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Chickasha council approves audit, emergency repairs and multiple purchases; votes at a glance
Summary
At its September meeting the Chickasha City Council and related municipal authorities approved the FY2023 audit, several emergency repairs, equipment purchases, a festival agreement and authorizations related to oil-and-gas lease notices; the council also appointed a board member and approved multiple consent items.
The Chickasha City Council and related municipal authorities approved a package of motions and votes at the meeting. Major actions included accepting the FY2023 financial audit, declaring two true emergencies for infrastructure repairs, approving multiple capital purchases under state contract or cooperative procurement, authorizing publication for oil and gas lease sales, approving a Festival of Light agreement for Shannon Springs Park and appointing a member to the Board of Adjustments.
Votes at a glance (motions and outcomes taken from meeting record):
- Accept financial audit for fiscal year ending 06/30/2023 (Item 6a): approved.
- Declare true emergency and authorize replacement of hot water heaters for the police department; authorize expenditure to Greg Gardy Plumbing in amount of $4,900 (Item 6b): approved.
- Approve Resolution No. 2025-24R authorizing publication for public sale/public auction for oil and gas mining leases covering portions of Section 28 and Section 33, Township 7N, Range 7W (Item 6c): approved.
- Approve Festival of Light agreement for usage of Shannon Springs Park and authorize the mayor to execute (Item 6d): approved; staff noted the current agreement is substantively the same as the prior year and changes are limited to dates.
- Authorize purchase of rotary four-post lift not to exceed $20,534.50 from Marshall Auto Supply LLC (Item 6e): approved; procurement via state contract SW0307A.
- Authorize purchase of Big Tex equipment trailer not to exceed $28,808 from Great Western Trailers (Item 6f): approved.
- Authorize purchase of John Deere compact track loader not to exceed $103,418 from C L Boyd Company via Sourcewell contract (Item 6g): approved.
- Appoint Siobhan Blair to the Board of Adjustments with term to expire 06/30/2028 (Item 6h): approved.
- Declare true emergency for storm-drain headwall repairs at Fourth and Ponderosa Drive and authorize expenditure to Nash Construction Company in amount of $42,000 (Item 6i): approved after discussion of bids and site location.
- Chickasha Municipal Authority: authorized publication for oil and gas lease sale (CMA item 4a) and entered golf-course maintenance/user agreement with Chickasha Golf Foundation (CMA item 4b): both approved.
Several consent-docket and municipal-authority consent items were also approved, including staff authorization to solicit bids for elevated potable-water storage tank cleaning/repair at the Country Club Road tank (CMA consent item). Where procurement used cooperative contracts (Sourcewell, state contracts), staff cited those contract numbers in discussion.
Ending: Council and authority members closed the meeting by moving several administrative items to final approval and adjourning. Specific roll-call tallies were recorded in the meeting minutes for each item; the transcript records roll-call affirmatives for the motions listed above.
