Money, good money, good money, and walk walk a welcome. It's
time now for city matters. It matters to you. It certainly matters to
the city. And we've got my city councilor and yours too, and my
goodness sakes, young man, it has been what a month since we've seen
each other, that's right, but a month, Trevor Dorsey. It just
seems like, Wow, there's been a lot of folks breeding through here and
around here, and a lot of politic and going on. It is election
day, but you're not on the bout this time. That's right. Today,
I'm not on the ballot, So that's that's all right. Might be
in November. Right now, I'm not, and so but I would encourage
everyone. We kind of had a little offset conversation before we got on air,
and it just doesn't seem as important in society anymore that you have that
freedom or right to go vote. Most people don't exercise a lot of people
want to tell you what's wrong with everything, but then they don't actually go
vote. So I encourage everyone to get out today, go exercise that ride.
You know, at least vote. I'm not going to tell you which
way to vote or how to just do. You should do your little due
diligence and figure that out for yourself. But you know, we've got some
people that are in office running to fill those seats, and I think they've
done a pretty good job, and we've got some you know, challengers,
and you know that's with any election. I just really encourage everybody to get
out and exercise that right before you lose it. There. You know,
typically any election over the last several years, you look and the numbers continue
to just fall. I don't know why that is. I I when I
was old enough to vote, it was it was a pretty exciting thing me
too, at the vote in a presidential election my senior ye in high school.
And there's some seniors I think I was telling you that story. Well,
a young lady recently turned eighteen. I was pretty excited for she's going
to get to vote in the election. That's kind of cool, you know.
Otherwise, you know, sometimes you may turn eighteen and you're not right
at that cycle where you're going to get that opportunity, so you have first
vote maybe twenty two or whatever. But I always thought it was really neat
you know, when you got turn sixteen, you got your license, So
there's you know, that's a big mark in eighteen. You get you know,
get the vote and so forth. So uh, I just like to
see the numbers get get better on any any basically any election we have,
whether it's city, county, state, federal. I just think it's you
get back in that mindset. A lot of people think that, oh I
just one vote, My vote doesn't count every vote camp, Yeah, they
do. They do. One thing to want to remind folks is that there
are some races where this is the final vote because one party or the other
didn't feeld candidates. So this primary is is it? It'll decide it because
there won't be an opponent in the fall. That's right. So I think
I think both of them on the on are representative, and the state senator
I don't. I don't think there's any I could be wrong. You know,
we we have we have a challenger for Senate, the challenger for one
of our state reps, John B. Keen, is unopposed, and we
have three gentlemen buying for commissioner for the district too. So so yeah,
let the fun begin. And as they say, but city wise, my
goodness, as the things have been humming and going along. You got the
budget taken care of, you got a new uh, a new councilor sworn
in. You know, you got to get sworn in before you get sworn
out. That's right. But people like him. He's he's a good guy.
I just ran into him at the west Side Community Center, a Quinn
Shipper that's right there in his ward War War and uh. And of course
they reopened and they got reopened and it's very exciting, uh for the west
Side and always been a very great organization our community. So yeah, that's
good. Quinn just got sworn in. We appointed him to fill out the
remainder of Billy Rohan's term. Unfortunately, with her passing, Billy was such
an amazing lady. She will not certainly not be forgotten. She's she did
so much for the community. Very involved. We've been here ten eleven years,
got time, fish fun. But from the very minute we Dorsey's came
to town, I got to know Billy and she was always very active,
very involved, and very plugged in. So usually if there was something going
on, Billy to text me, Hey, Trevor, this is going on
here, this is going here. So I always appreciate that that was before
she was account before I was accountlman, before she was an accountsman, and
I like her, was appointed to fill a term, and then you know,
Billy continued to run, as have I, and I know Billy was
looking forward to to run it again. However, it's time for the Good
Lord to call her home, and we will miss her diarly. But I
do know that Quinn has jumped in. Quinn has already been pretty involved in
serving on committee's men. Hey, he only missed two city council meetings the
old time he's been in town, and he apologized both time for Michigan.
That's what Mike Bailey told me. Yeah, Pike, some miss one for
vacation, but sometimes don't. I think that's about I've missed a few,
but usually it's vacation or if I'm sick. That's about the only way.
But you know, I think Quinn will do a good job. We had
several good candidates through the interview process. So I do believe that there'll be
somebody that will run against him that maybe interviewed for that. And who knows,
you know, I could have somebody. I've not heard much chatter out
there about who's running, But Jim Kurt always seems for Jim always seems to
drawn upon it. Sure, and Jim is an amazing guy, great guy.
If you don't know Jim, you're missing out. His family has been
here forever and and he has fed nearly everybody in town, had the masses
for uh forever. And uh, you know I again, I I haven't
heard a lot of chatter about that. You know. We we file in
August, so we'll know then it'll be uh, we'll be part of that
election cycle. Hey here, we've got some pretty cool things going on at
the airport. Uh. That taxiway is coming in. That's gonna that's gonna
bring forth an opportunity for some more business out there, isn't it. Yes,
I am. We we've took that airport over what I'm gonna be three
three years years now since Knico got rid of their planes. And although I
do think they still have planes flying and out, they've just don't have a
daily maybe route like they used to. We were kind of on pins and
needles early on because we had not managed the airport. You know, that's
kind of a Conico Phillips P sixty six deal. Because they they they ran
it. Yeah, they leased it from us, and they ran it and
we didn't ask them. It's carried. You've done really well with airport,
and I think there is, like you said, there's a ton of opportunity.
It's just how do we how do we go get that opportunity? What's
that look like? How do we Luckily we were able to keep some of
the folks that ran it for p. Sixty six in place, and they
have done a tremendous job. And I do believe when you think about airports,
if you know, surely if you've lived here, you've been out by
it. But for the size of our community, we had pretty amazing airport.
We do. It's it's got some it's got a lot of hairs.
Uh. You know, I grew up in northwest Arkansas. When you flew
anywhere used to Now you got to a which is more like Tulsa Airport,
But before that you had failed. And the airport out here is similar to
where you would fly in arkentas you can fly from there to Dallas or wherever.
You know. I don't know that will ever be real regional airport because
of Tulsa's being so close in proximity. But you start thinking about, you
know, if you want to attract industry and companies to Borlsville Wall. You
know, if you know, you got a company and maybe Illinois or California
or whatever, and they're tired of the tax burden and some other things going
to maybe they want to Relokay. Well, you've got a great airport where
those executives can fly in and out of check on things, get to where
they got to go. And I think there could be a lot of aviation,
maybe manufacturing out there at the airport. We could hopefully drive some of
them. We've got a lot of repair going on. Yeah, So I
don't know, you're right that the airport is I think a real jewel in
our crown to speak. And there's opportunities. So I looked for, you
know, mister Woods, mister Batchelder to start maybe trying to push maybe those
industries where we can create jobs out there. And they've done a good job
with the old Siemens building. I think we found that mood and we're gonna
have I think one hundred and fifty or sixty jobs in the next few years
come in in that building, maybe more depending on how all that works out,
so a lot of excitement. You know, mister Batchelter, those guys
always walk around grinning, And I figured out why. It's because they know
something's gonna happen. They can't tell anybody yet, and it's gonna be good.
But you can't tell anybody yet. So if you see him grinnin,
just know that you know something good's gonna happen. Yeah. But I understand
that the city reauthorized that little thing with them in order to help move workers
to town. We did the extended the incentive. So if you yeah,
your job is here and you will move here. I believe it's ten thousand
to purchase home, maybe twenty thousand if you build build one, build one.
Yeah, great incentive and a lot of money just keeps coming back to
us. Yeah yeah, and you know it's going to keep coming back through
the sales tax process of you know that fun continues to to replenish, the
deletes, it replenishes, and it's it's been a good been a good project.
And you've seen this across the country now where if you don't a lot
of people work can work from home remote job. Sure, and so if
you can work a remote job, and live anywhere anywhere you want to.
Maybe you only have to be you know, if you to fly from here
to I don't know, Michigan once a month because you got to be in
the office once a month or whatever. But the rest of the time you
live where you want. Well, why not Oklahoma. We have a great
cost of living. Well, you have for the most part, really good
weather, and then you have it's a little rocky on it a little windy,
but uh, you know, as far as the heat and the cold,
yeah, sometimes there's a little extreme on either. It's not for a
long periods of time. Again, I think the quality of life that we
have is amazing. We're in the middle of the country, so pretty good
life here in Oklahoma, and sure is you have you noticed that our town
is drawing a lot of people from different parts of the country that we might
not have drawn from before, like California, Colorado, New York City,
Uh, Illinois, Minnesota. Met both for Minnesota, I got some Minnesota
and yeah, oh yeah, I said, no, there is a town
down the road. I said, hey there, it's a greeting, so
I guess it's a two way thing. Hey there, if you're from Minnesota,
it's a greeting if you're from here into town. Hey, there's north
of prior of it. Yeah, well, we have some good friends in
Saint Paul, Minnesota. Beautiful country up there. I mean when you go
the landscape you're just looking at the country side kind of reminds you of you
know, call them especially. There's some planes and some things there, but
they're really pretty. But I understand if summer lands on a Saturday up there,
they have a picnic. Well, it's funny. Last time we were
up there to see our friends. We left here it was one hundred and
twenty six degrees. You got there it was ninety two or ninety four,
and they acted like they were dying. I had a long sleeve T shirt
and jeans on, and I'm like, I'm not hot. I said,
you should go back to Oklahoma with this is one hundred and twenty six huh.
And it's it's weird. They came down one time one winter and we
took them to the college football game and it's like forty eight degrees and you
he was going to freeze to death. And I was like, John,
it's forty eight and you live in Minnesota where you can throw water off your
front porch, and it's a different kind of cold. And and he is
right, it's not that you don't have humidity, I guess there. But
yeah, Minnesota is pretty country. But again, I think we got a
pretty good life in Oklahoma. A lot to offer here, for sure.
I was talking to somebody the other day about the mountains. You know,
love going to see the mountains in Colorado, wholming up that that country,
But I don't want to live there like where I live, And I'm lucky
to live where I live. I think. So when you take a look
at what we have here in Bartlesville, we have some great companies to employ
a lot of people. We have a lot of great mom and pop businesses
that employ even more people. We have quality of life. We've got wonderful
parks, recreation ampathead, we got the Bartofield Community Center and the auditorium that
just absolutely rocks. And uh, on top of that, you know,
you're not taxed out of your brain when you come here, and it's just
a it's just a wonderful place. It's schools in medical Yeah. Oh and
on top of that, we're gonna start making movies here. There's a movie
being shot here this month. I'm not supposed to talk about it much,
but yeah, they're shooting the movie here this this month. You know,
it's been pretty amazing. If you look at the movies that have happened right
here, I mean the last ten years, there's there's some pretty good.
Uh. I don't know that the Twister crew made it here, but I
know they were over in s h County. Oh they came here to visit.
Yeah, there you go. They always come here to business. You
said, wonder what's over there? I wonder what's over there. But I'm
looking forward to that movie. The first one was pretty phenomenal. Yeah,
special effects are probably a little better. You know, it's kind of it's
kind of entertaining going back and watching. You go back and watch this Schwarzenegger
movie of nineteen eighty five, and you watch one today and like, man,
the special effects back then we're bad. Yeah. Yeah, we got
a movie studio Rome Buffalo Room, Buffalo Roam going up here. Gonna be
kind of neat. Hopefully that will drive a lot more of that industry here.
And again when we talk about that's a city thing that kind of happened
and bed a thing that happened. Yeah, that's that's a great thing.
But but we we talk about you know, quality live, cost of living,
you know, weather. Hopefully that that the Buffalo Rome, because of
where we're located and all those other factors, will be able to drive a
lot more of that industry here and it could be could be a nice little
little tick that that helps us grow and create some jobs and bring some more
people dark men and would otherwise well, you know, not only we get
in the blockbusters, we're getting a lot of family friendly and faith based movies
being made here between here and Tulsa and os H County. A lot of
those are coming in and I welcome that. I got to be a part
of one of those a few weeks ago. I had a couple of parts
and they started off the shoot with a prayer. The lead actor lead in
prayer. I'm like, going, this ain't the Hollywood. Do you read
about the tabloids? This is a cool change. So that was all right.
I think I made my first I had my first appearance on a Lifetime
Christmas Love Tree last year over there. If they filmed a lot of it
in Tulsa, and I just happened to be at a conference and at the
time they were doing some filming and they say, would you like to be
an extra? And sure, why not. I get a scene where I'm
act like I'm drinking you know, like hot cocoa and which bad. But
I get like a two second scene. But if you didn't know it was
me, you would never know. You although it was funny that they recorded
it. And then my oldest is like, Dad, what are you watching
this Hallmark movie? For it? I was like, I'm in it.
Well, I'm supposed to be somewhere. I don't really know if I made
because you know, but you are. And I get like one scene it's
like boomy, he goes, you can tell that too, because you're white
Beard. I was like, thanks you Yeah, pretty funny. Oh,
it's my claim to fame. One second. Hey, that's one second more
than ninety nine point ninety percent of the people in the world get Yeah.
I know. Well, my uh there was a movie that was they filmed
Quiet Card a bit back in the spring here, yeah, and taitan aldest
he you know, when that comes out, it'll be very it'll be very
exciting to see because he was he was an extra and many many scenes,
so surely he's somewhere in there. You know. I was like I got
one scene and got like a one second clip. But he spent several months,
you know, every weekend. So that's that's pretty cool that I get
that opportunity. You don't get that anywhere else, not even in Hollywood.
You got to have a card or something. Hey, how can we get
a hold of We need you for anything as far as city halls concern Well,
you can reach me always on my mobile phone. That's a nine one
eight nine nine one eight eight eight six right now one eight eight eight six
three five one six, and then my email address is listed out. You
can go to the city website and there's a city email address. It's thanks,
uh Board five councilmen, And all you gotta do is click it.
Just click it on the West. But I always excited to hear from constituents
and on things we can do better and what we can help with and and
uh, trust me, people aren't afraid to let you know. And that's
good. We want feedback, We need feedback, and and how we can
get some of that feedback you and I always say this, right, I'm
gonna do a shameless pitch here. We we have openings on boards and commissioned
So if you have an interest in serving, please get a hold of the
Lame Veins up at the city and she will get you that application and we
can get you in there and and start getting you serving in the in the
some former or fashion and a committee that that you have interest in, so
that always works. Hey, thank you very much, thanks for being with
us. Tom, always good to see your doors here with us on