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Talk-Line: Dixon Mayor Glen Hughes on road construction · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: We are quarter past the hour. This is Tuesday, It's
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  Speaker 1: June seventeen, the year is twenty twenty five, and it's
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  Speaker 1: time for another informational edition of talk Line here at
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  Speaker 1: wix And Radio. The talk line today is the Mayor's
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  Speaker 1: Open Line for June of twenty twenty five. The Honorable
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  Speaker 1: Mayor of the City of Dixon is alongside yours truly
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  Speaker 1: what is happening across our community. Your open line numbers
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  Speaker 1: ends in this hour. Honorable Mayor of the City of Dixon,
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Glen Hughes joins us this morning here at WIX And.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Mayor, Good morning to you, Good morning, Good to
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  Speaker 1: have you with us, sir, Thanks for joining us. It's
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  Speaker 1: another edition of the open line. And again, we've got
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  Speaker 1: lots on the agenda to take care of as we
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  Speaker 1: continue through the summer of twenty twenty five. Mayor, Since
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  Speaker 1: last week talked, there's been a lot of happenings with
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  Speaker 1: the Dixon City Council and a lot of preparations being
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  Speaker 1: made for upcoming activities. But I wanted to start today
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  Speaker 1: with a look at infrastructure.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, the big thing, the thing that's in everybody's face.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, that's right, that's right, you're right, because you
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  Speaker 1: know we're dealing with it right now. Galina Avenue, let's
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  Speaker 1: face it, and Chicago Avenue, right, can't leave that. I
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  Speaker 1: mean there's work coming in on Chicago Avenue as well.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of infrastructure on the state highways being
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  Speaker 1: handled by IDA. Yes, and again that continues to pace
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  Speaker 1: now through the through Matt Heckman, through the city. I
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  Speaker 1: understand that Gallina Avenue and Chicago Avenue they should be,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in line for.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Matt's been in communication with the state and they
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  Speaker 2: will kind of back off during the Petunia Fest so
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  Speaker 2: for the holiday week and that type of thing. They're
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  Speaker 2: going to minimize the construction. They're going to move try
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  Speaker 2: and make the straits as available as possible. Probably the
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  Speaker 2: only thing that can't be significantly adjusted during that period
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  Speaker 2: is going to be the bridge over the railway on
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina. Nothing you can do about that. That's not
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  Speaker 2: going to be done until mid to late July. And
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  Speaker 2: you've got to have a road to be able to drive.
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  Speaker 1: On, and it has to be worked on. It was
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  Speaker 1: I understand it was the need of repair, and so
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  Speaker 1: they're working on that diligently. I mean they're out there
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  Speaker 1: out there pretty much daily.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't. It's not like they're working a couple
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  Speaker 2: of days then going on another project. They're staying at
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  Speaker 2: that steady So there's nothing we can really do about that.
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  Speaker 2: But otherwise on Galina down to the river and then
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  Speaker 2: out seventh or Chicago Avenue, thirty eight is basically what
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  Speaker 2: you're thirty eight and fifty two. They are going to
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  Speaker 2: back off the construction as much as they feasibly can
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  Speaker 2: to accommodate the holiday traffic. So that's a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: It is good.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure there were a lot of people wondering how
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  Speaker 2: they were going to get from one end of town
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  Speaker 2: to the other during Petunia Fest with the streets restricted
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  Speaker 2: and that shouldn't be that shouldn't be a major issue.
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  Speaker 1: Well, in regards to infrastructure, Mayor, we wanted to talk
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  Speaker 1: today about upcoming city street improvements and you have some
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  Speaker 1: details to pass along our way.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I do. Actually last night we approved the contract
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  Speaker 2: for the general maintenance of streets, and so this morning
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  Speaker 2: before it gets any placed out. I know Matt was
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  Speaker 2: hesitant to say anything last night at the meeting, but
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  Speaker 2: I talked to him into letting me have the list.
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  Speaker 2: So the two Matts Matt Hackman, who are working, they
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  Speaker 2: passed the list on to me. So I'm able to
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  Speaker 2: start off this show with the streets that are going
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  Speaker 2: to be worked on. And actually, in addition, I'll start
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  Speaker 2: do with the streets, and then I'll add the addition
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  Speaker 2: Washington from about nine to twenty seven north to the dead.
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  Speaker 1: End, Okay Okay to the North Okay, Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Tile Fact Road, Beach Drive from Tee to Marvid Elms Place,
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  Speaker 2: from Division to Walnut, South, Jefferson Alley from seventh to
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  Speaker 2: eighth East Fourth Street from Dement to Artesian Our Tesian
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  Speaker 2: Place between third, third and fourth Highland Avenue from seventh
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  Speaker 2: to first Custer from third to fourth Railroad Street from
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  Speaker 2: tenth to eleventh Dutch Road, there's a segment there the
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  Speaker 2: dead end to the end of Row okay, and then
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  Speaker 2: there's seven alleys on the west end that will be
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  Speaker 2: worked on. The alleys don't have the same type of
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  Speaker 2: traffic that a lot of streets do. Because of that,
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  Speaker 2: they do tend to get neglected and that and so
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  Speaker 2: the repair on some of these alleys is is really needed.
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  Speaker 2: And then in addition to that, there's going to be
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  Speaker 2: some brickwork on the downtown crosswalks, so if anybody's looked
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  Speaker 2: at that, they'll notice that that's gotten pretty rough. And
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  Speaker 2: then the other thing that we included in this we
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  Speaker 2: had approved money for sidewalks, and I think previously I
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  Speaker 2: told I told you that probably most of that money
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  Speaker 2: this year was going to be absorbed by the work
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  Speaker 2: out on Lowell Park Road coming from the Canterbury Apartments
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  Speaker 2: down into the RP lumber Shop are okay, because that's
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  Speaker 2: gotten that's really fairly dangerous. We have people coming down
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  Speaker 2: a little park through that area, they're walking in the streets.
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  Speaker 2: There's a at least one, if not more scooters that
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  Speaker 2: are coming down, and you've got that hill there there has.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of a blind site.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we've we've really got to get sidewalk done there.
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  Speaker 2: And by including the sidewalks in this package, we were
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  Speaker 2: we believe that we've got more bang for the buck
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  Speaker 2: because it's part of a larger package of work that
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  Speaker 2: that HELM or Civil Construction is is doing for us.
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  Speaker 2: So that's kind of the that's kind of the overall package.
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  Speaker 2: So Washington Tile Factory, Beach, Elm, South, Jefferson Alleys, Fourth East,
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  Speaker 2: Fourth Street, Artesian Highland, Custer Railroad, Dutch Road, and then
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  Speaker 2: the alleys on the west end will.
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  Speaker 1: Be we'll be offering a lot of resurfacing the mayor
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  Speaker 1: and in the areas I'm sure what curbban, yes, utter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there'll be. There'll be a combination of work. The
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  Speaker 2: focus is going to be focus is going to be
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  Speaker 2: on the street work, but the at the intersections, if
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  Speaker 2: they're not already eighty A accessible or structured, they have
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  Speaker 2: to be brought into compliance on that as well. So
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  Speaker 2: that'll be and that's part of the concrete work and
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  Speaker 2: the you know, that's got to be done overall. So
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  Speaker 2: that's kind of why we work the sidewalks into that package.
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  Speaker 2: As well.
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  Speaker 1: Very good. All right, so there you go, and you're
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  Speaker 1: first to hear it right here on FM ninety five
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  Speaker 1: and fourteen sixty. Mister Mayor, thank you very much for
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  Speaker 1: sharing that list with us. Word will be out obviously
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  Speaker 1: today through the city on those project areas that will
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  Speaker 1: start probably what after a little after Petunia Festival.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I believe. I believe it's going to be a
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  Speaker 2: little after Platunia.
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  Speaker 1: Fest, okay, And and work through the through the latter part
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  Speaker 1: of the summer into the fall season. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: again a lot of improvements and this is yearly improvements
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  Speaker 1: go on with our infrastructure, so these areas will be
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  Speaker 1: short up and again, as Mayor mentioned, making safe corners,
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  Speaker 1: and I know that the Illinois Department of Transportation has
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  Speaker 1: kind of taken that center stage too on Galina absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because I've already seen that work started corners,
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  Speaker 1: you know on Galena, you know, to make those accessible
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  Speaker 1: and eighty eight compliant. Yes, so again that will be
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  Speaker 1: the as Mayor mentioned to the you know, the top
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  Speaker 1: prize already when it comes to the street improvement work
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  Speaker 1: as well. So Mayor, thank you very much for sharing that.
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  Speaker 1: Le's appreciate that this morning here at w i x N.
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Glenn Hughes is our guest today. We're talking about
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  Speaker 1: the City of Dixon activities taking place. Mayor a couple
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  Speaker 1: of minutes before we go to News First with Timbley
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  Speaker 1: at the bottom of the hour, kind of you know,
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  Speaker 1: shifting our attention from one topic to another, wanted to
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  Speaker 1: talk about aggregation. Let's talk about that, the aggregation that
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  Speaker 1: you know the city is involved with with the electric company.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and that can be a little confusing. Sometimes the
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  Speaker 2: city provides the citizens with the opportunity to be part
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  Speaker 2: of an aggregation program. For several years now we've been
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  Speaker 2: able to save the citizens. I think the estimate was
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  Speaker 2: that last year the average citizen was saved over two
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  Speaker 2: hundred dollars on the annual basis by going into the aggregation.
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  Speaker 2: With the increased electrical costs right now, with the demand,
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  Speaker 2: with issues their infrastructure work that I believe the power
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  Speaker 2: companies are needing to deal with, there was nothing available
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  Speaker 2: on an aggregation basis. That doesn't mean we're not still
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  Speaker 2: doing the aggregation. We through the aggregation, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: be looking at the commed rate. There wasn't any There
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  Speaker 2: wasn't a way to get a better rate than that,
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  Speaker 2: but we'll we but you're not going to be having
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  Speaker 2: any worse rate. So we're we're going to be matching
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  Speaker 2: the the the comm ed rate this year under the aggregation.
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  Speaker 2: That's going to be a one year term. That will
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  Speaker 2: give us the opportunity next year to see if there's
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  Speaker 2: some opportunity to get a a little bit more savings.
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  Speaker 2: But this year under the aggregation, there's it's it's a
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  Speaker 2: no win, no lose kind of status quo. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's just kind of okay, it's it is as it is.
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  Speaker 2: We'd like to save the citizens a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: money like we have been in the past years, but
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  Speaker 2: just as a commodity as out in the market, it's
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  Speaker 2: it's not available.
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  Speaker 1: Dixon Mayor Glen Hughes is our guest on the Mayor's
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  Speaker 1: Open Line. That's today's talk line. We're going to take
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  Speaker 1: a break for five minutes of news at the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of the hour, but when we come back back in
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  Speaker 1: portion of our Mayor's Open Line for June of twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, with the Honorable Mayor of the City of
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  Speaker 1: Dixon at the microphones this morning, your Mayor's Open line
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  Speaker 1: numbers or eight one five two eight, eight three three
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  Speaker 1: four six two six three zero nine one. You can
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  Speaker 1: again post a question for the Mayor this morning. If
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  Speaker 1: you would like to do that, you can give us
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  Speaker 1: a call and hopefully get your question answered through the
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  Speaker 1: City of Dixon. The Mayor of the City Dixon is
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  Speaker 1: alongside yours truly, Mayor Glenn Hughes with us today on
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  Speaker 1: w IX and Mayor again, thanks for spending the extra time.
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  Speaker 1: Al was a pleasure having you on board with the
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  Speaker 1: extra time. Thank you, and we talked a lot about
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  Speaker 1: infrastructure last half. Our Mayor had some news to share,
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  Speaker 1: first of the morning news and first of the area
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  Speaker 1: news about our local infrastructure projects for twenty twenty six, which,
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  Speaker 1: as Mayor mentioned, we'll pretty much start in earnest after
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  Speaker 1: the Dixon Petunia Festival. So Mayor again, thank you for
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  Speaker 1: that information in the first portion of our program. Wanted
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  Speaker 1: to talk to you in the second portion about some
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  Speaker 1: appointments being made by the City of Dixon, and of
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  Speaker 1: course at the top of the list, we've got a
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  Speaker 1: new police.
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  Speaker 2: Chief, yes, and we have a new police chief. We
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  Speaker 2: talked a little bit last month about the process that
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  Speaker 2: we're going through the quality of the candidates we had,
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  Speaker 2: and it is a pleasure, if you weren't already aware,
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  Speaker 2: to announce that our new police chief is Ryan Bivens.
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  Speaker 2: It's very very good choice. It was a tough the
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  Speaker 2: two candidates that we came down to. It was a
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  Speaker 2: tough decision, two quality individuals, and we expect to see
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  Speaker 2: some continuing positive things from our police department. In addition
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  Speaker 2: to that, last night, Officer Jake Mantine was promoted to
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  Speaker 2: sergeant Jake Martine, So I'm really happy to have that
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  Speaker 2: move as well. So the two new positions police Chief
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Bivens and Sergeant Jake Mantine, so really really some
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  Speaker 2: real good positives within that police department. And we've got
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  Speaker 2: current deputy chiefs. One his hit submitted. His resignation has
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  Speaker 2: nothing to do with the change of just the time
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  Speaker 2: that he has been a police officer. It was time
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  Speaker 2: for him to that. He had decided it was time
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  Speaker 2: for him to move on. So he's already looking, I
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  Speaker 2: believe may have another position lined up outside the police department.
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  Speaker 2: And the other one that we're aware of. The other
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  Speaker 2: deputy chief, again because of time on the job, will
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  Speaker 2: be resigning as of the end of the year or
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  Speaker 2: the first part of January. So among the things that
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  Speaker 2: Chief Bivens has to do is start going through the
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  Speaker 2: process of looking for a couple of deputy chiefs.
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  Speaker 1: So obviously we're talking about Doug Lahman then and Matt Richards. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: those are the those are the individuals that may or
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  Speaker 1: me that are going to be uh again moving on
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  Speaker 1: so to speak after their retirements, and so mayor mentions
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  Speaker 1: those this money. So again, yeah, a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: work for the new and we are, to our fortune,
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  Speaker 1: we've already had the chief events. He wasn't a Chief
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  Speaker 1: of the tie, but we did have Ryan on you know,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of previous chats as well, so we got
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  Speaker 1: to know him, you know, obviously, and we'll get to
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  Speaker 1: know him for further. But you're right, a good I understand.
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  Speaker 2: He's very community minded, Yes, really absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, and so it's going to be a plus I
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  Speaker 1: think to have that knowledge and experience. He's had a
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  Speaker 1: good resume.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah. The other thing we're probably need to be
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  Speaker 2: doing fairly quickly is start looking for some additional officers
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  Speaker 2: because with the retirement.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, yeah, we've.
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  Speaker 2: Got to we've got to keep that the ranks filled.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm going to actually shift gears on you a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. I'm going to go back to infrastructure. Last
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  Speaker 2: time we were online are on on the radio, an
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  Speaker 2: individual asked about the the dealing of the call the
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  Speaker 2: ditches storm storm ditches. I did get I did get
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  Speaker 2: back to that person. We did talk about it, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm and I bring this. I bring this up
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  Speaker 2: because that person is not the only one to be
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  Speaker 2: dealing with the issue. The fact is that there are
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  Speaker 2: more streets that don't have storm sewers than do have
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  Speaker 2: storm sewers in this city, you know, a lot of communities,
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  Speaker 2: and the natural way for to deal with the storm
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  Speaker 2: was to either if you were on a fairly level area,
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  Speaker 2: you just left it level and hope the water ran
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  Speaker 2: and spread broadly through an area. In other cases, it
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  Speaker 2: was a matter of channeling that and it was done
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  Speaker 2: with a ditch system, which a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the you know, the city has areas where they've
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  Speaker 2: got the ditches along along the roadway. Some are fairly
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  Speaker 2: shallow and are relatively easy to manage. Others, as in
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  Speaker 2: the case of the call that we had last month,
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  Speaker 2: are a little tougher to deal with. They're a little steeper,
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  Speaker 2: they're they're at a point in that ditch system or
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  Speaker 2: the funneling of the water where they're going to be
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  Speaker 2: a little deeper, and they're a little tougher to work with.
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  Speaker 2: You get rock in the bottom of those and it's
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  Speaker 2: an issue. In talking to our public works director Matt Heckman,
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  Speaker 2: we talked about what what the options were and the
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  Speaker 2: cost of trying to deal with that of channeling something
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  Speaker 2: or doing culverts or that type of thing is just
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  Speaker 2: too expensive. You know. Again, the fact is we have
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  Speaker 2: more ditch system, I mean, you know, open storm water
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  Speaker 2: movement than we do than we do storm sewers. So
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  Speaker 2: what I told the family that was inquiring previously was
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  Speaker 2: that there may be options that can kind of keep
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  Speaker 2: within the keep esthetically nice, not being violation of the
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  Speaker 2: city you know, ordinance on growth of weeds and that
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  Speaker 2: type of stuff. And that's a matter of putting in
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  Speaker 2: some low ground cover stuff that's four inches maybe six inches,
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  Speaker 2: but four inches or less that spreads, that fills in
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  Speaker 2: the gaps. Things like creeping time or barren strawberry or
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  Speaker 2: a juga or you know, blue creeper. Those types of
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  Speaker 2: things that all stay that can be very attractive, but
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  Speaker 2: stay low and don't require the maintenance of mowing. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I understand that requires some cost if you've got some
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  Speaker 2: concerns that way, you have problems handling that storm ditch.
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  Speaker 2: But in the long run, that may be a much
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  Speaker 2: more attractive and beneficial way of handling some of some
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  Speaker 2: of those ditches. So I just because because the caller
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  Speaker 2: was not the only one that deals with that, probably
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  Speaker 2: I just wanted to to follow up and let the
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  Speaker 2: general public know that it's it's not just one or two,
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  Speaker 2: it's there's it's in varying degrees throughout a lot of
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  Speaker 2: places in the city.
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  Speaker 1: Sure. Uh, and again obviously you want to you want
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  Speaker 1: to keep the city as beautiful as you can, as
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  Speaker 1: nice as you can. And uh, you know Mayor worked
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  Speaker 1: with and this was a caller that previously had a
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  Speaker 1: concern about the drainage situation in his area in that area,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm glad that you commented on it because Mayor
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  Speaker 1: took it to task, took it to the people in
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  Speaker 1: the know, and worked on the problem. So thank you
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  Speaker 1: Mayor for that update right here on w I X
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  Speaker 1: and Mayor A couple of minutes left to go on
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  Speaker 1: our talk line, just enough time to you know, move
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  Speaker 1: through the Dixon Petunia Festival. You know we're going to
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  Speaker 1: be chatting afterwards.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, that's that's coming up. Obviously, you've had the
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  Speaker 2: Petunia Festival Board people president that online, so a lot
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  Speaker 2: more they're a lot more knowledgeable than I am. But
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  Speaker 2: that's coming up pretty soon. We already talked about the
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  Speaker 2: potential impact of the road work, so hopefully people are
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  Speaker 2: less concerned about what that's going to do. There are
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  Speaker 2: a lot of events going on. It's always a good
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  Speaker 2: time in the community. So we just hope everybody has
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  Speaker 2: a very safe Petunia Festival. Looking forward to it absolutely.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Project Rock of course continues in that Page Park area.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: That's going to be a kind of a congested area
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: down there, carnival, you know, all of that taking yes,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: but we should be we should be okay, I understand
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: where we're going to be. Okay.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: I think they've I think they've managed the the areas
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: that they that they put the carnival. Most of that
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: is in front of the school and then through into
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: that area by the football field and track that gets
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: into that's just at the edge of where the work's
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: being done. There has been some stuff that's been a
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: little bit farther past that I think they have the
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: ability to kind of manage that fairly, fairly well. I
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: have no idea of the specifics, but everybody's pretty well aware,
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: and I don't think anybody has to be too concerned
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: about that.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, And hopefully through this we'll have a great festival,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: great items on tap, you know, great activities on tap
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: all over our community. You need to be making some stops,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: you know, here and there.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, of course, of course, So watch for the mayor,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: you know, I'll be I'll be wandering around. There's a
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: and there's a lot of good music down there. And
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: you've got the you've got the Reagan run, you've got
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: the parade, you've got the municipal band on the courthouse lawn,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: old Courthouse law and all good things, all pretty much
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: family oriented, some great opportunities.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, uh. And looking forward to some activity next year.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: And now we're gonna hold that off until after the
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Petunia Festival because there's some plans in the work that
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: just came out during the most recent that TIM has
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: been reported. Now we're going to talk about a little
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: bit later on with the Mayor right here on Wixent.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Always a pleasure having you on board. Have a safe
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Petunia festival time and we will see you just after
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: that in the month of July right here on Wicent.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much, thanks for joining us, Mayor of
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: the City of Dixon. Dixon Mayor Glen Hughes our guest
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: today on the talk line here at WI