Have you noticed the link in the left menu for COMMERCIAL PROPERTY? The City website includes a section where listing agents of commercial property are able to post their vacant commercial business locations within Warr Acres. This is an effort to improve the ease of businesses locating available property within the City of Warr Acres. The postings are free for commercial agents and are broken down into categories of retail & strip malls, office space and vacant land. Properties may include pictures and contact information for contacting the listing agent. If you are an agent and would like to list your properties that are available within Warr Acres simply sign up as a user on the left and go to the Commercial Property section where you can click on the link to Manage My Properties.

On March 6th the citizens voted for two open City Council seats. In Ward I James Mickley won the election and in Ward II Stephen Fuhrman won. These two gentlemen, along with those who were up for election but were unopposed, will be sworn in on Tuesday, March 13th at 7:00 p.m. in the Warr Acres Council Chambers. Bill McClure and Roger Godwin for Ward III and Jan Blake for Ward IV. Come see your Councilmembers sworn in and stay for cake and punch afterwards. This is a great opportunity to get to meet the people that represent your interest in the city.

The City of Warr Acres has provided an online method for people to pay their traffic tickets. Through an agreement with  TrafficPayment.com citizens may now pay their tickets online instead of mailing payment or coming in to the Court Clerk's office. Online payments are typically available 24hours a day, and may be made with most common credit card and some debit cards. Payments may also be made via telephone by calling TrafficPayment.com at 1-800-444-1187.

Following a very active 2011 tornado season, various City officials have noted several types of reactions to the outdoor warning sirens, which have prompted reviews of
current storm siren policies. These reviews are to determine the best practice uses of outdoor warning technologies. Upon reviewing different reactions to sirens, numerous reports from citizens noted that a second sounding of the
storm sirens created their awareness and urgency to take cover. Other citizens commented that they heard the sirens all of the time and didn't take the warnings seriously, and yet some even said they thought the second siren sounding was an "all clear"
notification.

To eliminate any confusion the City of Warr Acres Emergency Management would like to restate our policies for sounding storm sirens.

 

• Siren testing will be conducted on the first (1st) and third(3rd) Saturday at 12:00 (noon) of each month (weather permitting). This test is NOT conducted when threatening weather is in the area.
• When activated due to storm alerts, the siren consists of a steady tome for a
  duration of three minutes. Second siren activation will occur IF the initial warning had been sounded more than ten minutes prior to
  the warned storm system's arrival to the city. The second activation will be
  another three minute sounding.
• The City reminds residents that there will be NO "all clear" sounded by the sirens.

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This is a courtesy notice to all Utility customers with delinquent accounts. On Tuesday, September 20, 2011 the City Council passed an Ordinance that allows bills turned over to collections to be assessed a 35% collection fee. To avoid having your delinquent bill sent to collections and assessed the 35% fee you have until October 10, 2011 at 5:00 p.m. to come to City Hall and pay IN FULL your account. You will continue to be charged for current monthly services; only the amount that was past due will be sent to collections, so this gives you an opportunity to start fresh.

Warr Acres now has a locked drop-off box located in its police station lobby for prescription pill disposal. The lobby is open 24 hours a day and is located on the south side of the City Hall complex. The units are provided free to municipalities. Chief Roger Patty and Lt. Hugh Osborne worked hard to get this box for us through the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. For those of you who have lost loved ones, and have unused prescriptions to dispose of, this is great. This medicine will not go into the landfill or down the toilet to ultimately end up in our water supply. You cannot throw away liquids,syringes, glass or inhalers. Correctly disposing of prescriptions will also keep kids from finding and misusing these unused or expired prescriptions. In 2010 over 700 people died from drug over doses due to drugs found in family medicine cabinets. I can't imagine the grief those parents and grandparents feel. The drugs are collected from the disposal boxes and burned. So far this year the drug enforcement teams have disposed of over a ton (2000 pounds) of pills and pain patches. Drug enforcement is currently working on a program to purchase locking safes for people on fixed incomes. They are seeking onations for this program. Each safe cost $100.00. This would be a great project for a church or organization to raise money to help keep drugs out of the hands of young people. For more information view a recent broadcast on KFOR's web site CLICK HERE.