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Ah, good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome,

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welcome. It's the time now for
city matters. If it matters to

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you, it matters to the city. And boy, Bud, we got

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the people in here. We've got
the assistant city manager, Tracy Rolls,

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in a cast of hundreds. How
you doing there, Tracy, We're doing

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great, said I wanted to even
the score today. You brought enough with

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us today that we're gonna cover everything
city related at some point in what thirty

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minutes. That's sounds right, You're
right. So I'm not gonna say much

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at all because we've got a lot
of people here that have a lot of

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important things to say. All right, So we're gonna start with lours Sanders,

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who wants to hire good people for
our city and to keep this cast

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of misfits under control. So Laura, go right ahead. But hey,

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we've got lots of city jobs open. We've got something for everyone. That's

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what I like about working at the
city is there's so much diversity in our

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positions. So currently we have maintenance
worker for parts and for water distribution,

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and we've got police dispatcher positions open. We're always hiring for police and fire,

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and then we have our sanitation collector
position available as well. So the

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city has excellent benefits, we have
competitive salaries, and so it's really the

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place to work. I know that
I'm biased sometimes, but oh a little

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bit, but that's okay. So
if you're interested in a job with the

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city, you can go to Cityobartlesville
dot org and we've got a full list

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of the positions that we're hiring for. You can also apply through there.

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You can also reach out to us
through phone. It's nine to one eight

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three three eight four two two one. Very good. So the online process,

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lord, is it? Everything can
be You can apply for everything online.

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Yes, So there's an application out
there that you can use for all

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of our positions for police and fire. There is a checklist out there and

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so there's a few extra forms that
have to be filled out for those,

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but for the main application, it's
all out there and available, and any

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questions they can just call call HR
and you guys can call help them through

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the process. And you know,
one of the things that I think that

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we don't talk enough about are our
benefits that are provided through the city.

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You know, I've had the opportunity
to work at a few places, and

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by far, the city of bortles
Wille offers the best benefit package that I've

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ever had offered. So if you
guys are interested, please take a look

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at that website. It's a great
place to work, very good people to

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work around, great team. So
thank you for what you do in your

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team. So, Mike, you
had a fly in not long ago,

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and I hear it's pretty successful.
The weather cooperated and we didn't do anything

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that would have been considered bad.
So if you want to talk about the

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fly in and how that went and
what's going on at the airport, Yeah,

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thanks Tracy. So the first annual
Back to Bartlesville Regional fly in was

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September the twenty third, That Friday
and Saturday. The weather did bite us

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a little bit. Friday morning,
we had some showers. Attendance was low.

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We had a lot of aircraft that
were scheduled to fly into Bartlesville that

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canceled out due to the weather,
not just in the area but around the

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area. A lot of these guys
fly open cockpits, and if you have

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a weather threat, they just tend
not to want to get their airplanes out.

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But yeah, it was well attended. By the public, thank you

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for coming out. We had about
I think between the two days we had

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about twenty four hundred visitors to the
fly in. Had a super turnout for

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the first regional fly in. We
were showcasing the locally based DC three or

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C forty seven and the military designation
for that aircraft. Lines were long all

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day long to tour that aircraft and
we had eight six from Sweetwater, Texas.

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The WASP the Woman's Air Force Service
pilots. A lot of folks don't

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even know that that branch existed in
the late nineteen forties. The women would

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fly although they weren't allowed to fly
combat missions. They would take these aircraft

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out and fly them from manufacturing to
the respective bases in the United States before

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they shipped out. It was a
really unique organization. Didn't get a lot

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of recognition till much later in the
scheme of things. They didn't receive veteran

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status until nineteen seventy seven, and
then at one point it was actually revoked

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and then reinstated. So great that
those folks got the recognition that they deserved.

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But we're very much looking forward to
next year's event. If you'd like

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to become a volunteer or a sponsor. You can go to the website at

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bartlesvillefly in dot com. There's a
couple of tabs in there, so just

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check out the website. We'd love
to have you as a volunteer and or

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a sponsor. We'd like to give
a huge shout out to Charles W.

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Harris Foundation and Betsy Kersey who manages
that foundation. Charlie chaired the National Biplane

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Association fly in for I think it
was twenty three or twenty four years,

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and also the Tulsa Regional fly in. So he's passed on now, but

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his foundation lives on and still doing
a lot of good community It's very good.

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What was the oldest plane there?
Oh, my gosh. The oldest

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airplane there could have been probably a
Steerman maybe there was nineteen thirties, nineteen

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twenties. Wildcat itself is an eighty
two year old aircraft. It's a nineteen

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forty one. Our platinum sponsors got
a ride. For being a platinum sponsor,

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they got two tickets for a tour
of Bartlesville on Friday afternoon in Wildcat.

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So the eighty six from Sweetwater was
also selling rides. I heard it

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was a bang up deal. It
was kind of on the pricey side.

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I thought, four hundred and fifty
dollars, I think to fly on the

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aircraft for forty five minutes. But
it wasn't just a level of europe wheels

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up, shut up. It was
a very interactive flight with the instructor or

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not instructor, but the them and
flying the pic piloting command. He was

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out doing some lazy SSEs. Maybe
some split ass is a little you know,

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risky for somebody that is sensitive to
motion. You might have to have

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a six sac in the back of
the airplane in an eighty year old point.

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Yeah wrong, But you have good
turnout and we're very happy with the

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way way things went awesome. Thank
you so much for not just that event,

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but for what you guys do at
the airport every day. A lot

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of times I think that the airport
gets forgotten and the good that it brings

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to our community, and you and
your staff do a tremendous job. So

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thank you guys for what you do
every day. I would mention that just

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a little bit of Oklahoma aviation industry
facts, the Oklahoma aviation aerospace industry produces

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just under forty four billion dollars in
economic activity in the state. It's the

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second largest economic engine in our state. The average salaries seventy three thousand,

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three hundred, making it one of
the highest average salaries in the state.

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And we are the state has one
hundred and eight public use airports and which

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puts about ninety six percent of our
population within thirty minutes of a jet capable

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airport of five thousand feet or more. So it's a little bit of economic

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data on the aviation. Very good, well, thank you very much talking

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about economic things, projects and other
things. Chief engineer, mister Mike Seemers.

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I don't I'm doing great. I
feel like this is a little bit

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of a dirty trick. There's more
people here and there's still a lot of

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time left on the clock. I
don't see. I'm got to figure out

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ten minutes for you. We're out
the door right all the time. All

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right, that's not bad. That's
not bad. Yeah, you're looking like,

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wait a minute, Okay, I'll
do my best. We'll see.

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Yeah. So we've all kinds of
projects going on the just the twenty twenty

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three g O bond pass. You
citizens. We appreciate you guys getting out

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and voting, and that did pass. So we've got a whole slew of

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other projects that will come on the
line here in the next couple of years.

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Won't see that for some time now. Still, we I think this

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fall will issue the last Troncha bonds
for the twenty twenty g O bond.

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So I think the first Tronch was
nine point five million somewhere in there,

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and this next will be about the
six six point five million, I believe

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somewhere in that ballpark. So again, not quite half the project still left

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to issue on that. We've been
trying to work on design and whatnot on

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the rest of the projects and getting
some of those constructions. So as far

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as we do having our construction right
now, We've got the Delaware project.

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This is an asphalt rehab essentially from
Fifth Street to Hillcrest. It also included

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Clearcreek Loop, which that portion has
done that's over there at Tuxedo and Madison

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and Bison, small neighborhood over there. They got that work wrapped up first,

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and then they dove into Delaware and
started working on that project, got

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everything milled up, build the assholet. They're working on patching right now.

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Some concrete handicapped ramps. Anytime we
do a street project anymore, the ADA

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requirements require that if there are sidewalks
essentially the intersect the roadway, that they're

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not eighty A compliant, that we
have to make those ADA ramp connections and

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whatnot. So we've got, gosh, we've got a pretty substantial amount of

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ramps including that project as well.
One of the more interesting things about the

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project though, it's kind of a
really just a kind of a cut and

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drive project as far as an asphalt
and millon overlay. Nothing too exciting about

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that other than if you live on
that street being good condition, but there

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is that was a portion of that
is where the old Innurban railroad used to

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to run, and so in the
design side of that, we were aware

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that there was potential for some remnants
of that track underneath the roadway. You

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could see it reflecting through the asphalt. And so Steve roper are our newest

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project engineer, he incorporated into the
plans that we would investigate that that we'd

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salvage anything that needed to be salvaged
as part of that contract. And so

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when they got that milled off and
exposed, sure enough, there were portions

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of rail, and I think talking
to Debbi and East and the History Museum,

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she'd never actually seen the portions of
there's portions that rail along a curve

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there that had had double rail section
essentially. I think it's probably designed in

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such a way to help the trolley
stay on the tracks, probably going around

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the curve most likely, And so
she hadn't seen anything like that, because

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again, we got remnants all over
town with this has popped up, and

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she's got some small pieces and whatnot. But so anyway, at that point

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when they expose that, we worked
with the History Museum, worked with the

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contractor other city staff to really try
to come up with a plan for doing

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something with this, just to try
to preserve that. So a couple three

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foot sections are going to go to
the History Museum. I think they'll make

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an exhibit up there on the or
fifth floors City Hall. We tried to

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salvage pieces of the timbers, but
those were degraded to the point that really

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didn't gain much out of that.
So uh but we uh, we got

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some of the spikes and some of
the track that they'll get and they'll make

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a little exhibit up there at the
History museum. But then also we salvage

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I think around seventy five feet of
total track, so and the bricks as

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well, So there's a bunch of
the I guess they're the Buffalo Buffalo bricks

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that were built there, you know, manufactured there in the early nineteen hundreds

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as part of this, and so
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the rails, and so at that
point we'll come up with a plan probably

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a later date, uh, to
do something in one of the parks as

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far as essentially reconstructing a portion of
this track is for people to see,

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So that's on the game plan right
now. So that was interesting. Not

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something we typically see on our project
Sometimes our our stuff is kind of bland

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up there in engineering. But uh, but this is this is interesting for

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sure, and I'm glad that we
were able to do that. So kind

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of kudos to Steve Roper for identifying
that and getting involved with that, and

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also Debniese the History Museum, and
we had Larry Curtis involved on the community

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development side, and uh, it's
a good thing. So glad we could

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do that. One of the other
exciting projects that that's happening right now is

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uh pickleball courts. So it's amazing
how many people are excited about and interested

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in pickleball. Played it for the
first time myself about a month ago something

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like that, and it's no major
injuries. There were a few of our

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staff that was involved in that and
the directory HI might have blew a hammy

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out or something. So we had
you two, the police chief and the

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IT director. That was that's quite
the Quite the force I'm telling it was

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really an We're an athletic force out
there. It was. It was impressive

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to see. Telling you what,
man, guys on the circuit better get

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ready. So no being serious though. So the pickleball courts, we do

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have a bid opening on that this
afternoon at two o'clock. I think this

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is one of the first projects that
I've ever had enough interest from the public

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that we've actually got a couple of
the interested pickleball parties showing up for the

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bid opening. So I won't necessarily
change anything or the outcome, but hopefully

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get some good bids on that.
And so the idea behind this is adding

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some pickleball courts there by the tennis
courts at Sooner Park. We've got a

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base bit of six courts, we'd
like to build eight, so we do

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have a bit alternate for two additional
courts. There's also a bit alternate for

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lighting. I think our preference will
be, if we can afford it is

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to do at least six lighted courts, and then if we can do eight

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lighted courts, that'd be great.
But I think the preferences have lighted courts

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over more courts potentially, so we're
looking at that, and we've got some

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bit alternates also for some taller fence
around a perimeter. I think we bid

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it out with six foot fence in
the base edwin're looking at eight foot.

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There's a bit alternate on that as
well, and then some shade structures on

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the east side of the project for
spectators or people who are waiting to play.

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I think there's enough pickleballers out there
that will probably have some pretty good

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lines waiting to play. Being que
there so be a good project. If

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you go to the City of Ardmore's
website you can kind of see really the

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concept that we were going with there
when we designed this. So they've got

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some new pickleball course of the day
just recently completed and this will be fairly

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similar as far as the layout,
So that's an exciting project. And then

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really other than that, we have
a whole slew of parks projects that are

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under design right now. We've got
we're trying to freshen up our parking lots

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at the parks. You know,
years ago when there was a need for

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a parking lot, we just put
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and those that served their purpose.
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and whatnot, it's you know,
we require other people to pave their parking

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lots and whatnot. We feel like
we probably got to get on board with

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that as well. So we're looking
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at Johnstone Park, at Sooner Park, even Lyons Park which is over there

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off of Hensley in downtown, and
so we're working on design on that right

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now. We've got designed on eighth
Street storm sewer projects from essentially Shawnee to

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the east, about three blocks to
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just got plans on that this morning, so we'll be reviewing those plans,

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get that out for construction soon hopefully. And then we've also got a project

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on Clearview that should open up quickly. It's a concrete panel rehab project.

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They're around the mid high and it's
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includes a section of Baylor Place.
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a month and a half ago,
working with the contractor on getting a date

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to get that started under construction.
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on right now that you should see
something happening soon. The rest of it,

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like I said, is in the
works, and I know we've been

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getting lots of questions on our bridges
on Tuxedo Bridge, we've had the barricades

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up for a while. We did
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spend money on that project because we
do have that are designed to completely replace

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that bridge deck. We're getting close
on that. The plans that actually have

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been done for about a month and
a half now. We're just waiting on

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the corp of Engineers to cut us
loose on the environmental side of things to

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permise to do that work. And
then we're also working on the Sunset Bridge

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plans. Those are essentially in the
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complete. That bridge deck will be
replaced as well, and just waiting on

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the court to cut us loose on
that. So I'm gonna blame that.

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I'm big brother. If we can
get them off I Center, we'll you

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get to go on those projects.
Hey here, it's more the core of

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lawyers and it is the corp of
engineers. I think Terry can probably attest

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to that. Yeah, just repeating
Goship, there you go, there you

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go. Good. One thing clarification
on the pickleball courts. Now will the

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existing tennis courts go away or it
will it be additional? This will be

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additional, So the additional that the
existing course will stay there. This will

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be built just to the noise of
that adjacent to we'll be shared parking.

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Uh. We're actually as part of
that parking lot project I was talking about,

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we are looking at reworking the UH, the striping and the paving UH

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to add more parking there on that
corridor really between Center Park, the tennis

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courts and the golf course. So
so we'll try to get some more parking

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in there for everybody because I know
it will get busy. But but yeah,

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that's going to go to the north
of it. Existing tennis courts will

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stay there. And uh, and
again I think there's been I don't want

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to say conflict, that's not the
right word, but uh, there's you

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know, tennis players want to play
tennis pickleball court people want to play pickle

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ball, and I think they have
striped the tennis courts for some pickleball or

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tape them up that way. And
so hopefully this will alleviate some of that

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and open it up for everybody and
we'll have any skirmishes out there in the

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tennis court. Well, you know, pickleball's picked up quite a bit.

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We've last three years we've had the
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and they have hundreds of people playing, and yeah, this has gotten really

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big. It has, yeah,
coming together there just the right time.

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You have whole venues of chicken and
pickle and things of that nature. You

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can have dinner, have a drink
and play pickleball, drink afterward. Make

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the pickalla too exciting, Always ways
to make it exciting. Well, thank

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you, Michae. I really appreciate
that update. So look at it.

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Look at this time, we are
right on schedule, are we not?

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Unbelievable? So Terry's going to talk
about the water, the Water Resource Committee,

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the free chlorine process, so he's
got a lot to talk about,

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I do. But before we jump
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about our pickleball exploits because that we
did defeat a team from I think it

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was the Mayor of Bixby and consultant
and uh and and we won that match,

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and I think we retired right after
that. Yeah, we're on top.

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We retire on top. Always go
down, always go out with the

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belt, you know. Yeah,
yeah, Well, I think we were

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checking with HR to see if that
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because I think we were kind of
feeling it no, So any answer,

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I guess it's still no. So
I guess answers that SO had some

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lingering arm issues after that is what
you say, the fight for the city's

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honor on your own time, right, So I kind of see that,

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but it is what it is.
So anyway, so we'll talk a little

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bit about water. So water supply
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at with that. We did change
the metrics on how we measure that,

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or at least how we report that
earlier this month in that we look at

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the overall water remaining as well as
a weighted water supply. So the overall

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water remaining is just all the water
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so that's Hulia Lake, Copan Lake, Hudson Lake, and the Caney River,

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and then the weighted water supply actually
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rights we have at each of those
each of those places. And so as

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of this morning, our overall overall
water remaining is fifty nine point four percent

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and the weighted water supply is seventy
six point five percent. So technically we're

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still in stage two, but we
are right on the threshold of moving toward

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or moving into stage three. So
stage two is when the overall water remaining

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is between sixteen seventy percent and the
weighted water supply is below seventy five percent

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or below eighty five percent, and
then stage three is between fifteen and sixty

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percent, and then the weighted water
supply is at seventy five percent, so

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we are really just at the threshold
of moving to stage three. There is

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four caster rains this week, and
you know Kevin Potter, right before he

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walked in guarantee the rain in the
right spot. I usually know he has

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that kind of clout, you know, yeah, I kind of paraphrase what

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he said there just a little bit. But Okay, we'll see if that

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holds true. Because I've my ability
to direct the rain where it needs to

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go. It's not very good so
mine. So we'll hope that that that

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rain materializes. And really all of
Southeast Kansas is struggling. It's just not

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us. I know that Canny has
some pretty restrictive things going on. The

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Town of Independence, I believe has
some water restrictions that are enforced, and

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so it's really not just being felt
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Kansas is uh is really seeing all
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unfortunately. So we'll pray for rain
and a good soaking rain and a good

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hard rain to run off quite a
bit and into the lakes. But we'll

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see what it what it gives,
and that's going to probably dictate where we

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move in the next couple of weeks. So if we do move to stage

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three, the restrictions do change,
where Stage two has outdoor watering on two

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days a week. So if you're
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and Saturdays. Odd number properties are
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go to the stage three, that's
one day a week and that's even numbers

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on Saturdays, odd number of properties
on Sundays, So we will get the

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word out if that comes to pass. We haven't enacted as far as Council

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has not enacted the water rates emergency
water rates for stage two because we have

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kept below the threshold that we need
to prevent that. So on stage two

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we have to keep below five point
five million gallons of water use a day,

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and we've been averaging about five point
four million gallons of water use per

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day. But if we go to
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four point seventy five million gallons per
day. So we will likely have a

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recommendation to enact the water emergency water
rights or water rates if we do move

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to stage three, just based on
that threshold and historic use up to this

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point. But we'll see what the
rains have in store for us and then

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we'll proceed accordingly through there. So
that's all with the water as far as

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we're at currently and where we're hopeful
that we get all the rains and the

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draft is no longer, but on
the free chlorine conversion. So back in

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early October, we did convert to
a temporary conversion to free chlorine. So

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the disinfectant that we use for our
water system is a quarmine, which is

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a chlorine ammonia combination. It has
some benefits that we decided that was needed

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back in two thousand and ten when
that conversion took place. But that type

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of disinfectant requires a regular flushing of
your water system, and due to the

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drought that we experienced last year or
currently, we did not flush the system

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as we needed to just to help
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so we did notice some increased biological
activity in the water system on the very

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southern edge of it, which is
south of Rice Creek Road in seventy five,

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and so to help mitigate that,
we went to this free chlorine conversion

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to kind of help take care of
all those all the those little critters and

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get everything reset to back where it
needs to be. So we're right on

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the mid part of it. So
we've been it's been going very well.

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We've had a few call in complaints
as far as color and some taste issues

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with it, but I think for
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We will run that free chlorine until
November fifth, and then we'll convert back

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to the chloramine disinfectant. So if
you have any questions or you have some

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issues with your water quality as far
as it smells, has a different smell,

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a different taste, or it has
some discolouration, if you'll just call

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the Water Office at nine one eight
three three eight four one zero four.

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Then we'll send somebody out to take
a look and make sure everything is where

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it needs to be. But it's
not uncommon as we go through this process

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to see some of those items that
come up with it, but for the

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most part, we haven't really experienced
that. So we're hopeful these last few

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weeks we'll continue that trend very good
and so on the Water Resources Committee,

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they've been meeting fairly regularly here in
the last few months, and so their

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last meeting was back in September,
and they did recommend changes to the water

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ordinance, the water Supply of Water
Shortage Ordinance that council did adopt at their

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October the second or third meeting,
and then we've been implementing those modified restrictions

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and water shortage ordinance items from that
point forward. But we did have a

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special release of city Beat today regarding
all the water supply and history and kind

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of things that have taken place and
where we're looking for water supply in the

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future. So if you're not a
subscriber to city Beat, we would encourage

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you to do so. There's a
lot of information that comes out on a

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weekly basis there from Kelly and Kelsey, but this particular issue is dedicated solely

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to water and a lot of great
information that's contained within that. So if

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you have any questions regarding some of
the history of what we've on while we've

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done it, and what we're looking
to do, that's really your one stop

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shop to get all that information in
one document there. But it is accessible

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online, So if you just refuse
to subscribe to city Beat, you can

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get that through the city's website at
citybarsbell dot org and you'll have to drill

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in a few pages to find citabat
and then you can view that issue online

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as well. But if again,
if you're not a city Beat subscriber,

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I would do so. It's just
a wonderful resource for not just water and

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in engineering or construction, but all
types of activities that's going on with the

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city of borders with there here we
have one question this study on the aquifer

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over in the oceagea anything come of
that or are we wait for the Resource

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committee to make a decision. Well, that was one of the items that

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they did advocate to investigate further for
us There is a lot of unknowns with

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that particular water source. So this
is an aquifer in central Osah County is

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considered a major aquifer as far as
through the USGS as far as how they

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designate that, but there's very little
information available up in our area as far

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as how much water it can yield
or produce and then the water quality that

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would result from it. So really
everybody that's on that aquifer is just a

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residential house or a very small usage, so they would typically use about two

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or three gallons per minute as far
as a typical use, and for our

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application, we're looking to use anywhere
between one hundred to two hundred gallons per

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minute, so quite an order of
magnitude difference. And so there's a process

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that you can do to determine those
types of to determine the yield and the

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water quality. That those are expensive
to do, so that would take probably

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one hundred thousand dollars for us to
do that yield study, and so we

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were looking to partner or to get
some sort of grant to help offset some

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of those costs. We did miss
the deadline for a federal grant, which

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was mid October. We just couldn't
put all that information together, But there

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will be another probably midyear next year
that we'll target to hit and see exactly

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what we potentially have through there with
that water source. So that was one

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of the items that the Water Resources
Committee recommended to further investigate. We're also

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going to look at the reallocation of
the flood control to water supply at both

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Hula and Copia Lake. So this
takes a portion of that area that's normally

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used for a reserved for storage of
flood to raise that normal water pool,

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the normal water surface of that lake
to hold for water supply. So those

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projects we'll partner with the Core of
Engineers to investigate. But I think that

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we'll have a meeting probably either likely
in early November that will provide some updates

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on when that information can be can
gathered up all right. I want to

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thank you all for being here with
us today. Dignity, compassion, excellence,

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stuff you your home. Crematory Bartlesville, No what stock An Bartlesville he

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twenty seven eq. Bartlesville,