Council addresses agenda

Purcell’s City Council and Public Works Authority held joint meetings last week to discuss and help plan for the upcoming fiscal year budget.

The board did have a couple of agenda items to attend to in addition to the budgeting process.

One of which was to decide on which alternative bid to accept for the upcoming GreenScape project for downtown.

City Manager Dale Bunn said the council accepted the base bid for the project.

They declined to accept the Alternative 1 bid that would have been adding benches, trash cans and some landscaping.

“We’ve got other ways of doing that,” Bunn explained. “We may go to the community again seeing if people want to donate.

“As far as landscaping goes, Mid-America can help us out on that,” Bunn continued. “They have got landscaping like flowers and plants and things like that. It can give a student a little training and maybe make them some money.”

The Alternative 2 proposal was for electrical and lighting that would involve demolition of taking down smaller lights.

The Purcell Electric Department will be called upon to do the wiring that goes to the lights.

The base bid the city has already agreed to is $1,039,000. The city has added another $600,000 while the state is footing the bill for an additional $700,000.

Bunn told the council the State of Oklahoma has funding to the tune of $265,000 for repairing holes put into damaged roadways by drillers.

The road in question is Sooner Avenue which is partly in city limits and partly in the county.

The city will be funding $88,334 of the project which is 25 percent. The drilling fund will pay 75 percent of the repair costs, Bunn said.

“The county will pay their part,” the city manager said. “We will be setting up a meeting with the county and the engineer to go out for bid.”

A proposal was made to pave the Sunray Baptist Church parking lot in payment for the city using their parking for a road and for them storing items during the construction of the new hospital.

That item was postponed until a later meeting

The budget meetings were held at City Hall.