Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett Jr. is Interviewed by Loren Farr Part 2

when my father was what was in office he would say uh... he had the ability and to to to talk with people all different types of people which i like i have that capabilities well his probably get a better strength in being able to uh... reach across the the isle of differences and and and get in fall of people and uh... tried to uh... get them to greedy to his point of view now sometimes that was a detriment to him because he was at our stubborn he wouldn't give up and he was in fact if i get to some point reid is keeping a dead horse in a wooden anyone walk away from it uh... i'd like to walk away from things that's it did for the help some some waiver for somewhere a little different cholerae what he is the most comfortable with life all i'll recover y from in all aspects of all that is specifically what's the what's how do you relax how do you how do you get away from salutes over the stresses obviously comes from god well i probably did you more about whether of victorian i of we'd go out to dinner quite a bit and we spent a lot of time just talking and uh... just usually that haven't talked about the day's events and that's a relaxation for me we do have a have a place to go to up on ground like uh... and so that's that's always enjoyable traveling is always terrific we go to all you football game trouble you uh... football game season tickets we go all the games and and uh... that's a great way to get away and just have a couple couple days are a couple hours of uh... scream for the home came collateralized they travel somewhat with the with the job done and your your your marketing tool so will hold little welcome trips if you had mostly the wash in d_c_ uh... or uh... peter dallas houston but most of its wash in bc annette really more of uh... reacquaint myself with our delegation let them know what one or uh... interests are uh... from the city of tulsa but also i guess importantly regroup really more important in some cases educate equated with the staff members a higher level staff members of the department of transportation energy braunwynn viral protection agency uh... agencies that have a lot of influence on what happens in tulsa and getting to know people that are decision makers those that recommend things to the congress uh... uh... we're you know they're very very well most important issue today i'm sure everybody will greets jobs creating jobs how bring jobs to tops and what kind of jobs can we bring to tops well we have to have a strong fire meant that supports and promotes job creation economic development uh... that's why i have such a strong team uh... around as that uh... that deals with energy an aerospace uh... in my view those are the two groups that that uh... that we have already here in tulsa very poor it's been a very strong commitment presidents in both aerospace in energy so we need of uh... in my view uh... work upon those those first ranks uh... no reason to recreate the the uh... the uh... whale because we are to have to pre strong wheels right there believed aerospace has been strong force i think it's it's a bit of the gods and uh... for the economy and also the energy has been has energy played out really in tulsa and oklahoma we were known as the oil capital of the world little a lot of of the action obviously is going to middle east and down into the texas area uh... worse the future of energy issit it is in all aspects of energy but it's also the future is in traditional energy loyal and natural gas no matter how well the alternative energy ideas sold uh... it still not necessarily affordable uh... there's no market for the yet uh... in uh... in many many ways and so what are we going to do figures from this point in time to that point future when the alternate energies are marketable usable in affordable and that and answer that one his coil and natural gas they have to be better bridge feel from now until those points in the future that is described oil natural gas uh... isn't tosses d_n_a_ it's in our history we had besides having their manufacturing side well-represented throughout that though the those aspects of the energy uh... of the uh... energy sector we also have a strong strong world known worldwide known commitment to the education side of energy i believe that salsa can be comment is the education capital of this country and so far as energy education is concerned and also the manufacturing capital it certainly the uh... the capital of of energy for the for the ability to but the other deals all that together in my view we can stay claim to being the overall energy capital this country foreigners she manufacturing education and uh... the usefulness of the product lesson texans would disagree with you early on that point how do you how do you fight that argument with another very articulate person coming into a new sell the idea of well let's not do this in oklahoma let's not do this in text in intelsat but let's move with that uh... it you can convince to texas all the components of what we just uh... describe are in texas no question about it but it's not all under one roof so to speak in that roof being called focal homa here in tulsa oklahoma we are uh... very committed in and we have a history of manufacturing all the components of of of of energy we have an s educational institutions you worship ulcer movers oklahoma knock on the state university all of whom are very very active especially to in the in the hiring of education of for engineering geology geophysicist almost different things involved with energy creation uh... we have companies that are here that have tremendous money history arquette we've been here for a hundred years for example and we're not alone uh... were small but we're active and uh... uh... but it's a good example of of on how the companies are able to come up with the entrepreneurial spirit the pulses so well known for tulsa really has its roots in the private sector password godalming started here in tulsa and that that entrepreneurial capability dealmaking that we've done throughout the city for all over history it permeates it right here in tulsa and so we have all those components together that's why i think i really am not stretch in it when i say that the second century energy program that we're promoting in tulsa really does stake a claim that we are the capital that you're here also the time uh... a lot of the future into the fact that there's gotta be a transition work eventually uh... century from our whenever we'll be looking at alternative opt-in salsa mailto oklahoma position uh... you know such a way that we can benefit by that transition phase it is not that difficult in my view to transition from a traditional forms of energy in the alternative forms because a concept for the same no we understand people we in the antonin ingi industry are very familiar with the entire concept of energy about how necessary tis for our economic well-being uh... for our strategic best interest for national security we all are stand at a very well and weather comes in a form of oil or natural gas or whether comes in the form of electricity being created by some lighter by wind or buy some magic potion that has yet to be developed uh... the concept of energy is is common throughout that whole discussion and we in tulsa we can educate for all these different and we are educating right now for all those different aspects of energy were not their traditional uh... alternative in yet to be discovered universit also has a very very aggressive very well-known program of managing uh... and teaching the various forms of energy and how that can be marketed discovered utilized in and and uh... and business-wise created to lead you to make it be a teacher right now to give a great grade salsa great oklahoma in terms of we're we're positioned for the future in the energy equation compared to other states i'd say a plus we really are because geographically right center rightness early company we understand the whole concept of of energy very well we have all the tools at our disposal or need to do is just put 'em all the other and marketed that's all we have to do speaking in marketing uh... that there's a river a little ways down the road here what can be done to develop that river to make salsa more attractive well we're starting that process right now where uh... that this idiot also owns crumble and uh... on uh... both sides are ever but a special a west side of the river near the twenty first street bridge we have a lot hundred acres and we're going to uh... put that out to the to the public uh... too i give us a maiden proposals on upon what the private sector thinks that can be done to that landed nor in to make it uh... usable and saleable and uh... uh... put in a position where if you'd be used for residential purposes or uh... commercial retail whatever that might be uh... but weren't going to splurge karanam process now and i think that the that are f p the request for proposal will prob probably be disseminated to the public next month the oklahoma city has got the brutality they've got the canals and things of the arkansas rivers is something that godly army corps of engineers with creative force how do you water there well it it is funny the the uh... uh... dam upstream rather keystone damn uh... they've they seem to open at night you know they were literally sees a blessed selasa moves out so hopefully we can change things around all day work or engineers but one week a compulsion is going to be uh... the installation of two new dams and the uh... rebuilding of our current damn nikhil bit taller and and uh... and and water making a lake much larger i think those those things happening are very very important to the sale building and and and usability of of of the river but that that's coming in in terms of the arkansas reverted other elements was the most in the the important thing you can do to make tolson more attractive businesses looking to locate here well we certainly have to have a very strong business climate in as far as a river goes i think that uh... if if we can show that we have the capabilities of city and as a community to utilize their resource very well and you should wear it is in our collective best interests where it does create a uh... abuzz if you just go over to the twenty first street bridge in the west side and look at cross the river and uh... look at the skyline and the hills it's a beautiful view and that to me is what one or more prime sponsor up and down the river is uh... the west west bank the river once that is completed one sup is put into place everything else will fall into place so well uh... all up and down the river in a in a good responsible way that we can utilize that resource start or to our best interest uh... will create uh... residential opportunities people live there work there office buildings will be recreated retail establishments that uh... will create sales sales taxes which is always good for a for the city's coffers so a lot of good things can happen with that rare when you get out in public what's the most common questions um... how you doing hurley s they've days but many people think that i'm uh... this kind of beat up an entire but uh... i'm really not uh... i really am invigorated by the responsibilty and and the real honor that i have a being mayor error and represent in the city uh... it really has a terrific bank that i'm uh... experiencing right now victorian i my wife mark spiritually in one year into this for your job and uh... i really really enjoy it which is closing out you talk a little bit about education universally of of tulsa community college how does that fit into the equation for the future of tulsa well uh... tulsa state college is a great example uh... of of of what the advances are in the city of tulsa yet any other educational institutions get along so very well they're still competitiveness between all of them uh... your seattle so you'll wish you uh... dcc they all work together and they all are not at all and verse that if he uses a well there's some great engineers uh... students that were that were blown been approached by that they need to go to pc cedar to first learned learn the ropes wilson agar pity cc begin unrolled and uh... learned do you agree to a city cc can take and vice versa and pcc presents a in very very quality student to the uh... educated to the higher end uh... community to to you a legal you know issue and they've taken just like that so the the ability for everybody to work together to get along and to work for the common good what's best for the common good pcc it has exemplified that said today that they opened up their craig reinstitution of real problem bear to get with jim thanks so much for a visit thank you for joining pieces