Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome. It's
Speaker 1: time now for our community connection and one that we
Speaker 1: call our city matters because if it matters to you,
Speaker 1: it matters to the city. And my Holly, we've got
Speaker 1: just enough people in here to build a frame. How
Speaker 1: are we doing?
Speaker 2: Terry Larson doing well? Tom, thank you. And we do
Speaker 2: have a newbie here today with the radio program Snyder. Oh,
Speaker 2: here we go, Michaeh. Snyder, who is one of the planners.
Speaker 2: I think he's a senior Planners his official title with
Speaker 2: the City of Barslows. So he's going to talk to
Speaker 2: us about some different initiatives there. But before we get
Speaker 2: into that as well, we have the affable Jason Monager,
Speaker 2: who I think people call j Money. It's just you guys,
Speaker 2: just us, okay, and now all the listening.
Speaker 3: Gamers here, it's his rap name.
Speaker 2: That's his rap name. That's right, that's right. So what
Speaker 2: do you think of the margin? Do you like Lamar Kendrick?
Speaker 2: Did you get well?
Speaker 4: I've got kids are the age that know a lot
Speaker 4: more about Lamar than most, and I understood a lot
Speaker 4: more of the symbolism and the trash talk that was
Speaker 4: going on behind the scenes and probably the average Super
Speaker 4: Bowl watcher, So you didn't really necessarily understand it. Research
Speaker 4: and you'll get a little more glens than what I
Speaker 4: was talking about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was nobody going to prison.
Speaker 1: Is that.
Speaker 2: I'm in the old curmudgeon category. I didn't really get it.
Speaker 4: So but anyway, so beef with Drake that was highly
Speaker 4: highlight last night. Very good.
Speaker 2: Well we digressed right into football right off the bat.
Speaker 2: But well we'll center ourselves up on city matters. But
Speaker 2: council did meet last week, so they did a couple
Speaker 2: of items that they had decided on. One was that
Speaker 2: they reconsidered the library grant and they approved that library grant,
Speaker 2: so I know that has been a topic of much
Speaker 2: discussion and h and kind of interest here of late.
Speaker 2: As well as they approved the up for Trees grant
Speaker 2: that was a grant provided I believe by Phillips or
Speaker 2: maybe Conical Phillips. They provided money to plant some trees
Speaker 2: in the Center Islands on Highway seventy five and Frank
Speaker 2: Phillips to beautify the city. So those are two initiatives
Speaker 2: that council reconsidered and did approve. They also did take
Speaker 2: action on the long term water supply. So we'll talk
Speaker 2: just a little bit about water supply. So we have
Speaker 2: been meeting for the past year and a half, almost
Speaker 2: two years with the Water Resources Committee and Council on
Speaker 2: different initiatives and options for long term water supply. So
Speaker 2: Monday night, Council heard a presentation and they decided on
Speaker 2: the direction for our long term water supply options, which
Speaker 2: include getting the reallocating the flood control at Hewle Lake.
Speaker 2: In essence, what that means is that that would raise
Speaker 2: the lake elevation by almost seven feet and that would
Speaker 2: hold more water in the lake itself so that it
Speaker 2: would be available for water supply. To pursue this option
Speaker 2: does take federal legislation to initiate that, so it has
Speaker 2: to be done with a study through the Core of Engineers,
Speaker 2: that has to be done, funding and basically approval of
Speaker 2: that project has to be made through Congress or sign
Speaker 2: into law. And so the next available legislation that we
Speaker 2: can pursue that is in twenty twenty six through a
Speaker 2: Water Resource Development Act. So Council approve moving forward with
Speaker 2: that option to initiate the study, that study, if approved,
Speaker 2: and signing the law in twenty twenty six twenty seven
Speaker 2: will take anywhere between three to six years to complete,
Speaker 2: and then if it is favorable to reallocate that flood control,
Speaker 2: they'll probably take another five to six years to implement.
Speaker 2: So that's certainly a long term option for us. But
Speaker 2: it does provide up to ten million gallons of water
Speaker 2: a day, which is what we're looking for, and so
Speaker 2: that can provide us water for at least the next
Speaker 2: one hundred years. So that's really our target data as
Speaker 2: far as the long term water supply option. They also
Speaker 2: did approve us continuing our discussion with the Town of Copan.
Speaker 2: So we've had two pieces of legislation that have gone
Speaker 2: through Congress and signing the law. One was in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two, the other one is in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: But in essence, Copan Lake has two million gowns of
Speaker 2: water supply that is reserved by the Town of Copan
Speaker 2: but not yet purchased, and so these legislative efforts will
Speaker 2: allow the Town of Copan to release these reserve rights
Speaker 2: and the City of Bars will to purchase those at
Speaker 2: a much reduced rate or what we call preferred rate.
Speaker 2: So before the legislation, those reserve water rights would cost
Speaker 2: around twelve million dollars. With the legislation that's going to
Speaker 2: be somewhere around five hundred and fifty thousand, So it
Speaker 2: does it's a partnership with the Town of Copan. We
Speaker 2: have a memorandum of understanding that was signed in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one that in essence, says that the Town of
Speaker 2: Copan will release those rights, the City of bars Will
Speaker 2: will pay them a negotiated amount to do that, and
Speaker 2: then the city can purchase those rights, and then the
Speaker 2: Town of Copen may purchase or lease those rights back
Speaker 2: from us and pay us the price that we paid
Speaker 2: to secure that. So we're currently in discussions with the
Speaker 2: Town of Copan to formalize an agreement that will specify
Speaker 2: how much we pay them and some of the other
Speaker 2: considerations that are with that. And so the council did
Speaker 2: want to keep that option moving forward, and so they
Speaker 2: approved that option as well. And then the last one
Speaker 2: that they approved was to develop a contingency plan so
Speaker 2: that if we have some sort of water emergency, that
Speaker 2: we can stand up a system very quickly and secure
Speaker 2: water from the North Tulsa area, which is Collinsville and Skytook,
Speaker 2: and be able to move that water back up north
Speaker 2: to our system, somewhat similar what New Orleans did about
Speaker 2: a year and a half ago when they had their
Speaker 2: drought and water shortage, where they had water pipe that
Speaker 2: was on top of the ground and several pump stations
Speaker 2: that that water into their treatment system. So we're looking
Speaker 2: at something fairly similar to that where we would possibly
Speaker 2: secure some contract rights with those entities in the North
Speaker 2: Tulsa area so that if there was ever an emergency
Speaker 2: that would come up, we could send up a system
Speaker 2: fairly quickly to secure water from those communities. So again,
Speaker 2: it's really more of an emergency item, a contention item.
Speaker 2: We're not looking to invest a lot of capital or
Speaker 2: a lot of money to prepare that, but just to
Speaker 2: see if that's seasable and what would be needed to
Speaker 2: potentially stand something up in short order for access to
Speaker 2: that water system. We also did talk about call Aake
Speaker 2: a little bit. We did a study that looked at
Speaker 2: the cost to move water from Calllake to Hudson Lake. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: that's a very expensive item to pursue, over two hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty million dollars for the cheapest option that would
Speaker 2: if the City of Barzil went at that project alone,
Speaker 2: that would potentially increase water bills for our average residential
Speaker 2: customer by one hundred and sixty dollars per month, so
Speaker 2: really not feasible from a cost perspective for us to
Speaker 2: go to Loane. We have been in discussions with Osage
Speaker 2: Nation and there may be a partnership there possibly as
Speaker 2: well as some federal grant opportunities that we've been working
Speaker 2: with our legislative Oklahoma delegation to see if that's even feasible.
Speaker 2: So we didn't close the door and call ake, but
Speaker 2: we're going to need some substantial help from a capital
Speaker 2: perspective to make that affordable for our customers to move
Speaker 2: forward with. So that's the items that council did approve
Speaker 2: regarding long term water supply. So these are long term,
Speaker 2: long term initiatives that will be pursued and we'll continue
Speaker 2: that effort as we have with the previous efforts, to
Speaker 2: continue to secure and make a long term solution for
Speaker 2: our water supply journey there. So those were the council
Speaker 2: items that were discussed and approved last last Monday night.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna jump with with mister Moniger here with
Speaker 2: sales tax and collections, and so Jason tell us how
Speaker 2: we're doing.
Speaker 4: Use kind of a mixed bag. Yeah, So sales tax collected,
Speaker 4: this figure was down two percent over last February. It's
Speaker 4: not a grand amount of forty three thousand dollars. For
Speaker 4: the year, we're still up bull less than half a percent,
Speaker 4: roughly fifty five thousand dollars on the year. But budgetarily
Speaker 4: we're up almost two percent, which is about two hundred
Speaker 4: ninety two thousand, close to three hundred thousand dollars up
Speaker 4: compared to what we had budgeted for. When we jump
Speaker 4: into the use tax, it was actually up three point
Speaker 4: three six percent, which is about just a little shy
Speaker 4: of twenty thousand dollars. And for the year we're down
Speaker 4: three point two percent compared to last year, which is
Speaker 4: about one hundred and ten thousand dollars. Then when we
Speaker 4: compare that to the budget, we're up almost two percent on that,
Speaker 4: which is about sixty one thousand dollars. So a little
Speaker 4: bit of mixed bag here. The good thing is we
Speaker 4: budget conservatively, so we're ahead of our budgetary expectations. So
Speaker 4: that's really what we benched mark towards. Anyway, we like
Speaker 4: looking at the year over year. But sales tax us
Speaker 4: tax are both pretty volatile given on economic conditions, so
Speaker 4: we always budget conservatively.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so sales tax, that's actually not this month, that's
Speaker 2: actually a couple of months.
Speaker 4: Probably two months ago, a month and a half. It trails. Obviously,
Speaker 4: if you bought something today, the store would collect and
Speaker 4: hold it till they remitted theirs to the state, and
Speaker 4: the state would hold it and they've remde it back
Speaker 4: to us the following month, So it is a lag.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So even though we get revenue from sales tax,
Speaker 2: we actually don't collect that do we Stay of Oklahoma
Speaker 2: coles State of Oklahoma.
Speaker 4: So it technically the retailers collected, then the state of
Speaker 4: Oklahoma collects it, and then they.
Speaker 3: Remit it to us.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, so there's a kind of a several hops
Speaker 2: that it takes before it actually gets to us, and
Speaker 2: it takes a couple of months for that to migrate
Speaker 2: actually let's get to us. Yes, yeah, So again, just
Speaker 2: shop locally if you can whenever possible. The use tax
Speaker 2: has been certainly a benefit for us. When did that
Speaker 2: go into effect, Jason.
Speaker 4: Are use tax when the fact March of twenty twenty three,
Speaker 4: it took a little bit of a change use tax,
Speaker 4: did you know, Probably in the twenty four months leading
Speaker 4: up to that, they started the state of Oklahoma at
Speaker 4: least codified that online online sales were going to be
Speaker 4: deemed use tax, which is a companion tax to sales tax.
Speaker 4: So it really kind of leveled the playing field for
Speaker 4: the online retailers. With the brick and mortar retailers we
Speaker 4: have here in town, you don't get that that incentive
Speaker 4: to shop online and gets your local sales tax piece
Speaker 4: omitted from that final sales. So, you know, it took
Speaker 4: a Supreme Court decision to be reversed from many years ago,
Speaker 4: back when it was catalog shopping quil was the case.
Speaker 4: It was referenced that it wasn't feasible for all states
Speaker 4: know that, or for retail entities to know the tax
Speaker 4: rates of all entities. Well, now in the modern day
Speaker 4: of the internet, that's easily readily available, make a deal
Speaker 4: for them to assume that these these entities can can
Speaker 4: pick up those numbers fairly easy. So it's just a
Speaker 4: big shift. You know, it's technology changes. Everything changes. Probably
Speaker 4: the Supreme Court changed their decision on the cluelcase.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that took a lot of initiative
Speaker 2: and effort. I believe Dale Copeland was involved with.
Speaker 4: It's been from a city perspective, it's been it's been
Speaker 4: a long, long journey. I know, probably twelve to fifteen
Speaker 4: years the city's been having this discussion. And at the
Speaker 4: end of the day, I mean, you just didn't know
Speaker 4: on how how much sales tax dollars or use tax
Speaker 4: dollars we were missing out on. You know, I remember
Speaker 4: back in those days we were assuming maybe a million,
Speaker 4: million and a half, but we look at it and
Speaker 4: it's closer to five four and a half to five
Speaker 4: million a year. And you look at all the years
Speaker 4: we didn't have taxation on those sales, the city be
Speaker 4: sitting a lot better. Well, we're in a good financial
Speaker 4: position as it is, but if you can just imagine
Speaker 4: all those dollars were left off the table from those times.
Speaker 2: So if you buy on Amazon or online, you'll notice
Speaker 2: use tax. That's part of that is coming to us.
Speaker 4: Amazon when you look at the thing as the largest,
Speaker 4: the largest contributor to.
Speaker 2: These tax yeah, yeah, So.
Speaker 1: We went their trucks running all over our roads. We
Speaker 1: better get some money there everywhere.
Speaker 2: That's for sure, absolutely, so, yeah, so it's really been
Speaker 2: a benefit. How much did we collect last year, do
Speaker 2: you remember?
Speaker 4: Off top of last year was four point eight million.
Speaker 2: Four point eight million, So it's been certainly a shot
Speaker 2: in the arm and much needed for that because really
Speaker 2: with city services, which historically has relied only on sales tax,
Speaker 2: that's the majority of the services that the city provides.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's it's most of the scene services, correct,
Speaker 4: you know, the public safety, parks, recreation, that's side, that's
Speaker 4: I'm wholly funded from the.
Speaker 2: General Police and fire all funded through sales tax or
Speaker 2: general funds. So a bulk of the city services really
Speaker 2: rely on sales tax and now a little bit of
Speaker 2: use tax to provide that service. So it helps.
Speaker 4: You know, in the day and the edge of the internet,
Speaker 4: you could see you know, internet sales going up, breaking
Speaker 4: mortar sales, I wouldn't say going down, but not not
Speaker 4: increasing at the at the rate they would had there
Speaker 4: not been online sales to.
Speaker 2: Take that legs. Yeah, very good, very good. So overall
Speaker 2: we're doing well. So continue to shop locally if you can.
Speaker 4: Yes, appreciate it, Appreciate our citizens for shopping locally, and
Speaker 4: then we'll take that all day, every day.
Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely, So we're going to bring in Micah Snyder,
Speaker 2: the other Micah as what we call you, uh, Micah Seemers, Yeah,
Speaker 2: Micah Seemers, Micah Snyder. So we've got to Micah Micah
Speaker 2: ass with the city first name.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, so it's been uh but Micah, you've been with
Speaker 2: the city for for a little while. Tell us a
Speaker 2: little bit about because you're a you're.
Speaker 5: Actually a homegrown I am, yeah, coming up on two
Speaker 5: years being with the city.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think my family moved here in what ninety five
Speaker 3: or ninety.
Speaker 5: Six, So I went all the way up through the
Speaker 5: Bartlesville Public School system, nothing but good things to say
Speaker 5: about it. Graduated in twenty thirteen. Don't let that jar you.
Speaker 5: That actually is over ten years ago. So now I
Speaker 5: would I love being with the you know, old radio pros,
Speaker 5: you guys. It's nice to hear you guys talk. Sounds
Speaker 5: like you really know what you're doing. I almost didn't
Speaker 5: say old radio pros, but earlier you said Lamar Kendrick
Speaker 5: instead of Kendrick Lamar. So oh my goodness, sorry, that's right,
Speaker 5: that's true. Yeah, I could see why that would be
Speaker 5: confusing but yeah, I've been with the city about two years.
Speaker 5: I am, as you said, the senior city city planner,
Speaker 5: So I'm over the planning division in the Community Development department.
Speaker 5: Larry Curtis, the Community Development Director, is over that department.
Speaker 5: And before that I was with the City of Broken
Speaker 5: Arrow doing kind of similar work. So really anything that
Speaker 5: has to do with zoning, you want to do a
Speaker 5: lot split, you know, platting, things like that, the very
Speaker 5: fun technical things that comes through our office. So definitely
Speaker 5: feel free to reach out give us a call anytime
Speaker 5: you have a question about, you know, how you might
Speaker 5: want to use your.
Speaker 3: Property or or develop it. There are just two, you.
Speaker 5: Know, quick things that we were gonna I was going
Speaker 5: to mention that community Development has going on right now.
Speaker 3: One of those things is.
Speaker 5: The sidewalk Cost Repair Partnership.
Speaker 2: And so before we get in that, I think there
Speaker 2: is sometimes confusion on who owns a sidewalk, So takas
Speaker 2: or walk us through. I'm actually owned sidewalk.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you bring that up.
Speaker 5: So a lot of people don't realize, at least in
Speaker 5: the city of Bartleslow many cities in the City of Oklahoma,
Speaker 5: the abutting property owner is actually the one who's responsible
Speaker 5: for maintaining that sidewalk, or if there's not sidewalk there
Speaker 5: and you're going to develop that property, that developer is
Speaker 5: responsible for putting that sidewalk in. So this initiative is
Speaker 5: kind of born out of the recent updates to the
Speaker 5: sidewalk regulations that went into effect in July of twenty
Speaker 5: twenty three I believe now.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's twenty twenty five, so.
Speaker 5: We didn't change the fact that the sidewalks are still
Speaker 5: maintained by the abuding property owners.
Speaker 3: So that is still still applies.
Speaker 5: But this program is basically designed to assist those owners
Speaker 5: if there are substantial repairs needed, like cracks and even
Speaker 5: services that are really just busted up they've been there
Speaker 5: for a long time. If those costs end up exceeding
Speaker 5: five hundred dollars, then you can apply for this financial.
Speaker 3: Assistance for the city to help with.
Speaker 5: So basically, like you can kind of think of that
Speaker 5: five hundred dollars as a.
Speaker 3: Deductible I guess you know.
Speaker 5: If you happen to be selected for the program, there
Speaker 5: is an application online excuse me on the city Atbarlsville
Speaker 5: dot org And if you look at the February fifth
Speaker 5: edition of City Beat.
Speaker 3: You can actually find the link just right to that application.
Speaker 5: Those applications are being accepted from February fifteenth through March fifteenth,
Speaker 5: and then we would hope to award that assistance in
Speaker 5: sometime in April. And we do have a scoring system
Speaker 5: that's prioritized as repairs that are going to improve public safety,
Speaker 5: preserve infrastructure, and meet community standards. We definitely think about,
Speaker 5: you know, a wheelchair going over sidewalk, We wouldn't want
Speaker 5: for it to run into a bump where you can't
Speaker 5: really get over very easily. So uneven surfaces things like that.
Speaker 5: If you happen to notice that in front of your
Speaker 5: property or property that you that you own or use,
Speaker 5: maybe look into how much that cost. And the application
Speaker 5: does require you get some bids on that on that
Speaker 5: repair before you submit it, so we will evaluate those,
Speaker 5: as I said, later in March after the application period closes.
Speaker 3: And then have some selections made in April.
Speaker 2: Very good so, but at a minimum, each applicant's going
Speaker 2: to put in five hundred dollars toward that program, so
Speaker 2: you will have at least five hundred dollars that you
Speaker 2: will have to put in of your own money. Do
Speaker 2: you know how much money is available for that program
Speaker 2: from the grant or the city side of it?
Speaker 5: Now, I believe it's Anyone can correct me if I
Speaker 5: end up being wrong. I'm pretty sure there is a
Speaker 5: pool of about fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: But it's supposed to be split between I mean, I've seen.
Speaker 5: Okay, but I believe that's supposed to be split split
Speaker 5: between these repair potential repairs and also some gap filling
Speaker 5: that we may do.
Speaker 3: Good.
Speaker 2: So the end, I believe that grant opens up Friday,
Speaker 2: fifteen fifteenth. I believe this Friday. So that's that.
Speaker 3: I know we've had several people interested in that grant.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, so you have a month to submit tom
Speaker 2: your grand application there for your for your Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: smooth and good, good.
Speaker 1: Little subtle slope toward the road.
Speaker 2: Fantastic, son, get the water out there. Yeah. So if
Speaker 2: you have a sidewalk that is in disrepair or is
Speaker 2: really in need of some love and attention, then this
Speaker 2: is your program. That's this is your program. So all
Speaker 2: the applications are online. If somebody is not maybe technically
Speaker 2: savvy for internet applications, is there a way they can
Speaker 2: come in to fill something.
Speaker 5: Just well we can help you get through it. Just
Speaker 5: come up to the second floor City Hall and give
Speaker 5: to calling. In previous life did tech sports. I'm really
Speaker 5: good at navigating over the phone, navigating, navigate online.
Speaker 3: Good.
Speaker 2: So what's a what's the number they can call if
Speaker 2: they have questions about the sidewalk program?
Speaker 3: Three three eight four two four four four two four four.
Speaker 2: I know she didn't give Larry's direct number there on
Speaker 2: that one, so that.
Speaker 3: Would be four two three s.
Speaker 1: He's catching up. Yeah, he's a quick stety and the
Speaker 1: next thing you know, he'll have the hay Bailey button too.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, well I usually throw that in there.
Speaker 2: Just that's my stick.
Speaker 1: It's what he does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sidewalk application program is going to run for a month,
Speaker 2: So it opens up February fifteenth, which is this Friday,
Speaker 2: and goes through March fifteenth, and I guess it'll be
Speaker 2: someone on a first come, first serve basis possible kind.
Speaker 5: Of No, Actually, we have a pretty pretty good sheet
Speaker 5: to evaluate each application up against him.
Speaker 3: Like I said, it's going to.
Speaker 5: Prioritize public safety, preserving infrastructure probably also so if it's
Speaker 5: a critical area, that there just happens to be a
Speaker 5: gap in and that's a gap. As far as the
Speaker 5: condition of the sidewalk, that would be something that would
Speaker 5: vector in as well.
Speaker 2: All right, very good. So I'm sure there's not a
Speaker 2: lack of projects or opportunities out there for property o ours.
Speaker 2: But again, if you have a sidewalk that's in disrepair,
Speaker 2: this is your opportunity to receive some financial assistance to
Speaker 2: improve that. So let's talk about the startup incubation programs.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, so this is a concerning Centennial Park, which
Speaker 5: maybe that name isn't super familiar to everybody, but I
Speaker 5: think the pink Buffalo and the older building on Johnson
Speaker 5: and Frank Phillips should be familiar to everybody.
Speaker 3: So this is.
Speaker 5: A newly established startup incubation program where basically we're trying
Speaker 5: to facilitate early entrepreneurship. Now this building, I think it's
Speaker 5: about six hundred square feet. Now there's no there's no kitchen,
Speaker 5: so it would kind of be potential businesses that maybe
Speaker 5: don't involve a kitchen necessarily or full from marcial grade
Speaker 5: kitchen and any use of the space if you do
Speaker 5: end up having to make repairs of course that's going
Speaker 5: to be up to you to make. But this program
Speaker 5: was approved by city Council on January sixth, and it
Speaker 5: was a recommendation by the park Board to take advantage
Speaker 5: of this space since it is a city park.
Speaker 3: The park Board is over over that space.
Speaker 5: The applic for this one, the application is already open
Speaker 5: and they're going to be going through February twenty eighth,
Speaker 5: and those will those applications will be again there's a
Speaker 5: score sheet existing that was developed alongside this initiative, and
Speaker 5: the park Board itself, perhaps with some input from the Chamber,
Speaker 5: would be the ones reviewing those applications and making those selections.
Speaker 5: I don't know the selection date necessarily, but I know
Speaker 5: the applications are being accepted through the end of this month.
Speaker 5: And again that's something that if you look at that
Speaker 5: February fifth edition of City Beat, you can find the
Speaker 5: link directly to the application or just going on our
Speaker 5: citywartslow dot org website.
Speaker 2: Go So again, an application process so really intended for startup,
Speaker 2: small type businesses. I think the facility has one room,
Speaker 2: one restroom type of layout. Rent and city services will
Speaker 2: be furnished at no cost to this commute or to
Speaker 2: this entity or a program. I think electricity will be
Speaker 2: the responsibility of the tenant utilities would be, So how
Speaker 2: long can somebody stay for whoever selected, how long can
Speaker 2: they stay within.
Speaker 5: They it's a six month test run right now, So
Speaker 5: you really kind of got to hit the ground running
Speaker 5: with whatever concept it is you have. One of the
Speaker 5: evaluation criteria is marketing because of that time short time frame.
Speaker 5: Really want to see that you're willing, ready, and able
Speaker 5: to get the word out as quickly as possible so
Speaker 5: that this is a successful venture for you as an
Speaker 5: early entrepreneur. So it is a six month time frame
Speaker 5: once you get in there, and I'm not really sure,
Speaker 5: you know, if we've gone much further and you know,
Speaker 5: if that is something that could be renewed after that,
Speaker 5: I'm sure that conversation could be happened.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So really a new initiative I think for the
Speaker 2: city of Barstow to this offer this opportunity. So it's fantastic.
Speaker 2: I'm sure things may be tweaked ordj Justed as we
Speaker 2: get Yeah, as we get some experience with it. So again,
Speaker 2: if you are a kind of a small business or
Speaker 2: a possible startup, this is an opportunity to get rent
Speaker 2: and water sewer for free, and the only thing you
Speaker 2: would have to provide is electricity and probably internet if
Speaker 2: that's so necessary for your for your entity or for
Speaker 2: your operation there. So again, the application process is open.
Speaker 2: When does it closed?
Speaker 3: Closes at the end of this month of February twenty eighth, Feber.
Speaker 2: Twenty eighth, And then who's gonna Is the parkboard going
Speaker 2: to make decision or are they going to select which ones? Okay?
Speaker 5: So yeah, so I think something that still needs to
Speaker 5: be done as a part of this program, but it's
Speaker 5: something that's already been talked about, is creating a committee
Speaker 5: or subcommittee out.
Speaker 3: Of the park board to orde these applications and make
Speaker 3: a selection.
Speaker 2: All right, So if somebody has a question on that one,
Speaker 2: same same, yep, or they can call three three eight.
Speaker 3: Four two four two.
Speaker 2: Four four four two four four. Now who's four two
Speaker 2: four four is that? Go?
Speaker 3: Just fourteen four four is just the general Community Development Department.
Speaker 2: So they get a host of people.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they pick that line up, possibly brings several phones,
Speaker 5: several phones.
Speaker 2: So well, let's talk a little bit about development going
Speaker 2: around town. So I know people have noticed on Highway
Speaker 2: seventy five at the old hot Sooner Hotel or Sooner
Speaker 2: Motel there at Woodland and Highway seventy five. What's going
Speaker 2: there has gone up.
Speaker 5: They've started doing some some earthwork there that is supposed
Speaker 5: to be a fast tracked tire. There is an existing
Speaker 5: location over here on West Frank Phillips. Once this facility
Speaker 5: is constructed, I think the idea would be for them
Speaker 5: to relocate.
Speaker 3: Really glad to see that site.
Speaker 5: You know, being redeveloped, and I think it's going to
Speaker 5: be something really nice along our MA your corridor, Highway
Speaker 5: seventy five going through there there go.
Speaker 2: And then so maybe people who have traveled to Tulsa
Speaker 2: have noticed that the old hotel that was at.
Speaker 5: Camelot, the Hotel six, whatever you want to call it,
Speaker 5: what's going there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was originally.
Speaker 5: I think three two residential structures, and of course the
Speaker 5: hotel was there. It's now all been cleared out because
Speaker 5: city council proved a beauty plan unit development just kind
Speaker 5: of like CUSTOMI zoning for a new Hyundai dealership. Now
Speaker 5: that would be the Patriot Hunday that's existing already but
Speaker 5: shares the facility with GM GMC on the west side
Speaker 5: of the highway up north a little bit from the site,
Speaker 5: basically getting their own unique space just for Patriot Hunday.
Speaker 2: Therefore, So anything else newsworthy or noteworthy for development around town, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think if you've gone, you know, north of the
Speaker 2: roundabout on Silver Lake, you may have noticed that Oklahoma
Speaker 2: West Sans got their first quadplex UH standing and I
Speaker 2: think probably exciting will be put on it pretty soon.
Speaker 3: That's looking looking really nice. We're we're happy for them.
Speaker 5: That's one of ultimately the plan is supposed to be
Speaker 5: eight of those, and that was something that was approved
Speaker 5: last year. So I think they're you know, getting their
Speaker 5: feetbat with this first one, and it's it's looking really good.
Speaker 3: It's we're excited about that.
Speaker 5: One other thing you may have noticed is on Noada
Speaker 5: Highway sixty and Madison in the northwest corner. That's also
Speaker 5: UH vacant site, and that's going to be a an
Speaker 5: asap gas station and UH plans are still being reviewed
Speaker 5: for that, but we're hoping that they start construction, are
Speaker 5: able to start construction fairly soon.
Speaker 3: So so they.
Speaker 2: Score down a gas station, they're going to put back
Speaker 2: at that station exactly right, so sometimes you just don't change,
Speaker 2: but the building and facilities do quite a bit. So
Speaker 2: and the last but not least, we are, believe it
Speaker 2: or not, we will be in the growing season not
Speaker 2: too far away likely, and so Creity Development has to
Speaker 2: stink a pleasure to handle the weed and trash for
Speaker 2: the City of Barsville. For code enforcement. Yes, so let's
Speaker 2: talk talk to us a little bit about kind of
Speaker 2: weed and trash. What'sh what's the limits of stuff. We
Speaker 2: don't have to worry about it necessarily now since the
Speaker 2: growing seasons. Yeah, yeah, upon us, but it will.
Speaker 5: Be shortly well, I mean, I think you know, as
Speaker 5: far as trash, definitely can't have that strewn about. It's
Speaker 5: something that if we get a complaint on, we're definitely
Speaker 5: gonna come out and check it out.
Speaker 3: Now, it's not something that you get in trouble.
Speaker 5: For immediately when we say, you know, please fix this
Speaker 5: within a reasonable amount of time. And nine times out
Speaker 5: of ten that's exactly what happens. People just pick it
Speaker 5: up and it's no issue. Same thing with weeds and trash.
Speaker 5: I think if it gets to be Now I'm not
Speaker 5: in the code enforcement division, but.
Speaker 3: I believe if it gets to be like eight to
Speaker 3: twelve inches something like that.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's when somebody could say, hey, this person's lawn
Speaker 5: is way too tall and let us know, and again
Speaker 5: we'd come out there and kind of give you a
Speaker 5: courtesy notice, Hey, this is something needs to be taken
Speaker 5: care of. And again, nine times out of ten, that's
Speaker 5: exactly what happens. Well for as many causes as we
Speaker 5: get that, that extra ten percent does end up keeping
Speaker 5: our CUD enforcement has pretty.
Speaker 2: Different but yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's certainly a full
Speaker 2: time job. It is, but it's really a community standard.
Speaker 2: So we've have rules and regulations as far as property
Speaker 2: and maintenance, and really that's what they are there to
Speaker 2: ensure that it's maintained. So, uh, it's not My understanding
Speaker 2: is they're not driving around looking for for violations. It's
Speaker 2: really a complaint based type operation. So they do a
Speaker 2: tremendous amount of work and certainly help keep our community
Speaker 2: beautiful and so we're very appreciative of the efforts that
Speaker 2: they do. But it's a full time job. I think
Speaker 2: they have what two or three officers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they've got so they've got three Neighborhood Service officers.
Speaker 3: Is the official name of that position.
Speaker 5: And then they've got an abatement officer who's really the.
Speaker 3: One guy doing all They.
Speaker 2: Cleaned up all the hardware. Yes, they don't abide by
Speaker 2: the rules and the orders, and he gets the opportunity
Speaker 2: to clean.
Speaker 3: It up, yeah, and does a great job. They all
Speaker 3: do a really great job.
Speaker 5: That's a busy division and they're they're always at it.
Speaker 2: There you go.
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