WEBVTT 1 00:00:13.359 --> 00:00:15.439 All right, good morning, good morning, good morning, Welcome, welcome, 2 00:00:15.439 --> 00:00:17.920 welcome, and we got a housepool. That means it's a time for 3 00:00:18.039 --> 00:00:22.079 city managers have managed to you manage to the city. And hey there, 4 00:00:22.079 --> 00:00:25.320 mister Bailey, help them splash pads coming along. Good morning. That's a 5 00:00:25.320 --> 00:00:28.079 lot of fine folks choosing them these days. Uh. We got got water 6 00:00:28.120 --> 00:00:30.480 in the lake, we got water spraying out of the ground. It splash 7 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:35.840 pads, full, swinding pools. It's good times. It is. Notice 8 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:40.520 he shows up pool, no notice, he shows up. We been kind 9 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:43.000 of m i a for a while. There they good, we got good 10 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:45.159 news, we got good news, good news. He's here well. And 11 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:51.719 you also notice so every every TV or radio interview as we went through this, 12 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:56.359 Terry had to give. And then when it was over, Terry was 13 00:00:56.399 --> 00:00:59.039 out of town and I got to give the only ones where there was good 14 00:00:59.079 --> 00:01:06.400 news. So it's all about typing talking. Or maybe it's a conspiracy helps 15 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:11.719 the list could be. It could be though. Goodness. All right, 16 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:15.040 Well we've got we've got quite a few things to cover today, all of 17 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:19.480 them actually pretty good news. So but I wanted to start real quick with 18 00:01:19.799 --> 00:01:23.560 a couple of announcements. So if you've not heard, there is an online 19 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:30.120 sidewalk survey and this will actually run through August eighteenth, and we're interested to 20 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:33.840 hear what the citizens of Bartlesville have to say about the sidewalks as far as 21 00:01:33.879 --> 00:01:36.920 condition, whether they're sufficient, do they want more, do they want less, 22 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:38.680 do they care? Those are the sorts of things we want to know 23 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:45.519 as we begin to form our long term sidewalk policy. So Larry when he 24 00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:48.799 arrived, he began to study this, ask for a moratorium on our existing 25 00:01:48.879 --> 00:01:51.319 rules and is forming new ones. But this is a big part of it. 26 00:01:51.400 --> 00:01:53.879 So we're hopeful that we'll get pretty good input from everybody on that. 27 00:01:53.959 --> 00:01:59.560 So go out to City of Bartlesville dot org, click on the Community Development 28 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:02.400 Department link and then there will be a survey in there for you, So 29 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:07.560 hopefully everybody will participate in that. One other thing we got coming up in 30 00:02:07.599 --> 00:02:13.000 at August twenty fifth, there will be a fentnal forum and this is held 31 00:02:13.039 --> 00:02:17.680 by the Bartlesville Police Department. These are multi multidiscipline panels to where that we 32 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:21.919 can help to educate the public. So if you have any interest in knowing 33 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:25.879 more about this extremely dangerous and destructive drug, come out on August twenty fifth, 34 00:02:25.960 --> 00:02:30.439 six to eight at the Bartlesville Community Center. These I believe this is 35 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:35.039 the second one of these that they have done. The first one was extremely 36 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:38.639 well attended and we had really great feedback from the community on that. So 37 00:02:38.159 --> 00:02:45.039 I'm glad to be able to offer this service again and in pretty big news 38 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:50.000 for anybody who comes into city Hall to make their payments August fourteenth through fifteenth, 39 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:53.000 which I believe will be I think that's a Monday Monday. On a 40 00:02:53.039 --> 00:03:00.400 Tuesday August fourteenth and fifteenth, our payment system will be completely offline. It 41 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:04.360 is. There is a mandatory update that has to go on to that and 42 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:07.400 so unfortunately we have to shut that down, so there will be no in 43 00:03:07.560 --> 00:03:13.240 person payments that can be made that day. We won't be able to issue 44 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:15.360 permits. I say that day. Actually, if those two days August fourteenth 45 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:20.000 or fifteenth, we can't do in person payments and we can't issue any permits. 46 00:03:20.719 --> 00:03:23.400 You will still be able to make your utility billing payments and court payments 47 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:28.240 online, but we will not be able to do those in person. Court 48 00:03:28.319 --> 00:03:32.759 will be canceled on August fifteenth, and then one of the things we will 49 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:36.719 be able to do is if you have a if you need to get your 50 00:03:36.719 --> 00:03:38.479 service transferred, or you have a new account, will still be able to 51 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:44.039 handle those. So fortunately we just won't be able to take any any payments, 52 00:03:44.439 --> 00:03:46.759 so but will There'll be no late fees or anything for anyone during this 53 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:51.840 period of time. But I just wanted to make everyone aware that that that's 54 00:03:51.879 --> 00:03:54.400 coming up, so hopefully you can plan around it if you plan to come 55 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:57.360 in and make your payment on one of those two days, might want to 56 00:03:57.360 --> 00:03:59.840 come in a little early, or or plan to come in the day after. 57 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:04.479 And then with that I think we'd get into the good news. So 58 00:04:04.719 --> 00:04:09.400 a couple of things have happened. Obviously, Terry's here and we'll get an 59 00:04:09.479 --> 00:04:15.639 update from him in just a minute. But we had substantial rains that two 60 00:04:15.639 --> 00:04:21.240 weekends go Terry, and our water status went from critical to full at least 61 00:04:21.240 --> 00:04:25.519 as far as Hugh the Lake is concerned, essentially in about a twelve hour 62 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:30.000 span, so it was great news and we really appreciated it. As a 63 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:38.000 result, we started working on removing the restrictions and opening up some of our 64 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:41.800 recreational amenities. And so I've got Keith Enry here with me to give us 65 00:04:41.920 --> 00:04:46.079 a quick update on that. We after as soon as the word came in. 66 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:49.439 I think that Monday, Keith, you started working on splash pads and 67 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:56.720 in fact I think by Monday afternoon we had two over open. We had 68 00:04:56.800 --> 00:04:59.800 one the first day on Monday, we were able to get the splash pad 69 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:02.639 there to Johnstone Pavilion up and running. Uh. It went pretty well, 70 00:05:02.759 --> 00:05:06.399 didn't didn't encounter a lot of problems. One thing, Unity Square is actually 71 00:05:06.399 --> 00:05:09.680 a community center, but it was also opened that base. We had two 72 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:13.360 of our it was yeah, vowal and the personnel down there. It's community 73 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:16.240 center. Got it up and going. Somebody'd have those two running splash pad 74 00:05:16.279 --> 00:05:19.920 out at Sooner Pool. The next day we were able to get it up 75 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:23.720 and running. I had to do some things from it being winter rise from 76 00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:27.759 last season. All of those water parks, as far as the splash pads 77 00:05:27.800 --> 00:05:31.319 go, our passed through system so that water is not treated. Terry treats 78 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:35.160 that water for mea to throut the water plants comes right out of the pipe, 79 00:05:35.199 --> 00:05:40.439 circulates through the toys and the facilities, and then runs out. So 80 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:43.879 there's not really a treatment process on the water itself. It's just a matter 81 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:46.920 of getting vowels and heads and things back in place and flushing the system out. 82 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:51.360 So it usually goes relatively good and quick, but do you never know 83 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:54.639 what you're going to encounter. A couple of years ago, you know, 84 00:05:54.639 --> 00:05:57.279 we went out to Fired Up and we discovered we had some broke lines. 85 00:05:57.319 --> 00:05:59.879 So we've had some features that were shut down for a while at Sooner. 86 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:02.959 We did work on those over the winter and have those backup and working, 87 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:06.439 so all the toys are going and thanks running. The kids were excited to 88 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:11.439 get there. Shortly after we announced and put it out there. Kelly got 89 00:06:11.439 --> 00:06:14.439 it out on their web page and Take Along did it. They found to 90 00:06:14.519 --> 00:06:17.199 build it and they will come. They were there pretty quick, so we 91 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:20.879 were glad to be able to do that at the initially at the time which 92 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:24.879 would have been again it's a week ago. It's on Monday. When we'd 93 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:28.959 had these discussions, we did not believe that we would be able to get 94 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:30.920 the swimming pools open, and there was a couple of potential barriers. Number 95 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:34.040 one, we had some work to do as far as filling the pools, 96 00:06:34.079 --> 00:06:36.959 balancing them, making any repairs, which is just a normal thing. We 97 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:40.600 have to do before a pool opens, but you can't do that till you 98 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:43.839 fill it with water. So obviously those pools had not been filled with water. 99 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:46.480 And the other obstacle, of course, is that it's pretty late in 100 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:51.079 the season to be hiring lifeguards and managers and people of that nature. And 101 00:06:51.199 --> 00:06:57.480 so after discussing with Keith and with Robert of the YMCA, we decided that 102 00:06:57.519 --> 00:07:00.480 it wasn't going to be possible to open the swimming pools, and that was 103 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:03.480 essentially what we told everybody Monday. At early Tuesday morning, the y and 104 00:07:03.480 --> 00:07:08.240 see it reached back out to me and they believed that they could hire the 105 00:07:08.279 --> 00:07:12.360 lifeguards. So they were willing to pay some premium pay to bring some of 106 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:15.279 those lifeguards who may have been working at a grocery store or something, to 107 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:18.319 bring them back to the pool just for the end of the season. And 108 00:07:18.399 --> 00:07:21.720 so the great news out of that is is that we were actually able to 109 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:27.000 open Frontier and it will open officially today, right, Keith, that's correct. 110 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:29.720 Yeah. On the pools, you know, when we had our water 111 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:33.120 conservation going on early and we did do some prep work on both pools, 112 00:07:33.120 --> 00:07:36.439 and I will kind of anticipating where we might be. I will admit that 113 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:40.399 we got late enough into the season that we kind of gave up thought, 114 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:43.560 okay, we're not doing this right. Absolutely, so that's kind of where 115 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:46.639 we were at. So we had done some work and as you said, 116 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:48.439 we had to go over there on the frontier pool. It is going to 117 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:51.160 open today at noon. I believe there are hours or noon to six seven 118 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:56.160 days a week. That pool holds about ninety thousand gallons of water, so 119 00:07:56.199 --> 00:08:00.240 it doesn't take us a long time to fill it up. It takes about 120 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:03.519 three hours to circulate it, so it does come together pretty quick, thankfully. 121 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:07.199 Yeah, it works out well, you know, But there's lots more 122 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:09.800 pumps and motors over there because it's more of a splash pad type water features 123 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:13.879 than just a sooner pool, which is basically a swimming pool. It's the 124 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:16.839 old school swimming. So we got a lot of motors and things over there 125 00:08:16.879 --> 00:08:18.639 that we had to go through and make sure you're working and the canvass put 126 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:22.519 up where the shade structures and a lot of cleaning actually fired up. You 127 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:26.079 still got to go in there and scrubbing cleaning. As you'd mentioned before, 128 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:28.360 we had to have chemicals brought in acids, chlorine things like that. So 129 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:31.360 it takes about a week really to get it all up and running where it's 130 00:08:31.440 --> 00:08:35.120 usable. My guys in the building maintenance and some of them the other departments 131 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:39.759 have helped us out. We put some additional staffing over there to make it 132 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:43.480 go quicker. And again, as you mentioned, Robert just been over backwards 133 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:46.559 to try to get the help he needed and some of his staffsmen over there 134 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:50.240 getting the chemical controllers working and so we could get the water all adjusted outright 135 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:54.360 and ready to go. And I believe Robert has had his staff on site 136 00:08:54.399 --> 00:08:58.480 this weekend, so they've been prepping sites with the chairs and trash and working, 137 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:01.840 so he is ready to go. I don't you would mention too. 138 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:05.240 I think that they're not going to sell concessions at the pool this year. 139 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:09.480 They are correct again with the staffing issues, so they are going to allow 140 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:13.960 the public to bring in some refreshments of sorts. So he does have some 141 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:16.960 restrictions on what those are. You could go look at them on our website. 142 00:09:18.519 --> 00:09:22.639 Bottle that's not important. No alcohol, I believe in general, So 143 00:09:22.799 --> 00:09:26.279 you can bring in your drinks if you need two small small coolers. They 144 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:30.480 don't want any large, huge ice chest, but just your basic common sense 145 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:33.279 things there. But I believe they're ready to go, So we're excited. 146 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:37.679 Noon should be a big opening. Lots of people I'm sure inticipate it will 147 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:41.759 be. Yeah, And so a special word of thanks to Keith and his 148 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:48.360 staff and to Robert and the YMCA. This was I don't think anybody truly 149 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:52.080 appreciates the amount of effort that goes into trying to open a swimming pool essentially 150 00:09:52.240 --> 00:09:56.600 with seven days notice, and they did an incredible job. We weren't sure 151 00:09:56.639 --> 00:10:00.279 that it was going to come together at all. So I'm very out of 152 00:10:00.279 --> 00:10:03.039 everybody that was involved in this, very grateful to them. It was very 153 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:07.559 it was important to our community, and so I wish that it would have 154 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:11.679 been earlier in the season we could open both swimming pools. But I am 155 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:15.960 ecstatic that we were able to get Frontier open. So as of noon today, 156 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:20.240 and it is so the quick quick update on that. So it does 157 00:10:20.360 --> 00:10:22.519 open at noon, it closes at six every day. There won't be They're 158 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:24.799 not going to do pool parties or anything like that. They just don't have 159 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:31.159 the staffing available. So as Keith mentioned that we will be allowing outside food 160 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:33.600 and drink this year because the concessions will not be available, so you need 161 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:37.759 to plan ahead and need to bring your own concessions. And there will be 162 00:10:37.879 --> 00:10:41.360 no glass containers, no alcohol, no large coolers, and no cooking of 163 00:10:41.440 --> 00:10:45.840 food on site. The last one I didn't realize we needed to say, 164 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:48.759 but it's on the list, so apparently we didn't say it. So but 165 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:52.159 and the rates will be the same as they have been previous years. Six 166 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:56.600 and hundreds two dollars. Seven and up is four dollars. And then of 167 00:10:56.679 --> 00:11:03.120 course we've got discounts for senior citizens and active military, thank you and so. 168 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:07.080 But that's good news. Children under twelve also, please remember they have 169 00:11:07.159 --> 00:11:11.000 to be accompanied by an adult that is eighteen and up. So that's great 170 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:15.879 news. That is, we do have any pool open. However, in 171 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:18.519 the meantime, even before this occurred, we'd been working with one of our 172 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:24.559 other partners, which was City Ride, and City Ride was going to provide 173 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:28.840 a shuttle with at no cost to the riders order the city of Bartlesville. 174 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:33.120 They were going to provide a shuttle to and from o sah Hills State Park, 175 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:37.639 which there's a swimming pool there and so we're going to go ahead and 176 00:11:37.720 --> 00:11:41.639 continue with that. I realized that the older kids perverbed deck space and just 177 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:46.000 lounging around in the pools, and so o Sage Hills State Pool, we 178 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:48.840 are going to do that shuttle. It is just Tuesday and Thursday. The 179 00:11:50.039 --> 00:11:52.799 rides are free. They will pick up at robin Wood Park and at Frontier 180 00:11:52.879 --> 00:11:58.080 Pool. Robin Woodpark they'll pick up at eleven forty five am. Frontier Pool 181 00:11:58.120 --> 00:12:01.840 they'll pick up at noon and then they will return from the pool at five 182 00:12:01.080 --> 00:12:05.159 thirty. They'll drop off the Frontier at six, drop off robin Wood at 183 00:12:05.159 --> 00:12:09.200 six fifteen. So if you if you have kids that would prefer to do 184 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:11.200 that, then on Tuesday and Thursday, we're happy to provide them with this 185 00:12:11.320 --> 00:12:15.679 option. Against same rules as with the pool. Youth under twelve must be 186 00:12:15.679 --> 00:12:18.399 accompanied by a guardian to ride, and their pool rates are the same, 187 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:22.960 so we do have two pools open. It was it was a pretty good, 188 00:12:22.200 --> 00:12:26.600 pretty good effort and involve a lot of our partners, and I'm grateful 189 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:30.840 to everybody who who has been part of this. I'm also grateful to our 190 00:12:30.879 --> 00:12:35.200 citizens for their patients through this and Terry's gonna laugh because not everybody was patient, 191 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:39.960 but we, the vast majority of people, completely understood this situation and 192 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:43.440 we are. We're grateful to them as we work through this together as a 193 00:12:43.480 --> 00:12:48.440 community because that's what it took to get to where we are as a community. 194 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:50.840 So I'm thankful to everybody. What are folks on Facebook going to do? 195 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:58.399 If you don't have anything left complain about, they'll find something. Experience 196 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:03.679 tells me that's not going to be a problem. Up, disappointed a lot 197 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:07.320 of folks with these solutions. There was always solutions, right, Well, 198 00:13:07.480 --> 00:13:13.039 a keyboard war year in in that vein Terry. Let's get it. Let's 199 00:13:13.039 --> 00:13:16.639 get an update on water. Where are we today? Well, today we 200 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:20.799 are at seventy six point three percent overall. So water continues to come into 201 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:26.799 Hula Lake as we speak. It hasn't ceased coming in since a week ago 202 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:30.960 Friday. Took a while to getting started, but it's run. Yeah, 203 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:35.519 yeah, quite unusual and truthfully, getting rains that we did in July as 204 00:13:37.799 --> 00:13:41.159 very rare, as was the drought that brought us to this point. So 205 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:45.720 it's an unusual year, that's an unusual month. But you know, so 206 00:13:45.879 --> 00:13:50.639 Hula is actually uh in the that's flood conservation pool. So it's we'll show 207 00:13:50.679 --> 00:13:54.879 it on the website as being over one hundred percent fool, but that's in 208 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:58.120 relation to the water storage within it, right, So it's actually has waters 209 00:13:58.159 --> 00:14:03.120 almost a foot in the flood storage portion of it, which is fantastic. 210 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:09.240 Hudson is just under eighty percent, so it's really at levels that we normally 211 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:13.679 keep it at this time of year. Copan is still um really suffering and 212 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:18.440 that it's at fifty two and it's just how the rain work. And even 213 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:24.919 though huland Copans sit side by side, their watersheds are almost almost exactly. 214 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:28.000 Yeah, yeah, their boundaries touched as far as the watersheds, but the 215 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:33.799 rains hit were really benefit of HeLa but not much with Copan. So uh, 216 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:39.120 Copan Lake is still um well below normal really in a critical stage, 217 00:14:39.200 --> 00:14:43.480 but from an overall perspective, uh, it doesn't hinder us too much from 218 00:14:43.639 --> 00:14:46.960 a water supply standpoint. Um, so we are extremely thankful for that. 219 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:52.159 And uh, you know, as want to give a shout out to a 220 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:54.279 few people that have you know, been what I've called the lightning rod for 221 00:14:54.360 --> 00:14:58.559 a lot of these communications that have gone out or they take the brunt of 222 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:03.200 the she'll call. But you know, Kelly Williams, she's our social media 223 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:07.399 warrior and and our keyboard combatant. I guess she's done everything she could, 224 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:11.879 yes to tell the truth over and over and over, even what people did 225 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:13.600 want to hear. Yeah, so I and I think she shared maybe about 226 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:18.639 twenty percent of some of the things that she reads with me. So she 227 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:22.240 uh, she kind of she ate most of it, you know, did. 228 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:26.320 But Elaine Bain's there in your office. She's kind of the switchboard, 229 00:15:26.360 --> 00:15:30.600 but she caught a lot of it. Always she's always the face and the 230 00:15:30.679 --> 00:15:33.399 voice of the city. Yeah. Yeah, and you handle a lot of 231 00:15:33.440 --> 00:15:37.200 these calls. Mary Swift and Marcy cost Her out there at my office. 232 00:15:37.279 --> 00:15:41.120 They they they catch the brunt and seems like they kind of punched themselves out 233 00:15:41.159 --> 00:15:45.120 a little bit with them before they get to me or them ever, so 234 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:50.440 extremely appreciative, evolve them. And there's many others that that were involved with 235 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:54.879 it. But I think, to kind of echo your sentiments earlier, I 236 00:15:54.440 --> 00:16:00.679 believe the majority of people really were champions in conservation, and it's it was 237 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:03.360 very encouraging to see everybody kind of pulled together and rally and do what they 238 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:08.919 can. We being at seventy six percent overall, we're still in a stage, 239 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:12.639 a drought stage, which is what we call the stage one. So 240 00:16:12.799 --> 00:16:18.879 that's more of a voluntary conservation. We still will post updates to the website 241 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:22.639 weekly as far as where the water supply is at that you know, obviously 242 00:16:22.679 --> 00:16:26.720 we don't want to go crazy with the last for many months of summer with 243 00:16:26.840 --> 00:16:30.720 watering and water use, so we'll just want we're encouraging everybody to kind of 244 00:16:32.120 --> 00:16:36.080 to do what they can. Be mindful of your water use, but for 245 00:16:36.279 --> 00:16:40.279 all intensive purposes. We're really not in a critical stage. It's just more 246 00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:45.120 of a monitor stage and just let we'll continue to keep everybody informed of world 247 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:52.559 rat and hopefully it won't it'll rain as normal this fall and winter, but 248 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:55.639 we'll just have to wait and see once we get there. Is there any 249 00:16:55.759 --> 00:17:00.600 chance of rapid evaporation with these one hundred degree days coming up evential a year 250 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:03.400 the rest of the week, Um, I mean there will be evaporation, 251 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:07.440 it will probably be at the normal rate that uh morelos still coming in. 252 00:17:07.559 --> 00:17:11.599 We're good, yeah, I think what's influence coming in? We're still good, 253 00:17:11.799 --> 00:17:17.640 but um, truthfully, August September are always dry, always hot, 254 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:21.400 even at the end of July, and so these lakes, that's that's a 255 00:17:21.519 --> 00:17:25.359 normal condition for it, So we won't see a rapid deterioration as far as 256 00:17:25.359 --> 00:17:30.039 our war supply goes with those few months. Really the indicators will be in 257 00:17:30.240 --> 00:17:36.480 the fall. We normally get some rain in the fall and then some precipitation 258 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:40.559 in the winter. So if we get more normal levels and we'll maintain if 259 00:17:40.640 --> 00:17:44.920 it is like last year, which we received almost none during those that time 260 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:48.759 frame, and then in spring obviously is a time of of what of a 261 00:17:48.839 --> 00:17:52.279 wet period for us too, So um, it can go into a drought 262 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:57.160 stage if those conditions are met. Fortunately that doesn't happen very often. Um, 263 00:17:57.599 --> 00:18:00.519 I think looks like about every ty Yeah, I think all in history 264 00:18:00.759 --> 00:18:06.359 one of the dust settles and they're able to put all the models and look 265 00:18:06.400 --> 00:18:08.519 at the severity of the drought. I think really for our watershed, that's 266 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:14.200 going to be either a top two or top three drought in history. So 267 00:18:14.519 --> 00:18:18.880 that was the magnitude of the drought that had occurred in those areas still are 268 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:22.559 under an extreme drought. So that rain that helped and replench their lake that 269 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:29.359 area up they're still probably about nineteen inches below normal for what they have over 270 00:18:29.480 --> 00:18:33.000 a year timeframe, so they're still dealing with quite a bit of drought. 271 00:18:33.160 --> 00:18:37.279 And you know, hopefully we'll continue to pray for rain up in that area 272 00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:40.559 because I know, you know, the ranchers and everybody else will need it 273 00:18:40.640 --> 00:18:42.920 desperately, so no doubt about it. So all right, well, thank 274 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:48.119 you, Terry. So obviously our water supply is now up above seventy percent, 275 00:18:48.200 --> 00:18:52.519 so we're back into voluntary conservation and essentially a public outreach campaign. That's 276 00:18:52.559 --> 00:18:56.960 our job during this phase, just keep the public educated, which will continue 277 00:18:57.000 --> 00:19:03.680 to do. All the restrictions were back, the emergency rates will be rolled 278 00:19:03.720 --> 00:19:07.799 back. That won't officially happen until tonight at a city council meeting, but 279 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:12.519 that will be retroacted back until a week ago Monday, essentially once the lakes 280 00:19:12.559 --> 00:19:17.319 were full. So we have all of those things coming together. Additionally, 281 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:22.240 we have tonight will be discussing the Bartlesville Water Resources Committee, which is not 282 00:19:22.359 --> 00:19:26.640 a new committee. This is a committee that has existed since probably early two 283 00:19:26.680 --> 00:19:32.119 thousands. It was after a last significant drought, and that committee was put 284 00:19:32.160 --> 00:19:37.839 together with the intent of increasing our overall water supply, and since that time 285 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:41.119 we have obtained some water at Copan and continue to attempt to obtain more water 286 00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:47.440 at Copan through legislative action with the Core of Engineers. But that was really 287 00:19:47.559 --> 00:19:52.039 the recommendations from the Core of Engineers and from the state was we pursue water 288 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:56.480 on Copan and on Heala, which is what we've done. Where this committee 289 00:19:56.960 --> 00:20:00.680 is, it's the same committee, but it'll have some new membership and we'll 290 00:20:00.519 --> 00:20:07.759 with a little bit of a renewed focus perhaps on trying to diversify the geography 291 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:11.200 of our water supply, because Copan and hu are very close, and even 292 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:15.359 though they should have sufficient water for us for the future, we've considered some 293 00:20:15.480 --> 00:20:19.039 other options. So this committee will be it'll be officially seated tonight and then 294 00:20:19.039 --> 00:20:22.920 they'll have they'll have some work to do. So I guess that's the what's 295 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:26.559 next. Just because the droughts over doesn't mean that we're finished with this. 296 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:30.079 We're going to continue the process that we've been on until we have a water 297 00:20:30.200 --> 00:20:37.160 supply that's secure and drought resistant. Yeah, I think it's And what I 298 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:41.240 tell people is that with Oklahoma and droughts. That's a fairly common occurrence, 299 00:20:41.759 --> 00:20:45.559 maybe not every year, but you know, there is an integral for it, 300 00:20:47.440 --> 00:20:52.240 whether that's ten years, twenty years. But no water supply is not 301 00:20:52.400 --> 00:20:57.680 going to be immune to having some sort of vulnerability and some sort of conservation 302 00:20:57.759 --> 00:21:02.720 that you may need to do with an extreme droute, which is what we 303 00:21:03.359 --> 00:21:07.519 are somewhat on the tail end of it hopefully. But you know, I 304 00:21:07.599 --> 00:21:11.240 think the committee back in the early two thousand had a strategy for water supply 305 00:21:11.400 --> 00:21:15.960 and it's uh, I think it's still a good strategy, but it doesn't 306 00:21:15.039 --> 00:21:18.240 hurt to look at it again now that we know a little bit more about 307 00:21:18.920 --> 00:21:23.920 some some possible options and some other avenues to maybe diversify some of that water 308 00:21:23.960 --> 00:21:27.119 portfolio. But um, you know, I think that we'll have a good 309 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:32.160 mix of council provisage and I have people that were on that original committee and 310 00:21:32.200 --> 00:21:36.680 then some some new faces there. So um, we're looking forward to meeting 311 00:21:36.759 --> 00:21:40.279 with them and getting their input and also I think they're going to be tasks. 312 00:21:40.400 --> 00:21:44.400 Was looking at the water Shortage Ordinance and some of the restrictions, we 313 00:21:44.519 --> 00:21:48.680 did learn some lessons being that was the first time we actually implemented that shortage 314 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:52.240 ordinance creation almost twenty years ago. Yeah, so obviously there were some things 315 00:21:52.319 --> 00:21:56.839 that worked really well, some things that maybe weren't as effective. But the 316 00:21:56.920 --> 00:22:00.960 other task that they will have is to uh to view that as well and 317 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:07.400 and potentially make some adjustments or at least recommendations to adjust that that ordinance there. 318 00:22:07.799 --> 00:22:11.279 So that's that's what's next in water supply. So we're certainly not done 319 00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:17.200 talking about it, but we're we're glad that the crisis is at least temporarily 320 00:22:17.279 --> 00:22:19.920 behind us and we can move forward with a little bit more more time and 321 00:22:21.079 --> 00:22:23.960 now we don't have to worry about trying to construct something within the next eighteen 322 00:22:25.039 --> 00:22:27.759 months. Now we get a little bit larger time horizons, which certainly will 323 00:22:27.839 --> 00:22:33.920 make whatever we do cheaper than if we had had to try to construct it 324 00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:37.319 on such a short timeline. So h Terry, I appreciate it. This 325 00:22:37.440 --> 00:22:41.119 has certainly been a long I don't know how many months, frankly, to 326 00:22:41.160 --> 00:22:44.680 tell you the truth, five six months I believe we've been discussing this, 327 00:22:44.880 --> 00:22:48.720 and I appreciate your guidance through this because it has been it has been difficult, 328 00:22:48.880 --> 00:22:52.279 and it's we're glad to be on the other side of it for now. 329 00:22:52.480 --> 00:22:56.279 Absolutely absolutely, And then I'm glad that the pools are open and some 330 00:22:56.359 --> 00:23:02.279 of these recreational facilities are being used again, which is is uh, I 331 00:23:02.400 --> 00:23:07.279 think well deserved and sorely needed. Um. You know, Mica threw out 332 00:23:07.319 --> 00:23:11.440 an option that you know, he could possibly do a shift as lifeguarding. 333 00:23:11.920 --> 00:23:15.519 That's good. Back in his high school days he still got your old life 334 00:23:15.559 --> 00:23:18.599 life guard Uni. I think so that was one piece back there, one 335 00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:22.640 piece. Yeah, so, uh, Mica is maybe if if Robert's there 336 00:23:22.720 --> 00:23:26.759 with the why we got a sub you know, if there's somebody calls in 337 00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:33.000 sick, MICA's run the ready. Katie, I'm sorry I didn't do this. 338 00:23:33.960 --> 00:23:37.640 You're welcome to that. This was your husband and Terry that did this. 339 00:23:37.759 --> 00:23:41.119 I had nothing to do with it. Katie, I am so sorry. 340 00:23:41.319 --> 00:23:47.039 That was the old cotton one. I'm sure it'll still fit. I'm 341 00:23:47.079 --> 00:23:52.640 sure it's still fit. It'll be fine. So that's put up with balb 342 00:23:53.079 --> 00:23:57.759 the visualization and something else. Tom is bigger. I didn't hear word did 343 00:23:57.799 --> 00:24:02.839 he speak that time? I think Tom's just mutching like a car crash is 344 00:24:02.839 --> 00:24:06.359 like, are they really saying that I bleach baby. He kind of kind 345 00:24:06.400 --> 00:24:08.079 of closed his eyes and blacked up there for a second. Yeah, I 346 00:24:08.200 --> 00:24:12.400 kind of did, all right. And with that intro our city engineer apparently 347 00:24:12.480 --> 00:24:17.079 and substitute lifeguard Michael Summers. I think the entire city is checked out. 348 00:24:17.319 --> 00:24:25.519 Mica. Next, Oh my gosh, all right, Mica, that run 349 00:24:25.640 --> 00:24:29.119 up? So oh yeah, that's it was time to hand the mic So 350 00:24:29.319 --> 00:24:33.680 Mica our city engineer, director of Engineering and many other things now model, 351 00:24:33.880 --> 00:24:44.160 currently life card and currently the Savior of Siviton. So what's right? Keep 352 00:24:44.200 --> 00:24:45.640 all got our cross to Barton. It was a lot higer than mine, 353 00:24:47.240 --> 00:24:51.400 Sivton. So Civiton Park, so first off, before we talk about what 354 00:24:51.480 --> 00:24:53.799 we're going to do to address it, exactly, Micael, what what happened? 355 00:24:53.839 --> 00:24:57.039 And it's I'm not sure everybody's aware of the story of Civiton Park. 356 00:24:57.200 --> 00:25:00.680 The story is Suvitan Park. Yeah, so, uh, you know, 357 00:25:00.759 --> 00:25:03.440 we had constructed the park, city city did fund that project and constructed the 358 00:25:03.480 --> 00:25:08.079 park itself, and then uh, shortly after really I guess they was a 359 00:25:08.200 --> 00:25:12.359 need for shade at this facility. Um. And so actually the Civitans, 360 00:25:12.680 --> 00:25:17.279 um, they're you know, on profit kind of like uh, kawanis or 361 00:25:17.319 --> 00:25:19.640 rotary or anyone like that. And uh, and they they actually wanted to 362 00:25:19.680 --> 00:25:22.680 donate a shade structure for it, so they donated that to the City of 363 00:25:22.720 --> 00:25:26.400 Bartlesville had it constructed. Um. Now, I was back in twenty fourteen 364 00:25:27.119 --> 00:25:33.480 and uh and then essentially towards the end of May. I think actually Keith 365 00:25:33.559 --> 00:25:37.000 was one that that actually saw the saw the issues happening. He drove by 366 00:25:37.039 --> 00:25:41.640 there and heard it making some noises and seemed to be swaying a little bit 367 00:25:41.680 --> 00:25:45.599 too much, a little bit too much, and UH called me up. 368 00:25:45.599 --> 00:25:47.880 We took a look at it, and we we agreed it is probably best 369 00:25:47.960 --> 00:25:52.000 to to shut the park down. And so um, essentially there's been some 370 00:25:52.119 --> 00:25:56.960 connections on that steel structure that the bolts have have sheared and missing a couple 371 00:25:56.000 --> 00:26:00.319 of bolts, and there's been some separation between those connections. Uh, not 372 00:26:00.440 --> 00:26:03.440 a large amount, but enough to be concerning. And uh, and again 373 00:26:03.519 --> 00:26:07.160 we just both thought for the amount of moving, it wasn't a super windy 374 00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:08.519 day that day. I mean, there was a breeze, but it just 375 00:26:08.599 --> 00:26:11.119 seemed to be moving a little bit too much for a comfort level. And 376 00:26:11.640 --> 00:26:15.039 so at that point we shut the park down, we started looking into it 377 00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:18.000 to see see what was going on there, and we've subsequently just found that 378 00:26:18.480 --> 00:26:23.119 there was some some installation of the structure that didn't really meet the specs and 379 00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:26.480 the plans that we can big up and find and it's essentially in the foundation, 380 00:26:26.599 --> 00:26:30.440 right in the foundation essentially. Yeah, you couldn't really find it without 381 00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:33.000 digging it up because it was it was because beneath the ground right it was 382 00:26:33.039 --> 00:26:38.400 covered in about about twelve eighteen inches of mulch. So um So, anyway, 383 00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:41.559 we got all that exposed, and it turns out the the elevations of 384 00:26:41.599 --> 00:26:47.960 the foundations were all off bindywhere from seven to five inches um. So usually 385 00:26:47.960 --> 00:26:49.599 you'd want those of the same elevation. If they're not, you'd normally use 386 00:26:49.680 --> 00:26:55.920 a you'd have enough of the uh the bolt sticking up to use some jacknuts 387 00:26:55.960 --> 00:26:59.119 and level that thing up. And um that just wasn't the case. Amounted 388 00:26:59.160 --> 00:27:02.960 directly to the to the top of the footings. And so what that did 389 00:27:03.079 --> 00:27:04.960 is it put the whole structure in a bind, to lack the better term, 390 00:27:06.839 --> 00:27:10.680 too much stress stress some connections that there shouldn't have been. So it 391 00:27:10.799 --> 00:27:14.279 wasn't designed for so. So that being said, really the only solution to 392 00:27:14.359 --> 00:27:15.960 that that we could come up with is it really the structure new to come 393 00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:19.640 down. We're gonna make some modifications to the footings, UH send you. 394 00:27:19.680 --> 00:27:23.519 Our plan is to extend those upwards and get those actually above grade. And 395 00:27:23.880 --> 00:27:26.319 Uh, I think Chief we talked about that. I think his guys were 396 00:27:26.319 --> 00:27:30.400 probably gonna try to do that internally. Um, if we get to look 397 00:27:30.440 --> 00:27:32.759 at that and realize we need to contract it out, we still have that 398 00:27:32.839 --> 00:27:34.680 option. UM, but I think we can probably handle that in house. 399 00:27:34.720 --> 00:27:40.880 And so we'll take that down. They did remove the shade canopy itself, 400 00:27:41.039 --> 00:27:45.039 the fabric itself, not the not the structure itself, and the structure still 401 00:27:45.079 --> 00:27:48.920 standing, and we should have a crane on site Wednesday to remove that. 402 00:27:49.039 --> 00:27:52.200 And so do apologize. I've been trying to get the word out and keep 403 00:27:52.200 --> 00:28:00.440 the public informed and so things have been changing. Rain it's good, but 404 00:28:00.599 --> 00:28:03.519 not for construction. Rain has been an issue. So they were actually gonna 405 00:28:03.519 --> 00:28:07.039 remove that last Friday. Obviously it was raining last Friday, so they actually 406 00:28:07.039 --> 00:28:11.759 the crane showed up. UM didn't feel comfortable with what was going on. 407 00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:15.160 There was some lightning and wind and rain, so they pulled off and have 408 00:28:15.319 --> 00:28:18.079 rescheduled for this coming Wednesday. UM, so we should see that thing go 409 00:28:18.200 --> 00:28:22.799 down Wednesday. At that point we will suit a little bit more reevaluation of 410 00:28:22.839 --> 00:28:25.279 the footings, so it'll take a little bit of time there, but we 411 00:28:25.359 --> 00:28:27.279 are going to open that park up when we get the structure removed. UM. 412 00:28:27.359 --> 00:28:30.319 I think the majority of the work that we can do from here on 413 00:28:30.359 --> 00:28:32.680 out until it goes back up, we can. We can keep the park 414 00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:37.839 open. There might be some some minor closures possibly for a day here there 415 00:28:37.240 --> 00:28:41.039 when they're you know, when keys guys that are whomever. If we when 416 00:28:41.079 --> 00:28:44.160 we form up the new footings, UM, you know, be some guys 417 00:28:44.240 --> 00:28:47.160 working out there may be isolated. But when we pour, I can see 418 00:28:47.160 --> 00:28:49.200 the park being closed potentially when we pour that day, um, things of 419 00:28:49.279 --> 00:28:52.519 that nature. So there may be a couple closures on that but for the 420 00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:56.640 most part, the park will be open. I don't have a timeline on 421 00:28:56.680 --> 00:28:59.000 how long's the take. It kind of depends on what we final to get 422 00:28:59.039 --> 00:29:00.880 the structure down to figured out right, but hopefully we can get this thing 423 00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:03.880 up, you know, pretty quickly. So we've got the lead construction on 424 00:29:03.960 --> 00:29:07.319 the hook they're on contract with us to remove the structure and put it back 425 00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:11.599 up. So as long as it takes us to get the repairs made to 426 00:29:11.640 --> 00:29:14.440 footings, they'll come back in and stand it back up and we'll go from 427 00:29:14.440 --> 00:29:17.599 there. Okay, all right, appreciate that, Mica. So hopefully by 428 00:29:17.599 --> 00:29:19.359 Wednesday we'll have the park reopen, but it's gonna be a while before we 429 00:29:19.400 --> 00:29:22.240 get the shade back. That's correct, Okay, all right, thank you 430 00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:25.279 and Tom, thank you as all well, all right, thank you very 431 00:29:25.359 --> 00:29:30.440 much. You've been listening to Shady batteries. Thanks for listening to one unnamed 432 00:29:30.519 --> 00:29:38.599 professional paid presentation in fourteen K one American Heritage Bank now serving usage region of 433 00:29:38.640 --> 00:29:42.680 Portlesville, Pahunska, and Barnsdall. This is k w O N Bartlesville, 434 00:29:42.759 --> 00:29:44.920 KY two twenty seven cq