WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:03.720 Christmas, and that's what this holy day is all about. 2 00:00:04.320 --> 00:00:07.559 And so while you're enjoying the fun and the family 3 00:00:07.639 --> 00:00:10.759 and the laughter, we need to make sure that leading 4 00:00:10.839 --> 00:00:14.400 up to and on that day we are keeping Christ 5 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:17.320 at the center of our celebration and remembering that's what 6 00:00:17.359 --> 00:00:18.519 this is really all about. 7 00:00:18.879 --> 00:00:20.559 More at familyminute dot org. 8 00:00:45.960 --> 00:00:48.479 Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome. 9 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:52.520 It's timed out where the city matters, right here on 10 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:54.840 K one, the one you trust. First things first, before 11 00:00:54.840 --> 00:00:56.719 we get things going. What's with this bog and eight 12 00:00:56.759 --> 00:00:59.520 our skyline? I mean, I took a look at our 13 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:03.880 camera out here and I'm looking downtown and I don't 14 00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:04.319 see yours. 15 00:01:04.359 --> 00:01:07.879 Goy no, No, it's uh, well, it's just the wintertime, 16 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:09.560 so you just never know what you're gonna get. 17 00:01:09.599 --> 00:01:11.719 Yeah, that's the beauty of it. 18 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:14.439 Will just wait a few days and they'll be completely different. 19 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:16.719 Or maybe in this after afternoon outshot. 20 00:01:16.879 --> 00:01:20.079 Yeah, hey, Keith, do you think it's gonna know? It's 21 00:01:20.120 --> 00:01:24.480 a four letter word, Tom, we don't question. Well, let's 22 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:25.200 get things out of way. 23 00:01:25.239 --> 00:01:27.599 I know that today is the first day of the 24 00:01:27.879 --> 00:01:28.920 leaf and the grass pack. 25 00:01:29.480 --> 00:01:32.079 It is, uh, today's the day to take advantage of 26 00:01:32.079 --> 00:01:35.599 the leaf and grass collection. Uh, So hopefully you've got 27 00:01:35.640 --> 00:01:37.439 it out there today if you're a Monday route, because 28 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:39.959 we're picking it up on your normal trash collection day. 29 00:01:40.719 --> 00:01:43.760 So all leaf and grass, if you've bagged that material 30 00:01:44.439 --> 00:01:46.439 and set it out at the curb, it will not 31 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:50.319 require a refuge or a grass yard waist sticker. So 32 00:01:50.359 --> 00:01:54.000 it's a free service to all our residential customers. So 33 00:01:54.120 --> 00:01:57.560 get that material out there again today. Hopefully you've already 34 00:01:57.560 --> 00:01:59.680 got it out there. You're probably missing the boat. But Tuesday, 35 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:03.439 Thursday and Friday, when we pick up your normal refuge, 36 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:06.120 we'll be by to collect those. It will probably be 37 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:08.719 a separate, separate truck, so it won't be your automated 38 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:11.080 truck that picks up your cart. So don't get too 39 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:12.560 excited when it comes by and they go, hey, he 40 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:15.039 didn't get my bag, so somebody will be around to 41 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:16.960 get him. And for some reason we do miss them 42 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:18.479 and we haven't picked them up that day, give us 43 00:02:18.479 --> 00:02:21.439 a call and we'll be sure come back and get 44 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:24.319 those materials. So along with the grass and the leaves, 45 00:02:24.479 --> 00:02:27.360 we also will take sticks and branches if they bundle 46 00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:30.400 that material up, and no more than fifty pounds and 47 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:33.280 no more than four foot in length. We'll also colleck 48 00:02:33.319 --> 00:02:37.159 that material material for you, so encourage all the citizens 49 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:39.360 to take care of that. I was out early this 50 00:02:39.400 --> 00:02:41.560 morning and I saw a few locations where there was 51 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:44.479 a mountain of bags of leaves. So some people are 52 00:02:44.520 --> 00:02:46.439 going to participate and take advantage of it, and that's 53 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:49.240 what we got it out there for. We might also 54 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:54.199 remind people holiday trash schedule actually fortunates this year. Of 55 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:57.439 course we've gotten through now Thanksgiving, but upcoming Christmas and 56 00:02:57.599 --> 00:03:00.000 New Year's is actually going to fall on a Wednesday 57 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:02.360 this year, so typically it's not going to affect the 58 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:04.639 residential collection. A little bit on the commercial side, which 59 00:03:04.639 --> 00:03:05.840 we'll pick that up the day before. 60 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:07.960 But again if it's a. 61 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:09.560 Residential collection, you don't have to worry about getting it 62 00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:12.479 out before or after because we don't work the residential 63 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:14.439 guys don't pick up on Wednesdays anyway, So with the 64 00:03:14.479 --> 00:03:16.439 holiday falling on that day, we're good. 65 00:03:16.240 --> 00:03:18.960 For those two days. Wait, no confusion, that's the way 66 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:20.199 we like it. Easier the better. 67 00:03:20.280 --> 00:03:22.759 So just to encourage people, like to say, with the 68 00:03:22.759 --> 00:03:25.919 holiday season, make sure they're kind of following the rules 69 00:03:25.919 --> 00:03:29.319 and regulations. Have your carts out to the street by 70 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:32.639 six o'clock in the morning. Typically, I like to tell people, 71 00:03:32.639 --> 00:03:33.840 you know, it's better just to put it out the 72 00:03:33.919 --> 00:03:34.319 night before. 73 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:35.280 That way you don't miss it. 74 00:03:35.879 --> 00:03:38.439 We have a lot of relief drivers sometimes during the 75 00:03:38.439 --> 00:03:41.840 holiday seasons that fill in, so sometimes the routes kind 76 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:43.520 of like the mailman. You expect him to come by 77 00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:45.680 at ten oh five and some days he comes by 78 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:47.719 at eight o'clock, sometimes at noon, and we can be 79 00:03:47.800 --> 00:03:49.560 that way sometimes. So make sure you put it out 80 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:52.080 first thing in the morning at six o'clock. Have it 81 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:55.240 out at the street. Nothing within five foot of the cart, 82 00:03:55.319 --> 00:03:57.479 so no obstructions. Make sure we can get to the cart. 83 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:00.800 Make sure everything is inside the cart. We've had some 84 00:04:00.840 --> 00:04:03.319 issues with people stacking materials and things on top of 85 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:05.479 the carts. And make sure all the material in the 86 00:04:05.479 --> 00:04:07.759 carts also bagged. We want all that Christmas paper and 87 00:04:07.800 --> 00:04:09.840 wrapping flying all over the place and we're picking it up. 88 00:04:09.879 --> 00:04:12.520 So bag all the material, make sure it's in the carts, 89 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:14.319 and get it out to the street by six o'clock 90 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:16.000 and we'll be sure and get it picked up for you. 91 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:18.040 Well, very good, And while we have you here, and 92 00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:19.680 this is gonna keep me from calling you at like 93 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:21.360 four in the morning when it snows. 94 00:04:21.399 --> 00:04:23.240 Okay, how do we go about? 95 00:04:23.319 --> 00:04:26.959 What's the procedure here as far as snow removal in 96 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:27.519 the city. 97 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:30.439 We actually have a snow removal policy that was established 98 00:04:30.439 --> 00:04:33.439 several years ago and it kind of outlines the procedure 99 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:35.839 that we follow when we do the snow removal. And 100 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:39.279 typically that will be the arterial streets first. So usually 101 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:41.000 those are the ones that you know you're gonna have 102 00:04:41.079 --> 00:04:45.519 the first issues with travel on those bridges, overpasses, artillial streets, 103 00:04:46.079 --> 00:04:48.839 So we start with those and then we work into 104 00:04:48.959 --> 00:04:53.199 the residential areas or collector streets. Also, the only streets 105 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:55.600 that we actually plow snow in the City of Barlsville 106 00:04:55.680 --> 00:04:58.040 is the arterials. We do not plow snow in the 107 00:04:58.480 --> 00:05:00.199 residential areas. 108 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:00.680 Is such a. 109 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:04.199 Problem with blocking driveways and what have you that typically 110 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:06.399 just doesn't work out and in the time issue of 111 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:08.560 you know, trying to get to all those So we 112 00:05:08.600 --> 00:05:10.519 do have a policy that we follow describes what we 113 00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:12.360 do sand salt and where we plow. 114 00:05:12.600 --> 00:05:15.120 There you go you have do is go to City 115 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:17.439 of Bartlesville dot org and he'll be right there. 116 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:19.199 You bet we should be on our website. 117 00:05:19.319 --> 00:05:22.439 All right, good, all right, Uh Terry, let's talk a 118 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:24.879 little bit of water the unpros. 119 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:27.759 Yeah no, we'll uh well, let's let's let Jason do 120 00:05:27.839 --> 00:05:31.319 his thing, because we all everything runs on the finances 121 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:31.720 of the city. 122 00:05:31.879 --> 00:05:32.319 Let's do that. 123 00:05:32.480 --> 00:05:38.240 Let's microphone, that's right. I want Jason to get his 124 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:40.079 time in the in the limelight. 125 00:05:39.720 --> 00:05:40.360 In the well. 126 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:42.480 You know he takes so much, Yeah, he does. 127 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:45.600 Earlier. So sound Sex was up. 128 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:48.199 This this this month December eight is that almost eight 129 00:05:48.199 --> 00:05:51.680 point five percent, which is good because last week last 130 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:53.839 month was down eight point four percent. They kind of 131 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:58.240 flipped flip the months there, so he's doing gray. We're 132 00:05:58.279 --> 00:06:01.439 up one percent compared to last year currently and we 133 00:06:02.040 --> 00:06:04.879 you know, we budget really conservatively, so we're up almost 134 00:06:05.160 --> 00:06:07.800 two one two and a half percent compared to budget 135 00:06:07.800 --> 00:06:08.240 on the year. 136 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:10.120 Flip that over to US tax. 137 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:12.680 US tax kind of had a battle month, down twenty 138 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:14.399 percent on the US tax side. 139 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:16.600 Looking at that though, it is compared to the. 140 00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:19.680 Largest use tax being last year, the largest use tax 141 00:06:19.720 --> 00:06:21.720 month we've had today, which there's not a whole lot 142 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:24.879 of data points here yet, but that being said, we're 143 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:29.800 still we're still up a quarter of a percent compared 144 00:06:29.839 --> 00:06:31.000 to budget and we're. 145 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:38.120 Still station the tax. Well, so use tax is now 146 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:39.639 online sales tax. 147 00:06:40.279 --> 00:06:44.279 So when you shop at Amazon, you shop at any 148 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:47.560 kind of store that has an online presence that doesn't 149 00:06:47.560 --> 00:06:50.199 have a physical presence in the state of Oklahoma, your 150 00:06:50.199 --> 00:06:53.199 sales tax is going to be collected as use tax. 151 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:55.959 It's a companion tack two sales tax, so it goes 152 00:06:55.959 --> 00:07:00.839 hand in hand with it. But in the older days 153 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:03.319 the internet, online sales tax wasn't collected, but you. 154 00:07:03.279 --> 00:07:04.319 Just weren't collected sales tax. 155 00:07:04.399 --> 00:07:08.439 Yeah, so our state codified the online sales tax has 156 00:07:08.519 --> 00:07:09.839 used tax, so that's why we see. 157 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:12.319 It in that form versus just sales tax collection. 158 00:07:12.639 --> 00:07:13.000 Good to know. 159 00:07:13.439 --> 00:07:17.160 So on the sales tax, what months Sometimes people think 160 00:07:17.160 --> 00:07:21.000 that that's actually from, for example, last month. 161 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:24.680 How much behind is the reporting on that sales It's. 162 00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:26.160 About a month and a half behind. You got to 163 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:26.959 realize if you. 164 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:28.800 Went and spent your money today at the store, the 165 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:31.639 store holds it in trust until they're reporting time, do 166 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:33.879 they and they submit it to the State of Oklahoma. 167 00:07:34.079 --> 00:07:35.839 State of Oklahoma holds it for a period of time 168 00:07:35.839 --> 00:07:37.399 and then they remitted to us. It's about a month 169 00:07:37.399 --> 00:07:42.160 and a halfe so we get the usually around the 170 00:07:42.160 --> 00:07:45.160 eighth of the ninth, we'll get a deposit from the 171 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:48.319 state that it's really from the prior month, a month 172 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:50.839 and a half to that, and all goes. I'm I'm 173 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:52.879 not a business owner, so I don't know when they're 174 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:56.079 they get to choose what dates they're filing to pay their. 175 00:07:56.319 --> 00:07:57.879 Taxes with the State of Oklahoma. 176 00:07:57.959 --> 00:08:00.839 But I'm sure it probably varies in there to when 177 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:03.360 you started doing your business. That would be my assumption 178 00:08:04.040 --> 00:08:06.600 on that side of it. So it is a I say, 179 00:08:06.639 --> 00:08:07.680 it's a. 180 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:10.040 Month month and a half behind lag. 181 00:08:10.639 --> 00:08:15.439 So we're seeing so December sales, we're seeing you know, 182 00:08:17.040 --> 00:08:18.000 October sales. 183 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:20.480 And this is what we'recing. 184 00:08:20.439 --> 00:08:24.040 And how much should we budget as far as did 185 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:27.439 we budget a flat sales tax for this this budget cycle, 186 00:08:27.519 --> 00:08:28.600 this budget period or did we. 187 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:33.720 We always budget reduced usually conservatively, And obviously we'll look 188 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:36.960 at how sales tax performing the last quarter of the year, 189 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:39.519 and we usually stayed between a one percent and two 190 00:08:39.519 --> 00:08:41.639 and a half percent decline from the previous year. 191 00:08:44.039 --> 00:08:48.200 There you go, well good and so so if somebody 192 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:52.200 has just a keen interest in sales tax or really 193 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:54.559 finding out more about the youth tax or getting into 194 00:08:54.559 --> 00:08:59.320 the numbers, which I'm sure there's individuals who just like you, 195 00:08:59.399 --> 00:09:01.519 Jason Jay, they just want to dive in the numbers. 196 00:09:02.120 --> 00:09:03.799 Who can they reach out to you? Can they find 197 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:05.240 that online or what's their resource? 198 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:08.200 You can? You can go to the State of Oklahoma's website. 199 00:09:08.240 --> 00:09:10.240 We have this information because you know, that's where I 200 00:09:10.240 --> 00:09:12.600 get mind phrase to put these together. Stable Oklahoma Tax 201 00:09:12.600 --> 00:09:15.919 Missions website. Okay, Now, you don't really get a whole 202 00:09:15.960 --> 00:09:22.360 lot of data. You just kind of get lump some totals. 203 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:23.639 What was a positive You can look at all the 204 00:09:23.720 --> 00:09:25.600 METIS spiles around the state what they collected. 205 00:09:27.000 --> 00:09:30.200 There's not really a great level of detail. 206 00:09:30.279 --> 00:09:32.320 We have to sign CONFIDENCEI out is with the State 207 00:09:32.320 --> 00:09:34.720 of Oklahoma to get detailed information because you can look 208 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:38.399 back and see individual store sales and from a competitive standpoint, 209 00:09:38.440 --> 00:09:40.399 try to try to backdoor on their. 210 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:42.320 Monthly sales totals. 211 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:45.919 So this confidential information that we get to see that 212 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:49.080 not everyone would get to see. But you can't go 213 00:09:49.080 --> 00:09:51.080 to tax missions website and see that. 214 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:54.159 Okay, So on the sales tax, actually the vendors pay 215 00:09:54.159 --> 00:09:58.559 the state and then the states US. So the city 216 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:03.399 really doesn't collect sales ta the collection side, right, so 217 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:05.960 we we really don't find out until. 218 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:07.639 We get the checker they posted. 219 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:08.720 We have no idea. 220 00:10:08.759 --> 00:10:10.960 We can kind of see how the state's trending a 221 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:14.000 little bit and kind of have an idea, but still 222 00:10:14.039 --> 00:10:18.480 we're not. We're out here on an island by ourselves. 223 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:20.320 So a lot of times what the state does isn't 224 00:10:20.360 --> 00:10:21.639 always indicative of how. 225 00:10:21.519 --> 00:10:23.320 We're going to do well. 226 00:10:23.320 --> 00:10:26.279 And I think sales tax people get maybe confused and 227 00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:30.679 that they think that the cities operate on property tax 228 00:10:30.759 --> 00:10:34.320 or some other revenue source, but really it's ninety percent 229 00:10:34.360 --> 00:10:35.200 of its sales tax. 230 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:37.879 Truthfully, majority majority of our operations in funded with sales tax, 231 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:42.720 especially over the general fund, police, fire, arcs, streets, General 232 00:10:42.759 --> 00:10:48.000 fund funded, no property tax funds operation that's only for 233 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:49.759 debt service on general obligation bonds. 234 00:10:49.840 --> 00:10:54.440 So yeah, so that's so, I know, water, wastewater and 235 00:10:54.519 --> 00:10:56.879 sanitation run off of the utility bills. 236 00:10:56.879 --> 00:10:58.080 So those utility. 237 00:10:57.679 --> 00:11:02.320 Bills really don't reimburse fences for street department, please fire 238 00:11:02.360 --> 00:11:03.200 those sorts of things. 239 00:11:04.080 --> 00:11:05.559 Those are all self. 240 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:10.000 Contained entities and funded through whatever revenue it is as 241 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:12.759 far as water and waste, wires and sensation come off 242 00:11:12.759 --> 00:11:13.639 that utility. 243 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:15.200 Building, that's how we derive your utility rates. 244 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:17.720 Right, So then on recovery. 245 00:11:17.879 --> 00:11:20.399 Yeah, so the sales tax really funds the majority of 246 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:23.799 the operation of the city, which is primarily police and fire. 247 00:11:23.879 --> 00:11:28.000 That's that's the larger of the largest, the largest A 248 00:11:28.039 --> 00:11:29.320 little bit goes Keith's way. 249 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:31.799 A little bit. 250 00:11:33.559 --> 00:11:35.480 I'd say it's probably one of the middle sized department 251 00:11:35.519 --> 00:11:37.759 as far as dollars go. It's somewhere in the middle, 252 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:43.679 police and fire being the largest two departments, right, Tom. 253 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:45.720 We might also mention Benza just kind of come up 254 00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:49.399 on the holiday season, had some questions about recycling. It's 255 00:11:49.399 --> 00:11:50.759 a good time of year to keep that in mind 256 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:53.399 with all the cardboard and stuff that you gather. The 257 00:11:53.759 --> 00:11:57.559 recycle site is actually operated by a company called Replenish. 258 00:11:57.600 --> 00:12:00.000 We kind of went into an agreement with them. Gosh, 259 00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:02.480 probably been three or four years now. Worked out pretty well, 260 00:12:02.600 --> 00:12:05.240 worked out very well for me, especially a lot less 261 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:07.879 time for us be involved with it. So Replenish is 262 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:11.639 open at the site Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I believe 263 00:12:11.639 --> 00:12:14.360 it's seven to four, so they have staff there every day, 264 00:12:14.399 --> 00:12:16.919 but they're typically only open for collections on those days 265 00:12:16.919 --> 00:12:21.360 in those hours. So again when encourage people those gift 266 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:23.120 boxes and things as they want to recycle them and 267 00:12:23.240 --> 00:12:25.240 get them up to recycle center along with the plastics 268 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:27.559 and other glass and things that they take, steel cans, 269 00:12:27.679 --> 00:12:28.440 aluminum cans. 270 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:29.759 So the site is open. 271 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:33.080 It's been a good partnership with Replenish. We basically supply 272 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:36.279 them a site, the property that they use, and pretty 273 00:12:36.320 --> 00:12:40.639 much everything else they is on them, the collection, the packaging, 274 00:12:40.840 --> 00:12:43.320 the trucking and everything they do. All that we do 275 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:46.600 occasionally help with some transport as far as labor to 276 00:12:46.639 --> 00:12:50.080 help load trucks, but in general it's all a Replenished 277 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:52.759 organization and the partnership's worked out very well for us. 278 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:55.000 And encourage people to use that site over there at 279 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:59.000 eleventh and Virginia seven to four Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 280 00:12:59.399 --> 00:12:59.879 Very good. 281 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:02.720 Are there any restrictions on what they can recycle or 282 00:13:02.799 --> 00:13:03.039 things that? 283 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:05.480 There are some restrictions and I hate to sit here 284 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:06.879 and quote me what they are. I mean they take 285 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:09.600 most plastics and the people they are familiar with recycling 286 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:13.039 we're not currently taking they aren't taking paper. I mean 287 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:15.600 they take cardboard, but they don't take like newspapers, and 288 00:13:15.600 --> 00:13:18.519 I don't think anymore. They do take glass, they take 289 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:22.039 aluminum cans, they take steel cans, and you get into 290 00:13:22.039 --> 00:13:22.799 the pet one. 291 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:24.759 Two's the trees, which are like your milk, drugs and 292 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:27.000 water bottles and those things they take. 293 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:30.639 So most of the normal things, it's about having a 294 00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:32.360 place to market and to sell it. So some of 295 00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:34.720 the things that they don't take are something that there's 296 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:36.240 just not a market for. They have no way to 297 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:37.639 dispose of it, so they can't take it. 298 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:39.679 So like lithium batteries, things like. 299 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:44.519 No battery collections on the site, had no tires. You know, 300 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:47.799 we do typically in the spring, we partner with Operation 301 00:13:47.919 --> 00:13:49.639 clean House where you do collective of those. 302 00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:50.840 Type of materials once a year. 303 00:13:51.480 --> 00:13:54.039 But NEI, as Terry mentioned, no hazardous materials of all 304 00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:55.879 the liquids or chemicals and things like that. 305 00:13:56.039 --> 00:13:59.279 So yeah, so that makes it brings up a great point. 306 00:13:59.279 --> 00:14:02.000 If you do have use motor oil or maybe some 307 00:14:02.039 --> 00:14:05.159 fluids from your vehicle or whatever. Uh, there are some 308 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:08.559 entities around town that will take that. Possibly, I know 309 00:14:08.600 --> 00:14:11.559 Walmart will take used motor oil. There may be some. 310 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:13.600 Other entities that do that, but a lot of it you. 311 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:15.679 Just have to hang on to until we do that 312 00:14:15.799 --> 00:14:20.919 annual hazardous waste disposal event, which I think typically is 313 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:25.559 in theah so you just have to kind of hold 314 00:14:25.639 --> 00:14:28.519 tight with that and then dispose of it through that mechanism. 315 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:30.399 There it so. 316 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:37.360 Well, we are going to well before we jump into water. 317 00:14:37.840 --> 00:14:38.000 Uh. 318 00:14:38.039 --> 00:14:41.000 We certainly want to kind of touch base about the 319 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:43.519 city council meeting that was held last week, so that 320 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:47.360 we did have three new council members that were sworn in, uh, 321 00:14:47.399 --> 00:14:49.879 so we want to congratulate them on their new uh 322 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:52.120 their new term or their new service. So that was 323 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:55.480 Larry East, Tim Shehrrick, and then Aaron Kapatrick. 324 00:14:55.600 --> 00:14:59.600 So those are the three new council members. They the council. 325 00:14:59.279 --> 00:15:02.559 Did elect to uh to put Jim Kurt as the 326 00:15:02.600 --> 00:15:05.639 mayor and then as Trevor dor Say as the vice mayor. 327 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:08.679 So that is your counsel for this h at least 328 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:11.519 next two years, I believe is their term. Uh So 329 00:15:11.559 --> 00:15:14.519 they're h they have hit the ground running. We did 330 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:18.480 have an orientation for them last week on Thursday to 331 00:15:18.679 --> 00:15:21.559 help get them up to speed and help understand kind 332 00:15:21.600 --> 00:15:23.679 of the diversity of the city government and all the 333 00:15:23.679 --> 00:15:27.960 things that we that that they now have some some 334 00:15:28.080 --> 00:15:30.759 responsibility for. But I think it was a good event. 335 00:15:30.840 --> 00:15:32.879 It was a it was a long day for I 336 00:15:32.919 --> 00:15:35.759 think everybody, but they were able to tour a number 337 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:38.759 of facilities as well as different operation components of it. 338 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:43.240 And then in the afternoon they had some presentations, received 339 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:47.200 some presentations regarding the various functions of those departments and 340 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:50.159 some of the other topics that have been ongoing throughout 341 00:15:50.200 --> 00:15:53.879 the you know, throughout the term or you know, throughout 342 00:15:53.879 --> 00:15:56.600 the last few years. But one of those was water supply. 343 00:15:57.159 --> 00:15:59.440 So that's my little segue into water supply. 344 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:01.559 Then a little topic wow. 345 00:16:01.919 --> 00:16:03.960 Yeah, So it took a lot of words to get there. 346 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:08.000 So anyways, as many people know, we had a drought 347 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:11.000 about a year and a half ago, well started a 348 00:16:11.080 --> 00:16:15.240 year and a half ago. It finished really early this year, 349 00:16:15.519 --> 00:16:17.679 kind of January February of this year. 350 00:16:19.240 --> 00:16:20.279 But I always like. 351 00:16:20.279 --> 00:16:23.279 To touch base on a little bit of the history 352 00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:27.039 of our water supply and what we've done and why 353 00:16:27.080 --> 00:16:29.559 we've done it. But our our journey really started back 354 00:16:29.559 --> 00:16:31.320 in two thousand and one. Two thousand and two, we 355 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:33.879 had a moderate drop for a few months, but our 356 00:16:33.919 --> 00:16:36.240 water supply at Hue Lake fell down to less than 357 00:16:36.240 --> 00:16:40.360 twenty percent. So that's if you're familiar with our water 358 00:16:40.399 --> 00:16:43.840 supply sources. We currently have four, but Hughe is our 359 00:16:43.960 --> 00:16:47.399 largest storage vessel, so that has over sixty percent of 360 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:50.879 the water that we have available for us to consume. 361 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:53.840 Then we have next is going to be the Kenney 362 00:16:53.919 --> 00:16:56.519 River is our next largest one than Hudson Lake, and 363 00:16:56.519 --> 00:16:59.679 then our smallest water supply source by water right is 364 00:16:59.799 --> 00:17:02.799 co Op Lake. So those are our four water sources. 365 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:03.679 That we use. 366 00:17:03.759 --> 00:17:06.880 But in one oh two that was down to below 367 00:17:07.079 --> 00:17:11.039 twenty percent, and so that really started our long journey 368 00:17:11.079 --> 00:17:12.640 looking for different sources. 369 00:17:12.640 --> 00:17:14.599 So we have done a number of studies. 370 00:17:14.960 --> 00:17:16.680 One of those studies was to look at how much 371 00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:19.240 water do you need, how much water will your existing 372 00:17:19.279 --> 00:17:21.960 sources provide, and then where do you find. 373 00:17:21.720 --> 00:17:23.160 That extra water to bridge the gap. 374 00:17:23.920 --> 00:17:26.640 So that sudy was done and completed in two thousand 375 00:17:26.680 --> 00:17:30.240 and seven, and what it recommended was to secure the 376 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:33.559 water storage that's available at Copan Lake and then to 377 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:37.599 reallocate flood control to water supply at both Hula and 378 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:41.920 Copan Lake. So when they talk about reallocation of flood control, 379 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:46.279 the water supply. Those lakes, which are both owned by 380 00:17:46.279 --> 00:17:49.440 the corp of Engineers at Hula and Copan, have certain 381 00:17:49.720 --> 00:17:53.160 zones that are designated for a specific use. So the 382 00:17:53.240 --> 00:17:56.440 normal pool or what they normally operate at is water 383 00:17:56.440 --> 00:17:59.720 supply and recreation. And then during flood events, they have 384 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:03.680 forty plus feet that's reserved for flood control, so it 385 00:18:04.640 --> 00:18:06.640 run off from various rain events. 386 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:09.480 Gets stored there. They release it at a reduced. 387 00:18:09.200 --> 00:18:13.440 Rate to mitigate downstream flooding, and so those lakes have 388 00:18:13.640 --> 00:18:17.200 that as a major component of its operations. So when 389 00:18:17.240 --> 00:18:20.240 we reallocate flood control the water supply, we actually raise 390 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:23.200 that water level so that the water there's more water 391 00:18:23.279 --> 00:18:26.680 stored there during the normal events or during normal usage, 392 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:30.279 and then that makes more water available. 393 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:31.839 For us for a water supply perspective. 394 00:18:31.920 --> 00:18:37.079 So those are the recommendations from that study. And it 395 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:40.119 took us literally took us twelve years in an Act 396 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:42.920 of Congress to get the storage rights from Copan Lake. 397 00:18:43.839 --> 00:18:47.440 So the way that that operates is that you buy 398 00:18:47.759 --> 00:18:53.319 the storage the storage at those lakes for water supply, 399 00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:57.319 and those storage amounts are controlled by the Army Corps 400 00:18:57.319 --> 00:19:03.200 of Engineers and it's their policy they charge the original 401 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:07.200