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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.

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I mean it's time now for city
matters. If it matters to you,

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it matters to the city. And
we have Mike Bailey, who's been

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Mia lately. You're doing bad,
you're doing good. I appreciate you calling

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me all of that. It's okay, it's okay. I just was over

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here watching the chief get kind of
nervous a little bit, but he settled

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down. Did he get two three
minutes? Two or three minutes into it?

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He was like, I got I
promised him I wouldn't even watch.

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I didn't want to make him nervous. He actually did a great job.

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And you also are having a hard
time not calling him chief, right,

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I had a very hard time not
calling him chief because they just called him

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chief just a second ago. Yeah. See, I've not figured out what

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to call him. Well, I
mean I got things. I called it.

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Tracy is probably the best day,
but it doesn't start mister Rolls.

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So one of him is how he
wrote. One of his employees from the

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the police station actually came up with
a great idea called him old Chief.

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Okay, old Chief Okay. I
think it has a nice rink to Big

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Chief ball Chief. Well, we
could go with a lot of things.

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I had to go there. Yeah, we do have old Mike and new

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Micah haven six. We tried a
lot of names. I haven't settled on

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one yet, but I'll let you
know what I do. Mike Bailey,

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I have a question for you.
Has anybody I ever asked you any questions

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about water? It turns out a
couple of times we here, we here

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a couple. I was joking.
I made some notes, and usually for

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radio I have one page and most
of my notes are about things that I

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want to make sure they cover.
This time I came out of room to

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get them on the page. Yeah, so this is this is pretty much

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all water. But before I jump
into that, I did just want to

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take one moment. Last Wednesday we
had the Police Officers Memorial and it's for

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fallen officers and it is a phenomenal
service. We do that every year,

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So if you've missed it and haven't
had a chance too, I would I

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would certainly invite you to attend next
year. It's a very somber affair,

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but it also is and you really
do get to pay honor to those guys.

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And it's not just for Bartlesville police
officers. We have a memorial at

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the police station, a beautiful memorial. It's intended to honor any fallen police

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officers or peace officers, and also
any fallen firefighters, which I'm grateful to

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say that we don't have any on
the list at this point in our entire

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history. I was, I don't
know, I need to knock on some

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wood here. I don't want to
be that guy. They have been busy,

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that's right. But the officers are
actually from all over and so they

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go all the way back to I
believe just right after statehood was the first

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one. So there's some marshals,
and there is there's ocelated police officers and

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ocialated Dewey Bartlesville so and of course
Washington County deputies. So it really is

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a great event. And if you
haven't seen the memorial, it's been there

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a few years now. It was
designed actually by our firefighters and our police

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officers. They formed a committee and
at my encouragement and formed a committee and

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they actually designed that. So it's
a it's a beautiful memorial to them.

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And just wanted to take a moment
and thank everyone who has served in any

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capacity. Peace officer is a very
challenging profession, no matter what level you're

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doing it at, and I'm grateful
to everyone who serves. I know that

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not everybody in the country is grateful
for what you do, but those of

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us who know, we are very
grateful. So thank you all, and

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thank you for your sacrifices, and
thank you to your families for the sacrifices

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that they make as well. So
after that, somber, No, let's

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jump into water, because this is
a much more cheerful topic, right,

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Okay, let's talk water shortage.
So I have a little bit of good

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news, but I want everybody to
hear me when I say a little bit.

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It's a little bit. So for
the first time since we started monitoring

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this, as we reached the seventy
percent level, water supply has actually increased

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two weeks in a row. Both
weeks though it increased less than one percent,

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so it's still an increase. It
was good news. So the rain

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did have some impact, but it
is it's difficult. I don't think people

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truly appreciate exactly how big of a
drought there is in those areas, and

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Terry put up a great graphic that
really was. It was very impactful for

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me. And it was the Miso
net from the State of Kansas, and

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he overlaid our drainage basins for Hula
and Copan both and they are anywhere between

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I think it's twelve to twenty one
inches over the last year that they're short

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and rainfall, and when we really
keep in mind that they normally only get

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about forty inches in a year,
they've only got about half the rain that

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they should in that area. So
the area is very dry. And then

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that leads to rumors. People start
thinking that, you know, well,

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there must be a diversion, and
so we've heard that, and just to

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make sure we've left no stun stone
unturned, Terry contacted the corp of Engineers

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that are in charge of Copan and
Hula Lake to ensure that there was that

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there was no diversion in that drainage
basin. The answers, no, there's

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not. The reason that when we
get rain doesn't immediately fill the lake is

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is that that collects over an area. I don't even know how many acres,

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but it's a huge I say it's
huge. It's really not very big

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for a lake and some of it
gets absorbed to the ground. And that's

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that's what we have is that if
you've ever been in an area where there

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is a drought, and not only
do you have the big cracks in the

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ground, all of the ponds are
have capacity, the bar ditches are empty,

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and so when it rains, all
of those things have to fill it

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first. And that's the reason we're
not seeing significant inflow into the lake,

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even though there's rain in the area. And so they get you know,

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they get a half inch of rain, people say, well, that should

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have done it. Well, not
when you're five feet below normal. That's

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right, that's right. So we're
just going to have to continue to pray

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for to pray for more rain,
and that that's the solution. I mean

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that that really is our only solution
at this point. Now there people are

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concerned because they don't feel that there's
been enough planning done. Other people feel

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like we're we're moving too quickly on
this. So it really depends on which

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side you are. Go out to
link and to see how much new beach.

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Ye, there is a lot,
and it's a hard pan basically a

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clay beach that was on the bottom
of the lake. So the reality is

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is that the city has been planning
and attempting to acquire additional water since all

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the way back in two thousand and
one two thousand and two when we had

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the human drought. So to say
nothing happened the last twenty years as false.

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But what people have to understand is
that to acquire water supply literally requires

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an Act of Congress, and we
worked for fifteen years and got one Act

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of Congress through which allowed us to
buy one million gallons a day off of

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Copan. So we do have water
on Copan Lake we did not back in

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two thousand and one two thousand two. We do have some water on Copan,

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But to put that in comparison that
one million gallons a day we have

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in a normal day with no outside
watering, we have over four million gallons

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of use. So it took us
fifteen years to get one million gallons a

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day and that was all that was
available on Human. So since that time,

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we've can tendue to work with the
legislature to get the law pass that

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will allow us to purchase some additional
water rights on Copan. We're making progress

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on that, but we're not there. I'd love to make an announcement,

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but we're not there isn't it costly? Is all get out once we start

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doing Copan I here, it's an
outrageous amount of money. And that is

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the other side of this is that
once we do get the water in Copan,

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to build the infrastructure to be able
to bring it by pipeline is expensive.

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And so what we have to do
is we take our water from Copan

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out of the Candy River, or
we're already taking water out of the Candy

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River. So it's not an instant
fix in any by any stretch of the

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imagination. But it is important to
have our water supply diversified. So we

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have we actually have four sources of
water right now. We have Hula Lake,

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we have Copan Lake. Both of
those lakes are relatively close in geography.

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We'd love to have one that was
a lot farther away, but that

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wasn't available. So the state did
what it was called the planning Assistance to

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state back when after we had had
our drought, and at that point in

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time, they told us where we
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didn't ask us where we wanted to
get it. So I've heard, you

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know, conversation about Call Lake or
Grand or revert or whatever. The state

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would not permit that. Now,
perhaps we could ask them to redo it,

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but it was a study that they
did for the entire state and about

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water supply, so those really aren't
options. We certainly have investigated them.

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Our first plan actually was to take
a pipeline to Call Lake. It was

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eighty million dollars twenty years ago,
so you can imagine what that is to

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day. It'd easily be two hundred
million. So we are still working on

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those things. But the rumor that
there has been no planning is false because

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this is the plan. We've been
talking about this since February. That's right,

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this show. This is the plan. The plan is is that as

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water supply contracts, you begin to
implement. First, we did public campaign,

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we asked for voluntary conservation. It
really didn't make any difference, and

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so then you start to move into
restrictions. And our restrictions are relicly moderate.

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I know that some people think that
they're that they're worse than what they

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are. So we're now in stage
four, or sorry, we're now in

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stage three. Stage four will happen
when we go below fifty percent so stage

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three we did have some increases to
the water rates, and I want to

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address a couple of the rumors because
the way we did it was that the

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water rates for block one, block
two, block three, those are how

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we build. So block one is
zero to two thousand, you don't pay

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for that, You pay for it
as part of your annual, your monthly

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feet. So then two thousand to
ten thousand is a different block and it

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gets a different rate. And so
this latest increase means that for our purposes,

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we call it one hundred and five
percent. And so I realized that

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caused some misunderstanding in the public and
people thought that we were going to double

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their water bill. Well it's a
five percent increase, yeah, And so

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we haven't hit on that too hard
because honestly, people being scared about what

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they're going to pay has actually driven
people to reduce their water. We don't

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want there to be a public misunderstanding, but at the same time, we

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want people to take this seriously.
So just for today, I'm going to

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do something that I don't normally do, and we're going to talk about the

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dollar amount of that means for average
people. Let's do that. So if

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you're an average consumer, then you
probably use about six thousand gallons a month.

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That's the north at six thousand gallons
a month. This radio increase that

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we have an effect right now will
cause your monthly bill to go up eighty

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eight cents. So that's the dollar
amounts that we're talking about. If you

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happen to be a large family and
you probably do some outside watering, then

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you might use up to twenty five
thousand gallons a month. This is a

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big, big, heavy water user. For this heaviest of water users,

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they would be paying about an extra
eight dollars a month. So you can

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see that the intent is not to
target that family who uses six thousand.

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The intent was to target those who
were using significant amount of water. Twenty

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five thousands a lot of water.
This is more than showers and normal water

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for a family. So we're really
asking those people to find ways to conserve.

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You know, don't do your outdoor
watering. You still are allowed to

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do it right now. You can
do it once a week, and so

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for an even address, you can
do it on Thursday. For an odd

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address, you can do it on
Friday. So it's not there's no intent.

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One of the rumors is that the
city is seeking to profit. You

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all have screwed up, and so
you're trying to profit. Well, it's

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not true. What we hope is
that by increasing these rates, So for

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that family that uses six thousand gallons, if they manage to decrease their usage

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by a thousand gallons, then they'll
actually pay less than they were even with

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these increases. So our hope,
honestly is to get less money because that

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means that these things are working,
so are voluntary calls for conservation. These

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rate increases mean that people are actually
conservative. So that's the idea, and

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I hope that everyone will take this
seriously. This is not intended to cause

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a panic. That's not it at
all. And the reality is we just

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want people to be cautious and more
observant of the amount of water that they

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use because the supply that we have
right now is the only apply that we

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went. There is no quick way
to fix this. There is no simple

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way to fix this. And we'll
we'll talk some about some of the rumors.

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In fact, Mike and I were
laughing about some of them because we

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have members of our family who who
will ask us, you know, well,

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why don't you say, Okay,
well let's talk. Can I have

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won a rumor? Can I fill
up my own private swimming pool? Well,

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you can, but you have to
pay for it at a higher rate,

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and so that there is no there
is no prohibition on private swimming pools.

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However, you can only fill that
up on your designated day. So

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as part of the outdoor water you
so if you're even, you can do

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it on Thursday. If you're odd, you can do it on Friday.

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And as far as makeup water,
you need to do that on your designated

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day as well. I just want
to be clear. I don't have a

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private fool, but i'd ask you
for folction for those who have for a

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friend, yeah now, because I
don't want anybody just jump into my fancy

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saying well where is it man?
And I would say that people need to

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consider this because as we go to
fifty percent, then there will be a

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ban on all outdoor water US.
At that point in time, technically you

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would not be able to put water
in your pool to bring it back up.

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And so I hope that people are
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that's the exact logic we went through
in discussing sooner in frontier. Not only

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do we want it's not good for
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this low of a water supply.
The other side of that is is that

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if we go to Stage four,
which is likely. Stage four has a

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ban of all outdoor water use,
so at that point in time, we

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would no longer be able to add
water to our pools, and that actually

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will be true for the rest of
the community as well. So unless the

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council amends, I should always preface
everything with that. That's the rules we

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have in place today and they can
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sort of things we're looking at as
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just looking into the future. The
reason that we're doing these things is that,

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yeah, my crystal ball, which
is wrong, by the way,

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I gotta show you it's wrong.
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on information we am So we're expecting
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and with these last few increases it
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and so if that happens, then
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restrictions, which are some of the
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If we continue to use four to
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and there is no rainfall, then
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be where we were back in two
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will have less than what about fifteen
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not inches in some areas already help
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fifteen percent of water supply left,
that is a significant issue. And so

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that's what we're looking at. And
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I can't control the rain, so
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the demand. So that's really what
this is. And we mentioned it earlier,

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but the Sooner Pool and Frontier Pool
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to open those right now. And
what we would target is that as the

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water supply reach seventy percent, if
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we'll open both those pools. And
I'm hopeful that we could do that next

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week. You want to go down
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one of the few that has,
and I would love to do it again.

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It's a lot of fun. So
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that, but until then we're I'm
just asking everybody to pitch in and bear

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with us as we go through this
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and it's always somebody that's got it
just a soreness about them. We have

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those car washes still open, sure
and so and those are some of the

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things that that we're working through internally. So the plan doesn't target anything specifically.

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The plan has general rules, so
it has increased rates for higher water

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use yea. So those car washes
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the water supply declines. At some
point they'll either have to raise their rates

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which will cause people to use the
car wash less often, or water your

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cards on through season fridays except for
once we hit fifty percent, there will

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be no more outdoor water. So
so yes, you're correct, they are

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open. And again we didn't target
any specific business. We didn't target the

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pool supply business and say you can
no longer service anybody's pools either. Good

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this is we have done these rules
based on rates and restrictions that are reasonable

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and apply to everybody. So I
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Obviously, if we hit stage four
that could change things. But for

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right now, yes that they are. They're under the same restrictions as everybody

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else. So quick run through the
rumors, the latest the latest rumors.

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There's always more so fines for water
use. People have misunderstood. There are

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fines. If you're using water outdoors
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date, you can be fined for
that. If you use more than two

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thousand gallons of water, you won't
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The two thousand gallon mark that is
the beginning of Block two and Block

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two it now has a five percent
rate increase, so no fines, but

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you will pay more for water that
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three starts at ten thousand gallons and
goes up twenty five and that is a

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ten percent rate increase, so you'll
pay more for that water. So no

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fines for water use. The rates
are not double. We address that,

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it's a five percent to ten percent
those first two blocks. And we also

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sort of address the city trying to
profit. We're not. In fact,

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I hope that we make less money
because people have used this water. We

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make a lot of money in the
summer, so and discouraging people from using

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outdoor water is the opposite of trying
to make money. We are trying not

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to make money. And then there
are questions that aren't isn't this drought cyclical?

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And the answer is sure. All
droughts are cyclical, just like all

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flooding seasons and all financial cycles.
It's all cyclical. But we don't know

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when the end of this cycle is
so until we know that. If I

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could predict it, then we would
plan just based on what I know.

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But right now we just have to
assume it'll go on for a while.

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So it is cyclical, you know. And it's I've heard it was worse

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than twenty one or worse than two
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they're entirely great. It was a
lot worse back then. We're trying

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to prevent reaching that, so we're
applying the lessons that the city learned during

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that. Oh and the lakes.
We claim the lakes are empty, but

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the rivers are full, and don't
the rivers come from the lakes, And

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that is true, But there is
a law that requires the Core of Engineers

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to release ten million gallons a day
from the two lakes. So right now

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they're releasing about two million gallons a
day from Heula and about eight million gallons

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a day from Copan, so they
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minimum stream flow. So you're right, the river level stays pretty constant,

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but the lakes are still declining,
and that's part of the reason. Are

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those minimum flows water diverted from Cula. This was the new one, and

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I think we talked a little bit
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there had been someone had cut an
irrigation ditch or something in and so it

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was above Hula, and therefore that's
why I went a round. We are

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getting any water, so it's being
diverted. Water pirates, that's a water

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pirates, that's a movie. So
that is not true. We have talked

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to the core of engineers. It's
not true. They're reassured us that it's

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exactly what we thought. It was
a lot of dry ponds, a lot

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of dry bar ditches and when it
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before anything gets to the way.
So those are those are our current rumors.

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There will be more, I'm sure, and we will will continue to

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try to address these things so that
the public is as aware as possible and

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try to deal with misinformation as it
pops up the best of our ability.

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Misinformation moves a lot faster than the
people who are trying to Oh, it

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goes twice around the world before the
truth gets to choose on that's for sure.

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You're right. So with that,
I think that's a pretty good coverage

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of water. I'm sure we'll be
talking about it in two weeks. Hopefully

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in two weeks, what we'll be
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we got up in Cedarville, Kansas, and how we don't have to worry

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about it anymore. But I doubt
it. So we understand Terry Lawrenson is

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every time it is a cloud.
He's running out there in front of the

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city Hall, going go to the
lake and go to the lake. He

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is. It's gotten embarrassing. I
feel like joining him. I think he

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needs our support. It's it's just
not working, though, So it sounds

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like fun. It does sound like
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So all right, well, thank
you, and I We've got just a

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couple of items here to cover,
and I took up most of the time

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as usual, so I'm gonna kick
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just kind of a heads up on
one of the projects that was identified as

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part of our strategic plane and was
approved as part of the budget for this

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year. So you are about to
get really busy, and because you're going

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to take on one of the largest
planning projects that any city can take one,

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which is an update of our comprehensive
land use plan, the whole plan

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that yellow conference beyond that right exactly, so that you know, the conference

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a plan. The last one we
had was creating in nineteen ninety eight,

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so it's it's a little old,
it's a little dated, and and so

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you know that complaint that was in
effect was a complaint that was more generalistic

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whenever it was created, and so
it didn't have a lot of specifics to

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associated. So you know, Lisa
did a really great job, my predecessor,

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in providing a lot of plans for
specific areas, you know, the

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West Side Study, the Parks master
Plan, all those things over the years

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exactly exactly, so we're actually going
to be calling all these plans into one

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document, so that way is a
cohesive conference a plan for the entire city.

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It just helped people understand what a
Comperhence a plan is is that it

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is the plan for the entire city
as we move forward. So it covers

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transportation, it covers parks, quality
of life, development impact, economic development,

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new housing. So a lot of
the stuff that we need to know

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and understand is that when we have
new stuff come into the city, how

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does that impact the city as a
whole. And so the conference plan will

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help help us better understand that and
so, um, you know, it's

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a very exciting time, an opportunity
for everyone to get involved with the within

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the community. There'll be a lot
of public outreach and input that will be

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coming in. So that's what the
public really needs to be aware of is

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there will be ample opportunity for them
to participate in the exactly exactly so you

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know, they'll be online surveys,
there'll be public forums, all those things,

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and so it's a really exciting time. And we started the initial process.

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We've created a draft what's called a
request for Qualifications in URFQ. We

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hope to have that out in mid
June, so that way we start getting

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interests and people summitting their qualifications in
and then there'll be the Planning Commission most

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like it will then review those and
make a recommendation to the city Council on

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who on what consultant we should move
with. But just let everyone know this

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is not going to be done in
a vacuum or anything like that. It's

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also not going to be done a
couple of months. No, no,

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no, this will take about a
year to get done. And so we

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are very excited by that. Staff
is very very excited about this project and

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look forward to moving moving forward.
Well, we're certainly looking forward to it,

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and I know it's going to be
a lot of work and you will

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certainly hear more about that as we
move forward. One I'll take this opportunity

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to talk about it. Also,
it's that time of year for tall grass

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and weeds and stuff like that.
Seen a few that are on the verge,

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Yes they are, Yes they are. So just remind people to be

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out there and be vigilant and making
sure that they motocraps and take care of

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their trash. We have created some
doorhangers and stuff that we'll put on people's

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doors just as a reminder. But
you know, everyone's going to do their

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part. Take care of their grass
and trash. Means a lot to our

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community, absolutely, all right,
Thank you, Larry so Mica, you

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have the biggest part of the program
and you have about six minutes to get

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into it. So we're gonna we're
gonna talk about our next geo bond election,

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and we're not this is not the
only time the listeners will hear about

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it. Will certainly spend a lot
of time educating the public on it.

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But so just to remind everyone,
we have essentially a geo bond program,

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and this is how we accomplish capital
capital improvements large one from parks to streets.

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And so our current authorization that we
received is that twenty twenty twenty,

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so that was the last election that
we had. So we're about to issue

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the last of those bonds, which
means that we're looking at going out for

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another election to continue the progress in
our community. And of course this will

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go out to the public, and
so we're talking about in October tenth election

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date, I think. And so
and as far as next steps, the

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council will the Council has heard these
projects. We believe these are the ones

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that they'll approve at our June meeting. But just a quick caveat that these

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haven't been approved by council and our
subject to change, but in the interest

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of transparency, we wanted to share
these with the public and let them know

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that they'll be considered at the June
meeting. So if they want to provide

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input, they have until then.
Okay, So yeah, that's that's all

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all true. I'll get information.
We first presented this on April third to

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the council is kind of a precursor
to get them thinking about things and so

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they could have some some input at
the next meeting we had to work out

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meeting last Monday on the fifteenth.
Um, it was a long one.

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It also included the you know,
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Well, um, so you're you're
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a target date for them to hopefully
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So um, again, it's not
a tax increase like you said,

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we already already have this in place. It's really just an extension of existing

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really property tax, I guess we
got right now, So tax decrease either,

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to be fair, it is a
continuation of it existing. If it

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went away, it would be a
decrease with the uh So anyway, we're

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looking at four year go bond,
this time at seventeen point six million dollars

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over four years UM. And so
this go around, we're we're placing a

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little bit more emphasis on streets.
UM. The last couple we've actually put

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a higher focus on part I'm gonna
say higher focus but more money part able

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to accomplish some big part of projects
that needed to be done, which was

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a good thing. But we're shifting
gears back to streets. And really that

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came about we just got our payment
condition model updated. I got that information

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just in the nick of time to
just start planning for these That made a

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little bit commer something just getting that
information. But essentially are our overall system

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payment condition is not what we'd like
for it to be. And our our

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backlog, which is anything that's really
considered in poor condition, basically anything under

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it it's a scitale of zero two
hundred. Anything under a twenty five really

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is kind of considered a backlog or
in poor very poor condition. We're about

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twenty one percent right now, which
really we're in that target range. Around

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twenty percent is really where you'd like
to sort of the industry guidelines. Yeah,

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so, but we've been going the
wrong direction we've been going the wrong

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direction, and honestly, without a
little bit more money towards this program,

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that's going to start creeping up.
So, you know, best case scenario,

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if we could maintain that at twenty
one percent, we're looking at almost

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five million dollars a year in street
projects. We've currently got a million dollars

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a year budget in our sales tax
one. We've got another three years on

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that extension before we go to another
election. On that, bute know,

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we're looking to go around and about
twelve and a half million dollars with the

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street projects, I think is at
least where it appears a council will settle

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on this. That's about three point
one two five million dollars a year out

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of GEO bond. If we couple
that with the million dollars a year we

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have in sales tax already, you're
looking at, you know, just over

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four million dollars four streets. So
probably we'll look at ramping that up a

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little. On the sales tax extension
here and coming up and you know two

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years we'll start planning for that as
well. So but anyway, I thought

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i'd hit hit some highlights on the
streets we're looking at Adams Boulevard from Adams

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Road to Bison. That's one of
the larger projects, about one point four

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million it needed. Gray Stone is
kind of another cut through. They're off

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of Adams from Adams Boulevard and Rolling
Meadows at three hundred thousand dollars for that

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concrete panel rehab. Another one west
side of town Loopa, and really it's

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not just Loupa, but it's Loopa
from Sunset to Johnstone. There's one gap

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in there that's not included in that
that's already been done. But uh but

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but the side three see there as
well. We've got about one point almost

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one point million dollars planned for that
project. And kind of way we looked

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at these street projects this go around
is not just individual segments. We tried

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to lump it into zones or areas
at raw sort of each other. Yeah,

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geographic areas, and so it's kind
of a little bit hard to explain

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some of these street projects. But
Michigan is another good one. For five

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hundred fifty thousand from Queen Sound at
Elmhurst. We did have some equipment to

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replace technology and police vehicles as well. About just under four hundred thousand for

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that a new fire station. It's
the station number two. This is at

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Virginian and Hensley. It's in nineteen
fifty building. It's really inadequate both on

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space and the structure itself and some
structural issues there. So we're looking at

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replacing that on site potentially. And
now we do got some parts projects to

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get about one point two million dollars
four to Adams Golf Court Green's rebuilt to

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supplement somend thousand. We already have
to do the full eighteen holes and then

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always some money in there for pathfinder
repaving, security lighting at parts, some

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of the highlights there. So really
excited about this and you will you'll see

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a lot more information coming out and
feel like we do it pretty a job

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of advertising this and we're going out
and hitting streets with it. So Mikey,

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you mentioned parts of Adams. Why
can't we just toot the whole?

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Well, we don't own most of
the section that we own. Is this

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is this is literally all of Adams
that we own, right, that's it

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a little bit of a bit of
Adams we own. We're gonna fix it

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right all right. Well, hopefully
everybody will stay tuned in and follow their

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city news so that we can all
stay up to date on jail bond and water