Del City council approves routine measures, ratifies emergency sewer repair and adopts resolution opposing DPS highway reallocation

On July 21, 2025, the Del City City Council approved a package of routine administrative items, ratified an emergency sewer repair authorization, confirmed reappointments to municipal and quasi-judicial posts, and passed Resolution No. 07212025 opposing the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety’s plan to cease routine patrols of state interstates and highways within Oklahoma County.

The votes came during the council’s regular meeting at Del City City Hall and were carried by unanimous voice votes recorded in the meeting minutes. Council members voted to: adopt consent-docket minutes, authorize blanket fuel purchase orders for the coming fiscal year, reappoint municipal judges and board of adjustment members, approve an agreement with the Oklahoma County District Attorney’s Office to handle civil forfeiture matters, ratify an emergency sewer repair contract, and adopt the public-safety resolution opposing DPS’s reallocation of interstate patrol duties.

Why it matters: The resolution on patrol responsibilities explicitly cites fiscal and manpower concerns — council members said municipalities do not have the budget or staffing to assume routine state-highway patrol duties that DPS proposed to shift. Ratifying the emergency sewer repair authorized immediate infrastructure work and spared delay on a problem the trust manager had declared an emergency. The other actions preserve continuity of city operations (fuel…