City Council - Regular Meeting

Okay, it is 6:30. We have a quorum. So, we're going to call to order the city council meeting for April 20th, 2026. Would you call the role, please? Kathy Griffith. Sid Porter here. Melissa Hunt here. Louis Williams here. Adam Webbs, Rob Clark here, Mark Ham here. Would you please stand for the pledge of

allegiance? 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. Okay, at this time we're going to receive a presentation from the Oklahoma Water Resource Board. Mr. Tim Davis is here. If you just come up, so good evening. Thank you for having me with the Oklahoma Water Resources Board. I'm Tim Davis. Mayor Ham, honorary council members, city manager Brooks Mitchell, and all that are here with us today. It is my pleasure and honor as a resident of Moore myself to present a loan forgiveness check uh loan forgiveness itself, but it's for $24,290,000 for Sorry, I said loan forgiveness actual loan. So many

I was like, wait a minute. I was thinking to myself, whoa, that's for today. It was better earlier. Plus, if you get nervous, it's how it is. But anyway, for the walk wastewater treatment plant improvement. So, congratulations on this grant from the EPA and from the Oklahoma Water Resources Board. Thank you. I'll come down there and and receive that and we get a photograph.

Fact, we like to get everybody involved if we can in the picture. Yeah, if you'd like. Nice and straight. Thank you very

Okay. I don't think I've ever had anybody, but I never 25 million either. So, just know if something horrible happens and we default on the loan, then you no longer have your houses. Uh, item D is a proclamation declaring the month of May 2026 as building safety month. I believe our city staff has a presentation.

Uh well, I just kind of thank the Good evening, council and mayor. I would like to thank you for today for the proclamation. I'm Chad Dudson. I'm the assistant community development director uh for the community development. And I want to proclaim that May is building safety month. Your support enforces an importance of safety construction, responsibility development, and strong property maintenance standards that protect citizens every day. We're excited to connect directly with community during several events. we have for the month of May. February May 8th from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. will be at Home Depot. And on Saturday, May 9th from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at Home Depot and the Moors Farmers Market. There staff will provide an on-spot assistance to de with development site plans. Explain when inspections are required, permitting process, learning for um pollution prevention practices, understand dig safety requirements, possibly issuing permits on site, verify citizen storm shelters registration. So, we'll have equipment there so we can help them through that process. Also on May 13th from 6 PM to 7:30 or 6:30 p.m. to 7:30m here at city hall. We have to apologize it's a Wednesday. May is a very busy month. Um that's the only spot we can get. But we have more to come. What this is going to be is going to be code enforcement is going to host an education academy where we help the public have an opportunity to understand general code enforcement and property maintenance standards. Uh with that I want to thank you for their leadership and support the citizens staff and keep them more safe, resilient and strong. And all of those will be on all those dates and everything will be on the website.

Yeah. Yeah, we are going to set up the website public and everything. Great. Thank you. Wonderful. Thank you so much. We appreciate J. Thank you. Okay. Item two is the consent docket. And I'm I'm going to read this. I normally don't, but it's just uh it says these items are placed in the consent consent docket so council members by unanimous unanimous consent can approve routine agenda items by one motion. If any council member requests to discuss an item or items or if there is not a unanimous consent, then the items will be res removed and heard in regular order.

Make a motion to approve the consent docket items A through D. Second. We've had the motion and second. Would you call the vote? Sid Porter? Yes. Melissa Hunt? Yes. Louie Williams? Yes. Rob Clark? Yes. Mark Ham?

Yes. Consent docket passes. At this time, we're going to recess the city council meeting and convene a public hearing. Item three is conduct a public hearing for the purpose of providing information, including analysis for potential positive or negative impacts and answering questions regarding the proposed project veneer's economic development project plan. Mayor and Council Jeff Saven with the Center of Economic Development Law is here with us this evening. He is going to walk us through a brief presentation on creating a TIFF district and then he will answer any questions that the council and or any residents have regarding the TIFF in general or specifically the TIF that we are proposing.

Evening mayor, council. Um, like Dedra said, uh, my name is Jeff Sabin. I'm a partner at the Center for Economic Development Law in Oklahoma City. Uh, we're the city's TIFF council and also your urban renewal council. Um, today is the first of two public hearings uh, on the project verer's project plan. The second public hearing is going to be scheduled for May 4th, the regular council meeting that night. Um, and the purpose for this meeting is to provide this overview and provide an opportunity for council and any members of the public to ask questions. So, I know the mayor went through this because he chaired the review committee, but for those who aren't familiar with tax increment financing, I'm going to give a little bit of a brief overview here. So tax increment financing uh was authorized by a constitutional amendment that the uh residents of Oklahoma approved in a 1990 election that a couple years later was enacted through uh the local development act passed by the legislature. And what TIFF is, it basically allows the aortionment of what's called the increment of new tax revenue generated u within a proposed geography uh into a separate fund to off to finance certain project costs in a project plan. Now u the the increment is basically the tax value uh if it's advorum taxes it's the valuation on increased valuation which we'll get into here in a little bit. TIFF districts can last up to 25 full fiscal years. Um, basically it's a tool designed to uh incentivize private capital investment uh on underdeveloped or um property in a way that enhances the tax base and provides for um development that otherwise wouldn't have happened. and they're created by a city ordinance

following uh the full process. So for t uh tiff districts to be enacted, it has to fall into one of these three particular areas here. And so it has to be an enterprise area which um is pretty simple. is a state or fally designated enterprise zone. Historic preservation area, which is an area or structure listed on the state historic registry and subject to historic preservation zoning. Or it can be a reinvestment area, which is basically anywhere that requires public improvements to reverse economic stagnation or decline or to uh attract major investment to an area. If you can't meet one of these criteria, the tools of the act of the local development act aren't available for advalorum purposes. So the advalorum uh when a tiff district is established, the county assessor within 90 days goes and establishes what's called the base assessed value. That's the taxable assessed value of that property on the date the tiff district is created. And then through the life of the tiff, the applicable tax rate applied to that value continues to go to the taxing jurisdictions just under regular law and process. The increment is the tax rate that's applicable applied to that increased value. And it's that that's set into a portionment fund to pay authorized project costs. TIFF district typically involves property taxes, but it can also involve sales, use, lodging taxes, and certain other fees like franchise fees, things of that nature. It's important to note tiff does not impose any new taxes. It also does not abate any taxes. It just directs the taxes that are generated by new development for other purposes. Uh this is kind of a basic model for how it works. So you see the the existing tax base uh which is the the taxes on that initial valuation when the tiff

district is created over time that continues to go out to the regular taxing jurisdictions and then over time as the city town or county who's enacting the increment district is able to generate new investment and development within that tiff district boundaries the valuation goes up or new sales taxes or whatever other taxes are provided for on the tiff go up and it's those incremental taxes that are used to pay projects cost. The TIFF district can go out 25 years. It can go out less period if you decide to do so. Uh regardless either at the end of the term of years or once all of the authorized project costs have been paid. So you've generated enough revenue to pay all those costs in the project plan. The tiff district will end and all of that new valuation will go back on the regular tax roles. Uh reasons to create a tiff district are pretty straightforward. Uh you need to attract you need it to attract major investment. You use it to catalyze new uh new investment in new jobs in particular. Uh to promote economic development and increase your tax base. And the fourth bullet there uh make possible investment and economic development that otherwise would have been difficult if not impossible without the tools of the act being used. The statutory process for creating a tiff district uh is a little bit more involved and was listed here, but this is the basic steps. Um the first step even before the project plan is um the city council and assistance. You guys pro uh approved a resolution declaring an intent to consider a project plan a couple months ago. Uh that same resolution also established the statutory review committee uh which is made up of uh members of all the affected taxing jurisdictions and three members of the public at large and it tasked them with reviewing a project plan and making a recommendation to this body. So after that staff uh Dedra and our firm put together a project plan for this project. Uh we put it in front of

the review committee. They met twice. The first one they selected the atlarge representatives and the second one they went over the project plan. This was on March 25th and they made a finding that the tools of the local development act are appropriate here and legal here uh as the area is a reinvestment area. Uh and they also recommended that the city council approve and adopt the project plan. So after that point uh last week actually uh the planning commission also reviewed the draft project plan uh with a specific eye towards whether the proposed project described in it uh is in line with what envision more uh 20 240 calls for your your comprehensive plan. Uh and they gave a recommendation that it did and also recommended approval. Um so and then tonight is the first of two public hearings. Again, the second one is going to be at your regular meeting on May 4th. And then uh you won't be able to consider an ordinance that formally approves the project plan until after the conclusion of that second hearing. I just went over all this in detail. So the project plan itself is the governing document for the increment district. So uh it's required to have u a description of where the increment district is going to be. Uh there can be more than one increment district. And if you see in a minute, we're proposing three um and the project area. And the project area is broader or can be broader than the increment district. The increment district is only that area where increased valuation or increased development activity generates increment revenue. Project area can be broader because that's where you're authorized to spend project costs. Uh authorized to spend the revenue on project costs. U the second bullet point here is probably the most important thing in the project plan. uh aside from the creation of the increment district itself and that's the list of authorized project costs uh because if you timed it right that's going to be hopefully the uh thing that would provide for a termination date because once you've collected enough

revenue uh to pay off all those costs the increment district will end even if it haven't gone all the way to the term of year described in the project plan. Uh you're also supposed to describe what the project is. So you'll have maps showing what's currently in the increment district and project area. uh what the proposed improvements are. Uh if those proposed improvements require any changes in city code, uh zoning, building codes, you're supposed to describe what those are. Uh luckily here, uh we're good on that front. Um and then any authorizations for any other public entities that might need to expend uh some of the incurrent revenues for project costs. Uh if you look through the project plan, you'll notice that the more economic development authority uh is one of the primary entities. Uh some other considerations. Um these kind of stem from some of the legislative guidelines in the local development act, but uh you're not supposed to create an unfair advantage with TIF districts. You're supposed to really just use them to spur development that otherwise wouldn't have happened. You also need to make sure all tiff is is a tool. It doesn't actually obligate funds for anything. So any expenditure of those revenues has to be through your regular contracting processes. So, uh, if you're doing private development assistance, there'll be a development agreement that provides for the terms of the incentive that might be provided. Uh, if it's public infrastructure improvements, that'll just go through your regular bidding process. The project area, um, you want to make sure any of your authorized uh, project costs where you anticipate those being are included in the project area. And, uh, as I noted earlier, you can include more than one tiff district within a project plan. You're also not required to uh effectuate each of the uh increment districts within a project plan at the same time. The statute provides a period of 10 years after approval of a project plan to actually create that increment district. So whether it's 25 years or what we're

proposing 15 years, which we'll get to in a minute, uh that statutory period for a portioning increment won't start until you actually go in and by separate action effectuate each increment district. So the project verer's economic development project plan uh is the project plan that uh staff has worked diligently on for it feels like six months. Um at least maybe not the actual project plan itself but the project itself that's in it and it proposes three uh increment districts on the the northern edge of the city uh north of 27th Street in between I35 and Pole Road. Um it's uh the districts are going to have a a mixture of light industrial and commercial uses. Um despite the statutory authorization to go out 25 fiscal years, uh staff really wanted to make sure that uh we weren't burdening the taxing jurisdictions any more than is absolutely necessary to get the development on that project site to happen. So we think we got it to where we can get it paid off in 15 years max. And I'll go over that a little bit in the project uh budget. So, uh, there are primary authorized project costs in the project plan. Uh, the project budget is $42 million, but that's mostly public infrastructure improvements. Um, it also provides for, uh, you may have remembered several weeks ago, uh, you all approved a development agreement with one of the project uh, developers. So it provides basically a sixth year of potent of reimbursement uh for advalorum taxes on top of their five-year manufacturing exemption. So it provides for that and a small allocation if anything is needed for uh tiff B and C which we'll go over here in a minute. um the 15 fiscal years, uh we thought um based on the project costs that are needed, we

budgeted that to where if only the first project that we know of, the project is going to go in TIFF A happens, we should be able to pay it all off within 15 years. If anything happens in TIFF B or C, that's going to be gravy and accelerate that schedule even further. the objectives. Uh we want to attract this one particular project that we know of and encourage the development of the surrounding sites. Um that's the primary one. So this is the map of the proposed tiff districts and it's kind of small to see on the screen I realize now but um

it's on if council if you're looking it's on page 71 or 72 of your agenda

if you want to see it better. So you can see there are three increment districts there. Um the the broader dash line, the large rectangle is the project area. And we'll go over the different public improvements and things of that nature that will be needed and why that's been drafted so large. So TIFF A is where that regional fulfillment center uh is proposed to go. Uh TIFF B is owned by the same developer and he's been they've been marketing that site. Uh, Tiffy, I believe, has a different owner, but we thought, uh, since we're going to be building new things, we want to incentivize commercial development along the frontage for 535 there as well. Uh, this is the uh the project budget, a little bit more spelled out. So, again, about $28.5 million for uh public infrastructure improvements. Um the city is going to pay these funds upfront through other available sources and then use the tiff to reimburse itself and also to reimburse uh the county's industrial authority will also be providing some of that funding. But that those infrastructure improvements that are needed to even make the site developable uh include a a widening project for northeast 27th Street uh and Eastern Avenue. um pretty much a full uh rebuild of uh Pole Road to expand it and provide for uh heavy truck traffic for the the regional distribution center. Uh water and sewer service on site which is currently not available at all. Um and that also includes uh given the capacity that we estimate uh requires a new water pump station on the western side of I35. And then also this area is prone to flooding, especially flash flooding. Uh so we're going to be proposing some drainage improvements to help uh alleviate some of those concerns both on the proposed development sites and in some of the surrounding commercial areas. And then you'll notice the assistant

development financing includes the basically the six-year abatement for the project that we know is going in Tiff A and provides up to half of the available increment that we anticipate could be generated from tiffs B and C as private assistance if it needs it. We're hopeful that it won't need it. Uh so we'll be heavily scrutinizing any proposed project that might request any of those funds. And then those uh $950,000 proposed to reimburse some of the city's costs and administering and setting up the TIFF district. And it also includes uh reimbursement of some of the county's expenses and determining the base assessed value for the districts. and then uh roughly a 10% contingency in case there are cost overruns on any of the projects. This is the map of the proposed improvements. Uh it's also hard to read, so sorry about that. But uh the green lines are the uh basically roughly where the sewer extensions, water and sewer extensions are going to be. Uh there'll be traffic signals on eastern and then pole road and 27th. There'll be a new street constructed, a new 35th Street uh north of TIFFs A, B, and C. Uh the areas where there's uh the red circles, the elongated circles, those are the areas where we anticipate drainage uh imp uh improvements being made. We're not quite sure the extent of those drainage improvements at this point, but that's the rough area where we anticipate them being uh based on uh water modeling flows. And then the black dot on the far western side of the project area is where the new uh water pump will be. TIFF revenues will primarily be overseen by you all uh in your capacity as city council and as the trustees of the economic development authority.

So uh the city will portion revenues into a a separate fund to be used for project costs. Uh the city manager is listed as basically the point person for the department of commerce and the person who has to sign the annual reports every year and then um you all either as the city council or uh as the economic development authority will enter into those agreements uh to make those improvements and then provide for reimbursing yourself with tiff revenue as it comes in over time. Uh we're not proposing any upfront debt being issued. And then for assistance to development financing for developers, you've already approved one uh development agreement uh for the project on TIFF A. If any others are needed, those will also come before you as well. Um the expected impacts of the project. So uh the good news is the taxing jurisdictions all thought that uh as a whole the the project would have positive financial bene impacts uh on their respective jurisdictions and on just general economic activities in the area. Uh there would be a modest increase in demand for services. We anticipate about 250 to 300 jobs being located on just the TIFF project. Uh so that'll have some additional potentially some new demand uh and possibly some new residents coming to the area as well. um any ancillary development that those uh new employees being located here. So the sales tax revenues for them going to lunch, you know, if they come down into Moore, you'll get the benefit of that sales tax. Uh you'll get the benefit of sales and use tax during the construction period when materials are delivered on site. Um and any ancillary development based on demand for, you know, new residents and things of that nature, you and the other taxing jurisdictions will be able to experience that immediately. And again, the short duration of the tiff, uh, if anything happens on tiff, B or C, especially if they don't require any assistance on

their own, that just means that we can hopefully pay this off in seven or eight years instead of 15. U, in general, uh, we anticipate over $200 million new market value being added within all three TIFF districts over 15-ear period. I think you said this, but if B and A did need um assistance, then that would come out of the tiff and it'd come back to us before it come back to you. Yeah, there would be Yeah. Yeah. The project plan does not obligate anything. So, you would have you would have the full discretion to determine whether any assistance is even merited. Okay.

Um and even then, we only budgeted for half of any potential generated increment on those sites to be used for that purpose. So there'll still be at least half of the revenue that they generate even if they ask for anything guaranteed to come back to the city to shorten time timeline. Thank you.

So uh the review committee I said already met. So um and the planning commission also provided it approval u again the second public hearing. So, the purpose of this public hearing is really just to give this overview uh and to provide for an opportunity for you all and any members of the public to have any questions answered about how it might work or about the project plan itself. And then the next public hearing uh on May 4th, uh there won't be a presentation unless you specifically ask for it to be redone. Uh it's mostly to give the members of the public an opportunity to voice their opinions, you know, pro or con before you actually uh make any kind of decisions. So with that, uh, if there are any questions, I'll be happy to try to answer them and Dedra can possibly also answer.

So potential downsides u if the project fails to occur u what's the way out of this? So uh enacting the project plan and creating a tiff is a legislative act. you can uh withdraw it or terminate it at any point in time. Okay. Uh that being said, if there's a if you have contractual obligations outstanding, obviously there might be some repercussions there, but um for a pay as you go structure, if you're going to be terminating it, odds are they will have defaulted on their development obligations anyway. So, and if the project doesn't happen, there's no revenue anyway. So,

right, we we won't have have started any project. Correct. and and the project currently has an a exemption on it or the property currently has an a exemption on it and I think it's maybe has is generating maybe 700 bucks a year or so in property taxes. So there's not a lot there right now. There's not really an ability for it to be developed without these infrastructure improvements going in which is the primary driver for using tiff at all. Um so with that it's really up to to you all to make sure that you're safeguarding public fund as well. Yeah.

Okay. Okay. Council, any other questions from us? If not, is there anybody here that has any questions pertaining to this this public hearing? Okay. Hearing none, this is just a item uh for presentation and discussion. There's no vote that needs to happen. So, hearing no other comment at this time, we're going to recess the public hearing and reconvene the city council meeting. All members that were present are still present. Move to item four is approve a jail services agreement with the board of county commissioners on behalf of Cleveland County Sheriff's Department to provide for the incarceration of city prisoners and detainees within Cleveland County Detention Center at a cost of $68 per day for each person incarcerated.

Mayor and council, this is a routine yearly renewal of our contract. Uh this year there were some changes that required some negotiation and the city legal was helpful in uh helping us work through some of those changes, but all in all we think we came to a good contract for both the sheriff's office and the city of Moore. Recommend approval and I'd also answer any questions that you might have. So has this did this increase?

Yes, sir. Uh this increased uniquely in the sense of there's an average daily incarceration rate that occurs uh that's certified by the judge every year. However, the sheriff's office is operating under a new model similar to what they've done with Oklahoma City's contract where they're just charging a flat fee. So the average daily incarceration rate $625 and all cities are being charged $68 as a service fee on top of that average daily incarceration rate. That's was some of the questions that we had also. Uh but the clarification was there and and the justification from the sheriff's office was there as well. So the $68 is how much more than what our last? $5.75.

Very good. Thank you. This is for municipal charges only that we pay this on people. Correct? Yes, sir. Is that sir? Okay. Any other questions? If not, just need a motion. Motion to approve. Second. We've had the motion and second. Would you call the vote? Melissa Hunt, yes. Louis Williams, yes. Rob Clark, yes. Sid Porter, yes. Mark Ham, yes. Item passes.

This time, uh, item four, we're going to consider approval of an agreement with Traffic Engineering Consultants, Inc. in the amount of 27,000 for Professional Engineering Services for Northeast 34th Street and Eastern Avenue signal design project. Mayor and council. Um we had received be several months back uh some concerns about people being able to get in and out of um the waters um on Northeast 35th and Eastern Avenue. And so uh we started taking a looking at that and observing it. And um uh this is a this is a project for design of a traffic signal light at Northeast 34th Street. Um, uh, TEC does all of our design for traffic signals at intersections, uh, within the community. And, uh, also, as you saw on this, um, map, um, or the presentation on the TE district, this happens to be one of those projects that would be considered for reimbursement um, as part of that TE district.

So, going west, will there will it turn anywhere? Will it turn into a parking lot going west or anything? So going east it'll go into the waters, right? Yes. Yeah. Going east it'll go into the waters and right now there's nothing on the west side. So it just will there be a dedicated turn lane is is the thought that there will be a dedicated turn lane. Yes. Yeah, that's the thought. and and also we'll be looking to at uh another improvement to Eastern Avenue would be a right turn lane uh uh for southbound um eastern turning west onto Northeast 27.

Okay. I I wondered I couldn't figure out because as of late it's it backs it way up and I didn't know if it was railroad related or if it's just more traffic or what but it's been I mean four or five o'clock at night it's impossible to get Well yeah that's during peak hours you know from people start coming home from Tinker and Oklahoma City and whatnot and uh around 4:00 it it starts about 4:00 and as you said about 5:00 it kind of lets up a little bit in the mornings it starts at 7 o' and yeah so I should have asked this question of the gentleman that was just here, but he did say part of this 27th Street modification is a light at Eastern, right? At pole. No, that

Well, I heard poll, but at one point he said Eastern. So, is there anything happening at 27th and Eastern? Well, we already have like traffic signals at 27th and Eastern. Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah, it's been a while since I've been over there. I'm sorry, Lou. Come on over to our side of town. Question. Sorry. But there will be some adjustments with that as we do the the Eastern Avenue design widened to 5T. Yeah. All right. Thank you. I'll shut up now. So, it'll be widening on both streets eventually. Eventually, you'll see some widening on Eastern, like I say, for that right turn lane and and then um uh 27th Street is uh will go to a fivelane facility.

Yeah. Very good. Thanks. Okay, very good. Make a motion we approve. Second. We've had a motion and a second. You can call a vote, please. Louie Williams, yes. Rob Clark, yes. Sid Porter, yes. Melissa Hunt, yes. Mark Ham, yes. Item passes. Item six is consider approval of library services facility and maintenance agreement with Pioneer Library System for fiscal year 2026 2027. Mayor and council, this is just a renewal of the agreement we have with the library system for the next fiscal year. Uh there haven't been any changes. Uh the agreement present language has worked well for us. Recommend approval. Make a motion to approve.

Second. Would you call the vote? Bob Clark. Yes. Sid Porter? Yes. Melissa Hunt? Yes. Louie Williams? Yes. Mark Ham? Yes. Item passes. Item seven. Seven is consider approve a contract with Enterprise Fleet Management for a period of 5 years utilizing Sourcewell contract number 030122 for the lease of approximately five administrative fleet vehicles over the term of the contract.

Mayor and council, uh we're excited to get a partnership started with the Enterprise Fleet Management uh council approval. We've been working on this for quite a while to get this started. Uh we will be starting with five vehicles this fiscal year that would cost us around $240,000 to go outright and purchase them. Uh Enterprise Fleet Management will be able to lease up us those five vehicles for an annual cost of about $52,000 a year. Since we are getting these initial five vehicles in this budget year, we will only be spending around $8 to $10,000 uh for these as they are build monthly for the remaining months of our fiscal year. Um subject to any of your questions, I would recommend approval.

So, and we will the plan is that we'll keep those cards for five years. Yes, sir. Okay. All right. We do and we do all the maintenance and all that just like if we had purchased them. Yes, sir. But since they're new, they'll be under warranty and so Yeah. Hopefully in 5 years. Would we still do it or would we send it somewhere for warranty work? Warranty work will go back to the dealer. Okay. Um so it'll lighten the load at the shop. Yep. Yeah. Very good. Okay. It'll be interesting to see how this shakes out. I I agree. All right, I'll make a motion we approve. Second to call the vote. Sid Porter? Yes. Melissa Hunt?

Yes. Louis Williams? Yes. Rob Clark? Yes. Mark Ham? Yes. Item passes. Thank you. We're going to recess the city council meeting and convene the more public works authority meeting. Item eight is the consent docket. Make a motion we approve consent docker items A and B. Second. Would you call the vote, please? Melissa Hunt, yes. Louie Williams, yes. Rob Clark, yes. Sid Porter, yes. Meliss uh Markham, yes. We get everybody. I think so. Okay. Item carries. We're going to re

Is this where we're at? Now I got lost. Now we're going to recess the public more public works authority meeting and convene a more risk management meeting. Item nine's consent docket. Make a motion to approve the consent dockets item A through D. Second. Would you call the vote? Louis Williams? Yes. Rob Clark, yes. Sid Porter, yes. Melissa Hunt, yes. Mark Ham, yes. Item passes. We're going to recess the more risk management meeting and convene the more economic development authority meeting. Will you call the role, please? Kathy Griffith, Sid Porter here, Louis Williams here. Adam Webb, Rob Clark here. Melissa Hooked here. Item 11 is the consent docket. And I'm here.

Mayor Ham. Miss Mayor Ham. Yeah, I'm here. When you called the RO, that's all right. It's all right. We can all make mistakes, right? Okay. Okay, go ahead, Melissa. Um, item 11 is a consent docket. Make a motion we approve consent docket item A. Second. Have a motion and a second. Will you call the vote, please? Sid Porter? Yes. Mark Ham, yes. Louisie Williams, yes. Rob Clark, yes. Melissa Hunt, yes. We'll now recess the more economic development authority meeting and reconvene the city council meeting.

Item 12 is new business. Nobody signed up. citizens forum for items not on the agenda. No one's signed up. Anybody want to say anything? Item B is items from city council trustees. I have a couple things. Um I just want to hats off to Chief Mar's crew there at the fire department. I went to a recent um ceremony where they uh honored five firefighters for life saving awards. And um I also found out that one of the the people that got one of the awards had like three of them. So great training, great great staff. And um I'm an older guy now, so I like knowing that all that's out there available to me, but but great job great job with with all with our people that learn CPR. It's you never know when you might need it and it it's good to learn it. And um just one other thing um I've had a lot of people call um that are candidates for all the campaigns going on about the campaign signs. And um I just was thought maybe we could put something uh that ordinance. I know it's it campaign signs is under chapter 8-11 property maintenance section 311 signage because it's it's kind of people are kind of taking their own way of looking at it. So, I don't know if if maybe we can get it kind of clear because

I mean we're the first election is not till June and I know public works everything going to be mowing and people mowing and stuff and I just want to be sure that people know that they're putting signs on property they have permission to put on and not on our rideways and um so maybe if we could put something on on the website that kind of on social media. Sure, we can do that and we can look at the ordinance and see if we need to tighten it up any and bring it back to council. It just kind of helps everybody. Everybody's on the same playing field. So, thank you. That's all I have. Good thought. I'd like to congratulate Chief Gibson for going viral for his for his arrest. I was going to do that. I was going to do that personally, but that this is good.

In street clothes, no less. So, in street clothes, no less. No, in all seriousness, your department does a great job with their social media and their interaction with the public.

I just had just a couple of quick things and I sent Brooks and Dennis this, but I al just want to acknowledge it. I was coming home uh a week or so ago. I was and there were some city crew out picking up trash along I 27th and I 35. like some mowing had been done and there so there's just a lot of trash scattered everywhere and I saw it but on this day somebody else saw it from the city or somewhere but anyways the city was taking the uh initiative and going out and just picking up uh all of the trash to help our city look nice and so it's something that's really simple uh but somebody has to see it and then somebody has to do something about it so I appreciate something being done about it instead of everybody agreeing it doesn't look very nice. So, thanks Dennis Brooks, whoever uh saw that and took action on it. That's a good thing. And let's let's continue to do that and I'd like to see more of it throughout our city. And Dedra, you may have to just tell me. I probably should have asked, but earlier this week, was it or was it last week, we had a Oldtown, that was this last week, we had an Oldtown uh meeting, and this is part of a grant that the city got from the Oklahoma Department of Commerce, and we were able to hire a consultant to come in and and look at Oldtown and help us come up with some plans uh over the next five years of some um things that we do to improve and enhance the overall look of our uh old town, our downtown Moore. Uh we had a great group of stakeholders for a meeting that afternoon and then that evening and it was on a night when we had storms that were predict predicted. There were I would say close to 40 maybe a few more people had to get more chairs that showed up at the library. So there

is great interest in our old town more and city council. You'll be hearing more about this as this consultant finalizes. He was there for both those meetings and spent the whole day here, but he'll be presenting a or presenting a report to the city and and we'll all get an opportunity to look at it. So, I think there's some cool things that we can do there that's not going to break the bank because uh it doesn't have a lot of money in it anyways right now, but we'll uh definitely have some improvements that we can make. So, I just really appreciate the community engagement with that. It just makes such a big difference in what we do when we can hear from the people in our city. And that's what I have. Does anybody else have anything before we move on? And uh item C, the city manager, trust manager.

Would like to thank the voters that came out on April the 7th and supported the sales tax initiative. Uh was very important for the city. Uh it failed unfortunately. Uh so we are looking for other options to fund these projects. Uh just because the vote failed doesn't mean the projects go away. We still need to do them. And then uh with that working on budget.

Okay. Thank you, sir. It's going to move us to item 13, which is an executive session. Section 307, title 25, Oklahoma statutes permits the public body to meet in executive session for certain specified reasons under certain specified conditions. It's the opinion of the city attorney that the city may consider and adopt a motion to meet in executive session to discuss the following items. A. Discuss, consider, and if deemed appropriate, take possible action regarding Brian Gaines versus City of Moore, case number CIV20-851-D, and authorize legal council and staff to make action as necessary and appropriate in the interest of the city of Moore as authorized by 25 Oklahoma statute 307B4.

Make a motion we convene to executive session. Second. Would you call the vote, please? Sid Porter? Yes. Melissa Hun? Yes. Louis Williams? Yes. Rob Clark? Yes. Mark Ham? Yes. We'll go to executive session.

Yeah, but it's just so big. That's a forgiveness loan. We got it on record. When he said that, I was like, did I miss something? We're not paying We're not paying anything. Last surprise, we thought Oh, where did everybody go? They went home. That's where they went. Everyone, thank you for your time. Yes, sir. Thanks, Dane. Thank you for your time.

Okay, we will reconvene. Rec. Am I saying that? Yep. It sounds weird. Reconvene from executive session. All members are here. And what's the action? Um, I make a motion that we proceed as directed. Second. We've had a motion and a second. Would you call the vote? Sid Porter? Yes. Melissa Hunt? Yes. Louis Williams? Yes. Rob Clark? Yes. Mark Cam? Yes. And uh, we're journed. All in favor? I. Yeah. A motion. Okay. We want a motion. I'll make the motion. I'll second. Second. All in favor say I. I. Thank you. Note that the vote was unanimous to adjurnn.

Thank you. Thanks you all. Thanks everybody.