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Good morning, good morning, good
morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome.

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It's type of city matters. If
it matters to you, it matters to

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the city. And we have ourselves
with your assistant city manager Tracy Rolls and

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company, and I mean in company. If we did the roll call,

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we'd be here all day. How
are we doing? There? Is there

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we would? You know, we
don't know how many it's going to take

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to get through this, but we
don't how many. We're gonna bring it

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every time, every time. That's
right. We brought the big guns out

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today, actual water and projects and
golf, and I mean that pretty much

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encompasses about everything close to everything that
we do, pretty much. Yeah,

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before I turned over these guys,
welcome back. Last time we were here,

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you were on a hiatus, so
we didn't get to harass you or

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visit with you, or whichever way
you want to put that. I missed

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you too. Yeah, it was
good. So just to get my part

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out of the way before I turned
over to the experts here talk about we're

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going through the application process for Ward
four. Have until May third, at

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eleven thirty am to submit your resume
or letter of interest to Elaine Baines for

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that ward seat until the end of
the term, which will be in November,

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so you will get appointed until November
and then if you want to keep

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that position, obviously you have to
go through the election process. But to

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be eligible, you have to be
a resident of Ward four for the at

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least six months prior to the appointment, no felony convictions, be at least

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twenty five years old, and hold
no other position in city government by appointment

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or public office which would constitute a
conflict of interest. So send those resumes

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letter of interest to Miss Baines in
City Hall or give her a call and

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she can guide whoever is whomever may
be interested through that process. Also,

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one thing we talked about appointments,
we have a retirement coming up Debbie Nice.

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Her last day will be April the
twenty sixth after eighteen years at the

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History Museum as the collections manager,
so that those will be big shoes to

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fill. So anybody who's interested in
that position go online and apply for that

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position as well. We have our
free yard debris collection coming up May the

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sixth through the tent leaves, grass, lawn clippings, limbs and branches no

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more than four feet long, or
fifty pounds. Let's put those on the

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curb and we'll get those picked up
for you. The fire chief interview process

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is moving along. Hopefully we'll have
a new fire chief named in the very

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near future. Big shoes to fill
with Chief Topping retiring. A lot of

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people are retiring, Yeah, Chief
Debbie, yep, so pro will be

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leaving within the year or so Rocky, like you said, so at a

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lot of people twenty eight years from
now. So it's funny. At my

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house, we have a we have
a list on our refrigerator of graduation years

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of the kids and then we put
my graduation year and it's like never The

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kids think it's pretty funny because they
already think I'm so old, you know,

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I just work to you di other
things that we have going on we

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have we talked about the library director, Shelley McGill is retiring soon. So

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we are actively taking applications for the
library director and various other jobs. So

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anyone interested in a job with the
city joining a wonderful team of such such

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a great team at the city.
There are many opportunities for people. Just

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to go online to the City of
Bartlesville website and there's a job on there

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that fits a person's desires. We
encourage you to apply. The only other

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thing is something new that we have
is the my Bartlesville app. You can

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go to your app store, whether
it be the Apple, Apple or Android

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whichever, whichever one of those you
choose, and sign up for that app.

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It's really cool. It's he talks
about you can you can read about

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what's going on in the city.
You can report things like potholes or water

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leaks, or kids riding their bikes
and areas they shouldn't be, or adults

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riding their bikes in areas they shouldn't. You can apply for jobs. You

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can pay pay your utility bills online. But that's the my Bartlesville app.

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It's a really cool app, pretty
new. A lot of a lot of

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people did a lot of good work
putting this app together. Does it have

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a Hey Bailey button? You could, Yeah, and then it goes right

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to mister Bailey and and you know
that's that's always fun to directly do his

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cell phone, maybe even direct you
to his home address where you can just

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show up virtually at his doorstep.
I think that would be a great thing.

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I mean, I don't see a
problem with it, and you guys

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probably shouldn't say that. I can
say that since I'm on my way out,

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he can't really you know, take
advantage of firing me or anything.

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But you guys would probably should You
should stay new You guys definitely stay there.

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So a lot going on, a
lot of opportunities with this within the

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city in various ways. We have
some boards and commission openings obviously, uh

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that if you're someone who is interested
in that, please apply. If you

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want to be a city council person
and you live in more foreign there's opportunities

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there. So just a lot of
a lot of good stuff going on in

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the city, and these guys are
going to talk about some more exciting things

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that are going on. So Jerry
Benedict our golf pro, longtime golf pro,

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very popular around the state, very
well known around the state and the

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golf world. And we're so lucky
to have had Jerry and his services for

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so many years. But he's going
to talk to you guys a little bit

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about what's going on at the golf
course. A lot going on at the

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golf course. Our associations have started
a senior association, which is one hundred

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and fifty strong and they play about
one hundred people every Tuesday. The Ladies'

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Association has started and it's going really
good. We've got tournaments lined up,

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including our Memorial tournament on Memorial Day
to raise money for the golf course and

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it's going to be for things like
new white sand and the bunkers and stuff

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like that. So it always goes
well. But we have a lady's clinic

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on May sixth and eighth. I'd
like the ladies to know it's a free

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clinic. It's at one o'clock,
so come. We don't need clubs,

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you don't need shoes. You can
just come out and we're going to help

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you get started playing golf. And
some of the ladies will be there too,

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So put that on your ladies.
Put that on your deal if you're

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interested in playing. The junior program's
coming up. That's June three, four

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and five, the Ladies or the
Junior Clinic. It's free clinic, same

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thing there. You don't have to
have clubs if you want to come.

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Get the kids started and it's a
good program. And then the week after

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that is the Junior Camp, which
is more instruction getting them, getting them

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going three days, so a lot
going on there. We have some construction

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getting ready to d so this is
a big year this year. It's going

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to be at the end of this
year and the city is going to build

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new greens for us. They're gonna
core them out down to the down to

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the drainage and put brand new greens
in with a new type of bent grass.

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We can't really use Bermuda grass up
here. It's right on the border

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of Bermuda. Yeah, so we
got a pretty pretty tough program going for

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twenty twenty five. What will happen
is December, January, February, March

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they'll rebuild the greens and then April. We can't do it in the we

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can't plant them in the winter,
but in April we will plant the greens.

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We'll have temporary greens. The members
are being very patient with us,

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but it's something that really has to
be done. And I'm very appreciative of

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what's your name, Tracy, Just
kidding. Tracy and Mike have had great

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help to get this thing going and
do this and a lot of other things

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they've both done. Micah seemers to
help improve the golf course, which is

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really needed and the city has recognized
the importance of the golf course. So

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much money is raised for so many
causes out there. So we're very excited

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about this deal coming up. I'm
going to try to get the hell out

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of here before it starts, but
it won't be much business about anyway.

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I want to also recognize a Lion
Foundation for all the things they've done for

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so many years. But they are
contributing to this rebuild program, so I

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thank them so much. Recognize them
for all the work they've done for so

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many years for me and the city. Anyway, that's a golf course,

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all right. It's gonna be a
good one. A lot going on out

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there, a lot of tournaments,
a lot of opportunities to learn the game,

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to play, to play the game. The courses has come a long

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way and there's a long way to
go, and very excited about what that

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course is going to be like this
time next year. I'm so I'm so

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honored and so appreciative of what the
city has done for me for so many

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years. To put up with me
and everything has been something I'll tell you,

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Adams is my backyard and everything.
It has just been a wonderful career

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for me. We appreciate I couldn't
play good enough washing carts and cleaning toddy.

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Well, thank you. So now
we'll move on to MICA. A

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lot of projects going on, a
lot of things happening, and a lot

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of things happening, and we're you
know, we're right there. Actually just

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a busy time of year for really
all of us as directors, but for

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sure they're up and there in the
engineering department because it's a it's a budget

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time. So we just actually last
I guess this last Monday, had our

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workshop meeting with City Council, presented
the initial presentation of a staff proposed budget,

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both for just the operating budget and
also for the capital budget as well.

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And so all this is is kind
of fresh on our mind with all

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that we've got a whole lot of
projects coming up and a whole lot of

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products that we've been working on that
we're we're carrying over some addition some funding

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for him to to continue those on
and get those designed and constructed. So

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I thought, what I do today
is talk about a little bit about the

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ones we've got coming up ready to
bid pretty close and for construction. So

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we don't have a whole lot in
construction right now. We do have the

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Veterans in the World ongoing right now. They're at the Frontier Pool. We

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started that project about two weeks ago, broke ground on it then. You

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know, we haven't let the cat
out of the bag on this yet,

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but we do have some some private
funding involved with that. Some donor funding

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made that project possible. But essentially
we're going to construct a memorial there for

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veterans that it actually is Veterans Park
where Frontier Pool is located, and so

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it's going to be there on the
north side of the pool. We'll do

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some new parking there, we'll install
some flags, some landscaping, a little

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bit of a i'd call it kind
of a plaza area sidewalk, but it's

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more of like a continuous concrete plaza
area there. So we're working on that

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project right now. Should get that
wrapped up. We're hoping to get it

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wrapped up by Memorial Day weekend.
I think I think that we can attain

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that goal. That would be nice, you know, Veterans Memorial Day weekend,

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whatnot. If we can't get it
completed by then, we'll at least

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for sure have it done by fourth
of July. But the goal is by

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Memorial Day weekend that we should have
that wrapped up. So we got that

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one ongoing. We've got the Crestling
concrete rehabilitation project that's ongoing right now.

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We're getting close to wrapping that up. We probably have another month month and

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a half on that project. Essentially, this is a concrete panel rehab from

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from Adams Boulevard to Baylor Drive on
Crestlin. It also included a leg of

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Baylor Place that kind of makes a
loop that connects between Baylor and in Crestlin

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as well. So just replacing concrete
panels there, doing some sidewalkworks, some

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handicapped ramps, things of that nature. Uh So we got that one under

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construction right now as well. We've
got the pickleball courts that are construction.

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Now. That's a popular one.
Tom's over there giving the old fist bump.

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He's ready to go out there and
got pickles. Cheir it up on

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the pickleball court. I think so. I know Terry is too. Terry

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is a big pickleballer. Right.
Card cour we played once one time.

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We're undefeated, but we dominated.
Yeah, we dominated. I think it's

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a good time if you retire.
Now you retire as some sort of chance.

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Now we're undefeated, undefeated, never
lost tennis too. Yeah, yeah,

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get them off to the tennis court. That's true. We've got that

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project. We've got six pickleball courts
we're constructing. They will be lighted.

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So that was kind of a moving
target there for a while. The way

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that project was bid, we we
bid it as a base bid of six

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courts with with the fencing and benches
and whatnot for people to sit on,

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and then we had some bid alternates
for lighting for two additional courts, uh,

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some shade structures, things of that
nature. But we're able to fully

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fund the base bid. We had
a little bit of money left over.

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But we've also there again kind of
a plugged the line foundation. They're going

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to participate to help us fully fund
the delighting portion of it. Might get

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some money from Parsons and some other
private donors as well, So working on

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that. We've got that included in
the contract. So it will be lighted

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so that wintertime hours they can they
can play into the night, and then

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summer hopefully when it's super hot out
we can get some some evening play and

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just extend play for for better times
for those players. So there's really no

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other public pickleball courts in this region
U immediately around Barnsville, so this will

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be nice provide some more usage.
I think right now people are using there's

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some churches that allow them some time
on their facilities. I think you know

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the Country Club. I believe they've
got some play out there and they hold

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some tournaments and whatnot. But this
will be the first first public courts in

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our area, so looking forward to
that, and that's gonna be at Sooner

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Park. It will be adjacent to
the tennis courts that are well south of

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the fire station, north of the
tennis courts there at Center Park. So

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they're they're moving along in that.
The courts have been poored essentially, fences

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have been installed. We're waiting on
some work on the lighting, and then

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we've got to do the surface treatment
on those as well. They'll have a

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nice Bartlesviill Brewing themed surface treatment using
some Navy blues and Carolina blues and or

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Columbia blues and and some grays and
whatnot. So she looked pretty sharp when

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it's done, and we anticipate that
being wrapped up here probably in the next

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month. I think they've been moving
pretty quick on that, So if we

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can get all the lighting components in
and whatnot, we're looking in the next

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month probably getting that project wrapped up. So some projects that we've got on

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the books that should be coming out
pretty soon. We've got a large Pathfinder

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project. We've got about seven hundred
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either are actually some older funds that
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We've been working on designing that for
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kind of got high centered on some
things. We're getting that knocked out now.

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We got the Steve Roper, one
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that off a high center for us. So we actually have a bit opening

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on that on May twenty second.
We should hopefully award that contract June third,

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assuming it all goes well. So
this has got some sections over by

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I guess you'd call it the oh
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the Hillcrest Heights area, Polaris trailhead. We got some work around that area.

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We've got some work around Robinwood Park
on the section of that that runs

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through the I guess it's a bird
sanctuary, is it the I think it's

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a bird sanctuary that they got through
there on at Robinwood Park. Some work

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there about a high school a not
section of trail. We've got a large

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storm through a walkout on hadn't washed
out completely, but it's on its way,

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so we're gonna get that addressed.
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there by the high school, and
so some other sections as well. I

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think we've got the section over there
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Boulevard. We've got some some issues
with some some roots from trees damaging trail

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and whatnot through there. So we've
got a lot of sections included in this

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project kind of covers a lot of
the town. We also in that project

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are going to do the trail at
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at Douglas Park that makes a loop
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include that as well. Got some
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so that'll be a good project.
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third. Got seven hundred and eight
thousand dollars Planning for that project. We've

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also got a large parking lot project
for parks, parking parking lots and access

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roads into Johnstone Park Center Park.
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there for parking lot lyon park things
of that nature. So essentially we've got

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a whole series of gravel parking lots
that it has served us well. You

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know, that was kind of what
did back in the day as if we

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needed something, we went in there
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access to people. But we're trying
to clean that up, make it a

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little bit more, give it a
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and so we've got just about one
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our park parking lots as well.
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we're getting ready to bid that project
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sometime, gonna get path Finder bid
and then we'll we'll advertise bids for the

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parking lots and so you'll probably see
construction starting that later this summer early fall,

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and that'll be a big enough project
that'll probably go into next year.

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We've got some coordination issues as far
as working around Fantasy Land of Lights at

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Johnstone Park, and we've got Sunset
or SunFest at Sooner Parks. We're gonna

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hold off until after SunFest, get
that bid and then hopefully get everything done

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before that rolls around in the next
year. So that'll be a good project

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for us, one that a lot
of people won't see. But we do

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have a large project for some city
Hall renovations. We've got some lighting and

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energy efficiency upgrades, replacing windows that
are they're currently single pane windows, not

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very energy efficient, though it was
nice having operab windows. Windows when we're

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working on our HVAC project, I
want it got so hot in there.

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But replacing the windows at City Hall, the carpet in some areas where we

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haven't replaced carpet yet, and then
we're going to do a complete remodel of

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the restrooms because they're really outdated.
I think they're probably nineteen sixty. When

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was that remodel the Peace sixties or
they're probably in the sixties. I think

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in the sixties was the last time
those those restrooms were updated. So there

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they're due. And then we've also
got a security upgrade. You know,

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with the state of the world,
these days, we're looking at protection of

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city staff and whatnot, so we'll
do some controlled access still open up to

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the public, get access for the
public, but a little bit of extra

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provisions for safety for city staff at
City Hall. So we've got that project.

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Plans are complete on that, just
got to get those reviewed and then

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get that ready to bid. So
we'll probably start construction. That most likely

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be about this fall and we start
construction on that project. I know this

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is a big one for everybody as
far as they're aware of it, but

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the Tuxedo Bridges and the Sunset Bridge
project, we've had Tuxedo Neck down to

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one lane westbound for over a year
now, so we've had that going for

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a while. We're working on design. I think that's the kind of running

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joke right now is bats and muscles. So we're still working around some protected

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species of bats and muscles that are
in the river. And so we're working

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through that right now with our environmental
engineer on the project. And I still

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hope you eat that project bid later
this summer, start construction when we can

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get in there and do the study
for the muscles when there's low water conditions

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in the river. So summertime on
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get past I believe it's September fifteenth. I believe maybe September first. For

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the bats, we're going to start
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So essential way that works is April
April fifteenth to September first. There's a

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period of time there that if you're
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you got to be aware of and
careful of bats and not disturbing them.

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So we're gonna try to avoid that
time of year by just getting past that

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time. So again we'll see that
product bid this summer and construction start later

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this fall and go on that.
So there again, so we talked that

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we're in budget time. So the
budget that we presented to council included a

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carryover project we call carryover projects from
various different funds. We've got about five

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General Obligation bond funds that we're trying
to wrap up funding from those. We've

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also got the Capital Reserve fund,
and we've got the Sales Tax fund,

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so we gain a lot of these
projects that I'm talking about now are some

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of those carryover projects. We already
had those plan that were already approved,

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but we've also got new projects primarily
from again capital Reserve Fund and a halfset

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sales tax fund our two main funding
sources for those. We don't really have

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any new bond funds I could call
the twenty twenty three bond new projects,

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who really didn't get that money until
I guess it's in December, so they

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really weren't part of the budget approval
process last year. So this is really

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the first time that the council's kind
of seeing those projects pop up. But

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they truly our carryover because we did
get that funding halfway through the year.

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We've already started shipping away at some
of that. But so we've got about

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four point seven million dollars available for
new projects and the sales tax fund.

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Sales tax has been doing well.
We had originally planned for about two point

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seven two point eight million dollars a
year in sales tax projects. We've been

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getting little bit more than that each
year, and so that's now we're on

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year four of five on that five
year sales tax extension, and so that

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money has been building up somewhat.
We've had about four point six million dollars

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worth of carryover projects. That's projects
that are already on the books, like

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those pathfinder projects, some of the
bridge project street projects, the lines share

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that carry over those from we're prevented
maintenance street projects. People might citizens might

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recall that we were working on updating
our payment condition model over a period of

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time, and we just actually got
that wrapped up this last year, and

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we've got a whole list of projects. We've got actually two point eight million

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dollars worth of projects the Street and
Traffic Committee had identified for use of those

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funds last year, so we'll get
council approval on those projects at the coming

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meeting in May when we get the
Capitol budget hopefully approved. We've also got

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one million dollars in new funding for
print of vani At street projects for this

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year. That was planned for year
four or five with that sales tax extension,

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so a lot of money that'll be
wrapped up in streets as part of

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that. And then again those pathfinder
projects were part of that. And we've

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also got eight hundred thousand dollars for
downtown landscape improvements, which was a big

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ticket item as far as those Carver
projects, we just got money for that

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last year, got to get designed
going on that you'll likely see design happening

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here in twenty twenty four, hopefully
get a twenty twenty five construction on that

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project in the downtown area. So
again, about four point seven million dollars

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worth of new project that we're planning
that we're proposing this year. We'll see

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if council approves. I think it
went well at the workshop meeting. We

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have a council not a whole lot
of questions or concerns about the projects we'd

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recommend, and so I should hope
to see all those approved at the main

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meeting. And with that, I
think I've probably about kicked this dead horse

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on projects. It's amazing what you
do. I tell you, what really

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is so much, so much activity
going on. I mean, it's it's

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it's something every single day, and
it's that's That's one of the things that

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I think is so great about this
community is it's it's so innovative and forward

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thinking and there's always something going on
to improve the quality of life, whether

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it be through pickleball, or streets
or parks or or just quality of life

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things. There's so many things that
are going on. So you guys are

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doing amazing work, and you guys
for a very small engineering department, You

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guys kind of stay a little bit
busy. Yeah, and I'm excited where

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there's a we're got potentially going to
get a position. I knew a new

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position for us, so that'd be
that'd be handy. If I can get

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Terry Lordson back in there, that's
right, well, stuff out, that'd

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be great. Keep talking. I'm
trying to get him to just take my

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spot and then I can. Depending
on how the summer goes, that might

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not be a hard sale for you. So we'll let them go ahead and

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talk about what do we pray for? No rain? I mean, that's

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up to you. Should I pray? Well's let's start out about water supply.

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Since we had that smooth transition there
to that, so water supply we

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are in very good shape for this
time of year. Really, all the

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lakes are pretty much normal, except
Copin is still a little bit low,

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but that's our smallest war supply,
so from an overall perspective, we're very

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good. But we have started our
flushing operations here within the last week and

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a half or so, so this
is where we flush our fire hydrants.

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We do that for two main reasons. The first one is to test the

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hydrants make sure they're all in good
operation, because we don't want to find

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out that a hydrant is broke when
they need to put out a fire.

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So that's we do that annually on
all the sixteen hundred fire hydrants that we

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have within the city of Barlsville.
And the other thing that we use with

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that flushing is just to kind of
trust the system a little bit, to

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ensure that it's flowing and it's performing
as far as pressures and conveyance the way

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that it needs to. So it's
kind of a twofold as far as to

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test a hydrance and then just make
sure that the system is flowing and it's

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providing the volumes and pressures that we
need in all of our system, but

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primarily for these firefighting applications through there. So that will continue really for the

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next month and a half or so. It's typically about a six to eight

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week program that we use to flush
all the hydrants. We're currently in the

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southern and eastern downtown areas is where
the operations are currently. After we're finished

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with that, we will move to
the east side of town and start flushing

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all through there, and then we
finish up on the very west end of

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town and Circle Mountain to conclude those
activities. So more of the normal operating

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procedures for us at this time of
year, so we're thankful for that.

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With water supply being in good shape, so we pray for a typical spring

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and normal precipitation for spring and that
will really help boister us for the rest

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of the year and on to the
future. There we'll talk a little bit

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about wastewater, because water wastewater certainly, you know, you always think of

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those two in the same breath,
right, Micah. That's a good thing

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they're taping this because you had provided
amountain of information. That's my head was

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hurting with all the information that you
conveyed through there. Tom's got that photographic

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memory, so he could probably just
spit it off and all the highlights that

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go with it there. But wastewater, we have had a couple of council

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actions here within the last couple of
months really regarding the financing piece of it.

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So as we are preparing ourselves for
the investment our wastewater treatment plan expansion,

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we estimate that cost is going to
be around eighty three million dollars and

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we are looking to finance that through
low interest loans that's available through the Oklahoma

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Water Resources Board. So we have
taken a couple of items through Council to

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get our application and the environmental document
approved by Council and submitted to the ODWRB

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so that they can consider our application
and then finalize the financing rates for those

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improvements. So we won't need that
money until twenty twenty six, is when

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construction is anticipated, but at least
this gets those rates locked in now while

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interest rates are decent, and if
they go down then we're able to reapply

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at the time of construction. If
they go up, then we're just in

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a better position to move forward with
it. So the good news is that

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if construction comes in at the eighty
three million dollars, we won't have to

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raise rates as far as sewer rates
to repay that debt. We have the

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current rate structure that's sufficient for that, but we'll have to find out once

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we get construction underway in twenty twenty
six. So with that, that's where

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we're at. Very good