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Good money, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.

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It's time now for city matters.
If it matters to you, it

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matters to the city. We've got
Vice Mayor James Curry Jr. And the

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new guy. How you doing,
Quinn Ship. Thank you, that's a

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great morning. And welcome to the
city council. Thank you. It's going

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to be back in the steer.
Have make sure I have the right hat

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on. Here you go. Well, we wanted to bring mister Shipper in

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this morning, and welcome to the
Borloo City Council. You had a good

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meeting last night and we're very pleased
with all the applicants. We had a

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lot of good applicants and but at
the end of the day, mister Ship

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approved to be a very asset in
to the community in the past, and

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I think we all very unanimous.
We felt he'd be a good addition to

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the council. Well, you've been
here for just a few years, Quinn.

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But if you dove right in once
you got here, something to deep

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end ye there coming up on four
years the end of this month. Actually,

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So you came here from Denton,
Texas. We're in Denton, Texas

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for three years, but lived in
Stillwater for twenty two years before that,

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so we're not strangers to Bartlesville.
My background. I've talked about this before.

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I think about with the Franklin right
a school of architecture of the Price

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family, and once we moved to
Stillwater got involved with the Price to our

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Art center. And we've always loved
Bartlesville. You know, drop a hat

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something going on Bartlesville. We'd be
over here, so might as well move

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here. I We'll move here.
Here we are now you're on the city

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council. Great. Yeah, an
interesting meeting last night, Pathfinder. Finally

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we got some we did. We
did finally we were chatting about this morning.

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It's been a not over long,
overdue, but it's been just kind

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of caught up in the windmill of
getting things done out of the city.

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Starting in twenty nineteen, we put
some money together in the bond issue,

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and then we put some more money
together in twenty twenty one. And so

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if we finally got the plans drawn
up, it's in our city packet,

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I said last night on at our
meeting, very extensive drawings of what will

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be addressed throughout there, and several
really key areas that needed new pathfinder put

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in will be removed, various parts
that will be putting in, a new

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drainage system to keep the water off
the paths. So a lot of great

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improvements coming our way on the pathlinder
next couple months. And I kid had

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thought that hopefully they'd be starting tomorrow, but actually they will be starting this

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fall. They've just got to get
a few more things cleared and ready to

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go, and they'll be keyed up
and ready to go this fall hopefully.

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One of the things that the council
took a look at was the nice little

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thing we have for people are moving
here to work and you reauthorized that tell

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us a little bit about that.
Well, the BDA has an incentive program

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again in twenty twenty one, I
believe every years. I don't want to

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be quoted on the exact amounts,
but their incentives that people are coming here

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to rent or if they were to
build or by bye, yes thank you,

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and also with primarily with major employers, but I think they're looking at

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both. It was approved to extend
the program right which has been a real

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plus for the community because you get
people living here, then the kids are

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in school and they're buying the groceries
and doing stuff in town. And so

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I don't know where the branch old
for that. I'm sure it was with

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leaders of the BBA. We've had
one hundred and eleven people utilize the program

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somewhere on the rental program originally and
then have gone over and bought the home.

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And so it's one hundred and eleven
families that have located here that could

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have We're incentivized to stay here as
opposed to living Awas or Collins Bill somewhere

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south of us. We've had we
struggled for years with a lot of our

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employers employees living working here, but
living elsewhere. And over the past six

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or eight years we've done a lot
to try to improve choices, improve retail

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choices, and make it a more
viable community when they look at it.

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But now we've also put on top
of that and then sent it to home

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here and live in our community rather
than just come in for the day and

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work and go home and look what's
happened. We've got the electric company,

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Lincoln Electric, Blue Whale coming out
there. ABB is making bigger improvements too

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of bringing in people. This has
worked out well. This is a win

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win win win win. Yeah,
and even connic Or Philip sixty six bot

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Marathon Oil yes, recently. So
that's a I could hopefully someday, you

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know, add some more future employees
to the town too. So, as

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we discussed, and I brought up
last night, we've got a currently kind

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of kind of a housing shortage,
and I think I was asking mister Batchelter

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to kind of key that back up
hopefully at the BDA, to see what

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we can do to try to incentivize
builders locally first and then beyond local builders

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to come into the area and develop
some more property, because we've got to

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have some homes for people that are
upwardly mobile and moving up from their first

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home looking for a home, and
then we've got to certainly have some homes

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for new employees they're working for these
companies to locate here and live here.

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Oh indeed, indeed, Yeah,
And homes are like not that available.

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There aren't that many homes for sale
in town, and they turn over pretty

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quickly. Doo. Yeah. Another
thing coming up here too is that carry

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Cox made a very interesting presentation last
night to both the council and to the

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county commissioners. Where you guys kind
of get together and join forces, you

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know, wonder twins, And it
was about making a nice little notification system

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so that you don't have to blast
out everything to everybody. You can only

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hit the areas you need to hit, kind of take an ex cue from

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the city there. From that little
thing that we got going, Yeah,

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no, it was Lauren made a
good point one to make sure we're not

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duplicating our efforts. But you can
never get enough information out quick enough,

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true to all the service organizations,
emergency organizations, when certain things happen in

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the community where you want to notify
them of just mundane issues or urgency issues.

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So I think it's a good addition
for the council to consider in our

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budget, which we of course will, to expand that system, make sure

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that we can do it easily and
effect and talk to more people with the

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information that we need to get out. I want to talk to Quinn here

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real quick. What made you say, Hey, I've been here for four

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years, I want to run for
city council. There's a bit of a

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segue, maybe in one way,
because when we first arrived, I started

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attending the city council meetings. I
was just interested to learn about the city

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government. And except for one month
when I was out of the state and

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I did watch it on video,
I've not missed a City Council meeting live,

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and I've been to quite a number
of the special meetings. I've also

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had the privilege of serving on the
City Planning Commission for just a little over

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three years, and I do want
to give a nod to Billy Rohan.

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You know, it was very sobering
to be on the dais last night when

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I was used to sitting next to
Billy on the City Planning Commission, a

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couple of committees with her. So
pretty early on I started getting engazed with

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city affairs and it just felt really
honored to have these opportunities. Never imagined

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I would have an opportunity to plant. Yeah, so it wasn't like you

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were going to run for city council
at some point. Maybe if she decided

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not to run, he would have
been thinking about it. But it was

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just a very sobering affair to lose
her. But from those things, uh,

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she would she would be pleased and
very pleased to have Quinn here amongst

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us today. So I yes,
it was we just carry on business,

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you know, the city business just
goes on, but we we take time

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to reflect in a one a wonderful
asset. She'd been to the community,

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let alone the council for the last
three years. She's been wonderful to have

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on there, and Quinn will be
a good step in her place. Well,

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Quinn, you know you mentioned that
you're so hard whied in because you've

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been a student of this. Yeah, you know, and this is going

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to have to pay up quite a
bit because so many people they'll pay attention,

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but they're not locked in like that. So this is going to help

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you. The City Council always mentions, of course there's an agenda for every

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meeting. Sure it's posted well in
advance, is on the website, but

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there's also a packet of material,
and I'm accustomed to like scanning through that

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because when I come, I'm not
actively participant or haven't been actively participating in

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an audience to show support, but
I wanted to be aware. Now this

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was a bit different because this particular
packet was three hundred and fifteen pages long,

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because of all the details, and
so I encourage citizens, as they

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do from the council all the time, go to the packet be informed if

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you've got concerns about things or an
interest in something like the pathfinder, which

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I took her real interest in,
because the closest access to where we live

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is when this boss is going to
be repaired. Great, and you know

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they can learn a lot of those
sorts of things that come in a bit

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informed or subsequently to get some more
information. But there's a lot of work

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involved working through that. We had
a citizen and last night asking about citizen

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comment and would like to comment,
you know more address certain agenda items,

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and I think that comes by reading
the packet. You can develop questions and

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you can certainly ask those questions at
the forefront of the meeting. And I

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know as a counselor of somebody where
if we were discussing an item and there

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was an interesting citizen that want to
make a comment for that item, we

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would generally always allow that comment to
happen. So we want to be opened.

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We've got a lot of business.
We had a huge consent agenda last

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night that took twenty minutes just to
read, and then we we oftentimes pulled

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things off there. I pulled the
one from the airport off there again to

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acknowledge the fact we're putting in almost
two point two million dollars in there,

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and it's going to cost a city
about one hundred thousand dollars to improve our

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taxiway, open up the new area
of the airport for future expansion of hangars.

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The BDA is considering building a hangar
and we're going to get some federal

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money to help build that hanger.
So just a lot of good things happening

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at the airport. So we would
have just passed that and moved on,

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but it's fun. It's nice to
pull those items off and have city administration

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come up and speak to those items
and what we're doing in the community.

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Well, you know, dazzling little
spotlight too. Yeah, that is growth

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right there. Now, Quinn,
going into this, you're already committed for

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this duration. You're going to run
for the office in November. Correct,

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Yes, Okay, we're willing to
do that. You're willing to do that.

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He's committed, he's going to do
it. That was kind of part

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of the interview process. We wanted
to make everybody aware that this is such

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a very short temporary block and it's
a large commitment just for the three months,

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but in August, you've got to
declare your candidacy for the November election.

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So we wanted to make sure that
everybody understood that, and we hopefully

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had candidates lined up that we're willing
to not only serve for the three months,

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but certainly put themselves out there for
the November election. Also, all

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right, I got a question for
you. What's your plans ahead? I

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mean, why should go into your
election? Here? Things? Well,

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what is mister courage used to be
my city councilman until the redistricting and actually

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mounted me. I took my downtown
chunk of property, gave it to this

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little chunk out from thirteen to show
me and over and so one is before

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any of this consideration. Because we've
talked before about my interest in the city.

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Generally, I think it's really important
for people to know their ward,

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whether they're on the city council or
who their council person is. Yeah,

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and one thing I find I often
ask people like, well, what ward

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are you? Who's your city council
person, And a lot of people just

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don't know. And again, you
can go to the city council or the

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city website find the maps so long
before, like right after the redistricting.

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Becky and I just started driving around. I mean, we knew the war

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generally, this very diverse war,
like we're sitting at right now in your

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studio. It's the only war that
includes the seat of government for city and

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county. We've got RSU, We've
got entertainment, arts and tourism, we've

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got the gamut is in this ward
and it goes from the airport all the

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way out to the highway and includes
Oak Park. And yeah, it's very

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long, and you've got Chuck real
estate there. So yeah, So I

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think one motivation now that a decision
that has been made is just to become

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even more intentional about getting acquainted with
the ward and your neighborhoods and some of

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the different businesses and things that comprise
this ward. He's been great at just

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understanding of the global efforts of the
city and working on the various committees.

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But he'll he'll have time now to
kind of focus in on his ward and

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the t now represents and become better
acquainted with the needs of that ward and

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the people in that ward. And
I think that's what he'll do without any

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problem at all. No, Jim, just like you and everyone else should

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come in here who are a city
council members. I always say, folks,

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if you want to get involved,
look to get on a board or

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a committee and find yourself away in
so that you can really get to see

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how government works. This is what
you did when this is the path you

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took. Hey, how many different
boards and committees where you are in a

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short time? Well, the say
Planning Commission, on the Water Resource Committee

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and other plant committee And yeah,
there's a lot involved with that, and

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not everything meets regularly, but some
do meet with regularity. But there are

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all kinds of opportunities. There are
several appointments made to some boards and committees

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last night. People can call Elane
at the office or go online, make

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an application, show what areas have
interest, and as spots become available,

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there are opportunities then to come on. So I encourage people all the time

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consider a board, a commission,
a trust, an authority, whatever is

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available. And if you've got an
interest to make a contribution to the well

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being of our city, very good. And when they have interests and complaints

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or issues within their ward to contact
any of us. We certainly can contact

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your own ward representative of contact any
of us. We have the administration that

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we have complaining to engineering, to
our general manager, to our city manager

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and assistant city manager. We can
get responses to people very quickly if they've

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got an issue on the property or
drainage issue or so. I've always enjoyed

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taking customer issues and bringing them to
the to to my ward administrators and I

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mean to the city administrators, and
I get wonderful answers back to them and

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can relate those back to the customers
or great citizens. Well, you know

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the same thing. We're here to
serve, right, We're here to serve

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exactly. I mean, we're kind
of in the same business here. We're

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here to serve the community as well. Well, you're all have done with

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the chasing storms lately and being out
there. You've done a tremendous job and

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conservatis of the community. You know, I want to make one thing clear,

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I ain't chasing nothing. I sit
right here and make sure everybody's look

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your head under the desk, make
sure everybody's okay, and the commercials play.

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But you know, Kevin and Caleb
and Tye and Evan and Chase,

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they go run in after those storms. I'm not going boy, are you

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crazy? I do. Yeah.
So it's kind of like our firemen who

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run into burning buildings. You know, why would you do that? Well,

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you know, we got to save
live. We got to give the

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information, let them know where it's, where it's at, and where it's

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going and try to save some more
lives that would And we did have a

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good report from carry last night.
Also on our storm shelter program, we're

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hopefully going to renew that for another
half a million dollars roughly, and we've

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yeah, I mean we put a
lot of people bought storm shelters through that

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program and certainly saved some lives doing
that great program. Indeed, Gwinn,

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what would you like to say to
folks that you haven't been able to say

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yet because we've only asked you half
a being question. Well, I'm really

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truly am honored to have been appointed
at the position. And of course none

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of us were applicants, knew until
last night what that appointment, who would

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be appointed to that spot. So
I just want to say thank you to

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those who had, you know,
confidence to show support and encouragement not just

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for me, but other applicants as
well. And I look forward to working

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with not only the team that comprises
the city Council, but the city manager

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of the city staff, and again
with some of the acquaintance already. I

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know a lot of these people we've
interfaced with different projects, different kinds of

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things. So it's just like a
bit of a segue. Also a learning

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curve. I know there be some
of that as well, but there's good

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coaches and mentors and teachers out there. You got to skip the budget because

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we did a month early. You
didn't have to. You didn't have to

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drink from LP fire. And following
Billy's lead, she used to read every

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page of that every page. She
had put notes on every page of that

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thing. So that's always a great
introduction to the council when you first come

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on. The budget's basically staring you
in the eyes in the mid June or

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early late April so or May.
So he'll have better time to do other

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things now and not have to worry
about the budget for the next six or

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eight months. So just be prepared, young man. Yes, I bring

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that thing in with a forklift.
They do. I want to thank you

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both for being here with us.
Congratulations about the good work there, Jim,

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thanks to and you've been listening and
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