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

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Media's time now for our community connection
right here on K one. What

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one you trush. It's a shity
matters today because if it happens, if

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it matters to you, it matters
to the city. We've got Billy Rohan

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in today and council that you just
had a nice, nice, nice thing

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for the veterans get approved last night, very very exciting. I know it

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was important to you too, it
is. It's really important to me,

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you know. I didn't even realize
that we had a veterans park until Tom

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and I bought that house out of
Oak Park, pardon me, and moved

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out there and we started kind of
searching around and driving all the blocks.

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And it was before I ever came
on the council and saw where the Veterans

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Park and was located, and thought
maybe for sure that we could do a

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better job honoring our veterans. And
so at that time I started talking with

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Lisa Beeman and we started discussing some
things, and as a matter of fact,

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she knew that we had a cannon. She found a cannon, brought

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it out, put it there by
the entrance to the pool. She I

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don't know if you remember, but
we bought some playground equipment quite a bit

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and she found a really cool piece
of playground equipment that looks like a jet

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with kids and so. But for
me, I really wanted us to have

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some flags. To me, it
wasn't a Veterans Park without our flags honoring

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each one of our military organizations as
well as our behind the States of America

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or POWs. And so we talked
about it then and she retired. And

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then when Larry Curtis, our new
community development director, came on board,

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I went to him, I think
he'd been on the job for maybe two

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months three months, and told him
my thoughts about our Veterans Park and he

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was all on board. And so
that's where it began. Been a while

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coming, and of course we didn't
have funding set aside for that, and

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so lo and behold in I leieve
November October of this last year, we

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had a business who wanted to make
a donation of one hundred and fifty thousand

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dollars towards one of our parks,
and the Veterans Park was suggested and they

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were all on board for that.
So that's where we are today and then

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of course last night we approved the
bid proposal. We're a little short in

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funding right now the current project,
but we've gone back in I say we

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really Mike Casiemer's our engineer and our
community development director along with the business to

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talk about changing some things to kind
of bring it more in line with the

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one hundred and fifty thousand dollars that
we have, and so I think we've

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arrived at an amount that between our
donation as well as tax but also there

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is a foundation and a couple of
other nonprofits that are right here in Bartlesville

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that are interested in helping fund the
Veterans Park and being a part of that,

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which is not surprising to me.
I knew as soon as we started

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talking about it there would be a
lot of people that would want to support

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that because we love our veterans,
and so it's really if you want to

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see the site plan, you should
go to the City of Bartlesville and check

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into the packet for last night's meeting, because that it's a beautiful layout and

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it will most certainly be a very
honoring project in memory of all of our

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veterans who have gone on and then
are active veterance, our actory military.

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So I'm very excited about it.
You should be. I'm excited about it.

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We've got some water issues I shouldn't
say at issues, possibly reveedy.

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You said to the problem we had
with the drought, a little bit of

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a study with taking place life.
That's right. That has to do with

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call Lake. And of course you
know we have a water commission that has

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it's been there, but we've reactivated
it and brought our membership on that committee

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up to date and we have been
meeting to discuss different ways what can we

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do to not end up in the
same place where all of our water sources

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are in the same area where there
is a drought going on. And so

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one of the things that was brought
up was call Lake is a possibility.

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The figures that we had, I
believe were about ten years old, and

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so they tried to estimate what that
might be today, but which was about

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one hundred and fifty million. We
don't think that's truly as accurate as it

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could be, and so we've commissioned
as to engineering to actually do a study

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not only on the actual dollar amounts, but they're also going to take a

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look at the water quality at Call
Lake. And now look at the raw

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water intake pipe pipeline alignment and just
estimated project costs as well, including engineering

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easement right away, environmental and constructions. Well, I think they'll think it's

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going to take about four months to
do this. Really wow, so just

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take a long time. But I
guess that's pretty expedient four or five months,

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and so that's very exciting. So
then we'll be perhaps some more realistic

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figures. You know, we talk
about one hundred and fifty million dollars as

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if it's nothing, but it most
certainly is not. It is a lot

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of money, and that is as
I said, we really don't feel that's

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an accurate estimate, and the coll
Lake would be a great advantage, but

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it also will be very, very
costly. And so who bears that burden

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is our all of our constituents,
our citizens here in Bartos with Oklahoma and

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so as a utility, that's who
that's paid for by. So it is

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something that we have to really think
about. You know, we're already doing

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some work with the corp of Engineers
to see about raising the flood level at

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Heala Lake, and so we're hoping
that that's something that we'll be able to

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achieve. That would be very helpful. And you know, right now we

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don't have water woes, and so
that is very exciting. But what we're

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planning for is the future so that
we hit this again, we will,

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that's right, because we live in
Oklahoma, we will. I understand that

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another study is taking place with our
waste water treatment plant, that's true.

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You know, we've had some citizens
who have been asking us about wastewater,

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our wastewater reuse, and of course
this is not a main water use that

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we're talking about. It is an
emergency water use and it has to do

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with repurposing wastewater and there's a whole
process for that, and so we have

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engaged one particular group for lab work
and another particular group for monitoring reporting.

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That sets us aside from being the
sheriffs over this and so and so this

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is not something new. Our city
engineers have already done some testing, not

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actual in the water, but pilot
testing at the plant, and so this

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will help the environmental quality. Permitting
this has to be done to permit a

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new discharge into our Cane River and
involve, of course, our wastewater to

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become potable roads. So it's very
to me. It is one of the

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most fascinating things because the water is
actually cleaner after it goes through this in

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the water that we're drinking now,
which is clean, and so I think

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it'll be very interesting. Last night, city manager Mike Bailey said that if

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someone wants to tour the wastewater plant, wants to know more about what's going

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on, if they have concerns,
if they would just contact the city that

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they would be glad to accommodate them
and let them take a look. And

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so I appreciate that from our city
management, and it's only due since people

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have some concerns. I like it
when different entities play nice together and it

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looks like our Sheriff's office and our
police department are going to do something kind

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of cool together. That is true. I do too. I love it

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when we collaborate with things and do
a really good job doing that, I

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think in Bartlesville. But yeah,
this is an innerlocal five year agreement between

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the Washington County Board of Commissioners on
behalf of the Sheriff's Office with our Bartlesville

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PD to share our firing range and
it's a five year agreement, but that

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anyone can opt out after thirty days
written notice. After thirty days, the

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county is going to put in five
thousand dollars for some upgrades and maintenance.

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And so I think it'll be a
very good partnership. They can both use

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the range and no need to build
a new range just for the Sheriff's department.

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So very good, very good.
We got a little something going on

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out there at the airport. Oh, my goodness. You know I love

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the airport. Oh I know,
it's right in your backyard. My goodness.

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There are so many possibilities there and
we're already seeing so many of them

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come true with not just events,
but just you know, for me,

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it is a safety I believe it
is one of the most important safety de

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terms we have for all the possibilities
that are there. We have that airport,

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an amazing airport and the airspace and
that is huge. And so this

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project, I think it's about one
and a half million dollars, two million

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dollars something like that. But with
four different funding sources that are granted in

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or moneys that we get from four
different entities, it will cost us around

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seven percent of that total amount.
So it's like the project that we do.

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It was there last year here before
last, the same kind of deal.

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It was like a six hundred,
five hundred and fifty six hundred thousand

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dollars project that ended up costing us
I think around forty nine thousand dollars.

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So it is very exciting to me
that we have that quality of an airport

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already, that that these aeronautical corporation
not corporations but commissions and are feel confident

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in investing money into the into the
Bartlesfield Airport. And I will tell you

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Mike Richardson is a huge asset for
us. Oh where it goes well,

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he's just amazing really his knowledge of
the airport and procedures and just so much

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that goes on there. I'm so
grateful that he decided to stay on.

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And absolutely, I promise you city
staff is and so well counselors feel the

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same way. And he is just
doing an amazing job. But it is

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very exciting that and then of course
we're working with even Bartlesville Development and Authority

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on a project out there, and
so this project out there, so that's

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very you know, it's exciting,
it's taxi ways and then also one hundred

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and fifty by one hundred and fifty
hangar is another project that we have working.

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And so I believe Mike. I'd
ask Mike how many hangars did he

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think we could feel? You know, we're full right now. We rent

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out our hangars. A lot of
people are not aware of that. Oh

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I wasn't right. That is a
very active airport. There are planes landing

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there every single day, in and
out, stayovers people. We have a

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lot of pilots here in Bartlesville,
and a lot of pilots who fly in

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for our companies, and some of
them are coming in to see this.

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That's exactly right. They'll stay over
a couple of days. A lot of

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them will stay at Hotel Phillips,
and so it's very exciting and so just

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a potential for not only sales tax
dollars coming into our city, but also

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just quite a great asset for us. Now I understand we have a housing

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thing going on right next to a
housing thing. I explain this a little

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bit to the layman here. I'm
glad. That's why I put that on

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this today. I have, of
course, that's out in my neck of

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the woods, that's north of Oak
Park, it's Oakwood edition. And we

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have been working with mister Wendell since
this came about for an adjusted PUD so

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that he could actually build instead of
flat top duplexes, he could build three

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bedroom, two bath homes brick and
two car garage for affordable housing. And

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so one of the things that I
admire about mister Wendell is he believes that

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because you are affordable housing, you
still need you still can live in a

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very very nice home. And I
studied a lot of his projects, you

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know, that was something important to
all of us, especially the residence in

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Oak Park, about what exactly was
going to occur there and so what this

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is for. He had bought two
additional lots to put his office. He

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will have an office there. That's
we'll have an employee forty hours a week,

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which will be varied throughout the seven
day week. And also a maintenance

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instead of having an old metal maintenance
building to store I mean building to store

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maintenance equipment that will be stored right
there in the two car garage and so

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it will look like the houses there, but it will be in office.

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And so that's what that is.
And it had to have a new PUD

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just like the entire addition had to
have a new PUD so that he could

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build homes instead of duplexus because that's
what it was zoned for. Very good.

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Well, I'm going to jump around
here a little bit too, because

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this one caught my city Comprehensive Plan
Endeavor five. Now we got the news

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release on this about the new website
and the survey. How's that coming along?

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Well, you know, that's just
us being launched and that's just beginning,

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so I don't know how that's going. I'm hoping that people will take

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a look absolutely, because this is
when you have your input to say,

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this is what we'd like to see, this is what we want. And

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you know, the comprehensive plans are
required by law, and we have one,

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and I believe it's nineteen ninety nine. So needless to say, I

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think we needed to do some enough
dating right along with our Community Development director

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and his staff as well as our
city manager. And so that's what this

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is. This has come out of
our strategic plan that we did last year.

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The website includes details on the planning
process, all about the comprehensive plan

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as well as the survey. And
so the survey is SurveyMonkey dot com back

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slash our backslash Endeavor twenty forty five. Don't take my word for it,

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or go on the if you'll go
on City of Bartlesville the face page.

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Of course, Kelly Williams, as
always has a wonderful rite up there about

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this very thing that has these links
in there. And I believe there'll be

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something again coming out this week in
the city bet so. I know people

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are excited about this, the Citizens
Academy. Oh my goodness, you know

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this is something new also that has
come out of brainstorming, out of the

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strategic plan. And I'm looking right
now because I want to be sure and

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tell you the details about this.
Let's do This is a comment from our

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city manager. He said, we
wanted to offer the public an in depth

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look at where their tax dollars actually
go. This debut debut Citizens Academy program

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will focus on educating residents, business
owners, and interested persons of Bartlesville on

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how daily city government operations contribute to
building a better community. And this is

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what I do know. The more
that you know about how city government works,

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the more you are apt to see
why the decisions are made that are

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made. You will have a lot
more knowledge in order to give input informed

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input, and it is just a
good thing. I haven't talked to anyone

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who's been on one of our citizen
committees who has not learned something. And

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so the academy is free. It's
an interactive program designed to familiarize the general

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public with the roles, services and
operations that compromise Bartlesville City government. Really

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and as I said, it's offered
at no cost. It'll be biweekly on

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Thursday afternoons beginning April first, running
through June twentieth, and the course culminates

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with a graduation ceremony during July first
City Council meeting. And so it includes

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site visits to major city facilities,
presentations from our department leaders, interaction with

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elected officials, and much more.
And it truly is a unique opportunity to

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learn how city government operates, which
is vital knowledge that benefits our entire community.

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And I would equate this with what
we do with our through our Bartlesville

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PD each year, with that informational
for citizens that can participate in that.

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And so here are the requirements eighteen
and up to meet one or more of

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the following resident of Bartlesville, own
a business in Bartlesville or employed full time

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in Bartsville. So that about covers
the gamut. It does. Now I

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think we're going to have to kind
of move a little quicker here. Civit

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in shed is ready to go soon
as the ground drives up a little bit.

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That's exactly right. A that's waiting
on. And then I understand we

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have some boards and committee and Rust
Authority, Bartsville Area History Museum and the

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Sewer System Improvement Oversight Committee, which
there was a little bit about that in

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last night's City council meeting. And
you can go to the website and that

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is Cityobartisville dot org to learn more. That's right. And if you're not

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signed up for the City Beat,
you need to be. That is free

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that comes about every week. Kelly
Williams puts that together. If you want

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to know what all of us know
on the city council, all you need

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to do is read the City Beat. Just go and sign up for the

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newsletter. It's free. It is
Heymous Bill