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Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Mayor Craig Thurmond Is the Best Elected City Official I’ve Ever Worked With!!!” - Beth Anne Childs, Former City Attorney for Broken Arrow

Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Clay Clark

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

An attorney who specializes in the representation of cities and towns shares why she believes Mayor Craig Thurmond is the best-elected city official she’s ever worked with.

Transcript

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0:00.0

3, 2.1, and Mayor Craig Thurman, welcome back on to the Thrive Time Show.

0:05.3

How are you, sir?

0:06.3

I'm great, how are you, Clay?

0:07.8

I'm excited to, I'm excited for you to be here, but I'm more excited.

0:11.6

I'm 4% more excited about today's guest.

0:15.0

She is a former city attorney for Broken Arrow and she's she knows more about you than I do.

0:22.0

And so I'm excited to have her on so we can ask her the tough questions about what it's like to work with you sir.

0:29.0

So Beth Ann Childs, welcome on to the show. How are you?

0:32.0

Great, thank you for having me. So you are an attorney who

0:37.2

specializes in the representation of cities and towns. Beth Ann can you explain what exactly do you do as an attorney?

0:46.0

When you're a city attorney what what does your job look like?

0:50.0

You know it's kind of funny because a couple of years ago I was doing some interviews for the city of Tulsa.

0:55.8

I was serving on a certification panel while they hired municipal attorneys.

1:00.5

And one candidate came in and he said what does an average day look like for you.

1:08.4

So we do lots of things.

1:11.8

We review contracts. we advise the City Council in any boards and

1:16.9

trusts like the Planning Commission, the Board of Adjustment. Oftentimes we

1:21.2

prosecute misdemeanor traffic offenses in municipal court.

1:26.0

We handle litigation on behalf of municipalities.

1:30.0

We draft ordinances, resolutions, all sorts of complex transactions in a variety of areas.

1:41.5

Environmental law, so every day is different.

1:44.1

I find that in every industry, I own different businesses and you know, some industries like

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