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Welcome, welcome, welcome. It's
time down for city matters right here on

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Gay one to one you trust,
and it's being brought to you a part

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by Arnold Morton you Camp Funeral Home. Also to all grass motors and we

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have a city councilor Dorset here with
this. A long meeting last night at

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city all. Oh yes, sir, we had a long meeting. We

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had quite a bit on the agenda, but we got through it and uh,

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you know, first things for us, we gonna have turn off our

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water. No no, no,
no, we did. You know,

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we did talk about water, that's
all. That's been a big topic of

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discussion for several months now. As
you know, we got down I guess

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is around fifty percent maybe a little
less of our water supply, and a

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lot of people out were diligently praying
out there. We got I guess a

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big rain because then all of a
sudden, Hila Lake is above capacity and

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we were good. We get back
up about seventy percent. We were able

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to open the pull over on the
west side of the community for the month

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of July, which was nice.
And you got to open the splash pad

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because summertime that's that's a big deal. That's what we do. And so

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now I think we're back. I
believe Terry Lortson said about sixty eight percent.

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So you know that that triggers I
think Phase two or whatever it is

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of our water what we voted not
to go into that. Just yet.

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We have a water resources board that
has been put together that's working on some

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ideas and some options of maybe some
other water sources and opportunities that the city

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could tap into. What's looking good. I you know, based on what

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was talked about last night, it
looks like maybe call Lake or sky Took

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might be, you know, an
option. We'll see, We'll see what

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they come up with. But you
know, leaving the meeting last night,

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I kind of just I just kind
of feel like, well, you know,

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God's got this well, I told
you. By the time I got

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I got on Frank Phillips about the
radio station, it started pouring, and

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it poured all the way to the
house. There's your answer there, Leave

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it to guy. And I think
the you know, obviously with the evaporation,

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we've had really hot temperatures. I
think the temperatures are gonna drop down

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this next week into the eighties and
we got a little raid on the week.

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Yeah, and next week I think
there's a chance of rain at least

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thirty percent are better for most of
the whole week. So uh. And

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I saw a lot of pictures last
night from up around hughlea lake of looked

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like it dumped a bunch of rain. So you know, there again,

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maybe answer to everything that's going on. And I was kind of shocked.

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I didn't know it was even supposed
to storm last night. And I came

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out of the meeting and I about
got in my car net lightning and then

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thundered, and you know, that
gave me a heart attack. But you's

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gonna be good or somebody think,
yeah, yeah, it's there's a lot

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of lightning there for a while.
So but it's kind of pretty show.

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And then then it poured for a
little bit. So we did get We

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did get a good shower, good
good rain, water water to ground,

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so means it means we'll be mowing
again, right. Well, yeah,

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just about time you think you can
put them more away ches from a clean

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getaway. We had a big to
do going on with the uh the Christian

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Church building, didn't we We did, so the U the church building was

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kind of offered turned over to the
city. We entered in the lease agreement

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and started looking diligently at what maybe
we could do with that building. We

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looked at it maybe a conference center, we didn't know, and did some

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feasibility to see if that was something
that we should be doing with that facility.

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Uh, And through that we have
entered agreement with Buffalo Rome, which

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is a film production you know in
school, a lot of different a lot

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of different things which could be very
very big for our community. Could could

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bring the people here, could bring
you know, some additional commerce jobs,

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students, so really good opportunity and
uh, you know it looks like that's

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all gonna come together, come to
Fruition. So you know, they just

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got to bring their half. Yeah, yeah, they looks like we have

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some finding available, but they've got
to come up with their two million and

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then we've got two million to kick
in to make that a realistic project.

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And the guys that are that are
doing that, I think are very solid

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and have a background of history that
well they can they can make that work.

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And not a lot of local support, which is nice. And uh,

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you know, if you've been paying
attention in the film industry. There's

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been some some pretty decent films that
have just a handful. Yeah, in

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August and s H County and The
Killers of the Flowerman, which I think

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is coming out in October. October
twenty so very excited to see that.

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It was. It was really neat
whenever all the filming and production was going

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on to go over around Paulastica and
Fairfax and see how they kind of made

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that look like that time and era. So you an extra, No,

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I wasn't. I would have loved
to have been, but I got a

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face made for radio. Oh come
on now talking with the city councilor Dorsy.

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What else happened last night? Well, we got a little history lesson

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to start off. Debbie Nice was
able to uncover some artifacts. There's Civil

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War artifacts artifacts, so they were
able to preserve those for history, which

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is kind of neat. It was
kind of neat hearing about some of that

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and what they do. And then
always nice when we can recognize our firefighters

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and policemen for going above and beyond
and doing what they do every day.

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And I think, you know,
sometimes we forget about all that they do

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for the citizens of the community.
So it's very nice that Chief Topping could

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recognize silver Life Saving Awards to firefighter
both for him b Aunt Sneeson, and

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then Metorious Service Award to Justin Butterfield
and a Life Saving Award to police Corporal

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Brandon Meyer, and so all of
a lot of family for those folks were

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there in support, and so it's
kind of nice. It was it was

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a patron but of course it kind
of dissipated after that. So, you

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know, we get to the boring
stuff. Everybody at least try and we

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always talk about boards, commissions and
committee openings, and there for a long

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time we went where we didn't really
have any, and evidently some people have

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rolled off. So we've got some
openings, one opening on the Ambulance Commission,

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one on the Barblesville Library Trust Authority, two openings on the Community Center

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Trust Authority, one opening on the
park Board, and one opening on a

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Street and Traffic Committee. So if
you have an interest in serving your community,

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learning more about how the city works
and being involved, we would love

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for you to put in your application
and you can do that down at City

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Hall, or you can go online
to the website and find that and get

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that submitted mister Lane Baynes is uh, you know, she's the best thing

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that ever happened to the city.
So I'm sure she will get you hooked

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up and taking care of I tell
you, she gets a lot done and

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I'm glad you guys recognize her.
Oh yeah, she is amazing. I

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know that everybody would would tell you
that, that know, sir, especially

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Mike Bailey. Right hand to mister
Bailey, for sure. And we had

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a lot of bids as usual,
a lot of concrete and asphalt stuff.

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But one of those was was nice
that I got to present. There is

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going to be some roadwork is going
to happen over on Cresslin and Baylor,

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and so that's in my wards.
So those folks will be very happy because

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their you know, road will be
nice and new and so tires will disappear

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when they go down the street.
That should take place, I think,

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mister Roper said, you know,
once all the bids are finalized and everything's

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done here in the next month or
so, then hopefully they'll get you know,

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construction started on that. Obviously,
when you're doing a lot of concrete

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work, the weather kind of big
fact is important. So let's see what

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else do we talk about at development? The Delaware Tribes got a development over

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there, and and uh Tuxedo and
and Madison where their facilities are. It

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looks like they'll be developing some some
duplexes over there. So always nice to

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see expansionally. Yeah. Yeah,
and let's see what else we sidewalk survey.

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Yeah, Larry Curtis our director of
community development. They did a survey

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on sidewalks, which I know our
community, with our parks and and all

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the other infrastructure, sidewalks are important. And you know, we did develop

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some bi claim stuff a year or
two back, maybe a little longer now.

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Time flies when you're having fun,
but we are you know, the

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community. You see a lot of
bikers, you see a lot of walkers.

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We get the trail system and so
try to keep those sidewalks for for

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folks to walk. And uh,
you know, it'll be interesting to see

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as this survey goes on, and
you know, as we talk through it.

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The sidewalks are the responsibility of the
homeowner. We own the sidewalks,

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but you know, I think that
could probably be expensive if you're having to

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go replace a bunch of those or
develop them. And I know there's different

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parts of the city where there's kind
of sidewalks to nowhere, So it's kind

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of connecting those dots and allowing people
to to get around. And so keep

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hoping to keep the bikes in the
bike lanes and the walkers on the sidewalk,

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keep the cars out of your yards. Yeah, yeah, that's that's

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always a good thing. And and
we did talk about you know, I

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think you brought up the Buffalo Rome
the film deal, and so a lot

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of what was talked about last night
was trying to expedite or expediate everything that's

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going on because of the construction that
needs to happen. You know, they

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need to get that construction piece going, get get a new group on the

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facility. Talked about you know,
keeping the stained glass window features and a

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lot of things that you know,
I think that group we'll try to keep

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the historic beauty of that facility intact. So that is a sweet building.

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Yeah, great location downtown. Kind
of fits in nice with neighbor and everything

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that's down there. So beautiful.
Hey, thanks for being with us today,

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No problem. It's always it's folks
in your district need to get a

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hold of you. How do they
do that? Yep. They can always

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look up my contact on the website
and they will get the message to you.

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Got to see email and my phone
numbers out there. So anything that

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I can help with and just always
reach out Trevor Dorsye, thank you,

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Thank you, sir, appreciate it. How does Tim howl at Arnold Moore

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and DeCamp Puna home. No,