WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:02.720 Events coming up this week or actually this month, I 2 00:00:02.720 --> 00:00:04.879 want to make sure everybody was aware of so anyone 3 00:00:04.919 --> 00:00:06.879 who would like, we would love to have you join 4 00:00:06.960 --> 00:00:12.400 us this Wednesday, So Wednesday, May fourteenth, this will be 5 00:00:12.439 --> 00:00:18.239 the fall Fallen Officer Memorial event. This occurs between the 6 00:00:18.239 --> 00:00:21.679 Central Fire Station and the Police Station which is on Johnstone. 7 00:00:22.039 --> 00:00:24.399 We actually have a memorial there and so we will 8 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:27.120 have a memorial event to honor all the fallen officers 9 00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:31.280 in Washington County. And so that will be again Wednesday, 10 00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:35.880 May fourteenth noon to one great event, and we are 11 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:39.280 we would love to have everyone who's available come down. 12 00:00:39.759 --> 00:00:44.039 The actual ceremony itself is only about ten to fifteen minutes, 13 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:45.759 so if you're on your lunch break, feel free to 14 00:00:45.799 --> 00:00:49.320 come down. Afterwards, they do open up the police station. 15 00:00:49.479 --> 00:00:52.039 They serve snacks and people are allowed to come in 16 00:00:52.079 --> 00:00:54.039 and you can get a little bit of a look 17 00:00:54.079 --> 00:00:56.119 at what's going on in our police station. 18 00:00:56.280 --> 00:00:56.640 So good. 19 00:00:56.840 --> 00:00:59.719 Yeah, it is a really cool event. If you've never 20 00:00:59.719 --> 00:01:02.159 had an opportunity to attend, we'd encourage you to join us. 21 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:06.799 And then coming up this will be on May twenty fourth, 22 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:10.920 we will be opening the swimming pools and so these 23 00:01:10.959 --> 00:01:13.799 are the city owned swimming pools, which would be Frontier 24 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:17.599 and sooner. Those are both owned by the city, but 25 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:21.760 they are operated by the YMCA, and so YMCA will 26 00:01:21.799 --> 00:01:24.400 be ready to open both of those on May twenty fourth. Now, 27 00:01:24.439 --> 00:01:28.879 the splash pads might actually open sooner than that, but 28 00:01:28.959 --> 00:01:31.640 that really is just depending on whether and so if 29 00:01:31.640 --> 00:01:34.879 the weather cooperates, we'll actually open those sooner, and. 30 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:37.840 So once that happens, we'll we'll make that announcement for sure. 31 00:01:37.959 --> 00:01:40.840 Did you give the test glide on the slide already? 32 00:01:40.879 --> 00:01:42.000 Did you give them me the approval? 33 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:42.280 You know? 34 00:01:43.560 --> 00:01:44.439 I was. I was. 35 00:01:45.799 --> 00:01:47.680 I was one of the first ones down, and I'm 36 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:50.959 going to tell you the fast slides pretty fast good. 37 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:53.920 I lost I lost contact with the slide at one point. 38 00:01:53.959 --> 00:01:58.319 Wow, weez, zero gravity in the tube. It was. It 39 00:01:58.359 --> 00:01:59.519 smooked me just a little bit. 40 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:03.079 I'm not gonna but it was fun, right, And of 41 00:02:03.159 --> 00:02:04.920 course I had a bunch of people watching. So the 42 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:06.879 only thing I could think of is please don't scream 43 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:07.519 like a little girl. 44 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:08.400 And I didn't. 45 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:10.560 I didn't, but I did on the inside just for 46 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:15.879 a minute. Okay, So but that's that's coming up, and 47 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:19.000 we would love to These are all of our swimming 48 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:22.919 pools are fantastic. They are and the amenities there are awesome, 49 00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:25.159 so it's a great thing for families. But we'll plan 50 00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:27.439 to have those open May twenty fourth, and we're really 51 00:02:27.439 --> 00:02:31.240 excited about it. Another thing that's going on, and actually 52 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:33.800 we are in the very last phase of it, is 53 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:38.360 the hydrant flushing, and so we are in the last phase. 54 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:42.199 In fact, it will be happening this evening, and so 55 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:46.560 we will be flushing the hydrants between frank Phillips. Basically, 56 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:49.960 if you live north of frank Phillips between seventy five 57 00:02:49.960 --> 00:02:52.599 and the Caney River, we'll be flushing those tonight, so 58 00:02:52.680 --> 00:02:55.960 you'll you could notice some discoloration of your water. And 59 00:02:56.360 --> 00:02:59.199 people are always curious why we flush the hydrance, and 60 00:02:59.240 --> 00:03:00.680 there's a couple of reasons. 61 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:02.919 One of them is to ensure that all the hydrants 62 00:03:02.919 --> 00:03:03.680 of town are working. 63 00:03:03.719 --> 00:03:06.039 So this is a you go around and you you 64 00:03:06.199 --> 00:03:08.319 actuate them and flush them out and you make sure 65 00:03:08.319 --> 00:03:11.000 that they're working. But actually the main reason for it 66 00:03:11.039 --> 00:03:13.919 is for maintenance of our water lines. And so by 67 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:17.759 flushing those, you actually flush you increase the velocity of 68 00:03:17.479 --> 00:03:20.520 the water in the line and it scours the inside 69 00:03:20.520 --> 00:03:23.159 of the lines, and so it removes what's known as 70 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:26.599 the biofilm, and so all all water has minerals and 71 00:03:26.639 --> 00:03:28.599 things in it, and it actually will deposit on the 72 00:03:28.639 --> 00:03:31.919 inside of the lines, and so we we speed up 73 00:03:31.960 --> 00:03:34.199 how much water flows through there, and it actually scours 74 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:36.319 that out and helps to keep the lines maintained. 75 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:39.520 So those are those are the two reasons. And it does. 76 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:42.759 It can cause some can cause some discoloration of the 77 00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:45.520 water when we're doing that, so just be careful, especially 78 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:48.000 if you're washing clothes. You might want to wait a 79 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:51.199 day and not We don't want you to stain your 80 00:03:51.199 --> 00:03:54.360 clothes at all. So but that'll that's I believe that's 81 00:03:54.360 --> 00:03:56.240 the final phase of that and we will have completed 82 00:03:56.319 --> 00:04:01.039 hydro flushing for the year. So now back week we 83 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:03.240 had a council meeting, would have been yeah, actually it 84 00:04:03.240 --> 00:04:06.080 would have been last week, so one week ago. Had 85 00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:09.840 a fairly lengthy meeting, but we had a lot, We 86 00:04:09.919 --> 00:04:12.159 really had a lot on the meeting. It was one 87 00:04:12.199 --> 00:04:14.400 of the weightier meetings we've had in a while. And 88 00:04:14.439 --> 00:04:17.199 in fact, we had budgets and we had contracts with 89 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:21.279 the Barbsviell Development Authority and visit Bartlesville, and we had 90 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:26.480 their budgets and their stories, and we had a lot 91 00:04:26.600 --> 00:04:28.839 going on that night. In fact, I'm forgetting about half 92 00:04:28.879 --> 00:04:31.959 of it. But one of the one of the items 93 00:04:31.959 --> 00:04:34.279 I know that generated a lot of public interest was 94 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:39.839 the city's comprehensive Plan. And so if i'd just take 95 00:04:39.879 --> 00:04:42.560 a minute and kind of back up, because the city's 96 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:46.000 comprehensive Plan was actually adopted in November of twenty twenty four, 97 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:49.560 and so we have a comprehensive plan and it is 98 00:04:49.639 --> 00:04:53.279 we have been operating under that plan since November twenty 99 00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:57.000 twenty four. And if you're curious exactly what a comprehensive 100 00:04:57.040 --> 00:05:00.240 plan is, it is the longest term plan that the 101 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:04.279 city implements, and so it looks way into the future. 102 00:05:04.279 --> 00:05:07.279 We're talking twenty or thirty years for these. Most of 103 00:05:07.319 --> 00:05:10.240 our plans are relatively short in nature. We look one 104 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:13.399 to three years into the future. But this is the 105 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:17.720 overall framework for our community, for our government, for development, 106 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:21.480 for economic development. This is the overall framework looking as 107 00:05:21.480 --> 00:05:24.199 far out into the future as we can. Took about 108 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:26.800 took thirteen months, I think, to develop the comprehensive Plan. 109 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:31.959 It involved hundreds of citizens of Bartlesville, there was a 110 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:33.160 tremendous amount of input. 111 00:05:33.240 --> 00:05:34.879 We had a top. 112 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:40.759 Shelf consultant from half An Associates and this plan was 113 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:44.959 again it was thirteen months in development, adopted in November 114 00:05:44.959 --> 00:05:47.519 by the City Council. At the same time, the City 115 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:52.399 Council invited people to provide input for a thirty day 116 00:05:52.399 --> 00:05:56.000 period and so during that thirty day period we wanted 117 00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:59.160 to hear from everyone who had concerns, and I think 118 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:02.639 Larry you told me we received about we received probably 119 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:07.519 five different submissions, but they were all essentially the same submission, 120 00:06:07.639 --> 00:06:13.160 so they had the same source. And so the Larry 121 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:17.759 actually facilitated an ad hoc group to review those changes 122 00:06:17.800 --> 00:06:21.720 and to see if any of those that the City 123 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:24.720 Council would be interested in implementing any of those and 124 00:06:24.759 --> 00:06:29.480 there it was quite a voluminous number of amendments, and 125 00:06:29.519 --> 00:06:31.279 so the ad hoc group, I think you spent about 126 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:35.240 four months studying that, so about four months actually studying it, 127 00:06:35.319 --> 00:06:41.160 and then took the final document to the Planning Commission, 128 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:44.800 and the Planning Commission recommended that we reject all amendments. 129 00:06:45.399 --> 00:06:47.720 And so what they wanted was for us to keep 130 00:06:47.720 --> 00:06:50.519 the plan that the council had adopted in November, and 131 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:52.720 that was unanimous by the Planning Commission, so that was 132 00:06:52.759 --> 00:06:56.040 their recommendation of the City Council. But since the City 133 00:06:56.079 --> 00:06:59.319 Council is the actual deciding body and the Planning Commission 134 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:01.240 is just a recommend we went ahead and took it 135 00:07:01.279 --> 00:07:05.079 to the City Council and Larry explained it that night 136 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:07.800 exactly everything that I'm talking about now, how we arrived 137 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:11.519 at this place and the council considered it and they 138 00:07:11.639 --> 00:07:14.800 actually split vote three to two. They rejected all the amendments, 139 00:07:14.839 --> 00:07:18.839 so they followed the recommendation of the Planning Commission. 140 00:07:18.920 --> 00:07:21.279 So we have the same comp plan. 141 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:23.160 That we have had since last November, and we will 142 00:07:24.079 --> 00:07:26.839 and to be clear, I think we have a great 143 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:31.920 plan and I think it was well developed, using again 144 00:07:32.040 --> 00:07:35.120 all of the resources that our community has. There was 145 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:39.600 incredible amounts of public input and frankly, there was even 146 00:07:39.639 --> 00:07:42.959 more availability for anyone who wanted to participate. Not everyone did, 147 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:44.959 and I get that there's thirty eight thousand people. 148 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:46.720 That live in Borlso Localholm and not all of them 149 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:48.800 care to participate in a thirty year plan. 150 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:51.319 Well, I and those open meetings there sure were a 151 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:52.680 ton It was standing room only. 152 00:07:52.839 --> 00:07:55.680 It was actually pretty impressive, right, yeah, that we had 153 00:07:55.720 --> 00:07:58.959 that many people participate. So that was what went into 154 00:07:59.079 --> 00:08:01.879 the development of the area origional plan and the If 155 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:04.920 anyone is curious why we had the ad hoc it 156 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:08.079 was to consider the submissions that we received after the 157 00:08:08.160 --> 00:08:11.560 plan was adopted, and so they did a small group. 158 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:15.160 It was actually Larry was the staff facilitator. We had 159 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:19.279 Council East on the committee. We had Vice Mayor Dorsey 160 00:08:19.360 --> 00:08:21.959 on the committee, and then we had two citizens, one 161 00:08:22.040 --> 00:08:26.000 of whom had served on the original the Planning Advisory Committee, 162 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:29.560 which was Dan kelleher he brought some technical expertise as 163 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:33.519 an architect. And then the final one was Sarah Burnette, 164 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:34.440 who is. 165 00:08:34.840 --> 00:08:35.440 I believe her. 166 00:08:35.519 --> 00:08:38.240 I believe she's actually the vice vice chairman of the 167 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:41.840 Washington County GOP and so that as far as I know, 168 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:46.000 that's her only official role she had. She was the 169 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:49.559 compiler of all of the suggested changes. So the ad 170 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:52.039 hoc committee met in good faith and looked through everything. 171 00:08:52.039 --> 00:08:54.399 But again at the end of it, both the Planning 172 00:08:54.399 --> 00:08:57.000 Commission and in the City of Artlesfield rejected those amendments 173 00:08:57.039 --> 00:08:59.080 and so we will will go with the plan that 174 00:08:59.200 --> 00:09:02.440 was that was initially adopted and we're. 175 00:09:02.080 --> 00:09:03.600 Quite happy with it. Oh yeah, very much. 176 00:09:03.639 --> 00:09:06.159 Then I'd just like to chime in that you know, 177 00:09:06.240 --> 00:09:08.600 the conference ave Plan is a guiding document, is not 178 00:09:08.639 --> 00:09:11.440 an ordinance, right, no law. It is no law. It 179 00:09:11.519 --> 00:09:13.799 is adopted by resolution by city council. So it is 180 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:18.919 something that the city will constantly be looking at and 181 00:09:19.559 --> 00:09:22.919 actually as a part of our comp plan and ordinances 182 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:25.000 is that we look at it every at least once 183 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:27.639 a year to see if there's any potential changes that 184 00:09:27.759 --> 00:09:30.679 need to be looked at, and that's always about every November. 185 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:32.399 Is that will take a take a look at that, 186 00:09:32.480 --> 00:09:33.960 see if there's anything that needs to be done, and 187 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:37.320 then go from there. But yeah, I mean it is 188 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:40.080 it is a well crafted document that you know, well 189 00:09:40.120 --> 00:09:44.720 over a thousand citizens participated in helping create and craft 190 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:47.039 that document. Oh yeah, I mean that's that is incredible 191 00:09:47.039 --> 00:09:50.440 to have that much participation, both through you know, in 192 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:54.480 person meetings that we had and the online information that 193 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:57.240 we are surveys that we had available. So yeah, it's 194 00:09:57.240 --> 00:09:58.200 it's incredible. 195 00:09:58.279 --> 00:10:01.120 We're grateful to everyone who partic diipated and again, this 196 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:03.799 is this is something that we will but we will 197 00:10:03.879 --> 00:10:07.559 use as we look to Bartlesville's future, and so it 198 00:10:07.639 --> 00:10:10.000 helps to shape other plans. So when we look at 199 00:10:10.039 --> 00:10:12.919 our strategic Plan, which is a shorter frame timeframe it's 200 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:15.120 generally about three years, is what we look at there. 201 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:17.440 As we look to our strategic Plan, we align it 202 00:10:17.440 --> 00:10:19.840 with comprehensive plan. And then every year when we do 203 00:10:19.879 --> 00:10:22.080 our budget, we align it with the Strategic Plan, and 204 00:10:22.159 --> 00:10:23.799 each department they align their. 205 00:10:23.639 --> 00:10:25.679 Goals with the Strategic Plan. So it does. 206 00:10:25.799 --> 00:10:28.600 It is important, but again it's just it's a it's 207 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:31.080 a guiding document. It is not there is no force 208 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:34.679 of law, it doesn't allocate resources. So but we're excited 209 00:10:34.679 --> 00:10:36.799 to have that behind us so that we can we 210 00:10:36.840 --> 00:10:41.519 can continue to move forward. And speaking of budgets, that 211 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:45.639 was a major topic at our last council meeting. In fact, 212 00:10:45.679 --> 00:10:48.799 we essentially the Council adopts two separate budgets. The first 213 00:10:48.840 --> 00:10:52.440 budget is the operating budget, and included in that is 214 00:10:52.519 --> 00:10:55.679 funding for capital projects. But the Council actually considers the 215 00:10:55.720 --> 00:10:59.159 capital budget separately. So they adopt the operating budget and 216 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:03.879 that's funding to these capital sources. But then we have 217 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:06.840 a completely separate presentation on all of the capital projects 218 00:11:06.879 --> 00:11:09.480 and then the council adopts those So as far as 219 00:11:09.519 --> 00:11:13.759 the operating budget went, the council did adopt the operating 220 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:18.039 budget as presented, so all of the city staff's work 221 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:22.840 was appreciated on that. And so just some quick highlights 222 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:25.360 on the operating budget. Our finance director will be back 223 00:11:25.480 --> 00:11:26.960 later this month and be on the radio and he 224 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:28.159 can talk in greater detail. 225 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:30.919 But the biggest highlights. 226 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:34.240 We anticipated decline in both sales tax and use tax, 227 00:11:34.759 --> 00:11:38.799 and so we typically budget very conservatively and this year 228 00:11:38.919 --> 00:11:41.679 was no exception. We have budgeted for a one percent 229 00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:44.080 decline in sales tax, which is a significant amount of money. 230 00:11:44.120 --> 00:11:47.039 Sales tax is our largest tax source, and a two 231 00:11:47.120 --> 00:11:50.279 percent decline in use tax, and so both of those 232 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:53.759 are significant revenue sources. So we're trying to hedge our 233 00:11:53.799 --> 00:11:55.679 bets a little bit as we go into these times 234 00:11:55.679 --> 00:12:00.200 of uncertainty. It's always uncertain, by the way, that's just 235 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:02.200 the reality. When you're planning a year, you don't know 236 00:12:02.200 --> 00:12:04.759 how it's going to go. So you described as uncertain. 237 00:12:04.399 --> 00:12:08.320 Well, if you did, there would be no surprise. That's true. 238 00:12:09.200 --> 00:12:13.840 That's not all surprises are good. Dumb. The older we get, 239 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:16.639 the more we realize that there are very few good surprises, 240 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:18.320 very few. 241 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:21.960 So one of the other provisions we did provide for 242 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:24.600 standard pay increases for all city employees, which is very 243 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:25.360 important to us. 244 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:28.080 We want to be an employer of choice. 245 00:12:28.120 --> 00:12:31.320 We want people to want to work here because eighty 246 00:12:31.399 --> 00:12:34.559 over eighty percent of our budget is for personnel. 247 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:35.320 Work service organizations. 248 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:37.960 So the service we provide to the citizens of Bartlesville 249 00:12:38.039 --> 00:12:39.840 is dependent on the quality of people we can hire, 250 00:12:40.440 --> 00:12:44.360 and that is directly related to what we pay. As 251 00:12:44.399 --> 00:12:47.279 far as additions of personnel, there really were only four 252 00:12:47.320 --> 00:12:51.320 additional personnel. We are looking to add four firefighters to 253 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:53.799 the City of Bartlesville, and there's a lot of reasons 254 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:56.360 for that, but part of it is is to help 255 00:12:56.399 --> 00:12:58.519 to offset some of the overtime that we were incurring. 256 00:12:59.159 --> 00:13:01.559 And part of that is that we have simply grown 257 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:03.879 as a city since we established the number of firefighters 258 00:13:03.879 --> 00:13:06.840 that we have, so adding for we believe will we'll 259 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:10.120 provide a better service to our community and save money. 260 00:13:10.440 --> 00:13:12.200 And so it's it's not often we can do those 261 00:13:12.200 --> 00:13:14.279 two things at the same time, but we believe this 262 00:13:14.320 --> 00:13:16.720 will do both. And then there were a couple of 263 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:20.559 initiatives in there that were they're sort of interesting. One 264 00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:22.440 of them is as we set aside some money to 265 00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:26.240 explore the implementation of AI in our in our organization, 266 00:13:27.039 --> 00:13:32.039 it is an incredibly powerful tool, somewhat misunderstood, and we 267 00:13:32.039 --> 00:13:33.840 were just curious where where could we. 268 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:34.360 Go with that? 269 00:13:34.759 --> 00:13:37.120 And and again, our goal is tooful, just like it 270 00:13:37.240 --> 00:13:41.159 was with the firefighters, is to reduce costs and increase 271 00:13:41.320 --> 00:13:44.679 service to citizens. So we think that AI presents that opportunity. 272 00:13:45.159 --> 00:13:46.879 We just need to be very careful in how we 273 00:13:46.919 --> 00:13:47.559 implement it. 274 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:49.960 Okay, yep, very careful. 275 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:53.919 Very yeah, we don't want to turn on sky Net Tom, No, 276 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:57.080 we don't. Sorry for anybody who's under the age of thirty. 277 00:13:57.120 --> 00:14:01.639 That was a terminator reference. And the other thing that 278 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:04.519 we set aside some money for was actually to implement 279 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:09.559 the next plan. And so the Council is currently in 280 00:14:09.639 --> 00:14:13.759 the process of adopting our next strategic Plan and so 281 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:16.360 that is has been titled Barlsville Next and so we 282 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:19.039 will be looking to do that in the near future. 283 00:14:19.399 --> 00:14:21.519 And so once we adopt the next plan, there are 284 00:14:21.559 --> 00:14:25.039 typically some priorities in there that do require funding, and 285 00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:26.879 so there was just some money set aside that the 286 00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:30.919 Council can actually use to accomplish some of the goals 287 00:14:30.919 --> 00:14:31.759 within the next plan. 288 00:14:32.720 --> 00:14:33.679 So that was it. 289 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:36.279 It was a relatively boring budget, which is awesome. Those 290 00:14:36.279 --> 00:14:39.440 are my very very favorite kind. I like it when 291 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:41.799 things are simple, and in this case, it was a 292 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:48.120 relatively simple budget. No, not yet, but there most certainly 293 00:14:48.440 --> 00:14:50.480 there most certainly will be. And you're right, we have 294 00:14:50.840 --> 00:14:53.000 we have reserves to help deal with those surprises, and 295 00:14:53.240 --> 00:14:56.519 that's why we budget the way we do. So the 296 00:14:56.600 --> 00:14:59.919 second budget that the council adopts is actually the cap 297 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:03.840 little budget that we discussed, and that one is that 298 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:07.000 that's run by our city engineer, Mike Seamers, actually our 299 00:15:07.039 --> 00:15:08.279 city engineering director. 300 00:15:08.360 --> 00:15:10.960 You're also a city engineer. You're also a traffic engineer. 301 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:13.919 Is there anything else I miss something? Manager? 302 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:16.799 Yeah, I don't know. 303 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:19.039 It's done at the water buffalo. Lie. 304 00:15:19.720 --> 00:15:20.080 That's it. 305 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:22.919 There you go. See, we're all about to say it clearly. 306 00:15:25.440 --> 00:15:28.360 All right, So Micah, let's talk capital budget. So the 307 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:33.960 first off, capital budget is generally from sources of revenue 308 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:36.879 that are voter approved. So we have our sales tax, 309 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:40.039 which is a half cent sales tax that's dedicated for capital. 310 00:15:40.679 --> 00:15:43.559 We have GEO bonds that are voter approved, so the 311 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:47.600 projects for those are largely decided unless we have excess 312 00:15:47.639 --> 00:15:50.600 funds and then we can add projects of the same type. 313 00:15:50.679 --> 00:15:53.960 So if the voters approved streets in this amount and 314 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:55.399 we have some extra money, then we can do some 315 00:15:55.440 --> 00:15:56.000 extra streets. 316 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:57.720 It's kind of how how that shakes out. 317 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:01.279 So talk to us, and there's some other sources of capital, 318 00:16:01.279 --> 00:16:02.759 but those are the two biggest. So talk to us 319 00:16:02.799 --> 00:16:05.240 about what what the citizens can expect. 320 00:16:05.799 --> 00:16:08.639 And these are projects that we expect to either. 321 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:11.080 Start design or start construction in the next year, which 322 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:11.879 is why they were funded. 323 00:16:12.039 --> 00:16:12.360 Correct. 324 00:16:12.440 --> 00:16:15.000 Yeah, so we we each year also always carry over 325 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:18.080 some projects that were already funded with the previous year, 326 00:16:18.200 --> 00:16:19.639 quite a few previous budget. 327 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:21.320 And it takes more than a year to get most 328 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:22.639 of these capital projects. 329 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:23.840 Unfortunately, it does. 330 00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:25.159 Unfortunately it does. 331 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:29.000 Yees, lengthy design and then bidding process and then right 332 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:31.320 some of them then themselves could take six well, depending 333 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:33.159 we've got wastewater plants, may take. 334 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:34.759 Two years to may take two years on that. In 335 00:16:34.840 --> 00:16:36.720 our bridge project, we'll be pushing a year when it's 336 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:39.919 all complete there on Tuxedo. So yeah, so there's government 337 00:16:39.960 --> 00:16:43.120 doesn't always move quickly when we're opening money, which isn't 338 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:43.960 necessarily always a. 339 00:16:43.879 --> 00:16:47.799 Bat, but not always a bad thing, that's right. Let's 340 00:16:47.799 --> 00:16:48.399 be deliberate. 341 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:51.879 We don't rush into things, yeah for sure. So but yeah, so, 342 00:16:52.039 --> 00:16:54.679 like you said, we were working on geo bond funds 343 00:16:54.679 --> 00:16:57.679 from the twenty twenty geo bond. Currently we've got the 344 00:16:57.679 --> 00:17:00.519 twenty twenty two issues, the twenty twenty three issues of those, 345 00:17:00.960 --> 00:17:03.200 and so actually really the majority of those projects should 346 00:17:03.240 --> 00:17:06.039 be really going out to bid this year. Hopefully. 347 00:17:06.119 --> 00:17:07.000 This is awesome. 348 00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:09.119 We're I don't want to say we're caught up, because 349 00:17:09.119 --> 00:17:11.160 we're not caught up by any means, but we're finally 350 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:12.759 doing better I think in our department and trying to 351 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:14.920 get some of these things cranked out. So you'll see 352 00:17:14.920 --> 00:17:16.960 a lot of street projects happening this year and whatnot. 353 00:17:17.039 --> 00:17:19.799 But as far as new projects that they're new to 354 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:21.759 the budget, we're, like you said, we're on year five 355 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:25.799 of the five year sales tax extension and there. 356 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:26.880 Weren't a whole lot of projects in there. 357 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:29.119 Usually try to get things done earlier in that five 358 00:17:29.160 --> 00:17:30.559 year periods. You never know what the money is going 359 00:17:30.599 --> 00:17:30.799 to do. 360 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:32.839 Right, all of the ones that we promised the public 361 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:34.160 we would do, we try to get done. 362 00:17:34.240 --> 00:17:35.880 We're trying to get that done early, so there really 363 00:17:35.920 --> 00:17:37.759 weren't a whole lot of projects in there. The biggest 364 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:40.400 thing really is about one point two million dollars worth 365 00:17:40.440 --> 00:17:43.839 of prevent the maintenance street funds. Those specific streets aren't 366 00:17:43.839 --> 00:17:46.079 identified yet. We'll start working on that here the next 367 00:17:46.079 --> 00:17:49.079 couple of months and get that before Street and Traffic Committee, 368 00:17:49.400 --> 00:17:51.960 but we'll use our payment condition model to help identify 369 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:54.920 those as well. But we've got funding for that, and 370 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:57.880 then we've got our kind of what we call evergreen 371 00:17:58.279 --> 00:18:01.799 funds as far as maintenance, some equipment, things of that nature. 372 00:18:01.880 --> 00:18:05.440 So we've got small vall smaller things. We've got funding 373 00:18:05.480 --> 00:18:10.720 for general fund, vehicle replacement, for police vehicle replacement, and equipment, 374 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:14.400 you know, tasers, things of that nature. It's all the 375 00:18:14.440 --> 00:18:16.839 things that really are kind of recurring each year. We've 376 00:18:16.839 --> 00:18:20.000 got funding for that. But like you said, if we 377 00:18:20.039 --> 00:18:23.039 do have some savings or more money available than the 378 00:18:23.039 --> 00:18:25.559 product that we're planned, we do reach out with the 379 00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:27.920 directors for their list of needs, and so we went 380 00:18:27.960 --> 00:18:30.440 through that process this year as well. And so in 381 00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:32.640 sales tax alone, we do have a one hundred and 382 00:18:32.680 --> 00:18:36.240 eighty thousand dollars for new abatement storage building. That was 383 00:18:36.279 --> 00:18:38.599 really kind of the largest thing in sales tax sadly enough, 384 00:18:38.640 --> 00:18:40.160 and that's just not all that exciting. 385 00:18:39.880 --> 00:18:43.920 Right, Well, that was a very exciting budget. Very exciting budget. 386 00:18:44.359 --> 00:18:46.039 We've got that We've actually got the last bit of 387 00:18:46.039 --> 00:18:49.000 funding for our City Hall remodel project in the carpet. 388 00:18:49.359 --> 00:18:51.519 So we've got some funding for carpet replacement in City Hall. 389 00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:53.279 That's exciting for the people who work there. 390 00:18:53.319 --> 00:18:53.640 It is. 391 00:18:53.759 --> 00:18:55.359 And so you know, we're getting close to bidding that 392 00:18:55.400 --> 00:18:57.359 project as well, and this actually works out well, we're 393 00:18:57.359 --> 00:18:59.000 now just got that last piece of funding so we 394 00:18:59.000 --> 00:18:59.839 can make that happen. 395 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:02.319 This building is over one hundred years old, so it 396 00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:04.359 requires a little care. 397 00:19:04.160 --> 00:19:08.680 And love, it does for sure. So again that's kind 398 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:10.519 of your project's there for sales tax. As far as 399 00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:14.160 new projects, we also have a capital Reserve fund, which 400 00:19:14.200 --> 00:19:17.359 is actually general fund money that again, if we have 401 00:19:17.400 --> 00:19:20.279