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

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It is time now for our City
Matters program with his honor the Mayor.

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How are you doing there, Mayor
Dalell? I am good Tom,

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how are you well? We got
a lot going on, you know,

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it's the first day is spring,
and I take a look at what we're

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looking at here today. There's just
a lot going on there is. It's

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springtime. Things are blooming and the
city is bustling. Yep. First of

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all, I heard our city clerk, our city CFO talk about this about

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our sales tax, and it's amazing
how it can be down and up at

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the same time. Well, it
depends on what you're comparing to the last

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ten years. It's excellent. We're
comparing to last year. It's down a

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bit. But we do can.
We budget very conservatively, and I think

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at the time that's tough. You
know, it's just like your house,

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you know why we think we're gonna
have more, let's just spend it might

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not, so we always budget conservatively. The budget has exceeded well, our

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receipts have exceeded our budget plan,
but that's beginning to kind of level off.

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We're still ahead and last year was
a record year. But I think

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we're thirty three thousand dollars but on
a twenty six million dollar budget. That's

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not as much as it sounds like. But we are ahead and we do

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budget that way, so we're in
good shape. But it's great to see

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that receipts use tax. We didn't
know, had no idea. Oh yeah,

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it's a baseline year. Now we're
about fourteen months into that, so

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we're beginning to have last year to
compare to, and it's out performing what

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we had expected and so that's a
good thing. But again that was down

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too, so things are leveling off, but we're still in good shape.

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Hey, you know, if you
want to be a part of government,

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or at least you know, get
a peek behind the curtain. We've got

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tons of opportunities we do. There's
more than twenty commissions, boards, authorities

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and committees that meet. They do
streets and parks and golf course and line

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library and just the list goes on. Cemetery, community center, ambulance service.

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There's just a lot of things.
And we've got citizens people, your

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neighbors and friends just like mine.
But take their time, they bring their

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knowledge and they give their wisdom to
study those particular areas in their particular committee

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or authority, and then when something
comes to the council, a lot of

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that has been done. There's a
lot of great input and it helps make

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the best decisions. But we ask
people volunteer. If you have an interest

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in something, volunteer. Maybe there's
not an opening right now, but next

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month, next year, and we
keep those. You can apply for several

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different You go to Citybartlesville dot org. You can download that application, complete

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it, submit it, never leave
your requiner. You can go by city

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Hall, go up on the second
floor, talk to Elaine Bain's in the

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city Manager's office. She'll get you
a form. Take the form you filled

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out, or answer questions on how
to do the form. But look at

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those and be at You'll learn a
lot, but you'll also give back to

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our community. Okay, we talked
about some openings, but we've got another

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opening too. This is kind of
at the top. It's a fire chief

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we're looking for. We do.
Chief Topping has been there for a long

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long time, over thirty years,
and there comes that time that it's time

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to retire, and I don't particularly
like that. It'd be a bunch nicer

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if he just stay there forever.
But apparently he didn't agree, so he's

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set to retire in June. So
we started the process, as we've done

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in other departments, to look for
the very best candidate we can find,

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and that will be both an internal
and external. We've seen that happen both

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ways. Time. We've had outside
people come in and do a great job.

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We've also had people that were already
here, so they'll look at that.

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That's not a city council function,
that's something that staff does city manager,

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but that is going forward so that
we can keep our fire department the

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best in the state. How we
doing water wise? Water is looking a

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lot better in springtime. We kind
of expect that, but as you recall

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a year ago, that wasn't the
case. Heal A Lake is full and

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a bit over up in what they
call the floodpool. Copan has not,

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but it's a whole lot better than
it was. It's still below being quote

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unquote full, but it is coming
up. We're getting some rains. I

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think the other thing that's worth mentioning
is we have asked repeatedly for people to

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conserve water, use water. That's
what it's there for. But don't waste

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water. Just like all resources,
take care of it, whether it's your

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money or the gas bill or the
electric bill. The water is a crucial

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resource, and I can tell you
that people are doing a great job.

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We're using just over four million gallons
a day, about four four point one

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four point one five. But it
tells me that everybody has paid attention,

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is doing their part, and if
we all do a little bit, it

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adds up. Now the lot of
reuse planning, everybody's thinking, oh my

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gosh, we're reusing our dirty water, Oh my gosh. And it's come

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on, folks. No, and
we've talked about this and we'll continue to

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but the water is not being reused. We do have the pump and the

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pipeline in place, but we have
to have ODEQ permits. They're running a

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pilot project right now to run tests
on various different processes to get the very

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best called affluent, but basically what
goes back in the rivers already going in

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the river. We're just going to
look hopefully in the future, probably twenty

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twenty six before all this finishes up. Everything is slow, but we'll put

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it in the river in a different
place is the only difference. But that

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is not happening, regardless of what
local experts proclaim online Keyboard war Year.

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Well, it just creates confusion.
I'm always tell people, if you have

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a question, call a city council
member. Therefrommers are posted, call the

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city called Terry LARTs and the water
utilities director and get the information firsthand.

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But no, that is not true. Oh good, Hey, we've got

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sign signs everywhere. Sign but they're
looking pretty cool. They do the New

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Week all them wayfinding signs. They're
at the parks, they're downtown. They're

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different places to help people. Even
if you've lived here a long time,

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you might not go on that street
or in that section. And then then

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they look really nice too, but
particularly for folks coming from out of town,

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might be coming in for a sports
tournament, soccer, baseball, basketball,

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whatever, which by the way,
Oakue was doing great on basketball.

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Yeah they are. That's good news. But we're continuing to expand that.

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You'll see little little concrete things and
like, what are those Those are going

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to be another sign at some point
in the future. They're going through the

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process of getting those little concrete bases
poured and then they'll come in and start

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adding more signs. Ultimately, the
ones I'm looking forward to is is you

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come into town on Highway seventy five
north and south, there'll be a welcome

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to Bartlesville brand new sign. I
think this thing is like seven or eight

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feet high and eleven feet wide.
Really looks nice. Matches the ones that

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are already there. So those are
continuing to pop up like that. Now

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we've got our state of the Police
depart Apartment event. Yeah. I can't

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think of another word that would fit. Yeah, now that's coming up.

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Get the date, March the twenty
eighth week on Thursday. It's gonna be

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at the we call it the Center, the Community Center, and they'll just

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talk about the different things. I'm
sorry, I've just emraced what i just

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said. The judge tells the jury
disregard that. Ye disregard that to Oklahoma

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Wesleyan University. I'm sorry. But
it's on March twenty eighth, which is

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a Thursday, from six in the
evening to about eight, and the police

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department will discuss, I'm sure,
answer questions all the things that are going

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on there. There's a lot happening
there that running an Assitizens Academy, Police

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Academy that's been full every time they've
run it. Everyone I talk to that

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goes to those comes away with a
better understanding and really a better appreciation of

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our police department. Now we talked
about these unpaid boards and commissions and texts

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like that. We've got real job
to pay, real money. Well,

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we'll do. There's all of those. There are lots of jobs, over

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three hundred employees with the City of
Bartlesville, and we need good people,

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dedicated folks. They're looking for a
good career path. There's good benefits.

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There's lots of good opportunities within the
city. And there's a posting city Bartlesville

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dot org. It'll tell you everything
from this department to that department, what

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particular jobs. Obviously, FI Archief
we talked about that. Yeah, I'm

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not qualified for that job either.
I can't run into a burning building like

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they do now. But it's a
great thing if you have an interest in

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that, or you have a friend
that's looking for employment, looking for a

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career recommended least considering City Bartlesville.
Right, very good. Now, we've

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got an election coming up, we
do. It's on April the second.

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What do we got going on.
Well, it's interesting. Tom started doing

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a little bit of history, give
you a little background on this. The

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first city charter was adopted in nineteen
ten. We're both a lot younger than

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yeah, a lot lot younger.
It's been amended many times in that period

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of time, once at one hundred
and fourteen years. Some of the most

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recent was April of eighty three,
again in April of eighty five. The

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current charter was adopted in January of
eighty seven, So every two years there

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were changes happening. There was a
break there for about eighteen years, but

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then it was amended in April of
two thousand and five and then again in

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November of two thousand and ten.
And so what we're looking at is having

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an election April the second. It's
not yes or no, you know,

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all in one. It's broken out
into ten separate questions. So the ballot

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will have ten things listed. Now
half of those are basically housekeeping. The

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original this charter, if you go
back and read it says if this charter

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is approved, then this changes in
that Well, the charter was approved,

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so that language is now obsolete and
we would clean that out. There was

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also a section there because at the
time they met at seven pm, that

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says new councils shall be sworn in
and seated at seven pm. That's not

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got to happen. Well, it
could, but we're really confusing because we

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now meet at five point thirty,
which has worked very well. So there's

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five of those that are that kind
of housekeeping. The other five deal with

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particular issues that the council felt we're
worth putting out to our citizens, friends

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and neighbors that live here, shop
here, go to school or whatever,

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recreate and ask them what they want
to do. So some of the things

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would be council terms. Right now, we went from four years to two.

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Four is a long time. Two. I don't think I Tom could

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learn the radio business in two years, and I look in this room and

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there's so many buttons and switches and
lights flashing that it takes a while.

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Same thing with government and city council. So we looked at three years.

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We also looked at and there's arguments
for and against all these things, and

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that's the discussion we want to have. But we looked at three years and

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then staggering those so that you don't
have a situation. I think they was

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told in nineteen seventy six when they
had an entirely new council, and that

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might be warranted. I'm not saying
that's not the case, but the confusion

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and the learning curve that happens,
then you don't get the best government.

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You don't get things going. I
always tell people what you want is dull

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government. The trash goes away,
the water comes out when I turn it

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on, it goes away when I
pushed the little silver handle. All of

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these things happen. It's just dull
and boring, and it works and it's

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smooth, and that's what you'd like
to have. Then we also looked at

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the recall. It's never actually happened, so it's still theoretical. But it

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turns out the recall was pretty loosely
framed, I think, and there were

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no limits. So I think,
well, there might be a situation when

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it was necessary to recall someone,
and that's perfectly fine, and in fact,

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should happen. I would assume that
that was a pretty egregious situation,

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that something had been done that needed
to be addressed. And back to the

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fire department. If the building's on
fire, we need to address the fire

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today, not next week or next
year, and if there is something of

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that magnitude, then we ought to
have that action taken in a timely manner

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and get it resolved and keep the
city moving forward. So we looked at

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a recall that would be allowed for
up to one hundred and eighty days now,

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whether you have a two year term
as we currently do, or if

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it went to a three year term, in six months when something has come

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up that enough people would sign a
petition to initiate a recall, and then

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to ask right now, you have
to have so many voters in each ward,

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well, it's over one thousand,
and for the city clerk to have

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ten days to verify one thousand plus
signatures, they'd have to stop everything else

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they're doing. So the idea was
put forward on that one to allow up

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to thirty days for them to get
that accomplished. Still timely, but a

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little more time to do the job
they already do, plus to handle that.

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And then finally, this one's a
little I think, probably not as

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exciting, but it's important. The
city council sets a budget, the city

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council approves significant changes to that budget, auditions or deletions, and the City

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Council will approve contracts. Well,
it's mister Bailey. The city manager has

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mentioned this. If you want to
buy ten gallons of paint, he has

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the authority in his department heads to
do that. Doesn't something you'd wait till

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next month to approve. On the
other hand, if he wants to hire

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someone to put on that paint,
then there's a contract. Well now it

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has come City Council and it's cumbersome, and the question is is it propered?

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Is it the most efficient? The
council still has the oversight not being

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taken away. What we're doing is
we're taking all the situations that the c

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manager has the authority to do up
to limits and we're going to change this

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one and say this one's included.
So there's consistency, and it makes for

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a more efficient operation and should save
money and save time, which time is

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money. But that one I think
is perhaps the least understood. But it

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just essentially aligns all of our different
methods that we expend city funds and makes

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them consistent. Well, very good, very good. So we're going to

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have early voting on this, and
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Yes, I tell people vote.
Whether you vote absentee, whether you vote

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early go down to the election board, which is the fourth floor of city

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Hall, or whether you vote on
Tuesday, election day, please vote to

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have light turnouts. Oh, that's
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was the other change was to move
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that one has garnered a lot of
discussion, and that's great that people are

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concerned and interested me attention exactly why
because in November, as you will know,

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Tom, you can't get a radio
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They're all taken up. We have
state, we have federal we have a

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president, senators, governors, and
somebody running for city council, our state,

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our school board by the way,
an unpaid position gets lost in that

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flood and allowed. Yeah, the
phone calls, I love those, the

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mailings, all of the different things, the social media posts. How do

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you even get somebody running for ward
one in city council? Get your message

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out? People even know who you
are when you're lost in that sea of

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information. So moving it to April
is when we have school boards and all

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the local things, and that's done
across the state. That's what we did

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up until two thousand. Well we
did it in twenty eleven, so it

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was later that we changed over in
twenty twelve, and that twelve years of

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experience has shown us that sometimes the
voters aren't aware of who is running to

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represent them at the city council.
They're not aware of what their thoughts are

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on a particular issue that may be
important to you, and we want to

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bring that and elevate that up.
And we feel like moving to April,

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I realize there's high turnouts in November. The problem is if they're there to

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vote on president or the governor,
which is very important, have they really

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focused on their local government. So
those are the things we're going to ask,

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but basically just vote. Tell the
people need to tell the city what

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they want, because that's what we're
going to do very good. We need

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to clean up a little bit.
It's been kind of messy since that fall.

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It was very dry, which created
a whole lot of leard debris in

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my art. But we did this
back in the fall. We do this

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in the spring. People might scalp
their yard. Everybody has different methods of

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taking care of their lawns. But
on May I have to look and get

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it right here, because I've already
messed up once. May the sixth through

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May the tenth, on your regular
trash day, put out your polycarts the

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way you always do. But if
you have yard debris, you can put

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as many bags, any bag,
clear bags, color bags, whatever.

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You can put limbs and sticks and
twigs as many as there are at the

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curb, not on the carts,
but near the carts, and they will

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be picked up, probably by a
separate truck at a different time. But

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the limit is that the yard debris, leaves and black grass clippings need to

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be bagged, do not need a
sticker of any sort. The limbs and

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sticks and twigs need to be bundled, no more than four feet long,

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no more than fifty pounds, tied
up in a bundle, so that the

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city workers can pick them up and
load them and get rid of them for

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you. The important word for all
of this is that little word free.

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It's free, my favorite price.
That's right. No stickers, no tags.

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There's a lot of work. Get
I'm ready, But if you put

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them at the curb, they'll go
away. Very good, very good,

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mayor thank you for being with you
tonight. I was preppycure. It's a

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chance to visit. All right,
folks, you've been listening to. You

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are a city Matters program right here
on K one. I'll never forge