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Hey, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, and

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welcome, welcome, welcome in.
It's time now for our city managers.

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It matters to you, it matters
to the city. Vicy versy versus vicey.

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How you doing there, City manager
of Mikey Bailey. I don't know.

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I'm my breath. Just listen to
you, Tom no more energy than

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I do. Yeah, boy,
that's why you played running back a long

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time at home. Yeah. That's
see, that's it. That's the different

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story is right there. Good morning, good morning, and this will be

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I guess this will actually be the
last time on the radio Christmas. Good

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that's right, because you guys,
you guys got bumped for the Green Country

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Christmas. That's right. Well,
that's we got to know that it's more

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important than we are. So I
would did say that the priorities are similar,

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but sort of not similar. We'll
just keep it that way. I

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know who most people would rather hear
from my city. They want to be

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good. I get it enough of
being nice to be practical. That's right.

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What you got going there, guy? Well, speaking of Christmas coming

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up, we just want to let
everybody know about our holiday hours. So

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there are some closures coming up towards
the end of the year. Most of

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our offices will be closed on December
twenty fifth, of course, but we're

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also going to close on December twenty
sixth. So every year we give our

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employees we have a floating holiday,
and we give them the opportunity to decide

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if they want to take it as
a group. This year they decided they

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wanted to take it the day after
Christmas, so we were we aren't happy

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to grant that to them. So
most officesill be closed on Christmas the day

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after, and then of course we'll
be closed on New Year's as well,

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which I believe it's a Monday this
year, so we'll be closed on New

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Year's Day, which is the first
course uh for us trash routes. There'll

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mean no trash routes on Christmas or
on New Year's Day. We'll collect.

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Both of those are Mondays, so
we'll collect on Wednesday of that week,

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but we will have our normal trash
route on the day after Christmas, and

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that one the Wednesday after Christmas is
gonna be big. Oh, it'll be

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a big one, There's no doubt
about it. That will be a good

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sized one forger So yeah, I'm
sure Keiths guys always look forward to the

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post Christmas absolutely is the busiest day
of the year for us. So yeah,

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we're excited about it. I'm to
pick it up in Giblet. So

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you had to deal with the the
last go round. Absolutely so, but

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that's so those will be our hours. We look forward to, uh letting

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our employees off spend a little time
with their families as we come into this

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end of the year. And we, as I said, one wish everyone

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I marry Christmas, because I won't. I won't get a chance to be

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on the radio again until next year. So but before we befo we jump

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into the discussion, I did want
to take just a moment here. We

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had a we had an event.
Let's say it was a couple of weeks

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ago. Chief this was the one
where we had the car that went off

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into M. J. Lee Lake. So we had a citizen who had

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had a medical event. Uh and
he actually went off of Adams Boulevard,

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went off down into the lake into
Lee Lake. We were very fortunate in

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that we actually had an off or
no, he wasn't off duty. He

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was on his way. He was
on his way in so stud we been

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here, that's right, So technically
he was off duty, but he was

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on his way into work, and
that was Lieutenant Chris Neil was on his

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way in. He was the first
one he actually saw the actually saw the

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gentleman veer off of the road,
responded, and then we had two more

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people responded, one of them sergeants
Steve Steve Johnson was a sergeant. And

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then I believe from the fire department, we did have a we did have

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an off duty firefighter, uh in
Krispy Cannon, who was the next on

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scene. So between the three of
them, they were able to break the

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window because the cars the doors were
locked and they weren't able to get him

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out that way. So they were
able to break the window and extract him.

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And I know that he survived.
At the time, I assume he's

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doing well. I haven't I haven't
checked back, but so Ard was last

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week last we heard he was doing
well. So I just wanted to take

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a moment and thank all of those
guys their their quick work there, uh

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likely saved this man's life. So
I just wanted to just wanted to take

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a moment. This is that was
a pretty special event and thankfully, not

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something we have happened often. Although
we did have an interesting event that I

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almost witnessed downtown not too long ago, and we had had somebody who had

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a medical emergency in their car drove
down the sidewalk and wiped out a few

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light poles and uh think pedestrian was
hit. Thankfully, the pedestrian was only

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hit by the mirror, and the
last I saw her she was standing and

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see him be doing well. So
we were very fortunate on both of those

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that they weren't more severe than that. Unfortunately, motor vehicles are very dangerous,

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specially if you have a medical emergency. So buddy, be careful out

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there. Let's all come back from
the new year together in one piece.

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No kissing the phone polls, No, No, they kissed back. Yeah,

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they so all right. Well,
before I turned over to these guys,

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Tom, I wanted to talk just
a little bit about some charter changes

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that the city Council is considering.
And there's a number of things, and

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just back up just a little bit. Back in twenty ten, the city

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Council appointed a Charter review committee and
this committee spent I believe it was eleven

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or twelve months reviewing the charter,
and they met at least once a month.

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Typically they met two to four times
a month. And so this committee,

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it was chaired by Roger Box.
The entire city Council were members of

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it, and I know that George
Halkiatis and some others were members of that

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committee, and they did some exceptional
work. If you look through our charter,

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which is, of course it's a
little bit like the constitution it is,

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it's just like the constitution for our
city. When you look through that

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charter, you'll see that almost every
section was amended back in twenty ten.

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So this group did some tremendous work. However, there are a few things

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in there that the council now is
considering changing for various reasons, and again

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it's not a reflection of the work
of those individuals. In fact, I

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would say that it is a compliment
to the work of them that we have

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gone thirteen years and not needed another
amendment. Previous to that, there's been

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amendments every five years or so.
But looking at it now, the charter

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overall is working very well. But
there are a few things that they did

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want to consider changing, and so
we're actually going to bring in an attorney

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to review some of the proposed amendments. But the proposed amendments effect actually four

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articles of the Charter, but I'll
just kind of break them down into what

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the affect ex of those are.
And the most important one and it kind

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of drove everything, was to extend
the council terms. So right now the

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City Council has two year terms.
Back in back in twenty ten, when

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we had our last election, the
council was on four year terms and so

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there was a lot of debate at
that time. The City Council felt like

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those four year terms were too long, and so they wanted to shorten the

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terms. And I recently reviewed the
minutes of that committee and there was a

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lot of discussion about two year terms
or three year terms. Ultimately the committee

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decided on two year terms. Now, thirteen years later, as we're having

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a harder time getting volunteers, we've
looked at that and decided that we would

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the council and City staff feel that
it would be wiser to have a little

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bit longer term. Don't want to
go back to the four year because that

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was still a very long term and
it actually impaired our ability to recruit council

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members, so now looking at a
three year term, which would have split

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the difference between those. As a
result, now you no longer compare or

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election with the general election. So
that was part of it. We went

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to two year terms. We paired
it with the general election. But if

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we go to three year terms,
we also want to stagger the terms of

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the council. So right now,
all of the council comes up every two

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years, and you run a chance
that every two years your entire council may

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decide not to run or they may
be defeated. So that's a pretty big

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risk for a government. That's a
tremendous lack of stability. You rarely see

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that in any form of government,
that everyone turns out at the same time.

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I realize it is done at some
of the state levels, but the

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state also has you know, they
have hundreds of representatives whereas we have five.

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So to help moderate that risk,
the Council is proposing that the terms

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be staggered, so they would go
to three year terms and every year there

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would be a council election with no
more than two council members being terming out

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in any given year. So that
just helps provide that continuity. Also to

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better align election with other local elections
rather than when with national elections, we

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would be proposing to move that from
November to April, and there was a

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lot of discussion in the council meeting
about this. The November date has a

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higher turnout, there's no doubt about
it, but those people generally are there

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for national issues. Those that are
familiar with local issues they vote, they

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also vote in April. Those who
aren't familiar with local issues sometimes were surprised

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by what they found when they were
given about for a city council member.

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So there was a lot of discussion
about this. The council liked the idea

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of moving this back to April,
which is when we have a lot of

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other local elections. You have your
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you have your school board elections if
I believe they have a runoff first,

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and then they'll have their general in
April. So there was a lot

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of reasons to sort of solidify that
around a local election date rather than a

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national election date. So that's the
proposals essentially to change the elections. It

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wasn't These were probably the most significant
changes that the council discussed. Those were

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Articles two and three. Article four. This is dealing with recalls, and

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in this there's a little bit of
ambiguity in some of the language, and

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then there's also a timeline that's not
long enough. So the ambiguity is is

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it doesn't state a period of time
in which a petitioner has to gather the

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signatures. And so there has been
some debate and a discussion with the city

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attorney about does that mean that these
could cross terms? And so the mayor

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technically has been in office for about
twelve years. So could I have started

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a recall petition on the mayor twelve
years ago and still be using the same

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signatures through this term? And the
answer is, we don't know, and

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so we need to defind it.
And so that was part of the discussion

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there. So the council had discussed
creating a timeline there, they didn't decide

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on any period of time. They
wanted to ensure that there was sufficient time

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for anybody seeking a recall petition so
that they would be able to do that,

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but at the same time to make
it within a reasonable period of time.

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So the Council discussed ninety days,
one hundred and eighty days, there

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was a discussion of two years or
three years. Then it was a wide

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ranging discussion. So that has yet
to be decided, but it'll come back

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to the council for their discussion later
on. But then the other one in

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there was that the city clerk had, I believe it was ten working days

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to certify any recall petition. So
if somebody submitted a recall petition, say

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there was three council members and they
submitted three different petitions, then that could

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be four thousand signatures. Actually it
would be more than that, could be

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closer to six thousand signatures, So
the city clerk would have ten working days

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to verify whether six thousand signatures are
accurate, are these registered voters, are

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they in the ward that they say
they are, did they really sign it?

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So it was asking a little bit
much. So we'd had a discussion

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with the city attorney about that.
He felt that that timeline was unreasonable and

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that if we faced a recall petition
then we would have to go to the

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court and file for an action and
the judge would essentially have to tell us

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what to do either extend that timeline
or tell you that you're going to have

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to work within the ten So this
extends that. It didn't extend it a

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lot. It was just thirty thirty
days. So we went from ten working

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days, which is about fourteen days, to thirty total days, so it

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about doubled the amount of time that
the clerk has to fulfill his duties.

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We believe that that's more than sufficient
time and that we should be able to

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do that even if we face a
recall petition in all five wards, we

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could potentially make that. And then
the final thing was is that the charter

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currently calls that you cannot recall a
council member in the first four months of

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their term, which made a lot
of sense. You've got a brand new

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council member just been elected, hasn't
had a chance for anybody who determined whether

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they should be recalled. So that
was in there. But what wasn't in

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there was the same prohibit at the
end of a council member's term. So

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it doesn't make any sense for us
to call a special election to recall a

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council member in the last four months
of their term when there's going to be

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an election. So we figured that
that was a better that was a better

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method for the voters to have it
to be able to determine who their elected

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official would be would just be to
rely on the election process itself. So

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those were really the things within the
recall petition. Again, no substantial changes

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there. It was just providing some
a little bit better definition on the timelines

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and dates in which the recall petition
could be used. And then the last

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thing was certainly the most boring,
but it's honestly to city staff is probably

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the most important. And this really
is an amendment to our existing purchasing and

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contracting rules. Right now, a
contract is treated completely separately than a purchase,

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even though generally most purchases are contracts
and most contracts are purchases. So

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this aligns the two of those with
existing rules that we've been operating under.

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Well. Actually, since the twenty
ten charter change, we've been operating under

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certain purchasing rules that work very well
for us. This just makes it consistent

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throughout the organization. But those are
really the big three sections. And I

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had to do if elections, recall, and then just contracting and purchasing,

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so nothing this is not the same
thing that they did in twenty ten,

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I would not I don't think that
level of work is necessary. They were

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reviewing the entire charter, so this
is more along the lines of tweaking something

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that's working very well rather than actually
trying to rebuild something that is not working.

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So anyway, that is not decided
yet. Obviously the city Council will

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have to call an election, but
charter is the governing document for the City

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of Artlesville and has to be determined
by the voters. So the council,

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if they decide to move forward,
likely would call this election for next April.

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And keeping with that idea of putting
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and to further expand that, we've
been discussing using that date, that

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April date, not just for council
elections, but for g O bonds,

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for sales tax, for any essentially
any election that we had, we would

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put it on that date so that
we would consolidate everything together. So those

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are that is the possible future.
We'll be working with an outside attorney to

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review all of these amendments to ensure
that they meet legal muster, and then

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I would expect the council they will
hear this probably in January, and then

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if they wanted to call the election, they would need to do that in

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February. So that's that's sort of
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Obviously, the council meetings are always
open. We meet the first Monday

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of the month at five point thirty, although our next one will be in

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January, and it'll actually be assuming
that the first is a Monday, it

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will be on the second. We
always move to the next day. That'll

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that'll be your next opportunity if you
if you want to listen to what the

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council has to say, or if
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They also have a section of the
agenda called Citizens to be Heard, so

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people have an opportunity to speak to
their elected representatives. You also don't have

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to wait for a councilmate. You
can email your elected representatives, you can

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call them. There's there's a lot
of different ways to be in contact,

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and if you call the City of
Artlesville at three three eight, four to

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eight to two, Elaine Baines will
be more than happy to help you reach

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out to your elected representative. If
you have something you want to discuss with

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So all right with that, let's
talk money. It's all right, Jason

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Bunninginger our finance director, and many
many other things, but that's the hat

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he's got on this morning, right
now, right now, right now,

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talking to sales taxs. So while
our collection month is only zero point six

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percent, that really is kind of
misleading. We're looking back at our December

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numbers. If you go back to
fisky or twenty one, and we're we're

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collecting just a little over one point
five million, Go to twenty two,

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that's one point eight, go to
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then once again we're one point nine
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Yeah, this is this is our
largest collection for December, barely beating last

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last year's December by about twelve thousand
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you're comparing back to big numbers and
you can stay in that that ballpark and

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exceed a little bit. That's that's
a that's a a good month. Yeah,

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I had had over the last two
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it's had it was fourteen percent two
years ago, and it had grown

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seven percent last year. So being
even with those numbers is is a good

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sing place to be, your place
to be. So on the year,

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we're up one point seven percent,
which is roughly two hundred thousand dollars over

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last year. And if we compare
that to our budget, we're up about

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three point eight percent or four hundred
twenty nine thousand dollars. We've budgeted two

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percent decrease going into this year and
we're we're out pacing that by you know,

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we're up one point seven so almost
four percent. So yeah, it's

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good news. And that's sales tax
is by far our largest revenue source and

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well as far as general operations,
it's by far our largest operation source.

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And we have a new source of
revenue that we've only been collecting for what

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is found nine months or ten ten
months, ten months, ten months worth

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of the worth of use tax.
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sales tax, but primarily for online
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that use tax works. So we
don't really have any data over our holiday

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months still, and I would even
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month because this is mainly sales that
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of that. But five hundred nineteen
thousand dollars was collected, which is our

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largest, our largest use tax month. But we don't really have any history

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to see what would it normally have
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we're still comparing back to zeros right
now. Yeah, and all we can

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see is what it's been for the
past ten months, which during that period

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of time it's it's ranged from three
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thousand. It's roughly in that range
threees low fours. So this is a

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large and I probably honestly expect January
and February to be somewhere in this this

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ballpark, given the holiday months they'll
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you know, it's to be seen. We don't to be seen.

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So we don't have any history at
all. In every city. This is

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one thing use tax. Their trends
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depending on the type of operations.
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of just historical use tax that weren't
Internet sales. Some of these cities had

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large, large amounts coming in there, depending if they were oil and gas

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city or what it was coming into
and out of their community. Manufacturing oil

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and gas. A lot of those
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So for us, this is totally
new. We're collab that it is doing

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as well as it is. We're
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only budgeted two point five for the
year. Yeah, and this puts us

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at one point two and we are, well, we're right at yeah,

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we're at we're at two point four. Two point four. Yeah, sorry,

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we're almost budgetaryetary. We're halfway through
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the variant's call them world. We're
halfway through the year and we are,

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and we're almost a full budget,
so that that is really good news.

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This we're saying every one of these
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so you can tell it is majority
is online sales tax from and that

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was what we had been missing out
on for a long time. And as

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much as usually making our roads,
they better be paying tough. You think

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that's right that well, and of
course it is. It's it's a substitution

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is largely what it was from the
brick and mortars. Yeah, from your

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brick and mortars and the patterns that
people had in the past. So it

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will be really curious to see what
Amazon and what the online vendors do this

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year during the holiday season. So
at least now everybody in Bartlesfield is having

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to play on the same footing everybody
pays the same sales tax. He levels

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the field when you're talking about a
competitive advantage your brick and mortar. If

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you're buying online and you don't pay
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Pretty well the state are yet,
so it's it's our tax rate in

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the county because they also have one
now as well. Yeah, so that's

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that's good news. So we're we're
halfway through the year and performing better than

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we expected. So we'll we'll keep
our fingers crossed that that continues. And

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we all know that there are a
tremendous number of needs in our community,

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from fire, the police, the
parks, the streets to libraries, and

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all of those things rely on these
revenue sources. So we're glad to see

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that's going well. Well. Thank
you, Jason, I appreciate that,

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and we're gonna jump in and give
Keith. Give Keith the microphone next.

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Good morning morning. So in keeping
with our holiday theme, let's pretend it's

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a white Christmas Keith, want to
make it snow do it's pretend it's white

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Christmas? What are you gonna do? Well, we had a little scare.

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What's been a month ago. I
woke up and had a dusting of

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snow on the ground. We were
ready. Wow, we're all ready.

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We actually were ready. Well,
he's always ready. We're ready, you

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bet. We keep a store of
salt and sand on hand year round,

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so we always got material on hand. We usually take the week of Thanksgiving.

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It's kind of a holiday week,
so we usually take that weeks time

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to prepare or go through our equipment, make sure we're ready as far as

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all the machinery working like it's supposed
to and ready to be loaded onto the

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trucks. We have a lot of
nice equipment nowadays. We're fortunate to have

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this stuff. I can remember days
that my dad worked at the city years

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ago with actually sanded from the back
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Yeah, we've come a long ways. Yes, that's not an OCE approved

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day of bar. Even myself,
with the equipment we had when I first

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started was just a tailgate that we
replaced or hung on the back of a

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dump truck and it spread the sand
out with that. So equipment has come

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a long ways and we're fortunate to
have the new technologies and new equipment that

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we have, and the guys are
really thrilled to have those type things to

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work with. So we do have
a snow policy in place. If people

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aren't familiar with that, they might
go online look at it. I'm sure

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it's posted on our website. If
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It is called Snow and Ice Removal, I believe, and it kind of

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dictates or describes how we go about
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primarily with treating the arterial streets here
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those would be your main roads that
you drive on. Now, keep in

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mind some of those roads in town
our state highways. O DOT maintains those

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roads, so Highway sixty, know
what a road, Highway seventy five,

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Orshton Boulevard, Highway one twenty three
through town, those are all state roads,

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so o DOT maintains those. They
salt sand those roads. We treat

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roads like Frank Phillips as a primary
arterial street, Tuxedo Boulevard. They're described

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in the manual, So that's our
first stop. When we get the call,

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we go out in salt and sand
those streets. We do actually plow

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on those streets. If the accumulation
of snow gets to three to four inches,

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we will go out and start to
plow the snow. So again,

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we only do that on the main
arterial type streets. We do not plow

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snow in the residential neighborhoods. We'll
occasionally get those calls, but it's not

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very feasible for us to go in
there. Obviously, when the truck goes

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through, it moves all the material
from the center of the road right into

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your driveway. It doesn't pick it
up, it just moves it. It

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just moves it. So now your
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So those areas we just go in
and salt and sand in those areas.

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We also have a kind of a
prioritized list in there, the areas

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that we treat, you know,
Circle Mountain or Oak Park or wherever we

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go. We do have a list
of those areas and a routine that we

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go through. We will divide the
area up into four quadrants and we'll assigned

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typically one to two trucks to each
quadrant, so they're working in that area.

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So if we get calls who usually
we work with the PD and they

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dispatch us. We get calls in
from the public with areas of concern,

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we'll dispatch a truck out to those
areas. But we do have our routines

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that we follow. We treat those
primary streets first. And as far as

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salting and sanding, do you salt
and sand the entire road or is it

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just do you do hot spots first? How do you handle that? It

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depends on the conditions that we're going
in Downtown, for example, as one

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of our priority areas. Typically when
those events happen, we'll do primarily the

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entire downtown, concentrating mainly on the
intersections and stopping areas. But if it

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needs that, we will. So
we kind of do it by the type

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of weather that we have and you
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Bridges and overpasses obviously always freeze over
first, so you know, we're primarily

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not going to go out and put
sand and salt over the bare road if

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just a bridge is thawed or froze
up. We do not use brine in

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Bartlesville. Some of your agencies you'll
see O DOT and some of them do

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the liquid brine. Most of that's
for pre treatment. So if you anticipate

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an event coming in, dougle out
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It does work good. But you
do also occasionally here have events where

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you have rains first, so then
it worshes that material off, so you

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really lost any benefits you would have
gotten from it. So again we do

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not use that material as strictly just
salt and sand and it's it is the

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best way that we have to maintain
them is to go and ply certain areas

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and to spread the salt and sand. And so for for anyone listening,

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what do you want them to know, especially if they see if they see

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a plow truck, what do they
need to know? Well, just give

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us some working room, give the
guy some room to work. Most of

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the sand trucks you'll see a sign
on the back. This typically will say

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stay away one hundred and fifty foot. That's for our safety and your safety.

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Also, those trucks are slinging that
material. They're spreading the Sultan sand.

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So we don't want to be throwing
gravel or chips all over your car,

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chipping your paint. So give us
some working space and protect your vehicle

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and give yourself some space to stop. And in case something happens, you

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can get that vehicle shut down and
don't pass them because they may if they

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catch something with the plow, then
they will slide into your lanes. Absolutely,

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y'all, let that truck do its
work and follow in behind. Hopefully

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the road will be treated. Then
you've got a good service to drive on.

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He'll take you where you're going.
Just stay behind him and stay back

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far enough. Absolutely, all right, Well, thank you, Keith.

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Hopefully I don't know whether I'm hoping
for snow or not. It's funny it'll

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say pray for raid, but I'm
kind of told. And my kids were

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always mad at me every year because
they always wanted snow days. I said

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no, because that means we got
to go clean it up. And after

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I retire, let it snow all
it wants to. City workers don't generally

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open for a white Christmas, do
they, Keith? All right, well,

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thank you, Keith. I appreciate
that. So our our final guests

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of the day, we have Chief
Kevin Ickleberry here and sorry Kevin, I

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gotta cut you short. We just
got a couple of moments here, but

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we got a lot of things going
on around the holiday season that it's important

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for our police department. You guys
do a lot of good work in the

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in the community. One of those
is is that you all have what Christmas

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baskets sixty fifty twenty five families.
That's it, twenty five families. We're

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all just guessing. We don't have
any idea what we're talking about, Chief,

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So what exactly does that look like? And can the public assist with

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that? Sure, we take donations
from the public, but typically we'll go

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out with the volunteer staff and we'll
deliver five families Christmas. We start by

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going to the SRO School Resource Officers
trying to find find those families that would

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be in need and try to help
them out that way, so it takes

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a strain off of their Christmas and
providing food primarily in the baskets. Yeah.

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Sure, so we'll deliver Command staff
will deliver baskets to each family and

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just wish them Merry Christmas and try
to, you know, help that relationship

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that may be suffering strong ways.
But we want the community to know that

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we care about everybody and we're trying
to take care of everybody. Well,

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I certainly appreciate that. If somebody
wants to help you, Chief, who

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would they call. They would call
Jennifer Purdue and she's our administrative assistant at

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nine one eight three three eight four
zero five zero. Okay, well,

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thank you Chief on that. So
real quick here let's talk holiday safety.

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What do people need to be aware
of this time of year. Well,

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that's time of year. You know
when we talked about trash earlier a little

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bit, but when you take out
your trash any oarge items, try to

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break those down so people don't really
see what you have going into the trash

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box Wise, big TV boxes,
you don't want sitting out in front if

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box outside TV and easy math.
That's right. If you're going to be

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gone from the holidays, try to
have somebody to whatt your house. Set

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timers on the lights inside, make
sure the outside is taking care of for

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the bushes around the front doors or
the exterior windows or trim back, so

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don't give people a hiding spot.
People can see see who's there, and

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you can see who's there when you're
coming home. So a lot of different

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things. Make sure you lock your
doors, and that's that's important. Vehicles

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this timing years, we also have
a lot of vehicle burgeries to make sure

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you lock those doors as well.
All right, Chief, well, I

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appreciate it, and we will.
We'll bring you back. And we've got

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some discussion about neighborhood watching sentinel programs
that we still will continue the next time.

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Absolutely flower land where emotions are expressed
in creativity is delivered