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Talk Line 08-18-2026: Dixon Mayor Glen Hughes provides city updates · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, sok Valley. You're here with the Waking Crew
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Speaker 1: on FM ninety five one and AM fourteen sixty w
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Speaker 1: I x N. It's eight fifteen on your Tuesday, August
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Speaker 1: eighteenth morning, and it's time for talk line. And joining
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Speaker 1: us in the studio is Dixon's mayor himself, Glenn Hughes. Glenn,
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Speaker 1: how are you? I am doing well? Good morning Dixon.
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Speaker 1: It's was it muggy outside? I haven't been up since early, Yes.
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Speaker 2: It is. It's still a little on the muggy side.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was complaining to Glenn about the weather, and
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Speaker 1: I'm going to retract that I'm tired of the rain.
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Speaker 1: I'll keep the rain and trade the humidity. I would,
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Speaker 1: I would conceit for that.
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Speaker 2: So no, it's a Yesterday was a good day. Today's rain.
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Speaker 2: I think we're gonna be good for the balance and
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Speaker 2: the week after that after this, you know better. You
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Speaker 2: keep track, you know, on the of the weather through
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Speaker 2: the station.
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Speaker 1: So sure, but it's the Midwest too. She doesn't like
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Speaker 1: to keep her mind made up very well. Oh that's
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Speaker 1: all right. Well we're gonna we're starting off today with
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Speaker 1: an an updates here from the streets.
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Speaker 2: Oh, Yeah, last night at council meeting, Tyler Vanier, head
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Speaker 2: of the Street Department, gave a bit of an update
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Speaker 2: he's talking about He talked quite a bit about the
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Speaker 2: coordination of the different departments in the workload. But one
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Speaker 2: of the things I wanted to mention is that, you know,
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Speaker 2: they've been working on some curb and gutter area, got
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Speaker 2: some pretty good stretches of curb and gutter done recently.
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Speaker 2: They're going to be starting They're going to be starting
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Speaker 2: their sidewalk program, the one that the property owners split.
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Speaker 2: The property owner pays for the cement and the city
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Speaker 2: does the does the work. So that's that's a program
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Speaker 2: I've talked about before. But it's in addition to the
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Speaker 2: monies that we put in four specific working on specific sidewalks,
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Speaker 2: which are part of the contracted work getting done. So
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Speaker 2: there's somewhere in the range, and because it's a combined contract,
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Speaker 2: it's a little difficult to be specific, but somewhere in
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Speaker 2: the range of between one hundred and one hundred and
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Speaker 2: fifty thousand going to be spent on sidewalk improvement this year,
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Speaker 2: plus the work that the Street Department is doing on
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Speaker 2: that co pro you know, that mutual program with the
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Speaker 2: property owners and that always gets signed up first part April.
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Speaker 2: April first is actually the date I think that they
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Speaker 2: generally try and kick it off, and that usually gets
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Speaker 2: filled up pretty you know, that gets committed to pretty quick.
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Speaker 2: We usually commit to at least ten properties, and depending
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Speaker 2: on the workflow and the time, we try and do more.
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Speaker 2: I think over the last several years, I think we've
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Speaker 2: averaged probably somewhere in the twelve to fourteen properties per season.
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Speaker 2: I think around fourteen, but I don't have those numbers
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Speaker 2: directly in front of me. Addition, additionally, beyond the work
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Speaker 2: that our street department is doing, and they continue to
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Speaker 2: take a look at streets where where there's issues that
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Speaker 2: aren't part of the contracted general maintenance that should be
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Speaker 2: kicking off if it hasn't already. I haven't run across
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Speaker 2: any streets, but I know that we've got it quite
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Speaker 2: a bit. Committed almost a million eight to street work
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Speaker 2: for this year. So a lot of things happening on
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Speaker 2: the streets, and our street department is keeping itself busy.
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Speaker 2: And just want to acknowledge what they were talking about
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Speaker 2: or what Tyler was talking about at the council meeting.
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Speaker 2: Is that how much this street department works with the
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Speaker 2: other department depending on workload and and need and that
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Speaker 2: type of stuff. You know, the street department, the water department,
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Speaker 2: the waste water department all work and coordinate together when
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Speaker 2: when one or the other needs help. So it's always
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Speaker 2: a positive thing when you're when you don't have those silos,
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Speaker 2: when you don't have that conflict between departments and and
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Speaker 2: that's and that's part of what makes things so positive
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Speaker 2: and how things get done in this in this community.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it shouldn't be a thing where you're
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Speaker 1: kind of squabbling over resources or time or manpower and
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Speaker 1: everybody seeing where they can kind of chip in to
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Speaker 1: help out.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's and that's the case, and we're real
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Speaker 2: proud of that and the leadership in each of those
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Speaker 2: departments and not just that, and that's where some of
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Speaker 2: that coordination starts, but both the staff, but in particular
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Speaker 2: the leadership does a good job of working with the
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Speaker 2: other departments.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean that sidewalk program, that seems like
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Speaker 1: that's something that was kind of well received.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's that's been in place for several years. Again,
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Speaker 2: my memory is lapsing. But I went back and did
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Speaker 2: some research on how long that's been in how many
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Speaker 2: how many miles of sidewalks, you know, feet and miles
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Speaker 2: of sidewalks. The city has actually improved through that through
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Speaker 2: that program over the years. But that's been in that
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Speaker 2: that program has been in place for a long time.
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Speaker 2: And as I said, usually we make that available the
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Speaker 2: first April, and those ten spots fill up real quick,
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Speaker 2: and then anybody else is on a waiting list after that.
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Speaker 2: And usually those that are on the waiting list, you know,
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Speaker 2: we're looking at, you know, giving some priority to. And
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Speaker 2: it is and obviously, as I already said that we
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Speaker 2: if we have time, we will move beyond that ten
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Speaker 2: and if somebody from this year gets themselves on the
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Speaker 2: list next year, we're going to be looking at that
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Speaker 2: as well.
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Speaker 1: Okay, well, me and my oldest son can always attest
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Speaker 1: to the great sidewalks here because we would commonly be
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Speaker 1: skateboarding on them. And then I finally got wise enough.
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Speaker 1: The older you get, Glenn, you don't bounce off pavement.
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Speaker 1: You just skid into it. And I learned that the
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Speaker 1: last time I did, and I said no more, and
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Speaker 1: I let the torch get passed, and then I started
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Speaker 1: cringing from my kids that I ever introduced them to it.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, no, always fantastic, and I love that. It's
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Speaker 1: good productive thinking. It's a it's these kind of programs
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Speaker 1: are a good way, you know, to find a way
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Speaker 1: to go the extra mile, so to speak. Right, you're
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Speaker 1: talking about keeping track of the miles that you fix,
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Speaker 1: but it really is getting getting the extra mile out
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Speaker 1: of your money and your resources and what you can do.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, we've got a pretty talented street department and
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Speaker 2: and they and they help in a in a lot
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Speaker 2: of areas. Same same with work done by our water department,
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Speaker 2: stuff that and waste water as well, stuff that we
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Speaker 2: might have to contract out. We've got staff able to
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Speaker 2: to save save us the cost of contracting that work,
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Speaker 2: and we utilize that as often as we can.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, you know, speaking of city work, I think
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Speaker 1: it'd be a good time. We got a listener question
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Speaker 1: and Glenn and I had been asking those for for
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Speaker 1: a little bit, so we're glad that came in. And
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Speaker 1: I will after I checked this and Glenn starts answer,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to check the Facebook and hope I find
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Speaker 1: a second one. Behind me.
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Speaker 2: Oh, that'd be great, that.
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Speaker 1: Would be But for now, we will be satisfied with
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Speaker 1: what we got. They want to know we didn't get
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Speaker 1: a name. But when are we going to finish the
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Speaker 1: arch and change the Dixon letters back to purple again?
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Speaker 2: Okay, the arch is all is already done right now.
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Speaker 2: I believe that the the letters are set up on
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Speaker 2: a on a automatic basis, as with the other street lights,
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Speaker 2: so during the day it is that white on white.
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Speaker 2: I have had a fair amount of comments regarding that
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Speaker 2: we have. We have to take a look at that.
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Speaker 2: We had conversations last year about the color and whether
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Speaker 2: or not to leave it on. There were some logistics
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Speaker 2: issues were there, but it's probably appropriate for me to
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Speaker 2: follow up again. So technically the not technically in fact,
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Speaker 2: the arch is done. It's just a matter of handling
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Speaker 2: the lighting and whether it's gonna be you know, which
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Speaker 2: color is chosen, because we can change that. There was
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Speaker 2: some historical stuff that showed that it was red. Most recently.
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Speaker 2: I think everybody's familiar with the what we've had through
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Speaker 2: the last previous several years, and we've had that purple
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Speaker 2: and that seems to be what the majority of people
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Speaker 2: are looking for. I will have a conversation and we'll
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Speaker 2: take a look at the logistics of whether or not
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Speaker 2: we can leave that on all day. They are led lights.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how you know, how the timer works
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Speaker 2: or how they get separated from the other lights if
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Speaker 2: that's if that's reasonable, But that's that's the long answer
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Speaker 2: to Yes, the work's done. The purple the color hasn't
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Speaker 2: been purple for specific reason, particularly during the day. It's
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Speaker 2: been left on it as that white on white. Another
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Speaker 2: thing that was looked at was whether or not to
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Speaker 2: trim around do a paint trim around the letters so
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Speaker 2: that they would stand out, stand out more than just
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Speaker 2: a plain white on white. But well, we're that's a
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Speaker 2: process we're still looking at and how to how to
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Speaker 2: address that.
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Speaker 1: Well, we hope that that answers your question. The work
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Speaker 1: is done. They're taking a look at how the color
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Speaker 1: situation and the lighting will move forward. But you know,
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Speaker 1: the work's done. That's definitely good news. That just leaves
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Speaker 1: the least of problems, which is how are we going
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Speaker 1: to light that sucker? What color do we want?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I have to admit that unfortunately, you know,
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Speaker 2: with the work done and with the lights on at night.
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Speaker 2: It probably hasn't been the highest priority, but I have
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Speaker 2: had conversations with a variety of citizens who would like
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Speaker 2: to see that contrast more visible during the more visible
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Speaker 2: during the day. And again the color preference appears to
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Speaker 2: be purple, but that may be a small sample, so
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Speaker 2: I can't tell you for sure, but.
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Speaker 1: Sure, and it will never be one hundred percent, right,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean not one hundred percent. I mean
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Speaker 1: maybe every one hundred percent of everybody will agree, But
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Speaker 1: it seems throughout human history we've yet to see that.
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Speaker 1: I think that'll be a good point to take a
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Speaker 1: short break for some messages. And when we were, Glenn
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Speaker 1: is going to tell us about an app that'll help
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Speaker 1: keep you connected with your local police department. Hey there,
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Speaker 1: Sock Valley, welcome back to the Waking Crew. Here an
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Speaker 1: FM ninety five one and a fourteen sixty WIXN. It's
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Speaker 1: eight thirty three and you are back for more talk
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Speaker 1: line with Dixon Mayor Glenn Hughes. Glenn, you said there's
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Speaker 1: an app that can help keep us connected with our
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Speaker 1: police department.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Chief Ryan Bivens kicked off an app. It's it's
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Speaker 2: already active. Kind of wanted to mention it because he
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Speaker 2: got some negative feedback initially, and he was, you know,
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Speaker 2: it's a bit concerning. He's he was trying to find
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Speaker 2: a way of keeping connected with the community, both in
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Speaker 2: terms of providing alerts as well as people being able
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Speaker 2: to contact the police department about concerns and that type
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Speaker 2: of thing, and he talked about that last night at
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Speaker 2: the city council meeting. He's the intent of the app
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Speaker 2: is to just allow the community to keep better connected
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Speaker 2: with the police department, to be aware of alerts, to
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Speaker 2: be able to contact the police department. If you've got
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Speaker 2: a concern and you want some extra drive bys by
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Speaker 2: your house. It's it's a way to contact if you've
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Speaker 2: got questions or concerns about something that's happened in the
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Speaker 2: city relative to police activity or something like that. Now,
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Speaker 2: some of this stuff, you know, some of those questions
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Speaker 2: may not be answerable, but the reality is that it's
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Speaker 2: just a better way for you to stay connected to
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Speaker 2: the police department, to keep in communication. We've gotten an officer,
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Speaker 2: Lincoln Sharp, who has been very good at working with
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Speaker 2: the community on our media contacts, and my understanding is
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Speaker 2: he's going to kind of take over the lead on
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Speaker 2: on this on this app, but it's ready to go.
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Speaker 2: You know, if if you have a tip, if you
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Speaker 2: have a concern in your neighborhood, that type of thing
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Speaker 2: that's available. But also if we have weather alerts some
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Speaker 2: if there's street closures that are you know, maybe because
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Speaker 2: of an accident.
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Speaker 1: It's see, we had one of those this morning coming
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Speaker 1: in at least on the on the offset where Flinnys
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Speaker 1: used to be over there. Something happened. Hope everything turned
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Speaker 1: out okay, but there was one very smashed up car
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Speaker 1: in the whole whole intersection.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, so some some of that stuff.
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Speaker 1: The it's.
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Speaker 2: Chief Bivens is very very high on community communication and
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Speaker 2: keeping and keeping the city informed, keeping the police in
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Speaker 2: touch with the community.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 2: This to me and Ryan hasn't used this example, but
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Speaker 2: you know, there was a time when community policing, when
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Speaker 2: the when the beat cop was out there and knew
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Speaker 2: everybody on the street and and people knew who to
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Speaker 2: talk to or had somebody if there was a concern
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Speaker 2: to be able to connect with it was. It was
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Speaker 2: the old community policing of that sort. Now in this
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Speaker 2: time of of you know, social media, and that type
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Speaker 2: of thing. The you know, everybody's active on their phones.
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Speaker 2: I perceive it as just another way of looking at
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Speaker 2: community policing, community community connection with the lease.
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Speaker 1: So what you said, you said he had some criticism
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Speaker 1: with that, Yes, I mean, I guess I don't remember.
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Speaker 2: The concern was, well, I think people thought that the
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Speaker 2: police department was trying to trying to track them or
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Speaker 2: butt into their you know, but into their their personal
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Speaker 2: life or I'm not sure. And uh, I I don't
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Speaker 2: remember the I don't remember any of the specifics, but
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Speaker 2: I know that Chief Bivens was surprised and concern about
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Speaker 2: the that feedback. So you know, he made a point
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Speaker 2: last night at council meeting of making sure trying to
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Speaker 2: make sure people understood the reasoning for this, and and
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Speaker 2: I guess I'm just trying to support him and you know,
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Speaker 2: make that information available as well. Sometimes it's it's hard
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Speaker 2: to know these days what the best way is for
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Speaker 2: communicating with people. Sure, So you know, we we talk
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Speaker 2: quite a bit with events going on in the city
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Speaker 2: about you know, you you have a big crowd, but
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Speaker 2: then there's people to say, well, I didn't even know
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Speaker 2: that was happening. There, how is that posted and and
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Speaker 2: you kind of look at you know, at one time
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Speaker 2: it was everything we got was TV, or was radio
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Speaker 2: and newspaper at least on a local basis. And now
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Speaker 2: there's multiple ways of putting that information out there, and
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Speaker 2: some you know, some people look at you know, get
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Speaker 2: their information one way and others another way. So it's
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Speaker 2: it really actually can sometimes be difficult to know what
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Speaker 2: the best way to reach people is. And I think
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Speaker 2: this is just from the chief Stamp pointed, just one
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Speaker 2: of those ways of trying to stay connected with the
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Speaker 2: community and give the community an opportunity to connect with
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Speaker 2: the police.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that makes sense, right if you've got
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Speaker 1: people across you know, however, many different platforms and apps
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Speaker 1: in different ways they're consuming their information, but they might
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Speaker 1: be missing bits and pieces because not all these platforms
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Speaker 1: are getting the whole. An easier, less more of a
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Speaker 1: headache would be a let me make my own app,
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Speaker 1: make my own central hub of communication, and then I
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Speaker 1: know everything that I want to get out is going
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Speaker 1: to get out for the folks who are at least here,
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Speaker 1: and I know they're not going to miss anything.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that that's part of it. And obviously
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Speaker 2: this is a voluntary thing. You don't have to get
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Speaker 2: on it, but it's if you want to stay connected.
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Speaker 2: It's just a way to be able to do that
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Speaker 2: for the police and for the community.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: One of the things that frustrates me frequently is events
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Speaker 2: they could post it on Facebook and I find out
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Speaker 2: about it. It shows up on my Facebook two or
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Speaker 2: four days after.
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Speaker 3: The event happened, and going, oh, i'dn't really like to
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Speaker 3: know about right, Yeah, yeah, I can't click interested because
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Speaker 3: it didn't come into my algorithm until after.
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Speaker 1: Apparently Facebook thought I didn't need a good time, I
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Speaker 1: just needed to see others.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, you know, that's that's just one of just
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Speaker 2: one of the issues with our you know, the way
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Speaker 2: we communicate these days.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so interesting, isn't it. The way technology has
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Speaker 1: expanded it, but the way that it's also splintered off
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Speaker 1: and fractured at the same time. Yeah, you would have
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Speaker 1: thought hearing about this, right, like in the fifties, if
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Speaker 1: if somebody went back and said, this is going to
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Speaker 1: be possible to show you, like we're going to become
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Speaker 1: a utopian society. Things they're gonna be great and in
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Speaker 1: the in the next fifty years and it's like, oh, brother,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not saying it's bad, but it uh,
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Speaker 1: it definitely probably would have went off like the sci
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Speaker 1: fi utopia you thought. So it's it's just interesting and
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Speaker 1: it will. It's the ever evolving human experiment of life. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it really is. At least it's the way that I
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Speaker 1: choose to view it, so.
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Speaker 2: Trying to think anything else. I think people are aware
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Speaker 2: that the Comfort in Quality and is now has been
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Speaker 2: rebranded CANDI. I think it's Candle Wooden in Suites and
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Speaker 2: Holiday and Express. So that's we've had some real I
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Speaker 2: don't know what they've They've updated the property, they've updated
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Speaker 2: the property. So it gives us some more names out
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Speaker 2: there for people looking at for places to stay, you know.
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Speaker 2: So now we've got the True by Hilton, We've got
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Speaker 2: the the Fairfield by mary An, We've got the Holiday
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Speaker 2: and Express, we've got the Candle Wooded in Sweets, we've
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Speaker 2: got the Super Eight. There's a whole variety of motels
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Speaker 2: out there for people to take advantage of in this community.
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Speaker 2: So that's that's kind of a nice thing, you know,
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Speaker 2: when they when they rebrand like that. Obviously they do
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Speaker 2: a full upgrade of the interior of the facility as well.
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Speaker 2: Seven brew kind of building came up real quick, came
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Speaker 2: in a couple of pieces, I think, and so I
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Speaker 2: think that's going to be getting ready to kick off
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Speaker 2: pretty soon.
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Speaker 1: Oh man, that thing's gonna explode. Have you ever seen
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Speaker 1: the line in Sterling for that for those things? Yes,
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Speaker 1: And I've still not had it, And I'm just worried
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Speaker 1: that I'm going to get addicted and I'm going to
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Speaker 1: be spending a third of my money here on it
21:52
Speaker 1: because the lines rival Starbucks are out do them half
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Speaker 1: the time. So it's it's been crazy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh, it's in a rest, it's and most
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Speaker 2: of the time it's not just straight coffee. It's oh
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Speaker 2: it's a lot or a cappuccino or you know, probably
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Speaker 2: even an energy drink or something like that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: So but you know, that's just one more piece of
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Speaker 2: expansion that's about ready to go. Still working on housing,
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Speaker 2: trying to get more workforce housing accomplished in the community.
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Speaker 2: Developer out of Purep's Landing is working on on that.
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Speaker 2: We're trying to work with other developers both for the
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Speaker 2: workforce as well as a senior housing. We're working to
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Speaker 2: try and bring in businesses into the sixty five acres.
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Speaker 2: I've had some communications personally with a business actually happens
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Speaker 2: to be a restaurant that has some interest in coming
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Speaker 2: to Dixon. So we keep trying to move forward, trying
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Speaker 2: to make a good thing even better.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hopping down at the Gateway. I've seen how
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Speaker 1: much the business at those hotels have taken off, and
23:28
Speaker 1: just all the commerce there. I love. Yeah, I really
23:31
Speaker 1: love the different food that I got brought in Jersey Mike's.
23:34
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, cool. I was like, this is
23:36
Speaker 1: something I'd normally have to travel to like Rockford for
23:40
Speaker 1: and just some more stuff just keeps coming and it's
23:42
Speaker 1: just a great way to expand.
23:44
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think Tropical Smoothie is doing pretty good.
23:48
Speaker 1: I forgot all about that. I got to get me
23:50
Speaker 1: one now. I'm so glad you said I'm getting one today.
23:53
Speaker 2: I think Chipolte is still doing fairly well. I'm not
23:58
Speaker 2: sure on the McDonald's when that will be opening. I
24:02
Speaker 2: think I've said before that it you know, whether it's
24:06
Speaker 2: this year or maybe some time in the first half
24:09
Speaker 2: of next year, that's up to the ownership to figure
24:13
Speaker 2: out when they're pulling the trigger on that. There's still
24:20
Speaker 2: some development to be had over in that area between
24:24
Speaker 2: the True and the Tractor supply, that multi tenant that'll
24:30
Speaker 2: be dental and insurance, and then there's another at least
24:36
Speaker 2: one more business going in that I'm aware of. So
24:41
Speaker 2: as those things, we just keep seeing stuff, hoping for
24:46
Speaker 2: more things happening. On the north side. There is conversation
24:51
Speaker 2: about development there in the open lot on Fourth Avenue.
24:57
Speaker 2: We've had inquiries relative to the Burger King property, which
25:04
Speaker 2: I very much would like to see something happen there.
25:08
Speaker 2: And we just keep trying to keep things moving forward,
25:14
Speaker 2: try and keep anything that's vacant, take an opportunity to
25:18
Speaker 2: fill that up.
25:19
Speaker 1: So well, I know you guys will always plot on
25:22
Speaker 1: that mission and it'll get done. Always do such a
25:25
Speaker 1: good job at planning these things and just keeping your
25:28
Speaker 1: eye on the prize.
25:29
Speaker 2: Thank you. We we try.
25:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I uh, that's just how it goes you.
25:35
Speaker 1: You guys are very fiscally responsible. That's always been just
25:39
Speaker 1: kind of one of the key things in my opinion
25:41
Speaker 1: that makes it so successful is that you know, whether
25:44
Speaker 1: it's grants or just saying Hey, no, not right now, Like,
25:48
Speaker 1: this is what has to be done. We'd love this,
25:50
Speaker 1: but it's not. Somebody's got to somebody's got to give
25:54
Speaker 1: the non sexy answer and say we've got to be
25:56
Speaker 1: adults and this is how it goes. And me and
25:59
Speaker 1: my wife look at each other, they're like, who's going
26:00
Speaker 1: to be the one today? But yeah, that's that's what
26:03
Speaker 1: it takes.
26:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we have a very committed council. We don't
26:12
Speaker 2: all agree on the same things, but once we make
26:18
Speaker 2: a decision and get behind it, we've got a very
26:23
Speaker 2: community oriented and supportive council.
26:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean but it's and it's good that
26:29
Speaker 1: we don't always agree on things, right, Oh.
26:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, you've got to have You've got to have
26:36
Speaker 2: different opinions to get a better perspective on what needs
26:40
Speaker 2: to be done. Just because you have an approach on
26:45
Speaker 2: things or an understanding of something doesn't mean you've got
26:50
Speaker 2: the full picture. You know. Some I'm a very analytical person,
26:56
Speaker 2: and sometimes i think I've gone through the information fairly
27:01
Speaker 2: well and have a pretty good direction, and then somebody
27:04
Speaker 2: at a meeting or you know, in a group of
27:09
Speaker 2: people talking about a particular thing, says well, you know
27:13
Speaker 2: if this happened or what about this, and you go, oh,
27:17
Speaker 2: I hadn't thought about that. Appreciate that input. You know,
27:22
Speaker 2: it's you've got to be looking at You've got to
27:25
Speaker 2: be looking at different options and different opinions, and that's
27:30
Speaker 2: the best way you come to a consensus and something
27:34
Speaker 2: that's appropriate for the whole.
27:41
Speaker 1: YEA.
27:42
Speaker 2: You know, not everybody's necessarily going to agree with it,
27:44
Speaker 2: but you try and come to a position that will
27:49
Speaker 2: work best for the community as a whole, and in
27:54
Speaker 2: many cases within the budget that you've got, as you
27:57
Speaker 2: already noted.
28:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you got to be responsible as always. So
28:05
Speaker 1: unfortunately we're out of time today, Glenn. Time just always
28:08
Speaker 1: just kind of seems to move a double speed when
28:11
Speaker 1: we're here in the booth. But I appreciate you always
28:14
Speaker 1: making the time to come in here. You're always in
28:16
Speaker 1: person and just giving the updates. And I know you've
28:19
Speaker 1: got a busy schedule. You're going to be a jet
28:21
Speaker 1: setting soon, so safe travels on those man. I don't
28:26
Speaker 1: like flying, dude, I'll do it, but I don't like it.
28:30
Speaker 2: Oh No, I enjoy flying, And I don't want to
28:34
Speaker 2: drag this out since we're out of time, so i'll
28:36
Speaker 2: just thank you, appreciate the time, and i'll see you
28:40
Speaker 2: next month.