October 8th, 2008

Good morning Guthrie, again I hope all is well. The Guthrie City Council held its first meeting in October last night with little fanfare. The agenda consisted of standard business as usual items as we move into the first month of the new budget for the 2008-2009 year. Make sure to visit the City of Guthrie website where you can download last nights packet and view the entire city council meeting that was televised.

Last weekend was a wonderful spotlight on the city with the various events that were occurring simultaneously throughout the City. I had a chance to visit the Bluegrass festival for the first time. I also got a chance to roam around downtown during the Art and Wine Festival and the Toys for Big Boys and Girls. All the events were as usual well received and the weather was perfect for the events. I would like to thank the Mayor for his hard work and dedication to the Bluegrass festival he and all the volunteers make that event something really special.

Once again let me say thank you being able to represent our great community. I look for forward to your comments and suggestions.

Trey Ayers Ward I

August 19th, 2008 City Council Update

Good morning, from my office in Guthrie, Oklahoma. The City council met once again last night and the agenda held was pretty standard business items dealing with renewals of health and dental for city employees etc.. Also the award for the waste water treatment plant chemicals was awarded last night as part of the Guthrie Public Works Authority Meeting held as well, during our session. I would like to make note that Betsy Randolph was re-appointed to the Forestry Board and Amanda Fortney was appointed to the Library Board. I know both of these women and they are both great individuals and we as a community are lucky to have them serving on our behalf, and for our community. The City received its audited financials for last year this week and they have been finalized. I have made a request that the final audit report be posted to the City of Guthrie's Website for easy access and review. If not posted today it should be posted by the end of this week. Once again this request is in order to make sure that the City remains transparent and that its citizens have easy access to this type of information. again you if you would like to review last nights agenda it can be found at this link http://www.cityofguthrie.com/Council/Agendas.html . The City website will also replay the Council meeting, as well as Chanel 20 for Cox Cable subscribers.

One quick note, today starts the first day of School for Guthrie. Please be careful today and the coming weeks traveling within posted school zones and around town, as we get used to the kids being back in motion. I know the police department will be working hard to control speeds in and around our local schools and neighborhoods.

Thank you for the opportunity to serve this great community.

Cheers,

Trey

August 5th, 2008 Council Update

Good Morning once again,
The City of Guthrie Council met again last night 8/5/2008 with a healthy agenda. I am not going to go over each line item for the sake of keeping my write up short but you may review the packet at http://www.cityofguthrie.com/Council/Agendas.html This is the same packet that the Council receives and is the working documents for the meetings. This was one of the request I made when coming on board along with the televising all board, and special workshop meetings dealing with the City. I acted on these items to make sure that the general public has the ability to see all of the Cities actions up close and personal. The City "Your City" has an open stance for viewing what transpires within the decision's that the City makes. A comment was made last night regarding the City making decision's behind closed doors. This same person claimed to have contacted each and every council member regarding their concern. I and several other council members were never contacted regarding that concern! I have worked hard to take the comments of "behind closed doors" out of the equation. The City can only continue to put out information to inform the public to the best of its ability. I will continue to work on finding ways to make sure citizens are indeed informed, however citizens also need to take time to educate themselves in matters and we welcome your input and cooperation. I am a citizen just like you within the community, and I expect nothing less than full disclosure from our City Government. I to have negative issue dealing with various component's surrounding the City. I however by being elected and by the general nature of being a concerned citizen, also try and find solutions to various issues that we are dealing with as a community. I encourage citizens that do indeed have concerns to offer up solutions to their concerns in lieu of just the negative. It is important that we share the options of solutions and work towards resolutions. I have packed my bags for the new trip ahead for the City of Guthrie. My bags are not packed with the trips from the past.

Trey Ayers

Where Have I Been? 07/30/2008

Wow, where to start the summer has been flying by and its been some time since I made a post to my blog. I wont try and detail the entire void time, but I will try and highlight some areas that have moved forward regarding the City of Guthrie. The council approved the movement forward on the highly needed water treatment plant with a rate increase and the added $7.50 fee per month or $90.00 per year or a.246 cent per day fee specifically for the water treatment plant. I think overall the community understands the need for the plant and the ability to continue to serve quality water and the sustainability for the future growth of our community. This has been a collectively difficult decision to make anytime dealing with citizens pocket books and one that was not taken lightly by me or the City as well. As we know sometimes progress and change can hurt a bit but in the end I know the city will be in a better position to serve its citizens and the future growth of the community. On another note the establishment of the First Capitol Neighborhood Solutions has been formed. This group will be made of citizens from each ward to help establish neighborhood groups within the City. I have been a huge proponent for this type action and look forward to the many ideas to come from this group. I know in my neighborhood, we have established an area and we are looking at holding our second block party coming in late September or Early October and should be great fun again. I would like to take a moment to thank Dr. John Wood regarding the implementation of the neighborhood group organization without his help, I am not sure it would have taken off so well. Moving forward I have a few things on my plate to help get started in the community one is the implementation of a curb side recycling program for the community. There would be a fee associated with this type service so I am curious what the local population thinks of this type service? I would welcome anyone reading this blog within the community to write me back if they would be for such a service in order for me to move forward. I would think the fee would range in the $3.00 to $4.00 per month for curb side service but I don't have an exact cost just a guess but a place to start. On a personal note I have been so busy this summer dealing with the day to day activities of work and summer. This is quite a busy time of the year for the Ayers family with the wedding business in full force. It seems blog writing gets shuffled to the bottom of the pile. I will make a conscientious effort to post more often. As usual I welcome family, friends, and my community to shoot me a response for our City. I am always pleased to get input from the local citizens the dialogue is a great way to make things happen. Thanks again for the opportunity to serve you.

Trey

General Information and City Council February 19th, 2008 and

Good Morning I hope all is well. It has been a while since my last post and alot of things have occured during my absence. I hope all had a wonderful Holiday we certinaly did spending time with family and friends. My famliy and I took the coveted trip to Disney world and spent a week on the property seeing the sites and spending the money. However, our girls had a wonderful time at Disney and we wore them out with a solid week of Mickey and Minnie Mouse! Upon our departure back the the airport in Orlando I asked my girls where would you like to go to next year on vacation and with a resounding response of THE BEACH!!! "so we can relax they said". Anyway looks like the ocean is our next stop of Ayers vacations. On the happenings at the City we are continuing to plug away at the various challenges ahead of us this year, one of which is the development and construction of the water treatment plant for the city. In addtition am still working to get our neighborhood committiee set in place within the city soon and hope to have this completed in short order. The City is seeing various new commercial ventures popping up across the town a great indicator that the community is growing and I am very excited to get these new business in place its an exciting time for Guthrie as we continue to strive for continued growth. I encourage any one with in the City of Guthrie that reads my blog to share your ideas and comments with me in order for me to be able to respond accordingly with the City. One very exciting item the City is putting into place is a system called E-GOV this system will open up communications with the City of Guthrie via the web and any comments or concerns you have can be used thru this system and will directed to party to take action all thru the web based system. This set up should expedite concerns and help with communications between the city departments and the general public. With all that being said again please feel free to comment to my blog I look forward to the dialouge with the good folks I represent in Ward 1 and the rest of the City of Guthrie.



Trey Ayers

Councilman Ward 1