Miami City Council
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00:03I'm called over the regular schedule, me and my name is City Council, Monday May 15th, 2023.
00:09We're not at number two, the proclamation declaring the first Friday in June will be National Gun Violence Awareness Day.
00:16The proclamation was in your packet.
00:22You know, I think we have a group of ladies here that are willing to accept this if we approve it.
00:29That being done.
01:48This is the most recent one I think there is a few changes from the ones in the packet.
01:54Yes.
01:56The only changes were the fifth whereas.
02:01I don't even have a copy of this.
02:04I believe that's.
02:06So the only changes were were.
02:09So whereas public safety in the communities they serve is the mayor in Council's highest.
02:14Responsibility.
02:15And whereas the mayor in City Council fully support the second amendment rights of law buying citizens.
02:22Which goes hand in hand with keeping guns away from people with dangerous histories.
02:27So the only changes in that line there from the ones you have in your packet.
02:32Sing.
02:43Williams.
02:45He says.
02:46Michael.
02:47Hi.
02:48Member.
02:49Perfect.
02:50All right.
02:51I will present this.
03:10Thank you, thank you all.
03:12Time to go.
03:17Yeah, every time you say something like that.
03:23Thank you so much.
03:25Thank you so much.
03:48Three, both again, but let's get to the personal appearances.
03:50We have none.
03:52Four claims list.
04:02We're going to send my proof.
04:10Second.
04:13Hi.
04:15Hi.
04:25Five minutes from the May 1st, 2021.
04:29Regular meetings.
04:30Motion.
04:33Second.
04:35Second.
04:37Second.
04:39Second.
04:41Six presentation from my area of account.
04:43Services, Mr. Chan and do home.
04:54Well this was about to throw something at me.
04:56You got three minutes.
04:58You missed.
05:00I shall be quick.
05:03Recently, I completed a course on real estate development.
05:07I won't guarantee that I did not model a few times.
05:18It was a very informative class.
05:20There was some interesting things that came up.
05:22I actually shared one of the screens with both because I thought it was important.
05:26But it's always always like to remind you of our strategic initiatives.
05:30It made business retention and expansion.
05:32Workforce development.
05:34Recruitment and new business collaboration.
05:36An area you municipal county tribal governments.
05:38The reason I'm here today.
05:40Revenue growth.
05:42Both for the surrounding area and my organization itself.
05:48In marketing and branding.
05:50That's our strategic initiatives.
05:52Some of those will always be there.
05:56Some of those will change.
05:58Maybe going into 24.
06:03the top three are our biggest focus. They're always a big part of what I do every single day.
06:10And so we'll talk about that. But one of the things that came out of that class, and the reason I'm sharing with you
06:17Bo and I talked about this, it's not to, it's basically to look at it from the standpoint of,
06:25these are the top 20 things that site selectors are looking for when they're talking about finding a location
06:33or the expansion or the start of the new business or whatever the case may be.
06:38And so when Bo and I were talking about this, the one of these is this appeal to me is because it's kind of a checklist.
06:43It's an opportunity for us to see kind of where we are today. It's going to show where we're strong.
06:49And it's going to show some of those areas that aren't necessarily weaknesses, but opportunities to improve and get better.
06:57So we'll go through it kind of quickly, but if you have a question, because I only got a couple minutes now.
07:02If you have any questions, I'm happy to stop it, answer those questions.
07:07But we'll breeze through this pretty quickly, but we'll do the 20 things, and then what I wanted to show you.
07:13So keep this in mind as we move forward. You don't have to check every single box every time.
07:22Not every company is looking for the same thing every time.
07:26So the important thing is how many of these items can we check.
07:31And then from that, I'm going to end looking at how we receive information,
07:37primarily through the partner commerce, which they look for, but on proposals from companies that are looking for location and what their price area are and how we determine which of those requests we can reply to.
07:54Because our ability to reply is going to be based on what they're asking for.
07:59How many of those boxes we can check, things like that, that makes sense?
08:04What can I sort of?
08:05So the number one on the list is highway accessibility.
08:11So when you look at my M.A. as a whole, because of higher state 44, 69A, we're actually pretty good when it comes to that.
08:20In industrial war, the progress in industrial war, since on 69A, quick access to 44,
08:28or if you want to go to North, in the Kansas areas, you can.
08:32So that's in check as far as I'm concerned.
08:35And then you talk to one of the Barbara Commerce, let's say that we do well there.
08:41In the stock, you can see in construction costs, everybody's construction's cost right now, but through the route.
08:47That's just across the board.
08:50And the region you are in the country determines the extent of how high those costs are in the very, everyone else.
08:57We're actually not that bad.
09:00But on this one, I didn't give us a check.
09:02I kind of gave us a side where he's not much about it.
09:04Because it's affecting everybody.
09:07Available land, I want you to remember number three,
09:12that it's a single biggest challenge of my job.
09:16It's available land.
09:18And you'll see why I'm talking about,
09:19when I give you those two examples from the Department of Commerce,
09:23as a thumb down for us.
09:26Right now, but it's also why I'm working
09:29for reaching out to a lot of the people in this county
09:34that have available land and try to use their property
09:39in responding to those proposals.
09:43Not that I'm taking anything from,
09:45and certainly it means that in the admit
09:46that those sites are selected,
09:50there would have to be an exchange of money for that property.
09:52But just to be able to use those properties
09:55in responding to some of those LARFPs.
10:00Available buildings.
10:05That's a kind of a sideways thumbs.
10:07You know, though, are down.
10:09We don't have that many available buildings.
10:12And more importantly, we don't have that many available buildings
10:16that meet the new wave of requests we've been seeing lately.
10:21This is the spec building in the industrial park.
10:25It's 54,000 square feet.
10:27The minimum size we're seeing now is 150,000 square feet.
10:34And large.
10:37So available buildings is a problem.
10:40It doesn't mean we can't get around those.
10:42It's just if a site selectors come in and they demand
10:46to have a certain building already in the existence.
10:49That means those requirements.
10:51Then we're going to have to figure something out.
10:54But we just don't have that many available buildings.
10:59Available buildings is skilled labor.
11:01Depending on what the job is,
11:04what the company produces, when you're back through the walls.
11:07If you had to rely on the city of Mayan,
11:09along we're probably so, so there, you back up and you take in account
11:14a lot of what can't even, you know, that don't start to raise a little bit.
11:18But when you factor that most people won't have a problem these days,
11:21you're working for five minutes or 30 minutes.
11:24That takes them on much more to cool.
11:27And we actually do pretty well.
11:29And so from a skilled labor standpoint, we can compete.
11:34Labor costs in Mayan are, what can I just region is a whole or pretty low.
11:39I'm not saying they should be, but they are.
11:42It's one of the issues that we're facing.
11:45You remember that on that strategic condition,
11:47one of those in the workforce development,
11:49but can tell you, because he's serving all of our committees,
11:52workforce development, current salary structures in Available can be,
11:58or always.
12:02We sometimes the argument in my life again, he isn't that we have a job problem, we have a wage problem.
12:10Shannon, on the labor costly, is that with respect to Oklahoma widers, or are you talking about national?
12:20No, that's what they're looking at labor costs, no matter where they're looking to go.
12:24So compared to national, Oklahoma's got to look pretty good.
12:28We look great, Oklahoma's the whole, it's really well.
12:31In this particular region of the state of Oklahoma, it does extremely low wages.
12:38And so that's kind of a plus and a minus, but overall it's a plus, because as we're talking with companies,
12:44they want to know what this is going to cost them to book people over here.
12:49And because Oklahoma's salary on wage costs are so low, we do well.
12:54And that way is the state that in this particular part of the state.
12:57Right to work at state. We're good there.
13:03Propivity to major markets, another plus for my amazement is its geographic location.
13:08When you consider we have job in Springfield, it's not that far, not West Arkansas, it's not that far, it's not that far.
13:18And even if you extend beyond that, to Oklahoma City, from Kansas City, we're geographically, we're a pretty good location.
13:27Energy, availability, and cost, this one I was getting to trouble, but I'm going to say it to you anyway.
13:33The state of Oklahoma has some of the cheapest utilities in the country.
13:38And that includes the city of Miami.
13:43And I know that's a hot button topic issue sometimes on the page that's a shall not be named on Facebook.
13:49But if you really sit down and you look at where Miami is from, or rates, they don't point.
13:55I think utility costs here are not that bad.
13:58And when you look at Oklahoma as a whole, they're fantastic.
14:03Both sat in on the conversation I had one day with a councilman and we asked the one place.
14:09So what is your interest in the Northeast Oklahoma?
14:12It goes cheap, you should tell me out.
14:15That's a reality. We may not want to get that, but it's a reality.
14:23Corporate tax rate, tax exemption, state, local tax incentives.
14:27Maybe they kind of all love together, but they haven't broken out separately.
14:31There's not much we can do about the corporate tax rate here in Miami.
14:36Tax exemptions get real tricky here in the city of Miami as well.
14:41We don't have to history or anything like that.
14:44So that's not an area that really applies to us.
14:47We just don't have to be able to do that.
14:53State, local tax incentives.
14:55I will say that the state of Oklahoma, the Department of Commerce, has an excellent program.
15:00incentives for companies. That's why you see so many companies looking at over
15:04on the right now. This is the area I'm more concerned about. Right now we just
15:10don't have a lot of local tax incentives. And by tax incentives I'm going to take
15:17out the word tax and just say local incentives. There's not a whole lot that
15:22cities has set up right now overnight at lots of conversations about this.
15:26We do have some ideas. We're trying to flesh some of those out.
15:30We get those before they cancel the nice decisions. You have, I believe,
15:34artists discuss some options when it comes to retail.
15:38Developing what you can do with certain new retailers that come to town.
15:42And that's a huge step in the right direction.
15:44But we need to take that and now think a little bit bigger.
15:47What can we do when we're attracting industry into Ottawa County to offer
15:53some local incentives to help. There are things that you do currently offer.
15:58I won't go into them to hear if you want to meet with me later.
16:02We can have that discussion. But you're already doing some things.
16:06And most of it has to do with providing utilities to a location.
16:11And most kind of things. You know that. You already do a lot.
16:14But there are some other things we can do that are all the same lines that
16:17what you're doing from a retail standpoint.
16:20But just looking at it from a different perspective.
16:23When the coming months and then monetary will be able to have that conversation.
16:30It's been an expedited or fast track permitting.
16:34That's one of the things the city is really worked on.
16:36It's trying to be quicker and more responsive.
16:39In responding to permits for buildings to start construction.
16:42This is just our construction.
16:44I think the city is doing a much better job of that.
16:48In some areas.
16:50There are different things applied.
16:52Different types of businesses.
16:54So thank you.
16:55You look up.
16:56It's a lot of things.
16:57Doing a much better job.
16:58Low Union growl.
17:00Really not much easier here.
17:02It comes up.
17:03Inbound outbound shipping costs.
17:05Do you get graphic location kind of comes into this as well.
17:10Because we're so close to Tulsa,
17:14Joplin, Northwest Arkansas.
17:16I can't say Oklahoma City.
17:17Those areas.
17:19Our location to 69, 69,
17:2244, the railroad, the rail spur,
17:27and the industrial park.
17:29All of those things help to cut down on shipping costs.
17:32Because we come to simply look into the country.
17:35You can pretty much get to anywhere from here.
17:38If you go back and buy a renewable and we have a business with a sector back in February.
17:43One of the things they talked about repeatedly about my Oklahoma is its location.
17:48It's easy for them to get their product out from here.
17:52They're only other options to go to Texas.
17:57And they really didn't like that option.
18:01Environmental regulations, we don't have that wrong here today.
18:09You start getting into things like
18:11Greenfield sites, grayfield sites, brownfield sites.
18:15All of those things have certain environmental checklists
18:19that you have to go to their Oxplain, what those are a little bit later.
18:23But we do have issues in environmental issues.
18:27In this particular part of the country, as a result of the lensing
18:31mind that's in place back in the evening.
18:37We're talking about, we really don't have a lot of options here.
18:41Because you're talking about multi-million dollar projects,
18:43there's a future of the industry.
18:45We do have a few that are capable of handling the projects like that.
18:47Most of the companies, however, are going to work that financing out before we
18:53give some of you to our level.
18:55There's an opportunity to say about the only people who have a financial
18:59authority.
19:01Other laws and venture capital firms in the country that take care of that.
19:05I don't worry too much about 17, because I think there's two
19:09in the other options available around.
19:11Yeah, I'm kind of here because I think 18 and 20 to me go together.
19:15And I think we do pretty well there.
19:17My high school's got a real good program in place with now.
19:22And I think we're going to have to do that.
19:25I think we're going to have to do that.
19:27I think we're going to have to do that.
19:29My high school's got a real good program in place with now.
19:33We have Northeast Career Tech, which has an excellent training programs.
19:37And we're also very fortunate to have an artificial knowledge.
19:42Two of the three of those were well said to develop training programs
19:46and provide the technical training that any industry
19:51will get to come to our locality.
19:53And then 19 has skipped over that.
19:58Accessibility to major airport, against geographic location.
20:02I think that's a plus for us.
20:04We have an airport here, but we also have an airport of job load.
20:06There's only a road.
20:08More importantly, there's one big one in Northeastern.
20:10North West Arkansas.
20:12There's a big one in Tulsa.
20:14A little city.
20:15He keeps a city not that far away.
20:17I think we can check that bus.
20:19Again, those are the top 20 things that you're looking for.
20:24To start a new manufacturing operation somewhere.
20:30Those are the kind of things that people look at.
20:32And we need to make.
20:40Which gets us to the no-clone.
20:42A lot of apartments, which maintains the open home of development project portal.
20:47And that portal was designed to shorten our response time for RFPs.
20:51So business comes in.
20:52They reach out to the state of Oklahoma, the Department of Commerce.
20:55They say, we're a company XYZ.
20:58This is what we're looking for.
21:00looking for, tell me what you got.
21:05The state of the Department of Commerce
21:06to take that information put it into an RFP format,
21:09in Melanaut to all of the people, all in the economic development
21:12offices within the state.
21:14And then it's up to you to go to respond.
21:17I'm going to give you two examples of proposals
21:20that came through in the last month, one in which we submitted
21:23a response to and one in which we did,
21:26oh, let's see if you figure out which one.
21:28Well, let's do it.
21:30So, example one, this project code name, AECM,
21:34but they do all has some really crazy names
21:37in my project line sector,
21:39or whatever the case could be,
21:41and they're very creative at the core.
21:44It was doing on April 20th.
21:47It's making factory company.
21:49So here's some of their basic needs.
21:50Company land project with operations
21:52seeking to relocate to Oklahoma.
21:54They need a minimum of 10 acres of existing building,
21:58or the ability to be the need is for
22:021500 square feet of office space, 10,000 square feet of warehouse space,
22:0650,000 square foot of production space,
22:09with potential to expansion of 75 to 100,000 square feet.
22:18So there's just a building dimensions again.
22:22And the anchor is, here's the power need.
22:24So this is something that others have to be following
22:26with more, and say, hey, can we meet these requests?
22:29Because if we can't even meet the power needs,
22:32then there's not much need for us to apply.
22:36There's a natural gas requirement.
22:37They primarily use natural gas to produce steam,
22:40and they're production process.
22:42There's the water requirements, waste water requirements.
22:46They need access to the interstate and highway,
22:49and another option to check earlier.
22:51There we go.
22:52Real access, we just so happen to have a real spread
22:56that runs right through the industrial board.
22:58We also have a 50,000 square foot building
23:01that could be finished to meet their building needs.
23:05And that building sits on 11 and a half acres.
23:09They mean 10.
23:14And it's a great, they're looking for a green field side.
23:16So you don't agree with what side is.
23:22So the three major field types that you deal with
23:25in this business, green field means that it's currently just
23:28a few.
23:30That doesn't mean that field doesn't have history.
23:34And you have to research it back to see
23:36what was ever on that location, the term that there's any other
23:39environmental concerns that you may require,
23:42or seem special permitting, or have to give EPA a year,
23:45be due involved with it.
23:46The green field side is essentially just what it sounds like.
23:49It is essentially an open bit.
23:53They strongly prefer to be within a foreign train zone,
23:56but it's not required.
23:57And the company needs real access to the board established.
24:00that we're actually part of though.
24:06So that's example one, example two, I call the next one, Z.
24:12It was doing for fifth, it's a major factor in industry.
24:16And they are looking through established or manufacturing
24:18and distribution facility in Oklahoma.
24:20They're from primary focus's production,
24:23but they are currently looking for existing structure to occupy
24:26and count growth anticipated to reach 300 by end of year
24:31and three, that's 400 jobs by the end of year, three.
24:35Totally investment is currently unknown.
24:40I don't have all of your information on here,
24:42because of confidentiality.
24:44I keep put a lot of specific details about distributed
24:48highlights of what we're looking for.
24:50Here's what I said that average now,
24:52the size we're looking for, 200 to 500,000 square,
24:58the under roof, and spec building it.
25:13The 25 acres, the dimensions on the ceiling height,
25:18or spec building, we cover that.
25:21The main interstate, major highway access,
25:23or intake, and now taking the trucking,
25:26they're looking for a population base of 500,000 per acre.
25:32And so out of those two examples,
25:35which one did we apply for first?
25:42We could, this wasn't such a sticking point, put it in.
25:48There's actually that much base available
25:51when we do industrial or there.
25:53So there's 25 acres available there,
25:56and we can certainly build to suit for them.
26:00But we just don't have anything that big,
26:03you close to that big, that's currently available.
26:05She didn't want to evaluate it.
26:07One like that, that says population of 50,000 per acre.
26:11How far up do you look at that about?
26:17Would you consider us to meet that since we've got 30?
26:20Well, we've got a lot to do, because of, again,
26:23you take in, again, you put a dot in the center
26:25of Miami, and you go an hour's drive within an hour's drive.
26:29So I absolutely know.
26:30This one's been scared me, none of this scared me except that.
26:36And there were some other, I think, back up.
26:41So I did put all of the power source requirements on here,
26:45and the Tyler would probably have a stroke.
26:49Or I said, let's build some new equipment tomorrow,
26:51because it was pretty demanding.
26:53It's the most I ever seen.
26:56So I don't know.
26:57Because that's something that...
27:00building size, the massive size they want. I mean if they had the acreage, they
27:06came in and built themselves.
27:07They could.
27:08Here's the thing.
27:09They're looking for the existing structure.
27:12They don't want to have to take the 50, but they're pretty straightforward.
27:18And so, we get these regularly from the park.
27:21First thing I got to do, I get them to go along and look at all the specs and then
27:27determine if we have the ability.
27:30They're minimum.
27:31These are the minimum requirements.
27:32So, once you get past this, then you've got to go back to the 20 top things that they're
27:39going to be.
27:40Some other things that they're going to want.
27:41You just got to have to clear this hurdle first.
27:48We made the first cut, by the way, on that first example.
27:51Make the second cut.
27:53Any question?
27:57I just wanted to share that with you because those are the things I just felt like it was a good opportunity
28:02to touch on some of the things that sites and lectures were looking for.
28:06To give an example of how we've come across leads for opportunities to bring new industry
28:13into our area.
28:14A big source of that is through the Oklahoma Commerce Project.
28:20And so, we probably get eight to ten of those types of requests every month.
28:29And on average, we apply, we respond to some of them.
28:40Today, any questions?
28:44You got any good news you can share that's anything on their horizon.
28:50Which is all look like number two.
28:54Okay.
28:55So, I'll try to be as around that as a best I can.
28:58So, if I'm a politician now, I'll have a minute.
29:01Here's our order of directors.
29:04You'll notice two names from the last time I was here.
29:08So, two of our longstanding board members that are present on.
29:14We're really sure.
29:15Jason Blubbins.
29:16So, they are working on our project now that we'll bear some fruit for us.
29:24And because there was a potential conflict, they felt that necessary to those are...
29:30What do we do to pass the snow?
29:33Pass the snow, pass the snow, pass the snow, pass the snow.
29:36And so, they took the initiatives and they, because we want to come back and approach you about this,
29:42we think it's only right for us to step down.
29:46Yes.
29:50So, we have to speak.
29:53Yes.
29:54That's all you got.
29:55So, you can...
29:57If this is our board, I don't know those are chairperson breading.
30:00last year and today, as you all know, in our board members, Nick I Smith, Dr. Stafford,
30:05the NEO, received a manager for the Race of Arcusa, Michael Arcomcommer, Blake,
30:09Clayton, Cameron Wilkins, and Shawn, they are our local bankers. Chief Craig Harper, and
30:14Mike first from the County Commission, and the Government really gives you an important place.
30:23This mod later this month, we're going to be hopefully filling some blanks there, and adding a couple
30:29of new board, hopefully made to them. That's it. For me, I contacted information that anybody
30:41needs it. I think it's in your back end. Before I go, I didn't want to say that, or just, I
30:50know everyone remembers this, but so last week, we lost Mr. Virgil Jordan's mark, and we certainly
31:00know the impact that he and his company have had on our local economy throughout the years.
31:06He was a tremendous employer, an innovator in the ag industry, and so he certainly would be missed
31:15in our thoughts and prayers continuing to go out to him. It's family. I do want to tell you just a real
31:19quick story. I go back to when I first moved here, a long time ago, 2001, and I wasn't here, very long,
31:30and we were running a half my wife and I, just the, we were running a house from Woody Painter,
31:37but virtually when we first moved here. We had to have a fancy yard and he was the only one
31:42of that house with a fence yard. I woke up one morning, early, I think it was a Saturday morning,
31:47the wrap we moved into the house, and I walked outside, and I was just like, what is that? And I started
31:56walking around my house, I started walking around my vehicles, and I can't find that smell and say my life.
32:03I don't know what's going on. I had never smelled anything like it in my life. And I was out there
32:08for probably 35 or 40 minutes, when my neighbor apparently was watching me the whole time, and he came out,
32:14and he had this big grand on his face and his couple co-hosted couple coffee and he was like, what's
32:19you doing? I said, look at him like he was crazy. I said, you don't smell that, he laughed, and he goes,
32:28you know what that is, huh? No, so why am I all forced, you're looking under my vehicle,
32:34it's not going to ran over something. He goes, that's a smell of money. And I said, man, I don't know your
32:40backstory, I don't know much about you, but I'm never handled money that's really like that.
32:45And he laughed, and then he proceeds to tell me what it really is. And I never forgot that, because it was
32:51one of the first encounters I had in my amma, and it wasn't until many years later working at the
32:56newspaper for as many years as I did, but I came to R-
33:00realize that you know he was actually right but it's more than that it is a smell of money
33:08to an extent but you know what the most important thing is and people need to remember
33:12this it's the smell of jobs right you've got people within your own organization here
33:20that I hear you one time or another probably worked for Jane in terms of some of that
33:29and so it's vital to this community yeah we may have to put up with a few things to
33:36it's not the most pleasant smell but you know what it put people to work it grew
33:41a tremendous company and what it really is is the smell of opportunity.
33:47Opportunity for a lot of people in this community to find employment opportunity
33:53for a lot of people to earn a living to go on to bigger and better things
33:57whether they stayed there for 20 years or they was their first job out of high school
34:01or the first job that they had and they moved on to something bigger and better the
34:05point is Virgil Jurgersmire created a company that provided jobs it's
34:11demulated our economy if you don't know agriculture is one of it is the largest
34:16single industry in auto-economic. Not the mushroom format itself but all ag in total those
34:24are opportunities and it takes people like Virgil Jurgersmire to have a vision to have
34:30a dream and to actually work hard to make that dream a reality his company is legacy to
34:37what he did and it continues to grow and expand and we all reap the benefits of it whether we
34:43want to realize it or not so I hope you remember that reach out to the family if you get a chance
34:49let them know that you're thinking about them that you're thoughts and prayers or with them
34:53but Virgil Jurgersmire was an asset to my am I it's company still is to this day thanks
35:01for the question I don't want to take away from Virgil Jurgersmire he means that I was going to ask
35:05before you started the loan program you talked about that just a little bit tell us how that's going
35:11sure so if you don't know made's operates what's called a revolving loan program so back when the
35:18organization was founded back in the mid-80s after good rich shut down the federal government gave the
35:26organization right around $2 million to create the revolving loan fund which is to be used
35:32to help grow the economy so if you have a business you're looking to expand if you have a business
35:39you're looking to start it was an opportunity for folks to go and get funding to help achieve
35:47to help reach those goals whatever those funding limits are there are some requirements to the
35:52program you have to because the organization is not a bank even though we act like a bank sometimes
36:00same requirements, we are not as regulated as a bank is, but we also more importantly don't
36:05want to compete with our local financial institutions.
36:08So, it made us set up where you go and you try to seek your funding first through the local
36:15financial institutions.
36:17We actually require that you have two rejection letters from a local financial institution, then
36:23you can come back to us because banks have a very narrow focus.
36:28They look at everything like this, we tend to take a much broader approach, we look
36:32at the bigger picture, and we look at the need, we look at the opportunity, and we take
36:37on or risk in the local financial institutions, so as a result, we will fund projects that
36:44are going to carry some risk, but it's the best way to get those businesses in those industries
36:50started.
36:51So, we have reorganized that program, we are in the, we have a meeting this week, actually,
36:56with a loan committee, we are reorganizing our paperwork, and we are actually working with
37:01people now to point them in the right direction.
37:04So, the first thing we ask is just like the bank does, do you have a business plan, do you have
37:09your financials in order, we ask those same kind of criteria that the bank has, and if they
37:14don't have that information yet, we tell them take a deep breath, don't panic, it's all
37:18good, we have resources here locally that are free to you to help you pull all that information
37:25together.
37:26And that's a small business development center at INEO, Sandra Pierre, he's over that, and
37:32we send her quite a few people, and going through that process, some of them have realized
37:38they're not just not ready yet, and we have a few, Mr. Duckel sent me someone, and we're
37:44still working with them right now, and I think we're close, so that's a prime example of
37:51an opportunity that someone referred someone to us, we got them connected with the right
37:56people to get their plan together, and now I think within the next couple of weeks they're
38:00ready to come back to us and start talking about the financial order that, which, so that's
38:06a company that's looking local company, looking expand a little bit, grow, get their own
38:10building, and I think it's a great opportunity, he's got great ideas, he wants to really grow
38:16and add new product lines, so hopefully we can help him be a part of that.
38:20Good people.
38:21But we do have funds available, so the way of revolving loan program works, Kevin Borles money
38:26from me, that he goes out, and he makes his payments, and every time he makes a payment, all that
38:33money goes back into the program, so when the next person comes along, I have money to loan
38:39out.
38:40So we survive as an organization through the support of the city of Miami, we survive it through
38:48the support of private donations from our businesses and industry in town, and we survive
38:53all of the interest that those loans generate.
38:56Well I've had several people coming to me in that.
39:00ask him not always say no one today so again it's a second or third conversation he
39:05and I've had but it's a good resource so if anybody approaches he was put an
39:10idea like that said in Shannon and if you know like he said if they don't have
39:14to plan together whatever he can try to help get that set up with Sandra but it's a
39:18good program that not everybody has correct yeah not and we're one of the few in the
39:22state of Oklahoma actually economic development all this is that operator
39:28we're evolving long program that is very specific it's designed to help
39:33entrepreneurs get started the fuel that entrepreneurial spirit are it's
39:39designed part of those business retention and expansion efforts we talked
39:42about earlier it's designed to be part of that as well to help those companies
39:46expand and it could be something as simple as we may not wind up being the
39:51primary financing agency we may be with and serve a gap financing role so
39:57in other words the banks willing to give them x amount of dollars but they have to
40:01come up with the first fifty thousand or whatever we can provide that service so that
40:08the bank will pick it up from that point so like the bank may say I'm only going to
40:11give you eighty percent of what you're asking for we can come in and fill that twenty
40:15percent so there's lots of options available in the interest rate we are we're
40:21not a bank but we try to stay with the banks so I'm just throwing numbers these are
40:26not today's interest rates but just as an example if the banks are at six percent
40:30which I think they're higher than that now if they're at six percent then we're going
40:35to be probably seven percent we're not one of those long companies that charge you like
40:39thirty percent or forty percent interest we don't do that it's designed to help people
40:44out and they get three minutes exactly I'm seven budget amendment number twenty three
40:57to ask twenty two reversing and correct the amendment twenty three to fifteen they're
41:01seeking to venture let's talk about it grant for fifteen hundred dollars it was already
41:06budget airport and MDRA Coleman merit raise adjustment to cover over just in payroll
41:11accounts and each important so the last few years we have come with an amendment
41:18regarding moving money for merit raises this is the one from this year there is
41:24also an adjustment that's huge that's been signed that goes with this also so there were a
41:30lot of openings they can see this year so we were able to move money inside the funds and the
41:35other one was a miscommunication on a library let's talk about it they did get more money this year
41:39but they didn't get that much more money so we're reversing that we've already budgeted that
41:44portion the first portion we're in budget the additional you've seen that
42:12Make a motion we approve.
42:17Aye.
42:18Aye.
42:19Aye.
42:20Aye.
42:21Aye.
42:22Thanks, too.
42:24The rate.
42:25Ordance.
42:262023-25.
42:27Amendment Section 1-5.
42:30I'm Chair for one.
42:32So this is the amendment that we've talked about here a couple of times.
42:37It's just to help clarify.
42:40Now that we have the animal ordinance in place with things that we're doing through
42:45community development where they can issue administrative proceedings.
42:53It's just to clarify all of that.
42:56And if that I'd be glad to answer any questions.
43:00We've had a couple of discussions at the work studies.
43:05Some of the administrative fees that keep them keep you out of the court.
43:21I mean if you have a fine or whatever.
43:28I mean is it just an administrative deal.
43:32The administrative.
43:33The main advantage of the administrative proceedings is it allows other staff to be handling it rather than the police department.
43:42It's cheaper for us to proceed that way.
43:48We through the, for instance, the animal ordinance you set what the administrative fines would be.
43:54Often they're very similar in reflecting what they would be if it was a criminal action handled by the police department.
44:02But we're saving money because we're doing it through other staff than the PD.
44:09And if I don't pay the fine once it goes to court, the judge can issue it one.
44:17Yes.
44:18It still allows for enforcement through the court.
44:23This still allows animal ordinance to issue the tickets.
44:31Well.
44:32Okay.
44:33So technically the administrative folks, issues, citations, the law enforcement issues, the information's or tickets.
44:43But they can write a citation there.
44:46Right.
44:48And I'll keep you.
44:49You can have it come out.
44:50Right.
44:51Yeah. Now some of the offenses.
44:52For instance, a vicious dog complaint that has to be done by the PD.
44:59They can.
45:00initiate the process, they can get the PD out there, they can help in the investigation,
45:05but the information has to be issued by the PD for that, particularly if it's.
45:13The ones that we really want to have the teeth on, those are done by the police department.
45:23The witnesses, the final graph.
45:25This is the final graph.
45:26And you're good with it?
45:28That's what we're doing.
45:29You're good?
45:30That's what we're doing.
45:34Motion will approve.
45:36So, five.
45:38Five.
45:39Five.
45:40Five.
45:41Eight.
45:42Five.
45:43Five.
45:44Number nine is the merge cause for that's 2023, the one we're just discussing.
45:48We're going to get in the action.
45:50We're actually already having administrative citations issued, so we really need the blessing.
45:59Did you do that?
46:00Motion approved.
46:01Yes.
46:02Double.
46:03Five.
46:04Member.
46:06You stepped up.
46:07Five.
46:08Ten.
46:09Mayor's nomination to a point, Kyla Perry, to the moment downtown, redevelopment authority, MDRA,
46:14replacing Richard O'Leard, termed to expire 8.29 or 24.
46:19Thank you.
46:26Number four.
46:28Four years.
46:29All right.
46:30Double.
46:31Five.
46:32Eleven.
46:33Got the new business of any of which the resistance is the posting of this agenda.
46:38I had one item I wanted to bring up to the council's attention, maybe for some discussion as well.
46:44Obviously, since this agenda was published last Thursday, the State of Pellot Court issued a ruling,
46:53which is no surprise to us, but issued a ruling that the Miami-Pioriate in Ottawa tribes actually still exist.
47:02Again, no surprise to us.
47:05But with that, obviously, it does fall to the city at this point in to coordinate, and so I thought it would be good
47:13up to maybe have things to be in bed enough to count a little bit on.
47:17What that means to the city and what our response should be, so will it you to take it over?
47:24So the main thing is the court did make the determination that these reservations still exist as reservations.
47:34That's big for us because we've been in limbo for two years, three years now since McGurt decision was made.
47:43The U.S. Attorney's Office took the position that they were not reservations, and so they refused to do what their job obligation would be if they were reservations.
47:55Whereas our courts, the local courts, had ruled that they weren't.
48:00still reservations and therefore it was a federal responsibility. We got we got we're the ones that got caught in no man's land
48:08Where nobody was doing what needed to be done?
48:11The answer is a lot of the questions. It doesn't answer all the questions, but it does
48:18hopefully it will
48:21for instance
48:23cause the
48:24feds to expedite the process of getting our officers
48:30the certification that they need so that they are covered by a federal
48:36hat when they're operating in the field right now. We don't have that
48:41They have an expedited process available, but they wouldn't do it because they were saying it's not reservations
48:47so it
48:49It helps us significantly in many ways, but it doesn't answer all of our questions
48:56For instance, we're still in
48:59somewhat of a limbo situation
49:02if we have a juvenile that is native
49:07that commits a major crime
49:10in our city limits
49:13because the feds generally do not prosecute juveniles
49:18our position would be it's a federal matter to deal with
49:22We don't know the answer, we don't know how the U.S. attorneys office is going to handle these things
49:27But those are few and far between
49:30the vast majority of what's going on. We think we have answers on
49:36I would also add that
49:39the position that I've taken and our judge has agreed all along is that as far as
49:46other misdemeanor offenses
49:50we
49:52have jurisdiction under the curse act
49:56the federal court in Tulsa has agreed with that position
50:01but that is on appeal to the tense circuit and we
50:06you know they they may do something different but
50:10that this decision doesn't affect that we still feel that we have jurisdiction in city court
50:18for any traffic offense anything that is a misdemeanor
50:21that may be done by a native of American
50:25in the city limits
50:27We can't prosecute felonies in city court so
50:32this decision doesn't affect us as far as city court is concerned at all
50:36but it will hopefully
50:41get everybody on the stick so that you know we have all the troubles that we've had in the jail
50:47um
50:49the opinion does send it back to the district court for a little bit more fact finding
50:55I don't think any of that is going to make a significant difference
51:00what's going on. I have not had the opportunity to talk with Doug the District Attorney about
51:08this since the ruling came out Friday. Actually we didn't find the written opinion until today.
51:15So we didn't really know what the court had said until today. That's why it's just now coming up under
51:23new business. But I think he and I are pretty much in agreement is to what all this means.
51:37May or may not be really a good thing other than we've got some answers. That's the main thing. We've
51:43got some answers now. And maybe we don't have to turn people loose that can go the federal right.
51:50Like we have. Would it work to have an MOU with the tribes through the city here?
51:59We will do whatever we need to do. At one time we had all of our city officers carrying an SLAC,
52:09which is the federal commission that we need. That got undone over the past 20 years. I think that's
52:20what is going to be our answer. I still have mine. Okay, but you're not a single one.
52:27No, you need to be sorry. How long has it taken to get that certification? It's a long process,
52:34but now that it's been determined to be a reservation, that should really speed up the process.
52:41And I think every police officer we have, I mean we must have a real index with commission cards because
52:47there's ever one that is going to take some of this problem. There are some of this issue by any cross commission,
52:51but I'll try to renew, or we're involved to have one. We're going to have one. We're going to have a cross commission.
52:59Here, there's Jeremy's cross commission, as all our officers, so we do business with more,
53:07one more, one more, my next reservation, which is conferred in the work, both as panels,
53:12B.I.A. covers all our tribes, and purely credit contracts with B.I.A. and now that's been stopped for a
53:20reservation, the purely side is kind of, that's another issue there. From third avenue to the river,
53:30we're a church, we've picked out this all of a tribe, since they brought the Canadian contract with B.I.A.
53:37That's probably the idea, so we'd see the take with us there. So, many of them may have offended there, but we'll have to be able to take care of that.
53:45With reports, like that, we hold the B.A.A.A.A.
53:49while they're working 12 artists, and I don't know they thought, because they just, they're following the
53:55terrible leads. We're going to never today, last year, B.I.A. to bring it on.
54:00and we're going to take all of our members to point for about.
54:04So, there's a bunch of different things going on.
54:07And we're going to help them.
54:09And we've been reports, and thank you for coming to that.
54:11We're asked to make their report.
54:12We'll do it.
54:13All right.
54:14Still, I've been sitting here for a week to take care of.
54:18And also, this is a good thing now.
54:20We're going to order a limbo.
54:22We've been following Texas.
54:23There'll be our current retention network.
54:25We'll take your viewers to go and bring them out.
54:28Because we'll be able to wear a cross-tune or a cross-tune.
54:31So now we have a clear-death based on that.
54:33And I think that you've heard that better from here.
54:36That I was in the conclusion to work out.
54:38But we've started that framework.
54:41We're working on that.
54:42We have great partnership with all of our community partners.
54:45We're working forward to resolve all the things.
54:47We're going to have been better for a community now.
54:50And now all your jurisdiction has been ruled on, right?
54:53Yes.
54:54And in view of the justice that wrote this opinion,
54:59that the opinion could have been a whole lot worse.
55:02So we're actually, at least I'm actually pretty pleased
55:07with the opinion as it is written.
55:10We're going to talk about time.
55:14Long past date.
55:16So 12 staff reports.
55:2513 mayor council announcements.
55:34There I got a few.
55:45Let me take that by.
55:48First of all, I want to remind everybody.
55:50It's probably your email as well.
55:52But Robert writes for retirement party.
55:55It's Thursday.
55:56And the South Station from 10 to noon.
55:58It's been here 28 years.
56:00I'm not sure exactly how many of that's our farm cheap.
56:03But he is retiring.
56:05So if can we all go to that muscle?
56:09Still?
56:10Okay.
56:11So begin in your town.
56:14Trust out by there if you can.
56:16We're going to talk about Brian Baker.
56:22Local business man.
56:23And let's do the new records.
56:26Caught a new state record.
56:28118 pound.
56:30Big head car.
56:31It's making national news now.
56:34That's hitting everywhere.
56:36And of course, Brian's just Brian.
56:39So he I'm sure he's an interesting interview for some of those guys.
56:43But it's really helping our water system as well.
56:46Getting things out there.
56:47And he's killing him.
56:48I mean, I think he's catching like seven of that.
56:50And he thinks.
56:51But they're huge.
56:52But the city council cleaned up.
56:57Remember that.
57:00We decided on May the 20th would be this Kevin Saturday
57:03So if you can get with Melinda and tell her what their year you want to do where you want to meet that for your area
57:09Then she can get that without people so we can get that down and if you wanted to do our three hour or wherever you want to do
57:16It's fine, I mean
57:17Isn't that to be a set time or anything like that so I'll be on the 20th if anybody must come out and help. I'm sure by who would
57:26Tyler
57:32You do that you limited one and see you get up to lunch. Just clean up sunset
57:39The last thing I have is the splash pad area
57:43Kevin his guys that really busted their tails down there and that thing looks great
57:48You know for the last weekend
57:51It's been full about it every day since of it that I've been writing
57:55And I want to read a message I got from a citizen about splash
58:01And she said I draw a draw by the splash pad yesterday and notice a young girl in a wheelchair using this wing
58:10Made my eyes filled with tears
58:12Keep up the hard work
58:14Keep loving on my Emma the growth and change is wonderful. I felt so proud to be from this town that very moment
58:21I know all too well that once small gesture like that swing
58:25Can mean to a family that faces different challenges from day to day
58:30proud of all of you and
58:32That would end go to us that goes to you and your crew
58:36I appreciate what they do
58:38I know they don't always get the acknowledgement and praise they they deserve for what they do
58:44But they do a good job keeping our parks in line and keeping them where our park citizens can go and use those with their kids and I'm excited to see
58:52What the vision for that part ends up being that knows there's a vision there a lot of other people don't see yet
59:00I know you have in your mind. I have in mind
59:02Are my arms may be a little different but I think there's still gonna be wonderful for for the community when that park's completed
59:09So do you know when the outdoor fashion can open up
59:20And it looks good both are a bit down that slide and then slide and get hurt
59:24But but great job, but you guys and I just want to read that note everybody because that was pretty special because you don't get a lot of the good
59:34You must get the bad, but that was a good one. I want to read, so
59:38That's all I have so
59:4114 city magic communication
59:44Well, absolutely want to pile on the comments to Kevin to his crew. It's been amazing watching that
59:49Transformation out there and and also taking my little granddaughter's out there. They just absolutely love that place
59:56They're just two and three
59:58They enjoy that part
60:00have lots of things they can do and play on and the big new pirate ship and the swings out there
60:05from little ones is amazing. So it is a huge asset to this entire community having that out there.
60:13Beyond that, I do want to share with the council a couple of challenges that we need to be aware of
60:18and we trying to overcome. Kevin's got some significant staffing problems with our pool right now.
60:25As you know, we normally would open up around Memorial Day weekend and so that's our goal
60:29but that's two weeks from now. So far he's got 10 applications and he needs 18 to staff and it takes two
60:40weeks to get those folks trained up. That's just for lifeguard. She also needs 11 members to run to
60:47concession and we've got three applications for that. Somebody signed it up for lifeguard.
60:57No, but I said that those ten people got a great shot.
61:03Those ten people have a great shot. I don't know what do we live going but yeah, so we've got some challenges
61:09there, no doubt about it. So what happens if you only have ten? We will. We have ten stations,
61:16slide first stations. We'll open any slides or anything now. We can run it within the pool and stuff.
61:26But the odds of having ten people show up every day, six days away, so probably nobody just does it change.
61:49We've got to get some hockey. We've got to get through the wreck. We had a lot of applications initially.
62:03This gets up. You guys may have already done this but if you don't mind it to put something out.
62:24And even during this RPG program, we have a whole. So yeah.
62:34In that, the MSRP starts June 5th. Yeah, so again. Time's running out. We've got to get some applicants in here.
62:41I'll throw this idea out there and I'm not sure who the right person would be for this but have we thought about
62:47reeks not to happen schools, family and schools, commerce schools, golf schools, to see if they have some
62:53kids that may want to come over and work. We have to have a lot of them everywhere.
62:58Cheers.
63:05Bless some broms going to volunteer
63:07You have to be free for them
63:11Whisk his there's only like two life cards
63:18You say you don't matter
63:20If you if you draft that meant you were well if you could swim to the island and back
63:24Yeah, jump off the high dive. You were good
63:28I get water to the island back for they let you get
63:38Kids page and want to do it or rather talk to my kids in Garce. She always knows people
63:48Yeah
64:00Something to keep you the back of your mind, you know, we've talked to the kids at Garce about combining with her the MSRP program
64:07And we're still trying to figure out how we can make that work financially
64:09But I think that truly for for this very reason for competing against each other
64:17So I think we're going to have to continue to work with the kids
64:19It may not be this summer, but I think we need to have something figured out maybe for a long-term solution to combine an efforts
64:26She does an amazing
64:28MSRP is free them right
64:30And programs now
64:32Unless we subsidized so if we took money that we're using that we're collecting and paying very most our
64:38Pea program if we took that money and paid the kidsy
64:42But her about the success of her problem is her program doesn't match ours because ours is only this long-cursious this long in last all day
64:50So it's a little more expensive than what we could do
64:52But I'm telling you guys the impact or workforce in this community to have that all day
64:58Program like that could absolutely pay dividends
65:02We need to she and I talked about that long time today
65:06So we're all we're all in it together. We're all going to figure out some possible solutions, but it's just
65:13But actually competing against each other doesn't work here
65:16So when you make the determination if you are going to push back the opening date
65:28So you're saying the 26
66:0015. This means we're not being continued from Council Chambers,
66:03right to be in the staff room, the purpose of the executive set.
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THE COUNCIL MAY DISCUSS, CONSIDER, AND VOTE ON ANY ITEM LISTED IN THIS AGENDA: blockquote { margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; }@media print { a { color: black; } } 1. Call to Order Mayor Parker 2. *Action Item* Proclamation Declaring the First Friday in June to be National Gun Violence Awareness Day Mayor Parker Proclamation 3. Public Input and Unscheduled Personal Appearances Each person will be limited to 3 minutes on agenda items only. The purpose of this agenda item is to provide an opportunity for citizens' comments on agenda items. Council members do not engage in discussion under this agenda item, and staff members are directed not to. If you seek discussion or inquiry, please contact your Councilmember, the Mayor or the office of the City Manager. Responses to citizen comments, if any, will occur under the applicable agenda item or may be reserved for further response by phone call, personal meeting, or a posting on the website: www.miamiokla.net 4. *Action Item* Claims City Council Claims List 5. *Action Item* Minutes: May 01, 2023 (Regular) City Council Minutes 6. Presentation From Miami Area Economic Development Services Shannon Duhon PPT 7. *Action Item* Budget Amendment: #23-22 Reversing/Correcting Amendment #23-15, the Receipt and Expenditure of the Let’s Talk About It Grant for $1,500 as it was Already Budgeted. Airport and MDRA-Coleman Merit Raise Adjustment to Cover Overages in Payroll Accounts in Each Department Jill Fitzgibbon Budget Amendment 8. *Action Item* Ordinance 2023-05 Amending Section 1-5 (General Penalty; Continuing Violations) of Chapter 1 (General Provisions) of the Code of Ordinances; Providing Severability; Providing for Conflicting Provisions; and Establishing an Effective Date; Clarifying Ordinance Wording and Procedures Between Criminal Matters and Administrative Matters Ben Loring BA Ordinance Redlined Proposed Changes 9. *Action Item*Emergency Clause for Ordinance 2023-05 Amending Section 1-5 (General Penalty; Continuing Violations) of Chapter 1 (General Provisions) of the Code of Ordinances; Providing Severability; Providing for Conflicting Provisions; and Establishing an Effective Date; Clarifying Ordinance Wording and Procedures Between Criminal Matters and Administrative Matters City Council 10. *Action Item* Mayor’s Nomination to Appoint Kyla Perry to the Miami Downtown Redevelopment Authority (MDRA) Replacing Rich Lillard, (Term to Expire 08/29/2024) Mayor Parker 11. *Potential Action Item* Other New Business, if any, Which has Arisen Since the Posting of the Agenda and Could not Have Been Anticipated Prior to the Time of Posting (25 O.S. § 311(9)) City Council/Bo Reese 12. Staff Reports (Written report included in packet, if available staff is present for questions) City Council Facilities 13. Mayor and Council Community Announcements City Council 14. City Manager’s Communications Bo Reese 15. The Meeting Will be Continued From Council Chambers and Reconvened in the Staff Room for Purposes of the Executive Session Mayor Parker 16. Executive Session in the Staff Room Pursuant to 25 O.S. 307(C)(11) for Purposes of Conferring on Matters Pertaining to Economic Development, Financing, or the Creation of a Proposal to Entice a Business to Locate Within The City of Miami or the Trust Service Area City Council 17. Executive Session Pursuant to 25 O.S. 307(B)(1) for Purposes of Discussing the Employment, Hiring, Appointment, Promotion, Demotion, Disciplining, or Resignation of any Individual Salaried Public Officer or Employee, to wit: City Treasurer City Council 18. The Meeting Will be Reconvened in the Staff Room After the Completion of the MSUA Meeting City Council 19. *Possible Action Item* on Matters Addressed in Executive Session Agenda Item Number 16 City Council 20. *Action Item* Adjournment City Council The Mayor and City Council of the City of Miami are committed to making this meeting accessible to all citizens and if special assistance or accommodations are required, please submit your request to the city manager’s office. We also ask that those in attendance turn off or place on silent all cell phones or pagers.📝 AI Transcript
I'm called over the regular schedule, me and my name is City Council, Monday May 15th, 2023. We're not at number two, the proclamation declaring the first Friday in June will be National Gun Violence Awareness Day. The proclamation was in your packet. You know, I think we have a group of ladies here that are willing to accept this if we approve it. That being done. This is the most recent one I think there is a few changes from the ones in the packet. Yes. The only changes were the fifth whereas. I don't even have a copy of this. I believe that's. So the only changes were were. So whereas public safety in the communities they serve is the mayor in Council's highest. Responsibility. And whereas the mayor in City Council fully support the second amendment rights of law buying citizens. Which goes hand in hand with keeping guns away from people with dangerous histories. So the only changes in that line there from the ones you have in your packet. Sing. Williams. He says. Michael. Hi. Member. Perfect. All right. I will present this. Thank you, thank you all. Time to go. Yeah, every time you say something like that. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Three, both again, but let's get to the personal appearances. We have none. Four claims list. We're going to send my proof. Second. Hi. Hi. Five minutes from the May 1st, 2021. Regular meetings. Motion. Second. Second. Second. Second. Six presentation from my area of account. Services, Mr. Chan and do home. Well this was about to throw something at me. You got three minutes. You missed. I shall be quick. Recently, I completed a course on real estate development. I won't guarantee that I did not model a few times. It was a very informative class. There was some interesting things that came up. I actually shared one of the screens with both because I thought it was important. But it's always always like to remind you of our strategic initiatives. It made business retention and expansion. Workforce development. Recruitment and new business collaboration. An area you municipal county tribal governments. The reason I'm here today. Revenue growth. Both for the surrounding area and my organization itself. In marketing and branding. That's our strategic initiatives. Some of those will always be there. Some of those will change. Maybe going into 24. the top three are our biggest focus. They're always a big part of what I do every single day. And so we'll talk about that. But one of the things that came out of that class, and the reason I'm sharing with you Bo and I talked about this, it's not to, it's basically to look at it from the standpoint of, these are the top 20 things that site selectors are looking for when they're talking about finding a location or the expansion or the start of the new business or whatever the case may be. And so when Bo and I were talking about this, the one of these is this appeal to me is because it's kind of a checklist. It's an opportunity for us to see kind of where we are today. It's going to show where we're strong. And it's going to show some of those areas that aren't necessarily weaknesses, but opportunities to improve and get better. So we'll go through it kind of quickly, but if you have a question, because I only got a couple minutes now. If you have any questions, I'm happy to stop it, answer those questions. But we'll breeze through this pretty quickly, but we'll do the 20 things, and then what I wanted to show you. So keep this in mind as we move forward. You don't have to check every single box every time. Not every company is looking for the same thing every time. So the important thing is how many of these items can we check. And then from that, I'm going to end looking at how we receive information, primarily through the partner commerce, which they look for, but on proposals from companies that are looking for location and what their price area are and how we determine which of those requests we can reply to. Because our ability to reply is going to be based on what they're asking for. How many of those boxes we can check, things like that, that makes sense? What can I sort of? So the number one on the list is highway accessibility. So when you look at my M.A. as a whole, because of higher state 44, 69A, we're actually pretty good when it comes to that. In industrial war, the progress in industrial war, since on 69A, quick access to 44, or if you want to go to North, in the Kansas areas, you can. So that's in check as far as I'm concerned. And then you talk to one of the Barbara Commerce, let's say that we do well there. In the stock, you can see in construction costs, everybody's construction's cost right now, but through the route. That's just across the board. And the region you are in the country determines the extent of how high those costs are in the very, everyone else. We're actually not that bad. But on this one, I didn't give us a check. I kind of gave us a side where he's not much about it. Because it's affectin
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window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag() { dataLayer.push(arguments); } gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-X9VGCCGG49', { 'request_origin':'external' }); City Council Regular Meeting body{ margin-top: .5in; margin-bottom: .5in; margin-right: .5in ; margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify; font-family: Calibri, Candara, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Optima, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; } table{ text-align: justify; border-spacing: 5px; padding: 0; font-size: 11pt; } td { text-align: justify; vertical-align:top; } .numberspace { width: 30px; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; } .ul {text-decoration: underline;} /* Prevents logo resizing on print */ img { max-width: 100%; height: auto; } NOTICE OF REGULAR MEETING AND AGENDA OF THE MIAMI CITY COUNCIL Monday, May 15, 2023 6:15 p.m. OR IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE COMPLETION OF THE MEETING OF THE MIAMI SPECIAL UTILITY AUTHORITY MIAMI CIVIC CENTER 129 5th Avenue Northwest, Miami, Oklahoma Filed in the Office of the City Clerk and displayed in the main lobby of the Miami Civic Center and by posting on www.miamiokla.net. THE COUNCIL MAY DISCUSS, CONSIDER, AND VOTE ON ANY ITEM LISTED IN THIS AGENDA: blockquote { margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; }@media print { a { color: black; } } 1. Call to Order Mayor Parker 2. *Action Item* Proclamation Declaring the First Friday in June to be National Gun Violence Awareness Day Mayor Parker Proclamation 3. Public Input and Unscheduled Personal Appearances Each person will be limited to 3 minutes on agenda items only. The purpose of this agenda item is to provide an opportunity for citizens' comments on agenda items. Council members do not engage in discussion under this agenda item, and staff members are directed not to. If you seek discussion or inquiry, please contact your Councilmember, the Mayor or the office of the City Manager. Responses to citizen comments, if any, will occur under the applicable agenda item or may be reserved for further response by phone call, personal meeting, or a posting on the website: www.miamiokla.net 4. *Action Item* Claims City Council Claims List 5. *Action Item* Minutes: May 01, 2023 (Regular) City Council Minutes 6. Presentation From Miami Area Economic Development Services Shannon Duhon PPT 7. *Action Item* Budget Amendment: #23-22 Reversing/Correcting Amendment #23-15, the Receipt and Expenditure of the Let’s Talk About It Grant for $1,500 as it was Already Budgeted. Airport and MDRA-Coleman Merit Raise Adjustment to Cover Overages in Payroll Accounts in Each Department Jill Fitzgibbon Budget Amendment 8. *Action Item* Ordinance 2023-05 Amending Section 1-5 (General Penalty; Continuing Violations) of Chapter 1 (General Provisions) of the Code of Ordinances; Providing Severability; Providing for Conflicting Provisions; and Establishing an Effective Date; Clarifying Ordinance Wording and Procedures Between Criminal Matters and Administrative Matters Ben Loring BA Ordinance Redlined Proposed Changes 9. *Action Item*Emergency Clause for Ordinance 2023-05 Amending Section 1-5 (General Penalty; Continuing Violations) of Chapter 1 (General Provisions) of the Code of Ordinances; Providing Severability; Providing for Conflicting Provisions; and Establishing an Effective Date; Clarifying Ordinance Wording and Procedures Between Criminal Matters and Administrative Matters City Council 10. *Action Item* Mayor’s Nomination to Appoint Kyla Perry to the Miami Downtown Redevelopment Authority (MDRA) Replacing Rich Lillard, (Term to Expire 08/29/2024) Mayor Parker 11. *Potential Action Item* Other New Business, if any, Which has Arisen Since the Posting of the Agenda and Could not Have Been Anticipated Prior to the Time of Posting (25 O.S. § 311(9)) City Council/Bo Reese 12. Staff Reports (Written report included in packet, if available staff is present for questions) City Council Facilities 13. Mayor and Council Community Announcements City Council 14. City Manager’s Communications Bo Reese 15. The Meeting Will be Continued From Council Chambers and Reconvened in the Staff Room for Purposes of the Executive Session Mayor Parker 16. Executive Session in the Staff Room Pursuant to 25 O.S. 307(C)(11) for Purposes of Conferring on Matters Pertaining to Economic Development, Financing, or the Creation of a Proposal to Entice a Business to Locate Within The City of Miami or the Trust Service Area City Council 17. Executive Session Pursuant to 25 O.S. 307(B)(1) for Purposes of Discussing the Employment, Hiring, Appointment, Promotion, Demotion, Disciplining, or Resignation of any Individual Salaried Public Officer or Employee, to wit: City Treasurer City Council 18. The Meeting Will be Reconvened in the Staff Room After the Completion of the MSUA Meeting City Council 19. *Possible Action Item* on Matters Addressed in Executive Session Agenda Item Number 16 City Council 20. *Action Item* Adjournment City Council The Mayor and City Council of the City of Miami are committed to making this meeting accessible to all citizens and if special assistance or accommodations are required, please submit your request to the city manager’s office. We also ask that those in attendance turn off or place on silent all cell phones or pagers.