City of Oklahoma City Youth Council, 11 Sep 2013

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The monthly meeting of the Oklahoma City Youth Council on September 11, 2013.

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Welcome to the monthly meeting of the oklahoma city, youth council.

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The youth council is a partnership between the city and leadership, oklahoma city, the 18, youth council, members, learn about the challenges of local government first hand, and the program provides them with an effective, meaningful channel to influence decisions affecting their homes, school friends and community, while serving the members learn about local government, its components, processes, goals and successes.

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Okay, we're going to just go through one through eight at large, in the middle as we go through so shelby erica, ready like to hear a report from ward one.

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My name is shelley branch. I am representing ward 1 and I am from western heights high school in ward. 1 work is being done on two roads to be widened. Britain road between rockwell and macarthur, should be finished this upcoming year and was voted on by a bond project.

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The two-lane road is being widened to four and there will be a sidewalk on the south side. The second street is wilshire between council and county line. It will begin this. Winter is expected to be finished in may 2015.. Now to my co-representative.

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Erica hi, my name is erica stevens and I am representing ward 1 and I am from putnam city high school tomorrow september. 12Th friends of 10th street is having an auction at castle falls. This is their main fundraising event of the year and assists the community from reno and 16th to sarah and portland north of cooper. Middle school, kindred farmland was sold to habitat for humanity. They will soon begin a building.

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They will soon begin building a neighborhood for single families off of 10th and check hall. A planned unit development is being discussed. The area use will be diverse, mixed with multi-family living apartments, senior living senior citizen living and commercial offices. That concludes our report on ward 1.. Thank you.

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Thank you, ward, 1 war, 2.

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Good morning my name is ian mccants, I'm a senior at heritage hall, high school, I'm here with my co-pilot min and we'll be representing the most lively award in oklahoma city, ward, 2..

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The 18th annual masta festival will take place saturday september 21st. There will be wine tasting food, vendors live music and children's activities. I encourage all of you to get involved with your local neighborhood association. I'm going to turn it over to my partner mitt.

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Good morning my name is minh tan and I represent ward 2., I'm a senior at aztec charter, high school oklahoma city neighborhood night out, took place yesterday on tuesday september 10th. The fair del bell, isle and rivera neighborhood association will meet again on october 7..

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Thank you and that's my report.

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Thank you award two or three.

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My name is tony lugo and I'm currently a senior at u.s grant high school, I'm representing word three and work. Work continues to progress on the northwest 23rd street neat streetscapes. The total project consists of three phases to complete over the next three years.

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Hi, my name is faith wolfhard, I'm a junior at christian heritage academy and I represent ward 3.. The ward 3 tv show recently featured imsa discussing the newly selected amr contract. Citizens were urged to check their total care status by september 30th. That was all for word. Three.

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Good morning my name is wendy ramirez and I attend southeast high school and I will be giving a report on ward 4.. Today is a groundbreaking renovation on speak of spiegel stadium located at south uh capitol hill high school, and there will be rebuilding of that stadium. That was first built back in the 1930s and last week there was a meeting conducted about the work done that will be done um off of the interstate 40 in choctaw and the this was a meeting that was well attended and very productive.

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Good morning my name is indy doe and I am a senior at capitol high school and I represent ward 4. next week the council will hold a meeting to place a wellness at capitol hill high school to place a wellness there. Last week on a thursday night, southeast high school played grand high school and with no surprise, southeast beat grant 42-12, and this concludes the wars forward. Report.

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Thank you danny at large report.

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Hi, I'm dylan cudd from cassidy, high school and I'm a senior. I am your at-large representative every september oklahoma city gives you a chance to change your participation in msa's total care program. Total care gives you emergency medical transport through emsa. The program is 3.65 cents per month and can be included in your utility bill.

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Hi, my name is kennedy lee hugh and I'm a senior at south moore, high school and I'm one of the at large representatives, city contractors and solid waste management. Crews have recently finished debris cleanup from the may, 20th and may 31st storms. It was estimated that the crews collected 120 000 tons of debris from both storms in eight weeks, which is about the average amount and which is about the average amount of bulk waste collected in four years. This concludes our at-large report reward.

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Good morning my name is morgan delong and I am a senior at westmore high school. I represent ward ward 5, along with jason the highly successful annual arts festival at oklahoma city community college. Just passed this labor day weekend over 25 000 patrons attended to view and purchase original artwork by regional artists, experienced community performing art groups and sample a diverse selection of foods. Now to my partner, good.

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Morning, everybody, my name is jason, sell and I attend southeast high school. I will be finishing up our ward 5 report as well as the arts festival. The greatly beneficial maps program is making significant progress in ward 5, including two of my previous schools prairie, queen elementary and jefferson middle school.

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This strongly improving the aesthetic appeal of the community and helped create a better learning environment in ward 5 overall, and that concludes our report on ward 5. So thank you have a good day. Thank.

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You jason ward.

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Hello, oklahoma, I'm zach randolph, I'm representing ward 6 along here with mark and I attend mount st mary high school. The annual oklahoma state fair will be opening up 8 a.m. This thursday september 12th until sunday september 22nd at the state fairgrounds. This is going to be a great year for the fair. This year the fair will be having special discount days, such as opening day where guests may enter at two dollars and september. 16Th will be kids day where children can enter children through 12th grade will be granted free admission.

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The fair will be hosting several guests, such as randy hauser, the oklahoma city, slender, drum line and the spectacular disney on eyes to name a few and over to mark. To finish the word.

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Report good afternoon, my name is mark mccaslin. I attend harding charter prep and represent ward 6.. Just after the state fair, the annual fiestas de las americas will be held on saturday september 28th from 9 a.m. To 9 00 pm at 308, southwest 25th street in historic, capitol hill of oklahoma city come celebrate, oklahoma, city's multicultural heritage at this award-winning festival, which celebrates the cultural diversity and traditions in oklahoma, with a lively parade.

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This year's festivities include: live music, folkloric dances, authentic food and activities for children and much more. This concludes my report forward. Six. Thank you.

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Lord seven.

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Hello, my name is gonzalo marias and I am a senior at edmond santa fe high school and I represent ward 7.. um The updates for award seven is um there's two volunteer opportunities and there are several summer jobs available this summer after school, jobs are still available for students willing to participate. An educational department at the zoo offers different programs to further students, knowledge on zoology, furthermore, redhawks have made the playoffs and oklahoma is bearing with pride, and we wish them the best of luck as they go on to these following games.

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Lastly, installation begins at the bow house. District of the compass rose with phenomenal work by artist owen. Morrell. We're excited to see these artists come together as they further develop. The artwork in the city now sara lialarinaga.

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Good morning my name is sarah leah laranaga and I attend harding charter prep as a junior this year um well gonzalo mr pettis and I attended a few neighborhood night outs. Yesterday we attended jells and lincoln terrace.

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um Everyone was so enthusiastic and um really it was really fun and we were able to interact with a lot of the people and get to know some of the neighborhoods a lot better and see what they were concerned about, and I really appreciated that we were discussing the senior wellness center and the location is being debated on and we were thinking that it would be very important to incorporate it in an area where it would be more accessible to people that would actually use it as much as possible in an area where it would be accessible to sidewalks and neighborhoods, and particularly the northeast side would be a very good place for debate.

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And then, last but not least, the banjo museum had their fourth anniversary. This last sunday september 9th it's been open since 2009 and the deering banjo company attended as well to help them celebrate, and the internationally recognized byron. Berlin band also made an appearance with them, and that concludes my report for word, seven thank.

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You board eight.

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My name is sam karchmer. I attend heritage hall school as a junior, and I represent ward 8.. Road construction is trying to catch up with the rapidly expanding northwest, oklahoma city and south edmond area. Right now, in my ward, two lane country roads that were destroyed in the past few years by big construction trucks are now being replaced by four lane: repaved roads and they're also planning on extending hefner parkway north to guthrie construction, starting on the north end.

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This will be completed approximately in 2015 and new medical facilities are set to be built in my ward, including a mercy specialty care unit near gallardia, and the saint anthony pediatric care facility at western memorial and now I'll turn it over to my partner, derek.

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Thank you, sam hello, my name is derek richards and I'm a senior at crossings, christian school, continuing where sam left off a new sports facility with a multi-level high-tech driving range, is going in behind the lows on memorial and in other news. Gallaudet is under new ownership and is recovering from its financial difficulties that it recently has gone through, and that includes our ward 8 report, stay classy, oklahoma, city.

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And that concludes our reports for this morning. Thank you all very much.

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The oklahoma city youth council meets regularly throughout the school year for an application or more information on the youth council program. Call.

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463-3340 you.