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RIGHT, TIME IS NOW SIX O'CLOCK.

WE'LL GO AHEAD AND CALL

[ 4B Street Improvement/Economic Development Corporation Meeting on August 4, 2026.]

THIS MEETING OF THE STREET IMPROVEMENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION TO ORDER.

IT IS TUESDAY, AUGUST 4TH, 2026.

I'D LIKE TO WELCOME EVERYBODY IN THE AUDIENCE.

UH, WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND GET THIS, UH, GET THIS PROGRAM STARTED.

AND UH, FIRST THING UP ON OUR AGENDA IS THE APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES, SO APPROVE OF THE MARCH 3RD, 2026, REGULAR MEETING MINUTES.

SO I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION ON THIS ONE.

MOTION TO APPROVE.

MOTION TO APPROVE BY COUNCILMAN, UM, FROM FARCO, AND A DIRECTOR FROM, UH, SORRY.

SECOND FROM DIRECTOR SCHULTZ.

LET'S GO AHEAD AND VOTE WITH A VERBAL VOTE OF AYE.

AYE.

AYE.

THOSE OPPOSED? ALRIGHT, SO THAT PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.

ALRIGHT, THANK YOU ALL.

LET'S MOVE ON TO NEW BUSINESS.

UH, ITEM NUMBER TWO, RECEIVE STATUS REPORT ON FISCAL YEAR 20 25, 20 26, 4 B PROJECTS.

WHO'S GOT THIS ONE? ALRIGHT.

ALL RIGHT, MARA, YOU'RE UP.

GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE GOOD.

CAN Y'ALL HEAR ME OKAY? YES.

PERFECT.

UM, SO TONIGHT, UH, WE WILL BE PRESENTING THE STREET AND SIDEWALK ASSESSMENT, THE CIDC FIVE YEAR CIP, THE CIDC ONE YEAR, CIP.

AND THEN WE'LL DO SOME PROJECT UPDATES.

AND THEN LANE WILL PRESENT THE STREET REHABS STOP SIGNS AND STREET NAME SIGN REPLACEMENT.

AND THEN BRADY WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH AN OVERVIEW OF OUR FINANCIAL STATUS AS WELL.

SO, AS YOU ALL MAY RECALL, BACK IN FEBRUARY WHEN WE CAME IN, UH, IMS WAS STILL WORKING ON ASSESSING OUR STREETS AND OUR SIDEWALKS.

THE WORK IS NOW COMPLETED AND WE RECEIVED EVERYTHING THE PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS, MID, MID-JULY.

UM, BUT JUST AN OVERVIEW OF WHY DOES PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT MATTERS.

UH, IT LETS US UNDERSTAND THE CONDITION OF OUR ROADWAY NETWORK.

WE COULD IDENTIFY THE COST EFFECTIVE MAINTENANCE STRATEGIES AND WE COULD DETERMINE WHERE THE FUNDING IS COMING FROM.

AND THIS WAY OUR DECISIONS ARE VERY TRANSPARENT AND THEY ARE ACTUALLY DATA DRIVEN.

IT'S BEST PRACTICE TO REASSESS EVERY THREE TO FIVE YEARS.

AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE DID HERE.

SO HOW DO WE USE PCI SCORES HERE IN BEDFORD? IT ALLOWS US TO COMPARE THE STREET CONDITION ACROSS THE CITY.

IT GIVES US A GENERAL ASSIGNMENT OF REPAIR METHODS AND IT ALLOWS US TO ESTIMATE THE REPAIR COST OF THE CONDITION.

THESE ARE THE GENERAL CATEGORIES WE USED.

IT GOES FROM EXCELLENT TO VERY POOR.

EXCELLENT IS 80 TO FIVE TO A HUNDRED.

VERY GOOD.

IS 70 TO 85.

GOOD IS 60 TO 70, AND FAIR IS 50 TO 60.

MARGINAL IS 40 TO 50, POOR IS 25 TO 40, AND VERY POOR IS ZERO TO 25.

THIS IS OUR CITYWIDE PCI RATING.

OUR AVERAGE CURRENTLY STANDS AT 74, WHICH FALLS IN THE VERY GOOD RANGE, AND THAT IS A VERY GOOD PLACE TO BE.

AND I JUST WANNA BE VERY TRANSPARENT, THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE THE THINGS THAT WE RECENTLY DID, THE MELLON OVERLAY THAT PUBLIC WORKS DID.

AND THE RECONSTRUCTION THAT WE CURRENT CURRENTLY HAVE FOR GREGORY AND BEDFORD COURT AREA, BECAUSE THEY DID THE DATA BACK IN MARCH AND APRIL AND WE DID ALL OF THAT BEFORE.

SO OUR SCORE IS PROBABLY A LITTLE BIT HIGHER THAN 74 CURRENTLY.

SO FROM HERE WE'RE JUST GONNA BREAK DOWN THE NUMBERS FURTHER BY CLASSIFICATION AND DISTRIBUTION.

AND IT'S JUST 74.

OUR PAVEMENT TYPES IS 21%, UM, CONCRETE AND 79% ASPHALT.

AND THESE ARE THE PERCENTAGE OF OUR STREETS, WHICH ARE MEASURES, AIRFARE, WHAT'S LOCAL AND WHAT'S COLLECTOR.

AND PLEASE, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, ASK ME.

YOU'RE GOOD.

AND THIS KIND OF SHOWS THE SAME NETWORK CONDITIONS KIND OF CLASSIFIED.

THE RED IS THE ASPHALT AND THE BLUE IS THE CONCRETE.

UM, SO WE'RE ACTUALLY IN A PRETTY GOOD SHAPE WITH MOST OF OUR ROADWAYS.

AS YOU ALL MAY RECALL ACTUALLY, UH, WHEN WE CAME IN BACK IN FEBRUARY, WE WERE SAYING THAT IMS WAS GONNA PROVIDE US WITH A GIS WEBPAGE FOR OUR STREETS AND OUR SIDEWALKS FOR ABOUT A YEAR.

AND THEN THAT EXPIRES.

THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE CURRENTLY IN THE CITY AND IT'S NOT USING IMS. WE UTILIZE ALL THE DATA THAT IMS PROVIDED US WITH AND OUR GIS CO COORDINATOR WAS ACTUALLY ABLE TO HAVE WHAT THEY DID, BUT ACTUALLY MAKE IT BETTER FOR US.

THIS WAY WE CAN ACTUALLY UTILIZE IT AND IT'S SO MUCH EASIER FOR US TO ACTUALLY USE.

WHEN YOU CLICK ON EACH SEGMENT, WE'RE JUST GONNA WALK YOU THROUGH.

WHEN YOU CLICK ON EACH SEGMENT, WHAT DO YOU SEE AND WHAT KIND OF DATA IS AVAILABLE TO YOU ALL? YOU CAN SEE THE CLASSIFICATION, YOU CAN SEE THE PCI SCORE.

YOU CAN SEE WHAT KIND OF CLASSIFICATION IT IS.

AND THEN DOWN THERE AT THE BOTTOM IT WILL SHOW YOU WHETHER IT WAS FAULTING, IF IT WAS POTHOLE, IF IT WAS CORNERS JOINTS.

IT GIVES YOU ALL THAT INFORMATION THAT YOU NEED.

WE DID THE SAME CONCEPT FOR OUR SIDEWALKS AS WELL.

UM, WHEN THEY GAVE US THE EXISTING CONDITIONS COLLECTED, WE PUT IT ALL IN HERE AND UM, IT GAVE US A VERY GOOD RATING AS WELL.

WE DO NOT HAVE ANY VERY POOR CONDITIONS FOR SIDEWALKS.

YOU MAY SEE A COUPLE THAT ARE RED, BUT IT'S ACTUALLY DUE TO THE SEGMENTING THAT WE HAVE IN THE LINE WORK.

IT IS ACTUALLY NOT A POOR CONDITION SIDE SIDEWALK CONDITION.

OKAY.

UM, I THINK THAT PROBABLY COMES TO A SHOCK TO A LOT OF PEOPLE WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT .

WE WERE SHOCKED OURSELF.

I COULD NOT BELIEVE IT.

YEAH.

UM, SO, SO WHEN, WHEN WE WERE GOING THROUGH THE, UH, THE SIDEWALK THERE, DID IT, DID IT MEASURE UNEVENNESS OF IT? IT DID.

IT LOOKED AT, IT

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LOOKED AT THE VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL.

OKAY.

SO THE WAY THAT IT MEASURED IT IS BY BOTH.

AND THERE'S A SLIDE THAT KIND OF SHOWED YOU HOW THEY SCORED THAT AS WELL.

OKAY.

THEY LOOKED AT THE VERTICAL SEPARATION AND THEY LOOKED AT THE HORIZONTAL SEPARATION AND KIND OF FIGURED OUT WHAT SCORE IT FELL WITHIN.

AND THE GOOD THING WITH THE SIDEWALKS TOO IS THAT WHEN YOU CLICK ON EACH SEGMENT, YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE IMAGES.

THEY WERE ABLE TO PROVIDE US WITH IMAGES SO WE CAN KIND OF SEE WHY IS IT LOW? AND IT LOOKS LIKE, OH, IT, IT WAS SHIFTING, OR MAYBE THERE'S ACTUALLY GRASS GROWING.

AND THAT IS WHY IT GAVE US THAT KIND OF SCORE, NOT BECAUSE THE ACTUAL SIDEWALK CONDITION ITSELF WAS BAD.

SO THE IMAGES WERE A GREAT ADDITION TO, TO THAT AS WELL.

AND THAT IS HOW KIND OF, IT'S KIND OF SIMILAR TO THE PAVEMENT IN A WAY.

UH, IT WAS DONE BY GOOD, FAIR, POOR, AND VERY POOR.

AND LIKE YOU SAID, WE DO NOT HAVE ANY VERY POOR SIDEWALKS WITHIN THE CITY, SOMEWHERE POOR.

AND THAT IS KIND OF CLOSE TO RAMPS AND AREAS THAT PROBABLY NEEDS TO BE RECONSTRUCTED.

OKAY.

BUT THEY WERE IN A FAIR AND A GOOD SHAPE CONDITION ACTUALLY.

AND WHAT, FROM WHAT IT APPEARED THERE, THERE WEREN'T TOO MANY LONG STRETCHES.

THERE'S NOT, THERE ISN'T.

SO IF IT IS IN A POOR, VERY POOR CONDITION, IT'S A SMALL LITTLE PATCH.

CORRECT.

THAT CAN BE YES.

CAN BE REPAIRED VERY QUICKLY.

THAT IS CORRECT.

OKAY.

THIS IS OUR FIVE YEAR STREET RECONSTRUCTION PLAN.

SO TO BUILD THIS LIST, WE TOOK THE DATA THAT WAS PROVIDED BY MS AND WE DROVE THE CITY STREETS OURSELVES AND WE ASSESSED THE STREETS IN PERSON.

WE COMBINED THAT IMS FINDINGS WITH ANY COMPLAINTS AND ISSUES WE HAVE RECEIVED FROM RESIDENTS FROM BEFORE, OR IF ANY OF THESE PROJECTS WERE PREVIOUSLY ON A MASTER PLAN.

WE INCORPORATED THAT AND THEN WE LOOKED AT THE AVAILABLE BUDGET AND THAT'S HOW WE WERE ABLE TO BUILD THESE PROJECTS.

THIS IS KIND OF AN OVERVIEW OF A MORE DETAILED BREAKDOWN OF THE SAME LIST OF PROJECTS.

UH, THIS IS KIND OF JUST LAID OUT BY THOROUGHFARES AND, UH, BY LOCAL NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS.

AND IT'S BY THE FISCAL YEAR.

AND THE WAY THAT WE'RE KIND OF GONNA DO THIS IS THAT EACH YEAR WE'RE GOING TO PRESENT THE PROJECTS FOR THAT YEAR AND THE COMPONENTS OF IT, AND THEN WE CAN ADD AND MODIFY AS NEEDED FOR THESE PROJECTS.

SO THIS IS JUST NOT A LIST THAT WE ARE GONNA LIVE BY AND DO IT EVERY YEAR.

IF WE FEEL LIKE THERE'S A NEED FOR A PROJECT AND IT'S NEEDED, WE WILL ASSESS AND SEE WHERE IT FITS IN WITHIN THOSE FISCAL YEARS.

BUT THIS IS A GOOD STARTING POINT FOR THE FIVE YEAR.

GOT IT.

SO LIKE EVERY YEAR WE'RE JUST GONNA REASSESS, KIND OF REASSESS IT'S OUR CURRENT LIST FOR THIS YEAR.

AND DEPENDING ON HOW A ROAD WHEN WE LOOK AT IT MAY DETERIORATE MORE.

AND SO THAT'S GONNA MOVE UP THE LIST FURTHER.

OKAY.

SURE.

VERY PROTIME DOCKETS.

THANKS.

THAT'S SO, UM, FOR THE, THE, IF YOU GO BACK TO THE MAP, I KNOW WE'VE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY FOR SOME OF THE STREETS ON THE SOUTH SIDE TO GET FUNDING FROM THE, UM, COMMUNITY BLOCK DEVELOPMENT GRANT PROGRAM.

SO, UM, IT LOOKS LIKE RANKIN IS ONE OF THE STREETS THAT WE'RE HOPING TO DO IN THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE TIMING IS TO CONSIDER THAT IF THAT WINDOW IS CLOSED, BUT, UM, I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF THESE OTHER STREETS ALSO QUALIFY FOR US SUBMITTING GRANTS FOR UNDER THAT PROGRAM.

WE CAN DEFINITELY TAKE A LOOK AND SEE WHICH ONES QUALIFY.

'CAUSE WE ALWAYS WANNA LOOK AT GRANT OPTIONS AND WHAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE.

SO WE'LL DEFINITELY EXPLORE THE OPTIONS.

RANKIN I, AGAIN, I DON'T KNOW SINCE IT'S ONE OF THE PROJECTS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS YEAR, GIVEN THAT IT WAS ON THE PREVIOUS YEAR.

AND THEN IT'S PART OF OUR DRAINAGE MASTER PLAN.

OKAY.

THAT WAS PRESENTED, UH, IN THE WORKSHOP.

SO WE, IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO EXPLORE THE OPTION OF MOVING IT, WE CAN TILL WE SEE IF IT'S AVAILABLE FOR PRINT.

OH, NO, I, I DON'T WANT MOVE IT, I JUST WANT IT, I JUST KNOW WE HAVE PETITION FOR THOSE FUNDS, UM, FOR THIS GENERAL AREA IN THE PAST.

AND SO IF THE WINDOW HAS PASSED FOR RANK, JUST THIS COLLECTION WITH CIRCLE LANE, SHIRLEY BRIAR, DONNA, AND TRU MAX OF COURSE MIGHT QUALIFY.

YES.

ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU.

WE'LL LOOK INTO THAT.

THANK YOU.

AGAIN, THIS IS JUST KIND OF AN OVERVIEW MAP WITH THE RECONSTRUCTION, THE MELLON OVERLAY PROJECTS THAT LANE WILL PRESENT HERE SHORTLY.

UM, AND ALONG WITH ANY CIP PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE CURRENTLY IN DESIGN, ANY D ANY STUFF THAT ARE IN DESIGN FOR, FROM A DEVELOPMENT ASPECT AND UNDER CONSTRUCTION, JUST TO KINDA GIVE YOU AN OVERVIEW OF THE WHOLE CITY.

AND NOW WE'RE JUST GONNA GO MORE INTO EACH PROJECT INDIVIDUALLY.

RAIN CAN DRIVE FULL RECONSTRUCTION AND IMPROVEMENT.

AS I MENTIONED, IT WAS ON THE PREVIOUS FIVE YEAR PLAN AND IT'S PART OF OUR FIVE, OR IT'S PART OF OUR FIVE YEAR DRAINAGE MASTER PLAN AS WELL.

IT WILL INCLUDE, UH, A WATERLINE REPLACEMENT BECAUSE IT'S AN AGING INFRASTRUCTURE AND IT WILL INCLUDE STORM DRAIN IMPROVEMENTS BECAUSE CURRENTLY IT IS FLOODING AND IT NEEDS SOME IMPROVEMENT AND A FULL PAVEMENT RECONSTRUCTION, THE FUNDING WILL BE A COMING OUT OF THE WATER EDC AND UH, STORM WATER CAPITAL FUNDS.

THE PROJECT, UH, I BELIEVE THE DESIGN IS ABOUT, UH, 300 TH 348,000 AND THEN THE CONSTRUCTION IS APPROXIMATELY 3 MILLION, UH, 584,000 TOTALING THE PROJECT TO COST TO BE 3 MILLION.

UH, 900, 930 $2,000.

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OKAY.

UM, HOW MUCH OF THAT IS COMING OUT OF, UH, OUR FUND HERE? THE EDC? UH, I DO NOT HAVE THAT INFORMATION ON HAND.

DO YOU BRADY 173 FOR DESIGN THIS YEAR.

OKAY.

173 FOR DESIGN THIS YEAR.

OKAY, PERFECT.

THANK YOU.

HARWOOD, UH, ROAD AND MURPHY AND HARWOOD ROAD IN CENTRAL.

THE TWO PROJECTS HERE, THESE PROJECT UPGRADES THE EXISTING TRAFFIC SIGNAL WITH 80 DA COMPLIANT CAREER PRAMS ADD FLASHING YELLOW, UH, ARROW PHASING AND ADD TO THE PEDESTRIAN SIGNAL AND REFRESHES THE PAVEMENT.

THE CITY SUBMITTED THIS PROJECT FOR HCIP, WHICH IS A HIGHWAY SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM THAT IS FEDERALLY FUNDED BY TECH DOT AND WE QUALIFIED FOR THE CONSTRUCTION COST.

SO THEY GAVE US A GRANT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION COST AND ALL WE WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR IS THE DESIGN COMPONENT AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL CLEARANCE FOR TEXTILE AND ANY OVERHEAD.

SO ALL WE WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR IS 400,000.

I BELIEVE THE DESIGN IS 200,000 AND THEN THE OVERHEAD AND ENVIRONMENTAL LATER ON WILL BE APPROXIMATELY 200,000.

THE REST OF IT WILL BE FULLY FUNDED BY THE GRANTS AND THIS APPLIES TO THIS INTERSECTION AND THAT INTERSECTION AS WELL.

OKAY.

UM, MY QUESTION IS FOR UM, FIRST OFF, WHY WERE THESE INTERSECTIONS CHOSEN? CHOSEN AND UM, WAS THIS ON OUR RADAR WHEN WE APPLIED FOR THE GRANT? UH, YE WELL, YES.

TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, WHERE THEY ARE, YES, WE'VE GOTTEN COMPLAINTS ABOUT THESE SPECIFIC INTERSECTIONS PREVIOUSLY FROM RESIDENTS.

AND THE REASON WHY THEY QUALIFIED IS BECAUSE THIS IS A SAFETY PROGRAM LIKE YOU MENTIONED.

SO IT'S AREAS AND PROJECT WITH A HISTORY OF FATAL OR INJURY ACCIDENTS.

OKAY.

SO BASED ON THAT NUMBER, THEY WERE ABLE TO QUALIFY FOR THESE GRANTS.

OKAY.

SO, SO, SO SEEING THAT, OBVIOUSLY THERE'S A NEED THERE, SO, OKAY.

AND THAT IS THE REASON WHY WE'RE MOVING FORWARD.

YES.

DIRECTOR SCHULTZ.

THANK YOU AMY.

UM, WHAT ABOUT FOREST RIDGE AND CUMMINGS? 'CAUSE THAT TOO IS A VERY DANGEROUS, UM, INTERSECTION.

IS THAT ALSO CONSIDERED IN ALL THIS? I THINK WHEN, UH, OUR CONSULTANT WAS LOOKING AT THE INTERSECTIONS AND BASED ON THE NUMBERS, THESE ARE THE ONLY TWO THAT QUALIFIED FOR THIS KIND OF GRANT.

OKAY.

I'M ASSUMING IT HAS TO BE 'CAUSE IT'S KIND A SMALLER, NOT SAYING IT'S NOT NEEDED.

YES.

BECAUSE IT'S ABSOLUTELY NEEDED.

'CAUSE I'VE HEARD FROM MANY RESIDENTS ABOUT THAT INTERSECTION.

BUT I, I'M ASSUMING FOR THE, THIS GRANT, IT HAD TO DO WITH THE LANES, HOW WIDE IT IS AND HOW MUCH TRAFFIC GOES ON IT.

YES.

WITH SIGNALIZATION TOO.

CORRECT.

OKAY.

WE, WE ABSOLUTELY HAVE FOREST AND CUMMINGS, UM, ON OUR RADAR RIGHT NOW AND WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT PRESENTLY.

AND, AND AGAIN, IT'S JUST A SMALLER SCALE THAN, THAN THIS, SO, BUT IT IS ABSOLUTELY ON OUR RADAR TO LOOK AT AND AND, AND ADDRESS IT.

YES.

TRUE CUSTOMER STABLE.

WHAT HAVE YOU DISCOVERED? WHAT'S REALLY, I MEAN IS IT MORE THAN JUST A YELLOW LIGHT AND SOME RAMPS THAT MAKE THAT INTERSECTION DANGEROUS? WE BELIEVE IT IS JUST CURRENTLY THE WAY THAT IT'S LAID, I REALLY CAN'T TELL YOU EXACTLY WHAT MAKES IT DANGEROUS.

BUT BASED ON THE ACCIDENTS, IT WAS MORE ON THE RAMPS AND JUST THE VEHICLES NOT PAYING ATTENTION AND NOT HAVING ENOUGH VISIBILITY FOR THEM.

BUT, BUT THE REPAIRS THAT WE'RE DOING PROBABLY WON'T ACHIEVE EXCELLENCE.

THE INTENT IS TO TRY TO PREVENT TO PREVENTATIVE MEASURE.

OKAY.

SAME THING ON THIS, UH, PROJECT AS WELL.

UH, THE SAME COMPONENTS AND THE SAME KIND OF FUNDING AS WELL.

AND THEN SHADY MELLOW FULL RECONSTRUCTION AND IMPROVEMENTS.

IT DOES INCLUDE FULL CONCRETE PAYMENT RECONSTRUCTION.

THE WATER LINE IS CURRENTLY A FOUR INCH WATER LINE THAT WILL BE UPSIZED TO EIGHT INCH 'CAUSE THAT IS TYPICALLY THE STANDARD FOUR RESIDENTIAL.

AND THERE WILL BE SOME STORM SEWER IMPROVEMENTS.

THIS ROAD IS CURRENTLY ALWAYS FLOODING.

WE'VE GOTTEN A LOT OF COMPLAINTS FROM RESIDENTS AND WE'VE INFORMED THEM THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE ON A LIST AT SOME POINT.

AND IT IS TIME TO BE ADDED TO THAT LIST BECAUSE THERE'S CONSTANT FLOODING IN THAT AREA.

AGAIN, THE FUNDING IS WATER, UH, REPAIR FUND, EDC AND THEN STORM WATER.

THE SEWER MAY POTENTIALLY NEED TO BE LOOKED AT AS WELL.

BUT WE'RE NOT INCLUDING IT AS PART OF THAT COMPONENT AT THE MOMENT.

BUT IT'S A POSSIBILITY.

THIS TOTAL COST DOES INCLUDE SEWER JUST IN CASE WE DO NEED TO INCORPORATE SEWER INTO THIS PROJECT AS WELL.

OKAY.

ALRIGHT.

I'M GONNA ASK, I'M GONNA ASK SAME QUESTION TO, TO BRADY BACK THERE.

SO I'M, HOW MUCH IS IT COMING FROM OUR FUND? 127,000 FOR DESIGN THIS YEAR AND 970,000 FOR CONSTRUCTION THE FOLLOWING.

GOT IT.

ALRIGHT, THANK YOU.

AND IT WILL BE A FULL CONCRETE PAVEMENT BOOK AS WELL.

ALL RIGHT.

SO YEAH, SO 127,000 THIS YEAR AND YOU SAID 970 THE FOLLOWING YEAR? YES.

GOT IT.

ALRIGHT.

AND THEN JUST QUICK UPDATES ON PROJECT PARKWOOD.

WE WILL REMOVE IT FROM THE LIST, BUT JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT IT'S FULLY COMPLETED AND DONE.

AND THEN GREGORY AND BEDFORD COURT ADDITIONS.

I KNOW WHEN WE CAME IN PREVIOUSLY IT WAS ABOUT TO GO INTO CONSTRUCTION AND NOW IT'S ACTUALLY ABOUT TO BE DONE WITH CONSTRUCTION.

WE SHOULD BE

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DONE HERE IN THE FIRST WEEK OF SEPTEMBER.

UH, CURRENTLY THEY ARE DOING THE PAVEMENTS ON, UH, PRESTWICK I BELIEVE.

UM, MCCURY IS FULLY COMPLETED AND SEWER IS FULLY COMPLETED WITH THIS PROJECT.

SO IT'S JUST PAVING AND THEN BROWN TRAIL IMPROVEMENTS.

WE'RE CURRENTLY IN 95% UNDER DESIGN.

UM, THE PLANS ARE ALMOST COMPLETED.

THE ONLY THING THAT WE'RE GONNA WORK TOWARD IS OBTAINING EASEMENTS FOR THE SIDEWALKS AND WE'RE GONNA WORK WITH OWNERS AND PROPERTY OWNERS TO TRY TO GET THOSE EASEMENTS.

OKAY.

YES, MAYOR FOR TIME DOCKETS.

THANKS MR. MAYOR.

SO WITH BROWN TRAIL, I THINK I NOTICED THAT IN THE RATING FOR THE STREET, UH, THIS SEGMENT WAS CORE MM-HMM .

SO YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY IT'LL BE RESCORED AFTER THIS PROJECT STACK.

YES, YES.

OKAY, THANKS.

IT'S GONNA TAKE ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF IN CONSTRUCTION.

YEAH, .

AND THERE'S A REASON, SO THERE WAS A REASON WHY THERE HAS BEEN A PAUSE IN THAT.

'CAUSE THERE WAS A LOT OF WORK ON BROWN CHAIR FOR QUITE SOME TIME THERE.

AND NOW IT SEEMS LIKE EVERYONE'S WONDERING WHAT'S GOING ON.

WE KIND OF WANTED TO GIVE IT A, UH, THE RESIDENTS A BREAK FROM MY UNDERSTANDING BECAUSE IT WAS QUITE LABOR INTENSIVE.

AND SO NOW COME AND KNOWING FULL WELL THAT IT'S GOING TO TAKE A YEAR AND A HALF TO GET THIS DONE.

SO, UM, SO RESIDENTS GOT THAT BREAK AND NOW WE'RE SOON TO START ON THIS ONE.

YEAH.

THE STRATEGIC PLAN IS TO APPROVE THE FIVE YEAR, UH, STREET TIP FOR THOROUGH AFFAIRS AND LOCAL.

AND THEN EACH YEAR WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT THE LIST AND PRIORITIZE PROJECTS AS NEEDED.

DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR ME BEFORE I TURN IT TO LANE? ANY QUESTIONS OVER THE LIST? UH, COUNCILOR SAMUEL.

HEY, I'M A LITTLE, UH, CONCERNED ABOUT HARWOOD AND CENTRAL 'CAUSE I THINK AS IT'S ON FACEBOOK PAGE, UM, ABOUT THE COMMER, YOU KNOW, ALL THE ACCIDENTS YEAH.

THE NOTORIOUS THINGS.

SO IF, IF WE'RE GOING TO THIS EXPENSE, SHOULDN'T WE MAYBE TAKE AN EXAMINATION OF THAT OR HAVE THEY ALREADY DONE THAT? I DON'T KNOW THAT WE'VE DONE AN ABSOLUTE DEEP DIVE.

I KNOW THAT WE'VE LOOKED AT AGAIN, WHAT ACCIDENTS OCCURRED AND THAT INFORMATION HAS BEEN PLUGGED INTO THIS TO ADDRESS EVERY SAFETY MEASURE THAT WE CAN TO ADDRESS PREVENTION OF THOSE TYPES OF ACCIDENTS.

SO I DON'T KNOW BEYOND THAT WHAT WE COULD DO OUTSIDE OF IT NOT BEING THERE.

UM, YOU KNOW, UM, BUT IF THERE'S ANYTHING ELSE.

YEAH, I THEY LOOKED AT THE, THEY, LIKE SHE MENTIONED, WE LOOKED AT ALL THE ACCIDENT, WE LOOKED AT THE TRAFFIC COUNT, WE LOOKED AT THE TIMING, AM AND PM AND THEY INCORPORATED ALL THAT INTO THEIR MODEL TO BE ABLE TO GET TO THIS DESIGN THAT TDO FELT COMFORTABLE FUNDING THAT IT'S GONNA BE A BETTER INTERSECTION.

OKAY.

THANK YOU.

AND IT'S SAFER INTERSECTION.

SAFER INTERSECTION JUST BY ADDING DR. SCHULTZ.

JUST BY ADDING THE RAMPS AND A YELLOW LIGHT, I MEAN IT'S GONNA BE A FULL TRAFFIC SIGNAL UPGRADE, SO NOT JUST A LIGHT, THE WHOLE TRAFFIC SIGNAL WILL BE MODIFIED.

UM, WE'LL WE'RE SHIFTING THINGS AS YOU CAN SEE A LITTLE BIT THIS WAY.

IT GIVES A LITTLE BIT MORE VISIBILITY FOR PEDESTRIANS WHEN THEY'RE CROSSING.

UH, SO THAT KIND OF HELPS THE VISIBILITY ASPECT OF WHEN THEY CAN SEE PEOPLE COMING.

UM, AND IT GIVES THEM A LITTLE BIT OF MORE TIME.

UM, THIS WAY IT'S NOT ALL THE WAY FURTHER UP.

IT'S A LITTLE BIT SHIFTED BACK.

OKAY.

AND WILL THOSE LIGHTS, UM, WILL THERE BE AN AUDITORY RESPONSE ON SOME OF THOSE FOR LIKE PEDESTRIAN WALKING? IS THAT PART OF THIS UPGRADE? IT SHOULD MATCH EVERYTHING THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE.

OKAY.

ALRIGHT.

BECAUSE I THINK THAT MIGHT BE AN UPGRADE IF WE DO FOR LIKE AN AUDITORY FOR THOSE WHO ARE HEARING IMPAIRED VISUAL IMPAIRMENT.

AND I THINK, I THINK WHEN WE WERE LOOKING AT ALL OF THAT, YEAH, WE INCORPORATED ALL OF OUR DESIGNS AND EVERYTHING THAT WE HAVE.

UM, SO THEY, AND I THINK WHENEVER THEY ASK FOR THE FUNDING, WE PUT THE HIGHEST AMOUNT AND THE BIGGEST UPGRADES.

THIS WAY WE GET THE MOST FUNDING FOR THE PROJECT.

THIS WAY WE DON'T WANT, WE DON'T OWE ANYTHING.

OKAY.

OTHER THAN FOR THE DESIGN.

OKAY.

CORRECT.

ALRIGHT, ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS OVER THE PROJECTS? FROM WHAT I CAN TELL, LOOKING, ESPECIALLY LOOKING OVER THE FIVE YEAR CIP, IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AT OUR, YOU KNOW, PAVEMENT INDEX AND WHERE THE PROBLEM AREAS ARE, UM, WE TAKE CARE OF QUITE A BIT OF THEM WITHIN THESE FIVE YEARS.

MATTER OF FACT, ALMOST, ALMOST ALL OF THE ONES THAT ARE IN THIS, UH, POOR CONDITION.

UM, SO THAT'S GOOD TO SEE.

THAT'S BEEN ONE OF MY, ONE OF MY GOALS.

SO, UH, IN LOOKING AT ALL THIS, LOOKING AT OUR FIVE YEAR OUTLOOK AND, AND OUR CIP FROM EVERYTHING AND OUR NEW PAVEMENT INDEX, UM, WOULD IT BE YOUR ASSESSMENT THAT WE WOULD, UM, FOR THE MOST PART STAY WITHIN A COMFORTABLE, UH, UH, PAYMENT RATING OF LIKE A 74, 75 OR HIGHER? MY INTENT IS TO GET IT HIGHER THAN WHERE WE ARE.

SO SOMEWHERE 79 OR EVEN EIGHT, THE PERFECT WOULD BE GETTING UP TO 80.

THAT'S KIND OF MY GOAL.

I MEAN, AT ONE POINT WE WERE, WE, WE WERE HIRED AROUND 80 AFTER WE DID, UM, HARWOOD AND SOME OF THE OTHER MAJOR THOROUGHFARES, WHICH IT DIDN'T TAKE MUCH.

HARWOOD HAD A POTHOLE EVERY HUNDRED YARDS, UM, AND, AND IT WAS, AND IT'S A BIG STRETCH OF, UH, OF OUR CITY.

SO TO GET THAT SCORE UP DIDN'T TAKE MUCH.

BUT, UM, I, I LIKE TO SEE THAT, I LIKE TO SEE US REACH

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THAT GOAL AND, AND REACHING IT TO, YOU KNOW, 80.

BUT I MEAN, GENERALLY SPEAKING, OUR ROADS ARE, ARE IN GREAT CONDITION AND I KNOW THAT WE'RE, WE'RE TAKING CARE OF A LOT OF THESE AS THEY PULL UP.

SO I'M, I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT.

'CAUSE IT WAS BEEN ONE OF MY BIGGEST WORRIES IS ARE WE GONNA FALL BEHIND? YEAH.

AND SO IN YOUR MIND WITH THIS FIVE YEAR, WE, AS LONG AS WE'RE FOLLOWING THE FIVE YEAR AND PUBLIC WORK IS MAINTAINING THE ROADS WITH ME AND OVERLAY AND HA FIVE, I THINK WE'LL BE IN A PRETTY GOOD SHAPE, PRETTY GOOD SHAPE AND EVEN EXCEED WHERE WE'RE AT RIGHT NOW AND EVEN EXCEED THAT.

CORRECT.

PERFECT.

ALRIGHT, REAL QUICK, COUNCIL MEMBER FARCO, UM, MURPHY DRIVE FROM CUMMINGS TO, TO HARWOOD, WE GOT A LOT OF COMMERCIAL TRAFFIC BECAUSE IS IT TRA THAT'S DOING CONSTRUCTION ON THE TOWERS AND EVERYTHING LIKE THAT? UM, IS THAT THE PROBLEM THAT THAT STREET IS DETERIORATING OR IS IT JUST NORMAL? I I SEE A SMILE KIND OF NO, NOTHING.

YOU OKAY.

COME UP TO? I DUNNO THAT I HAVE AN ANSWER.

I MEAN, VEHICLES CREATE, YOU KNOW, JUST TRIPS.

SO, BUT THERE'S A LOT MORE COMMERCIAL GOING THROUGH A RESIDENTIAL AREA AND THAT, AND I KNOW THAT THAT CAN CREATE A TON OF, UH, OF STRESS ON JUST NORMAL RATHER THAN, IT'S NOT CONCRETE, ISN'T IT JUST OVERLAY? WELL REMEMBER ON MURPHY DRIVE UNDERNEATH OUR STORM DRAIN IS T'S MAIN LINE THAT RUNS ALL THE WAY DOWN THAT, AND WE HAVE SOME ISSUES IN OUR STORM DRAIN LINE DOWN THAT, BUT WE FOUND OVER THE YEARS AND WE'VE TRIED REPAIRS, BUT AT ONE POINT WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO COME BACK THROUGH TO THAT WITH MORE HEAVINESS WITH ALL THAT STUFF.

AND NOW THAT OUR STORM DRAIN IS SEPARATING A LITTLE BIT, WE'RE GONNA SEE MORE AND MORE PROBLEMS WITH THAT.

BUT WE'LL HAVE TO LOOK INTO THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE AND ASSESS IT A LITTLE BIT MORE.

I JUST WORRY WITH THE AMOUNT OF COMMERCIAL TRAFFIC THAT GOES, THERE'S MORE TRUCKS THAT GO DOWN THERE THAN NORMAL ON ANY OF OUR OTHER, UM, RESIDENTIAL STREETS.

AND WE'LL DEFINITELY KEEP THAT STREET IN MIND AND KEEP REASSESSING AND LOOKING AT THE CONDITIONS OF IT AS WELL.

MR. MAYOR? UH, YES.

DIRECTOR OTTO, SPEAKING OF MURPHY, I MAY BE AHEAD OF MYSELF, BUT I NOTICE THAT MURPHY IS SCHEDULED FOR, UH, MILL OVERLAY AND THEN THE TOTAL REBUILD IN A COUPLE YEARS, CORRECT? CORRECT.

SO WE'RE GONNA DO SOMETHING TWICE.

SO SOME OF THEM, WE DO THE MAINTENANCE JUST SO IT DOESN'T FALL DRAMATICALLY.

AND THEN WHEN WE COME IN FOR RE FULL RECONSTRUCTION THIS WAY IT'S AT LEAST MAINTAINED AND WE'RE NOT GETTING THE SCORES ALL THE WAY DOWN AND WE'RE CAUSING MORE DAMAGE TO WHATEVER INFRASTRUCTURE IS UNDERNEATH IT.

SO FOR INSTANCE, BEDFORD, UH, ROAD, IT WILL ULTIMATELY BE MELLOW AND OVERLAID AND ULTIMATELY WHEN WE COME IN FIVE YEARS, IT WILL BE A FULL RECONSTRUCTION.

BUT THAT'S THE INTERIM SOLUTION TILL WE'RE ABLE TO GET FUNDING TO DO A FULL RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT.

OKAY.

WELL MURPHY IS, 'CAUSE I DRIVE IT EVERY DAY GOING TO THE SENIOR CENTER AND THAT, AND TRA DID A TERRIBLE JOB WHEN THEY REBUILT THAT HOOK ROAD WHEN THEY PUT IN THAT LINE.

I MEAN, IT'S TERRIBLE.

EVEN DOWN ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF HARWOOD, THERE'S STILL HOLES AND I NOTICED YOU FILL THE HOLE UP ON 3,600 OR 6, 3600 BLOCK OF MURPHY AND YOU FINALLY FILLED THAT HOLE, BUT THERE'S STILL SOME HOLES DOWN ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF ON HARWOOD.

SO, SO YOU'RE GOING TO, WE'RE GONNA DO MURPHY TWICE IS UH, IS THAT CORRECT? CORRECT.

ONE WILL BE A MAINTENANCE AND THEN, AND THEN THE OTHER WILL BE A FULL RECONSTRUCTION.

CORRECT.

AND WHEN'S IT SLATED? UH, IS YOUR, IS IT THIS YEAR? SO FOR THIS COMING YEAR AND THEN THE, THIS YEAR THEN IN 20 29 30.

AND THEN OUR IS 2029 AND THAT'S DESIGNED, SO IT'S GONNA TAKE ANOTHER YEAR TILL WE GO INTO CONSTRUCTION.

SO WE'RE LOOKING AT 30, 31 IS WHEN WE'LL ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO TAKE TO CONSTRUCTION.

AND WHAT'S TRA GONNA DO ABOUT THEIRS? I THEIR LINE UNDERNEATH THAT, I, I THINK THE LINE WILL, WILL STAY THERE.

SO WHENEVER WE COME AND DO THE FULL RESEARCH, HE, HE'S SHAKING HIS HANDS SO HE MUST KNOW SOMETHING.

YEAH, IT'S GONNA STAY THERE.

YEAH.

SO THE LINE, THE LINE'S STAYING THERE, WE GO THROUGH.

YEAH.

OKAY.

ALRIGHT.

SO JUST AS A SUMMARY, SO I MEAN THAT'S MOSTLY, THIS IS JUST MAKING SURE THAT MURPHY DOESN'T DETERIORATE TO THE POINT WHERE IT'S GONNA COST US WAY MORE TO DO, UH, EVEN MORE, YOU KNOW, DOWN THE ROAD.

CORRECT.

SO IT'S JUST MAINTAINING IT FOR THIS, THIS TIME PERIOD AND THEN YEAH.

COMPLETELY DO A FULL RECONSTRUCTION AFTERWARDS.

YEAH, THAT'S FINE.

IT'S TERRIBLE NOW.

IT NEEDS, NEEDS TO BE FIXED, IT AND, AND IT IS.

AND, AND THAT'S WHY IT'S SLATED TO BE FIXED, WHICH IS GOOD.

BUT I, I HEAR YOUR UNDERSTANDING ABOUT, UM, GOING IN TWICE, BUT THAT'S, YOU KNOW, THAT'S THE REASON IS IS I, I JUST WANNA BE SURE I UNDERSTOOD EVERYTHING OKAY.

BECAUSE I DON'T THINK ANYBODY WANTS TO WAIT UNTIL 2031.

I DON'T .

I DON'T .

EXACTLY.

ALL RIGHT.

VERY GOOD.

ALRIGHT, ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS FOR THE PROJECTS? ALRIGHT, THANK YOU.

RIGHT, THANK YOU.

VERY GOOD.

VERY GOOD, MARK.

ALL RIGHT, GOOD EVENING COMMITTEE MEMBERS MAKE A QUICK, UH, INTRODUCTION REAL QUICK IN ATTENDANCE IS OUR STREET DRAINAGE AND TRAFFIC MANAGER DON STRANGE.

HE

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JOINS US, UH, WITH UH, SEVERAL YEARS OF EXPERIENCE, UH, SERVING MUNICIPALITIES IN THE NORTH TEXAS AREA AND HE IS JUST A GREAT ADDITION TO OUR TEAM.

ALRIGHT, WELCOME ABOARD DON .

OKAY, SO SOME BACKGROUND AND, AND JUST KIND OF UNDERSTANDING, IF YOU WILL, TO KIND OF CURTAIL SOME QUESTIONS.

MAR'S, GREAT TEAM ENGINEERING.

THEY, THEY BUILD IT PUBLIC WORKS, MAINTAINS IT.

OKAY.

THAT'S THE, THAT'S THE IDEOLOGY THERE.

UM, EVERYTHING AS WE PROGRESS THROUGH THE SLIDES, IT'S EVERYTHING THAT WE'VE COMPLETED AND THEN AS WE SHIFT, IT'S EVERYTHING THAT WE'RE GONNA PROPOSE TO DO.

OKAY? UH, THROUGH THE FOUR B FUND OF COURSE.

SO, UH, DOWN AND QUITE QUIETLY, I WOULD SAY QUITE QUIETLY, UH, IN THE BELL MANOR SUBDIVISION, THIS WENT OFF WITHOUT A HITCH.

UH, ZERO COMPLAINTS TRULY.

UH, WE'VE GOT 13 STREETS COMPLETED, UH, OVER A MILLION DOLLAR PROJECT OF MILL OVERLAY ON EVERYTHING THAT YOU SEE HIGHLIGHTED HERE.

AND IT WAS JUST A GREAT FIRST PROJECT FOR ME.

SO I WAS REALLY HAPPY TO SEE THIS COMPLETED.

UM, UH, LARGE SECTION OF THIS THROUGH THE, UH, IMS DATA AND SCORING WAS THAT DEEP ORANGE, RED, DEEP, YELLOW COLOR.

SO IT WAS NEEDED, ABSOLUTELY NEEDED.

COMPLETE THOUGH.

DONE.

UH, IT LOOKS LIKE SOME OF MY PICTURES ARE JUST CUT OFF JUST A LITTLE BIT HERE, BUT I JUST, UH, A LITTLE BIT OF EDUCATION HERE FOR PUBLIC WORKS.

IT'S TWO TYPES OF OPERATIONS, OKAY? WE HAVE CONTRACTUAL AND WE HAVE IN-HOUSE OPERATION METHODS, OKAY? WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS ACTUALLY REAL TIME, UH, PHOTOS FROM THIS YEAR FOR THE MILL AND OVERLAY WITH REYNOLDS ASPHALT CONCRETE.

YOU GOT THE MILLING ON THE LEFT SIDE AND THE PAVING ON THE RIGHT SIDE.

CONTRACTUALLY, WE'RE ABLE TO GET, UH, GET DONE COMPLETE, EXCUSE ME, ABOUT 2100 LINEAR FEET OF CURB AND GUTTER, UH, ABOUT 1100 SIDEWALKS IN VARIOUS LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT THE CITY.

AND ZERO SLAB LIFTING, SLAB LIFTING IS EXACTLY WHAT SOUNDS LIKE IT'S A BASE STABILIZATION METHOD TO WHERE THERE YOU'RE GOING TO BE INJECTING FOAM AS A STABILIZER UNDERNEATH A SIDEWALK PORTION OR MAYBE EVEN A STREET PORTION AND REESTABLISH THAT A MUCH SMALLER COST TO COMPLETELY REHABBING OR PUT TEARING OUT A, A LARGE SECTION OR PANEL REPLACEMENT.

AND IT'S A, A COST SAVINGS.

THERE, YOU SEE A ZERO THERE BECAUSE IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT AND TRYING TO BRING ONLINE AS WE CONTINUE ASSESSMENTS WITH REHAB METHODS MOVING FORWARD.

OKAY.

ANY QUESTIONS? OKAY.

UH, WE'LL MOVE CONTRACTUALLY AGAIN TO ASPHALT, UM, MILL AND OVERLAY.

SO I JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU SOME PRIOR YEARS FOR THE TOTAL TOTAL LINEAR FOOT THAT WE COMPLETED OVER THE, OVER THOSE YEARS.

WE GOT 20 IN 20, 23, 24, UH, LESS, 15,000 IN 24, 25.

WE GOT JUST A LITTLE BIT LESS OF 25, UH, IN 20 25, 20 26 OF 20,000 LINEAR FEET.

AND WE EX WE ARE SET TO EXCEED THAT, THIS AS PROPOSED FOR NEXT YEAR.

OKAY.

UM, ANOTHER METHOD THAT WE'VE PREVIOUSLY DONE IN BEDFORD, UH, BEDFORD IS CRACK CEILING AND HA FIVE H HA FIVE IS ON A PAUSE FOR THE MOMENT AND CRACK CEILING, WE DIDN'T, WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY CRACK CEILING, UH, PRIOR TO MY ASSUMING THE DEPARTMENT AND TRYING TO GET OPERATIONS MOVING FORWARD.

SO WE'RE JUST ASSESSING NOW THAT WE HAVE I'S DATA WHAT STREETS NEED THE CRACK CEILING, BECAUSE TYPICALLY, UM, IF THEY'RE AT A SAVEABLE THRESHOLD GRADE RATING, IF YOU WILL, UH, AND THEY'VE BEEN MILLED AND OVERLAID PREVIOUSLY ABOUT THREE, TWO TO THREE TO FOUR YEARS IS YOUR NEXT REHABILITATION METHOD.

AND THAT FIRST REHABILITATION IS CRACK SEAL.

AND I'LL, I'LL COVER THAT IN THE NEXT SLIDE HERE.

SO IN-HOUSE AS WELL, UH, AGAIN, WE HAVE CONTRACTUAL MONEY AND THEN OUR IN-HOUSE MONEY AS WELL, WE DID ABOUT 90 SQUARE YARDS OF SIDEWALKS IN-HOUSE.

AND THOSE ARE IN VARIOUS LOCATIONS.

UH, NEXT TIME I'LL MAYBE HAVE A HEAT MAP OF THOSE LOCATIONS SO YOU CAN SEE HOW WE'RE SPREADING, SPREADING THAT MAINTENANCE AROUND THE CITY.

UM, FOR PANEL REPLACEMENTS, THAT'S KIND OF WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT.

UM, PREVIOUSLY WE DIDN'T HAVE IN-HOUSE CAPABILITIES TO REPLACE CONCRETE PANELS, UH, WITH SOME EDUCATION, SOME TRAINING, SOME GETTING SOME TOOLS.

WE'RE GONNA TRY TO TAKE ON A BIGGER BITE AT MOVING AWAY FROM CONTRACTUAL PANEL REPLACEMENTS AND MOVING THAT TO IN-HOUSE.

THAT WAY WE'RE NOT PAYING SUCH A PREMIUM ON THOSE REPAIRS.

SO THAT NUMBER SHOULD AND WILL INCREASE NEXT YEAR.

ASPHALT, AS YOU SAW FROM A PREVIOUS SLIDE, WE'RE ABOUT EIGHT 79% ASPHALT, SO WE'RE ASPHALT HEAVY IN THIS COMMUNITY.

UH, WE DID IN-HOUSE ABOUT A HUNDRED AND LESS THAN 190 TONS OVER THE YEAR.

AND THAT'S POTHOLE PATCHING, THAT'S THE SKIN PATCHING, IF YOU WILL, ALONG MURPHY DRIVE MAYBE.

AND THEN SOME LARGER ASPHALT REPAIRS AS WELL.

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UM, MAYBE I, I'M SKIPPING SOMETHING HERE.

SO 2026, UM, WE BROUGHT ON A NEW SIGNAL FOR THIS YEAR AS WELL.

UH, INCREASING FROM 27 TO 28 TOTALIZED SIGNAL LOC, LOCATIONS AND THAT ALL THAT WORK AND MAINTENANCE OVER THE, OVER THE YEAR, UH, TO YEAR TO DATE IS ABOUT 402 WORK ORDERS.

UM, WE'RE STILL WORKING IN THAT SOUTHERN SECTION OF THE CITY, WHICH IS WEST OF WEST PARK, EAST OF FOREST RIDGE, NORTH OF PIPELINE AND SOUTH OF 180 3 FOR STOP SIGN AND, AND STREET NAME REPLACEMENTS IN THAT AREA.

THAT DOES NOT, THAT'S NOT SAYING THAT WE'RE NOT DOING IT ACROSS THE CITY, BUT THAT'S THE FOCUSED FOCAL AREA.

AND THEN WE HAVE A PROPOSED PLAN TO MAKE SURE WE'RE APPROACHING ZONES ALL ACROSS THE CITY WITHIN BUDGET.

QUESTIONS HERE? YEP.

COUNCIL SABLE.

UM, SO YOU SAID H FIVE IS ON HOLD? IS THAT, THAT TREATMENT THAT WE AT A FEW YEARS AGO? YEAH, THAT WAS SUPERB.

.

I MEAN THAT'S HOW IT WAS SOLD TO US.

IS IT NOT SO SUPER? SO IT'S, IT'S, IT'S NOT THAT IT'S, UH, I DON'T WANNA SAY ONE WAY OR THE OTHER, IT'S JUST WE'RE EVALUATING ON HOW THAT WAS TREATED.

SO THERE WERE A LOT OF STREETS TREATED IN THE PREVIOUS YEARS AND WE JUST WANNA SEE HOW IT'S PERFORMING AND TRULY, IF IT'S NOT WORTH THE BANGING OF OUR BUCK, WE MIGHT GO A DIFFERENT ROUTE.

AND AND SO YOU, YOU'RE, YOU'RE ANALYZING WHAT WE'VE ALREADY DONE TO SEE IF IT'S DOING WHAT IT'S SUPPOSED TO DO, CORRECT? CORRECT.

AND THEN YOU'VE ALSO SAID THAT WE WERE ASPHALT HEAVY FOR A CITY, SO OUR CITY HAS MORE ASPHALT THAN AVERAGE CITY? UH, UH, I MEAN, I WOULD SAY IT JUST HOW THE CITY'S CONSTRUCTED TYPICALLY, BUT I MEAN, UH, HONESTLY, IT DEPENDS ON HOW A CITY WANTS TO INVEST IN EITHER CONCRETE OR ASPHALT ITSELF.

OKAY.

SO IT JUST, IT JUST VARIES FROM CITY TO CITY AND LIFTING CONCRETE.

SO YOU'RE LOOKING AT GETTING INTO THAT AS A ADDITIONAL SERVICE.

UM, SO YOU WON'T HAVE TO TEAR OUT SIDEWALKS, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO JUST LIFT THEM UP, CORRECT.

AS WELL AS STREETS.

MM-HMM .

YES, MA'AM.

SO WHERE YOU SEE BIRD BASS CURB BREAKS, THE, THE CONCRETE'S GONNA DO SEVERAL THINGS, AND ONE OF THOSE THINGS IS, IS CRACK AND BREAK, BUT IT'S STILL FUNCTIONING.

IT'S, IT MIGHT, IT MAY STILL BE TIED IN VIA THE REBAR.

THE, THE JOINTS MAY NOT BE AS SEPARATED, BUT IF IT'S STABILIZED AND SUPPORTED, IT COULD STILL BE SAVED.

THANK YOU.

MM-HMM .

OKAY.

SO WHAT'S PROPOSED FOR 2027? MUCH, MUCH LIKE ENGINEERING'S PLAN, THIS IS VERY FLUID FLEXIBLE.

UH, SOME OF THE STREETS MIGHT, UH, MIGHT, MAY, UH, NOT GET TO OVER MILL AND OVERLAY, BUT THIS IS WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO PROJECT WITH THAT SAID, MURPHY DRIVE IS SELECTED ON THERE WITH POTENTIAL UNDERSTANDING THAT IT MAY GET RIPPED OUT HERE IN A COUPLE OF YEARS.

THAT'S JUST BECAUSE OF THE CONDITION THAT IT'S IN RIGHT NOW.

UM, YOU KNOW, IF WE WERE TO MILL OVERLAY IT TODAY, WE'RE STILL LOOKING AT POTENTIALLY AFTER DESIGN AND GETTING TO CONSTRUCTION PROBABLY ABOUT FOUR YEARS.

AND WE DON'T WANNA DEAL WITH, UH, THE CALL VOLUMES OR THE COMPLAINTS THAT COME IN REGARDING THAT.

SO IF IT, IF WE CAN GET AND SPEND A SMALL PORTION OF THE BUDGET ON, ON MILLING AND OVERLAYING THAT LARGE SECTION AND ONLY A PORTION OF IT, IT TRULY, UH, WAS IDENTIFIED FOR, FOR RECONSTRUCTION, IT WASN'T THE ENTIRE LENGTH.

SO I MEAN, NOW IF, IF ONLY A PORTION OF IT GETS RECONSTRUCTED AND A PORTION OF IT GETS MILL AND OVERLAID, THAT CAN, UH, SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASES THAT PCI OF THAT SEGMENT OF ROAD.

OKAY.

SO YOU'RE LOOKING AT THAT NORTHWEST SECTION, UH, THAT SIMPSON TERRACE AREA? UM, I'M NOT SAYING THAT WE'LL GET EVERYTHING COMPLETED THIS YEAR.

UH, WE'RE STILL WAITING FOR OUR ESTIMATES, UH, THROUGH OUR, OUR, OUR CON UH, CONTRACT PARTNERS, UH, ALSO THROUGH TART COUNTY AS WELL, JUST TO SEE WHAT CAN BE COMPLETED.

BUT THIS IS THE AREA AND IT COINCIDES WITH THE DATA, UH, PROVIDED BY IMS. OKAY.

ANY QUESTIONS HERE? IT'S A CRACK CEILING.

IT'S, UH, ONE OF THOSE ONES WITH THE GOOSE EGG.

WE'RE STILL, WE ARE EVALUATING THE ENTIRE STREET NETWORK, BUT WE, WE DO SEE THAT SOME OF THESE OVERLAYS FROM YEARS PAST.

I THINK MOST OF THESE OVERLAYS ARE EITHER A YEAR, TWO YEARS TO THREE YEARS IN AGE.

THAT'S WHERE THAT MAINTENANCE, THAT NEXT REHABILITATION MAINTENANCE STEP COMES IN, WHICH IS CRACK CEILING.

YES.

THERE AGAIN, I SEE, UH MM-HMM WOODSON AND WE JUST REBUILD WOODSON WOODSON'S I BELIEVE IS ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF A YEAR OLD.

YEP.

YES SIR.

AND YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO RE REDO IT.

THIS IS, UH, THIS

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IS JUST MAINTENANCE CRACK SEAL.

THIS IS CRACK CRACK CEILING.

CRACK SEAL.

YES SIR.

IT'S ALREADY THAT BAD.

UH, IT, IT'S JUST A MAINTENANCE REHAB IF THERE'S, I KNOW THEY DUG A TRENCH CROSS THERE TO SO THAT, THAT WAS JUST THAT SEWER.

YES, SIR.

I MEAN FOR STORM SEWER.

YES SIR.

UH, DUE TO, UH, I THINK A DEVELOPMENT COMING IN THAT IS CORRECT.

THAT IS DUE TO A DEVELOPMENT THAT THAT WAS NOT SOMETHING THAT, SORRY, THAT WAS NOT SOMETHING THAT THE CITY HAD TO DO.

THAT IS SOMETHING ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT.

RIGHT? I JUST, BUT CORRECT BECAUSE OF THAT HE'LL HAVE TO CRACK SEAL IT.

NOT MORE SO JUST 'CAUSE OF THAT.

IT WILL GET TREATED AS, AS AS WE GO.

BUT AS ROCKS AND, AND AS THE ASPHALT ROAD CRACKS, JUST LIKE CONCRETE DOES, UH, THERE'S THINGS LIKE SMALL ROCKS OR DEBRIS INCOMPRESSIBLE THAT GET INTO THOSE CRACKS.

IT COULD POTENTIALLY HURT THE CONCRETE EVEN FURTHER.

SO WHEN THOSE CRACKS START TO SHOW IN THE ASPHALT, THAT'S THE TIME TO START COVERING THEM UP.

OKAY.

I JUST WONDER, THERE AGAIN IS, IS LESS THAN TWO YEARS THAT YOU'VE DONE IT, SO THAT'S WHY I ASKED THE QUESTION.

WELL, I MEAN, UH, SO, SO WHAT I'M, WHAT I'M GETTING AT FROM THIS IS THAT THESE ARE ON YOUR RADAR TO BASICALLY GO THROUGH AND IF, IF THERE ARE SOME CRACKS CORRECT.

TO REPAIR THEM.

YES.

UM, THAT BEING SAID, SINCE IT IS A YEAR ROAD VERY WELL COULD BE THAT WOODSON DOESN'T HAVE ANY.

ABSOLUTELY.

AND IN THAT CASE, WE'RE NOT CRACK SEALING ANYTHING.

NO.

UM, THAT ALSO BRINGS ME TO ANOTHER POINT IS THAT OBVIOUSLY THESE, THESE ARE ON YOUR RADAR BECAUSE OF WHEN THEY WERE DONE.

SO THEY WILL TAKE PRIORITY.

ARE THESE THE ONLY ONES YOU'RE DOING WITHIN THE YEAR FOR CRACK SEAL? THESE PLANS ARE, ARE FLEXIBLE MM-HMM .

AND THIS IS ALL BUDGET RELATED.

SO WE DO HAVE OUR, OUR POT OF MONEY FOR FOUR B.

YES.

SO THAT'S INCLUDING ALL MILL AND OVERLAY, ALL CRACK SEALING EVERY, ANY OTHER TREATMENT THAT WE WOULD ALLOW.

SO WE'RE GONNA TRY TO PUT ALL TYPES OF REHABS TOGETHER TO MAXIMIZE THAT BUDGET.

OKAY.

SO VERY WELL COULD BE OTHER STREETS AS WELL THROUGHOUT THE CITY? IT COULD BE, YES SIR.

OKAY.

SO, SO AGAIN, THIS IS JUST WHAT YOU'RE SHOWING US IS WHAT POTENTIALLY WE COULD BE DO FOR CRACK CEILING, NOT WHETHER IT'S GOING TO BE DONE OR NOT.

YES, SIR.

ON THIS ONE.

OKAY.

IT'S JUST ON OUR RADAR COUNCIL MEMBER SABLE, WE, I MUST APOLOGIZE LING WE'RE JUST NOT USED TO EFFICIENCY.

WE'RE NOT YEAH, EXACTLY.

.

AND WE'VE GONE FOR A LONG YEAR.

LIKE WE USUALLY ARE USED TO WAITING 10 YEARS TO HAVE CRACK CEILING DONE.

SO WHEN WE'RE ASKING LIKE TWO YEARS, IT'S LIKE REALLY TWO YEARS.

AND I THINK THAT'S MY PROBLEM WITH IT.

I THINK, WELL GOSH, I'M SEEING THE SAME THING STEVE IS SEEING THAT WE, WE JUST DON'T, DIDN'T DO THAT BEFORE.

WE, WE ALWAYS WAIT.

WE DIDN'T HAVE HATE AND REPEAT .

I GUESS IT'S A SIMPLE WAY OF SAYING IT.

I I I WILL SAY THERE'S JUST, THERE'S A HEAVY FOCUS ON INFRASTRUCTURE.

I, I BELIEVE THE ENGINEERING TEAM AND PUBLIC WORKS BOTH UNDERSTAND AND WE'RE DEFINITELY COORDINATING TOGETHER TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S NO OVERLAP.

HEY, WE JUST MILLED AND OVERLAYED THAT PROJECT AND VERY NEXT YEAR THAT'S GETTING RIPPED OUT.

THAT'S NOT THE CASE.

THE COMMUNICATIONS GOING BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THE TWO DEPARTMENTS AND WE'RE EVALUATING THE ENTIRE, UH, THE ENTIRE SYSTEM.

ESPECIALLY NOW THAT WE HAVE THE IMS DATA.

OH.

SO LIKE YOU SAID, WE JUST, WE HAVEN'T HAD THIS BEFORE .

IT'S KIND OF NICE.

I, I I WILL SAY I JUST STARTED, UH, 10 MONTHS AGO AND YOU KNOW, PART OF, PART OF MY, PART OF MY ASSESSMENT OF SHOULD I COME HERE TO THE CITY OF BEDFORD WAS TRAVELING THE STREETS AND LOOKING AT THE CONDITION.

AND I WILL SAY CITY OF BEDFORD STREETS, I KNOW WE HAVE THINGS HERE AND THERE, BUT THEY'RE RATHER, RATHER GOOD.

AND JUST TO SEE THE YEAH.

DRIVE TO SEE, TO SEE THE CONDITION THAT THEY'RE IN.

I I THINK WE'RE IN VERY GOOD SHAPE.

YEAH.

SOME EXCEPTIONS THOUGH, WHAT YOU POINTED OUT.

SO THAT'S WHY EXACTLY.

ALWAYS EXCEPTIONS.

NO, NO, THANK, THANK YOU LANE FOR THAT.

UM, YEAH, TO THAT, TO THAT POINT, YEAH.

WE'RE NOT USED TO, WE'RE NOT USED TO THIS LEVEL OF MAINTENANCE AND CARE THAT WE'VE HAD IN THE CITY FOR, FOR MANY YEARS.

SO, UH, IT IS REFRESHING TO SEE THAT WE ARE ON IT AND WE'RE NOT LETTING THESE THINGS, AND WE'RE NOT LETTING THESE THINGS SLIP FOR MANY YEARS.

ABSOLUTELY.

UM, AND THEN GET INTO DISREPAIR AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN WE HAVE TO DO A FULL RECONSTRUCTION BECAUSE WE DIDN'T PAY ATTENTION.

SO YEAH, IT'S GOOD.

THERE ARE SEVERAL SETS OF TEAMS EYES ON FOR SURE.

VERY GOOD.

COUNCIL MEMBER.

FAR HOW MUCH DOWN? I MEAN, 'CAUSE WE DON'T THINK ABOUT IT.

WE, WE GET INCLEMENT WHETHER WE GET THE, THE, THE FOUR DAY ICE STORM THAT'S GOTTA CREATE MORE, UH, CHALLENGES FOR YOU THAN, THAN THE YEAR PRIOR BECAUSE OF, OF EXPANSION OF ICE AND YES SIR.

TRACTION AND, AND, UH, THAT IF WE DIDN'T DO CRACK SEALING ON THOSE THINGS, THOSE CRACKS FILLED WITH WATER, ICE EXPANDS, WE GOT THOSE PROBLEMS. SO DID YOU SEE A LOT OF THAT? DO WE HAVE MORE PROBLEMS DUE TO THE, THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS OF, OF, UH, THE INCLEMENT WEATHER WE'VE HAD? OR IS THAT SHRINK SWELL IS ABSOLUTELY A REAL THING BOTH AND ASPHALT AND IN CONCRETE? UM, I, I THINK THAT THE DATA IS GONNA SHOW, UH, IT DOES, IT'S GONNA SHOW LONGITUDINAL, TRANSVERSE CRACKING, OFFSETS, CURB BREAKS, ALL

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ALL.

WE DO HAVE ALL THAT UNDERSTANDING TO SEE WHAT, WHAT THE REALTIME STATUSES OF THE ROAD AND THE EFFECTS THAT ARE CAUSING THAT DAMAGE.

OKAY.

OKAY.

ALRIGHT.

OKAY.

I AGREE.

ALRIGHT.

UM, SO A A LOT OF PROPOSING, UM, ANOTHER, ANOTHER SECTION THAT WE HAVE IS OUR STREET SWEEPING HERE.

UM, TO GIVE EVERYBODY AN UNDERSTANDING, ALL RESIDENTIAL STREETS THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE NETWORK GET SWEPT ANNUALLY.

OKAY.

ALL LOCAL STREETS, ALL MAJORS, UH, MAJOR ROADWAYS DO GET SWEPT QUARTERLY.

NOW YOU DO SEE SIX ZONES HERE.

THAT'S MORE THAN JUST A QUARTER I UNDERSTAND.

BUT WE DO A SEGMENT OF EACH ZONE TO WHERE ALL SIX ZONES ARE BROKEN DOWN QUARTERLY TO WHERE THEY DON'T GET MISSED.

UM, SOME ZONES ARE, ARE PRIORITIZED, DO SOME OF THE EVENTS THAT WE HAVE SO WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT WE, WE SWEEP BY AND, AND PICK UP DEBRIS.

BUT, UM, IN TOTAL, UH, ALL LOCAL ROADS AND OUR QUARTERLIES AS WELL HAS EQUATED OUT TO ABOUT 1200 MILE, UH, LANE MILES SWEPT THIS YEAR.

AND WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE THAT PROGRAM.

UM, WE ARE LOOKING AT OPTIONS AS WELL.

UM, RIGHT NOW THIS IS A, A RENTAL UNIT THAT WE HAVE TO BRING ON ON A QUARTERLY BASIS AND, UH, OPERATIONS ARE MOVING.

THERE MIGHT BE SOME COST SAVINGS TO BRING THIS IN-HOUSE.

CONTRACTUALLY.

WE ARE EVALUATING THAT THOUGH.

OKAY.

ALRIGHT.

ANY QUESTIONS? NOPE.

OKAY.

THAT'S LAST IT.

ALRIGHT.

ALRIGHT.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

OKAY.

APPRECIATE IT.

YOU OKAY.

ALRIGHT.

SO, UH, THAT CONCLUDES THE ITEM NUMBER TWO FOR RECEIVED STATUS REPORT.

UH, WE'RE ON TO ITEM NUMBER THREE, RECEIVE THE FOUR B FINANCIAL STATUS REPORT AS OF JUNE 30TH, 2026.

FINANCE DIRECTOR, RADISON HOWDY, UH, EVENING PRESIDENT AND DIRECTORS.

UH, FIRST OFF IS THE, UH, FINANCIAL REPORT THAT'S GONNA BE IN YOUR PACKET.

UH, I THOUGHT, UH, WE'D PRESENT, WE'D GIVE THAT TO YOU, BUT MOST OF OUR FOCUS IS GONNA BE ON THE, THE BUDGET, IF THAT'S ALL RIGHT FOR NEXT YEAR.

UNLESS Y'ALL HAD ANYTHING SPECIFIC ON THE FINANCIAL FORECAST, WE'RE ON, WE'RE ON TRACK.

UH, WE HAVE A COUPLE OF BIG PAYMENTS COMING UP.

ALL RIGHT.

SO THEN WE, WE CAN THEN MOVE INTO ITEM NUMBER FOUR AS WELL CONSIDER APPROVAL OF THE FISCAL YEAR 20 26, 20 27 BUDGET AND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN FOR THE STREET IMPROVEMENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION BUDGET.

YEP.

ALRIGHT.

SO, UH, I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE NICE TO WALK THROUGH WHAT OUR, UH, CURRENT ONLINE BUDGET TOOL IS FOR THIS AS OPPOSED TO A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION.

SO FROM THIS MAIN CITY WEBPAGE, YOU CAN GO TO BUDGET BREAKDOWN AND AT THE VERY TOP IT SAYS YOU CAN VIEW OUR BUDGET ONLINE.

SO WE CAN CLICK ON THAT.

AND THEN WE'RE, WE HAVE OUR, OUR ONLINE BUDGET BOOK.

WE'RE GONNA GO TO THE FUND SUMMARIES, SCROLL DOWN TO THE EDC FUND, AND THIS IS GONNA PROVIDE THE, WHAT, WHAT THE FUND DOES.

AND THESE ARE ALL THE HIGHLIGHTS OF WHAT WE'RE CHANGING, UH, FROM LAST YEAR'S BUDGET TO THIS YEAR'S BUDGET.

UH, WE'RE PROJECTING PRETTY FLAT REVENUES, UH, FROM THIS YEAR TO NEXT YEAR.

SALES TAX HAS BEEN FAIRLY FLAT.

WE DON'T THINK WE'RE GONNA HAVE MUCH MORE MONEY TO WORK WITH NEXT YEAR THAN WE HAD THIS YEAR.

WE DO HAVE A COUPLE OF THOSE BIG CAPITAL PROJECTS FALLING OFF FOR OUR BUDGET NEXT YEAR, AND WE'RE GONNA BE REPLACING THOSE WITH SOME CHEAPER OR NOT CHEAPER, LESS EXPENSIVE DESIGN PROJECTS.

UH, WE TALKED ABOUT THOSE IN THE EARLIER PRESENTATION, BUT WE HAVE 200,000 FOR THE INTERSECTION, ANOTHER 200,000 FOR THE OTHER INTER INTERSECTION, 173 FOR RANKIN, AND THEN 127 FOR SHADY MEADOW.

UH, SO THAT'S GONNA TAKE CARE OF ALL DESIGN FOR NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET.

THE OTHER BIG CHANGE, UH, WE DID MOVE STREET LIGHTING, UH, GENERAL FUND, THE CITY'S GENERAL FUND USED TO HANDLE STREET LIGHTING, ELECTRICITY COST.

WE SHIFTED THAT OVER TO THE FOUR B FOR THE COMING YEAR.

UH, WE BELIEVE THAT IS A GOOD STREET MAINTENANCE RELATED PROJECT, UH, TO BE FUNDING FROM THE, COMING FROM THE FOUR B.

AND THEN WE, LAST YEAR WE HAD, UH, PUT A TEMPORARY PAUSE ON MOVING MONEY FROM HERE TO THE ECONOMIC DEVELOP DEVELOPMENT FUND.

WE'RE GONNA REINSTATE THAT TO WHAT IT USED TO BE.

UH, SINCE WE DO BELIEVE THE FOUR B FUND IS IN A PRETTY GOOD SHAPE, YOU CAN SCROLL DOWN.

UH, WE HAVE BEEN SPENDING DOWN THE FUND FOR SOME BIG PROJECTS, UH, THIS LAST YEAR PARTICULARLY, UH, ABOUT HALF OF THE FUND IS GONNA BE GENERALLY USED FOR MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR.

THE OTHER HALF IS GONNA BE SAVING UP FOR BIG PROJECTS.

UH, SO LAST YEAR WAS A SPENDING FOR THE BIG PROJECTS.

THIS IS MORE FOCUSED ON THAT REPAIR SIDE OF THINGS.

UH, OUR REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES ARE ACTUALLY PRE UH, PREDICTED TO BE JUST ABOUT EVEN, UH, THESE BARS LOSE REVENUE.

RED IS EXPENDITURE AND AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE YEARS PRIOR, UH, I'M ASSUMING THAT YEAH, WE, WE'VE OVERSPENT OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, UH, ON SOME OF THOSE BIG PROJECTS.

SO NOW WE'RE IN KIND OF THE BUILDING PHASE.

YES, 24 AND 25 WERE, UH, SAVINGS.

UH, THEN WE MADE OUR BIG SPEND AND THEN WE'RE MORE IN A BUILDING MAINTENANCE PHASE RIGHT NOW AS WE, UH, LOOK TO BE ABLE TO GROW IN A COUPLE YEARS WITH MAYBE SALES

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TAX GROWTH.

UH, SO OUR PROPOSED BUDGET, UH, YOU CAN SEE, UH, AMENDED IS FOUR TO TO 4.2 MILLION PROS BUDGET STILL 4.2 MILLION.

IT'S BASICALLY THE SAME SALES TAX WISE.

AND THEN OUR LINE ITEMS ARE ALL LARGELY THE SAME.

ABOUT HALF THE MONEY IS GOING TO CONTRACTUAL SERVICES.

THOSE ARE THE, THE FOLKS WE WORK WITH TO, UH, DO OUR, UH, STREET MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS THAT LANE WAS TALKING ABOUT.

UH, WE DO HAVE A, A FAIR AMOUNT OF DEBT ABOUT A QUARTER OF THE FUND.

UH, THAT'S, UH, PAST PROJECTS THAT WE FUNDED.

AND THEN REALLY US, THIS IS GONNA BE THE, THE DESIGN PORTION AND THE CAPITAL OUTLAY.

AND THEN THE REST OF THE BUDGET'S A FAIRLY SMALL, UH, COMPARED.

IT'S MOSTLY GOING TO PROJECTS ON THE STREETS.

AND THEN, UH, YOU CAN SEE THIS IS OUR FUND BALANCE PROJECTION.

WE DID, IT WAS A LITTLE BIT HIGHER.

UH, WE SPENT THAT DOWN AND THEN WE'RE GONNA EXPECTING THAT TO BE PRETTY MUCH EVEN GOING FORWARD THIS, THIS NEXT COMING FISCAL YEAR.

VERY GOOD.

DO YOU HAVE ANY, UH, QUESTIONS ON PROJECTS OR THE, THE BUDGET FOR THIS COMING YEAR? UM, SO, UM, THANK YOU FOR, FOR SHOWING ALL THAT AND UM, AND, AND TAKING A LOOK AT THESE FINANCES, UM, THROUGHOUT THE YEARS AND SEEING THE PATTERN THAT, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY WE SPENT DOWN THAT A LOT OF THOSE FUNDS PREVIOUSLY IN THOSE COUPLE YEARS, NOW WE'RE IN THE BUILDING PHASE.

MM-HMM .

UM, THAT BEING SAID, UM, UH, WHAT IS OUR KIND OF OUR DEBT CAPACITY GOING LIKE GOING FORWARD? I KNOW, UH, I'VE HAD THIS CONVERSATION, UH, BEFORE WHEN WE, WHEN WE GET HERE.

'CAUSE A LOT OF THE TIMES WE, THAT'S HOW WE'RE GONNA FUND OUR BIG PROJECTS, RIGHT? WE'RE GOING TO TAKE OUT SOME DEBT.

WE'RE GOING TO, UH, FUND A LOT OF THESE PROJECTS.

SO WE'RE AT A POINT NOW WHERE WE'RE REBUILDING THAT FUND.

WE DON'T HAVE THE CAPACITY YET.

WHERE DO WE SEE THAT CAPACITY HAPPENING IN WHAT FISCAL YEAR GOING FORWARD? WE HAVE A, OUR CURRENT DEBT SERVICE FALLS OFF IN 2031.

OKAY.

SO THAT'S GONNA BE A WINDOW THAT OPENS UP.

MM-HMM .

IF WE SEE SOME SIGNIFICANT SALES TAX GROWTH, SOME, UH, FROM A COUPLE OF THE NEW GROCERY STORES COMING IN, THAT WOULD ALSO OPEN THAT UP, OPEN THAT UP A LITTLE BIT MORE.

MM-HMM .

OKAY.

FOR, FOR MORE OF THOSE PROJECTS? YES.

OKAY.

ALRIGHT.

UM, DO YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE IN THAT? DOES IT SEEM TOO FAR OFF? DOES IT, DO YOU FEEL LIKE THAT WOULD BE ENOUGH TO MAINTAIN OUR GOALS HERE WITH OUR STREETS? SOME OF THE NUMBERS THAT MARA THROWS OUT THERE ARE SCARY.

THOSE ARE SOME BIG, BIG NUMBERS FOR SOME OF THESE PROJECTS.

UH, IT'S GONNA BE HARD FOR THE FOUR B FUND TO SOLELY FUND ALL THE STREET DEEDS IN THE CITY.

UH, SO THERE MAY BE NEED TO BE SOME GENERAL FUND, UH, CITY PORTION OF THAT AS WELL.

OKAY.

SO LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE, THAT DEBT, SO WHAT I'M ASSUMING IS THAT DEBT CAPACITY IS, IS LIMITED IN 20 20, 30, 20 31.

UH, IN GENERAL THE CITY'S, YEAH.

DEBT CAPACITY OKAY.

IS FAIRLY LIMITED OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL YEARS.

UH, WHENEVER TAD REAPPRAISED NEXT YEAR, THAT'S GONNA OPEN UP, UH, A FAIR AMOUNT LEASE ON THE CITY SIDE.

UH, OUTSIDE OF SALES TAX GROWTH.

UM, IF WE WANTED TO SAY WE DON'T WANT TO FUND ANY CAPITAL OUTLAYS FOR A FEW YEARS AND INSTEAD WE JUST WANNA TURN THAT INTO DEBT FOR PROJECTS RIGHT NOW, THAT'S AN OPTION.

SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE FUNDING ABOUT 800,000 FOR THE DESIGN OF THESE PROJECTS IN CASH.

WE COULD TURN THAT 800,000 INTO AN ANNUAL DEBT PAYMENT AND WE COULD TACKLE SOME OF THOSE BIGGER CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS.

RIGHT NOW WE JUST WOULDN'T HAVE THAT CASH FUNDING FLEXIBILITY GOING FORWARD.

OKAY.

GOT IT.

GOT IT.

ALRIGHT.

ALRIGHT.

QUESTIONS OVER FINANCES? OKAY.

ALRIGHT.

UM, SEEING NO QUESTIONS HERE, THIS IS AN ACTION ITEM.

SO OBTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE THE, UH, THE BUDGET OR IN THE SOMEBODY ELSE AS A DISCUSSION OR QUESTIONS.

MAYOR PRO TEM KINS A RIGHT.

WE HAVE FIRST TO APPROVE THE BUDGET FOR MAYOR PRO TEM DOCKETS.

I HAVE A SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER FARCO.

ALL IN FAVOR WITH A VERBAL VOTE OF AYE.

AYE.

AYE.

THOSE OPPOSED? ALL RIGHT.

NO OPPOSED.

AND THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.

ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU, COUNSEL.

THANK YOU STAFF.

ALL RIGHT.

UH, MOVING ON.

WE ARE AT THE END OF OUR MEETING, SO I'D LIKE TO THANK EVERYBODY, UH, FOR TONIGHT.

AND I'LL GO AHEAD AND ADJOURN OUR MEETING AT 6 49.

THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH.