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Money. Good morning, good morning, Welcome young and welcome. It's time

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now for city matters. It matters
to you, It matters to the city.

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That is plain and simple. How
you doing their assistant city manager at

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Tracy Rolls very good? Are you
still get used to saying that? That's

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some of the nicer things that are
said. I'm sure there are still other

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things. They'm probably closer to the
truth. We got a lot going on

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this week, even though it's a
short week, don't we We do short

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We're in preparation for another big week
kind of Yeah, we've got a lot

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going on. Terry's got a lot
going on. We were talking about the

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rain or the lock thereof the wind, and Laura's got a lot going on.

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Everybody's got a lot going on,
except Mike Bailey, who you know,

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we like to give him a hard
time when he's not here, just

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because it's funny. Can't defend himself, and so that we will take some

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shots at mister Bailey throughout this broadcast
today, So just so everybody's ready for

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that. So a big week this
week in preparation for a big week next

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week. First of all, we'll
talk about the charter election, it's April

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the second. That's the regular voting
day. Early voting is the twenty eighth

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and the twenty ninth of March,
and that is this Thursday and Friday early

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voting. We asked that people to
get out and vote, let us know

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what you want us to do for
the city and how you want the city

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to be ran. And this is
a way through their vote for the people

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to really let their voice be heard
when it comes to the charter and to

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tell us if we're on the right
track or if we need to do something

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different. Kind of like on the
roof right now, Tom, there's something

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going on up there. I don't
know really what it is. They're working

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on it. They're trying to find
something to patch up there. I think

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they're going to find twenty if they
keep up whenever they're down. And then

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the wild heard of woodpeckers, and
there's definitely something going on, but progress

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right, the progress. So we
asked that, you know, people get

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out and vote, but we also
asked that they educate themselves before going to

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vote. And there's several ways that
that people can educate themselves to know exactly

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what is in the in the propositions, for the charter election. The city

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website has a quite a bit of
information about what we are proposing and asking

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the voters to vote on the city
beat. Obviously, Kelly Williams and her

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staff do an outstanding job of getting
out not just information about the charter election,

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but information about all things city.
The Oklahoma Election Board their website has

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information about the each each of the
propositions as they will be seen on the

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ballot. It's always good to look
at those things and to read those and

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review them to understand exactly what you're
voting yes or no on. Also,

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tonight, at six point thirty at
Crossing second, there is an event that

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one of the things that will be
discussed is the charter and the charter election.

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I think Terry, you're going to
talk about some water issues at that

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event tonight as well and some other
things. So a lot of information not

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just about the election, but a
lot of information about the city can be

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gained at that event tonight. Again, that's at six point thirty at Crossing

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second. Tomorrow night, the League
of Women Voters are holding a charter forum

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that too, is at six point
thirty. It's at the Bartlesville Library in

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meeting rooms. See, both of
those events are free and just both of

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them are are opportunities to really educate
oneself about what we're asking people to vote

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on. So that if you go
vote this Thursday or Friday or next Tuesday,

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you're educated, asked to what exactly
the city is proposing through the charter

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election. So a lot of ways
to educate oneself, and we asked that

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that people take advantage of something to
educate themselves. Nobody wants to be that

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person in the voting booth saying hey, what's that? You know, you

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don't want to be saying that out
loud, so I educate your Yeah,

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it's embarrassing. It's not a real
good position to be in. No,

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it's kind of like the roof right
now, Tom, the roof is not

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a good place to be. Not
right now, we're not in the good

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position. Yeah, yeah, right
on top of it. Folks are kind

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of hearing that a little bit over
the air, big pounding and thumping,

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that's what's going on. We're getting
ready for the big rainstorms that are coming

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up out. They're practicing their Irish
you know, step dancing or something up

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there. Oh yeah, I remember
that commercial. Yeah, there's definitely something

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going on here. We may not
be saying hard hats. You heard of

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river dance. This is a KNY
river dance. Mister Potter should provide hard

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hats or something. When we come
in here and this is going well.

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He came in to check on me
a little bit and go said, how's

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it going pretty good? And that
was really nice? It was you know,

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that felt good special. April the
twentieth Operation Clean House. That's a

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that's a county wide event so that
people can can dispose of their hazardous household

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and automotive type material in a safe, environmentally safe way to two places where

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people can drop that stuff off,
the Phillip sixty six Downtown parking Lot and

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also the Washington County Barn in Dewey. Again, that's that's something that happens

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every year April the twentieth, eight
am to two pm. People can take

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advantage of that if they have some
material, hazardous type material or stuff like

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that that they need to get rid
of. Let's make sure that it's not

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volatile at the moment that you bring
it Forthdad. That happened a few years

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ago. Yeah, we did have
a situation downtown that was that uh,

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a little excited. I can't remember
exactly the details of it, but it

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turned out okay, Oh I did. Yeah, it wasn't good for a

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little while. No, it's a
little nervous there, Yeah, kind of

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like we are, as we said
here, now listen to what's above us,

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a little nervous. Good Friday is
this week, So that means that

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if your trash was supposed to be
picked up on Friday, that will happen

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on Wednesday. Friday, trash move
to Wednesday. If you don't move it

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to Wednesday, then it'll be there
over the weekend and you have to wait

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till next week. You'll be that
one on the block, you know the

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one. Yeah, you don't want
to be that one usually me. I

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usually forget. But yeah, Good
Friday. Not just will trash routes be

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amended for that day, but also
city Hall will be closed in for Good

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Friday as well. But remember,
if you're a Friday trash collection person,

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your trash will be picked up on
Wednesday. Tom Remember that. Well,

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yeah, I'm the guy clunking around
at three twenty in the morning hauling that

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out there. May the sixth to
the tenth yard debris collection. So grass

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leaves just getting really serious. I
know we keep talking about this. People

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out there listening are probably thinking what
is wrong with those people, But there's

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some serious stuff going on here.
Yard to Break collection, May the sixth

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to the tenth. Grass leaves lone
clippings, limbs, and branches less than

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four feet, no more than fifty
pounds. Put it out by the curb.

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You're the normal trash truck will not
pick that up. There will be

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another truck that comes around to pick
that up. So don't call and scream.

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Right, your trash is gone,
but hard to breeze still there.

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Don't freak out. We'll come back. We'll get it and make sure that

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that stuff's taken away for you.
The last thing that I want to talk

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about and then we'll turn this over
to the real brain trust of the group

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is some upcoming retirements. We have
a few upcoming retirements from some people who

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have served the city for many,
many many years. They've been very dedicated,

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very professional in their service to the
community, and we are very appreciative

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of all that they have given to
serve the public and to be leaders within

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our organization. A few of those
Library Director Shelley McGill. We'll be retiring

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soon after several years of great service
to the community in various roles. We

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will definitely miss her and her expertise
when it comes to a lot of things,

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and we were starting the process to
find her replacement and that will be

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a lengthy process. But she's retiring
in August, well deserved retirement and we

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wish her all the best and thank
her tremendously for her service for as many

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hats as she wears. That's gonna
be a tall order. It will be.

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Laura's got her work cut out for
us to try to find it.

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Yeah. Chief David Topping, our
fire chief, recently announced his retirement thirty

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five years of service to our community
to a little over two and a half

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years as our fire chief. He
has certainly will be missed. He has

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brought a lot of professionalism and dedication
to our fire service in many different areas

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and he will be missed for sure. We are actually doing interviews to fill

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that position this week. We are
first round of interviews. We do have

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some internal candidates who have applied.
We're excited about that and the opportunity to

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see if they're ready to advance to
take over the fire chief role, but

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chief topping he's one of the hardest
working, hardest working, most professional people

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I've ever had the opportunity to be
around, and he will truly be missed,

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and we are so lucky to have
had his service for over thirty five

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years in our community. Another retirement, the last one that I'll speak of,

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is Deputy Chief Rocky Bevard. He
also is set to retire May the

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thirty first. May thirty first is
a popular retirement date, so anybody wants

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to retire, maybe May thirty first
is the time to do it. But

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Rocky has announced his retirement after over
thirty five years of service to the Bartlesville

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Police Department. He will truly be
best is he has such a wide range

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of knowledge when it comes to not
just policing, but the organizational side of

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law enforcement. And he has really
done a good job serving the citizens of

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Bartlesville. And I am so fortunate
to when I came here in twenty eighteen

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as the police chief. In early
in twenty nineteen, we had the opportunity

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to create a deputy police chief position
and we got to a point Rocky,

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and that was tremendous helped me a
lot as far as trying to build that

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foundation of coming into a new organization, and without Rocky, I don't know

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how successful we could have been.
He's done tremendous things and I cannot say

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enough good things about him, and
he will definitely be missed once. He's

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pretty darned humble, too, very
humble man. He's done a lot.

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He's a cop, you know,
He's an old school cop, comes from

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a family of law enforcement. His
sons serves in law enforcement at Washington for

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the Washington County Sheriff's Office. So
great family, great legacy. He will

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truly be missed. And I know
that Chief Ickleberry will have big shoes to

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fill when he appoints the new deputy
police chief. But I'm glad that's his

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problem and not mine, because that'll
be a tough one to fill. So

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a lot going on, a lot
of good people leaving, but with that

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comes opportunity and excitement to have new
leaders and emerging leaders come forward and move

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our city forward and can continue to
serve the departments of their respective departments.

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So, Laura, we have kind
of some things going on from the HR

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side and the city side that you
would like to visit. About so we'll

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let you have it. I think
you talking about our upcoming retirements is the

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perfect segue to talk about some of
our open positions with the city. So

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the biggest one that we're filling right
now is our fire chief position. The

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application process is opened through April fifth, if anybody's interested in that position.

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We also have some maintenance worker positions
that are open in the streets department,

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in wastewater and water distribution, and
then of course we've got an abatement officer

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position in neighborhood Services. So there's
lots of opportunity here at the city.

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So if you go to Cityofbartlesville dot
org slash careers, you'll see a full

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listing of all the positions that we're
hiring for, and then our application is

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out there as well. I would
like to point out that we offer excellent

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benefits at the city, so we
have competitive pay, but the benefits are

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awesome. So we offer great time
off. Our health plan is awesome.

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We have a cool benefit called the
Zero Card that is probably our best benefit.

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This is the benefit that I'm most
proud of. Anyways, employees can

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get better on our health plan,
can get a lot of different services covered

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at no charge to them, and
of course this is also a cost savings

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to the city when they use this
zero card benefit instead of using their regular

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insurance. And so, yeah,
if you're interested in a position with the

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city, we've got lots of opportunities
at Cityofbartlesville dot org slash careers. Talking

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about the zero card, you know, I've worked at a few different places

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throughout my career and by far the
best benefit that I've had as far as

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the city offered benefit other than my
salary, has been the zero forger card.

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Yeah, it is amazing how when
you get a referral. For example,

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one of my kiddos had their tonsils
taken out and it absolutely cost me

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nothing, cost me nothing. I
mean, it cost me the time to

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drive to Tulsa and however much that
cost and gas, but as far as

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the procedure, it was absolutely nothing. So it is a tremendous benefit that

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that I don't think people really understand, and certainly when I got here,

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I didn't understand because I thought,
oh, there's got to be a catch,

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there's got to be something. Zero
really doesn't mean zero, but zero

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really does mean zero when it comes
to MRIs or different surgical procedures, and

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it is such a cool benefit.
We always share it, you know,

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in our new hire orientation we talk
about the zero card, but I don't

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think it really hits people until they
need to use it. And I think

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even for me, I think it
was five years before I actually used it,

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or maybe not quite five years,
but we had had the benefit a

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long time before I actually utilized it. And then I'm like, oh,

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this is really wonderful when you actually
see that cost savings. So a lot

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of expensive procedures, diagnostic services such
as blood work and MRIs and X rays

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all covered at zero cost to the
employee. And then there's obviously a cost

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savings to the city as well,
so everybody wins. So what's that list

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of openings? Where can people find
it? Scooper friend, It's a great

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benefit. So next up, I
wanted to talk about our citizens Academy.

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So we have launched our first ever
citizens Academy for the City of Bartlesville.

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Now we have one for the police
department, but this one would be for

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citywide, all city functions, and
so I'm excited to be able to share

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this just because I say all the
time I get the advantage of seeing all

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the cool things that our employees do. So it's really cool to be able

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to share that with citizens so that
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city employees do and what city services
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We close the application process on March
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notified, so we're doing twenty this
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April eleventh, and so all of
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other Thursday from one to four pm. The last session will be on June

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twentieth. So for instance, for
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the Helm and this will be an
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participants and opportunity to get to know
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breakers and some fun activities, and
then we'll hear from our mayor and city

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manager. We'll hear from our CFO
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Terry Lauritson on the water supply update. And then we'll also have some guest

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Yeah, Chris Bauchelder and yeah,
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knew that he's doing that. I
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informed. Yeah, he knows now
well here from Chris Bauchelder with the BDA

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and then Maria Gus from visit Martlesville, so that chrisjas a little bit so

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and that's just for the first session, so there's a lot to learn just

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in the first session. The next
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we'll go to the police department and
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about what they do. And then
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so we'll hear from Jess Cain,
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Gentias on you to supper Court,
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rodeo, so we we'll get introductions
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sanitation on that day. So that'll
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then week four we'll hear from Communications
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will have an actual bus tour.
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look at some dilapidated structures and so
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interactive one. And then week five
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bus tour to the airport and water
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day. So Terry's going to get
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of its facilities a lot. And
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at the golf course, so then
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tour of the wastewater treatment plant and
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the highlight and that will be you'll
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you'll close it on the made.
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that, it definitely is. So
we're excited to be able to kick this

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off and to yeah, to learn
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Yeah, we really appreciate it.
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Bailey and myself, we really appreciate
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an idea that Laura got. She
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side of the state and brought this
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you guys think about this? And
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would be a great idea for you
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Terry. So she's done it and
Terry's now he's on board as well.

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It's definitely a joint effort. We've
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and sharing their their knowledge and so
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is one of those things that's going
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that we use to communicate transparently with
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their civic IQ by showing them kind
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and maybe some of the reasons why
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that we should do, why we
have certain services that we provide versus services

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that cities typically don't provide, and
hopefully give people some understanding on how those

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two operate and how they intermingle but
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So I'm very excited about this.
I know the police department we did it

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for several years and it was tremendous
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and I think that this program will
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thank you for your hard work and
dedication on getting this done. So Terry,

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we got water, we got uh
water reuse, we got water updates,

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We've got some rain. Obviously you're
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Citizen's Academy, so you've got a
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I don't know if the start of
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bag for I think it's one of
the isn't it one of the same?

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Maybe so maybe. So one thing
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Academy is that both Tracy and Laura
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entire class or the entire session,
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in action on every step of the
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in the wastewater plant is a dangerous
place see and things can unfortunately get on

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you that maybe we're unintended, but
the little ranch of a different kind,

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it is a branch of a different
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everything is washable except replaceable except bleach. I mean that's pretty much rue.

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But let's talk about our drinking water. So we've had the benefit of

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some nice range really starting on Christmas
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really in good shape, with exception
of Copane Lake, so that is our

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smallest water source. We do have
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Hudson Lake, the Caney River,
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water sources are full with exception of
Copan Lake, and right now Copan is

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just under sixty eight percent, So
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in good shape for this time of
year. Copane Lake has been on the

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rise here for the last two or
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weekend did help much, but obviously
didn't hurt at all. So there's more

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rating forecasted later this week, so
we'll wait and see how that how that

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transpires. But historically springtime we'll get
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and so I anticipate that will be
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this year and Copan will be full
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information on the city's website. So
Kelly does post updates as far as our

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water supply weekly, So if you
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you can just go to the citybarswel
dot org. It's usually on the front

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page or it's in within city Beat. So Kelly publishes city Beat weekly.

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If you're not a member or a
subscriber to that, we would encourage you

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to become one because that's a fantastic
resource, not only for water and wastewater,

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but really all issues and things that
come up before council or actions that

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are taken through there. So encourage
you to subscribe if you haven't, and

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if you are, certainly you'll be
aware of those of that information. Tom,

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does this noise come through? They
can they hear that? Yes?

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Okay, I'm wearing headphones and it's
like amplified times. Dad, I didn't

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know if that was if people could
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I mean, that's people above us. Yeah. Do you ever feel

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like you're below Studio fifty four on
Saturday? Like, I hope people can

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hear it, because if not,
they think that we have lost weird weird.

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Well, they can see the camera
shake every now and then when a

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big one comes down. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, it's a little unnerving,

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I know, but you're doing good. You just have to go to

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a different space, Tom. So
I'm trying my best try, and I'm

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still in shocked that I'm involved with
so much of the Citizens Academy. That's

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a little bit a little bit shocked, I guess not shocked, but I'm

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just well, you're a popular guide. It's overwhelming, obvious deer in the

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headlights. No, it should be
a great a great session. Not to

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change the suge, but that Citiens
Academy is similar to what we have done

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from a Leadership Barsville perspective, So
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will be fairly similar. But we're
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in Leadership Barsville. Leadership Barsville is
just a one day smash it all the

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way through beginning to end, So
this is six weeks or six sessions,

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so it will really facilitate a much
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questions about why we do or why
we don't do certain things. Can we

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clear up a rumor we're not drinking
tinkle water? Are we're not reusing water

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yet? No? No, well
we're reusing South Kansas's water, so we're

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drinking their tinkle and we have been
since. Because the people on the internet

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get crazy, they just get nuts. You get some keyboard warriors who are

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half way informed, and you know, I'm getting I'm tired. I got

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to stop looking at the Internet,
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guy at charge, So Tom,
thank you for that segue. So we

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are doing a pilot study in our
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We are not sending that upstream of
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doing that reuse treatment at the plant
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itself. So we're not doing anything
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taking a lot of tests to validate
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with the standard treatment parameters or chemicals
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also testing for the trace elements that
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concern as they say. And so
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study. Will continue to the end
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to date, and so we'll continue
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know, we will publish all that
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to remit that to the state as
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So it's a bunch and an abundance
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But that's far it's been. Uh
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Uh and so we'll continue to monitor
that. And if you are interested in

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taking a tour of that, this
is your facility, so we would you

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can reach out call ahead. Yeah, don't don't show up, but call

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ahead and we'll coordinate. Coordinate through
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nine one eight three three eight four
one one six. That's to my administrative

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assistant and she will kind of help
coordinate a meeting. If you have a

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group, a retiree group or an
interested group of keyboard warriors, we would

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love to have you out there to
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for yourself. So again nine one
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If you just want to talk to
the city manager's office, that's always

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your purview to do so of nine
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two, which I always like to
do. Mister Bailey likes talking. Mister

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Bailey would enjoy having a conversation with
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if it's about water, wastewater,
so RESUS is going well. So if

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you are interested, reach out and
we can schedule you a tour. All

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right, sounds good. All right, that's gonna do it for our city

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matters. I want to thank everyone
for being on board today and putting up

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with our construction