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And good morning, good morning,
good morning, and welcome, welcome,

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welcome. It is time now for
our community connection right here on K one,

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the one you trust, and it
is also what we call our city

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matters. We're having a little issue
here with our bandwidth here, so please

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bear with us if you're trying to
watch us on the computer. I guess

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maybe I didn't know that the cold
weather, Trevor doors, he could slow

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down ones and zeros, but I
guess it gets more than just your water

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in your heat. How you doing, I'm doing pretty good other than it

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being a little bit cold, just
a little bit on the cold side.

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Huh. Yeah. I get a
little worn out of the breaking ice for

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animals, but there's a lot of
people doing that right now. And as

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you said, there's a lot of
people that are having water difficulties because this

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cold weather is not cooperating with able
to get watered areas because your pipes maybe

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a little bit frozen, just a
little bit a little bit. But everything's

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looking kind of pretty cool here as
far as uh. We got some hope,

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I guess. And one thing that's
good is that we're getting some water.

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Yes, sir, we are out
of the ban again. We got

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a little bit of water. I
don't know that this snow is really going

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to help that, but it looks
like next week. Uh, you know,

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based based on the forecast, you
got like a fifty sixty chance about

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every day of some rain. So
yeah, we depending on where that rain

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is. And I think we've had
that discussion a couple of times. You

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get up around the Cedar Vale basin
and the Sedan basin, that's when that

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water is going to go to the
Hula and Hula Lake and the Copan So

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uh, I don't know where that
rains supposed to be coming in at,

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but hopefully that's that's kind of the
area and maybe they'll just add to what

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we've already got and be successful in
dodging another slow down of the water.

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That was that was that was a
tough one. We were in, we

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were out, we were in,
we were out. You know, we

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were partly in a drought, partly
not. And let's let's do this.

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And I know there are what are
resources people are meeting tomorrow. They got

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their work cut out for them,
they do. And I'm I'm grateful that

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those guys are meeting again because I
know that they're working for solutions. Long

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term, we we do have water, and we we've been lucky, good

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Lord's blessed us. But obviously this
past summer we had a had a bit

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of a scare. Oh golly,
we did. And so long term,

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you know, we've had that discussion
to you and I about what what what

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is that? What do we do
long term? I don't know. I

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know that those guys are working diligently
figured that out. Got about half a

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dozen options you're looking at tomorrow.
Yeah, and I know some communities I

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believe in and piped there's piping water
in from maybe Collake and so. But

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that was considerably expensive. I don't
remember the exact number on that price tag,

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but it was, you know,
a millions million dollars billions or whatever.

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So it's uh, and that's it's
a lot of money. And we

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were already you know, in the
midst of what we're going to have to

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do a new water plan. So
there's a lot of things going there where

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there's some expenses coming into play,
and and we're trying to avoid increasing taxes

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for any of the citizens. But
you know, things cost money. Unfortunately,

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they do, especially life giving water, and they cost more money than

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they did the year before, and
they cost more money than the year you

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know, just go up, cost
escalates, and so you know, I

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know that that group is working diligently, and I think that they'll have a

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lot of really good options for everybody
considering us to think through and figure out

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how we long term solve that that
water issuing problem of courage. Whoever Dorsey

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here with this and yeah, he's
a city councilor here and borows at my

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city counter. I haven't called him
or rung him up. And you think

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of I seem all the time you're
all over town. Uh, But Trevor,

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we've got a thing called what the
strategic plan or comprehensive plan? Is

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comprehensive plan or did the strategy?
Now we're doing the comprehensive Yes, sir,

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Now we're doing the comprehensive plan,
and that it is taking place some

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meetings at least tomorrow and Thursday.
And you know, the community is going

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to be involved in that. We've
I think there's several citizens in the community

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we've kind of pulled in to be
involved. And then there will be some

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town hall type stuff which all of
our citizenry will have an opportunity to come

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and give thoughts, input, insight
into what they what they think and feel.

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And so I really think this is
this is good for good for Barsville.

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Get our buddy engage and so that'll
be going on here for a while.

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Well, you know that that public
input thing, about the time you

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think you have your town figured out, go to a public input Me like

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an oh, well maybe not so
much. Yeah, because you're gonna hear

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a lot of ideas maybe you never
even dreamed of thinking up. Well,

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you get some good ones and we
get some get some interesting ones, but

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mostly they're very good, very well
thought out. Yeah, you're right.

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I think it's always a good opportunity
when we can get our citizens involved and

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get feedback. And so I think
this will be very paramount to what the

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city does going forward. And just
like the water water board and so a

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lot of good opportunies, a lot
of good things going on. Even though

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it's colder and geeweiz. Right now, I would invite the global warming right

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now, I think a lot of
people would. Maybe early summer, we'll

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come. We went through this about
two years ago. I believe you and

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I were talking before the before we
went on air, and so I think

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it was colder then it was.
I know that the ice was a lot

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thicker when I was having to break
it on the pond, even with my

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burn Borough than it is right now. So I'm thankful that it's not quite

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that cold. Also thinking that,
thankful that I don't have any cows that

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I think are fixing the cave right
now. That would just complicated things,

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wouldn't it. I had two last
time, and it was like negative three

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and I was talking to these two
cowsm as so they don't understand you,

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and so they may not, but
I'm to him. They waited until they

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got to be positive two degrees to
have calves, so they were bobtail calves,

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but they made it. They made
it. Gosh, my gosh.

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You know, this is an interesting
time. You know, we're coming back.

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Everybody's trying to remember how to function
after the holidays. People are at

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work kind of getting their bearing straight. Government at the same time has to

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do that too. But government really
never sleeps. I mean, we've had

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our trash people, our police and
fire those folks have been out in this

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stuff. And by the way,
Keith Henry had his work cut out for

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him it looks like he's going to
have a little interesting time this weekend too,

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with the streets. Yeah, I
think Friday night and through Sunday.

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I believe it's mind Craig that could
get a little testy and entertaining on some

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sleep. And you know, there
may be some slick roads in some spots

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this morning, but you know,
they've done a really good job at getting

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out and in the sand and whatever
they're putting on the You do have clear,

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clear driveways, roadways to drive down. I know some of the side

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streets are still, but that's that's
part of it. You can't get them

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all. You can't get those all. They trayed to get what they call

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the feeders and the main arterials.
And one thing that I like about what

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they've done with Frank Phillips is that
they made the outside lanes they bladed those,

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but they kept the inside lanes a
little bit, you know where they

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were, And I guess that kind
of keeps folks from entertaining the idea of

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passing and speeding and kissing somebody right
between the headlights oncoming traffic when you don't

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know really how to drive in this
you're you're correct. I was watching a

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newscast last night where they were talking
about all the res in southern Arkansas and

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Louisiana, and I was like,
oh, yeah, these you know are

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people, don't they're not used to
driving like we were talking about up north.

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If you live up north, you're
used to dealing with this kind of

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weather all the time and driving in
this this type of environment that you know,

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we we only get it. Sometimes
someone is we don't even get this

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much snow. True, I believe
again it was two years ago when we

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had something like this. Last year
we might have had a little snow or

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two here and there, but it
wasn't. We've been pretty lucky, uh,

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dodging that bullet. And so now
we were getting to we're getting to

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handle it and deal with it a
little bit. Yeah, you want to,

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you want to be entertained. Watch
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metroplex with an interre less of snow
by one winter we were we lived farther

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south in Oklahoma and we were going
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the weather was starting to snow,
and so we're heading north and usually took

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Highway forty eight, which comes out
I think around Bristow and then you're going

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in Tulsa. Well, he was
trying to beat the weather and luckily we

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just got to Bristow before it made
it kind of there, but then it

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kind of caught up with us.
And it was amazing the number of people

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that were still driving down forty four
or seventy miles an hour like there was

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nothing going on. And then you
know, I'm going about fifty and people

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are blown by me. And then
you get a little ways up there out

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and they're in the ditch. And
I was like, well, that's you

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need to slow down. But when
you're when you're in a place like you

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said, Dallas, and you know, you tell me you remove you take

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little Rock and south of there and
you get into Louisiana. I'm sure they

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this is not something that they see
all the time. And so they got

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one truck for the whole county.
You got one truck, take care of

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it. But we do a pretty
good job, I think for what we

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do. I had other folks who
came from the face of Bartlefield draws people

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in from all the United States,
a factor from all over the world,

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and one of the fellows from New
York State and he says, well,

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why don't they have a you know
all this is story, I said,

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because some winners you don't get any
I said, you know, so why

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why you invest, you know,
so heavily in that for maybe? And

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that's kind of where we are in
this part of Oklahoma all the way around.

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So yeah, and I you know
Kansas, I'm I travel a lot

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in Kansas for work. And yeah, they do a really good job,

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but they get a lot more snow
than we do. Like you said,

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there's not probably really the reasoning to
invest all the money that you would have

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to and all that equipment. If
you're not seeing this with regularity, yes,

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we don't, thankfully, knock one
don't see it now. We got

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some other things going on with the
city as the new year begins. I

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understand we've got some openings on the
some of the boards and committees and stuff

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like that. This is a great
way to kind of get a peek behind

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the curtain on how how community works, isn't it It is? We talked

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about this lot. We got through
some kind of cycles there for a while.

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We seemed like every time I was
on we had a lot of openings

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that we were talking about in different
committees, and then those kind of filled

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up and for a while we went
along. But as time goes on,

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obviously on those committees, people serve
their terms and they roll off, and

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then it's good to get new blood
and other people with opportunities to serve.

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I know, on the Golf committee, it seems like we've got three or

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four openings that are coming here,
you know, because the people rolling off

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and getting new people on. And
I know there's other committees. I can't

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think right off the top of my
head. If we go to the website,

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they've got them. All is to
oh, yes, sir, yeah,

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you could always go to the website
and check it out, or call

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mis Slaine Bins, who she knows
everything, yes, and she can get

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you a she can she can direct
you to get the you know what you

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need to do to apply for that
committee, and then of course it will

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go out to one of the council
members. I know, if it's a

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committee that I serve on, typically
those come to me need a review,

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and if it's the mayor or the
vice mayor or mister Roselle or you know,

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are miss thrown, then those committees
they serve on they're going to get

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to look at those and say,
hey, these are and maybe talk with

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those individuals. And we always appreciate
everybody that's willing to serve and wants to

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serve, and like you said,
it's a really good opportunity to get involved,

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to learn. And a lot of
times I have people in the community,

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well what what can I do?
And I'm like, well, here's

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what you here's what you do,
here's how you do that. And I

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strongly encourage people if if you have
a you know, you have a real

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love for let's say the parks.
You know, sure a lot of people

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do, the library, There's going
to be opportunity there, the history museum,

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and who wouldn't the golf committee.
I mean, there's excuse me,

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bless you. They come in spurts. But I think that anything that a

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person kind of has a passion for, there's going to be an opportunity for

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you to serve. Now it's that
opportunity right now today, maybe not that.

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If you keep following along, then
in that opportunity, we will be

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there and you could always submit your
application and so that way, whenever that

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opportunity does become open and available,
then you're you're right there in the wing

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ready to go. If anybody wants
to do anything about the city, all

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we have to do is go to
the website and that's the City of Bartlesville

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dot A work and that has your
picture and your phone number in there in

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case folks want to know what's going
on in the in your your district and

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your council. It does and they
do a good job reaching out and we

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try to be as proactive as we
can and getting back and getting solutions.

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Had to recently a gentleman reach out
about water pressure and thought it maybe had

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to do with the when we had
the drought, when we had the restrictions,

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but it turned out it didn't,
so we weren't helping getting that resolved.

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And so lady Mason, you'll fix
it. Yefer different issue, but

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you know, don't know unless you
call and we can we can try to

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get work through that. So I'm
always uh, just a phone call or

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an email away. Like you said, it's on the website, so reach

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out if you need anything. And
we look forward to a little warmer weather

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here soon. Hey Trevor, thank
you for being great being here. All

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right, take care. We bet
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