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But a welcome, welcome, welcome. It's time now for our community connection

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and we have Corey Shibvel here with
us and he is running for county commissioner.

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First of all, good morning to
you, young man. Good morning,

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and how are you doing today?
Little Monday morning going on here?

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But you've got a lot of energy? Yeah, what I got? I'm

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good, I'm good. Well great. I want to ask you, first

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of all, why are you I
know that we have a commissioner that's not

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running, so there's a vacancy,
but what has prompted you to want to

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take the initiative to go forward with
this? Well, after twenty eight and

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a half years with Washington County,
huh, fourteen of those years I have

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been the road supervisor, and with
Commissioner Vivia not running, I felt like

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it was the right time and a
good opportunity for me to take the next

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step into county government. Now,
you talked about being in the arena there

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for twenty eight years, tell us
a little bit about your qualitivacations. Time

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is one thing, but what have
you done with your time is? I

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guess what a lot of folks would
like to know. What have you learned

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that kind of positioned you for this
jump. Yeah. Absolutely, Well,

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fourteen years of being the supervisor,
you know, I have had a good

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working relationship with the commissioner, so
I'm able to see the inside of what's

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going on in the county, not
just not just the road department. So

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in that field, you know,
I've taken on responsibilities as assessing roads and

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bridges, overseeing the upkeep on equipment, tracking inventory, and assisting commissioner done

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lap with the budget of that department. So you really had an intricate relationship

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with the job as far as getting
into the nuts and bolts other than just

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you know, shovel a little snow
here and patches a little road there and

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yes, hey, yonder comes a
bridge. You've not only been out their

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hands on, but you've been in
the on the thinking side of the equation

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too, like you said, with
the inventory and with the dollars and cents

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and and getting a feel for how
things get done on on the backside.

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Yes, absolutely, I've I've been
to many commissioner meetings, so I understand

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the process. Uh, you know, I know that they are approving purchase

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orders, they are approving payroll salaries, they're overseeing they're financially overseeing all of

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the county offices. Indeed, and
that includes every commission uh you know,

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every garage, everything that goes on
here too as well. So it's a

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it's a job that really calls for
a lot of know how, and it

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seems that you've really been exposed to
a lot of that know how. Yes,

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I have absolutely, you know,
like I said, fourteen years of

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it, I've seen. I've seen
quite a bit over the twenty eight and

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a half years. But then as
a supervisor, you see on new equation,

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a whole new way of thinking on
it. Yes, Corey shipples with

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this here and he is a running
for county commissioner. Your family guy,

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Yes, it's a little bit about
your family. Family first, no doubt

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about it. I've been married for
thirty one years. I've got two adult

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kids, I've got three grandkids now, the oldest one not quite four,

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and the three of them they definitely
keep us on our toes. I know

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how. That goes a lot of
fun to be around. But boy,

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they got some energy to go.
Oh yeah, oh goodness sakes well,

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it seems like you put a lot
of thought into it. Did it take

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a whole lot of contemplation, or
was it one of those things that as

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soon as you found out Commissioner Boobia
was not going to run that maybe you

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really started putting a lot more effort
into the thought. Well, you know,

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the thought came across about fifteen years
ago, oh really, that I

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might want to do this some days. I didn't know when, but yes,

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when he decided he wasn't going to
run, I thought, you know,

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this is a great opportunity, great
timing, and and honestly, I

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just felt like the residents of the
county, including myself, would want somebody

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who had experience and knowledge for the
job. And once again, it's not

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one of those things where you either
show up at the meetings. You got

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to show up at the garage,
you got to show up at the oh

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yeah, at the at the site. You got to you got to make

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sure that dollars are accountable and manpower
and woman power are all there in the

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buddets and ready to roll. Absolutely, so you've got the you've got the

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manager's hat on. You've been doing
that for quite a while, and you've

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gotten the peak behind this means because
of the mere fact that you had to

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keep track of a lot of dollars. You had a lot of you had

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a lot of math going on there. Wow, that makes my head hurt

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thinking about it. Yeah. Yeah, the county, the road department runs

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off of a quarter cent sales tax, okay, and that quarter cent generates

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between one point five and two million
dollars a year, and then of course

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that's divided by three districts, so
we we operate off of about six hundred

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thousand dollars a year, and that's
maintaining roads and bridges and then the upkeep

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on equipment and purchasing equipment. So
so yeah, you kind of you you

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really need to pinpoint what your what
roads you can work on, and what

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kind of equipment you can purchase.
Tell everybody where your district would be should

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you get the job of county commissioner. What geographical area in the county District

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two? District to the county is
in Dewey, and District two is pretty

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long. It's all pretty much east
of Highway seventy five, but it does

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run north to Highway ten and then
it runs all the way down to West

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thirty two hundred road. Oh my, so you got a so yes,

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Yeah, they just can't make squares
anymore. Can No, No, you

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would You would think that they would
just be kind of divided up equally.

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But no, I understand why.
It's populations. A lot of ye go

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into it, A lot of a
lot goes into it. Yeah, yeah,

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got to get the right number of
voters in each one and so yeah,

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everything has to come out in the
wash as they say, yes,

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yes, oh right, well this
is really cool. Now do you have

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a like a Facebook page or a
website that the folks can be directed to

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to keep up with you? Yes, I have. I have a Facebook

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page. It is Cory Shivel for
County Commissioner, District two. Right,

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have a emailed email is on that
site. It is I believe it's got

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c Shivel for County Commissioner at gmail
dot com. There you go, there

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you go. And you know,
this is one of those things where a

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lot of folks will say, well, what does a county commissioner do?

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Well, they do a lot.
First of all, it's more than just

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you know, patching a road.
Yeah, it really is. You know,

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there's two hundred and thirty one county
commissioners in Washington County or I'm sorry,

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in the state of Oklahoma, and
if you asked each one of them,

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you would probably get two hundred and
thirty one different answers. Oh,

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yeah, it's really hard to district. Yeah, it really is. What

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makes sure the district unique. Our
district, you know, the south end

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of the county is really kind of
booming as far as housing developments and that

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kind of stuff. So I think
we're a little different than say District one,

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who's on the north end of the
county. So yeah, I would

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say that would be the unique part
of District three. So yeah, I'd

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like to say everything's got its own
little little stuff and you've got to be

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pretty well aware of it. Twenty
eight years doing this. Like I was

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joking with you, I said,
that's a good start. That's a big

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portion of your life. Yes,
and and your qualifications of course speak for

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themselves. I want to thank you
very much for being with us and sharing

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your thoughts with us on the position. And do you do you need folks

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to help you out knock on doors
and things like that. You're looking for

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volunteers. Oh, I could use
all the volunteers absolutely, send them to

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the Facebook phase. Yes, they
can message me or they could email me

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and yeah, if someone wants to
jump in and help, I would I

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would be glad to have them.
Well, that'd be great. You know,

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it's a pleasure meeting you and I
hope you can drop by again.

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And thanks for being on our Community
Connection today. Anything I've missed absolutely no,

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I don't think so, you know, I do. I really do

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like county government. I think it
is one of the most efficient and transparent

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form of government that there is.
So yeah, I really, I really,

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I really enjoy the job that I
do very good at. Kory Shivel

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and he is running for County Commissioner, And thank you for being on Community

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Connection right here on K one the
one you trust