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And tall grass motor. It's into
right now we have in our studio.

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He is honor the mayor And how
are we doing, Mayor Copeland doing good?

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Tom was just mentioning it. It's
beautiful out today. It would be

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even more beautiful if we'd get some
rain. But well, yes, it

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would beautiful day in their bill,
glad to be here. Got a lot

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to talk about, got a lot
to talk about. It's a busy time

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of year it is. Let's talk
about the water first, because that seems

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to be on everybody's mind. When
do I water? How much can I

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water? Can I water this?
What's the day thing? There's a lot

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of confusion out there, folks.
If they we we printed it every day

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on our website and we announced it
every day on the on the radio.

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But sometimes they take just kind of
it's like a drive buyers. You don't

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need to know to you need to
know exactly what did they say? Right?

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So what are they and I'm pointing
at the city, what did they

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say? Well, to give you
a little bit aboutground everybody, hopefully everybody

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knows that we have a water issue. It has not rain significantly in a

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long time, especially north of us. It seems like there's a space up

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there that just can't catch any rain. To speak up, we got the

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Moses effect coming over something storm st
divide. So our current water supplies of

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yesterday morning are overall total of all
the different sources was down to fifty eight

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point two and if you go back
to early December when it was just a

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touch over seventy percent, there has
just been that that steady decline over the

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last several months. We reached the
place at the last council meeting the first

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part of April that we initiated the
Phase two restrictions. So that means that

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if you use over ten thousand gallons, and truthfully, something like eighty some

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five percent of us don't use that
much in a given month, so it

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won't affect a lot of people.
But if you do use over ten thousand

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gallons, your amount over ten thousand, not the whole thing, just the

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amount over ten thousand goes up five
percent as an inducement to use less.

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The part that you mentioned about watering
yards, that is, a large water

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user, taking a shower might use
some amount, but watering your entire lawn

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is much more. So those right
now are restricted if you have an even

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house number, a number ending an
even number, So if you're at one

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fourteen, that's even. If you're
at one fifteen, that's odd. Even

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numbers water on Monday and Thursday.
Odd numbers. The other side of the

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street usually would water on Tuesday and
Friday, and that means that if you're

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watering on an improper day, both
the police department and the codes enforcement people

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have the ability under this resolution Phase
two. The first time, they would

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just give you a warning and say, you know, did you know that

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you're not supposed to be watering on
Wednesday or you're on an even number an

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odd number, and it would simply
be a warning and give you that information.

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If that were to persist, then
there are a schedule of fines that

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would be in place. The one
thing I think could happen, and we

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may not think about it months or
even years ago. I set my sprinkler

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system on an automatic timer and it
comes on at one in the morning.

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I'm not even awake, hopefully at
one in the morning. If you are,

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there's problem. Unless you're in the
radio business like yourself. Yeah,

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yeah, And so you don't think
about it in the morning, it's already

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dried off, and yet there you
are with your sprinkler system going. So

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I encourage everyone to check your sprinkler
systems, the timers, and just be

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aware. Even numbered houses Monday Thursday, odd numbers on Tuesday Friday. I

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feel like Johnny Fever here. It's
the water cops man. That's right.

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Well, so we just you know, good news, we do yea.

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So conserve, conserve, conserve,
top of mind, conserve, run the

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shower less, don't fill up this, turn that off quicker, don't flush

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the toilets. All these little things
that accord here in a pint there.

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But at the end of the day, it saves a lot. There is

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good news. Fine, two years
it was a great plan. It's still

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a great plan. But the supply
chain. We totally redid the pump system

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at Johnstone Park, which is just
across from the Kiddie Park. That pump

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station pulls from the Kenny River where
we have access to millions of gallons of

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water. We put in a new
pump, We put a new warring,

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We totally upgraded that thing, made
it more efficient, uses less electricity.

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Could not get the control board.
It's kind of a vital piece to control.

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Yeah, it's a new and people
say, well, why you know,

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just put in a light switch.
Trade on a little bit more intricate

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to that. This is a three
phase, variable speed, variable volume pump

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system that allows us to match the
pumping capacity to what the water plant needs.

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It's great, but we couldn't get
that control for two years. We

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did get a control. That control
has been installed, That pump is now

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online. It does not mean there's
more water. We're still at fifty eight

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point two, but it does mean
that we have access to more sources.

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That means that we don't have to
pull from Hula Lake all the time.

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We don't have to pull from Hudson
Lake. We can pull from the river

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where we can get that water,
which we normally do, and leave the

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lakes alone, let them recover or
at least not get much worse. Um.

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So we do have that pump.
So that is good news, and

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it's the good news of the week. Alrighty, I like that, Yes,

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I like that. I'm going to
go to something that's a very touchy

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and uncomfortable for a lot of people
for a variety of different reasons, and

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that is the draft of possible ordinance. It came in as a result of

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the alleged things that may have happened
at the Pride Fest. Pride fests have

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been going on for years. Hasn't
been a problem, evidently, one facet

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of it to cost a big star, a lot of concern on both sides.

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There are people of confusion. There's
there's been a lot of confusion people.

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I've heard this, and they've heard
that, and they see things on

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the internet and they assume whatever their
tendencies would cause them to assume. And

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I get that, I understand it, and I try to be sens to

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you to that. I also explained
to people that the city council, rightly

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so, is limited to do things
that meet certain legal requirements, certain legal

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standards. So we had instructed the
city attorney to go out and search and

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research to find if there was options
available to better define what we felt would

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be allowed. And a lot of
work has gone into that. As you

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might know, Tennessee was the first
state that went through that process. Their

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law, signed by the governor,
was enjoined in federal court before it took

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effect. In fact, I was
told by a federal judge appointed by President

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Trump. So this is an issue
that really as much beyond Bartlesville. There

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are many states, I'm told fourteen
states working with the concerns of constituents to

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try and find solutions. In government, we're always trying to find solutions that

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observe the most people, but we
must do it in a legal way.

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So we did at the last city
council meeting inner into agreement. I think

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everyone in Bartlesville wants to get along, or most people in Bartlesville want to

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get along and just be good neighbors. The one group on the one side

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agreed to move that event indoors where
it had been before, and the big

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complaint had been that this was outdoors
in a park people walking by, so

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that will be moved indoors. Had
a one year agreement, and I think

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that's a positive mood. It illustrates
that both sides, I hope, are

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trying to get along and find some
consensus. Okay, so you had some

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choices here. One reject the agreement
and would occur again or be approved the

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agreement and the event will be moved
indoors for at least one year, and

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there was no seat. Now there
was other options that the agreements that they

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agreed to was that if we would
agree to that, which we did,

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that it would be moved indoors for
a period of a year, give this

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thing time to progress through the court
system and the legal developments. If we

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not agreed to it, then it
would have I'm not in charge of that

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program obviously, but it wouldn't all
likelihood have occurred again outdoors, which a

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number of people had found unacceptable to
them. So we felt like this is

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a good compromise. Appreciate people working
together to find solutions to keep Bartlesville a

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good place to live and work and
play. More good news here we local

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sales tax collections, and that one
thing that's called a use tax that I

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was I was told never to ask
about that for a long time is finally

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kicking in use tax is a word
that was derived many years ago at the

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Capitol to describe what is the same
exact thing as a sales tax, but

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applied to remote sales, which would
be a sale that occurred out of state.

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If you decided to buy this new
microphone, you could buy it at

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the Bartlesville Microphone Store, which we
encourage everyone to do, and you would

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have paid sales tax if you had
ordered it from online. In the universal

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microphone store. Under that old ruling, you would not have paid let's put

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the local business to a disadvantage.
Same quality, even the same price or

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a lower price. But because of
that, so this simply made an equity

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that everyone get what you want where
you want and pay the same sales tax.

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But they call it a use tax. We were the largest city.

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The next largest city that did not
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was about three thousand people. So
everyone doing all of these places. To

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give you an idea of the impact. In the first two months of this

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year, which January February, perhaps
not the major retail shopping money usually kind

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of a loan there has totaled about
seven hundred thousand dollars, so you can

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see the impact. And when we're
trying to fix streets, pay police and

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fire, take care of our parks
in the path, find all the things

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that the city does, this will
have a sizeable impact. And our total

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sales tax is up now, it's
up slightly, but it's up slightly because

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last year was a banner, yes, so to be up over last year,

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we're continuing that and it's because I
think people are shopping in Bartlesville We

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put a lot of work into inviting
more retail so that there's not as much

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need. We hope to go outside
of Bartlesville to find the things you want.

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That's good news, Believe me,
this is it. You know,

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we're kind of like the Tulsa for
some of communities around here. And I've

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been told that for people from Independence, Coffeeville, Caney. They said,

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well, you know, we go
to Bartlesville. That's kind of like the

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big deal here. When you look
at car tax parked around town, you

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do see tax from all over.
I've heard us described as a microton.

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Yeah that's but I was, yeah, yeah, right, that's good.

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Uh, and we continue to work
on that. Well great, I understand

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talking about heavy stuff. I hear, I hear the budgets coming up and

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you guys need like a forklift to
kind of get that into this almost it's

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part of our physical fitness training.
Um. The average budget will run six

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to eight hundred pages. I hear. It's taller than Billy Ron careful time,

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you'll get both of us in trouble. She's a sweet lady. But

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it is massive because there's a lot
going on in the city, and this

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details all of the cost for all
of those operations for a full year,

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and it sets the pattern or the
plan for the year. How much is

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community development and parks and sanitation gonna
need. When you look at the price

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of a trash truck at two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, all the way

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down to paper towels, you know
how much of that will we need in

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our department. So it is massive
staff works. They start working on it

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months ago. Ce council begins to
get involved and decide how should this work

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because we have to stay in budget
and not as a state law. It's

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just good practice and we do um
that then links directly with the general Obligations

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or what we call GEO bonds and
the CIP sales tax. You know,

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how are we going to get that
to do the most things that need to

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be done for the most people.
Okay, now we've got the first Christian

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church. What's what's in it?
Come on? Come. It's like we're

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opening a present here, and we
use abbreviations. We call it FCC.

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First, I get nervous when I
see that, speaking as a broadcaster.

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So the radio cops, Well,
that's true, I haven't thought about that.

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Yeah, fcc UM. Yeah,
Tomad you heard about the FEC coming

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down. But yeah, now First
Christian Church had unfortunately reached a place where

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they felt like they needed to make
a change. They had an amazing facility

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in the heart of downtown, right
next to the Community Center, across from

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the Price Tower, and a beautiful
building. It is a unique building in

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every way. Like a lot of
churches, it's a collection of buildings,

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if you will, where things over
the years changed. This had that expand

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and that happens I think with a
lot of church buildings over decades. But

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anyway, they came to the city
and said, would you be understood is

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there are a good use for the
community, because if there is, we

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would consider donating this. So it's
amazing to have that opportunity. The first

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thought was a convention center. Study
was done, a lot of discussion,

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and the cost benefit ratio just couldn't
seem to make it work at seventeen million

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dollars. So we decided to try
to pivot. Requested anybody in the community

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that has ideas how could we best
use this what would be a really good

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use for the community. Had six
different proposals come forward. A group of

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city staff self, the Vice mayor
mister Kurd met and looked at these,

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studied them, ask questions, had
really good discussions. Those proposals covered a

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broad swath of ideas about how to
serve the community, and we've begun to

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work through that. It's my expectation
that in just a couple of weeks,

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I know mister Bailey, our city
manager, is working on that to bring

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a presentation to the council of the
proposals, the benefits, the options,

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the things that might be done.
Also, we have to work with First

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Christian Church. There are people because
again we talked about misunderstandings. The City

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of Bartlesville does not, as in
own that building. Nope, Okay,

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people say, well the city the
city has what's called a one year triple

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net lease. As we explore,
if we can't find a use that we

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think is good, that the church
leadership thinks is good, then that building

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still belongs First Christian Church. Now
if we do, then it would be

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my expectation they would complete a donation
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forward. So we're working on that. I think that there's a lot of

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good ideas. We'll see if something
rises to the top that we can then

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try to pursue and make Bartles feel
even better. Okay, we got the

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yard debris collection first of two coming
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one in the fall, one of
the spring. People that are I've been

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doing it working in the flower beds, cleaning up all the leaves that got

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blown back up under that bush.
That's a little that's a job. Oh

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it turns into work. I got
my first sunburn of the summer on my

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neck. But it people are defatching
yards or they're trimming limbs, especially the

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winds that we've had. My tree
keeps on. How there's any tree left,

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It just limbs, and you pick
up limbs and there's more limbs,

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but you can bag those up and
there's no stickers needed. The week of

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May eighth through the twelfth, on
your regular tray. If you're a Tuesday,

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it's on Tuesday. If you're a
Thursday, it's on Thursday. You

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put those out at the curb.
Do not put them on top of the

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polycart trash cards. Don't put them
up against them, piled up like a

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pyramid. Because the trucks they're automated. That big arm has to come out

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and grab your polycart to lift it
up and dump it. But put them

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near and you can put as many
bags. We've had some neighborhoods with lots

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of trees. However we're one hundred
bags of leaves. I've seen that it's

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limited to leaves, grass clippings.
If you have limbs and they're cutting links

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of four feet bundled up no more
than fifty pounds, somebody's got to pick

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those up and throw them in a
truck. And by the way, it

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will probably almost certainly be a different
truck. The automated truck trucks don't really

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have a way to do that.
Another truck would come by later. So

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if you see your cards emptied,
oh they didn't pick up my stuff,

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well they will just be patient.
But that's coming up maybe eighth through the

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twelve. And if somebody one figure
out how it all works. You can

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be a part of the operation of
the city based simply volunteering your services from

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some boards, authorities, commissions and
committees and things. I hear people I

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have told you this before, Tom. People say they I said, you

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can be one of they. What
you do is you go to City Bartlesville

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dot org, go over to the
right hand side. You can scroll down

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there you can get an application.
You can look at all. We have

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twenty five what we call boards,
authorities, commissions, and committees. It's

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got over one hundred and eighty five
of your friends and neighbors. That's they

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who decide about streaks and parks and
the White Rose Cemetery, and the library

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and the museum, and the community
center and the golf course and firing codes,

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on and on and on. Twenty
five boards that serve an invaluable task

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of helping the city council. But
because by the time something gets to the

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council, it has been through an
extensive process of discussion and ideas come forward,

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and it really is a big help. Means that not only will you

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help the city, but you will
learn a lot about the city and have

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a voice in a lot of those
decisions. So City Bartlesvielle dot org.

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Sign up, go to the city
call, go up to the second floor.

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Talk to Elaine bains give her a
call. I think it's three three

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eight four to eight two. I
don't swear to that because it didn't write

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it down. But when you call
the city manager's office, Miss Baines would

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be the one you would speak with. She knows a lot of things.

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Elaine is amazing, Yes she is. Hey, mayor, thank you for

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being with it, thank you all
righty