Votes at a glance: Moore Council approves contracts, purchases, appointments and executive-session actions

The Moore City Council on June 16 voted on a series of consent items, contracts and procurements, approved appointments and completed actions from an executive session. The items below reflect motions and recorded roll-call votes taken during the meeting.

Key votes and outcomes

- Amendment No. 3 to the agreement with Garver LLC (Eastern Avenue reconstruction): Approved. Amendment amount $12,650 to provide additional design services and legal descriptions. The presenter said changes were made to protect a berm at Moore Central Church of Christ by adding a block retaining wall, to revise legal descriptions for owner negotiations, and to combine pay quantities at ODOT’s request so the project could secure $7,000,000 from ACOG. Council recorded vote: unanimous yes.

- Agreement with Pinnacle Consulting Management Group for right-of-way acquisition services for the Southwest 19th Street and Santa Fe intersection improvement project (ODOT project): Approved. Agreement amount $103,350; the presenter said 10 parcels require title searches and appraisals. Council recorded vote: unanimous yes.

- Purchase of four Harris XL‑185M mobile radios (and licensing/accessories) from L3Harris, $24,930.40 (Sourcewell contract): Approved. Radios are for fire-station alerting and to align brands across apparatus and handheld radios. Council recorded vote: unanimous yes.

- Purchase of 12 sets of Morning Pride structural firefighting bunker gear from Municipal Emergency Service (MES), $29,676 (Sourcewell contract): Approved. Presenter said sets will provide compliant loaner gear while frontline sets are repaired or cleaned. Council recorded vote: unanimous yes.

- Replacement of the human-machine interface (HMI) for the switchgear portion of the backup power generator system at the Public Safety Center by Nixon Power Services, $32,850 (sole source): Approved. Council recorded vote: unanimous yes.

- Republic Services contract revision for commercial/industrial disposal (renewal request): Approved. The presenter described a multi-year renewal and a rate increase; transcript wording was unclear on exact percentages and described an annual rate increase and a one-time reset. Council recorded vote: yes; one abstention (Adam Webb) was recorded on this item.

- Addendum Item 11.1: Purchase of a CNG gas transport module from Baytech, $225,000 (sole source): Approved. Staff said the module enables defueling of CNG vehicles before maintenance and allows refueling if the city’s CNG facility is unavailable. Council recorded vote: unanimous yes.

Appointments and elections

- Vice mayor: Kathy Griffith elected vice mayor by council motion and recorded vote: yes from all voting members.

- Appointment to Pioneer Library System board: Gwen Barrow appointed as the city’s representative for a three-year term beginning July 1, 2025. Council recorded vote: unanimous yes.

Executive-session actions

After an executive session held under Oklahoma statute, the council took two public actions:

- Approved the FY2025–26 contract between the City of Moore and the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 131, as presented in executive session. Council recorded vote: unanimous yes.

- Directed staff and legal counsel to proceed as discussed regarding Cleveland County case CJ2023-1524 (Cain Law Office on behalf of Jerry Webb). The council voted to authorize legal counsel and staff to take action as necessary and appropriate; recorded vote: unanimous yes.

Routine items and consent dockets passed by recorded vote throughout the meeting. Several items were described as budgeted purchases and standard agreements using cooperative purchasing (Sourcewell) or sole-source justifications.

If readers need full motion text, contract numbers or the precise vote roll calls for an individual item, the city clerk’s official minutes provide the verbatim motions, contract documents and the complete recorded roll call.