Speaker 1: Of items looking at long term water supply, so we
Speaker 1: have narrowed that down to four options that we are
Speaker 1: looking into further. One of those is Heulet Lake is
Speaker 1: to reallocate the flood control to water supply and so
Speaker 1: that will do a permanent raise in the lake so
Speaker 1: more water is physically stored.
Speaker 2: At the lake.
Speaker 1: With that conversion, unfortunately, we have run into a couple
Speaker 1: of hurdles as what I'll term them, but which requires
Speaker 1: federal legislation for us to get passed. Also with Copan
Speaker 1: Lake is another option that we are looking at that
Speaker 1: has two components. One is a flood control reallocation of
Speaker 1: water supply. Same thing is to do a permanent race
Speaker 1: in the water surface to storm more water for lake,
Speaker 1: as well as to purchase the reserve water rights that
Speaker 1: Copan has currently reserved. Those both will take federal legislation
Speaker 1: to move forward with them. The good thing with both
Speaker 1: Hula and Copan Lake is that we have been in
Speaker 1: constant contact with our Oklahoma delegation. The wording has been
Speaker 1: proposed for a bill, and I believe that it's in
Speaker 1: the process or in the sausage making aspect of that
Speaker 1: whole process. I guess so The language has been proposed
Speaker 1: for both of those items, and so we are waiting
Speaker 1: to see how that works through the legislative cycle through
Speaker 1: the federal government.
Speaker 2: Hopefully that will make its way and.
Speaker 1: They will see the daylight through the Water Resources Development
Speaker 1: Act bill that is typically associated with these types of items.
Speaker 1: Another item that we have looked at and currently investigating
Speaker 1: is the aid of a Musa aquifer. So this is
Speaker 1: a major aquifer located in central Osage County that's fairly
Speaker 1: close to Hudson Lake. We did find information on the
Speaker 1: water quality within the aquifer as well as how much
Speaker 1: water it can produce.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, it's not a very.
Speaker 1: High producing aquifer in the sense that it would take
Speaker 1: us about twenty five wells to pump one point four
Speaker 1: million gallons of water a day, and so that twenty
Speaker 1: five wells would take about a square mile of land
Speaker 1: to situate those that well filled on. And so it's
Speaker 1: an option, but it's not going to be an option
Speaker 1: that addresses or satisfies all the long term needs for
Speaker 1: the city of Barrowsville. And then the last item that
Speaker 1: we are looking at is to access water and call Lake.
Speaker 1: So this is over close to Ponca City on the
Speaker 1: very western edge of Osage County.
Speaker 2: So Call Lake is a very large lake.
Speaker 1: It has forty million gallons of water day available for
Speaker 1: water rights. We have a study that was approved in
Speaker 1: February to look at the cost, water quality, all the
Speaker 1: aspects of getting and accessing water and pumping it to
Speaker 1: Hudson Lake. That contract and that study will be complete
Speaker 1: by mid September, and so once we have the results
Speaker 1: of that, we will share that with the Water Resources Committee,
Speaker 1: who will likely possibly narrow down the options further or
Speaker 1: tell us to keep plugging forward on all four to
Speaker 1: see which one comes up and is viable or that
Speaker 1: we can maybe secure to help address our long term
Speaker 1: water supply needs. So we are looking we're targeting between
Speaker 1: ten and sixteen million gallons of water day an additional
Speaker 1: water supply, which will get us really for the next
Speaker 1: one hundred years is what we're projecting. So we are
Speaker 1: looking at this from a very long term standpoint. And
Speaker 1: so as we have worked on this, which we have
Speaker 1: been doing since two thousand and one, we continue to
Speaker 1: work on that. A lot of these things do require
Speaker 1: federal legislation, which is a very slow and arguous process,
Speaker 1: but we will continue to work on that and provide
Speaker 1: updates to the Water Resources Committee, and then at some
Speaker 1: point there will be a presentation I'm sure to City
Speaker 1: Council if there's going to be additional studies or costs
Speaker 1: that may be incurred to move forward with it.
Speaker 2: So that's where we're at with water.
Speaker 3: Well, if we're talking all things water, where are we
Speaker 3: at with the wastewater expansion project.
Speaker 1: So the wastewater expansion project, we have finished up the
Speaker 1: pilot study. So one of the components of the wastewater
Speaker 1: expansion is designating a stream or a portion of that
Speaker 1: for water reuse, so that's where we would pump that
Speaker 1: water into the Cane River and have the ability to
Speaker 1: reuse that. We conducted a pilot study to demonstrate the
Speaker 1: performance of that type of system and get the data
Speaker 1: that would back up that process or kind of what
Speaker 1: our theory is with it. So they are compiling the
Speaker 1: data right now from that pilot study to look at
Speaker 1: all the parameters that we monitored. That should be complete
Speaker 1: early next month and then we will present the results
Speaker 1: likely in late September early October, to both the Sanitary
Speaker 1: Seer Improvement Oversight Committee as well as Council and then
Speaker 1: once we have that, we will submit it to the
Speaker 1: state and it will require their approval of it. But
Speaker 1: that will then trigger the detailed design, which will take
Speaker 1: another year to finish that, and then after that will
Speaker 1: be the construction of it. So we're anticipating probably mid
Speaker 1: to late twenty twenty six is when we would actually
Speaker 1: start on construction of the Wastewater Treatment Plan expansion project.
Speaker 4: All right, so lot's going on in water.
Speaker 2: Lot's going on?
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, Thank you, Terry. Next up, we have
Speaker 3: Robin Betts. She is our interim HR director.
Speaker 4: Robin, what's going on in HR?
Speaker 5: Good morning, Laura. Well, it's been very busy time for
Speaker 5: us this summer. We're kind of winding down and wrapping
Speaker 5: up our seasonal employees leaving going back to college. Our
Speaker 5: busiest time is coming up though, which is going to
Speaker 5: be open enrollment for employees, benefits, and we have awards,
Speaker 5: banquets that we do. We have a health fare coming up,
Speaker 5: lots for the employees. That's coming up, so our busiest season.
Speaker 5: In the meantime, we still have jobs that are open though.
Speaker 4: What do we have open currently?
Speaker 5: I've got maintenance worker positions for wastewater maintenance Street Department,
Speaker 5: Parks department. We also have a civil project engineer, which
Speaker 5: just posted last week. And then I still have some
Speaker 5: seasonals for golf because I think that's going to run
Speaker 5: till November first.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, at least, and so so I know they're
Speaker 3: really needing help out there. So if you know anybody
Speaker 3: that wants to work in a fun environment, the golf
Speaker 3: course is a potential for them.
Speaker 5: Yes, And those are seasonal part time positions, so the
Speaker 5: hours are very flexible on it, so it might be
Speaker 5: a good option for somebody. We always have positions open
Speaker 5: for police officer, firefighter, and dispatcher. Those run all of
Speaker 5: the time. We create a pool and maintain that pool
Speaker 5: for when an opening does come available, so those are
Speaker 5: out there also.
Speaker 4: Okay, so thank you. Anything else that we want to
Speaker 4: add from I don't think so, thank you very much.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 3: So we've got Kylie Roberson here. She is our new
Speaker 3: library and history museum directory. Welcome, Kylie.
Speaker 4: I can tell us a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 6: Well, first off, I'm super excited to be in the
Speaker 6: community of Bartlesville.
Speaker 4: I'm from Tulsa.
Speaker 6: Originally I was the COO for the Tulsa City County
Speaker 6: Library there for the last seven years. Absolutely adore libraries.
Speaker 6: I have my undergraduate degree from Oklahoma State University and
Speaker 6: my masters from both the University of Southern California, and
Speaker 6: then my second masters is from the University of Oklahoma.
Speaker 4: So I am a person.
Speaker 6: Divided as far as our some of our state schools go.
Speaker 6: I love them all and just very very happy to
Speaker 6: be here starting out with a really great team at
Speaker 6: both our incredible library and history Museum.
Speaker 4: I'm just looking forward to seeing where things go from here.
Speaker 6: What's going on at the library right now. So much
Speaker 6: is going on at the library. We're coming up to September,
Speaker 6: which is National Library Cards sign Up Month. The theme
Speaker 6: this is actually put on by the American Library Association
Speaker 6: every year, libraries across the country participate. The theme this
Speaker 6: year is more Than meets the Eye, So we're really
Speaker 6: trying to showcase all of the incredible things our libraries
Speaker 6: do outside of just books, which are you know, our
Speaker 6: bread and butter. Obviously, we definitely have all the great
Speaker 6: books and materials, DVDs, CDs, audio books, digital collections, graphic novels,
Speaker 6: all the amazing things.
Speaker 4: But we do so much more than books. We have
Speaker 4: tons and tons.
Speaker 6: Of classes, book clubs, story times for kids. We offer
Speaker 6: health literacy programming which includes things like tai chi classes, yoga,
Speaker 6: cooking classes, stretching classes. Our literacy department offers Spanish and
Speaker 6: English classes, as well as citizenship classes for members of
Speaker 6: our community, and just so much more. I mean, we
Speaker 6: obviously have an incredible library of things at our library,
Speaker 6: which is unique in a lot of communities. Tulsa doesn't
Speaker 6: have that, so that's pretty exciting. So you can come
Speaker 6: and check out materials that are not book related.
Speaker 4: You can come and check out.
Speaker 6: Musical instruments or technology pieces, or cooking things. There's cake pans,
Speaker 6: you know, all kinds of amazing things. So during the
Speaker 6: month of September, we really like to showcase all the
Speaker 6: incredible things that our library offers. And then if you
Speaker 6: have not been coming into the library, because maybe you
Speaker 6: happen to have lost that library card that you had
Speaker 6: somewhere along the way, we will give you a new
Speaker 6: one free of charge during the month of September. So
Speaker 6: there are no replacement fees for your library card. We
Speaker 6: just want you back in the library using all the
Speaker 6: incredible services that you prepay for it.
Speaker 4: Sounds like September is the months to September is the month. Yes,
Speaker 4: So what would you say that your vision is for
Speaker 4: our library.
Speaker 6: My vision for our library is to really focus in
Speaker 6: on the community and the needs of our community. So
Speaker 6: we're coming up on some strategic planning opportunities for our library.
Speaker 6: Our current strategic plan ends this year, so we'll be
Speaker 6: starting over, and I really want to get community input
Speaker 6: on where our community would like to see their library
Speaker 6: in the next three to five years, so that is
Speaker 6: the most important thing to me. We'll be having, you know,
Speaker 6: some surveys, we might do a couple of in person,
Speaker 6: you know, brainstorming activities with our community, and would just
Speaker 6: love to see what are the true needs, what are
Speaker 6: the things that people want to see.
Speaker 4: In their library and their community.
Speaker 6: I can come in with all kinds of great ideas,
Speaker 6: but they won't mean any if they're not you know,
Speaker 6: what it is that our community needs and what they're
Speaker 6: looking for. So I would love to make that happen.
Speaker 3: When can they expect to see communication about yes.
Speaker 4: So that will be this winter.
Speaker 6: We start our strategic planning around November time frame, and
Speaker 6: then hopefully we'll roll that out in the New Year,
Speaker 6: so lots of communication to come about that, but definitely
Speaker 6: want community input.
Speaker 3: So you had talked about your background being at Tulsa
Speaker 3: Public Library systems. What would you say are some of
Speaker 3: the similarities and some of the differences that you've seen
Speaker 3: that that you've been here for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 6: Gosh, so many great things. You know, Tulsa is obviously
Speaker 6: a very large system. I oversaw twenty four different libraries there,
Speaker 6: which is wonderful because it's really great. They're all in
Speaker 6: different communities, it's very diverse. But what's wonderful about Bartlesville
Speaker 6: is that we have one central community that can all
Speaker 6: come together and have their needs met at one So
Speaker 6: we're able to impact a lot more lives. We're able
Speaker 6: to do a lot more things that are very specific
Speaker 6: to the people who we serve. Whereas in Tulsa you
Speaker 6: really had to diversify, you know, the resources that you had,
Speaker 6: you have to spread them out, You had to meet
Speaker 6: the needs of people in nine different cities because it's
Speaker 6: a county system. So it's really really great to be
Speaker 6: able to hone in focus in on one community and
Speaker 6: what their needs are and to be able to actually
Speaker 6: make an impact and make a difference in the lives
Speaker 6: of our patrons, which has been really wonderful.
Speaker 4: Great.
Speaker 3: We are so excited that you're here and excited to
Speaker 3: see what you do here at the library.
Speaker 4: Is there anything else that you want to add?
Speaker 6: Or the History Museum if I have a quick plug,
Speaker 6: has a lot of really great events and opportunities coming up.
Speaker 6: They currently have a display until October that's called Our
Speaker 6: Oily Pass. It's the Phillips Family. It's exploring the successes
Speaker 6: of the Phillips brothers turning humble begins into a lasting
Speaker 6: legacy that we all see today. So if you haven't
Speaker 6: checked that out yet, it'd be a really great opportunity
Speaker 6: to run over and see that.
Speaker 4: Some events coming up there.
Speaker 6: August thirtieth, they have a take a break from Virtual
Speaker 6: School Day because all of our kiddos are back in school,
Speaker 6: but we want to be able to offer them a
Speaker 6: reprieve so they can come over and do some fun programming.
Speaker 6: We're going to do a stem activity that day from
Speaker 6: noon to to They're going to be making towers out
Speaker 6: of spaghetti noodles and marshmallows and just really really fun stuff.
Speaker 6: And then September seventeenth is Constitution and Citizenship Day, and
Speaker 6: the museum is going to offer a sneak peak kind
Speaker 6: of thing at our country's citizenship test, So if you'd
Speaker 6: like to see if you could pass it, you can
Speaker 6: come over and give it a shot.
Speaker 4: It'll be really fun.
Speaker 6: And then September nineteenth, we're going to have Bob Brazier
Speaker 6: from Mullarrock. He's going to come and speak during our
Speaker 6: lunch and learn, which will be a really great opportunity
Speaker 6: to hear all of his incredible paths and experiences. And
Speaker 6: then October seventeenth, during fall break, we're going to have
Speaker 6: a write how to Write a Letter workshop where we're
Speaker 6: going to break out those old fountain pens and teach
Speaker 6: kiddos a little bit about early traditions and social.
Speaker 4: Life here in Martles. So very exciting.
Speaker 6: So obviously the library has wonderful great things happening, but
Speaker 6: don't forget about our incredible history museum too. They've got
Speaker 6: lots of good programming coming up.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, thank you of course.
Speaker 3: Right so on to the next We've got Keith Henry,
Speaker 3: our public Works director, here.
Speaker 2: Morning, Keith, what is going on?
Speaker 7: Well, I'm senter and listening to Kylie, that come to
Speaker 7: my mind. You know, she mentioned there's cooking opportunities at
Speaker 7: the library and we had a team building experience a
Speaker 7: wall back and Terry are actually the reigning cooking championship right,
Speaker 7: more Terry than I.
Speaker 8: But we did win the competition.
Speaker 1: Yeah, to blend all of our taste and culinary experience,
Speaker 1: we are.
Speaker 8: The champions, so we did win the prize.
Speaker 3: Really forgotten about that, but yes, thank you for the reminder.
Speaker 4: I'm hearing a challenge, I know.
Speaker 8: I know.
Speaker 3: I was looking for another team building activity and I
Speaker 3: don't know, maybe we need to try the we're up.
Speaker 8: For the challenge. Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think I'd rather end on top.
Speaker 8: You know, we need to retire the world tip.
Speaker 7: I was also listening to he was talking about the
Speaker 7: golf course. Caddy shack come to mind, and I was wondering,
Speaker 7: they're again Terry and I might have the opportunity to
Speaker 7: go out and be caddies.
Speaker 8: I don't see caddies out at the golf course, Terry,
Speaker 8: do they do? They not have caddies anymore.
Speaker 1: It's in America, not much so in Europe, and that's
Speaker 1: at something older courses.
Speaker 7: But in America, I was thinking the opportunity for us
Speaker 7: maybe after after ours job or a retirement job possibly.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's an idea.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we do need help in the pro shoting though,
Speaker 3: so maybe you guys could go out there after hours.
Speaker 8: The shot maybe so probably better.
Speaker 4: Crush shop or the cartbarn. You need help there too.
Speaker 8: Well, enough of that, let's talk some trash all right.
Speaker 7: Hey, we want to make the public aware we have
Speaker 7: our upcoming fall leaf and grass collection. We offer annually
Speaker 7: twice a year, usually in the spring and the fall,
Speaker 7: opportunity for the citizens to put their yard debris out
Speaker 7: at the curb for collection. The fall collection, we've just
Speaker 7: recently scheduled it for December the ninth through the thirteenth.
Speaker 7: It's kind of late in the year, but we like
Speaker 7: to give the people plenty of times they want to
Speaker 7: get out and scalp the yard and all the leaves,
Speaker 7: make sure the leaves have fallen off the trees, that
Speaker 7: they have time to gather those up. And again there's
Speaker 7: Thanksgiving kind of in that period, so we had to
Speaker 7: try to kind of work it around some of our
Speaker 7: busier times. So again those days are the week of
Speaker 7: the ninth through the thirteenth, so if you've got yard debris,
Speaker 7: if you'll bag that material up and bundle up the
Speaker 7: sticks and limbs, if you have those, put them out
Speaker 7: at the curb, no close than five feet from your
Speaker 7: polycard or other obstacles such as mailboxes and what have you.
Speaker 7: We will have a truck that will come by and
Speaker 7: pick those up. It will be a separate truck, not
Speaker 7: your truck that you usually see picking up your polycard.
Speaker 7: It'll probably be a rear load truck. And those guys
Speaker 7: will come by on your normal day of collection of
Speaker 7: that week.
Speaker 8: And they'll pick up that debris for you.
Speaker 7: This is a free opportunity for you to put those out,
Speaker 7: and those stickers are required. Again, it's just for the
Speaker 7: residential customers, so it's not for the yard companies to
Speaker 7: go out and bag up three hundred bags of leaves
Speaker 7: and stick them out for us to pick up. So
Speaker 7: again it's for the personal citizen to put that debris
Speaker 7: out there. It's a good opportunity. A lot of people
Speaker 7: do take advantage of it. There is no limit on
Speaker 7: the number of bags that you can put out, so
Speaker 7: as long as they're a bag no more than fifty pounds.
Speaker 8: Of the guys will collect those.
Speaker 7: We might also mention the coupon program that we offer
Speaker 7: through the city that usually comes out shortly after January,
Speaker 7: so you should have already received that coupon in the mail.
Speaker 7: If you're a residential water customer in the city limits
Speaker 7: of Bartlesville, you would.
Speaker 8: Have received that coupon.
Speaker 7: It is good for one free trip out to the
Speaker 7: Osage Landfill, which is privately owned, but the city will
Speaker 7: pick that tab up for you. So, if you've got
Speaker 7: a personal vehicle, a pickup or a trailer, you've got
Speaker 7: some debris around your house, it's been hanging around, an
Speaker 7: old couch, a water tank, something you just want to
Speaker 7: clean up your property. This gives you the opportunity to
Speaker 7: take that material out to the Oslage Landfill and dispose
Speaker 7: of it. Again, this is not to tear down the
Speaker 7: house or cut down a whole tree. It's to clean up.
Speaker 7: The whole idea of the program is to try to
Speaker 7: keep Bartlesville's clean and looking as nice as we can.
Speaker 7: So it gives you the opportunity to get rid of
Speaker 7: those unwanted items that you might have laying around. That
Speaker 7: being said, we have a holiday coming up this weekend
Speaker 7: is Labor Day weekend, so that'll throw us to our
Speaker 7: holiday schedule for trash collection. So Labor Day this year
Speaker 7: is on the second, So if you're a normal collection
Speaker 7: actually with the yeah, it's on the weekness second. So
Speaker 7: if your collection day was a second we will pick
Speaker 7: you up on September the fourth, so it'll be that
Speaker 7: following Wednesday. So you're in luck when Monday when you
Speaker 7: set your trash out and you go, hey, the city
Speaker 7: didn't pick it up. We'll be there Wednesday. You didn't
Speaker 7: miss it, So keep that in mind that we will
Speaker 7: be there Wednesday and not Monday, so that's.
Speaker 8: Coming up for you. Keep that in mind. That covers
Speaker 8: most of our trash stuff. Mike Mention.
Speaker 7: Also, from the point of view as a park and recreation,
Speaker 7: we recently went online with a registration for our soccer fields.
Speaker 8: Larry up there in the.
Speaker 7: Planning part of the Parks Department recently launched that, so
Speaker 7: we're doing something a little different than what we've done
Speaker 7: in the past. We were partnered with the YMCA and
Speaker 7: they've kind of went a different direction, so they were
Speaker 7: doing the scheduling for use of the soccer fields, which
Speaker 7: would be the robin Wood Fields and the Daniels Fields.
Speaker 7: So if your group of an organization or just an
Speaker 7: individual and you want to reserve those fields, you can
Speaker 7: go to the City of Bartlesville's website, go to the
Speaker 7: Parking Recreation tab and on there you'll find a calendar.
Speaker 7: You can go to the calendar fill out the information.
Speaker 7: I think they need at least seven days of advanced
Speaker 7: notice prior to your event. If you're wanting to use
Speaker 7: a field for an organized event, or if you're wanting
Speaker 7: to use the lights on the field, there are fees
Speaker 7: associated with those, So you'll fill out that calendar form,
Speaker 7: submit it to the city, and within a few days
Speaker 7: you should get a reply back and a receipt that
Speaker 7: shows you've reserved the fields. So if you're a soccer
Speaker 7: organization again or a club and you want to be
Speaker 7: committed to those fields, they're open for use for the
Speaker 7: public any time. But if somebody does go in and
Speaker 7: schedule the fields for the reservation, then obviously they have
Speaker 7: the rights to be out there on the field plan
Speaker 7: on those So we have that going on. A lot
Speaker 7: of people are excited about pickleball when recently got those
Speaker 7: opened up. I think Mica has mentioned it and talked
Speaker 7: about it a little bit. I go by there routinely
Speaker 7: every morning and there's a very large crowd of people
Speaker 7: using them. So it's been an exciting project and seems
Speaker 7: to already beginning a lot of use. So we're excited
Speaker 7: about that. There's already talk about building more. I mean,
Speaker 7: so there's lots of opportunities there and lots of excitement
Speaker 7: about that whole organization that is going on with the
Speaker 7: pickleball people.
Speaker 8: Pools.
Speaker 7: Pools are closed, hard to believe, but summer season is over,
Speaker 7: wrapped those up. We actually had our dog days of
Speaker 7: summer and the dogs got to go swim on the
Speaker 7: last day, plugged all my filters up for me, so
Speaker 7: we all love it when they do that. The dogs
Speaker 7: seem to enjoy it. So pools are wrapped up for
Speaker 7: the year. Had a really successful year. The Why does
Speaker 7: partner with us on the pools and they operate the
Speaker 7: pools as far as staffing and daily operation. Was excited
Speaker 7: this year to have the new water slides up and running.
Speaker 7: Had a lot of good feedback about those. I think
Speaker 7: the older kids give them something to do, so there's
Speaker 7: a lot of enjoyment from that point of view, and
Speaker 7: a lot of use. Just personally driving by the pools
Speaker 7: seemed to me that the attendant was up just from watching.
Speaker 7: We haven't officially heard back from the Y yet on numbers,
Speaker 7: but just driving by as a spectator, it does appear
Speaker 7: that we got more use out of the pools having
Speaker 7: that addition of the new water slides out there, so
Speaker 7: that was exciting some of the other crews that we've
Speaker 7: got working in the public works. You may have been
Speaker 7: out driving the streets and you've seen my street department
Speaker 7: crews out painting the streets, so just be advised give
Speaker 7: them a little space and a little time. They're restriping
Speaker 7: some of the arterial streets here in town. They've been
Speaker 7: working on the white paint, which is usually your outside line,
Speaker 7: some of your passing lines in town. They're about to
Speaker 7: transition to our yellow paint, so we'll start doing the
Speaker 7: center lines and what have you through town. So again,
Speaker 7: look out for those guys. They're traveling at a slow pace.
Speaker 7: They'll have a lot of cones out there. You'll have
Speaker 7: a lot of wet paint on the ground, so you
Speaker 7: don't want to be out there driving through the wet
Speaker 7: paint on your new Cadillac, So be careful when you're
Speaker 7: working around the guys and keep an eye out there
Speaker 7: for them so they are out there. Hopefully we'll have
Speaker 7: that wrapped up in a couple of weeks and then
Speaker 7: we'll move on to other projects. The guys do a
Speaker 7: great job. We've got a little paint machine that we
Speaker 7: really are looking forward to getting rid of. We've had
Speaker 7: it for years and it's really a struggle to do
Speaker 7: the work that we do with it. But Jeff and
Speaker 7: the crew, Lance and those guys good job with what
Speaker 7: we have to work with. And again, this will probably
Speaker 7: be the last year that we use that machine. We actually,
Speaker 7: through CIP budget, have a new machine in the budget,
Speaker 7: so we're looking forward to making that purchase and getting
Speaker 7: that out on the street a couple of years, and
Speaker 7: we'll see an advancement in the quality of work that
Speaker 7: we can do in the time that it takes us
Speaker 7: to do it normally the state. You'll have to notice,
Speaker 7: probably a lot of people could compare us to the
Speaker 7: state and they'll see the state coming through in one
Speaker 7: day and paint the whole town takes us about three
Speaker 7: weeks to do it with what we have, So really
Speaker 7: looking forward to the purchase of that new piece of
Speaker 7: equipment in the future. So that's kind of it from
Speaker 7: the public work side.
Speaker 4: All right, well, thank you, Keith.
Speaker 3: All Right, So a couple of updates. So on Labor
Speaker 3: Day weekend or on September second, they're doing a bridge
Speaker 3: dedication there on Hensley Boulevard and Delaware Avenue. That bridge
Speaker 3: is going to be dedicated to Nelson F. Car and it'll
Speaker 3: be the Nelson F. Car Memorial Bridge, So at one
Speaker 3: o'clock for those that want to participate in that, that
Speaker 3: is on September second. Let's see, we also have a
Speaker 3: parks and rec survey out there, so if you're interested
Speaker 3: in participating in that, you can always sign up for
Speaker 3: city Beat, and there's a link in it, so you
Speaker 3: can go to cityobartlesvel dot org and sign up for
Speaker 3: CityBeat through there. But there's also a link for that
Speaker 3: survey out there as well you want to participate.
Speaker 4: And then the final update that I have is on
Speaker 4: the golf course.
Speaker 3: So I feel like that's all I talk about nowadays
Speaker 3: is the golf course. It's kind of a hot topic
Speaker 3: and everybody's wanting to know what's going to happen at
Speaker 3: the golf course, and I've.
Speaker 4: Just told people to be patient with us.
Speaker 3: We are awaiting the final report from the consultants, so
Speaker 3: they are expected to present to our steering committee in
Speaker 3: September and then hopefully we'll have a recommendation to take
Speaker 3: to council in October. We'll have a better idea of
Speaker 3: what direction we're going to go and what that looks like.
Speaker 4: I do believe that.
Speaker 3: We got the bid reviews in for the greens reconstruction
Speaker 3: as well, and so we'll know a little bit more
Speaker 3: about the timeline of when the course will close for
Speaker 3: the construction as well. I think that will know more
Speaker 3: about that in September. So answers are coming, we just
Speaker 3: don't have them yet. So if everybody could, everybody could
Speaker 3: be patient with us and bear with us as we
Speaker 3: get through this. Like I said, the golf course is short.
Speaker 4: Staffed right now.
Speaker 3: We are looking to hire people for the cartbarn as
Speaker 3: well as the pro shops, So if you're interested in
Speaker 3: a position out there, you can apply at the City
Speaker 3: of Bartlesfield dot org.
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