Broken Arrow City Council
Meeting of: 10/20/2020
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Approval of and authorization to execute Resolution No. 1351, a Resolution of the Broken Arrow City Council identifying additional funding source for the design and construction of 37th Street Park and Highland Park improvements
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Background:
On August 28, 2018, the residents of Broken Arrow voted to approve the 2018 General Obligation Bond Program. Proposition No. 3 allocated $17,750,000 of those funds for Quality of Life infrastructure improvements.
One of those proposed projects identified in the "unnamed" portion of the Proposition is Battle Creek Golf Course - New Irrigation System in the amount of $2,500,000. Presently, the City of Broken Arrow is finalizing construction documents for the upsizing and construction of a new pump station to feed the Battle Creek Golf Course and pull water directly off of the 5 million gallon (MG) ground storage tank along Omaha Street. This project is scheduled to advertise for public construction in November of this year. The cost is estimated at $1,000,000 from the 2018 General Obligation Bond Program. The remaining costs will be funded through an Oklahoma Water Resources Board loan. This effort will satisfy the work necessary at Battle Creek regarding the irrigation project.
Staff recommends using up to $500,000 of these "unnamed" funds to supplement two (2) parks projects that were not funded at the appropriate level to construct the improvements desired by the City. This includes the 37th Street Park north of Albany Street near Adams Creek and the Highland Park facility east of 65th Street (Oneta Road/241st East Avenue) along Quincy Place. Both projects are general obligation bond projects. 37th Street Park is funded in both the 2011 GO Bond program and the 2014 GO Bond program in the following amounts $200,000 and $263,000, respectively, for a total of $463,000; whereas, Highland Park project is funded solely in the 2014 GO Bond program in the...
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