[0:00] I'd like to follow the ORD conect city
[0:02] council committee meetings for Tuesday
[0:04] January 2nd
[0:06] 2024 we have um and then now elect
[0:09] Council order City development and
[0:10] planning we have two uh items on the
[0:13] agenda the first item is a ceremon
[0:16] ceremonial resolution recognizing
[0:19] National mentoring month J in January um
[0:22] the resolution will recognize 518
[0:25] elevated formerly known as Capital
[0:26] Region adopt
[0:28] scholar Miss Harver
[0:31] good evening city
[0:33] council Happy New Year I am asking for a
[0:36] resolution um in honor of Mentor
[0:40] National mentorship month which is which
[0:42] is in January 5 elevated forly known as
[0:45] Cal region adop scholar has been serving
[0:48] the capital region for over 25 years
[0:51] offering different programs throughout
[0:54] the city of scity and the capital region
[0:56] for mentorship Financial College uh fund
[1:00] and guidance um currently we have alumni
[1:03] and 51 elevated serving in leadership
[1:06] capacities within the city of skincity
[1:09] including myself and um Maryann from
[1:12] human resources and we also have
[1:15] colleagues who serve as mandators for
[1:16] this program so I am bringing that to
[1:18] you um today offering and asking for
[1:21] your support for ceremonial
[1:23] resolution any questions I'll motion I
[1:26] move this second all in favor
[1:30] hi hi hi thank you thank the next item
[1:35] on the agenda is to authorize the mayor
[1:37] or his designated to enter an agreement
[1:39] with New York State Department
[1:40] transportation for the cran stre Bridge
[1:42] Rehabilitation Mr W thank you for all
[1:44] being here for this not realize special
[1:48] meeting uh this is a preliminarily
[1:50] designed agreement for the design of
[1:54] possible repairs or even possibly
[1:57] replacement of CR Street Bridge overseas
[1:59] CSX at Amtrak uh as a lot of you were
[2:02] aware the city has several bridges over
[2:04] rail uh I've been successful enough in
[2:07] my tenure to get funding for every
[2:08] single one of those bridges this is the
[2:10] last one um and what we're going to be
[2:13] doing is studying what the bridge needs
[2:16] um it's not in good shape it is posted
[2:18] for load which is a step that you take
[2:20] before possibly closing the bridge so we
[2:23] want to address and get a design in
[2:26] place before we have to do anything with
[2:28] that like closure um this is a federal
[2:30] fund project um it is on the tip for
[2:33] design and we're going to be going out
[2:34] for funding once we have a an Avenue and
[2:37] approach of what
[2:39] it's so so you said there was an
[2:43] agreement for
[2:44] 363,000 y so just for preliminary design
[2:47] yes so uh that's just for the design so
[2:50] this is and I I put in there a note that includes $100,000 for am tr to uh
[2:56] work with us on the design um so really
[2:59] usually design design is roughly 10 10
[3:02] 15% of the construction this is going to
[3:04] be very similar to Kings Road if it
[3:06] would need to be a replacement Kings
[3:07] Road was a $6 million project so that is
[3:11] second budget and we actually did
[3:13] negotiate that down due to a bunch of
[3:16] the factor that we've been working with
[3:17] because I've kind of done this before
[3:19] but we're confident that it's a it's a
[3:21] good price it's a good group um they'
[3:23] worked on these types of bridges before
[3:25] uh it's going to be a long road working
[3:27] with the railroad but we Mo it
[3:30] there any questions when when when will
[3:34] you when will it what's the timeline
[3:36] when do you think it's going to start
[3:37] and well we're going to design is going
[3:38] to that's why I'm trying to push is that
[3:40] this is this takes months to just get
[3:42] the design going so we have the
[3:44] agreements this is the next step State
[3:46] we're going to get it to the state for
[3:48] with the resolutions that'll give us an
[3:49] authorization we can't spend a dollar
[3:51] till the federal government gives us
[3:52] authorization once we have that so I'm guessing design is going to take the
[3:56] better part of 9 months and then they
[3:59] have to review it give us a sign off and
[4:02] then you know so there's two Avenues
[4:03] which is a major rehab which is
[4:05] essentially we take the bridge right off
[4:07] the opments and we put it back uh or
[4:10] it's you know what it's just take the
[4:13] whole Bridge away and do it one of the
[4:14] issues that we're going to face is
[4:16] Amtrak has new clearances so there is uh
[4:21] let's say 20 ft of clearance from the
[4:23] track to the bottom of the bridge the
[4:24] new standard is 22 ft so you have to get
[4:28] 2 ft
[4:30] more of clearance and it's tough you
[4:33] know to get a bridge a new bridge to get
[4:35] two feet more you can't make it that
[4:36] much thinner you got to raise it a
[4:38] little higher as you raise it higher the
[4:40] approaches get steeper so that's that's
[4:43] what we're going to be looking at and if
[4:44] you guys are aware of this bridge I want
[4:46] some Sportsman's Bowl was right there
[4:50] and then right when you get on reram
[4:51] there's another Bridge you got to go
[4:53] under so this is this is compated
[4:58] yeah Mr I'd just like to take the
[5:01] opportunity to thank you for your
[5:02] commitment and dedication I know that
[5:04] you go through a lot there's a lot that
[5:06] comes in and out of your office with some staffing issues but always
[5:11] right on top of things so thank you so
[5:13] much you're welcome look forward to
[5:15] working with you
[5:17] again you have again no she asked it
[5:21] about the
[5:22] timeline well the phase the design phase
[5:25] nine months and then like when so this
[5:28] is momentary design so once we have
[5:30] preliminary design uh then there's a
[5:32] final design phase typically this would
[5:35] be the Bol however usually it's say a
[5:38] road or a bridge that we know it has to
[5:40] done we know what the process is this is
[5:42] an actual honest preliminary design we
[5:44] do not know where we're going so I
[5:47] talked to the state and said let's just
[5:49] get going we're exploring you know three
[5:52] options one is don't do anything Bridge
[5:54] closes which is never an option really
[5:56] but then it's replacement and Rehab so
[5:59] we're going to do do some costs we're
[6:00] going to see what we can do and then
[6:01] once we have an idea of where we can
[6:03] actually go then we go to final design
[6:06] and actually start thinking construction
[6:08] but we have to get this phace done no
[6:10] wor about what would have warrant for
[6:13] the bridge to be closed again the rating
[6:15] right now is pretty low rating so three
[6:17] tons right now yeah and um well you know
[6:20] gets inspected by annually every other
[6:22] by the state does have flags that we
[6:24] have to address uh it's a pre-stress
[6:27] Concrete box which means it's not steel
[6:30] it can't be supported once it starts to
[6:32] go there are some ways to repair it I
[6:34] don't know if they're a great investment
[6:36] um but we will be aware as it gets
[6:39] monitored we're hoping that being we
[6:42] have a couple more years of life the
[6:44] issue is we don't want an O Street
[6:45] situation where Oak Street got the D May
[6:48] Clos we weren't prepared for Oak Street
[6:51] where in this one I'm trying to be
[6:55] prepared there just bridg York there is
[6:57] one right now Bridge New York uh which
[7:00] we are eligible for which we are
[7:03] okay any other questions I'll move this
[7:06] second
[7:08] favor thank you thank you very much
[7:11] motion to ad CL second
[7:16] by all in favor we're thank you thank
[7:20] you have a good night
[7:20] [Music]
[7:28] everyone
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