I'd like to follow the ORD conect city
council committee meetings for Tuesday
January 2nd
2024 we have um and then now elect
Council order City development and
planning we have two uh items on the
agenda the first item is a ceremon
ceremonial resolution recognizing
National mentoring month J in January um
the resolution will recognize 518
elevated formerly known as Capital
Region adopt
scholar Miss Harver
good evening city
council Happy New Year I am asking for a
resolution um in honor of Mentor
National mentorship month which is which
is in January 5 elevated forly known as
Cal region adop scholar has been serving
the capital region for over 25 years
offering different programs throughout
the city of scity and the capital region
for mentorship Financial College uh fund
and guidance um currently we have alumni
and 51 elevated serving in leadership
capacities within the city of skincity
including myself and um Maryann from
human resources and we also have
colleagues who serve as mandators for
this program so I am bringing that to
you um today offering and asking for
your support for ceremonial
resolution any questions I'll motion I
move this second all in favor
hi hi hi thank you thank the next item
on the agenda is to authorize the mayor
or his designated to enter an agreement
with New York State Department
transportation for the cran stre Bridge
Rehabilitation Mr W thank you for all
being here for this not realize special
meeting uh this is a preliminarily
designed agreement for the design of
possible repairs or even possibly
replacement of CR Street Bridge overseas
CSX at Amtrak uh as a lot of you were
aware the city has several bridges over
rail uh I've been successful enough in
my tenure to get funding for every
single one of those bridges this is the
last one um and what we're going to be
doing is studying what the bridge needs
um it's not in good shape it is posted
for load which is a step that you take
before possibly closing the bridge so we
want to address and get a design in
place before we have to do anything with
that like closure um this is a federal
fund project um it is on the tip for
design and we're going to be going out
for funding once we have a an Avenue and
approach of what
it's so so you said there was an
agreement for
363,000 y so just for preliminary design
yes so uh that's just for the design so
this is and I I put in there a note that includes $100,000 for am tr to uh
work with us on the design um so really
usually design design is roughly 10 10
15% of the construction this is going to
be very similar to Kings Road if it
would need to be a replacement Kings
Road was a $6 million project so that is
second budget and we actually did
negotiate that down due to a bunch of
the factor that we've been working with
because I've kind of done this before
but we're confident that it's a it's a
good price it's a good group um they'
worked on these types of bridges before
uh it's going to be a long road working
with the railroad but we Mo it
there any questions when when when will
you when will it what's the timeline
when do you think it's going to start
and well we're going to design is going
to that's why I'm trying to push is that
this is this takes months to just get
the design going so we have the
agreements this is the next step State
we're going to get it to the state for
with the resolutions that'll give us an
authorization we can't spend a dollar
till the federal government gives us
authorization once we have that so I'm guessing design is going to take the
better part of 9 months and then they
have to review it give us a sign off and
then you know so there's two Avenues
which is a major rehab which is
essentially we take the bridge right off
the opments and we put it back uh or
it's you know what it's just take the
whole Bridge away and do it one of the
issues that we're going to face is
Amtrak has new clearances so there is uh
let's say 20 ft of clearance from the
track to the bottom of the bridge the
new standard is 22 ft so you have to get
2 ft
more of clearance and it's tough you
know to get a bridge a new bridge to get
two feet more you can't make it that
much thinner you got to raise it a
little higher as you raise it higher the
approaches get steeper so that's that's
what we're going to be looking at and if
you guys are aware of this bridge I want
some Sportsman's Bowl was right there
and then right when you get on reram
there's another Bridge you got to go
under so this is this is compated
yeah Mr I'd just like to take the
opportunity to thank you for your
commitment and dedication I know that
you go through a lot there's a lot that
comes in and out of your office with some staffing issues but always
right on top of things so thank you so
much you're welcome look forward to
working with you
again you have again no she asked it
about the
timeline well the phase the design phase
nine months and then like when so this
is momentary design so once we have
preliminary design uh then there's a
final design phase typically this would
be the Bol however usually it's say a
road or a bridge that we know it has to
done we know what the process is this is
an actual honest preliminary design we
do not know where we're going so I
talked to the state and said let's just
get going we're exploring you know three
options one is don't do anything Bridge
closes which is never an option really
but then it's replacement and Rehab so
we're going to do do some costs we're
going to see what we can do and then
once we have an idea of where we can
actually go then we go to final design
and actually start thinking construction
but we have to get this phace done no
wor about what would have warrant for
the bridge to be closed again the rating
right now is pretty low rating so three
tons right now yeah and um well you know
gets inspected by annually every other
by the state does have flags that we
have to address uh it's a pre-stress
Concrete box which means it's not steel
it can't be supported once it starts to
go there are some ways to repair it I
don't know if they're a great investment
um but we will be aware as it gets
monitored we're hoping that being we
have a couple more years of life the
issue is we don't want an O Street
situation where Oak Street got the D May
Clos we weren't prepared for Oak Street
where in this one I'm trying to be
prepared there just bridg York there is
one right now Bridge New York uh which
we are eligible for which we are
okay any other questions I'll move this
second
favor thank you thank you very much
motion to ad CL second
by all in favor we're thank you thank
you have a good night
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