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Edmond council approves plats, code amendments and $1 million CARC cap; settles JCD Properties case
Summary
Council approved amended plats to remove discriminatory language, passed three ordinances updating risk-management and purchasing rules and set a $1,000,000 community agency funding level; the council also authorized settlement in JCD Properties v. City after executive session.
At its Feb. 24, 2025 meeting the Edmond City Council approved multiple municipal actions including amended plats that remove discriminatory language from historical plats, amendments to the municipal code affecting risk management and purchasing authority, a change to community agency funding, the continuance of a site-plan hearing, and authorization to settle a pending property case.
The council continued a site-plan item (Case SP23-00009 for Centerline Plumbing) to March 10, 2025. Council approved three amended final plats — Campbell South Addition, Levitt's North Park Addition and Reynolds Addition — removing offensive, unenforceable restrictive language from historical plats. A staff presentation noted these plats are part of approximately 20 similar plats the city is amending; the city cited Senate Bill 1617, which amended state statute to permit municipalities to remove such language from recorded plats.
The council approved ordinance 4026 to update Edmond Municipal Code chapter 2.78 (Safety and Risk Management). A city attorney’s explanation during the public hearing said the principal substantive change is the threshold for departmental authority to settle claims: "anything over about $5,000 anything less than that is settled by your insurance," the attorney said, noting the change aligns the settlement threshold with the city’s purchasing threshold.
Ordinance 4027 (chapter 2.68) was approved to allow the city’s purchasing agent to report to the assistant city manager of administration; the council also approved an emergency clause for that ordinance during the same meeting. Council also approved ordinance 4028 amending chapter 2.74 to adjust Community Agency Review Commission (CARC) language; Housing and Community Resource Director Christy Batterson said the largest change caps annual funding to nonprofit partners at a flat $1,000,000 and allows adjustments if sales tax receipts decline. "The biggest change is, changing the amount that will be funded to our nonprofit partners. We're changing it... to a $1,000,000 flat," Batterson said.
After a closed executive session, the council voted to approve a settlement in the matter styled JCD Properties v. City and authorized the city attorney to execute settlement documents. The motion and vote to settle were presented immediately after the council reconvened from executive session.
Most of these items were approved by motion; the public record in the meeting transcript does not list roll-call tallies for each vote. Several agenda items were part of consent calendars that the council approved en bloc earlier in the meeting.
Council members thanked staff for coordinating the plat amendments and for the mental-health system-of-care grant contracts handled earlier on the consent calendar. The meeting record shows the council is continuing budget workshops through June and that staff will proceed to implement the code changes and plat-recording steps approved at this meeting.
