Meeting of 1997-8-4 Annexation Meeting


MINUTES
LAWTON CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING
AUGUST 4, 1997 - 4:00 P.M.
WAYNE GILLEY CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBER

John T. Marley, Mayor    Also Present:
Presiding        Gil Schumpert, City Manager
    Felix Cruz, City Attorney
    Sandra Rench, Deputy City Clerk

The meeting was called to order at 4:00 p.m. Notice of meeting and agenda were posted on the City Hall bulletin board as required by State law.

ROLL CALL
Present:            Jody Maples, Ward One
        Richard Williams, Ward Two
        Jeffrey Sadler, Ward Three
John Purcell, Ward Four
        Robert Shanklin, Ward Five
        Charles P. Beller, Ward Six
        Carol Green, Ward Seven
        Randy Warren, Ward Eight
        John T. Marley, Mayor

Absent:    None.

BUSINESS ITEMS:

1.    Consider suspending Rule 5E of the Council Rules of Procedures, and, if suspended, consider adopting an ordinance annexing the Southeast Quarter of Section 28, T1N, R11W of I.M., Comanche County, Oklahoma, (in the general vicinity of Tinney and Flower Mound Roads), and a seventeen foot strip of land from the southeast corner of the City's landfill to the southeast corner of the City's Wastewater Treatment Plant into the corporate limits of the City of Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma. EXHIBITS: LOCATION MAP; LETTER FROM LYN AND TARRI ALDRIDGE; LETTER FROM WACKENHUT CORRECTIONS; ORDINANCE NO. 97- 36.

MOTION by Purcell, SECOND by Maples, to suspend Rule 5E of the Council Rules of Procedures for the purpose of considering the annexation of the property in the vicinity of Flower Mound and Tinney Roads. AYE: Purcell, Shanklin, Beller, Green, Warren, Maples, Williams, Sadler. NAY: None. MOTION CARRIED.

Mayor Marley said the item is now to consider the annexation of the piece of land described. He said this is not a public hearing, there are certain items that will follow after this meeting that are public hearings; on August 12 the City Council will meet to amend the Public Facility (PF) zoning with an emergency clause; on August 27 the Lawton Metropolitan Area Planning Commission (LMAPC) will meet to permanently zone this area and on September 23 the Council will consider permanently zoning this area, without an emergency clause. He said this meeting is not a public hearing.

MOTION by Maples, SECOND by Warren, to adopt Ordinance No. 97-36, reading that ordinance.

Ordinance was read aloud in full; title is in included for the record as follows:

ORDINANCE NO. 97-36
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE ANNEXATION OF THE NORTH SEVENTEEN (17) FEET OF THE SOUTH FIFTY (50) FEET OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER (SW ) OF SECTION 28, TOWNSHIP ONE NORTH (T1N), RANGE ELEVEN WEST (R11W), THE NORTH SEVENTEEN (17) FEET OF THE SOUTH FIFTY (50) FEET OF SECTION 29, TOWNSHIP ONE NORTH (T1N), RANGE ELEVEN WEST (R11W), THE NORTH SEVENTEEN (17) FEET OF THE SOUTH FIFTY (50) FEET OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER (SE ) OF SECTION 30, TOWNSHIP ONE NORTH (T1N), RANGE ELEVEN WEST (R11W), AND THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER (SE ) OF SECTION 28, TOWNSHIP ONE NORTH (T1N), RANGE ELEVEN WEST (R11W), INDIAN MERIDIAN (I.M.), COMANCHE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, INTO THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF LAWTON; TEMPORARILY CLASSIFYING SAID TRACTS OF LAND AS PF (PUBLIC FACILITIES DISTRICT) ZONING CLASSIFICATION FOR A PERIOD NOT EXCEEDING ONE (1) YEAR; AND PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY.

ROLL CALL ON MOTION: AYE: Shanklin, Beller, Green, Warren, Maples, Williams, Sadler, Purcell. NAY: None. MOTION CARRIED.

MOTION by Green, SECOND by Maples, to adjourn. AYE: Beller, Green, warren, Maples, Williams, Sadler, Purcell, Shanklin. MOTION CARRIED.

There was no further business and the meeting adjourned at 4:10 p.m.