March 30, 2025 • 56 mins
Welcome back to your favorite Texoma hangout—Get It Right Texoma! 🤠 In this lively episode, Mike Hendren, Terry McAdams, and Trey Sralla sit down for a laid-back, insightful chat with Wichita Falls' very own Mayor Tim Short.
🎤 This Episode Features:
- 🏙️ City Growth & Development: Mayor Short discusses exciting new projects, including the demolition of the old hotel near Lucy Park and future park or amphitheater possibilities.
- 🏗️ New Business Buzz: Updates on the opening of Winco Supermarket and Vitro’s major solar glass facility, promising hundreds of high-paying local jobs.
- 🏘️ Housing & Infrastructure: Insights into partnerships with national homebuilders to boost affordable housing and support economic expansion.
- ✈️ Supporting Sheppard AFB: Mayor Short shares details of his advocacy efforts in Washington D.C. and Austin to protect and enhance Sheppard Air Force Base's missions and its critical role in Texoma.
- 🎯 Local Events: Information on the Wichita Falls Gun Show relocation to Burkburnett Community Center and the delicious 17th Annual Cajun Fest coming soon at Bud Daniel Park.
- 🍽️ Restaurant Spotlight: A delicious shoutout to McBride's Land and Cattle on Scott Avenue—known for fantastic steaks and a history dating back to 1975! (Tell 'em we sent ya! 😉)
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You make this rather snappy,won't you?
I have some very heavythinking to do before 10:00.
Hey, welcome to Get It RightTechsomer once again.
The trio is usually here right now.
It's a duo.
It's me and Terry.
Trey will join us shortly fora little bit.
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He's going to be here brieflywith us because we've got a very
special guest coming ontoday's program.
Wichita Falls Mayor Tim Shortis going to join us here in a few
minutes and we're going totalk to him about some of the great
things happening here in the city.
We do record this in the MacTech Solutions podcast studios here
in Wichita Falls, Texas.
So be sure to check outmaktechsolutions.com and also be
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sure to visit our website.
Get a right textilema.
We're on Facebook as well.
You should see a QR codesomewhere here on the screen.
We'll put it somewhere in thecorner there for you to click on.
That will get you over to getit right.
Texoma.com as well.
So that said, let's jump intoit because we got a few things to
talk about today.
We've got a lot to talk aboutwith the mayor.
We try to focus on a local restaurant.
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Each episode that we do one ofour locally owned eateries here.
And this time it's going to beMcBride's land and cattle.
I hadn't been there in a while.
I need to get over there.
That's the downtownrestaurant, right?
Right.
Well, yeah, well, there usedto be one out on Seymour highway
that was.
That was McBride Seafood and Stage.
Okay.
And then.
Yeah, this one.
This one.
So this one opened in themid-70s, about 75 downtown which
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saw falls on Scott.
Scott Avenue.
Okay.
Some people call it Scott Street.
I think it's actually a ScottAvenue, but it's.
It's kind of down in the samearea as you're going toward Eddie
Hills Fun Cycles as well.
And McBride's Land and Cal,that's our favorite downtown restaurant
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to go to.
It has been for a while.
And great steaks.
All of these McBride's brandedrestaurants were owned by the McBride
family at one time.
And then many years ago, theystarted selling off those properties.
Other people bought them,maintained the McBride branding on
the restaurants.
One of them has now come backinto the family, the McBride's Steakhouse
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on Maplewood.
Ford Swanson owns that andhe's actually the grandson of one
of the founding members of theMcBride McBride family of restaurants.
We go there periodically for lunch.
They've got that steak specialevery day.
McBride Land and Cattle.
I think they're typically openfor dinner.
Okay, so 5 to 9pm Weekdays.
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Well, they're open this ontheir website or on Google.
Anyway, it's showing that theyare open from 5 to.
Well, let's see.
Well, normally 11 to 1:30 forlunch as well as 5 to 8 for dinner.
For dinner, yeah.
Yeah.
And then fantastic restaurantand really good food.
It's easy.
Fortunately, it's easy to geta good steak around here.
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And.
And a lot of these locallyowned places like me Brand McBride
Land and Cattle on Scott Avenue.
They absolutely do a great jobwith it.
What is their actual addresson Scott?
501 Scott Street.
I believe what that was.
Yeah, let me double check it.
I pulled up their website, but yes.
501 Scott Avenue.
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Yeah.
So when you go down there,tell me you heard about it on get
it right.
Texoma.
Yep.
That won't get you much, but probably.
Probably just look at you go.
What?
Anyway, anyway, check them out.
McBride Land and Cattle,downtown Wichita Falls, 1975.
The original gun show hasmoved to Burt Burnett, Texas.
They're in the communitycenter there now.
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And then the next one comingup April 11th and 12th.
It's $10 per day.
I guess this is the admissioncost is $10 per day.
Or you can pay $15 and go both days.
Yeah.
Half price on the second day.
Man.
There you go.
All right, so you have thatcoming up April 11th and 12th.
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This is in Burt Burnett at thecommunity center.
And I cannot think of the nameof the street that it's on.
What is the Burt BurnettCommunity Center?
Wichita Falls Gun show, which is.
Is it still called the WichitaFalls Gun Show?
I believe so.
Original.
Original gun show.
Well, is it?
Let's see.
But it's in Burke.
The cycle of the Dallas Cowboys.
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Yeah, let's see now that one.
I think that very first onemight be it.
Well, that's the Impact.
They're no longer at the Impact.
So that was in December.
So let me.
The original.
We'll.
We'll find it.
Original gun show, Wichita Falls.
And then.
But then it's Burke Burnett.
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I never remember how to have alot of the.
As a bullet gun show.
I don't.
Okay.
Who knows?
Okay, well, you'll just haveto search it out.
But it's.
I just.
I'm sorry.
The address, the street namejust left my brain there.
But it is going to be centeron Davey.
Davey.
Davey Drive.
That's it.
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David Davey Drive.
That's it.
Okay, so April.
Okay.
Cool.
So there you go.
Very easy to get to any fromanywhere in wichita Falls.
You're 15 to 20 minutes awayat most.
Yeah, 20 minutes at most.
So that's kind of going to.
April 11 and 12, downtownWichita Falls development hosting
the 17th annual Cajun Fest indoors.
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The events going to be held atthe Bud Daniel park, not in Ohio.
How's it going to be indoorsif it's Bud Daniel park?
Okay.
Anyway, Saturday, April 26, 11to 7.
And for ticketing, you go toticket information.
If you'll just go to.
If you just search for CajunFest Wichita Falls, that should take
you to the downtowndevelopment page.
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They have a landing page, Ibelieve, for.
Specifically for Cajun Fest.
And you can get tickets thereright here.
$7 in advance, $10 at the gate.
And kids 12 and under get in free.
Now, once you get into theevent, there's going to be food.
There'll be food vendors.
You'll have to pay for the food.
So they'll be servingjambalaya and gumbo and boudin and
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cracklins and all the goodCajun eats.
But you got to pay for thefood once you get in there.
So to get into the event, 7advanced 10th of the gate, kids 1200
get in free.
And then you just pay for yourfood and drink when you get in there.
As far as I know, it'll be thesame as it has in the past.
They don't allow coolers, noglass bottles, anything like that.
But anyway, that's going to be.
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Again, that's going to beApril 26th.
It's on a Saturday from 11 to7 downtown Wichita Falls, 9th in
Ohio.
Bud Daniel Park.
Daniel Park.
Yeah, there's a whole websiteactually, Cajun Fest, WF.com.
There you go.
Everything you need.
There you go.
Everything you need to know.
You got it.
You got it pulled up there.
Yep.
There we go.
There we go.
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There's the website.
The.
It's Cajun festival.
WF.com and yes, it's like amatchy Red River Casino.
Is the.
Is the top sponsor, thepresenting sponsor?
I'm not sure then what theindoors there must.
Maybe there's a combo.
I don't know.
Maybe there's a tent where youcan go to get the sun off your head.
I don't know.
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Anyway, so real quick herebefore we break because we got Tim
Short, Wichita Falls Mayor TimShort, come up to join us here in
just a few minutes.
Guys, did you watch the jointsession of Congress?
I did not get a chance to yet.
I just I just watched thehighlights, and of course, the highlight
that everybody keeps landingback on, of course, is Representative
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Green.
Okay.
Yeah.
And his interruption from Texas.
Got kicked out.
Well, he.
Okay, so as of.
As of the date that we'rerecording this, this episode, guys,
he has been officiallycensured by the House.
And 10 Democrat House membersjoined all the Republicans in the
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censure vote.
Okay, so now what that meansspecifically, I don't.
I don't really know a censure.
I think, you know, I thinkthere's a monetary fine that goes
with it or something, butbasically, you know, it's like, hey,
don't do that again.
That was stupid.
Don't do that anymore.
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Okay, I just Googled And I wastyping what is a Congress?
I hadn't even finished theword Congress in congressional when
I was suggested.
Congressional censure.
There you go.
So it read our minds,obviously, or.
A lot of people are lookingthis up.
I'm sure it's.
That's probably, you know, anawful lot of people are looking into
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this.
And it's.
But it's significant becausethis congressman stands up and interrupts
the president's speech, andthe speaker three times tells him,
basically, sit down, shut up.
And he doesn't do it.
And finally, he has to callthe sergeant of arms to escort him
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out of the chamber.
Basically, they.
I mean, you know, they.
Much as a bouncer would at thebar, they escorted him out.
Okay.
I mean, it's just like that.
I do not understand whyanybody would think it's okay to
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do what he did.
You disagree with him, fine.
You disagree with hispolicies, fine.
You think he's a lousypresident, fine.
You.
You are entitled to whateveropinion you want to have, but when
you're in that chamber andyou're in that moment, you don't
have to applaud him, but youdamn sure better respect him.
Yeah, well.
But.
But also all of the signs and the.
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What was up with that?
The whiteboard.
The lady was putting up thewhite whiteboard all the time.
And this is the one thatreally got me.
Really just seriously,seriously angered me.
The little boy who survivedbrain cancer, and nobody from.
Not one Democrat stood up andapplauded for him.
Not one.
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They deliberately snubbed thislittle kid.
How dare you.
What is wrong with you?
What the hell is your soul?
What is wrong with you?
This is a little kid.
He survived brain cancer, forGod's sakes, and that's how you treat
him?
It would be bad enough if itwere an adult man or woman.
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This is.
This is someone's child.
Yeah.
And you snub them like that.
That's heartless, cold, andjust damn dirty is what it is.
Absolutely dirty.
All right, we're going to takea break here.
Wichita Falls Mayor Tim Trey'sgoing to join us here for the interview
with the mayor.
And we got Wichita Falls MayorTim Short coming up.
Lots of things happeningwithin the city of Wichita Falls
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and things that, by the way,will benefit everyone in this region.
Some of the.
Some of the great thingseconomically that are happening in
Wichita Falls are going tohave ripple effects on communities
all around Wichita Falls.
How does the saying go?
A rising tide lifts all boats.
There you go.
It's exactly what's happening, folks.
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Stick around more.
Get It Right Tech Soma is onthe way.
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Hey.
Welcome back to Get It RightTech Soma with the trio and our very
special guest with us today,as promised, is Wichita Falls Mayor
Tim Short.
Good morning.
How are you, sir?
Thanks for having me again.
Yes.
I've been here so many times now.
Well, I think you might havebeen prolific guest.
I'm not.
Yeah, I think I was the first guest.
You were the first guest of the.
Wondering when I'll be the last.
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And then we had to redo it acouple times.
Yeah.
So technical challenges that happened.
Yeah.
It wasn't the first time.
Yeah.
Well, how's life training you?
Life is good.
You know, I.
I say it and I say it, and Istill mean it.
I love this city.
I love everything that that'shappening right now.
Yeah, we're.
We're on a good track.
It's.
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It's our turn.
You know, we had.
We had the president of thechamber on a couple of shows back,
and he shared a lot of goodthings with us about stuff that's
happening.
It sounds like you've got someexciting stuff going on in the city.
Yeah.
And there's.
There's always.
I see people.
And we talked about thisbefore we started taping today's
episode.
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It seems like you've got thesame six or seven or eight people
that get on social media andjust constantly try to talk down
everything that's going onaround us.
Are we going to.
Are we naming names?
No.
Not yet.
They keep pushing me.
I will.
I think there's 12.
Yeah, okay.
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It might be 12, but it's thesame little cabal of people that
just keep constantly trying totalk down everything that's going
on.
Just everything.
Yeah, the cave people, thecitizens against virtually everything.
And they are.
It's like, no matter what youdo, no matter what you offer, no
matter what business is comingto town, they just got to talk it
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down and make it sound likeit's the worst thing ever, and it's
just going to be the end ofthe world.
People, I say, if you're thatmiserable here, leave.
I.
I understand, and I do.
It's their right, you know, still.
Of course it is.
Of course.
Right.
And.
And I get it.
And I meet with as many ofthem as I can, try to talk to them
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when I can.
Sometimes it's a losingbattle, but, you know, it's just.
You can't change.
For myself, if I were.
If I were living somewherewhere I felt out like I was that
miserable, it was that bad,I'd be looking for an exit.
Well, I really would be.
I had that discussion with itwith a man not, you know, it was
at one of Jane Frank'smeetings one day, just.
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Just in the audience.
And I said, I have never livedin a place that I was so miserable,
you know.
Right.
And.
And I think it kind of dawnedon him, you know, how.
That, you know, his reactionto several things were.
He's come by the office, wevisited a couple times.
You know, he goes, well, Igrew up here.
I live here.
I just.
He just doesn't agree with alot of the changes that are going
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on.
That's fine.
That's his right.
Absolutely.
So we've had some pretty good talk.
Well, you've had a lot of big accomplishments.
How long have you been in themayor's seat now?
Oh, gosh, probably a littleover a year, 13, 14 months.
You know, and in that.
In that little over a year,you and the current council, I mean,
a lot of things have happened.
One of the.
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What I consider a bigimprovement is we got rid of that
derelict hotel by the falls.
Yes.
I was shocked at how fast thatthing came down in a hurry.
I know.
And it deserved to get there.
It deserved to happen so fast.
And there were people that,you know, said, well, I was.
I want to go by there and takesome pictures.
They had had their prom thereor they had done something.
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They knew it was coming downand thought they had time and, you
know, by the time they gotover there to take pictures, it was
gone.
Yeah.
And to be.
It looks great to be fair to.
Everybody, the council beforeand Santiano, your predecessor, we're
kind of building thatgroundwork and working on it.
Yeah.
So we want to give them creditas well.
Obviously, you and the currentcouncil get credit, but also them.
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It's Kind of, kind of like Ialways say, you know, the Berlin
Wall came down when GeorgeBush was there, but Ronald Reagan
sure should deserve somecredit for getting that done.
It's a process and there were a.
Couple councils before, youknow, that were working on that.
So we, we.
We just got to celebrate itand got to.
Got to be the one that we'rearound when it happened.
Yeah.
So remind us what exactly thatproperty now is going to be used
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for.
How much you own, how much thecity owns.
I should say how much the,the, the pre.
The previous owner still ownssome of it and all that.
There's a cooperative effort here.
So what's that.
How's that working?
We.
What do you know, we work thedeal, you know, in, in the end.
And that's what it took was.
Was literally sitting in thesame room, you know, going back and
forth.
How are we going to make this happen?
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So answer your question, Terry.
The first.
I don't own any of it, but I understand.
So I.
We better put that on the record.
So the city.
We own 35%.
We own the part that there bythe river, you know, the flood plain,
the part that you just can'tdo anything on, can't develop, can't
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do anything.
That'll be green space, it'llbe park space, probably some benches
in the future, maybe playground.
We will connect to the trailthrough there that runs behind it.
What, Lucy, park back there.
We will have a connection tothe trail there.
The other 65%.
The Patel still own that.
It is developable land.
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They can, you know, peoplebuild houses in the flood zone.
That's in the flood zone.
You get flood insurance.
You know, you build it up higher.
You, you do the things thatyou need to do to look like a.
Bunch of houses on the coast.
Everything will be on.
Still put the parking garageunderneath it if you want to build
another hotel, I guess, but.
Or they can sell it.
They can, you know, they cando with.
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We talk about it being America.
They can do with it as theywant now.
So, so how much.
How many acres is it then?
That's.
That they can do with.
Oh, I knew that answer acouple months ago.
A couple acres or.
I mean, it's not.
It doesn't look like a huge.
I don't remember.
Okay, well, good question.
I don't.
But it's a.
But it's a good but it's a.
It's an area that you canbuild something.
And you know, you would thinkthat that would possibly be a good
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space for a Hotel.
The part.
The park, the part they ownwas basically where the parking lot
was, the whole thing, thenback to the north.
So the part that we havereally didn't affect anything that
the hotel had.
There was no walkways.
There wasn't anything down there.
So you could build somethingas big or bigger than a hotel on
it.
If you.
The park space that youenvision developing there, is that
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going to be an extension ofLucy park or something new?
Something different?
I think it'll be something new.
The master park plan wasalready going by the time that this
stuff.
So it wasn't included in anyof that.
But I don't think it'd be thatbig a deal initially to, like I said,
to connect it to the trail andget a couple benches down there and.
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And use.
And see how it's being used.
See, you know, we'll take suggestions.
You know, people.
Some people want to build anamphitheater on it.
Some people want live music.
Some people wanted an RV parkthat would be cool.
There's all kinds of things.
The RV park, with it beingpossibly a flood zone, might be a
little tough.
We don't own that part, youknow, but you can have playground
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equipment.
You can have that kind ofthing, and it can flood all day,
and it's not gonna hurt a thing.
Right.
I think an amphitheater,something akin to what Burt Burnett
has at Friendship park, wouldbe very, very good there.
It'd be great.
There's a lot of support for that.
I'm sure that there will be.
Folks will talk to us.
Committees will be formed,ideas will be put together.
Oh, sure.
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Estimates and costs.
It's all, you know, hey, it'sall about money.
It's a process, though.
Just like getting the hoteldown and getting that land cleared
off.
It's a process.
It takes time.
Everything's a process.
And it's a government processwhich moves.
At the speed of smell.
Almost the speed of schools.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, it's slow.
So one of the biggest things that.
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In my opinion, one of possiblythe biggest job you'll ever have
as mayor and as a citycouncil, but at least if not the
biggest in the top five, is acity manager.
So if you could.
And obviously, there's a lotof NDAs, there's a lot of things
you can't say, and we want100% respect that.
But tell us what you can aboutthe city manager process that's happening
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now.
Okay, so we.
The.
It was the night we hired aresearch firm, which.
Which, by the way, real quick,is Very common.
You're talking about hiring aCEO, let's say a CD CEO of a medium
sized corporation.
Absolutely.
And you don't put the ad.
The Times Record news for that.
So.
So you need.
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You.
You have.
This is a.
Who would see it?
Yeah, yeah.
It's a.
Or indeed this is a.
This is a big deal.
So anyhow just go ahead and.
He said that out loud.
He said the quiet part out loud.
We could run an ad on here andmore people would.
I spent, I spent.
I spent years trash them whenI was on school.
Oh gosh.
I think.
God love.
I think that, that.
So we did.
We did get a firm because it'sa national search.
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Yes, yes, truly.
A CEO with 1300 employees.
It's almost a 300 milliondollar budget.
It's a big deal.
Their educational requirements.
This is not somebody's first job.
Right.
So that being said, you know,it is a national search.
We had almost 100.
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I heard 103 and then it was 99I believe the official applicant
total in the beginning when westarted this.
We are down to our final fiveI believe at this point.
And we'll begin have some inperson interviews, visits and whittle
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that down and hope to havethat done this summer.
Have the make a decision.
But we're looking for specific things.
It's not somebody's first job.
I want somebody who is a proactive.
Well, not I.
We would like somebody who's aproactive problem solver, who is.
Economic development is not abad word, you know that manages the
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financials.
Well, I can tell you thatWichita Falls is in the position
that it is because of our pastwhich is in a great financial position
because of our past city managers.
They were awesome and got usin this position.
So now we're here and when Isaid earlier it's our turn.
We can take the next step.
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We have the ability to do it.
I think.
You know, I don't know whowatches this but I think Abilene
has, you know, spent theirmoney already and they've done a
good job and they've grown.
I think Amarillo is kind of ahot mess right now.
So you know, we are in aposition to strike.
We are in a position to act onthings as they come up.
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We want a city manager who'sproactive that will be able to do
that type of thing.
I think thankful to the pastones for the work that they did to
get us here.
I think somebody who's growthminded, somebody who's got a mindset
of, look, we've gotopportunities to grow here.
We've certainly got a room to grow.
We don't have room.
Yeah, well, so the ones thatwe have, our final ones that we have
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are national.
I mean, and some from, youknow, I'm going to be careful.
But some from bigger cities,some from smaller.
But they.
Everybody wants to live inTexas, you know.
Oh, yeah.
This is the draw for it.
So.
And this is in the citymanager, and I'm not one and never
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have been one, but Iunderstand it's a job where you're
there for four or five years,then you move on and you're constantly
moving up.
Fine.
You should be like theMethodist preacher model.
Absolutely.
The old Methodist preacher model.
Come here, circuit riders.
Absolutely.
You know, do a great job,build that resume even better, and
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go with our blessing, youknow, and go do that in Fort Worth
or San Antonio.
And do great things whileyou're here to enhance that resume.
By definition, those jobs arenomadic, right?
Yeah, nomadic.
You normally not pneumatic?
Yeah, nomadic.
Yeah.
And city.
City managers, school districtsuperintendents, generally, you're
the best ones are not ones whogrew up there, born there, raised,
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they're going to die there.
It's people who come in, theymake some changes.
They.
And it's.
It's a strange.
It's a strange culture becauseyou talk about a.
Somebody that shows up into atown and completely engulfs themselves
into that town, that city, andjust completely becomes part of it
and then goes away.
Well, yeah, I mean, it's like this.
You get somebody that's goingto show up, that brings a different
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perspective from a different place.
They've seen things we haven't seen.
They've had experiences wehaven't had, and maybe they bring
something to the table that wehaven't even thought of yet.
Yes.
And they look at things.
They look at thingsdifferently and maybe they're obviously
things that can be done better.
They look at efficiencies thatcan be, you know.
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Well, look, we did this this way.
We had, you know, we hiredoutside consultants that helped us
with this, you know, thatengineers or whatever.
We didn't have to have them on staff.
You know, we could, we had agroup that we could call when we,
when we needed them.
We, you know, they weren'tafraid to outsource some things which
may be or may not be an answerto some.
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To some efficiencies and money savings.
So.
But we want that.
We want them to.
To mentor maybe the next, thenext group, you know, of city Managers
and people that are theirdirectors, you know, help them, mentor
them.
And we, you know, that that'sone thing that we're looking for.
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And we want to help them buildtheir resumes, help them build Wichita
Falls and then help them move on.
I was watching somebody else'spodcast a while back, listening to
somebody else's podcast awhile back, rather, and they were
talking about.
They were talking about localdevelopment in their area.
And the two big things thatthey were really focused on in city
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government there, where theywere, were opportunities for people
and job growth, employment growth.
And obviously, any communityyou're in, no matter whether you're
Texas, doesn't matter whatstate you're in.
I mean, you gotta have stufffor people to do.
They gotta have.
They gotta have a reason towant to get out and move around and
do things, but also gotta havea way to make a living.
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True.
And I mean, does that sound.
I mean, we're kind of in thesame boat, aren't we, as everybody
else in that situation, aren't we?
You would think, however, wehave discovered through some of this
search that there are citiesthat have grown so quickly.
Yeah.
They're trying to tap thebrakes and they have, you know, maybe
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new councils or new leadershipthat's going.
We need.
We're overwhelmed.
We need to tap the brakes.
And then.
And then.
But maybe their leadershipwants to move on because they're
in growth mode and that's whatthey need.
That's what they know how to do.
So they did it there.
They need to come and do it here.
They need to come and help usbecause we're ready.
Yeah.
We're not ready to have the brakes.
We're ready to get on the gas.
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Well, it's just like Terrypointed out a while back, if we grew
just 1% a year, just 1%, youknow, right now, that would be what,
about 11, 10 people or so?
11, five people or so.
How awesome is that?
You know, if we could justgrow by 1% annually over the next
decade or decade and a half.
Right.
And you have to think aboutthe things that that brings.
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And I'm sure we've talkedabout these things before.
The.
Where are we going to put them?
Where's the inventory of homes?
Where are they going to live?
I don't, you know, so if we,if we struck that great deal and
all of a sudden 1500, youknow, they needed.
They brought 1500 of their employees.
Plus we're hiring folks thatare here, where are they going to
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live?
I know a guy who can buildthem for you.
And I know a guy who can sell them.
Yeah.
Iowa park, you know, Burke,you know, we're going to, we're going
to help those places growbecause some folks are just going
to want to live in a smaller place.
Generally they want, you know,about a 12 minute commute.
They want affordable housing.
We check a lot of boxes and wehave those things.
Yeah, we don't have enough of it.
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So we, we have had a couple ofnational home builders.
I'm not breaking news.
We have had a couple ofnational home builders that you would
know the names of that havecome in that are.
They're identifying landgoing, we can put 200 houses here,
we can put 150 houses here.
We can.
They're actively looking atcoming in and being able to do that.
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One of them is building out bythe base now.
Yeah, it doesn't.
Where is it, where is thatbeing built?
Tinker.
By tinker.
Yeah.
Trail.
And it doesn't.
You go well what about yourlocal guys?
Well, I love our local homebuilders, but they can't, they don't
have the capacity or thedesire to build 200, $150,000 houses.
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You know it.
That's not their model.
That's not what they do.
They build custom homes, youknow, but, but in every other city
that we compete with andwhether it's Abilene or even Lubbock
or Tyler, you know, Amarillo,they have these development.
These are your first time,these are your first houses and these
are, these are nice out andit's somebody else's first house
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and they're nice homes.
These are three bedroom, twobath houses.
You'll be a very busy man soyou know, selling homes, that, that's
one of the problems.
It's a good problem, butthat's one of the problems that has
to be solved when we do this.
It's like the development outthere by the base.
You know, Lance Friday Homeshas built several homes out there
and we've sold a few andthey're great homes.
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They're great homes.
And these are not three andfour hundred thousand dollars houses.
220, 30, 40 thousand dollarhouses and they're beautiful inside.
They're and very efficienthomes and but yeah, we need more
of that and we're going tohave to have more that as we bring
more people here, we're goingto have to have that development.
Yeah.
So you know we've.
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That's been thought of.
Yeah, that's one of thethings, you know, that you have to
think of obviously those high schools.
We were the only city inAmerica that built two big high schools
like that.
Yeah, love those high schools.
They, when Amazon came here,when, when a couple of the other
places yet to be named havecome in and we take them to lunch
and they get, you know, we buythem a hat and you know, they go
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to the rodeo and we, we showthem our city and you know, where
their employees are going to live.
We show them msu.
We go through these places.
They want to see the schools.
Yeah.
So.
And they, because they wanttheir people to have to be educated,
obviously, but they want to see.
One of them told me that thatshows the community's willing to
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invest in education to that length.
They're in because they see,you know, we're growth oriented.
If we're willing to do that.
Have a guy that's flying inhere this, hopefully this month that's
already done some things inour city that specifically is touring
the schools because he'slooking at developing a little, a
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few more entertainment venueshere that would be really nice if
we can get that done.
Specifically flying in firststop schools.
And he's going to get that to her.
And they're, and these arecheck boxes that if they don't check
that box, we're off the list.
We are, we go to the bottomand you know, we've, we've been there.
I've said so many times thatwe sat around for so many years and
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waited for the phone to ringand you know, in sales it doesn't
work.
So.
And that's what, that's theway you have to do it.
You have to pursue it.
And when your phone's notringing and nobody's walking in your
door, well, you better beknocking on doors and you better
be calling people.
So we're, we're going places,we're seeing people, we're calling
out, we're taking people to lunch.
How many deals get done at lunch?
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You know.
Oh yeah, so we're activelydoing that.
I used to say that all the time.
How many, how manymultimillion dollar deals got done
at the Wichita Club down backin the days when the whole boom was
going a bunch million, milliondollar handshake deals were done
right there at the Wichita Club.
We spent last week inWashington D.C.
I was going to ask you about that.
Yeah, the swamp.
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So we went to the Swamp andspecifically for Shepard Air Force
Base, we met with Ted Cruz, wemet with Cornyn's representatives,
we had dinner with Ronnie Jackson.
I mean we in close quarterswith 10 or 15 of us and them standing
there visiting with us andtaking questions and talking to us
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about this, about howimportant it is.
And the amazing thing is, iswhen we go make these personal visits
and go talk to these folks,really, they're happy to see us.
They appreciate it becausenobody does it.
So all the other places kindof start to take it for granted,
you know, but we're thereactively lobbying and talking about,
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you know, this is 40% of our economy.
We'd like another mission.
If this.
The, you know, when you hearthe word shepherd, you know, or here's
something, you know, mission,we'd like you to think about us.
We want to be on the top ofyour mind.
And that's how you get there,just by simply building that network
and that relationship.
We spent Wednesday in Austindoing the very same thing.
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Met with Senator Hagen Booth,met with James Frank, you know, and
talk about the same things.
I think we're kind of on thetop of their mind anyway.
But getting to that's effortand effort gets rewarded.
And if you work hard enough,sometimes you get lucky.
So that's what we're, we'reactively pursuing.
On that very topic.
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Local social media has beenall worried about Trump leaving NATO.
So how did that has.
Did that come up at all?
Because we have the in depth program.
Yes, we do.
That's.
And NATO is in the name.
President Trump did not meetwith me.
I know, I know he must have had.
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I sent a card ahead of time.
He missed out as far as I'm concerned.
Yeah, he had some.
Much.
When, when we were, when weactually walked through the White
House, they were in the middleof that cabinet meeting.
Yeah.
That, you know, that they televised.
That was actually going on.
You didn't just bust in the deal.
Yeah.
Knocked on the door.
Yeah.
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They saw who it was and theydid not let me.
But, and wouldn't expect them to.
But yes, those concerns are real.
When we were in the Pentagon,we talked to, we had two star generals.
We had a full meeting with afour star.
Those concerns are real andthere is anxiety that's being created.
And I wish I had a good answer.
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My thought is just my opinionis that no, we're not leaving NATO
and hopefully they're notrunning breaking news as we're doing
this that we're.
I don't think we are.
These are negotiation tactics.
Egypt is too important.
And they all recognize it because.
Because every one of thosegenerals, which is amazing, most
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of them were here, theytrained here, they were like, oh,
you know I did my flighttraining there in 1990.
I was, you know, I was there.
My brother was there.
I hung out at P2 or whatever.
One of the two stars son is inthe in jet program right now and
he's coming down next weekjust to visit.
So we're arranging, you know,where he's going to stay.
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Well, I've said this before.
You're not gonna make him stayat Billiton.
He's not.
So.
So I, I have said this beforeand I think that.
And this is not to say I'mafter trying to get us out of NATO
and ending this program at all.
But, but what I wanted topoint out is, and I did a little
research the other day withthe help of chat GPT and these numbers
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may be not exact, butcertainly it's pretty close.
It's in the neighborhood.
Something that I think thatgets overlooked at Shepherd Air Force
Base is the fact that thereare many more tech training students
that graduate out of shepherd than.
I mean, it dwarfs what thepilot training is like.
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60,000.
Yeah, 65,000.
A year.
A year.
And we're talking how manyhundreds, not even several hundred
actually.
A year of pilots.
Sure, they're here longer andit costs a lot more per student.
But.
But it gets more attention and it's.
And, and I.
And it's about the same staffsize maybe, or is there a thousand
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over there of permanent partyand then here.
But.
But there's a lot more still.
That's my, My point is, isthat just overall, if NATO, if we
left in that program and thatprogram could in theory end whether
we stay in NATO or not.
Yes.
So we need to be on that.
And that's why y'all are doing this.
Not because President Trumpsaid anything about leaving, but
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because it's an important program.
In theory.
It could go somewhere else.
We've got to advocate for our thing.
So we need to keep that andthe other.
But realize that 65,000.
65,000 go through that 50% ofthe air Force comes through Shepard
Air Force Base every year.
They're very cognizant andaware of that.
And we're the only base thatdoes train the pilots and the maintainers.
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Right.
So, you know, it's not thateasy to replace place.
And they are on it.
Did you know that we are thelargest contingent of the Saudi Air
Force in the world, except forSaudi Arabia.
I've heard that.
And not a single pilot.
There's 250 of them.
And they're all maintainers.
We had dinner at The Saudiembassy, when we were there, they.
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They're looking to grow that.
You know, we had dinner withthe Germans at their embassy one
night while we were there.
They're thrilled with Shepherd.
We.
How the community embraces.
Both.
Both places talked about howthe community embraces shepherd,
how their, their folks arecomfortable and safe and, and they're.
And they're proud to be here.
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They work hard to get hereand, and they love it here and they
love Texas and, And they lovecowboy hats.
And they said, our boots aretoo expensive.
You know, And I said, likeyour Mercedes, you know, the good
ones, you know, last a long time.
So it's.
I feel.
I feel very good about it.
And it was wonderful to meetthem and shake their hands and see
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how good, you know, we cantalk about how much we love it.
Right.
But it was really nice to hearhow much they love it.
Talked about.
They call them their children.
Thank you for taking such goodcare of our children.
I guess that's where therubber meets the road with Shepherd.
It's how the outsiders view it.
Yes.
Because they're the ones that,that are paying to be here.
One of the problems that youhave with the, like what you said,
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the tech people is they don'tmake movies about people working
on aircraft and stuff.
And so it, it is, it's.
It's not top of the mindawareness, but it's the same thing
as like in the education system.
When people talk abouteducation, they talk about teacher,
teacher, teacher, which is great.
You got to have the teachersto that.
But everybody else, theteachers can't do their job without
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everybody else there first.
Right.
And it's the same, it's thesame thing.
Planes don't fly without the maintainers.
Exact.
And that's not to takeanything away from the pilots.
It's a total force takeseverybody to do it, and we should
do it efficiently.
And I think I'm, I'm.
But it's not a sexy job, right?
Not all.
Well, no.
Sometimes I thought it waskind of cool.
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Although I didn't like workingon the flight line that much.
Yeah.
And it, it is good.
And, and they do love it here.
And that was, you know, that'sawesome that that made us all feel
better about it.
No definitive answers, but thefolks that are here love it here
and we love having them.
Wichita Falls Mayor Tim Shorthas been our guest.
So, Mayor, is there anything.
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We talked a little bit aboutnew stuff coming here and growth,
job growth and opportunity.
Growth and all that.
Is there anything coming thatyou can Talk about right now, is
there any big reveal we could,any breaking news we can break here?
Perhaps, I don't know if it's breaking.
I think people are notnecessarily paying attention to that
Winco supermarket that'scurrently being built.
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I still get questions of whatis that, what's going on over there.
It's a fantastic facilitythat's going on over there.
They, that they are nationwideand they started in Oregon.
They love Texas.
There'll be good jobs there.
That's a good place.
People are.
We talk about Vitro and whatthey're doing.
It's $390,390 millioninvestment in building a new line.
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It will be the largest solarglass facility that's anywhere in
the world other than China.
And we have it.
So all the other solar glassin the world right now is made in
China.
We're about to have our owngood sitting right beside the largest
hemp factory in the world.
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The only other largest ones inFrance that's in the Northern hemisphere
is here.
So.
And they're gonna be neighborsout there.
So on my drive in thismorning, I saw a rig pulling in with
more product, more raw product.
They're adding a third.
Biotech people think thatthere's nobody there.
I go, well, they park in the back.
But they're trying to add athird shift.
So it's been very successfuland it's a, it's a great place.
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At one last thing on Vitro,that's, that's 300 jobs, you know,
that are 68,000 to 90something thousand.
These are good jobs.
Yes.
And that's what they're doing.
When you drive by and you seewhere the retention pond is, well,
that's where the new line will be.
It'll go all the way there andit'll go straight north all the way
through the parking lot.
And you know, it's, it's anamazing facility.
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What an investment.
They could have done that anywhere.
And they, they, where are wegoing to spend this money?
We're going to spend it inWichita Falls.
It's been a number of years ago.
They brought in a large flatglass production line.
There was like 50 or 60million dollars investment.
This is many times that.
And they're, they're Mexico owned.
Yeah, I mean, you know, andthey, they come up and we've met
with them and, and they, theylove it here just for the same reason
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that all of us do.
So what is being built asyou're coming into it?
I guess it would be on thesouth side of, of the highway over
pretty close to the jail.
Oh yeah.
Just.
Just right around where the flyover.
Yeah.
Isn't it.
There's.
Well, no, before you even getto that.
Oh yeah.
If you're.
If you're.
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It's really close to the jail.
But I mean Amazon just behind.
That's back behind there.
Yeah.
There's something that's beingbuilt really Just prior to.
Yeah.
It's like prior.
Well, no, it's right there atthe flight.
The.
The one that flies over the.
On 287.
Flies over the railroad track.
Oh yeah.
It was at the flyover.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's what I just had a firstoverpass right there.
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I can't picture it.
There's.
There's something being builtlike a warehouse.
Yeah.
It looks like a big.
Like a industrial building.
It's not.
It doesn't look like a retailfacility that's being built right
there real close on the highway.
So.
Okay.
Pictured.
Okay.
Yeah.
That's where they're movingFort Knox to.
Yeah.
There you go.
Don't you know?
Yeah.
If there's any gold.
Yeah.
So.
And those are the things I cantalk about.
There are.
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There are two or three otherthings that.
That.
That I'm really lookingforward to being able to talk about,
you know, within the next six months.
That.
So in the last 13 months,there's been a little over a billion
dollars in construction inWichita Falls, Texas.
And that is a record by far.
It was a record at 600 million.
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So it's certainly a recordwhen we.
At 1.2 billion and we'retrying to break that this year.
So while we fix the potholesand take care of vicious dogs and
you know, and.
And take care of all the restof the.
And there's.
There's always budget.
You're always going to havethose infrastructure issues to deal
with.
That's going to be an ongoing thing.
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And those are just.
Those are important perpetuity.
I mean it's going to happen.
We work on those every day too.
So hopefully with a little.
If anything I'm proud of a lotthis last year is that.
That we've been.
I know there's going to beexamples and I'm going to get phone
calls.
Car Customer service hasgotten better in, you know, whether
it's in permitting or fixingthose potholes or doing those things.
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What caused that's gotten better.
It's attitude and it'sintentional and you know it because
you.
You have a retail business andyou hire people and you talk to your
people about, hey, Treatpeople the way you want to be treated.
What changed internally thoughrecently that seems to have done
that.
Did you, have you had anyinfluence over that?
It's intentional.
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And you visit with, you visitwith folks.
People don't want to be mean.
People want to, they live here too.
The city's an easy target.
And we have some great folksthat work at the city and now they're,
they're, they're free to help.
There's been some training,but they're, they, they, they realize
they're dealing with theirfriends and neighbors and they want
to help.
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That's a really good way toput it.
Everybody has a bad day andthere are examples of when it doesn't
work.
You are dealing with yourfriends and neighbors.
That's really who you deal with.
Treat people the way you wouldlike to be treated.
But, but I tell them, treatpeople the way you'd want your mom
to be treated.
And it kind of, you know,changes it just a little bit is when
you answer that phone or whenyou, when you take that call, treat
people.
Like, like they're yourcustomer because they really are.
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If they didn't live here andpay their taxes, you, at some point
you wouldn't have, noteverybody have a job.
They're captive customers.
And I think, you know, you getlazy, you know, and it's just human
nature.
So restating how importantthat is in how we treat people has
paid major dividends.
Well to you and everyone who'shad a hand in that.
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Thank you for doing that.
Real quick.
City hall and undergoing a lotof renovations, a lot of work.
You had two or three years offoundation rebuilding and shoring
up and getting everythingright there.
Now the focus has moved to theinterior of the building.
How far along is that projectand when is City hall anticipated
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and Memorial Auditoriumanticipated to reopen?
March of 26.
One year from now.
One year.
Every time I see AnthonyInman, I said, are you finished?
And he says, two weeks.
Are we there yet, dad?
So it's, it looks wonderful.
We will tour it again.
We see it every quarter.
So if you guys want to go, ifanybody wants to go, it'll be on
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the agenda probably in April.
So check the agenda and it'll.
Right at the end, before weadjourn, it'll say tour of municipal,
Arturo or municipal, you know,City hall.
So, and the public's welcometo go.
So.
And we walk through the wholething and it, it's, I've seen it
from, from total tear outabatement to now, you know, Being
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framed.
It's starting to take shape,and it's amazing, and it's wonderful
to see, and it will be worthyof our city.
And it was, you know, it was a1926, you know, when they built it,
and then they renovated it in 1964.
Yeah, I mean, I'm a 1964 modelmyself, and I could use some work.
Part of that building wasbuilt on an old lake bed, wasn't
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it?
And it was sliding down the hill.
You know, and those two.
Those two wings were justpulling away.
Yeah.
The citizens said, no, wedon't want a new one.
You know, voted that down,didn't want to do it, but.
So we're fixing what we have.
But it's more than a Band Aid.
And it will be incredible.
And it will be incrediblebecause I believe in that one women's
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restroom, there's 14 stallsinstead of three now.
So, you know, and they're allon the.
On the floor when you walk in,including the men, so you don't have
to take the stairs half aflight up to find a restroom anymore.
Thank you.
Council chambers will be wherethe water department is now.
So you'll walk in, and it's huge.
We'll see so many more people.
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You know, we've been amazednow that we're at the impact in that
auditorium.
And, you know, sometimesthere's not that many people there,
but when there needs to be, wehave room for them and we'll have
room to put the public.
And it can't be moretransparent than being right there
on the first floor left.
Come on in.
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But we'd love to have folkscome and tour it with us.
Like I said, I believe it'llbe April, will be our next one, so
just check the agenda.
Well, I've long said that Ithink the most important things that
we can have in government atany level, local, state, federal,
doesn't matter.
It's accountability andaccessibility and opportunity for
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people to take part in it.
And it sounds like all that'sbeing created here.
Transparency.
The transparency, yes, but theaccessibility and the accountability.
Government's got to beaccessible to people.
People have got to be able.
And that's the nice thingabout here, is somebody can pick
up the phone and call you.
God knows how many people inthis town have your cell phone number.
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They can call you, they canreach you.
They're going to run into youat the grocery store, they're going
to run into you at the church,they're going to run into you in
all kinds of places.
And the same thing with thecouncil members, rest of them, and
they do.
You're gonna.
You're gonna encounter them.
So.
So having that accessibilityis extremely important.
It sounds like even there incity hall, you're creating that environment
and making it even better.
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We do, and we want that, andwe encourage it and.
And we advocate for it.
And the.
The next thing that's comingup, while we're hiring a city manager,
while we're doing thesethings, we'll do our budget process
over these next severalmonths, post it online.
They're open meetings.
The public can sit there atthe impact and watch the whole thing.
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It's not in the chambers.
It's just in another big roundtable.
A lot of folks from the publicwere there last year.
We want that.
We encourage that they get upand speak when we're talking about,
you know, this is somethingwe're trying to do, whether it's
pay raises or finallynegotiating a contract with the fire
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department for.
For a couple of years so wecan take that off the table and.
And know what that expensewill be every year.
You know, any other ideas thatwe have are, you know, lowering taxes
potentially, you know, insteadof raising taxes.
But come to those meetings, please.
You know, we don't.
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It's better when.
When you see, you know, liketo see 100 people there instead of
three.
So, you know, that's.
You can be part of the processin Wichita Falls very easily.
And by the way, everything'sonline, so if you can't make it in
person, you can go online andwatch us, which I think is a great.
Was a great game changer.
Watch it on Facebook.
It used to drive.
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Drive me nuts when I was onthe school board, and you would have
these important meetings thathad to do with budgets and everything
else, and nobody'd show up.
But, boy, you start talkingabout firing a coach, and holy crap.
Yeah, everybody shows up.
Yeah, you got people hangingfrom the rafters.
We had.
We had good participation lastyear, you know, and because of that
participation and because of,you know, when you take a break and
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you get to talk to people inthe hallway stuff, probably some.
Some things turned outdifferent than they would have been
had somebody not gotten in ourear about them.
So.
Don't be shy.
Input.
It's called taking input.
Yeah, don't be shy.
You can.
You can.
Everything starts locally, andyou can literally have an effect
on.
On the way votes are gonna goand ideas that come up.
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We can't have all the good ideas.
It's just not possible.
So I'll steal them and I'llgive you credit for them.
But, you know, we need helpwith that stuff and we, we're encouraging
that.
Amen, brother.
Wichita Falls Mayor Tim Short,thank you for being with us.
We appreciate it.
If people want to get in touchwith you, if they want to find out
more about what's going onwith the city, what's the best way
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to.
Do it, just call me.
It's like I said, everybody'sgot that number.
So it's.
It's 636-7306.
Call me, text me, email me.
I'm pretty.
You'll see at the grocerystore, I'll see at church.
I'm pretty easy.
Get all.
You're probably one of themost accessible people we've ever
had in the mayoral position.
I think that can be good and bad.
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It depends on which side.
Depends on if.
I think Stephen Santiano wasas well.
I think you guys are both.
I think he kind of startedthat new trend of being very accessible.
Mayor accessible.
And I think you, you'vecontinued that dream.
He's got it all.
He's got another officer withhis name on the door.
You know, Steven said it's agood model.
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Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I think, I think he, he waskind of the first of the very accessible,
seemed like very accessible mayors.
And I think you can do that.
On, talk to a lot of folks in,in the restaurants and, and you know,
it's hard when your food'sgetting cold sometimes, but you just
kind of figure it out.
You know, it's a process.
It's not, by the way, just foranybody who's watching.
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If you're, if somebody, Tim,or anybody's in the middle of dinner
with, especially their family,don't bug them.
Just say, hey, can I talk toyou at some other point and stuff
like that.
Because there comes a pointwhen enough's enough as well.
Yeah.
So just remember we make it work.
Yeah.
Mayor, thank you for being here.
We look forward to having youback soon.
Thank you so much.
Guys.
We'll break here.
We'll be back.
We'll wrap it up.
More Get It Right Texoma onthe way.
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We are running way along here.
We want to thank Wichita FallsMayor Tim Short for coming in and
joining us.
Lots of great information there.
And again, I encourage you, ifyou live in Wichita Falls or anywhere
in the surrounding area andyou want to know what's going on
in Wichita Falls and how it'sgoing to benefit your community or
where you live or how it'sgoing to benefit the city.
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Reach out to the mayor, reachout to city hall, reach out to your
local officials, your citycouncilors, and talk to them.
All you got to do, make aphone call, look them up, ask them,
hey, can I get 10 minutes ofyour time?
I promise you they'll talk to you.
Don't just speculate and don'tjust complain.
Ask questions, getinformation, get facts.
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That's the big thing.
Get the facts.
And I'm not necessarily asubscriber, if you will, of the notion
that you can't make a concern,bring up a concern without a solution
because sometimes you justdon't have the expertise.
But if, but in a workenvironment, sometimes I think that's,
that's really, you're, youshould be more familiar enough that
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you can make some suggestions.
But it, you know, but don'tbe, but be respectful.
Let's, let's all communicate.
Let's just communicate.
Communication can solve a lotof problems.
Yes, it can fix a lot ofproblems real quick.
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I have some very heavythinking to do before 10:00.
Hey, welcome to Get It RightTechsomer once again.
The trio is usually here right now.
It's a duo.
It's me and Terry.
Trey will join us shortly fora little bit.
(00:20):
He's going to be here brieflywith us because we've got a very
special guest coming ontoday's program.
Wichita Falls Mayor Tim Shortis going to join us here in a few
minutes and we're going totalk to him about some of the great
things happening here in the city.
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in Wichita Falls, Texas.
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Texoma.com as well.
So that said, let's jump intoit because we got a few things to
talk about today.
We've got a lot to talk aboutwith the mayor.
We try to focus on a local restaurant.
(01:05):
Each episode that we do one ofour locally owned eateries here.
And this time it's going to beMcBride's land and cattle.
I hadn't been there in a while.
I need to get over there.
That's the downtownrestaurant, right?
Right.
Well, yeah, well, there usedto be one out on Seymour highway
that was.
That was McBride Seafood and Stage.
Okay.
And then.
Yeah, this one.
This one.
So this one opened in themid-70s, about 75 downtown which
(01:27):
saw falls on Scott.
Scott Avenue.
Okay.
Some people call it Scott Street.
I think it's actually a ScottAvenue, but it's.
It's kind of down in the samearea as you're going toward Eddie
Hills Fun Cycles as well.
And McBride's Land and Cal,that's our favorite downtown restaurant
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to go to.
It has been for a while.
And great steaks.
All of these McBride's brandedrestaurants were owned by the McBride
family at one time.
And then many years ago, theystarted selling off those properties.
Other people bought them,maintained the McBride branding on
the restaurants.
One of them has now come backinto the family, the McBride's Steakhouse
(02:10):
on Maplewood.
Ford Swanson owns that andhe's actually the grandson of one
of the founding members of theMcBride McBride family of restaurants.
We go there periodically for lunch.
They've got that steak specialevery day.
McBride Land and Cattle.
I think they're typically openfor dinner.
Okay, so 5 to 9pm Weekdays.
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Well, they're open this ontheir website or on Google.
Anyway, it's showing that theyare open from 5 to.
Well, let's see.
Well, normally 11 to 1:30 forlunch as well as 5 to 8 for dinner.
For dinner, yeah.
Yeah.
And then fantastic restaurantand really good food.
It's easy.
Fortunately, it's easy to geta good steak around here.
(02:55):
And.
And a lot of these locallyowned places like me Brand McBride
Land and Cattle on Scott Avenue.
They absolutely do a great jobwith it.
What is their actual addresson Scott?
501 Scott Street.
I believe what that was.
Yeah, let me double check it.
I pulled up their website, but yes.
501 Scott Avenue.
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Yeah.
So when you go down there,tell me you heard about it on get
it right.
Texoma.
Yep.
That won't get you much, but probably.
Probably just look at you go.
What?
Anyway, anyway, check them out.
McBride Land and Cattle,downtown Wichita Falls, 1975.
The original gun show hasmoved to Burt Burnett, Texas.
They're in the communitycenter there now.
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And then the next one comingup April 11th and 12th.
It's $10 per day.
I guess this is the admissioncost is $10 per day.
Or you can pay $15 and go both days.
Yeah.
Half price on the second day.
Man.
There you go.
All right, so you have thatcoming up April 11th and 12th.
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This is in Burt Burnett at thecommunity center.
And I cannot think of the nameof the street that it's on.
What is the Burt BurnettCommunity Center?
Wichita Falls Gun show, which is.
Is it still called the WichitaFalls Gun Show?
I believe so.
Original.
Original gun show.
Well, is it?
Let's see.
But it's in Burke.
The cycle of the Dallas Cowboys.
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Yeah, let's see now that one.
I think that very first onemight be it.
Well, that's the Impact.
They're no longer at the Impact.
So that was in December.
So let me.
The original.
We'll.
We'll find it.
Original gun show, Wichita Falls.
And then.
But then it's Burke Burnett.
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I never remember how to have alot of the.
As a bullet gun show.
I don't.
Okay.
Who knows?
Okay, well, you'll just haveto search it out.
But it's.
I just.
I'm sorry.
The address, the street namejust left my brain there.
But it is going to be centeron Davey.
Davey.
Davey Drive.
That's it.
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David Davey Drive.
That's it.
Okay, so April.
Okay.
Cool.
So there you go.
Very easy to get to any fromanywhere in wichita Falls.
You're 15 to 20 minutes awayat most.
Yeah, 20 minutes at most.
So that's kind of going to.
April 11 and 12, downtownWichita Falls development hosting
the 17th annual Cajun Fest indoors.
(05:20):
The events going to be held atthe Bud Daniel park, not in Ohio.
How's it going to be indoorsif it's Bud Daniel park?
Okay.
Anyway, Saturday, April 26, 11to 7.
And for ticketing, you go toticket information.
If you'll just go to.
If you just search for CajunFest Wichita Falls, that should take
you to the downtowndevelopment page.
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They have a landing page, Ibelieve, for.
Specifically for Cajun Fest.
And you can get tickets thereright here.
$7 in advance, $10 at the gate.
And kids 12 and under get in free.
Now, once you get into theevent, there's going to be food.
There'll be food vendors.
You'll have to pay for the food.
So they'll be servingjambalaya and gumbo and boudin and
(06:04):
cracklins and all the goodCajun eats.
But you got to pay for thefood once you get in there.
So to get into the event, 7advanced 10th of the gate, kids 1200
get in free.
And then you just pay for yourfood and drink when you get in there.
As far as I know, it'll be thesame as it has in the past.
They don't allow coolers, noglass bottles, anything like that.
But anyway, that's going to be.
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Again, that's going to beApril 26th.
It's on a Saturday from 11 to7 downtown Wichita Falls, 9th in
Ohio.
Bud Daniel Park.
Daniel Park.
Yeah, there's a whole websiteactually, Cajun Fest, WF.com.
There you go.
Everything you need.
There you go.
Everything you need to know.
You got it.
You got it pulled up there.
Yep.
There we go.
There we go.
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There's the website.
The.
It's Cajun festival.
WF.com and yes, it's like amatchy Red River Casino.
Is the.
Is the top sponsor, thepresenting sponsor?
I'm not sure then what theindoors there must.
Maybe there's a combo.
I don't know.
Maybe there's a tent where youcan go to get the sun off your head.
I don't know.
(07:06):
Anyway, so real quick herebefore we break because we got Tim
Short, Wichita Falls Mayor TimShort, come up to join us here in
just a few minutes.
Guys, did you watch the jointsession of Congress?
I did not get a chance to yet.
I just I just watched thehighlights, and of course, the highlight
that everybody keeps landingback on, of course, is Representative
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Green.
Okay.
Yeah.
And his interruption from Texas.
Got kicked out.
Well, he.
Okay, so as of.
As of the date that we'rerecording this, this episode, guys,
he has been officiallycensured by the House.
And 10 Democrat House membersjoined all the Republicans in the
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censure vote.
Okay, so now what that meansspecifically, I don't.
I don't really know a censure.
I think, you know, I thinkthere's a monetary fine that goes
with it or something, butbasically, you know, it's like, hey,
don't do that again.
That was stupid.
Don't do that anymore.
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Okay, I just Googled And I wastyping what is a Congress?
I hadn't even finished theword Congress in congressional when
I was suggested.
Congressional censure.
There you go.
So it read our minds,obviously, or.
A lot of people are lookingthis up.
I'm sure it's.
That's probably, you know, anawful lot of people are looking into
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this.
And it's.
But it's significant becausethis congressman stands up and interrupts
the president's speech, andthe speaker three times tells him,
basically, sit down, shut up.
And he doesn't do it.
And finally, he has to callthe sergeant of arms to escort him
(08:52):
out of the chamber.
Basically, they.
I mean, you know, they.
Much as a bouncer would at thebar, they escorted him out.
Okay.
I mean, it's just like that.
I do not understand whyanybody would think it's okay to
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do what he did.
You disagree with him, fine.
You disagree with hispolicies, fine.
You think he's a lousypresident, fine.
You.
You are entitled to whateveropinion you want to have, but when
you're in that chamber andyou're in that moment, you don't
have to applaud him, but youdamn sure better respect him.
Yeah, well.
But.
But also all of the signs and the.
(09:36):
What was up with that?
The whiteboard.
The lady was putting up thewhite whiteboard all the time.
And this is the one thatreally got me.
Really just seriously,seriously angered me.
The little boy who survivedbrain cancer, and nobody from.
Not one Democrat stood up andapplauded for him.
Not one.
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They deliberately snubbed thislittle kid.
How dare you.
What is wrong with you?
What the hell is your soul?
What is wrong with you?
This is a little kid.
He survived brain cancer, forGod's sakes, and that's how you treat
him?
It would be bad enough if itwere an adult man or woman.
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This is.
This is someone's child.
Yeah.
And you snub them like that.
That's heartless, cold, andjust damn dirty is what it is.
Absolutely dirty.
All right, we're going to takea break here.
Wichita Falls Mayor Tim Trey'sgoing to join us here for the interview
with the mayor.
And we got Wichita Falls MayorTim Short coming up.
Lots of things happeningwithin the city of Wichita Falls
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and things that, by the way,will benefit everyone in this region.
Some of the.
Some of the great thingseconomically that are happening in
Wichita Falls are going tohave ripple effects on communities
all around Wichita Falls.
How does the saying go?
A rising tide lifts all boats.
There you go.
It's exactly what's happening, folks.
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Stick around more.
Get It Right Tech Soma is onthe way.
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Hey.
Welcome back to Get It RightTech Soma with the trio and our very
special guest with us today,as promised, is Wichita Falls Mayor
Tim Short.
Good morning.
How are you, sir?
Thanks for having me again.
Yes.
I've been here so many times now.
Well, I think you might havebeen prolific guest.
I'm not.
Yeah, I think I was the first guest.
You were the first guest of the.
Wondering when I'll be the last.
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And then we had to redo it acouple times.
Yeah.
So technical challenges that happened.
Yeah.
It wasn't the first time.
Yeah.
Well, how's life training you?
Life is good.
You know, I.
I say it and I say it, and Istill mean it.
I love this city.
I love everything that that'shappening right now.
Yeah, we're.
We're on a good track.
It's.
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It's our turn.
You know, we had.
We had the president of thechamber on a couple of shows back,
and he shared a lot of goodthings with us about stuff that's
happening.
It sounds like you've got someexciting stuff going on in the city.
Yeah.
And there's.
There's always.
I see people.
And we talked about thisbefore we started taping today's
episode.
(12:30):
It seems like you've got thesame six or seven or eight people
that get on social media andjust constantly try to talk down
everything that's going onaround us.
Are we going to.
Are we naming names?
No.
Not yet.
They keep pushing me.
I will.
I think there's 12.
Yeah, okay.
(12:50):
It might be 12, but it's thesame little cabal of people that
just keep constantly trying totalk down everything that's going
on.
Just everything.
Yeah, the cave people, thecitizens against virtually everything.
And they are.
It's like, no matter what youdo, no matter what you offer, no
matter what business is comingto town, they just got to talk it
(13:13):
down and make it sound likeit's the worst thing ever, and it's
just going to be the end ofthe world.
People, I say, if you're thatmiserable here, leave.
I.
I understand, and I do.
It's their right, you know, still.
Of course it is.
Of course.
Right.
And.
And I get it.
And I meet with as many ofthem as I can, try to talk to them
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when I can.
Sometimes it's a losingbattle, but, you know, it's just.
You can't change.
For myself, if I were.
If I were living somewherewhere I felt out like I was that
miserable, it was that bad,I'd be looking for an exit.
Well, I really would be.
I had that discussion with itwith a man not, you know, it was
at one of Jane Frank'smeetings one day, just.
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Just in the audience.
And I said, I have never livedin a place that I was so miserable,
you know.
Right.
And.
And I think it kind of dawnedon him, you know, how.
That, you know, his reactionto several things were.
He's come by the office, wevisited a couple times.
You know, he goes, well, Igrew up here.
I live here.
I just.
He just doesn't agree with alot of the changes that are going
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on.
That's fine.
That's his right.
Absolutely.
So we've had some pretty good talk.
Well, you've had a lot of big accomplishments.
How long have you been in themayor's seat now?
Oh, gosh, probably a littleover a year, 13, 14 months.
You know, and in that.
In that little over a year,you and the current council, I mean,
a lot of things have happened.
One of the.
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What I consider a bigimprovement is we got rid of that
derelict hotel by the falls.
Yes.
I was shocked at how fast thatthing came down in a hurry.
I know.
And it deserved to get there.
It deserved to happen so fast.
And there were people that,you know, said, well, I was.
I want to go by there and takesome pictures.
They had had their prom thereor they had done something.
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They knew it was coming downand thought they had time and, you
know, by the time they gotover there to take pictures, it was
gone.
Yeah.
And to be.
It looks great to be fair to.
Everybody, the council beforeand Santiano, your predecessor, we're
kind of building thatgroundwork and working on it.
Yeah.
So we want to give them creditas well.
Obviously, you and the currentcouncil get credit, but also them.
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It's Kind of, kind of like Ialways say, you know, the Berlin
Wall came down when GeorgeBush was there, but Ronald Reagan
sure should deserve somecredit for getting that done.
It's a process and there were a.
Couple councils before, youknow, that were working on that.
So we, we.
We just got to celebrate itand got to.
Got to be the one that we'rearound when it happened.
Yeah.
So remind us what exactly thatproperty now is going to be used
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for.
How much you own, how much thecity owns.
I should say how much the,the, the pre.
The previous owner still ownssome of it and all that.
There's a cooperative effort here.
So what's that.
How's that working?
We.
What do you know, we work thedeal, you know, in, in the end.
And that's what it took was.
Was literally sitting in thesame room, you know, going back and
forth.
How are we going to make this happen?
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So answer your question, Terry.
The first.
I don't own any of it, but I understand.
So I.
We better put that on the record.
So the city.
We own 35%.
We own the part that there bythe river, you know, the flood plain,
the part that you just can'tdo anything on, can't develop, can't
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do anything.
That'll be green space, it'llbe park space, probably some benches
in the future, maybe playground.
We will connect to the trailthrough there that runs behind it.
What, Lucy, park back there.
We will have a connection tothe trail there.
The other 65%.
The Patel still own that.
It is developable land.
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They can, you know, peoplebuild houses in the flood zone.
That's in the flood zone.
You get flood insurance.
You know, you build it up higher.
You, you do the things thatyou need to do to look like a.
Bunch of houses on the coast.
Everything will be on.
Still put the parking garageunderneath it if you want to build
another hotel, I guess, but.
Or they can sell it.
They can, you know, they cando with.
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We talk about it being America.
They can do with it as theywant now.
So, so how much.
How many acres is it then?
That's.
That they can do with.
Oh, I knew that answer acouple months ago.
A couple acres or.
I mean, it's not.
It doesn't look like a huge.
I don't remember.
Okay, well, good question.
I don't.
But it's a.
But it's a good but it's a.
It's an area that you canbuild something.
And you know, you would thinkthat that would possibly be a good
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space for a Hotel.
The part.
The park, the part they ownwas basically where the parking lot
was, the whole thing, thenback to the north.
So the part that we havereally didn't affect anything that
the hotel had.
There was no walkways.
There wasn't anything down there.
So you could build somethingas big or bigger than a hotel on
it.
If you.
The park space that youenvision developing there, is that
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going to be an extension ofLucy park or something new?
Something different?
I think it'll be something new.
The master park plan wasalready going by the time that this
stuff.
So it wasn't included in anyof that.
But I don't think it'd be thatbig a deal initially to, like I said,
to connect it to the trail andget a couple benches down there and.
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And use.
And see how it's being used.
See, you know, we'll take suggestions.
You know, people.
Some people want to build anamphitheater on it.
Some people want live music.
Some people wanted an RV parkthat would be cool.
There's all kinds of things.
The RV park, with it beingpossibly a flood zone, might be a
little tough.
We don't own that part, youknow, but you can have playground
(18:38):
equipment.
You can have that kind ofthing, and it can flood all day,
and it's not gonna hurt a thing.
Right.
I think an amphitheater,something akin to what Burt Burnett
has at Friendship park, wouldbe very, very good there.
It'd be great.
There's a lot of support for that.
I'm sure that there will be.
Folks will talk to us.
Committees will be formed,ideas will be put together.
Oh, sure.
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Estimates and costs.
It's all, you know, hey, it'sall about money.
It's a process, though.
Just like getting the hoteldown and getting that land cleared
off.
It's a process.
It takes time.
Everything's a process.
And it's a government processwhich moves.
At the speed of smell.
Almost the speed of schools.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, it's slow.
So one of the biggest things that.
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In my opinion, one of possiblythe biggest job you'll ever have
as mayor and as a citycouncil, but at least if not the
biggest in the top five, is acity manager.
So if you could.
And obviously, there's a lotof NDAs, there's a lot of things
you can't say, and we want100% respect that.
But tell us what you can aboutthe city manager process that's happening
(19:38):
now.
Okay, so we.
The.
It was the night we hired aresearch firm, which.
Which, by the way, real quick,is Very common.
You're talking about hiring aCEO, let's say a CD CEO of a medium
sized corporation.
Absolutely.
And you don't put the ad.
The Times Record news for that.
So.
So you need.
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You.
You have.
This is a.
Who would see it?
Yeah, yeah.
It's a.
Or indeed this is a.
This is a big deal.
So anyhow just go ahead and.
He said that out loud.
He said the quiet part out loud.
We could run an ad on here andmore people would.
I spent, I spent.
I spent years trash them whenI was on school.
Oh gosh.
I think.
God love.
I think that, that.
So we did.
We did get a firm because it'sa national search.
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Yes, yes, truly.
A CEO with 1300 employees.
It's almost a 300 milliondollar budget.
It's a big deal.
Their educational requirements.
This is not somebody's first job.
Right.
So that being said, you know,it is a national search.
We had almost 100.
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I heard 103 and then it was 99I believe the official applicant
total in the beginning when westarted this.
We are down to our final fiveI believe at this point.
And we'll begin have some inperson interviews, visits and whittle
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that down and hope to havethat done this summer.
Have the make a decision.
But we're looking for specific things.
It's not somebody's first job.
I want somebody who is a proactive.
Well, not I.
We would like somebody who's aproactive problem solver, who is.
Economic development is not abad word, you know that manages the
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financials.
Well, I can tell you thatWichita Falls is in the position
that it is because of our pastwhich is in a great financial position
because of our past city managers.
They were awesome and got usin this position.
So now we're here and when Isaid earlier it's our turn.
We can take the next step.
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We have the ability to do it.
I think.
You know, I don't know whowatches this but I think Abilene
has, you know, spent theirmoney already and they've done a
good job and they've grown.
I think Amarillo is kind of ahot mess right now.
So you know, we are in aposition to strike.
We are in a position to act onthings as they come up.
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We want a city manager who'sproactive that will be able to do
that type of thing.
I think thankful to the pastones for the work that they did to
get us here.
I think somebody who's growthminded, somebody who's got a mindset
of, look, we've gotopportunities to grow here.
We've certainly got a room to grow.
We don't have room.
Yeah, well, so the ones thatwe have, our final ones that we have
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are national.
I mean, and some from, youknow, I'm going to be careful.
But some from bigger cities,some from smaller.
But they.
Everybody wants to live inTexas, you know.
Oh, yeah.
This is the draw for it.
So.
And this is in the citymanager, and I'm not one and never
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have been one, but Iunderstand it's a job where you're
there for four or five years,then you move on and you're constantly
moving up.
Fine.
You should be like theMethodist preacher model.
Absolutely.
The old Methodist preacher model.
Come here, circuit riders.
Absolutely.
You know, do a great job,build that resume even better, and
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go with our blessing, youknow, and go do that in Fort Worth
or San Antonio.
And do great things whileyou're here to enhance that resume.
By definition, those jobs arenomadic, right?
Yeah, nomadic.
You normally not pneumatic?
Yeah, nomadic.
Yeah.
And city.
City managers, school districtsuperintendents, generally, you're
the best ones are not ones whogrew up there, born there, raised,
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they're going to die there.
It's people who come in, theymake some changes.
They.
And it's.
It's a strange.
It's a strange culture becauseyou talk about a.
Somebody that shows up into atown and completely engulfs themselves
into that town, that city, andjust completely becomes part of it
and then goes away.
Well, yeah, I mean, it's like this.
You get somebody that's goingto show up, that brings a different
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perspective from a different place.
They've seen things we haven't seen.
They've had experiences wehaven't had, and maybe they bring
something to the table that wehaven't even thought of yet.
Yes.
And they look at things.
They look at thingsdifferently and maybe they're obviously
things that can be done better.
They look at efficiencies thatcan be, you know.
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Well, look, we did this this way.
We had, you know, we hiredoutside consultants that helped us
with this, you know, thatengineers or whatever.
We didn't have to have them on staff.
You know, we could, we had agroup that we could call when we,
when we needed them.
We, you know, they weren'tafraid to outsource some things which
may be or may not be an answerto some.
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To some efficiencies and money savings.
So.
But we want that.
We want them to.
To mentor maybe the next, thenext group, you know, of city Managers
and people that are theirdirectors, you know, help them, mentor
them.
And we, you know, that that'sone thing that we're looking for.
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And we want to help them buildtheir resumes, help them build Wichita
Falls and then help them move on.
I was watching somebody else'spodcast a while back, listening to
somebody else's podcast awhile back, rather, and they were
talking about.
They were talking about localdevelopment in their area.
And the two big things thatthey were really focused on in city
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government there, where theywere, were opportunities for people
and job growth, employment growth.
And obviously, any communityyou're in, no matter whether you're
Texas, doesn't matter whatstate you're in.
I mean, you gotta have stufffor people to do.
They gotta have.
They gotta have a reason towant to get out and move around and
do things, but also gotta havea way to make a living.
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True.
And I mean, does that sound.
I mean, we're kind of in thesame boat, aren't we, as everybody
else in that situation, aren't we?
You would think, however, wehave discovered through some of this
search that there are citiesthat have grown so quickly.
Yeah.
They're trying to tap thebrakes and they have, you know, maybe
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new councils or new leadershipthat's going.
We need.
We're overwhelmed.
We need to tap the brakes.
And then.
And then.
But maybe their leadershipwants to move on because they're
in growth mode and that's whatthey need.
That's what they know how to do.
So they did it there.
They need to come and do it here.
They need to come and help usbecause we're ready.
Yeah.
We're not ready to have the brakes.
We're ready to get on the gas.
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Well, it's just like Terrypointed out a while back, if we grew
just 1% a year, just 1%, youknow, right now, that would be what,
about 11, 10 people or so?
11, five people or so.
How awesome is that?
You know, if we could justgrow by 1% annually over the next
decade or decade and a half.
Right.
And you have to think aboutthe things that that brings.
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And I'm sure we've talkedabout these things before.
The.
Where are we going to put them?
Where's the inventory of homes?
Where are they going to live?
I don't, you know, so if we,if we struck that great deal and
all of a sudden 1500, youknow, they needed.
They brought 1500 of their employees.
Plus we're hiring folks thatare here, where are they going to
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live?
I know a guy who can buildthem for you.
And I know a guy who can sell them.
Yeah.
Iowa park, you know, Burke,you know, we're going to, we're going
to help those places growbecause some folks are just going
to want to live in a smaller place.
Generally they want, you know,about a 12 minute commute.
They want affordable housing.
We check a lot of boxes and wehave those things.
Yeah, we don't have enough of it.
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So we, we have had a couple ofnational home builders.
I'm not breaking news.
We have had a couple ofnational home builders that you would
know the names of that havecome in that are.
They're identifying landgoing, we can put 200 houses here,
we can put 150 houses here.
We can.
They're actively looking atcoming in and being able to do that.
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One of them is building out bythe base now.
Yeah, it doesn't.
Where is it, where is thatbeing built?
Tinker.
By tinker.
Yeah.
Trail.
And it doesn't.
You go well what about yourlocal guys?
Well, I love our local homebuilders, but they can't, they don't
have the capacity or thedesire to build 200, $150,000 houses.
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You know it.
That's not their model.
That's not what they do.
They build custom homes, youknow, but, but in every other city
that we compete with andwhether it's Abilene or even Lubbock
or Tyler, you know, Amarillo,they have these development.
These are your first time,these are your first houses and these
are, these are nice out andit's somebody else's first house
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and they're nice homes.
These are three bedroom, twobath houses.
You'll be a very busy man soyou know, selling homes, that, that's
one of the problems.
It's a good problem, butthat's one of the problems that has
to be solved when we do this.
It's like the development outthere by the base.
You know, Lance Friday Homeshas built several homes out there
and we've sold a few andthey're great homes.
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They're great homes.
And these are not three andfour hundred thousand dollars houses.
220, 30, 40 thousand dollarhouses and they're beautiful inside.
They're and very efficienthomes and but yeah, we need more
of that and we're going tohave to have more that as we bring
more people here, we're goingto have to have that development.
Yeah.
So you know we've.
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That's been thought of.
Yeah, that's one of thethings, you know, that you have to
think of obviously those high schools.
We were the only city inAmerica that built two big high schools
like that.
Yeah, love those high schools.
They, when Amazon came here,when, when a couple of the other
places yet to be named havecome in and we take them to lunch
and they get, you know, we buythem a hat and you know, they go
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to the rodeo and we, we showthem our city and you know, where
their employees are going to live.
We show them msu.
We go through these places.
They want to see the schools.
Yeah.
So.
And they, because they wanttheir people to have to be educated,
obviously, but they want to see.
One of them told me that thatshows the community's willing to
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invest in education to that length.
They're in because they see,you know, we're growth oriented.
If we're willing to do that.
Have a guy that's flying inhere this, hopefully this month that's
already done some things inour city that specifically is touring
the schools because he'slooking at developing a little, a
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few more entertainment venueshere that would be really nice if
we can get that done.
Specifically flying in firststop schools.
And he's going to get that to her.
And they're, and these arecheck boxes that if they don't check
that box, we're off the list.
We are, we go to the bottomand you know, we've, we've been there.
I've said so many times thatwe sat around for so many years and
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waited for the phone to ringand you know, in sales it doesn't
work.
So.
And that's what, that's theway you have to do it.
You have to pursue it.
And when your phone's notringing and nobody's walking in your
door, well, you better beknocking on doors and you better
be calling people.
So we're, we're going places,we're seeing people, we're calling
out, we're taking people to lunch.
How many deals get done at lunch?
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You know.
Oh yeah, so we're activelydoing that.
I used to say that all the time.
How many, how manymultimillion dollar deals got done
at the Wichita Club down backin the days when the whole boom was
going a bunch million, milliondollar handshake deals were done
right there at the Wichita Club.
We spent last week inWashington D.C.
I was going to ask you about that.
Yeah, the swamp.
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So we went to the Swamp andspecifically for Shepard Air Force
Base, we met with Ted Cruz, wemet with Cornyn's representatives,
we had dinner with Ronnie Jackson.
I mean we in close quarterswith 10 or 15 of us and them standing
there visiting with us andtaking questions and talking to us
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about this, about howimportant it is.
And the amazing thing is, iswhen we go make these personal visits
and go talk to these folks,really, they're happy to see us.
They appreciate it becausenobody does it.
So all the other places kindof start to take it for granted,
you know, but we're thereactively lobbying and talking about,
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you know, this is 40% of our economy.
We'd like another mission.
If this.
The, you know, when you hearthe word shepherd, you know, or here's
something, you know, mission,we'd like you to think about us.
We want to be on the top ofyour mind.
And that's how you get there,just by simply building that network
and that relationship.
We spent Wednesday in Austindoing the very same thing.
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Met with Senator Hagen Booth,met with James Frank, you know, and
talk about the same things.
I think we're kind of on thetop of their mind anyway.
But getting to that's effortand effort gets rewarded.
And if you work hard enough,sometimes you get lucky.
So that's what we're, we'reactively pursuing.
On that very topic.
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Local social media has beenall worried about Trump leaving NATO.
So how did that has.
Did that come up at all?
Because we have the in depth program.
Yes, we do.
That's.
And NATO is in the name.
President Trump did not meetwith me.
I know, I know he must have had.
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I sent a card ahead of time.
He missed out as far as I'm concerned.
Yeah, he had some.
Much.
When, when we were, when weactually walked through the White
House, they were in the middleof that cabinet meeting.
Yeah.
That, you know, that they televised.
That was actually going on.
You didn't just bust in the deal.
Yeah.
Knocked on the door.
Yeah.
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They saw who it was and theydid not let me.
But, and wouldn't expect them to.
But yes, those concerns are real.
When we were in the Pentagon,we talked to, we had two star generals.
We had a full meeting with afour star.
Those concerns are real andthere is anxiety that's being created.
And I wish I had a good answer.
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My thought is just my opinionis that no, we're not leaving NATO
and hopefully they're notrunning breaking news as we're doing
this that we're.
I don't think we are.
These are negotiation tactics.
Egypt is too important.
And they all recognize it because.
Because every one of thosegenerals, which is amazing, most
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of them were here, theytrained here, they were like, oh,
you know I did my flighttraining there in 1990.
I was, you know, I was there.
My brother was there.
I hung out at P2 or whatever.
One of the two stars son is inthe in jet program right now and
he's coming down next weekjust to visit.
So we're arranging, you know,where he's going to stay.
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Well, I've said this before.
You're not gonna make him stayat Billiton.
He's not.
So.
So I, I have said this beforeand I think that.
And this is not to say I'mafter trying to get us out of NATO
and ending this program at all.
But, but what I wanted topoint out is, and I did a little
research the other day withthe help of chat GPT and these numbers
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may be not exact, butcertainly it's pretty close.
It's in the neighborhood.
Something that I think thatgets overlooked at Shepherd Air Force
Base is the fact that thereare many more tech training students
that graduate out of shepherd than.
I mean, it dwarfs what thepilot training is like.
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60,000.
Yeah, 65,000.
A year.
A year.
And we're talking how manyhundreds, not even several hundred
actually.
A year of pilots.
Sure, they're here longer andit costs a lot more per student.
But.
But it gets more attention and it's.
And, and I.
And it's about the same staffsize maybe, or is there a thousand
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over there of permanent partyand then here.
But.
But there's a lot more still.
That's my, My point is, isthat just overall, if NATO, if we
left in that program and thatprogram could in theory end whether
we stay in NATO or not.
Yes.
So we need to be on that.
And that's why y'all are doing this.
Not because President Trumpsaid anything about leaving, but
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because it's an important program.
In theory.
It could go somewhere else.
We've got to advocate for our thing.
So we need to keep that andthe other.
But realize that 65,000.
65,000 go through that 50% ofthe air Force comes through Shepard
Air Force Base every year.
They're very cognizant andaware of that.
And we're the only base thatdoes train the pilots and the maintainers.
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Right.
So, you know, it's not thateasy to replace place.
And they are on it.
Did you know that we are thelargest contingent of the Saudi Air
Force in the world, except forSaudi Arabia.
I've heard that.
And not a single pilot.
There's 250 of them.
And they're all maintainers.
We had dinner at The Saudiembassy, when we were there, they.
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They're looking to grow that.
You know, we had dinner withthe Germans at their embassy one
night while we were there.
They're thrilled with Shepherd.
We.
How the community embraces.
Both.
Both places talked about howthe community embraces shepherd,
how their, their folks arecomfortable and safe and, and they're.
And they're proud to be here.
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They work hard to get hereand, and they love it here and they
love Texas and, And they lovecowboy hats.
And they said, our boots aretoo expensive.
You know, And I said, likeyour Mercedes, you know, the good
ones, you know, last a long time.
So it's.
I feel.
I feel very good about it.
And it was wonderful to meetthem and shake their hands and see
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how good, you know, we cantalk about how much we love it.
Right.
But it was really nice to hearhow much they love it.
Talked about.
They call them their children.
Thank you for taking such goodcare of our children.
I guess that's where therubber meets the road with Shepherd.
It's how the outsiders view it.
Yes.
Because they're the ones that,that are paying to be here.
One of the problems that youhave with the, like what you said,
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the tech people is they don'tmake movies about people working
on aircraft and stuff.
And so it, it is, it's.
It's not top of the mindawareness, but it's the same thing
as like in the education system.
When people talk abouteducation, they talk about teacher,
teacher, teacher, which is great.
You got to have the teachersto that.
But everybody else, theteachers can't do their job without
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everybody else there first.
Right.
And it's the same, it's thesame thing.
Planes don't fly without the maintainers.
Exact.
And that's not to takeanything away from the pilots.
It's a total force takeseverybody to do it, and we should
do it efficiently.
And I think I'm, I'm.
But it's not a sexy job, right?
Not all.
Well, no.
Sometimes I thought it waskind of cool.
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Although I didn't like workingon the flight line that much.
Yeah.
And it, it is good.
And, and they do love it here.
And that was, you know, that'sawesome that that made us all feel
better about it.
No definitive answers, but thefolks that are here love it here
and we love having them.
Wichita Falls Mayor Tim Shorthas been our guest.
So, Mayor, is there anything.
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We talked a little bit aboutnew stuff coming here and growth,
job growth and opportunity.
Growth and all that.
Is there anything coming thatyou can Talk about right now, is
there any big reveal we could,any breaking news we can break here?
Perhaps, I don't know if it's breaking.
I think people are notnecessarily paying attention to that
Winco supermarket that'scurrently being built.
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I still get questions of whatis that, what's going on over there.
It's a fantastic facilitythat's going on over there.
They, that they are nationwideand they started in Oregon.
They love Texas.
There'll be good jobs there.
That's a good place.
People are.
We talk about Vitro and whatthey're doing.
It's $390,390 millioninvestment in building a new line.
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It will be the largest solarglass facility that's anywhere in
the world other than China.
And we have it.
So all the other solar glassin the world right now is made in
China.
We're about to have our owngood sitting right beside the largest
hemp factory in the world.
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The only other largest ones inFrance that's in the Northern hemisphere
is here.
So.
And they're gonna be neighborsout there.
So on my drive in thismorning, I saw a rig pulling in with
more product, more raw product.
They're adding a third.
Biotech people think thatthere's nobody there.
I go, well, they park in the back.
But they're trying to add athird shift.
So it's been very successfuland it's a, it's a great place.
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At one last thing on Vitro,that's, that's 300 jobs, you know,
that are 68,000 to 90something thousand.
These are good jobs.
Yes.
And that's what they're doing.
When you drive by and you seewhere the retention pond is, well,
that's where the new line will be.
It'll go all the way there andit'll go straight north all the way
through the parking lot.
And you know, it's, it's anamazing facility.
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What an investment.
They could have done that anywhere.
And they, they, where are wegoing to spend this money?
We're going to spend it inWichita Falls.
It's been a number of years ago.
They brought in a large flatglass production line.
There was like 50 or 60million dollars investment.
This is many times that.
And they're, they're Mexico owned.
Yeah, I mean, you know, andthey, they come up and we've met
with them and, and they, theylove it here just for the same reason
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that all of us do.
So what is being built asyou're coming into it?
I guess it would be on thesouth side of, of the highway over
pretty close to the jail.
Oh yeah.
Just.
Just right around where the flyover.
Yeah.
Isn't it.
There's.
Well, no, before you even getto that.
Oh yeah.
If you're.
If you're.
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It's really close to the jail.
But I mean Amazon just behind.
That's back behind there.
Yeah.
There's something that's beingbuilt really Just prior to.
Yeah.
It's like prior.
Well, no, it's right there atthe flight.
The.
The one that flies over the.
On 287.
Flies over the railroad track.
Oh yeah.
It was at the flyover.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's what I just had a firstoverpass right there.
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I can't picture it.
There's.
There's something being builtlike a warehouse.
Yeah.
It looks like a big.
Like a industrial building.
It's not.
It doesn't look like a retailfacility that's being built right
there real close on the highway.
So.
Okay.
Pictured.
Okay.
Yeah.
That's where they're movingFort Knox to.
Yeah.
There you go.
Don't you know?
Yeah.
If there's any gold.
Yeah.
So.
And those are the things I cantalk about.
There are.
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There are two or three otherthings that.
That.
That I'm really lookingforward to being able to talk about,
you know, within the next six months.
That.
So in the last 13 months,there's been a little over a billion
dollars in construction inWichita Falls, Texas.
And that is a record by far.
It was a record at 600 million.
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So it's certainly a recordwhen we.
At 1.2 billion and we'retrying to break that this year.
So while we fix the potholesand take care of vicious dogs and
you know, and.
And take care of all the restof the.
And there's.
There's always budget.
You're always going to havethose infrastructure issues to deal
with.
That's going to be an ongoing thing.
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And those are just.
Those are important perpetuity.
I mean it's going to happen.
We work on those every day too.
So hopefully with a little.
If anything I'm proud of a lotthis last year is that.
That we've been.
I know there's going to beexamples and I'm going to get phone
calls.
Car Customer service hasgotten better in, you know, whether
it's in permitting or fixingthose potholes or doing those things.
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What caused that's gotten better.
It's attitude and it'sintentional and you know it because
you.
You have a retail business andyou hire people and you talk to your
people about, hey, Treatpeople the way you want to be treated.
What changed internally thoughrecently that seems to have done
that.
Did you, have you had anyinfluence over that?
It's intentional.
(43:55):
And you visit with, you visitwith folks.
People don't want to be mean.
People want to, they live here too.
The city's an easy target.
And we have some great folksthat work at the city and now they're,
they're, they're free to help.
There's been some training,but they're, they, they, they realize
they're dealing with theirfriends and neighbors and they want
to help.
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That's a really good way toput it.
Everybody has a bad day andthere are examples of when it doesn't
work.
You are dealing with yourfriends and neighbors.
That's really who you deal with.
Treat people the way you wouldlike to be treated.
But, but I tell them, treatpeople the way you'd want your mom
to be treated.
And it kind of, you know,changes it just a little bit is when
you answer that phone or whenyou, when you take that call, treat
people.
Like, like they're yourcustomer because they really are.
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If they didn't live here andpay their taxes, you, at some point
you wouldn't have, noteverybody have a job.
They're captive customers.
And I think, you know, you getlazy, you know, and it's just human
nature.
So restating how importantthat is in how we treat people has
paid major dividends.
Well to you and everyone who'shad a hand in that.
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Thank you for doing that.
Real quick.
City hall and undergoing a lotof renovations, a lot of work.
You had two or three years offoundation rebuilding and shoring
up and getting everythingright there.
Now the focus has moved to theinterior of the building.
How far along is that projectand when is City hall anticipated
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and Memorial Auditoriumanticipated to reopen?
March of 26.
One year from now.
One year.
Every time I see AnthonyInman, I said, are you finished?
And he says, two weeks.
Are we there yet, dad?
So it's, it looks wonderful.
We will tour it again.
We see it every quarter.
So if you guys want to go, ifanybody wants to go, it'll be on
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the agenda probably in April.
So check the agenda and it'll.
Right at the end, before weadjourn, it'll say tour of municipal,
Arturo or municipal, you know,City hall.
So, and the public's welcometo go.
So.
And we walk through the wholething and it, it's, I've seen it
from, from total tear outabatement to now, you know, Being
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framed.
It's starting to take shape,and it's amazing, and it's wonderful
to see, and it will be worthyof our city.
And it was, you know, it was a1926, you know, when they built it,
and then they renovated it in 1964.
Yeah, I mean, I'm a 1964 modelmyself, and I could use some work.
Part of that building wasbuilt on an old lake bed, wasn't
(46:25):
it?
And it was sliding down the hill.
You know, and those two.
Those two wings were justpulling away.
Yeah.
The citizens said, no, wedon't want a new one.
You know, voted that down,didn't want to do it, but.
So we're fixing what we have.
But it's more than a Band Aid.
And it will be incredible.
And it will be incrediblebecause I believe in that one women's
(46:46):
restroom, there's 14 stallsinstead of three now.
So, you know, and they're allon the.
On the floor when you walk in,including the men, so you don't have
to take the stairs half aflight up to find a restroom anymore.
Thank you.
Council chambers will be wherethe water department is now.
So you'll walk in, and it's huge.
We'll see so many more people.
(47:07):
You know, we've been amazednow that we're at the impact in that
auditorium.
And, you know, sometimesthere's not that many people there,
but when there needs to be, wehave room for them and we'll have
room to put the public.
And it can't be moretransparent than being right there
on the first floor left.
Come on in.
(47:27):
But we'd love to have folkscome and tour it with us.
Like I said, I believe it'llbe April, will be our next one, so
just check the agenda.
Well, I've long said that Ithink the most important things that
we can have in government atany level, local, state, federal,
doesn't matter.
It's accountability andaccessibility and opportunity for
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people to take part in it.
And it sounds like all that'sbeing created here.
Transparency.
The transparency, yes, but theaccessibility and the accountability.
Government's got to beaccessible to people.
People have got to be able.
And that's the nice thingabout here, is somebody can pick
up the phone and call you.
God knows how many people inthis town have your cell phone number.
(48:10):
They can call you, they canreach you.
They're going to run into youat the grocery store, they're going
to run into you at the church,they're going to run into you in
all kinds of places.
And the same thing with thecouncil members, rest of them, and
they do.
You're gonna.
You're gonna encounter them.
So.
So having that accessibilityis extremely important.
It sounds like even there incity hall, you're creating that environment
and making it even better.
(48:31):
We do, and we want that, andwe encourage it and.
And we advocate for it.
And the.
The next thing that's comingup, while we're hiring a city manager,
while we're doing thesethings, we'll do our budget process
over these next severalmonths, post it online.
They're open meetings.
The public can sit there atthe impact and watch the whole thing.
(48:52):
It's not in the chambers.
It's just in another big roundtable.
A lot of folks from the publicwere there last year.
We want that.
We encourage that they get upand speak when we're talking about,
you know, this is somethingwe're trying to do, whether it's
pay raises or finallynegotiating a contract with the fire
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department for.
For a couple of years so wecan take that off the table and.
And know what that expensewill be every year.
You know, any other ideas thatwe have are, you know, lowering taxes
potentially, you know, insteadof raising taxes.
But come to those meetings, please.
You know, we don't.
(49:33):
It's better when.
When you see, you know, liketo see 100 people there instead of
three.
So, you know, that's.
You can be part of the processin Wichita Falls very easily.
And by the way, everything'sonline, so if you can't make it in
person, you can go online andwatch us, which I think is a great.
Was a great game changer.
Watch it on Facebook.
It used to drive.
(49:54):
Drive me nuts when I was onthe school board, and you would have
these important meetings thathad to do with budgets and everything
else, and nobody'd show up.
But, boy, you start talkingabout firing a coach, and holy crap.
Yeah, everybody shows up.
Yeah, you got people hangingfrom the rafters.
We had.
We had good participation lastyear, you know, and because of that
participation and because of,you know, when you take a break and
(50:16):
you get to talk to people inthe hallway stuff, probably some.
Some things turned outdifferent than they would have been
had somebody not gotten in ourear about them.
So.
Don't be shy.
Input.
It's called taking input.
Yeah, don't be shy.
You can.
You can.
Everything starts locally, andyou can literally have an effect
on.
On the way votes are gonna goand ideas that come up.
(50:39):
We can't have all the good ideas.
It's just not possible.
So I'll steal them and I'llgive you credit for them.
But, you know, we need helpwith that stuff and we, we're encouraging
that.
Amen, brother.
Wichita Falls Mayor Tim Short,thank you for being with us.
We appreciate it.
If people want to get in touchwith you, if they want to find out
more about what's going onwith the city, what's the best way
(51:02):
to.
Do it, just call me.
It's like I said, everybody'sgot that number.
So it's.
It's 636-7306.
Call me, text me, email me.
I'm pretty.
You'll see at the grocerystore, I'll see at church.
I'm pretty easy.
Get all.
You're probably one of themost accessible people we've ever
had in the mayoral position.
I think that can be good and bad.
(51:25):
It depends on which side.
Depends on if.
I think Stephen Santiano wasas well.
I think you guys are both.
I think he kind of startedthat new trend of being very accessible.
Mayor accessible.
And I think you, you'vecontinued that dream.
He's got it all.
He's got another officer withhis name on the door.
You know, Steven said it's agood model.
(51:47):
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I think, I think he, he waskind of the first of the very accessible,
seemed like very accessible mayors.
And I think you can do that.
On, talk to a lot of folks in,in the restaurants and, and you know,
it's hard when your food'sgetting cold sometimes, but you just
kind of figure it out.
You know, it's a process.
It's not, by the way, just foranybody who's watching.
(52:09):
If you're, if somebody, Tim,or anybody's in the middle of dinner
with, especially their family,don't bug them.
Just say, hey, can I talk toyou at some other point and stuff
like that.
Because there comes a pointwhen enough's enough as well.
Yeah.
So just remember we make it work.
Yeah.
Mayor, thank you for being here.
We look forward to having youback soon.
Thank you so much.
Guys.
We'll break here.
We'll be back.
We'll wrap it up.
More Get It Right Texoma onthe way.
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Stay tuned.
(52:52):
Alright, guys, welcome back toGet It Right Texoma.
We are running way along here.
We want to thank Wichita FallsMayor Tim Short for coming in and
joining us.
Lots of great information there.
And again, I encourage you, ifyou live in Wichita Falls or anywhere
in the surrounding area andyou want to know what's going on
in Wichita Falls and how it'sgoing to benefit your community or
where you live or how it'sgoing to benefit the city.
(53:13):
Reach out to the mayor, reachout to city hall, reach out to your
local officials, your citycouncilors, and talk to them.
All you got to do, make aphone call, look them up, ask them,
hey, can I get 10 minutes ofyour time?
I promise you they'll talk to you.
Don't just speculate and don'tjust complain.
Ask questions, getinformation, get facts.
(53:34):
That's the big thing.
Get the facts.
And I'm not necessarily asubscriber, if you will, of the notion
that you can't make a concern,bring up a concern without a solution
because sometimes you justdon't have the expertise.
But if, but in a workenvironment, sometimes I think that's,
that's really, you're, youshould be more familiar enough that
(53:54):
you can make some suggestions.
But it, you know, but don'tbe, but be respectful.
Let's, let's all communicate.
Let's just communicate.
Communication can solve a lotof problems.
Yes, it can fix a lot ofproblems real quick.
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