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Check the raidar to make sure that
it's raining in the lakes, because I

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can't tell you how many times it's
rained here and not there. But today

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it looks like it got all of
us, and well it'll be. It

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will be hours and hours and hours
before we know what the result of that

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is on the lakes. But of
course Hula was already full, so that

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was good news, and it's continuing
to get some water into it. Copane

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is the one that we're still uncertain
about. It doesn't have a tremendous effect

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on our water supply, I think
to being pulled to plug it the Buyom

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kind of see. Not a big
effect on our water supply, But our

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neighbors to the North Caney and Copan
and the rural water districts that they serve,

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they desperately need water in that basin. So we'll be watching that today

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as much out of interest for them
as for anything else. But so,

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but jumping that's I kind of jumped
ahead because Terry's the Terry is. He's

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got to catch his breath. He
just ran up the steps. We're trying

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out some new nicknames for it.
Yeah, he's rarely on time toall,

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rarely was. This was pretty good. I mean, he came in right

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of the wire. This is about
all we can do with him. But

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we're trying out some new nicknames for
him. Kelly Williams had nicknamed him the

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Sucker of fun. Oh yeah,
it was. It's suiting Tom. You

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don't know him, you don't know
him the way we do. It's shooting.

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But now we're trying out with the
rain maker because now now every time

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I see him, it's raining,
So that's a good thing. He's still

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he thinks that fun sucker is more
appropriate for himself. Well I think his

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wife children probably agree as well.
I love it when Terry sits back there

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because he's not even near a microphone. He can't defend himself if you wanted

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to, Tom, can we keep
him back there all the time? But

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he's in spitball range, glowering.
So you give people half a day after

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What the heck's are doing with that? Yeah? Yeah, So we got

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a couple of announcements and that's one
of them. So we do. We've

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got a for the first time ever
and it's tomorrow, January ninth. That's

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the ninth, right, Yeah,
yeah, So for the first time ever,

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My knowledge. We are pulling together
all the employees of the City of

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Barlsville and attempting to communicate with them
sort of the things that we communicate with

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the community. So we get often
on a regular basis, we get a

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request to go give a state of
the city, how are things going,

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And unfortunately, that's really difficult to
provide that same information to our employees because

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we're a twenty four to seven operation. So I understand, We're we're gonna

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get Yeah, you do understand,
don't you. We are. We're gonna

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give this a try. So tomorrow
at nine thirty, most of the city

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operations will close and we'll open again
till one thirty, and we're just gonna

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spend some time with our employees talking
about how things are going, what's happening

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in our community, and what they
can expect over the next couple of years.

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So will it be We will feed
them lunch. That's how we're gonna

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get them there. That food,
You feed them and they will come.

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So that's a city employees, it's
a guarantee. So but yeah, that's

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so that's coming up. We're looking
forward to that tomorrow. Couple of other

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things, well, one other announcement
and then we'll talk about the council meeting

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last week. But so the cleanup
coupons should be coming out this month,

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I think, Jason, do you
know when they actually go in the bills

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about this month under these cycle bimbis
to the that would be my guess.

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So I had seen someone who was
concerned because they didn't get theirs yet,

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but I think they were too early. Come on until the Elvis' birthday.

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We got a little month, we
got a little while ago. So yeah,

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they will, they'll, they should. You'll definitely get those. If

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you don't have them by your next
bill in February, let us know and

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we can always always provide an extra
no concerns there. So, but last

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week at the council meeting, there
were a couple of items and actually pretty

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substantial items. One of them that
was one of my favorites was the Bartwell

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Development Authority presented to the council and
the latest economic deal that we have that

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we've had come to us, and
this one is Lincoln Electric. This is

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a manufacturer from the Northeast. They
are looking to expand their operations substantially.

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And so most people remember the old
Seamens building. It's now I believe it

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was the West Industrial Facility or something
of that nature that had been renamed to

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But the old Semens facility was purchased
by the Bartlesviille Development Authority a number of

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years ago with the intent of preserving
it for economic development and they were very

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successful with this. So Lincoln Lincoln
Electric is looking to bring one hundred jobs

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to Bartlesvielle. This is a very
very substantial increase to the job base and

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they will be receiving a one point
five million dollars incentive to locate there,

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and they're purchasing the building and so
that is great news. There is also

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a reservation for the resident recruitment program
for anybody that Lincoln Electric brings with them.

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We want them to live here and
not just up the street in o

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Wassaw. And so there is an
available basically ten thousand dollars per person who

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chooses to live in Bartlesville if they'll
come and join us. So detailing potential

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workers in an award winning movie was
shot. Now, that's right, that's

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right, it's absolutely that's very famous
building. Now, huh. Sure we

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had Killers of the Flower Moon situated
there. For all of the months that

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they were here. So but anyway, that is that was great news,

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and it was it really kind of
capped off. Granted the announcement was made

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in January, but it really capped
off a great calendar year from last year,

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a lot of effort that was put
in by the BDA. Sure,

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they actually had three announcements that I
think totaled over two hundred and sixty jobs.

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There was Blue Whale, there's an
ABB expansion, and now we have

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Lincoln Electrics. So great year,
great year, and good news for the

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citizens of Bartlesville. We have more
employment opportunities and more higher wages and more

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well for all of us. So
I like that. It's hard to not

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like that, right. One of
the other items that we talked about at

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the council meeting was a settlement agreement, and it's actually a class action lawsuit

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against a couple of large corporations dealing
with pfasts and other classes of chemicals that

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are very similar. These are those
forever chemicals that you're hearing a lot about.

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These are the settlement with I think
it was three M and DuPont.

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Those settlements. The settlement language is
a little unclear we're not sure exactly what

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it would exempt them from in the
manner of liability. So after discussions with

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some very qualified attorneys, the city
elected to withdraw from that settlement, with

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the reason being that we want to
investigate our options without being part of that

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settlement. So we're not we weren't
very excited about the terms that settlement.

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Would believe that it may it may
give them, it may release them from

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liability that's not contemplated at this point
in time, and so we would rather

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not be part of that. But
we will be examining our own options.

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So for anybody who was asking why, the why was is we want to

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be certain that we that we did
the right thing, and the right thing

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right now is for us to examine
this individually rather than being part of class.

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So that'll will hopefully, well,
we'll come back with that at some

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point in time, but it'll be
a while, you know how long these

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things take to develop. And then
the only other thing really well, there

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was a couple of other things,
but we'll they'll I'll let I'll let the

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directors here talk about that. One
of the other things that was discussed.

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It's still a pretty big, pretty
important issue. Is the potential charter changes.

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The council actually did approve some preliminary
language that will that would go on

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a future ballot if they choose to
call the election, and so these are

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just to summarize them at their highest
level. There's really three major categories.

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The first one is elections, and
we would extend. It would be extending

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the council terms from two years to
three years. It would stagger the terms.

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Right now, they all expire in
the same year. And then it

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would move the elections to April.
Right now, they're in November, which

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is when all the national elections are. This would move it to April,

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when all of the other local elections
are, so this is when you have

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school board elections and all of your
statutory city in town elections. So it

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would move us back with them and
get us off of the state and federal

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elections. Recall there was a proposed
change to the recall provision. This is

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if you want to recall a city
council member. The change was that the

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signatures would have to be gathered in
one hundred and eighty days. Right now,

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there is really no limit on that, and we're uncertain if that means

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that you could spend ten years getting
signatures for a recall petition, So this

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simply puts some barriers around that and
better defines it. We also extended the

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amount of time that the city clerk
has to do his duties. He receives

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a recall petition. Under our current
charter, he has ten days to verify

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all of those signatures, and that
could be a very substantial amount of work.

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So we're proposing that thatd be moved
to thirty days, which should be

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sufficient time for the clerk's office to
do with their duties. And then our

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current charter prohibits a recall in the
first four months of a council member's term,

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but it did not prohibit it in
the last four months of a councilor's

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term. And the last four excuse
me, the last four months don't make

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a lot of sense that you would
go to the trouble and the expense of

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having a recall election when that council
member will be coming up for re election.

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I believe that the election process is
a better method of determining their worthiness

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than the recall protection the recall provisions, So those were the two biggest ones.

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Then there is something that is more
internal. It deals with purchasing this

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right now, when we purchase things, we have to determine whether it's a

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con or Materials and supplies and contracts
are treated completely differently and they have a

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totally different set of rules, which
frankly aren't as stringent as the rules for

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materials and supplies. So we're proposing
that contracting and materials and supplies all be

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treated the same. That it would
unify those rules and so that required some

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changes to the charter to get that
done. But so those are really the

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three big sections. If the Council
does choose to proceed with this, which

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they haven't yet. They've approved the
language, but they still have to call

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the election. If they do choose
to proceed with this. We're proposing that

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the election would be held in April
this year, so that would be April

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twenty twenty four US sour that's the
local election time, So that would be

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that would be the intent. So
right now, again, anybody who's interested,

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the next step would be for the
Council to call an election. Everyone

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our meetings are open to the public. Everyone's welcome to attend and let the

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council know their thoughts on this or
you don't have to wait. If your

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council members, their contact information is
available on our website Cityobartlesfield dot org.

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You're welcome to reach out to them. You're welcome to reach out to myself

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or to the city clerk and anyone
you believe needs to hear what you think

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about this. And we've heard different
things. There are a lot of people

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that are very much in support of
that. There are some that are concerned

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more about moving from the national election
date to the local election date. But

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I believe that we've addressed those questions
adequately, and we've had a lot of

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discussions, in a lot of debate, and we believe that that local election

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date in April is better suited for
local elections because you're going to get more

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attention on your local elections in the
national elections. It is difficult, and

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it also one of the council members
mentioned, it's very expensive, so to

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run a campaign in November, it
is much more expensive all of your advertising

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and billboards and all of those things. Because of the demand put on by

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national campaigns. It's harder to get
radio time, it's harder to get billboards.

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So we'll make May time just added
at a couple of minutes a day.

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Right, we're good. Which yet, which end of the day should

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we add it to? Huh?
Which in the end of the day should

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we had it? Oh, well, we'll just greet it, just squeeze

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it in, we'll make it happen. So but that's that was a majority

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of the council meeting. However,
at the beginning of the council meeting,

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we actually had a chance to celebrate
the accomplishments of some of our officers in

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one of our firefighters and I've got
Chief Ickleberry here. We had we had

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two police officers and a firefighter that
were recognized for life saving awards, I

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believe, and that was for it
was. It was certainly an unusual event,

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thankfully usual event. Chief. Let's
tellybody about it. Sure. On

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November thirtieth and approximately seven thirty in
the morning, Lieutenant Chris Neil was on

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his way to work, headed down
west on Adams when he saw a vehicle

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that was coming up the hill on
Adams there by the lows immediately take a

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left turn heading north across the lanes
down the embankment there by the soccer few

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across the soccer fields and launching to
Lee Lake. He stepped into quick actions,

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radioed it in to dispatch let him
know what was going on. He

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followed it into the area and another
officer, Sergeant Steve Johnson, was also

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on the way that we're into work
as well as a off duty firefighter apparently

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I believe he was either on the
way home or coming in. But anyhow,

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Chris Buchanan and they followed the Chris
kneeling into the area and they entered

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the water, tried to rescue the
guy out of the vehicle. The vehicle

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doors were locked. They ended up
breaking breaking the window gaining access access into

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the vehicle. Chris pulled Chris Buchanan
pulled him out of the vehicle, and

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the three pulled him up onto the
bank to render aid to him. EMS

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got there pretty quickly after that,
and he was given medical attention and transport

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to the local hospital. So their
quick action, we feel like say was

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saved his life. He was in
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So we're very thankful for that.
It's just perfect timing. So absolutely

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something bad was going to happen.
Grateful that his course he had, as

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you said, he had a medical
event that caused him to veer off the

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road. Thankfully no one else was
injured. It was very dangerous. And

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then thankfully are our employees, our
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were there to pull him and render
aid. It's one of those things that

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not being certain what the extent of
the medical emergency was, but even that

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left untreated, could have could have
sure could have resulted in his chests.

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So I'm grateful to those those individuals, those gentlemen. They did a great

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job. Absolutely, it's what what, of course, what we expect from

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them, but it is always nice
to see it demonstrated. Yes, sir,

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I got cold all over again when
you yes, because we we got

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that just about the time that it
happened, man, And it was a

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chilly morning. Yeah, that was
good to be a water. Can you

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imagine? I can't, And you
know, so hats off to everybody.

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No time to put on the protective
gear that no when we go into water.

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No, no, no, it
was they just went right in.

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So oh goodness. Jason says,
it's about like being your server room tall

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for this kind of call. You
put in it every day, all right,

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Chief, And we also had one
other award. This one was given

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by an outside agency. Grand Mental
Health came and provided an award to one

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of our officers as well. Sure, so, as most people know,

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we've been talking about it for quite
a while now, we started the Crisis

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Intervention Response Team. Last actually started
at December I believe it was of twenty

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two went all year. They've been
doing some good workout on the Pathfinder as

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well throughout the community, trying to
take care of the homeless and the mental

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health and so Grant recognize that effort
and awarded Officer Cee are companiment with the

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Officer of the Year award. I
believe they have twelve counties they service,

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and so we're one of those twelve
counties and good to be part of that

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network. And so we're very proud
of her for her achievement in that.

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And I know that there are other
communities throughout the United States who use models

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similar to what we do, but
in our region, what we're doing is

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very unique, and I'm grateful to
you and to the former Chief Tracy Roles

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for investing in our community in this
way. This is not traditional policing,

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but we do believe that this is
what is necessary to deal with the types

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of crimes and emergencies that the police
deal with today. So yes, sir,

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I'm very, very proud of Sierra. It's not the first award that

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she's received, and I'm certain it
won't be the last. She's been an

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exceptional officer since she was hired,
and I'm glad that she's part this part

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of this team. So well,
thank you, Chief, I appreciate it.

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We did have you also had an
event. I'm not sure exactly what

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it was. I think it was
towards the end of last year. You

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had an event dealing with neighborhood,
getting ready to have that, getting ready

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to have had you had that.
You had the mental health one earlier late

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last year. We're trying to find
topics that people are interested in, that

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really want to know things about,
and keep them informed. And so November

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the eighteenth, which I believe is
a Thursday night, sixth I'm sorry,

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I say November. You're just a
bad ye. Neither one of us know

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where we are when we are thankful
to be here though, that was friend

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Thanksgiving January the eighteenth, so it
was just still right to check. Sorry

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about that, you say a long
time January the eighteenth, at twenty twenty

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four, at six point thirty,
we'll be having a neighborhood Watch meeting at

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City All in the Chamber Chamber Room
there invite any body that's interested in any

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type of neighborhood watch program throughout the
community, starting one up. This is

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actually part of our Bartlesville Next Project, that strategic plan, and we're trying

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to move forward on that and try
to get as many people involved as possible

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for us the neighborhood watch side of
things, and we would really like to

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have people come out to be part
of that. It's an informational forum and

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we want to let people know what
it looks like in the neighborhoods. We

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plan on utilizing the different ones and
just try to meet your neighbor, you

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know, get everybody involved, and
you know, the biggest thing you can

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do for a neighborhood watch program is
know your neighbor and and befriend your neighbors

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so that you can really take care
of each other. So know your neighbors

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and watch out for each other and
don't be afraid to call nine on one

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when you see something that's so it's
generally better that they do that than to

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try to address it themselves. Absolutely, we've had some tragedies that we faulted

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from that. Yeah, certainly utilize
your resources, but it really does take

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a village anymore. Uh. And
so for anybody who is interested in how

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they can they can reduce crime and
make their neighborhoods safer, please come out

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and join us. You said it
was January eighteenth, January eighteen, six

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thirty, City Hall, six thirty
at City Hall. All right, well,

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thank you, Chief, I appreciate
that. And we have the rain

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maker here with us Aka, the
sucker of joy. Sucker of joy.

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It depends on the day. It
just depends on the day. Terry,

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Well, today it's raining, so
it's weird we have we have occasion to

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be joyful. Yes, So what
are our water restrations? Terry? None?

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None. We are in the first
time we've been able to say that

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in a while. It has been
in over a year, truthfully, so

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we're very thankful for the rains that
really started with the Christmas weekend rain that

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really benefit of Hula. So it
was a little unusual, right, we

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don't normally get a lot of rain
at this time of the last of course,

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I've poured over data more than I
wanted to here to miss Man can

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tell you more about rainfall in this
region years. So the CORE has a

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fantastic website. They archive their data
that's successful online. I've yet, I've

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gone through roughly about twenty years worth
of data. They have never received that

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type of rein event in that time
frame, so that's how unusual it was.

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But we're extremely thankful for it.
It was a Christmas git it.

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It was Christmas miracle to it's all. But that ran event really added well

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increased the lake elevation that HeLa for
about three and a half feet, so

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it took it from just under the
what's called the water conservation pool or stage

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into the flood control So the CORE
with both Heala and Copen have different zones

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that are designated for a specific use, so water supplies what they call water

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conservation, and then they have a
significant flood control portions. And those lakes

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were built primarily for flood control.
So Heal Lake is in its flood control

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capacity right now. The Core is
releasing water a little bit more than normal

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just to free that space up because
it is reserved for flood control. And

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they have a policy to try to
get it back to that state as as

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quickly as spot there, trying to
prevent any potential downstream flooding, right,

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which we appreciate as well since we're
downstream. Absolutely, Yeah, it's kind

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of a mixed bag. We want
that water stored in there. We'd rather

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hold it a little longer, I'm
sure, But then again, you know,

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in eighty six they had an incident
where they've managed the lakes a little

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bit differently and it resulted in a
very significant flood event. So it's a

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fine line to on management of those
lakes in the water within it. It

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really is. So well, that
was good news. So we've had no

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restrictions. If anybody missed that,
we are completely off of water restrictions and

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we're looking forward. We anticipate that
would be the case for a while here,

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hopefully throughout spring, and hopefully we
can get back to normal and we

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won't be facing water restrictions at all
next year. But we can't promise that

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or predict it. It really is
dependent on rainfall. But as far as

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our search for additional water supply,
now you and I we've had this discussion

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droughts or droughts and so when you
have significant droughts, you will likely always

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have some type of water restrictions because
conservation is always going to be one of

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the tools that we have to use. However, to increase our water stability

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long term, to ensure that conservation
and normal methods are enough, we've continued

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to look at additional water supply,
and in fact, we've got we're trying

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to schedule a Barsville Water Resources Committee
meeting and so we'll have a little bit

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of an update for them at that
point in time. But can you give

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give everybody kind of a quick glimpse
at where we are now. Yeah,

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so we have and even with the
Water Resources Committee's recent action, we continue

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to look for potential water additional water
supply at Heugh Lake, Copan Lake,

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and Call Lake as well as there
is an aquifer in central Osage County that

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we're investigating as well. So all
water supply takes quite a bit of time

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to kind of go through and investigate
and to kind of figure out all the

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details and costs and what have what
have you that are associated with it.

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So one of the options that we
are looking at is to convert some of

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the flood control at both Hugh Lake
and Copan Lake to water supply or to

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water conservation, so that that entails
a significant change in how those lakes are

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managed. That effort goes through the
CORE, and so we've initiated a study

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through the Core through a planning Assistance
to States program that they have available that

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will look at what all the steps
to change the management of the lake in

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that threshold and the store more water
both at Heugh Lake and Copan Lake,

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which would make it available for water
supply. They are still waiting i think,

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for funding federal funding through their budget
allocation, which I don't think has

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been officially set yet since there's a
little bit of turmoil on the budgeting process

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there in Washington, d C.
So once they get that resolved, we

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are in the top of the list
as far as the funding that goes with

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it. Playing Assistance to State's study
involves a fifty to fifty match, so

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the CORE covers fifty percent of the
cost and the city covers the other fifty

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percent. And so if that once
their funding gets squared away, I'm confident

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that will get approval for that project, and it'll take at least six to

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nine months to go through that It's
a significant study, absolutely, because they're

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looking at not only the loss or
the additional risk that is going to be

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potentially encountered downstream because of the loss
of flood control, also the environmental aspects

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of the lake, the recreational impacts
to the lake and to their use as

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well. So a fairly comprehensive study
to look at all those things to see

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if that's a viable option for us
to pursue. And so that's our that

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is probably our top option that we're
looking at, is this reallocation, which

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will allow the lakes to store substantially
more water than they do now. One

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of the other things to increase lake
capacity that we hear about and talk about

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often is dredging, And I think
there's an impression that somehow the city has

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ruled out dredging. The reality is
we haven't ruled it out. It's just

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that it's difficult with the environmental regulations
that exist around dredging and the size of

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the project. It doesn't it costs
more than what we're proposing to do now,

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and it has an uncertain even approval
if we were to try to pursue

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it. So it's not it's not
that we would never consider it. It's

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that it doesn't in this at this
current time, that it's not nearly as

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cost effective as what we're looking at
for the reallocation, and the reallocation where

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relatively certain we can get approved relatively
certainly. Yeah, So it was an

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item that the CORE recommended back in
two thousand and six, and so we

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know that it is feasible, not
dredging, real re allocation. Dredging they

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did not recommend for all these reasons
we're talking about, right, So we

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feel confident that some form of reallocation
will be viable to pursue, and it's

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really a matter of timing. So
even to go through this study and to

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do the mitigation that's required with it, it is probably a five year process

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from beginning to end, and that
will in essence increase the storage in those

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lakes at least a hulo by about
fifty percent. And so from a time

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time frame standpoint, that's very quick. Now, if we look at dredging,

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the dredging permitting process will take us
about two to three years at a

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minimum, and that's if it's even
a and there's a lot of unknowns for

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costs, specifically with the dredge material
and disposal of it. So, as

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many people probably know, there's a
little trace amount of mercury in every living

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being, so there will be mercury
in that sediment or in that material that

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we would dredge. So the big
unknown is where can we dispose of that

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material that does contain a heavy metal. And then if we're able to dispose

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of it fairly close to that basin, the cost will be significant, but

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maybe not quite a significant if we
have to haul that to a hazardous landfield

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site. So the ballpark costs to
dispose of that within the twenty mile radius

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of the lake is about one hundred
and fifty million dollars, and so that

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would gain us about seven to eight
million galls of water a day. But

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if we do the reallocation, for
example a hula, that would cost us

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about ten million dollars and that would
net us about ten million gawns worth of

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water day. It's really a cost
perspective that this is by far the most

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cost effective option to pursue and has
some of the best timing as far as

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how quickly were we going to accomplish
it so real quick that obviously leaves a

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gap in time at which we'll still
be susceptible in the same risk we are

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today for drought. So we're also
looking to develop potential emergency plans that would

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provide additional pattible or raw water that
would be something that we could call out

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on demand. So not really ready
to discuss those, and we don't have

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enough time to we can if they
wish to call me, uh, because

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we're talking about water weave me nine
eight three three eight. We've done a

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number of studies, a lot of
investigation with it. I'd be happy to

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share that with you. We do
have those links on city Beat and through

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the website. Uh, so they're
the information is out there, uh,

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and we're happy to share sure.
Absolutely, all right, thank you very

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