Speaker 1: He had done a tremendous job. He will be missed.
Speaker 2: But we one of the great things that we have
Speaker 2: in the city of Barsville is just talked about them
Speaker 2: an incredible just.
Speaker 1: A team like some of these, you know.
Speaker 2: The Old Celtics or the Lakers of Old Rider or
Speaker 2: the Bulls when Jordan was winning.
Speaker 1: We've got, Yeah, we've got a great bench.
Speaker 2: You got Lauris Sanders who's assistant city manager, phenomenal, great
Speaker 2: background in HR and then now been in the last
Speaker 2: few years in that assistant assistant city manager role. You know,
Speaker 2: we've got a lot of directors that have been there
Speaker 2: for you know, Terry Lortzon, you got Mike Seimers, you
Speaker 2: got Jason Moneger, you got Keith.
Speaker 3: Over in public Works.
Speaker 1: So, I mean, I know I'm late naming some often
Speaker 1: if I have, I apologize.
Speaker 3: I'm not.
Speaker 2: I'm not personally trying to do that, But I mean,
Speaker 2: you look across the board, a lot of these people
Speaker 2: have been there twenty twenty five plus years and so
Speaker 2: they've had a dedication to the city.
Speaker 1: All each and every one of them, and that that's what.
Speaker 2: Has made our city the great city that it is.
Speaker 2: You know, we're certainly there to support them, make sure
Speaker 2: they have the tools and resources and and all those things,
Speaker 2: and so but did have to have normally, you know,
Speaker 2: when you get the middle of the month like this,
Speaker 2: SOCT there's not really anything talked about. Unfortunately, I wish
Speaker 2: there wasn't anything to talk about that would mean that
Speaker 2: we did we didn't have to have this special meeting.
Speaker 2: And a point Laura is what we do. Thank Laura
Speaker 2: for for taking on this role and uh in short notice,
Speaker 2: and and for the council being able to gather in
Speaker 2: such short notice. There was nothing uh nefarious going on,
Speaker 2: you know, with in this situation or with this meeting.
Speaker 2: I think, you know, some people in mine thought there
Speaker 2: was something crazy going on, but there really wasn't. So
Speaker 2: it's it's it was a hard I think week or
Speaker 2: two for for everybody at at City Hall. A lot
Speaker 2: of uh, you know, great relationships forged over that time.
Speaker 2: And so it's just it's always different when when there's change,
Speaker 2: right everybody.
Speaker 3: Yeah, white people resisted so much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so there's there's going to be a little bit
Speaker 2: of an adjustment period.
Speaker 4: And yeah there's process too, because you know, the first
Speaker 4: opportunity we had to have the city on was just
Speaker 4: right after the Monday after Micro's on, and no one
Speaker 4: was sure really on how to progress on this because
Speaker 4: there were processes that had to go through, and you know,
Speaker 4: once it was explained, I'm like, okay, I got it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: It's not like a private company. This is government. It's
Speaker 4: a little bit different.
Speaker 2: Well, and you know, I think if you you read
Speaker 2: through either the charge, her job descriptions a lot of that,
Speaker 2: you know, Laura in the interim, you know, see manager
Speaker 2: goes on vacation, just a city manager covered, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean? And uh, but we know this is
Speaker 2: not just a week or two. We're gonna probably be
Speaker 2: a little while before we can get this job filled.
Speaker 4: And uh, I know, I know that you're going to
Speaker 4: vote on the job description and process here in a
Speaker 4: couple of weeks I think September, yeah, yes, yeah, yeah, eighth.
Speaker 4: And then by the time everything gets up and going,
Speaker 4: you know, we we might have a look see at,
Speaker 4: uh what maybe a whole new city council would look
Speaker 4: like too, and it could take a different turn as.
Speaker 1: Well, you bet well.
Speaker 2: And in this one, I I and filling this role.
Speaker 2: I believe we're gonna have internal interest and again when
Speaker 2: you talk about the bent.
Speaker 3: Plush years on the bench.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've got just a phenomenal group of people, and
Speaker 2: I think we're we've got several that are very capable
Speaker 2: of leading in this type of role.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, you know, I mean.
Speaker 2: It really depends on somebody may not want to take
Speaker 2: that take on that all that responsibility.
Speaker 3: Some people kind of like where they are.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're doing a phenomenal job in those roles.
Speaker 2: So it's kind of like the old double ed short
Speaker 2: if you move somebody from here and they can do
Speaker 2: a good job over here, but then who do you
Speaker 2: replace them with here? So you got again, you got
Speaker 2: We've got a great bench, and we're blessed that we
Speaker 2: have all of these directors and people that are leading
Speaker 2: these leadership roles.
Speaker 1: I do think.
Speaker 2: If we have to open it up to outside candidates
Speaker 2: that I think there'll.
Speaker 3: Be a lot of interest.
Speaker 2: And I don't think we would we would need at
Speaker 2: tire and consulting firm to do that. I think I
Speaker 2: think there'll be plenty of outside interests just you know,
Speaker 2: wherever wherever you normally advertise these type of opportunities, I
Speaker 2: think there'll be a there'll be a lot of opportunities.
Speaker 2: And again can't say enough good things about the team
Speaker 2: that is in place. And and we did also talk
Speaker 2: about one other thing, the branding UH for the supply
Speaker 2: support retail contract with fuel with P sixty six.
Speaker 1: I think there's some things.
Speaker 2: That they needed to gather hadn't quite got all pulled together,
Speaker 2: so that should be at the next meeting. But as
Speaker 2: far as I know that that has been a really
Speaker 2: good thing for us out at the airport and has
Speaker 2: done really well.
Speaker 4: That's been the pretty good little engine out there at
Speaker 4: the airport that's been taking care of a lot of business.
Speaker 4: Will quietly just kind of doing its thing, doing it well.
Speaker 2: Say if you hadn't been out by the airport, you
Speaker 2: should you drive out by there. There's it's starting to
Speaker 2: it's it looks.
Speaker 1: Quite different from three years ago.
Speaker 3: Indeed, it does even farther.
Speaker 1: Back than that.
Speaker 2: And I do believe as time progress as we are
Speaker 2: going to have a lot more opportunity. You know, once
Speaker 2: that hangar formalizes out there and we get that going,
Speaker 2: I think you'll see more people want to I want
Speaker 2: to be out there, and we've got a lot of land,
Speaker 2: we got the old what was the golf course I'm
Speaker 2: going to but Sunset Sunset golf course. And so that's
Speaker 2: kind of the industrial park west if you will, on
Speaker 2: that side of town. And there's still a lot of
Speaker 2: room you know there on the infield for some maybe
Speaker 2: different hangars in our I mean, you got a beautiful airport.
Speaker 1: And it's big.
Speaker 3: It's very functional too.
Speaker 1: It could be a regional airport.
Speaker 2: It's kind of tough though, to be have any kind
Speaker 2: of flights because you're so close to Tulsa. I mean
Speaker 2: you get right there depending on me and you drive,
Speaker 2: and we could probably be down there in thirty minutes
Speaker 2: to get on a plane, but maybe not the normal person.
Speaker 2: But so it would be tough for this to be,
Speaker 2: you know, a regional airfield.
Speaker 1: But we we got a phenomenal.
Speaker 3: Airport spaceboard there you go. I like that spaceport.
Speaker 1: We can do that.
Speaker 2: But I do think that a lot of job gration
Speaker 2: is going to take place out there. It's going to
Speaker 2: be very exciting.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you know there there are a whole different
Speaker 4: types of different businesses that can fit out there, probably
Speaker 4: that are outside of our box that we would normally
Speaker 4: think because already that has taken place. You know what
Speaker 4: we have already out there, and more similar businesses or
Speaker 4: businesses that work around or with each other, you know,
Speaker 4: kind of like spin off things that could really just
Speaker 4: blow up.
Speaker 2: Aviation has a lot of tentacles. It's sure, in my opinions,
Speaker 2: we got all of this space. Let's go provide all
Speaker 2: the tentacles so we can get all those get a
Speaker 2: lot more traffic coming in out here from the planes,
Speaker 2: and then we have this contract. That'll be excited that
Speaker 2: we said a lot more fuel.
Speaker 4: Right there, you go, we got a space for you. Folks,
Speaker 4: come to our airport. We got a space for you again.
Speaker 2: And then you know, I've been talking to a couple
Speaker 2: of community members that are really interested in about some
Speaker 2: flying stuff. And so as a matter of fact, I
Speaker 2: finally tracked down the email I had.
Speaker 1: Misplaced.
Speaker 2: Michael from the airport had sent me like a history
Speaker 2: of like the past however many years so I can't
Speaker 2: afford this out to these individuals today, and they're trying
Speaker 2: to get together maybe a little group committee formed something
Speaker 2: to where they can get some fly ins going out there,
Speaker 2: which would be really cool. I think one of the
Speaker 2: first times I think I ever came to Bartlesville was.
Speaker 1: Mid nineties, and it was for.
Speaker 4: A fly really, yeah, because like Maria says, that all
Speaker 4: it takes is a visit.
Speaker 3: Now you've been here for years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well I didn't get here until two thousand. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but you know I had, you know, I had been
Speaker 2: here and I thought, man, this this is a really
Speaker 2: cool city. And then I was here a few times
Speaker 2: after that. But it is amazing city. And I think
Speaker 2: it doesn't take but once from or you know whatever,
Speaker 2: to to really get the hooks and somebody like, man,
Speaker 2: this is kind of a special place.
Speaker 4: You know, I can see where those flyings really would
Speaker 4: be well, perfect well suited for us, because we've got
Speaker 4: the hospitality, we've got the restaurants, we've got a big
Speaker 4: city field but a small town air about us. And
Speaker 4: it's a perfect invitation.
Speaker 2: For something like that, and a fly in you get
Speaker 2: to see it a little better, right you do around here,
Speaker 2: you will you won't get lost in anything.
Speaker 3: Man. You see a lot of beauty.
Speaker 2: You know, all the full view of town. It's kind
Speaker 2: of like coming in on one twenty three. When you're
Speaker 2: coming in, I guess west to east, you know, you
Speaker 2: kind of top the hill or even coming from wool
Speaker 2: Rock on one twenty three, you're looking down and you
Speaker 2: see all of the buildings downtown beautiful. I know, we
Speaker 2: brought the family here for the first time. What's the
Speaker 2: big buildings.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the biggest, small the biggest little.
Speaker 3: City, right, you got it. And we even have the
Speaker 3: skyscraper that escaped the forest. So there you go. We
Speaker 3: got a lot of history here, a lot of good things.
Speaker 1: A lot of good things going on.
Speaker 2: We even got a little uh uh drool yesterday. Uh
Speaker 2: you know, rain in the form of rain, but it
Speaker 2: was more like drool. I think here, now you got
Speaker 2: we got a lot going I was driving in Tulsa
Speaker 2: in the morning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got more.
Speaker 1: I was like a man, I hope somehow this this
Speaker 1: all goes north, but I don't. I don't think it did.
Speaker 2: Everybody said, it's kind of like we got drooled on.
Speaker 2: So but maybe we'll get a little bit more. I know,
Speaker 2: we have been blessed this year up to now, you know,
Speaker 2: August get a little dry right now, but maybe we'll
Speaker 2: pick up some some steam here and get some rain.
Speaker 2: But we're we're not struggling in the way of water
Speaker 2: like like we have maybe a couple of other summers.
Speaker 4: So a couple of summers ago. I think we're talking
Speaker 4: to Terry about every other day.
Speaker 3: How's the lake looking to bring.
Speaker 2: You?
Speaker 3: Nothing you could do?
Speaker 4: You're in a hopeless, helpless situation that way, And now
Speaker 4: look at it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty hot. But we had a good spring, man.
Speaker 2: We did got a lot of a lot more rain
Speaker 2: than than was anticipated. And so uh and I think
Speaker 2: there's some more rain coming in the fall. But it's
Speaker 2: like right now we're getting you know a little we're
Speaker 2: in the air fryer.
Speaker 4: Well, you played the football in this kind of weather
Speaker 4: when you were a little bit younger, Yeah, just a
Speaker 4: couple of years ago. Yeah, you kind of know what
Speaker 4: that's like.
Speaker 1: Helmets. I got a twelve year old it says that
Speaker 1: that right, we played for that last second. I didn't
Speaker 1: play that long ago.
Speaker 2: But but yeah, and you know, this time of year
Speaker 2: is fun. You get you can start. I love driving
Speaker 2: around with the winds down. You can smell the hay
Speaker 2: being bailed. It's not being hauled and with guys and
Speaker 2: trailers though around round kN now and uh, and it's
Speaker 2: you know today fall practices, there's practices going on pads
Speaker 2: are popping.
Speaker 1: It's just a fun time of year.
Speaker 3: Good things are bound to happen.
Speaker 1: Brings back good memories, it does.
Speaker 4: Hey, thank you very much for being with us here
Speaker 4: today and thanks for sharing. And you know that the
Speaker 4: little jump at the airport, I'll be looking for those
Speaker 4: flyings to come in.
Speaker 3: Those are gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, keep your eye on it.
Speaker 2: I think I think this group will pick up some
Speaker 2: traction and get a get a flying. I know we
Speaker 2: used to have one and uh and God bless Billy Rohan.
Speaker 2: She was very active in that, and so I told
Speaker 2: him I would jump in and help however I can.
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