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Good morning, good morning, good
morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome.

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It's time now for City matters.
If it matters to you, it matters

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to the city today it matters a
lot. We got a mix of dan

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faces and move faces in here today. This is going to be great.

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And how are we doing, young
Land? How was vacation? It was

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fabulous? How fabulous is fabulous?
Oh? It was wonderful. The weather

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was perfect, the beach was wonderful. We went to Golf Shores and spent

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the full week last week there and
it was fun. Now you know what

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Mike Bailey does every other week.
No, I'm only getting more. We've

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got We've got a lot of folks
in here today. What are we doing

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today? So today we've got some
familiar faces and then we also have some

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new faces. So I wanted to
introduce our crew. And we've got Shelley

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McGill here Library and History Museum director, and she's going to be with us

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one more time before she retires.
I think her last day is on Friday,

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last working days Friday, so she's
got the final countdown going, I'm

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sure. So. A fun fact
about Shelley is that she hired me back

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in twenty fifteen to be the HR
manager and so it's yeah, been wonderful

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working with Shelley. And So,
Shelley, how long have you worked with

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the city. I started with the
city in nineteen eighty nine, nineteen eighty

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nine, So, and what positions
have you helped with the city? Oh?

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Man, I started in accounts payable
as my entry level position, and

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then I went to engineering and I
was the secretary in Engineering and learned how

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to do specs and stuff. And
then I went to it and I helped

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with some transitions they were doing with
some software programs, and transitioned to the

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water utilities, building manager the supervisor
down there, and then I decided I

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wanted to try some HR, so
I started entry level there and went all

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the way to HR director and now
I'm at the library and the History Museum.

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Great, that's a lot of institutional
knowledge. It is so much.

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So out of all the positions that
you've held, what has been your favorite

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position, either the one I have
now or HR. I really enjoyed meeting

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all the new employees and getting to
know them personally, and just knowing a

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lot of the people that we're working
for the city and the library has been

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a unique blessing because people don't really
realize what all we do there, and

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so it's been a great opportunity to
kind of bring it forward and to update

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it and make it make sure it's
relevant with today's times. Right. So,

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and this may be kind of a
weird question to ask, but what

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was one of the what is the
worst day ever at the city? Look

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like? What was a chaotic day
or a crazy day for you and all

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of your tenure? Oh? Man, I wasn't prepared for that question.

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I know these are supposed to be
softball questions, maybe not just some of

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the worst days of the days when
something goes wrong and you've got to make

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that person who is very furious in
front of you leave with each with at

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least the feeling of being heard.
And so I love the ability to take

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a problem or a situation that someone
is just having their worst day and kind

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of be able to help them and
turn them around. So there has been

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so many of those, and some
of them I can't tell, but it

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has been a blessing, m all
right. And so, who were your

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biggest influences and mentors at the city. Oh, I've got to say my

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biggest influencer was Ed Brdon. He
was a truly great supervisor, miss and

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Miss I think everybody has an Ed's
story. Yep. So let's see.

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Is there anything else that you want
to share, any parting words for maybe

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some of our newer faces at the
city. Oh, just this. The

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city is a great place and it
is a job of whatever you make it.

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And I love the ability for the
leadership to allow us just to grow

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in our job and to do the
things we see that we think we need

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to do. They're not micromanagers and
you have to you have to check on

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everything, and you know, it's
one of those things where it's your job

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is what you make it, and
it can be so awesomely wonderful. Absolutely,

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there's a lot of job satisfaction that
comes with being a public servant and

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being able to help others. And
so, Shelley, we appreciate everything that

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you've done for the city. We
appreciate I see the value that you've brought

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to the city, and I'm so
sorry to do this to you on the

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radio, but we really do appreciate
you and recognize the value that you bring

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to the city and what you're leaving
means So with that, is there anything

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that's going on at the library that
you want to talk to us about?

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Like, of course, of course
a couple of things. I wanted to

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give my last shout out for the
new LED signboard because that was it's fifty

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thousand dollars and it was one of
those things where you know, we maybe

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not have been able to replace it
without the line foundation and without appso and

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with the rotary. All the people
who initially helped us buy that twelve fifteen

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years ago put back in money and
let us buy it again and replace it,

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and it is wonderful. And it's
one of those pieces of communication that

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you kind of take for granted,
but it's very important. So I want

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to take this opportunity to think those
organizations one more time. And I wanted

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to also tell you that Summer Reading
is ending this week as well, and

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we have mister Stinky Feet will be
at the library on the twenty fourth,

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and he will be there at two
pm. And he's a great performer.

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He I don't think he shows his
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act and it's hilarious. And so
then our closing for Summer Reading is Friday,

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having a grand finale pool party at
Frontier Pool from six thirty to eight

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thirty, and so we would love
everyone to come out and help us celebrate

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the end of Summer Reading. We
had a record number of people enter this

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year, and it's kind of evolved
to now we have adults as well as

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kids, and so love that it's
all ages. So what is the what's

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the goal of the Summer Reading program. Well, it kind of starts evolved

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too because it started as that bridge
between school so the kids didn't lose their

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the progress they'd made during the school
year and they kept up with their reading

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and their comprehension and all that.
And so now it's evolved into helping everybody

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in that area. And you know, we give little prizes. They'll never

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you'll never write home about them,
but you know you'll get the little prizes

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and it's some contests and so we
just want to help that. Okay,

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Well, awesome, Thank you,
Shelly, and thank you for your service

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and thank you. We appreciate you
coming one life time to the radio.

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Well and Laura, you have been
a blessing to the city in your many

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years now as well. I appreciate
that. Thank you, Thank you.

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So next up we have HC.
Call. He's our new fire chief.

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I think he started in May,
was it, yes, the very end

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of May. So can you tell
us a little bit about your background and

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what maybe inspired you to be a
firefighter. So this is my twenty fifth

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year in the fire service. Started
off as a volunteer with Cope Ann and

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then started my career service in Cleveland, Oklahoma, before I got hired on

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at Bartsville and then spent sixteen years
with the city of Barnesville before I took

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a little seven year break to go
be the fire chief for Collinsville and then

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came back in May. So I
didn't originally start off wanting to be a

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firefighter. I actually went to college
to be a teacher. Had some family

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members in the fire service, and
after hanging out at the fire station with

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them for a little bit, I
decided that was the way to go.

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Been doing it ever since, right, So what inspired you to be a

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fire chief? Then? After getting
into firefighting? I just like the ability

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to help make progress, help things
change. Just try to make the department

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wherever I'm at the best that I
can help it be awesome. So who

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would you say your biggest influences and
mentors in the fire industry are a word.

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Oh that's a tough one. There's
been so many throughout the years.

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Early on, my two earliest fire
chiefs at cope Ann and then also here

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at Bartsville were big helps. They
were real supportive in my endeavors to go

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get training, go outside and get
extra certifications and that type of things.

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Okay, so what do you consider
to be your greatest accomplishment as fire chief?

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The greatest accomplishment is fire chief.
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long, but so I'll go back
to Collinsville on that. Just helping the

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department advanced lower in the is O
rating, getting new equipment, safer equipment,

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and just just throughout my time at
Collinsville, it was it was just

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real blessing to be there and to
be able to help the community. Awesome,

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and we're happy that you're here now
helping our I am excited to be

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back. This is this is home. I've always considered Barnsville home. Born

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and raised in Washington County, so
spent my entire life here. So what

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do you do in your free time
to relax or to unwind? Free time?

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So married, to a local hometown
girl and we have four beautiful daughters,

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so they keep me busy chasing sporting
events. They're involved in the community

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in the several different ways, so
they keep us busy. Keep you busy,

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yet those kids will keep you hopping
for sure. So what's going on

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in the fire department? Do you
have any updates for us be training?

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Sure? So we've been doing some
training out at Tri County Tech. We

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had a ropes course, we have
a flammable Liquids and gas course coming up.

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We work real closely with Tri County
Tech in their new training center.

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We have some joint training that we
conducted with Phillips Research Center that we've conducted,

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and then just some on shift training
has been going on. We've got

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a new truck that we almost have
in service. The last tools are getting

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mounted on it. Hopefully it'll be
in service this week, and just trying

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to stay busy keeping up with the
call volume, which is really high.

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It's on pace for record gear again, so it's outside of the normal for

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it to be this high this time. It's been the trend the last few

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years for the call volume to be
increasing and this year doesn't seem to be

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any difference, So we're staying busy
with that. The heat the last few

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weeks has been difficult on people.
So it's just that time of year.

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With that, all right, well, thank you Chief Call for joining us

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this morning. Thank you, it's
great to be back. All right,

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next step, we have a new
face. We have Jason dot Meek.

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He is our interim golf director and
we've got lots of things going on at

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the golf course right now. It
seems to be the hot topic and it

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seems to take a lot of my
time. I don't know. We're constantly

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as we're working through this transition.
There's a lot to be done. And

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so with that was when Jerry has
decided to retire. And with Jerry's retirement

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comes and things that we have to
do, and one of the things was

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finding somebody it would run the ship
while we're trying to figure out what to

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do with the golf course because we're
still in the middle of our comprehensive review

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and so hopefully we'll have the results
back on that sometime in August, and

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so we're close on that, but
Jason has agreed to help us out and

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so tell us a little bit about
yourself, sure, Lauris, So thank

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you very much. I appreciate your
confidence and the city's confidence and my ability

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to help out with the transition period. So what was your question again,

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I forgot tell us a little bit
about yourself, a little bit about myself.

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Well, hopefully my wife Chassie is
listening. And our daughter Kara is

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up in Kansas right now. She's
getting ready to go to Kansas University,

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enrolled in the honors program, going
to go pursue her dreams. Chastey and

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I have been married for nearly thirty
years, and we were married here in

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Bartlesville. Chassi's from Coffeeville, so
I was. I'm from Bartlesville, originally

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moved here when I was twelve,
and interesting enough, I never imagined myself

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in this chair, but nearly thirty
eight years ago I started my first role

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in the golf industry, cleaning the
restrooms and vacuuming the golf shop at Adams

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Golf Course. So we've kind of
come fust for gold, so to speak.

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So you have a Class A certification, So what does it take to

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become a Class A pro? Sure, So, to become a Class A

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PGA professional, you got to accomplish
a couple of things. One is,

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and I started my journey back in
nineteen ninety four, and being a golf

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professional is so much fun. I
decided to do it twice. I'll explain.

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But you start out by determining do
you want to be a golf professional?

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Yes or no? And if you
decide that that's the past, then

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a player's ability to a test.
Playing a test is administered within the one

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of the forty one PGA sections and
individuals are required to pass the playing ability

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tests. Then once that's accomplished,
you enter into coursework. Now a lot

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of universities offer professional golf management degrees. When I was starting, there were

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about thirteen universities who did. Now
the offering is much more diverse, and

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there are even one university in Oklahoma
who offers the program. So opportunity to

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draw from talent here locally. So
yeah. So once you go through the

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schooling, now the programs are different. I had three different levels. I

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went to Portland, Oregon, went
to Coastamasa, California, Houston, Texas,

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and graduated my final experience in Columbus, Ohio. Now everything is more

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online, right, Things are made
easier by way of technology, and the

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PGA of America has constructed a new
home for the pg of America in Frisco,

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Texas, where a lot of that
testing takes place now, So that

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pathway for golf professionals are different.
But yeah, so that was that's pretty

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much the pathway for golf professionals.
One. You have to find a good

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mentor within the industry, that's for
certain. And if you're fortunate to work

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for some great golf facilities and mentors
along the way, you know you're able

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to gather the experience required very good. So can you talk to us about

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the golf course? I know that
this is the busy season, so what

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keeps you busy there during the season. Absolutely, So this morning there's a

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regular maintenance mowing schedule. So this
morning, like yesterday evening, we closed

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the practice facility just a little bit
early to clear the right side of the

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range, which is also the left
side of number one rough so that we

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could have maintenance performed mowing this morning. So a lot of preventative type maintenance,

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protecting city assets, picking up balls
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in the mowing process, so things
like that. This morning, also we

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set the t sheet for the month
of August, and we'll be populating events

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that we'll be hosting, senior men's
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and the outside events that are there. So those are the types of things

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that are keeping us busy. And
yeah, just welcoming any patrons who find

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the time to come play. So
if somebody was new starting out and they

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wanted to start golfing, what advice
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get started if they decide they want
to take up golfing. Sure, one

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don't feel overwhelmed by golf. It
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consuming. So there's a big movement
in golf right now. Everybody views golf

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as eighteen holes, right and that
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But somebody being new into golf,
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might be necessary to be invested in
it. Have fun, come out and

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put and ship again. I'll be
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so I'm always welcome and available to
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But first and foremost, just don't
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Yeah, we want the golf course
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a beginner at the age of twelve. I knew nothing, and now I'm

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a golf professional and I'm so grateful
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as a brand new golfer, I
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little bit intimidating when you walk onto
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knowing all the rules and the unspoken
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things, and so and thank goodness. Right, we evolve and the golf,

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the game of golf has evolved,
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as far as rest codes. We're
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anybody. And I can attest to
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was a little bit intimidated to go
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and welcoming and given their pointers,
and I've appreciated that. Exactly where are

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your shorts, where your t shirts? Be comfortable? Come out and enjoy

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golf. Yep. All right,
So thank you, Jason. I appreciate

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you taking time to come talk to
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So next step we have Terry Lourdson, our water utilities director, and he's

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going to talk a little bit about
water. What's going on. We're going

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to talk a little bit about water. So we have started a temporary chlorine

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conversion. So if you've been keeping
tabs on City Beat or listening to some

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of the announcements, that we started
last week a chlorine conversion in our water

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distribution system. So we normally use
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So this is a combination of coin
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in the pipe for safety of the
water, to ensure that it's it's where

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it needs to be all the way
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through there. And in conjunction with
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we check on a daily basis the
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But primarily we're looking at the very
extreme parts of the system because if

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there is an issue, that's typically
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here about a month and a half
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goes down to the Walmart distribution center, which also serves the communities of Ocelida

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and Ramona, that the chlorine residuals
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and so that typically suggests some biological
activity or some things going on in the

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pipes that we do not want in
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combat that, we did this chlorine
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We started again last week and that's
really to target some of the issues

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that we saw down toward the Walmart
distribution center. And so some people will

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not notice anything different about the water. It will remain safe to consume and

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to use as normal throughout this whole
process, but it's just a different disinfectant

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that we can use that's a little
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care of that activity that we have
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system. So people memories might serve
them, right. We did this back

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in October where we did the conversion, and so it was really for the

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same reason and on the same portion
of the line that we saw some activity

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in the system. So this conversion
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in October, if you might recall, we were still in the throes of

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a drought and so water supply was
limited and we were not able to flush

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as we normally would like to.
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Our water supply has been fully restored
and actually above normal levels for this

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time of year, so we will
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But then we are also making sure
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are conducting flushing as well, which
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and productive for this chlorine conversion there. So we're right now we are flushing

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up around the Sooner Park area,
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side of town working our way south
for the next week. So if you

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do notice a drop of water pressure, just be patient. That will be

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short lived, probably about thirty minutes. There may be some discoloration in your

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water just because when we are doing
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velost in the pipe, which will
scour the pipe and get rid of any

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kind of biofilm that's developed on that
pipe. And so if you use water

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while we're flushing, that may get
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your system, but just continue to
run water at your home. It should

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clear up pretty quickly. But if
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nine one eight three three eight four
to one zero four and we will send

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somebody out to take a look at
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more than an hour, then call
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three eight four to one zero four
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what's going on to make sure that
the line has not broken or something else

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has occurred that may be affecting that
type of performance there. So anyways,

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the water is safe, so we
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it's safe to use and will be
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The coin conversion is really being done
because of that connection with those rural

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water districts, not really with the
water quality that's in town or even with

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our wholesale customers that we serve on
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So we're doing it as a preventative
maintenance or a preventative item just to make

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sure that water quality is good for
our customers and Ocelated Ramona, because we

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want their water to be as clean
and fresh as we have here in town,

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and so that's really going to be
needed with this conversion to ensure that

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activity for them moving forward. Right
awesome. So, as I'm looking at

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open positions, it looks like you
have an open position in your water department.

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We do, so if anybody is
looking for a job, we've got

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some jobs for you, and we
have excellent benefits and competitive pay. So

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I would welcome everybody to check out
our jobs tab on the City of Bartleswell

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dot org to see what positions we
have available, because I think we probably

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have something for just about everybody.
We've got library positions out there, we've

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got maintenance worker positions for street and
water, and parks is usually always hiring

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as well. We've even got some
temporary positions for those that are just looking

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for a summer job. Even as
we're winding down to the end of summer,

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we still have a little bit of
time left for those seventeen and above

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year olds to come see what it's
like to work at the city. Yeah.

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So there's like, we have several
positions ones at the water plant,

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so if you want to be a
part of treating the water and making it

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safe, there's positions avail for you, air for you there, and then

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at the water distribution if you want
to see what it takes to get the

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water from the plant to the home. That will be a front row seat

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for all of those activities. So
I do you want to go off script

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if we can, Shelley, We've
served together for a number of years and

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it's just been a pleasure to work
with you and especially your many different capacities.

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I was hopeful when she asked what
your favorite job, that she'd say

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engineering, but maybe I knew that
next time. Yeah, yeah, engineers

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are a special breed in and you
have been fabulous to work with, Darry.

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I've enjoyed it so much. Thanks, thank you, Shelly. All

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right, so I do want to
give one in our city beat. We

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had a public service announcement that city
business license our renewals go through July thirty

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first, so if anybody needs to
renew their business license, now's the time

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to do it. You have until
the thirty first of July and you can

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contact the Community Development Department at nine
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four. And I think that's all
the updates we have today. Well that's

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darn good. I want to thank
everybody for being here. Silly. You're

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going to come back and visit me, aren't you. Okay, good good?

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I can't. I am counting on
that. Chief. Good seeing you

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and Terry and Jason back there,
Laura Pleasure. We've got more coming up

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right here on K one, the
one you trust, THEE too. We

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got a check of the weather and
then on top of that, we got

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some news on the way. So
there you go. It is nine fifty

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