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

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It's time now for our community connection
right here on can't one the one

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you trust. It's brought to you
by into All Grass Motors and Arnold Lauren

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Knee Camp at funeral Home and we
visit with the Bartlestool Public Schools and also

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the Foundation today. You know that
was the name of a pop group back

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in my day in the foundation.
Really. Oh yeah, I can't remember

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songs. I don't remember too much
for the sixties, but it was fun.

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We have to call here also,
Blair Elli, No, we got

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we got something you really like.
Uh boy, we had a little bit

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of fun. It's always good to
know that we have money coming into the

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schools. Yeah, we did,
Blair. Do you want to take that

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from the Foundation? Sure? Yeah. So we always love going to the

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school board meetings. Were usually there
to bring good news and funding for the

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schools, and Monday was no different. We had Philip sixty six there with

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us and presenting some funds to the
schools to support our school Resource Officer program.

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I'm sure the community knows by now
but that the district is expanding our

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school Resource Officer program, bringing in
school resource officers for all nine of our

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school sites. So Phillips was there
to provide some training or funding for training.

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So all of our school resource officers
are trained police officers, but there's

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obviously some specialized training that goes into
dealing with students in the school setting.

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So Phillips was there to provide funding
for some national school Resource officer training which

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will give our school resource officers the
skills and tools that they need to really

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do the best they can do within
our schools. And mister McCauley, this

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is something that started with callig.
We need to do something before something happens,

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and very proactive and it heads up
on the board for that. Yes,

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I agree, you know, it's
pretty I was just thinking this morning

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that a year ago we had two
school resource officers in our districts and so

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now we have six. So we've
you know, we've we've increase that amount

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in a short amount a short amount
of time. And so really thankful for

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our board for proving that last year
to get that started. In city Council,

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Mike Bailey and all the city council
members past and present for proving that.

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So it's it's it's truly a really
feel like that's a need, not

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a want, and we are excited
about having three additional ones coming in starting

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in August, and just to continual
I think he can't get enough training in

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this and it's it's they're really just
part of our school. I mean,

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it's really just part of what we
do now, and the kids have such

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great relationships. I know that I
may visit a little bit later about we

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had our state superintendent visit town on
Friday and we were in Aaron Perry's class,

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one of our She was a Richard
Kane Elementary first Great Teacher of the

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Year, and he read to the
class and he was talking to some of

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them after about what they want to
be when they grow up. And I

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think two of the first three kids
that they want to be police officers.

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And you know, you have to
think just having that relationship, being around

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folks like that, being around a
police office or two, helps helps kids

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think positively about that, which can
do nothing but help our future. So

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that's a kind of a long winded
answer to say, yes, we've come

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a long way. We want to
continue to focus on safety obviously as part

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of what we do, and very
thankful for Philip sixty six and providing that

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funding to help us training training those
officers. Well, I've seen your resource

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officer in action there. It came
and everybody wants to pet the dog,

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Everybody wants to talk to him,
ask him a question, you know,

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and it's like he's the most popular
guy on campus. Right in this day

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and age, you'd think, well, that might not be something that would

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be first and forefront, but that
was the first thing I noticed when I

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walked in. They all take a
really proactive approach. They're really trying to

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build relationships with the students. The
officer CODES at Ranch Heights has his own

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program where he pulls out kids for
fifteen minutes a day to work with them

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and brings him along to do some
tasks around the school. So they're really

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trying to build positive relationships with our
kids. Well, speaking of building,

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Wow, yeah, we got some
building going on and some building to come,

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don't we. We we do,
Tom, it's a yeah, it's

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a it's a busy time. And
before we get that, Blair, do

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you want to mention the bruins on
the run y, Yeah, there's a

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lot going on. Um. We
were also there on Monday night to recognize

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our bruins on the run teacher mentors. So we started the season. This

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is our fourth season and we started
this year with sixty teacher mentors. So

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these are our teachers who after a
long day in the classroom are yes,

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are working after school with our kids, encouraging them, mentoring them on the

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pathfinder um and running with them in
races. And so we just wanted to

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highlight at least our lead mentors.
So we brought in. We have one

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at every school site that kind of
takes charge of the program at their school,

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So we wanted to bring them in
and recognize them, and they do

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so much for that program and really
make it the success that it is.

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You know, beyond just being healthy
teachers and healthy students, it helps between

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the years get healthy too. Well
yeah, a guy, that's those fifth

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graders. You know, when you
get to that age. Thing about when

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I was in fifth grade, I
don't know if there was a five k

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race rate kid and without Wow,
but you know, the kids and a

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lot of these kids that are involved
in it, they're not involved in other

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active because they're already playing soccer or
swimming or different things too. And so

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we had over one hundred kids that
when school started last year that signed up

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for the program. Um did some
running after school with their teacher mentors and

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instead of goal, uh you know
how powerful is that to set a goal

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that I can do this. I'm
gonna run this eight k at wool Rock

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And then they did that and so
that's almost a fourth of our fifth graders

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in the district. And so we've
done that now for I guess three or

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four years. Four years, it's
been five years, but we had a

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pandemic and like everything else, it's
all about the teacher in the classroom to

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have that engagement for them to want
to be around it. And of course

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the foundation does a wonderful job of
supporting that. Well, next month we'll

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be talking about the r Vest Foundation
helping us with some funding with that program.

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But you know, the kids in
terms of just some food, some

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some some resources for the kids to
help help keep them excited about it,

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and shoes. So anyway, it's
really, yeah, just pleased to have

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our teachers come in because that's really
what at the you know, the folks

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at that level that really make it
happen. It's really it was really a

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lot of fun to honor them as
well. I am fun telling people we

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have cool schools in class. Classmate
in a mind from them about forty years

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some odd years ago, we had
lunch and he says, well, how

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do the schools around here? I
said, I don't know about here in

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Tulsa where you are going through right
now, but I tell you in Bartlesville,

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it's a world of difference, it
truly is. We really appreciate the

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foundation, you know. I was
thinking about that a year ago. So

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when they were able to purchase skates
and old for all of our elementary schools,

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we just have it. I think
two sets in the district that our

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elementary schools would share when they would
do that unit in the physical education class.

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And now all six schools have sets
of them they can use and they

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can do those skating activities. Some
parent groups do fundraisers that with them,

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and so just those healthy activities,
you know, where kids aren't plugged into

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their phone or a computer or something
else too, where they're they're they're doing

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that is really meaningful and hopefully building
some good lifelong habits for them too.

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You've got a long list. I've
interrupted you far. You're literally ripped they're

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doing great time. And I know
you mentioned on the construction, but I

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wanted to start with at the board
meeting, Ladona Chancellor always gives a teaching

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and learning update what's going on in
the district, and her and Jason Langa

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both shared we really had a great
event on Saturday, our Special Olympics,

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a Grand Lake Area Special Olympics was
hosted at Customer Stadium and so the first

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time we've hosted that in at least
twenty years. That's as far back but

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it could remember. But it's the
Grand Lay it's a Grand area, so

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there's like seven different counties that come
and participate. So I had a wonderful

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event. We had over seventy volunteers. I think Coachwright brought the entire football

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team help to help with that,
and really was We had one hundred kids

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that were there. And also mentioned
that the snow we're gonna qualify for the

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state Special Olympics and we'll have a
big send off on Monday, May seventeenth

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at seven am in the morning at
the high School. And it's really a

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fun event. So if there's community
members, I liked to come out and

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share our kids as they go off
to the state Special Olympics when occurs them

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to come and really thankful for our
and once again, UM, we had

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Brandy Avery and Nadia Jackson, two
of our teachers are really the ones that

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lead that program. And Naught in
here before she's great. Yeah, she's

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great. So it was it was
one want to make sure that we shared

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that UM as well, so on
the and on the board meeting. So

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we went through we did those spotlights. Just a couple of things we did

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a uh, we did it's the
time of the year once a year where

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we set our board officers which are
quote school board officers. They voted to

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keep the saying that they that they
have had Scott Builder remain as president,

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Rick Boswell vice president, and Andrew
Nightingale UM in terms of the secretary.

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And then UM a couple of action
items we did approve A we acquired some

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more land by Wayside Elementary. UM. We've we've as you know, that

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campus is very small and so we've
got an addition going on there too.

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We've already purchased some property just directly
north um of that that uh, north

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of Wayside. And then at this
board meeting we approved two point nine acres.

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There's an empty lot just east of
east of Jefferson there that we'll be

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using for parking lot and construction and
also permanently after we make that edition as

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well, So I wanted to mention
that. And then it had action item

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just to sell some bonds that were
previously approved in twenty twenty one, and

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that enables us to get the process
started. We'll approve those probably in May

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and then have funding in June.
And those are just for those what we

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call those operational things like technology and
textbooks and curriculum as well. And then

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I should have also mentioned that LaDonna
shared at the Teaching and Learning Update she's

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busy. She is a busy gal
that in terms of they've gone through a

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textbook adoption process. You know,
books and schools have been a hot topic

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here in the last couple of years, and so we do have a process

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when we do adopt textbooks, and
so this year is the year we adopt

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secondary English Language Arts textbooks for the
upcoming actually last for the next five years,

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and we have a committee that does
that selection, and so she leads

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that group. We have a teacher
representative from each grade level that's represented some

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administrators. We also have two parents
that are on that committee as well,

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and they all came through with the
same result in terms of the same vendors.

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So please to have appreciate all of
our parents for helping us with that

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in terms of getting that selection.
Make sure that we had that we have

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that strong, strong buy in.
So yeah, so we do have the

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mentioned about the construction. We do
have a lot going on and so we

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did. We are in our over
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We are using those buildings. We
finished those. Um there's a couple of

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final touches, but you know,
we added some additions to the front.

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If folks haven't been by those schools, really encourage them to drive by their

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beautiful and so we have a matter
of fact, we had like I mentioned

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earlier, we had the state superintendent
was in on Friday and we're able to

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We're over at Richard Kane Elementary and
we spend a lot of time i know,

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the fifth grade leadership class and some
time visiting with him out and they

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have kind of a lobby which they
call the Kane Commons as kind of a

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mini version of what we have at
the High school. But yeah, it's

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really a neat it's really a neat
space. So we're in those two at

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Kane and Wilson. There's some finishing
touches that they'll be doing, including installing

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an electronic key in front of the
building and a couple of other things that

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will be finished over the summer.
But those have those are basically complete.

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And then the act facility if you
happen to be by the high school.

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Um, that's been the only good
thing about not having any rain as those

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folks have been able to they haven't
had any rain day since February. You

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know, they've really been busy,
broken a few shovels of that heart of

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dirt. That's exactly right too.
So they've they're started so that that that

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project is scheduled to be complete in
March of next year, so hopefully by

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spring break. We're using that we're
gonna have a groundbreaking event on Monday,

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May eighth at four o'clock. But
basically if you drive by there now you

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can see the height of it.
That's that's as high as it's going to

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be. We have to obviously build
it up out of the out of the

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flood zone, so they're making great
progress on that. People still have full

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access to the pathfinder. Um,
I know I've ran by there several times

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and you have to do normal access
to We have a temporary parking lot that

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they can park their car and use
that. So that's going going really well

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on those projects. We're gonna take
a quick break and we're gonna be right

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back after these words. Tall Grass
Motors and Arnold point Nick Funeral Home right

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here at Gay one the one new
drus is it time to start thinking about

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a new car. But the thought
of dealing with the large dealerships is just

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too intimidating, too confusing. There
is an easier way, tall Grass Motors.

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Tall Grass Motors doesn't play all the
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trucks and SUVs, all prized to
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Highway seventy five North in Bartlesville.
I never forget this call. My freshman

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roommate, his mother called one day
and she said, Tim and I can

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tell by her voice something wrong,
and I said, what's wrong? She

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said, can you get my boy
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there. And that crushed me,
but I said, I sure will.

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I'll take care of it. I
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will get your son home. If
that's what you do and your loved one

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dies, doesn't matter if for us, three in the morning you call your

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funeral director and say, tim,
my loved one just hide. What do

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I do? And I tell you
one of my greatest stories I could tell.

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Six o'clock one Christmas morning, a
lady calls me. She said,

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they came over to get my aunt
for Christmas breakfast and found her dead in

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her home. What do we do? I said, let me get dressed.

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I'll be right there, and we'll
just walk through this together. It's

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gonna be all right. Now,
take good care of her. Years later,

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she told me that was the single
most comforting phrase she'd ever heard.

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It'll be all right. We'll walk
through this together. Arnold Moore and me

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Camp Funeral Home, seven Dewey,
Bartelsville. We will walk through this together,

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and we're back with more of our
community connection with Bartley's Ville Public Schools

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supertant of school's Chuckle Calley and also
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Yeah, so just kind of continue
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and things that'll be going on,
some planning that we're doing the most recent

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bond issue election that the things I
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the well Wilson and Kane as well
as the agg facility. You know,

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we had already completed the indoor facilities
for our baseball softball teams as well,

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but is the expansion in renovation over
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planning to start that addition that work
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May nineteen, so they're planning to
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week. So we're we're excited about
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it's always tough living in the renovation, but kind of that first there's some

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things that they need to jump on
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And that's another reason why we purchase
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have enough parking um for our staff
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that will that will will happen,
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that. Once the addition is complete, then we'll have to do some renovation

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of the spaces that we are moving
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offices and the pre k in kindergarten
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while we do have Blair here,
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that was just last week, our
Brons of the Year. Yeah, Bla're

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gonna talk about how the foundation is
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that's our It was our district Teacher
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our teachers kind of took that on
themselves to the administrators, they would

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kind of plan that celebration. We
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our administrators and teachers planning their own
celebrations. So the Foundation took it on

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with the help of Patriot and our
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event, and it's really grown.
We have it at Rigdon Field. We

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had it on April to sixth and
the weather was of course cooperating just perfectly.

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But it's a casual, family friendly
event. We had over four hundred

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people in the stands right. We
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four hundred, which is always a
great problem to have. Chris Batchelder announced

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for us. Maria Gus was our
MC. So it's really just a fun

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night. It's done in yeah,
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and half. But really we're able
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All of our rising star teachers are
classified people of the Year, including

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our Sadexo employees, So really a
full district celebration of all of our staff.

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Now you got the Hall of Fame
event, and right April is a

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busy event month for us. We
have the Educator Hall of Fame. This

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is our thirteenth year hosting that event. It's going to be in the afternoon

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on April the twenty seventh. It's
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five thirty and this is where we
honor retired educators, so bringing back those

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teachers who dedicated their careers to helping
their students in Bartlesville. This year,

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we're going to be inducting Darryl Ballard, Gene Fincher, Rita Wade's going to

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be our legacy inductee, and then
we'll have Linda Shipley who was a speech

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and debate coach at the high school. So we've got some great honor ease

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to celebrate. Tickets are available on
our website BPS foundation dot org. Sweet

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and tells one more thing back on
the Agg facility we talked about at the

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board meeting. We also have a
new story on our website. But the

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Lion Foundation they donated five hundred thousand
dollars for our Agg facility. As you

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know, I mentioned that that project
was approved in two thousand and twenty one,

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but I think everybody knows the cost
of everything has changed since two thousand

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and twenty one, and so we
started building the facility and we got bids

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in Obviously, the numbers were higher
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so we asked the Lion Foundation to
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part of the project which they did. So they are they have committed half

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a million dollars and they do such
wonderful things for our community and they've really

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touched, I mean, almost everything
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and they've really helped us with that. It's really thankful for our strong community

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support. That's amazing. What's really
amazing because we got it all in in

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twenty minutes. That's a lot going
on in our schools and I'm glad that

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we have you in here at least
once a month and to kind of give

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us a recap of what's happening.
And people are realizing that they their money

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is being well spent and you're very
careful with the dollar and you're great at

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producing dollars there, Blair, So
wonderful job. Thank you. All right,

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