Council - Regular Meeting

At 6 PM, we'll call the meeting to order. Council Gilmore is going to give our invocation to pledge. All right, we'll pray. Father, we honor you. We thank you for this night. God, let everything tonight be done decently and in order, God, and we thank you for this city and everybody here today in Jesus name. Amen. Face the flag for the pledge. Attention, salute, and pledge. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Coral,

councelor Gilmore here. Woodley here. Stone here. Roden here. Vote right here. Batty here. Mayor

here. Cororum. Uh, under recognitions, I'm sure most of you heard that Charlie Rogers passed. Um, he was a detective and an officer at Mallister Police Department at one time and a good friend of the community of Mallister. I mean, anytime you needed something, he was more than willing to to step up and help. and um bottler of the year back to back for Pepsi and just brought a lot of recognition to Mallister and and I know especially with athletic organizations and all the kids I mean anything they needed he was always there to help. So I've asked that flags be flown at half staff on uh September 3rd on the day of his funeral and I'd like to take second Tuesday. Oh, Tuesday, September 2nd. And I'd like to go ahead and take a moment of silence. Thank you.

All right, we'll move on to citizens comments on non-aggenda items. Residents may address the council regarding an item that is not listed on the agenda. Residents must provide their name and address and council request that the comments be limited to five minutes. Mr. Still hard to get up. Hello. Haven't seen you in a while cuz I've been gone. My name's Richard Bowen and uh I've got a concern about a street light at Tandy Town. I was I'd like to to pose a if you could see a picture for a minute. I was in I was going west in the turn lane to go into Tandy Town. You all with me? There was a there was the light was turning. I was waiting on the light to turn. The light had already turned red and a guy came barreling down the hill. ran the light and a car nearly came out from Tandy Town. They if they had jumped the gun, they had hit them. And uh we were right in the first car and we thought, man, if he had hit him, we might have been involved in it, too. But and I called the PD to see if there was a camera there just because I couldn't tell. And that was just a concern I had that have y'all had very many wrecks there. I know it's not on the agenda item. Officer Gamble, do you know very many wrecks they've had there, have they?

Yes, sir. I didn't know. U but u if they have a wreck there, I mean, you're Well, if a camera was there, I don't know if you could I don't know how that works. I'm not um just I know Officer Gamble said that there had been several breaks there, but I don't know if how a camera would help at all unless it was to to prove that somebody would run the red light when they weren't supposed to. I don't know. That's just a concern I had somebody to talk around it or whatever. And is Tommy here? No. Yeah.

Yeah. Tommy, thank you for putting those cones up. No problem. appreciate. That's all I had and I've got I'm going to save my minutes for another day. Thank you. Thank you. That's all I've got. Anybody who's not on the agenda or or signup sheet. Okay. We'll move on to consent agenda. All matters listed on the consent agenda are considered to be routine by the city council, be enacted by one motion. There will not be separate discussion of these items. If discussion desired, that item will be removed from the consent agenda. It will be considered separately. Uh, I would tell you we're going to go ahead and pull item B uh to bring back later. Did you say D?

D is D is a dog. Uh, so consent agenda would be items A through C and E through F. Would anybody like anything pulled? Seeing none, I'll take a motion to approve items A through C and E and F. Motion councelor uh Batty second. Councelor vote right.

Vice Mayor Batty, yes. Councelor Boy, yes. Gilmore, yes. Woodley, yes. Stone, yes. Rhoden, yes. Mayor,

yes. And the motion carries. Uh, we have against on item four. So, we're going to move item four up first. Uh so item four is presentation and acceptance of the actraarial funding report as of July 1st 2025 and the GASB financial reporting statements of June 30, 2025 for the city of Mallister defined benefit retirement plan and trust. Good evening ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Mayor, members of city council. I'm Bruce Nordstrom. I'm the actuary for the pension plan. Um I'm here to present the funding and Gazby reports for the plan. And in a nutshell, the news is very good. For the first time in all the years I've been working with this plan, you're almost at 100% funded. Um, there's several different ways to measure that. In one way, you're 97.4. In another way, you're 101.3, but for all intents and purposes, you are about 100% funded in the pension plan. So, it's been a long slog to get there. The plan's been frozen for 12 years. Um, we're finally there. The minimum contribution for the current year is down from last year's 414,000 to 355,000. Sorry, 300. Yeah, 355 and next year will drop um precipitously after that because we've advertised the last of the old funding bases. Um participant count continues to drop as it has to. If you look at page three, it's in your packet on the funding report. Um highlights of the report, you've got almost 15 million in assets, market value. We use a smooth value for funding and the smooth value is 14.4 million. And then the liabilities are kind of right between the two at 14.7 million. Uh you've paid off about a million two in benefits per year. So the liability number is going to continue to kind of coast downward. The assets have been stable for five years, mostly because of good returns

and somewhat aggressive funding. So, from a standpoint of the plan staying fully funded, it shouldn't be a problem to keep it right in that 100% area. I'm going to go through this kind of quickly, but if anybody has any questions, blurt them right out. I don't get points for finishing fast. I do get points for finishing um with everybody understanding what I say. Doesn't always happen because I'm an actuary, but it is what it is. Um, if you look at page seven of the of the report, the funding report again, it shows kind of a five-year history. Um, you can see the liability trending downward from 17 million in 2021 down to the 147 number. This year, the assets have usually been either just below or just above 14 million. This year, they're a little higher than that. returns have been good basically three years in a row as that's helped to get the funding up. Um we've also had liability gains as some of the participants with large benefits have passed in the last few years. Um on page 10 we go through the mechanics of the contribution requirement use a requirement but it's actually not a required contribution. It's uh voluntary by the city, but I would encourage you to continue making the funding contributions because it's easy to fall out of 100% funded if you get bad returns in the market. It's happened in the past. Don't want it to happen again. It hurts your caffer and your financial statements if we can't demonstrate that the plan is going to be fully funded at any point when benefits come due. So making a little more in contributions this year, probably next year and the year after will help keep you above 100% for all future years. Um that's all I have on the funny report. I'll pause for questions here and then I'll go on to the Gatsby report. Any questions on funding?

Uh you talked about uh reducing that contribution some. Do you have a rough estimate of what that would be?

It it could go down if you wanted to cut it all the way to bare bones. could go down to as low as 15 or 20,000. We'll know better next year when we know what the results are of the uh current year's investment returns. Um I would recommend that you stay somewhere in the $200,000 range at least for a couple years because you want to make sure that you can always prove that the plan is going to have assets to pay benefits. And and we can talk about why that is. The Gatsby standard, the government accounting standards board requires you to project your benefits out to end of the plan. Basically, the last participants age 120. And if you don't have assets available for paying those benefits, then you're forced to discount the liabilities at a much lower rate, every 100 basis points of a lower rate on this plan raises the liability about 9%. So, if you were forced to use a bond rate like four or 4.5% for the benefits paid out in the future, that would increase the liability, your funded status would look worse on your balance sheet and you'd probably get hit some bond rating points be more expensive to Florida bond issue.

Oh, no. But as comparison, our our contribution this year was well over 400,000. Is that correct? Right. That's correct. So, yeah. So, you theoretically you could go from 400 to 20 but be better, but our budget could look a couple I'm not going to pretend. I understand how the budgeting for the city works because, you know, my focus is very narrow. But you've got spending priorities, you've got, you know, other obligations that you need to satisfy and this is just one of them. But you've got flexibility as to what you can do. My my recommendation would be to keep the contribution level higher at least until you get more of a cushion. Right now, your cushion is razor thin.

One bad year and you'd fall out of full funding. you'd like to have a little more safety there, a little less risk, a little more flexibility in the future. So, appreciate it. That would be my recommendation. Um, the Gatsby report is very similar to the funding report. The liabilities are identical, the assets are identical. The difference is that the presentation of numbers in the Gazsby reports very different. The vocabulary is different. Uh I won't spend a lot of time on it, but just conceptually the expense that you recognize on your balance sheet under the Gazsby rules is the change in funded status from year to year, but you're allowed to defer recognition of certain gains and losses, asset gains and losses over five years, experience, mortality, retirement, termination, etc. over what happens to be one year. Now, it's the average future working lifetime of your employees, but it includes retirees as zeros. So, the average is actually one year. So, a lot of the words and a lot of the numbers in this report just back into how those things are advertised, how they're deferred, but you're actually generating pension income this year. Your liability is now positive. You've got more assets and liabilities. And the income was a couple hundred,000. It was 146,000 and we expect that to be 258,000 next year. Pension income. You haven't had that in a long time. Um we won't know for sure until we get to the end of the year because we have to measure that at 1231. But that's the Gazsby report. Um also good news and the plan on the Gazsby basis is slightly overfunded because it uses market value assets. So, questions on that? Any questions on anything on the pension plan?

Okay, then. Thank you very much. May I thought he would I didn't think he was through uh on what we were talking about earlier. You asked told me I need to talk to the attorney about uh Yeah. A question about a plan provision that was changed years ago. Um I'm sorry, John. I threw it at you. That's okay. It's it's it's more of a legal issue than an actuarial issue. It was a uh the drop plan was amended and changed. We value the new plan the way it was amended, but he had a question about how that how that amendment took place.

Okay. The the drop plan, all of the employees that took the drop plan got a dollar figure. Okay. Some of the employees took the 15% because they were still working. And at the end of three years, Pete decided he was getting rid of that drop plan. So, he cut us completely out where the employees that were on the 15% didn't get nothing compared to what the drop plan did. Is there any way of reversing that where we get our our fortune that was supposed to be in our retirement?

I'll have to look at the actual documents without those in front of me. I can't answer that. I don't want to give false hope or or negative hope those in front of me, but I will certainly get with our interim manager and refine those documents. I'll get an answer for you, sir. Okay. Any other questions? Does the city have a a mandatory retirement age? Not to my knowledge. looking at the different scales on here. 120. That's looks like it. Yes. As far as the pension plan goes, the answer is no. But the benefits are generally unreduced at 55 if you've got sufficient service. And so a lot of people who've been with the city a long time will take it at that age. Okay.

But there's no mandatory age. I think that's probably not legal anymore unless you can prove a job requirement like pilots or actuaries. Any other questions? Appreciate you. Thank you very much. All right, we'll move back to item number motion to accept. Oh, motion to accept. A motion to accept. Councelor Gilmore. Councelor Boight for color. Councelor Gilmore, yes. Boight. Yes. Woodley, yes. Stone, yes. Roden, yes. Batty, yes. Mayor,

yes. Motion carries. Right. Item number one, discussion of possible action to approve the purchase of a Kamasu Crawler Dozer from Kirby Smith Machinery Inc. for the use of the landfill amount of $171,351. Mr. Hill, well, we've come to that point at the landfield that we need a new dozer. The one that we have at the present time has a bad engine in it. The approximate cost is $70,000 to fix that part, but that does not bring the dozer up to a usable deal. It It's It's wore out.

Three bids and they were all the exact same piece of machinery. Yes, sir. Any questions? Do they Excuse me. Go ahead. Do they give us any kind of warranty? Yes, we will have a 5year warranty on this dozer. is could that be used if we had a wildfire in Macau or anything? Well, it it's being purchased with landfill money. So, it it purpose is going to be for the land. I was wondering if we couldn't use some of that agriculture wildfire grant for that or something if it could have been used for that. But if it can, it can't be used. Yeah, that money is more.

Go ahead. Do we have the money for this dozer? Yes, Miss Sherry Swift has made sure we got the money for the dozer. Okay. Yeah. Come up. We don't have a handheld microphone yet. I can call her. It's It's for the people at home.

I just had a question. Sorry. No, you're fine. Have Have there been any other Did you get any more bids from anybody else? Yes, we got three different bids. Okay, that was the lowest. That's lowest bid. Best bit. Yes, that's all I You cause a lot of trouble. Thank you. Thank you. Y'all have any further questions? Motion to approve. Motion. Councelor Boight to councelor Woodley. Coridge color. Councelor Boight. Yes. Woodley. Yes. Stone. Yes. Rhden. Yes. Batty. Yes. Gilmore. Yes. Mayor.

Yes. The motion carries. Uh we're going to pull item number two. Move on to item number three. Discussion of possible action upon a resolution for a use permit after review in the C4 redistrict commercial district for use of the property located at 439 West Pearl Albert Parkway described as the west 60 ft of lot 6 block 314 [Music] in city formula Pittsburgh County Oklahoma for the use of multifamily residential moderate intensity consistent with section 62263.

Good evening council. I made sure to put on legal for you. Um so this property that you see is on West Carl Albert Parkway. Um it is currently zone C4. Um it had previously been used as a child care facility uh center, learning center and has been closed probably over a year. I think it was in April 2024. Uh the new property owner um would like to make this into um apartments. uh he plans for three apartments and the C4 um restricted commercial district uh it's actually C1 through C4 they do allow the multif family so this is a use permit after review um so the planning commission considered this at their July 15th meeting and voted to um recommend this for city council approval and it does meet all the technical requirements that use permit you and the resolution that's included in the packet also outlines all the screening, landscaping, lighting, and parking stipulations of that multifamily use in that area. So, um even if it changes hands, those are in there to help ensure that that that's continually followed um even after they changes into apartments. We feel like this is the probably the highest best use for this um structure and I feel like the site plans that are included in the packet are, you know, they're well thought out and and they seem to have a pretty solid plan.

This is roughly right across from the other apartment complex. I mean, I think they're No, this one's on D Street, so where the Sinclair um it's right across Carl Albert Parkway. It's on the north side, Carl Albert Parkway. It was in a vet long time ago. It was Yes, it was a vet office before it was childcare learning center, but it has been vacant for some time. So, it'll be nice to have, you know, it occupied. Is there going to be upstairs to this apartment? Yes. Then they'll have stairways, emergency exits to get out from

I would imagine so. Um there is uh so on the first floor there's the first apartment is 882 ft, one bed, one bath. The second apartment is 623 ft, one bed, one bath. And then on the second floor, the apartment three is um 1,148 square ft and it's two bed, two bath. So, and it would have to meet all the building codes and everything. I just I just didn't think the ladder stairway going up was adequate right now. So that's the reason I asked. Is it a remodel? Yes. Well, it'll be a change of use. Um so they would have to, you know, pull the building permits and submit all that. That code you would catch.

We have not got that far yet because um they first would need the permission to do it by zoning. Yeah. Mainly just saying we'll we'll catch that on the back side of correct. Making sure it's built correctly. Yes. Perfect. Any further questions? I make a motion that we approve this. Second. Second. First council second council rhden yes boatright yes yes Gilmore yes woodley yes stone yes mayor yes and the motion carries thank you councel thank you any new business

no new business deal uh staff reports we have Mr. Sner and Um, tonight you're actually going to be speaking on your third phone, the airport.

I am. Yes. So, with a few transitions, we've been filling in a few roles and helping out. So, uh, thank you for the opportunity tonight to give you a little brief update on the Mallister Regional Airport. So, uh, first off, uh, we do have the keys to the new terminal. So, we're really excited about that, but we are not operating out of there yet. So, it's close. Uh, but we got a few things we're still working on. So staff is working to piece together the furniture and getting operations move it over to the new building. We're in the process of getting internet, Wi-Fi to the building as well as other communications transferred. So our goal is to make this a smooth transition for all the pilots and the staff. And we have set a date for the grand opening. So we're looking at doing two different events. One for VIPs, donors, and partners that will be on Friday, October 24th from 11:00 a.m. to 1 p.m. And our goal is to send out invites this week. So, the council will be receiving those. The following day, we're hoping to plan a public open house, uh, which would then be held on Saturday, October 25th from 11 to 1. And the public will have a chance to come out and view the new terminal. Uh, we hopefully have some small activities and events for them to participate in as well. And as we plan more of that out, I've got a meeting tomorrow with airport advisory board to talk about the time capsule and other aspects that they can help with. So, as more details come, we'll happily share those with not only the council, but the public as well. Uh, last Thursday, October 21st, I was honored to attend the ODAA meeting in Oklahoma City, where the committee approved our grant application for the rehabilitation of the taxiway and airport lining project. And that was a project which the council had voted on and voted to pursue during the July 22nd council meeting. So, I was asked to get up and give a few words on behalf of the city and I extended our thanks and appreciation for the project and also the partnership and investment in not only our region and community but also our airport. We hope to start that

project sometime in November and once the complete timelines are set, the overall project will take roughly about four months. So, that's going to depend on weather and permitting and where we can stand to start the project. Um, Lochner told me it could be as late as early spring, but they're hoping that with Oklahoma weather here in the southeast, we might be able to do some work in December as well. So, um, since I've been out at the airport, I can personally say it's much busier than I think people really anticipate. Um, from small planes and helicopters to large jets, dignitaries, celebrities, flight schools, medical staffs, doctors, private individuals taking trips, or just even aviation enthusiasts. there's always someone taking off or landing at the airport. So, one of the things going just back to my tourism roots, uh I decided to put that into perspective because I was curious and so I used our visitation data that we use from Placer that we measure our local events on and I pulled some numbers to the airport that I thought I would share with you all tonight. So, in 2022, there were 6.4,000 visitors to the airport. In 2023, we increased to 7.8,000. In 2024, the number increased again to 9.5,000. And already this year, there's been 7.3,000 visitors to the airport. So looking at those numbers, I think it definitely shows the investments that we as a city and you as a council are making to the airport is really paying off and I'm confident we'll continue to see those numbers rise. Um, I have to say one of the things that I'm been extremely impressed with is the staff at the airport. The team there takes great pride in the service that they provide and the overall impression that people have not only of the airport but also the city when they fly in. And I can't honestly say enough great things about them. So they work hard. They're extremely dedicated to the airport and to the city. So JW Hightowwer, TJ Karns, and Jason Fender. I wanted you guys to know their names to recognize those and

just for me to tell them my thanks and appreciation for the work that they've been doing because we're lucky to have them out there. And speaking of staff, I am happy to say that we have hired a new airport manager as well. So, and I firmly believe he will continue our great service and push for great things at our airport and he's here tonight. So, I'd like to ask him to come up and introduce himself to you all. Um, so please welcome Mr. Eric Suski. council. I'm not uh seems like the third fourth time I've been up here. So, under newer student circumstances, but uh I'm very excited about this opportunity. I was out today is my first day uh after the improcessing and everything else. And uh I echo everything that Billy said. The staff is amazing. Uh it's the new terminal is going to be amazing. We're really going to do some great things with this airport. Thank you for this opportunity and uh this challenge and uh I hope I can knock it out of the park for the city of Mount Calister.

You all have any questions or Well, thank you guys. Well, I'd like to say I'd like to say a good job to the board of trustees out there building this new thing. They put a lot of hard work into it. I had a chance to tour it a couple of weeks ago and it is it is a really really nice facility. We're going to be very proud of it. Lot of hard work. Tried to get Jeff to apply for that job. Said he's too old and too busy. Yeah. No further questions. Uh we'll move on to the interim city manager report.

The uh report is as part of your package. The only thing that's uh new on that report probably my name Adrian has done a good job of putting everything together. All the information that he normally provides to you is there. The city is I'm hoping to continue the city's progress. That's my my personal challenge to myself. Take advantage of the things that uh have been coming down to us through economic development, city growth. Um, my initial plan is to make things continue to operate as they should, help the citizens of Mallister in any way I can. When you reach out to me, my intent is to answer you with as much information as I can, as quickly as I can, to try to satisfy the need that that you bring forth for our citizens.

That's all I have. Thank you. appreciate remarks and inquirs for the city council. I got a couple of things here. Uh last week, a couple of us council people were able to go and meet with Dr. Steber, the Macau public school superintendent. Uh Kevin and uh Chris were able to go. There's an election coming up on September 9th um for a school bond issue. And I want to encourage everybody to go and get the facts off of their website. Do a uh do a deep dive on it and vote with facts on September 9th.

I just want to echo what Levi said about the uh school board school bond issue. Um it does bring it even brings tourism to the town. Um they've been hosting uh various tournaments. This will also enable them to to host more. It brings people from out of town into our town to spend money and we like that. We need that. We live on sales tax. Um also, you know, we we have an egg program with no animals. A agriculture is very important, especially in Oklahoma. And we need we need an egg building that that we can actually have some animals in. So that's part of it. And the football stadium, it needs updating. There's some of the stuff that absolutely has to be done. School bond difference on your property taxes, a small difference, but we have to invest in in our in our town. We we've got to put some money back into this school. Uh we've got businesses coming in. We got people are going to be looking at our schools. We We need to really put a little more investment into them. So anyway, that's all I got.

I'm I'm good. All right. I'm good. Thank you.

So, I just want to reiterate what Chris and Levi said. Uh you know, if you if you tour any of our facilities, our schools are way behind as far as a town of of the same size as we are. our schools are they're basically falling apart. Uh you you go to the uh football stadium, uh it's you go to the locker rooms, it's it's antiquated, very antiquated. And so we we've got to invest it. You know, a talent that invests in itself will actually grow. And we that's what we need to keep their mindset in. If we invest in ourselves, we can we can grow. I deal I deal with CEOs and doctors all the time. They come to our town and look at relocating a manufacturing plant or relocating a distribution center to our town or coming here as a doctor and if one of the first questions they ask me is how are your schools? Well, our schools are not good. our our school if you go the the teachers may be good and yes uh Oklahoma is ranked pretty low in the as far as education goes in the country but we have got to invest in our facilities uh because if if we don't and other towns do guess where those people go they go to other towns so that's all I have I appreciate it

thank you all right mayor's comments u just to kind of continue that conversation a little bit um you know a lot of the misnome when it comes to the bond is, well, the school has something they need to live. They they're spending too much money or they're not spending their money appropriate, but the school does not receive millions and millions of dollars to take care of these buildings and build new buildings as we expand. Um, and so a lot of that conversation kind of comes in with the city of the same thing. But then what you have to realize, we don't get advor taxes

and we left off of four pennies out of every dollar to pay for the city. And it and we I think we do a very amazing job to take care and do what we do. And the school does the same thing and and they've moved forward. They've combined some elementary schools to reduce the number of buildings they have. Uh but the fact of the matter is I mean the the stadium is like the WPA built um where they've done some things to keep the gravel and the rocks from hitting people from falling down. That needs to be taken care of. Uh the band building over at the stadium is is probably time and a half of this room. Um, so if it's raining where you can't get like the electronic keyboards and the woodwinds out, um, they have no awning to go under, um, we try to feed the kids, uh, a little bit before the home games. And I mean, they're literally sitting outside. There's, I think, one little bench. We're dragging up a couple of tables, uh, to do that. The, you know, you said the ACT facility. Um, you don't think about it in town, but you don't typically keep a a a pig out in your backyard. And so if the kids want to do show animals, they have to live in the country or not do show animals. And to add to that, um, but it really does, and I have the same conversations that Kevin has when we're talking about business and they go, you know, I'm trying to get an employee in here that would pay $150,000 a year and they they're where can I live? I want to live in a nice house and what are the schools like? What are the amenities in your community? And this is one of the amenities that we can control. And it's our responsibility as citizens to bring that to our community and and drive our economics. And we will get that paid back through the growth of our community, the people that come to our community and building up. So, um, please help support our community and our schools. Um, on a really positive note, um, I got a call. Paul had not had a chance to read the article yet. U but the World Atlas had some information in the Daily Oklahoma and uh Mallow was ranked number two of all places to live in Oklahoma.

So we got a got a little recognition there. Sorry Muscogi didn't make the list. We're used to it. So So that was really cool. And just to prod Muscogi a little bit more. Um, yeah, it's it's a pick on the Skogo night. Mayor, who who gave us that designation. It it was the uh World Atlas, I believe, is who who did the tabulation, but it was published in the Daily Oklahoma Sunday

year years ago. I was watching national television and they said of the five least expensive small towns under 40,000 in the United States, Mallister was number one. And I have an Australian friend that moved here to Mallow from that for that. He does my poster work. Very good. Good stuff. Um so you might remember um Aubrey Bailey who was Muscogi's Miss team and she and so she's Mallister girl who represented Muscogee. Well, she actually has bumped up into the Miss competition and she just won Miss Tulsa.

And so so you've got a Mallister girl that is going out there and beating hometown girls in other places. So, I thought that was pretty cool uh to go. So, Mallister's just showing up on the map. And talking about the school, school's back in session. Please watch the uh the the school zones, the crosswalks. Um sometimes we've got kids walking to school early. Uh may not be quite light yet. Days are getting shorter. Uh so, just be aware there. Uh first game is in Broken Bow on Friday if you want to come out and support the band and the and the football team. fit that one. Um, and then download the app. Uh, we're still doing um trying to identify our potholes. I think we're up to 87. So, so I don't know if that we don't have very many participants or we don't have very many potholes. So,

which one? Uh, you can argue about which one it is.

I'm saying potholes. this probably uh but but the app's amazing and and the more I talk about this and people go you have an app and and they're really surprised to see how easy it is to report things from us. We want to fix our community. We want to make things better but sometimes we just don't know about the problems. So if if you can help us identify the problems uh we'd really like to try to take care of them when we can. Um we've got some different positions um that we need to fill in house. um probably like to call a special meeting sooner than later. Um just to give Ken some direction and and visit about what our vision is and kind of where we want to go and where our thoughts process is since everything's kind of been a little bit of a whirlwind uh lately. So just kind of keep a eye out on the email for that. And uh finally just really want to say a special thanks to Ken for uh stepping up. It's really been a pleasure to to work with you and you just taking the bull by the horns and been knocking stuff out and getting after it.

I told you I'd give it my best effort every day. Yeah. No, you you absolutely do. Um the amount that you fire emails back at me, um you have made me go, "Well, maybe I shouldn't care more what I wish for." Yeah. Yeah. A lot of times Ken and I's conversation ends with, "Okay, only one of us should be working this late. Go to bed." It's fun. Yeah. So, we we really appreciate you stepping in and helping us out. That's um Oh, just tried methods today.

Oh, yes. We had the ribbon cutting on the Chuckaw Head Start Daycare today. Uh so chief and and uh Trevor car District 11 and a lot of other tribal counselors were there and came to the community and uh really good time and just to see uh what they put together amazing facilities that they've added. Um, I mean, even looking at uh between the library and um the airport just with us on our projects, uh, you know, you're talking over $2 million uh, very quickly in that, not to mention u all the other projects they're doing throughout the their own projects, the the clinic expansion uh, and the Head Start and those sorts of things. So, really glad to have the CH Foundation as a partner in that and and the amount of we actually had from the other tribal counselors coming to our community. That that was really cool that they took the time to to come up here and and celebrate with us. So, with that, we'll uh take a motion to convene as the Mallister Airport Authority. Motion to include approval of minutes from August 12th, 2025 regular meeting of the Mallister Airport Authority. Confirm action taken on city council. No, we pulled Is that what we pulled? What did we pull?

No, we pulled B. So, we pulled B. So, B. Okay. Uh confirm action taken on uh item B and adjourn. Motion councelor Stone. Second councelor Woodley for councelor Stone. Yes. Woodley. Yes. Rhden. Yes. Boight. Yes. Batty. Yes. Gilmore. Yes. Mayor,

yes. Motion carries. Now take a motion to convene as Mallister Public Works Authority. Motion to include approval of minutes from the August 12, 2025 regular meeting of the Mallister Public Works Authority and confirm action confirm action taken on city council agenda item B and adjourn. Motion councelor Batty second. Councelor Roden Cord. Vice Mayor Batty, yes. Councelor Rhoden, yes. Gilmore, yes. Woodley, yes. Stone, yes. Boatright, yes. Mayor,

yes. The motion carries. I think motion convenes the council retirement trust authority. Motion to include approval of minutes from July 22, 2025 regular meeting of Mallister Retirement Trust Authority and approval of retirement benefit payments for August 1st, 2025 and adjourn. Motion councelor boatright. Second, councelor Stone forward. Councelor Boight, yes. Stone, yes. Woodley, yes. Rhoden, yes. Batty, yes. Gilmore, yes. Mayor,

yes. And the motion carries. I take a motion to convene the Mallister Economic Development Authority. Motion to include approval of minutes from August 12th, 2025 regular meeting of the Mallister Economic Development Authority and confirm action taken on city council agenda item B and adjourn. Motion councelor Batty second councelor Gilmore. Gorge Vice Mayor Batty. Yes. Councelor Gilmore. Yes. Woodley. Yes. Roden. Yes. Stone. Yes. Boight. Yes. Mayor, yes. The motion carries. We're reconvening the council meeting. remind you to help us control the pet population. Have your pet spered and we are journed.