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Midcontinent asks Enid enforcement board to delay hearing, cites counsel conflict and missing records
Summary
Midcontinent Packaging asked the City of Enid’s Environmental Enforcement Board to continue a hearing on NOV001, saying lead counsel has a scheduling conflict and the city has not produced all records requested under the Open Records Act.
Mark Walker, attorney for Midcontinent Packaging, told the Environmental Enforcement Board on June 22 that Midcontinent had filed a motion to continue the enforcement hearing because its lead lawyer, Don Shandy, is unavailable and the company has not received all requested city records.
"We still do not have all of the city documents that we asked for going back in April," Walker said, noting the company first requested documents in February and filed a formal Open Records Act request in April. Walker said the matter includes four notebooks of exhibits and that he had been brought into the case at short notice. He asked the board to grant a brief continuance and suggested July 1–2 or other dates in July or August that would allow the lead attorney to attend and allow Midcontinent time to review late records.
Walker also told the board that the city experienced a treatment-plant upset in May 2025 and another in February 2026; he asserted that records about the February upset could be relevant to Midcontinent’s responsibility for the May incident. He asked that any new hearing date be contingent on delivery of the outstanding documents so Midcontinent can prepare.
