Speaker 1: Events coming up this week or actually this month, I
Speaker 1: want to make sure everybody was aware of so anyone
Speaker 1: who would like, we would love to have you join
Speaker 1: us this Wednesday, So Wednesday, May fourteenth, this will be
Speaker 1: the fall Fallen Officer Memorial event. This occurs between the
Speaker 1: Central Fire Station and the Police Station which is on Johnstone.
Speaker 1: We actually have a memorial there and so we will
Speaker 1: have a memorial event to honor all the fallen officers
Speaker 1: in Washington County. And so that will be again Wednesday,
Speaker 1: May fourteenth noon to one great event, and we are
Speaker 1: we would love to have everyone who's available come down.
Speaker 1: The actual ceremony itself is only about ten to fifteen minutes,
Speaker 1: so if you're on your lunch break, feel free to
Speaker 1: come down. Afterwards, they do open up the police station.
Speaker 1: They serve snacks and people are allowed to come in
Speaker 1: and you can get a little bit of a look
Speaker 1: at what's going on in our police station.
Speaker 2: So good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is a really cool event. If you've never
Speaker 1: had an opportunity to attend, we'd encourage you to join us.
Speaker 1: And then coming up this will be on May twenty fourth,
Speaker 1: we will be opening the swimming pools and so these
Speaker 1: are the city owned swimming pools, which would be Frontier
Speaker 1: and sooner. Those are both owned by the city, but
Speaker 1: they are operated by the YMCA, and so YMCA will
Speaker 1: be ready to open both of those on May twenty fourth. Now,
Speaker 1: the splash pads might actually open sooner than that, but
Speaker 1: that really is just depending on whether and so if
Speaker 1: the weather cooperates, we'll actually open those sooner, and.
Speaker 3: So once that happens, we'll we'll make that announcement for sure.
Speaker 3: Did you give the test glide on the slide already?
Speaker 3: Did you give them me the approval?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: I was. I was.
Speaker 1: I was one of the first ones down, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to tell you the fast slides pretty fast good.
Speaker 1: I lost I lost contact with the slide at one point.
Speaker 3: Wow, weez, zero gravity in the tube. It was. It
Speaker 3: smooked me just a little bit.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna but it was fun, right, And of
Speaker 1: course I had a bunch of people watching. So the
Speaker 1: only thing I could think of is please don't scream
Speaker 1: like a little girl.
Speaker 3: And I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't, but I did on the inside just for
Speaker 1: a minute. Okay, So but that's that's coming up, and
Speaker 1: we would love to These are all of our swimming
Speaker 1: pools are fantastic. They are and the amenities there are awesome,
Speaker 1: so it's a great thing for families. But we'll plan
Speaker 1: to have those open May twenty fourth, and we're really
Speaker 1: excited about it. Another thing that's going on, and actually
Speaker 1: we are in the very last phase of it, is
Speaker 1: the hydrant flushing, and so we are in the last phase.
Speaker 1: In fact, it will be happening this evening, and so
Speaker 1: we will be flushing the hydrants between frank Phillips. Basically,
Speaker 1: if you live north of frank Phillips between seventy five
Speaker 1: and the Caney River, we'll be flushing those tonight, so
Speaker 1: you'll you could notice some discoloration of your water. And
Speaker 1: people are always curious why we flush the hydrance, and
Speaker 1: there's a couple of reasons.
Speaker 3: One of them is to ensure that all the hydrants
Speaker 3: of town are working.
Speaker 1: So this is a you go around and you you
Speaker 1: actuate them and flush them out and you make sure
Speaker 1: that they're working. But actually the main reason for it
Speaker 1: is for maintenance of our water lines. And so by
Speaker 1: flushing those, you actually flush you increase the velocity of
Speaker 1: the water in the line and it scours the inside
Speaker 1: of the lines, and so it removes what's known as
Speaker 1: the biofilm, and so all all water has minerals and
Speaker 1: things in it, and it actually will deposit on the
Speaker 1: inside of the lines, and so we we speed up
Speaker 1: how much water flows through there, and it actually scours
Speaker 1: that out and helps to keep the lines maintained.
Speaker 3: So those are those are the two reasons. And it does.
Speaker 1: It can cause some can cause some discoloration of the
Speaker 1: water when we're doing that, so just be careful, especially
Speaker 1: if you're washing clothes. You might want to wait a
Speaker 1: day and not We don't want you to stain your
Speaker 1: clothes at all. So but that'll that's I believe that's
Speaker 1: the final phase of that and we will have completed
Speaker 1: hydro flushing for the year. So now back week we
Speaker 1: had a council meeting, would have been yeah, actually it
Speaker 1: would have been last week, so one week ago. Had
Speaker 1: a fairly lengthy meeting, but we had a lot, We
Speaker 1: really had a lot on the meeting. It was one
Speaker 1: of the weightier meetings we've had in a while. And
Speaker 1: in fact, we had budgets and we had contracts with
Speaker 1: the Barbsviell Development Authority and visit Bartlesville, and we had
Speaker 1: their budgets and their stories, and we had a lot
Speaker 1: going on that night. In fact, I'm forgetting about half
Speaker 1: of it. But one of the one of the items
Speaker 1: I know that generated a lot of public interest was
Speaker 1: the city's comprehensive Plan. And so if i'd just take
Speaker 1: a minute and kind of back up, because the city's
Speaker 1: comprehensive Plan was actually adopted in November of twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: and so we have a comprehensive plan and it is
Speaker 1: we have been operating under that plan since November twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four. And if you're curious exactly what a comprehensive
Speaker 1: plan is, it is the longest term plan that the
Speaker 1: city implements, and so it looks way into the future.
Speaker 1: We're talking twenty or thirty years for these. Most of
Speaker 1: our plans are relatively short in nature. We look one
Speaker 1: to three years into the future. But this is the
Speaker 1: overall framework for our community, for our government, for development,
Speaker 1: for economic development. This is the overall framework looking as
Speaker 1: far out into the future as we can. Took about
Speaker 1: took thirteen months, I think, to develop the comprehensive Plan.
Speaker 1: It involved hundreds of citizens of Bartlesville, there was a
Speaker 1: tremendous amount of input.
Speaker 3: We had a top.
Speaker 1: Shelf consultant from half An Associates and this plan was
Speaker 1: again it was thirteen months in development, adopted in November
Speaker 1: by the City Council. At the same time, the City
Speaker 1: Council invited people to provide input for a thirty day
Speaker 1: period and so during that thirty day period we wanted
Speaker 1: to hear from everyone who had concerns, and I think
Speaker 1: Larry you told me we received about we received probably
Speaker 1: five different submissions, but they were all essentially the same submission,
Speaker 1: so they had the same source. And so the Larry
Speaker 1: actually facilitated an ad hoc group to review those changes
Speaker 1: and to see if any of those that the City
Speaker 1: Council would be interested in implementing any of those and
Speaker 1: there it was quite a voluminous number of amendments, and
Speaker 1: so the ad hoc group, I think you spent about
Speaker 1: four months studying that, so about four months actually studying it,
Speaker 1: and then took the final document to the Planning Commission,
Speaker 1: and the Planning Commission recommended that we reject all amendments.
Speaker 1: And so what they wanted was for us to keep
Speaker 1: the plan that the council had adopted in November, and
Speaker 1: that was unanimous by the Planning Commission, so that was
Speaker 1: their recommendation of the City Council. But since the City
Speaker 1: Council is the actual deciding body and the Planning Commission
Speaker 1: is just a recommend we went ahead and took it
Speaker 1: to the City Council and Larry explained it that night
Speaker 1: exactly everything that I'm talking about now, how we arrived
Speaker 1: at this place and the council considered it and they
Speaker 1: actually split vote three to two. They rejected all the amendments,
Speaker 1: so they followed the recommendation of the Planning Commission.
Speaker 3: So we have the same comp plan.
Speaker 1: That we have had since last November, and we will
Speaker 1: and to be clear, I think we have a great
Speaker 1: plan and I think it was well developed, using again
Speaker 1: all of the resources that our community has. There was
Speaker 1: incredible amounts of public input and frankly, there was even
Speaker 1: more availability for anyone who wanted to participate. Not everyone did,
Speaker 1: and I get that there's thirty eight thousand people.
Speaker 3: That live in Borlso Localholm and not all of them
Speaker 3: care to participate in a thirty year plan.
Speaker 2: Well, I and those open meetings there sure were a
Speaker 2: ton It was standing room only.
Speaker 1: It was actually pretty impressive, right, yeah, that we had
Speaker 1: that many people participate. So that was what went into
Speaker 1: the development of the area origional plan and the If
Speaker 1: anyone is curious why we had the ad hoc it
Speaker 1: was to consider the submissions that we received after the
Speaker 1: plan was adopted, and so they did a small group.
Speaker 1: It was actually Larry was the staff facilitator. We had
Speaker 1: Council East on the committee. We had Vice Mayor Dorsey
Speaker 1: on the committee, and then we had two citizens, one
Speaker 1: of whom had served on the original the Planning Advisory Committee,
Speaker 1: which was Dan kelleher he brought some technical expertise as
Speaker 1: an architect. And then the final one was Sarah Burnette,
Speaker 1: who is.
Speaker 3: I believe her.
Speaker 1: I believe she's actually the vice vice chairman of the
Speaker 1: Washington County GOP and so that as far as I know,
Speaker 1: that's her only official role she had. She was the
Speaker 1: compiler of all of the suggested changes. So the ad
Speaker 1: hoc committee met in good faith and looked through everything.
Speaker 1: But again at the end of it, both the Planning
Speaker 1: Commission and in the City of Artlesfield rejected those amendments
Speaker 1: and so we will will go with the plan that
Speaker 1: was that was initially adopted and we're.
Speaker 3: Quite happy with it. Oh yeah, very much.
Speaker 4: Then I'd just like to chime in that you know,
Speaker 4: the conference ave Plan is a guiding document, is not
Speaker 4: an ordinance, right, no law. It is no law. It
Speaker 4: is adopted by resolution by city council. So it is
Speaker 4: something that the city will constantly be looking at and
Speaker 4: actually as a part of our comp plan and ordinances
Speaker 4: is that we look at it every at least once
Speaker 4: a year to see if there's any potential changes that
Speaker 4: need to be looked at, and that's always about every November.
Speaker 4: Is that will take a take a look at that,
Speaker 4: see if there's anything that needs to be done, and
Speaker 4: then go from there. But yeah, I mean it is
Speaker 4: it is a well crafted document that you know, well
Speaker 4: over a thousand citizens participated in helping create and craft
Speaker 4: that document. Oh yeah, I mean that's that is incredible
Speaker 4: to have that much participation, both through you know, in
Speaker 4: person meetings that we had and the online information that
Speaker 4: we are surveys that we had available. So yeah, it's
Speaker 4: it's incredible.
Speaker 1: We're grateful to everyone who partic diipated and again, this
Speaker 1: is this is something that we will but we will
Speaker 1: use as we look to Bartlesville's future, and so it
Speaker 1: helps to shape other plans. So when we look at
Speaker 1: our strategic Plan, which is a shorter frame timeframe it's
Speaker 1: generally about three years, is what we look at there.
Speaker 1: As we look to our strategic Plan, we align it
Speaker 1: with comprehensive plan. And then every year when we do
Speaker 1: our budget, we align it with the Strategic Plan, and
Speaker 1: each department they align their.
Speaker 3: Goals with the Strategic Plan. So it does.
Speaker 1: It is important, but again it's just it's a it's
Speaker 1: a guiding document. It is not there is no force
Speaker 1: of law, it doesn't allocate resources. So but we're excited
Speaker 1: to have that behind us so that we can we
Speaker 1: can continue to move forward. And speaking of budgets, that
Speaker 1: was a major topic at our last council meeting. In fact,
Speaker 1: we essentially the Council adopts two separate budgets. The first
Speaker 1: budget is the operating budget, and included in that is
Speaker 1: funding for capital projects. But the Council actually considers the
Speaker 1: capital budget separately. So they adopt the operating budget and
Speaker 1: that's funding to these capital sources. But then we have
Speaker 1: a completely separate presentation on all of the capital projects
Speaker 1: and then the council adopts those So as far as
Speaker 1: the operating budget went, the council did adopt the operating
Speaker 1: budget as presented, so all of the city staff's work
Speaker 1: was appreciated on that. And so just some quick highlights
Speaker 1: on the operating budget. Our finance director will be back
Speaker 1: later this month and be on the radio and he
Speaker 1: can talk in greater detail.
Speaker 3: But the biggest highlights.
Speaker 1: We anticipated decline in both sales tax and use tax,
Speaker 1: and so we typically budget very conservatively and this year
Speaker 1: was no exception. We have budgeted for a one percent
Speaker 1: decline in sales tax, which is a significant amount of money.
Speaker 1: Sales tax is our largest tax source, and a two
Speaker 1: percent decline in use tax, and so both of those
Speaker 1: are significant revenue sources. So we're trying to hedge our
Speaker 1: bets a little bit as we go into these times
Speaker 1: of uncertainty. It's always uncertain, by the way, that's just
Speaker 1: the reality. When you're planning a year, you don't know
Speaker 1: how it's going to go. So you described as uncertain.
Speaker 3: Well, if you did, there would be no surprise. That's true.
Speaker 3: That's not all surprises are good. Dumb. The older we get,
Speaker 3: the more we realize that there are very few good surprises,
Speaker 3: very few.
Speaker 1: So one of the other provisions we did provide for
Speaker 1: standard pay increases for all city employees, which is very
Speaker 1: important to us.
Speaker 3: We want to be an employer of choice.
Speaker 1: We want people to want to work here because eighty
Speaker 1: over eighty percent of our budget is for personnel.
Speaker 3: Work service organizations.
Speaker 1: So the service we provide to the citizens of Bartlesville
Speaker 1: is dependent on the quality of people we can hire,
Speaker 1: and that is directly related to what we pay. As
Speaker 1: far as additions of personnel, there really were only four
Speaker 1: additional personnel. We are looking to add four firefighters to
Speaker 1: the City of Bartlesville, and there's a lot of reasons
Speaker 1: for that, but part of it is is to help
Speaker 1: to offset some of the overtime that we were incurring.
Speaker 1: And part of that is that we have simply grown
Speaker 1: as a city since we established the number of firefighters
Speaker 1: that we have, so adding for we believe will we'll
Speaker 1: provide a better service to our community and save money.
Speaker 1: And so it's it's not often we can do those
Speaker 1: two things at the same time, but we believe this
Speaker 1: will do both. And then there were a couple of
Speaker 1: initiatives in there that were they're sort of interesting. One
Speaker 1: of them is as we set aside some money to
Speaker 1: explore the implementation of AI in our in our organization,
Speaker 1: it is an incredibly powerful tool, somewhat misunderstood, and we
Speaker 1: were just curious where where could we.
Speaker 3: Go with that?
Speaker 1: And and again, our goal is tooful, just like it
Speaker 1: was with the firefighters, is to reduce costs and increase
Speaker 1: service to citizens. So we think that AI presents that opportunity.
Speaker 1: We just need to be very careful in how we
Speaker 1: implement it.
Speaker 3: Okay, yep, very careful.
Speaker 1: Very yeah, we don't want to turn on sky Net Tom, No,
Speaker 1: we don't. Sorry for anybody who's under the age of thirty.
Speaker 1: That was a terminator reference. And the other thing that
Speaker 1: we set aside some money for was actually to implement
Speaker 1: the next plan. And so the Council is currently in
Speaker 1: the process of adopting our next strategic Plan and so
Speaker 1: that is has been titled Barlsville Next and so we
Speaker 1: will be looking to do that in the near future.
Speaker 1: And so once we adopt the next plan, there are
Speaker 1: typically some priorities in there that do require funding, and
Speaker 1: so there was just some money set aside that the
Speaker 1: Council can actually use to accomplish some of the goals
Speaker 1: within the next plan.
Speaker 3: So that was it.
Speaker 1: It was a relatively boring budget, which is awesome. Those
Speaker 1: are my very very favorite kind. I like it when
Speaker 1: things are simple, and in this case, it was a
Speaker 1: relatively simple budget. No, not yet, but there most certainly
Speaker 1: there most certainly will be. And you're right, we have
Speaker 1: we have reserves to help deal with those surprises, and
Speaker 1: that's why we budget the way we do. So the
Speaker 1: second budget that the council adopts is actually the cap
Speaker 1: little budget that we discussed, and that one is that
Speaker 1: that's run by our city engineer, Mike Seamers, actually our
Speaker 1: city engineering director.
Speaker 3: You're also a city engineer. You're also a traffic engineer.
Speaker 3: Is there anything else I miss something? Manager?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's done at the water buffalo. Lie.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 1: There you go. See, we're all about to say it clearly.
Speaker 1: All right, So Micah, let's talk capital budget. So the
Speaker 1: first off, capital budget is generally from sources of revenue
Speaker 1: that are voter approved. So we have our sales tax,
Speaker 1: which is a half cent sales tax that's dedicated for capital.
Speaker 1: We have GEO bonds that are voter approved, so the
Speaker 1: projects for those are largely decided unless we have excess
Speaker 1: funds and then we can add projects of the same type.
Speaker 1: So if the voters approved streets in this amount and
Speaker 1: we have some extra money, then we can do some
Speaker 1: extra streets.
Speaker 3: It's kind of how how that shakes out.
Speaker 1: So talk to us, and there's some other sources of capital,
Speaker 1: but those are the two biggest. So talk to us
Speaker 1: about what what the citizens can expect.
Speaker 3: And these are projects that we expect to either.
Speaker 1: Start design or start construction in the next year, which
Speaker 1: is why they were funded.
Speaker 3: Correct.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we we each year also always carry over
Speaker 2: some projects that were already funded with the previous year,
Speaker 2: quite a few previous budget.
Speaker 3: And it takes more than a year to get most
Speaker 3: of these capital projects.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, it does.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately it does.
Speaker 1: Yees, lengthy design and then bidding process and then right
Speaker 1: some of them then themselves could take six well, depending
Speaker 1: we've got wastewater plants, may take.
Speaker 2: Two years to may take two years on that. In
Speaker 2: our bridge project, we'll be pushing a year when it's
Speaker 2: all complete there on Tuxedo. So yeah, so there's government
Speaker 2: doesn't always move quickly when we're opening money, which isn't
Speaker 2: necessarily always a.
Speaker 3: Bat, but not always a bad thing, that's right. Let's
Speaker 3: be deliberate.
Speaker 2: We don't rush into things, yeah for sure. So but yeah, so,
Speaker 2: like you said, we were working on geo bond funds
Speaker 2: from the twenty twenty geo bond. Currently we've got the
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two issues, the twenty twenty three issues of those,
Speaker 2: and so actually really the majority of those projects should
Speaker 2: be really going out to bid this year. Hopefully.
Speaker 3: This is awesome.
Speaker 2: We're I don't want to say we're caught up, because
Speaker 2: we're not caught up by any means, but we're finally
Speaker 2: doing better I think in our department and trying to
Speaker 2: get some of these things cranked out. So you'll see
Speaker 2: a lot of street projects happening this year and whatnot.
Speaker 2: But as far as new projects that they're new to
Speaker 2: the budget, we're, like you said, we're on year five
Speaker 2: of the five year sales tax extension and there.
Speaker 3: Weren't a whole lot of projects in there.
Speaker 2: Usually try to get things done earlier in that five
Speaker 2: year periods. You never know what the money is going
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 1: Right, all of the ones that we promised the public
Speaker 1: we would do, we try to get done.
Speaker 2: We're trying to get that done early, so there really
Speaker 2: weren't a whole lot of projects in there. The biggest
Speaker 2: thing really is about one point two million dollars worth
Speaker 2: of prevent the maintenance street funds. Those specific streets aren't
Speaker 2: identified yet. We'll start working on that here the next
Speaker 2: couple of months and get that before Street and Traffic Committee,
Speaker 2: but we'll use our payment condition model to help identify
Speaker 2: those as well. But we've got funding for that, and
Speaker 2: then we've got our kind of what we call evergreen
Speaker 2: funds as far as maintenance, some equipment, things of that nature.
Speaker 2: So we've got small vall smaller things. We've got funding
Speaker 2: for general fund, vehicle replacement, for police vehicle replacement, and equipment,
Speaker 2: you know, tasers, things of that nature. It's all the
Speaker 2: things that really are kind of recurring each year. We've
Speaker 2: got funding for that. But like you said, if we
Speaker 2: do have some savings or more money available than the
Speaker 2: product that we're planned, we do reach out with the
Speaker 2: directors for their list of needs, and so we went
Speaker 2: through that process this year as well. And so in
Speaker 2: sales tax alone, we do have a one hundred and
Speaker 2: eighty thousand dollars for new abatement storage building. That was
Speaker 2: really kind of the largest thing in sales tax sadly enough,
Speaker 2: and that's just not all that exciting.
Speaker 3: Right, Well, that was a very exciting budget. Very exciting budget.
Speaker 2: We've got that We've actually got the last bit of
Speaker 2: funding for our City Hall remodel project in the carpet.
Speaker 2: So we've got some funding for carpet replacement in City Hall.
Speaker 3: That's exciting for the people who work there.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 2: And so you know, we're getting close to bidding that
Speaker 2: project as well, and this actually works out well, we're
Speaker 2: now just got that last piece of funding so we
Speaker 2: can make that happen.
Speaker 1: This building is over one hundred years old, so it
Speaker 1: requires a little care.
Speaker 2: And love, it does for sure. So again that's kind
Speaker 2: of your project's there for sales tax. As far as
Speaker 2: new projects, we also have a capital Reserve fund, which
Speaker 2: is actually general fund money that again, if we have
Speaker 2: a surplus that we can put towards capital project, that's.
Speaker 3: Right, anything that we can we try to put towards.
Speaker 2: Capital, right, and so really the most exciting project in
Speaker 2: that is going to be nine hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 2: dollars for a new fire truck.
Speaker 1: It is definitely badly needed. We were due a replacement
Speaker 1: on the pumper anyway. But this will be special.
Speaker 2: Right, So this will be special. So this is gonna
Speaker 2: be equipped with phone capabilities. They call it RF I believe,
Speaker 2: I forget what that even stands for. Yes, well, I'm
Speaker 2: not even gonna report, I don't remember. Long story short,
Speaker 2: it's gonna help us be covered at our airport. That's
Speaker 2: so if you have fires out there and those hangars,
Speaker 2: you've got jet fuel, you've got other things that are combustible,
Speaker 2: and so we're really not currently equipped to handle that.
Speaker 2: There was a time when Conico Phillips ran that airport
Speaker 2: that they had the equipment on site I did.
Speaker 1: They actually had to our vehicles on site that we
Speaker 1: don't have anymore.
Speaker 2: And so when we took over operation of the airport
Speaker 2: out there, we've already always owned it, but we took
Speaker 2: over operation.
Speaker 3: What was that three years ago now, it.
Speaker 2: Seems about right, Yeah, we we haven't had that equipment.
Speaker 2: So that came up as part of this new hangar
Speaker 2: project that we're currently working on design out there, and
Speaker 2: that it would have cost about one point five million
Speaker 2: dollars just for fire suppression in that one building to
Speaker 2: do foam suppression. And so we thought a better option
Speaker 2: would be to equip our fire department appropriately and then
Speaker 2: we can get by with normal I guess, more conventional
Speaker 2: water fire suppression in that hangar at a lesser cost,
Speaker 2: and then we can be covered on the other hangers.
Speaker 1: With It allowed us to increase our capability of our
Speaker 1: fire department and yeah, for sure for the airport and
Speaker 1: beyond the airport.
Speaker 2: Right, So this is I think this is I think
Speaker 2: we all feel like this is a good, good step,
Speaker 2: good thing, decision, good project per se. It's equipment, not
Speaker 2: so much a project, but so EARLYI Other than that,
Speaker 2: I mean that's the rest of us equipment and things
Speaker 2: for other departments and whatnot. It's as far as sales tax.
Speaker 2: We had about four point four to seven million dollars
Speaker 2: available for new projects. That's after we got through our
Speaker 2: carryover projects that were already budget previous years and if
Speaker 2: we had to add additional funding to those or we
Speaker 2: never really cut the projects, but sometimes we'd have to
Speaker 2: carry over some additional funds and we haven't got the design,
Speaker 2: maybe haven't got to construction. Those who carry over the
Speaker 2: full budget for those we had about four point four
Speaker 2: to seven million available in sales tax. We had about
Speaker 2: three point sixty seven million dollars in actual projects, and
Speaker 2: so it's got that about just almost eight hundred thousand
Speaker 2: dollars buffer.
Speaker 1: It's always good to have, especially when we have increasing
Speaker 1: prices like we have right now.
Speaker 3: Correct, we are really.
Speaker 2: Uncertain, you know, It's been interesting. It's just might have
Speaker 2: been all over the board, something seem high.
Speaker 3: Something.
Speaker 2: I've been surprised on some street projects here they're actually
Speaker 2: coming in lower than expected. But I think as a whole,
Speaker 2: things are still high.
Speaker 3: And I think some of.
Speaker 1: The streets are the materials are local right, our buildings,
Speaker 1: a lot of that stuff is We're going to be
Speaker 1: bringing in steel and stuff from other areas, so that
Speaker 1: will will certainly be more susceptible there.
Speaker 3: So this is nice.
Speaker 2: This is I think last year we had around the
Speaker 2: same amount a little.
Speaker 3: Bit last thing.
Speaker 2: That's seven hundred and fifty thousand last year for unallocated
Speaker 2: It's nice because there haven't always been years. No, there
Speaker 2: have been years where we've had about one hundred dollars
Speaker 2: safety hundred thousand dollars safety debt there and.
Speaker 3: It went fast, pretty nerve wright again it went fast.
Speaker 1: So this allows us to do the projects that we've identified,
Speaker 1: even if some of them come in over budge correct,
Speaker 1: which which we know that that's a good chance that
Speaker 1: will happen this year, right, right, Our estimates are not
Speaker 1: are a couple of years old.
Speaker 2: Now, so they are. Yeah, especially on the sales tax
Speaker 2: side of things. You know it's a five year extension
Speaker 2: or geo bond products were maybe a little bit better
Speaker 2: shape on this lightest one, but uh, we try to
Speaker 2: be conservative, but we we did find out pretty early
Speaker 2: on especially on some bridges I think too hurry over
Speaker 2: on that one we've adjusted and modified for a sunset
Speaker 2: portion is going to happen here the next year.
Speaker 1: So there is there anything in there that you think
Speaker 1: that the public would be excited about that it's something
Speaker 1: something unique, sort.
Speaker 3: Of like you said, it's kind of boring.
Speaker 2: It's kind of kind of boring.
Speaker 1: Kind but there's there are a lot of street projects,
Speaker 1: a lot of street projects.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so and really what's going to happen is
Speaker 2: is not so much with the new projects, but what
Speaker 2: you're going to see is on that last issuees of
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty g O bond Uh. There's a whole
Speaker 2: bunch of street projects in that. We've got I think
Speaker 2: four different concrete street projects that we're lumped into one project.
Speaker 2: We've got about six different asphalt projects that are lumped
Speaker 2: into one larger project. So we've got a lot of
Speaker 2: things that you're going to see construction happening that are
Speaker 2: really carried over from previous years.
Speaker 1: And there will be some disruption, there will be asked
Speaker 1: for everybody's patience. I would apologize, but the reality is
Speaker 1: is what we're doing is we're improving our community and
Speaker 1: making our streets spanishers nothing to apologize for.
Speaker 3: We find ourselves apologies.
Speaker 1: That's it, and so I and right now we're we're
Speaker 1: getting ready to go through a period of some pretty
Speaker 1: significant intermittent district eruptions and they're signage up on those
Speaker 1: streets now. So if people have noticed the little temporary
Speaker 1: reflectors on a road, it's because that road is getting
Speaker 1: ready to get and improvement.
Speaker 2: That is and is if you drive through town, it's
Speaker 2: pretty much going to cover It's quite a.
Speaker 3: Few major.
Speaker 1: We've got them all and we do and that will
Speaker 1: be essentially a thin overlay and then it gets sealed
Speaker 1: with sort of a year. It's sort of a super
Speaker 1: hard sealant on it. And this is preventative maintenance. So
Speaker 1: these some of these roads you'll look at and think, man,
Speaker 1: that road was okay to begin with, Well it is,
Speaker 1: but in a couple of years it won't be right.
Speaker 2: And so she just had that conversation with a friend
Speaker 2: over the weekend. We were talking about it and they
Speaker 2: were asking what the you know, what the signage was
Speaker 2: it was up and what's going on and the sticky
Speaker 2: tabs and and I just explained it, and actually I
Speaker 2: sent them the link. So if you guys are interested
Speaker 2: in this project, good point for starters, get on city Beat.
Speaker 2: There's a link in there for that and in the
Speaker 2: project description. We should also have that on our website.
Speaker 2: But they really did a pretty good job of laying
Speaker 2: this project out. It's in phases. I don't if you
Speaker 2: want to go to that level of detail here on
Speaker 2: the radio this morning, I'm not sure we have time for.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But.
Speaker 2: Bottom line is it's going to cover a lot of
Speaker 2: the city of Barbles little but there is information out
Speaker 2: there on that link, and yeah, it's prevented maintenance.
Speaker 3: But those streets.
Speaker 2: They're really not in that bad a condition now now
Speaker 2: they're they're in pretty good shape, but we want to
Speaker 2: extend the life of those This will get us another
Speaker 2: ten to fifteen years. So this is where we have
Speaker 2: to do something more like Teresa's.
Speaker 3: Painting your house rather than repair repair in your side.
Speaker 1: And so that's really where we're painting our roads and
Speaker 1: we're going to make sure that they're in good shape
Speaker 1: come ten to fifteen years. So this is an excellent
Speaker 1: use of that money, right, all right, Michael, Well, thank you.
Speaker 1: We got Larry here too, and I don't want to
Speaker 1: cut him out completely, so he got a couple of minutes.
Speaker 3: But Larry, so we're here really to kind of.
Speaker 1: Talk about code enforcement because this is the time of
Speaker 1: year in which I.
Speaker 4: Want to talk about Mark exciting, okay, so I'll okay,
Speaker 4: well I'll do very quick on that.
Speaker 3: Well, just as a reminder, I'll tell you what you do.
Speaker 3: You nobody ever listens to me anyway, So just do
Speaker 3: your thing.
Speaker 4: Always listening to it doesn't mean I actually act on it,
Speaker 4: but I mean I listened thirty seconds Argus, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: So anyways, code enforcement coming. As you know, we've had
Speaker 4: lots of great rain, Thank the Good Lord that we
Speaker 4: did is that we needed that desperately considering the past
Speaker 4: couple of years. But what that leads to is grass growing.
Speaker 4: So what does that mean, citizens, please be out there
Speaker 4: maintaining your your grass. Is that we need to make
Speaker 4: sure that those things keep mode because if not, we'll
Speaker 4: be knocking on your door to just get you a
Speaker 4: little reminder.
Speaker 3: Keep it under what keep it under least twelve inches?
Speaker 4: But if it all possible.
Speaker 3: Shorter it is always better. Better, Shorter will be better
Speaker 3: for inches wet grass, it is hard to.
Speaker 4: Moyah exactly exactly. So the other thing I wanted to
Speaker 4: point out is that Keith Barsol Beautiful our committee that
Speaker 4: we crayed last year as doing an excellent job, and
Speaker 4: that we have our first project that we are doing
Speaker 4: to day. We are going to be out actually planting
Speaker 4: us some new plants within the planters downtown at Keeler
Speaker 4: and Frank Phillips and so they will be out today
Speaker 4: doing that and we're really excited about that. And we'll
Speaker 4: be doing that as well. Uh, we'll be kicking off
Speaker 4: Zony Code update soon. We are going to be going
Speaker 4: out for an RFQ request for qualifications for a consultant
Speaker 4: to come in and assist us with that update. That
Speaker 4: will be about a year year and a half long process.
Speaker 4: So the comp plan, we want to make sure everything
Speaker 4: is going to be cope a set of goodness, so
Speaker 4: we'll be doing that as well. The last thing I
Speaker 4: want to talk about is that last year, late last year,
Speaker 4: the History Museum had requested the park Board that we
Speaker 4: do a slight neat installation over off on a pathfinder
Speaker 4: and that is where the inner Urban crosses pathfinder was
Speaker 4: to do a little little installation of actually showing that location.
Speaker 4: So our team will be out there doing that hopefully
Speaker 4: this Friday, if all the weather holds out, that we
Speaker 4: will be actually putting that installation in, which will be
Speaker 4: a painting on a cross pathfinder showing the location of
Speaker 4: where the inner Urban For those who don't know what
Speaker 4: that was, that was our old city rail line that
Speaker 4: we had going through the city. Super cool and so
Speaker 4: we're putting it doing that as well.
Speaker 3: So that's awesome.
Speaker 1: So we got we got a lot of little things
Speaker 1: going on and so our as always, our community is
Speaker 1: a very unique place and this is just more demonstration
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 3: Very good job. We got that all in on time.
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