Good money, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome. It is time now for community connection. Lauren Roselle, one of our city councilors, is on with this. How are you doing today, young man?
I am good. How are you this morning?
I'm doing wonderful. We've got a big, big to do coming up tomorrow night at six at the our Best Bank east Side branch, and it'll involve everyone who is a counselor or who is running for counsel and I hope see you there.
You gonna be there, Oh absolutely, I'm looking forward to it.
It's always nice to be able to talk with the other candidates and talk with the people in Barcelol. You get to ask us some questions and people get informed and know who to vote for. Come November fifth, and you are in Ward Ward two. There you go, yeah so yeah, no right pop quiz Ward two.
Yeah.
Ward two has kind of changed boundaries in the last redistrict thing, so I want to make sure people know where Ward two is.
You know, if you look, if you start.
At Adams Boulevard Highway sixty there between Silver Lake and seventy five and go south from Adams Boulevard in between Silver Lake and seventy five all the way down past Colonial and then once we get to Nowada Road, we kind of hop over onto the east side of No Water Road, south of No Wada Road, and we go up to Madison and then we wore two stops there at Madison and Price Road.
Hey, so that's the.
Count, that's the ward. So if you live out there, I'd like for you to go out and vote, and especially vote for me. I think We're doing some great things at the city and i'd like to continue doing that.
Well, tell us how you see a new term for you? What are you looking forward to for the city.
Well, I see it with two different different objectives. First, we continue the great things we've done with economic development out there. We've got a lot of new businesses in town, blue Whale and the new Electric shop, and we've got some new businesses going out at the airport. We've got new businesses along seventy five. We've done a really good job with economic development. I'd like to continue that momentum so that we can grow jobs and grow retail experiences.
And we also want to continue with the Barswell Redevelopment Trust Authority investing in our locally owned businesses downtown in the tiff districts to make sure that we're nurturing our hometown businesses as well well.
A lot of towns are size you see a lot of empty buildings as not the case here. Most of ours are occupied in open for business.
I think the city does a great job with that.
Our two economic development engines of the BDA and the v RTA really do a great job of not only supporting and helping grow our locally businesses, but finding the gaps in our businesses and new companies to come in for employment in Barnsville. So, you know, continuing those types of things, continuing our good parts projects things like that
is definitely a theme going forward for me. I want to continue the momentum that we're improving Barsville, but I think we've got a lot of new initiatives that I want to face in the coming two years. I was so glad that bartles citizens of Bartlesville passed a historic bond issue that we have twelve million dollars of bond funds for street projects, So we.
We definitely know streets are an issue.
We've heard the citizens say that they want to improve streets. Our payment Condition Index study that we did says that we're behind, so we need to repair, replace, and rejuvenate some of our streets.
So we've got twelve million dollars in bonds.
We've also got about five million dollars in our maintenance budgets.
To help maintain our roads.
I really am looking forward to trying to get some of those projects for streets engineered and begin in the.
Next couple of years.
We've got a long list of projects that we're going to do in the next two years, so we're continuing twenty twenty and twenty twenty two and twenty twenty four bond projects, so I'm literally looking forward to those in the coming years. Plus, you know, the citizens have told us exactly what they want done in a strategic plan, So we've got strategy plan out there that we want
to execute on. Whenever things come before the city Council and the city staff come to us and look to spend the tax dollars, we want to make sure that those fit into the strategic plan that the citizens have had input on. So continuing to execute that strategic plan in the next two years.
That's going to be key for us.
And Plus I mean there's also the everyday runnings of the city that we need to ensure. We need to make sure that we keep you know, the trash picked up, clean water coming to your house, dirty water going away from your house. Please fire ambulance services that we depend upon every day. Those are doing really great and functioning really great right now, so we'd like to make sure that they continue into the future.
Speaking of water, that's a big subject. We got a little bit of rain, but we didn't get a whole lot, and we might be looking at a similar scenario that we saw about a year or two ago.
Yeah, I think we're in a historic drought here in our region and up into southern Kansas where our water kind of gets pulled from. So I don't think we're in a real bad spot right now. Hopefully we've got a prediction of a lot of rain next week, so hopefully we get we get our reservoirs filled back up.
But I love that we've we've put in a committee and a council direct initiative to have community members, city staff, state representatives all setting on a task force to look at how we deal with water going forward, not only short term but mean even long term as well. I think short term, we've got a couple of projects identified, especially with the water reuse system, that will help us in the short term make sure that we don't get
into those spots again. Once we get the water reuse system online here in the next four years, that's a real great project short term, but long term, they're thinking.
About what does our water supply look.
Like and where and can we can we diversify our water supply and not just pull it from you Len and Hudson anymore, but maybe other places in the region that we can pull water supply from. So I'm looking forward to dealing with that issue, and we've got good people working on.
It, very very good. This is where I tell the candidates, get up on the stuff. Tell us all about Lauren Bizzelle, what I stand for, what you're gonna do, what you want to do, what you want to see.
Yeah, so I appreciate that. You know.
I've born and raised here in Bartlesville. My grandparents grew up on Oklahoma Street. I grew up on Elm Street. I went to Barnswell High School. My daughter lives on Harvey Road out here, and my granddaughter lives out there with hers so you know, it's important to me to make sure that this is a place that keeps improving so that our kids and our grandkids all want to live here.
They have jobs here, they have streets that are maintained.
They have parks to play in, and all the things necessary for them to want to live here. I really would appreciate a vote because I think we can keep improving Bartlesville, and I think we've got a strategic plan that we're executing. And I really love every day I get calls from people that I.
Can help them, and I want to help people. I want to make people successful.
So that's really why I'm running, is to help the members of my ward and my community keep being successful every day of their life, keep improving Bartlesville every day.
So I appreciate your vote on November fifth.
How can people contact you? Got a Facebook?
Yeah, I've got Facebook out there, So Lauren Roselle for Ward two, I've also got Roseseel for City Council Ward two.
Email my it's on the and then also if you go to the.
City's website, you will have you will see my phone number nine one eight four four zero zero two one five.
That's my only phone number. That's the one.
That's my personal number that you can call anytime day, night. Plus there's my city council email Ward two City Council email on the website. I'm always I'm on every day answering emails, talking to people, so don't ever hesitate to reach out if there's ever anything I can do.
Lauren Zel, thank you very much. We see you tomorrow night.
It's the Forum. I'm looking forward to it. Thank you so much.
All righty folks, you've been watching and listening to our community connection.
This is Craig Demus with Tall Grass Motors.
Is your car falling down?