There were more than 50 items on the agendas of the Broken Arrow City Council, Municipal Authority, and the Economic Development Authority meetings on Sept. 3, 2025. Here’s a brief recap of the actions taken Tuesday night. 

The Council approved an amendment to the professional consultant agreement with Garver, LLC for design of the 9^th Street widening project, from New Orleans Street to Washington Street. This amendment adds additional staking of 32 easement parcels and the review of the corresponding documents to the 15 originally approved. The additional cost for the amendment will be $14,000, paid with 2018 General Obligation Bond funds.

The Council awarded a traffic signal repair and service primary award bid to TLS Group, Inc., for routine maintenance, emergency repairs and related traffic signal work. And to ensure continuity of service, if TLS Group Inc. is unable to provide service, Davis H. Elliot and Lighthouse Transportation will serve as secondary vendors. Funding is provided from the STCI (Sales Tax Capital Improvement) Fund 342 program.

City Manager Michael Spurgeon provided an update on the 2026 General Obligation Bond process. Last week, the City had the first of three Public Bond Forums. The Council, city leadership team, and user groups engaged with the public on a number of potential projects. Spurgeon said there was a lot of enthusiasm from residents, especially regarding Transportation projects. There are two additional forums—

• Wednesday, Sept. 3 at 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Broken Arrow High School Events Center, Varsity Room, 2200 N. 23^rd St. and
• Thursday, Sept. 25 at 6:30 p.m. at South Broken Arrow Baptist Church, 7815 S. Elm Place.

The City Manager also said that the Council had recently spoke with each of the sports user groups that had submitted Bond requests. They talked about the capacity of Proposition 4 and the possibility of an 8^th Proposition. The Council is gathering information and after the last Public Forum, the data will be tabulated, and the information will be presented to the Council as they make the final decisions about which projects to include in the propositions that will go before the voters in April 2026. You can watch that presentation here.

The City Council approved the re-appointment of Michelle Bergwall to the City of Broken Arrow Board of Adjustment for a three-year term to expire May 1, 2028.

The City Council unanimously approved a professional consultant agreement with Narrate Design, formerly Selser Scheafer Architects. The architectural firm is tasked with creating construction documents for a New Broken Arrow Municipal Services Building. Now at 50 years old, the city has outgrown City Hall’s capacity.  

City staff negotiated Amendment 1 with Narrate Design to develop the schematic design and construction documents for a New Municipal Services Building project.  The agreement is for $1,359,574 for a total project cost of $1,534,074 and will be paid from the Sales Tax Capital Improvement Fund.

The Council adopted Ordinance No. 3890 amending the city’s flag ordinance and providing for the display of the Muscogee Nation flag at city owned or operated facilities. Previously, the city’s flag ordinance permitted the flag of the United States, the flag of the state of Oklahoma, the National League of Families’ POW-MIA flag, the flag of the City of Broken Arrow, and the flags of the United States Armed Forces at city owned or operated facilities. Now, the Muscogee Nation flag will be added to the row of flags at city facilities as well.

During the Municipal Authority meeting, the trustees awarded a bid to Crossland Heavy Contractor’s Inc. for construction of the Verdigris River Water Treatment Plant Raw Water Pump Station Improvements that will be designed by HDR Engineering Inc. The project is estimated to take 606 days to complete and cost $1,094,400. It will be paid for with an Oklahoma Water Resources Board (OWRB) Loan. The amendment was approved unanimously and is the fourth raw water pump and it will have a capacity for processing 8.5 million gallons per day.

The trustees also received the reports for the amount of water treated for customer use, the amount of customer wastewater collected, treated, and discharged, and the amount of customer trash and recycling collected during the month of July.

There were many more items considered Tuesday night. For the full agendas of the City Council, Municipal Authority, and Economic Development Authority meetings, click the corresponding preceding hyperlink.

The next regular meeting will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 16, beginning at 6:30 p.m.