Council - Regular Meeting

I'm going to call to order the meeting of the city of Midwest City Council. And the first item on the agenda is going to be the invocation. I would ask everybody rise through the invocation and the pledge of allegiance. for the invocation. I've asked a lady, Jackie Miller, to come and lead us in the invocation. While I was on the campaign uh path, Jackie reached out to me and said, "I'm praying for you." And she prayed for me and sent me emails every other day. And after the campaign, Brian mentioned to me that he was knocking on doors and Jackie prayed for Brian. So, Jackie, I I can't tell you how much I appreciate your prayers. and uh they were definitely felt. So, if you would lead us in the invocation, I'd appreciate it. Thank you.

Father God, I thank you for your grace and your mercy. I thank you for an opportunity to glorify you in this council meeting. I thank you for the anointing that's on every head that's here in leadership, whether they realize their anointing or not. God, I thank you that they are anointed by you to be in a position of authority. And I thank you for your wisdom and your guidance for every one of them. God, I ask that you bless them, keep them, make your face shine on them, bring them peace in all of their meetings, in all of their conversations. God, when times get tough, help them to remember that you're there guiding them. We thank you, Father God. Your word says in Joshua 1:9, "Be strong and courageous for the Lord your God is with you." God, help them to remember that you're with him all the time. We give you the glory and the honor and the praise in Jesus' name. Amen.

Amen. Thank you, Jackie. Uh, and I've asked Brian to take over doing the Pledge of Allegiance and invite some special guests. I want to introduce Payton Len Lenager. Uh, she's a uh a fifth grade student at Soldier Creek Elementary. She's a leader in in their student council. She's also the team captain for the Carl Albert youth cross country team. She makes excellent grades and her favorite subjects include math and history. Uh her hobbies include reading great books, creating art, and listening to good music. Her parents Brandon and Mary um I mispronounced it the first time. I believe it's uh Lineer are very proud of their daughter. Payton, please uh uh please lead us in the pledge of allegiance. Will y'all please uh join me in the pledge of allegiance. 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. So, I'm gonna have uh Mayor Rick Rice uh uh recognize Payton. Payton, this is for you. This is a pin of the symbol of the city. And take a picture.

Thank you for coming. Next item on the agenda is uh community related announcements.

The f I'll make the first one and then I'm going to pass it over to you. Um, first off, since this is the very first council meeting that I'm presiding over, uh, I wanted to, uh, say a couple of things. Um, if you saw my letter to the editor recently, I think that you understand that ethics and integrity in politics is is first and foremost on my mind. And I want to make sure that we as a governing body um always keep that in mind. Uh Bnee Brown said, "Integrity is choosing courage over comfort." And we always need to do that that's right rather than that that's comfortable. Um even if it means we're the dissenting voice. And I want to commit to my fellow council members, everybody has a voice here. Everybody will be able to have a voice. We may not always agree, but we will be respectful and civil and uh we'll have differing differing votes and I look forward to that. Debate is fantastic and debate is first amendment and we need to do that. And then Brian posted this on the Brian bandwagon tonight. He didn't even know about this, but Brian posted when he was campaigning a scripture that I want to read because I think it's apppropo. It's from Proverbs 31:8-9 and it says, "Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, defend the rights of the poor and the needy." It is really easy for us to sign checks and to approve contracts to get the regular business done, but we also have an obligation to take care of those in our community that are most in need. And I want to try and balance our physical responsibility with our social responsibility.

And uh so I'm going to get off my little soap box and I'm not going to do this every time. So you guys don't have to listen to me preach. That being said, my one announcement is I want to remind everybody that we lost a great uh uh favorite son of Midwest City, Jim Howell, who was a senator and his funeral is uh Thursday at 11:00 at First Baptist Church. U the city uh will be lowering flags to half staff. I would ask the city manager reach out to the chamber to Rose State College and the school district to remind them to lower the flags on April 30th in recognition of uh Jim H. So Mr. City Manager.

Thank you, Mayor. We have uh quite a few announcements and a little bit of recognition tonight. So, I think we I'd like to start with um our Arbor Day um from our art contest winners. If the president Aruma would come up and present with Paul Streets and who's Paul is or president Aruma is the president of um the tree board. So, they have an announcement on all the winners from the contest. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I appreciate it very much.

Tell them where you at. Tell them just He is a Mid I want to say he is a Midwest city resident. Um actually has been our treeboard president for several years and we're grateful for his service and we have a few people to recognize tonight including a benefactor which helped make this art contest possible. Thanks Paul.

Yeah, appreciate it very much. Thank you everyone and this is a very important moment. Um we had the Arbor Day contest and then uh we do tree board does a lot of things and I want to thank uh Midwest city staff and uh Miss Carrie and Mr. Paul and all the members for wonderful things they do for the city. This is our city. We need to make sure we keep it beautiful, right? That's what we do and we try to do everything we can to make that happen. So having said that we had a art contest and then we do this every year and we want to recognize the winners and this year he got so many arts. The beautiful thing is he's getting better and better every year. So that's a good thing and we want more participation and we thank for teachers principles who allow these students to do these kind of things and this is our future. So we got to make sure we take care of them really good. Right. And also before I announce the winners, I wanted to thank u Madly Mechanical LLC uh the CEO Jake Madly. He was very kind enough to give us a donation for a t-shirt project and he gave us $4,000 and very kind of him and his business is here in Med City as well. So helping each other, right? Helping our fellow citizens. So thanks, many thanks to him for doing that and uh we appreciate it very much. Without further ado, we'll go to the art contest winner. Okay, this year the first winner is Miss Chloe Logant.

I think it's important for people to realize first of all that um these artists that bring these pieces of artwork put a lot of heart and soul a lot of effort in these projects. We couldn't have the art contest without obviously the benefactor but without those that are willing to do the art. I want to point out that we were allow they were allowed to either bring paintings to bring multimedia. We had gave them we gave them several options. Actually Khloe put together if you haven't seen it yet. It's up front here. I don't know how much longer she'll be I don't know whether she'll stick around but if you don't mind Khloe you stand by it. But this particular piece of artwork obviously was amazing. Everybody that got a chance to see it was just shocked at uh at how this turned out. We're pretty excited to see it. So, if you haven't had a chance, obviously, um, take a closer look because it's not just one or two things. It's a lot of a lot of effort. There's a lot of heart and soul in that. Every bead and bobble that's on that, um, she put there with intention and we're grateful for the effort that you made to celebrate not only the treeboard, Arbor Day, but Earth Day, uh, because they actually brought it to the Earth Day festival this last weekend. So, thank you very much. Another round of applause for Chloe, our first. I think we'd be remiss if we didn't also mention I see somebody has graced our presence in the back. If you don't mind, Marcus Hayes, stand up. He's one of the folks that's actually on our art. We have an art council here for the city, Midwest City. And Marcus along with a few others including including I think Susie Burn and a few others were here to help judge those contests. Marcus, thank you for being here this evening to help recognize these award winners. Thank you. Uh the second place winner is Sohi Mashlin.

Show everybody what you got there. Yes. Show everyone what you got. Here's your second prize. $150.

Congratulations. And I don't think the third winner is not here in the audience, but we mentioned the name Andres Taus, right? And yes, so he'll come and collect the Yes. That's all. Thank you everyone and help us. Oh. Oh, here's one more. I'm sorry. Thank you, Paul. Yes. I forgot about the most important thing. Yes. And we also had a award and we started this about two years ago and this is the what is this award we call? People's choice.

People's choice award. So, people who came to the art festival uh got to vote on these things. And then this is this year's uh winner is Chloe. Chloe love legend. Actually, you bring it up. Yes, that would be good. I'm afraid to pick it up. Yes. Be careful though. I trip down the stairs. Lot of hard work. Yes. Come here to the mail.

Yeah. Thank you very much. So, we had at that Earth Day festival, in case you didn't get Who here, by the way, was at the Earth Day Festival this last weekend. I I see a bunch of folks in the back. Look at that. And I know even our illustrious city manager who bought a couple of treeboard shirts. Um they're doing a fundraiser. So, last work, last year's artwork that won actually got put on a shirt that you can buy for 20 bucks. It's a fantastic way to support the tree board and those efforts in Oklahoma in Midwest City. And guess whose artwork is going to be on it next year? That's right. Khloe's artwork will be on the t-shirts we'll do next year. Pretty exciting. Um, and so we had almost 500 people, right, come to the Earth celebration. And those folks that did come got a chance to vote on those on those pieces of artwork to decide who's won people's choice. Obviously, we're grateful for everybody, but Chloe, you got recognized not only for first place, but people's choice. That's quite an accomplishment. We're grateful for that. Thank you everyone for supporting us.

Okay. Would the water resources board representatives come up today? This is one of my favorite recognitions because we're getting money. These are really popular people tonight. Go ahead. Yeah. Thank you for this time.

Yeah, absolutely. So, I'm Tim Davis. I am a representative and a loan analyst with the Oklahoma Water Resource Resources Board. This is my co-orker and engineer uh Jzwine Thomas and our uh accountant Brendan Bradford. We're all from the Oklahoma Water Resources Board and we're here today to present a ceremonial check um for a project that they've been working on for several times for emerging contaminants from my understanding. So, it is our honor and our privilege to present this ceremonial check in the amount of $4,262,620 with special thanks to Senator Brenda Stanley and Representative Robert Manger for the Midwest City Municipal Authority. Congratulations. Thank you, Mayor Rice for your time and we are honored to be here to everybody here. Would you also get one photo with this as well? I have to put this with our marketing manager. They like to make a press release.

Cool. Senator, it's pleasure to meet you. Was I a chance to talk to you today? Thank you. Thank you so much. This is pretty

This is awesome. Thanks for your help. Yeah. Again, thank you all for being here this evening to witness this and thank you, Mayor Rice, for your time. Thank you. And good luck to the city of Lewood City. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Thank you. sign.

Okay.

So, I do my best. Y also if I may like to give special recognition to Garvern as they are the consulting engineers for this actual project. Okay, let's get into some of the city announcements really quick. Um, public works department, they've already taken over the meeting, but we'll give them a little bit more time here. So, uh, some exciting, these are Paul Street's words, exciting slate of activity scheduled in May. Starts on May 2nd. Will Public Works will hold its annual tire, metal, appliances, and e-waste collection event at Household Hazardous Waste Facility at the Charles Johnson Building, 8726 Southeast 15th from 8:00 a.m. to noon. There's no registration required. Just bring your utility bill to prove you're from Midwest City and your ID, and you may drop off tires, metal appliances, and e-waste. On May 8th and 9th, we'll host a rain barrel pickup. If you would like to order a rain barrel to pick up on May 8th and 9th, visit the city website for more details on how to purchase one. And then finally on May 30th, public works will be offering a tour of the water resources recovery facility, the WARF, from 1:00 p.m. to 2 p.m. If you've ever wanted to see how um graywater is treated in Midwest City, it's a an amazing plant and an amazing group of

employees that deal with that on a daily basis. So space will be limited to 30 participants, so please sign up early. Memorial Holiday Schedule. Memorial Day will be celebrated on May 25th. All city offices will be closed. Trash and recycling that is normally serviced on May 25th will be picked up on the following Wednesday, May 27th. The compost facility will be closed on Saturday, May 23rd during Memorial Day weekend. And if there's any questions, you can always contact the public works um administration at 7391066. Next is the 2026 citywide garage sale scheduled for June 4th through the 7th, rain or shine. So residents can um complete a the form on citywise garage sale garage sale at the Midwest city.org website. There's no fee, but please sign up so they can be permitted. Um, Covered in Color is coming up very soon. This year, we'll have fun for kids and adults alike with live music, vendors, food trucks, and activities throughout the WP Bill Atinson Park at Soonertown Center at 29th and Air Depot. It'll be Mother's Day weekend, so bring mom out and spoil her for the day from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. May 9th. And the 2026 swim season is coming up very quickly at Reno's swimming slide. Right now, we need lifeguards. So, if you have kids that need a summer job and we can also train them to get their certification, but we are uh we are hiring lifeguards now. And please come to our HR department on the first floor of city hall in this building. and uh

and make application. And then finally, I have one other um announcement or recognition. So, Paul Streets, would you stand up? This is a surprise because he didn't know I knew about this. So the 2026 Oklahoma Swana Chapter, the Monty Davis Award for Solid Waste Association of North America Indians Nation chapter recognize Paul for his leadership um at the city of Midwest City and all the work he does with Swano on its state and national level. So congratulations to Paul to this distinguished award in your field. Look how red he's turning.

He He's wearing his bow tie. Is he asking you for money? I know. Yeah. All right. You good? Actually, somebody pulled on it. Mayor, it's all yours. All right. Uh, next item on the agenda is a consent agenda. If anybody wants to pull any of these, I already know that um council person Banna is pulling C4, council person Triger is pulling C6, and staff would like to pull C11. Is there any others that need to be pulled? Uh not hearing any. Then we need a motion to approve the remaining consent agenda items with the exception of

No, no, no, no, no. It's his. Yeah. Okay. Sit tight. Motion to approve the consent consent agenda except for those that were pulled for our consideration. Second. All in favor? I I um item C4, Miss Banna. So C4 discussion consideration of possible action to appoint Marcus Hayes to the planning commission to fill an unexpired term.

So on this one I I just wanted to express my gratitude. This appointment is one that is uh made by the mayor. Um and our mayor um who was actually on the planning board and and had to resign in order to take his new position reached out and acknowledged that there was no representative from W five. And I just wanted to thank him for being a team player and being inclusive um and asking for my input as well. and um we were able to discuss it and also vice um mayor Pat Burns also for your encouragement on this as well. Uh with that said, thank you mayor for your leadership and also I want to thank Mr. Marcus Hayes who is genuinely one of the best community community leaders we have in Ward 5. Those who know Marcus know that at some point throughout time he has served on almost every board and body that we have here. So he's fully experienced. Uh, but I did want to also share briefly his uh bio that was submitted. Uh, Marcus Hayes was born in Houston, Texas. Uh, he attended the Oklahoma Christian University earning a bachelor's degree in English and communications. He's a former law school student turned serial entrepreneur. He has developed business interest across property services, e-commerce, and the Texas home rental market as well as pub in publishing. His professional experience includes serving as the assistant communication director for the Oklahoma State Labor Department. Uh Marcus is married with children and has an incredible son, uh Liam, and remains active in his community. His involvement includes being a wrestling coach for the Rolling Meadows Wrestling Club, a member of his neighborhood association, a member of the Midwest City Arts Council, uh the founder of the Midwest City Community Theater page. I also know that he's the uh chair of the Midwest City Junth committee um as well as a member

of our police and community citizens advisory board. So, Mr. Hayes, thank you as always for your service to our ward and our city.

With that, I move to approve. Seconded and it's long overdue. Uh all those in favor? I. Any opposed? Nope. Uh, thank you very much, Marcus, and welcome aboard to the planning commission. It's a really good uh uh group of people and staff, and uh I look forward to hearing from you. So, did Well, I I have a question. Did Did you say his son is named Liam? My firstborn is Liam. It's a great name. So, but yes, I have to do my mom at the senior citizen prom.

I understand. Welcome aboard. All right. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Um, item C6, discuss consideration of possible action approving the appointment of Alicia Matalu. I hope I said that correctly. Close. Close. Pedal Q to the Midwest City Arts Council for award one. Ryan,

uh yeah, I just wanted to take this time to uh recognize Alicia Padaku uh for um uh entertaining the opportunity to be appointed onto the arts council. Um there are a ton of bullet points uh uh aside from education and professional experience. She is uh case manager for re-entry and the uh drug court teams at Northcare. Um but uh even though I've only known Alicia for a short period of time, one of the biggest things that stood out to me uh as we've kind of uh gotten to know each other and build a friendship is that she knows everyone in her neighborhood. She knows everyone on our streets and maybe uh coming from more of a, you know, closed lifestyle. I'm I'm surprised and excited about that. But I just really uh I just want to recognize uh the amount of empathy that she has and also consideration for the community. So I couldn't really think of a better person to uh to uh suggest for the appointment of the arts council. I'm I'm excited to just recognize her and be part of this team. Thanks.

Thank you. And uh a motion to appoint Alicia Potaku to the Arts Council. Second. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Thank you very much. And then uh C11 was

C11 discussed consideration appro approving a change order for 230 23,511 with ODOT for um the 29th Street Bridge. Um um over Coleman in Crutcho Creek, Mr. Streets or Looks like Carrie's gonna do this one really quick. Apologies for that. Carrie Evenson, assistant public works director. We're going to ask to pull this one. Um ODOT found an error in the total amount of the change order. It's a small amount, less than $100, but you guys will see this again in May with the correct dollar amount on it. We just found out on Friday, so um we couldn't get it addressed and so we'll see it in May.

We don't want to We can't make a change a motion. Can we make him a change? I I will let you if you know the exact amount. Do you? I don't have the I'm sorry. I did not know that we could make that change. Otherwise, I would have had the exact dollar amount. Um Okay, Don, can we approve a range within $100 when when the agenda item is stating a specific dollar amount? We do need the specific dollar amount. That's what I thought. So, uh, let me see if I can grab it on my If you know what the dollar amount is, you can ask for an amendment to that amount and then they could approve it. So, we can just approve change order one. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Really? Without the dollar amount?

No, that's a really good point. which does state that amount in the agenda item itself.

Um, no. At the the last sentence of the item, you mean on the memo? On the memo has the exact amount, but the ordinance or the I'm sorry, the actual document doesn't. So, if the document doesn't, we can just approve the change order, can't we? The change order does not contain the dollar amount. Change order doesn't, but the memo does. Sure, why not? No. We're not used to having opinions like that. So,

so we we need a motion to approve change order number one. Yes. Second. There we go. We have a motion. We have a second. All those in favor all go to jail together. As long as we follow him. All right. Thank you all very much. I appreciate it. Easy enough. All right. Let's move on to discussion items. D1.

D1. Discussion. Consideration possible action approving a city ordinance amending chapter 2. um administration article 2 city council sections 2 through 11 time of regular meetings um of council and 2-12 place of council meetings and providing for repealer and severability Mr. Gosh. Let's see. How could I top my last one? Uh the these changes do basically three things. The biggest thing it does is it's going to move our city council meetings uh from 6:00 at night starting to 3:00 in the afternoon for all regular meetings. The second thing it does, it moves all months to only having one meeting a month. There may be times when we need two meet two meetings in a month like we're going to be doing this week. That second meeting will always be a special meeting perfectly allowed under the uh open meetings act. We just have a little bit of different type of notices we have to do and how and how quickly we have to do it but we can easily do those as special meetings and keep flexibility uh for the city and city council. Finally, if you may recall, there was a time when we uh renovated this place and we couldn't have meetings in here. The changes that are in here now specifically state that if that is to occur, then this body will adopt a resolution stating so, stating the reasons why, and stating where we're going to go. So, it just makes it in black and white that uh the city council has the power if this room for some reason is not available to have a regularly scheduled meeting someplace else. And with that, I'll be happy to take any questions. Um, this this arose at uh partially my doing and partially at a request from staff and having been a staff member, I totally loved the idea. But I did check with Sarah to make sure that there wouldn't be any child care issues. Sarah's assured me that there would not be and I checked with

everybody else and everybody was okay with the time change. It does cause some logistics. Um Mark had uh mentioned some uh ideas about staff not being available to the public during that time. It does allow us to have more staff available during the council meetings. Um as well as the concern of the public being able to attend. A lot of other cities uh start their meetings even earlier. Oklahoma cities attend in the morning. Um but this will also save us some money. We won't be paying out comp time. uh and having uh staff members stay late uh which does add up uh and frankly staff members overwhelmingly wanted this and uh I'm willing to listen to that. So, but it is a it is a body that votes on this. I myself personally would have liked to have seen the last Thursday in April always being designated as the budget meeting because we have to have a separate meeting just for the budget because I like the rigidity in schedules. But uh keeping it off allows staff greater flexibility in when that is scheduled which I'm fine with. So those are my comments my two cents. Will we still plan on we have a ritual here where we kind of try to connect an hour before the council meeting? Um I know sometimes it provides a great opportunity for us to ask a staff member a question prior to the formal meeting. Will that still happen or

Yes, we can still do that. We just will have cookies or something maybe and you know where the diet cokes are at. So we we we won't be having meals. Yeah. Because that'll also save some money. Yeah. But I always plan on being here at least by two o'clock. Yeah. I mean, just 30 minutes is plenty of time for that inquiry type of thing to happen, too.

Miss Hancock apparently has anxiety with me not going over the agenda with her before the meeting. So, apparently I have to show up. And uh but I I'll be here and so I encourage everybody else to be here and kind of work through some issues. We can figure out what needs to be pulled on the consent agenda. Um, this change will not go into effect until the June meeting. So, in May, we'll still meet at six o'clock and uh then in June uh we'll start at 3:00. Move to approve. Second. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Awesome. Thank you. D2.

D2. This is a public hearing discussion and consideration possible action to approve a minor plant plat for the property located at 513 Northwestminster Road. Mr. Summers,

thank you. Uh this is a an application for a minor plat. Uh the application before you uh proposes to subdivide a single lot uh that currently is 5.79 acres uh in size into two lots. uh both lots uh after our review would meet our uh applicable zoning and subdivision regulation requirements. Um we complied with state and local notification requirements. Uh we did have a pair of property owners call uh to inquire about the nature of the application. Uh and before at the public hearing before the planning commission uh there was one neighbor present who inquired about the nature of the application. Ultimately the planning commission unanimously recommended approval of this item. The way I read this, it's two houses, correct?

Yes. It would it would split one lot into two lots. There's there's one house on on site currently. It would give, you know, either the owner or a future buyer the ability to build a house on the second lot. We're not going down the lot split road then. No, this would be done by plat. Okay. Yes. Because I we need this that as long as that's not going to happen. Yes. that basically the the changes that were made uh several years ago to the subdivision regulations uh lots split is not an option. Uh all all creation of new lots has to be done by plat. And so they would have to have a separate drive to the second house. Correct. Yes.

Totally separate. No drainage concerns. Obviously at this time we won't know until they're they're large I mean they'll they'll both be large lots. Um they both sort of naturally slope toward the the creek that runs through the property. Um with single family residential zoning, I don't anticipate there being any uh significant drainage issues, which the slope is back towards where the second house would be, right? Um so they'll I guess the the lots will kind of stack north and south, so they'll both kind of drain toward the toward the west for the most part, although they both have little little parts that are on the on the west side of the creek.

Okay. his uh representative is here. Presents. We discuss public. Does he have anything to say? It's a public hearing, so he can he or anybody else. No, I have I I have a question. It's not related to this item. It's related to items in general. There was a day that staff actually made a recommendation in their memo and now we don't do that.

Yes. Uh we we make recommendations to the planning commission and then once the planning commission re makes a recommendation uh we we update the staff report to include that recommendation. Good. All right. Just want to make sure that we're all on the same page on that. So good. Yeah. Okay. Um, this is a public item and therefore public discussion if anybody wants to say anything. Nope. I'll entertain a motion. Motion to approve D2, please. Second. All in favor? I I I. Those opposed? None.

All right. Thank you very much. Item D3. This is a discussion can in consideration possible action approving a contract between um the city and the municipal authority and CNG solutions who um have long term since the beginning installed our natural gas compressors located at 8730 Southeast 15th. We are adding another compressor for 1,430,046. That's why the bow tie. That's why the bow tie.

Honorable mayor, city council, city manager, thank you all for your attention to this matter. Uh, this is pretty exciting for us. First of all, I want to thank Carrie Evenson and the effort she made with Craig Davis to get the request made for the grant money to ACOG. This is an opportunity for us to continue to wean ourselves off of traditional fossil fuels and work toward cleaner options like CNG. Um it also is something that's helped provide time some time savings for our sanitation services in the city. Most people don't have any idea about that. We embarked in this journey about 10 years ago, a little more than 10 years ago actually when Tim Lion was the assistant city manager um and I actually was managing sanitation. We worked uh with a partner early early on in this process which is Robert Campbell CG Solutions who is actually in the audience um and can answer questions we need to. It's been a very fruitful relationship. It's allowed us to do some things we wouldn't have been able to do without uh having ma migrated our trash trucks over to compressed natural gas. Um ACOG has been very very supportive for this effort for many years, not only in this particular grant but many grants before allowing us to change those trucks from diesel to CNG. Um, so obviously what we have before you tonight is an opportunity to enter into a contract, give Tim permission to enter into that contract, uh, with CNG Solutions, uh, for us to expand that operation and to actually put a larger compressor in. Some of the things we've learned along the way is that the smaller compressors didn't do as good a job with the overnight fill that we're getting on a slow fill on our trucks. This larger compressor and the expansion of that pad will give us much better, in my opinion, much better efficiencies and reliability. moving forward. So, we're pretty excited to have this opportunity to spend the money to get CG Solutions back on site to do some additional work for us. If you have any questions, I'd be more than happy to answer them. And if I can't answer them, if it's about the grant itself,

obviously Carrie is well versed with that, but also again, Robert Campbell from CNG Solutions is here this evening and came specifically in case you all had questions about what we're doing down there at public works. And I was remiss. I probably should have pulled one other item off of the consent agenda just to draw attention to it, but uh on the consent agenda, we appointed Raymond to as our representative to ACOG. And having come from public works at Oklahoma City, this is exactly why we need somebody like him as our representative to ACOG because he's going to dovetail your skill set and his skill set to best serve the city. And uh so I'm excited about that.

I'm sorry. Is this a grant match? 80% uh coming from the grant, 20% match on our part. Okay. So, pretty small in terms of the overall cost. To be perfectly transparent, we would have had a hard time budgeting this much money to get this upgrade done um without a significant increase um either through utility rates in solid waste or other areas. So, we're grateful for that partnership with ACOG and obviously having somebody that has the expertise and technology to be able to help facilitate this expansion. Very good.

And as we've expanded our program with CNG, we've grown and grown more and more trucks and so we really need more capacity to fill our trucks. Yep. Well, I'd like to thank the city and everything that your group does, Tim, your leadership for finding these grants to be able to get the funds that we need to be able to do these types of things. Thank you. If not, that would just like you said, we don't want to raise funds if we don't have to or raise fees on anybody. So, with that, I'd make a motion to approve. Public discussion. Nope. Sorry about that. Does anybody in the public want to say anything about this hearing? None. I'll take entertain a motion. Motion to approve.

Second. Go. Uh, all those in favor? Any opposed? Oh, thank you very much. Thank you. And I want to point out that you will see an identical agenda item in the municipal authority because of where the funding is coming for the match money. And again, thanking Carrie for all the effort for the grants. Thank you all very much.

Yeah. Um, we do have one item on the uh agenda for an executive session. Um, no, we're going to do this one first. Um, I have discovered that jurisdictionally, uh, it's inappropriate for us to even handle this. um complaint came in at a at the wrong time and for that reason uh we do not need to have an executive session on this item, but we do need a vote to uh take no action on it. So I would entertain a motion to take no action on this item.

I move to take no action on the executive item. Second. All those in favor? I I And please let the record reflect that Mr. Burn has stepped down. And now he can come back. That being said, is there any new business or public discussion? Nobody signed up to be able to speak to There was one person that came in late, so it's want to give them their four minutes. Come on up. As you come on up, please state your name and your address for the record. And

my name's uh John Theo. I go by Troy Fluan Jr. Uh I I kind of reside in Midwest City. I'm a kind of nomadic these days. Um the reason why I wanted to speak to you guys today was uh I actually I wanted to complain about a ticket that I had at first, but then I kind of thought about the bigger cause and then I thought, well, that's probably a better opportunity to talk about something important. And uh so a couple years ago I started studying theology and um I kind of got into a spot where I was trying to figure out like how this whole Jesus thing worked and why Jesus would die on a cross. you know, in America there's a lot of Christians and um and and then I started looking at like the hardship of life and um I started looking at how like um evil exists in the world and um the examples of people like um there's this weird story in New York, you guys probably heard of it. uh this woman was murdered or whatever, but there's all these people that stood around and looked and they had all these witnesses, but nobody actually was able to report because nobody said something at the at the appropriate time. Um, and it's funny because I think that the appropriate time is maybe currently, right, at when at when the moment arises when the ability to to stand up for somebody to to say the the right thing is, you know, is is that moment. And so I'm looking at the situation of how this ticket occurred in this town um and the situation that led up to the ticket. Um being homeless and nomadic and having a a business owner Crunch Fitness of like glad the the police are showing up and and hoping they take me away to jail and I hopefully hoping I lose my car. I I got her on body cam hoping that that happened to me. I'm homeless. I I'm not trying to bother you. I barely I didn't even know the lady's name. I had to learn her name after the fact. I'm thinking, "Okay, so she knows I'm homeless." Because in the video she

talked about how she knows I'm homeless. And instead of being able to say, "Hey, that guy's homeless. Maybe he's sitting in his car because he doesn't even go where the place to go. And maybe he's spending three or four hours in the gym because it's cold outside, but he's paid, so let him work out." But I didn't get that opportunity. The cops on July 29th decided to show up while I was trying to get my vehicle towed to a repair shop. I went to that repair shop. The repair man got mad at me, wanted to kick me off the property, said I was trespassing. So, I go to my vehicle. I sit in there. I wait for a cop car, not a cop car, but a tow truck to appear. The tow truck appears. He charges me more than I I I have to give. I've planned on giving. It was supposed to be $95. He charged me $135. I said, "I can't pay that." But he takes off. Cops show up, arrest me. They never confirmed if I wanted to leave the property.

Point of point of order, Mr. Mayor. I'm not sure this is something that we if this is a litigation, I'm not sure we should be hearing it. And I've got a question. Are these charges pending? No. You guys have already ruled. I've actually this is al this is being appealed. If anything, so I'm just addressing the community as an opportunity to do better whenever they see an whenever there's an opportunity to or whenever they notice somebody who's less fortunate. Don't look it as an opportunity to get rid of somebody. Well, you do understand that we can't address any of these concerns. Oh, no. I'm speaking to humanity. Okay. I to the human. Well, just so you know, you've got about 30 more seconds.

Okay. Hold on. All right. Uh, did it start now? Hold on. Don't wait. Don't wait. I'm going get my I started before I got Okay. So, um, so the whole thing about this is just like if you if you know somebody's in need and you know someone is struggling, you have to be able to be there to help them. That's the reason why America was started. bring us you're tired, you're rich, you're poor because you're supposed to be able to help. This is that's what a miracle is founded on. And Jesus died. You know what I'm I'm scared about is if Jesus were to exist today, would he still reach crucifixion, would we still treat him the same way that he was treated 2,000 years ago? That's it.

Thank you very much for your time, sir. Any other public discussion? Okay. adjourn this meeting. Go into the hospital. All right. We're going to adjourn the city council meeting. We're going to go to the hospital authority. Municipality. I'm sorry. Municipal authority. and Is there an item on here? Yeah.

Yeah. I'm going to call to order the Midwest City Municipal Authority. And the first item on the agenda is the consent agenda. Um to approve. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Hi I. Make a note that Sarah stepped down. Not stepped down. I think she just took a break. Yeah. Right. Exactly. Uh next item on the agenda is discussion item number one. Uh this is a repeat item that we um had earlier on the city council regarding CNG solutions for um 1,430,046.

I make a motion I approve. Second. All those in favor? I I. Any opposed? Nope. We're going to adjourn. See if there's any. Oh, is there any public discussion for the municipal authority hearing? None. We will adjourn that. Do we have any more? We have hospital authority. And we've got the hospital authority. I'm going to adjourn the Midwest City Hospital Authority. Um, we're going to adjourn. We're just going to adjourn. No, I'm sorry. No, we're going to call it. There you go.

I adjourn the municipal authority. I called the hospital uh authority to order. And the first item on the agenda is the consent agenda. Motion to approve. Second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. She's back. And the first item on the uh agenda after that would be discussion item D1. No action needed.

Uh D2. D2 is discussion and consideration of possible action of approval of the guaranteed maximum price amendment to the construction management contract with Willoughbrook for the Plaza 62 district which is around the hospital in the amount of 24,818,808 and.75. So this item is and we have Willoughbrook here. They're out in the audience. Eric and their civil attorney, Mr. Gray. So, um, if you have any questions, we have been working on this for about two years now. So, it's finally came to fruition. There's been a lot of work put into this. Von Sullivan is leading as the project manager. Um, above item during the in the consent, we did transfer some money that we would have done that next year, but in order to make this award, it needs to be fully funded. So, that's why we did that. Um it is a project like any of the other projects did come in over budget by several million dollars. We were val we value engineered this project back things that you know trees that are 2 in in diameter versus 5 in. We changed um some bases and see Willoughbrook did a really good job of value engineering where we thought that um we could still have very nice things but not like the gathering place in Tulsa. And so this is still a very beautiful project with a beautiful um PL new playground that will be artificial turf that is included in this amount with a new um playground piece of equipment, a um a stage that was requested by SSM who will program this

park and who will maintain this entire area around the hospital. Um we met with the hospital today. They are very very excited for this project to get started. It will be um it will be a beautiful project around the hospital. It'll be a very nice project. And could Tim could I could I ask some questions of the Willoughbrook representatives? Come on up, gentlemen.

Um just in in general, this is a huge project uh and we're very glad that you uh have accepted the role to make it happen. uh in broad terms, what are you going to do first and what can the public expect to see first in terms of real progress? Yes, thank you. My name is Chris Gray with Will Construction. Uh this is Eric Williams, also with our estimating group. Uh first thing is going to start off is we're going to work with the underground utilities. A lot of utilities in the ground just need to be replaced. So we're going to be replacing new water lines, sanitary sewer, storm sewer. So, we'll work with closely with the city staff to coordinate uh traffic detours and signage so people know how do we get to the hospital, what's happening, and make sure that traffic movements are are safe. But there'll be quite a bit of time that we'll be spending on just the utility infrastructure, then doing some storm water management uh improvements at the north end of the property, and then we'll work towards building the the roads and then a trail that goes around the hospital. So, about 18month project. So, so to just broadly categorize, for the first year, maybe year and a half, most of the work is going to be invisible to the human eye, unless you're underground. You're going to dig

Yeah. through through through plumbing. Through the next year, for sure, it'll be mostly underground. And then as we get the paving in, then you'll begin to see all the new paving in and then trees coming in. So probably that last 6 months, uh, so let's say the second half of 2027, you'll really begin to start seeing some things emerge. And the reopening of Berling game, the little side street that comes in, will that be part of the initial process or will that happen further down the road? It'll be a little bit further. A little bit further. Yeah.

Okay. So traffic, so the initial impact on the community is going to be noise traffic. Uh, and then in about a year and a half, we'll start to see buildings pop up, structures, things like that. Yeah. As far as structures go, there's going to be a new park right there at National and Park lawn. It'll be a new restroom building with a couple pavilions and the playground uh component. So, you'll begin to see that here in in about a year. About a year, you'll start to see some activity.

Very good. We're we're excited about it. Our neighborhood is very excited about it. Thank you. Thank you both. And just a reminder, the name Plaza 62 came from, that's the year the hospital opened. The original hospital opened is in 1962. So that's where the 62 came from. Thank you. This being, we should ask them some harder questions, but this being public discussion, is there any other uh comments? Hearing none, I make a motion to approve. Second. motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I.

Any opposed? Thank you very much. Um is there any new business or public discussion for the um Memorial Hospital Authority? Hearing none, we are adjourned and that concludes all of our meetings for the night.