Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2: Welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It is time now for our community connection city matters
Speaker 1: right here on kay on the one you trust we
Speaker 1: have city counselor Tim Shark with is how you doing, sir?
Speaker 3: Doing great? Tom, Good to see you, Good to see you.
Speaker 1: You know something, our fire and police and First Free
Speaker 1: Spiders do a way a little bit job, and in
Speaker 1: our neighborhood they did one heck of a job saving
Speaker 1: a woman's life.
Speaker 4: Yes they did. There's a family that's going to have
Speaker 4: their grandmother at the holidays this year, most likely because
Speaker 4: of the efforts of our fire crew, and it was
Speaker 4: an amazing thing. I looked at the official press releases
Speaker 4: and that really just didn't tell all the story. There's
Speaker 4: other things I gleaned from going through some of the
Speaker 4: comments on those posts, and it tells such a broader
Speaker 4: story of who Bartlesville is really is.
Speaker 3: A community and how they can aim together.
Speaker 4: A couple of ladies that pulled over to call nine
Speaker 4: to one to one another police officer that was there
Speaker 4: to cooperate with our fire crews, the first arriving crew
Speaker 4: doing such a fantastic job getting the thing identified, deploying
Speaker 4: the line and getting the fire knocked down and then
Speaker 4: rescuing this lady. The smoke was so heavy they said
Speaker 4: it was visibility was reduced to knee level. Now, these
Speaker 4: are the guys who go in. We rely on them,
Speaker 4: and we don't hear about them very much. But they
Speaker 4: saved a life yesterday, and that's a big deal, and
Speaker 4: I think they deserve our appreciation. If you see a
Speaker 4: firefighter out anywhere today, make sure you go up and
Speaker 4: tell them that you appreciate their commitment and all they do.
Speaker 4: We definitely value their service here in Bartlesville.
Speaker 1: Very good, very good, And I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people are seconding that right now. Roads in our town.
Speaker 1: You know, as an older person, Yeah, I guess you
Speaker 1: hear a little bit about that.
Speaker 4: Not at all, Not at all, Not a word, Tom,
Speaker 4: I haven't heard anything. No, it's been a lengthy process. Definitely.
Speaker 4: This was a brand new thing. This was experimental for Bartlesville.
Speaker 4: We'd never done anything like this before. We had a
Speaker 4: few issues along the way. I'm sure nobody noticed, right,
Speaker 4: but it was definitely a process that we've learned from.
Speaker 4: I know that the dust and the gravel and things
Speaker 4: have been a problem.
Speaker 3: In a lot of the areas that people have called out.
Speaker 4: I've heard about Madison and Frank Phillips particularly being right
Speaker 4: around ward one. This was something that I don't think
Speaker 4: anyone could have anticipated. But we did a good job
Speaker 4: identifying a great contractor because they came to us and
Speaker 4: we agreed together, Hey, the subcontractor is not doing a
Speaker 4: great job, so we replaced them. They identified a better
Speaker 4: company who had done some work for us before we
Speaker 4: got him involved, and things.
Speaker 3: Have gone much more smoothly. Now.
Speaker 4: You'll notice that the h A five sealant is going
Speaker 4: to be going down around the city.
Speaker 3: Things are going to be smoothing out.
Speaker 4: You're going to see that hard black surface that we
Speaker 4: all expect on a new roadway, and then the striping
Speaker 4: will be back down. I think it's going to come
Speaker 4: out at the end of this very well, but we're
Speaker 4: probably still looking at the very first part of September
Speaker 4: for completion.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: That's making a lot of people breathe easier, Yeah, because
Speaker 1: that dust was really something I don't think anybody really anticipated.
Speaker 4: I don't I don't think you know what you're dealing
Speaker 4: with till you go through at one time. Sure, there's
Speaker 4: definitely a lot of lessons learned that the city has
Speaker 4: taken note of. I know Micah Seemers has been very
Speaker 4: gracious with his time. Yeah, he is making himself available
Speaker 4: to field those complaints, handle those questions. So we appreciate
Speaker 4: him a lot. He's had to educate a lot of
Speaker 4: us who have not been through this, and so we
Speaker 4: definitely want to assure everyone that we're coming to the
Speaker 4: into the projects. It is going well and it should
Speaker 4: be completed. I think you'll be happy with the finished result.
Speaker 2: Very good.
Speaker 1: Now we've got our new old golf course. It used
Speaker 1: to be Adams, Now we changed it to the guy's
Speaker 1: first name, Boots. It's Boots Hollow and it's going to
Speaker 1: be opening up for everybody to kind of take a
Speaker 1: look see on Friday. This has been one of those
Speaker 1: projects that if you would have told me any other
Speaker 1: time that it would be done this quickly, I want
Speaker 1: to call, you know, Shenanigans. But wow, we got blessed
Speaker 1: with some interesting weather that kind of hindered it first
Speaker 1: but helped in the long run. And this really looks
Speaker 1: like it's going to be, you know, another sparkling gem
Speaker 1: in our community.
Speaker 3: It really is.
Speaker 4: It's going to be able to draw tourism dollars into Bartlesville.
Speaker 4: It's going to bring money into our budget that we
Speaker 4: can then turn around and pour back into the community.
Speaker 4: That's a big deal. And it should be named after
Speaker 4: mister Adams. Of course, the family originally gave some money
Speaker 4: and the land necessary. I think the history of this
Speaker 4: goes all the way back to when it was called
Speaker 4: Sooner Park Golf Course. Oh really yeah, and it was
Speaker 4: then over time change to Adams Municipal Golf Course. They
Speaker 4: have done due diligence, of course, in testing out the branding,
Speaker 4: looking at what they thought would work well, and they
Speaker 4: actually brought the Adams family into consultation on this, so
Speaker 4: mister Adams' sons said, yeah, that'd be great. We appreciate that,
Speaker 4: we want to make sure and we think Dad would
Speaker 4: get a kick out of it being called boot Solid.
Speaker 1: But I can't wait to see how this is going
Speaker 1: to look. You know, we lost pro and we got
Speaker 1: mister Rudmen in return, and you know this is going
Speaker 1: to be a complete changing of the guard.
Speaker 4: It is, but I am so impressed with d already
Speaker 4: as he presented the price structure that they've done to
Speaker 4: change up how they're doing things to help the golf
Speaker 4: course be more sustainable. It was not self sustaining before,
Speaker 4: and we had not looked at an increase in any
Speaker 4: rates in over twenty years. I know that some people
Speaker 4: got sticker shock when they first looked at that, but
Speaker 4: if you look at the overall package of what you
Speaker 4: can receive for what you're going to pay at that
Speaker 4: golf course.
Speaker 3: You're talking about golf courts.
Speaker 4: The golf courses all over the place have made some
Speaker 4: of these changes. We've got golf carts that are going
Speaker 4: to have GPS on them, and what that means is
Speaker 4: if the storm's coming, they can send you a notification
Speaker 4: from the clubhouse that says, hey, you need to get back,
Speaker 4: and if the golf course is inundated with rain, they
Speaker 4: can also direct those golf courts golf carts not to
Speaker 4: go off the path. So that's going to reduce the
Speaker 4: maintenance cost overall. There's some nice packages available that I
Speaker 4: had not seen on golf rates as well.
Speaker 3: So if you are a senior, there's a senior rate.
Speaker 4: If you want to buy a package that includes golf
Speaker 4: cart art, you can. If you want to walk the course,
Speaker 4: that's how you get your exercise, then you can do
Speaker 4: that and save a little money there. But I think
Speaker 4: overall it's going to be a very good thing for
Speaker 4: the community. I expect to see a lot of people
Speaker 4: wanting to come to play.
Speaker 1: This is going to be a lot of fun. Friday
Speaker 1: is going to be kind of the opening. Take a
Speaker 1: walk around see and I think we're going to be
Speaker 1: out there with the live broadcast too.
Speaker 2: It's going to be going to be interesting.
Speaker 1: Tim Shark as our guest, he's a city councilor here
Speaker 1: in the city of Bartlesville. We had a meeting at
Speaker 1: the first part of the month.
Speaker 2: What took place to do that got your attention?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry what we had a city council meeting, Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: at the earlier part of the month. What what got
Speaker 1: your attention most at that meeting?
Speaker 4: You know, I think it's been a unique opportunity that
Speaker 4: we've had over the course of the last three meetings
Speaker 4: really to demonstrate how Bartlesviielle approaches everything with compassion. And
Speaker 4: in the last meeting, there was a gentleman who just
Speaker 4: kind of had a lot of life happen and a
Speaker 4: property that was dilapid. It needed to be remediated or removed.
Speaker 4: And this gentleman came in. He was very humble about
Speaker 4: the whole situation. He had an opportunity to pursue a
Speaker 4: solution that would allow him to maybe maintain his credit
Speaker 4: a little bit better and get into another, maybe subsidized opportunity,
Speaker 4: and we wanted to help do that, so we allowed
Speaker 4: him the time to do that, to pursue the deed
Speaker 4: in lieu of foreclosure. In the meantime, the property is
Speaker 4: going to be boarded up. They will leave the property
Speaker 4: as soon as they have the place to go.
Speaker 3: I think within thirty days is what we had said
Speaker 3: about that.
Speaker 4: And they will be able to get into another place
Speaker 4: without that obstacle of a bad credit check. The Cherokey Nation,
Speaker 4: I think was going to be consulted. He is apparently
Speaker 4: of Native heritage, and so they were going to pursue.
Speaker 3: Getting that as well.
Speaker 4: But just the opportunity we've had now three times to
Speaker 4: look at a situation and try to help the property
Speaker 4: owner do something about remediating it, preserving something for themselves,
Speaker 4: helping them along to a better future, I think that
Speaker 4: is definitely an honorable path, and I've been pleased to
Speaker 4: see how we've all been able to pursue that together.
Speaker 1: And that's it's it's very good because some people only
Speaker 1: see one thing to get that tunnle vision, and it's
Speaker 1: like despair, right, and it's like I give up, thrown
Speaker 1: in the towel. But when you're provided with some options
Speaker 1: or different avenues in order to get things done, what's
Speaker 1: best for everyone, that works best, that works.
Speaker 4: Best, Yes, definitely, and I think I think he's going
Speaker 4: to take full advantage of it. One of our council
Speaker 4: members actually had some personal experience with the family which
Speaker 4: shown a little bit brighter light on parts of the
Speaker 4: situation for all of us, and can we can definitely
Speaker 4: empathize around what he was going through. So we want,
Speaker 4: we want the community to know that we really do
Speaker 4: care for them.
Speaker 1: Now our council coming up when we meet again in September,
Speaker 1: we got some some things that are interested in interested
Speaker 1: of interest to you in particular and to your ward
Speaker 1: coming up.
Speaker 2: Or just.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen the full agenda yet.
Speaker 2: Neither of by I thought maybe you had eyes on
Speaker 2: it before I know.
Speaker 4: We're we're actually waiting on that and the next meeting will.
Speaker 3: Actually be right after a holiday, so it's not going
Speaker 3: to be a Monday night day.
Speaker 4: I forget about that, right, So it's going to be
Speaker 4: the Tuesday night after Labor Day.
Speaker 3: Mark your calendars if you'd like to attend. We'd love
Speaker 3: to see you there.
Speaker 4: We don't have the full agenda out yet, so I
Speaker 4: don't really have any any club that No, that's that's.
Speaker 1: I thought maybe you had a little bit more of
Speaker 1: a heads up than I.
Speaker 3: Not quite yet.
Speaker 4: But what I would like to take just a minute
Speaker 4: with is is our community Center if we could.
Speaker 2: That's yeah, what a beautiful thing that is.
Speaker 4: It is a uniquely designed piece of architecture that is
Speaker 4: asset to the community, does so many things. I am
Speaker 4: one of the people that kind of grew up in
Speaker 4: that building a little bit, going all the way back
Speaker 4: to the very first arts encounters that were opened up there,
Speaker 4: so summer arts for kids, music, ballet, theater, art exhibits.
Speaker 4: It really is And what I would like to encourage
Speaker 4: everyone to do is to take full advantage of everything
Speaker 4: that you can at the Community Center. They're going to
Speaker 4: be offering some packages for tickets for Broadway in Bartlesville,
Speaker 4: for example. They're looking for new subscribers. I think you'll
Speaker 4: enjoy yourself. I think your whole family can have a
Speaker 4: good time there. And if you're planning any kind of
Speaker 4: charitable giving, this is something that we need to really
Speaker 4: get behind as a community because some of the things
Speaker 4: that are in the community Center today have not been changed.
Speaker 3: In forty three years.
Speaker 4: That means when I was thirteen years old, Okay, I
Speaker 4: was still in in Bartles mid High and that's what
Speaker 4: they called it at the time. And we have some
Speaker 4: pieces and parts of equipment that have not been changed
Speaker 4: in that length of time. And some of these are
Speaker 4: kind of big ticket items. Some things that we need
Speaker 4: to do for the Community Center will involve making it
Speaker 4: where we can bring in bigger and better shows, bigger
Speaker 4: named stars, new rigging that we need, more modern lighting systems.
Speaker 4: If you're doing anything, if you want to give to
Speaker 4: a civic cause, that's going to be a great place
Speaker 4: to put your money.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I just had Battery Halts in here the other day
Speaker 1: and she said that they have been getting a lot
Speaker 1: of people requesting more family friendly types of entertainment, so
Speaker 1: they added two extra shows on yes that are designed
Speaker 1: for families Dinosaur Live. So I guess you know this
Speaker 1: is for the edy biddies, you know, because what kid
Speaker 1: under the age of nine does it like dinosaurs?
Speaker 3: What kid under the age of ninety?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Even better? Yeah, even better.
Speaker 4: Yet, I know a lot of folks would like to
Speaker 4: go out and go to those dinosaur exhibits that people
Speaker 4: that own the Jurassic Park collections and things like that,
Speaker 4: and yeah, not many of them are the littles no.
Speaker 2: Our age, I know.
Speaker 1: I'm just I was trying to try to throw some
Speaker 1: light away from that. But anyway, from ninety to ninety,
Speaker 1: this will be something for the kids. And also I
Speaker 1: know that the what they call tween agers, Yes, you know,
Speaker 1: they love Taelor Swift, and they've got a Taylor Taylor
Speaker 1: Swift tribute show coming up here pretty soon, I get.
Speaker 1: I think it's in September, and that's geared for the
Speaker 1: entire family as well. So you're not gonna get embarrassed.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna, you know.
Speaker 2: Be like, oh my gosh, what am I doing here?
Speaker 1: You know your kids are gonna love it, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna love watching your kids be happy.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: They also are doing these Friday night things where they're
Speaker 4: showing movies outside.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 4: If the weather permits, you should go. I mean, it's
Speaker 4: always going to be a family friendly movie. The last
Speaker 4: thing they showed was The Parent Trap. I think you'll
Speaker 4: really enjoy yourself. I think they have some concessions around
Speaker 4: so everybody can kind of kick back. I know it's
Speaker 4: been really warm, but it's a really good opportunity to
Speaker 4: get out and make connections in the community and get
Speaker 4: to know your neighbors and have a good time.
Speaker 1: Hey, folks want to contact you. They got to maybe
Speaker 1: something that they want to draw to your attention. Your
Speaker 1: phone number, they print that right there at the Cityobartlesvielle
Speaker 1: dot org.
Speaker 3: That's correct.
Speaker 4: If you go out to the city and look up
Speaker 4: the councilors, all of our contact information is available to
Speaker 4: the public. You'll find a phone number and an email
Speaker 4: address there that you can contact us about anything that
Speaker 4: you want to talk about, anything that you're concerned about.
Speaker 4: I'll be happy to take it under an advisement and
Speaker 4: get some information back to you. A lot of times
Speaker 4: you're going to find, especially with some of the newer counselors,
Speaker 4: we might have to go ask a question, but we
Speaker 4: do know where to go to get the information and
Speaker 4: we'll be happy to get that right back to you.
Speaker 2: Thanks for being on with us today on City Matters.
Speaker 3: You bet, Thanks Tom.
Speaker 2: Alrighty. The first