Remarks by Will Joyce
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“the September 28th, 2026 meeting of the Storer City Council. This time I will call the meeting to order and I'll ask that you all stand and join us in the Pledge of Allegiance.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“All right, first up tonight we have a proclamation in recognition of National Careers in Construction Month. I know we've got several folks here from the North Central Oklahoma Home Builders Association, including Executive Director Rebecca Eastham. I'm gonna read the proclamation and then I'm gonna ask Rebecca if you wanna come up and say a few words, maybe introduce your folks, that would be great. Whereas the City of Stillwater recognizes that a healthy and successful community depends on quality housing, a skilled workforce, and dedicated individuals who design, build, maintain, and…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“All right, councilors, that takes us to item four on the agenda, which is the consent docket. Several items on the consent docket, lots of easements. Questions, comments, or action on the consent docket?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Councilors, any questions for staff? Hearing none, I'll open the public hearing. Is there anyone here to comment on this item?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Thank you. Anyone else here to speak on this public hearing? Seeing no one, I'll close the public hearing. Henry, is there a staff recommendation?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Do you want to say more about this one, or do we want to just jump to the building here?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Counselors, any questions for staff on this item? I'll open the public hearing. Anyone here to speak on this one? If you're here to speak on this one and not the last one, I'm really going to wonder why. All right. Seeing nobody, I'll close the public hearing. Henry, I assume that, well, give us your recommendation.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Councilors? I move approval of staff recommendation.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Counselors, any questions? Hearing none, I'll open public hearing. Is there anyone here to speak on this item? All you guys are here and nobody wants to talk to us. We'll close the public hearing. Henry, what's the recommendation?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“We're happy you're here. This is one of my favorite subjects.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Those are all different little sidewalks in different places?”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Just on the pie chart, just to kind of walk through this, because I think it's sometimes hard to understand. You've got the budget revenue for the transportation sales tax is $10.6 million. That's what we estimate we're going to take in in that one penny of sales tax this fiscal year. Yes, sir. We're going to appropriate, we think, we're going to appropriate over $21 million in projects this year, which means we're spending $10 extra million, which is coming out of funds that are sitting in the transportation account from prior years, correct? Exactly. Okay, so do we know what the current...…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“And that's of non-appropriated money still sitting in that account. Not just not spent money.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Well, I mean, if there's 25 and we're spending 10 of it, we're appropriating 10 of it, then it would make sense there would be 15 unappropriated.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“And then the $12.8 million number is how many of those dollars are actually going to get a check written that says, here's your money, you're done with your project. I think it's important for folks to understand that all of this stuff in the pie chart was a lot of stuff. There's a lot of projects going on. There's a lot of different things that happen in a year. You spend $12.8 million and... They're still so much more in the back in the bank or, you know, in both in the bank to spend and on the list to do and work to do. Yes. And so I think that's also one of the things that sometimes it…”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“of the budget income of the transportation sales tax fund.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“And that's one piece of a road that really isn't that heavily traveled. I mean, it needed to be fixed for a long time, but it's not exactly one of our major thoroughfares. So I think helping people to understand the scale of some of these projects and the cost that it takes is important as well.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“still rather see it on the street oh you will do three years absolutely any further questions for Bill or the rest of the stuff just echo yeah thanks for all the work that you and your team and and all the city staff do on these these are massive projects tons of stuff going on at any given time citizen involvement is really appreciated as well and hopefully folks recognize This work happens, right? I mean, it's definitely hard sometimes when that same street you're driving on again, but there is a lot going on when it comes to transportation. So thank you. There is.”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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City Council · Sep 28, 2026