Jim we online okay Well all the person perilla All the person cells are she's not online. Okay all the persons of audio present, okay? All the person born can you hear us Jim? Jim He's here is it good hear me now. Yep. We got you. Yep. We hear you Jim. All right Okay, we'll start out with the Pudge of Allegiance Alrighty we'll start out with 2.1 approval of minutes from April 13th Motion's been made by Grazius seconded by Marcus any other discussion on those minutes all those in favor aye Any opposed chair votes aye the minutes are approved item for discussions 3.1 R.O. Number 8-21-22 Document 3.2 submitting the request to Disinter Mickey Kerry who was interred at Wildwood Cemetery lot 215 section 18 grave 2 and Relocate his remains in the Wildwood Cemetery to lot 215 section 18 grave 1 that is owned by his spout Mary Kerry Thank You mr. Chairman So what does this is before you this evening and these are pretty very rare cases I would have to say I think in my tenure if this is only maybe happened a handful of times However, what has happened is is as the information is described is that when the person was buried in the lot It was located in the lot next to The vacant spot and it actually has to be shifted over so it matches with the stone in the inscription So the reason it's before you is by ordinance We're not allowed to make a correction without the committee's approval So I just want to let you know typically in some in fact, I'll be honest and thanks to Thomas and his Fourth right and do research here is he's the one who pointed this out to us. So What we're asking for is that? Basically you allow this this correction to be occurred and I'm going to defer to the assistant city attorney Thomas Cameron to Correct maybe the action because this really doesn't have to go to common counsel. This can just be handled at the committee so I just maybe allow Thomas to explain The verbiage for the proper motion to make this correction Thank you So this this actually is an item which can be done at the committee level normally Items are referred back to counsel for final action But the the way the ordinance is set up this one is done at the committee level So if the desire is to allow for the the disinterment and the re-interment our recommended motion would be a motion to approve Disinterment and to allow disinterment to occur prior to October 1 2021 and the purpose for that second piece is as the as the code is written Normally disinterment can only happen between October 1 and December 15th Unless there's special permission of the public works committee So by rolling that in into that single motion that allows the disinterment to happen as quickly as as possible Okay, I would make that motion second There's been motion by markets second by Grazia. I have a couple questions. Sure. Go right ahead. So Why do we need to approve this like is there a reason in in the statutes that this has to exist or Wouldn't it feels to me like this is something that if there was a mistake made you guys should be able to just fix it without coming to us I Would agree but by bias by the ordinance the way it's written today that This is the proper procedure for this type of correction and disinterment to a to occur It's it's it's a practice typically I mean we do get requests for people to be disinterred and moved to other cemeteries and It's a pretty disruptive process. So we don't take it lightly So there was probably a process. That's why it had to come to this committee and just inform you of it But as well, I'll do gonna also defer to Thomas on this and he maybe can further explain some of the background on it Yeah, and when when director people we saying there've been you know a handful of these He's referring to the sort of the more traditional disinterment of someone was buried here And you've decided to move them to a an entirely different cemetery or there's there's some you know more more distinct movement going on here The what happened here? You know to even call it the exception that proves the rule is maybe going you know too far There there isn't a process for you know adjusting that that staff level mistakes So we're dealing with it just like we would any other Disinterment thank you. I've got a follow-up to that if How was this mistake made and what are we doing to make sure that we're not moving stuff around again? Correct. Well, we've put in some pretty good procedures We have actual forms to be signed off by the funeral home as well as staff and I can inform you that the person that took this order and Expedited is no longer with our staff it as we move forward. Thank you Any other discussion on this I have just one more question Go ahead Brazil, so the end the mrs. Kerry has to has to approve, right? The spouse has they're actually there the spouse is actually Requesting that this be corrected. Yes, correct weren't Thank you. Any other discussion on this? All those in favor aye aye Aye Any opposed chair votes aye that is approved 3.2 general ordinance one dash twenty two twenty one dash twenty two Document six point one in ordinance removing the one-way street designation for South 14 Street between Georgia Avenue and Broadway Avenue Ryan is that yours? Yeah, okay This ordinance relates directly to the the Oscar development Which is the development of 240 apartment units at the former van of our site back in 2019 or when the developer came to the Department of Public Works proposing this project the first thing we asked the Developer to do or we told the developer to do is submit a traffic study because obviously traffic flows are going to change once you Build 240 apartment units along with a development such as a quick trip and as part of this traffic study It became apparent that because of the the added traffic movements from this development The traffic signals were going to be warranted at the intersection of 14th and Georgia I'm sorry, it's all business drive in Georgia and Georgia Avenue and their schedule to be installed this late summer this fall some time But also as part of this study if you're familiar with this section of 14th Street between Broadway and Georgia it It exits very close to the cell business drive Georgia intersection. It's just it's just not safe. So it's part of this study We were told to look at eliminating the one-way street putting a cul-de-sac at the North end of 14th Street by Georgia and making it into a two-way street So this directs this this goes back all back to 2019 and the reason we didn't switch it back in 2019 We want to make sure his project was going was going forward which it is now obviously so that's where we're here Just to make it a two-way street. We sent letters out Last winter we never we never had a formal meeting But I sent letters out got tons of phone calls people are aware of it. We plan on probably making this change I'm guessing next week. So later on this week. We'll put up a message board and I'll do I'll do another letter drop So people people are aware of it The streets whiteness to support two-way traffic along two-way street along along with the parking on both sides There won't be any hardship of elimination of parking. So a lot has the has it been pretty positive Feedback from the from the residents in the area. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it has yeah good Has and we did a similar thing back in the early 2000s for Colorado court up in this area. Yes That was also one-way street. We called the sack that off.  So yeah, it has it has been positive Okay, good good good here any other comments on it Make a motion to approve this second boring Motion made by Marcus seconded by Jim Any other discussion? I've got one question go ahead What's the extra long part that doesn't seem like it's part of a normal cul-de-sac that extends to the north? Oh, that's at the very end of Georgia Avenue, there's a business there Okay, I think it's gonna have a storage business for landscaping business So we just got to give them access.  I'll be actually kind of an extension of their of their of their driveway is what it Was what it's gonna be. Thank you. That's why it's like that. Okay Any other discussion on this? Yes, just for my education when there is a study done What does that mean? Pardon me when there is a study done. So there has been a study, right? So what does it entail? Okay, what they what they look at is say, okay, this this development is 240 apartment complex and Quick trip. It's all it's all fully built and they they have they have models They they have enough records of discernment. Okay, there's gonna be X amount of cars during this time. It's a it's It's a study. I guess it's a good a good guess on what what they think the traffic flow is going to be through the course of a day Yeah, with with a lot of like the developments still have Certain generators of traffic. So they're gonna say quick trips going to generate, you know 3,000 vehicles per day between this time and this time and then the apartment complex will have a peak volume of exit Based on the number of residents and it's gonna and it's gonna flow to some's gonna go to Georgia And it was some's gonna go to Broadway and no model as as city engineer Ryan has said and based on that model They'll say okay with the traffic. There's gonna be delay now at Georgia Avenue and with and it's gonna be dangerous without traffic signals For that delay for those vehicles to cross Therefore traffic signals are necessary by when we put in the traffic signals to make the traffic signals work The cul-de-sac needs to be put in so that certain turning movements again aren't being compromised and safety of traffic flow So it it's it's a lot of data that goes into these models Very time-consuming in the model and the report can be you know The summary is pretty pretty simple, but the data and the model and all the traffic data is very very complex and We typically use traffic engineers. I think we used there was a tatty on this one traffic analysis and design They do there. There's a is limited what I would say traffic engineering firms right in the state there's probably maybe three or four that we typically will use and And And they use data that's from from decades and decades. It's not just data that they got last week They push. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's there's a lot of data like like David mentioned and it's meant It's meant to really optimize the traffic flow You don't want to create traffic jams and delays and this kind of stuff you do it and you do it for safety Ryan thank you very much Ryan just to add to that this the Oscars obviously the Largest development that the city and almost County is going to see in estimates of 47 to 52 million dollars But aren't they're going to be like 243 units in that development? Yeah, 200 and 240 units, right? So if you look at 240 units, you're probably going to have over 300 vehicles as an example Right and people coming and going not including the quick trip and the possible expansion in a future at a future time for a storage unit So they're obviously they do have the models, but there's this is a very large Area with a lot of additional roads and housing around it that they had to take into consideration And I would just add that I think that that in the Even in the past before this before this development was here that this was kind of all a very a very tricky Intersection to cross in the first place on George I can't remember when they remember but there used to be traffic signals at South Business Drive in Georgia years ago, and they were taken down for It was it was back in the 80s and when Broadway Avenue Viaduct the was reconstructed I think about an 88 89 ish The decision was to take the signals out at that time Because traffic flow was decreasing at that intersection Partly because if you recall there used to be a restaurant Terry's diner Yeah, there was a pretty good traffic and there was a lot of people that used to frequent that that was removed as part of that Expansion project. I believe they bought there bought it and some of the restaurant and that land was Acquired as part of the reconstruction project. So that's when the traffic signals came out But they know it was at the time. Well, we're going to do But traffic it was settled down, but now we can foresee traffic will be much much greater again and With the curve in South Business Drive as well as the sight lines. It makes it very difficult to cross Any other discussion on this all those in favor aye aye Any opposed chair votes aye that is approved Okay, 3.3 general ordinance 2-21 22 Document 6.2 in ordinance creating parking limits so as to add a two-hour parking limit 8 a.m. To 6 p.m. Except Saturdays Sundays and holidays to the north side of Erie Avenue between North A Street and North 9th Street Yeah, this is the intersection. We're talking about is like North A Street and Erie Avenue We're talking it's the Northwest corner. It's where toppers pizza is There used to be a bus stop there and several years ago that bus stop was was eliminated So a toppers pizza and several other businesses around I was wondering if we get when you when you have a bus stop Anywhere you always market no parking because you don't want someone parking there.  I'm sure there's a lot of turnover there No, I was looking for a close spot. So made sense I didn't I wasn't aware that the bus stop got eliminated, but that's fine. So we're just changing the to our parking So I love human if I speak go ahead So I like that idea giving more freedom of people to park in our city aren't there Metered parking spots in that area already. Shouldn't we be putting the meters in not not in this section of Erie Avenue You're probably thinking of a street. I said it's a corner of Erie and North a street this this bus stop was on Erie Avenue. There is no there is no meters No, so this is where like like by that barbershop in between barbershop and toppers. Yes, okay It's not Erie Avenue on the north side of the road. So it's not a 8th is is metered very heavily, but not not not Erie Thank you And the other discussion on this I've got a question. Mr. Chairman go ahead Jim Thank you This is is this going to present any problems with the farmers market during the summer Because I know there is some metered parking around there and If this is not going to to our parking is not going to be in effect on Saturday Saturday when the farmers market is there Is that going to create any problems with people kind of camping out there for the whole morning or the vendors parking there and then Not giving access to those businesses I Guess I'm looking at it. It's going to add more parking for for the farmers market. It's going to add to it Someone staying there longer term than two hours. They can in the weekends I guess if it is an issue we'll we'll deal with it then but no I think it's going to be a positive for the farmers market just because this is going to add more parking Granted is only like maybe four or five spots, but it gets pretty crowded. So everything helps Well, Mike and Mike and my concern is I I hope you do monitor it the first few weeks there because If there's no meters there and there's no limit on how long you can park there I just hope people don't take advantage of that either the vendors parking there or or people You know abusing it and just staying there for the you know, the entire morning. Thank you And I have a feeling some of the businesses around there for those you coming to issue They'll be calling our office. And like I said, then we can deal with it at that time Mr. Chairman I'll make a motion to approve Second okay most made by sec my gym second my Marcus the purpose of a comment. Yes, I do Do does anyone from public works happen to know what the on that sign? There's it looks like there's a two-hour parking sticker on there. Do you know what it actually reads? For the people going to the west or for parking to the west Oh, it's to our parking. I think it's Monday to Friday Not Saturdays and Sundays, so we're just looking to extend what's already there to basically the corner or as far as you can go Okay, thank you Any other discussion on that? All those in favor aye Hi any opposed? Chair votes aye that is approved Okay 3.4 resolution five dash twenty one twenty two Document seven point three a resolution authorizing the appropriate city officials to enter into a contract with parms tree service Incorporated for the removal of six hundred and seventy six tree stumps Mr. Mr. Chairman a Superintendent of Parks and Forestry Joe Kirlin will talk on this as well as a Tim bull our city forester is here I guess if Scott could you could put up this the the screen at least for the laptop share my screen This just is a map of the stumps of the contract as well as all the stumps in the city that need to be removed and there's further For further clarification of what this contract will be performing and maybe Tim and Joe could further expand upon this Okay, go ahead. I'll just run through the IFC and then I'm gonna get Tim up here to answer the questions He's the man behind the scene with all the forestry. So we're just asking for Approval to to go into a contract with parm tree service for the removal of six hundred and seventy six stumps We have two capital Accounts that we're we're using to do this. So Our forestry Management is is set up in capital improvements So at this time Tim's going to cover this too, but we have over a thousand and sixty some stumps out there Stumps is just one of our things that we do for forestry management Uh removals before the ash bore even started We were averaging right around five five hundred tree removals and then with the management plan We really had to bump that up to start getting rid of the ash And and uh as some of you will remember That our goal was with five thousand ash trees out there Uh to treat half of them and remove half of them and we are at that point now To talk more about that but that that is a great first huge first step since 2016 um And we've always been able to handle forestry management for the most part within house But within the last couple of years, we really had to start stepping outside Picking some contracting that we needed either tree removals or stump removals And this is just one of them to get us caught up to where we need to be where we can Hopefully get back to that point where we can handle it ourselves So we've made great strides tim Tim and the tree crew. It's just uh, it's been great With our gis. They've been able to you know ask them a question and they can tell you right now Todd's seen it firsthand at a meeting where I tim just pulled it up right there There was a question asked and could tell you everything about the tree of the lady was asking about so um The management of our forestry urban forestry has been going real smooth the last few years So we did have um four Bids uh Wallace tree care Parms landscaping bruce the stump guy klemeth landscape And and tim's going to point out he put up four quadrants quadrants and we bid those out separately And parms landscape was the low bid on all four quadrants. So we're asking for the approval of Of the 84,950 dollars with parm landscape Tim you want to think still yeah the um The map you can see the one on the right shows all of our stumps The one on the left is the four quadrants that parms is going to do for us And uh, hopefully with your approval and they gave us a good good price. It's uh, very fair in my opinion and uh With those stumps done those 676 that leaves us with about 400 currently And our plan is to grind about a hundred a month starting in may And so by may june july we'll have some more added by then but By the end of summer we should be if parms finishes up We should be totally caught up on our stumps and and the reason we're so far behind was in 19 We we stopped grinding stumps for the most part to get caught up on the ash removals that were standing dead So now we're at a point where we we want to get caught up with the stumps and stay caught up with the removals and By by allowing parms to do this for us that that's gonna that's going to get us there Any any other questions? I just have a quick comment on i i'm i'm glad to see that this this coming forward I really um, I know that you guys have done a great job as far as removing the trees and and removing the trees Is top priority because Stumps not going to fall and fall in a car So, I mean to get the trees down was it was the main thing and I think that the way you guys have handled this I commend you on it. I think this is the way to go in and i'm Happy to see this Go ahead marx i'd make a motion to approve Second foreign Motions by made by marx Seconded by jim any other discussion I was just i have a question i have a question mr. Chairman Go ahead I was just wondering so is it possible to replant in the same spot where the plant the stump is removed To replant yeah many times we're we're planting trees in the same exact spot. That's correct. Yeah, thank you Jim go ahead I just wanted to ask if I could lobby to have that quadrant done that was done in pink there That that would be closest to my district 10 I prefer the green first Let's let's flip a coin Let's leave this one alone Any other discussion without lobbying I All those in favor aye Aye Any opposed chair votes aye that is approved Thank you. Thank you guys okay 3.5 resolution 6-21 22 document 7.4 a resolution authorizing the appropriate city officials to enter into a contract with enterprise fm trust and enterprise fleet management incorporated For the lease of vehicles the disposal of vehicles and the maintenance of vehicles and the authorizing the city administrator to a Minister the lease program to the extent funds are appropriated. Is this your start or is this Actually, David will start David starts out. Okay, I can I can start out. Mr. Chairman and then I'll defer to city minister Our wolf here in a bit, but this is As you probably are familiar with this Was presented in detail in terms of the program leasing of our vehicles for dpw Especially at what we call their light duty or small mainly pickup trucks Vehicles up to one ton. So that's roughly between 50 and 60 vehicles of the fleet large portion of our fleet And quite frankly not a not a portion of the fleet that got a lot of love or a lot of priority in the past Because of other priorities with the heavy equipment that we need and the heavy equipment Is the much larger more costly? so With city administrator wolf and and the staff we we reviewed some of the proposals and He brought this to our attention with the the finance department in terms of the opportunity to lease And quite frankly, we're very excited about the program Because it will upgrade a significant portion of our fleet that is again, as I mentioned not not an area that we Typically upgrade due to priorities As well as this will provide better fuel efficiency as well as significant cost savings And we're excited about the project It was also this portion of this lease program also affects the capital moving forward So when we talk about the capital tonight the capital is built in that this lease is going to be going So just wanted to let you let you get that thought in your mind So with that if you're city administrator wolf would like to add add to the discussion. That'd be great Thank you director bevel. Yeah, I'm very excited about this. We've been talking about this for quite a while This is an integral part to the continued growth and success of the city If we all remember as part of the state of the city our number two Area of concern was our fleet our city fleet And this takes care of that so that it also allows us to free up Some of our general obligation borrowing that continue to happen year over year because for those of you that remember On a regular basis. We were replacing some of these pieces On with general obligation debt, which means that we had tenure loans That we were basically financing vehicles for so I did want to point out the number one issue That's going to supersede all of this is that the vehicles are going to be safer So we talk about cost we talk about Repairs repair cost things like that, but all of these vehicles will be new So it's also going to look better for our constituents because we're not going to be driving around in 15 and 20 year old pieces of City utility vehicles. We're actually going to have new new equipment on a regular basis And this should be a self self supporting process and program and it's it's going to be Very exciting for us to do this and it's already been taken into consideration with our Our capital improvements program that you guys are going to look at in just a few minutes. So thank you um director, um, I'm sorry Administrator wolf could you just um kind of go over it you guys that you guys did go through this with some other cities As I recall from the last thing. Yes, I go over that. No, I compare how they're Actually, all of the other municipalities that are doing this and it's also done in the private sector also um What happens is vehicles are replaced on a two to five year program depending on market depending on usage Depending on demand and what what will happen is the enterprise group will actually work with our our I believe it's rick rick nye will He'll work with them directly and it's really a hands-off operation for us We've outlined the vehicles and it's one ton or less And we're going to start with public works first And then we're going to look at expanding that into other departments Um at a later date So the goal is to have newer vehicles on a regular basis. They'll be outfitted And the only thing that we we will really have to do is oil changes and tire rotations And we'll also be able to outsource that if needed at a reduced rate They're there the The real beauty of the program is is the quick turnaround because We were able to use our our government purchasing power along with the enterprise group When we acquire vehicles we acquire them at much less value than what the general public is because of a governmental agency And our pricing through state contracts But by quickly turning the vehicles over and reselling them We actually should make money towards The value of our program and build value and equity to help fund this on an ongoing basis Versus going out into the market and borrowing funds to acquire vehicles and You could always say well, why aren't you doing that today? Well, we just the the the logistics behind it and the management of that type of Of program working with a vendor that is in that program and in that resale market in the rental business and leasing business It it takes a tremendous amount of burden off of our shoulders as well as upgrades our fleet. So again excited about the program and all the work again and with our Assistant city attorney thomas working through all the agreements and making sure that the city is protected through all this It's we're we're excited to get going is Timing is of the essence because we're placing orders right now Because the 2022 models are coming online and that's what we're looking to get in and get our order in early So that by late fall early winter we'll have our fleet coming in Any questions from anyone here? I've got a few questions um so I have been poking at the maintenance agreement and Administrator wolf had mentioned that the oil changes are our responsibility, but it looks like They're supposed to be covered in the maintenance agreement Um, if if I could get a little bit more understanding of that and there's a lot of fine print here So i'm going to default to the lawyer in the room to tell me is this a good deal And thomas did a fantastic job Um arm wrestling with enterprises. So if you can imagine enterprise is a very large company But uh thomas did a great job putting them in check and holding them in the corner Thanks, uh, there is a lot of fine print So there's there's a maintenance agreement under that maintenance agreement Oil changes would be included There isn't the requirement that we enter into a maintenance agreement with every vehicle So that that's an option and based on cost that may or may not make sense for any given vehicle So um in terms of whether You know whether that will make sense is is truly going to be that that case by case basis gotcha Thank you. Uh, is it a good deal? I think it was administrator wolf who pointed out that everyone who seems to have done this has really positive things to say It's it's weird to get a hundred percent of the people you talk to to say nice things about almost anyone Um So I think that gives that gives a lot of comfort. Um, and the the cash flow projections I think sort of speak for themselves uh directionally not a not a legal answer so much is Well, thank you. Um, and then I have thomas one follow-up for the public work staff So if we are truly not taking care of the vehicles we have now that are under a ton Um What's the operational thing going to look like when we have to do we have to take the vehicles to a place to somebody come And pick up the cars for their oil changes and other stuff. How is that going to work? well We actually do take great care of our vehicles and it is a burden because We we have meant the average age of our fleet is 12 plus years old We have some trucks 20 years old for pickup trucks So we're we're we're doing the maintenance on them. This this will actually alleviate some of it In terms of some of that ongoing preventive maintenance where we'll contract some of that out Yes, there is a little logistical Um maneuvering, but we have picked a vendor that's relatively close to our our shop So we don't think there should be a lot of time and delay in terms of that transfer back and forth and again It's on a We're going to analyze the fleet and and look at those vehicles that are used frequently That will be on that aggressive maintenance schedule and others that quite frankly there are seasonal aspects to some of our trucks And those might not get as much let's say they're not going to be maintained on a quarterly basis It might be on a semi-annual basis A good example is when you have older equipment The older equipment tends to need Not an oil change but a lot more of other things that are timely and more You know take more time take more cost and this program is going to help alleviate Some of that burden of the old equipment by Because we'll never have it long enough to have to worry about it And we'll have warranties on our on all of our new vehicles.  Yeah, what we'll do is we'll actually drive the vehicle to to a vendor that will do the oil changes and maintenance for us And then when it's done either it will be dropped off or we'll have to send someone to pick it up Thank you I have a question. Mr. Chairman hold on one second. Uh grozzi has one first and you'll be second. Oh, yeah, okay Are we going to save money? Versus the the previous Yeah Thank you Jim go ahead David have you heard anything about? Availability of vehicles. I went by a local car dealership. I go by it quite often I won't mention the name but their inventory of new vehicles is probably 50% or less than what it usually is it's enterprise having Going to have any difficulty providing with the vehicles that we need because of the You know, I guess what is it? They can't get the circuit boards or something that they put into these new cars or the computer chips Is that filtering down into the truck world? Very much so And that is one of the concerns of the timeliness of this So they can place their order for the next year's models and get early into that queue for deliveries, so But it's it's industry-wide And it's not it Yes, the pickup truck and that small that type of market is affected With the I guess it's the chips that they're having difficulty acquiring to put into the vehicles So if that would be the case and availability then David we would just we would just continue Try to make try to make do with what we have and then as they come in we're we're gradually getting into the new program That's correct. Yes. We're going to continue to operate as we have today and continue to maintain the fleet and And just be patient It's and it happens quite frankly when we buy Some of our larger dump trucks our tri axles That there's sometimes anywhere from a nine month to a 12 month lead time on some of the equipment nowadays And we just build that into our forecasting and and plan accordingly If you're ready for a motion, mr. Chairman, I'd make a motion to approve Second Okay motions made by jim seconded by marcus any other discussion on this All those in favor I Any opposed Chair votes I that is approved 3.6 capital improvement project discussion only Thank you, mr. Chairman I'm just going to try to give a high level overview tonight's only discussion The capital improvements has been already submitted and approved through the capital improvements commission But it's a good a good opportunity for us to just give you a forecast and many of these projects for those that have been on the Committee in the past have heard these Grazia you being on capital improvements commission as Also helped that now you get to hear some of this again and give you another refresher But I'm just really going to focus on The 2022 projects next year's projects even though it's a five-year plan I'm not going to take all night and quite frankly all of your time to go through everything And if you have any questions or anything, please reach out to us and we can get you more detail But I'm going to start with the streets program And I think you many of you must have seen this map that I've presented in the past. It's a city map of All of our past projects, which are the solid solid lines on the map And the dash lines are the future projects Next year the big project for street improvement is north avenue and that is from Calumet Drive All the way to Taylor Drive It's a divided boulevard section road So it's Double the the amount of pavement that we would normally do on on many of our streets So it's a 1.2 million dollar project in and of itself The other one we have some concrete work that we're continuing to do on panel replacements and replacing concrete panels and squares Mainly on Calumet Drive self-business drive Those areas that are our main arterial that is concrete. It's in good condition But there are panels that are cracked or starting to have Delaminations in them and potholes that need to be patched So we Systematically go and we'll cut those out and replace it with new concrete Next year we have five hundred thousand dollars. That's going to happen this year on a section Again next year in 2022. We're going to just leapfrog and go down the road So that will be a program that you'll see in the next couple of years As well as north 10th street. This is by north high school If anybody has gone by the cemetery or north high, there's very very bad pavement panels that are Just beyond resurfacing. We've we've attempted to resurface it over the years There's so much movement poor soils And the the asphalt peels away So we're looking to do that next year as well In addition to that the the other big project would be st. Clair avenue It's a neighborhood revitalization project between north 9th street and north 14th street So those are the the street projects Uh for 2022 I'm going to go right into parks and forestry and really the big the big item there Is our urban forestry management. You just heard from our city forester and superintendent of parks and forestry tonight That's an ongoing battle with our our community with the emerald ash borer and our urban forest But the good thing is is that we're starting to transition from removals To planting and our city forester This year we're putting in an actual gravel bed For new trees to start being able to plant more trees Get them young Get them bare roots Take care of them Get it going and then we're able to plant and they have a much higher survival rate and and growth potential And uh, it's it's an exciting proposition. We're working on that with the it's and we're utilizing actually quite frankly Part of the old police impound that was behind our service building Which is now located we were able to work with the police department move their impound area Out from the service building over to the police station And now we have this area that we're able to put some trees in and help and really Expedite the the planting process. So that's an exciting venture The other thing you'll see in 2022 A big improvement will be area evergreen 5 and this is in coordination with the anticipated new bridge that we're going to be putting in We received some funding from The dnr narda program natural resource area damage assessment fund and with that we're going to be doing some Pavement and enhancements and access to the bridge as well as some shelter upgrades And that's what that program is In addition, you see we alternate between parks and buildings and grounds our ADA handicap accessibility program. That's an annual $250,000 allotment The the grand total of that whole program is roughly a right around 2 million dollars citywide There would be any city building or anything where there's public access as well as park shelters And and so forth. So That's an ongoing Program in our parks I'm going to transition now to our city buildings for 2022 And we're doing a generator the generator at the building these the Is original to the building. So it's over 50 plus years old We're not able to really get parts and the generators inside the building So with this we're going to remove that move it to the outside of the building But as part of that project, we need to upgrade also the electrical panel That that generator will feed and then the upgraded generator will require significantly upgraded electronics along with it. So what you see is that Is being part of that project that $195,000 In addition next year, we're looking to do our vehicle wash We have the it's the original of vehicle wash bay And the the vehicle wash bay is quite narrow from the trucks Again, 50 years ago weren't nearly the size of the trucks that we have today at the facility So what we're looking to do is there's a wall that we can remove and move over roughly around I'd say eight to 12 feet to a to a post and beam That it is really a perfect spot to just widen this But when we widen it, we're also going to build a stairwell and What I would say catwalk for employees to safely Get on top of the vehicles and be able to spray down Instead of lifting up the box inside the building And not do being very effective at cleaning the inside of our vehicles, especially from the salting operations So those are the two building big building projects The next thing i'm going to go into is traffic control or street lighting This is an ongoing annual program where we attempt to upgrade our existing city street lights from What I would say the orange metal hail of the orange high pressure sodium And then we have some white lights that are metal halide This is going to the led type of light much brighter In whiter light that is Much more energy efficient So we've been systematically upgrading our lighting fixtures throughout the city There you'll see there's some within what's called a tid district That's a defined city area of blocks Where there's been development and that that development has created enough extra revenue for This infrastructure the others the other aspect of it is just citywide It'd be outside the district and it's just areas of the city that need upgrading Again, that's an that's been an ongoing program for the last three years And we're looking to go for probably another three into the future Next i'm going to go to the motor vehicle fund and really it's really scaled back because of now We're moving forward with the leasing program and pickup trucks For 2022 we're only really purchasing two pieces of equipment One's a street sweeper for 195 thousand or 295 thousand excuse me. I wish it was 195 I can make that happen and uh a skid steer What A brand name would be a bobcat. So that's what we're looking to get those two items. So And then I'm moving to I gotta find my sheet wastewater, right? I think that's the last And the big item in wastewater is really This project and it's gonna have this go up on the screen This is the Sulfide interceptor Pipeline roughly runs from North of king park all the way along the south lake shore to the wastewater treatment plant It's roughly almost two two miles in length And it's a 60 inch sewer that handles Basically half of the sewage flow to the plant approximately And it also picks up some sewage from the town of shabuigan as well through this line As you can see in little photographs down in in in the lower right corner The manhole structures and the the revetment and the the armament of stone and Concrete that was in place Was severely compromised, especially with the high water and wave action that we've been experiencing the last couple of years We're fortunate this year water's receded somewhat. It's still at a high level though. It's still it's not receded Down to where it really would be what I would say normal Water level Nevertheless, this project It will be looking to especially along the red line is going to be establishing a protective barrier of stone and revetment That will also provide an access road to maintain this line If we actually had something catastrophic it would have taken us Several days to get to this because of the severe erosion that has occurred and limited access So what this will provide is will provide a road for access as well as maintaining as well as upgrading and strengthening this this system It's in good condition. It was built in the 1930s 36 1936 And it's in quite frankly amazing condition and we've we took core samples of the concrete. It has very very good Section left in the pipe. So it's very structurally sound And it's performing at a high level today. So what we're going to do is when we do this work We're also going to clean it. However, it has sand build up and it has some With the build up it loses some capacity, but by cleaning it and we're getting this access Moving forward will be in a much better position To respond to any emergencies as well as to maintain it when it would ever need to be rehabilitated We'd have the ability to get in there and insert a liner and do a cured in place pipe at that point in the future That's eight million dollars roughly Fortunately, we've applied for some grants With some of the stimulus money potentially as well as the recovery money from the covid relief bill This activity is eligible So Ideally this won't have to be borrowed funds or go on to the rate payers for the wastewater treatment or sewage bill In other words, so we're working through that but but as a project We still want to make you aware of it and when we get a little bit further detailed down the road We will come back to the council and let you know when we're going out for bids And where the funding sources will be ultimately from Other than that at the most of the other projects are at the at the plant proper Uh, there's some clarifiers that I talked about this just annual rehab at the plant Of some of that and every year we have about a million dollars that we put in And that just goes into actual infrastructure throughout the city and quite frankly a lot of it ties in with our streets So wherever we're doing a street repair We also will look at what's underneath the street and we will add and do the repair to the sewer lines as well We don't want to rip repair a street and have the infrastructure underneath fail and after Unfortunately we'd have to go through a new street and fix the infrastructure. That's not always a good thing A good use of taxpayer dollars are our public interest as well. So Um, I know I that was a high level quick overview, but um again We're here to answer Questions and by all means take some of this and feel feel free to reach out to to my office or any of our staff And we'll provide more details of projects and again This is a plan these projects Always come back through this committee Before we go out for construction or work on them so we can provide much more detail at that stage as well Thank you, director people Thank you dean I just want to compliment the public works team This this capital improvements program Was quite a bit different than what has been done in the past And they came forward and they reviewed the projects and we really we look at the strategic planning process versus What we've done in the past years. So I want to I also want to put a little bit of a plug in there that There's an eam program that we've been talking about With council members and it's been brought up in other meetings. This is something that's going to help us with Projects like this. It's going to help us to prioritize And plan for for years in the future. So they did a great job Um We when director beable was referencing some of the grants and an upcoming funding There's the american rescue plan Where they call out that the only Only infrastructure that money can be used for is wastewater water and broadband So with wastewater and water projects upwards of 50 million dollars Coming up in the next couple of years. We are definitely going to be looking to put some money Towards these projects to reduce the The borrowing that the community is going to have to endure and the additional increase in Water and sewer costs potential. So again, great job everybody and thank you Thank you Anyone have any questions for the director or Mr. Chairman, I have a question for the administrator and then also possibly uh, David Uh Todd yesterday, it was announced Uh, I came down the pike of all the various millions of dollars that communities are going to be receiving From the federal government, uh, and shaboy can share of that is going to be 22 million dollars And I believe it has to be spent by The end of 2024 Uh, are these the dollars that you were just referencing before or are these any dollars that may filter down into the world of public works And the water utility and our waste wastewater treatment plant Thank you older born. Uh, these are the american rescue plan dollars. Uh, the city of shaboygan Um Because of the position that we're in we are actually getting 22.8 million It'll be 11.4 in each trek. So we will be getting 11.4 this year And in 11.4 next year, uh, that money is actually coming Theoretically this may already Um, so we are scrambling to make sure that we cross our t's and dot our i's Um, there the as you had stated, uh, the the treasury department did come out with a release on information yesterday And we were having um multiple meetings today with the legal municipalities and tomorrow We'll be having another overview of the guidelines and again as the government State and federal as we all know clarity is not something that is very well defined So we're still working through what we can and cannot do But as I had stated before The number one thing that was called out as far as infrastructure The only thing that as far as infrastructure that the monies can be used for is wastewater water and broadband broadband is a big A big issue. Uh, the county is receiving 23 million And they'll be focusing on broadband in some respect. We're also going to be putting the monies towards um social development as far as business relief and uh constituent relief at the lower Um lower economy levels, but we also have to remember that we don't want to have start programs That the state is going to be um rolling out also. So the state Uh, state of wisconsin is planning on rolling out Millions of dollars into municipalities And we don't want to be having the same programs Um, the other thing that I do want to point out is that they're still in process a Potential infrastructure relief bill And that will actually be something that we can seriously focus on um Projects that are in process that are shovel ready Like our water and sewer but also potentially roads and bridges Thank you Just just to follow up, uh I read I read the release yesterday from the league of municipalities and it looks like one of the flies in the ointment with this money or Get you know being able to spend it is uh shabuagan in the other cities being able to stay within the expenditure restraint restraint program Uh, is uh, is that still forthcoming on what you know, what the regulations are going to be with that? Todd? Thank you, borne. Um That is that is one of the topics that I actually brought up in the very beginning with the league Was how was this uh, this money going to affect our levy limits and our expenditure restraint as as everybody should know the city of shabuagan has um, participated in the expenditure restraint, which allows us to bring additional revenue in But it also caps us in what we can do Um, our levy limits were reduced as we all should understand um Last year we could have increased our levy by 26 cents. We went up only 15 cents um from a tax-based perspective uh, the reason we were able to um Control our our costing is in 2020 we reduced our spending because of covet and our our expenditures were reduced because of covet if the american rescue plan does allow us to compensate For 2020 2021 and and so forth for the loss and revenues that the the community would um Has had the problem is that we've already adjusted our budgets for those uh losses And if we are to pay ourselves back then we have to compensate our levy limits and our expenditure restraint Which will throw us off it won't throw us off obviously in 2020 It won't throw us off in 2021 But it we will have to make adjustments in 22 and 23 So basically long story short if you don't need it don't take it My opinion. Thanks Thank you Any other discussion or questions? Alrighty, then that's the end of the day up there Uh, next regular meeting date is may 25th 2021. Uh, I will entertain a motion to adjourn move to adjourn Second Motion has been made by marcus second by jim to adjourn all those in favor. Aye Aye Any opposed Chair votes. Aye. We are adjourned. Thank you