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And welcome, welcome, welcome,
and we are live right here on the

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air with our good friends here in
the city. And it of course it's

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our City Matters program right here on
a K one, the one you trust

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in here with a shitty Matters Remember, if it matters to you, it

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matters to the shitty Mike Bailey and
company. How are you doing there,

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young man? Good morning. I
like the end company. Yeah, he

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did look over his shoulder anymore.
I got everybody in the shot. How

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do you like that, guys,
Larry Larry thought he got out that.

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I like that. I like your
new camera. Larry was trying to hide.

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It's a good sea shot. Well, good morning, Well, good

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morning. How's the air show?
Happy Monday. The air show was actually

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pretty fantastic. I hopefully everybody had
a chance to check it out. I

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went out Saturday. Unfortunately the wind
didn't cooperate, so they weren't able to

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do the static line parachute drop that
they'd discussed. But regardless of that,

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it was pretty awesome. There were
some great aircraft out there, and they

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said the total the total number of
visitors over two days was twenty three hundred

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that went in to see it.
So a little over twenty three hundred.

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Yeah, it was, it really
really was great. Just I wish I

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wish they'd have been able to do
that static line. I want to admire

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those people, and I want to
believe that I want to do that,

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but I don't. When I was
younger, I was convinced that I wanted

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to do that, and now I
just want to want to. Yeah.

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Well, he goes around telling everybody
was born to be wild, at least

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till eight thirty, sometimes nine o'clock, you know, but about nine thirty

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it gets done. Get a little
quieter. You're born to be mild these

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days. That's right, you are
correct. It's probably better once upon a

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time, maybe that not anymore.
Flying Bailey, that's it now now.

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Our representative, however, was out
there with his ultra life, which is

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it is something, and after looking
at it, I'm still convinced that he's

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absolutely insane. Took that long.
I visited with his father. When I

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was standing in lite, didn't realize
who I was talking to until until he

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said, my son won't he won't
fly in an antique aircraft, but he

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does fly that little ultra light.
And I said, oh my gosh,

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mister Strom, I know your son. Yeah, so it was. It

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looks like a cross between an airboat, a go cart, and a parachute.

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I think that bad about it.
I think that pretty much captures it.

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Now you go, You got the
DNA of all those things combined in

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there, and it's like it's a
fly in which it flies, but not

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with me in it. So anyway, we're often running. Last week we

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had a bunch of us went to
a conference, so we're all trying to

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get caught up this morning. And
last week was the first week of our

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new city Hall hours. It seemed
to go very well, so if anybody

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is wondering what that is. We're
open eight to five now Monday through Thursday,

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which our hours were a little shorter
than that. When you don't have

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a lot of staff, it's hard
to cover everything. So right now we're

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open eight to five, including lunch, but on Friday we are open eight

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to eleven thirty, so we've got
a little time off for our employees and

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we feel that this makes us more
accessible to the public. Monday through Thursday.

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It seems to be going very well. It'll take a little while for

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everybody to get used to the new
hours. Anytime you make a change,

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it does, but did seem to
go very well. There was a lot

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of phone calls to be answered come
Monday morning for people who weren't aware of

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it yet. We'll all figure it
out together. So a couple of quick

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announcements. We've got a soccer survey
that we have issued, So if you

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have an interest in youth soccer in
Bartlesville, go on over to the City

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of Bartlesville dot org and fill it
out. We're particularly interested in hearing from

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people who have current players in youth
soccer. And this is just in any

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youth soccer in Bartlesville. But of
course if you have experiences from back in

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the day when you had other children, when you did have children and it,

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feel free to join us. But
it'll ask you to differentiate whether you

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have kids in soccer or don't.
Trying to get trying to get a really

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good picture of how well the programs
serve our public and so that all right,

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see's a lot of kids, there's
a lot of kids. It is

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a hugely popular sport in Bartlesville.
We just want to make sure we're taking

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care of people to the best of
our ability. So City of Bartlesville dot

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org if you have an interest in
that. And starting today, we have

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a water disinfection project that's going on. And so for anybody who's a water

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chemist, never mind, you don't
need me to tell you if you're a

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water chemists, so I'll explain it
for people who aren't water chemists. So

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we use a disinfection project product called
monocleoor means, which means it's chlorine mixed

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with other chemicals. And it is
a really mild disinfection project. And what

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that does is, over time,
you can have build ups of certain biologicals

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in your system. In order to
address those, you switch over to free

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chlorine, which is what most people
using their swim pools and that they're used

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to at their houses. We switch
over to that. I believe it'll run

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for about six weeks, but it
starts today. You will likely notice sometime

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over the next couple of weeks a
stronger smell of chlorine in your water.

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Right now, the water shouldn't taste
like it, so that you'll start to

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notice some changes. As far as
the taste and odor, The water is

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safe. It's perfectly safe to drink. There are always medical advisors for anyone

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who uses it for medical processes,
like I'm blanking out him this medical process.

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That'll just do it right there,
dialysis specifically, so but yeah,

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those are so for anyone who's using
that. Of course, contact your doctor

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and make sure that everything's good.
But we worked with the hospital and everyone

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else, so this is it's a
relatively normal thing. Some cities will do

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this routinely every three years. Other
cities will wait until they start the show

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signs of that biological build up before
they do it. So this is the

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first time we've done it since we
switched over, but it didn't want anybody

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to be alarmed. Also, a
couple of quick updates. Got a lot

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of stuff happening right now, by
the way. So the Bardsville Water Resources

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Committee has been meeting met twice so
far and we'll meet again on Thursday of

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this week. They're kind of working
on a couple of projects. One of

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them they're working on our long term
water supply, and so we have presented

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a lot of information to them and
some possible options and ask them to help

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us narrow those down on the ones
we want to focus on. Specifically,

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they are recommending that we pursue reallocation
on Hula and Copan, which essentially raises

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the lake levels so that you have
more water available in your existing lakes.

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Those are the more most cost effective. However, as we have seen,

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Hula and Copan are fairly and they
are not very drought tolerant, and raising

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the water level will help that,
but they're still going to be very geographically

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dense. They're just right there together. So you have to have rainfall in

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a you know, a thousand square
miles. How does it happen that the

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rain hits Heula and missus Copan and
like, buy am it did? Right?

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I mean it? I mean,
I mean it's six and a half

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too. It's right pretty close to
anyway, and Hula was actually up in

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the floodplain not too long ago,
so it is that is a little frustrating.

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It's of course worse for the town
of Copan. They get all of

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their water pan lakes, so they
are currently dealing with a water emergency,

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which we've already gone through and so
but so those are those things are really

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cost effective and we want to pursue
those right now. However, we wanted

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to also explore some other opportunities.
So there is a aquifer to the west

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of us that is very it's not
really used for commercial purposes. There are

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some private whales on it, but
not a lot of commercial whales, and

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so that is the aid of Amosa
Aquifer. We are going to apply for

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a grant with the assistance of Senator
Lankford's office, to see if we can

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get a grant to study that.
So once we study it, we'll know

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whether this is a good source of
water for us or not. And the

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other thing that the committee has opted
for is to explore regional partnerships. And

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specifically when we're talking about that,
we're talking about a pipeline to Call Lake

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and the potential of building Sand Lake, and so both of those happened to

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fall in the actual Osage nation,
and so the committee was interested in seeing

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if the Osages have an interest in
forming a regional partnership with us. There's

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also a couple of small towns and
cities through there that may also be interested.

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So we'll begin to do those those
things, some of them are more

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easily accomplished than others, and so
we'll begin tackling those right now. Though.

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The other thing that they're doing is
that they're reviewing our drought contingency plan,

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and so the drought contingency plan that
we had in place, we asked

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Council to put a pause on it
about well the first meeting of this month

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and because the Water Resources Committee was
reviewing it. So we expect that this

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Thursday they'll finalize a recommendation to Council. They'll likely take that up at the

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first meeting in October, and I
would expect a decision at that point.

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Of course, things things could change, but that's the plan at this point

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in time. So as far as
water goes that that's where we are right

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now. As you mentioned, Copan
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Hula Lake, I believe, is
at ninety six percent. So that good

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news is most of our water comes
from Hula and it is still in good

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condition. But I certainly feel for
the town of Copan and that Copan Lake

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is in our water supply, so
we we're monitoring that as well. One

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other quick notice before I turn it
over to these guys, we have the

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General Obligation Bond coming up. I'm
not going to spend a lot of time

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on it today, but we've got
several more programs that will have before before

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the actual election date to describe the
projects in detail, but essentially this will

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be on October tenth. This is
a seventeen point six million dollar bond.

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I'll take about three to four years
to issue all of those. And it's

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as far as how the projects are
broken up. Just in general, there's

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two point four million for public safety
and there's about point there's about seven hundred

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thousand for it needs parks two point
two million, but the lion's share of

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this is going to streets, and
so about seventy percent of the funding is

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for streets and that that comes out
to about twelve point three millions. So

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that's that's the good news there is
that we have got a substantial amount of

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money ready for streets. And if
you want more information on this, go

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to City of Bartlesville dot org.
There's a map that shows all of the

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streets. And frankly, I think
that the Street Traffic Committee did a great

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job and selecting these They use data
to select them to determine, you know,

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what streets are in the worst condition, but also applied metrics such as

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how many cars do they carry and
all of those things, so they had

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a lot of data to sort through. But I think then made a really

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good decisions. So that's October tenth. This is not a tax increase.

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Now you some people will say,
but if we voted, know, then

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our taxes would go down certainly,
which is why these are These are limited

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taxes. And so we come back
to the citizens of Bartlesville every three to

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four years and asked them did you
like what we did the last time,

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and if so, we would like
to renew it, and here are the

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newest projects, so that we feel
that that provides great accountability to the public.

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So but this is this is a
continuation of existing program, not a

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tax increase, not a new program, not new taxes. And October tenth

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will be your chance to for your
voice to be heard on those all right,

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I took up took up about a
third of that. Geeve there you

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now I'm gonna so we One of
the things that we have heard about as

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we went through our strategic plan and
through other processes is a concern over homelessness

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in Bartlesville. And so we have
we spent a lot of time, a

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lot of and become more much more
educated on this. Personally, I'm much

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more educated than I ever was about
it. And one of the things that

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we heard is that overall homelessness in
the state of Oklahoma is on the decline.

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And of course when we heard that, it was the assistant city manager

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Tracy Rowels and I and looked at
each other. So that's not our experience.

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Well, it turns out that our
experience is relatively normal because overall homelessness

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is on the decline, but the
unsheltered portion of the homeless, which are

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the most visible, that is on
the increase. So we've focused a lot

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of our efforts on that because we
think that that is obviously it's the most

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visible, it's the most concerning when
it comes to homelessness. And so chief

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we've got we established it's a crisis
Intervention Response Team, which was a partnership

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with Grand Mental Health, and they've
gone around and actually gotten us some statistics

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so that we know really how many
how many unsheltered homeless are there in Bartlesville.

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Sure, and those numbers are again
or numbers they went out research,

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They went out on the pathfind or
they went different areas of the city trying

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to find right, yeah, that's
right, trying to find a number.

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That number was fifty four unsheltered,
which doesn't seem that great unless you see

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them all out at once. That's
right. Well, when I come in

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at three thirty, yeah, yeah, we have the darkest conversations as I'm

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trying to walk up the steps.
They're very kind, very very sure you're

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doing so. So with those fifty
four, they're you know that's the unsheltered,

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the sheltered, or you know you've
got the lighthouse they've got they stay

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full at seventy. So, you
know, one hundred and twenty four people

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out on the streets that we know
of, I'm sure there's some they've missed.

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Uh. They they've gone out,
they've gone to right links to try

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to find everybody that they're dealing with
on the street, on the paths,

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in the parks. Uh. And
you know that that brings us to the

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next thing that the council created two
officers for the patrol. Hopefully soon we'll

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have those guys hired and where we
can get those out as soon as possible.

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So try to reach out to those
people, more people on the path

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and in the parks and make sure
people are safe out there. You know,

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there hasn't been any crime per se
listed out in the parks. It's

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been pretty calm out there, but
the perception is that it's people are in

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fear because they see things that they're
not normal and so with those abnormal sightings

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of people that are not familiar with
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we want to make sure that we're
reducing that fear so they can get back

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out in the parks and utilize all
the facilities, because we have great facilities

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in the works and we've got a
number of different outlets for people to go

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and take their children and enjoy the
parks, and it feels like they're not

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getting to do that because of the
fear. So if we can get that

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reduced, we'll be doing good.
The Crisis Intervention Response Team has been doing

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that and continues to deal with the
mental health issued, which is the greatest

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part of the homeless or the end
shouldered and they've they've gotten people out of

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the homeless area and they've got them
into apartments, they've got them into other

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cities to where they're living in apartments. So we feel like that's that's right,

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that's someone that could help them.
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successful. It's taken time but they're
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last last month they had two hundred
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of those were in crisis, so
they responded to crisis and incidents where they

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were threatening harm to themselves or others. And that's more than one a day,

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so that's that's pretty pretty big number. And then they went out and

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did one hundred and forty two follow
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things for us is we want to
make sure that if we're dealing with people,

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we can follow up on them and
maybe get them, make sure they're

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staying on track, getting their services
they need, the medications they need,

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and and offer them try to get
them into other services. You know,

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as they stay on track. They've
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that they're really building relationships with and
hopefully those will change into people living off

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the street but back into housing and
being productive again. So that's our long

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term goal. It was our goal
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and we want to just keep rolling
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two Barslo police officers and two Grand
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a team approach. It's it's uh
reaching out to all the contacts and all

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the different agencies within the city to
make that happen. You know, all

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our nonprofits, and we're blessed to
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combination of those services, we're hoping to

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to make a difference your interactions.
Have they become positive, a little bit

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more warmer since you're going out a
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folks who are unsheltered. Absolutely,
they're starting to see us as more of

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a friend than a foe. Okay, so, and that was the idea

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behind the project in the first place. We try to interact with them when

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they're not in a crisis, you
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the help they need. If they
need a right to get their medicines and

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they don't have a right to get
their medicines, won't give them that right

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so they can stay on track,
so we don't have to deal with them

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later and maybe in a different scenario, different scenario and a bad outcome.

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So would rather address it in front
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doing good work. And what we've
what we've experienced is that the Council is

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very dedicated in applying our resources in
the areas where we have the greatest concern

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from our citizenry. And so that's
what you're seeing with the Crisis Intervention Response

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Team and the park Patrol. Now, those ideas came from city staff,

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from police chief and his staff,
and but the Council has been very supportive

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of that. And so because we
have there's been a lot of concern and

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express to us. Those are the
areas where we've chosen to put our resources

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and try to address us proactively.
So hopefully over the next year we'll start

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to see some positive returns on this. I think what we're doing is not

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unique across the country, but it's
fairly unique in Oklahoma. This is this

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is an approach that not many cities
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us lead the way on this and
hopefully start to see some some positive benefits

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of it. Absolutely, I think
we're hitting in the right direction, and

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you know, I know that you
know we want to listen to the citizens

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and address the areas of policing that
need to be addressed, and these are

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certainly the areas that they're they're talking
about right now. All right, thanks,

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Chief, I appreciate it. We're
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have one of our largest projects probably
as far as planning, well, I

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would say as far as planning goes, this is definitely the largest project we've

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probably done since the late nineties,
I think, the last time we updated

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this plan. And so cities operate
off of something that's called a comprehensive plan,

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and that includes comprehensive land use,
and there's housing and all kinds of

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good things. So before we jump
into what we're doing, Larry, what's

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the exactly is a camp plan and
what's the value of it to a city

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and its citizens. So the Conference
of Plan is the master plan for this

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city, and it is the plan
that the city is following as it moves

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forward over the next you know,
twenty to thirty years. And so it

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incorporates, as you said, you
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things along those lines, but it
also incorporates transportation, utilities, storm

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water, floodplane hazard mitigation. All
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So when the city, when the
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to make determinations on projects, say
look to this plan to say is this

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in conformance with the comprehensive plan?
Uh? And if uh, this is

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how we should move forward with it. Or is this something that's not exactly

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where we saw ourselves or where we
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it has been some time since our
last complan update and and so yeah,

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so we're we're looking to have a
new plan created and then typically cities

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will then revisit it about every five
to seven years to make sure that is

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this where are we where are we
going? And is this do we need

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to make any changes as we move
forward? And so it's it's not something

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that is absolutely set in stone.
It's not this is this is a living

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document. It'll need to be changed
as we go through it. So if

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there's that's that's one of the figures
that everyone has when you create a plan

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like this is that I, well, we're going to be trapped. It's

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going to be used against you.
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don't like the plan and then the
plant exactly. I mean, it's not

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it's not an ordinance, This is
not law. And yeah, just like

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everything, it's Uh, in planning
is that it is living and breathing and

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you know, uh, people change, technology changes, and so that's why

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the Conference of plan needs to be
revisited. Everyone's will for that use,

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so which is which is what we're
doing. It is And having never gone

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through this myself, yeah, I
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So the length of time that it
requires is typically about a year for

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the Conference of plan and so you
know, the Council was very wise in

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the creation of the Conference of Planning
Committee and very excited by that. We

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had fourteen applicants or fourteen smiles from
various companies across the country come through and

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so the staff whittled those down to
fourteen or excuse me at that fourteen down

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to six, and the committee then
reviewed those six potential companies and then interviewed

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two of those and so now we're
down to the final two and the committee

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did make us is looking to make
a recommendation to City Council and so we

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hope to have that before City Council
on the meeting in October. So it's

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it's really exciting. I mean,
the and what's so amazing about these companies

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is that These aren't just you know, people that just submitted a document and

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you know, boiler plated it or
anything like that. They took the time

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and they saw that Bartlesville is very
serious about its plan. And so these

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were very, very good companies that
came forward. So it's very exciting that

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they want to partner with us as
we move forward with the project. And

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of course we're the vision for the
organization is a leading community by choice,

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and so we chose that intentionally because
we believe that Bartlesville got the way that

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it is by choice. Everything was
very intentional. You can you can go

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back to the heyday of Phillips and
city Service, and we chose to be

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the way we are, and so
this plan is simply an extension of that.

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We're going to continue to look at
what do we want to be,

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what we want Bartlesville to be.
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what can they expect to see over
the next twelve months as far as

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it's developed. So as when a
company is selected by the council to enter

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to a contract, is that there'll
be a kickoff meeting and so there'll be

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a public meeting for that, and
so that'll be at the very beginning,

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and so there'll be an opportunity for
citizens to come out and hear what the

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timeline is going to be, what
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meetings that'll be associated that either be through

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the through the consultant, or be
through our staff. We'll have periodic meetings

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throughout the entire process. But the
beginning of this is going to be uh,

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you know, the kickoff, but
there will be a little slow just

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because our consultant, we'll be working
with staff to gather all the data together.

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We've got to analyze the past before
we can move forward, so we'll

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be doing that together. And then
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meetings. Data you know, current
data collection that will be collected by the

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consultants and be able to award at
that time, and so the citizens there

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will be meetings that they can provide
their input. We anticipate the probably surveys

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and things of that nature. Of
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We've got one out right now as
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one as far as sidewalks. So
this is how we This is how we

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get data, and data itself does
not make decisions, but it does inform

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the decisions that we make. Helps
the community, helps sup playing commission,

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helps it AC Council and the qualities
policies decisions. So this is this is

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going to be quite a project,
yes, and it will. I appreciate

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you being willing to take this on. Absolutely I had it would not have

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been me, I promise, should
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luckily not my first and definitely not
gonna be my last. So I look

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forward to it. It'll be fun, it'll be it'll be a good time.

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Anything else the public should be aware
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a housing study project. We have
to have that route. Hope to have

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a draft document to administration and to
City Council in the next coming weeks with

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some data on that. I'll really
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our economic development process and things on
those lines. You know, we're we

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are in a unique situation in the
sense of our housing. We have both

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you know, old stock, news
stock that are online coming offline, and

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so we'll be reviewing all of that
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go. That will help comprehensive plan
as well. As we move forward,

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that'll be it'll be more information that's
fit into that exactly. And so we

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all know that there's a housing shortage, not just here but across the country,

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but when we don't know is at
what price point and by how many?

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So what exactly is our stock?
What's the demand? And what do

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we need to be aiming exactly?
And so you know both historically because the

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state of Oklahoma did a housing study
back in twenty thirteen, and so Barblesville

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did have its had its own subcategory
associated with that. But you know that

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ten years of passings then, so
it's time for us to be you know,

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definitely seeing where we are and where
we're going with that. Look look

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forward to the results of that as
well. Did open All right, thanks

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Larry Type for Silence team. There
we go, there we goad. I

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just threw my phone on the floor. Throw So Michael, what we got

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going on? Project wise? How
much time do I have now? Four

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minutes? Okay, three and a
half? All right, well, okay,

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run on. So the probably the
biggest one that people are seeing ongoing

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right now is going to be the
Delaware and Clear Creek Loop project. So

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it's an asphalt rehabilitation project. They're
currently working in Clear Creek Loop. This

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is at the northwest corner of Tuxedo
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and so they're working on that.
Hopefully get the asphalt wrapped up,

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the final lift of that done middle
of next week something like that. So

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we got Brent Bell Construction working on
that and he gets in there and works

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pretty quickly, so which is pretty
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thing. So so I should get
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They should start this week working if
they're not already working on ADA ramps on

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the Delaware projects, I think there's
gosh, I forget the number, there's

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a large number of ADIA ramps.
So we have to do with that.

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Larry's nodding happily in the background.
Yeah, So you know, anytime,

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due to ADIA standards, now,
anytime that we're working on a roadway project

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that a butts a a ramp or
an area where there should be a ramp

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that's that's not compliant, then we
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essentially there's existing sidewalk. Didn't always
used to be the case, but that

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is the case now, so so
we're sticking with that. So again they'll

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they'll start on that this week,
if not already, and then you see

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it should see them working on the
asphalt part of it, then coming into

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UH in the next week, maybe
the week after that. So they're planning

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on a start at the south end
of that, so that's from Fifth Street

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to Hillcrest, so they'll start there
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is around Central Middle School as well, so we've got some details we got

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to work around that to keep their
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been working with the schools and they're
they're aware of it and had been been

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really good to work with. So
none of them. It's around schools as

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well as we have our Crestling Concrete
Rehabilitation Project SIS is going to be from

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Adams to Baylor and Baylor over by
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High It's also inclusive include the Baylor
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connects from from Baylor to to Crestling
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it's not a full reconstruction, but
it's a it's a large amount of concrete

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panels that will be replacing there on
that section as well. There will be

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some ada some hot sidewalk work on
that as well. We actually just awarded

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that project at the last City Council
meeting to Jay Jay Graham Construction should have

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a pre construction this next week and
we anticipate construction sometime this fall, potentially

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potentially starting October. Not sure if
we get on back quick or not.

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It really depends on the contractors availab
building there and the weather always the weather.

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And you refer to that as a
concrete panel. So we have two

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we really have two types of streets
in Barlsville. We have asphalt and we

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have concrete cranel And if they're concrete, we prefer to keep from concrete.

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I know in the past we've laid
asphalt over the top of them. We

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don't like to do that anymore because
it degrades the base, which is the

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concrete. It does more quickly,
So we'd prefer to keep them as concrete.

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And if they're asphalt, obviously,
then that's a that's that's a quick

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easy right go into a mill and
overlayoff of those but concrete has a longer

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life. It does it's more durable, but it does take longer when you're

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going to do these repairs, it's
longer and more costly, and well at

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length of time just leaves the more
money to won't You won't be driving on

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it the same day They lay like
you do with asphalt. That's almost you

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can almost follow the asphalt roller and
drive just almost, yeah, just almost.

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The next ones, we got pickleball. I know I'm supposed to wind

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up. We're opening bids on that
on October twenty third. I know a

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lot of people are zip interested in. That's hundreds of people playing pickleball at

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Souonar Park. Yeah, yeah,
you do so. We're we're excited to

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have that done as well. Gentlemen, thank you very much for joining us

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with the shitty matter residential and commercial
coming in Colination's coming. We're serving you

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with their k WO in Bartlesville,
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