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So people are starting to talk about it.
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you know, our police have several months
to look at that.

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They're looking at some of the things
to do as far as

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travel on the road safety features.

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How it got here,
I don't know behind the scenes,

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but it's that old saying,
this is me saying it.

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My opinion is if you build it,
they will come.

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And with the oasis coming

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in, the Marriott coming
in, people are already seeing that.

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We do have a couple other developers
that have approached us recently.

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They want to put in maybe one,
maybe two more hotels.

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So the Oasis is probably the attraction
for that, in my opinion.

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I think it's going to be the attraction
for other things.

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This will be the first of many years
and a lot of those will be boat traffic.

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But as you know,

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you know, people are driving their cars.

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They need a place to park.

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And the parking garage,
they're on the Oasis property,

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they're trying to get that open.

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By the time that open, that's 800 cars
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we've done as much preplanning
and we're in the process

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of pre-planning as possible.

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And if there's some bumps in the road,
I guess that's expected.

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I noticed one on the license plate reader,

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and that was something that Alderman
Rucker spoke.

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Yes. Yes.

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Was pretty proactive
on speaking about it. Um.

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I would like to say to the people
who are listening out there

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to get on your bandwagon

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and talk to your Camden
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because they definitely
are not doing that.

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And what I'm referring to
is the LPR’s.. license plate

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to help PR.

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um..um..

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readers readers.

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You know, I think it's very obvious.

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And not only did it help out
and taking a crime

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that was committed on January 23rd
at 230 in the morning

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and 32 hours later, I get a news
release that these guys are caught.

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I'm sure they were caught
sooner than 32 hours, but

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that's when we were notified
with a news break.

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And I realize there was some good, hard
work by the detectives.

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And and, of course, these lprs didn't

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do it alone,
but they did an awful, awful, awful lot.

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I didn't realize
we also had a truck that night

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that those device also helped out.

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So I think it's important
that we listen to our staff

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and they bring this technology.

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And I also think that not only do
we need to reach out to our Camden County

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commissioners because of this crime
that occurred in the county

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there when
they probably wouldn't have been caught,

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not because the county sheriff's
department is not good,

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but because they wouldn't have access
to those things and

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and through their ordinances, they're
they're they're not able to use them.

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I don't know if they can use them
even if they're not in our county, but

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they're the ordinance in the county
has said they won't allow them in

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unincorporated portion of the county,
and that's why we will be having them here

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in Osage Beach.

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I also would like to get a little bit
of information pulled together in chief,

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maybe you can help me with this,
because House Bill 658,

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which has been filed and filed
by one of our local representatives,

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is my understanding, trying to remove it,
trying to remove that from the state.

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Again, we have evidence here

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of some real good work
that was done because of this technology.

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And I applaud this board for for
for approving the

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installation in our city when our staff
brought it to them, brought to us.

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And I think we need to do what we can.

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I've already sent
my letters to the cabinet,

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came to one of the commissioners,
and I plan on having some

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personal conversations with them
because this is going to help our county.

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We have proven fact
two situations that helped us

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so we need to take that and run with it.

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Thank you.

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It seems like the tool of the future

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if you don't mind being watched.

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But then there are
those that don't want to be watched

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to think it's the devil.

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I guess I'm glad you brought that up
because I am no legal expert.

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I no constitutional scholar.

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However, I have an understanding of both.

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And I've had the opportunity in my seat.

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I had the opportunity
to talk to legal scholars.

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I had the opportunity
to talk to constitutional scholars.

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And then I formed my opinion.

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And so far up in time
this point up to this point,

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I've not had any decision on the LPR

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because the board voted
unanimously months ago to add some more.

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Currently, the city of Osage Beach does
not own any LPR license plate readers.

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There are some near Dierburgs
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but we are having some installed.

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So some of the big comments out there
on Facebook

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have been
that's a violation of my Fourth Amendment.

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And you just said that
people do not want to be followed.

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I get that think

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a license
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It does not read you sitting in that car.

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It sees the license plate.

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What is a license plate?

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Um, when you go in to get your license
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they issue a license plate for you to use.

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It's a it's a privilege for you to lease,
for lack of a better word,

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that license plate is not Shawn's license
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It's the government's
license plate that they use to say

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when you're driving down the road
and you are being tracked by the police,

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if all of a sudden

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you had a few too many to drink

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and the first thing that officer is going
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of that license plate.

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They're not taking a picture of you

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and they're going to say,
who owns this license plate?

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All right.

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Well, government owns the license plate,

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but who's leasing this
at this current time?

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And so they'll know when they approach you
to say your name.

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Shawn, it's okay.

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Well, matches here,
at least we know it's your license plate,

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but the point that is, it's a license
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Reader reads the license plate.

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The license plate is a government
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And where are you driving on
a government road?

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So where does you as a person

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come into that mix?

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Where is it a violation of your right,
where it's a government

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issued document,
you're on a government road

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and and they're taking a picture
of their own license plate.

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And can it be abused? Obviously.

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there are there has been one instance
out there of multiple, but one that kept

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being told over and over and over
where some police officer in some state

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was able to track his wife's
new boyfriend or something.

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And that has been the argument

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that one that one comment has been
the argument for the last month or two.

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Well, as you know, there's a couple
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And because of a license plate reader,

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they were able to track these four
individuals down in Oklahoma.

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One of the four had a warrant for murder.

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There were some bad guys.

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And because of the license plate readers,
we were able to catch them, recoup

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the money from our local bank and stop
what probably was an ATM theft ring.

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So we stopped multiple crimes from that.

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And who and who knows that $50,000
they found found on those individuals,

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who knows what
that money would have been spent on drugs,

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drug trafficking, sex trafficking?

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Who knows?

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So who knows how many crimes

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we were able to stop
because we had a government issued device

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that was tracking a government document
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Now, if the argument could be made, in
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that if we're
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all right, that's an infringement on your
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But since it's taking a picture
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my personal opinion is not.

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And it has proven to solve many,
many crimes.

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The same day, ironically,
there was another truck that was stolen

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from Osage Beach area and two days later
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and recovered it
out of the Kansas City area.

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So interesting time we live in.

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Another argument can be made.

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Well, if you talk on your phone,
we've all been there.

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We're having a conversation
happening over the weekend.

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I was talking to somebody.

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Next thing I know, I'm getting some ads
on Facebook about we had a conversation

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about, well, somebody will say, well,
I can leave my phone at home.

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And then that way they can't drag me.

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Well, you sure can.

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But as soon as
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on a public road, then,

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you know, we did not know who was in that
car when their license plate caught them.

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We just knew
the license plate was involved in a crime.

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So, I mean, it is interesting times.
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I guess Camden County is obviously
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Commissioner's Skeleton.

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And then we get the state,
our state rep trying to ban them statewide.

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House bill 658 Yeah, it's

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yeah, a state representative
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and I saw that he

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kind of backtracked a little bit because
he was catching some flak on social media.

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But, you know, the

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responsibility of state rep
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And when you put a bill forward,
you're supposed to fight for that bill.

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And so I hope it doesn't pass.

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I, I think for people's safety and
I even said this to Shawn, I don't know.

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I don't know.

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It's a fact,
but I don't know about you. But

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if I had a loved one traveling

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that had been abducted
and had traveled through Camden County

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and we could have caught
the inductor of my son

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and my daughter, my wife, and we couldn't
and we didn't.

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And because somebody took that
license plate reader down, I'd be upset.

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I'd be
I would be wanting somebody to answer

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for that

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and looked

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at several properties here
and found the place where I am now.

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It's down by Latitude Dispensary and Sears

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Rental and Harley Davidson on Three Acres.

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And I was one of the first new businesses
on the dead end

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and absolutely live like in the Ozarks
and to answer your question

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brain solve but you got to have safety
and there's a fine line that I'm learning

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more and more between safety and rules
and regulations in some things

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by state statute, we just have to follow,
even though I may not agree with them

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and the board can change those.

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And we have changed some ordinances,
we have changed some statutes.

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And the way if somebody has a problem
with the current ordinance,

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then they contact the board
or they contact me

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and then we discuss it
and then we can change it.

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So just making nasty comments on Facebook
does no good come to us.

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But that leads me.

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We are going to go with that with a Donald
Trump thing. And I don't know if you're

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I'm never leaving.

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This is where I'm going to die or plan.

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I think in 20 plus years left.

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But I am I just enjoy it.

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I'm proud to sell this town
when we go to national conventions,

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when we go to the Missouri Municipal
League people, I say, wow, Osage Beach.

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And I say, Yeah, this is paradise.

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This is the place I want to live.

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A lot of people say
they want to spend their summers.

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Are the winters in Florida, Arizona?

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I said, Nope, I'll spend a few weeks away,
but this is where I want to be.

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This is where I will be
with the rest of my life.

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And I thank the voters.
I thank the people out there.

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And if we're wrapping this up,
all I can say is if you have a beef,

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I want to hear about it.

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If it's not legitimate, then
let's figure out why you think that way.

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If it is legitimate, let's get it changed.

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Because I do really want to make Osage
Beach great.

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I want it to be great forever and

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contact me.

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We're hoping that open book.