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Good morning, Good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome

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time now for city matters right here
on our community connection on K one the

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one He Dress brought you a part
by Paul Grass bowners at Arnold Warton Kneecamp

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Funeral Home. And we've got to
Trevor Dorsey, one of our city councilors,

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who's calling in today. We're gonna
have his billy, but she's a

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little under the weather, and I
thank you very much for stepping in today.

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First of all, do you have
a great Fourth of July? I

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did have a good four July,
Tom, thanks for asking. I hope

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you did as well. If if
people were out at Soonor Park they got

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to witness a great powwork display,
and I know it was a great day

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down there at Senor Park for Freedom
past. Hey, did you wear your

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Uncle Sam get up this year?
I did not wear the Uncle Sam get

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up at warm imagine. So you
know, we've been a little dry lately,

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especially in our watershed just a little
bit north of us here, and

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water has been a big concern.
We're gonna get some rain here. Looks

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like check good chances for it all
week long, especially today, but it

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still might be not enough. I
know that the city council heard from a

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water utility director, Terry Lawrenson on
Monday. Where are we on our water

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situation as far as our supply?
Sir, Well, right now, I

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believe I don't I apologize, I
don't have the numbers right well, that's

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okay, but I mean we're in
a bad spot. I know that.

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Yeah, we're at about fifty seven
percent of of what we have. You

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know, typically this time of year, I believe you know Hula and are

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Hula and Copan d percent capacity.
Obviously this year they're not. I think

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in a normal year, I think
mister Larson talked about we get about forty

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inches of rainfall, and we've gotten
I think seventeen, So um, we

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are down now. I know we
have gotten a lot of rain lately.

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And whenever we get a lot of
rain, with think, oh well,

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hey, we're we're in pretty good
shape. However, all of the rain

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that goes into the aquifer four of
those lakes where we get our water is

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up around Cherryville and Sada and Kansas, and so it kind of every time

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we get rained. I'm always looking
at the radar to make sure we're getting

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rained there as well. I was
woke up this morning. I don't know

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if anybody else was, but we
got a little shower. Oh yeah,

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I look and there was a big
storm up there near that aquifer. So

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you know, that's what we hope
continue to happen. We're getting rained there

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and an effort to get those lakes
back to where they need to be so

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that we're not in this water situation. And I know that if you were

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listening into the council Monday night,
mister Lordson talked about the wastewater reuse project

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that we're looking at that hasn't been
approved by the state yet, but it

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would allow us to put water into
the Caney and then take it back out

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downstream and do so um safely and
so that that is not quite where we

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need it yet, but that is
also something that the city is looking into,

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as well as other water sources that
we could tap into potentially to offset

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some of the shortfall more we're currently
getting water now. Mister Bailey on Monday

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at the City Council enad City Manager
mentioned an akworfer that we might be able

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to access in nearby Osage County that
could help us out as well as maybe

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some other municipalities and other bodies of
water. But I understand that could be

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kind of costly. It could be
costly. I know the city at the

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end was brought up and I believe
is getting water from Call Lake and Osage

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County, and I think that costs
them around three hundred million dollars to be

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able to access that water. And
I see Enid's issue was that the city

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was growing and they needed the water, not necessarily that their water supply our

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sources were depleting. We're in a
little bit different in the situation, but

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obviously would be some expense. I
think there will be a committee put together

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to look at all kinds of different
resources. There could be grants or loans

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available to tap into other water resources. So we obviously want to do things

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britainly and cost effective so that we're
not passing along a lot of additional costs

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to our constituents. Sure, you
don't want to. Citizens have been pretty

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good, pretty patient with this,
and it's not really anybody's fault. It's

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an act of nature, and you
know, God bless you, your folks

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are doing your darkness to make sure
that we at least have drinking water and

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water to use for bathing right now. I understand that restrictions are still in

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place. Could they get possibly any
more stringent if this persists, they could

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A level four is the next phase. I know we're not there. We're

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kind of looking at if we got
no additional water, I think that would

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be around the end of August.
But as you stated, we are getting

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some rain, and hopefully that rain
is some of that rain is hitting that

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awkwifer, so I think there shouldn't
be a need hopefully again. Good Lord,

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Well and everybody say some prayers that
there's rained. Unfair. Oh yeah,

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that'll it'll, it'll care the issue. And do you have any luck

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rain dancing? Maybe that's the ticket. Well tell you, I've been watching

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the radar all morning and it looks
like it's hitting that dry spot pretty good,

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and it looks like we've got more
to come. Unfortunately, it's going

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to take a lot more, but
this is a pretty good start. I

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want to switch topics with you here, City Councilor trepor Dorsey g O Bond.

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I understand that we've got the g
O Bond election all set for October,

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correct, Yes, sir, that
is correct, UM, and periodically

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we do GEO bonds and uh,
this one will not affect or cause any

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increase in your taxes. That won't
change the mill levy. It is simply

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UM the normal things that we need
to do. UM. I know a

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lot of that. Again, I
apologize because I don't have all the information

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short notice, that's all right,
But about eight million dollars of that,

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I believe it is going to streets, and I know constituents UM for a

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while now has stated that they would
like to see street improvements, and so

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I know we have a big uh
you know, majority of that will be

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going to streets, which will help. I think we have good streets in

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our city, in our community,
but obviously, UM, there are streets

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that need to be updated and repair
and so forth, and that that is

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something that a lot of folks and
that understand. Some bridges are going to

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get some much needed to rehab as
well. So transportation looks to be taking

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care of pretty good. We got
parks and recreation pretty well handled the last

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time around. But I see they're
going to get a little bit more money

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too. But I see where our
facilities, especially for public safety facilities,

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are going to get a pretty generous
chunk if if this has passed by the

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public, Yes, that's correct,
And you know, I know we have

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obviously as time goes on, when
you have facilities that that need updated,

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um, facilities that are older,
that tends to happen, and just like

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your technology and uh and those type
of things. And so I think at

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last time the technology was touched in
the last year bond and so this one

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we're gonna try to make sure our
facility these are up to date. We

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we we have a fire department that
uh, pretty old and the need some

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of some updates and and there's some
other projects so as well. So that's

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that's just part of the own a
home. You kind of know, there's

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things that you have to do over
time to make sure you keep that home

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and get livaviol repair indeed, just
basically keeping things where they need to be

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in order to be effective. And
of course, being guardians of our community

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here, h you'd like to know
that your your fire department's got a safe

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place to do their thing. And
I think we're talking about the one on

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the Virginia Avenue. I was kind
of surprised. I did not know that

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it was as old as it is, and now knowing that, I realized

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just how important that upgrade is going
to be. Yes, sir, you

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know, um there, when you
start talking about these kind of things and

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these projects, you learn a lot
of things, Like you said how old

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certain facilities are. Just for instance, then talking about the golf course because

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there's some money set aside, Brita, the greenings at the golf course are

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sixty years old. Wow. Um, so that you know they've they've been

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around a long time. And we
do have one of the the nicest golf

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public golf courses, I believe in
all of Oklahoma, and we have I

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think one of the nicest park systems
that's not the nicest and the northeast Oklahoma.

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So obviously, these these these funds
will go to continue to make sure

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that we have all of these amenities
for our citizens and that will also draw

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people to our community. We had
some discussion about our tourism. I know

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we've had some nice things that have
happened in recent years with the movie over

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in Osage County, and I think
there's some talk of a movie in Ramona

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and some other things like that.
But outside of those, uh, you

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know, movies or those type of
productions coming our way. We always want

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to get people to come to our
community because when they're coming to our community,

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they're spending money buying gas, eating, going to our parks. Hopefully,

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with some of the improvements and money
that we put in in the past

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years, we're getting more people coming
to town for baseball, for soccer,

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for for different things where they're going
to be hopefully staying and spending money in

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that that money goes directly goes back
to help the city. Well, you

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know, pickleball is a big one. They've got a couple of big tournaments

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here in this town that's working out
pretty good. One especially, I think

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it's in October that does really well. But getting back to the golf course,

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Say, isn't Adams where we do
the the the big thing for United

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Way, Yes, sir, Yeah, that that tournament happens every year.

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And you know, I want to
say, don't want to fit, but

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that tournament raises about a million dollars
a year, by the way, and

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all of that money goes back into
our community. Yeah, and it goes

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back to all the nonprofits that the
United Way serves, and so all of

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those services are being provided to our
constituents. So it's very important that again

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we keep up our facilities, our
roads, our parks, and this money

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will help do that our infrastructure.
And again it won't it won't increase,

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It won't increase your taxes. It
won't increase the middle levee. So it's

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uh my mind. It's always a
good deal whenever you can, and we've

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we've always tried to the council and
the city be prudent and not increase the

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middle levy and not pass tax burden
back on the constituent. Very good.

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Hey Trevor Dorsey Yard City councilor here
who was a pivot pinch hitting today on

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the city matters. I really appreciate
you taking time out of your very very

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busy day away from your job and
away from families. Spent a few minutes

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with us today here on the radio. No Tom and always a good uh

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talking within a pleasure and I hope
we get as you said, well a

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lot of that rain that you're seeing
on the radar will make make an impact

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this week. All right, your
prayers right to God man. Thank you

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very much, appreciate the tramp bye
bye now and that is trypor Dorsey and

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he is our one of our city
councilors here in Bartlesville and Pinch