 My problem was that, when this happened, we were going to find a way to deal with this. I never found that again, that it's not going to develop a director in my community for about 18 years. I've had communities like this during the whole migration. I've had communities like this, I was bringing our kids back. I've had community meetings like this where we get the money to fund our schools. And what we're going to do about closing our schools. So, what I see as an opportunity, and my wife always says, which is knock that down, move her out of her shoulders, she tells me that all the time. But if we're going to be doing this, we're going to live in your communities, then you're going to have to face up to the fact that you've got to take control of this thing. That's going to be my message to you today. Oil can be a part of your economic foundation. It can be a foundation for agriculture. I personally am involved in that, not from a mineral ornish area as much as I am. I happen to have two of my children move back to the community, who will be able to come back to our community. I have good jobs, I want to work for Marathon, I want to work for Calvert. I've got two houses in our community, their kids are going to go to school there, and I expect those people will be there for the whole community. I also went to college for working in the oil field. So I'm presenting to you the fact that we might have oversold sometimes how bad this is to you. I know you're working with your economic developers and all the challenges you have in your communities. My challenge to you is find a way to make something out of this, and recognize that those impacts that you just talked about are real. But we just heard yesterday, for example, that 80%, by the end of this year, 80% of the market oil fields in North Pole will be held by production. What that means is they'll have their first well-in in electrical production. They're going to come back in, the next level of production in most fields will be what they think will be more economical and might not be as friendly as it's sold. I think you are in a better position than Montreal, McKinsey, maybe Dunn. But Montreal, McKinsey, and Williams, they are right in the heart of this thing. It came so fast. It started building up as you think about their economic decline. It's just shut down for a while, and the last two years have been as bad as what they told you are. So my challenge to you today is now you are on the fringe of this thing. Be fair, I can't imagine that you're possibly going to get hit the way these communities have. So I ask the opportunity for you where we probably had problems. So take note and probably listen to the 10 things we wish you would remember. Most of these, I'm going to show you, are related to the city. One of the things that Commissioner Borchet told you, top song sets me on, I remember in a lot of the city, but we knew this. We knew this because we could see all these lots they didn't sell for 100 bucks. Well, right now we would have never had an industrial residential to keep in mind five years ago. Even five years ago these streets were more worth our money into a pretty fast process. So if you've got something out of this, got water, sewer, gutter, street investment, keep in mind that if you're going to buy a lot out of a low country right now, it won't cost you about $40,000, but I see some engineering firms will go tell you that it cost about $40,000 to develop a lot. Isn't that right? That's a factor that if you're going to go save a lot of the cost before you're going to do it, the gains of buying a $10,000 lot are gone. So I would say that up here right now, if I were you, you can use small communities that find a place to set up an industrial park, that find a place to put your temporary housing, and isolate some units for two years for development, because develop would be like not doing that. A lot of these things I'm telling you about we didn't get done. Purchase is joining the line for future housing and industrial development. So remember that we could have actually picked up some joining the line for our community. We're just trying to find some of that to the industrial side of it. We didn't get that. I would recommend that you do that. I don't think as a community out in a poor country, it now doesn't wish there were a lot of whatever that. And pay the price to work and what's that we're here to. But that way you can bring in those companies. You're going to attract the companies first from a lot of companies in the community. You'll have service countries and companies that will allow you to come to your community. You'll put water and sewer into those industrial lots. You're not going to be asked to send it all over the country. You've got to basically quantify where you're putting that. I think that I think is really important. We went to the state for this a couple of years ago, and we saw this coming. I wasn't, I kind of like thinking and screaming, if there's a planning thing. We didn't go to the Department of Commerce a couple of years ago. We asked for some money to help us with the planning. But we found out that we don't have technical expertise in these communities. To you know, I'm not an expert. I'm not an expert on anything, but I know experts. They do cost money. So we went to the state, we asked for some money to develop some plans. You need to get you a plan. Generally engineering firms will do this for you. What it basically does, it sets up a plan for where you're going to run your water, where you're going to run your sewer, where you're going to run your roads. Over a five or ten year plan. This is our viable amount today. You can't see how you, by doing that plan, we're able to go back to the state. But we're going on about a 12 and a half to $10 project to run sewer lines in our southeast and west. And as of yesterday, we have about 1200 new housing units that will go in along that sewer line. So we found out from the state of Colorado, for example, that housing adjacent infrastructure. So we did get some of that money back and we're pretty happy with that. Now, we spent three years struggling to get that housing, but I think some of the problems are going to happen. You didn't define as you're seeing what that's going to grow based on what you should be doing. So anyway, if you're, I would recommend it. And if you, the other thing that I haven't talked about here, something nobody's talked about, talk to the North Dakota Petroleum Council, talk to the Industrial Commission, that the numbers don't lie hungry. We're still looking at these fringes. We did have a good heads up on this thing. And because we've been in a lot of this for quite a while, if they're telling you that it's coming this way, if you get some leasing happening up here, then you need to assume that there's going to be some impact. Don't talk to your neighbors and don't talk to the people at the coffee shop. They'll get the information. North Dakota Industrial Commission has very, very good information on what's happening in the community. You also may have, I think to remember about the Bakken, McKinsey County as well as there is, it's actually produced in every pain zone that there is in North Dakota. So I think there's nine or 12 pain zones in our community that we've actually taken a level of. So maybe you don't do the Bakken here, maybe you don't do the Tyler here, maybe you don't do the Red River, Dupro, Madison, all those, those are all produced in formations and technology is driven on this. So I would expect that something's going to happen at some point. The plan for that infrastructure, I already told you about that. It's not hard. We get to the next territorial zone, all the stuff we did too late, by the way. McKinsey County is the last county in North Dakota that has developed a land use plan. We just did that in January. So, you know, we're the land of private property rights that nobody's going to tell me who I could sell a land to. I get that, I understand that. It didn't matter until it really started impacting people and our neighbors started putting moratoriums on that council. They all moved to our communities. So, you know, it didn't happen and it actually didn't happen. So, again, I'm a little controlled by basically that just says, you come here, you better have a plan. If you're going to do one of those gants that Don showed you, you're going to tell us what you're going to do with your sewer and you're going to tell us what you're going to do with your water and you're going to have a number on your units. So, our volunteer fire department can get to you or our animals can get to you when you're having a heart attack or all those type of things. Quite frankly, the good companies that we're seeing have no problem with that. So, again, it's practically control. Temporary housing. We were probably a little easy on at the beginning. You know, we see ourselves as a pro-business community. Again, I didn't see that. You know, this oil industry for us is about jobs more than it is anything else. I work for a job development authority. People got to work. If you can work in this country, I believe you can solve the rest of your problems. So you got to find a way to let people work. We didn't have enough housing for them. Industry, a lot of housing for them. They just kind of stood up right now. We pushed industry pretty hard to save. That's not our problem. If you need a thousand workers, McKinsey County is not going to go build new housing units. I expect that's pretty much where it goes away. By doing that, it's taken us a while to have all this kind of influence of temporary outfit. So I think Montreal County and some of the kinds of others, the Williams County slaw that business as usual just doesn't work. Although in my life industry they won't push you as far as you can push you into our economy governments, your city governments. You can't take control of that. So again, it doesn't say, and I don't think even those kinds of things, the moratoriums on camps weren't necessary to say you can't do this. And we need time to catch up. That's fair enough to say that that you've got to find a way to do this because we need time to catch up. Now, if you go on Highway 85 from Alexander to Watford City you'll see the result of a community in my community and I'm pretty proud of McKinsey County. We didn't have the ability to control that and there's very few acres within our Torah on Highway 85. People are scrambling to get in anything they can or not use the plan in front of them. So, without the hits I guess, maybe that's okay. Actually, I don't have a problem with it except to be up there before you know if you want to have a good plan you run a bunch of temporary housing and you put a bunch of electrical pedicels up there some pipe on the ground at $2,000 to $3,000 a month you get your money out of that in about three years. Those people on the most mostly are construction workers and we all don't plan on living there forever. When they leave those clothes are gone and we have them all up with those bags. So, that's the thing you want to make sure in my mind, and I don't know if you guys do that but if you're going to do temporary stuff I think you should be gone. They should be gone. The college doesn't want that tag. If you're talking about truck parking areas, for example if you park 150 to 200 diesel rates in one spot if they're going to be involved in trying to find those pieces of property that have a lot of trucks on it that becomes potentially toxic piece of real estate for you if they need and you can't sell it without a temporary spot. So, you need to make sure that you have that covered and if you're going to do that they'll have a plan for re-adding that property. And they'll do it. Good companies will do it with all the questions. So, temporary housing the same way I also will say though on a personal note I think we've oversold some of this some of the finest people I've met are people coming through our community that got a lesson in this while and we remember that we're all mad immigrants and I gosh you need to not think that everybody that you see is up to take care of your money but as a community you have to try to have them have a decent place to live as well. The point that our city makes is that if you don't force some permanent housing if you do have temporary housing you don't force an investment into the companies that are using those workers. One of the proudest things and I'm most proud of it is in the life of the city Power Fuels came in and created homes and they built last summer they built 642 plexes. They paid for the land there's no substitute 642 plexes just for the truck drivers their plan includes up to a thousand units that have been paid for by private companies bottom line is they understand their first people came in I'll give you a story about Power Fuels Power Fuels came in and wrapped up so fast they don't have drivers went out and started recruiting Michigan Michigan drivers do work off very well in western western that's not good to put everybody in there but they just didn't but they were here temporarily they owned homes back in Michigan they couldn't buy houses in the life of the city what were they going to do they went to those temporary camps Power Fuels said that doesn't work it was better not to speak in the night they got your drivers they went in and bought 120 new working by 70 mobile homes the company themselves put their people into those mobile homes in the middle of Montana where the lumber industry died they were required to recruit 200 workers from Cali School or truck drivers out of the lumber industry and those people knew how to drive in western western there's a seriously industry needs to hire drivers and not drive them stuff two level industry responsible anyway, they lived in those homes for a while wanted to bring their families back and then last year I think Power Fuels and smart jobs was the local person who owns that okay, we're going to have to ask them here for a while these are nice two and three bedroom real nice apartment units with garages they were leased for about $1,100 or $1,200 and so $6,400 to $2,200 later right now at the end of it looks like three different companies were there, corporate offices there and the old Power Fuels that's 1,000 units in a town that last census so that's where you want it you want to get past that temporary stuff to permit stuff if you don't allow everybody to do temporary you force ins to use improvement that's hard but if you're going to do temporary then make some rules that are not going to impact everybody planning staff yeah, I'll say it like that you know we'll look at that we get through that and any kind of commission most of the kids' economies there is about property rights we came into the game on that and we know better one of the main things I say it's a law enforcement thing we talked about and I think to speak especially this last session we came back through with some help with how to control sometimes you have to have a story all of these issues can be resolved if you have enough enforcement you can put whatever kind of rules you want as a county if you can't enforce it can you prepare to do this enforcement the district court here's an example of a kids' economy this is what I went through I remember specifically when they moved our district court judges away from our economy our district court judges everybody was leaving and we fought tooth and nail for today if you actually were in the kids' economy courthouse we would hold court two days a month and you can't get into the courthouse so we're playing catch up on that we've got six to seven thousand new people living in our community which let's say two percent are our total tools and these came up here to trouble in the inner court system and we're all in need of court twice a month because we're not a district judge's office so the state's been out of court catch up on those things but you're not arrested first and you've got to take control of your community and say that we're not doing those things here so we actually in the county we had 70 deputies we had to pull in local loans to house those deputies originally what we don't realize is how arrest is it's not hard to get people to convert because nobody else in this county is working there this is something that we feel really strongly about and I know most of us feel strongly about that and what Dickinson does is that the last time around we went ahead and we bonded out and the university didn't push to do that but the doctors bonded out in the community to do special assessments to pay for the infrastructure I just it doesn't work and we're having what results of that is your cost of housing for Leah but that's just how it has to be you're going to be the ones five years from now ten years from now you're going to pay the taxes on this property it doesn't get properly filled so make sure you get the doctors to come in there to do the infrastructure and you can put it in a lot of prices and that's just how it's going to be the day of the $500 loan to rent is gone but it's gone all over the country the day of the $100,000 or the $100 dollar start for the loan is gone but keep in mind that North Dakota's the Kansas County's average wage and I think Wilson's average wage is one of the highest in the United States the average wage so people didn't know the next thing is though then you have to be prepared to take care of those people who are not working in the Netherlands and I see Stanley and some of the communities that I've actually done that have teachers that's probably where you have to come in as your state program you have to come in and look the community programs because you do have to hire the police when you do have to hire the CNAs you do have to hire anybody that doesn't work in the well field and I can go by four or four ages and if you lose your basic services the new program the state legislature the ability to do local tax financing using that local property tax exemption to fund programs going to regional council that's a real good program a lot of money available for people looking at building affordable housing and if I were you I'd be doing that because your communities need to if you're like ours were getting old anyway you need to take care of your senior citizens anyway you need to take care of those people who are not earning what they live well we think you've got to invest in things that make your community enjoying a living we think we're going to keep about 20% of the people that we see in our community 20-30% of our community this will be less than we know if you see a thousand people out there but they all live in your community it's not they didn't wake up in the morning in brownsville texas and say gee I hope I can comment on another quote that's not they want a job don't be there till the job is gone they do this all the time they build power plants they build gas plants they're not coming to live in your community full time but those industries do require support example of one old gas plant that just got built it took 2,500 workers to build so a lot of those companies saw a lot of it this year they're building a gas plant infrastructure 60 full time jobs was taken so we built for the 60 and we think industry needs to build for those 2100 but if they're going to live there being their families they want a mama center they want walking paths they want a good hospital they want good school and that's the kind of things that you really have to invest in so for the kids coming when people ask me what's going to happen on all those ways here's what's going to happen I hope to have a regional water distribution system for my community that's paid for I hope to have a new school that's paid for I hope to have 1,500 to 2,000 up to 3,000 new homes that again they're not financed without financing I hope to not have increased our tax base and I really hope that we could have a new school and hospital so if you're smart realize that 30 years means nothing water businesses are going to be financed on 5 to 10 years if you're doing business plans in banking there's a reason that they're trying to take it it seems all right if 80% of the soil field is being held by production the next 20 years we're working for about 20% of that so in closing I live in the middle of it I've been there my ranch two or three times I watched my dad watch me walk away part of the new one about my education came back my dad was sick I worked on that ranch good big living didn't know what it was being did come back that was a sad day so the ranch is not really taking care of business altar anymore the industry can really be a friend to agriculture if you get involved and get involved it doesn't mean complaining to your neighbors getting involved means getting the facts getting to your legislature we think the legislature after our communities have got together have actually been receptive keeping in mind that the gap is still there so one of the better things that happens is brought to a question come together like a set of problems and then I just don't try to do all you know bring some help in and take control of this I think that we have our time in the road I don't think I can get 20 people into a room now because basically we weren't getting needed and everybody wants to talk and everybody wants to come see it and everybody wants to talk about it and we're kind of past that anyway we appreciate the opportunity to talk to you I would say you are as communities in a much better situation than we out again I would, however you are I think it would not be a famous thing I embrace it as landlords take care of this and show that you are going to be validated like we have done so that's just my opinion five years ago when this is one word with the Californians and the Americans anyway the questions I think you guys want to come back on and we'll ask questions