Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
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I'm Tom Davis. It's time for city matters. If it matters to you,
it matters to the city, and we have a city councilor Barne roselle
with this year a long time no see how you've been doing? Well?
How are you this morning? Well, you know, I'm the ankle deep
in a mud puddle today and that was a kind of a good thing.
Our water situation improved rather quickly it did, and had to have a nice
a round of rains there that improved our whole water table situation. So we're
looking up right now. We're really excited. We're above seventy one percent right
now and our water table I haven't gotten the new numbers this morning, but
the exact figures this morning yet, but we are above seventy one percent.
That means we get to move out of the Stage three water restrictions and go
back into Stage one water restrictions. So that means in Stage one we are
just now in doing a public awareness campaign. We are asking the public and
the people in the city to still be conscious about water conservation because we are
only at seventy one. It's voluntary, right, It's all voluntary. At
this point. We are not restricting your outdoor water use or anything like that
anymore. And in fact, we are opening We have opened all of the
splash pads. I want to say a big thank you to city crews that
went out there and got all of our city splash pads open so that our
kiddos can go out and take advantage during this heat wave of our splash pads.
Unfortunately, we can't open our pools because this late in the season,
we can't hire people, hire lifeguards and hire staff to do to run those
pools, So we are not able to open our pools yet. I don't
think we'll be able to open them this season, but we do offers.
We have worked with City Ride to get free rides for people from Bartlesville out
to Osage Hills. So you can look on our city website and find the
schedule of free rides from different locations inside the city out to os Chills State
Park for say, free emission in that pool. You know, yea luck
of the draw, right, you get to come on today and say,
hey, the world's a beautile play right. Usually it's like, hey,
I love sewing up with good news, so I always come in with the
solution. Mother nature was good too. Oh my gosh, yes, it's
so great. I woke up and the first thing I do every time it
rains is look at the radar to see if it's raining in the right spot.
And we got the rain in the right spot twice in three days.
Oh golly. You know, I was telling Lauren that yesterday I was looking
at that blab of rain northwest of which done. I'm thinking, we're gonna
get a chance of that good luck right next thing, you know, Bob
boom, we got. We got kissed rather moistly from Mother Nature. But
boy, we got a lot of things that going on. One thing,
you do have a new chief of police. We've had him in here,
but he really didn't take the oath of water till just a few years a
day. Yeah, so last week he actually got penned and had a ceremony
to be penned as our new Barsville chief of Police. Congratulations to Kevin Eiachaelberry
worked with him known him for a long time. He's going to be a
great asset to the city and a great leader for that department. Continue the
legacy that Tracy Rolls started there and build on that and growing that department,
growing our public safety in Bartlesville. That police department, I think is one
of the best in Oklahoma. You know. He's one of the first people
I met when I moved to town four years ago. Yeah, and just
by Halpendstands, you know, and we introduced each other swap County. I'm
like, well, that's a pretty good guy. I had no idea he's
gonna be a chief police. Yeah. Chief Eichael Berry is always out there
involved in the community, gutting on forums and meeting with the public and doing
all those kind of different things. So a lot of people know him and
he's will well known and real well liked. Congratulations. We look forward to
him. Well, you know, speaking of forums, this is something that
was kind of released by the city yesterday, you know, during you know,
chunks of ice and rainy and lightning and thundering coming on, and it's
like, hey, why don't we talk about this, you know, So,
you know, Kelly Shift the release and this is big because we did
this once a few roles, yes, but now we're doing this with the
Chief Kael Berry and also with Captain Elkins and a few other people. Tell
what's all about. So last year we did a public forum on the finnil
issue here in Barsville. We do have a finnel problem in Barswell. We
have a drug problem in Bartelsville, m Finnil is a major source of one
of the leading causes of death in the nation for people between the ages of
eighteen and thirty five. Finnil is a huge issue all of the nation,
but it is an issue for our city. Chief itacle Berry I have to
remember to calling chief now put on a forum last year, and it's going
to put on another forum this year where we talk about the finnil issue here
in Barswell and in Okah Home. He's got a lot of good speakers lined
up. Daniel Elkins has some speakers and has helping put this on. It's
August twenty fifth at the Center formerly known as the Community Center but now branded
as the Center. So that'll be August twenty fifth at the Center. Now,
this is great that the last time we were there it was getting kind
of close over Yeah, and there were a ton of people and it was
also a night where there was a lot going on. I think the football
team was playing in the postseason. And we're surprised that the number of people
opted to go to this because it was that important and that many local people
have been affected by that, many parents lost kids. Yeah, and this
is one thing where they never ran out of questions. Oh no, And
they had a lot of good information to provide about what was going on in
the whole state as well as our county with the Finnale issue. Our community
has been touched by deaths from Finnil and we almost lost a police officer because
of Finnil. So it's an issue in our community. The public needs to
be aware of it. They public needs to ask questions, get see how
they can get involved, see how they can be an impact on the issue
in our community. So this is why I love our police department. They're
engaging with our community and our citizens to get them involved and keep them aware
on this problem. Now, Lauren, let's clarify this. The officer was
not ingesting this sport Hi. He was actually processing evidence, right. He
was processing evidence and came in contact with Fentonil. I mean, disgust of
finnil can can can cause deaths. So we were lucky that our police were
on we're on the on the spot there and got him the helping needed.
But this affects everybody in our community, from our police officers to our schools,
our children, our retirees. We all need to get involved and be
an active participant in helping this problem. You know what, get real ministry.
He deals with people who are they combating addictions and things like that.
People are out there on the street and Pastor Gamble was telling me that he
says, no, he had already at that point done a half dozen funerals.
He doesn't want to do anymore related to this fentanyl stuff. So we
need to get a handle on this in our community. And the first thing
is getting information out there. Siveton Park, we had a windstorm back in
May and well we're still kind of waiting on what's going on there because that
the big shade structure took a hit. Yeah, so the city has taken
some action, and in fact we've taken even more action this week. But
the last city council we've kind of approved the dollars to spend to get that
Civitan Park shade structure repaired. It looks like it was improperly installed and over
the years because of the improper installation, the stress on the joints and the
way that it's attached to the foundation there caused an issue and it became unsafe,
so we had to close it down. We've approved the bid and the
spend to get that shade structure removed this week, repaired, and then reinstad
So they'll be work going on this week out there at Civitam Park to repair
and replace that shade structure. Now we're going to get into street chairing a
little bit. One thing that comes up to just about every city council member.
I don't care what city you are in, if it's not the streets,
it's the sidewalks, what's going on there. So if you launched the
last city council mean it was either the last city council meeting or the one
before we suspended some sidewalk ordinances for the city. We just said we're going
to take a pause. We're going to reevaluate our sidewalk ordinance package in general
and in the total, and we're going to look at how we can redo
it how we can do it better. So part of that effort, the
first thing was to kind of pause sidewalk ordinances for a while. And now
we have opened up our city Community Development Director Larry Curtis has opened up a
survey for our citizens so that they can give input about city sidewalks, the
conditions, ordinances, anything they have on their mind. No about our city
sidewalks we want citizens input on. So he's opened up a survey. You
can go out to the city website and you'll find that link to that survey.
Please participate in that survey so we can do sidewalks better here in Barsville,
because we got some great sidewalks, we got some places we need sidewalks
we don't have them now, and then we got some sidewalks that really need
repair too. So we want the citizens to get input and to tell us
what's important to them. Alrighty, now we'll get to the streets part.
But one part of this bond issue in October. I understand a lot of
money is going to go to our streets. So yeah, so we approved
in October election for our bond issues. There'll be four bond issues. One
will be for public safety and buildings. One will be for municipal buildings and
facilities, the third will be for streets and bridges, and then the fourth
will be for parks and recreation. Now, the proposition one that's going to
be public safety. We're gonna rebuild fire station number two. Fire Station number
two is basically fallen through and the ground over there and we haven't had repair
the outside. So there's some major major structural shoes with that one that we
want to make sure and the best thing to do is build them a new
one over there. So we want we're going to build a new fire station
to replace fire station number two. Proposition number two is all about municipal buildings.
We're going to replace some core server infrastructure for about seven hundred thousand dollars.
The big one is our streets package. Yeah, the Streets package,
I think the Streets Committee, I thank the city staff, I thank the
City Council, everybody that worked. I'm putting together a project list of twelve
point two million dollars worth of street repair, replacement and rehabs to put forth
in this bond issue. So Bond Issue number three is our Streets package that
will have twelve point two million dollars worth of street repairs. There is a
whole list of streets that we are going to repair the name project as well
as the non name projects, but we are looking to do everything from Adam's
Boulevard east of seventy five all the way all the way east of seventy five.
We're going to redo Lupa and a lot of streets along Lupa from Sunset
to Seminole. There's a lot of side streets there that are also gonna get
redone along with that Loopa project, we're gonna repair streets like Rockdale and Ridgewood
and Dogwood Court in Woodland, Cherokee Avenue from Hensley to fourteenth Streets, it's
going to get repaired. Michigan Street out there off of seventy five is going
to get repaired. Swan Drive is on the list. Avondale, Spruce,
Greystone Drive is also there. Rice Creek Road, Valley Road. Downtown really
needs some working, so we've got some. We've got that named into the
streets projects, Georgetown Drive, and then there's a lot of other projects that
aren't named in the bond issue, but we're gonna do twelve point two million
dollars worth of streets repaired and get our streets back up to shape. I
want to get some boats down off the anxiety at a level here because you
think heard Adam to Oh yeah, we have to clarify the east of seventy
five. Everything west of seventy five is a state from starting there at seventy
five. That's Highway sixty that comes through town there, but that's state.
But east of seventy five there's a Lady Road, and we're going to do
something about it. We're going to show the state what it's supposed to look
like exactly right, all right? So down down kill a kind of bumps.
Well, you know it's east of seventy of us right, all right?
So got that. Talk to all your neighbors, your friends and everything.
Tell them to get out in October vote yes on these bond issues so
that we can get stuff done. Well, okay, and if you want
to really see how our city works from the inside, you're invited to be
an insider. Oh gosh, yes. So we've got a lot of different
boards and commission openings that we need to get filled. So I'm looking on
my phone here because that's where the lists of our boards and committees open.
We've got openings on our Ambulance Commission. We've got two openings on the Library
Trust Authority. We've got two upcompany openings on the park Board. Uh part
board's always really popular, so um, get get your application in there for
those. We got two upcoming on the Board of Adjustments. And we've also
got an opening that's gonna come actually as up and now for the Streets and
Traffic Committee. So there's a lot of opportunities on our boards and commissions and
committees to get involved and to be a participant in the city government and how
we manage our city. You don't want me to go on at the Streets
Committee because I'll be making it mandatory that did you know you got to learn
how to read that stop sposts suggestion we bout had a free car collision in
downtown because fat X guy thought he was entitled. Another guy figured that the
person ahead of them stop long enough, he would just follow. Well,
you know, everybody's got a different opinion about how long they have them where
they need it. When they get to go, sign not behind somebody else.
And then you get to go, I can't help it. You're in
a hurry. You got curlers and you hear or whatever's going on. Well,
if we a that's the thing, if we all just kind of slow
down, you know, take our time, allow ourselves to dropped up girls.
While you're at it, allow other people some grace and some kindness.
I'm helping already, you are. We're gonna fill you on the bullets.
Better a kid and your kidding now I'm not getting to the drivers out there,
but I'm getting you yet. You're a saint. Okay, We're gonna
take a quick break, will be right back after these words. Completely transferable
in the United States from funeral home to funeral home, and in Oklahoma that's
especially true without any penalty at all. For instance, if you decide you're
going to retire and move to another state and you find a funeral home that
you're comfortable with elsewhere, you can take that already set up free need that
you have at funeral home A and transfer it to funeral home being there's no
problem doing that. Tim Howell, Arnold Moore and DeCamp Funeral Home. Sixty
seventy years ago, Bob Farmer died Joe business owner now him Joe business owner
hung a sign that said closed for the funeral of Bob Farmer back at three
pm. Hung it on his door, closed his door. No one would
steal that sign. He would go to the funeral, as with many of
Bob's friends. Now, if you're a grandson, you have to have proof
that grandpa died so you can get paid for that day of leave. I've
said it a hundred times. Death is an inconvenience to twenty first century America.
But it's not at Arnold Moore and Knee Camp Funeral Home. It'll be
all right. We'll walk through this together. Arnold Moore and Knee Camp Funeral
Home. Seven ten Dewey, We'll walk through this together. Brought news Talk
eight. Well, anyway, here we go. We're back with it.
We're not doing the news, but we are back with city matters. Oh
wow, where'd that come from? Anyway? A Laren was again that Defendive
Forum is coming up, and that is something that's a really big coming to
the center. Yeah, so August twenty fifth at the Center formerly known as
the Community Center, Defending the Forum. Please get out and be involved there
already, and we'll have a big story on that coming up in just a
little bit on our website bartlehool Radio dot com if it's not up there already.
But I really appreciate you stopping by and you know, and letting us
go. When when's the next city council meeting? For the folks? Next
city council meeting will be August, the first Monday in August, which I
think is the seven. Oh yeah, if I remember. Okay, so
and it's at five that well, you know, I'm glad they're at five
thirty because we've had some long city council meetings here lately and we would have
been not getting home till eleven o'clock at night if we hadn't have moved it
to five to thirty. So glad we're doing five thirty. Now. I
just grab a quick sandwich and after work and go well. Yeah, sometimes
I don't even give the sandwich. I have to wait in my dinner and
that's why i'm out. You may see me eating some candy back there,
Yeah, because I'm hungry. I haven't had dinner yet and I want I
want to get a sugarlow out. Yeah. Well, i'll tell you what.
You know, there have been times where we've had to do the pub
the forums on radio. Yeah, I had a little stash back there too.
He doesn't know it yet. All right, we've been listening. We've
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