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Good Bundy, good money, good
money, good morning, and welcome uncle,

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welcome to stopping out for city matters
on K one, the one he

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tries, if it matters to the
you, it matters to the city.

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And we have a city councilor right
here from War two and it is Lauren

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Mozelle. How are you doing there, young man? Good? How are

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you doing sir? And the sun
is shining, the grass is kind of

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almost well, it's going to be
green someday. It's going to be green,

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saying, And I'm able to fog
a mirror, so it's good day,

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good day, good to day.
Sunshining is going to beautiful this week,

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I think. And I'm seeing some
crocuses and some flowers popping up out

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there, so it looks like springs
on its way. I so, I

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hope. So hey, we've been
talking about where the city's going and who's

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got to say in it. It
turns out we the people have a say

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in it. How did that happen? It's exactly right. Welcome to America.

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It's a good plan. And the
citizens of Barzil have the most important

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say in the biggest say in what
we do as a city. So we're

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putting on some we're putting on an
effort to do a comprehensive plan update update

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our comprehensive plan. We're to undertaking
this effort, it's going to call it

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be called Endeavor, and we are
asking citizens to give us their input to

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help us put together this comprehensive plan
for the city. We've got a couple

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of opportunities. First, you can
go online and take a survey. There's

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a couple of different surveys you can
take. You can go to the city's

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website and they'll link you out to
the survey to take and give input.

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That way, there's a couple of
in person meetings that city staff is going

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to facilitate, so Tomorrow six to
eight pm at the Community Center citizens citizens

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can show up and give their input
and their feedback on the comprehensive plan and

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where they want to see us go. There's also another public house open meeting

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on Thursday six to eight pm at
the east Side, our Vest Branch.

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So there's a couple of in person
meetings they can attend this week, or

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we can go online and give our
input online. So we really want our

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citizens to be involved, to have
a set and to guide our direction as

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a city. You know, a
long time ago, I guess we had

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a little train, like a like
a little trolley thing that, yes,

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And they come up with the idea
for a mono rail. Well, I

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think I don't think we're quits high
on the list of things that we're gonna

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look at doing in the future.
But I don't know about the mono rail.

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I don't think. I don't think
that's a good idea at all.

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I just throwing it out there,
so if anybody had the wise idea,

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put it away. But you know, the direction of the city is within

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your control. If you've got an
idea, you never know because there are

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almost forty thousand people who live here, yes, almost yes, And if

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everyone put forth an idea, I
guarantee you there's gonna be a bunch of

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good ones. Oh, there's gonna
be some great ideas. I mean,

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I get emails from citizens every day
that have great ideas and great and they

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want to give their input, and
I think we need to give them that

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place to do that. And there's
also another effort there with the city's undertaking

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to help people get involved in the
actual and learn about the actual workings of

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the city. We're doing Citizen at
Training Academy Citizens Academy. This is really

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cool. I like this. The
city staff has a great idea here to

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say, how do citizens learn about
their city and the inner workings and the

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functions of their city, and so
they get they're putting on this Citizens Academy.

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Go online register for Citizen Academy.
It's going to start in April.

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It's really a great way to get
involved, and we'd love to have people,

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you know, involved in our committees, our boards, our commissions.

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Learn about your city and how it
works and how it functions, what the

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city is responsible for, and what
the state may be responsible for or you

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know. So it's it's going to
be a lot of great information. If

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you want to learn about how your
city functions day to day, the Citizens

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Academy is a great way to do
it. It's like it's like Civics on

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generoids. That's exactly right. And
it's very local based. I mean,

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we take a lot of civics and
we talk a lot about you know,

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what's going on in the world and
the country and even in the state.

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But every day you are a fan
by what happens in your city and the

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things that your city government does for
you, and your city staff do for

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you. So those are the things
that affect you most and the things that

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affect you every day. So the
Citizen Academy is a great way to get

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get in there, learn and get
involved. It will demystify a whole lot

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of times folks who are just daring
convinced that five people run the whole show.

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And I'm like, that's exactly ya. I think you know. One

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of the things I keep having to
remind a lot of our citizens about is

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our city staff does the lion's absolute
ninety nine point ninety nine nine percent of

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the work of everything that goes on
in the city. They take the input,

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they put together what they find and
then they present it to you.

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Absolutely. And the City Council is
just a representation of the citizens on a

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board and a commission that hopefully enact
the will of the people and do what's

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best in the best interests of all
of the citizens of Barswel But the city

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staff from Mike Bailey down to the
guy picking up your trash, and the

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policeman and the fireman, and the
Parks Apartment and the city Development directors and

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the Communications lead and hr they doing
all the work every day to keep this

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city great. And we are really
we really have a great city because of

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the work that those people put in. Now, if I want to be

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a part of this Citizens Academy,
does it cost me anything? So it's

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the Citizens Academy. I believe it's
going to be free if you're a work

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here or both. That's all I
know. The program, no costs.

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It will take place between on Thursday
afternoons beginning April eleventh, running through June

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twentieth. There's a If you go
to the City of Bartlesville website, there

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is a link out to register for
that Citizens Academy. I think they're going

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to limit it to the first twenty
people, but there's still space available,

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so get out there and register for
it soon. No, our water,

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we seem to have plenty of it
for right now. Yes, it doesn't

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mean like, you know, a
few months from now, we could be

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right back where we were, because
there's every chance in the world that we

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could. I understand that our Water
Resources Committee is looking at a lot of

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options. They are, so,
you know, just an update everybody in

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the city. We are in a
good spot right now with our water supply.

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Copan's still low, but it does
look like it's filling up with some

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of the recent range that we have. It's a little fuller than it has

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been in the past, but it's
still really low. But our supply of

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Yula and Hudson is good. We're
full there and in fact, we even

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the corp of Engineers had to let
off some let out some water just to

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control the floodplain. So we are
good on our water supply. But that

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doesn't mean that this summer and two
summers or three summers or ten summers down

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the road, that we won't be
back in the same spot we are.

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And so the city Council did stand
up the Water Resources Committee to look at

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options for how we can deal with
supply into the future. They've come with

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come back to us with a couple
of options. One of the ones that

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sounds like it's most beneficial and the
easiest and best to do is getting trying

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to get some water from Call Lake
and that Carll Reservoir. But we need

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to study that and we need to
get some information, some hard data about

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what that would take, what the
numbers are, how many you know people

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we're going to have to pay right
of ways and easements to get the pipe

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back to Bartlesville, all that kind
of stuff. We need to be able

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to evaluate out on hard data.
So the city Council authorizes them to go

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out and pay for a study that'll
give us some of that data that we

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need to make good decisions down the
road about whether this is really feasible for

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us to do, whether it's cost
effective for us to do, and whether

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it actually really will solve our water
supply issue going forward. So it's not

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going to be a quick fix.
It's not going to happen overnight. It's

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going to probably take years for us
to get it in place, even if

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we decide to do this, So
we need to make some decisions on some

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hard data. The Water Resources Committee
has done fabulous work meaning and suggesting things

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to the city council this They came
to the City Council and asked for this

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study to be done, and I
think that's that's the right thing to do,

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so we can get data to make
good decisions. One thing we were

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talking about before we came in here
to the studio was, you know,

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they're really working hard on the US
sixty just from the city limits of Bartleville

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all the way up os Yeah,
be a darn shambe if we had to

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start digging up things, but pipe
to get done with that. That's where

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these studies are going to be really
because we will be able to identify where

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the right place to put pipes is, where the possibility where the different routes

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are, and we can kind of
plan for that so we don't have to

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go put down a nice new highway
and then dig it up to put down

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a pipeline. Oh goodness sakes,
well, I tell you what that study

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is going to be really good.
I understand that there's an aquifer, but

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I don't know how far along the
resource board is. And and even looking

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at that, I know the call
thing was the one that we wanted to

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look at first. But the aquifer
in Osh County, this thing could be

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really really really really big or it
could be really really tiny. Nobody really

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knows for sure. And that's the
thing. You know, it's underwater,

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underground, underground. You don't have
eyes on it. So you have to

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do studies. You have to look
at it. And you know, as

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we progress through the process with the
Water Resources Committee, it's going to be

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one of the things we're going to
look at. We're going to get a

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study and some data off of that
so we can make the decisions there.

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There's a couple of different options that
are just in the exploratory stages right now,

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kind of ideas stages. As we
move forward and the Water Resources Committee

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brings it to us, we'll look
at doing more hard data studies on that.

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Well, that is cool, you
know what, once again, the

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Citizens Academy, this is the first
time this has been done, and if

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you really want to get a very
good look at the inner workings of how

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your city operates and how you fit
into it. Yeah, exactly, that's

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the big party. You know,
you're a big you're a player because you're

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a citizen, and you you kind
of hold the cards absolutely. You know,

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you kind of think city government is
a big machine out there, but

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it's not really. You're the piece
of the machine. You're a part of

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that, the whole system, and
you're the biggest part of it. And

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you know your direction and being involved
in knowing what the city can and can't

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impact, and can and can't affect, and how it works, and you

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know, just sometimes knowing the right
person to pick up the phone and call

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to ask a question or to get
something done is ninety percent of the battle

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of getting things moving. You know, people don't know the right I hope

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they know that they're a city councilor
all five of the city councilors are always

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their first point of contact. They
can always pick up the phone and ask

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us or email us and we'll answer
questions. But we don't have a lot

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of power or authority because we are
just at a authority commission board. So

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what we would do is we would
connect you with the right people in the

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city that can actually do that kind
of stuff for you. So if you

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get involved in like this city Academy, you're going to probably be able to

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more quickly move to the right person
and the right department to get the thing

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you need done done. We're always
here at City Councilors to help you and

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assist you and connect you in any
way we can, but we have no

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authority to be able to direct anybody
except the city manager, the city attorney,

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the city judge, and the city
treasurer on anything because of the only

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spots we hire and fire. You
can bring up an interesting point. You

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know, you you are the representative
of the people. You're not omnipotent.

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That's exactly gone. Well, I'm
gonna call Lauren. He's just gonna wave

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magic one, say a few words, and by golly, it'll be fixed.

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That is really that works. This
is why the Academy is so important,

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exactly. And you'd like, I
would love to be able to wave

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a magic wand and make everybody happy
to get everything done. But there was

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and there's a good example of this
in my ward right now. We did

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a traffic study on Dorchester out and
Colonial. Uh. Some people were complaining

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that there was a lot of traffic
and a lot of speeding traffic, and

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people like a walk up and down
that road and children play on kids play

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on that road. So we needed
data to be able to evaluate. So

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I connected the citizens in that area
with the process that they can they can

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go through to say, let's do
a traffic study to see how the traffic

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is flowing along there with speeds and
how often and what times, and see

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if it qualifies for some sort of
traffic control device in there. And it

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did qualify for a traffic control device. So the citizens are now moving that

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directly forward with their Homeowners' Association to
be able to put some traffic control devices

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along door Chester there to slow that
traffic down and make it safer in their

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neighborhood. And that was really my
role in that was just to connect them

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with the process and help them find
their way through that process. But it's

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a citizen led effort. And this
is where the City Academy comes in,

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is it teaches you how to be
that leady, that citizen that leads and

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makes things happen. And you may
have something you've been wanting to do and

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get done for a long time.
This is the right place to learn how

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the city can accomplish that. We're
talking with city councilor Laura and Miselle,

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and you know this is going to
take a lot of just a lot of

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aggravation out of people because you frustration
just festers really bad. Oh yeah,

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all thoughts. And if you get
through to where you see, ah,

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there's the path that that's just how
it works, and you're gonna see some

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daylight. You know that that frustration
is gonna subside and you're gonna realize that

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you have all the power and you
are not powerless. Absolutely absolutely, you

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hold all the cards. You hold
all the power. I serve at the

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pleasure of the people of my ward, and I hope I represent them well.

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But the citizens of the city have
the best ideas and the best they

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know best. And what's what's the
right thing for Bartlesville, And when they

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get involved, Bartlesville is better for
it. And how do we get a

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hold of you here? So you
can always get a hold of me.

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I do answer my phone. You
ask anybody. I do actually answer my

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phone. You can contact me by
phone. My number is nine one eight

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four four zero zero two one five, or you can send me an email

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Ward two at City at war two
at Cityobartosville dot org. Uh word two

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Council, I'm sorry, Ward II, Council at cityofarthoswel dot org and you

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can send me there. You can
find my email address on the city website.

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Go to city website look under City
Council. You find my email address

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there too. I'm always available before
and after all city council meetings. I'm

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planning this summer to hold a town
hall in my ward to talk about what's

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going on in my ward with the
people in my wards. So I held

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one in fall of last year and
want to do that again. It was

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really a good way to communicate with
the people in my ward and let them

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talk to me about what their concerns
are. So look for this summer we'll

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have another town hall in my ward. All right, Son's good. Thank

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you very much, appreciate