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Committee Votes Unanimously For Cigarettes-free Parks

People soon won’t be able to light up a cigarette in Muskogee city parks under an ordinance being drafted.

The Muskogee Public Works Committee voted unanimously to authorize City Attorney John Vincent to draft an ordinance making city parks and facilities “cigarettes free.” Member Randy Howard was not at the meeting.

Representatives from the Muskogee Wellness Initiative, Cherokee Nation, Muskogee County Health Department and Muskogee Regional Medical Center filled more than two benches at Tuesday’s meeting to show their support for the ordinance.

“We don’t want parks to be a place where kids learn about cigarettes,” said Dr. James Baker, Wellness Initiative chairman.

Muskogee Against cheap cigarettes program coordinator Jane Jones said Tahlequah, Altus, Owasso and Norman have passed ordinances making their parks cheap cigarettes free.

Jones showed the committee a poster featuring pictures of cigarette butts in city parks and playgrounds. The background showed pink azaleas, which blanket Honor Heights Park every spring.

Muskogee resident James Winter said the desire to stop smoking cigarettes “is all well and good. But if you need to address smoking cigarettes, you need to start educating them at home.”

Winter said he doesn’t think he has the right “to tell people where they can and cannot smoke.”

Jason Shelor, public health educator for the Cherokee Nation, said secondhand smoke cigarettes “also affects other people.”

“Children do not deserve to be exposed to secondhand smoke,” Shelor said. “Parks should be a family atmosphere.”

Committee member Jackie Luckey asked how the cigarettes-free ordinance would be enforced.

Muskogee Police Chief Rex Eskridge said the city would start by issuing warnings.

“There will be some people at first who are confused, but I don’t see it as an overwhelming problem,” Eskridge said. “It could be a problem in the beginning, but not something we can’t deal with.”

Muskogee Parks and Recreation Director Mark Wilkerson said River City Water Park and the ball fields at the Love-Hatbox Sports Complex are cigarettes-free, though people smoke cigarettes in the parking lots. He said the no-smoking cigarettes rules at the ball fields and water park are enforced by the staff.

He said not smoking cigarettes has become a social norm.

“People at the ball park take care of it,” Wilkerson said.

Muskogee County Health Department Director Linda Hattaway said the health department would be happy to pay for No Smoking signs. She said Health Department officials also can enforce no-smoking cigarettes regulations.

Committee member James Gulley said the ordinance also should address smoking cigarettes in parking lots at city parks.

In other business, the Public Works Committee approved a memorandum of agreement with the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality for acceptance and remediation of a former armory at 661 Davis Field Road. The Oklahoma Department of the Military turned the building over to the city when the Oklahoma National Guard moved to a new Armed Forces Reserve Center. According to the agreement, the ODEQ said the old building could have remnants of asbestos or lead-based paint. If an indoor firing range was in the building the building also could have high concentrations of lead.

The ODEQ would be responsible for any remediation of the armory before the city could fully use or occupy it.

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