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Votes at a glance: Moore council approves purchases, surplus sale, WWTP material contracts and budget amendments
Summary
At its Sept. 2 meeting the Moore City Council approved a consent docket, minutes receipt, multiple purchases including First Due records software and a $3.319 million phone system, surplus sale of a hydraulic rescue toolset, awards for wastewater treatment plant force main materials, and several budget supplements.
The Moore City Council on Sept. 2 approved a series of motions including equipment and software purchases, materials awards for a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) relocation project, surplus disposition and budget amendments.
Key approvals recorded at the meeting included:
- Consent docket (Item 2): council approved routine consent items A through D.
- Receipt of Planning Commission minutes (Item 4): the council voted to receive the minutes of the June 10, 2025 Planning Commission meeting.
- Purchase of First Due records/incident management software (Item 5): the council authorized the city to purchase an "all in one" First Due platform from Locality Media Inc., d.b.a. First Due, as a sole‑source in the amount of $34,950.
- Surplus and sale of hydraulic rescue toolset (Item 6): council declared one Phoenix hydraulic rescue toolset (described in exhibit A of the agenda) as surplus and authorized its sale by auction, citing obsolescence and lack of replacement parts.
- Purchase of new citywide phone system (Item 7): council authorized a budgeted purchase of a new phone system from Shikeshaw Tele Telecom under state contract ITSW1006 in the amount of $3,319,023.58.
- WWTP effluent sewer force‑main materials (Items 8 and 9): council awarded Bid No. 2026-001 (Bid A, pipe materials) to ISCO Industries Inc. in the amount of $4,652,807.70 and awarded Bid No. 2026Test001 (Bid B, valves) to Milford in the amount of $806,041.60. The presentation noted that the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority (OTA) will reimburse the city for certain costs when materials are received; the relocation is needed because the new turnpike alignment crosses the current discharge lines north of Indian Hills Road.
- Budget supplements (Items 10 and 11): council approved budget carryovers for FY 2025–26 to cover open purchase orders and a FY 2024–25 budget supplement to allocate additional revenues across multiple special revenue and dedicated sales tax funds as itemized in the agenda.
- Moore Public Works Authority and other consent dockets (Items 12 and 13): companion authority meetings recessed and reconvened; the MPWA and risk management consent dockets were approved as presented.
Votes and record: For recorded roll calls in the transcript, each vote on the listed items recorded the following council responses: Kathy Griffith (yes), Sid Porter (yes), Melissa Hunt (yes), Louie Williams (yes), Adam Webb (yes), Rob Clark (yes), Mark Ham (yes). The transcript recorded motions, seconds and roll‑call confirmations for the items listed above. Where a specific mover/second was not named in the audio, the minutes recorded only that a motion and second were made and the roll call followed.
Why this matters: The approvals authorize multi‑year operations and capital work (phone system and WWTP materials), adjust FY 2025–26 budgets to carry forward unfinished work and replace an end‑of‑life public‑safety records system, all of which have operational and budgetary implications for the city.
The city manager and relevant departments will implement the contracts and purchases; the WWTP material purchases were presented as time‑sensitive because long lead times on materials require ordering in advance of anticipated construction after the first of the year. The council also noted the OTA reimbursement arrangement for the turnpike‑related relocation project.
