Speaker 1: Good Bonnie, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It is time now for city matters. If it matters
Speaker 1: to you, it matters to the city, and I guess
Speaker 1: so we just find out something here Mike Bailey.
Speaker 2: First of all, that nice to see you.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen you in about a month and a half.
Speaker 2: It's good to see you, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I'm glad you took it because during that vacation,
Speaker 1: I understand that you became the.
Speaker 2: City Manager of the year.
Speaker 3: Sir, What was the entry fee on that?
Speaker 2: I wrote a great self thought. No, no, I was.
Speaker 2: I truly was surprised and honored. It's it was given
Speaker 2: by the City Managers Association of Oklahoma. They give that
Speaker 2: They give it out annually and they do it based
Speaker 2: on different city sizes. So this year was the large
Speaker 2: city size and I was I was honored to receive. Well,
Speaker 2: very very good.
Speaker 3: It was the qualifiation.
Speaker 2: You just had to be a city manager pretty much.
Speaker 2: It in a city of a certain size, and somebody
Speaker 2: thought enough of you to actually to put in an
Speaker 2: application for you.
Speaker 3: Well, good on't you.
Speaker 2: No, it was I think I know who who nominated me,
Speaker 2: And I don't know whether to thank them or scold them.
Speaker 2: We'll figure out when I when I find out for sure,
Speaker 2: who do you get extra golf privileges out it? Maybe
Speaker 2: on Saturday, Yeah, on Saturday for sure and play all
Speaker 2: I wanted to turn down. So what's happening in the city. Well,
Speaker 2: you know, there's actually so First off, it's a beautiful day.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed it is out this morning and wandering around
Speaker 2: and it's pretty gorgeous. Although now I think it's warming
Speaker 2: up a little bit, it still looks good through the window.
Speaker 2: It's going to be tropical here in about twenty four hours,
Speaker 2: That's what I'm afraid. So we'll enjoy it while it last.
Speaker 2: But the city council met that was last week, wasn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeh met last week and had a couple of items
Speaker 2: on there that were pretty substantial. One of those I
Speaker 2: know the public has been very curious about what's going
Speaker 2: on with the Buffalo Rome, which of course is the
Speaker 2: business is moving into the old First Christian Church. The
Speaker 2: city has been involved in providing a economic development incentive
Speaker 2: to them, but however they had to close their own
Speaker 2: financing to prove that they had the funding because we
Speaker 2: were only matching and so they've been working with banks
Speaker 2: for quite a while. It took a little longer, I
Speaker 2: think than the management expected, but they actually I got
Speaker 2: word from one of the principles involved in it that
Speaker 2: they are indeed closed. So that's good news. So it
Speaker 2: looks like that project will be moving forward. We still
Speaker 2: have some details to work out. I was happy to
Speaker 2: see that it took a little while, and of course
Speaker 2: the council's real interest in this was the preservation of
Speaker 2: that building. There was some concern that that would simply
Speaker 2: become a parking lot, and there's a lot of history there.
Speaker 2: It was built. I think the basement was dug in
Speaker 2: I believe the eighteen nineties, if I'm not mistaken. Wow,
Speaker 2: And that was actually where they had their original they
Speaker 2: held their original services in the basement, believe it. They
Speaker 2: built the basement before they built the rest of the building.
Speaker 2: So all of that is still there, a huge part
Speaker 2: of our history, and so we're glad to hear that
Speaker 2: it is going to be preserved and put into functional use.
Speaker 2: So it was pretty exciting.
Speaker 3: Now big investments often make news.
Speaker 2: As they say yes sir, yea there, and that has
Speaker 2: certainly had people's attention so we look forward to seeing
Speaker 2: what's coming in the near future. Got a couple of
Speaker 2: things going on. Of course, we've got our golf pro
Speaker 2: here with us today when we're talking to him in
Speaker 2: a minute, but before we do that, so you know what, now,
Speaker 2: let's cut the line here, do that. So Jerry Benedict
Speaker 2: is our golf pro. He still is our golf bro.
Speaker 2: Jerry has been the golf pro at Adams Golf Course
Speaker 2: since nineteen eighty six. Six nineteen eighty six, so a
Speaker 2: couple of years before I graduated high school, believe it
Speaker 2: or not, he became the golf pro out there and
Speaker 2: has been ever since. So it is truly hard to
Speaker 2: imagine Adams Golf Course without our golf pro, Jerry Benedict.
Speaker 2: But we are about to enter into that era, and
Speaker 2: so that is I think pro. Your last official day
Speaker 2: is on the sixteenth, right, but we'll be having a
Speaker 2: party for you on the fourteenth, and we would invite
Speaker 2: everybody to attend that. That's actually on August fourteenth, from
Speaker 2: two to four at the clubhouse. Right. The public's invited.
Speaker 2: Anyone who'd like to attend, come on up and tell
Speaker 2: Jerry goodbye. Although I don't know that he's leaving Linda.
Speaker 2: Linda Maylenda ha plans for you, but I'm not sure
Speaker 2: whether she can drag you out of Bartlesville or not.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm going to get out of it.
Speaker 2: Pro we are careful what you agree to. They don't forget.
Speaker 2: Linda definitely didn't forget. So pro we.
Speaker 4: Don't make any promises when you're drinking.
Speaker 2: I think those are words to live by. That is
Speaker 2: that is sage advice. I think that is sage advice. Bro.
Speaker 2: So that if you take nothing else from his career,
Speaker 2: listen to that. This is a man speaking with experience.
Speaker 2: So thirty see if I did the math right, thirty
Speaker 2: eight years thirty eight as a golf pro Adams Municipal
Speaker 2: Golf Course, this time, this time, that's right.
Speaker 4: You were actually an assistant bro seventy seventy five.
Speaker 2: Seventy to seventy five, So thirty eight years is the pro,
Speaker 2: five years as the assistant pro forty three years at
Speaker 2: Adams Municipal Golf Course. It's pretty incredible Commenty.
Speaker 4: I don't know Howney how I got here, but here
Speaker 4: you are from Michigan.
Speaker 2: A good Michigan boy down here in Bartlesville. Oklahoma. So
Speaker 2: but we're going to miss you and any anything you
Speaker 2: want to tell everybody.
Speaker 4: I'd like to go through some of the things just
Speaker 4: real quick. When I came, the place was a mess
Speaker 4: of asphalt around the clubhouse with holes in it and stuff,
Speaker 4: and uh, every ice there was buckets in the room
Speaker 4: catching the rain drops and stuff. And I said, what
Speaker 4: the heck is the dealing. Well, the city won't help us.
Speaker 4: A city won't hell. That was the big excuse.
Speaker 2: That was the story. This is eighty six, by the way,
Speaker 2: I wasn't working for the city yet, so I just
Speaker 2: want to get that on the record.
Speaker 4: There were no cart paths, and there was bear spots
Speaker 4: by the tea boxes and by the greens with the
Speaker 4: cart paths where the carts were going and stuff. So
Speaker 4: that's one of the first things we did was we
Speaker 4: semeent it around it around the clubhouse and got cement
Speaker 4: and pixed it up where it was nice, and then
Speaker 4: we put cart paths in. I hired a guy from
Speaker 4: uh Oklahoma City Golfing Country Club is he was the
Speaker 4: second assistant to one of the best superintendents, and he
Speaker 4: did he did one half of a job for use
Speaker 4: and together we all laid cart paths, and we hired
Speaker 4: this guy named Jody Shahan to help us.
Speaker 2: And another got another longtime story at our course.
Speaker 4: But the city was there, of course, and and the
Speaker 4: Lion Foundation was there for it ever since. Then. We
Speaker 4: extended the clubhouse on the south side because it was
Speaker 4: just a little narrow locker room and he couldn't see
Speaker 4: out or anything. And so they made a nice extension
Speaker 4: on the south side of the clubhouse, which was beautiful.
Speaker 4: And then one of the best things we did, my
Speaker 4: son told me to do it. Our scoreboard area was
Speaker 4: a hill with and people couldn't sit out there. They
Speaker 4: have to stand and watch their scores come in. And
Speaker 4: and so we laid a cement path all the way
Speaker 4: to the scoreboard, filled in with dirt, filled it in
Speaker 4: and it was one of the biggest improvements in the clubhouse. People,
Speaker 4: I mean, Southern Hills doesn't have as good a scoreboard
Speaker 4: area as we have, and either does Hill Chris. They
Speaker 4: sit out there and we cook for him, they eat
Speaker 4: out there, they watched their scores come in and they
Speaker 4: present the prizes right there. It's really a nice deal.
Speaker 4: But the cart pass was the biggest improvement to the
Speaker 4: golf course.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine a golf course without cart pass now?
Speaker 4: Target, Yeah, we laid it ourselves, with Judy and me
Speaker 4: and Larry still still there driving rage t was extended
Speaker 4: the two thousand rented in two thousand where we put
Speaker 4: four new greens in that we're having trouble, and did
Speaker 4: the lakes and stuff. The city was there for that,
Speaker 4: and the Lion Foundation was there for there for that
Speaker 4: white Sand Bunkers, which actually the white Sand Bunkers, I
Speaker 4: raised most of the money from that at the Solo Club.
Speaker 4: I want to let you know, since we brought it up.
Speaker 2: The other day, that was pro second office.
Speaker 4: The city was there for everything, and the white Sand
Speaker 4: Bunkers are wonderful. And now the city's there for the
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five renovation, which is going to be wonderful
Speaker 4: and it's really going to be nice, and so is
Speaker 4: the Lion Foundation going to be there, and all of
Speaker 4: the members had done so well with her. So it's
Speaker 4: been a wonderful, wonderful career for me, and I can't
Speaker 4: believe the city put up with me this long, but
Speaker 4: I'm very thankful. Raise my kids. In my house, the
Speaker 4: golf course was a backyard and the junior program, the
Speaker 4: senior program and the ladies program. The junior program, now,
Speaker 4: there's so many good players came out of the junior
Speaker 4: program that we did. Sean Barker holds the course record.
Speaker 4: We taught him from the beginning. Many many people are
Speaker 4: playing golf from that junior program and stuff. The senior
Speaker 4: program is the biggest senior program because of Adam's golf course.
Speaker 4: The people retire from Phillips and they stay here, and
Speaker 4: the city recognizes the importance of the golf course, and
Speaker 4: the Ladies Association is absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 2: But anyway, it has been quite a journey. Yeah, And
Speaker 2: the upcoming renovations out there are primarily focused on the
Speaker 2: greens and it will be the probably it will be
Speaker 2: the largest investment that the city has made in the
Speaker 2: golf course, and pro that wouldn't have happened without you. Well,
Speaker 2: your advocacy for the golf course through the years is
Speaker 2: the reason that we're doing that. So I'm grateful to
Speaker 2: you for your leadership out there. I'm grateful to you
Speaker 2: for all of the time that you've spent and invested
Speaker 2: in the golf course, and I personally will miss you.
Speaker 4: You think I'll miss you too, but I'm going to
Speaker 4: stick around for a What.
Speaker 2: If you don't leave, I don't get to miss your pro.
Speaker 4: Make you up some console, that's all right, in a long.
Speaker 2: Time, that's all right. If you don't leave, I don't
Speaker 2: have to miss your pros. But I truly do appreciate you,
Speaker 2: and we want to send you out in style. So
Speaker 2: one more time, We've got a party for the Pro
Speaker 2: on August fourteenth, two to four at the clubhouse. Everyone's
Speaker 2: invited come join us. And then in the transition, so
Speaker 2: Pro's last day will be August sixteenth. And for anybody
Speaker 2: who doesn't know the way, the golf course has been
Speaker 2: run probably the entire time, but I know since we
Speaker 2: hired PRO in eighty six, the pro actually operates the
Speaker 2: pro shop out there, the driving range, the golf carts.
Speaker 2: I think that was primarily it. Yeah, the concessions, all
Speaker 2: the food and beverage, and so that was a very
Speaker 2: common model back then. It's become less common now, and
Speaker 2: so we are actually looking to transition in the near
Speaker 2: future with we will be transitioning over to where the
Speaker 2: city actually owns all of that and operates it. So
Speaker 2: we wanted to celebrate that as well. So we got
Speaker 2: a party for the pro on the fourteenth, and then
Speaker 2: on the seventeenth we're going to celebrate taking over the
Speaker 2: golf course and it will be free golf for anybody
Speaker 2: who's interested. So on August seventeenth, come on out. We'll
Speaker 2: have carts available, we'll have water available, and it's free
Speaker 2: golf for anybody in the Bartlesville community. We invite you,
Speaker 2: We want you to come out. We want you to
Speaker 2: be part of this course. As the pro mentioned when
Speaker 2: the process the city, what he really means is the
Speaker 2: citizens of Bartlesville. They're the ones that have passed these
Speaker 2: bond issues and sales taxes to allow for the support
Speaker 2: the golf course. So this is our way of saying
Speaker 2: thank you to our community. Whether you're a golfer or
Speaker 2: whether you're interested in golfer, never played, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Come on out August seventeenth. We will have somebody there
Speaker 2: to help get you started, get you set up, and
Speaker 2: it's a first come, first serve and the pro shop
Speaker 2: will not be opened that day because again it's transitioned.
Speaker 2: So we've got to do a big inventory and do
Speaker 2: a big countdown so that we can handle that change over,
Speaker 2: but the golf course itself will be open, and we
Speaker 2: certainly hope that the public will come out and enjoy it.
Speaker 2: Come enjoy your investment, and come tell pro Bile on
Speaker 2: the fourteenth. Yeah, we're looking forward to both of those things. Well,
Speaker 2: thank you, pro mat I said, you are an institution
Speaker 2: unto yourself, sweet and we appreciate you. So all right,
Speaker 2: talking sales tax, Jason Moneger is here, finance director, so
Speaker 2: he is going to give us a quick update on
Speaker 2: sales and use tax working.
Speaker 5: So where we're through August. So we got two months.
Speaker 5: You know, July was up a little bit by almost
Speaker 5: two percent. August is down about point seven percent, pretty flat,
Speaker 5: down about fourteen thousand dollars. So nothing major, nothing drastic,
Speaker 5: just a little fluctuation. Budgetarily, we were up those months
Speaker 5: because we budget a little more conservatively than what we
Speaker 5: what we did, what we expect to come in versus.
Speaker 2: That's important is that we actually budgeted for less than
Speaker 2: we received in the prior year.
Speaker 5: We always expect, you know, somewhat of a correction because
Speaker 5: we feel like we've kind of been over collecting things.
Speaker 2: Things took off, really they come down.
Speaker 5: Spun everything up crazy, So we're trying to project project
Speaker 5: when that that pullback is going to happen.
Speaker 2: Hasn't really happened yet, but last year it's flattened out.
Speaker 2: But that's fine.
Speaker 3: So that's kind of where we're at.
Speaker 5: You know, for the year, we're still up you know,
Speaker 5: point six percent, but budgetarily still over you know, two
Speaker 5: point one eight percent or eighty three thousand dollars from
Speaker 5: the priority. So that's a budget of good news for
Speaker 5: this year zero point six. I didn't do a calculation
Speaker 5: on that. It's probably gonna be somewhere around oh gosh,
Speaker 5: twenty thousand dollars, twenty dollars over.
Speaker 2: From the prior year so early in the year. But
Speaker 2: things are looking good. Of course, as we've said, we
Speaker 2: we we budget conservatively because you can't predict what's coming
Speaker 2: in the future.
Speaker 5: Sales tax's volities and that's just depend on the economy
Speaker 5: and everything else.
Speaker 2: Always, always has been, and it's the bane of cities,
Speaker 2: it is so now. The companion to sales tax, of course,
Speaker 2: is use tax, which is basically, if you bought something
Speaker 2: that sales tax would have normally been due on, but
Speaker 2: you didn't pay sales tax for whatever reason, it falls
Speaker 2: under category of use tax, and so in use tax,
Speaker 2: this is something that we've now had, it's about sixteen
Speaker 2: months something like that. We're relatively new to it. So
Speaker 2: so how we start the year on us eighteenth or
Speaker 2: eighteenth collect eighteenth?
Speaker 5: Okay, it was up eleven point eleven zero point two percent,
Speaker 5: so roughly sixty thousand dollars compared compared I said about
Speaker 5: fifty thousand dollars compared to last year.
Speaker 2: Last year. That's good.
Speaker 5: We say conservative kind of on our budget on that
Speaker 5: a little bit too, and it was up sixty thousand
Speaker 5: dollars over budgetary expectation. So we're sitting about twelve percent
Speaker 5: over our budget anticipation for the year on that one.
Speaker 2: So all all good news. In spite of some of
Speaker 2: the shaky economic indicators that are out there, things are
Speaker 2: still now this this this is historical. Anytime we get
Speaker 2: sales notes, it's actually from a month to month and
Speaker 2: aflete and.
Speaker 5: We still don't have a whole lot of history. Look
Speaker 5: at this to see if this is you know, trying it.
Speaker 5: It looks like we're going to be in the you know,
Speaker 5: monthly mid hundred thousands, low four one thousand dollars. It's
Speaker 5: kind of average for that, so we're we're within those
Speaker 5: from our short history here, we're still in that range.
Speaker 5: So it's looking good and just expected to to keep
Speaker 5: on chugging a long bar and any huge economic changes
Speaker 5: in the story.
Speaker 2: So and if that happens, we're in very strong financial position,
Speaker 2: and we are. You just want everybody to know your
Speaker 2: city is prepared to weather or whatever it.
Speaker 5: Is very conservatively on esthma's for the upcoming year. And
Speaker 5: we also have contingencies for financial financial downfall in the
Speaker 5: in this area or country, so we can we can
Speaker 5: weather a lot of storms.
Speaker 2: So so we're we're very well prepared for it. So
Speaker 2: all right, Jason, Well I appreciate that, and we'll we'll
Speaker 2: continue to get the updates from you, of course throughout
Speaker 2: the years as a sales tax goes up, down or
Speaker 2: all around is what it usually does. Yeah, So all right, Larry,
Speaker 2: let's see if we can get you up here. So
Speaker 2: we've got a lot going on in your department. Oh yes,
Speaker 2: And so the we we mentioned earlier the Adams Golf
Speaker 2: Course survey, and I didn't tell people where to go
Speaker 2: to get it, but go to city at Arlsville dot org.
Speaker 2: We would love to know your thoughts on the golf course.
Speaker 2: But we also have a separate survey running which is
Speaker 2: the Park survey, and the park survey you can find
Speaker 2: on the same place. Yep, Citybartlefield dot org. Be a
Speaker 2: link out there for it. So how's that going so far? Yeah,
Speaker 2: sit a little while.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's been out for about a week and a half.
Speaker 6: And so this is a part of our Conferensive Plan.
Speaker 6: That's a part of the strategic plan that we have
Speaker 6: going on for the city of bartlesviielle. So the Conferenceive
Speaker 6: Plan is everyone has been we've been kind of harping
Speaker 6: about for the past couple of about a year now,
Speaker 6: is the overall master plan for the city as we
Speaker 6: move forward. This is the plan that we utilize to
Speaker 6: make all the big decisions for the city over for
Speaker 6: the next twenty years. As a part of that, it's
Speaker 6: we need to gather more detailed information in regards for
Speaker 6: our parks and recreation program, and so the survey is
Speaker 6: out there. We did a master plan for the parks
Speaker 6: about fifteen years ago, and so this is kind of
Speaker 6: an update to that to provide and to gather information
Speaker 6: and so it's so important for us to get some
Speaker 6: detailed information from our citizens.
Speaker 3: It does take a.
Speaker 6: Little bit of time to get through the survey, but
Speaker 6: it's it's relatively painless.
Speaker 2: So if you five ten minutes, five.
Speaker 3: Ten minutes, ten minutes, it's kind of on the usual size.
Speaker 6: So you know, if people could please go out there
Speaker 6: and do the survey mean a lot to us. That way,
Speaker 6: we can ensure that the plans that we make moving
Speaker 6: forward are the decisions that are being made by the public.
Speaker 2: And that is the public input is a huge part
Speaker 2: of updating the comprehensive plan. There would have been a
Speaker 2: number of points for public input and this is another one.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
Speaker 6: And that's the thing I like to reiterate is like,
Speaker 6: this is not that, this is not you know, city
Speaker 6: staff plan. This is your plan. This is our citizens plan,
Speaker 6: and we want to make sure that we get as
Speaker 6: much input as possible to make sure it is. It's
Speaker 6: what drives us moving forward.
Speaker 2: And how do you know how many results you've gotten
Speaker 2: so far?
Speaker 6: So far, we've had about one hundred and twenty results,
Speaker 6: but which is a lot more than we had on
Speaker 6: a survey that we did about fifteen years ago. Which
Speaker 6: is good and we're really excited to get a lot more.
Speaker 6: The more the more data points that we get in,
Speaker 6: the more information we get in, the more more we're
Speaker 6: able to make, you know, more accurate decisions.
Speaker 2: And the larger that survey is, more statistically valid is,
Speaker 2: and the more reflective it is of our communities.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, this is something that you and I both love,
Speaker 6: which is to data data.
Speaker 2: I enjoy it. I love knowing what the citizens of
Speaker 2: Bartlesville and it also it's always intriguing to me to
Speaker 2: see people's at people at different cycles of their life
Speaker 2: and different points of their life what they're interested. And
Speaker 2: it turns out everybody is interested in the parks. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they just have different depending on where they are. They
Speaker 2: just have different preference.
Speaker 3: It is, it is, and it's kind of interesting.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: I've been taking some cursory review of the data, and
Speaker 6: I don't want to taint the data poard. I need
Speaker 6: anything that It is very eye opening to see what's
Speaker 6: what's out there. So I know staff will be really
Speaker 6: excited to share that information to the public once we
Speaker 6: get closes out. So this this runs for about a month,
Speaker 6: so closer it'll wrap up close to the end of
Speaker 6: this month. So the sooner the better that you guys
Speaker 6: get out there and do the survey, it'd be fantastic.
Speaker 2: And we'll we'll keep talking about it to try to
Speaker 2: drive those results.
Speaker 6: So one last thing from Kennity Development. It is the
Speaker 6: growing season. So just extremely reminder, kindly reminder, please please
Speaker 6: mow when we need your yards, folks. We don't want to,
Speaker 6: we don't want to come by and say hi.
Speaker 2: Speaking if we're out there, it is likely because someone
Speaker 2: in your neighborhood has called us about about your yard.
Speaker 6: So this, yeah, this time of the year, we are
Speaker 6: we are definitely we are motivated by by complaints. We're
Speaker 6: not out there and driving by and seeing anything. We're
Speaker 6: we're data or we're complaint driven right now.
Speaker 2: So if someone has a yard or something of that
Speaker 2: nature and they want to call and have code enforcement
Speaker 2: take a look at it, what's the.
Speaker 6: Best not the best thing to do is just reach
Speaker 6: out to us and call us at the city hall,
Speaker 6: or go on to our city website and submit a
Speaker 6: complaint through there.
Speaker 3: Or download the new city app.
Speaker 2: There you go, I know where you're going.
Speaker 6: Download the city app and is really simple, U the
Speaker 6: City app, download that from either you know, from Apple
Speaker 6: Apps or from Google Apps and log in that way,
Speaker 6: and then you can file complaint that way, and you
Speaker 6: can definitely file complain anonymously.
Speaker 2: And there is there is a lot available. So the
Speaker 2: my bartles filld app. Good time to mention that it
Speaker 2: is on the Apple Store, as you said, it's on
Speaker 2: the Google Store. So it's my Bartlesville has a lot
Speaker 2: of functionality, but one of the most powerful things is
Speaker 2: that just about anything you might have wanted from the
Speaker 2: city you can request directly from that app exactly. So
Speaker 2: not quite everything yet, but we're working on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's lacking the hay Bailey button.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure many of those complaints actually fall into
Speaker 2: the hay Bailey O.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can definitely.
Speaker 2: So all right, well, thank you, Larry. I appreciate that,
Speaker 2: and we look forward to hearing the results of all
Speaker 2: of those surveys and all of the input that we're receiving.
Speaker 2: So our final guest, we've got our city engineer, Michah Seemers. Morning.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Micah. You have a lot going on. This
Speaker 2: is there's always a lot going on in not just
Speaker 2: the growing season, this is also the building season. It's
Speaker 2: a building season.
Speaker 7: It's the yeah, get everything else done in season, so
Speaker 7: get caught up.
Speaker 2: Huh. So I know that there's a lot going on.
Speaker 2: But in particular, we just awarded at the last council meeting.
Speaker 2: We awarded a pretty big project that I think was
Speaker 2: combined GEO bond, CIP sales tax. They got had components
Speaker 2: that came from both of those, right, all all voter approved.
Speaker 2: But this was the park infrastructure improvement. So can you
Speaker 2: kind of discuss the scope of that? And sure, and
Speaker 2: I'm going to ask you to say, when did you
Speaker 2: expect to get it started, knowing full well that you
Speaker 2: don't know exactly. Well, I did start, but I don't
Speaker 2: know that yet. That's the disclosure, that's true.
Speaker 7: So we did just award that project at the last
Speaker 7: city council meeting. Typically it takes you know, three three
Speaker 7: weeks to five weeks to get contracts and bonds back
Speaker 7: from the contractor, at which point we then set up
Speaker 7: a pre construction meeting to establish what that schedule is
Speaker 7: going to be.
Speaker 2: So we still have that ahead of us.
Speaker 7: But you know, most likely if we get contracts and
Speaker 7: bonds back here, let's just stay by the end of
Speaker 7: August first part of September. You're looking at construction likely
Speaker 7: starting towards the end of September and October.
Speaker 2: Most likely. It's been a good timing to start that it.
Speaker 7: Would be hopefully it's a little drier, hopeful little bit drier.
Speaker 7: You know, there's some things that we have to work
Speaker 7: around with that project, so we kind of get was
Speaker 7: to get into the scope of it. This is really
Speaker 7: making parking lot and access road improvements at a few
Speaker 7: of the parks here in town. So the big ones
Speaker 7: are Johnstone Park and Sooner Park. So each of those
Speaker 7: parks have pretty extensive let's just call them roadway infrastructure.
Speaker 7: They're not actually public streets necessarily, but they are access
Speaker 7: to the parks. And so we're gonna be doing some
Speaker 7: work on that at Sooner Park and then also at
Speaker 7: Johnstone Park for the loop roads there, and then also
Speaker 7: some of the major parking lots at those parks. So
Speaker 7: at at Center Park, we've got that north side that's
Speaker 7: there between the tennis courts and the park proper, I
Speaker 7: guess you'll say, there's that area that we're going to
Speaker 7: clean up in there, repay that, do some striping to
Speaker 7: expand the parking there's currently quite a bit of room
Speaker 7: for parking there now, it's just not delineated, so we'll
Speaker 7: be addressing that, and.
Speaker 2: Then a lot a bit of demand right now because
Speaker 2: of the new pickleball quite a.
Speaker 7: Bit of demand because of pickleball courts. The existing main
Speaker 7: lot there at the park. They're on the I guess
Speaker 7: called the west side of Center Park will be striping that.
Speaker 7: It's currently parking available, it's just not stripe we're not
Speaker 7: really telling you where to park right now, so and
Speaker 7: we all know.
Speaker 2: If you don't put stripes you lose about after parking.
Speaker 7: This is true, so we will address that as well.
Speaker 7: We'll also right there at the goth Tower, the play
Speaker 7: tower there in the middle of the park, there's sort
Speaker 7: of some gravel parking right there located now, so we'll
Speaker 7: be updating that, adding parking there as well paving that.
Speaker 7: So that's the Center Park project, and of course with
Speaker 7: that project we have to work around SunFest, which hopefully
Speaker 7: we don't get into that that's gonna be next to June,
Speaker 7: so if we're not that far along by then that'll
Speaker 7: be a little bit disappointing. Yes, but that is one
Speaker 7: of the constraints that's one of the constraints that we
Speaker 7: have made the contractor where we don't want to be
Speaker 7: doing that work while SunFest is going. You do have
Speaker 7: the sooner pool, you know, the swimming season, things of
Speaker 7: that nature, so we'll try to get that address before
Speaker 7: those times. But then at Johnstone Park you got the
Speaker 7: main loop road through there that will be improved. Currently
Speaker 7: there's gravel pull out areas around that that park.
Speaker 2: We'll call it a parking lot.
Speaker 7: We'll go in there and actually define those, pave those
Speaker 7: curve and gutter stripe those, so we'll do periodic parking
Speaker 7: around that loop, repave the loop. Trying to think what
Speaker 7: else is going on at john Saw Park. That's the main,
Speaker 7: main thing going on to Johnston Park. We really one
Speaker 7: of the alternates that we didn't have enough money to
Speaker 7: do is actually construct a large parking lot there where
Speaker 7: the old skate park was in that old softball field
Speaker 7: and then actually removed the large gravel lot that's further
Speaker 7: to the west. Again, money didn't quite get us there,
Speaker 7: so we couldn't award that, but we'd have liked to
Speaker 7: done that work.
Speaker 2: So that's something and still on our list.
Speaker 7: Something still on our list it's on our radar. There
Speaker 7: will be improvements right there at the intersection with where
Speaker 7: you come out from the kiddie Park to that loop road.
Speaker 7: We'll do some parking there by the Nella Johnstone. There'll
Speaker 7: be a bus pull out there, some things of that
Speaker 7: nature to improve that are as well.
Speaker 2: It's just currently gravel so we'll be.
Speaker 7: Addressing that section, but we have to work around there
Speaker 7: is the Fantasy Land of Lights, which I think they
Speaker 7: start setting up for that probably in the next month, yeah,
Speaker 7: pretty soon, I think.
Speaker 2: So it's quite a project.
Speaker 7: It's quite a project, so we'll have to work around
Speaker 7: that constraint. We don't want to have that ongoing when
Speaker 7: Fantasy Land Lights is going on, so there's a lot
Speaker 7: of moving parts with that. But then we also have
Speaker 7: Juian Low as included with this as well. So we've
Speaker 7: got the gravel lot that's up on top of the
Speaker 7: hill that we will actually construct an actual parking lot
Speaker 7: instead of a gravel lot there. And then we've got
Speaker 7: the main lot there on the west side of the park.
Speaker 7: It'll just essentially be a rehabilitation of that lot, restriping, repaving,
Speaker 7: things of that nature. So that's at the Jui and
Speaker 7: Low and then also a lesser known parking town is
Speaker 7: Lyon Park. That's a small neighborhood park there really on Hensley,
Speaker 7: I guess we're really Tuxedo and Hensley kind of split r. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and so it's a little park there. We'll do some
Speaker 7: parking improvements there, just a few spaces.
Speaker 2: It's a little bit of a hidden gym of a park.
Speaker 7: Right Leader's gym. Right now, it's currently just a gravel
Speaker 7: kind of loop road through there. Will be making some
Speaker 7: improvements to that as well.
Speaker 3: And then.
Speaker 2: It does yep, yep, yet the roof going. That's underway
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're working on that right now.
Speaker 7: So really that's the that's the project scope. We're also
Speaker 7: gonna do some improvements at Douglas Park. We do have
Speaker 7: the Douglas Park parking lot at that meeting actually came
Speaker 7: up as we're planning on so that really is let's
Speaker 7: call it on street parking per se. There's cast runs
Speaker 7: through there. It's the street that runs to there. It's
Speaker 7: in disrepair and the parking is directly off of that.
Speaker 7: So we did have some funding to do parking lot
Speaker 7: improvements for Douglas Park. We're going to use those projects
Speaker 7: or those funds to supplement this parking lot project, and
Speaker 7: then we'll use some street funds that we had some
Speaker 7: savings on to actually address casts and then do the
Speaker 7: parking at Douglas Park as well. So that's not going away.
Speaker 2: So not only are we going to do it, but
Speaker 2: we've actually expanded the scope a little bit of what
Speaker 2: we were going to do there, right, identifying a different
Speaker 2: source of funding.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we got looking at that and that was a
Speaker 7: miss on my part as we got to look at
Speaker 7: that parking. I'm just thinking parking lot. As you look
Speaker 7: at the surrounding area it had been, it had been
Speaker 7: pretty rough if we just parking off of a street,
Speaker 7: that's not as would have been exactly. So we're going
Speaker 7: to improve that whole area as well, and that may
Speaker 7: we may look at doing that in house with city
Speaker 7: staff using street funds, or we may look at lump
Speaker 7: of that into that project that we're we're doing the
Speaker 7: painting with Brent Bell. So so that's what we got
Speaker 7: going with that project. This pro did mention we we
Speaker 7: are replacing or actually adding a nice roof at the clubhouse.
Speaker 7: There's basically one part, let's call it the north section
Speaker 7: that didn't have nice roof were replacing that.
Speaker 2: So all right, well, I appreciate it. Thank you Micah
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