The Pryor Creek City Council approved a package of expenditures, grants, hires and first-reading ordinances Tuesday, May 20, 2025, including library resource subscriptions, procurement for a new police records system, a $2,000 arts grant, a $5,000 historical society grant and the hiring of an animal control officer. The council also approved a resolution asking the Oklahoma Tax Commission to collect the city’s hotel/motel tax revenue on the city’s behalf.

Why it matters: The votes allocate public funds, update city systems and advance zoning and code changes that affect short-term rental tax collection and local development. Several items affect city operations (police records and animal control), while grants and library resources affect community services.

What the council approved (each line reflects the motion and council action as recorded in the meeting):

- Library online resources: Approved an expenditure to Gale (packet line identifies the vendor as “Gale”) to renew Chilton’s Auto Repair, add National Geographic Kids in Context Elementary and add Udemy resources. The motion as stated and recorded passed. The packet shows a split funding amount: $2,005.20 from a non-book materials account and $1,000 from a state aid account; the agenda cover listed $3,250 (transcript shows both figures). The council approved the motion as presented on the agenda.

- Police records system (OTIS): Approved two related expenditures to support the OTIS reporting system: $6,600 to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation for Defender Data Infosystems (OTIS) to be paid from the police equipment capital outlay account, and $3,001.74 to Fiber Interactive Technologies for server and software to support OTIS (monthly hosting/license fee noted in the meeting as $274). The council passed both motions; one council member recorded an abstention on the OSBI payment.

- High Sync invoice (floodplain/shooting range work): Approved payment of $4,896.46 to High Sync LLC for special projects including Salt Branch regional and floodplain mapping revisions and a shooting-range evaluation. The council voted to pay the invoice and requested that completed reports be forwarded to council members when available.

- Transfer to attorney services: Approved a $5,006 transfer from a police operations account to the city attorney services account; the motion passed.

- Hire: Approved hiring Jarrett Krogan as Pryor Creek Animal Control Officer (range C, step specified in packet) with a start date of June 9, 2025, filling a vacancy created by a resignation; the council approved the hire.

- Grants and cultural funding: Approved a $2,000 grant application from the Prior Area Arts and Humanities Council for Missoula Children’s Theater programming (dates in the application packet were discussed and clarified) and approved a $5,000 grant to the Mays County Historical Society to support a Kauai Museum website design and implementation.

- Code, zoning and program motions: The council: (a) passed a resolution requesting the Oklahoma Tax Commission collect the city’s hotel/motel tax revenue, (b) held a first reading and approved waiving the reading for an ordinance amending city code 7-4-4 (camping), and (c) approved a first reading (waiving the reading) to change zoning from residential duplex (RD) to residential multifamily (RM) for Lots 9 and 10, Block 4, Mayor Roach Addition (also referenced as 28 Pine) to allow conversion from duplex to triplex. All three motions were advanced as recorded.

- Main Street participation: Approved a resolution supporting continued participation in the Main Street program (clerical correction to the signature date was included in the motion).

- Executive session item resulting in no action: The council entered executive session to consult with legal counsel about an arbitration request from Kenneth Bennett and the Fraternal Order of Police. After returning to open session the council recorded that no action was taken on that arbitration request.

Votes and procedural notes: Each motion listed above was moved, seconded and called for a vote during the meeting. The transcript records individual “Yes/No/Abstain” responses for many votes; where a named abstention or “No” was recorded in the transcript, that is reflected in the meeting record. The council combined several short, related agenda items for efficiency (for example several library staffing/hiring items were approved together with a motion to waive reading). Members raised clarifying questions about report distribution, data-sharing controls for the OTIS system and the municipal authority needed to name city facilities; the council directed staff to provide completed reports when available and discussed limits on data sharing for the OTIS system.

The meeting minutes and the agenda packet should be consulted for precise account numbers, packet line items, and the official vote tallies available in the city clerk’s record.