[2:26] Everybody, it's 5:30. Uh, Russ West from Houston Church is going to open us with [2:30] a word of prayer and then we'll have flag sleep and carry on with their [2:33] business. [2:38] » Let us pray. Lord, we ask that your blessings come [2:43] down upon this place during this assembly this evening. God, would you [2:47] unify our hearts towards the flourishing of this community for for our good and [2:51] your glory? Lord, we ask that your goodness, your [2:56] righteousness, and your justice be what govern this time and overflow into El [3:02] Reno. Lord, we long to see our families thrive, our businesses thrive, and our [3:07] schools. Lord, we pray for our schools as they begin a new school year this [3:11] week. God, would you encourage teachers and administrators, provide for them, [3:17] strengthen them, and may may we be an important part of that. Lord, we pray [3:22] for the kids, for the students. Lord, would you guard and grow their their [3:28] hearts and minds and raise them up to be impact makers as citizens? [3:33] Lord, we pray for the leaders and decision makers this evening. God, would [3:37] you guide them and may they lead with wisdom. We pray all this unto you. Amen. [3:44] » Join with me in the flag salute. I pledge algiance to the flag of the [3:49] United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation [3:55] under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [4:06] » All right, it is 5:32. We call the Alino Airport Park Authority regular meeting [4:12] to order this Tuesday, August 12th. Uh starting with roll call vote [4:19] » here. >> Vice Chairman Jensen [4:21] » here. >> Trusty Sterson [4:22] » here. >> Trusty Nether [4:23] » here. >> Chairman Schaffeer [4:24] » here. >> Item C, consent agenda. The following [4:28] items are considered to be routine by the Elino Air Park Authority. [4:33] Sorry, my mic was on mute. Can you hear me? Um it'll be enacted with one motion. [4:39] Should discussion be desired in any item, the item be removed from the [4:41] consent agenda and considered separately? Items one through four. [4:45] » Move to approve items one through four. >> Second. [4:48] » Made and seconded. Start. Have a roll call vote starting. Trusty Black. [4:51] » Yes. >> Vice Chairman Jensen. [4:53] » Yes. >> Trusty Stappder. [4:54] » Yes. >> Trusty Nether. [4:55] » Yes. >> Chairman Chaer. [4:56] » Yes. >> Um nothing pulled. So move to [5:01] » motion made. All those and second. All those in favor. [5:16] Call the Elno Recreational Authority regular meeting to order. Uh we'll have [5:21] a roll call starting with Trusty Nether >> here. [5:24] » Trusty Jensen >> here. [5:25] » Vice Chairman Black >> here. [5:27] » Trusty Schaer >> here. [5:28] » Chairman Sterson >> here. [5:33] authority [5:36] and will be enacted with one motion. Should discussion be desired on any [5:40] item, that item will be removed from the consent agenda and considered [5:44] separately? >> Move to approve item one through three. [5:49] » Second. >> Motion made and seconded. All those in [5:52] favor? >> Oh, roll call. I'm sorry. [5:55] » Trusty Ny. >> Yes. [5:57] » Trusty Jensen. >> Yes. [5:58] » Vice Chairman Black. Yes. >> Trusty Schaer. [6:00] » Yes. >> Chairman Sterson. [6:02] » Yes. Move to adjurnn. >> Second. [6:05] » Uh motion made and seconded. All those in [6:09] favor say I. >> I. [6:15] » It's now 5:34 and I call the municipal authority meeting regular meeting of [6:20] Tuesday, August 12th to order. Roll call starting with Trusty Nether [6:23] » here. >> Trusty Stappderman [6:25] » here. >> Vice Chairman Black [6:26] » here. >> Trusty Schaer [6:27] » here. >> Chairman Jensen [6:28] » here. >> Uh consent agenda. Following items are [6:32] considered to be routine by the own municipal authority will be enacted with [6:35] one motion. Should discussion be desired on any item that item be removed from [6:40] consent agenda and considered separately. And we have items 1 through [6:44] seven. >> Move to approve one through seven. [6:46] » Second. >> Motion made and seconded. Roll calls [6:50] with trusty Schaer. >> Yes. [6:53] » Vice Chairman Black. >> Yes. [6:54] » Trusty Stan. >> Yes. [6:56] » Trusty N. >> Yes. Chairman Jensen. [6:58] » Yes. >> Nothing was pulled. brings us to [7:01] discussion items. Item eight, discussion, consideration, action and/or [7:04] possible amendments to award project P-26 [7:08] Boon storm water sewer replacement and allow chairman mayor to sign all [7:13] documents associated there too. So we have a 48 in storm sewer that's uh [7:20] been failing. It's been in between Wade and Watts on on Boon and this is the [7:26] proposed replacement of that. Uh the the u there's also another alternate that [7:31] was bid out that's closer to Caraut there on Boon. There's a sinkhole um [7:36] associated with that drainage ditch, the drainage channel that goes through there [7:40] uh right adjacent to uh Boon Street. Um the lowest uh and best bid combined bid [7:48] for the alternate and the base bid uh was from Grade Work Construction for a [7:54] total of $231,51. [7:58] And that would be the staff recommendation. Move forward with that. [8:08] Make a motion to approve project uh P26 in the amount of $231,51 [8:15] to Great Work Construction. Second motion seconded the roll call. Trustee [8:21] Schaefer. >> Yes. [8:25] » Black. >> Yes. [8:26] » Trusty Sappson. >> Yes. [8:27] » Trusty Nut. >> Yes. [8:29] » Yes. >> Move to adjourn. Second. Motion [8:33] » made second to adjurnn. All those in favor say I. I. [8:36] » Journ. It's now 5:36. [8:41] I call the El Reno City Council regular meeting of Tuesday, August 12th, 2025 to [8:46] order. Roll call start with Councilwoman Nether [8:49] » here. >> Councilman Stuffin [8:51] » here. >> Vice Mayor Black [8:52] » here. >> Councilman Schaer [8:54] » here. >> Mayor Jensen [8:55] » here. Brings us to item D. Consent agenda. [8:59] Following items are considered to be routine by the Arnold City Council will [9:02] be enacted with one motion. And should discussion be desired on any item, that [9:05] item will be removed from consider considered separately. And we have items [9:09] one through 18. >> Move to approve items 1 through 18. [9:15] » Second. >> Men seconded. Roll call starting with [9:20] » Councilwoman Nether. >> Yes. [9:22] » Councilman Sterson. >> Yes. [9:23] » Vice Mayor Black. >> Yes. [9:24] » Councilman Schaer. >> Yes. [9:25] » Mayor Jensen. >> Yes. [9:27] » Nothing was pulled. Brings us to item F, audience participation. And anyone [9:31] having an item of business to present to city council that does not appear on the [9:34] agenda, please come to the podium at this time. State your name. You request [9:37] to limit your presentation to three minutes. Any item being presented must [9:41] pertain to the city of El Reno business. Oklahoma Open Meetings Act prohibits the [9:45] city council from taking official action on request made during this portion of [9:50] the agenda unless otherwise noted on the agenda. [9:54] Mr. [9:58] kind of grinding stone here. What are we going to do about city sparks? [10:05] It's been going on 14 months. [10:11] I was promised a year ago they'd be done within a year. [10:15] I asked y'all to let it dry. Look at any of ours. [10:22] » Yeah, I looked at them. I've seen a lot of bright shiny red ones [10:30] » different colors out pink ones and everything else. [10:33] » No, these are brand new painted. >> Ones I saw were brand new painted. I've [10:37] seen some older ones. Yeah, but I've seen [10:40] » You had been looking that hard. You seen a few. [10:44] Every place you go see [10:51] down [10:55] almost everywhere. The only ones they painted was right in front of the fire [10:59] station. That's the only one they ever painted. [11:04] And it just seems like I was told the fire chief was given a year to get a [11:10] paint. That was 14 months ago. Haven't been touched. [11:16] Are we going to do anything about it or just [11:19] say we're going to be town? >> I'll buy a brush. [11:22] » I read the about our 7 or 66 station. That's great. I love it. It's beautiful. [11:29] But people come to town and see all this ugly [11:33] take care of the town and go across the street here. That's like a rug board. [11:38] That's true. We got to start cleaning up this town. [11:44] Can't just go out and do all this other stuff. But you got to be if you want to [11:48] keep this town looking decent, you got to clean it up. [11:53] I don't know. I know Peter Plaza that got built with voluntary help. I spent [12:00] many night down there 10 11:00 [12:05] every weekend. I told Miss Peter one time, I've got [12:09] marks on my back where my wife need me to get down. [12:22] Anyway, it's in [12:29] clean this town up. [12:34] Can you do it or can you get businessmen and their women and [12:39] everything down there working [12:47] all your people are m cleaning up the town also can they be pulled off after [12:54] season that we get these things [12:59] those are good questions I don't know what else to say [13:06] need to be done. It's just that simple. [13:13] Nobody care. I'm not care. [13:31] We've got color in town and some of them got color baited out. [13:36] And it's tomorrow. [13:41] Just drive around the town. >> Thank you. [13:47] Anyone else? Any comments? Okay. brings us to item G, discussion items uh 19A, [13:57] to conduct a public hearing in consideration [14:00] of amending chapter 35, article 1, section 1 through six of the code of El [14:05] Reno, redefining ward boundaries for the purpose of conducting municipal [14:09] elections in the city of El Reno. I now declare public hearing open. [14:28] So, with the adjustments to our city limits and the addition of areas on the [14:33] east side of town, we needed to adjust our ward boundaries. Um, and really [14:38] every ward boundary needed to be adjusted to account for the additional [14:42] uh population that was added to the town. So, um, [14:47] P, I know you don't have a slide, but is it it's on the website, [14:54] » can you pull that up real quick for us? Um, just so we can take a look at it. [14:57] Um, basically what the what the um the new boundaries will will square up and [15:03] enlarges some of, you know, each of the four wards. Um, we try to use natural [15:08] brakes, um, geographic boundaries, uh, section line roads, and honestly try to [15:13] clean up, um, the previous W map and and make some of that may make, uh, [15:20] more sense with the natural breaks as far as the section line roads. So, um, [15:27] while they pull that up on the the the map, we can take a look at that. But [15:30] » population in each of the boundaries is balanced as close as possible. pretty [15:35] well >> as close as possible. One of the things [15:37] that we had to do, we utilized the 2020 census, but the 2020 census didn't [15:42] account for some of the new home growth that we've experienced over the last 5 [15:46] years. Um, so we counted up all the new new homes that [15:51] were were built and and um did an estimate for the population within [15:56] within those areas. And so uh we also had to account for some of the expected [16:00] growth. So, a lot of that is for Ward 4 in some of the newer uh neighborhoods, [16:05] Crimson Lake Estates, Settlers Crossing over in that area where we have platted [16:10] lots but no homes yet. Uh we expect those lots to be filled within the next [16:14] few years. And so, we had to account for that as well. So, that um [16:20] it may not be exactly even, but it will be pretty close across all four wards. [16:27] » Any questions? on the screens of that that map was a [16:33] proposed what the boundaries will change to looks [16:37] like I appreciate city staff working on that looks like um [16:43] there's some slight modifications to different you know different ward areas [16:47] but I think it lays out takes in new area that ran extended but also takes [16:51] that into account the current areas and leaves [16:55] not major changes to to the wards that balances the population out and takes in [17:02] account future growth that we've had and future growth. [17:08] The newly annexed areas would be split between W two and W three. [17:15] » Any other questions? >> I just like to point out as long as you [17:20] stay on the fairway in hole 17, that's that's in W two or four. If you lose [17:26] your ball off the fairway, that's Pete's problem. [17:29] » I have a I have a bushel basket of balls. [17:32] » Yeah, >> right down the fairway. [17:38] » Move to approve ordinance 938. >> Sorry. Sorry. [17:42] » Any other comments? I now declare public hearing closed. [17:47] » Move to approve ordinance 9382. >> Second. [17:51] » Motion made second to approve ordinance 9382. Roll call starting with [17:55] Councilwoman Nether. >> Yes. [17:57] » Councilman Sappson. >> Yes. [17:58] » Vice Mayor Black. >> Yes. [17:59] » Councilman Schaer. >> Yes. [18:00] » Mayor Jensen. >> Yes. [18:02] » Move to declare ordinance 9382. An emergency. [18:06] » Second. >> Motion made in second to declare [18:09] emergency. Council. Roll call. Start. Council member. [18:12] » Yes. >> Councilman Ster. [18:14] » Yes. >> Vice Mayor Black. [18:15] » Yes. >> Councilman Chambers. Yes. [18:17] » Mayor Jensen. >> Yes. [18:18] » Brings us to item 20. discussions, consideration, action, and/or possible [18:22] amendments regarding resolution number 26-006, [18:26] resolution authorizing the calling of and holding of a general election in the [18:30] city of El Reynold for the purpose of electing one [18:35] elected elected official as council member for W 2 and one elected official [18:41] as mayor, setting forth certain facts as required by the state law and directing [18:46] that this resolution be delivered by the city clerk andor designate to the [18:51] secretary of Canadian County Election Board for the purpose of giving such [18:55] official notice of said election. [19:00] Let's call in for this year's election uh scheduled for November 18th, 2025. [19:09] And the reason why it's November 18th is because the second Tuesday is Veterans [19:13] Day. [19:18] Make a motion to approve election resolution 26-00006. [19:22] » Second. >> Motion made second. Roll call. Start [19:25] with Dr. Sha. >> Yes. [19:27] » Vice Mayor Black. >> Yes. [19:28] » Council status. >> Yes. [19:29] » Council. >> Yes. [19:31] » Mayor Gent. >> Yes. [19:34] Brings us to item 21. Discussion, consideration, action, andor possible [19:38] amendments to approve resolution 26-012. resolution renewing the downtown and [19:44] Route 66 revitalization program. >> This is a continuation of the downtown [19:51] revitalization program, but we're adding in um some new areas along Route 66. Um [19:57] this is uh if you'll recall, we've had two different rounds of funding on this. [20:02] Um it's basically grants for businesses uh in the downtown area for [20:09] the first two rounds, but we've added 66 from Alphadel all the way all the way to [20:14] Reformatory. So businesses, property owners can apply for funding um it's a [20:18] 6040 grant program up to $5,000. So the amount for this um continuation is [20:26] $20,000. It's been very popular and successful um [20:31] with the first two rounds. [20:35] » Move to approve resolution 26012. >> Okay. [20:40] » Motion made in second to approve resolution 26012. [20:45] Roll call. Starting with Councilwoman. >> Yes. [20:48] » Councilman. >> Yes. [20:49] » Vice Mayor. >> Yes. Council. [20:51] » Yes. >> Mayor D. [20:52] » Yes. Passes. Reports. Um I don't have a lot. two or three things. Um, smoke on [20:59] the water. We had a great uh weather was great. It was hot. [21:04] Lake looked great. Just special thank you to all the parks staff, city staff, [21:11] police, fire that helped put that on. It was a successful event. They added [21:15] barbecue competition this year. I know they had uh I think 21 rib teams came in [21:21] from multiple states to to cook in their rib competition and 17 wings teams and [21:29] people that helped with the barbecue competition thought that that could be [21:33] even bigger next year. There was another barbecue competition going on in Kansas [21:37] City. Um so they thought that split some of the out of state people from coming [21:41] in but they really liked the ones that were here really like being here. [21:46] have to help judge, you know, that lot of taste. A lot of it was really good. [21:54] Also with that, we just a special thank you you to Elno um EMS for helping keep [22:00] the races going as a um ambulance provider. I know Elno whenever [22:08] the smoke on the water was set up, Elena was not in the ambulance business and I [22:13] know there was maybe some confusion on who was to provide those services but uh [22:20] that provider didn't show up so stepped in and [22:25] was able to keep the races going. I know there was some information out on the [22:29] internet, but you can't always believe what you read on the internet. But uh [22:35] but anyway, it was just a special thank you to the EMS department and just uh [22:43] pleasure to see him out there to see and just provide the services that we [22:49] need. Um other thing school's almost over. [22:54] School starting this week, so be careful with kids crossing the [22:59] sidewalk. I know talk a little more about a lot of roads under construction, [23:04] a lot of future roads going to be under construction. So, we need to be careful [23:08] of that. But one one uh uh highway 81 and Jensen Road, you know, the [23:13] roundabouts kind of they've got that area about, you know, it's open. It's [23:20] not finished, but but they're starting construction on the south part of [23:24] Highway 81 going underneath the interstate concrete all the way Jensen [23:28] Road. But I mean, I was nearly in a a really bad accident down there today. I [23:33] was going south on um you know, they've rerouted traffic and and you've got uh [23:40] north and southbound traffic on the east side of the highway, but I just got down [23:44] to Jensen Road. was going to naturally turn right, but what I didn't realize [23:48] and it's not marked and and needs to be marked in contact with public [23:52] transportation, but the old two southbound lanes on 81 are still open. [23:58] That loop coming off the interstate, there was a guy coming 70 plus mile [24:02] coming south had a wreck right there 81. I know my brother just in the last 24 [24:07] hours, my brother was almost in a wreck there, my nephew. And so, it's very [24:10] dangerous. Be careful. We're going to talk to him [24:14] to see if we can't get somehow that sloped down. [24:18] And uh one one lane they're using for construction traffic, but the other is [24:22] just a natural southbound lane coming off I40 going south and speed limit's [24:26] not marked. There's no construction marking and so people need to be be pay [24:32] attention. And then if you're trying to if you're headed east on Jensen Road, [24:38] get back on the highway, you've got three lanes of traffic coming [24:42] south at you and one lane coming north. So it's kind of like, you know, playing [24:47] Frogger in there or something. I don't know. I mean, it's it's kind of tough [24:50] deal. I told my told my young son, John David, who's now driving, I said, just [24:54] just avoid it. you know, told my wife to report it, too, because, you know, [24:59] » I was I was there this afternoon and there's people that are making a U-turn [25:03] so they can get back on the interstate going east. So, they just need [25:08] to be >> there's some work to be done, but I mean [25:10] that the road road will be fixed and it'll be nice and new and all that, but [25:14] uh but just be careful around some of that construction stuff. [25:19] » And that's what I just assumed those lanes were closed and I'm used to, you [25:23] know, not stopping now. the roundabouts there. You just get up there and roll on [25:27] through. And I and this guy, I thought, man, he's driving awful fast. And then I [25:30] realized he's not stopping. And I I turned and he he jumped off in [25:35] the ditch and was sliding sideways. He you know, it's a wonder he didn't roll [25:39] over, but he didn't. And uh I just thought, "Oh my goodness, it's be [25:44] careful out there." Um that's all I've got. [25:57] Just echo what Steve said. School starts Thursday, so watch the school zones and [26:01] kids who are not necessarily using the crosswalks. [26:04] A lot more walkers out starting Thursday and they'll probably be on their cell [26:08] phones because they can't have it during the school day. So, they got to get all [26:11] that texting in, make their lunch plans before school starts. [26:16] » I about hit a couple of kids walking across the street. I had a green light [26:20] near sauntering across the street and looked at me like, "What are you what [26:24] are you doing? Lights are green. I hit the brakes. This was just coming up [26:29] here." So, yeah, got to be careful. But I I wanted to echo also the sentiments [26:34] about EMS. Um getting some of those metrics in one month in and things look [26:39] good. Um it's better than what we've had for some time and and uh doing a great [26:44] job. Good word on the street and so it's good good to see, right? It's what we [26:49] wanted and so far so good. Um and and just um just a a shout out again [26:57] to what's going on at the filling station. I know it it may seem frivolous [27:03] on some in some regards, but I I don't think unless you go down there and and [27:08] catch the people coming from all over the world, literally um it's hard to [27:13] understand the impact that's having. It it really is fantastic. It's mindblowing [27:19] to see people from Italy and Australia and Bulgaria and France and all 50 [27:25] states. They're right here. They're just a block over and they're coming through [27:30] town and they're stopping. And we get that parking lot built. Maybe they'll [27:34] stop and stay longer. So, it's good. It's good stuff. It's [27:39] good news. [27:44] Okay. I actually do have some stats on our new ambulance service. So, I want to [27:48] talk about that. U sorry, >> very briefly. [27:50] » No, that's okay. >> Yeah. [27:52] » Um, so far we're one month in, but this these are the stats for the month of [27:55] July. Total EMS calls 315 and total transports were 201. [28:02] So, we had a very busy month with our two ambulance uh trucks running. Um, [28:06] that's where we're working to get a third ambulance in service um as as soon [28:11] as we can. It looks like it's probably going to be later August, early [28:14] September before it's up up in operation. Um, go to the next slide. Um, [28:20] so average priority one call time is about 5 and a half minutes, 5 minutes [28:24] and 35 seconds, which is a a very good time. And then for priority two calls, [28:29] it is 9 minutes and 46 seconds. So, it's very important. I think those are those [28:33] are impressive times. Those are those are what we're looking for. And then [28:36] when we get the third truck up, I think that it's going to um provide even that [28:40] much more support. So, okay. Um, other than that, we have, uh, we've talked [28:47] about construction on roadways. August 25th, we have the overlay coming [28:53] through town on Rock Island. Um, turning on Wade and then going north on [29:00] Chalkaw all the way to Kado and then it's going to go west on Sunset [29:07] from Chalkaw to Haden. That's going to be a major overlay construction project [29:12] that uh we have a great partnership with ODOT. It's it's their project. Um [29:18] we are very excited to see that completed. It's it's been needed for a [29:22] while. August 25th, so school will be in session. Um but it's going to be a huge [29:30] win for the community. It's going to be visually [29:34] beautiful, right? But also it's going to be smooth. because I know that we we get [29:37] a lot of complaints through town on Rock Island. We get a lot of complaints on [29:40] Sunset. Um it's not going to be the whole stretch of Sunset, but it's going [29:44] to be to Haden where it transitions from asphalt to back to concrete panels. So [29:50] that's a that's a big deal for for our community. Um street sweeper has been [29:55] out running. Uh that was part of the DEQ [29:59] grant. Um Amy and street department's been doing a good job running the street [30:04] sweeper. So, we'll have fresh asphalt that we can come back over with street [30:08] sweeper and keep it looking good and clean. So, big wins for the community [30:14] and um that's all I have. Okay, I'll try to get us out here by six. Uh field [30:21] control show on the financial report. We'll do the broadband report first. [30:24] Yeah, on broadband goodness is we are up to 564 customers now. We have the Lake [30:28] View edition live and the Crimson Lake areas is a new area that's under build. [30:34] Uh you can see that we're continuing to go up with the number of subscribers. [30:38] Next slide. Uh here's showing the lake view edition that's now live right [30:43] there. So if you live in this area, sign up for service. We're ready to serve [30:46] you. Uh here you can see the areas underneath construction. U the blue area [30:52] which is where most people are living is being about to go live here very soon. [30:55] Next slide. Uh on financials, um the sales tax numbers for the month [31:03] of August were not where we're hoping they would be. They came at [31:07] $966,8361.18, [31:10] which is missing our monthly budget of $1,78,000. [31:15] However, um July and August are still relatively down months for so for the [31:21] first two months for compared to the same months last year, we're actually [31:24] still up by 2.3%. on use tax [31:30] brought in $170,952.16 [31:34] and this again is missing our monthly budget of $215,000 [31:38] but again we usually see a little dip in the July August time frame right there [31:44] on hotel miltail tax we $42,38461 [31:49] and this is above our monthly budget of 36,500 [31:53] and year to date that puts us about 7.8%. [32:04] Well, um no executive session tonight [32:11] brings us to Jake. >> Move to journ. [32:15] » Okay. Mot second to journ. All those in favor say I. I.