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Council approves budget, rezoning, contracts and ordinances; ScottFest license deferred
Summary
Broken Arrow City Council on June 3 approved the FY2026 municipal budget, multiple construction and consultant contracts, a rezoning for County Line Crossing and an SRO memorandum of understanding; the promotional license for ScottFest was sent back to the tourism board for further consideration.
Broken Arrow City Council on June 3 approved a slate of budget, development, public‑safety and construction items, while deferring a promotional license for ScottFest to the city’s tourism board.
The council adopted the Fiscal Year 2026 municipal budget and related municipal authority and economic development authority financial plans. It approved a rezoning request (BAZ‑2130‑2025) for County Line Crossing, awarded several construction contracts and consultant agreements, adopted an ordinance permitting commercial helicopter operations with an emergency clause, and approved a memorandum of understanding to return school resource officers (SROs) to Broken Arrow Public Schools. Council also amended an economic development financing resolution for the Hackberry Market project to change the transaction from taxable to tax‑exempt.
Votes and formal actions at the meeting included motions to: - Approve the consent agenda minus item W (item W—authorization of a three‑year promotional license with ScottFest, Inc.—was pulled to go to the tourism board and return to council on July 14). Outcome: consent agenda approved; item W tabled to tourism board for a special meeting on July 1 and council consideration July 14. - Adopt the Fiscal Year 2026 municipal budget (total proposed budget presented: $454,000,499). Outcome: approved. - Approve BAZ‑2130‑2025, rezoning approximately 51 acres from agricultural to RS‑3 and RS‑4 (County Line Crossing). Outcome: approved per staff and planning commission recommendation. - Approve the memorandum of understanding with the independent school district to reestablish SROs (three‑year agreement). Outcome: approved. - Amend resolution No. 1667 for the Hackberry Market economic development project to make the financing tax‑exempt and change underwriters. Outcome: approved. - Award construction contracts: Rose District parking lot to Magnum Construction (low bid $276,443); Aspen‑Jasper intersection to Paragon Construction (apparent low bid $2,373,118.11). Outcome: awards approved. - Approve a professional consultant agreement with Garver LLC to design the RAISE grant/Broken Arrow Expressway corridor project (total contract $6,274,918; city share $1,254,984 under an 80/20 federal match). Outcome: approved. - Approve the third amendment to the Adams Creek Town Center economic development agreement (reduction in planned square footage from 160,000 to 130,000; no cost to the city). Outcome: approved. - Adopt ordinance No. 38‑79 (commercial helicopter permitting) and pass the emergency clause. Outcome: adopted with emergency clause.
Most motions carried by voice/roll call; detailed vote tallies were not included in the public transcript for every item. The meeting record shows multiple seconded motions and subsequent roll calls for each action.
The meeting also included public comment about stormwater flooding in Indian Springs (no council action at that time) and an update on the city’s Safe Hotels initiative (see separate article).
