Speaker 1: And there's just to set up some duck blines out
Speaker 1: there nine am on October eighteenth. There's a fee of
Speaker 1: ten dollars to enter the duck blind drawing, but you
Speaker 1: can show up at the boat ramp out at Hudson
Speaker 1: Lake nine am, October eighteenth, pay your ten dollars and
Speaker 1: you will be entered into a drawing for one of
Speaker 1: those ten duck blind spots out there. So I know
Speaker 1: that's always popular and people enjoy that, and we want
Speaker 1: to allow people to use that facility for duck hunting.
Speaker 1: So show up and hopefully you get drawn.
Speaker 2: And another facility that has a lot of attention is
Speaker 2: Adam's Golf Course, and it's been undergoing some changes now
Speaker 2: that the pro retired. We were kind of doing some
Speaker 2: things a little differently.
Speaker 1: Explain what's going on, well, I want to start off
Speaker 1: by saying a big thank you our golf pro, mister Benedict,
Speaker 1: has been running that course in that facility, leasing that
Speaker 1: facility from us for years. We have officially purchased that
Speaker 1: facility from mister Benedict, so it is now city owned,
Speaker 1: city managed. The city council asked to have a consulting
Speaker 1: company come in and take a look at the finances,
Speaker 1: the numbers, kind of the market and make some suggestions
Speaker 1: to the city about how we proceed forward to the
Speaker 1: golf course, because we're going to close the golf course
Speaker 1: down for a little bit here and we're going to
Speaker 1: do some redo of the greens out there. So we've
Speaker 1: got bond Isshue money that we're going to do use
Speaker 1: to redo the green complexes out at the out of
Speaker 1: the golf course. And it's a watershed moment for our
Speaker 1: golf course that we can make some changes about the facility,
Speaker 1: how we operated, how we funded, how what services it
Speaker 1: provides to our community. So we asked and we got
Speaker 1: a report from JJ Keegan about what the possibilities are
Speaker 1: for our golf course going forward. We received that report.
Speaker 1: I mean it boils down to basically that they are
Speaker 1: suggesting that instead of leasing it to a third party,
Speaker 1: or leasing it or having a management company come in
Speaker 1: and run it, it actually looks like the finances and
Speaker 1: the operations were better if the city owns it and
Speaker 1: operates its own golf course, which I am encouraged by
Speaker 1: because I think we can do it better than anybody else.
Speaker 1: We do a lot of things better than anybody else.
Speaker 1: But I think we have an opportunity to provide some
Speaker 1: better food services we have. We can redo our driving
Speaker 1: range and short green are green and short chipping areas,
Speaker 1: we can do some better maintenance and silly operations. And
Speaker 1: we're also going to probably look the steering committee is
Speaker 1: going to come back to us in December and talk
Speaker 1: about possibilities for some green fee rate changes, golf cart
Speaker 1: rate changes that we might be able to do so
Speaker 1: that we can better fund the operations, maintenance and improvements
Speaker 1: on this golf course as we go forward. So it's
Speaker 1: really big change and big chairing going on at the
Speaker 1: golf course. This is one of the premier municipal golf
Speaker 1: courses in the state of Oklahoma. Even JJ Keegan, who's
Speaker 1: played on who knows how many hundreds of courses in
Speaker 1: the United States, says this ranks at the top of
Speaker 1: municipal courses. So we're excited about the future and the
Speaker 1: possibilities for Godham's golf course, but we want to hear
Speaker 1: citizens comments what they think as we go forward when
Speaker 1: we talk about rate increases or adding services to our
Speaker 1: golf course. Let's be sharing reach out to your city
Speaker 1: councilmen and have discussions with them about that.
Speaker 2: Okay, and Lauren, I understand there was a resolution last
Speaker 2: night to form a task force or the Homeless in
Speaker 2: bartles Well. Something that's you know, it's been kind of
Speaker 2: cooking for a while.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so we've all had conversations at the city
Speaker 1: level and our nonprofit organizations and our churches here in
Speaker 1: town about the issue of houseless people in our city.
Speaker 1: These are community members and we need to remember that
Speaker 1: they are community members and we need to take care
Speaker 1: of them. So what we really want to do is
Speaker 1: put together a task force involving all of the interested
Speaker 1: and engaged parties that have some possible ideas, have a
Speaker 1: vested interest in the houseless population and helping people. We
Speaker 1: want to put them together in the same room, at
Speaker 1: the same table and start looking at actual ideas, actual plans,
Speaker 1: actual things we can do to help these members of
Speaker 1: our community to not be houseless, to improve their situation,
Speaker 1: and this will only help our community in the long run.
Speaker 1: But we've passed a resolution last night to start putting
Speaker 1: together that task force and instruct city staff to help
Speaker 1: us form that task force to tackle the problem of
Speaker 1: houselessness and to help these most vulnerable members of our community.
Speaker 2: Okay, I understand we're cutting a little bit of a
Speaker 2: break here for home daycares because daycare, believe it or
Speaker 2: that's in high demand these days and in short supply. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, as homelessness and houselessness was part of our strategic
Speaker 1: plan and dealing with that issue. Daycare is at the
Speaker 1: top of the issues in our strategic plan that our
Speaker 1: community wants us to help a lot of the things
Speaker 1: that we've done to help is getting government out of
Speaker 1: the way, removing unnecessary and overburdened some regulation at both
Speaker 1: the local and state level. So we're working with the
Speaker 1: state legislature to try to get some changes to state
Speaker 1: statutes get regulation out of the way. But we can
Speaker 1: do something here at the local level, and we did
Speaker 1: it last night. We cleaned up a lot of our
Speaker 1: city ordinances so we're no longer classifying two different types
Speaker 1: of in home daycare businesses, so they're all classified under
Speaker 1: one zero to twelve children in a home as a
Speaker 1: daycare business. We have removed a lot of burdens, some
Speaker 1: regulation about how they can operate and what they have
Speaker 1: to do to operate. That we remove some parking restrictions
Speaker 1: we remove. We removed some restrictions we had at a
Speaker 1: local level and deferred and said, as long as you
Speaker 1: meet Oklahoma State Department of Health guidelines for running and
Speaker 1: licensing of your daycare facility, then we're not going to
Speaker 1: put any more burdensome and more restrictive ordinances on your
Speaker 1: business there in the neighborhood. So I think it's going
Speaker 1: to open up an opportunity for more spots of daycare
Speaker 1: in our in home daycare businesses around town. And I
Speaker 1: think it's really going to make an impact and at
Speaker 1: least gets city government and these burden some regulations out
Speaker 1: of the way of the problem.
Speaker 2: Path Fighter a little construction going on there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So Pathfinder is one of the duels of our community.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a really unique thing. In twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, voters passed some bond issues to try and
Speaker 1: improve and make some improvements on our Pathfinder. And so
Speaker 1: we're making some improvements starting with back by the frog
Speaker 1: Pond behind the high school out there the trailhead off
Speaker 1: of Shawnee there. We've closed it down for a little
Speaker 1: bit to do improvements and we're pouring concrete right now.
Speaker 1: So it's a really exciting thing to be that's going
Speaker 1: to be really great, great trailhead and a complex back there.
Speaker 1: So your tax dollars, the go bond moneies that you
Speaker 1: passed in twenty eighteen in twenty twenty are being put
Speaker 1: to use right now rebuilding and reconstructing that. It's going
Speaker 1: to be closer a little bit but should be opened
Speaker 1: soon and that's really going to improve that whole Pathfinder.
Speaker 1: We've got multiple Pathfinder projects that will go on over
Speaker 1: the next two to three years that have been passed
Speaker 1: through bond issues, and this is just the beginning of
Speaker 1: the provements we're going to make on Pathfinder.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to kind of jump around here just
Speaker 2: a little bit here. Did we get that taken care
Speaker 2: of with the Tuxedo Bridge? Do we get an agreement
Speaker 2: in place?
Speaker 1: So that's a great question because the Tuxedo Bridge has
Speaker 1: had that lane closed down for a long time over years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and if you might remember, I know it was a
Speaker 1: Jim Kurt was on after the last city Council meeting.
Speaker 1: We talked about the fact that the bids came in
Speaker 1: really high to reconstruct that bridge, all three lanes of
Speaker 1: that bridge. Our City Engineering. City staff did a really
Speaker 1: great job of going back to the drawing board and saying,
Speaker 1: how can we kind of break up this whole redo
Speaker 1: into smaller projects that we can accomplish. What we really
Speaker 1: need to do right now is reconstruct that one side
Speaker 1: of that bridge. We need to reinforce the bases and
Speaker 1: riverbeds of that bridge and kind of rehabilitate and maintain
Speaker 1: do some maintenance on the other two lanes. So we
Speaker 1: accepted a bid last night for the project. We did
Speaker 1: have a bid come in at the amount that is
Speaker 1: acceptable and within our budget for the project. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna totally redo that one lane, We're gonna rehabilitate the
Speaker 1: other two lanes and do some river bed maintenance to
Speaker 1: make sure that the whole complex, that whole bridge complex
Speaker 1: is safe and structurally sound. So that's going to move
Speaker 1: forward really soon. The engineering is completed. We had to
Speaker 1: unfortunately that got delayed a lot by our state level.
Speaker 1: You know, muscles and bats that are nest seen in
Speaker 1: those and we had to do some environmental surveys and studies.
Speaker 1: But it looks like we're gonna get shovels on the
Speaker 1: ground on this project really soon.
Speaker 2: Great We've got a kind of a unique coming up.
Speaker 2: It comes up about once a year. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: we have.
Speaker 1: We've had in our chnical Phillips and Phillips sixty six
Speaker 1: main parking lot down there. We've had some chemical and
Speaker 1: other kind of recyclings. This one's kind of unique in
Speaker 1: the fact that out by in Sooner Park by the
Speaker 1: swimming pool on October nineteenth, ten am to four pm,
Speaker 1: we're going to do an electronics recycling program. So all
Speaker 1: those things have been accumulating in your garage, your computers,
Speaker 1: your laptops, your printers, your old microwaves, old cell phones,
Speaker 1: all those types of electronics. You can bring them and
Speaker 1: have them be recycled and get them out of your
Speaker 1: home and have them disposed of and recycled in a
Speaker 1: safe manner. So please gather all those up, bring them
Speaker 1: out October nineteenth, ten a into four pm at Sooner
Speaker 1: Pool out by Sooner Pool. That's a really great recycling event.
Speaker 1: There's a company that comes in and does this recycling,
Speaker 1: and we've worked with them to come in and do this,
Speaker 1: So bring it all out with I'm sure it's going
Speaker 1: to be real popular.
Speaker 2: Now we don't necessarily recycle your yard debris, but we
Speaker 2: will be taking it away in December, that's right.
Speaker 1: So one of the things we always know, I mean
Speaker 1: in December, we know there's going to be leaves on
Speaker 1: the ground and sticks and everything else. You're going to
Speaker 1: be cleaning up your yards. The city wants to help
Speaker 1: you get rid of that, and we're going to be
Speaker 1: doing yard debris pick up on your regular trash day
Speaker 1: December ninth through thirteenth. So you can set out your
Speaker 1: yard debris on your curb on your regular trash day
Speaker 1: and we'll come by and pick those up December ninth
Speaker 1: through thirteenth. Get those out of the road for you.
Speaker 1: So be cleaning up your yard and be ready to
Speaker 1: have that debris to pick up.
Speaker 2: Alrighty, thank you very much. Anything else you'd like to add,
Speaker 2: young man.
Speaker 1: Now, I want to say thank you to everyone out
Speaker 1: there that makes our community great every day. Thank you
Speaker 1: our police, fire, ambulance services, our city staff, all of them.
Speaker 1: I can't say enough. Every City Council meeting I go
Speaker 1: into the city staff and our emergency services personnel are
Speaker 1: ready and with information and doing a great job. I
Speaker 1: want to say thank you to Mike Bailey and all
Speaker 1: of the rest of them down there at City Council.
Speaker 1: City city managers and the city staff do a great job.
Speaker 1: We live in a great city. We hope to keep
Speaker 1: making it better at City Council.
Speaker 2: Great you've been listening to City Matters on K one.