Council - Regular Meeting

We'll call the meeting to order. Councelor Gilmore will do our invitation and pledge. We'll pray. Father, we honor you for this night, God. We ask you to have rain over this meeting, God. Let everything be done in order and decency, God. God, we thank you for this city and everybody here, God. And as we go into this meeting, we thank you that you accompany us along the way in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Attention. Salute. And 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. Thank you. Would you call the role?

Councelor Gilmore here. Woodley here. Stone here. Here. Vote right here. Batty here. Mayor here. And we have a quorum. All right. Move on to citizens comments on non-aggenda items. Residents may address the council regarding an item that is not listed on the agenda. Residents must provide their name and address. Council request comments be limited to five minutes. Do we have anybody signed up? I didn't see the list. Just for the public hearing. Is there anybody that was not signed up that wants to speak

here for the public hearing for the public hearing? That was the only one. Okay. Anybody else? All right. We'll move on to consent agenda. Consent agenda is all matters listed on the consent agenda are considered to be routine by the city council, be enacted by one motion. There will not be separate discussion of these items. If discussion is desired, that item will be removed from the consent agenda and will be considered separately. Anybody need anything pulled? Not. I'll take a motion to approve. Motion. Councelor Batty. Second. Councelor Gilmore. Cor. Vice Mayor Batty. Yes. Councelor Gilmore. Yes. Woodley. Yes. Stone. Yes. Rhden. Yes. Boight. Yes. Mayor,

yes. The motion carries. Move on to public hearing. All persons interested in any ordinance listed under scheduled business, you have an opportunity to be heard in ordinance with article 2, section 212b of the city charter. Uh tonight we have four. Um we've got one on a reszoning uh from I1 to I2. Uh one for the budget, one on airport fees, and one on railroad operations. I'll take a motion a second to go on public hearing. Motion councelor Gilmore, second councelor Batty. Coral.

Councelor Gilmore. Yes. Batty. Yes. Woodley. Yes. Stone. Yes. Roden. Yes. Vote. Yes. Mayor, yes. And the motion carries. Now, a public hearing. Uh, would anybody like to speak on the resoning from I1 to I2? I'm Patty Hobbs. I'm the planning coordinate for planning tech for the community development department and you guys have what we're in the public hearing. Is that what you wanted to talk about or do you want to do it at the uh the schedule business? Schedule business. Oh, then I will do that. Sorry. I'm I'm a little used to it. Okay. Thank you.

Do does that mean the applicant needs to talk at this point if they would like? to call if they want to and you'll have an opportunity at the There's no one on the reszoning. Do we have anybody on the budget? Uh, seeing no one. Do we have any one on the airport fees? See no one. Do we have anyone on the railroad operations? Seeing no one that would like to speak on the public hearings. So, I'll take a motion and a second to close the public hearing. Motion councelor Roden second council vote right for you which you call the roll. Council Rhoden yes vote right? Yes. Stone yes.

Batty yes. Gilmore. Yes. Woodley. Yes. Mayor yes. And the motion carries. Uh scheduled business. Item number one, discussion of possible action to welcome back. Approve an ordinance amending the general zoning ordinance and accompanying map there two known as general zoning ordinance number 1843 a change in classification of zoning district of block 2 block one 88 and the city of mouse south mouse county from I1 light industrial to I2 heavy industrial.

Okay. So this was on the agenda before so you might have already read up on it. So, I was just going to see if you had any questions for um Yeah. any questions concerning it. The applicant.

I I would like to say though that um I have spoken with the applicant and if if I I too is not something that you would consider, but possibly downzoning to maybe C5 might be a consideration. Um I would I mean they they are willing to use the auto sales as their primary um job and then using the accessory would be the towing and recovery. Um they have mentioned in their their planning commission meeting that wrecker was not really what they liked being called because that's only like a little bit of their their job is you know getting wrecked vehicles and then they fix them up and sell them. So, they're really wanting to be able to sell vehicles. And then, um, and there's nowhere in the code that it actually says recovery or towing. Um, it only calls it wrecking and wrecking is only allowed in I2, but automobile sales is allowed in C4 and in C5. And, um, the accessory use could be towing or rec, you know, recovery, not wrecker because that's that's only I2, but that would be something I would look into maybe considering. Is there a staff recommendation

that was my my staff recommendation did not say that but I mean since things have happened um not but you know since we've had time between the two meetings um that could be a consideration. So it's I1 right now. It's I1 right now and we would they would be open to taking it down to C4C5. Yes. And it does not fit with I1 because of the record. Yes. and it and um and if they went to I2, it would the sales part of their record business would um like to do to be able to sell what they've they brought in and fixed up. That would be an accessory use in I1, you know. So, they can sell what they have, but they can't they can't wreck it, you know, they can't do the record business in I in in I1.

And the main issue with the recovery is the storage is the storage the record. Just the record. Yes. is outdoor storage of of damaged and uh that is that I'm pretty sure you're gonna have some words to say about this but you don't okay

it would make sense to me u as as the recommendation on my side that we run that route and the reason I say that is because uh the C category fits into the comprehensive plan comprehensive plan for that individual site is a C uh a commercial district. Um, and I don't believe that what he's doing is record. I I I I don't think that at all. I don't think that's what your intent is. And I'm I'm trying to save you and a whole lot of other people around you some some heart grief over this. I believe that C5 or C4 even in auto sales does allow for a tow service to go out and pick up cars that um and and every one of those auto sales places has a tow truck. So, yes,

I'm speaking out of turn, sir. You need to set me straight. Okay. Does this require another set of letters to send out to people if we rezone it C5 because we we were going to send we sent letters to to uh zone it heavy industrial we need to send letters if there's any objection it would essentially be a re starting over for the zoning the only zoning for you is from I1 to I2 we can't call an audible and do C5 C4 and the light tonight because we have told the public will consider a change from I1 to I2. So, we're going to start over. It's a starting over the process. Yes, sir.

Councelor Ste, did you have some comments?

Um, these are the They've got like the cleanest lot in the whole neighborhood. It's uh it's amazing. They've already put their screens up around where they keep the cars, which is it's kind of been a highlight of the neighborhood to go see direct cars and go, "Golly, how'd that happen?" But uh no, they keep it mowed and everything. And also this this is a very small lot. Uh the corner where they store some some of the cooler vehicles that they're working on, that's that's an I1 and the only I2 is just their shop and that little small lot where they put the wrecked cars when they bring them in. So, even if it was heavy industrial, it's not big enough to really, you know, for a big smoky plant to come in there and do some stuff. And it's not even big enough. If somebody later on wanted to put an actual salvage yard in there, you could get 10 10 cars in there. Just

Yeah. It's only 19,000 square feet. Yeah. It's And part of that is shop. It's what a three bay shop. It's five bay. Five bay. Yes. But anyway, u so I don't have a problem with the I2, you know, but if it would fit better with the comprehensive plan and it would fit better okay with your plans, that might be a deal. And it's part of the future land use map and so that's a living breathing part. So, you know, if like the planning commission and you guys see that that might not be the direction it's going cuz you know that's all along that railroad

that that's it's a living breathing document that can be updated if you see it, you know, but I also know that we're trying to preserve residential. So, you know, that's why the future land use map shows it that way. But I mean there's not a whole lot of difference per se between com you know highway commercial and industrial other than the the uses that are allowed in there. What's the time frame if we start the clock over and do the C4C5?

They would have um I I mean technically I could do that this week because this um or next week because I have until August 2nd to um to do the publications and to do the application process over again. So, we could I mean, technically, he could be on the on the August planning commission. It's just I know that they're waiting on getting their auto sales um license lure. Sorry, I actually have it. I sold the property it was at. It's in limbo right now and I can't sell the microphone, please. The name of the address.

Larry Cwley, 806 North A Street. So, I actually I you know, I have Blackburn Motor Company out here for years. I sold that property, was going to move everything in. That's when I found out the dealers this dealer's license would not go there with the zoning. So, my dealer's license is actually in limbo and I can't even sell I can't sell cars because it's not attached to my address. So, only three cars that I own in Texas, you know, being sold somewhere else. Um, if anybody has any questions for me, I'll be more than glad to to answer any of them. Sir, would you be open to us doing it this way and keeping it in the C commercial? So, this was the first I heard of it. Now, my old property was C5, so I don't see a problem. As long as the record business and the and the and the and the dealer's license can be there, I'm happy. That's all I want to do. Recovery.

Recovery. Recovery. I call my record a record. And I do, but I also look at record as dismantling cars, and that's not what I do, right? You know, these cars have to stay there 30 days before they're mine. When they're mine, they're gone. You don't come get them in 30 days, they're gone. So you see a car sitting there, the law has to be there for 30 days and it's gone. If we want to So council, if you want to push to uh to try going back to the table and and doing a C C4 or C5, you would have to um either not make a motion or uh deny the motion and kick it back. So,

which is the most helpful for him to get his license beyond if I can show the state that I'm working on this. Yeah. That anything that you know it looks good enough for me to show it to them to hold on to it because I'm still paying all the insurance. We can we can make the we can make the recommendation council can make the recommendation to deny based on an improper use um and say we we we believe that a C5 or a C4 may be the most proper use for that and that would be in the in the minutes it would show that we're pushing you towards that would that work for you? Work for me.

Okay. if that'll work for I I'm just trying to help facilitate. So, just for the record, we would be looking for a motion to deny the change from I1 to I2 because it doesn't seem to be the in with the comprehensive plan and not the best zoning and that we should kick that back to a C4 or C5 plan. If if I would say that. Okay. I would make that recommendation council if we can. I I I certainly don't want to mislead the applicant. So I'm trying to quickly

I don't want to mislead the applicant or the council. I'm sorry. I'm trying to quickly understand the difference between C4, C5, and I2. The code is written at present allows for autorecking and I1 apologize. I2 only. It allows for auto sales and service in I and C4 and it allows for auto service stations in C5. I'm trying to quickly get up to speed as to what those distinctions are. But it also allows automobile sales and truck sales in C5.

Yes. Uh the distinction I'm trying to understand is what is the nature of your business because that's going to that will determine is that constitute a service as far as automobile ser. Oh um if you look in your agenda packet he has a narrative that he has written for his application and it it describes what his what his business is but he's well he's welcome to talk about it too. What what was the primary use when you were talking earlier? Would it be auto sales would be primary use? If if it was in C5, it would have to be C it would have to be auto sales as his primary use and then the towing and recovery would be an accessory use. Correct.

Is that what you see as auto sales as your primary use? Yes. But on when it was going to be the I2, it was going to be vice versa. But with C5 and C4, I think it's going to have to be the dealership first. Have you obtained or in the process of obtaining a record license from DPS? I have a record license and council. That's the one I'm trying to trying to reconcile here. If this activity is a record license under state law, how is it not also recent services under I2? I think it's his primary business is what we're debating.

His his use is not he's not taking other people's cars from vehicle accidents on the on the highway to take them back to a a shop or to his lot for for disposition. What he's doing is taking vehicles that he's either I'm assuming purchasing or recovering. So we are on the police rotation how patrol turnpike county PD we pick up wreck vehicles. They come there the insurance company pulls them out. That's that's wrecker service. But are you holding those vehicles on your lot? I'm holding those in my impound yard. Correct.

Where's your impound? right next to the building. You just he just sold the uh the boat because if you're doing it, he's right. My understanding was is that what you were doing was taking these vehicles, fixing them to sale. No, they're they're they're not my vehicles. Can we realign the usage like to go back and say within I1 that it already is? Can that type of business be included in I1 because it seems like I2 has a very land development code. Yeah, that would have to be a reform of the land development code. Okay.

So, what he's what he's specifically done and and here is that he's describing a a licensed record service and the only place that can be is in the L2. Sorry. Even as an assessor use his primary auto sales and record secondary. But you would still have to you would still have to hold your um your wrecker license to be able to go pick those up even if auto sales which are primary. Correct. State anything that goes in that yard comes from uh police. That's it. It's either impounded or it's wrecked. And then where where does it go from there?

The people either come back and get their car. If they don't within 30 days, then I get rid of it. Under state statute, record service means the provision of the provision of service relating to the recovery, towing, storage, and release of towed vehicles to appropriate parties by individual corporate entity in accordance with DPS regulations. I mean, what you have described is is record services. Yeah. So I I think the problems you're going to run into is if we downgrade you to, for example, a C4, that towing aspect of the business cannot function there as an as an ancillary or however you want to call it, it cannot happen there.

Tonight was the first I heard of going to a C5. So I I haven't looked at it to see what what falls under. So, council, if he if he's going to maintain the record service, I2 is is what needs to happen. Dave, didn't he say in a meeting the other day that we could kick it back to the zoning and planning commission, make them include this? Not one. You could you could sorry, you can you can change the zoning code to include that to include this in I1. You could. Yes. at present. It doesn't the code does not allow for that at present,

but we could we could kick it back to the zoning and planning and and recommend that they add this to the that the I1 designation. Absolutely. Council, you can change what constitutes I1. We can say that includes bakeries. I mean, a good example of that is video stores. The the other piece you could do is is because the lot is so small, you're not holding that much. Um, you could define this as different from some form of junkyard where there's separate storage like separate the junkyard and record service maybe.

My only my only problem with designating it I2 is if somebody comes in later and and says, "Well, they're I2. Why can't I be I2? I don't want that because that that totally kills our comprehensive plan." So I would recommend that we send it back to the zoning planning make them include this in I1 so he can stay I1 works for me. I mean it seems like this is a unique situation that we don't have a standard definition for. That's correct. And l development code needs to be updated my little plug.

He's a very different he is a very different animal than than what we've seen in other It's the storage piece that that he's doing a very limited amount of. So the only thing I would make council aware of is if you're going to change the zoning code and allow for this particular use to be in I1, you're telling everyone else who is zoned I1, they can do that as well. I can't limit it to this gentleman. If we're changing it, and that's why I'm saying if we're going to do that, you would want to limit the scope of what you know, based on the lot size or based on something to say would a special use permit be more appropriate in I1

I don't think we have any special use permit they might be mentioned in our codes but we have not done one before and that might be a way to avoid because it's backing up whatever color on the map we paint this property anyone else's property is also colored that that that color can do the exact same thing I can't limit it to just this property your property my property and this property If you are on the future language map, looks like it appears to be a light uh pink. Anyone light pink can do this.

K living in by lot size. So I'd like to take the size of his lot and say you if anything this big or smaller that you can have this use. Anything larger than that, you can't do that. Oklahoma's uh record uh Oklahoma records have to have a minimum 55t yard. That helps. What if we did it in that sense as if you're going to do a record service in I1 the storage portion could only be 6,000 square feet and that's the limitation on that something like that would

it certainly sounds like the direction we're heading is we want the planning commission to think this out more because there are certainly going to be larger knock-on effects than just it's not just a well we'll add a single letter here and go from there. It sounds we want the planning commission to think about this and come up with a better answer. Is that kind of what I'm hearing? So if so, I think an appropriate motion would be to remand this case back to planning commission with a recommendation for an update to the zoning code as appropriate. I believe there's a motion on the table that we have to basically let die for lack of a vote and then create a second motion if I'm not mistaken. That's a certain thing.

Okay. So, councelor Batty had made a recommendation or a motion earlier. Is there a second to it? If there's no second, it dies. Lack of a second. Withdraw and second. No second. Okay, that motion dies for lack of a second. And do you want to reiterate? Yes. Uh I think appropriate motion would be to remand this case back to the planning commission to produce a recommendation on the appropriate classification of wrecking services in the land use code. We have someone willing to make that recommendation or motion. Motion councelor road second councelor boat would call.

Council Rhoden yes yes. Yes. Gilmore. Yes. Woodley. Yes. Stone. Yes. Mayor, yes. The motion carries. Mr. Cwley, that won't that process won't take very long. So, I'm just letting you know we're going to be right on top of it. Like I said, I'm working on the agenda right now for the August. It'll be good. Just give us a couple of weeks. We'll have you back up here. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. All right. Move on to item number two. Discussion of possible action to approve an ordinance preventing ordinance number 2812, which is established a mot uh 2024 2025 repealing all conflicting orders providings for servability clause and declaring an emergency.

Do you want to do it or you got me? Okay. So, uh this is the final the final ordinance amending the 2024 2025 uh ordinances. Sharon could be here tonight. She's in, you in Chicago doing a uh a conference. Uh I want to point out that you had a supplemental under your under your books. These are for exhibit A6, A7, and A8. The basic premise of all of these is that it it makes all of the adjustments adjustments to add additional revenues and transfers on the fiscal year budget for 2425. Um I can go through these individually if you want me to, but it's just basically taking additional revenues such as uh uh interest income and uh when we have to transfer funds to to pay for another fund that was a little light, that's That's what this So I'm at your call. If you want me to go through each and every one individually, we can do that. I think there is 23 of them.

You have any questions on any specific one? Well, I do. What What is the forfeitures about that I just did here on this supplemental here? I just had So the the the problem was a printing issue. So if you look at A6 in your in your original, it didn't print the bottom. Oh, okay. So we had to go back in for some reason the print screen didn't do all of the prints. So the forfeitures are fines and forfeitures. Um, which one are you talking about? A8 pages.

Okay. 16 right at the top. It's a state forfeite fund. So those are forefeertures that we have had to uh in increase the funding going to those. So those are forfeertures that we've received. Okay. So you Mr. Ranger, you explain what forfeitures you're referring to? I think those listening home, they might be from what what is a forfeite in this context? To me, it's maybe drug for money and stuff like that. Is that what it is? Court forfeitures. Okay. This comes out of the This is the state court fund. Fine. It's fund number 16.

Yes. So, this is when um police recover funds or something that can be sold. If that is not claimed at a later time, we get those funds back. So, this would have would have been a check that would have come from the state from something that was collected during an arrest or I can't speak like a cop, you know. Um, but anyway, it's funds that we we've um you get it. You get what I'm trying to say? Yeah. That's correct. Thank you. I understand. Any other questions? the penalties, the very first one.

What are what are we being penalized for for the landfill? Is it something that we're not doing or we we not very much money, but it's just I'm just asking which one are you on? I'm on the landfill. The the penalties as a revenue as revenue. So when that's penalties on the utility accounts for landfill, I mean if if somebody doesn't pay and we charge a late fee, part of that goes to to the landfill fund. So a portion goes to um MPWA, a portion goes to landfill, a portion goes to storm water because all of those fees are on a utility bill. This is not building the city has paid. This is a correct to the city.

Yes. Right. Any other questions? I'll take a motion to approve. Motion. Councelor Gilmore. Second. Councelor Batt, would you call the RO? Councelor Gilmore? Yes. Batty? Yes. Woodley? Yes. Stone? Yes. Roden? Yes. Beltright? Yes. Mayor, yes. The motion carries. This also has an emergency. Take a motion to approve the emergency. Motion's councelor vote right. Second councelor style. Cor would you call the role? Councelor Boight. Yes. Stone. Yes. Gilmore. Yes. Woodley. Yes. Roden. Yes. Batty. Yes. Mayor.

Yes. The motion carries. On item number three, discussion on monthly financial updates.

So I will sit in for this one as well. Um this is the final monthly update for the fiscal year of 2025. Uh the financial summary as of June 2025. If you look on the front first page general fund at a glance, you'll see under the revenues revenues are sitting at about approximately 91.05% 05% of the of the budgeted funds to receive in our expenditures are sitting at 98%. Our transfers are at 100% because those are those are scheduled. Those are uh done regardless. Um the transfers out of course is is down to 85.13. Uh if you look at the MPWA, we're in much better shape there. Under revenues, we've received in 95.93% but only spent 85 82.5% of our uh our total annual budget there, which which gave us a bit of a surplus in in the PWA in PWA. Looking at the next page is our general fund total revenue. And you'll see that for June, that number did go up over the last two years, but it's still under the total budgeted amount that we were hoping for. Um, so good news in the overall year-over-year, but still not quite meeting our budget, which you knew that going in. On the next page, you'll see a piraphph of where all of those uh sales tax dollars go to. Uh 2% approximately 40 47% of the fund goes to the general fund. 1% approximately 24% goes to

bonds. Uh 0.5 goes to infrastructure. Cancer centers 1.25% excuse me.125%. Uh so 3% 3% go to cancer center and early early childhood safe rooms 6% goes to DWSRF that's uh that's 6% of the total if you look and then of course that uh the tiff the shots at Mallister approximately 5% of the total coming in on the next page we've added some um Sher did a great job of going through and adding some more details from our partners and MMS they do a lot more tracking of funds over uh and how we see our funds as compared to other cities. So if you go through and you look you'll see our overall the first page on this our overall from 2010 at 12,800 up to 2025 at 191 19124. Um you can see that that large shift from the last 15 years of sales tax revenues increasing for the city. Uh now this year we did go down a little bit over last year and the year before but we knew that that was going to happen and we've planned for that in the budget for 26. On the next page, you'll see five up and five down um in uh tax rank according to uh what we're bringing in based on uh on our plus five plus or

plus five and minus five. So if you look above us is Bixby, Ada, Durant, Bartlesville, Yukon, they're all bringing in uh 1.9 or 19.7, 19.9, 21.7. And you can also go in there and look at what their population is. Um, and what I'd love to point out here is is that if you look at the bottom five there, you look at Panka City, you look at Duncan, Sepula, these are all cities that are bigger than us, but we're actually doing better than they are in sales tax. So, we're doing some things here, especially along that 69 corridor and folks uh having more opportunities to to uh spend local. uh we're doing better than some of these other larger cities than us.

Yeah. I think another thing to point out on that is under the county rate that while it's not unusual for the county to have a portion of the sales tax, a penny and a half is a very large sum compared to other communities. We are the highest in that. We are the highest of those 10 cities.

Yeah. The next is our overview f uh fiscal year 25 2025 to date. Um just to kind of give you that that look over all of what we've received in uh and if you look on the right it's it gives you 2024's numbers and 2025s with the exception of u where they kind of go back and forth between November through March. Most of those other months are pretty stable for 2024 and 2025. So in one month we'll get a lot less and then another month we'll get a lot more. So if you see it on on November and December for instance. So there's just a lot of data. You know we're data people. We love to see analytics and what it kind of shows us. Um the next slide gives us what those sectors are that we're receiving funds in. Um whether they're utilities, construction, retail, um the the largest numbers of those uh almost 66% of that is is coming out of retail trade, sector 44, 40, and 45. So, next slide, we've got the 2% fund for the general fund. Um, this is obviously what goes into the general fund and and not the total collected in sales tax. Um, we we came in at 848,000, excuse me. We came in at 740,000, which is slightly less than the year before, but more than the year before that. So, Use tax. The next slide. Use tax is

about the same. It in in uh it's a 158,000 which is slightly less than last year's which is 162 but slightly oh sorry and slightly less than the year before that at 160. So but that's pretty stable month over or year over year for the month of June. Next slide is going to be our tax.

Yep. Five below. Five up, five below for use tax. And again, if you look below us, um I I think that we're a little bit more stable in in how we're being treated based on our population there. Um it's it's hard to d on use tax exactly what is and isn't and where that comes from and how stable that is and then in the environment. No, but even though that we have the up and down. Yep. We're still the highest on scoreboard. Yep.

What is the biggest impact factor on use tax? How does a city increase its use tax? What is the biggest player in that? If you if you buy online, make sure that you're buying from a reputable source and that that source is delivering it to your home in Mallister. If it's being delivered anywhere else, then we're not collecting the use tax on that. Um, another piece to that is is every time somebody uh does a drop ship, so if u a contractor is ordering supplies for a building that he is building and they are dropping those inside of city limits, we will get the the sales tax for that or the use tax, excuse me. even if the the the provider is outside of the city. So, let's say a contractor orders something from Krebs and Krebs delivers it inside of city limits to to uh for the building supplies. We will still get that use tax because it's wherever it is delivered.

So, new construction, commercial construction is super important for use tax. Yes, it is very much so. Another piece of that could be if you have a large online retailer that does same or next day deliveries in your community and people get used to that. They could be ordering more things online probably not be stacks probably not captured that way. Most of the sales tax

a lot of the major retailers Amazon's and the like they have interg with the state where they are collecting sales tax true sales tax at checkout. Uh to to your point about use tax, use tax paid by even larger people. Uh so my hometown Muscogi, we have a large industrial base. The use tax from Scobby is millions of dollars because you have companies who are buying things shipp.

So it's it's largely a tax paid by your industrial producers industrial or large commercial. Your normal folk are likely not paying much use tax. So these industries that are looking at Mallalister that are coming to Mallalister these new constructions and things that is so vital because that's how we that's how we capture revenue. The highway project was a big one wasn't it? Yeah highway project had a lot. Um now uh if you know when the when the state is operating the contract we don't. But if the if the state just hires a contractor then we do. Is that okay?

But even like with your Amazon, the sales tax can go up if there's motivation to buy that. Sure. Because we know we can get it faster and we do see we'll see.

Am I missing anything on that? I I will add one other thing because we had to clarify this. If it is shipped from within Oklahoma, it is sales tax. It will show up under sales tax. And I he was kind of kind of saying that, but um Hobby Lobby, there's a headquarter in Oklahoma. So if you order from Hobby Lobby and it ships from within Oklahoma, it's going to show up under our sales tax, not our use tax. But if it ships from Texas, then it will show up under use tax. There it is. Because that manufacturer is choosing to report that.

Well, well, no, it just depends on if if it's if it's outside of the state, it's going to show up as use. If it's inside of the state, it's going to show up as sales. We get it regardless. It's just what category it falls under. And we we looked at actually at one point combining the two because when we were when the shops were being built, a lot of that was coming locally. And so we accounted for we had a huge budget for use tax for when that that was being built expecting to see a lot of that and it was showing up under sales tax instead of use. And so it all balances out but it makes it kind of hard to balance and really there's no rhyme or reason for use unless unless you know we got funds when quick trip was going in but that was before they were annexed in. So we didn't see it until it was annexed and then they put in the pumps or something when we saw that. Yeah. And and to be clear, use tax is sales tax. There's things that don't require sales tax because it's it's the same rate. There's not there's not tax discounts. You're not saving tax by paying use tax or sales tax. It's the same rate. It's trying to equalize is essentially out of state purchase online purchase with purchase made in a physical location here in California.

And I assume that those were split. So when you saw those spikes, it wasn't like, oh, hey, sales taxes. A lot of times we do see when use tax is really low, sales tax is a little bit higher. So, but we can't use tax is so unpredictable. We can predict sales tax a lot easier than use tax.

Thank you. The next slide shows us that use tax year-over-year from 2010 up to 2025 and how that's kind of increased over that time period. Something big happened in 2020 or 2017. I'm not sure exactly what that was. I wasn't here for that. Um but uh to go from 700 well we doubled the use tax in that year and then it just kind of went down once but it has slowly risen. So but again it's so hard to predict and and make any realizations that and our next slide of course shows our yeartoate uh total for use tax and what we collected. Slide after that shows the use tax for the sectors uh retail trade sector 45 and sector 44 um make up for a a large portion of that but not as large as the sales tax. When you add in wholesale trade it then that adds in and becomes the greater part of that 7 almost 75%. And then you add in some of these other transportation and agriculture and information technology. There is all kinds of Next slide is our water sales. Um this is residential and commercial for June. We were up 319,000. Uh when you look at that from last year, 249,000. That's pretty good. Um a little bit better than what it was two years ago. So um this uh this has had a positive effect on on our overall MPWA numbers. So,

excuse me. Why would that change? I mean, have we had big industrial stuff come in and cause the the things to change like that? It it fluctuates on the number of of of number one on the number of accounts we have. We've got big users that will use big in one way and then they won't in the next and then we'll have some that'll be late and they'll pay it off in the next.

A big part of June is we did our second phase of AMI. So we had 1,600 additional um automated meters put in. So we don't have the cubic meters that are have lost their accuracy. So that that a a big piece of that increases that we have a lot more residential. It was only residential installed, but a lot more residential meters that are automated. And the accuracy is like 99.9%. So stay here until he's finished. The other ones are propeller driven and they wear over time and slow

mechanical investment. Yeah, definitely. Uh the last of the colored slides here is obviously our hotel motel tax. Um and you'll see that for June 50 55,000 although we are still short one u one taxing entity that has not paid or are they caught up yet? They're not caught up. They're not caught up. We We still have some money that's owed to us.

The final is the Oh, that's not the final, but the treasurer's report. See the bottom line, the claims on pulled cash uh for the month of June were 1.4 4 million and the claim on pulled cash for MPWA was uh 2.5 and the final uh we do not have an office pool but we are kind of wondering when this is going to end the tiff um we're sitting right now at uh our total payoff was at 1.16 million that's what we owe left on it. Um, we should be seeing that most likely.

I'm saying April. What do you think? A full year. April. I'm I'm hoping like February. You think February? Okay. We'll regardless Regardless, we're well over a year a year ahead. So um that that is great news that TIFF is doing very well and we should have it in this budget year to to be complete. So that's the good news. So we get to keep all the tax after that. Yes.

The the other thing that we don't really talk about that's positive in that I mean we talk about the tax revenue but we don't talk about you can only have so much tip area in your community. So that this pays off. That gives us more availability to work on projects in the future. That's correct. Thank you, Karen. Thank you.

All right, we'll move on to item number four, discussion of possible action to approve an ordinance amending Mallister code. Chapter 14, section 14-30 fees to airport services by adding paragraph G after hour support fees and amending chapter 48 fees, charges, and service rates by adding fees associated with chapter 14 section 1430 providing preservability and declaring an effective date.

Mr. Mayor, council, good evening. Um, as you know, the airport operates 8 to 5 normal operating hours, but we are frequently called upon to come out after hours and service aircraft. So, our refueling technicians show up all hours of the night, all hours of the night on the weekends, and they're not compensated or not collecting, I should say, for that service. And so, uh, in discussions with Chase, we think it's a point in our operations that we can add a service fee. It's something that's normally done at a lot of non 247 airports. uh the amount is fair compared to what we see charged elsewhere. And so this would be a way to increase some of the revenue that we can generate out of the airport, offset some of the costs that we may have to pay in either overtime or comp time to airport employees and a little bit of extra money on the revenue side from

people that are going to pay this fee are coming to town and leaving. it's not local people that are having to absorb and if it is a local person that comes in after hours. Um, you know, we would obviously work with them, but the intent is to do transitory aircraft that come in after hours. Well, the reality is is you're paying overtime or comp time, correct? So, we shouldn't be losing money on ourselves because we're having to take the additional funds out of the sale of the fuel. That's correct. Those wages I feel I have to cut jump in here. You say we work with them. I need some clarification on that. This ordinance is clear. If we provide service after hours,

if they come in during if they come in on a Saturday during 8 to 5, then that's that's a normal hour that we would be working those hours. Those folks are going to show up and respond as they would during Monday through Friday. But if it's a Saturday night or Sunday night and a local airplane comes in and wants to get refuelled before he puts in the hanger, he should pay. It's outside. Make sure that's clear that we're not offering a discount to people who live here versus those who don't. If you are needing afterhour service, regardless of where you are doiciled, correct? This fee is going to apply to you. So that's the staff's recommendation. Any questions?

Make a motion accept. Does this have an effective date in it? It does. Okay. Uh motion days are pass. Motion councelor Batty second. Councelor Gilmore. Vice Mayor Batty. Yes. Councelor Gilmore. Yes. Rhden. Yes. Vote right? Yes. Woodley. Yes. Stone. Yes. Mayor.

Yes. The motion carries. On item number five, discussion of possible action to approve an ordinance of the city of Mallister Oklahoma. Amending Mallister City Code to add chapter 63, railroad operations, industrial track management, establishing recreation, regulations for the operation and maintenance of the railroad track services at the Steven Taylor industrial park, providing for inspection, maintenance fees, and amending chapter 48 fees, charges, and service rates at by adding fees for the railroad operations, industrial track management, providing for sharability, and declaring an effective date. This item is uh basically in li of an agreement that the uh railroad AOK railroad had established with the city several years back. Um identifying pieces of track that the city has responsibility for. Um there to date has not been a very good maintenance plan on maintaining that track. In June, we had a derail out there that cost the city about $20,000. Um and there was really no way to recoup that. So what this does is establishes a scheduled maintenance plan based on ALK's recommendation of onethird of the railroad ties replaced through a 10-year period so that over the course of a 30-year period all of the ties on all the spurs and and the lead track end of the uh industrial park would be replaced. That's their requirement. Um they have a set cost for replacing those per tie. uh we sat down and figured out the formula that they use what it would cost for the spur that we own or I should say the lead track that we own. There are two pieces of track out there that belong to customers and then there are two pieces of track that belong to this that the city would be responsible to maintain or charge the um the uh current user of that that spur. So that's what this does is allows us to go in and for example, I'll use Duraline as an example. The city owns that track.

We're responsible for the maintenance on it. If we were to have to pay for that that repair or inspection or any of the things that on that piece of track, we would never recuperate that money from Duraline even though they're the primary user. Uh URAT, they're they're out there. Their track is is discontinued. They don't use it. It would still be inspected, but there's no use, so there's no wear and tear. Um, Magara used to be buried plastics. They own their track. Anytime there's a a problem on their piece of track, they coordinate directly with AOK. AOK comes out and fixes it, and they pay for the the repair. They pay for the inspections, they pay for any of the maintenance stuff that's done on it. Um, the city owns about 3,000 ft of lead track. And then there are the a piece that's owned by as I said two other companies out there that we would establish a fee with them to pay and collect a fee from them to do maintenance and repair on that. Um what led this led to this was as I said there was a derail in June and I went back and looked and since April of 202 the city has spent over $84,000 on track repair and maintenance that we have not been able to recoup. What this does, it establishes a an annual maintenance fee for those customers that are using city-owned track. Uh there will be a piece though, as I said, the 3,000 ft of lead track that the city will have to take care of. And so, future budgets will have to be configured so that we can recoup that or program that money into the budget to pay for that maintenance. This is adding a new chapter uh to the city code and then changing the fee structure in chapter 48.

Any questions? Is this kind of uh what other towns do? Most industrial parks have been able to talk to say they charge for the company that operates or owns the spur outright. They make their own repair and inspection and maintenance fees through that operating rail service. Will this make us less attractive to businesses coming in?

It's a cost of doing business. Um the companies that are out there that do it already. Any new business that's going to come out there that's going to require rail service, it'll be part of the contract that we signed with them that they'll either do one of two things. They'll either purchase the rights and pay for their own rail spur or they will pay the city for maintenance inspections and repairs. Okay. Any other questions? Motion to approve. Motion councelor boat second. Councelor Stone also point out that the effective date on this is 1 October 205. forward. Excuse me. Council vote. Yes. Stone. Yes.

Gilmore. Yes. Woodley. Yes. Robin, yes. Batty, yes. Mayor,

yes. The motion carries. On item number six, discussion of possible action on adopting a resolution uh to apply for grants and accepting grant authors from the US Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration in the Oklahoma Department of Aerospace and Aeronautics for the taxiway and taxiway lighting rehabilitation project at Maca Regional Airport. I may beg your indulgence. Chase is going to present this as airport manager. This is his last city council meeting and so I wanted to publicly thank him for everything he's done at the airport. He's done an outstanding job. We have a brand new terminal. We're getting new taxi way, new taxiway lights as a result of this. And so I just want to publicly thank him for everything that he's done in front of council.

Good evening, council. Um like to give a little background on this if I may. Um so the taxiway and lighting rehab project is the next project on the airport's capital improvement list. Uh the project included uh a base bid as long as well as three additional alternates to be added to the project if they become funded. The base bid includes rehabilitating the taxiway pavement, rehabilitating and replacing the taxiway lighting, and replacing the electrical vault that uh operates all of the lighting and electrical equipment on the airfield. Uh the alternate number one, which would be in addition to the base bid, would be uh adding new circuits to our precision approach path indicators. Ad alternate number two would be replacing our runway end identifier lights. And add alternate number three would be replacing the wind cone and adding a segmented circle around the window. Uh the time frame for this project is 119 calendar days. Uh November is would be the earliest start to this project pending uh approval and acquisition of funding. And um there were four bids submitted for the project. The lowest bid went to a company called

we're you jump ahead. You're on nine. This is six. So this is just to uh do the grant. So I just want to make sure because I I see that you're all jumping pages. I'm trying to find the number. Yeah. So I'm just giving back the background. I I just make sure that we're the resolution. Yep. So, the resolution is to do the grant. There we go. Okay. Just trying to clarify what what we're paying for by I'll stand for any questions. Any questions? Motion to approve. Motion council for Colorado. Councelor Boight. Yes. Rhoden. Yes.

Woodley. Yes. Stone. Yes. Batty. Yes. Gilmore. Yes, mayor. Yes. And motion carries. The change to the change.

All right. We're on item number seven, discuss discussion of possible action to accept the mayor to sign the grant applications and grant offers once awarded and these dollar amounts being correct. uh uh for the federal BIL grant funds and federal AIP funds uh and the A8 C state funds for the rehabilitation of taxiway pavement and airport lighting the Mac regional airport and uh we did have some incorrect numbers uh but we have discussed with council and he said we were good because the intent and everything that we're applying for was the same. Why are the numbers? for

are they substantially different? Uh these are uh funding provided by federal and state agencies a total of 2 million $32,67510. Uh a match from the city of $79,810 for a total project cost of $2,112,48510. You want to talk through that? Sure.

This is and and to go forward, we we were expecting to table this tonight. Um but after basically the mayor and the council had a conversation there and and he's good with it. So I just want to make sure that what we're doing is well verssed and well talked out. So

the reason I am comfortable with it is we have informed the public that we are going to seek federal funds from the bipartisan infrastructure law from the federal AIP. I don't know what that's in particular stands for and the AOC which is the Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission which now the Oklahoma Department of Aviation Aerospace. We're applying for this project from these sources just for the wrong amounts. Are they substantially different? Yes. From BIL, um, can you walk through what the changes would be? This is a match, right? We're going to have a big number and we're going to match the city matches part of it.

City's match is going to be 3.8% of the budget.

So the uh AIP funds uh which is airport uh improvement plan, those are federal funds. The total would be $699,000900 or $699,999. The AIG, which is airport infrastructure grant, uh funding would be $281,000. Even each of those uh is a 2 and a half% match on the city side and a 2 and a half% match on the state side. And then the Oklahoma Department of Aeronautics or Aerospace and Aeronautics uh they are their match is I'm sorry their portion is $1,25,860 with a 5% sponsor match.

What was the first number you identified, sir? From the bipartisan infrastructure law, the BIL funds were $281,000. The AIP funds, airport improvement plan funds are $699,999. I

think you lost me on percentages. What would Macau what would the city's responsibility be estimate when those are all together? Total project cost is $2,112,48510 and the city is responsible for $79,810. So that would that equates out to about 3.8% of project cost. Yeah, that's not too bad. Yeah, that's pretty good. It's a pretty good number for those keeping track at home. It's an approximately an increase of $200,000 that we are applying for grants. So that will go from approximately 1.8 million to two million total total grant request.

Correct. But the city's match part of it is just the 79 that did not change. Any other questions? Motion to approve. Motion councelor Gilmore. Second councelor B. Council Dilmore, yes. Batty, yes. Stone, yes. Yes. Boight. Yes. Woodley, yes. Mayor,

yes. And the motion carries. Uh, on the item number eight, discussion of possible action to accept and authorize the mayor to sign the task order agreement number five with HW Locker, Inc. in the amount not to exceed 361,000 for the construction inspection services for the taxiway pavement airport lighting rehabilitation project of Master Regional Airport. So HW Locker is our engineer of record. Uh they've been with us for about three years now. Um this would be their fees to come in and do construction and inspection services. So this would be them having an on-site uh inspector during the project as well as um some laboratory testing of pavement samples and uh things of that nature.

Any questions? Motion to approve. Motion council Gilmore second. Council Ro. Councelor Gilmore. Yes. Rhoden. Yes. Beltright. Yes. Batty. Yes. Woodley. Yes. Stone. Yes. Mayor.

Yes. And the motion carries. On item number nine, discussion possible action authorizing the mayor to sign a notice of award contract contingent on the receipt of grant funding from the FAA and OAA. uh the total bid amount of $1,547,985 from Street Tech LLC for the rehabilitation of the taxi blade pavement airport lighting at Macau's regional airport. Okay, so we received four bids uh for this project. The low bid went to Screch LLC out of Fairbury, Nebraska. uh their low bid uh just for the base bid only was1,278,537.50. So again, that's the base bid. If we get awarded the ad alternates, it will total the 1547 you see there on the agenda. Um they came in about $200,000 less than the engineers estimate. So we feel like that's a pretty fair uh bid. Any questions? Motion to approve. Motion for councelor Stone. Second council vot.

Councelor Stone. Yes. Vote right. Yes. Batty. Yes. Gilmore. Yes. Woodley. Yes. Roden. Yes. Mayor. Yes. The motion carries. Chase, I want to reiterate Ken's comments and really appreciate everything you've done out there and wish you the the best on everything you've done. Thank you. Any new business? Nothing from the city. All right. Staff reports.

Today we have our uh wonderful public works director, the one and only Tommy Hill. And um I'm sure this is going to be entertaining. Whatever he says. Council mayor, it's a privilege to be here tonight. just uh give you a little update. You know, the month of June for us was uh little rough with the storms and all that stuff. Uh the landfield as of today at uh 3:00. We've taken in uh 900 915 ton of brush just in what we went picked up. what local people have brought uh and contractors that's helped people just from that one Saturday storm on the 7th that 915 ton that's a lot of brush so we will chip some of it uh to the best of our abilities with our staff uh some of it we may have a local weenie roast one Saturday Uh on building maintenance side of it, uh they've been busy replacing some things that the storm done damage to. Uh the geological building lost some windows. Uh we reached out to one of the local uh vendors that deals with windows and uh he's going to do the windows on his D. So uh we're not going to be out anything to replace those windows unless something

else happens. But as we know right now, he's going to take care of that cost. uh traffic control. Uh your intersections at sixth and strong are now back to where it's modern the traffic in and is not set on just a steady loop. So you should be noticing if traffic it it just ain't looping. When traffic is heavier on Car Albert, you know, your uh Sixth Street on North and South side's going to be a little slower, but it works the same way in reverse. That's the first time that these has been up in probably at least a year. So, that helps with our traffic flow. uh our fleet uh departments just steadily working on all of our vehicles uh which here lately has really been a lot with police of fire uh I'm trying to do this all off memory cuz Dave knows that I really love is public speaking. Uh our street department uh at the present time is working on two street street projects. Uh one of them uh we're trying to tie up at Sixth and Creek and and finish that one off. Uh we've had one of our crews out of our street department actually hauling brush since we started that. So, it's kind of slowed that process down. Uh, since of all the

spring rains, 14th Street, we had undermined with storm water and the street went to fallen. So, we're currently taking some of it out and and rebasing it back. We don't know what extent that the damage was to the whole street, but where it started out, it don't look good. But as we take it off, we will replace everything that's bad underneath that and put all good back on top basically. Oh, one other thing with the street department. Uh the project at uh Church Street and 16th Street with the asphalt overlay has been completed. In my opinion, you won't find a better street to drive down that they really did a good job on it. and and I think we'll get some years out of it. And uh like I said, the guys did a really good job. One other thing I want to say before I end is that day of that storm, we had several outside groups other than just the city of Mallister. We had several uh volunteer fire departments that come in here and helped us. I was really impressed because when I got to town just shortly after the storm hit, I figured the street department, myself and some others would be here for a couple of days from what I just seen on my first initial drive-thru. And by 2:00 that afternoon, everybody was loading up and going home. So them outside people, them fire departments and and even our people, UTM, parks department, uh cemetery, uh the street department. I hope I don't

miss anybody cuz they get mad if I miss them. But uh even Ross Selman, District Three, come inside the city limits with the loader and move some stuff for us. Uh, I really appreciate that because uh it's important to have those outside uh entities that you can work with so that when things like this happen, they're right there to help you. So, this the storms kind of put us a little bit behind on our dayto-day stuff, but just like anything else, you take care of what that day gives you and you just take care of business. also finished F Street.

Yes, F Street is completed. Yes, 100%. How many lane M is it? 177 lane miles roughly 176 177 somewhere in there on the IMS. And so we know the price is going to go up tomorrow, but as of today, one lane mile to to redo the road, the water line, sewer line, storm water to do it to do it right, the base, everything. What does one mile cost just roughly? Now you trying to put me on spot. Uh

just to do one one lane mile of just flat concrete is a million dollar. So you add in the infrastructure and all that depending on or or storm water all that you could climb up to double it. Yeah. Your budget's 1.5. Mhm. And the reason I say that is just to keep that in perspective with the public of that's what's in the 1.5. I mean that's your salaries filling potholes. That's everything emergencies like 14th Street. Yeah. That's that's not their salary. Oh, it's not their salaries. Just the actual that's the numbers we actually put in the ground.

Put in the ground. But still, I mean, it's a very limited budget for what you all pull off and make happen. And me and Brian, project manager, currently trying to work on getting an overlay list for this next year. Some payment uh panel improvement where we've got some damage panels on existing streets and uh maybe a project, a full project. I will not disperse that at this time, but it's on a major street and it's much needed

and like I said, we're working on it. It the the wheels have started turning, but it we ain't got up to proper speeds yet, but it's coming. Any other questions? Well, Tommy, I was over driving at Mullins Park last week and caught Brian Spencer out there stepping off Springer Street. I said, "What you doing?" He said, "Are you thinking about overlaying this? I hope that's the the secret that you're going right there with, but is there any plans?" He said, "We're thinking about doing it."

We we've been doing a lot of talking because of the new splash pad stuff and the shape Springer is in. Springer is one of them tough ball games because you got a whole lot of stuff that you got to replace and the the storm water is one of the big ones with with that one in the current way that it's set up on Springer Street. Uh since then done a little background checking on our infrastructure as far as our water and sewer which the water uh is on the south side of that whole three blocks down through there and it's all brand new

and it's all brand new and uh just had got to talk with Dave uh the sewer it's not that big of a deal like we talked today that we was out there it it's little bitty short stuff So, like I said, we're working on some stuff to do some overlays. That is in part of the conversation. And I want to thank you for doing Church Street. That's been a project of mine for over three years. So, and and just like with that,

uh Church Street and 16th Street was one of those maintenance nightmares. We we was over there every week doing something to that until we could get to where we overlaid it. So that was one of them maintenance nightmares which now because of overlaying it take some of them maintenance dollars and put it into big projects. Well, you know F Street and Church Street. You overlaid Church Street. Why didn't you overlay F Street? That was my baby when I was out. That used to be in my ward.

Uh the reason we went concrete was the steep steepness of the hill that it was on. And just like trash trucks, asphalt today, and I'm not knocking asphalt, but it ain't like it was 10, 15, 20 years ago. And the concrete, like I said, how steep that hill was and these trash trucks, concrete was the way to go, okay?

Because the the maintenance part of that we cut out for a good, I'm going to say 10 years. Don't get me wrong, something crazy could happen, but all the water is outside the street. It was one of those that that was a concrete street all the way around. Any other questions? Appreciate you telling me. All right. Thank y'all. All right. City manager report.

Um you'll find your monthly city manager report in the back of your uh of your folders. Please take those out, take them home, uh soak them in, uh love them, sleep with them under your pillow, do all the things. Um, we put a lot of work into this and I hope that you guys get a lot out of it. So, I should say Adrian puts a lot of work into this. So, I hope you all get something. So, Adrian, thank you. Um, I want to announce u that I finally selected and I I emailed you all so you know, but I've selected my assistant city manager and he is now in the room. Uh Ken Ken comes to us from the economic development side. He spoke to us tonight as an economic development, but uh we he officially started on the fir or Monday as the assistant city manager. So uh thank you Ken for stepping in, stepping up and and being a part of that my leadership team. Um, that being said, um, I am throwing him into the fire because I'm leaving, uh, tomorrow for CMAO, the summer conference is, uh, is in Lton. So, I'll be out for the next three days and and Ken's got the uh, got the hammer. So, if you don't have his number, make sure we we get that to you. I believe you all have it. You should all have it. It's that number has not changed. So, but if you don't, come and see me. after your words and forget it to you. So,

you got to tell them what we're doing at CO. What? Oh, yeah. That's right. Because I'm not the only one going to CO. True.

That's true. So, uh, uh, this, uh, City Managers of Oklahoma is is the the conference and and we were invited to go and speak the city attorney and I were invited to go and speak at the uh, city attorney's conference about uh, building a dynamics uh, manager attorney relationship. We've got a great relationship, he and I. Um, and uh, so we we we had this idea that we needed to this conversation with with our peers and so they said yeah sure if you come and you come and talk to the other ones as well. So um on Thursday we are teaching a class to all the city managers of the state on how to get along with each other because

just just know that that is not always the uh the way it works. In fact it kind of is rare. We have a very good relationship and and so we're teaching a course on this

and if I can the reason this whole thing even happened is I went to my conference last year. One of the topics was how to fire a city manager and I and I went to my association president said I recognized that happens but that's a rare event. Mostly we have to work with them. So if I I told my association president if I can get our city manager up here can you let us talk? And Dave said, "I'll agree if you come and we'll do it to the city manager." And at the city attorney's side, it was it was well received. So, I expect it to be well received in the city manager side. Believe it. I believe it will be. So, we're excited.

And we're going to have a lot of fun with it, too. Very much so. There is all kinds of anything from Lord of the Rings to The Hobbit to discussions on Star Trek, Star Wars, and uh all things in between. I don't think that's coming. We're going to approve that. John former mayor John Brown's point that uh we are the nerdiest guys in the room. I are 100% the nerdiest guys in the room. Anyway, that's my report. All right, remarks and inquiries by the city council. Councelor Gilmore,

yes, I do want to mention one thing. The Macster Public Library will be hosting a town hall meeting on August 7th beginning at 5:00 pm. Uh Senator Warren Hamilton, Representative David Smith, and Representative Jim Grego will be in attendance. I believe this will be an excellent opportunity for everybody in the room to meet our legislators and for the citizens to meet their legislators and have a conversation with them. So, it's August 7th at 5:00 p. p.m. at the library at 520 East Smith Avenue brought to you by the Southeastern Oklahoma Library System. Um, I do want to thank everyone that was involved in the grant writing and the procurement of those funds for the airport. That's that's very needed and it's it's huge for economic development for our town. Thankful for that. Library construction is still going on and those most of you got a chance to see, but if there's an opportunity on Friday afternoons that you'd like to tour again, it's it's coming quickly and I think you'll be really pleased with how it looks. I went up today and it's just it's going very quickly. Something to be proud of.

Stone.

Uh, yes. Apparently, there was a a batch of water bills that got lost somewhere in the mail. So, if you have not received your water bill yet, you need to call the water office and get your get your totals and come down and pay it or whatever. I called them today and they they waved the late fees and all this other stuff and we put it in the box on the way in. Also, this weekend Corvette show the air conditioned uh expo out there. So, there will be, yeah, your normal amazing Corvettes, but I'm sure there will be some that are just completely off the hook and be it'd be something to go see. It's it's kind of an honor that Mallister was selected for this this massive show and it will be it will be quite a lot of chrome. So, bring your sunglasses and and your family and just enjoy it. Also, there's a a recycling exposition coming August 16th. It's uh it's it's a recycling festival. You never think those two words would go together, but uh it'll be down there at uh by the farmers market August 16th from 10 to 2. There's a live live music. There's just all kinds of things that they'll talk about recycling and things for the kids to do and so forth. So, go check it out because I've never been to a recycling festival before. Bring some plastic bottles or something.

Council, well, I didn't go to the dancing rabbit festival, but I did drive by about place was loaded and stuff. And I too have got a lot of complaints from citizens about their water bill and stuff. So, that's all I have. I'm getting ready to go to Tulsa, get operated on tomorrow. All right. Don't have anything.

Have a couple of things. Uh had a a guy that owns a building at 721 South Georgia 9 that uh the contractor that was replacing the piping there. I think he called you on it, Dave, and they they just went in there and just dump gravel and and took their heavy equipment in there. Went told the employees, "You got to move your cars." And if if it's the same one that does the main is it the same one that does main street project. Yes.

So my my problem is he's they've come into this town and they're really not they're not uh uh respecting uh people's I mean Main Street they block the businesses. Uh this guy they they just they didn't contact the business owner at all. I know in in construction if you finish early and we've talked about this before, if you finish early, you get a bonus. If you finish late, you get penalized. Well, is there any kind of penalty for the for the way they treat our people? I mean, they can't just come in here and and uh just Okay, we got the contract. We can just do whatever we want to.

And and yes, and we did address it. We have talked with Loan Hickory. Uh I'm not at liberty to discuss what was what the agreements were on that but um they are going to have to make it right and and Bloom Hickory will be making it right. So what about on Main Street?

They're ran into some issues uh with what basically where everybody is had a complaint now is is that what they fixed is now crumbling. Well, that was just a top coat that they put on temporarily until they could get everything uh tied in. They had to cut all of that back out, which is why they didn't put a a full base down and and do all the work. So, what they've done now is now that they've got the tieins complete, they are going to go back in and they will put in a proper uh base and and redo that that you timeline. Um, I have not gotten that time.

That's one thing I I worry about is when they have projects like this like Main Street, it it hurts our businesses. I mean, it really hurts our community and we and we as city council people. We're we're the ones that the community comes to and they don't they don't come to the city manager, they don't come to any employees, they come to us and we have to answer for that. So, I would appreciate if the contractor would at least give us a line, let us be able to because I mean they don't want to go to our constituents but their our constituents will come to us. So if they would give us some kind of timeline, it would be easier for us as council people to address that. I appreciate it. That's all I have.

Appreciate it. All right. Mayor's comments. Um yeah, dancing rabbit looked like it was a great turnout. Uh really appreciate all the work um with the contractor and trying to get the building down and reducing any kind of safety issues, getting the fence moved back. So there was plenty of u area there. Um I actually got to go to the library today and go do the walkth through. Um what always throws me off is I always think of the front entrance as the first floor,

but it's not. And the huge hole that they've cut in the floor to have the new grand staircase come in. Absolutely amazing. Uh the coolest thing and then Heath gave me a little tour and and this is what Heath told me. So we're looking at the walls and he goes, "You can see these exposed walls. They're actually uh concrete panels and he goes, these were poured and they were brought in and this was the first library in the US to be made of prefabat panels." I was like, "How interesting." Steve Taylor told us that he was there when they started raising them. He remember seeing them go. Yeah. I thought that was a really cool fact about our library. uh starting on phase four. So I believe that is third on on all the tree clean up there already

on there been working and and going. So four and five to go. No, they got to go south.

Yeah, south. So everything south Carl's kind of where we're working at the moment. We've got school uh going to kick off here two or three weeks, middle of August. Uh so everybody just kind of remember school zones, watch your speed, watch your kids, walk to school. kind of out of practice over that over the summer. And then um as always, Adrian's in the back. Download that Mallister Connect app and and get your notifications and sign up and get everybody on that. And then also our travel mallister.com website for all of our tourism information and events. Um there's just so many different things and opportunities we have uh in our community. Just seems like we're getting more and more. Um, uh, another one, uh, just for any businesses or individuals out there, um, we had all the Buffalo statues, I think it was 15 years ago or so that were going up. Uh, I have found another vendor and so I'm working on another round of anybody who wants those and getting a price settled out. So, if you want to know, we've had several businesses throughout the year say, "Hey, how do we get one of those?" And we go, "Well, the vendor went out of business and not really sure, but I found another one." And so, we'll be working on getting that list put together. So if you have any interest in that, get a hold of me and we'll we'll tag you on the list and go from there. And then just kind of also want to say congratulations, Kim. I'd be lying if I didn't say that you've done such an amazing job in economic development. There's not some fears on economic development side, but we really appreciate all that you've done and and we know you'll be there to to keep an eye on it and help us out. All right, with that, uh, we will take a motion to convene as the Mallister Airport Authority motion to include approval of the minutes from the July 8th, 2025 regular meeting, Mallister Airport Authority. Confirm action taken on city council agenda item B and adjourn.

Motion councelor Gilmore second. Councelor Batty call. Councelor Gilmore, yes. Batty, yes. Roden, yes. Boatright, yes. Woodley, yes. Stone. Yes. Mayor. Yes. The motion carries. Now I take a motion to convene as the Mallister air Mallister Public Works Authority. Motion to include approval of minutes from the July 8, 2025 regular meeting public works authority. Confirm action taken on city council agenda item B and adjourn. Councelor Stone Counc. Councelor Stone. Yes. Roden. Yes. Gilmore. Yes. Woodley. Yes. Vote. Yes. Batty. Yes, mayor.

Yes, the motion carries. I take a motion to convene as Mallister Retirement Trust Authority motion to include approval of minutes from the June 24, 2025 regular meeting Mallister Retirement Trust Authority. Approval of minutes from the benefit payments for July 1, 2025 and adjourned. Motion council boat right second. Councelor Batty Cor would call. Councelor Boight. Yes. Batty, yes. Woodley, yes. Stone, yes. Rhoden, yes. Gilmore, yes. Mayor.

Yes. The motion carries. I take a motion to convene this Mallister Economic Development Authority. Motion to include approval of minutes from July 8, 2025 regular meeting Mallister Economic Development Authority. Confirm action taken on city council agenda item B and adjourn. Motion councelor Batty. Second. Councelor Stone. Cage. Call. Vice Mayor Batty. Yes. Stone. Yes. Rhoden. Yes. Boight. Yes. Gilmore. Yes. Woodley. Yes, mayor.

Yes, the motion carries. I'll take a motion to enter into executive uh session uh concerning employees and representatives and employee group specifically the international association of firefighters. Motion councelor Fatty. Councelor Stone roll. Vice Mayor Batty. Yes. Counselor Stone. Yes. Gilmore. Yes. Woodley. Yes. Rhoden. Yes. Beltright. Yes. Mayor. Yes. Motion carries and we are now in session.

All right, it is 6:44 or 64 7:44 and we are back from executive session. Point of order, sir. Um, in the absence we went into executive session at 7:34. At 7:34, uh, Mr. Rhoden had to leave, so he's no longer with us. Just want to make that for the record that he had to go home. Thank you. All right. Uh, do we have a motion? Make a motion. I accept the contract as stated. Second. Second.

Motion. Councelor Betty. Second. Councelor Bo. Would you call the RO? Vice Mayor Batty, yes. Councelor Boight, yes. Gilmore, yes. Woodley, yes. Stone, yes. Mayor, yes. The motion carries. Reminds you to help us control the pet population. Have your pets sped or neutered and ajourned.