarters and pennies and a nickel. I can change it all together. We'll just tape it all up and hand it to you. All right. Um, uh, thank you Eddie for the the kind words and, uh, thank you for giving it to us and in the way that is is presentable. We appreciate it. Um item number three is consent agenda items A through P. So moved. Okay.

Second. Second. A motion and a second. No further comments or questions. Please cast your votes. All votes are in. Unanimous approval from all those present from consent agenda items A through P. Item number four were items removed from the consent agenda. There were none. Uh item number five is board of trustees of the Oklahoma Municipal Assurance Group. Mr. Faulner.

Yes, Mayor and Council. The terms for the three trustees of the Oklahoma Municipal Assurance Group expire on June 30th, 2026. Each member city has been given a ballot with the current nominees for consideration. Uh what we typically do is what we've done in is our past practice is whether the incumbent or the candidates who are running for those seats, whoever sends over a letter with an explanation asking for your vote and your consideration is typically who we look to vote on. Uh, at this time I'm happy to announce that that is Tim Lion, city manager of Midwest City. Justin Battles, assistant city manager of Mustang and Pam Pulk, city manager of Durant. Uh, staff's recommendation would be that we proceed with those three names as listed for nomination to the OMAG board of directors. Happy to answer any questions.

So move. Second. Okay, no comments or questions. Cast your votes. All votes are in. Okay. Unanimous approval from all those present for the board of trustees of the Oklahoma Municipal Assurance Group. Item number six is resolution number 2026-11 municipal court warrants. Mr. Lewis Marvel. Uh it is about removing some of the old warrants. Sorry I hit you there.

You did. Um there's warrants arrest warrants back from the '9s. Uh that impossible to even find the people. They're probably dead, gone, who knows where. Uh the officers that did the arrest are probably not even here. So my understanding from the police department, it is pretty cumbersome to go through that far back whenever they have to do a record search. So it was suggested and I think it's a good idea to anything over 10 years old is just to be wiped out pretty much. So we only have 10 years back of arrest warrants and the rest of them are just gone. Gone. Yeah. So moved.

Second. Any questions for Mr. Lewis? Okay. There are Adams. Right out of the picture like All right. Please cast your votes. Oh, okay. Uh, it passes five to one. Push no. I pushed yes. Okay. Um, let the wrong button be on the record that that is a yes for a unanimous approval for the uh or a yes no resolution number 2026-11 municipal court warrants. I was tied up in the joke about Adam. It's all right. I understand.

All right. Item number seven is resolution number 2026-12 temporarily suspending ordinance number 3221 governing garage sales. Uh Justin Bortney, tourism directors.

Thank you, council. This item was a request from the public. Uh in summary, the resolution would temporarily suspend the city's yard sale ordinance for the Friday and Saturday of May 29th and 30th for uh what folks might common commonly refer to as a citywide yard sale. Um as it's written, the only part of our ordinance that wouldn't be suspended was that part that basically says don't let your yard sale spill out into the street. That sort of thing. But other than that, the the license and fees would be waved for that particular weekend to to encourage lots of yard sales at once. Any questions?

Uh my only question are we going So in this case, we wouldn't usually whenever you get a permit, you know, obviously it's posted or published where the yard salts are. In this case, you just kind of have to drive everywhere. Is that correct? Yes. Perfect. Okay. So moved. Second. Motion a second. No further comments or questions, please cast your vote. Thank you, Justin. I'll vote.

Okay. Unanous approval for resolution number 2026-12 temporarily suspending ordinance number 3221 governing garage sales. Item number eight, ordinance number 3432, reszone request from A2, limited agriculture to R2 limited multifamily residential. Mr. Casey,

thank you, Mayor, City Council. Uh, as indicated, this is a reszone from A2 to R2. Uh, it encompasses properties of 1.23 acres as well as 7.54 acres. The parcel is located on Hazel. Uh, it would be adjacent to East Perkins and then adjacent to East University. Uh, over on our east side. Uh, currently, as indicated, it's egg. uh they're looking to the applicant is looking to go to R2 for uh limited multifamily residential uh to allow for a greater diversity of of development options. The planning commission heard this item at their meeting last month. Uh they recommended approval 4 to one. Uh there were uh residents or surrounding property owners there that spoke. Uh some of that was in your uh minutes as far as how many and if any of you watched the planning commission meeting you would have seen that. Uh I did not receive any other letters or uh phone correspondence uh other than who showed up for that meeting. So with that I'll have it back to the council and if you have any questions of me if not the applicant is here if you have any questions of him.

Uh we also have a few people that wish to speak on this item. Um, do we want to go ahead and have them talk before we have discussion? Yeah, sorry about that. Let's do the applicant first so he can share his information and we'll take the public. Perfect. Applicant, please come.

Thank you, council members. My name is Jim Martindale and uh I purchased this property. Prior to purchasing it, I went to Mr. Kasich and uh said this property, what does Guthrie want uh for this parcel? It's one of the largest uh largest parcels that is in Guthrie proper that would be uh acceptable for this type of use. Uh and he indicated that although the land use uh ordinance is not currently zoned R2, that that would be consistent with the goals of the city. Uh what we plan on is R2 would put us at a market rate uh rental housing so that that would accommodate families and uh the the zoning change would uh fill a niche that is not in Guthrie right now. We have lowincome housing. We have approximately 1,200 uh residential homes that are being either under construction or permitted at this point. So that is uh something that's been uh uh that niche has been filled. This would fill kind of that middle section. It's close to 35 uh highway 35. So that would be uh good ingress egress and this would be a uh a good use for this piece of property. So uh that's what we'd like to do. Um I I think I mentioned although the land use currently is A2, he said that if that that was an older um uh uh plan and that this would be consistent if it was updated to an R2. It's not unprecedented. There are R2 zones across the street to the north and an E5 zoning which is also multi-propy and uh a archaic uh not in use anymore. uh but

that is also multifamily and so this would be consistent with uh the surrounding areas and again this would be one of the largest properties that would uh would fit this type of uh development. So that's what we'd like to do and I'm open to any questions at this point. Okay. Any any questions for the applicant?

Um I do have some. Um so I did I did go back and I reviewed the planning meeting. Um, and I I did used to um own the property that is currently owned by Stephanie Fortme um and Melissa Cantrell. And I when I did live here, this property was a functioning um pecan orchard. And it was in a better condition than what it currently is. Over the years, it's kind of lost its luster and the trees weren't cared for anymore. But um from what I gathered a lot um from uh the parties that spoke um was that uh you know being in that that part um of the area it's it feels like you're out of town when you're not out of town. So having that um privacy is what it feels like. And you don't have to put up an 8ft fence if you don't want to. And you don't um it's um it would be something that would be hard to re to remove um if you were there. and you know there is not an alleyway there and there isn't an easement built in between the properties and um I know you to be a very fair neighbor um in all of the other properties that you own and um what you plan to develop here I think would be great for what our town does need um as far as housing and I also would hope that you would work with these owners to maybe have some vegetation that could split that up like

some tall I don't know red tip finia things that can grow there naturally um that um where they could still have that same reassurance you know these the streets dead end into that property and you know I already know you to be a great neighbor like I said so um to lose that nostalgia would be really hard and so I could completely understand as far as the zoning purpose I couldn't see um it fits within the zoning. So as far as rules are concerned it fits within the zoning needs um and the housing needs but um from a neighbor perspective I can completely understand where they're coming from and the and the loss of that um would be very hard to handle. So

I'm sorry. You're talking about building homes there, right? No, these would be multifamily. So that so like duplexes, triplex. Correct. Correct. And then there's been some on the west side built. They're very nice. They're part of the plan that we already have and they're they're great looking. Um and you know just two streets over there multi- family structures there already um over on University I believe. Um, so there are some in the area. These ones are definitely a 500 time step up. Well, part of our plan all along for years has been to revitalize that this entire area all the way down to division, right?

And that's been the plan. I think it's a great plan. No, I agree that it's that to develop it is a great plan. I just um would hope that keeping your neighbors privacy in in that same retrospect as far as vegetation um in mind please whenever you're building and planning out yeah I think the uh beauty of this is that it fronts uh three streets it would be uh Perkins U Hazel and University so the ingress egress although a grant which actually does not go no no not even close it doesn't it doesn't but right right it doesn't I believe Lincoln does yes

but uh frankly there's other uh areas that uh along there that are not uh necessarily needed for uh for that to go through. And I did uh I understood that they've been there since 1971. And I get it. Nobody likes change. I don't like change. If I were uh in their shoes, I'd be here in front of you also. But I think that this is going to be a a wonderful development. I think it's going to Everybody asked me what's going to happen with property values. And I said before, all all boats rise with the tide. And I think it would be a boon for not only the residents but the the city in general.

Are you um single story, two story? No, they would be twotory. Yeah.

Yeah. But it would be contemporary. It would be uh the style is going to be you're going to look at the the properties and say, "Wow, those are really nice." It's not like the as I mentioned the kind of stacked units were industrial type and and of the of of days of your uh these will be contemporary uh you know beautiful homes that people are going to uh uh be proud to to to uh be next to. The other thing too is we are going to the parking was uh one of the things that was hey are we going to be able to park and first of all we do have development standards. So just because this if this is approved uh there are development standards for parking uh on street off streetet uh garage parking so it wouldn't be a burden to that uh to what's there now. We're not going to have people parking on the street. Uh so there are development standards that we do need to adhere to once uh uh you know it's just not the wild wild west. We do need to do that. I should also mention that Mr. Kasich mentioned that there uh city services that was one of the questions is is this going to impact because we the sewer system we have a waste management that has uh been upgraded so uh for development uh of this type and so it would not put a burden on it. The sewer is there, the water is there, the gas is there so the service is there. it would not cost the city money uh in order to get this uh you know developed and I think that's an important thing um just from a pragmatic uh uh perspective you know the city we need money we need money we've got water issues and not only will this bring in tax dollars uh property tax dollars but it also would bring in uh sales tax dollars from the people that would be uh residents and

spending their money in Guthrie So, are these rental or sale? Yeah, these are rental. Yeah. Yeah. Jim, do you have a a height requirement or proposal? I I didn't see one in the plan. Is this going to be twotory? Do you have a height idea? Yeah. On the structure be consistent with the property. The city has pre-approved plans and would be although we're not necessarily saying that's what it would be consistent with that. And there are uh we I don't have any renderings or because we're not at that stage yet, but we certainly uh adhere to those standards.

So, mentally, what's the price point for the rent? That'll give us kind of an idea of what we're looking at. Uh $1,500 is going to be the max there. On the north side, you've got homes that are uh right at $1,500 and that's at uh uh on the north side there. It's probably going to be under that depending on uh what the mix is. uh either one, two, and three. And that's probably what we're looking for for families up to one, two, and threebedroom uh units. Uh they would probably be anywhere from 800 uh to uh 1,200 would probably be uh the the max square footage. Square footage, I'm sorry. Yes.

Okay. Any more questions for the applicant before hear from the citizens? I mean, he can come back up again if you think of anything. So, uh, thank you, Mr. Martin Deal. Thank you. Appreciate it. Um, is it is it Denise Jennings? Yep. Please come up. Yeah, just state your name and if whether you're a resident. Okay. Yes. Hello. Yes, I am Denise Jennings and I am the uh homeowner and resident of the house on Hazel Street, one of the homes. Um there's a house, the church and like three houses there in a row

on that one side. And the house was purchased in 1980. So when I moved there, I was pretty much in the ninth grade somewhere along in there. And um pretty much lived in that area. I didn't really appreciate more of that country feel. until you get older. Of course, you're kind of far away from your friends during that time. And correct, it is. It used to be a pecan orchard. It's hasn't been taken care of like it used to uh since, you know, the MTO, Mr. Mto, you know, got up in age. He was still cutting the grass and keeping it all down. And um and then when Dean had his horses there, you know, he was kind of keeping it up. But other than that, it did kind of it doesn't look like it used to. I've seen it being a pecan orchard

and correct that feel of a rural. But my main thing too, yes, I understand what it's going to do for the value, you know, of the homes that are there. It is a smaller community with the older houses. A few people are coming through fixing up houses. It's been a concern of mine myself where I've even wanted to do something like that. the apartments. It could bring up and I know it's going to bring the value and that that's not the concern. My concern is long-term years from now. I've seen over the years in Oklahoma City, Edman, other places where they bring in apartments and it usually takes it down after a few years when you have multi-family housing or people who are renting. Um, I think the intent is good in the beginning, but the area is already of a old quaint. You're only going to get a few people who really wants that type of setting. So uh my concern is I want it to stay in the family for many years as it has been you know with me and to I want the community to thrive and I'm not um so I think the owner everyone has a right to have a place to live and the owner he has a right to build but I'm just thinking not multifamily housing between east of Pine between University in Perkins. We have enough going on. You know, we have the the housing authority. We also have uh the nursing home that was once there that is a you know the hope house now that house you know homeless people and it's not just some of them. I think there are really families there. I see children there which and they have you know I understand people get down on their luck and they have need a place to live. I'm for that as well. And as far as Easttown Village Apartments, that was

my first apartment uh when I moved out on my own from the residence that that I'm in now. Um, but I just think the traffic is going to bring into this into this setting and I do know just working in certain fields. Um, over time, it can start out good, but it kind of ends up being a community with people I think of maybe of of renters, which that's going to be renting anyway. But I my hope was that it be people who own that can appreciate the community and want the communities to thrive and not just a lot of people coming in and out just renting. You know, having a revolving door of people who are renting and they're guests and um my concern too that eventually maybe section 8 housing and that would just it'll bring in certain you know uh I think making it more of a different type of community. what I'm hoping it would can grow into because of the setting and of it being quaint and a lot of the older people they have passed on uh including you know my relative and and I'm hoping to see more young people come in and to do something better with the property. So again, I oppose of it and I'm just hoping that you all will see it as on behalf of myself and the other residents there in the Carmen edition that you will vote in our favor and to maybe just have housing maybe some, you know, houses for people to own and maybe be a community of homeowners. Thank you.

Thank you for coming and telling us this. I really appreciate it. Yes. Um, is there just before you go? Is there any anybody have any questions for the No, I do I do want to say that I watched the plan commission meeting. You and your neighbors spoke. You certainly have valid concerns and I completely understand those concerns. I wouldn't want it there either, but um within a mile of there we have two housing additions with hundreds of homes. So, I don't think Holmes has already said is necessarily what's needed.

Um, I did speak to Mr. Martindell about his preliminary plans and section 8's not a part of that. I had lunch today with one of your neighbors that property owners off of Hazel. We didn't have any opposition to it, but I I address I understand and I agree with you. I would want it, but we can't stop progress. some surprised the property sat this empty this long.

Apparently, George Moff intended it to be left as an inheritance and that's what happened. But Mr. Cassich made an interesting point during that planning commission meeting where he said somebody's going to buy that. Somebody was going to buy it and it's going to be developed. So, I think it's from my viewpoint, it's better that we have somebody local who already has an investment in the community. He owns several buildings downtown. Yes, he's from California, which he made that statement. But so far, he's been a good neighbor with bed and breakfast and buildings. And if I had to choose an investor

to come to town to build across the street from me, I would prefer that. I would I live on the west side, two blocks from the apartments somebody made a reference to earlier, and they're nice apartments. they are, but when that contractor left, they left some things behind that they said they were going to repair as of runoff, for instance, and didn't. Um, so I believe because of his connection to the community now, he he will be a good neighbor in the development of and the the operations of this property. And that's the best I can offer you. Okay?

But I appreciate you coming. I appreciate all your neighbors coming to the planning meeting. That that's important that citizens come and speak and stand up. Sometimes we just unfortunately can't have what we want. I understand.

Well, on the good on the good note of it though, in the question of asking what the rent was going to be was because 1,500 a month is not section 8. It's just not. And there are a lot of uh well there's a lot of requests out there that I see you know where can I get a place to to rent in Guthrie where can I get a place to rent in Guthri not ready to buy want to go rent young professionals that type thing. U I think there's a huge hole there in this town. My two children left because of it because there wasn't a place uh that they could go rent while they they foster their career. One went to Edmond, one went to Dallas. Uh, and so I think there is a huge and being on this council for as long as we've been, there's a huge need for it. I don't know that that's the right place or not,

but no matter where it is, uh, I think we're going to get uh, opposition whenever it's rent. That's why I asked the question, is it going to buy? Are they going to buy? Are they going to rent? Um, we also agree that in the I'm sorry. Go ahead. And I do agree bring it Guthrie may need, you know, more rental property, higherend rentals, higher end. But I'm just still thinking usually how long does that really last before it goes down,

you know. Yes. Because the surrounding area is old already, you know. And then, you know, only a certain only certain people are going to appreciate a small quaint community. And my hope is that maybe again, younger people will come in and fix up, you know, the older houses, do the remodeling and keep it quaint and nice the way it is. And, you know, I I understand things change, you know, in life. And so, I wanted to develop as well. I'm looking for the future. I'm up an age myself. I'm a baby boomer. So, uh, but I do have grandchildren. You know, I have a child and I want them to have something to be left behind and and they love Guthrie.

You know, at my age, at their age, you know, I didn't care for Guthrie like that because I wanted more of the city life, but now I can appreciate this area. So, I do appreciate you all listening to me and and again, I do believe that the the owner here is fair. I've spoken to him. He's listened. So, uh, that's not the thing. It's just longterm, right? Bringing more people to the community. Thank you. We also we have a Rebecca Morgan.

Um, first I'm going to say I'm very in my element, very nervous, and hopefully I don't throw up. Me, too. Um, but I felt like I needed to come at least have my my say or I would be angry with myself afterwards. Most of the stuff I kind of typed up something so I would kind of remember what I was saying. But some things were addressed. Um, Con Ortidge, I mean, I rode my horse there every day, every summer for who knows how long in the 80s, the 90s. Um, it was beautiful. It was.

Yeah. Um, but my family bought the property in the 70s. I've lived there. I had lived there. I was probably three, maybe four when we moved in. Um, my grandfather lived there before he passed. My dad lived there before he passed. My brother lived there before he passed. And it's just stayed in our family. My daughter lives there currently. Um, the first concern I have is, um, it's where? I'm sorry. I don't mean to. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm 1809 East Lincoln. I'm at the very dead end of East Lincoln Road right here.

I'm the one property that would be affected the most by traffic because they can do it through street there. We have no cars that come to our house except for people who live there or are visiting. Um he had said that he probably would not be doing that, but that's my first point is um at the first meeting they said that um approval comes without exceptions or restrictions. um he says he's not going to do this or that or another, but what can he do or what can someone else do if they end up buying it and doing something with reszoning? Um right now it's zoned for 58 55 single families homes is what I was told and that they can have I want to say it was up to 160 something but he was talking about doing maybe five single family homes. more than twice. Um, and so that's up to 100 families or more that would if they do it through street will be driving past our house to go home every day. Um, sorry, I'm trying to be quick.

No, you're okay. Um I'm trying I don't know anything else has pretty much been touched on that she talked about. Um now as far as the your your concern about um okay so he might do XYZ but what about the next person? Yes. We we've had stuff like that be asked before with the same situations of reszoning. Usually, Dan, isn't it where if somebody else does come in, they they still have to come in through the same permit process and etc. if they want to do something different from what was agreed upon during this reason, right?

Yes. Correct. And and I think she was referring to, you know, because it's a reszone, it can't have specific conditions or things like that. So, we can't hold somebody saying, "Well, I'm going to do this." And then they do something different because that could happen uh in that. And so I think that's kind of what you were referencing. So like yeah, like um he did not plan on doing like a four rise apartments or four stories. He had to talk about maybe two stories. Um the next if the next if he were to sell or part of it and let somebody else that's already reszoned for X amount. So

you know what's to stop that from happening, right? We've been asked this before.

I was going to say to kind of go back what the mayor saying, there are obviously development standards and there are limitations to the number of units given the size of the property. So again, the bigger the property, the more units you have, but the smaller the property, the less units you're going to have. And what was in the staff report used a generalization of because like for single family, you uh it's a 6,000 foot lot that you can go down to. With multifamily, you uh the first unit, you need 8,000 square feet and then it's 2,000 square feet for each additional unit. So, when you do just a general thing, you come up with the amount of density. However, there's setbacks, there's lot coverage, there's parking and a lot of that. So, there's really no way to physically get to the maximum, but it just gives a general idea of what we're looking at. But that's the thing. All of that applies regardless of who

who it is. Yeah, we had something similar on the west side. I think it was an addition on Noble, I think, or close to it. And they were concerned about that, too. Like, yeah, the person now says they're going to do XYZ, but they sell it, but that was what it was then, too, is they're still have to have I mean, he has a general idea of what he would like to do. He doesn't he didn't have his plans

spec yet. And all of that still has to go through planning and approval, too. So this is just being able to reszone it uh so that he can develop it. That's all that this this meeting in particular that's all this meeting is. Um anything past that will still need additional approvals and reviews. The additional approvals and reviews are a lot less because it's already approved R2 at that point and R2 already has standards, right? Y. So, I would think that with all due respect that we would have some kind of schematic or plan of what this is going to look like before we actually approved it, right?

So, nobody in the future can do how can how can the how does the planning approve moving to an R2 when they don't even have a plan? Because with a reszone, you don't have any of that associated. I understand that, but there should in all the time that we've been on this shoe, typically a plan's come with a reszone. No, it it would have come with a planned unit development which requires a specific development plan because in those cases it is approved and it h it stays with the property. A reszone is just that it's a land use decision on whether or not going from one reszone to another is going to be appropriate.

The reason I ask is because I asked initially, is it going to be duplexes or single family? And and the response was going to be duplexes. Now it's sounding like it's an apartment complex. Sounds totally different than the question I asked just a little bit ago. Well, and again, you have to talk to the applicant. I know, but I that's what my question is. Is it um I think it needs to be developed and I I think you're the right person to do it. I do honestly. But my question was, is it duplexes or single family? And it and the answer was it was duplex. I'm gonna bring him back up. Are is there anything else you want to address too, Miss Miss Morgan? Um

Oh, it's okay if you can. And you and you can come back up again if you think of something. Yeah. I mean, it was just that just if it's approved, say he decides he doesn't want to do he wants to sell it tomorrow. Does that mean somebody else can come in and putund and however many homes in there? Then they do it through street and I've got 100 plus people, families driving back and forth. And I mean, we've lived of dead end since, right? I mean, every house I've bought since then, when I got married, I mean, they've been deadend streets. My children moved back there so that they could when they move out, they move to a dead end street. Yeah. And it's just if that hypothetical were to happen, like Mr. Kasich was saying, all all of that would have to come through again and be approved. I mean, I would love for it not be

the zoning goes with the land. The land sells the zoning goes with the land. So, if we prove it R2 and he sells it tomorrow, it's R2. Yes, that's just all there is to it. Yes, that's what we're talking that's why I asked him at the last meeting and was about the because he said that he probably would not make that approved stream, but it has to be approved without restrictions and without any um changes. So, like they can't say it's approved and he said he's not going to do this, but he sells it tomorrow and someone else comes in and they're going to do a four story apartment comp and just build it all up. But,

well, then that would go through planning, but it's kind of like uh Tracy said down there, if anybody were going to build this land and they're it's going to get built. Yes. He would be the one to do it, I would think. uh I would have the most confidence in him versus just a you know a company out of out of New York or or wherever. I'm not using California. He's he's got a lot vested here. He's he's already shown that he's got a lot vested here. Uh he didn't just do a oneandone type thing. Uh and so I don't think you he would be who you'd want to build it up. Oh, I'm not saying I don't want to. No, no. I'm just saying if anybody was going to he would you would want him to

I'm more afraid of if something happens and he does well to answer your question yes it goes with the land R2 yes Eddie yes council I I think we can solve some of these issues it would be non-traditional to add restrictions on the zoning case um planner's looking at me and the attorney's probably burning a hole for me but I think if if there are hangups that we can consider and and look at to to approve. I'm not sure what your plans are, Mr. Martinell, but we could look at that as as we go forward.

Yeah. Yeah. I was going to say cuz that's what I was going to say. I think as Eddie is alluding to, we won't have formal conditions attached to it because by law that's illegal. So that's why we don't want that. However, given the conversations that have transpired from the applicant and concerns of the neighbors and all that, when it goes through the process, we can ensure that we have good communication and remind them of what has been said during meetings and make sure that that becomes more of the outcome than something different.

Yeah. And I I think it again I think it's non-traditional to look at it in that manner. Um, but if the applicant would like to consider something like that, that's certainly something they could do. But everything around it is either R1 or R2, right? It's R1. Yeah, there's some R5, which we don't have anymore. That was the old planned unit development. Yeah, but it's all surrounding this property. It just so happens that it was a pond orchard is why it got is egg.

Yeah. And and as you know, a lot of the original properties in our community start out with egg and eventually move to something. The other thing I wanted to mention real quick because I know it was a concern like with buffering and that there are landscaping requirements for any development. In a lot of cases where we have these properties were able to keep some of the existing uh trees and that which provide the necessary landscaping requirements. Uh I've had that conversation with the applicant. So, it likely isn't going to be where the entire property is just raised of all trees and brush and that and it's going to be a blank slate. Probably a lot of that will be kept and it will go towards his landscaping requirements.

I'm not sure what you're talking about the R1 or two the it's already residential. It's already zoned residential all around it. This is the only little piece that's zoned agriculture because horses, chickens, pigs, ducks, right? Throw it up there. No, I'm talking about this whole area all the way down to division is residential. Uhhuh. That's what I'm talking about. Okay. So, that doesn't change the zoning of where we were at. No, cuz that was something I had talked about. Not not your No. No. Doesn't change your zoning. Your lot is your lot. Yeah. It doesn't change anything that you're doing whatsoever. It's just that there's multiszoning all in that whole area is all I was saying. All right. Thank you.

So to move it to R2 is not unheard of whatsoever because it's the only piece of real a land of any kind of volume in that whole area. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for You did a great job by the way. You did too. Yes.

You didn't throw up. Do you want to Mr. Yeah, I appreciate what uh was said. Um uh getting back to a couple of things. First of all, I I think that uh apartments have bad uh reputation. The apartments that we have right now in Guthrie, uh I want to differentiate HUD housing, which is low-income housing that is subsidized by the government, and when it's built, it is designated HUD. So you have to uh rent to people with a certain income level and that's subsidized uh by the federal government. This will not we are not going to be uh looking for federal subsidies or that sort of thing because that's not what we want to do. Um, it's also HUD is is kind of phasing out that and you know I don't I don't mean to put down uh uh HUD housing but you have to basically if somebody is approved by the federal government for this you need to rent to them.

You have to you have to and so that that's not the something we want to do because to Mrs. Jennings point you're going to get a mishmash a a revolving door. We don't want to do that. Uh this is a significant uh investment uh for me personally when it's Jay Harvey Investment Group. That's me and that's your her right there, my wife. Well, this is not some big conglomerate that has lots of money and all this kind of stuff. This scares the heck out of me because but I am committed, we are committed uh to this city. Um so we're not going to have that because when when when people are doing that, you've got maintenance issues. you can't afford to have property values go down. So, you maintain your properties. Uh what I frankly the reason we don't didn't go for a plan unit of development is you have to present this big plan. What we think would be more uh pragmatic is to uh put it into lots to where you can have a forplex. You can sell them. uh people can build them so that it's not this big community. That would be between 15 and $20 million. And I don't have 15 to $20 million to be honest with you. And it would scare the ever loving crap out of me uh to do that on an unproven thing because this area is this is a risk and we're willing to take it but want to do it incrementally and so that we can have lots and see how things go. see what kind of But as far as the uh uh getting having and just to let you know uh uh we manage properties and uh keeping them up to snuff is is paramount to keeping the values up and keeping the rents up and

so that you can get a good quality tenant. I want to juxtapose that with with across the way uh the brick buildings that's HUD housing and that's kind of what and and it is contiguous to this but uh but you've got a revolving door you've got problems I know that that's not what we want that worries me for our development should you approve it is that we have that influence and uh the the other thing as far as the uh Lincoln Street there are so many frontages that it would not really it's not necessary for Lincoln to go through. It's a small street. It's a narrow street and it really isn't necessary because of the three street uh uh frontage that there can be ingress egress without going through existing neighbor neighborhoods uh deadend streets. So

I have a quick question. Yes. Um, just this I'm going to throw this scenario out there. What if it it doesn't pass and it remains agricultural? What what you've already purchased it obviously. Yeah. I'm If it doesn't, then uh it is zoned for 55 uh residential uh homes. Economically, it doesn't make sense. It just doesn't make sense to and that's probably why it hasn't been uh developed up to this point is because economically there's just uh uh it doesn't make sense. So you wouldn't wouldn't fit in with that neighborhood.

Uh building costs have uh gone such and I paid uh an amount that it just um I I would hope that it would go through and we could do something. And again, I think too, we already have that. And so that's another reason is you're going to be competing with uh LAR and you're compete uh but building single family residences, you're not going to get that much more rent. So economically, you're going to have 55 and it's just not going to make sense. Uh uh again, with this price tag, you're you're talking to build those out 15 million plus.

Sure. Sure. And I I get that the revenue stream, you know, for you with the renters and all of that, you know, that has to you have to have a certain amount of dwellings to even, you know, break even. Sure. Um, but taking the the faces out of all of this, you know, I know you are a, you know, a great neighbor as everyone has said and that I'm with Tracy. I if I lived there, um,

I would not want this to happen. Um, so I I truly appreciate the residents that have lived there. It is a kind of a quaint piece of of property through there. Um, and I I understand why you wanted to purchase it. Um, so just kind of taking the the faces and the feelings out of it. Um, I personally myself would hope to see it kind of left with the trees and the acquaintance of the people, you know, that currently live there. Um, but I also get, you know, if it was out on South Division somewhere, um, you know, close to the highway, build all the apartments you want or dwellings or duplexes. But that's just kind of a a quaint last agricultural slash residential piece where people um can kind of still feel like they're in the country, but they're not kind of thing. And there's not many of those places left. So again, I understand truly why you purchased it. Um, and I'm, you know, these are the things I don't like sitting in a seat for because it's I'm torn both way. I can see both sides of the coin. Definitely

the devil's advocate side of that. And I I agree. I I hear what you're saying, but if you go backwards towards division and the right facility is built on this particular property, then it can backfill in a big way. There's a lot of empty lots that go all the way back to Division. Uh if you go drive through there, uh I've driven it many, many times. Uh and that's what we've always intended to try to do. is fill that that void. You weren't here when people wanted to put manufactured homes within there and we had to turn it down because the ordinance didn't allow it and you'd have someone sitting there crying because that's all they could afford. Well, you know, it it's terrible. But something that is solid can really create back fill, which is what that entire area needs in my opinion.

Can I add to what Yeah. Diana was saying, we already discussed the possibility as it stands right now, you can build 55 homes on it. Period. And you said having the investment now that those the return on 55 homes would not justify what you it wouldn't be a viable investment for you. Correct. But you also said in a moment ago you want to do this incrementally. Correct. So what does that mean?

That would mean u subdividing into lots that could be sold uh individually. So having a forplex having uh so it would mean incrementally rather than one big development like that. But you can have more on a lot than you can now. uh which is which is uh really So are you saying you're not going to develop this or you're going to sell it for somebody else to develop? No, we're going to develop it, but we're going to put it into lots so that we can put forplex forplex something like that. Okay. Well, I understand that. So, you're saying this isn't going to be Well, what what's the apartments we were talking about earlier? Yeah. It's not going to be No, it is not

blocks of apartments. No, it is not. It's going to be lots with duplex or forplex on them. Yes. And in the meantime, you're going to have to put streets and Yes. curbs and Correct. Right. D needed. Yeah. And drainage or whatever. Yes. Along that line, I have a question for you, please. You said this during the planning commission meeting that that the city does not require for existing properties to to require traffic studies, enhanced development of streets, or anything. The only time that requirement comes into play is if there's a formal subdivision. Correct. What does that mean?

That means like a single family residential subdivision. That's really the only uh area we have to um say you have to put in pave streets or that here. If you need internal access driveways, you know, a maneuvering area, they'll have to put that in. But we don't have anything that is again it's even like a uh on the commercial side for off-site improvements uh for curbs, gutters, and areas. Normally, it's put in because that's how they're going to work with the uh storm water drainage issues. They may or may not have, but we don't have anything that says if you come in and build multifamily, you have to widen that street or you have to put in those curbs.

But going back like you said, what Dan, just want to jump in for a second. So, if you're saying that if we were to if if the council were to allow the reszone and the lots were subdivided in the future, you wouldn't have an ability to require the improvements as you go through the subdivision process. No, if they go through a subdivision process, yes. But if they just go through the normal permitting process. Okay. Yeah. So, so if the lots are subdivided, yes. Then, and that's kind of what we're hearing. So, so we're going to end up with some buildings and a gravel road over here and No, there won't be any gravel road over here. No. Yeah. No. Right. Because again, standards.

Yeah. There's basic standards cuz that's why I said even any internal uh even if they're private uh you know uh driveways and that they have to be hard surfaced. Parking has to be hard surfaced. And as you know we have a drainage ordinance. So they'll have to get a civil engineer and design whether it's uh you know each individual property or the property as a whole to make sure that that drainage does not impact the adjacent uh properties. It may need a retention detention pond here there. But all of that is built in whether again yeah we're talking a 14,000 foot lot or the okay

7 whatever acres it is. So, are you going to put the roads in first or are you going to just in other words like you're talking about building this and then this and then this? Yeah, the roads would go in first. So, we would have a civil engineer, we would have an AR uh architect plat plat it um the difference between the planned unit development is you're going to have to guess what everybody's going to want and you're going to you're set. You can't you can't change that. Okay. And we are going to have very it's what's the demand and that's really what we need to do is to say what is the man we're going to build this and see what the demand is and then uh build another

move to the next phase.

Yeah. uh keeping in mind that uh a single family can still be built there. It probably won't, but uh but that's the reason we don't want to be a planned, you know, development because we're going to have to guess at what people are going to want and and that's very difficult to do and um uh I I I couldn't afford to do that only because I don't know. I think this really boils down to a philosophical question and uh that is this is a land a piece of land that is about the only one that can uh be done this to be done with and um and and it's do we want uh Guthrie to grow in this uh but in this nature and uh it will be filling a niche that uh I from my discussions Guthrie wants and so we're trying to fill that niche and uh and make it better for everyone. Uh so that's okay everybody. I'm going to make a motion to approve D2.

Okay, we have a motion. Anybody make a second?

I'll second. Okay, motion a second. If no further comments or questions, please cast your votes. Right. And the motion passes 5 to one. All right. You're good. Thank you. Item number nine is the mayor's nomination to the Guthrie parks and urban forestry board. Mr. Maker. Yes, mayor. Council, excuse me, Guthri Parks and Urban Forestry Board currently have three appointments that will expire June 1st, 2026. Um, Aubrey Shore and Caleb Lam Lambert both submitted applications to continue serving and are eligible for reappointment to their sec second term expiring June 1st of 2028. Um the mayor is recommend recommending the reappoint of Aubrey Shore to the parks and urban forestry board position.

So moved. Motion second. Okay. Motion to second. Please cast your votes. If there's no further comments or questions, I'll vote in. Okay. Unanous approval to reappoint Aubrey Shore to the parks and urban forestry board. Item number 10. Just like Tenny said, mayor's nomination to the Guthrie parks and urban forestry board. This one is for Caleb Lambeath. Basically ditto ow everything. Mayor's recommendation to appoint Caleb Lambeath. Second make a motion. I'll second. One of those days. First and a second. Yeah.

First and a second. If there's no comments or questions for Mr. Maker, please cast your votes. That's all my gifts. Oh, sorry. All votes are in.

Unanimous approval to appoint Caleb Lambeath back to the urban forestry board. Uh item number 11 is street committee's recommendation designating a no parking zone. Yes. Um street committee met on April 8th of 2026 to discuss the recommendation to make the south 60 ft of the 100 block of South Walnut Street uh directly behind Guthrie Junior High at no parking zone. Um the committee agreed to re and recommended uh recommendations and pass 30. Um this would only be just to clarify the first 60 ft of the west side of that portion of that road. Um Dr. Simpson brought this to our attention. They were having quite a bit of issues with not only just trashs that come up that alley, then being able to make that turn on Walnut to exit the alley. um with cars being parked there, not being able to get out of the alley as well as delivery trucks. So, made um sense and would recommend this area become a no parking zone.

So, moved. Second. Motion to second. Any questions, comments for Tenny on this? Okay. If there are none, please cast your votes. All right. All right. Unanimous approval for street committee's recommendation designating a no parking zone. Item number 12. Uh, I have been out of town for a week at a film festival. So, Eddie, what's going on?

Yes, Mayor Council, you threw me off there for Mayor Council. First, want to thank the FOP for providing dinner uh prior to the council meeting. Uh, they they want to come out and show some appreciation and we definitely appreciate them and and everything that they do for our city on a daily basis. 89ers week. It's been a minute since we've met so I've got to go back a couple of weeks. Um 89ers week weather could not have been better. Lots of events. Um truck gathering, rodeo, farmers market, flea market, parade. If there was an event to be had, it was had on that Saturday and you could not get anywhere in Guthrie. So that was a good problem to have. Uh we were happy to see all the folks. I think this is the first parade. This was my fourth 89er parade. The first parade that I have attended that did not get rained on. So, I was excited to to see that happen. Um, I will say from city staff perspective, uh, we handled all of the folks in town very well. I'm very proud of team Guthrie and the numerous volunteers that it takes to manage having that many folks in your city at one time. I will tell you, if there's a maximum capacity, uh, we were nearing it on 89er Saturday, which is just a great thing. Um but public safety and and all of those city resources uh definitely they they worked their tails off to to manage that load. So Touch the Truck on the same theme of events, Touch the Truck was held at Meridian Tech last Sunday. Well attended again had another good weather day. Thank you to those who were able to make it out as well as uh the many different agencies and volunteers who put that event on. That is another heavy lift uh by the staff and by all the partner agencies who come out and dedicate their Sunday h to provide those services and thatformational and educational event

for the community. Uh last week we were honored by Meridian Technology Center at the Oklahoma Association of Career Tech and Technical Education as a 2026 partner in progress. uh thanks to our partnership on film and music as well as uh retail incubation through the peak out at Meridian and our new public safety training facility known as building C uh which will be under construction later this year. Thank you to Councilwoman Gibbs and Sha Rooney for representing us well at the event. I brought the award that we received, set it here on the desk so you could see that. And then there's a nice write up in the program if you would like to take a look at that before you leave. Greatly value that partnership with Meridian Tech. We've been able to really uh make some good things happen with our partners here at Meridian Technology Center. Budget season has begun. So department heads have been working through their budgets. They got their instructions last Monday. They're all excited to be back in the budget cycle. Uh we have shared that budget calendar with you. Do have a series of council workshops that we'll be working through with the first one scheduled for May 15th at Meridian Tech, which will be your city council retreat. So, we've got the city council retreat scheduled, excuse me, we'll begin at 9:00 that day. Uh we've got a day full of activities. uh definitely will take a look at the fiscal year 27 budget and schedule preview all of those good things. So please come prepared with your project ideas uh andor presentations so that staff has adequate time during the budget process to get all the information from a staff perspective ready to bring back to you for your consideration. So that's always a a good time for the council. uh you know, we we do the mntter project ranking. Everybody gets to um throw out their ideas and and

cast that vision for the next year. So, we look forward to that. Owen Field is currently out for bid. Excuse me. We'll be opening bids on May 7th at 2:00 in this room. Um we intend to award the bids shortly thereafter. So, the team's been working pretty hard on that. We look forward to that progress in the future. Summer flight camp will be taking place May 28th and 29th at G. So Caden is ready for the uh multiple school school buses of children that will show up and descend upon the airport. Uh

it's it's a great couple of days for him and a couple volunteers. So we look forward to having those students out there. Last thing I'll share with you, uh we've got a couple of projects out for bid right now. I've mentioned a few of those. Uh the last one is our street overlay project. So if you know of anybody that might be interested in in bidding, it is public competitive bidding act required. So if you'll go on to the city of Guthri's website and take a look at all of our bid postings, uh in addition to Owenfield and the street overlay project for the year, got those out there. We've also got um a bid on hay management out at the airport. So encourage everybody to take a look at that and see what opportunities are out there to work with the city. And with that, mayor, that's all I've got. Thank you.

Thanks, Eddie. Gosh, there's a lot that happened, Eddie. It was a lot that happened in five days. April was really busy. All right. Thank you. Item number 13, request comments from members of city council. Councilman Williams. I have no comments. Thank you. Thank Councilwoman Denning.

Uh, thank you to the FOP for um dinner this evening. It was awesome. Um, and Congratulations to Mr. Martinale and um family. I I um am looking forward to seeing how that um project progresses and uh 89ers was busy busy um a little chilly but yes no rain Eddie so thank goodness because I said if it's raining I'm not going I'm not riding in that car but um it didn't rain so we got it done. Um, so looking forward to um May and school being out and summer and um all that good stuff and the council retreat, my first um council retreat. So got some planning to do there. So that's all I have. Thank you.

All right. Thank you, Vice Mayor Taylor. Thank you, staff. I know all of you guys work extra hard to get things ready for us. And I know that a week from this Friday, you'll have some great ideas of what you want to put forward for the next year. Uh, same thing. I appreciate FOP feeding us and I thought it was great. It was a a good time had by all. And other than that, oh, it's 11 to nine Lakers. My gosh, we have two TVs, Eddie. We got one here. Yeah. I thought we were going to be out of here in time for the Thunder games. Didn't make it. So, uh, Councilman Both,

um, I as well thank the FOP. I think, uh, that was awesome for them to do that. And I hope the neighbors, uh, see that I mean, we're just, I think that part of the the conundrum of this board up here is to do the right thing for people where we're not sometimes in their chair. um and hopefully we did that and uh I think that if anybody's going to develop it, I think the Martindales are um are the ones that should and hopefully they do it justice and do it right. They'll do a good job. And you're right, they'll be the ones that

more than anybody we can imagine that would consider the neighbors. Well, we saw that the window here just a little bit ago. Yeah. As they all left. Yep. So, um anyway, that's it for me. Councilwoman Gibbs,

I completely agree with Brian. I I do think that uh knowing Jim and that since he has been here, he's been nothing but a great neighbor downtown and I can't uh possibly say why he would not uh extend that um to the neighbors around there. So, um I I think that he's going to um actually enhance the property, it looks pretty derelict as it sits right now. Um but it is hard because the business in his policy and really whenever you look at to it, you know, he meets all the requirements for what he's asking to do. So, um you know, you you definitely want to be good and listen and um I know that it it will work out and it will look very nice. There's still a lot more planning to go through. Um, I did want to uh mention that Stephen Harrison and Caleb Aubrey Shore um have done a lot of tree planting out at uh Banner Park and um when those start to grow in, I know they still have more goals to put in the garden in front of the Banner Park sign and um more things uh to do around town. and all of those trees and shrubs were all donated. Um they've been doing a really good job of um keeping that awareness up around town and uh thank you for the FOP for tacos. They were fantastic and 89ers was a huge push and uh it was incredibly busy and team Guthrie did an amazing job. Um there were people everywhere. Uh Jeff Taylor with the Legion did a fantastic job in getting us all started out on the parade and making sure everybody was safe and um I uh was happy to be there uh at uh the awards for uh the city of Guthrie and was glad that I could accept that. Our

partnership with Meridian for both uh Guthrie public schools is huge. Um, and we all utilize the South Campus and uh, including small businesses that are chamber members that also give classes there. So, it's been nothing but an asset and I couldn't be more proud of what is built there and I think the next phase of having the uh, police training facility is going to be great. So, um, I appreciate it. Thank you. Sure. Um, as for myself, I I also want to thank the FOP uh for dinner tonight. That was really nice. Um, I also want to thank Councilwoman Gibbs and Shawn Dar Rooney for representing us at the event. Now, that was at the Cowboy Hall of Fame or Yes.

Yep, that's correct. Well, thank you for doing that. I appreciate it. Um, Guthrie Flea Market is still going strong. Uh, it's happening every weekend down at the flats. They usually have around a hundred booths. I think they're getting even larger. and uh get get a couple thousand people there throughout the day. So, get a booth, go do it. I think it's $20 a day. Um or go visit, get a bargain on some tools or something. That's what I did. Uh you use tools? Yes, I do sometimes. I I have an 1800's train station, so I use tools. I never did till I bought that building and now I like, you know, good gosh,

man. Uh,

Terosa Art Gallery still has their wait five minutes art display. Uh, that's still up and I think is going to be up for a few more weeks. So, go down and check it out. Uh, I want to thank Tenny and Public Works. I've had some items for them to help me with um that dealing with our public works department and they did it promptly, swiftly and and excellent work as always. So, thank you Tenny and your staff for doing that. Um, I also want to thank the entire 89er committee for putting on the 89ers day parade. That is not a that's not an event that takes days or weeks. That's something that they put months into and and then as it gears up towards the date. They're spending every day, weekends, hours and hours and hours a day to putting it on. So, uh, I thanked Vice Mayor Taylor at a reception, but he was not there because he was working the parade. So, I'm going to thank him uh, today as well. Thank you, Jeff, for putting in all that time and all that effort into the parade. Um, I also want to thank former mayor Steve Gentling. He also puts in loads of work into that. So, thank you for putting on our biggest parade in the state for us.

Yes. Thank you. Um, and with that, that is uh all I have as well. So, we will adjourn. Then we will call to order our regular Tuesday, May 5th, 2026. Again, public works authority meeting. Item number two is the consent agenda items A through F. So moved. Have a motion. We have a second. Second. Just let you read. I was waiting on it. Okay. No further comments or questions. Please cast your votes. All votes are in.

Unanimous approval for the consent agenda items A through F. Item number three were items from the consent agenda that were removed. There were none. Item number four is the resolution number 2026-09 transferring the Cogburn and Martin parcels to Guthrie Economic Development Authority. Mr. Vaulner.

Yes, Mayor and Council. Uh due to Scrier's error during the closing process for the property we acquired known as the Martin and Cogburn parcels out at the airport. Um, unfortunately, those properties were titled under the GPWA and not the GEDA. Uh, so to clean that up and and get those titles clear, we need to transfer the ownership of the property to GEDA. So, happy to answer any questions. Um, it's an error that happened during the closing process and we we caught it and need to make that correction. So, so moved. Second. All right. M second. No further comments or questions for Mr. Faulner. Please cast your votes. All votes are in.

Okay. Unanimous approval for transferring the Cogman Martin proceeds to go economic development authority with the scribal error. Uh item number five, we are adjourned but hold on. Got one more.

One more. I'm going to call to order the special meeting Tuesday 5th, 2026 for the Guthrie Economic Development Authority. Right there. Okay, Jenny, you were looking at me weird. I was like, did I say that wrong? We got it. Uh, consent agenda items A, I'll read this one. There's one. Approve the minutes of the special Guth the Special Guthri Economic Development Authority GEDA meeting held January 20, 2026. So moved. Second. Motion a second. Please cast your votes. I'll vote in.

Right. Unanimous approval to approving the minutes of the Special Guthri Economic Development Authority. Uh, item number three is resolution number 2026-10 accepting the Cogburn and Martin parcels from Guthri Public Works Authority. Mr. Faulner. Yes, Mayor Council. This is the same item we just took under GPWA. Uh, this authorizes the acceptance of those parcels. Okay. So moved. Second. Motion and second. Pass your votes. Strand. Okay. Unanimous approval for the Cogn and Martin parcels public works authority. Item number four. We are a journ.