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Marlow reinstates offices, approves lot split request
MARLOW — Marlow City Council reinstated several offices within the council and Marlow Municipal Authority, including the Vice Mayor May 22.
City councilors nominated and approved Jon Rich for the position of Vice Mayor. The board then re-appointed two Marlow Municipal Authority trustees and a Planning and Zoning Commission position.
The board approved to re-appoint Tom Wheat as MMA Trustee for a 1-year term, Tandy Banks as a MMA Trustee for a 1-year term and Harbour Whitaker as a Planning and Zoning Commissioner for a 3-year term.
In another segment, the city board opened up a lot split request from the Planning and Zoning Commission from Cameron Construction, Inc. The lot sits in the 1300 block of North 2nd.
City Administrator Jason McPherson said everyone was happy with the presentation for the request.
'It's going to lead to four houses,' he said.
McPherson noted a couple highlights from the presentation, such as the plans to get two completed and then build the others at the same time. He said with the garage, the property is around 1,400 square foot.
McPherson said there's only one issue about possible flooding.
'We're going to work through that with the building permit process,' he said.
McPherson said crews will perform a hydrology report.
'We think we know where the water is going to go,' he said. 'We're pretty sure with all this rain that we had, we actually got to see it.'
McPherson said they don't think it will change, but they will have an engineer take a look at it.
'We think it should be a pretty successful use of that property,' he said.
The board approved the rezone request with a 4-0 vote.
Next, the board opened up a publication notice for a petition for annexation.
McPherson said residents on Jerry Wayne Lane want to annex into the city.
'Portions of that were annexed into the city when that stretch made it out to the 'Y' so they'd like to be included back in that,' he said. 'This is their petition to the city, they are going to pay for the publication.'
McPherson said this would lead into the June meeting for a public hearing for the annexation.
The board approved to authorize publication with a 4-0 vote.
Next, the board approved a Federal Fiscal Year 2025 SPR Mini Transportation Planning Grant for $12,000 from Southwest Oklahoma Regional Transportation Planning Organization through SWODA.
McPherson said the grant will cover street sign mapping and pay for 80% of the street sign mapping through SORTPO.
In a special meeting of the MMA, the trustee board opened a contract with Fast Forward for thermal imaging services for the electric distribution system for two years at $23,786.
McPherson said this is the first item on the fiscal year 2026 budget.
'This is what we did last summer,' he said. 'Did a lot of good in finding issues that happened before an outage that we could go up and fix.'
McPherson said the cost was $15,000 last year.
'We've helped them get a couple other towns down this way, so they cut our price for us and gave us a two-year deal, just under $12,000 a year,' he said.
The trustee board approved the service with a 5-0 vote.
In other news, the city council and MMA board approved:
• To accept audit engagement letter from HSPG & Associates for audit services for fiscal year 2023-24.
The City of Marlow will host its next meeting at 5:30 p.m. June 24 in the Council Chambers at 119 S. Second St., Marlow.
