City Council - Regular Meeting

So cut the broken air city council. meeting to order. We have invocation by Pastor Chanty.

It's good to have you back, sir. Good to see you. Good evening and happy new year. Let's bow our heads in prayer. Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you again for the great city of Broken Arrow.

And we thank you, Lord, for all that you are doing here as we stepped into a new year of 2026. We lift up our entire city council and all the other leaders who work for our city. We thank you, Lord, for the wisdom that they need to make right decisions for Broken Arrows advancement. We thank you for continual prosperity and economic increase for the city. We thank you for constant protection. And we ask that there would be unity even in tonight's meeting. God, we thank you for insight. We thank you for foresight. We thank you for workable strategies for implementation. and we thank you for your sovereign will being done here at all times. We thank and praise you for hearing and for answering our prayers tonight. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen.

Amen. Thank you, sir. Roll call.

Pickle here. Green here. Ford here. Parks here. Wimpy here. Please stand and join Councelor Green for the pledge. Attention. Salute. Pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [clears throat]

Are there any items to be removed from the consent agenda? I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Second. A motion and a second. Roll call. Oh, you know what? Mine is not up. It's not. I need help. Get yours on. I need help. I need help on mine, too.

Needs help, too. Let's turn it off and on. Unplug it and plug it back in. [laughter] [snorts] Yeah, that's pretty good. Oh, hey, look at I just did it all by myself. You just needed to come up here. [snorts] Good. Yeah. All right. Item seven is public hearings, appeals, presentations, recognitions, and awards. 7A is presentation and discussion of public education efforts to provide um information for the 2026 obligation bond package. Uh Aaron, sorry.

Good evening, Mayor Wimpy, Vice Mayor Parks, Councelor for Council Green, Council Trle, and City Manager Spurgeon, and Aaron McCullik. with the communications team here for the city of Broken Arrow and I am happy to talk with you today about the public education phase of the 2026 general obligation bond. Uh this actually represents kind of the culmination if you will of two years two plus years of of hard work you city staff citizens community organizations civic groups to really help build this package to build our future here in Broken Arrow. So, just really excited to be able to to come to you today and talk to you about it and kind of give you an idea of what it is that we're going to be doing as far as educating and informing the public. Kyle, if you don't mind, you have that presentation. [snorts]

Thank you, sir. So, just real quickly, the 2026 general obligation bond, we have seven propositions that will be funded through property tax revenues at a no no property tax rate increase if approved by uh by voters. Proposition 8 would be a temporary halfcent sales tax increase about $53 million and that would go to fund the public sports facilities here in Broken Arrow totaling about $468 million. And of course, as you uh as you officially called for the election last month, we now know that voters will go to the polls on April 7th, 2026. We'll start the public education phase with a very sightsp specific website here, build our futureba.org. Uh it is now live. It went live last week. Uh it is very intuitive, very easy for users to use. It's going to be a great year resource for them. They're going to be able to go through, look at the propositions, look at all the different projects within each proposition. There's frequently asked questions, a whole slew of information, if you will, and it is mobile responsive, which is really important because, as we know, more than 50% of our traffic does come through mobile devices. So, folks will be able to access it very easily on their phones and they'll be able to access it through the My Broken Arrow Action Center app. We placed it at the top of the app, so that's the first thing that folks see whenever they go there. more more digital media. We've got we got a lot planned. Social media, email blast, digital ads. We're working with a consulting firm that's going to help us with some targeting on webs, apps, streaming, over the top, that sort of thing. Utility bill inserts. Now, while that's not really digital, I didn't want to have another slide, so I went ahead and just threw it in here. It's more traditional, if you will. Uh billboards, Cox cable, channels 24, and of course, we'll be doing some podcasts. We'll be doing quite a bit to let people know exactly what's going on. But we're going to lean very heavily on in-person meetings. We're really going

to go heavy with this. Homeowners associations, civic organizations, community user groups. You can see the entire list. We had the opportunity this morning, Mr. Spurgeon did to meet with Broken Arrow parent teacher association and district leadership from Broken Arrow public schools. Fantastic meeting. They were incredibly engaged, very excited. We saw lots of pictures being taken uh from the group. This is a really important event. Uh this is a really important strategy for us as we continue to go through this and we're going to be reaching out to you and asking you to to join us whenever uh whenever we get to this whenever we get to this phase. Uh you can see there 51day educational blitz. We we're really looking at this as February 16th to April 7th. That's when it's going to be very incredibly busy. Um, we're hoping to have just about every evening or day have something that we can do that we can be out in the community [clears throat] informing and and telling folks about the benefits of this bond package and what it's going to mean to them.

Public forums. We had a lot of success back in August and September with those three public forums that we had uh letting folks come in, help you whittle down those $600 million worth of projects to get down to that 415. We're going to go back to that. We we have four of these planned, three in March, one in April. We are going to skip spring break week for obvious reasons and we were pretty deliberate here and making sure that we were in each of the four wards as well. And I just and I want I'm sorry to interrupt your I did have some people that say, "Do I have to go to the one that's in, you know, like in the ward I live?" And I told them no, but we want to make sure to get that messaging out there, too. They can go to all of I said you can go to every one of them if you want to. I mean, it's so whatever.

No, that's a great point, counselor. And we saw that back in August and September. We had a lot of repeat customers, if you will, at those forums. And we want that. We want to see that. And we will message that appropriately so folks don't know that they have to go to one specific one. Come one, come all informationational one sheets. These are going to be for each of the propositions. We created a one sheet and it basically lists all the allocations, all the projects, and then all the money that's allocated to each of those projects. Uh each one of them is, as the name says, it's one sheet. However, some are going to be double-sided. Transportation, um, Proposition three, quality of life, those are going to be double-sided because there's so many. Proposition four, one side. We did combine five and six. So, it's, um, double-sided as well. But, these are going to be great opportunities for us whenever we go to homeowners association meetings. I know Mr. Spurgeon and Mr. Schwab went to a homeowners association meeting about two weeks ago. They took some of these with them and they said they were a huge hit. just really it's a great another one of those great resources for people and they're going to be able to use those and just quickly see what's in each of those propositions. Theseformational palm cards, each of you have one. Uh we distributed those to you before you arrived this evening. These are going to be used whenever we do some popup events. You may have seen that on the slide about two uh two slides ago. We have some opportunities where we may go out to uh Broken Arrow soccer club has a soccer tournament. Um, youth baseball has tournaments. Put up a booth and we'll take these out there with them. These are going to be fantastic. They don't crumple as easy. Those are maybe a little less hard to throw away. The hope is that folks will keep these. They'll take them home. They'll slap them on the refrigerator with that magnet right next to their kids drawings and they'll remember to vote. But it has all the information and it has the QR code as well so that folks scan that and they can go right back to build our futureba.org and they can find all the information and really get the details about each one of those propositions. If you need any of these, please let me know. I'll be more than happy to get

those to you. The Gobot answer line. Now, this one's new. This is really cool. I'm really excited about this one, too. Um, I'm not getting my phone out because I'm getting a text. I'm actually going to use it here in just a second, which thing is being rude. This is an AI assistant phone call. So our customers if they don't want to go to the website, if they don't want to hear us, they can actually call this number 24/7, whatever it's convenient for them and they can ask questions and just about the bond and it's going to give them the answers. If it doesn't have the answers, we're going to have a phone number that the AI assistant is going to be able to give the caller and they'll be able to call in. We've got two people that are going to be ready to take those calls, check them every day, and then we're going to be able to get back with folks very quickly with whatever h with whatever questions they have. we'll get the answers back to them. So, if you'll indulge me, I'd love to go ahead and call the number and just do a quick quick little demonstration here. I'll ask it a couple of questions. I won't ask it too many

and then we'll be able to get the data of what people are calling and asking the AI so we'll know what's important. Fantastic questions. Absolutely. Do you think I'd have this number memorized by now? It's not in your favorites. Hi, I can answer any questions you may have about the city of Broken Arrow's upcoming GO bond initiative. Hi. Yes. Can you tell me how this is going to impact my taxes?

Of course. Here's how the GO bond would affect your taxes. For propositions 1 through 7, there would be no increase to your current property tax rate. These propositions cover transportation, public safety, quality of life, public facilities, storm water, drainage, and a library partnership. Proposition 8 is different. It wouldn't affect property taxes, but it would add a temporary half% sales tax for 5 years. This dedicated sales tax would apply in both the Tulsa County and Wagner County portions of the city and would be used exclusively for sports facility improvements after Thank you. Can you um can you tell me about the community center and Prop 3?

Absolutely. Proposition three is called quality of life and includes 18 projects totaling $74 million. There's no increase to your property tax rate for this proposition. One of the key projects in Proposition 3 is worth. [laughter] So there you go. So there there you have it.

So that's very cool. Uh we're really excited about that. We are going to push that out to the public on Thursday. Let them know about the website, let them know about the AI answer line, uh the Goon answer line, excuse me. and just it's a really great opportunity for folks to be able to to get that information whenever they want it, whether it's through the website, they don't want that, they can do it right there. And there you have it. There's there's the website and again the phone number and like I said, we will start promoting that on Thursday of this week. And the great thing about that line, too, and the website, we're going to be able to build as we go. So, I can tell you right now, neither of those are perfect. We will continue to add to them. we're going to find mistakes with them and that's just part of the course when you know part of the course whenever you go through technology we'll build on that. So if you recognize anything that needs to be fixed please let me know and we'll we will get that taken care of quickly.

What will its answer be whenever it says well what if this doesn't get approved? Well we will make sure to correct it to say that each of the propositions gets voted on individually and so we'll go something along those lines. You're not voting. We won't have any improvements in our city for at least 10 years. And we will absolutely. Yes. And we will go down that route, too. You'll be complaining about the streets for 10 years. 10 years. That's right.

Um I was wondering too, like when we have each individual um meetings, is there a way that we can also do a call out in that area like a week or two ahead, probably a week ahead of time? Like I used to do that for my neighborhood meetings, you know, because at that time we had a program where you could ex do exactly like the neighborhood that you were going to talk on and and I think we still have a program like that. So that would just be one more way too to let people know, you know, what'll be in your area or whatever if we even rely upon the HOAs for those that we're setting up. That's something we can certainly talk about because we'd like to have more people to come out. Yes, can we can look into that.

But was that with landlines because most people don't have those anymore. It's however they It's what you can get a text, you can get an email. It's however you sign up for it. You can get a [clears throat] text, email, or um on your landline. I think you can get three different ways to be um contacted. Splendid.

As as I mentioned to council is we're finalizing the meetings. We spent quite a bit of time u today actually making sure we've covered every every um meeting that we need to be at. Obviously, the governing [clears throat] body is welcome to attend, but I want to make sure that out of respect to the open public meetings act, only two council members can be there. And so, when you um when you get the the list to take a look and let Lori know as quickly as possible because obviously uh we won't we want to make sure there's only two there. some of the most important meetings. You know, for example, we're planning on going to the Broken Air Public School District and the Union public school districts and we'd like to have uh the BA graduates go to the Broken Air Public Schools and then uh the what those that are involved in Union go to there as well. So, u we'll be setting that up. Also, we'll be meeting with our partners. Um, also I'll be meeting um every month with all of the user groups and sports organizations uh all day, individual meetings to talk about um the their efforts with their stakeholders from the from the respective sports to make sure that you do they need anything from us and what feedback are they getting? Because when you look at at this particular time, feedback from the residents is extremely important and to pass that along to elected officials, city staff. So as we go out to be able to address those questions. And so we we've got a whole network set up to where as we get feedback that that's disseminated to to everyone so that way you'll have answers to those questions because probably a lot of questions are going to be the same. And so we want council to have that information. And so uh we're very excited. I really can't add much to to Aaron and what we put together. Uh many of the directors will be involved when we go to the meetings because obviously there may be other questions related to something in their neighborhood. So there's been a lot of networking in regards to wherever we're going uh is what is what's happening in that area. So we can have the applicable department director there to to actually address

those questions or or take those questions back so we can follow up. So but and when you see the list you may think of an organization that we need to go to because obviously you know it's not all inclusive. So any suggestion council has and who you think should go there, uh, we're more than more than willing to to add that to the list because we want to make sure we cover everybody from east, west, north, and south. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Good job. Very [snorts] nice.

All right. Um, item eight is citizens opportunity to address the council and we do not have any of those. Item nine is general council business. 9A is consideration, discussion, and possible approval of and authorization to award to the lowest bidder uh Cherokee Pride Construction, Travis Smalls. One small singular, sorry.

Good evening, mayor, vice mayor, council, city manager, Travis Small, Engineering Construction Department. Uh very happy to be here tonight for this project. Uh this is the ninth in Washington intersection project which is part of a 2018 uh general obligation bond transportation project. Uh staff worked with a consulting firm to get this uh project uh designed and get construction documents together. It was advertised in December and we opened bids in January 20th. Uh we received six bids and the apparent low bidder was Cherokee Pride with a bid of a total bid of approximately 2.2 2 million. Uh that is under the engineers's estimate which was almost $2.7 million. So happy to have take any questions you have. Uh and we would recommend uh approval of this item. If Mayor before council takes action, just a reminder is that the voters approved the two miles from from 81st to 101st and there's a railroad track that is near 81st. And so it was recommended by Kenny, Travis, and and Charlie is that we're going to break this out because when remember when we finished 209, uh we said that immediately the the traffic jam and the concerns would be would be Lin Lane. And so the the bottleneck right now is at the intersection. And so the design are being is still being done to do the widening for both miles. And we're going to start at some point and come south to go north for the first mile because to try to secure the railroad approval, but the most most impactful area that we can actually help Lin Lane right now is is is addressing the intersection.

So what are the plans for that intersection as far as widening? So I've heard widening and I heard roundabout at one point in time. So where are we at? We are going to widen the lanes on in all four directions and put a new uh traffic signal in uh with uh ADA uh improvements and storm water improvements there. So, it's going to be a widened intersection, not a roundabout. Okay. And we'll have turn lanes. Uh yes, sir. It'll be a five lanes in each direction. Fantastic. Make it to council meetings on time. Look at that. Let me [clears throat] ask a question if I may. the city manager. This is part of the 2018

and of course we're talking about a new bond issue that we're excited about. This is closing that down. How long will it take us to probably close most of the that 2018 bond issue as far as those two miles there?

Uh we've actually I'm I feel safe saying is that we've completed over 70% of those projects and nearly the other 30% is somewhere in the construction cycle. And so obviously there's still a couple of roads, for example, 209th from 51st to 41st. There's there's challenges with rightaway. And so that's still going to be is probably a couple of years away. But actually, it was part of the package that we're putting together to go out to talk to the HOAs and the citizens is to to give an update on what's happening with the 2018 bond package because there could be a question because there's actually still I think eight or nine miles of roads that are currently very close like we just awarded Houston the the east the east mile there and then we have another part of Houston. So, we're having some information together to be able to answer folks questions about where we are. Uh we're doing the same thing um at the intersection of Tucson and Aspen as we're doing tonight by doing the intersection first. So when we go to Aspen, I believe it's Aspen Pond or one of the Aspen HOAs, you're going to know about the the five five lane the widening that's coming uh very soon. And so uh we'll have that information with you whenever you when you start going out and talking to the residents.

That'll be great. And this is uh also just to make sure that if we hadn't passed that bond issue, we wouldn't be building these roads. So, uh, that was a very successful bond issue back in 2018. So, uh, need to follow up with that. All right. Any further discussion? I make a motion we approve and authorize an award to the lowest responsible builder, Cherokee Pride Construction. I'll second that motion.

We have a motion, a second. Roll call. Item 9B is consideration, discussion, and possible approval of and authorization to pay additional funds to the Oklahoma Department of Transportation for the Broken Arrow Creek Trail phase 2 project. Charlie Bright.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council Members, Mr. Spurgeon. My name is Charlie Brightite, director of engineering construction. Um, excited to be talking about this one tonight. Um, this is Broken Arrow Creek Trail phase 2, which uh, for a reminder to you all, this is the trail network continuing down New Orleans Street in front of what used to be South Intermediate, now it's the freshman academy, and then turning down First Street, going in front of the gel, um, our streets and storm water area and all that. Um, we have federal grant money, so ODOT's running this project. Um, so it's not our team. So we're not asking for award or anything because um, obvious when we have federal money and ODOT runs a project. The way the process normally works is we come to the council and ask for and a commitment of funds to give to ODOT. ODOT bids and runs the work everything else and then they just since we've already made a commitment of funds, they just award the work and get started. Um, so really this is twofold. One, a notification to you guys that they've bid that work and we're about to get started. But two, when the bids came in, um, they were higher than the estimate and the federal funding was capped at $1.2 2 million. And so for the project to go forward, our contribution had to increase. Um so for you tonight, we're asking for the additional funds of $468,36220. Um we show a couple of projects that we've already closed out that have that money remaining in them. So we're suggesting to transfer that money over to this project, cover the difference. Happy to answer any questions you guys have.

Okay. Questions or discussion? I think this this trail system is important. I've had a lot of comments about our trails and connectivity and I think this is important that we get this uh project completed so we can continue that quality of life building here in Broken Arrows. Absolutely. All right. I'll make a motion that we approve 26-207.

Second motion and second. Roll call. Item 9 C is consideration, discussion, and possible approval of and authorization toward the lowest responsible bid to Myers Cherry Construction uh for the Broken Air Fire Station number eight, Charlie Brite.

Uh good evening once again, mayor, vice mayor, council members, Mr. Spurgeon. My name is Charlie Brightite, director of engineering construction. I'm really excited to be presenting this one again as well. We've talked a lot about bonds tonight. You know, we're talking about the 2026 bond, and this is just another project we're completing in that 2018 bond. As part of the 2018 general obligation package, um the voters approved a new fire station located somewhere in the north. Um tonight is the consideration of award for construction for that fire station to be up at the uh um at the training center over there on Omaha Street or 51st. You know, talking to Chief Moore and Mr. Spurgeon, everybody else. This has been a very important um station for us to get out because it helps our citizens um with our response times in the north part of the city. It's a you know, we've had a lot of subdivisions, a lot of growth out there, and this will help our response times for our fire department. Um with that, we have uh followed the state bidding process um open bids here recently. We actually had 10 biders, which was a very good turnout. And uh staff is recommending award to the lowest responsibil lowest responsible biders to Myers Cherry Construction. Um, I will point out that that low the recommendation from staff is actually the second lowest bidder, which as you know, we've done several times before. We don't always go with the low bidder. Um, and I know there is uh some frustration over that from uh the low bidder. Um, but I'd like to go into a little bit of how we make that recommendation for you guys to understand. So, there's three levels of criteria that my staff looks at when we award a bid. Um, first, you start with state law that governs state law. Title 61 says that we will award the project to the lowest responsible bidder, which is what you see on the um agenda every time we present it to you guys. Um now, as our legal team has talked to us in the past and as my team understands it, state law does not give any weight to the words lowest or responsible. So, we look at those words on equal footing. Um and then next we go to um our own city ordinances which specifically say that we will award the project to the contractor that is most advantageous to the city and then it gives criteria in

there that says we will use past experiences and all that kind of stuff with it. And then the third thing we do is we go to the bid documents which we submit to all the contractors and which our bid documents specifically say the city of Broken Arrow reserves the right to select the proposal the award of which will in the city's judgment best secure the efficient and due performance of the work. So it's saying we will we will determine what we think is best to most efficiently get done the work. In this situation the low bidder and the second bidder had less than a 1% difference in cost. um you're talking about $6 million and you're less than 1% off from one another. And so the low part was very very close. Um so then we go on to the next word, responsible. You have low um which they are the low so they were given the weight to be that low. But then we move on to the next word responsible and we go through the criteria that we look at for that which is our past experiences and everything else. Um we are not stating that the low bidder is completely unresponsible. We are not stating that we would not work with them in the future. We are simply stating that when we compare them to the second bidder, we feel like the second bidder was significantly more responsible of a party that does work for us. We have experiences with both contractors. Um so just to give you a little bit of justification of how our team got there, but we're recommending award to Myers Cherry Construction and uh I'll be happy to answer any questions you guys have.

Have both um built fire stations before?

My understanding is yes, they both have. We do have um someone that wants to speak on on this item. Tyler Ding. Thank you for having me. My name is Tyler Ding. I'm the uh owner of St. Commercial Builders. Um, so as send timely and properly submitted it as bid and all required documentation prior to the established bid deadline and and was identified as the apparent low bidder at the public bid opening held on Thursday, January 29th, ascend fully complied with all bidding requirements set forth in the bid uh bid documents bid requirements in the bid documents. On January 30th, the SIN was contacted by an employee of the city broken Arrow and advised that the city intended to recommend awarding the project to the second lowest bidder, a contractor currently performing two ongoing projects for the city. Ascend further informed [clears throat] Ascend further informed that this recommendation was based on open warranty items associated with the public works field office project and the belief that those items were not being addressed quickly enough. As you're aware, the field office renovation project reached substantial completion in September of 25 and ascend was subsequently paid retainage after all required documentation was properly submitted. Uh furthermore, on on November 12th, ascend representatives met with city representatives to receive project feedback. This was requested by us to get uh feedback to improve our processes. At that time in November, there were no outstanding issues or concerns identified when we specifically asked that. Ascend also asked whether the city of Broken Arrow would recommend or use Ascend again as a contractor to which the city representatives responded

affirmatively. Since that meeting, send has been made aware of some certain minor warranty items which are currently being addressed. These items are routine in nature and do not impact the city's ability to occupy or operate the public source facility. and [clears throat] they're being handled currently. Ascent is fully capable of completing the fire station number eight and has recent relevant experience on comparable public safety facilities including an ES EMS facility that was 15,000 ft $6 million and also had a safe room, a storm shelter. We're also doing an Oklahoma Highway Patrol facility in Tulsa. References for these are available upon request. At the time of bidding, city officials had no issues with us bidding until their contractor of choice did not win this bid. Based on the facts outlined above, Ascend respectfully submits that routine warranty matters assoc associated with a completed project do not constitute a valid basis upon the bid requirements for bypassing the lowest responsible bidder. Accordingly, ascend respectfully request that the city reconsider the proposed recommendation and award the fire station number project in accordance with the bid documents or redo the bid process and better define the criteria under which the city will award a project. Thank you.

Would you like me to address a couple of concerns? Okay. Um, so one, and the only thing I really have contention with what I just heard is the statement of contractor of choice because I think it because I think that implies that we're doing something improper. And I absolutely have a problem with that statement because I feel like we offer we we operate with integrity and we do things for the right reason. We follow state law. We follow our ordinances. We follow the bid documents. Um, I would even like to specifically say and against that, yes, we have experience with them. Yes, we're working with them. But it's because they do extremely well work. Like they are working well. Um but they're not our contractor of choice. We recently went out for a CM selection for city hall. They put in for that and we did not pick them. And in that situation, it wasn't a low bid situation. We could pick any contractor we wanted and it was not them. All right? So they are not our contractor of choice. In this situation, they happen to be the second lowest bidder and when you compare the two, we feel like they are more responsible. Um he did point out that at the time of a meeting where he asked our staff if they had any issues and our staff said they would recommend working with them in the future. Um my understanding is I wasn't present but I'm going off of what was said that st that meeting was in November. A lot of the issues we've had with warranty work and everything have happened after that meeting. They got fully paid. They finished their work. You know they don't have a lot of incentive to do anything after that point because they're not getting paid any more money. And that's when we've had a lot of trouble getting them to come back. But I don't want to leave it as that is the only reason that it's not all warranty work. There are issues that were happening during construction that we documented as well. Um we did say at the time of talking with them that it was for warranty issues, but that was one example given and it's probably the main example because it's the most recent, but that's not all of the examples. And I'd be happy to provide any other details that you guys want at any time.

Um yeah, I mean I'm I'm happy to get into any detail you guys wants, but I think that's sufficient unless you have any other questions. I think you sent other items to the council. Everyone received any question or discussion. Do you have anything you want to add? I I was I'm glad Charlie brought that up because I I I don't appreciate saying that we have contractors of choice. We follow the law and staff has made a recommendation and I support that recommendation. comments,

further discussion. Yeah.

Um, I'll make the motion to accept uh the lowest responsible bid to Myers Cherry Construction LLC. We have a second. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks, Council Pickle. You didn't verbalize it. Which one?

Uh 9D. Consideration, discussion, and possible approval of BAC 2565-2025. Rocky.

Good evening, Madame Mayor, Mr. Vice Mayor, members of council, Mr. Spurgeon. I'm community development director Rocky Hankle. BAZ 2565-2025 is a resoning application proposing to change the zoning on this property from A1 agricultural to CG commercial general for a po for a proposed commercial development. Uh this property is located on the northwest corner of Kenosha and Onita Road. Uh if you recall back to the last council meeting, this body uh approved a comp plan amendment for about 8.8 eight acres to bring it in compliance with the other three tracks of commercial. Um [clears throat] so the planning commission at that time for the comp plan amendment recommended approval of 32 at the joint January 20th 2026 city council meeting was approved 3 to one. The proposed development has had a 94page traffic impact analysis completed which reflects no change in level of service during peak hours with the addition of this development. The executive summary of the analysis is provided as an attachment in your documents. Uh it proposes a ride-in ride out turn lanes uh along Konosha driveway to promote the left-hand turns at the stoplight. Uh during the planning commission meeting on January 8th, 2026, no one spoke in favor or opposition of this resoning request. Uh, planning commission approved this request 4 to staff recommends that BAZ2565-2025 be approved based on planning commission and staff recommendations subject to platting. There is a representative of the property owner here that will be able to answer any questions as well.

Okay. Yeah, I have a couple of questions. Yes, ma'am. Um well, it looks like the site plan hasn't changed any and my major concern was Onita Road, which is not ready for any semi trucks for deliveries or anything like that. Um and it was my understanding that ingress and egress were going to be off of 71st until the last meeting, which is when we saw this, and it showed two entrances and exits off of Onita Road. Um, so I will say this is just conceptual in nature. So if

we if we approve now, if this were to be approved, we would go further on down the line and we will get into engineering. Um, but I as far as whether or not the the the site plan has changed or not, that'd be up to the applicant to answer that question. Yep. Then I'll ask him when he comes up. You want to have her come down? Yes.

I believe it's her. Yes. Good evening, mayor, vice mayor, counselors. My name is Natalie Cornet. I'm with Eller and Dietrich here representing the developer. Um to so as as Rocky mentioned, this is a conceptual site plan, but um the intent for this project is to have access off of Onita. Um I don't know if those if it will be two drives or if they will be in those exact locations. Um what I will say is we have performed a TIA and we analyzed those two drives as well as the one off of Konosha and currently Onita is operating at a B and A level which is really good. Obviously um the RTIA said that indicated that level of service would remain B and A even with the addition of those two drives when this project was fully built out. So, um will it it will obviously be um a new visual element to what's currently a vacant corner and obviously there will be a change in traffic patterns, but um the the analysis tells us that um it will not get worse um and and will remain the same. So, um that's that's I'm happy to answer any additional questions the counselors have for me. Um but but that's where we are um in the process right now and certainly at the time of platting and engineering if additional requests are made from the engineer um to ensure you know safe traffic movement then we'll obviously do what the city requests

and and at that point we can talk about uh maybe somehow to mitigate you know the bright lights shining into the houses that are directly across the street and maybe so the zoning ordinance speak to that as well. There's certain requirements they have to meet when it comes to lighting, noise, and all that. Okay. We do have someone signed up. Oh, do you have I had a question. Yeah. Um that street sometimes I get confused on whether they're in the city or in Widner County. Is that a Widner County street? Onita road. City at that point. And and both Odita and Kenosha are primary arterials designated as primary arterials. And what is it? A Wagner County road or is it a city road? City.

City. Okay. So, in your in your TIA, did it say that that Onita is conducive for semi-traffic? Because I remember I if I recall being out there looking at the pictures, it seems like it's a sure doesn't seem like it. Yeah, it's just it's just a step above a dirt road. Pretty much. That's why I was wondering about who who jurisdiction it was. For sure. It sure feels like a county road. I know. That's what I thought, too. Is it on the list for improvements in the [snorts] near future? Not that I'm aware of. Uhuh. When's the next bond issue? [laughter] Too late. Tropics [laughter] 2036. 2036. Yeah. Okay.

But the traffic impact said there wasn't going to be an impact. Not I'm sorry, councelor. I'm just I was just going to say obviously

we have street maintenance. It is a city road and so we can actually within within Tom Cook is here and he can always correct me if I'm wrong. as long as we stay within the curbs and we actually deceleration acceleration. So there is there is money available, you know, to to actually do some improvements that was necessary. But I believe that if the that just as you just because you're telling us there's not going to be impact, I I have a problem with that quite frankly. You know, you're those heavy trucks on that road and so there should be some kind of partnership and and I I think council should condition any approval on making sure that that that Onita can handle that type of traffic. Well, I think about 81st when FedEx came in and we weren't prepared for that and that was showed up. Yeah,

if I may, mayor. Uh, so at this phase, it's just the zoning, the engineering. They've only submitted the TIA. We haven't reviewed it yet. I mean, we've all read it. We haven't reviewed it. We don't completely agree with it. I personally, along with engineering, believe that you probably should have del lanes on Anita, which allows them in. I do believe that you should have the left turn on Kenosha. it warrants it, but they uh recommended that we don't don't do that. Those comments and the review of their design will come right as they submit that. This, as Rocky said, is just a conceptual and we'll start reviewing all of their plans and um making sure they meet the criteria and that still comes back before you, okay, to apply it.

I just want to make sure that I continue to ask and request. No, perfect. You did a great [laughter] job and and vote. Yes. Well, and when I looked at the traffic study, it's from Kimberly Kimberly Horn, which we use a lot. And so, but you're saying you don't think they did a good job with the traffic?

I didn't say that that they I mean, they did a good job on it, but at the same time, we still know our issues better than any of the consultants. So, on something like this, we could still hire a third party consultant to look at it, and we would actually go back and forth with them. I do believe you need delan to allow the traffic to continue. Onita road is not heavily traversed right now. That's why they're saying it doesn't need as much. Um but we're looking at growth in the future. So those discussions will still be had as they move forward in the process. Is that road wide enough to sustain semiis?

Uh well that's why we would actually add a del lane on it too. So if they're actually coming from the turnpike from the north or something, they can pull off of the road in a del lane to turn in onita right there. Yeah. A del lane is a separate it's just like a right-hand turn lane. Um and not right now it doesn't have it. It does not have it now. Yeah. I was like correct. [laughter] We we will have that discussion with them as they move forward. And Mr. Spurgeon is correct that our street sales tax can do del lanes.

So as Mr. Schwab pointed out that if you do approve this tonight, we will go through the engineering process, the planning process. So the last step that comes before you that you get a final approval on will be the conditional final plat for this piece of property. So that's where all the changes engineering will be made at that time for your approval. Okay. And I know as right now no one has spoke for it or against it but as we get closer probably someone here last [clears throat] well the note said that they so for the comp plan there were a couple people that spoke in opposition for the reasonzoning request there was nobody that spoke in opposition or for it. Yeah, the comp plan had a 32 vote for originally and then this last time was 40 for the correct. We had a gentleman here at the last meeting who spoke about it.

That was for the comp plan. They just said this last on here said that they didn't but that was from the planning commission. Yeah. Yeah. Nobody spoke on the resoning request. There were people that spoke in opposition for the comprehensive plan amendment. Okay. Gotcha. Okay. So, we do have a gentleman that wants to speak. Okay.

Colton J. Good evening, council. Thank you for letting me speak. Uh, my name is Colton J. Um, and I did, so I live at 6975 South 241st East Avenue, um, directly to the east of of this property. Um, I did submit a uh drawing, if you will, uh to our uh city clerk, and uh from the looks of it, it is terrible. I apologize. [laughter] That is not what it was supposed to look at. I actually had my two Okay, that's better. But I [laughter] had my 2-year-old son, Jack, draw that up for me. So,

okay. They're not very professional, but uh some of the So,

I wanted to to bring up some items uh for you know, your consideration with this like like we've like you guys have mentioned before. Um the the Onita being able to handle the trucks. Um so, right now they've got the the northernmost entrance. Um that's to me looks like that's the truck entrance. Um, so like somebody mentioned, it's going to be bringing trucks off of uh the highway north uh up uh north of here. Um, I I believe that's the 51st exit from the highway. Um, I would ask that that be removed. Um, and that be changed over to the the entrance closest to the power substation on the south uh west side of the the property. Um and the trucks go around uh the back side of that building uh there. Um and uh so that would remove obviously that that entrance. Um I added a a yellow entrance down in the bottom. It would still be approximately 100 130 yards from the entrance on the very bottom far left. Um and while still being 250 ft I think is the uh requirement from the intersection. Um and then I uh along the uh eastern side um where it borders you know uh my residents some other residents and things like that. I've uh would like for you to consider um uh landscaping such as uh rolling hills um broadbased trees like evergreens and things like that. So it will shield um more uh headlights and things like that from our property. Um now there are it look I mean I understand it's just a a very basic drawing and the trees and things like that in the in the u parking lot with the uh larger um

um canopy if you will. Um, I do like those cuz I feel like that would better uh uh shield some of the lights from like the parking uh you know, lights and things like that for the um parking lot. Um, another thing that I would like to bring up um is possibly adding a storm water drainage pond. um by adding a approximately 5 acres of of imperous uh surface here what you know roof concrete and things like that. Uh my concern is I understand that there's going to be engineering involved. You can finish your

and and you know uh drainage of water and things like that, but during you know like heavy rains, flash floods and things like that um there's a lot of water that really uh uh really overruns a lot of the drains and and rushes down this road and and has continued to uh put a lot of pressure on on some properties to the north that are already um flooding a lot. So, good ideas. Um, that's all I have. Thank you. Thank you. This is not a PUD, right?

Correct. So, in the in the zoning ordinance, I'll address a couple of the items in the zoning ordinance. Uh, there are landscaping requirements as far as shrubs and trees and what size and how far they need to be be spaced apart. Um, so if this were to be approved and we get down down down the road that we'll address those during that process as well. Um to the point about the stormwater detention pond, you know, it that that again will come like you said through the engineering process. Um obviously, you know, you cannot adversely impact uh your neighbors or surrounding uh properties. So again, if if the developer thinks that that is the best option is to detain the water on site or if they're required to based on uh what our storm water engineers say, then then that's the process we go with. But again, we will not know that until we get further down the road. Um, and I I believe I mean knowing who was supposed to be going in there, I think they will do a really good job to try to address some of these concerns and try to be good neighbors where they're at. So, it's in their name. So,

absolutely. [laughter] Any further discussion? Entertain a motion by anyone. I make a motion that we approve BAZ 002565-2025. I'll second. Have a motion and second. Roll call.

All right. [clears throat] Item 9E is consideration, discussion, and possible approval of PUD214-2025.

Thank you again, Mayor. PUB214-20225 proposes to create a planned unit development for a proposed therapeutic farm. The property is located south of Washington Street and east of Aspen Avenue. BAZ 2575-2025 proposes to change the zoning designation on 14.5 acres of land from RS and RM to CG and AG. More specifically, 7.9 acres will be resoned to Commercial General while six 6.57 acres will be reszoned to A. The split zoning will allow for the rear portion of the property to be used for the farm aspect of the development. The PUD will request also the PUD request also includes a request that buffer yard landscaping requirements be weighed for zoning boundaries within the development. The surrounding land uses are as follows. To the north, the zoning is RS residential and currently has a residential single family homes. To the east is RM residential multifamily. The f the the property is vacant. To the south, it is zoned RS residential single family. The property is vacant. To the west, it is zoned RS residential single family and the property is vacant. The public hearing for PUD 2514-2025 and BAZ275-2025 was held during the January 8th, 2026 planning commission meeting where both items were unanimous unanim unanimously approved. 50. No members of the public spoke on this matter in favor or in opposition. Uh staff recommends approval. PUD214-2025 and BAZ 2575-2025 for planning commission and staff recommendations. Mayor, at this time I'd like to bring up the property owner to describe uh what this project entails. All

right. Good evening. My name is David Tap. I'm excited to be here. I'm out of Little Rock, Arkansas. I drove three and a half hours, so I'm good to stand in front of you for a little bit and then drive back tonight. Uh my wife actually thought of this concept. It's called the Pediatrics Plus Farm. Uh we've been in business for about 24 years. We started out of our house a long time ago and since then uh we do therapy for kids, occupational physical speech and then here in the past 10 years we do autism therapy. during co my wife thought of the idea of how can we treat kids with autism differently and uh she said well if we do a farm and we both grew up on farms and I said well let's try it out and so we have four farms in in Arkansas that we've opened in the past two years and we're fixing to launch three new farms in Arkansas uh that open uh next month and June and August uh one in Taloqua Oklahoma that's fixing to start um in August as well and this will be our second one in Oklahoma as well and so the concept that you're seeing right here is a farmhouse and the kids come here Monday through Friday and uh it's 8 to 5. The biggest questions that we always hear is traffic. What's this going to do with traffic? Um we're not like a preschool. We're not like a school. So kids will come at 7:45. They'll come at 8:15. We have about 50 to 55 kids that'll be on site during the day and then about 4:30 to 5:15, 5:30 they'll leave. So most that we have on traffic is usually about six cars, maybe seven cars at one time and then they leave and maybe 10 or 15 minutes later another car pulls up and and drops their child off. U but we're excited about this concept. The reason why we're doing a PUD um is we have the commercial zone up front. So if you look on East 91st Street, uh the very top portion of that is where our farmhouse will be. Um, at the back side of it is where our chickens and our two donkeys and our two sheep will be and a garden, a greenhouse. And so what this does is kids with autism and special needs,

they'll be able to um get the eggs uh get the vegetables and u they can make um cupcakes or cookies or birthday parties and stuff like that. and then they can have people come over and uh buy uh the vegetables that they made and feel like they're part of the community. So, we're very excited to share this with Broken Arrow and like I say, we've got these going in Arkansas and we're uh just excited to be here for sure. So, any questions, I'll answer as best as I can. I love the design. It looks like my home actually. [laughter] I was like, "Wait, that looks like my home."

Well, it was a new concept and we didn't know if this was going to work. And so, um, the first house we built was a mile and a half from my current house. And I told my wife, if it doesn't work, we're going to move here. So, [laughter] I wanted to build it where I could enjoy it, too. And, and fortunately, it's it's been a huge success in Arkansas. And we're excited to bring this to to Broken Arrow as well. No roosters, though, right? No roosters. 25 chickens. Yeah. They're not allowed in the city. As egg prices are rising, we get more famous. Everybody's like, "We need some eggs." And so typically we give eggs to the families um because we have more eggs than we know what to do with. So as the parents come and pick up their kids, we'll be like, "Hey, we got six eggs. Take them home and um do that." So we're we're excited to share that with the families, too.

So we can donate all our egg cartons to you guys up and running. Absolutely. Okay. Oh, and one other thing, sorry if I'm running out of time. Lighting. We try to do minimal lighting. Um, we try to have this as a farmhouse like kids feel like they're part of a house and it's not like medical uh type looking. So, we'll try and get with the city and some places we go we have 17 light poles. Some cities we go, we have three. Uh, we do want to have safety for our families and and for our therapists because we leave at like 5:30 or 6 and it gets dark. But, we try to do as less lighting as we can that's safe, but we'll follow the city recommendations when we go through permitting. So, does someone live in the facilities?

They do not. No, it's it's Monday through Friday from about 7:45 to 5:30. Uh, we do have a farm hand uh to take care of the animals, but he doesn't live there. She doesn't live there. Um, they're Monday through Friday as well. Um, we had snow in Arkansas. I think y'all had snow here, too. And so, our farm hand had to go out and break some ice um on Saturday and Sunday just to make sure the animals are good um on those days. But, typically, uh, they're not there on Saturday and Sundays. The animals we get, sheep and donkeys, they're they're pretty sufficient. And chickens, they can live through anything. There you go. So, will you build like a barn, I would assume, or back?

Yeah, we we've started out building a barn and now we do a custom barn that we get from Oklahoma City, actually, and they deliver it and it's a two stable barn with an office in the middle for our farmand with an air conditioning unit. Um, as we build multiple, it's just easier to just have one that's pre-made. And so we do have a barn and we have a stable area so the kids can come out and they work with the full-time farm hand where they uh come out and play with or I say pet the donkeys or pet the the sheep and do therapeutic training with the the animals. Okay. Amazing. I know that kind of training is very beneficial. I have a niece and nephew who are twins who are autistic. Okay. And they participate in riding therapy and different things. So yes,

um it it's amazing what that kind of therapy can do for a child in a family that's going through that kind of thing. It can, you know, I think my niece had her first word after she was as she was riding a horse, you know, so it's it can definitely be beneficial. Absolutely. And I'm assuming all these animals are within our ordinances, right? Yes, sir. No kangaroos, [laughter] no no exotic animals.

There are some in Tulsa County. We did have to chase. So, in Taloqua, um we were uh walking the 20 acres that we eventually bought and once we started construction, if you've ever seen Indiana Jones, he falls into this snake pit and he's like, "I hate snakes." Right? When they started construction, they found around 200 to 300 snakes and they were cutting them up with their um track hose and bulldozers. And so this piece of property I walked I'm just thinking, I hope there we don't find snakes, but in Oklahoma apparently you'll have some snake pits or something. That's that's crazy. In Arkansas, we I've never seen 200 steaks in my life,

but we don't do exotic animals and um just donkeys and and sheep. Two donkeys and two sheep is our our recommendation and 25 chickens. That seems to work and be enough for the kids and the farm hand to take care of. Well, this is exciting. What a good asset for our community. Honestly, we we do a lot of things for um our tourism. There's a lot of things for kids with autism and so yeah sensory dates and stuff like that. So absolutely be awesome. All right. Thank you all. Thank you sir. Oh yeah. You might want that back. [laughter] Are we ready for a motion? Yep.

Okay. I'll make a motion that we approve 26-234 PUD 02514-25. Second. Make a motion. A second. Roll call. Thank you. Thank you, sir. All right. Uh item 10 is preview ordinances 10 a discussion [clears throat] consideration discussion and possible preview of ordinance number 3905. Trevor.

Uh thank you, mayor, council members. Before you is a uh recommendation for changes to our short-term rental ordinance. Uh before I give you a summary of what the changes are because they are extensive, uh they are designed to address specific life safety police issues that we've had. This is actually these changes were requested by our police chief Arnold in in consult consultation with community development. So before I summarize what some of the changes are, I wanted to invite Chief Arnold uh so he can discuss some uh critical incidences that we've had involving short-term rentals and that will give you some background and some ideas for the policy reasons for the recommended changes. Sir,

good evening, mayor, vice mayor, counselors, Mr. Spurgeon. Um, Lance Arnold, police chief. And as Trevor mentioned, yeah, this is an issue that we brought uh to the the city attorney's office as well as community development and Rocky's team after over the last year we've responded to I don't want to give the impression that it's tons, but certainly enough to cause concern uh where we had uh firearms involved or large gatherings, reckless driving, fights, most of these involved teenagers, some of them juveniles. What we were starting to find is a lot of these were out of town uh adolesccents that were coming to town. An adult would have rented the the property for the night and it became the place for a big party. Uh and a lot of times it were multiple jurisdictions that were coming here from all the way from Muscogee uh Tulsa sometimes all in the same place which then led to some type of violence. What we also found with that is uh really difficult to to one find out who the property owners were. Uh most of the time when we did find the property owners, they weren't local. They were non-responsive to be able to come assist with that issue at the time. Many of the short-term rental platforms also are really no help and at, you know, 1:00 in the morning when uh when you really need to get a hold of somebody. And so those are some of the challenges that we brought up um with the city attorney and the community development uh department. And and so what we really found is is that the the current ordinance that we have is uh it has some protections in there, but it was really designed from a community development standpoint, not necessarily an enforcement standpoint. And so it's a little bit vague in nature on what specific actions can be taken when you do have these types of violations. Um and so those are some of the things that we tasked the city attorney's office with really trying to help us fix. I know that they reached out and benchmarked places like Norman, Oklahoma, Plano, Texas, Lincoln, Nebraska, and looked at their short-term uh rental ordinances, and we together

between community development, the police department, and the city attorney's office really crafted the ordinance that we have previewed tonight before you. Okay. So, go ahead.

Oh, so there's there was several like I just got a long list of questions regarding it. And my my question is when there when these incidences have occurred because I know they do occur. Why why are we not just addressing that single why don't we have contact for them? Like obviously they should just be shut down that that person if they don't have a a license to to operate in our in our city. So why are we making it harder for these people who have these short-term rentals that are just trying to have some extra revenue and income in in their lives? we're making it harder for them to operate when they actually are operating under our ordinances and our and our laws.

These were short-term rentals that that we responded to. Um they were licensed permitted short-term rentals. Um and but the the problem that I was uh mentioning is is that when we did have these issues with these they permitted, you know, certainly lawful short-term rentals within the city. Um it was the followup with that. the the current ordinance is really vague to allow any type of action, not the immediate enforcement action of certainly breaking up the party, but to make sure that it doesn't happen again. There's when you look at our current ordinance, there's vague language that says the owner will do due diligence and and you know, checking who's renting the property and those kinds of things. But we were really starting to see a pattern develop and it was a concerning pattern primarily uh like I mentioned a lot of juveniles or young adults uh that weren't old enough to even rent the property but they were showing up. Um we're getting complaints from the neighbors obviously those usually come along with parking um complaints and and everything as well. And so some of the things that that we have added in here. I've heard some concerns as well, mayor, about uh excuse me, um councelor Ford brought up earlier uh a concern about the noise monitoring device. Uh and so I did look into that. You you can find those devices either on a subscription plan for as low as $10 a month. Um they would alert directly to to your smartphone or something like that. If it increases, they're not allowed to record, but they're made specifically for short-term rentals. um or you can buy the device outright for around $100. So those are some of the concerns that we've heard as well. But to answer your specific question, these were actually permanent properties. We just didn't have the language that was specific enough to be able to take action against those property owners after repeated violations.

And mayor, if I could add to that, like for example, having a requirement for a local responsible agent, that would address the issue where the police show up to one of these short-term rentals and nobody knows who's in charge. like who owns it and if it is somebody who owns it out of [cough] out of state or out of town, you can't get a hold of them to shut down the, you know, what's going on at their short-term rental. So, having somebody that's local that has to be responsive uh within an hour 24/7, that's not an unreasonable request because if we have that kind of incident, critical incident, we need to get a hold of somebody who can um you know, take care of the situation. Um if it is an issue with with folks, they don't want to be the person uh it's too burdensome on them, there's property management companies uh that they can hire that can perform that service

which is an additional expense on them. Absolutely. But with the concern over uh house parties and juveniles, underage drinking, uh firearms being involved, uh those those are the policy reasons that we're recommending those some of these changes. Okay. What about the the million-doll additional insurance policy? Where does that come into play when they probably already have homeowners insurance and

Sure. And so again, benchmarking what some of the best practices are from other cities. Let's say that you have, you know, 25 to 100 people at one of these house parties and then there's a catastrophic fire. Uh you're going to have significant amount of damages and people are going to need to have a pile of money that's available to cover those type of type of injuries. And so that's what that's designed to do. Obviously, we could adjust that. If you want to wave that or or remove it, you certainly can. But I think it's important that we have our short-term rentals done in a responsible manner so that if there are damages because a lot of these people are out of town. Um some of them could be juveniles and if there is damages or injuries to them at at a property or if somebody for more for example uh drowned in a pool unfortunately those types of things happen all the time. It doesn't even have to involve somebody getting intoxicated and then drowning in the pool. You can have children uh that could have you know that kind of situation. And so it's just important that there's coverage available to make whole the folks who get the

wouldn't that be on their like they would be responsible for that and I'm just going by the questions that were asked of me and the people who asked me were local. Um but so like that just seemed like whenever they already have homeowners insurance and it's their property that they own to also require them to have this additional just in case something happens. I just feel like that's something like why are we forcing them to have that?

I mean I if I may too I I did look that up. I I was aware that that was a concern that was raised as as of today. And um so a couple of things on that. One, if if they own the property and they're not living in the property and they have some type of homeowners insurance or something like that, then I do know that most of the rental platforms do offer this kind of, you know, million-doll policy as a secondary policy for a much cheaper rate. uh if they don't, you know, if they if they don't live at the property um or own the property or I mean, I'm sorry, it's not the property that they have homeowners insurance on, then this is a commercial liability policy. Uh it ranges and depends on how many renters they would normally get, the size of the structure and all of that. I did look those prices up, too. You're talking anywhere from about $500 a year for that. It sounds like for a million- dollar policy, but about $500 a year all the way up to maybe 3,000 depending on again a larger structure with a lot more sleeping areas and those kinds of things. Uh the one question that did come up I know that came from councelor Ford was a question about an owner that had these rental properties that were on her own property like an accessory dwelling unit. Uh, and in that case, I again, I'm not an insurance person or don't don't pretend to be an expert in that, but I would just guess that most insurancees would not particularly want to cover that under your existing homeowners policy if you're renting that out regularly uh as to in this short-term rental fashion that those really should be probably covered separately than your house. But again, that's that you can if you have coverage on that already. I do know that many of the platforms offer a secondary policy that would satisfy the city's requirement and that would be at a much reduced rate than just an outright policy in of itself. I

I still am just wondering why we as a city are wanting to make that requirement on individuals when that should be their their choice of how they want to handle.

I think it's an accountability and responsibility that we're we as a city are allowing. There are a lot of cities that don't allow short-term rentals at all. So, we are allowing them and we're trying to govern them just like we govern our hotels and motel. Um, so we're trying to govern the actions. We have visitors that are obviously coming to Broken Arrow for an event or a function or a stay here. And we do have a due uh regard to make sure that their public safety is that we take that into account. And so we're trying to hold owners, all owners responsible and the ones that haven't been so responsible really accountable to make sure that when people do come to visit here for a function or they stay in one of these short-term rentals that that the the everything is even across the board and that we have the best, you know, life safety in mind for all of them.

And mayor, I could I do completely understand that. Um, it just it feels like one of those things that because there's a few bad eggs that the ones that are legitimately doing a great job and trying to be good neighbors and and just again make a little extra income in these times like they're being constantly like piled upon new restrictions and new requirements. And so

I understand u to kind of make an analogy about the insurance. really no different than mandatory liability insurance for driving a vehicle. And so there's mandatory uh insurance. So if you drive a vehicle, you have to have insurance so that you can drive it. And to the chief's point, a lot of these homeowner policies for your private home don't necessarily cover uh commercial activity. So for example, I have a private insurance on my car, but if I start using that as a Uber, uh my private insurance isn't going to cover that. It's going to be dictated by the terms of each policy. So when you have a requirement that they have a separate commercial policy, you know that they're going to have coverage. And I agree. I mean, these are definitely uh increased regulations and burdens. Unfortunately, we've had these incidences that have have required it. And sometimes, you know, the few bad apples can spoil it for everyone. Um but we think that this is these are important changes for the life, health, and safety of our community. I would add too I I think the other thing is not only were was it what we've experienced over the last year, we're looking forward to this fall when we open the amphitheater and that it is going to draw a significant amount more activity for a lot more people that one want to get into the short-term rental business in Broken Arrow and two for the people that already have those short-term rentals in Broken Arrow. And so uh again with that amount of people coming into town, we're trying to look out for the welfare of of everyone. Um, and these requirements, they they may seem burdensome, but again, like on the noise monitoring device that that that question was posed as this really burdensome thing. It's a $10 a month subscription that you can get the device and it does everything that our ordinance would require. Uh, and so, you know, and the other ones, you know, something as simple as a Ring doorbell camera or another camera that you install that doesn't even have to be on a subscription for the outside is a requirement. These are minimal really things that we're asking for people that are making money off renting their property. And and speaking from experience, when I moved here, I can tell you how much those rental properties cost uh over a period of time. So, you know, I I do get that they're making a little bit extra money. There are some people that are making

quite a bit of extra money, and this is a a really low impact for that. Well, and here's here's the thing. I'm just thinking out loud here. Um, you know, you're talking about people who who own from out of town versus people who own in town. It can happen to anybody. It can happen to the the sweet mom and pop who own that. You know, they can rent it to to Justin Green. I can just let my kids go and go wild in their house. Doesn't matter if they're local owners or out of town owners. It can happen to any of our owners. Um, so it's not us versus them kind of thing. Out of town versus in town. It's It can happen to anybody.

Yeah. No, I know it happens and I just it's the insurance part of us forcing someone to get additional insurance on your I didn't know we were in that that regulation at that point but that we're forcing that. So, and mayor at the preview stage if that's a directive that the council would like to uh direct to remove that or to lower those we certainly can. Uh again, these are just recommendations that staff are bringing uh and you have discretion on on any of these. So, if you want to remove them, uh, just let us know. We're happy to do that and then we can bring it back or if there's revisions or or there's provisions in there that you don't want to see. Um, councelor Pickle as an insurance agent,

do you have any comments? I was going to say going back to kind of what um police chief was saying about the cost of uh a policy, you know, when you do have people like you were saying making the extra money, there are, you know, they have to have certain endorsements on their homeowners policies and things like that or a commercial policy if it's just strictly that they're renting out. And normally the cost of an a million dollar liability really is maybe depending on the home, it might just be two or three nights worth of rental for the entire year. that's going to cover all of that. And just from that liability perspective, we want to make sure that we're, you know, taking care of uh we have the, you know, public safety and health and well-being of our citizens and all that kind of stuff. And the liability portion is really a small piece of it, not not a large piece of the pie. It's a very small piece. And I would just the last thing I would mention is is that when you look at the amount of regulations like I mentioned earlier that we put on our hotels uh and things like that then these are operating you know they're not completely alike but the the the idea for health welfare safety and all that are the same that we would request or require for someone operating something like that as we do of Stony Creek or Holiday Inn or any of the others. right now. I guess with it being preview, we can take some time to discuss it if we need to before it comes back for adoption

and have some further discussion, do a little more research into it.

Well, I I would really like to see because like right now we have them uh do a permit, which one of the things I feel like on the permit is list a number that can be reached 24 hours a day. I'm I'm you know I would have thought we'd have already had that on there but I also want to see where we can pull their permits or find them if our officers have to keep going because if I lived in that neighborhood and you know when they come when when the neighbors have came and talked to us about not wanting Airbnbs in their neighborhood because of this exact same thing that's happening at some of the places and we tell them we'll take care of it. Our officers will take care of it. We need to give our officers some meat to be able to take care of it because right now there's nothing. So I feel like we need to be able to pull their pull the permit and there needs to be consequences if they don't follow our our rules. Oh yeah.

And I also think they need to be paying a hotel motel tax all of Airbnbs because our hotels have to charge it. Does that does that not go through Airbnb? Don't there the taxes go through that? I don't know that. Do we get do we get a check Cindy from? Not very much. And how do we So like we'd have to have I thought we were going to hire a company to track all of that. Didn't we do that or no? I feel like we have a lot to talk about. Yeah. I feel like we need to talk we may have to have a special meeting. But I want to be able to give you know what I'm saying? Like I mean we we tell our citizens we're going to take care of them and that if parties happen, we're going to take care of them. Yeah. And they want to take care of them, but we don't give them the meat to take care of them. So clearly we need we need to work on this for sure.

I definitely agree with all of that. I'm just was very concerned about forcing them to have this extra insurance policy that we continue to add more. I think what because that doesn't have anything to do with them enforcing, right? That's like, [clears throat] oh, if someone drowns in a pool, well, that is on them already. Like they have to handle that already. That doesn't And something we could do too is like the email that I'm sure that you're re referring to, it was like 175 square feet and one was 275. Maybe we could say if it's 500 square feet and lower, they may not have to or or if they live on the property because she does live on the property. Um I didn't ask her if her homeowners associate if her um homeowners insurance actually covered the rental property, right?

I don't feel like it does, but I'm not an insurance person and that's not what she was asking me, so I didn't really get into that. But but also if I'm a renter and I'm renting one of those places and or even if I'm a if I'm a neighbor and a party goes wild and there's gunshots and someone gets killed and then you find out well our homeowners our homeowners um insurance doesn't cover it so you're out of luck on the death that we just caused because we didn't follow the rules. I mean so it's not just the people that are I I mean I'm not an insurance but it's not just the people that are renting it. It's also the neighbors who are our constituents who we promised that we were gonna keep a handle on this. And definitely with the amphitheater coming in, if we don't get a handle on it now, it's going to go really crazy in my opinion. So,

and a lot of times rather than having a completely separate policy, they can just up their coverage limits on their current policy to an amount that would be when it sounds like this secondary, I mean, that's not much at all. $500 a year and up to 3,000 up to 3,000. Well, depending on how big the house is, for sure. And I and thank you, Chief, cuz like literally I dumped all this on him right [laughter] before city council meeting. It's like, I'm sorry I've been driving ALL DAY. I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO DO ALL THIS. BUT, UM, you've you found out everything I asked you the question. I appreciate that. Um, and being able to get it. And I think $10 a month or even $100 to purchase the thing is not much to have a business. I, you know, that's not much to keep our rules in. But the insurance thing,

it just all adds up. Yeah. I think it's for on someone's private home, but a business is a total separate thing or two separate entities here. The governor, but the question that I have back to the permit, can we pull the permit [clears throat] if we do find out that there's things that are not following the law permit?

Vice Mayor, I can address that. So under the revisions, we actually have an automatic suspension and revocation process. So there's actually a ladder system that's that's built in. So if we have verified complaints like from verified police observations, uh we can have um you know, if there's serious incidents, you can have immediate suspension. Uh and it's possible for ma major issues. Um there are there would be an appeals process to city council. Uh but those penalties are tied to that escalating. I just wanted to make sure that we were able to pull that permit. You know what I mean? And stop it then. Under the revisions we we have addressed that and you can.

Okay. And then if we did pull that, what if they continue to like rent it out? How who's keeping track of that? We once we found out about it, then we'd send code enforcement. Okay. Okay. Okay. We do have one person signed up to Yeah. to

Okay. Sherry Pullman. Hi, mayor, vice mayor, council members. I'm Sheri Pullman. I have Sherry's Cozy Cottages and we have our two cottages are right on our property. So, what I was concerned about, um, well, first of all, I'm a superhost. And if you don't know what that is, that means we are good people. [laughter]

I am right there. I have the cottages, right? I have a guard dog, a seven pound Shih Tzu, who lets me know when they're coming and going and if there's any problems, which you'll be surprised what you see in a little cottage, but we're right on it, you know, so we've never had to have any problems or anything. Um, I agree with the noise units. However, we don't need them because we're right there. I mean, we know if there's a second car. We know what's going on at all times. Um, however, the million-dollar policy, you're choking us. [laughter] We're being we're not making that much money off it. You know, by the time you get it cleaned, you got all the products, you got everything, the electricity, and everything just keeps going up and up and up, and we can't keep raising our rates. I mean, we're little guys, so we would appreciate the not million-dollar policy. We have it under our homeowners, but like I said, we're there all the time. One of us is there all the time. Um, and I do have a question about, let me find it. It was under licenses to operate section 7468 and it was section E. Hold on, I got to It says evidence of mailed notice to each abuing property and those directly across any abuing public streets of the applicant's intent to secure or renew or short-term rental license. So, we're supposed to notify them every time renew we renew it. That doesn't make any sense. I mean, we had to get their approval when we got our license, but to renew our license every year, we've been doing this for 5 years. We know our neighbors well, except for one neighbor,

which is turning over and they're having contention at the house right now. Um, but I don't see why we have to notify them every year and send out the documents every year. Do you have a clarification? I kind of feel like where the city is the one who does that on the renewal, but I don't know where I read that. I don't It says for us to have to do it here.

Rocky, mayor, if I can. [snorts] If you look at section 7-468, license to operate for the application and the contents. Um, and it it says, "All persons applying to the community development director designate for a license to operate a short-term rental shall file an application with a non-refundable processing fee in the amount specified in the manual fees. And then you have all the separate A, B, C, and D, and E. We can clarify this that it doesn't apply to renewals. Um, it's not written that way under the general section of 7-468. It's not our intention that a renewal would include that. Um, this body might want to in consider that. The policy reason would be people move and you have, you know, new neighbors and they might not know that there's a short-term rental that's being operated. I'm not recommending that you you add that, but it's something that you could certainly consider. Could it be worded differently where it's as if like if there was a a change in ownership then then they have to

but like in this like in the cases where it's even if it's not a change in ownership I think it gives the the neighbors opportunity you know let's say not saying that yours particularly but let's say that there's one in my neighborhood and and there have been a lot of problems with it now I have opportunity to voice my concerns at this renewal stage but they can voice it at any time they don't need

but you're already within a permit So it it doesn't matter but at the renewal it gives the opportunity if there are a bunch of problems then we can say well we need to review this or we need to you know you need to do xyz to continue with this etc. So it just gives an opportunity um to review that. I just wanted to avoid the pettiness of some people sometimes because especially after this last election, you know, we have our group of Republicans on this side of the block and then we have the Democrats on this side of the block and there's that little fighting going on and I don't want pettiness brought up to something that would affect me, which shouldn't affect me. Yeah, there shouldn't be a partisan issue.

Yeah, you'd be surprised. Just Mhm. Rocky, I was just going to comment, mayor, that councelor Green and Trevor are correct. I believe the intent of this was for if there were neighbors that were to relocate and someone else purchased the property that those individuals would be notified. Uh and then also it's an opportunity for um those neighbors if they want to voice their concern, that's the time to address it, too. But also to to her point, uh if these are if the police show up and there are offenses, that's the time that it'll be reviewed as well. So, uh, whether you're petty or not, it's not really going to come into play as whether or not the police show up and there's action that had to be taken. I've seen people move next to a train track and tell the train to stop running.

Really, I have. [laughter] It's like, so I don't want somebody moving in just saying all of a sudden saying, "No, I can't do this." It's like, I've been doing it for five years. Yeah. I think at that point they the city would review and see and they would not be allowed to to shut you down just because of that if there's not been any complaints or complaints or any issues on that because if the properties were sold around the Airbnb, it's not like that's something that um a realtor has to disclose to the buyer. So there'd be no way that they would even know they're buying a house next to a Airbnb until Correct.

Yeah. Okay. on um on like I think it's probably rare that someone lives on site like is that something that we could like does that need to be addressed differently? I I'm not familiar with the numbers. I don't know if we've taken a survey or senses. I can't imagine there's very many that live on site and with that small too they're small units and they're offsite. That's what I was thinking through. I know. It just seems like there's some things that we need to I think. Yeah, that's why I said we can address this offline instead of taking a lot of time tonight as a preview. We have time outside of here so we can discuss it further. And

and certainly if you wanted to regulate different sized um you know short-term rentals differently, you you could consider that. I I'm a little concerned about uh disperate treatment. Um, generally having one standard for everyone is is a very defensible position to take. But if there are certain circumstances that that lead to, you know, needing to have a different regulation, we we could certainly entertain that and and we could work on on drafting that if there's, you know, specific sizes that that you'd want to see treated differently. Well, like the people who rent out bedrooms. Yeah. Bless you, Rocky. Would there be any way for you to know how many of the licenses that we have that they live on the same land that the Airbnbs? I mean,

no, we don't ask if they're home occupied or not. Okay. We could though going forward. Yeah. And then at the time of renewal, I mean, they're just to find like add an additional question. Okay.

Sounds like that may be a work session for us. Yeah, I'm listening and it seems like I mean obviously I appreciate the chief and and and Trevor, you know, being the proactiveness, especially with the fact that you you you're going to to see an increase in the number of short-term rentals. You know, you Bob Mud told me the other day, for example, he believes there could be closer to to 70 events versus the minimum 45. And so, I'm glad we're way ahead of this. And so I think we have enough information from council is that we can start working on this and then it's probably something we should do a special discussion about either before council meeting looking obviously the next month or two might be a little difficult but I'd like to move on this so maybe it's a it's a special meeting before the council meeting for consolidate council's time.

Okay. I think that's wisdom. Yeah. Okay. the motion. What would the motion be? It's a preview. Oh, it's a preview. Yes. Sorry. Okay. Especially if we're going to We don't want to set it for adoption if we're going to have a work session on it. Thank you. So, should we just table should we make a motion to motion to table it until we have our or do we need to do anything?

You don't have to do anything. If you want to do it at a a work session, you could take a motion to say you'd like to have this placed on the next available work session. That would be an option. Uh or if you don't take any action, uh certainly if you instruct Mr. Spurgeon to, you know, coordinate with us to to get that, we can do that. Okay. Council meetings in in March are 3rd and the 24th. And so, let me take a look at the third to see if we could have an hour uh work session before the council meeting. I know because you have NLC that's in in there. Oh, yeah. We have the four public meetings and so we some dates. So once again, I don't want I don't want this to linger. Yeah. So let me look and see the third. I'll work with Lori and and Curtis

and obviously legal heard enough tonight and so we'll have a menu of disc things that need to be discussed and we let the public know those that are here tonight and we're going to have it so they could actually it would be a meeting it' be a work session we would have in here for those that are interested to come. Yep. Perfect. All right. Um 11 is ordinances 11 A, consideration, discussion, and possible readoption of ordinance number 3901. Trevor.

Uh thank you, mayor. Back on December 16th of 2025, this body had passed this uh ordinance number 3901 uh that had content neutral objective standards for amplified music at places of assembly. due to administrative oversight uh this wasn't published properly and so then we ran out of the time of the window to have it published and so once we recognized that simply wanted to bring it back to this body so that they could adopt it and then we could properly get it published happy to answer any questions you may have I'll make a motion to adopt ordinance number 3901 second motion and second roll call item B is the emergency clause

I'll also make a motion to Um, adopt the emergency clause. Second. Roll call.

Council for your I clicked it. There you go. Um, remarks and inquiries by governing body members. First, I want to thank Curtis Green for wearing his matching tie. [laughter] suit today. That was very [clears throat] nice. Thank you very much. Um um let's see. We we Lisa and I attended the state of the state yesterday at the at the capital which and it was opening session. So, uh your husband is now gone. Yeah, it's a very long day.

Yeah, it was a very long day. Um and then I spent last week in DC at the US Conference of Mayors and um learned a lot of really great information. So, um, which I'll be bombarding you guys with soon. So, you know, I, um, this isn't really addressing the council. It's actually addressing the citizen that we just came up. When I was talking to her sister, you know, she said that she was, she watches all of our council meetings, and she gets our agendas, so she knew what was on the agenda. And if you think about all of the Airbnbs we have in our city, that's the only email was from her that I received. And I don't know about you all, okay? Um, but if she wouldn't have showed up and talked to us about her concerns or even sent the email,

then the question I always ask is did anyone speak against it? So, it could have very easily just gone on and got approved because we don't know that you know that that yeah that there's issues. So, um just if people don't know, you can sign up for our issue our um our issues. You can sign up for [laughter] issues. Um you can sign up for the agendas and they'll be emailed right right to you. been plenty of time for you to look it over and see if there's something that you're interested in to speak of. And a lot of times it's just having a conversation. A lot of times people reach out to us and we can have a discussion and then they're like, "Okay, I I see where you're at now." You know what I mean? So, I just wanted to put that out there. It it's important to be

involved and engaged for sure in our city because we listen. Mhm. So, I'll just add on the uh big shout out to the entire city on how well they address the snow and the ice and all that kind of fun. I mean, how often is it we get an email from a citizens that's really given kudos for those types of things. I was coming back from Dallas on the 25th and 26th. Let me tell you, there was a big difference in how they treat their roads and how we treat our roads because it was night and day. um amazing ours being much much better. Yes. Very very much so. So just again please offer that up to that. We received lots I received a lot. Yeah. It was really good.

Yeah. We have such

well mayor actually I good good evening again everyone. I I just was going to start with u recognizing the uh street super street department director his team all emergency management all the organizations departments that actually participated to make sure the pro the planning that went into uh making sure that we're prepared for for whatever amount of um snow ice we received and once again uh we went above and beyond. And so I want to thank especially Tim Wilson and his team and all the planning also to to Kenny Schwab specifically for serving as acting city manager for for for those few days and I appreciate that very much Kenny. But also the communications about what's going on. Uh also we also were we got some participation from several churches for some warming shelters and so that was a good sign you know that the the support we have for those that may be v vulnerable. So I was very happy with that. But once again, the entire organization responded and our citizens responded well with the appreciation.

Yeah. Do we have anyone using the warming uh any did anyone go to the churches? Do we know? I haven't had a chance to talk to Kenny. Okay. If that's the case, but but I will know that I can lay counsel on that. I'd just be curious if anyone utilized them in and I know that we were we got added to the Oklahoma website for our warming station. So,

the other thing was I wanted to mention is when we had the special meeting out at NSU on January 12th, uh there were a lot of folks that attended, obviously over 1300. I've got an email from a longtime resident who lives off of uh New Orleans between County Line Road and the university about the number of cars that were there trying to get in. And so, I just want to let council know is we've talked about the fact the impact with NSUBA growing uh to being a for university and the amphitheater. So the traffic committee is going to be looking at and we're going to be closely monitoring the the traffic from where uh people that go to the amphitheater where they're coming from. And so that's something that long range plan, you know, there there may have to be some type of uh addressing the the traffic and that people that are coming from west to the east on 101st. And so if anyone asks you is that that's something that Kenny has already thought about and and we're we're going to be discussing it and it's not something we we need to do today. Obviously, one meeting doesn't necessarily go out and put a traffic signal on one of those three streets and which one would it be? Uh, but basically just just let anyone know is that is on the city's radar screen and we'll be monitoring it as the amphitheater opens up and making sure that if there is a need for any type of traffic control in that in that mile stretch or so, we'll be addressing it. That's all I have. [snorts]

We do have executive session. So, entertain a motion to [clears throat] take a brief recess to go into beta. So move

pickle. Yes. Green. Yes. Ford. [snorts] Yes. Parks. Yes. Wimpy. Yes. Call the Broken Air Municipal Authority meeting to order. Roll call. Pickle here. Green here. Ford here. Parks here. Whimpy here. Are there any items to be removed from the consent agenda? I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda as it stands. Second. I have a motion in a second. Roll call. There are no public hearings, appeals, presentations, recognitions, or awards.

Excuse me, councelor Green. We didn't get your vote recorded. Yes. Yes. Thank you. There are no general authority business remarks by governing body members. City man,

madam chair, I just want to add to the emergency response. Tim Robbins and the utility department were prepared. Obviously, when you have the freezing, there's always the thawing and then there, you know, there's there's there's water main breaks and I mean they they do such a great job and so I just wanted to make sure I recognize the utility department for their efforts as well. Well, and all the way down to like having additional like the extra parts on hand in case like vehicles broke down, like being able to maintenance those really quick to get them back out on the street, which was really cool to find out that like they were all the preventative stuff that they had in mind, which was really great to hear.

It it's amazing. I mean, Ryan Ryan Ba obviously, you know, the logistics and support. I mean, I you know, I wanted to mention, you know, our our solid waste department as well. you have to make accommodations. And what was really good as I was watching the comments, people are very understanding about the the inability to be able to pick up and to pick up safely. And that's one thing I've noticed about Broken Arrow is that, you know, I would say 90 95% of the people in our community understand if if you can't get to their trash, as long as they know, as long as you as you tell them what's going there, you know, you have some folks that you know, the social media warrior, keyboard warriors, but for the most part, you have uh tremendous amount of support. And we do a great job with Jerry and Aaron if when letting people know when they're because that's a lot of times they just want to know. Yeah.

They just want to know how you know the inconvenience is going to leave it out when it's going to picked up. And we do a great job there. I just want to mention that. Well, you know, we added two more um snow plows to help get to our residential areas. And people noticed, you know, they noticed that. Of course, they thought like, why didn't my street get done? But it was the main aerial. And I don't know if it was even intentional, but it seemed like they came by my [snorts] house the day before the trash was picked up. So that way those streets were, you know, treated for then our But did you say we're doing residential areas? What? Yeah. [laughter] Yeah, they did my street. They didn't do the mayor's street. The Yeah, the main arterials. There's You said residential areas. You didn't say arterials.

No, the arterials in the residential area. Yes, the main street. Yes, they did them. They did my neighborhood. [laughter] They did. They did work, too. Do you have any grave coupon as well? They [laughter] did it because they did too. Like they did that. I just thought we did all over the town. So, the other thing I want to say is probably the biggest debate was the biggest Did we put down the brine on the street too quickly? Yes. And we have we apparently have a lot of experts that know that that you know when you put the brine down, you know, 51 hours before the storms, that's too long. So, we had to answer several questions about the the efficient way and the timeliness of brine, but I think we answered those questions. Little levity there. Okay. We didn't really put it out too soon. We absolutely not.

Had we had people that thought we didn't even know what it was. What is this? Those streets are dirty. It's called preparation, folks. It was just interesting the comments about the brine. Well, you know, brine is a new concept for me, too. Just I mean, I never heard of that until I became a city counselor. So, that's all I have. Yeah. Okay. So moving on, we have no executive session. So I'll entertain a motion to adjurnn. So move second.

Call the Broken Arrow Economic Development Authority to order. Roll call.

Pickle here. Green here. Ford here. Parks here. Wimpy here. Are there any items to be removed from the consent agenda? [clears throat] Make a motion to approve the consent agenda as it stands. Second. Roll call. [snorts] [laughter] There are no public hearings, appeals, presentations, recognitions, or awards. Item six is general authority business. 6A. consideration, discussion on possible approval of and authorization to execute economic development agreement between solar turbines and broken air economic development authority. Travis Stevens, Amber Miller,

Good evening, Beta Chair Wimpy, Vice Chair Parks, Trustees Ford, Green Pickle, and Beta General Manager Michael Spurgeon. I am delighted to be here tonight before you to present this agenda item because we get to talk about new job opportunities for the citizens of Broken Arrow. So, uh, my comments will be very brief because in all of our business attraction, retention, and expansion efforts, the EDC leads the way. And so I am going to turn this over to vice president of the EDC Amber Miller and she's going to fill you in on all the details. So Amber,

good evening, chair, vice chair, trustees, and general manager. Um I'm here this evening to speak on an economic development agreement for project sapling um which we we've all uh known this project as um or solar turbines. Uh this agreement is a performance great performance-based agreement um and it's structured to support that continued um investment and employment growth in Broken Arrow while ensuring accountability to uh for those public dollars. Um, project sapling or solar turbines, uh, represents the expansion of an existing employer in Broken Arrow and includes the capital investment of $32 million and the addition of 52 new full-time jobs, bringing new new manufacturing capacity to our community. Um, this project does support the retention and expansion of jobs and investment that we already have in Broken Arrow while encouraging a long-term reinvestment. Supporting existing employers as they grow is a critical part of maintaining a stable and resilient local economy. Um this agreement is structured so that incentives are tied directly to performance, capital, investment and job creation occur before those incentives are realized which does help protect the taxpayer dollars and ensures a measurable return on that um investment. So beyond the immediate uh job and investment numbers, this project does strengthen Broken Arrows manufacturing base and reinforces the city as a place where employers can grow and invest with confidence over the long term. Um at this time I would like to invite um David Simon uh general manager to share a few words and provide any additional context um on the uh project and the agreement. [clears throat] Good evening, CI city council members. My name is David Simon. I'm the general

manager of the solar turbines broken arrow facility. Uh we are an a manufacturer of industrial gas turbine engines for the uh oil and gas industry and power generation industry and we're experiencing incredible growth primarily being driven by the power industry and the energy needs across the US. I'm proud to say, you know, we are a our company's based out of our head headquarters based out of California, but I'm proud to say that the Broken Arrow facility is one of the fastest growing manufacturing facilities in solar turbine. So, we have facilities in California and Mexico, but we're growing significantly here in Broken Arrow. In the last 5 years, we have expanded our he our workforce by over 75% and we are in the process of growing our footprint by over 50%. and we plan on continuing to grow out as we see this growth for energy consumption for many years to come. And we we are really proud of what we've been doing. We're thankful for the relationship that we have with the city of Broken Arrow and the Economic Development Corporation. Thank you.

Thank you, sir. Happy to answer any questions that you may have. Any questions? It's exciting. It's exciting. It is very exciting. I would ask council's consideration approving the the economic development agreement that's before you that provides some some incentives for per the per the policy for for job creation based on the uh the the income for those in those positions as well as a capital investment that that's being proposed and the funds would be coming out of the PSO uh 1% from the job creation as well as the capital. I'll make a [snorts] motion to approve and authorize and execute the economic development agreement between Solar Turbines Incorporated in the Broken Arrow Economic Development Authority.

I'll second. All right. Roll call. Thank you guys. Thank you. All right. We do have a executive session back in regular council. Entertain a motion to clear the room. So move second. I'm sorry. Who made that motion? Thank you. I I entertained a motion. So you made the motion. We need a second. I'll second. I thought you said I'll make a motion. And then who second it? Lisa. Lisa. We haven't voted yet though. No.

Pickle here. Yes. Green. Yes. Ford. Yes. Parks. Yes. Wimpy. Yes. All right. So, we need to clear the room now.