This pumper truck would replace the first run pumper truck at Station 3, located at Madison Boulevard and Tuxedo Boulevard. The existing truck is 20 years old and lacks the safety features and operating capabilities recommended by the National Fire Protection Association. This purchase is the second in the Fire Department’s long-range plan to upgrade fire apparatus at each of the three fire stations to meet the current NFPA standards.
$619,200
The new software system, Spillman Records Management System, would replace the existing and highly problematic Sleuth system, which has been in use at the police department for many years. The software will permit interaction between all police department functions, which is not possible using the Sleuth system.
$482,200
This funding would be used to replace all of the City’s current servers. The current servers are all over five years old and are becoming increasingly unreliable.
$304,500
The Street Department, which is under the Public Works umbrella, has many responsibilities within the City of Bartlesville. The department’s primary purpose is maintenance of the City’s streets and drainage systems. Street Department crews are also called upon to help with facilities and parks projects that require larger amounts of paving, building erection and grading activities.
One of the department’s primary tools for these types of projects — and also utilized for the majority of their drainage maintenance and street repair projects — is the Gradall Excavator. This piece of equipment would replace the department’s existing Gradall, which has been well used and is becoming costly to maintain in working condition.
$355,300
Bartlesville’s Public Library opened 26 years ago in January of 1992. This project provides funding to replace the original temperature controls with a modern system that can be monitored and controlled remotely, and to replace the air conditioner coils and bearings. This project will increase the efficiency and reliability of the existing system.
$213,200
The quality of Bartlesville’s Downtown Christmas decor remembered by many Bartians from years past has slowly waned with those memories as funding for the maintenance and replacement of this annual public display has been eliminated. This funding would enable the purchase of commercial-grade decorative Christmas lights and displays, such as lights, pole-mounted decorations and skylines, along Frank Phillips Boulevard in Downtown Bartlesville during the Christmas season. (This project is separate from the Downtown Limited project that will place lights on private buildings.)
$20,600
*What are “70 percent” and “30 percent” projects?
Oklahoma law requires that 70 percent of the projects in each category be specified on the ballot for a GO bond election. The remaining 30 percent are “discretionary” and are not placed on the ballot. Discretionary projects are not legally required for completion; however, the City of Bartlesville has completed all projects identified as “30 percent projects” in the past.
Project costs include the estimated cost to complete each project as well as the Cost of Issuance (COI). The COI is based on what it would cost to issue the bonds per project, which is roughly 2 percent of each project cost, rounded for clarity. “Seventy percent” project costs are presented as they will appear on the ballot.