Council - Regular Meeting

City City Council and the first item on the agenda is after the invocation remains standing for the Pledge of Allegiance which will be conducted by our local ROTC gentlemen as well as a few young ladies from some of our elementary schools I'd like to introduce my pastor Trey Graham thank you Trey for being here let's pray

Lord God, we gather this evening in the service of this city that you've placed us. And I just pray that your hand of blessing would be on our city. Lord, I thank you for the servants that you've gathered here in this time and in this season. I pray you would give them wisdom as they make decisions for the sake of the people of this great city. And Lord, I pray that you give them joy in this labor, that you'd bless this time together. Let your will be done and let it all be to your glory. We pray this in the name of Jesus Christ. All God's people said, Amen.

Gentlemen, come on down. And ladies that I've spoken to, if you want to come on up and lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance, I would appreciate that. Let's get all three of them up here. You guys make a line. No, no, no, no. Next to each other.

Here we go.

There you go. Perfect. All right. If you guys would get a start. 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. Go ahead and stay there. I'll be right there.

All right, thank you so much.

The next item on the agenda is community announcements. I've got the first announcement. This will be the last time that the city council meets at 6 o'clock starting next month in June. Remember, we'll be at 3 o'clock. So that means you'll need to eat before you come. So we're not going to feed you. But other than that, any other announcements, Mr. City Manager?

Yes, Mr. Mayor. So starting with the 2026 citywide garage sale, which is much anticipated by many of us, is going to be June 4th through the 7th, rain or shine. To register, residents can complete the form on our citywide garage sale page at midwestcityok.org. There is no fee to participate, and participation does not count against the two garage sale annual limit for our residents. Second is our 2026 Association Celebration, celebrating all of the work that's done through our neighborhood associations throughout the city. It is June 4th at the Midwest City Community Center. It usually is at Regional Park. It's going to be at the Midwest City Community Center from 5 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. And there will be... there'll be dinner and door prizes there popcorn and cotton candy so looking forward to that tribute to liberty is july 4th in joe b barnes park starting at 7 p.m and fireworks off at 10 p.m and looking forward to a a new laser show participating with the fireworks this year it should be something really cool so please come out to the park and watch the fireworks this year and um and then finally um memorial day those that did not have their trash picked up yesterday it'll be picked up tomorrow on wednesday from sanitation and that's all i have mary um also congrats again for getting on to omega again oh thank you um any other announcements

rest of the council nope nope all right then let's go straight to the consent agenda i've been asked to pull c11 are there any others that need to be pulled hearing none then i will entertain a motion to approve all consent agenda items except for c11 motion to approve all but c11 second All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? All right, C11. C11 is discussion, consideration, and action of approving the CDBG block grant funds. And Ms. Banna?

Good afternoon, Ms. Kraft. Ms. Kraft, would you, as a matter of education, and then I have some questions, kind of outline the scope of some of the projects that this fund covers?

OK. First of all, this is our one-year action plan. It's our second year into our five-year consolidated plan that was approved last year. But as far as the one-year plan, We have it broken down into public services, housing, public facility improvements, admin, and contingency. Our public services, we had an RFP earlier in the year. And you can see in your agenda the breakout of the activities. We have a cap we have to adhere to. We also have housing activities. We pay for the primary systems home repair program, which is a grant program. We have our housing rehab specialist is also out of that category. We have home housing services, which are inspections of our home ownership program. Anything in particular you'd want more information on?

So one, I saw some language in there to basically make affordable housing accessible. What is considered to be affordable housing? Do we have an approximate monetary value of what we consider to be affordable housing in Midwest City these days?

We recognize what HUD recognizes, which is what 30% of your monthly income should be, or no more than 30% of your monthly income should be allocated towards housing expenses.

So part of this program's initiative is to make sure that we have homes available to individuals who have a certain socioeconomic household income in our city to be able to afford rental homes or ownership.

Well, all within what activities we funded, yes.

Okay. I also noticed that we have some transitional homes. I know I'm familiar with Leah's Hope, and I know that we transferred a few of the homes that the city owned to Leah's Hope.

Correct.

I saw that the transitional housing, it said for... families right does this mean that I guess how many transitional homes is the city continue to operate and what are the eligibility factors to qualify for that program we still have three properties they're all duplexes we work closely with Leah's Hope through that program they provide the recommendations for tenants to go through the transitional housing program so really the transitional housing that we have is really for individuals fleeing domestic violence situations. Would that be fair?

We've definitely had that category of beneficiaries, yes. But we've seen the whole gamut, families with children, intact families with children. We've had a few singles also.

Well, when you say intact, does that mean that the father would also be included, but it's not just a single mother household? Correct. Okay. I also noticed that it also says that some of these funds could possibly be used to provide homeless assistance or resources or services. That's accurate, right? Right. The only homeless outreach program that I'm aware of, and please correct me, that exists in the city is the homeless outreach team that the police department has. Is that accurate?

Well, the homeless services that we reference in our action plan has to do with Leah's Hope's request for a proposal that came in to us. We fund their annex, which serves to counsel some of their families.

Would it be accurate to say though that when you look at the program holistically, really the aim of what we do with this money is to prevent homelessness for those individuals that are at risk versus picking up people on the streets and transitioning them into housing? Is that more accurate?

That's an eligible activity, yes. The CDBG funds can, there's a whole gamut of activities you can pursue. That's why we have our consolidated plan, five-year plan that we do every five years to try to focus what our priorities are.

okay but but again just to reiterate that question are we currently do we currently have an active program where when there are individuals that are living on the streets that they could qualify to get into one of these transitional housing no we don't have it but in the future these funds could possibly be used towards that agenda or that initiative possible to house the unhoused okay thank you so much thank you so much for working to get these funds to our city sure I move to approve Are there any other questions?

Second.

We have a motion and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Thank you.

Mr. Mayor, could I make one comment?

Yeah.

This is a positive note regarding item 25. I approved it, and I think it's great. But I wanted to call a shout out to Troy, our human resources director, Troy Bradley. He has found a way to, for $6.95 per employee per month, do something with the pharmacy benefit that'll cost us about $43,000 a year, expected to give us a $700,000 savings. Troy, that's exemplary work, and thank you very much for whatever rabbit hole you pulled that thing out of. indicative of the good work of all of your employees tim but troy especially you in this case you get the shout out congratulations

The next item on the agenda are the discussion items. And we're going to do D5 before we do D1. Since we have so many people here that don't want to sit around and listen to all of our budget discussions, let's get right to the good stuff. And D5 is discussion and consideration of renaming Omni Park to Espanola Bowen Omni Park. And it's been a long time coming, and it could not be more well-deserved. But Marcus, I think, has spearheaded this project. And Marcus, if you want to come up and say a few words. That's what you get. Come on up.

I got the Midwest City t-shirt on thank you thank you thank you and uh thank you and and mr. city manager I would like to add that Saturday June 13th we will have the Juneteenth Midwest City Family Festival in his fourth year thank you I just needed to put that in there thank you And the city of Midwest City is a great partner of ours. We love the city, and we're glad to do this again. Espanola Bowen has been a great citizen, resident, servant. Oh, excuse me. It's on? Okay. All right. For the last 30 years, everyone knows her, knows how much she has supported this community, and she has done it selflessly and never asked for anything. And if you say the word Midwest City, you think about this lady here. And she spearheaded the building and the development of the Omni Park. It was her idea along with her neighbors. but she put the sweat equity into it and it was her brainchild and she has watched over it since the conception and not only that, she worked full time, she was supervisor, but always found time to come back to her city and serve and so it was about 3 in the morning And something hit me, and I said, that park needs to be named after her. And Espy didn't ask for this, myself, and I bounced it off some other people, and they said, right on. Even if they didn't say right on, we'll move forward, because I don't... If it's right, it's right. And I'm going to go for it. And so we all came here. I feel like I'm at the Grammy Awards, some of these people that are in here. It's like celebrities and special folk. And it just, from Mr. Kevin Cox, uh and uh pastor manning and and uh commissioner lowe it just speaks to the wide swath of people that love and appreciate espy that will come out with the thunder tipping off in one hour to come out and support this lady it's it's monumental it's historical for a number of reasons but we we love you espy and uh... so thankful to be here and i don't know what else to say

Espy, we would like you to say a few words, but before you do, I have a question for you. Would you like the park named Espanola Bowen Park or Espy Park? It is your choice.

My right, it should be named Espy Park. The reason being, that's what I'm known by.

SP Park it is so when we take a vote that's what the motion should be you know I'm a cry baby

But this park has been in my life, my whole life, living in Midwest City for over 41 years. And when I moved where I moved, I saw the kids playing in the street, which was not what I wanted. So I approached the owner of the field behind where I live and asked him, would he sell it to us? He said, what are you going to do with it? I said, well, I want to make it a park for the kids, somewhere for them to be safe to play in. He said, definitely, I'll give it to you. So I wrote my very first grant. I know nothing about writing a grant. I wrote that grant for $10,000. I presented it to the Midwest City Hospital Authority, received that $10,000. He only would take $8,000 for the park. $2,000 of that money was billed for the walkway from either side of the park, from two streets, Fifth and Lloyd. Fourth and Lotus. It stands there today. We've had people burn it from the Fourth of July with their fireworks twice. And I had to go to the city and say, please, let's keep our park there. Because it's not our kids doing it. It's someone else coming and doing it. They agreed with me. And now we wait for more new equipment for our park. And it's going to happen. Because as long as I'm living, that park is going to be there. And I plan to be there for a long time. Thank you. Thank you for letting me speak.

Where's Garland? Garland, did you want to talk for this item? You signed up for public discussion. I'm assuming that you're here for this item.

We are here strictly, strictly for support, support, support. In this day and time with all the silly, wild, and crazy going on, it's good to know that an individual can step forward put on an agenda and accomplish and achieve and master that. But even more so that the committee, the city council, we thank you all for approving it and putting it in place. We, we, when we come together, when we, the people, come together, ain't nothing we can't achieve, ain't nothing we can't accomplish. Uplift, positive, progress. Thank God for you all that are here. We thank God for you for all the work you've done, anticipating what you're going to do. And we thank City Council for doing what they've done to make this happen. Thank you again.

Thank you.

We love you.

If you don't mind, I'd like one other person to speak, if that's okay with you.

Absolutely.

Kevin. Kevin and I have known each other for almost 40 years, huh, Kevin?

Don't make us too old.

Okay, I won't. But I think because I never would have got into politics or working in a community if it wasn't for Kevin. And he's gone now, but Major Wilson, who was a judge downtown, is the one who recruited me long years ago.

Thank you to the city, Mr. Mayor and the city council and those attending. I appreciate it and just love Espy. And anybody that knows politics, you can't do it by yourself. You can always count on it. Thank you.

That being said, I call for a motion to name Omni Park Espy Park.

I move for the approval of D5.

Second.

Aye. We have a motion. We have a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Thank you very much, and congratulations, Espy. Now with that being done, we're about ready to get into some meaty business.

wanted to thank everybody for coming and let you know if you wanted to sneak out now it's the time to do it the rest of this is going to be some knee-deep business budget stuff you may want to stay for this the collective bargaining agreement of the police department is agenda item three so while you're here

Thank you.

All right, let's get on with the business. We're going to call item D1. This is public hearing and discussion of the city's budget. Okay.

Everybody left before the fun part. Well, thanks for having me. I wore my bow tie. You like my money bow tie? No, it is an honor and privilege to be able to come before you and say that, honestly, that this is the best budget we have put together. And so I am excited to be able to let you guys be able to meet with us before and go over it. And it's a big one for $210,711,519. You know, we have put a lot of work into it. So any other questions? But you should be seeing me all night as the budgets are in all the authorities tonight. But again, like I said, I'm very proud of what we put together. And any questions, let me know.

Kind of glossed over it, but we met on this, correct? Can you explain how that went? Seriously, because people need to know that this was discussed just not tonight.

Yes, absolutely. Just to kind of give a quick 10,000-foot level on how this works, starting January 1st, we started working on this budget where we have to do all sorts of projections. And then from everywhere from the top down to talking to all frontline people, to supervisors, directors, everyone needs to be able to put in their input when it comes to their departments. We honestly do believe that all the departments act as the CEO of their departments, and we hold them accountable in doing so. Putting together all those projections and how everybody should end up, we have to do some forecasting when it comes to our revenues. And so we have to do a whole lot of forecasting because we know when it comes to sales tax, that's really what is the lifeblood of Midwest City. And which is why you hear us hammering all the time, it's important to shop in a city because that's what keeps us running. And so running off of those projections and all those revenue projections, we back into and hold every single dollar and we treat it as sacred and such. We bring in all the directors up into our meetings where we lock ourselves in there anywhere from a week to two weeks of where we go line by line for every single department, for every single expense, for every single person possible in there to see what is going on and how is it that we should be fiscally responsible when it comes to the people's money. So that's the big 10,000-foot level. I cannot even tell you the hundreds of hours that have been put into this where, again, I can say, I can tell you this is the best budget Midwest City has ever put together.

Well, I, for one, want to thank you, thank the city manager, staff, the rest of the staff that's put all this together. I've been part of the city since 92. 15 years as a city councilman, three years on planning commission, now my first year as mayor. And I concur, it's the best budget I've seen, but also it's been the most smooth and seamless budget cycle that I've ever gone through. I mean, we used to have two, sometimes three budget meetings before we would actually get together and vote and none of you all can retire you're now stuck here because it's got to be this way you've set the bar so high for how well the budgets come together and I applaud staff and I know that's top-down but I know that you had your fingerprints on it some and me personally I appreciate all the work that you guys have done in putting this budget together. And we truly have the best staff of any city in Oklahoma. And I truly believe that. We really do. And you guys really come together. So I appreciate it.

Thank you.

I'd like to point out this is the month of May. Yeah. Usually we are having a budget hearing at this council meeting or probably a week later. earlier and we're approving a budget for the first time in the history of the city Midwest city in the month of May thanks to that staff

Can I just say something? You're wearing your bow tie, which is custom for people asking money from this body. I wore mine today because any time I feel like I need funding for Ward 5, I feel like I need to go talk to T.I.T. and ask him for money. So the roles are switched here, at least from my perspective. So thank you so much. You're the overseer of the coffers, and you do such a great job.

Thank you. I appreciate it.

uh any other questions or comments well there's one thing that people might not be aware of in addition to the cash that is in this budget and reflected in what we spend the city also owns According to the insurance gesture, $276,635,737 worth of real property. Right. In addition, so you also oversee that, this great staff of yours. um the cash is great but the property is worth even more so it's a big city and it's a big job you guys do so thank you thank you it is a public discussion glenn you signed up you know the drill

Glenn Goldschlager, 1409 Evergreen Circle, Midwest City. You're right. This is the best budget he's ever made. And I appreciate the first and the last page. The first page says exactly where all the money's going. And one page, the last page is all the capital improvements we're going to be making. Love that part of it. But I'd like to talk about something else for just a minute. There's waste, but not what you think. I spent two hours this morning walking through the park picking up trash. People talk about waste in government. When people don't pick up their trash, when people don't do what they're supposed to do, government has to clean up after them. And they don't do it for free. And it's not just their job because you're paying taxes. You can't, on the one hand, complain you're paying taxes, and on the other hand, throw trash on the ground. The same thing with code enforcement. We have a $1.5 million code enforcement budget this year, simply because people won't take care of their properties. It's waste. It's stupid. It's because people are not personally involved in taking care of what they're supposed to be taking care of. One and a half million dollars. Police department, and they, I love them to death, but we're going to spend 22 million dollars on a police department simply because people can't obey the law. It's waste. It's not the kind of waste that's caused by you or the 550 people that work for Midwest City. But it's waste all the same, because it's money that we could be using for something else, simply because people don't take care of their property, pick up their garbage, and not break the law. I look at this budget, and I see this stuff, and he's right. It's this. This is an amazing budget. I see things that I've wanted done for years that are in this budget. And I love it, but I picked up five diapers this morning. That's uncalled for, that's ridiculous. 75 year old man walking around picking up the trash and everybody just thinks, oh well it's his job. Well it's not, and I can really use some help. Not from all of you and not from the 550 wonderful, amazing people that work for this city, but for the 58,000 people that live here. Thank you.

I've got one thing to say to you, Glenn. Thank you for coming back.

I won't be here all the time. But for this, I had to be back. Thank you. Thank you. I couldn't read that budget and see all that work that went into it and not come back here and personally thank these people. Because when you look at the other cities and other states and other I won't even talk about other stuff. But we are so much better than everybody else. And it's because of people like him and his staff. And I wish his staff was here so we could thank each and every one of them for the amazing job they do. Thank you.

Tia, all of the budgets combined, all of the authorities, all of the budgets, am I right? It's somewhere around $210 million. How many?

$210 million. $210 million. And our staff balances that down to the

penny department by department budget by budget every surplus item every bit of paper product that we get everything is budgeted our budget was four or five hundred pages long and it accounts for everything it is not a matter of just counting up the money that comes in and start writing checks it's a job that i wouldn't want and it's a job that i'm happy that you guys enjoy And we've got good staff, and I appreciate it.

Thank you. We do. If there's anyone on my staff that deserves the most praise, it would definitely be our budget accountant, Cheryl Lee, that deserves the most. And so I will pass on your thanks to her.

Thank you. That being said, any other comments? Any other public? In a closed public discussion, entertain a motion.

Motion to approve.

You have a motion? Second. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Thank you very much. Item D2. Thank you, Tia. Item D2, this is going to be discussion and consideration of the union contract with the IAFF, that is the fire department. And we are fortunate to have a contract agreed upon in May, just like the budget, and for a two-year contract.

Yes, thank you, honorable mayor and council members, city manager. As the mayor mentioned, we did come to terms on a two-year contract with the fire department. The particulars are that the firefighters get a residency incentive now to live in Midwest City like the rest of the city employees do. They were the last unit to agree to that. We did some work on the promotional process, making sure that the testing is valid and rigorous and that if somebody is going to promote into a higher rank that they earn it. And they earn it with a process they can point to and say, hey, I did something important to get to where I am today. We increased longevity, the longevity scale for the long-term employees over the two years of the contract. The big thing that most people look to is the cost of living adjustment or the increase to salaries. We did that for 2%, agreed to this year, and then if the council approves the money for next year, 2% for next year as well. And then health benefits, it was mentioned a little bit, we're continually looking to save money on health benefits without cutting the benefits to our employees and their families. There are about 1,300 employees and family members who use our health benefits and that is a huge responsibility that we do not take lightly. And as I kind of alluded to, this Oklahoma State law only allows us to do one year contracts. So this will come to you as a renewal for next year with the terms agreed upon already. Are there any questions or concerns or comments for the fire contract? And let me just say that Mr. Hudson, Chris Hudson, the IAFF president, was planning on being here today, but his son had an emergency that's keeping him away for today.

One of the items was the residential incentive. Correct. What is the current?

It's $100 per month, so $1,200 per year split up between 26 pay periods.

And that is if you're a resident of Midwest City?

If you're a resident of Midwest City, and we have a small administrative process to provide documentation showing that you do live in Midwest City.

Awesome. And that also applies for police officers as well?

Yes, they got that last year, and the city employees got that two years ago as a trial run. Okay. now the testing the scores that I know I read some language about that as well does this mean like it's actually like harder to get the promotions or how would you so it is more more structured there are two key components to the firefighters promotion testing one is a written test comprising 100 points the other is an oral assessment or a review boards where they have certain situations given to them and specific instructions and that is also worth 100 points. the the major change here is there's a now a minimum threshold that they have to pass whereas before it was if you pass the written test you're guaranteed a spot on the promotion list but now we have to pass the written test and the uh the review board with a at least a 70 percent And each one you have to get at least 60% on. So you can get 60 and 80 and come out with 70%. The change there was making the assessment mean something more. Any other questions?

No, the question is just a statement. Thank you for getting the fire department contract negotiated on time this year and before budget. That's kind of important to me, being a former police officer and FOP president. Thank you for doing that, and I commend you for getting a two-year. That makes it even easier for you next year, I guess, that you guys negotiate. So great job. Thank you.

thank you uh it is not public discussion so that being said um i'll entertain a motion move to approve yeah move to approve second motion and second all those in favor hi hi any opposed all right item d3 this will be the exact same thing collective bargaining agreement for the police officers the fop and again we have a two-year contract

correct thank you mayor and council members and city manager the uh the contract is very similar the police already had negotiated the um the residency incentive so that's not new to this this contract they get the uh the longevity increase as well as the fire department they also get the two percent cost of living adjustment and if the city council appropriates the money for next year another two percent for for next year The health benefits are included in the contracts, and we had those premiums approved on the consent agenda tonight. And then there was a small administrative... administrative detail in the grievance procedure that just set the time length of when a grievance is investigated and concluded based upon the current software that's being used. It was 14 days to 30 days now with the current software to make sure that the process is done correctly and that nobody misses a beat.

And I don't know, Mayor, if I could ask. I asked President Pruitt to stay behind. President Pruitt has worked with our police department probably close to two decades now, off and on. And I just wanted him to give his experiences working with our police department. And he knows our police chiefs very well. I know he's got really great things to say.

This day and time, you know, things on the news, everything talking about affordability, affordability, affordability. I think it's needed, it's necessary. Two percent is a good start. Ain't nothing getting any cheaper this day and time. And so being able to work that, being responsible for your income makes a difference. You put your life on the line on a regular, ongoing basis, 24-7, I think they're worthy of that two percent, and it shouldn't even be an issue. That's something that we ought to be just knowing that What do you know that's getting cheaper this day? Check your gas when you go home this evening. Just an example. Check the price of any and everything that we're buying and purchasing right now. I think the enforcement, fire as well as police deserve that 2% as we grow. You need to grow also. You got to take care of your families. Ain't none of them getting any smaller. He out still making babies up here on the ground.

Would it be fair? I know you get a lot of calls and complaints throughout many of the municipalities in our county. You don't get that many calls regarding Midwest City PD. Would that be?

I thank God that you all are doing an awesome job in this particular time. When I don't hear from you, it's good. Don't nobody bring me good news. Everything I get is a problem. So, hey, keep doing what you're doing. You're doing an excellent job. I think the fire and the police are doing that also. City Council, keep doing what you do. Give them that raise and get ready for the next one. Thank you.

And for clarity, I want to make sure that everybody understands our employees, our police, our fire, and eventually city employees are not just getting 2%. That's 2% on top of regular step increases. So every year, every employee gets a step increase. This is adding an additional 2% on top of that.

I think it's needed and necessary. Yes. They earn it. And many of us want to get out there and run folks down and chase them and do anything else. So do your job. Get what you need. We support the cause. Thank you.

Any other questions, comments? All right, I'll entertain a motion. Motion and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? I tell you, I've walked into this job and I'm in awe because in May we have a budget and we've got two union contracts for two years each. So let's do it. And I'm telling you, I'm lucky. i've seen this i've seen this go sideways before and so i've i've been in some of those negotiations oh all right out of d4 this is a discussion and consideration of an action regarding the rest of the city employees and a two percent uh adjustment did we vote on yeah okay so the uh

This last item for me is the, typically, or historically with Midwest City, we spread the cost of living across all employees, recognize that all employees make the city work, and so this is, before you today, is a 2% across the board increase to the city pay scale. And mentioning the budget, this is reflected in the budget that was approved, the numbers there.

Mr. Bradley, how many, because this does not include the hourly pay, these are just salary employees that are getting the pay increases.

It's hourly as well. It's non-uniformed, it's the non-union employees.

It's full-time and part-time employees that aren't represented.

And how many part-time employees would you just estimate that we have?

We have 44 positions. I believe that most of them are full. that usually for seasonal work we have we have 97 seasonal positions okay and we're attempting to fill those particularly lifeguards and cashiers for the pool but that does not include the seasonal awesome thank you any other questions I'll entertain a motion second second

All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? All right. Thank you very much. Thank you. We have already done D5. So D6 is public hearing and discussion over a special use permit to allow an eating establishment sit down alcoholic beverages at 433 Planet Court.

thank you this is a special use permit application as you mentioned the applicant is seeking approval of that special use permit to sell alcoholic beverages at the restaurant at 433 planet court we complied with all state and local notification requirements there were no public comments that we received by email phone or at the public hearing before the planning commission This is a site where there have been previous restaurants that also allowed alcoholic beverage sales with no issues. We don't anticipate any with this tenant or owner, occupier of the property either. The Planning Commission did recommend approval of this item unanimously.

This is Granny's place. Yes. So we're going to have beer for breakfast, and they close at 3 o'clock. It seems kind of odd to me. And the reason I even bring it up is I understand that the Planning Commission tabled it at one point, and then they went ahead and passed it. Do you happen to know what the issue was and why they tabled it?

Yeah, the Planning Commission tabled the item because there was not a representative for the applicant at the meeting. If the Planning Commission has questions, rather than take action to possibly recommend against an application, they'll usually table it once to see if the applicant will be able to attend the next meeting.

And the applicant is not here this evening?

The applicant is here this evening, yes.

I'm just curious. I'd like to know, is it margaritas or Bloody Marys? I assume probably Bloody Marys or mimosas or something along those lines. Because it just seems out of character with a breakfast place with a big plate of gravy and biscuits.

They have lunch as well. They do have lunch as well, yes. Mimosas.

All right. Cool. All right. More power to them. It just seemed weird. So I guess that'll do it for me.

Any other questions? It is public discussion. If anybody in the public wants to speak, or if the applicant wants to speak. Hearing none, I'll hold public discussion. All right, but were you able to hear me? Thank you. I'll entertain a motion.

Motion to approve.

We have a second? Second. Motion and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Item B7, public hearing and discussion, possible action on an ordinance to redistrict PUD over at Soldier Creek Industrial Park. Mr. Summers, this is also you.

It is. Thank you very much. As you mentioned, this is an application, a rezoning application to amend the PUD skip for the Soldier Creek Industrial Park. And it has to do with the exterior design materials. So typically for an industrial area like this, we would require a certain percentage of masonry in this PUD as it exists today. We would require 80% masonry. As we've seen with the development of American Glass over at Skip, they were allowed to use a different type of building materials. In their case, they used 65% aluminum panels with a certain brush coat finishing. and then they also did 35% glass. So the changes that we're proposing with this amended PUD would allow any other occupants of the sites you see there on the screen that are highlighted to use that same percentage of materials instead of just brick, stone, stucco, that type of masonry material. We did comply with all state and local notification requirements, and the Planning Commission recommended approval of this item unanimously.

This one really confused me for a minute. But yeah, move to approve. Just as I read the packet, it said owner Tim Lyon. And I assumed that we were constructing a new building out that way and then realized it was thanks to Pat.

Hold your motion.

Yeah.

Any other questions? It is a public hearing. Anybody in the public have any questions or comments? There being none, I'll close public discussion now.

Move to approve.

Any second? All those in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed? Item D8 is public hearing and discussion, consideration possible action to approve minor plat for the property at 1213 North Pine Street.

Mr. Summers. Thank you. This is a minor plat application. There's a lot at address 1213 North Pine Street. It's about two acres in size and the applicant is proposing to subdivide that lot into two lots There's one existing house on the property already The subdivision would allow that house to continue to exist in compliance with our requirements of the r6 zoning district There was a minor subdivision waiver That was requested as part of this application regarding the extension of utilities and that minor waiver as subdivision regulations allow was approved by myself in the city engineer I you can look at the there's one of the maps in the packet for that I think it's the last map before the plat shows the location of our current utility lines in that area and it would be very cost prohibitive for the creation of one new lot to require the extension of water and sewer. That's sort of the justification for the staff granting of that waiver. We did comply with state and local notification requirements, and we've not received any comments in support or opposition to the application. and the Planning Commission did recommend approval of this item unanimously. Any questions or comments from Council?

I have one. Lot splitting is kind of a hot-button issue sometimes, and I noticed that many of the other properties homes in that same addition are on lots equal to the lot that they intend to split so the people that have invested in the larger lots and homes with a little bit of space around them are in some sense going to be negatively impacted when large smaller lots are compressed around them and their properties will look out of place. don't in in this case you know it didn't seem to be a problem that the neighborhood looks like it could probably handle it when I drove through but it does seem to be a concern and I'm just wondering why we would even make an exception or entertain making an exception exception for these people it's not in the necessarily in the best interest of Midwest City

Yeah. I mean, in this property's case, there are several lots in the area where it looks like similar lot splits had occurred in the past. Both the resulting lots, if this application is approved, would still be an acre or just shy of an acre in size, which typically would be large enough for them to have wool and septic. So it is more feasible than if, you know, let's say somebody was going with a a 10,000 or 6,000 square foot lot for them to reasonably be able to have the necessary water and sewer services.

All right. Thank you. Yeah.

You don't. There are a few waivers in the subdivision regulations, such as the one that they've requested, that the subdivision regulations expressly give staff the ability to approve.

Any other comments for staff? This is a public discussion. Anybody in the audience have anything that they want to say on this item? There being none, I'm going to close public discussion. I'll entertain a motion on item D8.

With respect to what Councilman Thompson said, I haven't heard from any of the residents around. So that's where I kind of lean my decision on. Since I hadn't heard, I figured that we'd just go ahead and proceed. So with that, I'll move to approve. Second.

I have a motion and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Thank you very much. Item D9. This is going to be a public hearing and discussion consideration possible action to approve a resolution declaring a structure at 918 Holly Lane dilapidated. Mr. Stroh.

Yes, thank you, Mayor, Council, City Manager. You've seen the packet, the pictures. The pictures are on the board as well. It is a condemned structure currently. It's missing support structures, and the back doors are just leaning on the house. It's an attractive nuisance that our police department's going on. Technically, they could go daily, but they go weekly for us to kick vagrants out of it and stuff. The house has over $9,000 worth of liens, and the water's been shut off for nonpayment since April 1st of 26.

And we haven't heard anything from the owner?

Correct. We've done a title search and notified any and every one, plus posted the property and mailed notices. Have not had any contact with us.

Thank you, sir. I'll move to approve. Sorry.

was asking the city manager on these items in the future if we can put the ward number as part of the subject line those and mr. summers items you've got which council member it is and which from now on let's put that right with the subject so that it's a lot easier for us to find them so all right this is public discussion is there anybody in the public that wants to speak about d9 none being present I'm going to close public discussion now can I entertain a motion move to approve and a second thank you very much all those in favor aye any opposed all right item d10 this is going to be public hearing discussion possible action to approve a resolution I wrote over my next line Declaring the structure at 2800 North Douglas, a dilapidated building. Mr. Stroh.

Yes, you've seen the pictures in the memo. It's pretty self-explanatory from looking at the pictures. There's been no utilities at the house since September of 2003. Correct.

And I think this is the property you said you found someone sleeping in there possibly? Yeah.

Correct. While we were there taking these pictures, a homeless person came from the back of the property.

Yeah. And no communication from the property owner on this one either?

Correct.

If no one else has any questions, I will move to public hearing.

I've got a question. If we approve this, how long does it take for you guys to start?

By state law, the owners get 30 days to appeal at district, and then on the 31st day, we can award the contract to the lowest and best bidder.

But Councilman Melton, the hope would be that if they have any concerns, that they would have participated in these proceedings. And that's why I always ask that question. I would hate this to happen to my property, but I would also probably participate in the process.

And for Councilmember Melton and Councilmember Traeger, after we bulldoze it clear, we put a lien on the property for the hour cost that we put into it. If the owner doesn't sell it and satisfy that lien, then it can be sold at share of sale. Hopefully, we can recoup some based upon the value they sell the lot for and recoup some of our money. And then it'll go to somebody who will hopefully turn it into something.

You said that first one had $9,000 worth of liens against it. Well, that would probably get paid first, right? Yes, first in line.

OK. First in line, first in time. Yeah, so some of these we don't get our money on.

I've been over code for over 30 years, and I used to think we didn't get very much of our contractual back. And we had an audit done, Tim, what, about five years ago?

Yeah, and it was over 90%, believe it or not. It was just 92%?

Yeah, I was going to say about 92% that we did recover.

That's pretty good. That's not bad. That's good. That's pretty good. All right, any other discussions of staff? Hearing none, it's public discussion. Is there anybody who wants to discuss item D10? None. Being present, I will close public discussion. I'll entertain a motion.

Move to approve.

And a second. OK, we have a motion and second. All those in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed? Item D11, public hearing and discussion consideration possible action to approve resolution declaring the structure 5705 Southeast 5th a dilapidated building. Mr. Stroh.

Yes, I apologize, Mayor. I wanted to stress to you on your last comment, the first property was in Ward 3. The second property is in Ward 5, and this property is in Ward 1.

I appreciate that. I've asked that in the future on the agenda items so we can start seeing them. I know on the rezoning stuff, it's buried on the third page. But let's move it up so that it's easier. We're simple people up here. We just need help.

I understand. So this one, as you see from the pictures, It's been boarded for some time. The last utilities were January 29 of 2025, and they owe $762 in liens to the city of Midwest City, as is, for cleaning and mowing of the property. This one's the one I actually thought we might hear from, but we have not had any contact with our office at all.

He's here. I'll get to you, sir. I see you. OK. Do we have any questions of staff from the council members? Okay, it is public discussion.

Sir, you are Mr. Higgins?

Yes. If you want to come on up, please state your name and your address.

Yes, Ben Higgins, 6011 North Robinson, Oklahoma City.

Okay. And you own this property?

Yes. Our company is my dad and then my brother Brian is the majority owner. But we own the property. We have worked on it in the past. We've had issues as well as many of the others you'll see with um vandalism with theft we've had our electrical stolen twice we have tended to it but there have been times to be honest when we've had other projects going and this one has fallen on the back burner but we intend to remedy the situation we're hoping tonight to ask if we could have six months december 1st to have it ready for someone to move in as a rental okay how long has it been like this

Gosh, which time? We had a bunch of men move in in trailers, and we had to get them out in the back. There were three trailers back there. I served eviction, and we got those people out. Two years? I've got a picture of the inside, because we've got it framed in, and the electrical is done. The wiring has not been stripped this time. So I'd like to show those and give them to you for consideration.

Okay. I understand what you're saying. You're not living there.

Correct.

But that means we have to look at it.

Yeah.

Asking me for six months is a hard ask because it's been sitting that way for a very long time. And if I live next door to that, I wouldn't want to give you much time at all. Now, you have 30 days to appeal it, and I don't know how much you could get done in 30 days, but I'm not liking hearing that you need more time.

Mike, you want to kind of go over what we've done in the past for some of the new council members in this situation?

Yes.

I do want to stress that our first notice for dilapidated structure on this was sent by Randall Fryer when he was in my department back in 22. So it's been four years that we've been trying to get something done on this property. My issue with anybody that does show, I understand there are issues and finances and whatever the case may be. But by law, I have to wait 31 days anyway. They can turn in permits through community development for remodel or things of that nature within that time. And then they get six months on that permit.

if they do it then i have no problem working with them if they don't then i'm i'm fine with proceeding so if so are you mr stroehr are you asking us to defer our vote or we vote to declare it dilapidated but during the next 30 days that they pull permits then you hold off to give them the six months the permit dictates to do what they need to do

That is correct. I would ask you to proceed, and then if they pull a permit, the permit's good for six, and we have to wait until the permit expires.

I understand. Do you gentlemen understand?

Oh, yeah.

So you understand that this all needs to be done in seven months' time?

Understood. Oh, yeah.

And do you understand we probably won't be awarding permits a second time?

We do.

All right.

I do want to stress one thing that, on my title search, it shows that taxes haven't been paid on the property since 22 either. So it could go up for share sale as well. You can't pull permits until you've got your taxes caught up.

Yeah, bare property. We purchased it in 23.

Someone else, yeah. No taxes have been paid since you've owned it.

Someone else, bare is another company that owned it. And then we got it after that. So it would be 20, whatever.

Legacy has owned it since 23 and have not paid taxes.

There is a secondary issue. I mean, fixing up the inside of the house and remodeling is one thing, but just cutting the grass is not that big a deal. It shows really poor citizenship if you won't even cut the grass.

yeah we've got photos of it it looks inside framing it almost the structure i'm talking about the grass yeah i know this one so i can show you a picture i mean if you can't do that how would you expect us to trust you to do anything else no understood um we had not mowed it the first time until but you'll be mowing it this week it's already mowed okay yeah it's already yeah it looks good

And just to reiterate, and please correct me if I'm wrong, I think for our body, our biggest concern is what the house looks like on the outside, not so much the inside, that it's not a safety hazard where people are crawling in through windows or able to habitate the place when it's not ready to go. And just what a nuisance it could cause for the rest of the community. I thank you guys for being here. Thank you. As you saw, a lot of people don't show up. And more importantly, I thank Mr. Stroh who always conflict resolves and tries to work people. But it's very important to keep up with his deadlines because he's being very flexible here.

We've had three apartment complexes get burned in the last six months, and that hit a whole other thing because we had tenants in those things. So eight units here, eight units there, and the whole complex hit another on 28th of May. And so we've been scrambling with those insurance issues. That sort of pushed everything aside, unfortunately, in this.

I understand. I'm not terribly sympathetic. I understand you have issues going on, but you've got to be able to handle your business to such a degree that you're a good steward of what you have in our city.

I see.

So make sure that if you apply for a permit in the next 30 days that you're going to have this done.

Get on it. Yes, sir.

Okay? I'm not too concerned about your other properties. I'm concerned about this one.

I want to... Second, what Mr. Thompson said. I get it, you've got other properties that are taking your time, taking your money, but I'm not sure how much a lawnmower costs and a tank of gas.

They're indicating they just mowed it. Yeah, yeah, we just mowed it. It needs to stay. It needs to be kept mowed.

Yeah, and again, I apologize for this particular one. I think we own 85 homes in Midwest City, and this is one of a handful that are either in

like the rehabilitation process or this one in particular was the one that we've always put on the back burner yeah but this one goes to the front burner it does it does yeah yeah that's why we're here all right any other questions so we have a motion we need a motion to approve declaring it dilapidated and then in 30 days time if they pull permits then they're on hold so

Motion to approve.

Do we have a second? Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed? Thank you very much, gentlemen. I hope that we have a beautiful home in seven months.

Same. It's got to, yeah.

Item D12. Discussion, consideration of action, approving the guaranteed maximum price amendment to the original construction management contract with Lippert Brothers regarding the MAC. Mr. Sullivan.

Honorable Mayor and Council, we're not proposing to tear anything down here. We're going to build something up, so a little positive news. I want to thank this council and the new members as well for the support of this facility. City Manager Tim Line has been very supportive. My memo's before you. It should be pretty well self-explanatory. We've used this delivery method on prior projects, and it's been very successful. I do have Lippert Brothers Construction in the audience. Nick Bench, who's the project manager, has been the project manager throughout from the beginning on this project, is in the audience as well if you have any questions.

What time's the tip-off?

I have one. It's an observation really. I read through the paperwork on this and the price tag is fine. The work is needed. We're really proud of the facility. I was struck by the number of things that you struck from the bid. There were a lot of things that you options that you could have put in and you did not accept that and to me that shows again good stewardship. One of them was like a shade place for the umpires to stand. sure that's an important thing but the price was too high and you pulled it out of the bid and when I look at the details like that on a bid especially when there's this much money you could easily hide that kind of stuff in the but you didn't do that and and I noticed and I appreciate it and other people need to understand that you guys are watching the pocketbook and watching the details very closely and yet we'll still get a first class facility something that we can be proud of so thank you on all those counts for making it happen and for watching the details so closely

Sometimes our wants overload our wallet, but we want to deliver a quality project, and I'm quite confident Lippert Brothers will help us get to the finish line. Everybody will be proud of it.

These guys have done a great job. This project was way over budget. And you approved the supplement earlier tonight of using some of the money from the GEO bond that came from interest income. And so we shifted that interest income over into this project. Otherwise, we couldn't build three fields. And we need to build three fields. So they did a good job, or we wouldn't have been able to pull that off. So good job to Vaughn and the Lippert people, their staff. They did a great job with this. It was not easy.

I'll entertain a motion.

I make a motion to approve. Second.

We have a motion. We have a second. All those in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed?

Thank you very much.

Thank you. At this time, this will be public discussion. Mr. Mickel, are you present? If you want to come on up. Mr. Mickle, if you would state your name, your address, and please understand this is a public discussion. We are not allowed to discuss your item with you. I'm up here. OK. But I didn't understand what you said, sir. I need your name, your address, and understand this is just public discussion. You're given four minutes to tell us what's on your mind.

Okay, my name is Thomas Mickle. I live at 9601 Harmony Drive, Midwest City, Oklahoma, 73130. Is that it? Yes, and tell us what you want. Okay, I just want you to reroute the freeway through my front yard so I can open up a 7-Eleven and make a killing. Actually, that's not what I wanted to do.

She liked it.

The thing is, is I've lived in Midwest City for over 60 years. I'm your senior citizen here. I graduated from Midwest City High School in 1970 as a bomber. Went to Glenwood Elementary in a neighborhood that's no longer there anymore where the planes flew over. I spent five years there, then I moved to where Carl Albert High School. And I've lived there for 58 years. And in those years, things have changed. There was not a neighborhood behind our house. It was all barren brush, and now there's a big thriving neighborhood housing tract. Now on your thing there, it shows that there's a street light across the street from me, the corner, and it's very bright, and that's fine. You can have that. I don't care. I just put plastic on my windows, and it keeps the light out. But then you go to my backyard where you see the crisscrossing. That's my backyard, and there's a street light that you just installed a year ago or so and it's it's lighting up my backyard like fenway park at a night game it's bright i have to put plastic on my bedroom bathroom kitchen and dining room to keep the light out it's in my backyard sir and the reason it is is because when they put in the When they put in the next housing tract, that's the line that they, it was a dead end at the time. And so that's the line of the housing tract. And apparently the city says when you start a new housing tract, you've got to put a street light there. So my neighbor don't like it. I don't like it. My neighbors across the street don't like it. It's just a hazard. It's not peace and quiet, sir. That's what it is. I have a little fire pit by me and my wife. We do marshmallows and we like it dark. And then with this light coming in like this. There's nothing. There's no enjoyment. And if you want to make a 74-year-old man happy, the wishes come true, the prayers, take the light out for me, please. It's nothing big. There's only two houses there. You know, it's between two houses. I went to the neighborhood. There's four or five houses before there's a street light. And a dozen of them are out.

They're not even on, and people are, okay. Is that it? No, no, no, no. Mr. Mickle, we've been looking at a map here, and I see where you're talking about. Now, OG&E put up that light. We can look at the light. We might be able to get them to put a shield on it. But let us go and look at it, and then we can hopefully get that taken care of.

well god bless you guys and i want to appreciate your dedication and your service for midwest city i am a bomber i am a long time citizen of midwest city go midwest city i love midwest city thank you i'll die here all right thank you mr farrell you know the drill yep

W.T. Farr, Cross Street Coach, like 2508, apartment C. Been there since June of 24. I was going to say a while back, I got a call from the Oklahoma, and I don't know if a lot of you are familiar with the Oklahoma newspaper. It's been in circulation since 1907. It was Oklahoma. About 10 years ago, E.K. Gaylord Sr. had passed away and he had sold the family, the Gaylord family had sold it to a guy from New York that kept it running and of course they moved everything into Tulsa. I got a call from him last week and personally on my cell and he had come to mention to me that the account, which you create an account for a subscription, mine has been active since 1907. And I asked him about it, and he said, my great-grandfather, Andrew Jackson Farrow, created an account for the Oklahoman. And he said that is actually, as he checked on it, found out that that is the oldest count in the United States. And when Oklahoma became a state in 1907, he created it and handed it down to his son, my grandfather, and then handed it down to my dad in 78, and my dad handed it to me in 2004. I didn't know it was going. You know, I knew I was a four-generation subscriber, but I wanted to bring that up as loyalty, for example, as loyalty in that. But he told me about it, and he said that's why he made me VIP in the subscription, because of the four generations. that just want to let you know that but uh Mr. Rice I want to say to you sir thank you for last month when you got it let or when you got inaugurated I've learned a lot from you when you talk to me I appreciate that I appreciate it and thank you for this thank you for all thank you

all right for the rest of the council we have an executive session so we need and we're going to do that last it'll be short but that means we have to vote to go into recess so i need a motion to go into recess

Move to recess from the regular council agenda.

We need a second. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? All right. So with that, I'm going to call to order the municipal authority agenda. First item on the municipal authority is the consent agenda. No items have been pulled. So we have a motion to approve. Do we have a second?

Second.

Second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? No. Next item on the agenda for the municipal authority is item D1. That's public hearing and discussion for a vote on a resolution of the Midwest City Municipal Authority. And this is for their budget. Tia? Tia?

Motion to approve.

Not yet. Not yet. We've got to do public discussion. otherwise Sarah kicks me under the table you can open the public hearing now I see the hesitation that being said is there any public discussion on this there being none I'm going to close that now can I have a motion to approve I make a motion to approve second do we have a second second all those in favor aye any opposed There being none, we go to item D2, discussion consideration of action awarding a bid to approve the contract with Purist Services in the amount of $1,571,456.21. Mr. Streets. This doesn't even deserve a bow tie. This is not that big a deal. So for those of you paying attention, Jeff, the bow tie is when Mr. Streets ever asked for money, and so I said I was going to wear a bow tie, and the comment was that he's asking for money from me, but actually we're all asking money from Tim, and so if we want money, we need bow ties.

Hi, I'm Mr. Streets. Honorable Mayor, Council, City Manager, obviously this is a fruition of a long effort to try to solve some of the problems that we identified in our east side sewer master plan study where we had a sewer moratorium. I'm sure some of you remember that quite well. It was pretty painful for all of us. A number of issues were identified and put in a list of priorities. And the very first one was Edgewood Lift Station, which we are addressing. They should be buttoning up hopefully in the next 30 days. and the next one was this hiwasi lift station which tim and the city manager's office asked us to try to do what we could to get it addressed as quickly as possible with carrie's help we've been able to find not only an engineer qualified engineer but put together an estimate and now we have an actual bid to get it repaired. This is a big step in the right direction, but it is phase one. It is not phase two. Pat, I want to point out this does address the security issues that you identified the day that you came out to visit the site. Also addresses some pumps and backup power generation, a few other things. There will be another phase in the future, but this is the first one that gets us over the biggest hump. If you have any questions, I'd be happy to entertain them. And if not me, Kerry obviously is very familiar with the project.

Motion to approve?

Motion to approve.

Second? All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? There being none, new business public discussion from the municipal authority. Is there any member of the public that wants to say anything about the municipal authority? There being none, I'm going to close that.

Can we vote to adjourn?

Wow. OK, so we're adjourning the municipal authority. The next agenda is the hospital authority agenda. I'm going to call that to order. First item on the agenda is the consent agenda. Do we have a motion? Mr. Favors is gone.

Second.

We have a motion. We have a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? All right. Next item is item D1, public hearing and discussion with regard to the budget for the hospital authority. This is also at TIA TIA. If anybody has any questions for TIA on this, there being none, it is public discussion. No member of the public, therefore I'm going to close that. I'll entertain a motion.

I make a motion to approve. Second.

Motion and second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? All right. Next item on the agenda is D2, discussion, consideration, action, approving, and amending an assignment of commercial land from Peacetime Properties. And this is going to be yours, Mr. Lyons.

mr. Coleman so this is a piece of property through the carburetor alley project it's been identified to help us progress forward with roads and in landscape in their roadscape and parking parking is a major issue we're trying to create walkability but this is a lot that became available for a reasonable price and What more do you want to say about this, Mr. Coleman?

I don't think we do. Do we have any questions?

It's a great property. I'm glad we're getting it. But I think we're going to have to spend more than $130,000 just to clean that dump up once we own it. And so we want to budget some money for that, because that place is a mess. But I'm glad we're able to buy it. So I make a motion to approve.

And a second? Second. All those in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed? Item D3, this is discussion consideration to approve a contract with Lippert. And this is the corresponding hospital authority item that goes for the multi-athletic complex, the MAC.

A motion to approve.

We have a motion. Second. We have a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? No. And then item D4, discussion, consideration, action to reallocate assets, change fund managers on our investment policy. This is a TAT issue. No action needed. No action needed on that item. Is there any new business or public discussion for the hospital authority? There being none, I'm going to adjourn that meeting. Next meeting is the Special Economic Development Authority agenda. I'm going to call that to order. The first item is the consent agenda.

Move to approve.

We have a motion. Do we have a second? Second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? There being none, the next item would be item D1, public hearing discussion, and this will be the budget for the Economic Development Authority.

Move to approve.

Public discussion. Any public discussion? There being none, now I need a motion.

Move to approve.

And a second. Second. All those in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed? Nope. All right, then there's public discussion for the Economic Authority. none we will adjourn that and the next agenda is the special utilities authority agenda first item is discussion item number one and this would be the Oh, that is the minutes. Why is that a consent agenda? It's only one? Okay, I got it. That threw me. All right. We have a motion to approve. Do we have a second?

Second.

All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? There being none, next item is D2, discussion consideration on a resolution with the Midwest City Utilities Authority approving its budget.

That $2,000 is really concerning to me. I'd like to have a debate, please.

Would that be your motion?

No, move to approve.

And a second? Public, public.

Sorry.

I had it served. Public hearing? No public hearing. All right, now a motion.

Move to approve.

Do we have a second? Second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? We're going to adjourn that, and we will need a vote to reconvene the city council meeting to go into executive session.

I vote we reconvene the city council.

Do we have a second? All those in favor? Aye. Aye. We are going into executive session. Look at that. 732.