Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2: Welcome, welcome, welcome, meet It's time now for City Matters
Speaker 2: program right.
Speaker 1: Here on K one, the one you trust. We have
Speaker 1: a full house today.
Speaker 2: I'm going to try to expand the camera as much
Speaker 2: as I can to get everybody in. But once again,
Speaker 2: if it matters to you, it matters to the city.
Speaker 1: Laris, the award winning Lauras Anders, I present.
Speaker 3: To you, Thank you, thank you, absolute honor, but I
Speaker 3: appreciate that. So we've got lots going on at the city.
Speaker 3: I've got a full crew here today. I've got Jason Munninger,
Speaker 3: he's our CFO and money man, and we've got Chief
Speaker 3: Ikleberry with the Police Department, Micah Seemers with Engineering, and
Speaker 3: then Keith Henry with our public Works department. And so
Speaker 3: we've got lots of updates for you this morning. My
Speaker 3: favorite one is we've spent so much time on the
Speaker 3: golf course and trying to get this project going, and
Speaker 3: we were actually able to seed last week on the
Speaker 3: twenty first, so it was twenty one days late, but
Speaker 3: we did get to seed. And then I got a
Speaker 3: text over the weekend where there was some little sprouts
Speaker 3: like a text of sprouts, and so I was like,
Speaker 3: that's exciting, that's great news.
Speaker 1: And so we're taking these little victories really big.
Speaker 3: Every way and you can get absolutely And so the
Speaker 3: other thing I did want to remind everyone of is
Speaker 3: that today is the last day to submit the city
Speaker 3: wide survey. So if you haven't done that, now's your
Speaker 3: opportunity to do that, to submit the survey. And then
Speaker 3: we also have a workshop tonight. So our workshop tonight
Speaker 3: is over budget, and Jason'll be able to talk more
Speaker 3: about that and what to expect tonight, but it's at
Speaker 3: five point thirty in the City Hall in the first
Speaker 3: floor conference room, and so we do the workshops in
Speaker 3: the conference room just to give the council an opportunity
Speaker 3: to kind of spread out, be a little bit informal,
Speaker 3: ask questions, and have some ussion and dialogue in that
Speaker 3: room instead of in the council chambers.
Speaker 1: We've been having a lot of those. Lady, Yeah, those
Speaker 1: are good.
Speaker 3: I think we've got one more after this one, Yep,
Speaker 3: getting through our hot topics and so then we'll be
Speaker 3: back on maybe a more normal schedule for our council meetings.
Speaker 3: And so yeah, so first up, I wanted to talk
Speaker 3: to Chief Ikeleberry, he's got a police update for us,
Speaker 3: and then they had an event a Day in the
Speaker 3: Park and so I was going to get an update
Speaker 3: from him on those two items.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 5: Well, Day in the Park was last Saturday, perfect time
Speaker 5: for the rain and we got lots of rain in
Speaker 5: the park. We had it at Lee Lake. We had
Speaker 5: a good crowd show up and then we got washed out,
Speaker 5: but it was good. We got to bring out our
Speaker 5: two new golf courts that the city Council provided for
Speaker 5: us to a grant, and our command us and some
Speaker 5: other tools that we have, and we also gave some
Speaker 5: rides on the park out in the park on the
Speaker 5: pathfinder in the golf course. That was a hit until
Speaker 5: it started rain, but really engaged with the community.
Speaker 4: It was good.
Speaker 5: We had some good partners out there with us. We
Speaker 5: had raya Hope, which is an advocate center here. They
Speaker 5: came out, and the Barswell Public Library brought some books
Speaker 5: out and and just some really good interaction with our sponsors,
Speaker 5: so to speak. Barswell Police Foundation was out. They're going
Speaker 5: to give away They're still going to give them away.
Speaker 5: They've they've got them two bikes, a boy and girl bikes,
Speaker 5: so they're having a drawing for those to give those away.
Speaker 5: But the idea was to get everybody back in the parks.
Speaker 5: We've spent a lot of time out on the Pathfinder,
Speaker 5: cleaning the Pathfinder and making sure it's a safe place
Speaker 5: for everybody, and spent a lot of time out there
Speaker 5: and really wanted to get the community back in the
Speaker 5: parks and on the Pathfinder. And those that have been
Speaker 5: out there really have enjoyed it. It's nice and clean
Speaker 5: now and really just a nice place to hang out
Speaker 5: and get some exercise and enjoyed nature. So I want
Speaker 5: to keep that going. One other thing I want to
Speaker 5: mention before I get off here is that we have
Speaker 5: the Police Officer Memorials servis coming up on May fourteenth
Speaker 5: at the Police Department at noon. We'll have a US
Speaker 5: attorney from FOLS be our guest speaker and we'll do
Speaker 5: that just memorizing the memorializing the officers that have fallen
Speaker 5: in Washington County. And believe it or not, there's ten
Speaker 5: or twelve of those that have fallen, so we'll memorialize
Speaker 5: them like we do every year. So we want to
Speaker 5: have the public come out in front of the police
Speaker 5: department be part of that celebration, sort of a celebration
Speaker 5: memorial so that we can share their history and their
Speaker 5: story with the community so they know what the officers
Speaker 5: go through every day.
Speaker 1: So yeah, those are the update from police Department.
Speaker 4: All right, thanks Chief you.
Speaker 3: So next we have Keith Henry. He's going to bring
Speaker 3: us our public works update.
Speaker 6: Well, good morning. A lot going on in public works.
Speaker 6: It's the time of year where everything's really fired up.
Speaker 6: First thing we've got that we want to let the
Speaker 6: public know about is our leaf and grass collections coming up.
Speaker 6: It is actually next week May the fifth through the ninth,
Speaker 6: So as usual, if you've got leaves and grass and sticks,
Speaker 6: you can put those out of the curb, buy your
Speaker 6: polycart on your normal collection day. Material can be in
Speaker 6: any bag you want clear. It doesn't have to be
Speaker 6: a clear bag. It can be just the regular refuge bags.
Speaker 6: And the sticks can be cut in links of four
Speaker 6: foot or less and bundled up and weigh more no
Speaker 6: more than fifty pounds. So this is for your residential customers.
Speaker 6: Only get those materials out there next week and our
Speaker 6: guys will be coming by to pick those up. It
Speaker 6: won't be the automated truck that normally picks up your polycart.
Speaker 6: More than likely it'll be a rearroad truck with a
Speaker 6: crew guys. It'll come by and collect those things. Excuse me.
Speaker 6: We encourage everybody to take advantage of that. It's a
Speaker 6: good Program's really popular. People wait on it every years, like, hey,
Speaker 6: when's that happening. Well, it's happening next week, So get
Speaker 6: that stuff out there. If you've been holding on to it,
Speaker 6: get it out to the curb, and we'll be by
Speaker 6: to collect those no cost to you, no sticker required,
Speaker 6: So just get that material out to the curb. Also,
Speaker 6: elect to remind people as we're you know, we've had
Speaker 6: a few holidays just passed by, and as always, anytime
Speaker 6: there's a holiday, if it's a Monday or a Friday,
Speaker 6: or whenever it falls, it's always collected. If your your
Speaker 6: collection day falls on a holiday, the trash will be
Speaker 6: picked up on that Wednesday of that week.
Speaker 4: So always keep that in mind.
Speaker 6: For the people that the holiday normally falls before the Wednesday,
Speaker 6: it gets a little awkward because the time they figured
Speaker 6: out they've done missed it in their week behind. So
Speaker 6: any day there's a holiday that falls on your collection day.
Speaker 6: The trash will be picked up on that Wednesday, so
Speaker 6: keep that in mind. We've got Memorial Day coming up
Speaker 6: here before long, and then you know, Fourth of July,
Speaker 6: all that creeps up on us, So keep that in
Speaker 6: mind for the holiday season. Something else we've got going on.
Speaker 6: Believe it or not, I think the opening day for
Speaker 6: the pools will be May the twenty fourth.
Speaker 4: On the YMCA.
Speaker 6: We'll be operating those again for us this year City Council,
Speaker 6: just to prove contract with them again. We've been doing
Speaker 6: this with the YMCA partnership for several years. Worked out
Speaker 6: really well. I haven't talked to Robert recently, but I
Speaker 6: would imagine they're looking for help like we are.
Speaker 4: So again they're operated through the YMCA.
Speaker 6: So if you're interested in probably a job at the
Speaker 6: summer job at the pools, i'd get ahold of the YMCA,
Speaker 6: Robert Phillips down there. I'm sure they're looking for help. Also,
Speaker 6: we are looking for help. So parks department here in
Speaker 6: town were usually hire six to eight people in the
Speaker 6: parks department. Use those guys to weed eat, primarily do
Speaker 6: some mowing, do some weed eating, click trash, just help
Speaker 6: us with the heavy workload during the summertime, with all
Speaker 6: the use of the parks and the facilities, it's a
Speaker 6: good time to you know, increase our staff and get
Speaker 6: the extra help we need. We've been struggling struggling a
Speaker 6: little in the past getting help, so we're interested. And
Speaker 6: then anybody is looking for a summer job part time job.
Speaker 6: When I say part times, it's every day during the summer,
Speaker 6: but it's just a summer job. Typically they can start
Speaker 6: any time between now and usually run through through September,
Speaker 6: sometimes spending on our workload. If you're sixteen year old
Speaker 6: or older and got a driver's license, we'd encourage you
Speaker 6: to come down to City Hall or get online and
Speaker 6: apply for a summer job in the Parks department. So
Speaker 6: we're looking for those people now. I mentioned the pools earlier.
Speaker 6: A couple of things I wanted to mention about those
Speaker 6: is we recently just had the slides at Frontier Pool reconditioned,
Speaker 6: so we're really excited about that.
Speaker 4: The guys just finished up last week.
Speaker 6: That if you've driven by the Frontier Pool recently, you
Speaker 6: know they're bright shiny blue. So they've been repainted. New
Speaker 6: jail coat's been applied to the inside of them, so
Speaker 6: they're super slick, so you can go sliding down the
Speaker 6: pool this summer. So we got those all ready to go.
Speaker 1: Does it have the Mike Bailey squeal like a child
Speaker 1: seal of approval?
Speaker 6: We may have Mike tried it out first just to
Speaker 6: make sure it's all good to go.
Speaker 4: So we've got that going on.
Speaker 6: We've also got some new furniture ordered for out at
Speaker 6: the Sooner Pool. With the expansion of the water slides
Speaker 6: a couple of years ago and the expansion of the park,
Speaker 6: there was a need for a new furniture or more
Speaker 6: furniture actually, because a lot lot more attendance out there
Speaker 6: and we have a lot of older people coming bringing
Speaker 6: their kids. So we're trying to help those people out
Speaker 6: with providing some places for those to lounge around and
Speaker 6: sit and enjoy the facilities out there.
Speaker 4: So some good things going on there. So Keith on the.
Speaker 3: Pools talk to us about what the process is for
Speaker 3: opening the pools, because it seems like it's it's bigger
Speaker 3: than maybe what people think it is.
Speaker 4: It really is.
Speaker 6: The guys that are already working on the pools right now,
Speaker 6: we operate the pools as far as from a maintenance standpoint,
Speaker 6: winter rising and getting the pools up for operation. Each
Speaker 6: spring we go out, you know, they've they all got
Speaker 6: to be winter rise during the winter, so when you
Speaker 6: bring them back up in the springtime summertime, amazingly, Yeah,
Speaker 6: we've got water leaks, we've got busted pipes.
Speaker 4: There's always seems to be something happens.
Speaker 6: Even though we go through the process and we run
Speaker 6: our rise and we blow out there the water lines
Speaker 6: and do all those things, every time you go to
Speaker 6: start them back up, there's always problems. Lots of electric
Speaker 6: motors out there and pumps, so we go through those.
Speaker 6: We get the motors going. The shade structures have to
Speaker 6: be and reinstalled. Usually we'll repaint some of the pool
Speaker 6: liners they have a pool paint and we'll freshen those up.
Speaker 6: Some of the equipment has to be gone through, so
Speaker 6: it's a pretty lengthy process, especially with the expansion of
Speaker 6: the slides that sooner there is more maintenance and a
Speaker 6: lot more maintenance involved with it. We actually just replaced
Speaker 6: new controllers at both pools also, so Sooner pool and
Speaker 6: a frontier pool. Now we're able to control those through
Speaker 6: your cell phone basically so the guys can monitor and
Speaker 6: operate them, you know, when they're off hours. And this
Speaker 6: goes back to the why they actually do that part
Speaker 6: of it. As far as once we get the pools
Speaker 6: up and run them mechanically, we turn them over to
Speaker 6: the y and they totally operate everything as far as
Speaker 6: day to day maintenance, keeping the chemicals right. These new
Speaker 6: controllers again, they can monitor those through their phones, which
Speaker 6: makes it nice, you know, after hours these things that
Speaker 6: they can see the pool levels, the chemical levels are accurate,
Speaker 6: and if there's any problems pop up, they'll get alarms
Speaker 6: and Robin will know it so they can make sure
Speaker 6: it everything's safe at the pool. And it is a
Speaker 6: lengthy process, but we're actually we're in really good shape
Speaker 6: with the mentioning. The guys that's the building maintenance staff
Speaker 6: of are again already been working out there. So we're
Speaker 6: in good shape and excited about the season and working,
Speaker 6: you know, doing some little improvements, a little painting, just
Speaker 6: touching up, doing things like that. But we're excited for
Speaker 6: the season and looking forward to it.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 3: So, one thing I did have on my list, Keith,
Speaker 3: was Mosquito Spring. Are we about in that season? To
Speaker 3: start spring for mosquitos.
Speaker 4: We actually are.
Speaker 6: It could be any time, especially with all the rains
Speaker 6: we've been having, and you know, the temperatures has been
Speaker 6: somewhat cool, but we're starting to get some humidity and
Speaker 6: as it heats up, we will start having mosquito calls
Speaker 6: and mosquito problems. So far, we're doing good this year.
Speaker 6: We actually did hire a gentleman that is going to
Speaker 6: do our mosquito spraying force. We can use our staff
Speaker 6: in the Parks department, but usually those guys are full
Speaker 6: time duties mowing grass. So if it's available, we try
Speaker 6: to hire part time help to do that and it
Speaker 6: works out of we you know a lot of times
Speaker 6: if it's a person that's just looking for a part
Speaker 6: time job. The best time to spray mosquitos is in
Speaker 6: the evenings when they come out usually dust hours, so
Speaker 6: six o'clock in the evening typically what the guy will
Speaker 6: work or whoever spraying for us from six to roughly midnight.
Speaker 6: And if we have one individual spraying, they can spray
Speaker 6: the whole town. If they work every night about four
Speaker 6: hours a night, they can spray the entire town in
Speaker 6: a week. So that we do what we have zones
Speaker 6: in town that we break it up into and they'll
Speaker 6: work about four zones a night and in a week's
Speaker 6: time if they work every night. Saying that there's lots
Speaker 6: of regulations that you have to comply with when you're spraying,
Speaker 6: and the wind can't belee over ten miles an hour,
Speaker 6: which is very restrictive here. Obviously in Oklahoma. A lot
Speaker 6: of times, of course, the evening's the wind does lay down,
Speaker 6: so it allows us to do it. If it's raining,
Speaker 6: you can't spray, So there's lots of variables there. But
Speaker 6: we do have a gentleman hired working right now in
Speaker 6: the process to get him licensed through the state to
Speaker 6: come on with us, and we have a couple sprayers,
Speaker 6: so if we do get heavy workload with a lot
Speaker 6: of callllians on mosquitos, we will assign other staff to
Speaker 6: work with him and we'll run two sprayers to make
Speaker 6: sure that we're covering the town and keeping everybody safe.
Speaker 6: The program has been going on ever since I've been
Speaker 6: at the city. It's a public safety issue, so we
Speaker 6: try to provide that for everybody to help us much
Speaker 6: with mosquito control as we can.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you, Keith, what's going on in your departments?
Speaker 3: You So next up, we've got Jason. This is your
Speaker 3: busy time. Jason Moninger our CFO. So he's our money
Speaker 3: guy and he's going to talk budget for us. And
Speaker 3: so I thought maybe we'd go through what the budget
Speaker 3: process is for those that maybe don't know what that
Speaker 3: process looks like.
Speaker 7: Budget process for our departments a little different from the
Speaker 7: rest of them. Now we do. We do obviously involve
Speaker 7: every director in the City of Bartlesville because we need
Speaker 7: their input on expenditures and upcoming expenditures for the next
Speaker 7: fiscal year. So my staff will start putting that together
Speaker 7: in January, starting to get our expensure estmas, put together
Speaker 7: personnel summaries, you know, trying to calculate, you know, where
Speaker 7: we're going to finish the year at. We then turn
Speaker 7: that stuff back out to the directors, have them kind
Speaker 7: of spot check it. We don't know their budget as
Speaker 7: well as they know their budget, so if we're trending
Speaker 7: it out, but they think they're going to spend more
Speaker 7: spend less, they make those adjustments to it. Get it
Speaker 7: back to us. We compile everything together. Mike is a
Speaker 7: big part of the budget process. He handles the capital side. So, uh, myself,
Speaker 7: Alicia and Mike had probably the three heaviest lifters of this.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna say Alisia's probably the heaviest lifter as far
Speaker 7: as get it all compiled, put together then you you know,
Speaker 7: we looked for everything, find significant issues, trend revenue out,
Speaker 7: forecast revenue for the upcoming year, put it all together
Speaker 7: in about a four hundred five hundred page document and
Speaker 7: submit that sucker the council, which went out last Wednesday,
Speaker 7: and look forward to the meeting tonight and we'll kind
Speaker 7: of discuss discuss it from there.
Speaker 1: Lift do you.
Speaker 7: It's it's pretty lengthy, and we'll hit all this supplementary
Speaker 7: information and it's probably about seven hundred pages of deformation
Speaker 7: I took.
Speaker 1: I took a look online. Yeah, and you don't get
Speaker 1: to see the supplementary no.
Speaker 7: No, no is the the stick of the doctor.
Speaker 3: So yeah, right, So what can they expect of this
Speaker 3: workshop because we typically do workshops like this every year
Speaker 3: for a budget.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Well, we'll just we'll put together kind of a
Speaker 7: high level summary PowerPoint that we'll go through it kind
Speaker 7: of hit the high level stuff, talk about some of
Speaker 7: our larger estimations we make for sales tax, use tax,
Speaker 7: go over utility increases. If there are any staffing changes
Speaker 7: in this year, we always try to say conservatives. So
Speaker 7: in this year, the two biggest things are sales tax
Speaker 7: and use tax. So we're gonna we're gonna propose a
Speaker 7: one percent decrease over actuals in sales tax, which will
Speaker 7: give us about two hundred and thirty two thousand dollars
Speaker 7: less in the next budget year than we actually received. Here,
Speaker 7: there'll be a budgetary increase in sales tax, but an
Speaker 7: overall reduction in the actual collections. UH use taxing me
Speaker 7: the same way, it's gonna be a two percent wage.
Speaker 7: You're going to be about one hundred thousand dollars less
Speaker 7: than actual from a high level company. Other summary high
Speaker 7: level stuff staffing increase, we have eleven total full time
Speaker 7: employee increase for those being in a fire department with firefighters,
Speaker 7: two additional assistant golf professionals, two and a half full
Speaker 7: time equivalent part time indoor pro shop staff, two and
Speaker 7: a half full time Goloble part time outdoor pro shop staff.
Speaker 3: Just to explain that on the golf course side, we
Speaker 3: haven't had those look like their new positions, just because
Speaker 3: we have not had the pro shop under the city
Speaker 3: before that.
Speaker 7: Was split and since you know, the retirement Jered benedicta
Speaker 7: city overtaking all the pro shop activities, those are now
Speaker 7: going to be city employees, which will want employees of
Speaker 7: j the path, So just trying to get the staffing
Speaker 7: where it needs to be, make sure the operations are
Speaker 7: smooth out there. It's kind of a trial year because
Speaker 7: we're not certain where this thing's going to go. We've
Speaker 7: never been responsible, you know, for a full year for
Speaker 7: that side of it, so it's going to be a
Speaker 7: kind of a you know, we're estimating what we need.
Speaker 7: We're not certain it's going to be adequately staffed. Over
Speaker 7: staff it's just decisional need to make at the end
Speaker 7: of the fiscal year and move forward. Utilities, we're in
Speaker 7: the fifth year of a five year rate study we
Speaker 7: did back I believe in twenty just your twenty twenty
Speaker 7: twenty twenty one. Overall, the average customer against about a
Speaker 7: four percent increase, which is about four dollars and fifty
Speaker 7: three cents on average capital investment fee for water. Obviously,
Speaker 7: the waste the biggest, the biggest place. You can see
Speaker 7: it's in the wastewater side with this new uh wastewater
Speaker 7: creatment plant need to come online. The debt service again
Speaker 7: it needed kind of be needed to repay that. It's
Speaker 7: going to be you know, eighty five million dollars over
Speaker 7: thirty years. So not certain what we're gonna get on
Speaker 7: rate on that. We just have the construction note at
Speaker 7: this point. So so let's see. So that's kind of
Speaker 7: a high level if there's anything you want.
Speaker 3: To so, okay, let's let's assume that everything goes good
Speaker 3: tonight and there's you know, minimal changes if any. What
Speaker 3: is the next step in that process?
Speaker 7: The next step is we will bring a resolution to
Speaker 7: council the following Monday, which is our regular meeting. In Monday,
Speaker 7: we'll have a public hearing, you know, public chance you
Speaker 7: have any input on it. If there's no input, well,
Speaker 7: even if there is input, obviously they have a chance
Speaker 7: to adopt the resolution at that meeting. We'll have a
Speaker 7: small little presentation that goes with that. That that's kind
Speaker 7: of it.
Speaker 3: So what kind of checks and balances do we have
Speaker 3: in place or how many eyes do we have on
Speaker 3: the budget before it becomes approved?
Speaker 7: Well, obviously every you know, council members have it, they
Speaker 7: manager that you have it.
Speaker 1: The state.
Speaker 7: The state gets it after the fact, so it goes
Speaker 7: to you know, goes to the state after the fact.
Speaker 7: The party law, you have to turn your budget in.
Speaker 7: I doubt they look at it. Last I knew they
Speaker 7: had everybody's budget stored in the warehouse. You can't even
Speaker 7: submit electronically, you have to mail it in. So I'm
Speaker 7: not certain what the state does other than maybe if
Speaker 7: somebody wants to call and ask questions about it, they
Speaker 7: probably can. Then they got to go try to locate
Speaker 7: and find it. As far as checks and balances, there's
Speaker 7: you know, there's really it's just an operating budget. So
Speaker 7: it's just a blueprint.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 7: Council has the ability to modify that at any regular meeting,
Speaker 7: so you know, and we've had to modify that in
Speaker 7: your spas when revenues start going south, we've had to
Speaker 7: step in make modifications where things change, expenditures or dow staffing,
Speaker 7: whatever we have to do to make sure we made
Speaker 7: it through the air.
Speaker 8: So process's been going on since January. That's really before
Speaker 8: for you guys. So I mean it's obviously you guys
Speaker 8: looking at it, directors looking at everything. So is that
Speaker 8: early on kind of snowballs.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I guess really you have all eyes
Speaker 7: looking on it through the point now the actual compilation
Speaker 7: of it put together. I mean, we're all gonna they
Speaker 7: all council got to first look at it, you know,
Speaker 7: last Wednesday, we saw it, you know, kind of in
Speaker 7: its finality a couple of days before that. Try to
Speaker 7: spot check for for errors because I mean it's such
Speaker 7: a large dog and I'm certain there's errors there, right,
Speaker 7: It's just I know there's no air area. It's gonna
Speaker 7: be catastrophic in there. But there's gonna be something by errors,
Speaker 7: I mean things that maybe we have ros or lines hidden.
Speaker 7: You know, it's not gonna be anything in the formulation
Speaker 7: air or anything like that. But yeah, I mean you're
Speaker 7: also gonna have fat finger airs because it seems the
Speaker 7: man it's mainly put together. So all right, thank you, Jason.
Speaker 4: It's not fun. It's fun.
Speaker 3: There's there's a light at the end of the tunnel.
Speaker 4: I get that.
Speaker 3: Change your mindset, you get to all right, Micah. So
Speaker 3: we've got Micah Seemer's here to give us maybe some
Speaker 3: projects update and as Jason said, he puts together our
Speaker 3: capital budget.
Speaker 8: So yep, so that's yeah, we're planning for that tonight.
Speaker 8: And that's kind of similar to Jason. Probably not nearly
Speaker 8: as intensive as what Jason and Alicia do with the
Speaker 8: budget as a whole, but it's it's still a pretty
Speaker 8: good lyft for us. And uh so, yeah, we basically
Speaker 8: planning for next fisty year capital projects. We basically have
Speaker 8: to look at it and see everything that we did
Speaker 8: or didn't get accomplished this year, and if we need
Speaker 8: to carry over either additional funds for projects that are
Speaker 8: ongoing or projects that we didn't get to as far
Speaker 8: as under construction to get that contracted out, so got
Speaker 8: to carry over funds for those the next year. And
Speaker 8: then we start looking at really what we have left
Speaker 8: for the money that's can be available for the upcoming
Speaker 8: fiscally year for new projects, and we get with essentially
Speaker 8: kind of same as Jason. Same We get with all
Speaker 8: the directors and get requests from them from there, whether
Speaker 8: it's five year plans or things that have popped up
Speaker 8: in the last year that are needs capital needs, and
Speaker 8: so we go through that and sit down with our
Speaker 8: I guess ad hoc committee for our Finance Review or
Speaker 8: our Capital Review or Capital Oversight committee that meets monthly
Speaker 8: and we go through that and select projects for the
Speaker 8: next year and ultimate the AMC Coouncil is going to
Speaker 8: make a decision, so we'll present that to them tonight
Speaker 8: and if there's anything they need to tweak or modify,
Speaker 8: we can take that into consideration and then hopefully fifth
Speaker 8: having approved capital budget for next year, so and then
Speaker 8: well we'll get to work on design and implementing stuff
Speaker 8: and getting equipment bought and all that. So that's sort
Speaker 8: of the process in a nutshell, and so go through
Speaker 8: some products we're currently working on as far as underconstruction
Speaker 8: right now, we have the Yale Drive construction project. Probably
Speaker 8: not everybody seeing that, but if you're over in that
Speaker 8: area north of the Adams between Adams and Frank Phillips,
Speaker 8: that's in a pretty dense residential area there, and it's
Speaker 8: gonna be a tough project during construction, but we're working
Speaker 8: through it. I think the residents are being patient with
Speaker 8: us and so we do appreciate that. But essentially this
Speaker 8: is on Yale Drive from Adams to Frank Phillips and
Speaker 8: since they're currently working at the top of that on
Speaker 8: the south end there by Adams, and they will work
Speaker 8: on Yale Place as well. There's kind of a loop
Speaker 8: there that it makes with Yale Place, so they're working
Speaker 8: on essentially replacing that entire roadway. So we're going to
Speaker 8: salvage the curb and gutter, so they're going through and
Speaker 8: saw cutting and creating a curb and gutter section. We're
Speaker 8: going back in with an asphalt street. We're having a
Speaker 8: few utility conflicts right now. Back in the day, people
Speaker 8: did things a little bit different, so we've got some
Speaker 8: shallow gas and power through there, but we're working around it.
Speaker 8: So need to give my I guess he'd be my
Speaker 8: uncle in law some grief on that. He's an O
Speaker 8: and G guy. I need to bust his chops a
Speaker 8: little bit on how shall they was We haven't gone
Speaker 8: through any of them.
Speaker 4: No, that's good. So that's good.
Speaker 1: That's a plus.
Speaker 8: So we're working on that project. We're currently moving north
Speaker 8: towards Frank Phillips and that'll be kind of a phase
Speaker 8: deal there. They had talked about whether we just go
Speaker 8: ahead and tear everything out and go back with gravel
Speaker 8: and then pave all at once, I think we're gonna
Speaker 8: we're gonna stair stup that a little bit and we'll
Speaker 8: pave that section of the working now and then we'll
Speaker 8: move on kind of.
Speaker 4: To the north and do that as well.
Speaker 8: So we've got that project should wrap up here the
Speaker 8: next couple of months, and then our park parking lot
Speaker 8: project is really wound down, but we do still have
Speaker 8: some work there at Johnstone Park, so the park is open,
Speaker 8: though we did have some of the area there around
Speaker 8: the Nella Johnstone shut down so they can do some
Speaker 8: concrete working there, But that product is getting really close
Speaker 8: to wrapping up. Another one that you've probably seen a
Speaker 8: little bit of activity on but has kind of stalled
Speaker 8: a little bit as a Madison Boulevard reconstruction project from
Speaker 8: Tuxedo to about a half mile north up there a
Speaker 8: by the water tower goes past Ohio Sentially it's gonna
Speaker 8: be a complete reconstruction of Madison Boulevard. Currently it's just
Speaker 8: an old county road type section barely twenty feet wide
Speaker 8: in some places with bard itches, and we're gonna widen
Speaker 8: that up to about thirty three feet total back of
Speaker 8: curb to back of curb, and so it'll be a
Speaker 8: nice new asphalt section with curb and gutter, and then
Speaker 8: we'll taper that into the existing to the north.
Speaker 4: We've got a.
Speaker 8: Lot of questions about what are we gonna do for
Speaker 8: that north half mile because it's in a really bad condition.
Speaker 8: We are aware of that, so keep your phone calls
Speaker 8: coming if you want to. But essentially, noth's gonna happen immediately,
Speaker 8: but we will discuss some potential some quick fixes in
Speaker 8: the near future to get that through until we can
Speaker 8: do a reconstruction of that as well. So but essentially
Speaker 8: right now we're working on getting some ride away on
Speaker 8: the east side of Madison Boulevard there on the south
Speaker 8: end and about that south five or six feet or so.
Speaker 8: As you have a meeting with a gentleman this afternoon
Speaker 8: to try to work on that. I think we'll have
Speaker 8: something hopefully on the May fifth council meeting getting that secured.
Speaker 8: But we're working on that and so hopefully construction get
Speaker 8: ramped back up there in May. So the inditional work
Speaker 8: that you've seen right now is the Vertigree Valley does
Speaker 8: have to relocate a portion of their overhead electric on
Speaker 8: the east side, and so there were some trees up
Speaker 8: there by the west side of Park Hill on the
Speaker 8: south end, and so they went ahead and top those
Speaker 8: trees out. Once construction starts, our contract will remove the
Speaker 8: stumps and the root balls. That way they can get
Speaker 8: their line shifted over on the front end of construction.
Speaker 8: So I think people are pricing the trees come down
Speaker 8: and then nothing else happened.
Speaker 4: This is what we're waiting on.
Speaker 8: So but that's gonna be a good project that's been
Speaker 8: needed for a while. It's a cooperative effort with the
Speaker 8: Delaware Tribe. So the Delaware Tribe on the west side
Speaker 8: of that section of roadway as planning to do some
Speaker 8: development of their property, and as such they would have
Speaker 8: to platt and when they platt, they would have to
Speaker 8: donate the rideway and reconstruct the west side of the road.
Speaker 8: So they are basically going to purchase pay for half
Speaker 8: of this project with their funding, and so we do
Speaker 8: appreciate that, and that's let us basically go from doing
Speaker 8: a more of a ten year type rehab project to
Speaker 8: a complete reconstruction.
Speaker 4: Allowed us to do that, So we're grateful for.
Speaker 1: That for sure.
Speaker 8: The other big project that's coming up that we hope
Speaker 8: we will get awarded on May fifth is our prevented
Speaker 8: maintenance street project, and so this really takes funding from
Speaker 8: the past four years. We allocate one million dollars a
Speaker 8: year over five years in our sales tax fund for
Speaker 8: prevented maintenance street projects. And so this is projects that
Speaker 8: could be crack sealing, it could be what they call
Speaker 8: micro surfacing, thin overlays, basically streets that are in a
Speaker 8: pretty good condition that we just have to do a
Speaker 8: little bit of work to them. We can extend the
Speaker 8: life home out for seven ten years before we have
Speaker 8: to do any more work with them. And this is
Speaker 8: trying to keep streets in good conditions so we don't
Speaker 8: have to do the full rebuilds. Full rebuilds are costly,
Speaker 8: your money doesn't go very far with them, and so
Speaker 8: this is trying to keep good street It's in pretty
Speaker 8: good condition and so we've been We waited a while
Speaker 8: on this project to get our payment condition model updated
Speaker 8: so we could select projects appropriately. We did that back
Speaker 8: in twenty twenty three. We then got with Street and
Speaker 8: Traffic Committee and got a list of projects selected for
Speaker 8: the funding that we had available to present the council.
Speaker 8: Council then approve that back in twenty twenty four, and
Speaker 8: so we've been working on design and getting this project
Speaker 8: gall on. So it's a long process, but essentially we
Speaker 8: have about three point seven million dollars worth of projects
Speaker 8: that we're going to do and we will be awarding
Speaker 8: that contract hopefully on Monday night. And so with that
Speaker 8: being said, it's going to cover a lot of the
Speaker 8: city of Bartles. It's basically going to be extensive across
Speaker 8: the whole city. So we've got a portion of Tuxedo
Speaker 8: from Madison to Bison that we'll address. We've got Bison
Speaker 8: Road from Tuxedo to No Water Roads, there's two miles there.
Speaker 8: We're going to address Madison Boulevard from Tuxedo to Price.
Speaker 8: You got three mile section there a Price from Madison
Speaker 8: to seventy five, another mile no Water from seventy five
Speaker 8: to Silver Lake, and Frank Phillips from one to twenty
Speaker 8: three to Keeler. Then we skip down town, pick up
Speaker 8: the commanche you and go to seventy five, and then
Speaker 8: we take that from seventy five while way up to
Speaker 8: Madison as well. So again it's gonna cover a lot
Speaker 8: pretty much the entire city. There will be some drawing
Speaker 8: pains with this, and we've never done this type of
Speaker 8: project before. We've done some micro servicing in the past.
Speaker 8: He did not have good results. These streets, as you
Speaker 8: can sell as I read those out, they're all major
Speaker 8: roadways in the city of borbon Zville, and so they're
Speaker 8: striping involved. They're high traffic, higher higher speed limit, and
Speaker 8: so we've chosen to go with a product that's called
Speaker 8: a basically a bonded matrix overlay is what they call it.
Speaker 8: And I'm gonna dumb this down to my level honestly
Speaker 8: on this, but they call it a high density of
Speaker 8: mineral bond.
Speaker 4: It's called h A five.
Speaker 8: It's an asphalt product that essentially will cap the roadway.
Speaker 8: But before they do that, since these are higher volume roads,
Speaker 8: they're going to do a basically a chipping seal underneath that.
Speaker 8: We'll come back two weeks later with this high DENTSIY
Speaker 8: or this bondo nation over and seal that. So it's
Speaker 8: going to be a phased approach. You'll have to do
Speaker 8: stripe earth crack ceiling first, we'll do the chip seal.
Speaker 8: A couple of weeks later, we'll come back do the cap,
Speaker 8: and then we'll have to stripe. So it's gonna be
Speaker 8: a lot of disruption. You have to bear with us,
Speaker 8: but hopefully up the good product in all these roads.
Speaker 4: So, so lot's going on.
Speaker 2: Indeed, my goodness sakes, he knows a lot of words.
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