[6:38] Obviously not responding to the school's own 20-mile-hour posted speed limit. This happens

[6:45] every day. I was tad angry last Wednesday or Thursday when a silver jeep four-door unlimited

[6:52] was going through our school's own at speeds right around 50 miles an hour. We have the

[7:00] building across the street. You probably knew it as a whole meat market. Those of you

[7:04] they've been around a couple years is super sports. That's our middle school

[7:08] building. We are in the process of purchasing 1315 North Grady, the Jackie

[7:15] Whitty building, gyms, etc. When that all takes place we're going to have not

[7:20] just 20 to 25 crossing the street many times a day but we're going to have 50

[7:26] to 60. It's our campus is growing, our student body is growing, but we think

[7:31] this is a very, very significant concern. So here's our proposal. I've been in communication

[7:38] with Ron Howard, engineer on the Alps Air Force Base. He also designs roads and helps

[7:44] control the speeds of those roads. He has suggested that we do something called a speed

[7:50] hump, not a speed bump. It's like a crosswalk, and there are distances that pretty well

[7:57] guarantee a reduction of speed in the distance that we would implement there at ACA would

[8:03] be about 100 to 120 feet that would slow traffic down to 15 to 20 miles an hour.

[8:09] In addition to that, we would like to see flashing signs somewhat similar to what you

[8:14] see in Blair when you go in their school zone that automatically change the speed

[8:19] limit on a digital sign during school hours, also ask travelers to slow down if they're

[8:27] exceeding the posted speed limit, and then they can also be equipped with push buttons

[8:31] for our students to safely cross. We think that would be an economical and a feasible

[8:37] way to accomplish what we were trying to do all along. Then ACA will take on the responsibility

[8:43] of signage, barricades, different things we need on campus property to secure and

[8:48] provide safe crossings between our building and our gymnasium over to the playground.

[8:54] That actually has become an issue too.

[8:56] We are amazed to see traffic pass through that area.

[9:01] If you look on the back of your sheet, you can see a picture.

[9:06] The top one was taken some time ago.

[9:08] You see water in the reservoir.

[9:10] The bottom one was taken this morning.

[9:13] But on our campus, the passage back there between our main building

[9:17] and our gymnasium playground, we had traffic through there.

[9:21] We set up traffic cones, we have literally watch cars stop, get out, move the traffic cones and proceed through.

[9:29] So we're going to take a more proactive approach there.

[9:33] But we think that all of this will accomplish what we want to do and make our campus safe.

[9:41] We just want to avoid accidents, potential tragedies, and we believe that working with you, we can accomplish all of that.

[9:48] So I wanted to give just a moment or two for questions.

[9:52] Some of you may not be that familiar with this part of town or the streets that are around here,

[9:57] and maybe clarify some things that we're asking you to do.

[10:03] How far down on Grady or you wanted to put the speed bumps?

[10:07] Well, if on the top picture you can barely see the ends of the building at the very bottom of that picture,

[10:16] that would be where the crosswalks would be.

[10:20] So we had originally considered three

[10:22] and maybe it even says that in this,

[10:25] but after talking or actually emailing

[10:27] Ron Howard back and forth today,

[10:30] the optimal distance between those two speed humps

[10:34] would be about 100 to 120 feet.

[10:36] So we would really only need two.

[10:38] We also then would request two signs.

[10:41] The sign would be further south on Grady toward the south end of that street,

[10:48] so it catches the attention of people before they get to the campus.

[10:52] The other one would have to just be located at a practical place as far north as would work

[10:58] as people turn off of Bradford onto Grady.

[11:04] So two of those two signs we think that we would accomplish what we want to do.

[11:09] So

[11:12] you're wanting the city to provide the signs for the grading and the speed

[11:23] months on grading, that's what we want. We would ask you to do that. We'll take

[11:27] care of the other requirements that are on campus property. And we did some

[11:35] investigating on the signs. You know what that would cost us? So if you do,

[11:40] It depends on how you install them, but without installation and with solar power on both of

[11:48] the signs, they're going to come in around $10,000 apiece for having all of that.

[11:56] There was some discussion about some of those up in Blair that was running significantly

[12:01] higher than that, but after we looked at the reputable companies that provide these

[12:05] for many other communities, that's about the cost each of those digital signs that switch

[12:11] the speed with the school, all of that, have the radar on them, and then can allow students

[12:18] to cross if they press the button.

[12:20] Would the sign be located south of the school?

[12:25] Well it would need to be south side, or are we going to have more than one?

[12:28] So we would have one for northbound traffic, one for southbound traffic.

[12:31] The one for the northbound traffic as they come south off of Falcon would need to be located.

[12:38] Your street commissioner is going to know a lot more about that than I do,

[12:41] but it's going to need to be located at a distance far enough south

[12:45] that it would get the attention of the drivers before they enter the campus.

[12:50] The one on the southbound traffic turning north off or turning south off of Bradford,

[12:56] wherever it can be located as soon as they make that turn.

[12:59] And

[13:06] we've got a couple of different quotes back today.

[13:09] The original quotes from TACCO, which

[13:12] is a reputable national company that

[13:14] has a contract with the state here in Oklahoma

[13:16] to provide some of these.

[13:18] It was a right at $11,000.

[13:20] That included both radar signs in both directions.

[13:23] So it would be one south and one northbound.

[13:25] And then it also, an additional $8,000

[13:28] included the push button that actually

[13:31] went right where the crosswalks were.

[13:32] So it would light up a similar to different ones. You've seen they've sent quite a bit of literature that we can distribute to you guys as well

[13:39] So that would actually be about twenty thousand dollars

[13:41] That would actually get you to radar signs and the thing that they liked about the radar signs

[13:45] Is it helps capture data and that you can download to save it helps you with the speed data

[13:51] Like actually how fast people are going through the area. It also helps with traffic count, which would be

[13:57] Well, the speed bumps, is that something our street department would do?

[14:03] I mean, is that something we make?

[14:06] There's two different ways to do that.

[14:08] So they have pre-made ones you can install or you can, you know, the street department

[14:12] could produce those themselves.

[14:14] When I was looking on the DOT website, they had all kinds of diagrams and drawings about

[14:20] Chad's not here.

[14:22] Oh, there you are.

[14:24] What do you think?

[14:25] Yeah, I think we should build it.

[14:28] I don't have any information really about the cost.

[14:30] Cost?

[14:31] I don't think the cost would be pretty minimal.

[14:35] Yeah.

[14:36] But it would be like asphalt built up

[14:43] probably.

[14:43] But it would be like asphalt built up

[14:44] Gone.

[14:46] Okay.

[14:47] okay so to have a long life expectancy then okay did you notice some

[15:00] Strange-looking guy sitting out there Monday morning watching the school.

[15:04] I didn't think he was that strange, but I did see a guy sitting there in a pickup on the north side.

[15:09] I noticed you finally noticed, man. I got some dirty looks from some of the money.

[15:15] Well, and, uh...

[15:16] Chad's the only one that recognized me, though. He looked at us.

[15:18] Well, good. We've had patrol cars out. We've had patrol cars with flashing lights who were talking to some folks as well.

[15:25] We appreciate all of that.

[15:27] Here's a simple truth. We're growing. This school started just 14 years ago.

[15:34] We've got 184 students this year. We're out of classroom space. We're going to be doing some more growing.

[15:40] We just moving across Grady is our only option. We're landlocked on the east side.

[15:46] So, you know, Grady is going to be a street that we do a lot of crossing for our special classes,

[15:53] for PE, for any activities in the gym, there's just a lot of foot traffic.

[15:58] And you know, we consider the idea of just crossing guards, but we don't do a lot of

[16:04] crossing at drop-offs and pick-ups.

[16:07] Our crossing is during the day when we're switching classes and moving about.

[16:11] So it's just not plausible to use that as a remedy.

[16:18] So we think if we can slow down the traffic, we think that this will do it.

[16:21] If we can partner on that, I think we can do what we need to do for campus safety.

[16:25] One of the things I noticed, I was there from 645, and you were the first person to come through that intersection.

[16:31] Okay.

[16:31] 645.

[16:33] And there were a total, I've got a little study here, I passed out to the council, and a total of 217 automobiles

[16:42] passed through the Bradford Grady intersection between 645 and 830.

[16:49] 15 were bypassed. They just went down Bradford and went to Falcon or came from Falcon to Brady.

[16:56] I mean to Bradford. And then 17 actually went down Spurge and went down behind the campus.

[17:03] 11 went to the water plant. 8 were local businesses.

[17:08] And then between 730 and 8 that was the biggest zoo that I have ever seen.

[17:16] and this is going to bring up the comment about our grade schools, elementary

[17:23] schools. Almost all of them have some type of one-way traffic during school

[17:27] hours. Right. And that probably was going to be something to help you guys out. I

[17:33] saw about 40% of the traffic came in from Falcon and dropped students off. So

[17:38] they pulled up, dropped them off out of the right side of the car, and you and

[17:42] your staff were there to take them in.

[17:45] And then the others came in from Maine

[17:47] or came in from the east side.

[17:49] They came down to Spurgeon.

[17:51] And there was a lot of U-turning on Grady.

[17:53] I mean, a tremendous amount of U-turning.

[17:55] And it was kind of a spaghetti mix match,

[17:57] because everybody in that 30-minute section

[17:59] was trying to get there were 150 cars.

[18:02] 131 of them were people dropping student salt.

[18:06] So I would also have us consider the potential

[18:09] of doing like they do at sunset, have one-way traffic during school hours.

[18:16] The one-way traffic worked well when we had those barricades up, and we, this was a huge

[18:24] change over for all our families, because you see how many come, so we had all of them

[18:29] enter off of Spurgeon between Goodwill and our gymnasium, come down that concrete drive.

[18:34] They would, our littles, our pre-care's and Kimmergarteners get dropped off between our

[18:40] gym and our main building and then the rest of them come over and drop off either on the

[18:46] west side of Grady for our middle school or on the east side of Grady for grade school

[18:50] students.

[18:51] So that works really well.

[18:55] But the one-way traffic created some problems for the businesses and for how people were

[19:04] were coming through that area.

[19:06] And actually it was very inconvenient for us

[19:08] because our folks, our teachers, our administrators

[19:11] are used to coming either direction to gain parking spots.

[19:15] That will even become more of an issue

[19:17] when we have those additional parking spots across the street.

[19:21] So...

[19:22] Well, perhaps you all can educate the parents.

[19:25] Well, the parents responded phenomenally.

[19:28] I sent out an email on one day,

[19:29] the next day we started the new traffic pattern

[19:31] and they did exceptional.

[19:34] And it was an inconvenience for our parents

[19:36] because as you saw how the traffic pattern worked before,

[19:40] there was a flow from many directions.

[19:42] When we started the one way thing,

[19:44] everybody came off of Spurgeon through that area.

[19:48] We did have two lanes of traffic on Grady,

[19:52] but it was a significant changeover.

[19:55] And the comments that I heard from our folks were,

[19:59] yeah, this is taking a little more time

[20:01] to drop our kids off, but I had more than one say, I finally feel like our campus is

[20:06] safe.

[20:06] Well it was amazing that 30 minute segment in there that was out of the 217 audible bills

[20:13] went through the intersection, went through in that 30 minute period, and then after that

[20:16] it died.

[20:18] I mean it just went to nothing.

[20:19] It picks back up around 10 when the other businesses start opening up and then there's

[20:25] a lot of traffic there close to the noon hour with the restaurant across the street.

[20:30] So there's throughout the rest of the day there's never really a time where it's

[20:35] just congested traffic but it's steady traffic all day long. I would suggest

[20:40] that the police chief and our street commissioner get together and propose a

[20:44] plan for us. Well I'll leave this one with them. Good. I think it's a it's a

[20:50] good one and if you know I'll speak out of turn I'll get in trouble for

[20:55] this, but we would do whatever it takes as a stool to help make this happen.

[21:00] Yeah, the safety of the children as I visited with the chief earlier when the

[21:04] barricades went up and I started getting complaints about the barricades and

[21:07] that's in my ward so I right I hadn't no idea they had done that I drove down

[21:11] there to go to lunch and like everybody else drove through the parking lot to

[21:15] get around the barricades. Right. And then when we left the restaurant we

[21:19] couldn't go back to Bradford so we drove through the AT&T parking lot.

[21:23] right so we don't want that to happen

[21:26] so we're just shuffling our problem

[21:28] I would say educate your parents because that 8 30 I mean at 7 30 to 8

[21:32] it was a zoo people you turning and I thought well

[21:37] uh they apparently everybody had done it before

[21:40] right but I was a little bit afraid that it was a bit of an unsafe time period

[21:44] so I'll be educating the parents also and we'll come up with a plan

[21:48] and uh and cash it out she see what the money is going to be

[21:53] and we've got to protect the children and the fact that you guys now have

[21:56] expanded across Grady that's going to be an issue. Yes it is yes and we

[22:02] appreciate you recognizing it and no two or three things. Number one we want to

[22:06] be good neighbors. We want to be good neighbors to the people around us. We

[22:08] realize we're unique in our location so we're going to do that. Number two

[22:14] we are partnering with you to resolve this. We don't expect you to sit back

[22:17] and watch you do it. We want to be involved as well. However you feel

[22:21] that would happen. And number three it's how I concluded the letter. Everything we

[22:26] want to do will be for the reason of glorifying God and I state that

[22:31] unapologetic. Protect those children. Yes. But do we need to take action tonight

[22:35] and allow staff to continue the project costs and they need to go forward with

[22:42] cost. Do we need to take action and vote on that? Or do we just

[22:50] continue moving?

[22:51] We would need to make a motion and we would be more involved. I

[22:55] think we should have Gary involved. And they are elected

[23:01] officials. So we just have to ask them if they're willing. I

[23:04] mean, we can't order them. I'll be glad to ask them if you'd

[23:08] like for me too. They like me a lot. I think they would be cooperative. I think they'd

[23:13] work hard. I have a question. But I think we need some

[23:18] representation from the council. Gary would be good for you.

[23:22] The police chief and the street commissioner and I have all talked about this. What we

[23:27] talked about was the fact that what was originally proposed was a temporary solution

[23:31] to the problem. We knew that a permanent solution would need to be brought to council.

[23:35] And with the issues we thought well now's the time to go ahead and do it instead of that because the street commissioner and the police chief had the authority to do it on a temporary basis.

[23:45] I think there's no problem. I have no problem with Chad and the police chief and taking into consideration what the school has recommended and coming back with the recommendation to council.

[23:56] I have a quick question. I'm not familiar. Are y'all a private school?

[24:01] We are yes, we're private school credited and been in business for almost 15 years. So our

[24:09] Is it attached to the Alters public schools? No, we we cooperate with Alters public schools, but we're not we're not affiliated

[24:17] In any way, and so it's interesting that you brought up that point

[24:21] So we've got a lot of great tax-paying families there who don't take your money for our school

[24:28] there you go. I want to just make sure are we legally covered as the city if we

[24:35] were to fund this or... well it's your street now if you talk to the city I think the city has the ability to manage for streets and traffic and the police chief who makes decisions about the streets

[24:49] and that's something that, you know, it is appropriate to be taken.

[24:55] Yeah, I think we would, we put, we put street sign, or speed signs up, say over by Lincoln, for example.

[25:02] Absolutely, we would treat that out of description again, just as we would out of public schools,

[25:08] and if we work together to install signs, schools on the signs, then we get it out of public schools.

[25:21] Well, the issue came up with the hammer approach of putting barricades up across a public street

[25:27] to benefit a private business, although it was a school.

[25:30] But it impacted businesses, there are 12 businesses on that street, and it was impacting them.

[25:36] So there I think we might have had an issue with a legal issue.

[25:40] But the fact that we're going to provide safety, these are students that are citizens

[25:44] of Altus.

[25:46] that they're in a private school, they are citizens of Alta, so we're going to protect

[26:20] project. We just keep moving forward and gathering information and costs. We need a

[26:26] complete plan with money.

[26:50] is almost as an emergency, we have to do something.

[26:54] So we do have the ability to do something temporarily.

[26:57] Anything we do like that has to be counsel action.

[27:00] So we knew it had to be counsel action.

[27:02] But we had to stop it before somebody was killed.

[27:05] So kids are crossing this all the time

[27:07] and staring today there, right?

[27:09] Oh, yes, they are.

[27:10] OK.

[27:10] Yeah, the best way to understand it

[27:13] is these are middle school students who

[27:14] get their academics on that side of the street.

[27:17] They come across for things like PE, a lot of activities we have in our gymnasium library.

[27:25] So they're crossing that street on a daily basis.

[27:27] It may be two or three at a time or maybe 20 at a time.

[27:30] Have you ever thought about hiring a security guard?

[27:34] Well, we've talked about security on campus.

[27:36] We don't have problems with security inside of our buildings.

[27:40] But I'm talking about...

[27:41] So they would have to be external security.

[27:43] We just don't have enough roadways.

[27:46] I mean you could have somebody sit there and drink a cup of coffee until it was time for these kids to cross

[27:51] Yeah, so and and we we make sure we've got our PE teacher walks the kids

[27:58] To the door walks the next group over so we're having supervision at most time

[28:03] But these are old kids we they're gonna cross sometimes on their own and really there would be no problem

[28:10] if the traffic obeyed the law it is an issue of

[28:16] speed and how fast these cars are driving down the street.

[28:20] That's why we believe that these speed humps that the signs would result that.

[28:24] You mean people break the law? Isn't that amazing?

[28:28] Yeah. Well, I don't want to get your chief

[28:32] police in trouble, but while we were standing there that day for 15, 20

[28:36] minutes, he said, that's a ticket. That's a ticket. Appreciate

[28:40] him knowing when it's a ticket. No, seriously

[28:44] We appreciate these two guys. We appreciate you. We want to work together. Like you said, we're all citizens and we want this community to be the best it can be. We're here to do whatever we can do to help.

[28:56] I would move that we assign our city manager, the chief of police and the city commissioner

[29:06] to develop a plan to return to the council for modifying traffic down Grady in front

[29:12] of the ACA with budget requirements and return of the next council meeting.

[29:19] Second.

[29:19] it. You have motion second. Call for vote.

[29:24] Tyler. Yes,

[29:26] register. Yes. Jinx. Yes. Walmart. Yes. Osterhouse. Yes. Is

[29:32] L. Yes. Brady Lee. Yes. Blackman. Yes. Garrison. Yes. Move

[29:37] down to number seven. Consideration discussion possible

[29:40] actions adopt resolution 2021 dash 15, approving amendments

[29:45] to the downtown artist redevelopment trust authority. As

[29:48] As I step out, thank you to each of you.

[29:50] Thank you.

[30:00] Good evening, everyone. As y'all are aware, the downtown Altus Trust Authority has come

[30:07] alive again recently, and the trustees have met and wanted to make some changes that would,

[30:15] number one, change the name to reflect that it would encompass all of Altus and provide

[30:21] for growth of all of Altus and also to change some definitions. So the trustees met last

[30:28] last week and agreed on an amendment to the trust indenture which would change the name

[30:35] to the Altus Redevelopment Trust Authority and would also change, there was a definition

[30:39] that since the original trust indenture the statute had changed and so the definition

[30:46] was changed to reflect the statute which is reflected there and then also that the

[30:53] the purpose of the trust would be amended to include all areas within the city limits

[30:59] of Altas and not just be limited to the downtown area.

[31:02] So that was agreed upon unanimously and now the ARDA trustees would ask that the city

[31:10] council adopt the resolution 2021, which reflects the changes to the trust and venture.

[31:15] I'll

[31:20] make motion to approve 21-15.

[31:28] Second.

[31:29] We have motion second. Call for the vote.

[31:32] Wal-Mack?

[31:34] Yes.

[31:35] Jinx?

[31:36] Yes.

[31:36] Rester?

[31:37] Yes.

[31:38] Byler?

[31:38] Yes.

[31:39] Blackman?

[31:40] Yes.

[31:40] Brady Lee?

[31:41] Yes.

[31:42] Vizel?

[31:43] Yes.

[31:44] Osterhout?

[31:45] Yes.

[31:45] Garrison?

[31:46] Yes.

[31:47] Move to item number eight.

[31:49] Consideration, discussion, and possible action to weigh the reading of the entire ordinance

[31:52] and authorize reading the title only ordinance number 2021-11.

[31:57] I'll make that motion.

[31:58] Second.

[32:00] We have a motion second.

[32:01] Call for the vote.

[32:03] Osterhoud?

[32:03] Yes.

[32:04] Wilmette?

[32:05] Yes.

[32:06] Jinx?

[32:07] Yes.

[32:07] Vizel?

[32:08] Yes.

[32:09] Brady Lee?

[32:09] Yes.

[32:10] Rester?

[32:11] Yes.

[32:11] Beiler?

[32:12] Yes.

[32:13] Blackman?

[32:14] Yes.

[32:15] Garrison?

[32:15] Yes.

[32:16] Item number nine, consideration, discussion, possible action to adopt ordinance 2021-11, an ordinance

[32:22] of the city of Altus, Oklahoma, resigning certain property from AR Auto Urban Residential

[32:27] to SC suburban commercial providing for repealer, savings clause, severability and publication.

[32:34] The property is located at 1309 East Bridge Press Road.

[32:38] Good evening, Mayor City Council.

[32:40] The Planning Commission took this up at their September 13th meeting and approved

[32:47] the recommendation to council for the rezoning of this property.

[32:50] Just to be clear, it's a residential lot that's being zoned to a commercial lot,

[32:57] but suburban commercial is the appropriate district for this use.

[33:02] And real quickly, this district is a neighborhood oriented commercial district

[33:06] where the uses are expected to serve the immediate neighborhood

[33:10] rather than multiple neighborhoods or the entire city.

[33:14] The planning commission felt that this was an appropriate application for this district

[33:19] and staff recommends approval.

[33:22] Do you know what the potential use is gonna be for this property?

[33:26] Yes, yes, it's gonna be a salon, a beauty shop.

[33:29] The owners are present here tonight

[33:31] if anybody has any specific questions.

[33:33] No, I was just kind of questioning it

[33:34] because if you look at the zoning code,

[33:38] what they're going to,

[33:41] they can build single homes on it now,

[33:44] occupy single homes,

[33:46] which they couldn't do under the commercial code,

[33:48] under the UR code. Places of assembly. You build colleges, Chad. You can build a college

[33:56] out there. And they can have a bed and breakfast. They can have commercial lodging, retail commercial.

[34:03] No, that's not right.

[34:04] Well, that's what SC says on the code.

[34:06] Oh, you're talking about when we rezone it.

[34:08] Yeah, when you rezone it.

[34:09] I'm sorry.

[34:09] Yeah. So I was just kind of interested. So apparently they could do a lot more

[34:15] like residential under his seat and they can under the use of it so I was just

[34:19] interested in and I mean yes and I think a comparable comparison would be from

[34:26] suburban commercial to auto urban commercial those who are most like the

[34:31] suburban designation actually is designed for types of commercial

[34:36] businesses that would integrate into neighborhoods yeah I was just interested

[34:40] Thank you. Good question. Did we get any anybody else from that area coming to the meeting that you guys held about it? We did not. Okay.

[34:53] Motion to prove second.

[34:57] You have a motion to second. Call for a vote. Blackman. Yes. Yes. Brady Lee. Yes. He's ill. Yes. Osterhouse. Yes. Walmart. Yes. Jinx. Yes.

[35:10] Yes.

[35:10] Rester?

[35:11] Yes.

[35:11] Biler?

[35:12] Yes.

[35:13] Garrison?

[35:14] Yes.

[35:15] Out of number 10, consideration discussed partial action regarding closure of the Veterans

[35:18] Dive Ramp entering Altus Air Force Base.

[35:22] Gary?

[35:23] Yes, this is a request we received from the Air Base.

[35:26] They had done a traffic study and any report it talks about the fact that they have

[35:31] people that inadvertently find themselves going into the Air Base and by coming from

[35:37] the south ramp heading north once they make that turn there's no way to turn

[35:43] around until it gets the base and so they've made that recommendation. One

[35:48] thing also is that they have a design for a complete new main gate complex and

[35:54] in that design it does not include the ramp it would actually eliminate the

[35:59] ramp as well so we would bring it to council have them aware of it and see

[36:05] with the world council is. Is there anybody here can discuss the the

[36:09] plaits that submitted?

[36:13] Anybody from the base? I talked to the base yesterday and

[36:17] they had no idea who was going to come here to talk to us. The guy Chuck Bucci

[36:21] who submitted the request he's out all week. Sure. I've spoken with them

[36:27] about that if any I think I might be able to answer that. Well maybe you can't.

[36:32] Exhibit two. Look at exhibit two.

[36:36] I don't know who again at Fleming is. They

[36:38] must be a consulting firm for the Air Force.

[36:45] You got it? Yes. 106. Yeah, 106.

[36:52] It's exhibit two. My question is, southbound on veterans, they're going

[37:00] to eliminate the left turn lane to go to the base on southbound veteran traffic and make

[37:07] it so that you can only go south across Falcon and right go west on Falcon. So I think someone

[37:19] has drawn their drawings backwards and I don't know what their thought process was

[37:26] but that was stood out and then why they're eliminating that left-turn lane

[37:30] off of veteran south which that's the most traffic that goes through there well

[37:35] now is that a left-turn lane currently yes okay that's what I thought it's there

[37:40] I was out there removing that one they're talking about removing that as long

[37:45] in along with the curve yeah that doesn't make sense they're moving that

[37:48] that southbound left turn to the other side against the northbound traffic

[37:53] traffic. If you look on there, on the east side of the road where the northbound traffic

[38:01] is going through. Where it says letter C. B and C. Is that where you're talking? On

[38:07] B. On B. Yup, that's southbound traffic. No, that's B is northbound traffic. That's

[38:12] northbound traffic. They're wanting to put a southbound lane right there. They're

[38:16] wanting to put a southbound lane right there. They're wanting to put a southbound

[38:21] lane against the northbound traffic. That doesn't make sense. They're trying to

[38:26] eliminate them going through both lights. So they're going to take a two-lane

[38:31] street and make it a three-lane street from a four-lane and do a little

[38:35] south on north. And do a lane with the curve. Okay. Is that what they meant by

[38:40] the they were going to provide a reversible lane and morning peak

[38:45] period? No, that's going on two-base. So you know how you have the

[38:50] two lanes going on base and the two lanes coming off.

[38:53] Yeah.

[38:54] So they're going to make one of the lanes

[38:56] coming off base during peak warning hours

[38:58] as a lane that can be accessed to inbound the base.

[39:02] That sounds awfully confusing.

[39:04] And I don't see how it's going to work.

[39:07] The thing with the ramp, which

[39:09] is what we're talking about tonight,

[39:10] the justification is not for the gate remodel.

[39:14] The justification is for 150 visitors,

[39:17] unintentional visitors, which makes up.

[39:19] One of those, by the way.

[39:22] Running the numbers, using their justification

[39:25] on their staff report, they have 150 a day.

[39:29] A day?

[39:30] They're not a day.

[39:31] Sorry, a year.

[39:32] I know what I meant.

[39:34] How many do you know how many years that's been going on?

[39:37] No.

[39:38] But what I did.

[39:38] Is it constant?

[39:39] That's what I'm wondering.

[39:41] Probably.

[39:42] But they issue or they said that they've

[39:44] got about 820 visitors inbound per day, which

[39:48] which ends up being 299,300 a year,

[39:52] which that 150 makes up 0.05% of the traffic

[39:55] and it takes 30 to 45 seconds to turn somebody around.

[39:59] Now, some of those accidental visitors

[40:02] are people that probably shouldn't be driving,

[40:05] whether that be DUI,

[40:07] whether that be without a license or registration

[40:09] or insurance.

[40:10] I talked to Chief Murphy today.

[40:13] They, this past year from January 1 to today

[40:16] have intercepted 92 calls out there so of those 150, 92 of them have been police

[40:26] action by APD so as of right now until we get these roads taken care of this

[40:31] during this plan that ramp is actually a benefit to the community taking care of

[40:37] people that shouldn't be driving and

[40:43] then by their own numbers on their on

[40:45] on their cat. Do we know how many people use that? Yes, I've got on here on page 14 of the

[40:52] little packet that I gave you guys. They've got a traffic study.

[41:00] Northbound turning right onto the base

[41:03] using that ramp. They've got 266 people during peak morning hours.

[41:09] hours. So we're going to add, well I'm sorry, I'm finding the stuff. It's this, it's the

[41:15] upper right one. So during peak morning hours they've got 266 people using that ramp to

[41:25] get on base. So we're going to add by taking away that ramp until these roads are done,

[41:31] adding 266 people to the queue at that light.

[41:36] Isn't that, now you're saying 266, just

[41:39] just on that ramp alone between 6 and 8 o'clock between 6 and 8 o'clock so

[41:47] that's going to affect not only traffic coming onto base but traffic going

[41:51] through the intersection for the rest of the town and that's not counting the

[41:56] people that are using it as the bypass to get from one end of town to the

[41:59] other

[42:02] do we have any idea of how many right

[42:09] lane alters

[42:10] the Air Force base signs we have coming up better. Three. Three. There are three. You have

[42:15] one that goes back to the OHP office. I wouldn't let them Saturday. Yeah. Just about the biggest

[42:21] signs you get to go into cash. There's two very big green ones with yellow things that

[42:26] says exit only base as you enter the curve.

[42:31] And as we just learned from ACA, it doesn't

[42:34] matter how many signs you put up, people are going to do what they want to do.

[42:40] And

[42:41] Of course, that's what I was wondering, why don't you put a big old sign several of them

[42:45] out?

[42:45] I mean, my wife has lost enough on the city with science to say, turn here to Tulsa, okay?

[42:51] It doesn't matter.

[42:51] You can paint the road.

[42:52] People are still going to mess it.

[42:53] You've still gone to Barbasville.

[42:54] A big picture here is you look at that next exhibit also, understand that half that loot

[43:00] isn't even owned by us.

[43:01] Right.

[43:02] It's owned by the base.

[43:03] It's owned by the property.

[43:04] Oh, okay.

[43:06] I'm going to say four against, but the base owns most of that loop.

[43:11] Okay.

[43:12] That was a question too that I had who were, yeah.

[43:16] I don't have any problem with eliminating the loop and adding the left turn lane on C

[43:22] on our exhibit two and a right turn lane on Veterans northbound.

[43:28] But I'm a little confused and I don't think we need to get into that southbound and northbound

[43:34] three lanes and all that. I don't think we need to get into that. I think they

[43:37] solved their problem with the plan C and and eliminate that curve. Well I think

[43:46] probably the better option for the council right now would be to table this

[43:52] until you can look at Gary's. Gary's got the long-term what's going to end up

[43:56] happening anyway. Yeah. Maybe get more clarification from all this. It's for

[44:01] everybody? Well, my question is how much does this cost the city? Yeah, that's the

[44:06] next question. One thing that the one this study came out and makes all the

[44:11] recommendations, the only request we've got from the base is to close the ramp.

[44:15] And one thing we also have been made aware of is where veterans, when you

[44:21] come down south of the cemetery, it comes back together. There is a loop

[44:25] there where you can go off of one turn back on the other. A lot of the

[44:29] current traffic right now people are going down and coming back so they can

[44:33] take the ramp so that that adds to the traffic there. Chad and I have gone out

[44:39] and looked at this and what what our thoughts were is that we could put up

[44:44] barricades to close the ramp and say ramp closed so they have to go do that.

[44:49] In the event it became a major problem we could go to the base of

[44:53] this is not working we need to do something different. But you won't

[44:57] don't have a right turn lane at that stoplight.

[44:59] That's the problem.

[45:00] We'll have a right turn, we don't have a right turn to lane, but they will turn right

[45:03] at the stoplight.

[45:03] Turn right at the stoplight.

[45:04] But that'll back up traffic at the light.

[45:06] Big time.

[45:08] Well, 266 back up.

[45:09] And the situation there is what you'll find is a lot of that is from traffic that goes

[45:13] south, loops to go on the, so that you don't think, okay.

[45:15] Oh, okay.

[45:15] Do you understand what he's saying?

[45:16] Yeah.

[45:17] Some of the 266 people coming down and going, because they don't want to wait for life,

[45:20] they're coming across, going past the cemetery, doing that little loop and getting on that

[45:24] to try to sneak in on that.

[45:25] Yeah, it's a more, yeah.

[45:26] My sister was one of them. I know that.

[45:27] Yeah.

[45:27] To avoid the extra stoplight.

[45:29] Yeah, they do that because the traffic's backed up. Yeah, right. Well, and what our thoughts were is number one

[45:35] They made they made the recommendation for November 1st

[45:40] That's why we put on this agenda because we don't have another council meeting before agenda for that time

[45:46] What we thought was with council's permission we could put that bear those barricades up

[45:53] With the understanding with the base that if it is a major problem, we could actually remove those

[45:59] to solve the problem and if we wait to study it then we're gonna miss the

[46:05] deadline that they requested of November 1st. Are y'all aware of the the traffic

[46:11] make-up that happens when an alarm goes off on base where the traffic will back

[46:16] up down Falcon pretty much the strikes and if you don't have that curve that

[46:22] traffic is gonna go from venerance to maintenance. And this could be a 30

[46:26] meaning alarm this could be an hour alarm depending on what happens on that

[46:30] base so traffic being backed up there is a problem it's already a problem with

[46:37] the ramp open so closing this ramp I can see well and then we've looked at the

[46:42] and when you look at who actually owns the property we own about a third of

[46:48] what the ramp is now actually I'm not that much probably about about a tenth

[46:51] of what the ramp is and then it gets on to their property and so you know

[46:55] Chief what do you think why are they looking for a recommendation if they own that much of it?

[46:59] They can just make a decision. They want what they need us traffic. Sure deal. Well, they made the request from us

[47:06] So we've got to work together on it. So it's not my case then we're closing the ramp

[47:10] They they came to us and said we've done the study and the study recommends. We close the ramp to solve this problem

[47:17] well

[47:19] Is there a way what they want great?

[47:22] It's going to create some traffic issues I think until people realize the right turn to

[47:32] go on to the base gate, the main gate.

[47:36] The bottom line is this is their property.

[47:38] They can do with it however they wish and if it's for future improvements for the

[47:44] United States Air Force then they have the right to do that because it's their property.

[47:50] We've just been doing something for many decades now, and now we want to see some change.

[47:56] And it might end up we have to put a right-hand turn lane at that light, an actual turn lane,

[48:05] get people accustomed, and maybe even put in examining at peak times how long those traffic signals will cycle.

[48:16] we may have to change that up as well you know for the time being if if the

[48:22] council thinks that this and the base thinks that this this project is going

[48:27] to work I tend to agree with our city manager that that we block this if it

[48:34] doesn't work those barricades can be removed in a matter of just a few

[48:37] hours probably less than that didn't you sir you took them off grady pretty

[48:42] quick, didn't we? I think that we ought to go with the experiment and I think I'll

[48:50] put a big sign that they're closed by the United States Air Force because they're

[48:54] going to be calling you. Well they're planning on making future improvements

[48:59] and it's their land they have a right to do that I think in the spirit of

[49:02] cooperation the city of Altus we ought to at least you know extend a hand to

[49:07] that or they are our partners.

[49:11] I would think the base can notify the,

[49:13] I mean, it's their people that's coming on the base.

[49:16] So like they should certainly be able to notify.

[49:18] Absolutely.

[49:19] One other issue too is if they're coming down Falcon

[49:23] and they cross veterans, there is a turnaround

[49:26] where they actually can turn around

[49:28] and go back out veteran, back out Falcon.

[49:30] The problem is the ramp is to the east of there.

[49:34] So they get there, there is no turnaround.

[49:36] So, but if they come, you know, so there's big signs there that said, you know, only authorized personnel,

[49:43] but they actually can turn them around and send them back out on the Falcon.

[49:48] You can't hit the ramp if they're using the ramp.

[49:50] Right.

[49:51] Let me just, if I could just add one more thing here.

[49:55] The ramp in that property that extends west of the main gate is theirs.

[50:00] I don't know how far it goes out.

[50:03] much of it is theirs. They can do with that what they wish for future

[50:09] improvements or whatever, but I'm not sure, Councilman Fazzel pointed out this,

[50:15] you know, opposite direction of traffic, southbound making a southbound lane so it

[50:20] helps with congestion in the northbound traffic. I'm not so sure about that.

[50:24] No. That needs more study. Yes. And why don't, instead of closing the ramp

[50:31] by the way, working with the base, why don't we open up that right turn only lane as well

[50:35] as keeping that ramp open until they start their projects on the gate and extending that

[50:40] gate project out so we can acclimate citizenry to taking that right turn only lane without

[50:46] closing that ramp off.

[50:47] Well, if we just put temporary blockades at the ramp, we're going to see what happens.

[50:53] We can always remove it if that's causing a big problem, can we not?

[50:57] And will this not satisfy the Air Force for a period of time until November?

[51:04] Yeah, I think if we did that, and we said we want to do that now, and then if it becomes

[51:09] a problem, then we need to get with you to come up with an alternate solution.

[51:12] Why is November the first, such an important date?

[51:19] They've been looking at this for a while, and that's what their letter said that

[51:22] they recommend.

[51:22] They asked that we consider this for November the first.

[51:25] We know about them wanting to do this if they've been doing this for a while.

[51:30] I read myself and the police chief received an email on September 30th.

[51:36] That's when we received the email.

[51:38] The date on their plat is March 31st, 2021.

[51:42] Well, the request, evidently they've been looking at for a long time.

[51:45] But the actual request came to me and I think the police chief got a copy at the same time on September 30th because we looked at them.

[51:53] This is a schematic of the Newgate configuration and it is such that it would live in, you know,

[52:02] there's a way by which they can bring those people in, check them out, take them back out

[52:06] before they go in on the base. So they have a long-range plan by which to deal with this issue.

[52:13] This is a way that they can fix it temporarily until this comes about.

[52:18] I wish we had somebody from the base here.

[52:21] Yeah, that's another reason I would because I'd like to ask them because they have to file a report

[52:25] And it's called a gate crasher report or something so for all 150 them. Well, hold on and I want to know if how that would affect

[52:35] Groups coming in and looking at the effectiveness of our base

[52:39] So I talked with my father and he was a gate gate guard here at Alps Air Force Base for a couple years

[52:44] He was APD here for 27 years and he's a gatekeeper a gate guard down at Shepherd Air Force Base

[52:49] The total time it takes to turn someone around, if everything is kosher, is about 45 seconds

[52:56] to turn somebody around.

[52:58] So there's the justification in our packet today.

[53:01] But that's not what I'm asking.

[53:02] I'm asking if they have to make reports for every gatecrash.

[53:07] At the end of shift.

[53:09] Those reports, what do those reports reflect as they get sent to leadership?

[53:14] whether the police chief has a record of how many of those resulted in a call to

[53:19] the police department. I understand what the mayor is trying to say here. It reflects bad when you have many reports of gate

[53:28] runners at any base because that goes ultimately to Washington, I'm sure.

[53:35] I'm thinking black. I'm not thinking um, but

[53:40] We we responded out as police responded 92 times out there for a police assistance

[53:49] From January until current

[53:53] any anything from a felony warrant that they've stopped somebody at the gate to it to a

[53:59] Drunk driver to people in possession of narcotics and other traffic offenses

[54:03] offices, we have an MOU with them that we're required by the MOU to go out there and assist.

[54:11] They are our law enforcement partners, our city attorney, and our district attorney,

[54:18] both file cases out there from those offenses, whether it be city ordinance or state statute.

[54:26] But we go out there a number of times, 92 times in 9 months.

[54:33] Out of the 155 a year, so you get a lot of...

[54:37] We do.

[54:40] There's a lot of wrong turns that people I'm sure don't want to go at.

[54:44] I'm not intending to go out there, but that's where they end up.

[54:47] And they got to have the credentials to get on base, obviously.

[54:51] Many times, if they lack a driver's license or insurance, whatever the case may be,

[54:56] we are contacted. I

[55:00] say we move forward and kind of analyzing 10 and I'll move

[55:04] to approve item 10. Under the supervision of our staff and see the

[55:11] leadership to make sure the first few days is it turning into something crazy?

[55:25] You

[55:29] don't think we should. You're not including closing the ramp temporarily. I thought that

[55:35] was all part of it. Okay. I guess I'm rereading the regarding closure regarding his motion

[55:45] is to do a temporary and then see what it looks like.

[55:49] Second.

[55:49] I'm following you.

[55:52] I'm all up guys.

[55:53] Thanks a little bit.

[55:55] There's a motion second.

[55:57] Call for the vote.

[55:58] Tyler?

[55:59] No.

[56:00] Rester?

[56:01] No.

[56:02] Jinx?

[56:03] Yes.

[56:04] Womack?

[56:04] Yes.

[56:05] Blackman?

[56:06] No.

[56:07] Brady Lee?

[56:08] Yes.

[56:09] Vizel?

[56:10] No.

[56:12] Osterhao?

[56:12] Yes.

[56:14] Garrison?

[56:14] Yes.

[56:18] What's the motion?

[56:18] Five to four.

[56:20] Yes.

[56:22] Well, you know the people that drive through that intersection, don't you?

[56:27] I don't drive through.

[56:29] I'm sorry.

[56:29] Every day.

[56:32] Move to item number 11, consideration, discussion, possible action to proceed with the out to

[56:36] sign project.

[56:40] Yes.

[56:41] Several meetings back, we talked about the design that the architect had come with,

[56:45] with the large ALTIS sign that we, you know,

[56:52] and we've had several discussions about this

[56:54] and what we're wanting is to discuss this

[56:58] and possibly get approval to move forward with looking for a location

[57:03] and proceeding with putting the first sign

[57:07] up coming from the west as you come into ALTIS

[57:11] but we can't proceed without Council's approval

[57:14] so we want to bring it up and see about getting council approval for that we're

[57:18] going to put the first sign up coming from from water coming from the east

[57:24] all coming from the east right there by the year 62 by the air base

[57:30] I'm motion to provide 11 second you have a motion second call for the vote

[57:38] Blackmon?

[57:39] Yes.

[57:40] Filer?

[57:40] Yes.

[57:41] Rester?

[57:42] Yes.

[57:43] Brady Lee?

[57:43] Yes.

[57:44] Vizel?

[57:45] Yes.

[57:46] Jinx?

[57:47] Yes.

[57:47] Womack?

[57:48] Yes.

[57:49] Osterhoud?

[57:50] Yes.

[57:50] Garrison?

[57:51] Yes.

[57:52] Move to item number 12, consideration, discussion, possible action to one, award a contract of

[57:56] vector concepts, I've heard in Texas to install new sports flooring at the city

[57:59] gym for a fee of $129,470.50 from Capital Improvement Fund and to authorize the

[58:06] and three approve a budget amendment as such.

[58:10] Good evening, Council.

[58:12] So we went out for bids to replace the gym floors, both sides, the red gym and the blue gym.

[58:19] The floors have been bubbling for the past four years.

[58:23] We've had to replace them costing anywhere from 3,000 to 5,000.

[58:26] Not replaced, repair.

[58:28] And it just keeps, it continues.

[58:30] When they put these down, the last time they did not put a vapor barrier

[58:34] here for whatever reason it was. So we continue to have this issue. So it's a safety issue

[58:44] for the kids running on the court. We need to replace them. This bid on the – we got

[58:51] actually five bids came in. This is the lowest bid with us doing the demo, which is ripping

[58:58] up the floor, which is obviously already kind of coming up, so it shouldn't be

[59:02] too hard and then going down with similar flooring but with a vapor barrier in there and a glue

[59:12] that bonds moisture barrier vapor moisture one calls them vapor moisture so any questions

[59:22] on that this one also has a 20 year manufacturer warranty and that as well I do know that we

[59:29] We reached out, this one was put in in Mangum.

[59:32] We reached out to them, it was put in,

[59:35] I believe it's been about five years

[59:36] and they haven't had any issues with it.

[59:40] Well, apparently our last floor

[59:42] had a limited warranty, right?

[59:45] Because- Which was null and void

[59:47] because of the percentage of moisture

[59:49] that was under there when they came

[59:51] that wasn't checked into.

[59:53] Does this warrant, does this company

[59:56] have a similar a limited warranty?

[59:58] No, they will, they will come.

[1:00:07] If this gets passed, when will they start and how long will it take?

[1:00:12] So they tell us it's about six to eight weeks as long as the material is available. And from

[1:00:18] what most all of these five companies have said is that light or maple color is a common

[1:00:26] in color, so most of the time it's in stock.

[1:00:29] Move to approve. Second. Second.

[1:00:32] Do you have a motion to second? Call for the vote.

[1:00:35] Osterhout. Yes.

[1:00:37] Wilmack. Yes.

[1:00:38] James. Yes.

[1:00:39] Vizel. Yes.

[1:00:41] Brady Lee. Yes.

[1:00:42] Rester. Yes.

[1:00:44] Biler. Yes.

[1:00:45] Blackman. Yes.

[1:00:46] Garrison. Yes. Item 13, consideration, discussion,

[1:00:49] possible action to one, award bid to JVN officials,

[1:00:52] LLC of Duke, Oklahoma to provide sports officials

[1:00:55] at $25 per official and $14 per scorekeeper and $40 per official and $10 per scorekeeper

[1:01:01] for non-recreational league tournaments for youth sports during the 2022 fiscal year and

[1:01:06] to authorized marriage assignment agreement.

[1:01:08] So this is our every year bid that we go out for our sports officials for the year.

[1:01:15] We only got one bid that came in.

[1:01:17] It is the same as the last year with the exception of the $40 per official and $10

[1:01:25] per scorekeeper for non-recreational league tournaments, with that we were going, we

[1:01:31] wanted to try and run more tournaments.

[1:01:35] We're bringing in more of the out-of-town.

[1:01:37] That's one thing that we are really trying to push is bringing in the travel ball

[1:01:44] where people are traveling to those. And in order to do that, to get the

[1:01:49] officials that are reputable and that you want to get those tournaments to come,

[1:01:52] You've got to pay them more so in order to do this

[1:01:56] That's and of course you're charging more for those tournaments and stuff

[1:01:58] So it does cover that cost, but that's why that extra for tournament play is in there

[1:02:04] They went down on the scorekeepers

[1:02:08] On for which part for the tournament side

[1:02:11] Yes, that was not what we put it. That's what the people bidding put

[1:02:15] Oh,

[1:02:20] we're gonna have problems getting scorekeepers

[1:02:22] Because we don't use them

[1:02:25] Do what? What did you say? We don't usually, but it's up to this, this contract gets all the

[1:02:31] scorekeepers and rats. So they'll be responsible for making sure each game has a scorekeeper.

[1:02:36] Because I know most tournaments we go to, we end up having a score. So under this,

[1:02:41] it's their responsibility. If it's a tournament, it's their responsibility to do it under that

[1:02:45] fee, and if it's our regular rec league, it's still theirs. So they employ them.

[1:02:50] I'm speaking just because I deal with it, and when you paying money to go play,

[1:02:56] how the tools go up, everybody gets one point, one time out, it's going to get serious, so okay.

[1:03:05] I can speak here, I mean, I can tell you like when we go to volleyball tournaments

[1:03:09] out of town,

[1:03:12] the pay for their scorekeepers and referees actually goes down, mainly because

[1:03:17] as you're playing a lot of games in one day,

[1:03:19] whereas they just come to a regular contest,

[1:03:22] it's just two games and you're paying normal,

[1:03:25] because otherwise you're paying them $600 for an official

[1:03:28] to sit there for six or seven hours for games

[1:03:30] and normally only make, you know, this or that,

[1:03:34] because we've even had that problem

[1:03:35] with the term we held here recently.

[1:03:38] We said, well, let's pay them what we know to pay them

[1:03:39] when we end up paying them two referees, $600 each

[1:03:42] to basically work five hours.

[1:03:44] Do our fees usually cover the cost of the rent close?

[1:03:52] I think we get close.

[1:03:54] Well, I know it's a money losing proposition and we're not in the business to make money,

[1:03:59] but it's kind of nice to break even every once in a while.

[1:04:02] That's what we strive for.

[1:04:05] Move to approve.

[1:04:06] Second.

[1:04:07] You have a motion to second? Call for a vote.

[1:04:11] Osterhoud?

[1:04:12] Yes.

[1:04:12] Fizzle?

[1:04:13] Yes.

[1:04:14] Brady Lee?

[1:04:15] Yes.

[1:04:15] Blackman. Yes.

[1:04:17] Filer. Yes.

[1:04:18] Rester. Yes.

[1:04:20] James. Yes.

[1:04:21] Wolmack. Yes.

[1:04:22] Garrison. Yes.

[1:04:23] Go ahead and move to item 14.

[1:04:25] Consideration discussion possible action to approve change order number six.

[1:04:28] Increase the contract amount with Rick Scott construction.

[1:04:31] I'll say by 11,711.

[1:04:33] $93.

[1:04:34] Linda Wiggington Aquatic Center renovation.

[1:04:36] Bid number 21023.

[1:04:39] So this is change order number six for the Linda Wiggington Aquatic Center.

[1:04:43] There's a few things that came up with this one.

[1:04:46] There were a couple of rooms that got missed that weren't originally going to be painted,

[1:04:54] and one of those was an alternate where we tore down some walls to make it bigger

[1:04:58] because it was an electrical room that was no longer utilized.

[1:05:01] So by doing that, it opened up this room that can be a multi-purpose type room.

[1:05:06] So we felt it needed to get fresh coat of paint just like the rest of it

[1:05:10] That's what blends as it all comes in.

[1:05:12] The concession was one of those rooms as well

[1:05:15] that was a little oversight when I say oversight,

[1:05:19] they just, I don't know what happened with it

[1:05:21] on why it got missed,

[1:05:22] but it wasn't in the original to get painted,

[1:05:25] but it's one of those that's used a lot.

[1:05:27] They did some maintenance in there

[1:05:28] that moved some windows down to meet ADA,

[1:05:31] so it needs some paint to make all of that cohesiveness

[1:05:36] and come together.

[1:05:38] The exit light replacements, the ones that were in there,

[1:05:44] rusted, all that, so when we got into it and we're looking,

[1:05:48] they questioned, we asked for them to give us a quote

[1:05:52] on what it would cost to replace those.

[1:05:54] We felt like those sort of stand out the same thing with the exit signs

[1:05:58] to put those all in the where they need to go.

[1:06:01] All the lighting wasn't included in the beer?

[1:06:03] Not all of the lighting, no.

[1:06:09] are they substantially complete they are very close yes yeah I see here their

[1:06:14] date of substantial completion is August 27th 2021 yes so but you know what

[1:06:21] we're pushing if they're pretty close they're only 3% over the original bid

[1:06:25] so that's not bad what is the and maybe you don't know maybe Doyle does what

[1:06:32] What was the RSC water line cut?

[1:06:35] That was one that was mismarked or not marked when they called out Oki and it was when they

[1:06:43] were digging and they hit a water line that comes in.

[1:06:46] So they were asking to be reimbursed for some of that.

[1:06:50] The hours waited from the electric and that because it was one that was not marked

[1:06:55] on our part.

[1:06:57] So it was on our part.

[1:07:01] What was the paint redo?

[1:07:02] The paint redo was, so the original walls were in epoxy, and they didn't realize that

[1:07:10] then there was a latex that was over that, because it had been repainted, you know, in

[1:07:15] the past 40 years, and then so they went to paint, and all that did was when you put

[1:07:20] the latex on top of the latex that's been on top of epoxy, it just started bubbling

[1:07:23] and pilling.

[1:07:24] So they had to take it all down, they had to do bonding agents on it to get that

[1:07:30] latex to now bond.

[1:07:31] that wouldn't have messed up because it was it wasn't seen they wouldn't have

[1:07:35] known without getting into the paint I move we accept second you have a motion

[1:07:42] second call for the vote Tyler yes Rester yes Jinx yes Womack yes Blackman

[1:07:52] yes Brady Lee yes Vizel yes Osterhout yes Garrison yes we've got a number 15

[1:07:59] consideration discussion and possible action to enter into executive session pursuant to

[1:08:03] 125 OS section 307 B3 to discuss the purchase or appraisal of the property.

[1:08:10] To title 25 of the statute section 307 B4 to engage in confidential communication between

[1:08:16] the out-of-the-city council and the city attorney concerning pending crash pad litigation

[1:08:19] disclosure will seriously impair the ability of the council to process the claims or conduct

[1:08:23] a pending investigation of litigation proceeding in the public interest.

[1:08:25] First, I move we go into executive session.

[1:08:30] Second.

[1:08:31] Motion second.

[1:08:32] Call for the vote.

[1:08:34] Filer.

[1:08:35] Yes.

[1:08:36] Rester.

[1:08:36] Yes.

[1:08:37] Jinx.

[1:08:37] Yes.

[1:08:38] Willmack.

[1:08:39] Yes.

[1:08:39] Blackman.

[1:08:40] Yes.

[1:08:41] Brady Lee.

[1:08:41] Yes.

[1:08:42] Fizel.

[1:08:43] Yes.

[1:08:43] Ostrahout.

[1:08:44] Yes.

[1:08:45] Garrison.

[1:08:45] Yes.

[1:09:42] Thank you.

[1:09:43] Thank you.

[1:10:05] We are back from executive session there were no motion to

[1:10:12] vote to worry about someone who died in 17 the city manager's report let's have a

[1:10:16] motion to move out of executive session oh we don't have we don't have to we don't

[1:10:21] have a motion. Okay, we move to item 17 city manager support. Yes, just want to

[1:10:28] say that appreciate the staff working very diligently getting things done.

[1:10:32] We're moving forward with our maps projects. And at next meeting, I plan

[1:10:38] to bring you a item by item update on all the maps projects that we're

[1:10:44] currently have going right now. City Council member comments. We'll

[1:10:49] start Miss Ray Lee. No comment. No comment tonight. No comment. No

[1:10:58] comments. Quick comment. I'm I've been around military since

[1:11:03] 1995. So communication is something I'm used to. I've seen

[1:11:08] people emails and stuff and I don't get no replies, please

[1:11:11] reply to me if you just say leave me alone and shut up. I'd

[1:11:14] appreciate it. Or if I need to come see you, tell me that I'm

[1:11:18] make an appointment to come see you, whatever it takes.

[1:11:21] But the no reply, whoo, thank you.

[1:11:25] Well, let me make a comment about that.

[1:11:27] I supposedly have an email address,

[1:11:28] but no one has set it up for me.

[1:11:31] I don't even know how to get it.

[1:11:33] How do I get my email?

[1:11:35] Um, I think it's ordered, uh.

[1:11:40] OK.

[1:11:43] You have a, now he hasn't sent you the email, right?

[1:11:46] But you can link that to, because mine's linked

[1:11:50] to another email that I check every day.

[1:11:53] I need my link.

[1:11:54] Yeah.

[1:11:55] That's what I need.

[1:11:56] Mine was linked.

[1:11:57] Mine's linked to my personal emails right here.

[1:12:01] So if you can help me link it to mine, I appreciate it.

[1:12:05] Whoever does it.

[1:12:07] John.

[1:12:08] Okay.

[1:12:08] My only comment is I have asked about us getting a sign

[1:12:13] for the Senior Citizen Center

[1:12:16] we don't have a sign on the senior citizen centers.

[1:12:20] Old people, they don't know where it is.

[1:12:24] They need a dadgum sign, so I'm just saying I know we're going to work on this at some point.

[1:12:32] That's all.

[1:12:34] For my comments, I just had a few things I wanted to mention.

[1:12:37] First off, for those of you who didn't, the chili kickoff was a massive success.

[1:12:43] Very busy.

[1:12:44] I think this is the people wanting to get out.

[1:12:46] It's nice to see downtown moving again.

[1:12:49] I told Linda that it was a great job.

[1:12:52] It was me and my dog walking around the whole time.

[1:12:55] It was kind of fun.

[1:13:00] Tyler Mott, our communications director,

[1:13:04] has been activated.

[1:13:07] He's going to be going to Kuwait.

[1:13:09] So he's going to active duty, effective this Monday.

[1:13:12] And so we advertised for the position of a temporary person to fill that position and

[1:13:18] we received applications and chose a person and that person is Chris Riffle and Chris

[1:13:23] will come on board tomorrow as our communication person.

[1:13:28] And then I was going to just say that, you know, you know, there was a lot of concern

[1:13:35] when I was chosen to be mayor and I'll tell you in the last two months I've had a,

[1:13:40] and everybody's worried about my busyness but I've done so much that I've been a

[1:13:44] part of it with with the city. It's been a blast so far from the committee 100

[1:13:52] dinners the military affairs committee that I serve on the first sergeant's

[1:13:55] dinner we went to last Friday which was kind of a neat little thing that I've

[1:13:59] never been involved in before as kind of need to see how they own to the

[1:14:02] first shirts. Of course we're going to get to see the KC 46 reception

[1:14:06] tomorrow. First time I'd ever met Jim Inhofe and all my years of teaching

[1:14:12] government classes and I finally got to meet him. The proclamation signings, it's

[1:14:16] amazing how people like to talk to folks. The assisted living week though, got to go

[1:14:20] talk to the people at TAMRAC and they held on to me for about an hour and a

[1:14:23] half and it was late for practice even because they wanted to talk the whole

[1:14:26] time. Citizenship week, first responders day and there was something I met,

[1:14:31] That fell to mention last meeting and that was the Unite.

[1:14:35] If you ever get a chance, any council member gets a chance to go to the next Unite, I would

[1:14:39] highly suggest it.

[1:14:40] It's a very powerful event and a very good event to go to.

[1:14:44] I will tell you that the amount of emails and calls I receive have gone up dramatically

[1:14:49] over them.

[1:14:50] I thought parents were bad to deal with in schools, but wow.

[1:14:54] And then one other report, I've been with Freddie and he's talked to me, we're

[1:14:58] We're going to start working on the first responders' memorials.

[1:15:00] And it looks like we'll probably have more. I think I'm going to get most of the funding done purely by donation for it.

[1:15:09] So after we're going to meet with a couple people and see how we want to do it.

[1:15:13] And I think it's, I think, Freddie's even found a spot that he liked.

[1:15:17] And I think I'm going to be able to secure all the funding purely by donation.

[1:15:22] So anyway, with nothing else, we'll adjourn this meeting.

[1:15:25] also we also had a craft show here in town this past weekend and the outpouring

[1:15:34] the people were so excited about that the it's here on Hudson I believe and they've

[1:15:40] redone that building and so they said there was probably going to be another

[1:15:45] one in November and December Thanksgiving and for Christmas so I would just

[1:15:50] I just urge everybody to go out and support the businesses in Altis.

[1:15:55] We need, they need your money.

[1:15:58] I'm giving them money, but we need to support our people.

[1:16:03] Thank you.

[1:16:04] And with that, we'll adjourn the meeting.

[1:16:07] And then we will call to order the regular meeting, the Altis Municipal Authority.

[1:16:13] Can you do the roll call, please?

[1:16:15] Terrence Stuyler.

[1:16:16] Here.

[1:16:17] Doral James.

[1:16:18] Here.

[1:16:18] John Willmack. Here. Patricia Blackman. Here. Roberta Brady Lee. Here. Matt Rester. Here. Dylan

[1:16:27] Fezell. Here. Ron Osterhout. Here. Robert Garrison. Here. Item number three, the

[1:16:34] consent agenda.

[1:16:37] I move we accept. Second. We have a motion to second. Call for the vote.

[1:16:42] Yes.

[1:16:44] Philo.

[1:16:45] Yes.

[1:16:46] Blackman.

[1:16:47] Yes.

[1:16:48] Brady Lee.

[1:16:48] Yes.

[1:16:49] Restor.

[1:16:50] Yes.

[1:16:51] Jinks.

[1:16:51] Yes.

[1:16:52] Dizzelle.

[1:16:53] Yes.

[1:16:54] Osterhaus.

[1:16:54] Yes.

[1:16:55] Wilmak.

[1:16:56] Yes.

[1:16:56] Garrison.

[1:16:57] Yes.

[1:16:58] I move to item number five, consideration, discussion,

[1:17:00] possible action to approve setting up fund 57

[1:17:03] for the American Rescue Plan Act grant.

[1:17:07] We received the first payment.

[1:17:09] We'll receive a payment this year and the payment next year,

[1:17:12] a little over $1.6 million.

[1:17:13] dollars and we want to put that into its own fund so we don't co-mingle that with any other funds so

[1:17:20] staff recommends that we set up that fund. Move to approve. Quick question is it one payment or two

[1:17:25] payments of 1.6? It's two payments of 1.6. And what is the ARPA? American Rescue Plan. Act.

[1:17:36] Act. Exactly what he's saying. That is funding from the federal government that's given us

[1:17:42] that we can use for certain projects,

[1:17:43] we can use for water and sewer.

[1:17:46] What our plan is, is for the first amount,

[1:17:48] is to use it to replace the water line down falcon

[1:17:52] from the water treatment plant, clear to the base.

[1:17:55] Thank you.

[1:18:00] Second.

[1:18:01] We have motion to second, call for the vote.

[1:18:06] Osterhoud?

[1:18:07] Yes.

[1:18:07] Pizelle?

[1:18:08] Yes.

[1:18:09] Bernie Lee?

[1:18:09] Yes.

[1:18:10] Blackman?

[1:18:11] Yes.

[1:18:11] Wilmack?

[1:18:12] Yes.

[1:18:13] Jinx?

[1:18:13] Yes.

[1:18:14] Rester?

[1:18:15] Yes.

[1:18:15] Tyler?

[1:18:16] Yes.

[1:18:16] Garrison?

[1:18:17] Yes.

[1:18:17] New Dota number six, consider a discussion possible action

[1:18:20] to authorize the mayor to sign a notice of intent to comply

[1:18:22] with permit OPDES permit OKR040043.

[1:18:28] Good evening, Mayor and Council.

[1:18:30] For the record, I'm Johnny Barron, Public Works Director

[1:18:32] and City Engineer.

[1:18:34] This is an application to renew a permit that's

[1:18:36] been enforced for about 16 years so far for the city.

[1:18:39] It has to be renewed every five years.

[1:18:43] This is for our stormwater system.

[1:18:46] Any questions?

[1:18:50] It allows us to discharge into Bitter Creek and Stinking Creek, right?

[1:18:54] Yes.

[1:18:58] You steer gate out of those.

[1:19:04] Move to approve item number six.

[1:19:07] Second.

[1:19:08] I have motion second.

[1:19:09] Call for vote.

[1:19:12] Wal-Mart.

[1:19:13] Yes.

[1:19:14] Osterhouse.

[1:19:15] Yes.

[1:19:16] Vizel.

[1:19:16] Yes.

[1:19:17] Jinx.

[1:19:18] Yes.

[1:19:18] Rester?

[1:19:19] Yes.

[1:19:19] Brady Lee?

[1:19:20] Yes.

[1:19:21] Blackman?

[1:19:21] Yes.

[1:19:22] Filer?

[1:19:23] Yes.

[1:19:23] Garrison?

[1:19:24] Yes.

[1:19:25] New document number seven, consideration, discussion, possible action to authorize the purchase

[1:19:28] of a three-quarter ton Dodge Ram 2500 crew cab pickup truck with four-wheel drive from John

[1:19:33] Bansmothers for $30,741.

[1:19:36] Move who accepts.

[1:19:38] I do have a question.

[1:19:40] Do they have flashing lights and all that kind of stuff on them?

[1:19:45] I don't believe this one will have lights.

[1:19:46] we're not asking for lights. Okay. Second. Motion second. Call for the vote. Blackman? Yes. Brady

[1:19:55] Lee? Yes. Vizel? Yes. Osterhout? Yes. Filer? Yes. Rester? Yes. Jinx? Yes. Wilmax? Yes. Garrison? Yes.

[1:20:06] Move down to number eight. Consideration discussion possible action to formally accept the work

[1:20:09] completed by Evans and Associates Utilities Services, Inc. of Lottin, Oklahoma, known as the

[1:20:14] to City Reservoir Raw Water Pump Station and Pipeline Improvements, bid number

[1:20:18] two zero zero five nine. So this project has been underway for almost two years

[1:20:23] and the work has been completed and inspected and we're ready now to ask

[1:20:29] for the Mayor to sign the letter of acceptance. Move weeks in. Second.

[1:20:34] Okay, motion second, call for the bill.

[1:20:37] Filer?

[1:20:38] Yes.

[1:20:39] Blackman?

[1:20:40] Yes.

[1:20:40] Brady Lee?

[1:20:41] Yes.

[1:20:42] Rester?

[1:20:43] Yes.

[1:20:43] Jinks?

[1:20:44] Yes.

[1:20:45] Womack?

[1:20:45] Yes.

[1:20:46] Osterhout?

[1:20:47] Yes.

[1:20:47] Pazelle?

[1:20:48] Yes.

[1:20:49] Garrison?

[1:20:49] Yes.

[1:20:50] Move to item number nine,

[1:20:51] consideration, discussion, possible action

[1:20:53] to authorize the merit assignment and application

[1:20:55] for permit to construct pollution control

[1:20:57] or water supply facilities

[1:20:58] from the okay department of environmental quality

[1:21:01] as needed for the trails at Veterans Court Townhouse Edition.

[1:21:05] This is that new townhome addition that the city is a developer for and so we do have to

[1:21:10] get permission from DEQ to expand the water system and the sewer system and so this is

[1:21:15] the application for that and we need the mayor to sign it.

[1:21:18] Motion to approve.

[1:21:20] Second.

[1:21:21] And motion second.

[1:21:22] Call for the vote.

[1:21:23] Thank you.

[1:21:24] Blackman.

[1:21:26] Yes.

[1:21:26] Brady Lee.

[1:21:27] Yes.

[1:21:28] Hizel.

[1:21:29] Yes.

[1:21:29] Posterhout.

[1:21:30] Yes.

[1:21:31] Eiler?

[1:21:32] Yes.

[1:21:33] Rister?

[1:21:33] Yes.

[1:21:34] Jinks?

[1:21:34] Yes.

[1:21:35] Womack?

[1:21:36] Yes.

[1:21:36] Garrison?

[1:21:37] Yes.

[1:21:38] Move to item number 10, consideration, discussion, possible action to increase solar power usage

[1:21:42] from 2 kilowatt to 5 kilowatt for residential customers.

[1:21:48] We have received numerous requests to increase the amount of solar power that we're allowing

[1:21:54] on a residential.

[1:21:55] And so we determined that working with OMPA going from 2 to 5 would be a suggestion.

[1:22:04] What we'd have to do if council so chooses to actually redo the ordinance and bring it back at a later council meeting.

[1:22:11] But we wanted to bring that before council and recommend that we allow it from 2 kilowatts to 5 kilowatts.

[1:22:19] Move to approve.

[1:22:20] Second.

[1:22:21] Motion second.

[1:22:22] Call for vote.

[1:22:23] Yes.

[1:22:23] Filer?

[1:22:24] Yes.

[1:22:25] Blackman?

[1:22:26] Yes.

[1:22:26] Brady Lee?

[1:22:27] Yes.

[1:22:28] Fizzell?

[1:22:29] Yes.

[1:22:29] Rezster?

[1:22:30] Yes.

[1:22:31] Jinx?

[1:22:31] Yes.

[1:22:32] Osterhout?

[1:22:33] Yes.

[1:22:34] Wilmaq?

[1:22:38] Yes.

[1:22:39] Garrison?

[1:22:40] Yes.

[1:22:41] The Di-Number 11, consideration discussion of possible actions allow the junior class

[1:22:45] parents to use the old utility building.

[1:22:49] Is this the building that was going to be the Spade and Nuder Clinic, but it's

[1:22:53] not going to be the Spade and Nuder Clinic anymore?

[1:22:55] Right.

[1:22:56] We did receive a notification from them that they did not feel like that was something

[1:23:02] they could do right now, so that is the same building.

[1:23:04] Is this a permanent thing or just a temporary for the junior class?

[1:23:09] This is just a temporary deal for Haunted House for that there is a fundraiser for the

[1:23:16] junior class.

[1:23:17] We did instruct them that they would need to give us the proper insurance and things

[1:23:22] like that. So what liability would the city have in regards to them using that

[1:23:32] building and unforeseen something happens? They would have the insurance to

[1:23:40] cover that, is that correct? That's correct. They actually saw somebody in

[1:23:49] Yeah, we did let them know that they would be required to have the same type of insurance that anybody else that would, you know, have an event.

[1:23:58] Move to approve.

[1:24:00] Second.

[1:24:01] Yeah, motion to second.

[1:24:02] Call for the vote.

[1:24:06] Wal-Mart.

[1:24:08] Yes.

[1:24:09] Osterhout.

[1:24:09] Yes.

[1:24:10] Vizel.

[1:24:11] Yes.

[1:24:11] Jinks.

[1:24:12] Yes.

[1:24:12] Rester.

[1:24:13] Yes.

[1:24:14] Brady Lee.

[1:24:14] Yes.

[1:24:15] Blackman.

[1:24:15] Yes.

[1:24:16] Filer?

[1:24:17] Yes.

[1:24:17] Garrison?

[1:24:19] Yes.

[1:24:20] And nobody has any additional comments?

[1:24:22] The meeting is adjourned.

[1:24:23] Wait, wait, one more comment.

[1:24:25] I did want to let you know an update on the Veterans Court that we do have plans ready

[1:24:30] to go out for bid.

[1:24:32] We'll have a pre-bid conference on October 12th, and we plan on taking bids for the

[1:24:38] streets and the infrastructure utilities on October 27th, so hopefully we have a

[1:24:44] recommendation that the next council meeting to to award a contract to the

[1:24:48] bidders. And also the final case C 46 is going to be delivered tomorrow.

[1:24:54] Day. So

[1:24:55] all right, there's no other comments. We urgent

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