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From YouTube: 21-01 Podcast City Manager Al Braithwaite - AUDIO
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Oldsmar City Manager Al Braithwaite joins Experience Oldsmar to talk about Election Results, Boltsmar, Upcoming Events, and the latest issue of the 'Experience Oldsmar' magazine.
Source: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/44132959
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So
it
seems
appropriate
that
our
first
guest
would
be
someone
who
has
greatly
contributed
to
our
city.
Over
the
years
we
are
honored
to
have
oldsmar
city
manager,
al
braithwaite
as
our
inaugural
podcast,
guest,
al's,
professional
career,
spans,
30
plus
years
among
four
different
municipalities
across
pinellas
county.
A
al
holds
a
bachelor's
degree
from
eckerd
college,
go
tritons
and
a
master's
degree
in
public
administration
from
the
university
of
south
florida
go
bulls.
Welcome
al!
Thank
you
good
to
be
here
so
march.
9Th
was
oldsmar's
municipal
election
day
council
member
andrew
knapp,
representing
seat
3,
ran
unopposed
and
he
was
recently
named
vice
mayor,
two
candidates
vied
for
seat,
one
with
steve
graber
winning
by
eight,
yes,
eight
votes.
The
fact
alone
should
embed
the
importance
of
voting
to
everybody
out
there.
A
B
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B
A
B
B
Well,
the
simplest
answer
to
that
would
be
to
go
talk
to
the
city,
clerk
and
nixon,
who
could
outline
the
process
for
you
and
how
you'd
have
to
qualify
and
what
your
time
frames
were,
and
that
kind
of
thing,
but
that
that's
the
procedural
answer
the
overall
answer
might
be
to
volunteer
for
something
like
definitely
go
to.
Citizens
academy
volunteer
for
a
board,
because
normally
those
are
the
avenues
by
which
we
end
up
getting
people
to
run
for
council.
A
In
the
ring,
yeah
yeah
a
lot
of
responsibilities
behind
that.
So
many
many
may
already
know
that
you're,
a
huge
sports
fan,
but
they
may
not
know,
is
how
you
develop
the
city's
partnership
with
the
tampa
bay
lightning
to
become
boltzmar.
I
love
saying
that
baltimore.
So
can
you
tell
us
how
this
partnership
started.
B
Sure
felicia
chip
and
I
were
mulling
over
ideas
one
morning
and
I
knew
that
there
was
a
program
in
the
nhl
where
they
were
in
the
business
of
funding
the
building
of
outdoor
rinks
as
a
means
by
which
they
were
promoting
the
game
or
trying
to,
and
I
think
pittsburgh
was
considered
the
standard
because
they
had.
I
think
we
found
out
something
like
110
ranks
in
the
allegheny
county
area.
B
So
we
were,
oh,
my
god,
very
excited
about
that
and
then
come
to
find
out
shortly
thereafter
that
the
executive
vice
president
of
communications
for
the
team
bill,
wickett
lived
in
my
neighborhood
so
naturally-
and
I
developed
a
friendship
with
him
and
fantastic
guy
as
most
of
the
people.
In
the
area
know,
he's
just
moved
to
nashville
to
become
the
chief
marketing
officer
for
the
predators,
so
we're
going
to
miss
him,
but
because
of
those
relationships
with
the
team,
they
gave
us
financial
help
in
building
the
rank.
B
A
B
B
B
They
bring
all
their
bolts
team
with
free
gear
for
the
kids
and
and
they
support
us
in
every
way
possible.
Every
special
event
you'll
see
a
lightning
representation
with
free
stuff,
and
they
couldn't
be
better
to
work
with
the
I
still
say:
they're,
the
most
professionally
adept
organization
in
sports,
they're,
just
fabulous
to
work
with.
B
Well,
we
did
try
to
make
it
multi-use
and
the
lightning
had
no
problem
with
that.
There's
a
lacrosse
club
that
uses
it.
We
do
some
zumba
classes
there
we're
kind
of
hoping
to
get
to
open
skating.
The
surface
is
kind
of
a
challenge,
but
we've
we
kind
of
used.
We've
used
it
for
a
job
fair
for
congressman
bill
raques.
B
A
B
Yeah
sure
the
oldsmar
cup
race,
which
is
an
annual
affair
on
saturday
april
10th
at
tampa
bay
downs,
which
some
people
may
or
may
not
know,
is
not
technically
in
oldsmar,
it's
an
actual
in
hillsborough
county,
but
they
use
oldsmar
mailing
address
and
I
think
they
wish
they
were
in
osmo,
which
we
like
it
doesn't.
That
comes
with
a
free
entry,
and
all
you
have
to
do
is
give
your
osmo
address
id
and
everybody's
invited
to
the
winner's
circle
following
the
osmar
cup
race.
For
the
winner
get
a
picture
with
the
winning
horse.
B
We
also
have
a
sunset
sound
series,
which
is
a
concert
series
run
by
our
leisure
services
department.
The
next
one
is
friday
april
16th
at
our
wheels
park.
Unfortunately,
I
don't
know
who
the
band
is
scheduled
to
be,
but
we
finally
got
over
our
jinx.
We
used
to
have
a
running
gag
with
chip
that
if
he
had
a
concert
on
friday,
it
was
going
to
rain
and
the
trop
rock
junkies
played
two
weekends
ago
at
friday.
It
was
a
big
success,
so
we
got
that
rolling
again.
B
He's
got
a
fishing
tournament
on
septal
saturday
april
17th.
At
mobley
bayou,
the
opel
theater
of
the
friends
of
the
arts,
seven
theater
in
the
park
and
beauty
and
the
beast
performance
outdoors
on
the
stage
at
ariel's
park,
also
on
saturday
april,
17th
great
show
for
the
kids.
The
last
show
they
did.
We
had
over
500
people
out.
B
That
was
just
fabulous
and
we
have
an
annual
recycling
day,
something
we
do
every
year
we
usually
vary
the
spots,
but
it's
a
chance
for
you
to
get
rid
of
paper
that
you
want
to
get
rid
of
up
to
five
boxes.
It
does
have
electronic
recycling
and
prescription
disposal-
that's
friday
april
23rd
from
8
to
12
p.m.
At
the
sports,
complex
yeah.
A
B
If
you
have
any
doubts
about
whether
or
not
it's
getting
recycled,
there's
actually
a
window
in
the
truck,
you
can
kind
of
see
it
working,
I'm
I'm
a
little
retentive,
so
you
know
you
give
them
up
old
tax
records
or
something
and
you're
going.
Are
these
really
getting
destroyed
and
they'll
show
it
to
you
right?
There
they're
really
getting
destroyed
a
lot
of
shredding.
It's
kind
of
cool.
A
B
Probably
the
spotlight,
we
do
a
business
spotlight
on
a
family
spotlight
and
we
just
it's
just
such
a
cool
way
to
find
out
something
about
a
family
or
somebody.
That's
contributed
to
the
history
of
the
wealth
of
the
city,
there's
a
lot
of
great
parts
to
it.
The
reason
I
was
so
passionate
about
getting
it
to
everybody
was
largely
for
the
quality
of
the
work
and
both
of
you
guys
are
involved
in
that
our
communications
and
marketing
division
just
done
such
a
fabulous
job
with
the
layout
and
the
professional
presentation,
the
photography,
the
articles.