uh
all right so it's three o'clock I'm
gonna go ahead and follow the meeting to
order we do have a quorum
um so oh perfect commissioner Gold's
coming on now
um director do you want to just kind of
like kick things off about just the one
item that we have on
this emergency meeting agenda uh Madam
president thank you Bart happy to
Commissioners again thank you all is
commissioner gold on you
okay uh thank you all for taking the
time as you're well aware last night we
received a call from the neighborhood
indicating there was a sinkhole that was
occurring on Lemp Street between streets
20 and 21. it was
not that big team responded immediately
and started courting off the area
because it appeared to be getting larger
uh this uh so everything was set for a
safe operation through the night
earlier this morning earlier this
morning our team went back out and saw
some of the pictures that I've already
sent you
regarding the uh the uh sinkhole across
the sport our Engineers
went out we did contact Boise we
contacted the neighborhood and started
as in our maintenance teams we did do a
good assessment on this we have found
that this sinkhole is approximately 15
feet deep if not longer the pipe that
the drainage system that is in this area
was built in the 1970s out of aluminum
and over the years it is apparent that
the system uh started to fail uh this
week we had that massive rain event uh
the the uh the pipes that lead into this
one going Downstream is about an 18 inch
pipe this one is a larger 30 inch pipe
so as you can imagine this would be
similar to the Gold Rush where they
dredged uh uh operations and so uh the
entire system got blown out uh there is
no remnants left of the pipe itself we
did have our team go out using the
specific technologies that we have to
scope uh what we could scope in this and
we found is that the uh the system has
completely failed so uh we've been
commissioner Pickering commissioner gold
you know we've been in contact with the
mayor on this and so what we are asking
you to do today is to Grant and
conditions so we can expend funds under
emergency condition for sole source
contractor
recruitment to get these things fixed
and the estimated cost that we're
looking at right now is between 300 000
and 350 000 we believe this may take uh
uh up to two weeks we have already I've
already closed uh limp from 20 to 21 and
we have put up barricades on that
Alleyway that accesses lamp
and such and you'll have a video a
visual of that here and
okay to ensure safe operations we have
already started a coordination process
with all the key players out on the
neighborhood but uh Republic Service all
the folks will be servicing that area
and our maintenance teams right now are
actually filling the whole uh back in
with gravel as quickly as possible to
prevent any more degradation of the
infrastructure but the same token to
keep
lookings out from getting too close and
then falling in or having any more uh
stress put on that infrastructure so
again the the request is for you to
grant that emergency uh uh opportunity
for us to go sole source and if you do
that we'll immediately start reaching
out to the key contractors to see how
quickly we can respond and get this
fixed I do have general counsel in the
building here I do have communications
uh development Technical Services and I
here in case you have any specific
questions for them so Madam president
that's my request and that's why we're
here
thanks director Commissioners
commissioner McKinney
uh yeah let me just ask a couple of
questions um director what is our
confidence level as far as uh uh how
confident are we that once we start
digging and looking into it that we
won't find that the damage is a lot more
than we think that is to say how
confident are we that we know the extent
of the damage at this point as opposed
to we start digging and then discover
that oh this is twice a big twice as big
of a job as we thought and we'll have to
come back again and do this again soon
Madam president commissioner McKinney
great question uh fortunately we do have
a project that was ongoing that was
going to address uh a similar situation
a little further down our team has used
the technology that we have here to
assess that damage right now we we
initially thought that we could do some
type of spot repair and then come back
later and then so I understand it's
called sleeting it uh to provide more
strength
we're confident we have to replace the
whole uh the whole system or about 300
feet worth now that being said as we all
know when you open up the roadway
there may be more surprises there but we
believe that this will give this will
fix this issue again uh I'm not going to
give you 100 on that to say when we get
Downstream and we continue to move
forward we may find more issues if we do
I'll come back to the commission and uh
make sure I'll make sure you have an
update we have to go for something
different than I'll be in front of you
again saying here's what we found
are we are we going to presumably
replace uh with reinforced concrete pipe
uh I believe we're doing um
I'm not mistaken yes uh Plastics uh more
more strength more uh longevity
PVC yeah
okay then one final question I'm sorry
um
the sort of temporary measure that you
took in dumping gravel in there uh does
that not pose a problem for them silting
up our pipes Downstream or is that going
to be there short enough time that I
mean what I'm saying is before we get in
there let's suppose a downpour hits two
hours from now and starts trying to wash
all that gravel Downstream is that not a
problem
um Madam president uh commissioner
Pickering yes it is uh that being uh
kind of President commission McKinney uh
that being said yes it is however uh
again all knowing that you never cancel
the forecast we are confident that for
the next week week and a half we were
not going to see another one of these
issues recall this was the impact of the
revenants of that hurricane and uh and
uh tropical storm that came up uh into
Idaho but everything looks great I
looked at the weather forecast there is
a high over Idaho right now there's a
storm earlier today that was it was
going around the Oregon Washington area
but it was going north
so so if there's another a major event
it's going to be an issue but uh we
don't think that's going to happen today
okay great thank you commissioner
goldthorpe
yeah I you know last eight and a half
years I think we've all had our fingers
crossed that something like this wasn't
going to happen in the North End because
of the uh infrastructure that was built
there 100 years ago and maybe a little
more recent as we're finding out now but
uh yeah I you know just like
commissioner McKinney said nothing's
nothing's going to surprise me there and
I hope we can find that it's uh less
than worst case scenario and get it done
quickly and sitting here hearing Paul
saying what kind of material is going to
be used to replace the pipe I actually
remembered one of my Roadmaster classes
where we talked about the types of pipe
that's all I have to say thanks
commissioner Goldberg commissioner gold
do you have anything any questions you
want to ask
I don't I am
I think it was all covered from my
questions but um I appreciate the you
know quick response and
making sure that we can get this address
so thank you
can I just ask one more question I am
sorry about this the um the funding uh
the funds that we're authorizing for
emergency use uh where do they come from
Mr we'll take that out of any reserves
we have but it's not a problem having
one of the reasons we have reserves okay
they just come out of our cash reserves
then that was gonna be my question too
so thanks commissioner McKinney okay
any other questions commissioners
yes you will if if you agree and allow
us you'll have to adopt that resolution
that's in front of us that authorizes us
to go
so yeah all uh is there a motion to
approve the adoption for resolution 24
10. yes
Madam president I would move that we
adopt resolution 2410.
okay
moved and seconded any other discussion
keep up the great work of keeping the
neighbors informed about what's
happening
um and or maybe even provide like a
specific like line that they can call or
text to get more update information
because this is really
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specific and I don't want them to get
bogged down through our Telus system
even though they wouldn't but yeah just
a little bit more hasty Communications
would be great so Madam President we are
we are adding a project page
um and such so uh
beautiful that sounds great okay all
right all those in favor say aye
aye
opposed motion carries thank you
director thanks Dave thanks staff
thank you
enjoy the weekend