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And good morning, good morning,
good morning, welcome, welcome, welcome

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me. It is time now for
our community connection right here on K one,

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the one you trust. And my
golly, it is city matters.

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That's it. There you go.
If it matters to the city, matters

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to you, It matters to you, It matters to the city, it

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matters to somebody. By God,
that's all I got to say. How

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are you doing there, mister Bailey? Longtime? No, see, we're

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doing good so far. Anyway,
we'll see yeah, well see God,

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as I stop you I can,
you'll be fine. We got to get

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through this radio program. Yes,
yeah, that's the first trip wire of

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the week. We get through this
one without saying anything stupid, then it's

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usually a pretty good week and good
company. Let's see. I could never

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do radio. You do it all
day long. I can barely get through

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thirty minutes without scrolling. Somebody's got
a tiptoe to the land mine. I'm

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glad that's you. There we go, So all right, well, good

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morning. So got a couple of
quick announcements before we get into the meat

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of the program. We got,
of course, got Thanksgiving coming up,

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and that has always changes our trash
schedule just a little bit. So for

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those of you all who have a
Friday pickup, no worries. We're going

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to pick it up on Friday,
just like normal. But if you have

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a Thursday pickup, we will be
closed that day. So we're going to

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pick that up on Wednesday. And
this is always the hardest one, right,

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It's one thing when it's on Monday
or Tuesday. If they don't pick

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it up, you just put it
back out on Wednesday. On this one,

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if you don't get it out on
Wednesday, it's going to be a

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week. Give it. It's gonna
be good next week. I expect there'll

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be some stinky trash. It'd be
some in the neighborhood if you don't watch

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yourself. So anyway, everybody,
just remember, if yours trash is supposed

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to be picked up on Thanksgiving,
you got to get it out on Wednesday.

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Go so and I So we had
our council meeting. I guess that

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was a week ago. That was
a week ago, like a month ago.

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It does seem like a month.
It was a long week, dumb,

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it was really long week. So
one of the one of the cooler

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things that has happened at a council
meeting since I've been working for the city.

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Actually happened. Uh And if everybody, if you haven't seen the photo

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of miss Ella Wright, then you
should go to Cityobartlesville dot org and look

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at the photo of her receiving her
award. So Ella is an eleven year

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old and Ella was honored for trying
to the award of merit from Martlesville Fire

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Department was what her award was.
And Ella received that award because she saw

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smoke coming from a house immediately went
across the street to a neighbor and said,

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I need you to call nine one
one And they said why and she

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said, because that house is on
fire. And so thankfully they called nine

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one one because not only did she
save the home by reporting that there was

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also a family dog in the house. So Ella has officially saved the house

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and the dog. And it was
very exciting and very cool to be able

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to honor her that night. She
got her police her picture taken with the

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fire chief and with some of our
firefighters and was and received that award.

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I'm looking at the chief topping there. Let's say he wants to sign her

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up. This little lady has a
future and fire service. So and she

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was. She was so cute,
and she was dressed up for it,

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and she was absolutely adorable and so
excited. And they had a photo of

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her and the dog that she saved. Well, a couple of great photos.

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Anyway, Cityobartlesville dot org or in
your city beat you can check out

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miss Ella and and if you see
her, tell her good job. I

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think that's These are the kind of
things that that I love for the opportunity

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for us to to actually recognize and
to award our citizens for their for doing

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the right thing. Hey, mister
Bailey, how's the water? How's the

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water? We got? Water?
Is so? Good news? Is the

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water still there? The bad news
is there's not as much of it as

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we'd like, right and so at
the lakes. I haven't gotten my update

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this morning, but we are still
in or were as of last week.

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We were in stage two. We
expect that we'll probably move to stage three,

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likely this week. It'll be close. And so unfortunately without rain in

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that area, and I know we
had a lot of rain. And if

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I have, I don't think I've
ever been frustrated by the weather in my

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entire life, not one time has
the weather ever made me crazy? Former

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meteorolog thank you. Until until two
weeks ago, when it rained everywhere in

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the state of Oklahoma, everywhere in
Kansas except where it needed to. It

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was tom. It is the most
ridiculous thing I've ever seen. Been happening

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a lot. It's been happening a
lot. You're right, And so if

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you look, if anybody's interested in
tracking the drought, there's actually a track

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you can type in drought Finder,
and there's a federal website that shows the

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actual status of the drought in Kansas
that started out as a band across southern

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Kansas, and then after this most
recent rain, it is literally just a

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bulls eye. The only place in
Kansas that is still in a drought is

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that bright, dark red right there
over the top of our legs. And

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it's just it's incredible. I mean, the chances of this are aren't astronomical,

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but yeah, here we are.
This is what happens when everything aligns

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either good or bad. So but
it was so we are still in stage

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two. We do expect to go
into stage three. The good news is

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is that our water usage as a
community is low enough right now to where

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we don't believe that there will be
emergency water rates need now. If consumption

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goes up, then it is possibility
will have to enact some rates. So

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for right now, it's watering twice
a week is the only restriction, which

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shouldn't be a problem. There's not
much water and going on anyway, so

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we're fortunate that it's the time of
year that it is. Once we go

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to Stage three, you'll be limited
to watering outdoors once a week, and

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so again we're fortunate that it's not
going to be if this time of year

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that's not should not be an issue. So the Water Resources Committee has been

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meeting regularly. They met last week
to hear an update on some projects that

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they had assigned the city staff.
In particular, we are scheduling a meeting

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with the Osage Tribe. We're very
interested in seeing if they're if they are

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interested in collaborating with us on a
water supply project, either from Kaw Lake

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or in construction of a new lake. It's hard to say what they're what

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their reaction will be, but we're
we're certainly interested in exploring that if there's

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there's something that we can collaborate and
both of us can gain. Uh.

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The we're also exploring some interesting ideas
there is of course, we're looking at

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the aquifer which is in Osh County, and they believe the osages are going

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to bring some information to a meeting
about that Auckford. They know more about

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it than anybody else, and we're
looking The council passed a resolution that will

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actually we're going to ask the corp
of Engineers already have asked Corps of Engineers

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to perform what's called a Planning Assistance
to State study, and that is where

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they use their resources and federal dollars
to match hours and they come in and

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do a very detailed engineering study,
hydrological study. And so they're going to

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study Heula and Coopine Lakes and the
possibilities of reallocation there. And reallocation means

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basically raising the level of the lake. And you can add a whole lot

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of water to a lake if you
raise it up a couple of feet,

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and so that is they're examining that
right now or they will be. We

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hope. We just requested the study
i think last week after the council meeting.

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And the final thing that Terry updated
the committee on is sort of an

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interesting idea that, first my knowledge, was first used in New Orleans.

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It's actually Jefferson Parish, and so
Jefferson parr of course, if you're familiar

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with that, they're having salt water
intrusion that's coming up the Mississippi River,

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so they need to get water farther
up the river to avoid getting salt water

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into their system. And so Jefferson
Parish actually laid a series of what they

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call lay flat lines, there are
collapsible lines. They laid these all I

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believe it was fifteen miles upstream.
They installed diesel pumps along the way,

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and they were able to supply their
entire water plant off of this, and

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they used thirty million gallons a day. By contrast, when we're talking about

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podtable water from the Tulsa region,
we're only talking just a couple of million

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gallons a day. And that would
ensure that in an emergency we would always

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have water. So that's something that
we're exploring to see how much that would

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cost. Is it available with short
notice? Do we have to purchase the

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materials and have them on hand,
or is it something that we can lease.

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Jefferson Parish actually leased theirs and so
they didn't have to they didn't have

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to purchase purchase those so they don't
have to have them laying around, which

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is great news. So anyway,
those are all things that we're going to

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explore, thinking out of the box
just a little bit. Former Mayor Tom

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Gorman was the first one that brought
that to Terry's and my attention, and

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we've been exploring it since he's on
the Barslwater Resources Committee. So it's always

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good to have these people that have
been involved in this process for well more

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than a decade. He's been involved
for about twenty years, he and Senator

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Daniels both. So anyway, we're
excited to continue that process. So water

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is we're making process. We're making
progress. That's all we can do at

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this point in time. And last
week at the council meeting, David Wood

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also announced an expansion of ABB,
which is great. ABB is a very

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important partner for our community. They
have a lot of very high quality jobs

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and they're looking to expand those by
consolidating additional functions. ABB functions from around

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the country into Bartlesville and they're looking
to add another sixty full time job.

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So that's great. Who's we're providing
an incentive to them and some some real

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estate. And then we also,
of course have our resident recruitment program where

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we hope to ensure that those people
moved to Barlstville. I'll just take a

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job at Barstowe, but we want
them live in here. So that is

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that was approved and we're very excited
about that. And let's take a look

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what else we got going on.
Tom So a lot talked about Stage two.

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Oh pickleball, Man, pickleball.
Well, there you go. They

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just had the national championships this weekend. It is it truly is a growing

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sport. I can't wait to see
you play pickleball. By the ways,

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We're gonna build some pickleball courts,
and it's we're hoping to build some of

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the best in our region. It
turns out pickleball courts are fairly expensive and

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they're really in high demand right now. So I remember when everybody laughed,

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Sure, it's always like this year
one the last, you're PDC, how

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did you do that? Yeah,
let's do this, And that's like,

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yeah, well look at that.
How you like me? Now you're correct,

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it's been It really is taken off. We have some courts right now,

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but it's really just the tennis courts
at Sooner Park and they're they're not

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in great condition, and yet the
amount of people using them for pickleball are

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absolutely incredible, and so we're very
excited. That is the location we'll be

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building these new ones, just the
north of that. Our bids came in

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high. Unfortunately, they actually came
in to where we can only afford six

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pickleball courts without lights. So we
have been in discussions with the Pickleball Association.

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They hope to raise some money and
ideally we would build eight courts with

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lights, but our goal at this
point is to build six courts with lights,

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so we really hope to get that
going. We did award the contract,

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which is the base contract, so
right now the contractor he will be

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building six courts without lights, but
we will add lights if we can raise

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the funding for that. As we
go through this process. For all of

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those out there who are interested in
this, and I promise you there's a

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bunch of people that are interested in
this. Were are there are a bunch

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of people that are interested in this, We will will be getting underway as

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quickly as we can, and we
hope to have lighted courts for everyone's enjoyment.

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Uh. Yard debris collection is coming
up also, that's December fourth through

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the eighth, and this is your
normal yard debris annual collection. And no

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no special bag needed, no tags, just bag them up, set them

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near your cart. I'd say near, not on, not next to.

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We'll leave us about five feet between
these bags in your cart and we will

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pick it up on your regular collection
day. It will be picked up with

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a separate truck. So if it's
not gone when you leave for work and

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we have picked up your trash,
it doesn't mean we missed it. It

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just means we're coming with another truck. So for sure, we moved here.

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We thought something was amiss. That
was and that is a natural assumption.

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And so we get a lot of
calls right out of the gate in

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the morning. You didn't you didn't
pick up my leaves. I thought that

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was day, And that's we always
have to tell yes, yes it is,

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it's today, and we're coming.
Trust us, So trust us.

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We're with the government, right So, but anyway, there's a lot of

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a lot of great things going on
Johnstone Park. If you will look at

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that, it is now closed and
this is part of the Fantasy Land of

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Lights. This is the time of
year when they start setting this up.

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They do. They do a fantastic
job. If you have never witnessed Fantasy

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Land of Lights, then you're one
of the few people within one hundred miles

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who hasn't. And I'd encourage you
to go out there this year and drive

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through. I don't know if if
our lady down at the at the visit

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Bartlesville Maria has a tracker on that, but yeah, by god, like

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one hundred mile radius is about it. That's got to be about right,

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right, And it is fantastic.
And this is free to our community.

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They do request donations, which I
always gladly provide, but help the scholarships.

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That's right, it is. It
is actually free, free to our

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community, and free to anyone who
would like to witness it. Their opening

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day. More will come on that
when they have their opening day, they

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actually have a day that you can
walk through. I do too. Typically

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it is a drive through event,
but on opening day they have they have

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for donations. You can walk through. You could look at your leisure you

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right, move along, You're correct, and I have I've actually adopted one

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of the those out there. So
and Tom, I think you should.

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I think you should adopt the one
next to me. We can go out,

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we can build them together. There
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you all can see the look at
his eyes, but that is not the

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look of a man that plans on
building one of these next to me.

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Someday you will if I'm lucky,
if I'm all right, And with that,

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I'm gonna kick this over to our
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thing that we have done, a
forum that we've done very recently that we

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want to share with the public,
very good when it was good for them,

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well attended. And then we've got
another forum coming up that you will

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you can talk about as well.
Sure, I'll turn it over to our

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police chief, Miss Kevin Ickleban.
All right, Well, the forum we're

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talking about that just occurred was the
Homeless and Unshouldered Form. We held that

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at the Center or formerly the Borlswoo
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We had probably around two a little
over two hundred people there. A lot

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of those I recognized as those people
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So it was very nice to see
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supporting each other. The panel was
an informational panel. We can't solve

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the problem obviously by ourselves, and
so we want to show people what We

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wanted to show people what were what's
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place for years. So we started
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years experience, starting with the Lighthouse. They've been here for many, many

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years and have been dealing with the
homeless issue for years, and so they

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were part of our panel. Earl
Hayden and UH. They address what they

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do for the homeless population. They
stay pretty consistent with seventy five people in

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their housing there. We also had
Grand Mental Health as part of that UH

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form. Grand Mental Health is a
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Borsville UH in addressing the mental health
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Response Team UH and UH they are
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a lot of the homeless and unsheltered
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health issues and so we're working together. We're trying to not only address those

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mental health issues, but to also
find housing for those people that can successfully

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UH get into housing and so it
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a lot of these unsheltered folks,
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track between the US seventy five and
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which is four am. And well, they stopped by and visit the friends

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at the launder and pat and then
they come over here and anyway, nice

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as folks you want to meet,
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them just want to be left alone. And I might be misreading that,

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so I hope, I'm not sure
sure, And that's why we're trying to

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reach out and find out what's going
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better serve them and what they need
to be successful. And if we can't

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help them, we can't help them, but we want to at least put

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that hand out there to give them
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at the forum that we felt were
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YOUGOPI mission. She feeds you know, between two and three almost four

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hundred people depending on the weather,
and that's that outreach has been going on

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for years, many years, I
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exact. So it's only grown and
as has their facility. It's grown from

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where we used to just used to
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So Sherry's really stepped up. Those
those church organizations that back her have

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really helped helped, you know,
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not just the homeless, but that's
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That that's where they eat every day. I mean, that's what they do.

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There are so many people that fall
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you've got to eat, and it's
a blessing that they're there to help folks

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that are in that situation. Oh
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too, they packed those little backs
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than people realize. And they also
have a seniors program that they delivered to

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kind of like the meals on wheels, but there's really a few people they

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delivered to that can't get out so
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those are things that a lot of
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community and very fortunate to have them
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And that's that's not to mention that
the people like Mary Martha who Mary

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Martha's Out Catholic Charities Fund. I
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trying to help people up well.
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Public School System. I talked about
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consider they count their homeless a little
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where they stayed in school, and
and of course all these resources leading on

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each other to try to help each
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try to help the people in need. And so so that was a great

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form. We've got Keith and Christy
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to get to be the Light Mission
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what that looks like, what they're
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was overall it was a great,
great forum. A lot of people got

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a lot of information out of that, and so we felt like we took

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a step in the right direction trying
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homeless, probably not, but can
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you know. I said that the
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of borders, will there are our
citizen. We have to take care of

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them, and that's why we leave. So if we can take care of

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our citizens, is either they're going
to be protected citizens or they're going to

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move on at some point. We
want to make sure they're successful if they

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move on, but we want to
help them any way we can so,

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and this was a big part of
our strategic plan. One of our focuses

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was on collaborating with the community on
homelessness, and so that's one of the

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things that I like about this is
that this forum allowed us to pull those

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resources together and to help to convene
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We cannot do this. This is
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going to solve homelessness. We just
don't have the resources. We do have

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a role, and through our search
team, we have been participating in that,

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and then this forum also helps us
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So I was really glad that you
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to hear the results of it,
and I think ongoing our community are off

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for these efforts absolutely, and playing
part of the Barsville Next, which is

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our strategy plan, is also the
neighborhood Watch program and to enable people to

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take care of our own community a
little bit better. So in January January

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twenty fourth up correction January eighteenth,
at six point thirty hopefully at city Hall,

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we will host a Neighborhood Watch forum. That forum will try to enlighten

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people on neighborhood Watch and show them
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And we've got the national program we're
going to be highlighting, the National

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Neighborhood Watch. It works hand in
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you were familiar with next Door.
It's it's kind of they've neighborhood watched nationally

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is taken on the next Door program, and so just another way of getting

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information out and uh uh being on
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can speak of the neighborhood Watch a
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young man, I was involved heavily
in the neighborhood Watch program in the in

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the original township Bartlesville for about five
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to start up a program and what
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excited about that and just decided to
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to keep keep Bartlesviill next. Right, It's good, thank you chief.

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It's all I got. All of
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of course, but we wanted wanted
to share those those two items we

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also have and this is tied in
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is an update to our Camp Comprehensive
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is probably the least understood plan that
the city has, because when I tell

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you we have a park plan,
park master plan, or if I tell

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you that we have these these other
plans, it's all it's something I can

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envision, right, right, So
the comp plan, what what exactly does

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a comprehensive master plan for the community
look like? So, Mary Curtis,

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community Development director for the city,
tell me so. But you know,

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the complan is probably like you said, uh, City Manager, is that

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it is the least unknown plan within
anything within the city. You go to

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most places and you know, people
will look at you lankly with like what

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does that mean? It's erectly the
most important plan it is, you know,

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Conferhensive plans have been a part of
this state for a very very long

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time. It has most cities within
within Oklahoma have one and have had one

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for many, many decades. And
so our Conferenceive Plan we currently had was

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written back in nineteen ninety four,
and so it's a little bit out of

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date, and so it's time for
the city to move forward with a new

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plan. And so the comp plan
takes the Parks Master Plan and the Streets

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Plan and every other plan and put
them together into one document, but also

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do future planning in the sense of
trying to plan for what we expect our

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growth to be over the next twenty
twenty five years. And so recently a

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city council approved a contract with half
An Associates who are based out of Richmond,

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Texas to help guide city staff and
of course our illustrious council on drafting

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that plan. And so this week
we're actually going to be meeting with a

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Comprehensive Plan committee to decide on the
logo and the initial message that we'll be

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starting out before we kick out our
website and doing our social media posts and

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things along those lines. And so
we hopefully have that decision by the end

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of this week for council to approve
on next month's meeting. But the comp

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plan is going to be a very, you know, a year long process

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on the creation of that document.
It'll have a lot of good insight from

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the public. As one of our
accountsmen stated, you can't get enough infut

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from the public, and so we'll
be doing a lot of public outreach through

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public forums and also through social media
and gather a lot of that information from

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them. So in the next coming
weeks, we'll hopefully have a schedule out

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for the public to see, so
that way they can see the schedule as

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it moves forward and start honing in
on those dates for those public meetings.

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But this document is going to be
key for good growth for our city as

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it moves forward. And you made
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we have that, I think that
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with our citizens about what to expect
because we want as much participation as possible.

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It is that is a key component
of this and it's but you made

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the point that this is going to
be a process, yes, and as

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we went through the strategic plan,
one of the things that we kept in

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front of the council and staff.
Is that a lot of the value isn't

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in the plan or in the product, a lot of the values in the

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process, right. And so this
process, especially as it relates to citizen

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input, will be incredibly valuable.
It helps to align the community. It

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helps to get us informed about what
the community wants, what we want to

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be, and you say, what
do we want to be when we grow

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up? Exactly? And that's the
thing I want to truss the most about

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is that this is not my plan
or staff's plan or anything like that.

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This is the public's plan. That's
the reason why we need that public input

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to get all the information from them. And as you said, as we

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grow up, as we continue to
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that we have those items in place. That way we can guide because most

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likely we're going to see things that
are going to other things that need to

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be changed, like ordinances and things
like that. That this plan will help

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guide us on the short term,
medium term, and long term goals associated

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with that, and then our department
and Community Development will help you the departments

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to ensure that they stay on task
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next twenty twenty five years. And
that's the critical part. Then once we

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have the plan, once we go
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of alignment of thinking, then there
are concrete steps. It doesn't do any

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good to create a plan that that
just dies exactly. And that's the other

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thing is that a lot of people
think, like, you know, this

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is going to be the plan,
just like the ninety four plan. You

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know, okay, we stuck to
that for that complan is that need to

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be reviewed and updated because things are
yeah, exactly, you know, we

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may see things like, oh we
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like you know, new technologies or
things like that that need to be incorporated

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within the comp plan. That that
gets updated as we move along. So

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it isn't stagnant. Isn't like we're
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four. It's going to be an
ever growing and ever changing document as well.

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this exactly, it'll be updated on

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a regular basis. And I reviewed
and yeah, absolutely. And that's one

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thing I'd like to commend is that
whenever I came on board, it was

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so wonderful to see that leadership at
the city had already taken the steps to

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create a stategic plan, which is
great for the short term, and to

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incorporate the complaint as a part of
that. But it's it's so nice to

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have that guy because then you know
what you're going to be doing, you

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know, for the next two years, and can work on those accomplishments.

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And that's what the complain does is
that that way the public can see and

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know what we're going to be working
on for the next twenty twenty five years.

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That's that's a big part of it. And a new city council members,

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so exactly I'm on board they can
be given this. So these plans

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live beyond staff, yes, and
beyond councils, and they helped to align

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our organization into the future. So
I do think they're incredibly valuable and I'm

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glad that you came on and wanted
to do this fun. It's so much

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fun fun. The value is in
the process. But I look forward to

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this and it will be it will
be quite a process over the next year,

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but I appreciate you taking that on
as this is something else that was

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identified in our strategic plan, and
if anybody is curious We keep talking about

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Bartlesville Next in our strategic plan.
If any of our listeners are curious,

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it's on the City of Bartlesville dot
org. You can look up Bartlesville Next

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and it will come up with that
plan. So that is our organization's guide

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in the short and medium term.
This comp plan is a huge part of

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that, and from that you'll see
links as we move forward for the COMP

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plan. Yep. All right,
well, thank you Larry and Tom.

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Thank you, my friend. I
appreciate it as a thank you chief.

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All right, take care everybody.
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