Oklahoma’s Fields of Accountability — Day 12

Jenks: Parkwest’s Public Fields, a New Softball Lease, and the $55 Million Development Question

Research publication: October 18, 2026
Municipality: Jenks, Tulsa County, Oklahoma
Primary public asset: City-owned Parkwest (Park West) sports grounds, West Main Street and Koa Street
Historic facility labels analyzed: “Jenks Youth Baseball Complex” and “Jenks Park West,” kept separate
Public-record study window: 2004–2026; principal municipal records examined from 2025–2026
Historical Hidden Valley/USSSA window: 2004–2026 for the exact baseball-complex label; 2017–2022 for the exact Park West softball label
Series sequence: Tulsa; Chickasha; Shawnee; Choctaw; Moore; McLoud; Edmond; Muskogee; Ardmore; Bartlesville; Broken Arrow; Jenks.

Central question: When a city owns a youth sports park but private organizations operate the fields, what do the actual leases, maintenance inspections, field schedules and financial records tell families about affordability, fair access and a sustainable community-based program?

Executive findings

1. The facility and its governing jurisdiction. The City of Jenks identifies Parkwest at West Main Street and Koa Street as a public park with baseball, softball and football fields. Its public Parks and Recreation page says the sports fields are operated and regulated by private organizations. The City's older park inventory describes Park West as about 80 acres and states that its fields are leased to sports groups. These are general descriptions of the ownership/operating model, not substitutes for signed leases naming every current tenant. S1 S2

2. An actual procurement record, not yet a verified award. On September 10, 2025, Jenks issued a request for proposals to lease, operate and maintain four lighted softball fields at Park West beginning January 1, 2026. The published RFP describes restrooms, concessions, field maintenance, semiannual City inspections, common-area cost sharing and participation in a Park West User Group. It requests public participation, operating proposals and financial terms. But the RFP does not disclose who was ultimately selected, whether a lease took effect as anticipated or what its signed financial provisions required. Those conclusions need award records and an executed instrument. S4

3. A revealing public-access discussion. In a October 17, 2025 RFP Q&A, the City said the operator pays utilities separately. One questioner described limited lighted youth practice space and asked about sharing softball fields with younger baseball. The City responded that mixed-use plans could be considered but said those were Jenks’s only four dedicated softball fields and preserving softball use would likely take priority. This is a documented municipal policy preference and bidder inquiry, not proof that any age group was excluded or that shortage estimates were independently verified. S5

4. Hidden Valley research shows significant baseball-associated activity, but not collections. Under the exact label “Jenks Youth Baseball Complex,” the September 20, 2026 historical inventory reports 210 event identifiers; 1,155 division-level records; 9,127 cumulative team entries; $1,489,318 calculated team-entry fees; 21,507 modeled minimum games; and 36,271 modeled officiating assignments, across 22 represented seasons spanning 2004–2026. A separate exact label “Jenks Park West” reports 14 event identifiers; 20 division records; 153 cumulative team entries; $24,786 calculated fees; 433 modeled minimum games; and 675 modeled officiating assignments across five represented seasons in 2017–2022. These are two data-label scopes, not an audited City or tenant revenue statement, and their physical boundaries and any overlap need field-map reconciliation. R1

5. A different Jenks sports-financing decision creates a useful comparison. At the August 19, 2025 City Council and Jenks Economic Development Authority meetings, officials approved authorizations related to The Fields on Elm Street, a proposed development at about 106th Street and Elm Street, separate from the existing Parkwest grounds at Main and Koa. The City's summary described up to $55 million of tax-increment-supported infrastructure reimbursement and a developer-projected $258 million private development that would include sports facilities. The agenda agreement breaks the reimbursement ceiling into $49.5 million for Phase 1 plus $5.5 million for Phase 2, plus interest; its specified reimbursement interest component is not subject to the $55 million principal-cost ceiling. The amount authorized is not an amount proven disbursed. S6 S7 S8

Two public questions, two different projects

The shared city name and the presence of baseball and softball do not make these facilities or financial programs the same. For any countywide report, activity should be assigned to the verified primary tournament host, never distributed mechanically across every named field. S1 S6 R1

What Jenks published about Parkwest and the softball lease

The City's park directory says Parkwest contains baseball, softball and football fields operated under private-organization arrangements. Its September 10, 2025 RFP makes that arrangement more concrete for the four-field softball area, rather than for the entire park. The RFP describes four regulation fields with lighting, a concessions/restroom building, dugouts, bleachers, scoreboards, utilities and irrigation. Public parking, drives and playground areas are shared with the broader sports campus. S1 S4

The RFP proposes responsibilities on the selected operator: scheduling leagues and tournaments; reasonable opportunities for public participation; field preparation; groundskeeping and repairs; insurance; and a pro-rata allocation of shared expenses. It says the City will inspect the leased facilities semiannually. It also explicitly calls for participating in the Park West User Group, which potentially creates a venue for baseball, softball and football organizations to coordinate schedules and shared-resource costs. Whether those oversight terms appear unchanged in the executed agreement is not yet verified. S4

A primary-document checklist for the proposed lease

A significant detail deserves correction before anyone uses the procurement as evidence in an official proceeding: the RFP cover lists October 24, 2025, before 5 p.m., while Section VII says October 25, 2025, before 5 p.m. These are conflicting dates in a single published instrument. The proper research request is for all addenda, bidder notices, acceptance logs and official controlling-deadline clarification. The discrepancy alone is not evidence of improper treatment. S4

The October 17 Q&A and protecting softball access

The City's written answer to a proposed baseball/softball mixed-use arrangement states that a larger baseball complex already operates at Park West, whereas the four dedicated softball fields are the only four specifically reserved for that sport. This is relevant to fairness: expanding access for one group could reduce dedicated time for another. Good governance makes the tradeoff explicit, documents field-hour availability and protects opportunities across gender, sport and age without asserting that any one use has prevailed. A prospective proposer said young teams struggle to find lighted practice slots; that statement is a questioner’s report, not a measured shortage established by a municipal needs assessment. S5

The existing Jenks Youth Baseball program is not the same as USSSA sanctioning

The Jenks Youth Baseball website describes a nonprofit providing instructional and competitive baseball through age fourteen. It identifies JYB Fields – Parkwest, 201 S. Koa and actively seeks volunteer support. Importantly, the league describes itself currently as non-sanctioned with no specific affiliation. That present organizational description does not erase historically recorded tournaments in the USSSA data, nor does the existence of USSSA-listed events prove the league itself is presently a USSSA affiliate or that JYB received each event’s registration fee. S3

The publicly summarized IRS filings of Jenks Sports Inc. (EIN 73-1009778) provide a separate nonprofit financial record. They do not by themselves identify the City's legal lessee, connect all the nonprofit's income to public-field activities or authenticate a lease. Nevertheless, the returns offer a useful comparison of organizational scale, cash-flow sustainability and questions that an executed public-property use agreement could address. S9

Interpretation: These are IRS-reported Form 990 summaries, not audits and not tournament-by-tournament settlement sheets. The FY2024 operating deficit is not proof of misconduct; the FY2025 surplus is not proof of perfect oversight. A sound follow-up would reconcile registration prices, concessions, maintenance needs, program services, volunteer contributions and restricted/unrestricted reserves. Also note that the IRS fiscal years and the Hidden Valley tournament seasons do not use identical cutoffs, and their dollar totals must not be directly added or subtracted. S9

Hidden Valley / USSSA: activity associated with the two exact labels

The controlling quantitative baseline is the September 20, 2026 Hidden Valley facility inventory, built from the research project's AIUSSSA - HVIOG 9-20-2026.csv. A USSSA event may list multiple parks in its display name, a team can enter several events, and division-specific records are not unique age categories. The counts below are historical event and participation indicators, not independently verified games physically played on every named field. R1

Crucial limitation: These are different dataset facility-label groupings. The baseball-complex facility-address metadata shows 201/202 South Koa, Jenks, while the separate “Jenks Park West” data label shows 901 W. 101st Street. Public Jenks records identify Parkwest at Main and Koa. Those variations require parcel, map and event-calendar verification, particularly before combining historical figures or allocating them between baseball and softball. The dataset's “Jenks, Tulsa” municipality value for the Jenks Youth Baseball Complex appears as a text combination; its Jenks street address and City parks description should control the municipal classification only after event host/location confirmation. S1 S3 R1

Multi-facility control: The distinct label “Jenks Youth Baseball Complex, Sand Springs Youth Baseball” has 38 associated event identifiers, 1,120 team entries and $277,210 calculated entry fees. It is deliberately excluded from the Jenks exact-label baseline. We cannot credit the full amount to Jenks or Sand Springs without historical brackets and field-by-field event schedules. Similarly, labels combining Jenks with Owasso, Tulsa, Glenpool, Bentley or other fields are held out pending primary-host verification. The county totals should attribute an event to its verified primary host county once, not divide or duplicate the entire event across every facility label. R1

The model's 36,271 officials assignments do not equal 36,271 individuals on a payroll. The $1,489,318 team fee total is based on modeled/derived event-entry calculations; it is not a City of Jenks ledger and cannot establish gate-receipt control, concession profit, property rent or a tax liability. A 2004–2026 aggregate is also not a calendar-year budget or an operator-performance score. R1

Selected recent baseball-label seasons

These annual figures are research associations by event/season and exact facility label, not validated schedules from City fields or the annual earnings of JYB. A rise in modeled entry fees with fewer team entries does not prove rising family costs; event mix, age divisions, published prices and other variables need verification. R1

A separate 2025 public decision: The Fields on Elm Street

On August 19, 2025, the City Council approved Resolution No. 879, authorizing Jenks Economic Development Authority involvement and agreements to support The Fields on Elm Street, LLC in the Jenks River District. The public summary describes a proposed development near 106th and Elm, with mixed uses including retail, an interactive sports venue and proposed baseball/softball fields. City officials described public infrastructure intended to support private development, projected around $258 million by the developer, with projected new retail sales of about $40 million per year and projected new annual City sales taxes of approximately $1.4 million. All are forecasts or proposed investment, not verified completed construction or audited receipts. S6

A separate governing body, the Jenks Economic Development Authority (JEDA), considered Resolution 2025-03 at its meeting the same date. The minutes, later included in the October 28, 2025 JEDA packet, provide a verifiable individual and collective record: Trustee Craig Murray moved approval of the consent agenda; Trustee Kevin Short seconded; the yes votes were Adam Abel, John Brown, Craig Murray, Matthew Emmons and Kevin Short. Mayor Cory Box and Trustee Donna Ogez were absent for this JEDA vote. A person not recorded as present must not be credited or criticized as a voting participant. The available City Council recap confirms its Resolution 879 action but does not supply the same person-by-person roll call for that distinct Council vote. S6 S8

The publicly posted JEDA agenda agreement, which is a proposed/packet version rather than a validated fully executed agreement, describes up to $49.5 million for Phase 1 plus $5.5 million for Phase 2 in eligible infrastructure reimbursement from specified tax increments, including an interest component up to 7.5%, with interest explicitly outside the $55 million project-cost cap. The City described the arrangement as reimbursement-based rather than an up-front blank check. Neither proposition proves that the public has actually paid $55 million, that exactly $55 million will be paid or that all project risk disappears. Actual tax-increment collections, certified project costs, Phase 1/Phase 2 triggers, interest accrued and reimbursement disbursements remain the controlling financial evidence. S6 S7

Why include this comparison? The City is addressing youth sports through two different structures: existing City park leases involving nonprofits/private operators, and an economic-development financing arrangement involving proposed sports facilities in a different neighborhood. A fair public-value evaluation asks whether each project provides measurable affordable access, sustainable maintenance, resident scheduling, transparency and returns to the local youth sports ecosystem. It must not assign the Parkwest USSSA activity or the nonprofit Form 990 income to the proposed Elm Street development. S1 S6

How Public Decisions Shape a Healthy Community-Based Program

Affordability. A public field can moderate an operator's overhead, but no provided Jenks agreement quantifies how this benefit reaches families. Actual published recreational registration prices, fee-waiver policies, family discounts and gate/parking charges should be compared with City-paid land and shared maintenance. The softball RFP's community-access scoring is relevant, yet a 10% evaluation weight does not itself tell us what the selected lessee promised or delivered. A competitive tournament schedule can increase revenue while still leaving affordability unresolved. S4

Local league stability. Jenks Youth Baseball offers instructional and competitive play through age fourteen, an important development pathway. Predictable dates, cancellation/refund provisions, long-term use guarantees and advance notice of operator transitions protect families and teams. The September 2025 softball solicitation suggests the City was deliberately reviewing how four specialized fields should be operated; the post-award transition is unverified. Avoid interpreting a procurement as proof an incumbent program ceased operating or lost access. S3 S4

Volunteers. Jenks Youth Baseball publicly invites volunteer administrators and field helpers. This is documented community participation, not an independently established volunteer count. Contracts that define City maintenance, operator chores, liability insurance, scorekeeping duties and facility closures can reduce burnout. The RFP's inspection and common-area requirements could distribute obligations more clearly, but only the executed contracts and actual work logs establish how. S3 S4

Equitable access. The City's written preference to preserve softball's four dedicated fields responds to a structural constraint: some sports have more purpose-built capacity than others. The public question is whether an adopted allocation policy equitably balances girls' and boys' programs, coed teams, ages, independent clubs, disability accommodations, recreational practice and tournaments. The Q&A establishes a policy consideration, not what happened for any particular child. Publishing prioritized reservation windows and accessible appeal routes would create a measurable access standard. S4 S5

Transparency. A semiannual inspection requirement and Park West User Group can be powerful oversight tools if minutes, maintenance issues and corrective actions are recorded and public-facing. The October 24 vs October 25 RFP deadline discrepancy illustrates why addenda and procurement chronology must be preserved. Site-level annual reports should reconcile actual City expenses, lease receipts, documented tournaments and public availability—not merely quote economic-impact projections. S4

Reinvestment. Public and private obligations should be itemized for irrigation, lights, fencing, fields, restrooms and parking. The RFP says operators cover maintenance while the City shares common-area arrangements; the Q&A says operator utilities are separate. Which side purchased bulbs or funded upgrades in 2026 requires purchase orders and the signed contract. At the separate Elm Street site, eligible tax-increment reimbursements are infrastructure-financing claims, not automatically an expenditure on youth baseball operations at Parkwest. S4 S5 S7

Competition. Tournaments may increase visitor traffic, but event demand can compete with local league practice hours. The Hidden Valley baseball label contains 9,127 historical team entries; that number alone cannot prove how many unique Jenks children benefitted or were displaced. Published priority rules should compare resident league hours, visiting tournaments and fee schedules rather than equating tournament growth with community success. R1

Player development. A sustainable program offers entry-level instruction, safe fields, qualified coaching and officials, progressive age divisions and affordable advancement options. The JYB mission expressly emphasizes skills and character, while the City's softball preference recognizes the need for dedicated space. The research cannot count scholarships, resident players, injuries, practices or coaching certifications from USSSA division rows. Those are the meaningful additional metrics. S3 S5

Long-term sustainability. Leagues need reliable annual operations, reserves for turf and lighting, predictable governance and transparent succession plans. Jenks Sports Inc.'s 2024 loss and 2025 surplus show why year-by-year IRS returns should be considered, but they do not establish the cash position of every sports operator at Parkwest. The public should be able to see municipal obligations and field-condition trends alongside operator viability and volunteer capacity. The separate $55 million Elm Street infrastructure commitment requires a different long-term test: who owns resulting facilities, who maintains them, who controls youth access and what incremental revenues actually arrive. S9 S7

Levels of responsibility matter. The City Council's Resolution 879 was a collective legislative authorization, while identified JEDA trustee motion, second and recorded roll call are identifiable individual actions within a collective public trust vote. Issuing the softball RFP, publishing the Q&A, inspecting fields and billing utilities are administrative actions unless individual voting records show otherwise. Scarce lighted slots, specialized softball capacity, volunteer dependency and storm-related maintenance are structural conditions. None of those categories, on their own, establishes misconduct, a public official's personal failure or an unlawful allocation of funds. S4 S5 S6 S8

Evidence classification and conclusions

Documented municipal facts: City records classify Parkwest as a public sports park with privately operated fields. On September 10, 2025, Jenks published an RFP for four softball fields. The October 17 Q&A documents the City's softball-priority preference and utility-cost answer. On August 19, 2025, City Council and JEDA separately authorized an Elm Street development agreement framework; JEDA's vote is documented by name. S1 S4 S5 S6 S8

Research calculations: The September 20 Hidden Valley inventory contains historical team-entry estimates, division records, modeled games and modeled official assignments under distinguishable facility names. These are not bank statements, City lease income or validated per-field game ledgers. R1

Nonprofit financial reports: Jenks Sports Inc. IRS filings reflect that organization's reported annual operations for FY2023–FY2025, not an audit of City property, proof of who collected USSSA entry fees or the financial statements of the developer's proposed project. S9

Statements and forecasts: Projected private investment and sales-tax outcomes for the Elm Street development are forecasts. A prospective operator's concern about a lack of lighted practice space is a comment recorded in City Q&A, not a completed capacity study. The RFP's proposed benefits are selection criteria, not established achievements. S5 S6

Allegations and adjudicated findings: This episode makes no accusation of fraud, corruption, improper conduct, unlawful access restrictions or personal gain. No adjudicated adverse finding has been established from the evidence reviewed. A missing executed lease or municipal inspection report in this research is an evidentiary gap, not proof the document never existed or that requirements were violated.

Provisional conclusion: Jenks presents a clear public-governance test. City ownership is documented; private operation is acknowledged; the 2025 softball lease procurement sets out several specific accountability mechanisms. The next meaningful step is to compare those published expectations against the signed 2026 agreements, actual revenue/cost ledgers, inspection reports, field schedules and community-access outcomes. The much larger Elm Street financing question should be separately reconciled through actual tax increment receipts, approved infrastructure costs, accrued interest and payments, not mixed into the Parkwest accounting.

Records Still Needed

1. Park West softball RFP award and final contract: all responsive submissions, addenda, clarification of the conflicting Oct. 24/25 deadlines, scoring and selection memoranda, approval/acceptance records, signature pages, exhibits, lease rate, actual effective date and any post-award amendments.
2. Other Parkwest instruments: 2004–2026 executed and amended youth-baseball, softball, football, tournament, concessions, parking and common-area user/lease agreements; map each legal entity to its fields and term.
3. Inspection and maintenance: 2026 semiannual inspection reports, action logs, work orders, lights/bulb replacements, irrigation, mowing, fencing, safety and disability-access remediation, plus who paid each expense.
4. Shared-area governance: Park West User Group composition, notices, meeting minutes, cost-share formula, allocation ledgers, disputes and conflict-resolution policies.
5. Event accounting: field-by-field 2021–2026 reservation calendars; outside tournament contracts and settlement sheets; gate/concession management; municipal rent collections; actual booked games and official-pay arrangements.
6. Community participation and access: recreational-team/player counts (aggregate, no children's personal data), fee schedules, scholarship/waiver totals, practice slots, youth softball usage, disability access, volunteer-supported programming and complaint responses.
7. Jenks Sports Inc. crosswalk: confirm actual legal relationships to City leases and Jenks Youth Baseball, obtain appropriate nonprofit Form 990 schedules and program-specific financial reports without improperly imputing the organization's revenues to municipal ownership.
8. The Fields on Elm Street project: fully signed and amended economic-development and security agreements, Phase 1/2 commencement evidence, certified eligible costs, City/JEDA inspection and verification records, tax-increment apportionment ledgers, interest accrual, reimbursement disbursements, facility ownership and binding youth-access covenants.
9. Hidden Valley trace: all 1,155 baseball-label and 20 softball-label division source rows, addresses/field-map reconciliation, tournament host/primary-facility evidence, original brackets and event-day schedules; separately resolve Jenks/Sand Springs/Owasso/Tulsa multi-site configurations rather than allocating whole totals to two cities.
10. Public reporting: meeting minutes, adopted goals, periodic performance/maintenance measures and a written explanation of the public records still withheld or not possessed, if any.

Open-records posture: The City offers an online Open Records Request form. The list above is a proposed research request and audit checklist. An online request was submitted October 18, 2026, and a supplemental email was sent that morning. Submission confirmation is documented below; receipt of Attachment A by the responsible City custodian and any substantive response remain unverified. See the separate records-request section for dates, scope and status. S10

Oklahoma Open Records Act — Submission and Response Timeline

Research file opened: October 18, 2026. To move from published policies and historical research estimates to verifiable municipal accounting and executed agreements, Kenneth R. Crawford submitted a formal Oklahoma Open Records Act request through the City of Jenks online form. The request is part of the Oklahoma Fields of Accountability research initiative. The record below distinguishes a requester's submission, an automated copy of the submitted form, supplemental outreach, and a substantive City response.

Submission details

Records requested: ten documentary categories

1. Facility inventory, ownership and control: property, deeds, maps, public investments and operator responsibilities.
2. Operating and use agreements: leases, licenses, concession, management, maintenance and exclusivity terms.
3. Reservations and tournament records: calendars, permits, directors, dates, fields, team counts and game guarantees where retained.
4. Public revenue: rental, gate, parking, concessions, sponsorship and other receipts and reconciliations.
5. Public costs and subsidies: capital improvements, maintenance, utilities, staffing, insurance and waived fees.
6. Event operators and responsibilities: City-held contracts, payment records and responsibility for tournament receipts, officials and expenses.
7. Governance and procurement: Council/board minutes, RFPs, bids, award decisions and approvals.
8. Public-benefit and economic-impact claims: existing tourism studies, forecasts, grant outcomes and supporting assumptions.
9. Audits and compliance: inspections, complaints, financial controls and corrective-action records, subject to lawful exemptions.
10. Retention and records location: existing indexes, retention schedules and custodial departments.

Attachment A: The two-page document dated October 18, 2026, titled Attachment A — Detailed Public Records Request, specifies the ten categories, phased electronic production, existing-record limitations, advance fee estimates and applicable exemptions. The online form had no visible attachment-upload control. The subsequent email identifies Attachment A as the supplemental request and asks the City to incorporate it into the original submission. The provided screenshots do not establish that a City records custodian accepted or incorporated the attachment.

Chronology and correspondence log

What the requested records could resolve

Parkwest: Which organizations actually hold the executed 2026 softball lease and other field-use agreements; whether the published semiannual inspection and shared-cost terms were adopted; and what City records show about field access, revenues, expenditures and tournament reservations. The Fields on Elm Street: Which fully executed financing agreements and actual tax-increment/reimbursement records exist for that separate development. Hidden Valley: Whether event-specific calendars, contracts and facility maps can confirm the primary hosts of multi-venue tournaments without double-counting or treating modeled entry fees as City collections.

Fees and production: The online form includes a fee acknowledgment and published rates. The requester separately asked for an itemized estimate and written approval before chargeable work, as well as rolling electronic production where practical. Those requests are not proof of a City fee waiver or agreement to limit charges. The City has not yet provided an estimate in the evidence reviewed.

Public transparency and future updates: This section will be updated as dated City communications and records arrive. Any newly received records will be evaluated against the published RFP, City decisions and Hidden Valley methodology, while clearly distinguishing City accounting, private-operator records and research estimates. Copies of the submission confirmation and Attachment A are retained in the research archive; no public download URL is asserted here.

Right of Response

The City of Jenks City Clerk/City Manager and Parks staff, members of the Jenks City Council, the Jenks Economic Development Authority, Jenks Youth Baseball, Jenks Sports Inc., the selected Park West softball operator once independently identified, The Fields on Elm Street, LLC for the distinct 106th & Elm project, and current/former local coaches, volunteers and families are invited to provide dated documents or corrections. Useful responses include the executed 2026 leases, field-use criteria, inspection reports, actual fees and concession arrangements, scholarship policies and Elm Street reimbursement ledgers. The October 18 records-request outreach is documented above; no substantive City response is asserted. Corrections will be attributed and reviewed against the record before publication.

Source register and methodology

• [S1] City of Jenks, Parks & Recreation: Parkwest — public asset location and private-organization field operations.
• [S2] City of Jenks, Parks and Recreation Inventory PDF — historical Park West acreage and sports-group arrangements; not executed lease.
• [S3] Jenks Youth Baseball official website — program mission, current sanctioning statement, site location and volunteer invitation.
• [S4] City of Jenks, Park West Softball Facilities RFP, issued September 10, 2025 — four fields, lease proposal, evaluation criteria and contradictory deadline wording.
• [S5] City of Jenks, RFP Q&A Addendum No. 1, October 17, 2025 — utility obligations, mixed-use question and dedicated softball priority.
• [S6] City of Jenks, August 19, 2025 City Council/JEDA public recap — City Resolution 879, forecasts and project location.
• [S7] Jenks Economic Development Authority, August 19, 2025 posted agenda packet, including proposed development agreement — Phase 1/2 cost ceilings, interest provision, tax-increment payment terms; not authenticated executed signature version.
• [S8] Jenks Economic Development Authority, August 19, 2025 meeting minutes reproduced in October 28, 2025 agenda packet — trustee motion, second, individual yes votes and absences.
• [S9] ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer: Jenks Sports Inc., EIN 73-1009778 — extracted IRS Form 990 FY2023, FY2024 and FY2025.
• [S10] City of Jenks, online Open Records Request portal — route for requested follow-up evidence.
• [S12] Requester-held submission record: Online Form Submittal: OPEN RECORDS REQUEST, CivicPlus automated email, October 18, 2026, 8:52 a.m. Central — evidence of the submitted form and scope, not a City merits response.
• [S13] Requester-held supplement: Attachment A — Detailed Public Records Request, October 18, 2026 (two pages), and the outgoing supplemental email of October 18, 2026, 8:57 a.m. Central — evidence of supplemental outreach; City custodian acceptance is not yet confirmed.
• [S11] City of Jenks, Finance Department and City Council agenda archive — municipal records and fiscal verification resources; not substitute for park-specific executed leases.
• [R1] Internal primary research dataset: Hidden Valley / Integrity of the Game, AIUSSSA - HVIOG 9-20-2026.csv, preserved in September 20 facility inventory HVIOG_9-20-2026_Master_Sports_Facilities_Inventory.csv, facility rows “Jenks Youth Baseball Complex,” “Jenks Park West” and separately listed multi-venue combinations. Event count uses de-suffixed tournament ID plus season; division-level team counts and modeled fields sum source records. Research files are not municipal accounting documents. Methodology context: Baseball Heaven Oklahoma USSSA financial operations research.

Editorial standard: Separate public ownership, private program operations and other government financing; never turn a posted RFP into a signed contract, model fees into collected money, or a projected development reimbursement into an expenditure. Record questions are opportunities for public verification, not verdicts.

Following the money. Following the facilities. Following the decisions. Following the public record.