Published: September 15, 2008 10:46 pm         

City commission to resolve its conduct rules at meeting

A resolution changing rules for conducting meetings is on the Enid City Commission agenda for final approval tonight.

The commission meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. in the commission room at 401 W. Garriott. The study session begins at 5 p.m. in the downstairs meeting room.

The resolution was presented in August, but Ward 2 Commissioner Daron Rudy suggested parts of it dealing with speech were unconstitutional and it was tabled for revision. The resolution is ready for presentation to the commission and possibly will be voted on at the 6:30 p.m. meeting.

Also on the agenda are:

• An emergency resolution to allow submission of the Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) for the 2007 Community Development Block Grant program year. The city of Enid is an entitlement city and is required to submit a CAPER to the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development within 90 days of the close of the program year, which was June 30.

The program spent $490,943 during the year, all of which was spent on things benefiting low- and moderate-income people and areas, said Abby Woods, CDBG director.

The most significant expenditure was $190,020 on the city Section 108 loan to purchase the former Phillips University campus now occupied by Northern Oklahoma College Enid. That loan expires in 2019 and there is $1,389,000 unpaid principal.

• An emergency amendment to the budget for two projects at Enid Woodring Regional Airport.

A total of $87,000 is needed for engineering services to reconstruct corporate hangar aprons and taxiways, and $194,630 is needed to fund projects for runway 17-35 and connecting taxiways. Those were part of the original 2006 contract, but an error was made and funding was not encumbered that fiscal year.