Oxford Mayor Robyn Tannehill - June 2026

Oxford Mayor Robyn Tannehill joined The Extra Mile Podcast to talk Highway 7 widening progress, managing the city's rapid growth, security plans for the biggest college football game of the 2026 season - Ole Miss vs. LSU on Sept. 19 - and much more.




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Paul Katool

Paul Katool joined the Mississippi Department of Transportation Public Affairs Division in 2016 as the agency’s first Social Media Strategist. In 2019, he was promoted to Digital Media Manager, where he led the creation of MDOT’s nationally award-winning Extra Mile Podcast. In 2022, Paul assumed the role of Deputy Director of Public Affairs, which includes helping to run the day-to-day operations of the division.

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Will Craft

Will Craft joined MDOT in 2018 after serving on Senator Thad Cochran’s and Senator Hyde Smith’s staffs. Beginning in the Government Affairs role at MDOT, Will assisted executive leadership in matters of policy, stakeholder engagement, legislative affairs, and external communications. Since joining the Public Affairs team in 2023, Will is most often recognized as one of the “podcast guys”. The Award Winning Extra Mile Podcast is hosted by Will and Paul Katool, and produced by Drew Hall.

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Drew Hall

Drew Hall is a media producer with experience in video production and journalism. He currently works in the Public Affairs Division of the Mississippi Department of Transportation, where he shoots and edits a range of content, including producing the award-winning podcast The Extra Mile. Drew holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from Mississippi State University and has received industry recognition, including an AASHTO Best Audio Production Award. Previously, Drew worked as a photojournalist for News Channel 12 and Fox 40 News, developing his skills in visual storytelling and news production. Drew is married to Courtney Ann Hall, of Corinth, MS, and has one son, Jackson.

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Robyn Tannehill

Oxford Mayor Robyn Tannehill: Robyn Tannehill was elected Oxford, Mississippi’s 36th Mayor on June 6, 2017. Upon graduating from the University of Mississippi in 1992, Robyn worked in the University of Mississippi’s Department of Public Relations before being named Assistant Director of the Oxford-Lafayette County Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development Foundation. Then, as Executive Director of the Oxford Tourism Council, she promoted Oxford as a tourism destination. Robyn led her team in conceiving, organizing and conducting the first annual Double Decker Arts Festival. That tourism team went on to be named the State of Mississippi’s “Most Outstanding Convention and Visitors Bureau” with a budget of $500,000. In 1998, Robyn made the decision to become a full-time mother and community volunteer. In those years, Robyn spent many hours working with the Oxford School District’s Parent Teacher Organizations and volunteering in the school district. In 2011 she co-chaired the $30 million bond referendum campaign for the Oxford Public School District. That same year, Robyn was recognized as Oxford School District’s Citizen of the Year. Her years of committed community service led Robyn to run for, and win election as, Alderman of Ward 2 in Oxford in 2013.

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Welcome into another edition of the Extra
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of Transportation.

I'm Paul Katool And as always,
joined by my co-host Will Craft and we are

Welcoming him back to the show.

He is now a girl dad. Times three.

So congrats Will.

Thank you.
Thank you very much. Prayers also welcome.

Appreciate it.

Absolutely.

Sending a lot of prayers
your way. And listen.

We're excited
to get the podcast back on the road.

It's been a while
and we're at probably my favorite place

in the state of Mississippi
besides Jackson.

We are in Oxford,
Mississippi in City Hall,

and we're here to speak with Oxford Mayor
Robyn Tannehill.

She's elected Oxford's 36 mayor in 2017,
and the last time she was on

the show was in October of 2022,
which is pretty crazy.

Seems like yesterday.

Thank you so much,

mayor, for welcoming us in and having

happy to happy to visit with you all
and appreciate all that

y'all are getting done at MDOT.

Of course

me and Will are definitely
we're out on the roads

making you out in that asphalt
truck this morning.

I think that's right.

You know it. Well, let's get to it.

This is probably the most current event
that's happening in Oxford.

I guess it didn't happen in Oxford,
but Super regionals, Ole Miss

won, is advancing to Omaha hoddy toddy.

And listen,
there's a lot of success across athletics

and it's probably unprecedented
in the modern era.

So I know you're not over Ole Miss,
but you're over Oxford.

And so what kind of impact is that
having maybe even

from an economic,
economic standpoint in the city, no doubt.

Well, you know,
winning teams help our economy enormously.

I mean, we really cannot overestimate
what winning,

you know, teams do in every sport.

I'm a huge Ole Miss baseball fan.

So I had on my Judd Utermark jersey
watching all the regional games.

And you know, I just can't wait
to watch them back in Omaha.

We are thrilled.

Football, obviously, because it brings
a larger

crowd, has an enormous economic impact,
but so does baseball.

So does a great basketball team.

So does our softball team
that has done so well, our golf team.

When they come back into town, everybody
you know floods to watch them.

And and it's you know we have Placer
AI now

which is an AI platform
that allows us to track

the number of IP addresses in the city
limits at any given time.

A little big brother,
but that's just the way of the world.

It also is so sophisticated
that it can tell us your natural habitat.

So we know that even
if it's a Texas number.

But this is their natural habitat.
That's a student.

So we know that we've got 28,000 full time
residents.

We've got about 26,000 on campus.

But any given Monday
we've got over 90,000 people in town. Wow.

So we have over 40,000 people
that come into Oxford every day

to be the workforce for the university,
for the city,

for the school districts, for Winchester
North Mississippi Regional Center

that seek health care in Oxford, that

come here for their shopping
and quality of life events.

And so that's just your regular old day.

But on those Ole Miss football
game weekends, we'll see over 300,000.

So you can imagine the stress
that that puts on our infrastructure,

not just roads but water and sewer.

And that's what keeps this nerdy mayor up
at night, is how do we flush the toilet

for 300,000 people
when we only have 28,000 taxpayers?

You know, those are challenges.

But that's where we are.

And the economic impact of football games
is, is enormous.

You know, the one that we can specifically
say this is about what it brought in

the championship game
that we got to have last

December, comparing that December
to the December prior.

The only difference
was that football game.

We had the same Holly Jolly Holidays,
we had the same open houses,

all of the things,
and our sales tax was up about $100,000

from the year before.

So, you know, most of the time
we can't really determine, I mean,

which weekend
did that money come in or come from?

And if it's a if it's a ball game,
that's one of the last days of the month.

We don't really know what month
that fell in in tax collections

and those kinds of things, but
that was really the ability for us to say,

okay,
this game generated $100,000 of sales tax.

So, you know, you'll hear us say, okay,
this football game

had a $52 million impact on our community.

And I think some people don't
really understand what that means.

They think that we've got that money
in a bucket somewhere, you know?

And why in the world aren't
we spending it on roads?

But that's the economic impact
across the entire community.

That's your gas stations, your hotels,
your shops, your different

retail establishments all over town,
your companies that are setting up grove

tents or caterers.

You know, it's the people that bought a
tank of gas on their way in and a way out.

So that is all over our community.

And that's what allows a town of 28,000

to have the amazing quality of life
that we have in shops and restaurants.

That's amazing.

Go sports. That's right.
Well, let's keep winning.

I just want to throw it out there,
you know, hit it again.

I guess 300,000 from 50.

Roughly 2628.

Student 2628.

So 50,000 and jump to 300
and even the night.

That's crazy.

It is.

That is really something to think about.

And I'm this is probably an ignorant
thought here.

I don't know
how many other cities in the state

have to deal with that kind of disparity,
but yeah, I bet that does create

a huge challenge.

Well,
I mean, say for 6 to 10 days of the year

with the biggest city in Mississippi,
that's crazy.

Yeah. I never realized
it was quite that. Yeah.

The disparity. Wow.

From coming up here as a season
ticket holder, I kind of believe it.

It's jam packed.

But listen, we'll move on from sports.
But I do have one more question.

So the biggest college
football game in the country at this

point is going to happen
on September 19th.

LSU versus Ole Miss. That's right.

Buddy is coming back to town.

So as the mayor of Oxford.

Are you doing anything?

Is the city
do anything to scale up security?

What's the plan?

Yes. Well, you know, we have a huge
security presence for every football game.

I mean, this one will be.

We will prepare the same for this one
as we do for every other, because we take

every one of those huge crowds
very seriously.

We have over the past

five years, just as different events
have happened across the United States.

We have tried to run through scenarios

of if that happens here, what is our plan?

We do a ton of training.

We have a very trained police force,
and we've got probably the best

police department
and police chief in the nation.

And I'm not exaggerating.

They are phenomenal
and we have bought a lot of equipment.

We've bought pitagons
that allow us to block off roadways.

One of the most dangerous weapons

when you have huge
groups of pedestrians is a moving vehicle.

We've seen that across the country
in different events in Austin, Texas,

not too long ago.

So how do we prevent that?

Well, you make sure that where
your pedestrians are, your cars are not.

So we are finding ways to do that.

We've also spent
a lot of money on cameras,

and we have a lot of cameras
in the downtown area now.

And that's not just to watch, folks.

We have somebody that's
watching it all the time and can say, hey,

there's looks like there's a fight
about to break out in front of X,

so sometimes we can get there before
it happens,

you know, or it looks like
there is a young lady walking home

by herself,
you know, and that roads really dark.

So we'll go and make sure
she's getting home safe or, you know,

it just allows us to really be
on top of things if we identify someone.

Of course, you know, you can identify
from these cameras, guy in the red shirt

and the white cap, and we can find them
pretty quickly on those cameras.

But we also have a mounted patrol.

And people say often like,
oh my goodness, that seems extravagant

to have these horses that are,
you know, out all the time.

But the horses are an amazing tool for us.

They allow officers to be at a level
sitting above everyone.

We're kind of like those cameras.

They're getting kind of the
the big overview.

And when you need to move people,
when you close the bars down and we push

15, 20,000 people out into the square
at the same time and they decide

they don't really want to go home

yet, it's amazing what they'll do
when those horses come down the street.

I can bet

they scoot to their car

pretty quickly, or to their Uber dogs
out there to their Uber.

But yes, it is.

So, you know, we've got a lot
of different tools in our tool chest,

but our goal is to keep
everyone safe here anytime they're here.

And September
the 19th will be no different.

Certainly going to ramp up the fanfare
I'm sure.

Right. Yeah. Well, it already has.

I mean, all you got to do is
look at the Twitter.

Are you kidding?

It's out there.
Yeah. Lane Kiffin is a pro at Twitter.

I hope he's not quite as good
at coaching at LSU as he was here.

Even as a
as a Southern Miss graduate and fan.

Yeah, I'm fully supporting
you guys in this one. Yeah. Thank you.

Thank you.

We need all the help we can get for that
one in the same team.

I hope we send him home
with a big frown on his face

and stomach virus,
but that's anything we can throw in there.

Yeah. I mean, you know.

Well, look, to segue from that, talking

about all the big events coming up,
one of those that you just had,

I believe, and I think I've heard
that it was wildly successful.

Double decker, an annual event that,

if I'm also not mistaken,
you had a hand in originating, I did.

It's so crazy.

This is our 29th double decker.

Next year will be our 30th.

And if you add up the years, there
two that are missing.

But those were Covid.

So we're 29th instead of 31st.

But yes, I was the director of tourism
in 1994 a thousand years ago

and could not imagine why
we didn't have a festival in Oxford

to celebrate what we do
best music, food and art.

And it's still what we do best.

And now I don't.

I get the joy of going to the festival
now and of overseeing the budget, but

we have a staff that plans double decker
and they outdo themselves every year.

Just when you think it can't get better,
how could we top that?

They find a way
and they've got a lot of special plans

for this 30th annual festival
this next year.

But, you know,

it was interesting, as I said, the place
or AI that allows us to track

how many people are in town
for double decker weekend.

And we also had the Alabama
SEC Baseball Series that weekend.

We have MTrade Park.

That's where we have our youth baseball,
softball and soccer tournaments,

and we had a baseball tournament in town
that had over 100 teams as well

that weekend, and then double decker,
and we exceeded the crowd count in town.

It was above two of our home
football games last year. Wow.

I know in that nuts it is just
everybody comes to Oxford,

I'm telling you.

Well, we hope they keep coming.

That's the goal, right?

Come with your tank empty
so you have to fill it up.

I guess I'm continually blown away
the commuter level again

that you guys have to deal with.

It's something that I feel like
it's a bit different than

some of the other places in the state.
I don't know that. Yeah,

I think,

I think college towns, you know,
we can all relate with that.

You know, population swell.

But other than college towns, it
probably be hard pressed

to find another Mississippi town
that's dealing with it.

It's a lot of folks. It's a lot of folks.

And again,
all all the the marks to Paul here.

He talks so highly about Oxford.

And the biggest fan again out there, but
was very complimentary of double decker

this year
especially and said it was awesome.

I think they outdid themselves for sure.

Any other major big events
outside of the box stuff coming up?

I know we we sort of talked about the USA
250 coming up in about a month here.

That's right.
Anything else that you write.

And we'll have

a 4th of July parade that morning,
and then we'll have fireworks out of

MTrade Park that evening.

You know,

during the spring and summer months,
we have what we call third Thursdays,

and we have this pocket park next to City
Hall, and we have free entertainment

in the park on the third
Thursday of every month, you know,

and this is the best time to come.

Honestly, a lot of the students stay,
but a lot of them have gone home.

So it's, you know,
you can actually get a parking spot.

It's just a little quieter,
maybe a little quieter.

You might be able to get in a restaurant
without having to wait a minute.

So this is the perfect time
to actually come and go to Roanoke

and walk it down, walk around the historic

downtown area and just get a feel
for what Oxford is all about.

Absolutely.
You heard it here first, folks.

Sold sold, sold.

Hey, listen,
so mentioned 2022 is when we were here

and this was kind of,
you know, getting pushed through.

But highway seven widening is happening.

We drove past, Praise the Lord,
and it looks really cool.

There's some like bridge structures
going on.

Yeah. Honestly
like really really cool to look at.

So just talk about that
kind of why it's needed.

Talk about the progress. Absolutely.

Well, highway seven is a project
that has needed to be done for many moons.

It's a project that we've lobbied
for at the state level for about 20 years.

And so we were so relieved
when a several years ago,

they appropriated $175 million
for this project specifically.

I think part of the reason Nicole Boyd,
Senator Nicole Boyd and I invited

Lieutenant Governor Hosemann to town,

and we took him down to North Mississippi
Regional Center on Highway

seven at 4:45 in the afternoon
and made him stand and literally watch.

We're like, this is what
we're talking about right here.

And I may or may not have gotten some city
vehicles to, like,

squeal your tires and honk at people
you know.

But anyway, you know,
you got to use what you got, right?

So we were so thrilled
that they appropriated that money.

And as you saw today,
I mean, man, they are moving.

They have said that there will be

over a dozen bridges, 20
plus box culverts.

There will be over 2,000,000yd³ of dirt
moves.

That's about 120,000 dump truck loads.

And I'm so familiar with the cubic yard
now because of debris. Yes.

First started talking to me
about cubic yards of debris

and I was like, I'm an art major.

Guys, I'm going to need a visual.

So they were like, well,
it's like a dishwasher.

And I was like, okay, well,
how many dishwashers do we have?

And they were like 70,000 dump
truck loads. Wow.

And so I said, I need a visual, though,
like all the debris together.

Like, and they were like, give us a day.

They came back and they were like, got it.

If we filled up Vault Hemingway
with just the debris

from within the city limits,
it would go up between 600 and 700ft.

Oh, wow.

Wow. Holy cow.

It was a tornado on every street in town.

Yeah.
I mean, pictures don't do it justice.

It has been amazing.

So, anyway, 120,000
dump truck, loads of dirt.

Holy moly.

So in April, the contractor completed $8.9
million worth of work.

So they are moving.

They are putting the pilings in
for bridges.

Now they've built,

I think, five box culverts so far
and they're working on another huge one.

It is the contractor is doing a great job
and we are so thankful to MDOT

that this project is happening.
It's a game changer.

It's going to save people's lives.

I mean, people died on that roadway
so often.

I mean, the accidents were,
you know, so many accidents,

but they were also severe
injury accidents and deaths.

So we are so thrilled that our community
will be safer as a result of this project

about teamwork.

And I'm right at second to that.

I know,
I know, you're serious and genuine.

You guys have been working on this
for a long time.

So very proud for you, obviously,
and being Mdot.

Yeah, we're excited to
work on the other projects.

We won't mention to many specifically,
but just we've got to give a shout out

here to roundabouts.

Absolutely.

We come to Oxford

just to see all the new the new and latest
and greatest roundabouts.

Absolutely.
Well we we keep them coming. We love it.

We keep them coming.

We just finished.

I guess one more at Molly Barr
Road and Highway 30.

So that makes for on that street that 105
because there's one Chickasaw too.

But we just we love a roundabout in Oxford
they’re perfect for our traffic traffic

that just gets busy at certain
times of the day, you know?

I mean, it keeps traffic moving.
It's safer.

We've eliminated all those accidents

and those intersections from people
running a red light and getting T-boned.

You know, there if there is an accident
in a roundabout, it's fender bender.

And it's just so much safer
and moves traffic so much more quickly.

So people are intimidated by them.

I think at first,
especially the double lane ones, you know,

that kind of really throws people
you can get behind, people,

you know, with a Holly Springs tag, and
they're going to go around that same thing

five times before they shoot off
in the right direction.

But you know, I figure they learn,
but they, they are they are wonderful.

And to that Mdot just helped us complete
they just finished striping them

about two weeks ago.

Is it University Avenue and Highway seven.

That was a

that was another one of our biggest
transportation improvement priorities.

A huge number of wrecks.

Taking a left there off of seven going
either direction was so dangerous.

And the roundabouts have just
they've saved the day

at that intersection where highway
seven meets University Avenue,

the traffic count is higher every day
than it is at I-55 and highway

six in Batesville. Wow.

So I know it's nuts.

It is a lot of people,
and those roundabouts

just make it so much
safer and move traffic more quickly.

So, you know, people whined and complain
the whole time construction was going on.

But, you know, isn't that what we do?

We want it,
and then we just want it to happen quick.

And you know, we don't have a magic wand.
These things take a minute.

So people are now finally like, okay,
it was worth it.

So we are so appreciative.
Thank you very much.

And yeah, I appreciate all those comments.

We would agree.

We we certainly understand it's new.

It's a little different
in certain spots and spaces.

But we're big believers.

We don't think that they work everywhere.

They don't just just because it exists.

We're not going to slap one out there.

But yes.

And give it give it a chance.
Give it a little time.

Follow the arrows.

Shout out to my Simpson
County family and folks down there.

It's going to be okay,
I promise. We're going to get it.

We're going to do it together.

I saw they were building one
in Philadelphia, Mississippi

when I went to the fairgrounds
this weekend.

So yeah, roundabouts are lovely for
for sure.

For sure. Yes they are.
So we'll get our notebooks out.

You mentioned some really good projects.

Any future needs? Transportation
infrastructure.

Infrastructure was always in a town
that's growing like ours.

We've grown 102% since 2000.

In 2024, they projected that
we would grow 24% by 2030.

But we've already grown 12% this year, so

we've got over 10,000 bedrooms
under construction right now.

Now that's not 10,000 separate units,
that's bedrooms.

But when we talk about units,
it's about 6700 units.

But some of those units are apartment
buildings

and some of those units are single family
homes.

So, you know,
we always look at it as bedrooms and,

you know, that's that many more cars
that will be on the road.

So they're always infrastructure projects
that we're working on.

We've applied for some federal grants
for Jackson Avenue,

which is our basically
Oxford corridor east and west.

I'm not sure how to fix it
other than a stick of dynamite, honestly.

But since that's not an option,
we're going to go with plan B, and

there's some very dangerous intersections
there that need to be reworked.

And and we'd like to remove that.

You know, we call it
the suicide lane down the middle.

If you take a left out

a cookout or chick fil A like,
come on, what's wrong with you?

Really?

So we would, you know,

we would correct some of those things
and it would be a right out only.

And then there would

be some places to make a J turn,
some intersections that we'd rework.

And so we've applied for federal dollars,
$35 million for that project

that we are very hopeful
that we make some progress on this year.

Wicker has included it in the T HUD
bill for now.

So we are we are hopeful.

We have another project with Mdot
that is in the environmental

environmental phase right now.

It will be connecting University Avenue
right past Kroger into Oxford Commons,

which is where our conference center
is, and five hotels are high school

and elementary school
and a huge neighborhood,

and also some student housing as well.

And that will be a game changer
just to have another north south corridor

and allowing people to have another way
in and out of Oxford Commons,

rather than everyone
having to get on highway seven.

So that's a project
that has been funded between the state

and our federal partners,
and we hope that next year

we'll be able to construct that road.

Highway seven to the seven nine
split is a huge, huge plus for us.

But going the opposite direction towards
Holly Springs is also needed.

And and I know that Mdot is aware of that.

It's you know, we don't have a money whip.

That's that's what we all need.

So I think that, you know, from a state
highway perspective,

being able to pick up that four lane
project and head north with

it would be
one of our most critical needs. Love that.

And I guess it goes without being said,
but let's make sure we do say

none of this would happen without
the support from our state legislature.

We have certainly seen,
you know, that engagement and support

pickup over the last several years,
not that it wasn't in existence or wasn't

strong enough before, maybe,
but it's been really great even in my,

I think, eight, seven years that Mdot
the support has just really been awesome.

It has to see a lot of work going on.

We’re blessed to have representatives

and a lieutenant governor and a speaker
that are so supportive

of pushing the pushing the needle
so that we can make a difference.

I mean, infrastructure needs, you know,
are just there isn’t a town in Mississippi

that doesn't have
some infrastructure needs.

And I'm just glad to see
they're addressing it.

And to to steal a quote from,
from our director, Brad White.

But I've never done before.

But to still one of his quotes,
he has good ones.

I know he does.

You know, it doesn't really matter
how good your hospital is

if you can't get there.

It doesn't matter
how good your schools are

if you can't get across the bridge
to get there.

That's exactly right.
It is definitely a priority.

Well, people ask me all the time,
I wish you just build more parks.

Why don't you do this or that? I was like,

doesn't matter how good your parks are
if you can't bless your toilet.

We spent $15 million on water
and sewer upgrades.

So tell Brad I agree.

Absolutely no doubt about that one.

Shout out
MSLeg doing a good work over there.

Hey, listen.

So never thought I hate the word
fern as much as I do now.

It's weird to think that was in February.

It feels like a million years ago.

But how is Oxford
doing with the storm recovery?

We are doing great
and thank you for asking.

We have finished up our major debris
removal.

Finally, after about 75,000 dump truck
loads of debris we have finished up now.

People are still putting rubbish
by the road

and limbs that are falling
and that kind of thing.

But the major tree removal

that we had to hire
a company to, to do for us is finished.

We've spent about $18 million so far.

And so, you know, that's not something
a small town budgets for.

So we are really in a pinch
and moving forward

with a lot of the necessary infrastructure
projects that we had planned

for the coming years, water
and sewer projects and road projects

that we had planned to fund,
you know, are on hold.

Right now, I'll say that

MEMA and FEMA are doing a great job
of getting the refunds back to us.

The reimbursements back in a much
more timely fashion than I've understood,

has happened in the past,

with several communities across the state
that have had tornadoes and things.

When they shared their horror stories
getting reimbursed, I was like,

oh, well, we do, but, you know, it is.

It is slow, but it's steady.

And even these trees that look pitiful
with a few leaves look better.

You know, once the grass starts
turning green and the butter cups come up

and trees start getting some leaves,
it kind of changes everybody's attitude.

And, you know, we saw the best
of our community during that storm.

Of course, the debris was terrible.

As I said, it was like
a tornado went down every street.

But the amount of community spirit
and community pride

and people stepping up to take care
of their neighbors and to serve people

and in their time of greatest need
was just amazing.

And my prayer for my community
is that it stays that way.

You know, that we're able to maintain
that level of community

spirit and community
support for folks that need it.

It really opened our eyes

to some blind spots and some places
that really need our attention.

And so a lot of good came out of it, too.

I don't want to do it again. That's right.

But a lot of good.

Somebody said the other day, well,
now you'll know exactly what to do

if there's another natural disaster.

I said, I sure will, I'll get impeached
immediately.

Just get mediately.

Pretty good.

Run for the hills.
Nothing like unprecedented events.

That's right.
I had a fair share in the last.

I mean, I had a pandemic
and a natural disaster.

I'm like,
what is happening in my husband's like.

And you signed up for this?

Can't wait to see what you asked
people to let you do this job.

I know.

Well, you do a really
a really, really tremendous job.

I think it's an understatement to say that
Oxford's thriving under your leadership.

Mayor Tannehill, thank you
so much for having us here today.

Thank you.

I always enjoy visiting with you all
and go back and tell Brad White

and the rest of that Mdot crew
how much we appreciate them.

Sure will.

Absolutely.
We'll go ahead and wrap things up there.

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