Heavener City Council moves next meeting

By CRAIG HALL

Heavener City Council issued several code violations, discussed resumes from candidates for city manager and approved personnel changes for the police department in Thursday’s regular business meeting.

Present were Mayor Max Roberts along with Council members Chris Bradford, Joey Clubb, Marvin Meredith and Jim Roll.

Under new business, the next scheduled meeting of the Council and Heavener Utilities Authority on Oct. 17 will be moved to Nov. 7 as Heavener is hosting Kingston in a high school football game on the 17^th.

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Also on new business after the planning commission did not have a quorum earlier in the day to hold a meeting, the Council approved rezoning a property from R-1 to R-3 for an owner to move a mobile home on to the property.

The mobile home met all the criteria with the majority of property owners approving the home, plus the mobile home met the size and age requirements.

Current City Manager Ty Armstrong was authorized to sign all contracts and expenditures for the upcoming park grant projects. consider, discuss and take action to authorize City Manager Ty Armstrong to sign all contracts and expenditures as needed for the upcoming park grant project. Some of the bids exceed his individual signing limit.

Code violations were issued for Sarah Young, for property located at 507 East 6^th Street, for dilapidated building and public safety violations. Open bids for demolition; Michael Green, for property located at 540 West Highway 59 North, for rank grass and weeds and trash accumulation; Reginald Maguire, for property located at 1310 Old Pike Road, for rank grass and weeds and trash accumulation; Ana Gatica, for property located at 502 West Avenue G, for rank grass and weeds and trash accumulation; Pearl Kelm c/o Howard Kelm, for property located at 206 Fowler, for rank grass, weeds and trash accumulation, along with the removal of a dead tree in the yard; Jorge and Lucia Guerrero, for property located at 307 East 3^rd Street, for rank grass and weeds and trash accumulation; Sharon Metcalf, for property located at 406 West Avenue C, for rank grass and weeds and trash accumulation; Lea Ann Trejo, for property located at 402 East 3^rd Street, for rank grass and weeds and trash accumulation; Shannon Dominguez, Samantha Wecker, Drusilla Segouia, Roger Seese and Melody Smith, for property located at 703 West 5^th, for rank grass and weeds and trash accumulation; Vereit Real Estate and Mountain Express Oil, for property located at 704 Highway 59 North (formerly north Tote-A-Poke), for rank grass and weeds and trash accumulation; Mona Yazbeck, for property located at 800 West 2^nd Street, for rank grass and weeds and trash accumulation; and Baker Land LLC for property located at 101 Lori Lane, for rank grass and weeds, vehicles on property with expired tags, and trash accumulation.

The Council tabled code violations for Donna K. Martin and John C. Rye, for property located at 607 East Avenue. C for dilapidated building as improvements on the property are progressing.

The City Council then voted to go into executive session.

The Council discussed a number of resumes for the city manager position, but no action was taken. They also discussed infrastructure for a new housing project next to the Garden Walks Apartment on Highway 128. Seven houses are to be constructed in phase one and two, with an unknown number on phase three.

The Council also promoted part-time Officer Deylan Harbour to full-time at an hourly rate of $17.50 per hour and the promotion of full-time patrol officer Joshua Butler to sergeant at the hourly rate of $20.45 per hour.

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