Speaker 1: All right, good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: Computers are great when computers working. It's all I got
Speaker 1: to say about that right now. But anyway, it is
Speaker 1: time for city matters. So if it matters to you,
Speaker 1: it matters to the city. We've got some people who
Speaker 1: know a lot of words, and we're gonna let them
Speaker 1: do a lot of talking here today, right here on
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Speaker 1: with our little computer, you'll be able to see the
Speaker 1: bright shiny faces all set and ready to go right
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Speaker 1: here with city manager Mike Bailey. Mike, what you got
Speaker 1: cooking there? Brother?
Speaker 2: Tom? Good morning.
Speaker 3: We got to start out though, first by asking is
Speaker 3: it the computer or is it the person running it?
Speaker 2: A little bit both. I'll just tell you it's a
Speaker 2: little bit of both. I like how you blame computer,
Speaker 2: but I'm suspicious.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, you have every right in the world
Speaker 1: to be suspicious. You know, I'm not really the kind
Speaker 1: of guy that threw was people under the bus, but automation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, clearly I am, because I just threw you right
Speaker 2: under it. I thought you, I thought your listeners would
Speaker 2: be curious about.
Speaker 1: No, no, we're all good. We're all good. So big,
Speaker 1: big doings. We had a long, long, long city the
Speaker 1: other night.
Speaker 3: Had a lot of items of substance and so, but
Speaker 3: it was interesting. A lot of these, a lot of
Speaker 3: what we were doing had to do with the Bartlesfield
Speaker 3: Next Plan, which is great because that's something that we
Speaker 3: have been working towards.
Speaker 2: Uh, certain tasks associated.
Speaker 1: With Is that the one that Larry's making, like Bartlesfield
Speaker 1: Now Plan?
Speaker 3: Actually, yeah, yeah, that's right, plan within the plan.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's right, Planner's plan.
Speaker 3: And so the Bartlesfield Next Plan identified several items of
Speaker 3: of priority in our city, sure, and in fact it
Speaker 3: created a completely new category of things for us to do,
Speaker 3: including well specifically, it was referred to as emerging issues,
Speaker 3: and so these were things that cities had not traditionally
Speaker 3: been engaged in, at least Bartlesvield not.
Speaker 2: Traditionally been engaged in.
Speaker 3: And one of those at the top of those merging
Speaker 3: issues were childcare. That is our community. We have great
Speaker 3: childcare facilities, we have great centers, we have great in
Speaker 3: home centers, but there does seem to be a shortage
Speaker 3: in capacity, and so I have now served on two
Speaker 3: different committees that were looking at this. Neither of those
Speaker 3: were city committees. One of them was actually facilitated by
Speaker 3: Bartlesville Regional United Way and the Bartlesville Regional Chamber of Commerce,
Speaker 3: and that committee was primarily focused on the centers and
Speaker 3: on state regulations over childcare centers and.
Speaker 2: Things of that nature.
Speaker 3: So we spent a lot of time working on that,
Speaker 3: working through the state, trying to improve things there. The
Speaker 3: current committee is actually it's being led by the Barswoo
Speaker 3: Community Foundation of Lord Jensen, and it is focused more
Speaker 3: on the in home centers, and so we've had a
Speaker 3: lot of representatives from home child care centers, and during
Speaker 3: some of our discussions, for the first time, I realized
Speaker 3: that some of our city regulations were part of the issue,
Speaker 3: were part of the barriers for those in home centers.
Speaker 3: So we had some really great discussions about that. We
Speaker 3: decided we tried to determine what it was that we
Speaker 3: could do to help with that. So I actually took
Speaker 3: that back to the city, handed it off to Larry
Speaker 3: who's here with me, and we reviewed our regulations in
Speaker 3: anywhere where we were more.
Speaker 2: Restrictive than the state.
Speaker 3: We basically pulled those back and so that went to
Speaker 3: the Planning Commission, and then last Monday it went to
Speaker 3: the City Council. The City council adopted that, so those
Speaker 3: changes went into effect immediately, and like I said, essentially
Speaker 3: what it is is we did not want to be
Speaker 3: any more restrictive than the state, especially when the City
Speaker 3: of Artlesville is participating and advocating for child care centers
Speaker 3: and trying to loosen some of the regulations to make
Speaker 3: it easier for our childcare centers. So we certainly didn't
Speaker 3: want to be didn't want to be the barrier after that.
Speaker 2: So we've done a good job with that.
Speaker 3: I think our process is now much simpler and easier
Speaker 3: and should benefit those in home centers. They're under very
Speaker 3: strict regulation for the state of Oklahoma, and we did
Speaker 3: not believe that we needed to be another layer in that.
Speaker 2: So that was passed. The council passed it on Monday.
Speaker 3: I think it went into effect upon publication, which would
Speaker 3: have been last week.
Speaker 2: So those are that's now law.
Speaker 3: One of the other items that was identified in the
Speaker 3: Barlsfield Next Plan was the rise in our unsheltered homeless population,
Speaker 3: and so this is when we did the next plan.
Speaker 3: We did a lot of public input. We had citizens
Speaker 3: oh we had actually citizen forums where city staff wasn't
Speaker 3: even present, So we had a facilitator who went and
Speaker 3: facilitated that without any of us, so that they didn't
Speaker 3: feel they didn't feel any pressure by city staff, that
Speaker 3: they could speak completely openly and honestly.
Speaker 2: So he facilitated those meetings.
Speaker 3: We had surveys, we had meetings with major employers, we
Speaker 3: had meetings with small businesses, we had meetings with economic
Speaker 3: development partners. So we spent a lot of time gathering
Speaker 3: input and this was one of the items that rose
Speaker 3: to the top as far as being a non traditional
Speaker 3: city concern, but at the same time was obviously a
Speaker 3: barrier to our community, or at least it was viewed
Speaker 3: by many people as a barrier.
Speaker 2: To our community.
Speaker 3: So after going through the Bartlesfield Next Plan, really all
Speaker 3: it was was let's begin to study this problem and
Speaker 3: try to determine if the city has a role, because again,
Speaker 3: this is not something the city has ever dabbled into
Speaker 3: the past. So council Member Quinn Shipper has actually had
Speaker 3: some experience.
Speaker 2: With this in a previous community.
Speaker 3: He was on the nonprofit side of it, and so
Speaker 3: he and I worked together to put together a resolution
Speaker 3: that started the process to form a task force. And specifically,
Speaker 3: the task force is not it hasn't been created yet.
Speaker 3: This what the council did last week was simply to
Speaker 3: start the process to create the task force. In November,
Speaker 3: the Council will actually seat the or not seat the
Speaker 3: task force. The Council will create it, and at that
Speaker 3: point in time it will determine exactly what types of
Speaker 3: representatives there will be. There was some fairly broad, regular
Speaker 3: broad suggestions within the resolution itself, and in particular it
Speaker 3: talked about that it would be mental health professionals, it
Speaker 3: would be health professionals, it would be nonprofits, it would
Speaker 3: be made up of people who had experienced homelessness. So
Speaker 3: there was a lot of There was a lot of
Speaker 3: different type of diverse members for the task force. So
Speaker 3: we expect to create that in November. At that time
Speaker 3: we'll begin to take applications. We've already received a lot
Speaker 3: of interest. I think I've been contacted by three three
Speaker 3: nonprofits so far who had an interest in serving on this,
Speaker 3: and all of them were served the homeless population in
Speaker 3: some way, shape or form. So we will start to
Speaker 3: see that that will form up officially in November, and
Speaker 3: then I would expect that it would be seeded somewhere
Speaker 3: in December or January, depending on how long it takes
Speaker 3: to get all the applications in and how.
Speaker 2: Much interest there is.
Speaker 3: Once they're seated, then they have six months essentially to
Speaker 3: begin working on certain goals. And they are the goals
Speaker 3: that they're listed in here, which are important, but then
Speaker 3: there's also the types of solutions that they should be
Speaker 3: seeking that was listed and specifically, reading directly from the resolution,
Speaker 3: it says that through collaboration with local agencies. So I
Speaker 3: think that's important that the city, this is not something
Speaker 3: we can own. We want to collaborate with others to
Speaker 3: see what our role is and how we can help.
Speaker 3: So through collaboration with local agencies, these seek solutions that
Speaker 3: are balanced, compassionate, evidence based, and fiscally responsible, with a
Speaker 3: focus on improving outcomes for both the unsheltered population and
Speaker 3: the broader community. So the goals that they're seeking, So
Speaker 3: that's the types of solutions, but specifically what they're trying
Speaker 3: to accomplish is the primary goal is a reduction in
Speaker 3: the unsheltered population in Barlsville and through there's a lot
Speaker 3: of methods there. Obviously, the hope is is that you
Speaker 3: begin to move people from that situation of unsheltered into
Speaker 3: something something that's safer and better for them as well.
Speaker 3: Secondary goals were to reduce vandalism, littering, and other illegal acts. Unfortunately,
Speaker 3: a lot of a lot we're seeing a lot of vandalism,
Speaker 3: a lot of littering in our parks that are associated
Speaker 3: with the unsheltered homeless. So we want to begin to
Speaker 3: reduce that. We're hearing from the public that they're concerned
Speaker 3: about using our public spaces because they are they don't
Speaker 3: feel safe. Now, we don't have really any reportable crimes
Speaker 3: against but it's perception, and so perception to our public
Speaker 3: matters they and so they are saying that they're using
Speaker 3: our spaces less often than they did before, and that's
Speaker 3: too bad, that's not acceptable. That is, we want to
Speaker 3: ensure that people feel safe in our public spaces. So
Speaker 3: the final well, the two other goals address public health
Speaker 3: concerns while improving conditions for unsheltered individuals. So again a
Speaker 3: focus on both the community and on the unsheltered homeless,
Speaker 3: and then the final goal was to determine the value
Speaker 3: of an ongoing committee. Since this task force is only
Speaker 3: going to be in existence for six months, then we
Speaker 3: have to determine how to proceed after that.
Speaker 2: Does the city have a role, do they not have
Speaker 2: a role?
Speaker 3: Is there a coalition of nonprofits that are much better
Speaker 3: suited to this and that want to step up. So
Speaker 3: we haven't really decided what our role is, and I
Speaker 3: think that's appropriate that we approach this cautiously because we
Speaker 3: are we have limited resources just like everyone else. We
Speaker 3: don't have a lot of funds just sitting around waiting
Speaker 3: to be applied to something. So when counsel if they
Speaker 3: choose to allocate resources to homelessness, they will be taking
Speaker 3: away from something else. And so that's always important that
Speaker 3: we'd be fiscally responsible, we'd be aware of what those
Speaker 3: allocations actually cost us. So that will be that will
Speaker 3: definitely be developing here over the next little while.
Speaker 2: Look forward to that.
Speaker 3: I always look forward to actually planning and being part
Speaker 3: of collaborative solutions. As we saw with childcare, we can
Speaker 3: have a role, sometimes it's unexpected role, and that instance,
Speaker 3: our role was is we need to reduce our regulations
Speaker 3: and get out of the way, and so hopefully something
Speaker 3: like that will develop. With homelessness, I think it's a
Speaker 3: more complex issue. It's probably the most complex issue in
Speaker 3: our community today. So we certainly are looking forward to
Speaker 3: hearing from those who do know how to handle this situation.
Speaker 3: So but that look for more on that quick update
Speaker 3: on the golf course, because Laura is actually going to
Speaker 3: come in towards the end of the month and she'll
Speaker 3: give a much bigger update on this. But if I
Speaker 3: can't find her, I know where she is.
Speaker 2: And it's the same for Jason and the family. Just
Speaker 2: draves the car out there.
Speaker 3: Mom, where are you? So we know that the course
Speaker 3: is closing on November first, Our contractor actually would like
Speaker 3: to start a few days earlier than that, so we
Speaker 3: gave them permission to begin stockpiling materials. But the course
Speaker 3: will be open all the way through October, but November first,
Speaker 3: it will be closed until it will be spring early
Speaker 3: summer next year, depending on the growing of the green.
Speaker 3: So in addition to that, the council heard a presentation
Speaker 3: from a consultant that we hired named j. J. Keegan,
Speaker 3: who is an expert in golf courses, and he made
Speaker 3: a lot of recommendations, but I'll just highlight a couple
Speaker 3: of them because, as I said, Laura will talk more
Speaker 3: about this in the future. But one of them, and
Speaker 3: I think it was one of the most important decisions,
Speaker 3: was is that the city will self manage the golf course,
Speaker 3: so we'll not be looking to lease it out to
Speaker 3: a third party, will not continue the sort of arrangement
Speaker 3: we had with our former pro Jerry Benedict.
Speaker 1: That's a rare deal.
Speaker 2: It is that that's right.
Speaker 3: That is so we'll be moving away from that. We'll
Speaker 3: be looking to hire a class a professional with a
Speaker 3: business degree to run the golf course, so we get
Speaker 3: the best of both worlds. And then a lot of
Speaker 3: discussion about rates, but what was decided is that the
Speaker 3: current rates will remain in place until the course reopens,
Speaker 3: and so during that period of time we'll have that
Speaker 3: we'll have the latitude to explore those rates and determine
Speaker 3: if they're appropriate in what they should be.
Speaker 2: So, but all that will be upcoming.
Speaker 3: The last item that I had before I kick this
Speaker 3: over to Larry and Jason. We have a special event
Speaker 3: permit and so for anyone who requests city assets, city staff,
Speaker 3: or if they need to close the street or lease
Speaker 3: a city park, then they go through a process called
Speaker 3: special Event permit, and so that's done through through Larry's department.
Speaker 3: After two council meetings ago, council Member Dorsey asked me
Speaker 3: to review that because we had had to have.
Speaker 2: A significant police presence.
Speaker 3: At one of our special events and so he had
Speaker 3: asked me to review if there was a way to
Speaker 3: recover costs related to this. So I reported on that
Speaker 3: council at the council meeting and so essentially we reviewed.
Speaker 3: I reviewed a lot of cities, a lot of best
Speaker 3: practices as far as is was there a consensus among
Speaker 3: those cities as to how to handle this, And the
Speaker 3: answer is there is no obvious consensus. So we discussed
Speaker 3: that with council that there wasn't anything immediate that we
Speaker 3: could do. And in fact, as I looked through it,
Speaker 3: some of the cost recovery methods that were out there
Speaker 3: would have created wildly different and uneven charges. So if
Speaker 3: you just based it on number of attending ease, this
Speaker 3: became very very expensive for events like SunFest who had
Speaker 3: lots of attendees and we're open for a long time,
Speaker 3: so it's not as simple as we had hoped.
Speaker 2: So I will look through. Actually I say I will
Speaker 2: look through.
Speaker 3: My next step as I'll get my city staff together,
Speaker 3: including Larry. The only reason he knows about this because
Speaker 3: I sent him an invitation to the meeting, so well,
Speaker 3: he'll be part of.
Speaker 4: This surprise and surprise, that's right.
Speaker 3: So Larry and our police department and they will start
Speaker 3: developing some scenarios for how to for cost recovery on.
Speaker 2: These special events.
Speaker 3: And then what we discussed with counsel is we would
Speaker 3: start meeting with the organizers of these events after that.
Speaker 3: So we're very curious to know what is what's there there,
Speaker 3: what is their take on it? Does this damage their
Speaker 3: ability to hold events? These are our special events.
Speaker 2: We have a lot of them. We have some great ones.
Speaker 3: You mentioned Boufest, So there's a lot of a lot
Speaker 3: of great special events. And what we don't want to
Speaker 3: do is create a situation where again the city is
Speaker 3: is in the way of those events and we're damaging
Speaker 3: the event holder's.
Speaker 2: Ability to do it.
Speaker 3: So, but that will be that'll be coming up, So
Speaker 3: that will come back to the council at some point
Speaker 3: in the future.
Speaker 2: It probably takes a couple of months to get through
Speaker 2: that process.
Speaker 3: So and with that, I'm gonna throw this over to
Speaker 3: Larry because he's probably one of the busiest people in
Speaker 3: the city today.
Speaker 2: We have.
Speaker 3: In fact, he's missing a meeting right now to be
Speaker 3: on the radio. There is a meeting with the Planning
Speaker 3: Commission later today and the City Council.
Speaker 2: It's a it's an open meeting. It is open to
Speaker 2: the public.
Speaker 3: So and that is to review our comprehensive plan. And
Speaker 3: that's been a I'm going to say a labor of love,
Speaker 3: but I'm not sure that that's it appropriate labor.
Speaker 5: It really has and that's you know, to kind of
Speaker 5: go into into those I'm sure as citizens know, as
Speaker 5: we've been talking about over the past year, as the
Speaker 5: conferhensive plan that the city has been going through, and
Speaker 5: it had you know, it's called Endeavor Bartles Will Endeavor,
Speaker 5: which is where the creation of our plan for the
Speaker 5: next twenty years. And to reiterate, it is a plan
Speaker 5: that covers almost everything in our city. Is talking about infrastructure,
Speaker 5: is talking about land use, is talking about just about
Speaker 5: anything and everything you can possibly think of. It's incorporated
Speaker 5: within that plan. And as a part of that plan
Speaker 5: was an update to our Parks Master Plan, and so
Speaker 5: citizens may remember that we sent out and requested and
Speaker 5: got a lot of great feedback for our Parks Department,
Speaker 5: our park system as well. So that's also being incorporated
Speaker 5: within this document. But yes, right now, our CIP group,
Speaker 5: which is our staff initiate internal group, is meeting right
Speaker 5: now with our consultants to go over the draft or
Speaker 5: the comprehensive plan. And then later on this afternoon at noon, well,
Speaker 5: we have our workshop with our Planning Commission and City
Speaker 5: Council to go over the draft or the plan. And
Speaker 5: you know, overall, I mean yes, staff is very excited
Speaker 5: by the draft. We've been going back and forth with them.
Speaker 5: And I got to give a shout out to Greg
Speaker 5: Collins just because he has been steering this project from
Speaker 5: a staff standpoint and has been doing an excellent job.
Speaker 5: He is, you know, one of those guys that can
Speaker 5: get down to NATA gritty, and that's what you need
Speaker 5: for a comp plan is someone to get down to
Speaker 5: NATA gritty and does an excellent job of that. But honestly,
Speaker 5: it has been a labor of love and I will say,
Speaker 5: I am very proud of our citizens because they did
Speaker 5: come out, they did communicate, they did provide input, where
Speaker 5: some communities it's hard to get people to provide input.
Speaker 5: You have to drag them out and then you know
Speaker 5: they're like surprised by you know, well I didn't know
Speaker 5: about this, and it's like and I know that our
Speaker 5: citizens have been very much engaged within this process that
Speaker 5: has been fantastic. And so after today's workshop, they will
Speaker 5: take our consultants will take any information thoughts back and
Speaker 5: we'll narrow that down and we've looked to have this
Speaker 5: to the Planning Commission later this month for review and
Speaker 5: recommendation to City Council in November, and then City Council
Speaker 5: November will make the final determination on approving it through
Speaker 5: a resolution and moving forward. This is not creating a
Speaker 5: law or knows this is. This is a guide as
Speaker 5: laid out by the state statutes, and so that's what
Speaker 5: we're really excited by us to be able to put
Speaker 5: this forward. But our consultants have in associates, have been
Speaker 5: really great to work with and we're really excited by
Speaker 5: that opportunity. But it's it's been great, it really has.
Speaker 5: I mean, I it's probably one of the easiest complans
Speaker 5: we have worked there.
Speaker 2: And that's a good thing.
Speaker 5: That's not saying like, oh, it's so simple, but it
Speaker 5: was like it was just so fantastic to have so
Speaker 5: much involvement from our citizens that it wasn't pulling teeth.
Speaker 4: It was they were giving information.
Speaker 5: We didn't have to go and be like, Okay, it
Speaker 5: wasn't a silent room whenever we were Oh that's for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 5: which is and that's what we want because you want
Speaker 5: this is this is the communities plan, this is our
Speaker 5: citizens plan. This is not Larry's plan, this is not
Speaker 5: Mike's plan.
Speaker 2: That's good beyond you.
Speaker 5: And I exactly yeah, well wait wait wait twenty years,
Speaker 5: I'm wait.
Speaker 2: Years, Larry, I'll be seventy. Yeah, I know, and so
Speaker 2: you know you long retire. No, no, no, forgotten. If
Speaker 2: I'm there, you're here.
Speaker 4: That was the agreement.
Speaker 5: That's no, that was the agreement that we made, is
Speaker 5: that as long as you're here, I'm here, and so
Speaker 5: that's you know, or vice versa.
Speaker 2: So I'll be dust what I'm saving.
Speaker 5: But again, it's been great and a lot of things
Speaker 5: happening within our our department you know, kbb key Bursel
Speaker 5: Beautiful is kicked off. They have selected some uh some
Speaker 5: short range projects. I'm really excited by that project. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So we're looking at, you know, the red planters that
Speaker 5: we have downtown. We're looking at cleaning those up and
Speaker 5: doing a planting event with area nonprofits will be excellent.
Speaker 5: We're partnering with soon to be partnering with Up with
Speaker 5: Trees out of Tulsa. They are fantastic nonprofit. They know
Speaker 5: the ins and outs. They've been doing it for fifty years.
Speaker 2: They've been incredibly successful in Tulsa.
Speaker 5: They have and we got a donation from Phillip sixty
Speaker 5: six to helps kick that off. And so you know,
Speaker 5: I got a fifteen thousand dollars grant to help plant
Speaker 5: some trees. And so this is going to be a
Speaker 5: really amazing thing, really will Yeah.
Speaker 3: And this is you know, we talked about what cities
Speaker 3: do well and what we don't do well. In Bartlesville,
Speaker 3: we had focuses on parks, which is primarily on maintenance
Speaker 3: of the parks, and in streets, which is primarily maintenance
Speaker 3: of streets, but we really didn't have any focus on
Speaker 3: beautification and those honestly.
Speaker 2: Are part of parks, part of students, part of.
Speaker 3: Our public spaces, and so KBB really fills fills.
Speaker 4: And they are active.
Speaker 5: I mean, they have tons of ideas.
Speaker 2: It's a really cool group.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it is. And I hate I hate being the
Speaker 5: guy that has to like rno baggers like, yeah, well
Speaker 5: well we'll.
Speaker 2: Get there, don't worry, we'll get there. Let's leave that
Speaker 2: one out there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's yeah, we'll get there. But they've been great,
Speaker 5: and Parks Parks Committee is going to have a lot
Speaker 5: of stuff to talk about. This mine from talking about
Speaker 5: what to do with Centennial Park with the old new old,
Speaker 5: I guess build a building there in Centennial in.
Speaker 2: There since it was it was it was a state
Speaker 2: Centennial projects it would have been seven.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so we're looking to reutilize that little building for
Speaker 5: for some uses and then uh, I know that they
Speaker 5: have some other great ideas they're going to before them.
Speaker 4: So it'll be pretty fantastic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hopefully we can we can drive some utilization of
Speaker 3: that park and thank you to some of those facilities.
Speaker 2: It's been a topic for a long time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that building in particular, So it would be great
Speaker 3: to have a plan for that. So anybody interested in
Speaker 3: the comp plan, Larry, what time and what should they do.
Speaker 5: If they if they want to stop I as a workshop,
Speaker 5: it is being held in our downstairs conference room, so
Speaker 5: right next to the chamber. So if they want to
Speaker 5: pop in there, more than welcome to do that. It's
Speaker 5: at noon today. But if they have any thoughts or ideas,
Speaker 5: you know, we're still taking all thoughts and ideas open
Speaker 5: right now. So if they go to our website and
Speaker 5: go to the Community Development page and click on our
Speaker 5: link to the Endeavor Conference a Plan, they can go there,
Speaker 5: or they can call our office and talk to Greg.
Speaker 2: And we can go from there. Perfect, very good, All right, Well,
Speaker 2: thank you, Larry.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it, and I look forward to seeing that
Speaker 3: later today with everybody else. So, and we also have huh,
Speaker 3: I'm coming over, I'm.
Speaker 2: Having front and center. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So we we also have mister Jason Mnager here with us,
Speaker 3: our finance director Money J Money, I believe it or not.
Speaker 2: I suspect that's been a nickname is.
Speaker 3: At some point in past the whole life Jay money
Speaker 3: or just money one or the other.
Speaker 2: We're both didn't have anything.
Speaker 3: I don't have any money, and now you're now you're
Speaker 3: the money man. Though it's so stuffed more money, it's right.
Speaker 3: For some reason, she's just keep saying no. So all right,
Speaker 3: mister money man.
Speaker 6: Well, not not a great month for sales tax I
Speaker 6: mean money at face value. So this this month compared
Speaker 6: to last year's October collection down about three point two percent.
Speaker 4: It was about sixty two thousand dollars.
Speaker 6: You know, if we go back historically the last two
Speaker 6: years where some inflated, this is really would be a
Speaker 6: good year.
Speaker 4: You know, last month we collected a little over one
Speaker 4: point nine million. For that was one point eight so we're.
Speaker 6: Really right on track with those even but compared to
Speaker 6: compared to last year, you know, we're down about three percent,
Speaker 6: which inn't all that bad because we're still for the
Speaker 6: year up two hundred and thirty six thousand.
Speaker 3: You know, when you look back to that two years ago,
Speaker 3: it was up almost twenty percent for the year before.
Speaker 3: So there's a lot of little activity again, yeah, a
Speaker 3: lot of a lot of uneven.
Speaker 6: We had such such growth from the you know, fiscal
Speaker 6: year twenty one, the fiscal year twenty two, and when
Speaker 6: we're reporting these numbers back, there's still really great months,
Speaker 6: but you're just going to be you know, one two,
Speaker 6: three percent below what we had collected in the past year.
Speaker 6: But they're really on par and and really much higher
Speaker 6: than what we saw prior to this year twenty one
Speaker 6: and beyonest.
Speaker 1: Well, we're not making big historic movies like we did
Speaker 1: some of that year.
Speaker 6: We have a lot of little pieces and we're getting
Speaker 6: some little films as well. As the prior month was
Speaker 6: you know, up almost eight and a half. Yeah, so
Speaker 6: it's a little bit of a big spin, you know,
Speaker 6: big spin in September and a little bit of a
Speaker 6: pullback in October.
Speaker 4: So I think the little bit that goes game to me.
Speaker 3: And so it looks like we've got two months that
Speaker 3: we were above last year and two months that we
Speaker 3: were below last year.
Speaker 2: So where are we're.
Speaker 6: We're one and a half percent above here today probably,
Speaker 6: so we're growing still.
Speaker 4: We're still in the plus.
Speaker 2: So we want to average growl about one and a half.
Speaker 2: And how does that compare to what we expected for
Speaker 2: the budget.
Speaker 4: A budgetail we're up turn in thirty six thousand.
Speaker 3: So and the reason is is because we actually budgeted
Speaker 3: for how big of.
Speaker 4: A I believe it's one or one and a half percent.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 3: So it's about a three three percent swing in the
Speaker 3: other direction. So that's that's really good news.
Speaker 2: And we have we have a guest now, so thank you,
Speaker 2: thank you Jason one last week.
Speaker 4: Also down to use tax is far more bollatile than
Speaker 4: sales taxes.
Speaker 6: But it's because you know, doesn't tell you how much
Speaker 6: dollar fluctuation to make a five percentage.
Speaker 4: It's down about twelve percent for the year.
Speaker 3: We're still still up fifty fifty thousand dollars, so still
Speaker 3: still still in good.
Speaker 2: Shape on both of those. So, uh, we got to
Speaker 2: be qu and the beeches. You should be good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we do have so we do have a special
Speaker 3: guest sneaking in.
Speaker 2: So this is well, I don't think I don't have
Speaker 2: to introduce you to this is. This is Tammy Brinkman.
Speaker 2: This is miss kW in radio.
Speaker 7: Well, you know, I run the other end of the building.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, she's on that end of the building. Yep.
Speaker 3: So Tammy is joining us because she and I are
Speaker 3: participating in uh past Independence Dancing with the Stars, which
Speaker 3: is on November the.
Speaker 2: Night the ninth.
Speaker 3: This is why I looked at you. My memory is terrible.
Speaker 3: As we know, I can't learn to dance either.
Speaker 2: So for working through that, they might breathe. That's so funny.
Speaker 8: Ok, he totally forgets to breathe, Like you cannot hold
Speaker 8: your breath for three solid minutes.
Speaker 3: You can, but but it's a really bad idea.
Speaker 8: The things that we've learned is neither one of us
Speaker 8: are professional dancers, but we are having a really good
Speaker 8: time and we're raising many for a really great cause.
Speaker 8: So past independence. If you don't know about the school,
Speaker 8: and I urd you to learn about it. They are
Speaker 8: doing amazing things for autistic kids and young adults and
Speaker 8: helping them become great, amazing members of society, and teaching
Speaker 8: them just life skills and how to move through life
Speaker 8: as young productive adults, and just helping families navigate the
Speaker 8: world of autism and wherever you land on that spectrum
Speaker 8: and the staff and crew and volunteers, it's just incredible.
Speaker 8: And people move from all over to come be a
Speaker 8: part of this amazing program.
Speaker 2: How many kids they had.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and I didn't know anything about it until I
Speaker 8: became involved in Dancing with the Stars, which I got
Speaker 8: to judge it last year and was just so impressed
Speaker 8: with When I kind of dug into the program what
Speaker 8: it was about.
Speaker 7: So if you haven't learned about it, I encourage you.
Speaker 8: It's a great, great program to be a part of.
Speaker 8: If you're looking for a place to donate your dollars,
Speaker 8: we are taking votes.
Speaker 7: How you vote. I have already sent on the link
Speaker 7: so you can vote for us.
Speaker 1: So give bit about fifteen minutes and you can.
Speaker 8: But for the first time, we've actually outgrown the venue,
Speaker 8: so the dinner is actually sold out that you can
Speaker 8: come watch us. I think they might have a hard
Speaker 8: time finding dancers because if they'd have told us this
Speaker 8: before Mike and I saw we might not be dancing.
Speaker 8: But you can still come to the venue. They've moved
Speaker 8: it into the community center the main hallway, so into
Speaker 8: the auditorium, so you can actually come watch the eight dancers,
Speaker 8: eight couples dance, so you can buy your tickets.
Speaker 2: I promise it'll be entertaining, on point.
Speaker 7: We don't know the dance is going to be on point,
Speaker 7: but we're gonna try to play hard. We're going to
Speaker 7: take you back to the eighties.
Speaker 8: Because that was Mike's in my favorite time. It's his
Speaker 8: wife came and watched us practice last week she laughed
Speaker 8: really hard.
Speaker 3: She mostly conceded that we were not good yet that
Speaker 3: we're working on.
Speaker 7: And so you can donate money.
Speaker 8: Five dollars equals by votes so to lessons unfortunately the children.
Speaker 7: So we'll take your money. We will. Every dollar equals
Speaker 7: a vote.
Speaker 8: So if you're looking for places to help us, then
Speaker 8: you can donate. You can buy tickets. If you buy
Speaker 8: a ticket, then you can scroll down and choose us
Speaker 8: to let your ticket vote count toward our please cause.
Speaker 8: And so how it works is fifty dollar donations, fifty
Speaker 8: percent judges scores, and that's how we can potentially go
Speaker 8: home with a Miraball trophy. So I think Tom's going
Speaker 8: to hook us up with a link where you can
Speaker 8: vote for us. And again it's all for past independence
Speaker 8: and artistic kids.
Speaker 2: Always please choose us, please.
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