2026-10-27 - City Council

Summary

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Built from the posted agenda and packet highlights. Minutes are not yet posted and the video has not been transcribed, so votes are not recorded. Names of award recipients, claimants and appointees are omitted.

• Debt: bids and issuance of $3,600,000 General Obligation Bonds, Series 2026, and an Airport Authority note up to $3,279,269 (2026 General Obligation Bonds).
• Zoning: public hearing on defining and locating low-barrier and high-barrier shelters, transitional housing and boardinghouses (Shelter and Transitional Housing Zoning).
• Ordinances on first responder buffers, hand-held devices while driving, and ignoring a peace officer's lights (First Responder and Traffic Stop Ordinances).
• Opioid abatement grant application and acceptance of $335,000 (Opioid Abatement Funds).
• FISTA at Central Plaza: parking lot lease, two utility easements and offsite improvements (FISTA Central Plaza Expansion).
• Economic development: Council Policy 1-10 retail amendment and an incentive agreement with a restaurant company (Economic Development Incentives and Agreements).
• Dilapidated building items, including a hearing on SW 4th Street (Dilapidated Buildings and Nuisance Abatement). Spirit of Survival presentation with a $5,000 donation from a cancer center.

Agenda

• Presentations: Employee Spotlight Award; True North Award; 3. report on the 2026 Spirit of Survival event and acceptance of a $5,000 donation; Extra Mile Hero Day Award (names omitted)

Consent agenda:

• 5 and 6. Tort claim recommended for approval; settlement of a damage claim against an insurer for a traffic signal (claimant omitted)
• 7. Animal shelter fees: rabies vaccination $20, microchipping $20, spay/neuter $50
• 8. Resolution to apply to the Oklahoma Opioid Abatement Board Revolving Fund Grant Program
• 9 and 10. Resolution rescheduling November and December 2027 Council meetings; Annual Meeting Notice for 2027
• 11 to 15. Contracts: pest control (CL27-014, $26,785 a year), electrical instrumentation and control (CL27-015, about $75,000), heavy equipment service and parts (CL27-019, $600,000), employee drug and alcohol screening (RFPCL27-017, $30,000), ATM services (RFPCL27-020, revenue of $0.65 per transaction)
• 16. Change Order No. 1 reducing the Map 44 Waterline Replacement (PU2502) by $455,361.20, final amount $1,278,276.80
• 17. Change Order No. 1, $51,876.98, food service equipment, Lawton Youth Sports Complex (EN2605)
• 18. Task Order No. 13, not to exceed $484,223.57, Program Management Design for Pavement Project PW2504
• 19. Amend Council Policy 1-10 Economic Development Assistance Policy (Retail)
• 20. Revocable permit for a school to park on the SW Bishop Road right-of-way, fee waived, gravel allowed
• 21 to 23. Lease for the Central Plaza parking lot; two public utility easements; offsite improvement plans for water, sewer, paving and drainage
• 24. Record plat and improvements for Prairie Acres Part 2
• 25 and 26. Extension requests to remodel: SW 7th Street, NW 25th Street
• 27. Demolition invoices: SW H, SW Monroe, NW Williams, NW Lincoln
• 28. Authorize staff to accept an opioid abatement grant of $335,000
• 29 to 31. Claims list; appointments (names omitted); minutes of October 9 and October 13

Business items:

• 32. Receive bids and award the sale of the $3,600,000 General Obligation Bonds, Series 2026
• 33. Ordinance providing for issuance of the bonds, levy of an annual tax and approval of the Official Statement
• 34. Resolution on the Airport Authority's Second Amended Revenue Note, Series 2022A, up to $3,279,269, sold to a bank without competitive bidding
• 35. Public hearing and ordinance amending Chapter 18 for low-barrier shelter, high-barrier shelter, transitional housing, feeding site and boardinghouse definitions, districts and parking
• 36. Economic Development Incentive Application and Agreement with a restaurant company
• 37. Public hearing and resolution declaring structures dilapidated (SW 4th Street), ordering abatement, summary abatement and court action
• 38. Staff to deny additional time to remodel, SW Georgia Avenue
• 39 to 41. Ordinances: first responder buffer (Section 8-1-112); hand-held devices while driving (Section 23-5-545A); ignoring a peace officer's lights (Section 16-6-1-616)

Sources

• Meeting page and files: https://lawtonok.portal.civicclerk.com/event/957/files

• Agenda (PDF): https://lawtonok.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=15433,plainText=false)

• Agenda packet (PDF): https://lawtonok.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=15434,plainText=false)

• City page: https://www.lawtonok.gov/129/Agendas-Minutes

• Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL113pYkkrc (City of Lawton YouTube channel)

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