Oklahoma's Counties of Accountability • Day 2 • October 17, 2026
Pottawatomie County: Tribal Fields, City Ballparks & the Public Record
Following tournament activity from Shawnee and FireLake to local schools, communities, government records and modeled tourism spending • Hidden Valley research, 2001–2026
Pottawatomie County tells two intertwined youth-sports stories: municipal ballfields and public-use agreements in Shawnee, and the major tournament footprint at Citizen Potawatomi Nation’s FireLake Ballfields. Those are different owners and governance systems—even when both use a Shawnee mailing address. This report puts county-level calculations beside their assumptions so readers can distinguish documented activity from actual collections and local economic benefit.
All dollar figures below come from an independent analytical model built from historical public USSSA listings. Entry fees are calculated gross activity, not collections or profit. Gate, concessions, sanction fees and umpire costs are dataset-modeled amounts, not audited receipts or actual payroll. The economic-impact estimate is a gross visitor-spending proxy, not measured net-new county spending, tax revenue, return on public investment or verified local economic benefit. Official slots are modeled assignments, not distinct people. Data do not establish who received money or whether legal duties were met. No organization or individual is accused of wrongdoing by inclusion. Ownership assumptions are attribution rules, not property-title evidence; actual tribal, school or city documentation takes precedence.
1. Countywide USSSA activity: 2001–2026 source coverage
The controlling file is AIUSSSA - HVIOG 9-20-2026.csv (September 20, 2026 reconstruction). A strict filter where County = Pottawatomie gives 578 division-level records and 234 deduplicated events. These rows cover seasons 2002–2008 and 2012–2026; no exact-county rows appear for 2001 or 2009–2011. The 2026 season is limited to what the September 20 extract contains. These are source-listed event records, not independent evidence that every scheduled event was actually held; the geographic label is a source field pending primary-host verification.
A further 60 division rows name Pottawatomie together with one or more other counties. Their primary hosting county has not been independently established for each event; those records are held in a separate cross-county review queue and are not added to the totals. This prevents counting a whole multi-county event simultaneously in several county ledgers.
| Countywide metric | September 20 source model / scenario |
|---|---|
| Distinct events (not additive across sites) | 234 |
| Division rows | 578 |
| Entered teams / division participations | 5,724 |
| Calculated gross team entry fees | $1,642,059 |
| Minimum games (source model) | 17,594 |
| Officiating assignment slots | 33,978 |
| Modeled umpire compensation expense | $1,359,120 |
| Modeled gross gate | $1,652,000 |
| Modeled gross concessions | $826,000 |
| Illustrative 30% concession margin | $247,800 |
| Illustrative 50% concession margin | $413,000 |
| Illustrative 70% concession margin | $578,200 |
| Modeled sanction-fee aggregate | $70,440 |
| — Team-sanction component | $56,340 |
| — Event-sanction component | $14,100 |
| Separate dataset-modeled event net | $2,690,499 |
Gross gate and gross concessions are two different modeled transaction streams. Source-event net subtracts modeled officiating and sanction costs from modeled gross event income; it is not cash profit, county revenue or the same as the illustrative concession margin.
2. Countywide modeled economic impact: what the estimate means
This study sums the economic-impact columns already embedded in the September 20 Hidden Valley CSV. The field named TotalEconomicImpactPerEvent is stored once on each division row. Accordingly, the figures below are sums across 578 division rows—not 234 separate independent event studies and not documented hotel, restaurant, fuel or retail receipts.
| Component | Countywide modeled amount | Reproducible calculation |
|---|---|---|
| Day-trip activity | $543,840 | Sum of DayImpact |
| Overnight activity | $2,367,777 | Sum of OvernightImpact |
| Total modeled spending proxy | $2,911,617 | DayImpact + OvernightImpact |
These are long-run, nominal model dollars across multiple years; no inflation adjustment, displacement test, nonresident share, induced multiplier or tax-impact validation has been applied.
The original row-by-row assumptions
In this county extract, the source uses $85 or $25 for DayTripRate, $289 or $0 for NightTripRate, DayStay values of 1, 2, 3, 15, 24, 29, 30 or 31, and OverNightStay values of 0–4. These are row-specific rate and duration assumptions, not measured per-person spending or documented hotel nights. Rates are not historically inflation-adjusted and should not be presented as tourism-survey findings.
A real source-row example is the FireLake listing for “BSP-Spring Break 7GG Blowout – No Friday Games,” dated March 15, 2025: 12 teams × $85 × 1 day = $1,020 modeled day-trip spending; 12 teams × $289 × 1 overnight unit = $3,468 modeled overnight spending; combined $4,488 on that division row. The event title and row values are used only to reproduce the model, not to imply anyone spent that amount.
The spending proxy may overlap with tournament transactions and may represent trips that would have occurred anyway, spending by local residents, purchases outside Pottawatomie County or leakage to external vendors. Assessing net-new local impact would require visitor-origin surveys, actual receipts, lodging nights, counterfactual attendance and industry-based multipliers. No such independent validation is asserted here.
3. Facility-by-facility documented rows and modeled finances
The facility field is an inventory of source-reported venues, not a deed index. A record listing several sites remains one unallocated pool until a primary host and site-specific allocations can be documented. Facility-specific “events” below are unique within each facility grouping and must not be added together to recreate the county’s event count.
A. Direct operational profile by exact source facility
| Facility / locality | Site events* | Rows | Teams | Gross entry fees | Min. games | Official slots | Umpire cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firelake Ballfields Shawnee / CPN | 184 | 396 | 4,588 | $1,432,005 | 14,851 | 28,971 | $1,158,840 |
| Lions Club Ballfields Shawnee | 41 | 167 | 869 | $98,842 | 1,943 | 3,479 | $139,160 |
| Firelake Ballfields, Shawnee High School Shawnee area · multi-site | 2 | 4 | 119 | $71,105 | 414 | 828 | $33,120 |
| Asher Sports Complex Asher | 2 | 2 | 18 | $0 | 34 | 34 | $1,360 |
| Bethel Sports Complex Bethel area | 2 | 2 | 20 | $0 | 38 | 38 | $1,520 |
| Macomb Complex Macomb | 2 | 2 | 22 | $0 | 42 | 84 | $3,360 |
| McLoud High School McLoud | 2 | 2 | 17 | $0 | 32 | 64 | $2,560 |
| Dale High School, Firelake Ballfields, Shawnee High School Dale / Shawnee · multi-site | 1 | 2 | 60 | $37,500 | 208 | 416 | $16,640 |
| Dale High School, McLoud High School Dale / McLoud · multi-site | 1 | 1 | 11 | $2,607 | 32 | 64 | $2,560 |
| Countywide (deduplicated events) | 234 | 578 | 5,724 | $1,642,059 | 17,594 | 33,978 | $1,359,120 |
* Site event counts overlap where an event has records in more than one facility grouping; the countywide deduplicated event count is recalculated independently. “Teams” are summed division participations and may not represent distinct teams over a season.
B. Financial scenarios and modeled tourism spending by facility
| Facility / analytical owner | Modeled gate | Concessions gross | Concessions net† | Sanction model | Day impact | Overnight impact | Total modeled impact |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firelake Ballfields Citizen Potawatomi Nation • tribal ownership documented | $1,222,400 | $611,200 | $305,600 | $55,555 | $429,315 | $1,750,473 | $2,179,788 |
| Lions Club Ballfields City of Shawnee • 2013 agreement verifies owner | $273,600 | $136,800 | $68,400 | $11,765 | $73,625 | $507,484 | $581,109 |
| Firelake Ballfields, Shawnee High School Multi-owner / not allocated | $35,700 | $17,850 | $8,925 | $1,190 | $10,115 | $68,782 | $78,897 |
| Asher Sports Complex Town of Asher • assumed; title unverified | $23,400 | $11,700 | $5,850 | $255 | $5,850 | $0 | $5,850 |
| Bethel Sports Complex Bethel area • locality attribution only; owner unverified | $26,000 | $13,000 | $6,500 | $275 | $6,500 | $0 | $6,500 |
| Macomb Complex Town of Macomb • assumed; title unverified | $28,600 | $14,300 | $7,150 | $370 | $7,150 | $0 | $7,150 |
| McLoud High School McLoud Public Schools • verified campus association; title unverified | $21,000 | $10,500 | $5,250 | $245 | $5,250 | $0 | $5,250 |
| Dale High School, Firelake Ballfields, Shawnee High School Multi-owner / not allocated | $18,000 | $9,000 | $4,500 | $600 | $5,100 | $34,680 | $39,780 |
| Dale High School, McLoud High School Multi-owner / not allocated | $3,300 | $1,650 | $825 | $185 | $935 | $6,358 | $7,293 |
| Countywide total | $1,652,000 | $826,000 | $413,000 | $70,440 | $543,840 | $2,367,777 | $2,911,617 |
† Concessions net uses a separately disclosed illustrative 50% margin, not a source field or verified profit. The economic impact columns are source-model sums. Each division row belongs to exactly one facility-label row.
4. Ownership attribution and municipality/community comparison
A single named town/city is provisionally used as an assumed owner only when better evidence is unavailable. FireLake is attributed to Citizen Potawatomi Nation, not to the City of Shawnee, because the Nation identifies FireLake as one of its recreational enterprises and a facility project description identifies the Nation as owner. Lions Club Park is City of Shawnee property under the documented 2013 City–YMCA agreement. McLoud High School belongs in the school-campus category, not assumed city ownership; parcel-level title remains to be checked. Bethel is recorded as a locality, not established here as an incorporated municipality. Multiple-venue rows are not assigned to one owner.
A geographic Shawnee mailing address does not convert a tribal facility into a municipal asset. Likewise, a City-owned park with YMCA operating rights does not establish that the City received all entry, admission or concession receipts. This article separates geography, owner, operator and payment recipient.
A. Reconciled facility-owner attribution
| Attribution category | Events* | Rows | Teams | Gross entry | Min. games | Slots | Umpire cost | Gate | Concessions gross | Sanctions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citizen Potawatomi Nation (tribal) | 184 | 396 | 4,588 | $1,432,005 | 14,851 | 28,971 | $1,158,840 | $1,222,400 | $611,200 | $55,555 |
| City of Shawnee (verified) | 41 | 167 | 869 | $98,842 | 1,943 | 3,479 | $139,160 | $273,600 | $136,800 | $11,765 |
| Town of Asher (assumed) | 2 | 2 | 18 | $0 | 34 | 34 | $1,360 | $23,400 | $11,700 | $255 |
| Bethel area (owner unresolved) | 2 | 2 | 20 | $0 | 38 | 38 | $1,520 | $26,000 | $13,000 | $275 |
| Town of Macomb (assumed) | 2 | 2 | 22 | $0 | 42 | 84 | $3,360 | $28,600 | $14,300 | $370 |
| McLoud Public Schools (campus; title unverified) | 2 | 2 | 17 | $0 | 32 | 64 | $2,560 | $21,000 | $10,500 | $245 |
| Multi-owner / unallocated | 4 | 7 | 190 | $111,212 | 654 | 1,308 | $52,320 | $57,000 | $28,500 | $1,975 |
| COUNTY TOTAL | 234 | 578 | 5,724 | $1,642,059 | 17,594 | 33,978 | $1,359,120 | $1,652,000 | $826,000 | $70,440 |
* Group event counts are nonadditive; count unique county events separately. Ownership is a reporting classification; gate, concessions, entry fees and sanction-fee models are not receipts attributed to the named government or organization.
| Attribution category | Concession net (50% scenario) | Modeled day trips | Modeled overnight | Modeled total impact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citizen Potawatomi Nation (tribal) | $305,600 | $429,315 | $1,750,473 | $2,179,788 |
| City of Shawnee (verified) | $68,400 | $73,625 | $507,484 | $581,109 |
| Town of Asher (assumed) | $5,850 | $5,850 | $0 | $5,850 |
| Bethel area (owner unresolved) | $6,500 | $6,500 | $0 | $6,500 |
| Town of Macomb (assumed) | $7,150 | $7,150 | $0 | $7,150 |
| McLoud Public Schools (campus; title unverified) | $5,250 | $5,250 | $0 | $5,250 |
| Multi-owner / unallocated | $14,250 | $16,150 | $109,820 | $125,970 |
| COUNTY TOTAL | $413,000 | $543,840 | $2,367,777 | $2,911,617 |
B. Geographic community and jurisdiction view (not ownership)
| Geographic facility area | Events* | Rows | Teams | Gross entry | Min. games | Official slots | Modeled umpire cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shawnee area / CPN land | 184 | 396 | 4,588 | $1,432,005 | 14,851 | 28,971 | $1,158,840 |
| Shawnee city facility | 41 | 167 | 869 | $98,842 | 1,943 | 3,479 | $139,160 |
| Asher | 2 | 2 | 18 | $0 | 34 | 34 | $1,360 |
| Bethel area | 2 | 2 | 20 | $0 | 38 | 38 | $1,520 |
| Macomb | 2 | 2 | 22 | $0 | 42 | 84 | $3,360 |
| McLoud | 2 | 2 | 17 | $0 | 32 | 64 | $2,560 |
| Multi-location / unallocated | 4 | 7 | 190 | $111,212 | 654 | 1,308 | $52,320 |
| COUNTY TOTAL | 234 | 578 | 5,724 | $1,642,059 | 17,594 | 33,978 | $1,359,120 |
* Locality-level unique-event counts overlap and cannot be summed into the unique county event count. Tribal operations and City of Shawnee ownership are separated, despite shared postal-area addresses.
| Geographic facility area | Modeled gate | Concessions gross | Concessions net @ 50% | Modeled sanctions | Modeled day impact | Modeled overnight impact | Total economic proxy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shawnee area / CPN land | $1,222,400 | $611,200 | $305,600 | $55,555 | $429,315 | $1,750,473 | $2,179,788 |
| Shawnee city facility | $273,600 | $136,800 | $68,400 | $11,765 | $73,625 | $507,484 | $581,109 |
| Asher | $23,400 | $11,700 | $5,850 | $255 | $5,850 | $0 | $5,850 |
| Bethel area | $26,000 | $13,000 | $6,500 | $275 | $6,500 | $0 | $6,500 |
| Macomb | $28,600 | $14,300 | $7,150 | $370 | $7,150 | $0 | $7,150 |
| McLoud | $21,000 | $10,500 | $5,250 | $245 | $5,250 | $0 | $5,250 |
| Multi-location / unallocated | $57,000 | $28,500 | $14,250 | $1,975 | $16,150 | $109,820 | $125,970 |
| COUNTY TOTAL | $1,652,000 | $826,000 | $413,000 | $70,440 | $543,840 | $2,367,777 | $2,911,617 |
All model amounts sum to the same countywide ledger; no amount is proof of revenue collected by any locality.
Cross-county watchlist: 60 additional division rows, 1,375 team participations and $835,230 calculated entry fees occur in multi-county source labels naming Pottawatomie. These are possible shared-event exposure, not extra Pottawatomie County totals. The watchlist has 33 distinct event IDs, some overlapping confirmed-county events; verification of the primary host is required before any county-level reassignment.
5. Transparent calculation method and quality controls
All reporting originates with 65 source columns. The dataset retains division rows, and county assignment follows the geographic county of the primary facility when supportable. This article uses the strict single-county value as the provisional confirmed ledger; multiple listed counties are reviewed rather than evenly allocated. Every source row in the confirmed ledger is counted once in a named facility string, owner category and locality category. Event counts are distinct and non-additive.
| Metric | Direct source formula / approach | Important boundary |
|---|---|---|
| County / unique event | County = Pottawatomie; unique key = (Seasonid, TournamentID base) after removing final numeric -division suffix. | A division-suffixed TournamentID is not a unique tournament. Multi-county cases must be host-verified. |
| Participating teams / gross entry fees | SUM(TeamsEntered); TotalTeamEntryFee = TeamsEntered × EntryFeePerTeam by row. | A posted $0.00 fee is preserved, not imputed. Team counts sum participations, not a unique team registry. |
| Minimum games / official slots | SUM(TotalMinimumGamesPlayed), SUM(TotalEventUmpires); assignment logic uses UmpiresPerGame. | Guaranteed-minimum model, not actual games or unique people. Games may be modeled from divisions/team counts. |
| Modeled umpire expense | SUM(TotalEventUmpireFees) = row umpire slots × row UmpirePayPerGame. | Every confirmed-county row uses $40.00 per assignment in this dataset, not documented historical wages across 2002–2026. |
| Gate model | DailyFans = 2 × TotalPlayers; TotalEventGate = DailyFans × DailyAdmissionFee × TotalEventDays. | Every one of the 578 source rows sets assumed daily fans to twice the dataset player count; admissions are $5 or $0, not actual attendance or ticket-book receipts. Source event days vary. |
| Concessions model | TotalEventConcession; in all 578 rows it equals 50% × TotalEventGate. | Gross concessions are modeled at half of modeled gate; this does not establish vendor sales. |
| Concession scenario net | TotalEventConcession × assumed margin; show 30%, 50%, 70%. | Illustrative margin is not the same as event net or proven retained concession proceeds. |
| Sanction fees | SUM(TeamUsssaSanctionFees + EventUsssaSanctionFees) = SUM(TotalUSSSASanctionFees). | Modeled fee obligations, not remittances or identified recipient deposits. |
| Event net (separate) | TotalEventIncome = TotalTeamEntryFee + TotalEventGate + TotalEventConcession; TotalEventNet = TotalEventIncome − TotalEventUmpireFees − TotalUSSSASanctionFees. | Excludes other possible real operating costs; not profit or public revenue. |
| Day/overnight model | TeamsEntered × DayTripRate × DayStay; TeamsEntered × NightTripRate × OverNightStay. | No proof that $85/$25 or $289/$0 are observed spending or that stay multipliers equal actual nights. |
| Modeled economic-impact total | SUM(TotalEconomicImpactPerEvent) across division rows = SUM(DayImpact) + SUM(OvernightImpact). | Do not double count with event activity or label as verified incremental impact. |
Reconciliation: every additive field checks to the county ledger
The facility-name rollup, the assumed/verified-owner rollup, and the locality rollup each reconcile exactly to the 578 county rows and to the same dollar/operations fields. Automated row checks also find no discrepancies in this extract for entry-fee multiplication, day/overnight impact equations, daily fans (twice source players), gate (fans × admission × days), concession (50% of gate), event-net arithmetic or modeled umpire cost. No countywide metric was created by dividing multi-site events across venues.
The model mixes seasons and event configurations. In particular, the 2012 lower-admission and longer-duration listings can produce different gate and day-trip outcomes than short weekend tournaments. We preserve their exact existing inputs, rather than retroactively assigning newer attendance, umpire pay or visitor-spending assumptions to earlier seasons. The row-level model itself is subject to later validation against actual historical schedules and contracts.
6. Public facilities, collaboration, organizations and records requests
Citizen Potawatomi Nation / FireLake
The Nation’s own recreation directory identifies FireLake Ball Fields among its enterprises. A facility construction project identifies Citizen Potawatomi Nation as owner. The Nation reported in April 2026 that the softball championship field, then planned for early 2027, was funded solely with Tribal funds. The 2027 venue is future infrastructure and is not retrospectively counted as a 2001–2026 completed tournament.
Nation’s recreation directory · April 28, 2026 project report
City of Shawnee / Lions Club Park
The archived August 2013 City–YMCA agreement identifies the City as the property owner and describes proposed YMCA recreational use, a $1 annual lease payment, maintenance and utility obligations, semiannual financial/business reporting and City financial-review rights. The posted copy shows blank signature blocks, so its final execution/status is not independently established from this copy. The 2013 text postdates this dataset’s 2002–2008 Lions Club event listings and therefore cannot be treated as the governing agreement for those earlier tournaments. The text does not prove historical enforcement, payments, continued operation today or revenue recipients.
School/community facilities
McLoud High School’s own district directory identifies the 1100 W. Seikel Boulevard campus. Shawnee High School’s district likewise identifies 1001 N. Kennedy Avenue. Dale and Bethel are named in some combined-event listings. School identification does not alone settle property title or school-board tournament authorizations.
County government and interlocal options
The County Clerk records deeds, purchasing records and commissioner meeting minutes. Those are the appropriate documentary channels for verifying public land and county commitments. No county financing, multi-city tournament agreement or county receipt has been proven merely by the facility list.
Public records tracker — dated evidence, not an accusation
| Record stream | Current documentary status | Next verification |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 Lions Club City–YMCA agreement | Public historical document located; identifies City ownership and proposed rental/reporting terms; posted copy has blank signature blocks; postdates 2002–08 source events. | Obtain all later amendments, termination instruments, semiannual reports, inspections, utility bills and third-party field-use schedules. |
| Shawnee municipal records request 25-68 | Earlier research archive identifies request 25-68 concerning federal Instrument-of-Transfer land and municipal records. | Reconcile actual production and parcel descriptions before linking federal deed restrictions to any particular ballfield parcel; do not treat a request as a legal finding. |
| Pottawatomie County primary-facility inventory | County Clerk deed and meeting portals identified; no new request submitted as part of this article. | Obtain deeds/plats for Asher, Macomb, Bethel and any claimed County interest; field agreements, appropriations and meeting decisions. |
| FireLake tribal records / operator agreements | Tribal organizational and construction sources located; separate financial contracts not reviewed. | Seek voluntary confirmation of event/site allocations and operating terms. State municipal open-record rules should not be assumed to control sovereign tribal records. |
| Cross-county 60-row primary-host audit | Unresolved; multi-county rows excluded from totals. | Match event-specific brackets, flyers and reservation calendars; assign each tournament to its primary facility county once verified. |
The source dataset identifies multiple historical TournamentDirector names and organizations, including BIG Show Productions, Scott Nelson, Kelly Reavis and Jason OConnor. “Director” is the published event-contact field, not evidence of employment, facility ownership, financial benefit or personal wrongdoing. Any monetary allocation must come from actual agreements, ledgers and payment records. See the USSSA Tournament Directors — The Public Record archive.
7. Legal proceedings, allegations and prosecutorial limits
The Oklahoma District Attorneys Council identifies District 23 as serving Pottawatomie and Lincoln counties, with Adam Panter listed as district attorney. A district attorney prosecutes qualifying criminal cases; that office does not automatically audit municipal contracts, adjudicate civil disputes or supervise sovereign tribal business operations. Jurisdiction over conduct on tribal lands requires a separate legal analysis and can involve tribal and/or federal authorities depending on the facts.
The official OSCN court search and the Pottawatomie County Court Clerk directory provide a route for verifying filed cases. For this Day 2 edition, no specific Pottawatomie County youth-sports civil judgment, criminal conviction, acquittal or dismissal has been corroborated from an official case docket. Consequently none is asserted. The presence of management disputes, historical complaints, a records request, or an unverified allegation is not proof of a filed case, breach or crime.
A future case entry requires the exact court, case number, parties, filing date, material pleadings, date of last docket check, procedural status and disposition; claims in a complaint must be labeled allegations unless established by a court finding. The Tulsa County litigation discussed in Day 1 must not be silently moved into Pottawatomie County as if filed there.
8. Auditor records: actual reports versus unsupported inferences
A municipal audited financial statement can document public fiscal reporting, but it is not a ledger of every tournament admission or concession payment. Oklahoma State Auditor & Inspector reports, city audits and nonprofit financial reports are separate evidence streams. No general-government audit comment may be attributed to youth-sports contracts without a specific, traceable connection.
| Audit evidence / period | Source status as of Oct. 17, 2026 | Finding / opinion status for this edition |
|---|---|---|
| City of Shawnee FY 2024–2025 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report | Listed on the City Finance Department’s official Annual Audit index. | The linked PDF’s underlying opinion, notes and findings were not independently retrievable for this edition. No opinion or youth-sports finding is asserted. |
| City of Shawnee FY 2023–2024 ACFR | Listed on the same official municipal audit index. | Report not fully inspected from the primary PDF for this edition; audit opinion, page-specific findings, management responses and corrective actions remain unverified. |
| City of Shawnee 2025 Single Audit Reports | Listed on City Annual Audit page. | Federal-program compliance information cannot be linked to youth-sports operations without report sections and program/cost tracing. |
| Pottawatomie County county-level audits / SAI | SAI official audit agency and county government identified; no specific Pottawatomie county report period verified from an accessible report text in this edition. | Do not invent a county opinion, finding, program, corrective action or clearance; retrieve exact reports and pages before publication of findings. |
The Shawnee City Finance site also provides a historical audit archive extending well before FY 2023–2024. Next report-specific evidence should capture entity, fiscal year, auditor, independent opinion, exact numbered finding and page, management response, corrective action and whether the issue touches municipal youth-sports funds. If a finding concerns an unrelated accounting program, it should remain explicitly unrelated.
9. Evidence matrix, sources, corrections and right of response
| Claim / research element | Evidence level | What it does not establish |
|---|---|---|
| 578 exact-county rows; 234 events; modeled county tables | Dataset-derived / formula-reconciled | Not a complete census, bank statement or verified receipt. |
| FireLake under Citizen Potawatomi Nation | Organizational source + facility owner project information | No source proof that tribal net proceeds equal modeled gross receipts. |
| Lions Club Park City ownership and 2013 YMCA agreement | Primary agreement located, dated 2013 | Posted 2013 copy shows blank signature blocks; no demonstrated governing terms for the 2002–08 listed tournaments or proof of execution/current lease status. |
| School/locality provisional attribution | School websites + source geographic fields; title open | No municipal deed or venue contract established. |
| 60 multi-county rows | Dataset conflict flags; host not established | Cannot be charged to Pottawatomie County until primary venue is verified. |
| County criminal or youth-sports court findings | No verified local case-docket disposition cited | No finding, charge, or offense inferred. |
| Shawnee and County audit opinions/finding specifics | Official audit index identified; underlying reports not reviewed | No youth-sports deficiency claimed. |
Primary-source reading room
- Controlling local dataset: AIUSSSA - HVIOG 9-20-2026.csv, 65 columns, archived Hidden Valley division reconstruction; statewide research context and methodology. Results recalculated from the uploaded file.
- City of Shawnee / YMCA 2013: original City–YMCA agreement (2013), pages 1–7; facility research collection.
- Citizen Potawatomi Nation: FireLake Ball Fields enterprise listing and April 28, 2026 construction report.
- FireLake independent construction ownership listing: project owner entry: Citizens Potawatomi Nation.
- School campus corroboration: McLoud High School; Shawnee High School; Dale Schools; Bethel Public Schools.
- County land and meeting records: Pottawatomie County Clerk; county agendas.
- District attorney and courts: District 23; official OSCN docket search.
- Official finance source: Shawnee Annual Audit reports; Oklahoma State Auditor and Inspector.
- Companion research: Oklahoma’s Fields of Accountability; USSSA Directors archive; Shawnee tourism historical accountability research.
This is a living source-attributed research article. Municipalities, tribal entities, schools, operators, directors, families and readers may submit official agreements, dated schedules, facility deeds, verified receipts, court orders, audited statements or corrections. Responses should be assessed against the specific event/date and the original record. Send documentation to kenneth@bcmsports.net. A later correction may change facility-owner attribution, host-county allocation or financial modeling; versions should be dated and preserved.