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[0:52] Is the machinery, the interwebs on?
[1:07] Hello everyone,
[1:53] welcome
[2:20] to the last work session of the year December 10, 2019 for Kevin City Council. Call that roll. Mayors.
[2:27] That's me. Council member Lynn Lee Jones, district one. Present. Council member John Park, district two.
[2:53] Yes, don't forget to buy your tickets to the MLK day dinner.
[3:14] Good afternoon Mayor council. We've had a very busy week with helping out the
[3:20] Director Parkman with Santa and the Christmas tree lighting ceremony.
[3:26] This, the next week is an even be busier.
[3:30] The 12th we have were escorting for the peach tree greenway opening.
[3:35] The bike club from the manifestation to the opening, they expect 200 bikes.
[3:41] The ribbon cutting itself and immediately following the ribbon cutting, we have a, a lunch and
[3:46] a holiday lunch and at the police department, so you're all invited to attend that.
[3:49] and about one o'clock, we're giving out awards to our officers
[3:51] of the year and things like that.
[3:54] So please stop by if you could do that.
[3:57] Also, let's see, third night we have the same night.
[4:02] We have guns and hoses, it's boxing tournament.
[4:05] This year we actually have three officers boxing.
[4:07] There's 20 events.
[4:11] Each event is three rounds and three of our officers are in it.
[4:14] They're going to have Brookhaven boxing robes and everything.
[4:16] So we'll stand out there.
[4:17] It's against firemen that's for the pale organization, which is a police ethnically.
[4:22] As I mentioned last week, and then finally we're just trying to remind all the residents and
[4:28] citizens that is the holiday season, we're expecting a lot of thefts.
[4:33] I know Amazon's been advertising, I think one out of four packages delivered has been stolen from
[4:38] porches.
[4:40] So, we want everyone to be aware of that.
[4:42] If even if our residents would pass out of a staff meeting this morning, or our officers
[4:46] has been advised if you see an Amazon truck or a UPS or a FedEx truck going around.
[4:50] A lot of times we'll follow them because what happens is they actually follow these vehicles
[4:54] around and just pick up packages right after they deliver them, which is probably the easiest
[4:58] for them to do.
[4:59] It's a crime of opportunity.
[5:02] And the other thing is we're still having vehicles stolen.
[5:05] We had a bunch of cars entered this past week.
[5:08] One of them happened right off the Beaufort Highway, not too far from the police department
[5:11] in the gated community, we just found out today that the pickup truck that was used
[5:16] in that was stolen and how these springs had had a gun in it and they stole a car
[5:21] from the subdivision where they were breaking through the actually in that gated community.
[5:27] We also had two car stolen this past week where keys were left in the car again so that continues
[5:31] to.
[5:32] And that's all we have.
[5:37] Thank you very much, Patty, and then we'll go to economic development.
[5:43] Good afternoon Mayor and Council.
[5:46] I've been really working with Jima on the FEMA and hazard mitigation grant contract that
[5:53] you will see on your agenda this evening.
[5:57] I will be working very closely with the homeowners to navigate that process through 2020.
[6:01] And speaking of 2020, I've also been filling my time with Census 2020.
[6:05] I will be presenting the marketing plan to the Complete Count Committee next week that will
[6:11] rolling out in January.
[6:13] We've been working with some great partners with that,
[6:15] including the U.S. Census Bureau,
[6:18] and I have to have to make sure we're leveraging all our assets.
[6:21] Nobody has the budget they'd love to have,
[6:22] so we're all trying to work together.
[6:24] The Cherry Blossom Fest in 5K will have some big announcements
[6:27] in January.
[6:29] I'm working now on all the supporting contracts,
[6:32] getting everything in place.
[6:33] So Mallory can run it as seamlessly as we know she will.
[6:38] And that's it.
[6:38] Thank you.
[6:41] Thank you very much.
[6:42] Can you remind us when we expect a response from the ARC on our tip request?
[6:48] I just checked into that yesterday that looks like they're going to have the draft plan in a January.
[6:54] They'll be presenting that to first their committee, then their board.
[6:58] So we'll be planning out about the end of January.
[7:01] I've never seen a recommendation turned out from the board.
[7:04] It goes through a very, very lengthy scoring process.
[7:07] So I should be able to give you an update at the end of January.
[7:09] And then we'll know in the first quarter when the board actually passes it and move forward.
[7:15] Most of these particular projects would be projects that will be affected after June 30th, 2020.
[7:23] So in plenty of time to do that.
[7:25] Thank you.
[7:25] In just a reminder, the council that we asked for significant funding for the completion of phase two of the Greenway and phase three of the Greenway.
[7:34] So looking forward to some good news there.
[7:37] Economic development.
[7:37] Good afternoon Mayor and Council.
[7:39] Just one major announcement for you all this afternoon.
[7:42] Last week the development authority approved adopted their strategic plan so we're looking
[7:47] forward to hitting the ground running in 2020 with that.
[7:50] You also approved a budget through 2020.
[7:53] So we are ready for the next year and seeing some great projects come out of those.
[7:58] Thank you.
[7:59] And the council direction last week will include the budget in the appendix of the approved 2020 city budget.
[8:05] So we'll have that with the CBB budget as well.
[8:08] let's do communications and then human resources.
[8:12] Good afternoon Mayor and Council.
[8:13] We've had a lot of activity in communications in the since our last meeting.
[8:17] I'd love to tell you about it.
[8:19] We've got our Spanish paint the park calendar in house
[8:22] and we'll be distributed in the coming weeks.
[8:23] We also have our Spanish activity guide at the printer.
[8:26] We coordinated the staffed conversation with Council members.
[8:29] That's Lily Jones and Council member,
[8:31] that was on the 2nd of December, very well-attended, very well-attended event.
[8:38] We worked with the Parks Department to photograph the Peach Creek Greenway Bridge
[8:42] for a special Christmas card.
[8:45] We also staffed light up Brookhaven, which was the best event ever,
[8:50] and I'm sure Brian Boardson told us all about it in just a few minutes.
[8:53] But a wonderful time was had by all at the light up Brookhaven event.
[8:57] We are anticipating an annexation in tonight's agenda.
[9:01] We've been doing some preparations to welcome this new community into the city limits of Brookhaven,
[9:06] including some welcome packages and some poll banners that will be seen in that area of our community.
[9:14] We initiated the choice for tops with collections in City Hall, the Parks Department, and the Police Department,
[9:21] and as far as City Hall is concerned, if you go downstairs in the lobby,
[9:24] see it's overflowing with toys, so a lot of happy kids and Christmas time this year.
[9:28] We've also had a number of pressure leases since our last meeting, I'm sure we're going
[9:33] to have many more tonight.
[9:34] Thank you.
[9:34] That concludes my report.
[9:36] Thank you very much.
[9:37] They are very busy down there.
[9:39] He would resources.
[9:41] I'm happy to say that our 2020 open enrollment is complete.
[9:43] All the information has been provided to carriers and they have uploaded the information.
[9:48] We have visibility on that.
[9:50] We're currently working on closing out the 2019 employee performance evaluations, and we'll also be creating the 2020 plans and goals for all employees, as well as we're working on the employee salary planning work sheets for the 2020.
[10:05] Thank you very much. Brian, you want to slide in there.
[10:09] Perhaps some recreation.
[10:13] Good afternoon, Mayor members of Council.
[10:16] First, I want to say thank you to everyone who came out Wednesday night for light up Brookhaven.
[10:20] We had another great event, especially this year we added the snow slides, hopefully everybody got a chance to go down on the snow slide, the Santa could tell from flying in, there was a long line to get in to the snow slide on the Wednesday night.
[10:34] Our crowd, it was probably the most diverse crowd we've had at this event, our Hispanic population.
[10:41] Thanks to, you'll listen in the communications department showed that it came participated.
[10:46] I'd say probably 30 to 40 to 50 percent of the crowd was from our Hispanic population, as well as probably a large number.
[10:53] Just as many were in line to visit with Santa on Wednesday night.
[10:56] So, thank you to you all, the police department, everyone who came out and participated in this year's event.
[11:02] As Council Member Jones mentioned earlier, the fifth annual Martin Luther King celebration dinner will be held on January 20,
[11:08] at the 530 PM at the Linwood Park Rec Center.
[11:12] Tickets for this year's of dinner on sale now,
[11:14] at Linwood Park, $10, come back and get them.
[11:16] And now, you can check out our progress
[11:17] on our ADA Restroom Project.
[11:21] Also, tickets for the this year's daddy daughter dance are on sale now.
[11:25] Due to the popularity, there will be two nights
[11:27] for the daddy daughter dance this year.
[11:30] The first night will be held on Friday, February 7th,
[11:34] at Linwood and the second night
[11:36] will be Saturday, February 8th at Linwood Park.
[11:38] tickets for this year's event can be purchased on our Department website, $25 and for each
[11:43] additional dollar you have it's $5 for each additional child.
[11:47] The Linwood Park ADA bathroom project is continuing to move forward.
[11:51] The contractor has completed their blockwork on the inside and they will actually begin
[11:55] the process of laying the floor tile at the end of this week.
[11:58] If you've been up piece tree this week near the Gateway Monument you've noticed the landscaping
[12:02] project that's going on up there.
[12:04] The contractor should be completed with that project by the end of this week with the new
[12:08] plants and so on. And the Breyerwood Park Conspore construction, if you haven't been by
[12:14] there, go by there. You can see the new pool. The contractor has got the pool dug out. So
[12:19] you give you a great idea of what the pool is going to look like. So if you get a chance,
[12:22] go by Breyerwood and check it out. And that concludes the parks report.
[12:29] Thank you very
[12:29] much. Public Works.
[12:31] Good afternoon, Mayor and Council.
[12:35] The monument that Shambri Dunwoley Road is now complete, there is some cleanup and the lighting of the monument is the only thing left there.
[12:48] And we have the Ashwood Dunwoley Montgomery Elementary Bits advertised last Friday, and the Bits are due on January 16, 2019, and we're hoping to bring that contract to the Council.
[13:00] in the second council meeting.
[13:03] And Merrill brothers are a contractor for the dredging, is working on the schedule and the truck
[13:11] routes, and then we are hoping we can get that contract, not the contract, yes, the contract
[13:18] to the council, on the first meeting of January, and then get the dredging going there.
[13:24] And staff is working on the 2020 paving big documents, and hopefully we will release that
[13:30] or the contractor sometime before end of the year.
[13:34] And usually the relocation at DASH would
[13:37] done what he and Johnson Ferris still continuing.
[13:40] Georgia Power has done most of the work.
[13:45] And gas company, Agil, is yet to start the work.
[13:50] And they'll be starting very soon.
[13:53] And you have Brian Woodrow side walk
[13:55] and Brian Woodrow multi-use bat construction contracts in front of you for today to
[14:02] a pool, and then once it is a pool, we'll start those two.
[14:06] And the Brian Woodrow side walk is the last side walk project that was a pool by the council
[14:12] in 2015 and 2014, yes, that's all I have.
[14:19] Thanks very much.
[14:21] Community development.
[14:23] Good afternoon, the department just wanted to make council aware that the bids for the tree canopy study update have been received and are in review.
[14:34] We will get that complete before the end of the year and bring it back to you for a more in January.
[14:42] Thank you very much.
[14:46] Mayer in Council. One item that I'd like to notice that as the Iran is getting close, we're getting ready for our external auditors.
[14:56] They reach out to us. So right now we're in the planning.
[15:00] The face of the audited difficulty includes gaining understanding over the agency's systems, processes in internal controls, and the area requested some items, some preliminary items that we'll provide to them, and they are planning to be on site this month, the 19 and the 20th and that concludes my report. Thank you.
[15:24] Good afternoon.
[15:27] I'll just introduce myself.
[15:30] So, in addition to external auditors, we do have an internal auditor doing work as well, and
[15:37] he is going to be headlong and first on the first quarter working with our performance audit for
[15:44] the park bond issuance and dealing with our park oversight board, our park bond oversight board on
[15:50] at. In addition to Maro, we have a hearing here in the morning. Alcohol, we did send out
[16:02] two letters for non-renewal. One of the firms is actually appealing, the non-renewal,
[16:09] and we'll have them in here with hearing officer tomorrow morning. The other firm did not appeal.
[16:14] They're non-renewal, notice. That's all for me.
[16:20] Thank you. Yes, all the departments are essentially getting ready for next year's budget and closing out this year's budget, including developing their departmental and individual management objectives that are aligned with the budget, especially as it relates to sustainable broke haven, which identifies specific efforts to do or commitments for calling them in 2020, and that will be an each department heads performance plan for next year that concludes the operating report.
[16:50] Questions are going to be selling the MLK dinner tickets online this year?
[16:59] Currently we have not put them online but we can't we can work to try to get those online
[17:03] just because we have a certain number and trying to make sure that we get we don't over
[17:08] sale. Let me talk with our let me talk to staff is that we can try to get those on there and
[17:14] maybe we can number a certain way. Okay and I'll go ahead this year and get out the letters
[17:20] of invitation to elected officials and dignitaries next week and then I don't think the MLK
[17:30] dinner is on the website at all yet. Is it I was looking on the home page you know it's
[17:37] got in the in the spotlight. It's on our department web page under programs and activities
[17:43] and events. Okay,
[17:47] so December 12th, the Fisher Creek Greenway has featured on the home page,
[17:53] and then when that's done, could we feature the MLK data dinner? Is that, or is it okay?
[17:59] Okay, that's playin' all. The next, the next big thing we got is this, this, this, this, this.
[18:04] Great, thanks.
[18:08] Good, John, okay, dates.
[18:14] Just a question about the update on the Christmas
[18:17] industry at Mara. What was the latest on that? I saw when still have lights on it. We had
[18:24] to order some solar lights, so with everything we had gone on, they just had not had
[18:29] a chance to get them. We had to order them. So hopefully next week we'll get those installed.
[18:35] So... Amen! I'm so excited. That was really the thinking that it was going to not happen
[18:41] this year. So you made my Christmas with that. So now we know what the farewell
[18:46] I'll get this.
[18:52] Should I ask for more?
[18:55] But that's what you asked for.
[19:01] Yeah, that's it.
[19:03] Chief, can you repeat, you said something about the police awards?
[19:07] Was that on 12-12?
[19:08] The half of the peach tree.
[19:10] Ribbon cutting?
[19:11] Yeah, immediately following that.
[19:13] Because it was pre-scadgeted before the peach tree.
[19:15] Greenway was scheduled or whatever. So we have got a bunch of residents donating food and they usually join us and help us
[19:22] It's immediately following that and the awards are probably about one to clock one 30. I guess
[19:26] How long does that usually go for?
[19:29] The luncheon itself will go from 12 o'clock whenever we get there after the greenway until probably 3.30 or so.
[19:38] Christian on the
[19:40] Development Authority budget that's going to be put in as a appendix
[19:43] You think maybe we can get a copy just to review it. Yes. Okay, I'd like to see that. Thank you very much
[19:52] Gary
[19:53] What was the time of on the bike alliance? What time are you guys starting to
[20:02] believe it's about 45 minutes before the greenway
[20:05] starts up the ceremony
[20:07] I'm thinking myself. I'm like
[20:10] Um, then, uh, Patty, is this contract of Latina, is that, is this just a accepting the grant
[20:21] in full, or is this, or have the people actually signed the documentation saying they're
[20:26] willing to sell the property?
[20:28] But I was confused by that.
[20:29] Oh, no, no, there's a, there's a timeline to it.
[20:32] What happened now is we accept the terms of the grant at the seedings meeting, should you choose
[20:37] to do so?
[20:38] It goes back to Gima, who is also a subrecipient of these funds.
[20:44] It's reviewed by FEMA.
[20:46] Once FEMA signs off on it, which will be a few weeks,
[20:50] then we are allowed to send offer letters to the homeowners.
[20:55] And at that point, they know that as you'll see in the grant,
[20:59] the offer numbers are in there.
[21:02] So it will take, you know, we may have some closings the first quarter,
[21:05] but we've already discussed with Gima and through FEMA and in house that will probably be
[21:12] at least an 18-month process from one to the end. It's a big decision for people. Let me understand
[21:16] that. And there's a date certain if they don't clarify that. Currently there's a date certain
[21:22] of December 31, 2020. However, if we are in process, we've already been notified that people will
[21:30] and that. But yes, state certain we will need answers by. We have certain homeowners who are very anxious to move with the process and others who have some questions on it, and that is a normal course of events and that's what we expect and as does Gima.
[21:46] And Harry may have a little more to say on that, but as far as the contract goes, that's the process.
[21:50] And
[21:56] what else have any other questions?
[21:57] If not, when does the agenda come out for Thursdays event?
[22:06] We hope to have the first thing in the morning.
[22:08] Thank you.
[22:09] Shedding off to thank you to Barbara reports.
[22:12] Other agenda items, presentation of that automated side loaders,
[22:17] Dr. Pauline Andrea, the cab county.
[22:20] Thank you so much for joining us today.
[22:21] Well,
[23:14] good afternoon everyone, Mayor Ernst City Council Member, City Manager and everyone
[23:19] answering your various departments.
[23:21] My name is Pauline Andran, the Public Relations Manager for the Cap County Sanitation
[23:25] Division.
[23:27] And here with me today, two of my colleagues, I do have our Communications Coordinator
[23:30] and the Station of Nove.
[23:33] And also, Daphos Satiragon, who is our GIS analyst, who will be doing a brief presentation
[23:37] with me here as well.
[23:39] So thank you so much for having us here to talk to you briefly about the automated side
[23:43] a lot of trucks. And I'm sure, well, most of you, if not all of you, should remember
[23:48] when we switched transition over to a one day week collection service back in 2015 and
[23:54] the Rolling Fort One initiative. And this really can be viewed as the final major component
[23:59] of that initiative, introducing this trucks. And there are quite a few benefits that I'll
[24:05] share with you today. It's also contained in the paper that you have. So what I'm really
[24:09] today to discuss a couple of high-level components of the initiative and also to tell you
[24:15] how we're going to get information out to or to residents within our service area including
[24:21] the city of Brookhaven residents. So first what we've done is we've brought up our website's home page
[24:27] which has information on this initiative and that's one of the main ways for communication
[24:33] channels like you see platforms we're using to get information out to residents. So as you can see
[24:39] based on the paper that you have and also what's on our website.
[24:42] We have customized branding for this initiative.
[24:45] You can see we have a picture of the truck with the name of the truck.
[24:48] I need an also see two roll carts.
[24:51] So on any side of the truck, what those roll carts
[24:54] and then to indicate is that the trucks will be used for both garbage
[24:58] and recycling collection.
[25:00] Now what we've done is we began back in spring of 2019.
[25:04] What we're calling a pilot program
[25:06] were trying out this trucks within to cap communities.
[25:10] They have been around a few of them in Brookhaven, Dunwoody,
[25:13] the Seven Cities that we service,
[25:14] as well as unincorporated to cap.
[25:17] And through this pilot project,
[25:20] what we determined was that, by using one driver,
[25:25] position called a Refused Driver Collector,
[25:27] which was specifically created for this,
[25:31] for driving as ESL truck,
[25:33] we determined that one driver for this truck,
[25:36] could service between 800 and 1200 homes as opposed to the railroad as the ones you currently
[25:42] see the yellow timbers at the back and do that the ASL drivers one driver could do this
[25:48] in about seven to eight hours as opposed to 10 hours for two refuse collectors and a driver
[25:55] in the railroad a truck. So we're able to determine that from the months of the pilot program
[26:00] that we had, which was quite impressive.
[26:04] Now, we introduced those into decap communities,
[26:07] back in April, and what we're doing now
[26:09] is we have 46 trucks that we're deploying throughout
[26:13] or service areas.
[26:15] That was said, it is which in Clisbert Haven
[26:16] and I incorporated decap.
[26:18] I'm not sure if you saw the press release
[26:20] that the CEO sent out about a month ago
[26:22] talking about the deployment of this trucks.
[26:24] And what we hope to do is to have all of this trucks
[26:27] deployed through our service area, including in Brookhaven,
[26:29] by the end of this month.
[26:32] We're almost there, we're about two thirds of the way there,
[26:34] and we hope to have the remaining ones out total of 46 sometime within the next few weeks.
[26:41] Now, as I indicated earlier, this trucks will be deployed through an entire service area.
[26:46] All seven cities, so we have done Woody, Brooke Haven,
[26:49] like Phelania, Pine Lake, Tucker, Stonecrest, and Stone Mountain,
[26:52] as well as Unincorporated Decay.
[26:54] Now, there are quite a few benefits,
[26:56] and I also wanted to share with you
[26:57] why we introduced this trucks to the public. One fuel cost savings. This trucks use
[27:04] compress natural gas, which we produce at Orlando, but the cab owned seminal road landfill.
[27:11] And we use this gas to operate the trucks. That's a big cost savings for us,
[27:15] as opposed to regular gasoline, which is more expensive. There also decreased labor costs for
[27:20] estimating about $300 a day per truck in labor costs, because we'll have one person in
[27:26] as opposed to three people as we have in the rare loaders.
[27:30] Also, this trucks are friendly to the environment
[27:32] because of the use of compressed natural glass,
[27:34] which is cleaner for the environment as well.
[27:37] Reduced employee liabilities and injuries.
[27:41] So instead of employees,
[27:43] the field collection teams having
[27:44] dominually service residents containers,
[27:48] we're using that automated system to service them
[27:50] with the arm collects it, tips the container
[27:53] into the compartments and
[27:56] that they roll cart back down to the ground. So with this automated system,
[28:00] a fully automated system, we expect employee liabilities and injuries to
[28:05] decrease considerably. Because currently we do have a lot of work that's
[28:09] come claims from employees manually servicing this containers. So that's going to
[28:14] be one of the main benefits of using this trucks. Of course we'll also optimize
[28:20] or collect a routing process or GIS analyst will talk to you briefly about this
[28:25] moment about changes in service days, et cetera. Of course, we'll improve
[28:29] curbsite collection efficiency because of this new automated technology.
[28:35] And we're continually increasing our customer base. In 2019, we brought on the
[28:39] city of Stone Mountain, and we're on track, hopefully, to bring in the city of
[28:44] Doravale in February of 2020. So by using this truck, we're kind of preparing for
[28:50] the future of the expanding customer base that we have for our division. So
[28:54] that's another main reason why we fill the trucks with the best to have starting now.
[29:00] And as far as the public education, we have created quite a few things that we're using to promote this initiative to residents.
[29:09] And they're all contained in our website.
[29:11] And with the paperwork that you have, if you notice, the very first draft thing that you have at the top of the page with customized it to reference city of Brookhaven residents.
[29:21] So we're saying, tell it letting residents know that the trucks are available in city within
[29:26] the city of Brookhaven, and there are a couple of different communication collateral
[29:31] pieces that we've created to publicize this initiative.
[29:35] One of them we're seeing is direct communication to residents, and what this is is, it's
[29:41] contained in the packet that you have, it's at what we're calling a decal or a sticker that
[29:46] we will be placing on all residents garbage roll carts. We're not mailing letters to residents because we have determined based on past experience that you mail things and the residents a lot of residents don't read them.
[30:00] So, we figure we have this decal here. It's a sticker starting this week. Our field collection teams are going to every household within our service area, including within the city of Brookhaven, and placing the sticker on ever residence garbage roll card with instructions and what residents are required to do to prepare for this new trucks. So, we're hoping that residents take the time to just read a couple of simple instructions, so they can know what their responsibility will be.
[30:29] In addition to that, we also have some other items on our website that are provided in the packet to you and we'll also be providing to birth so he can promote via social media platforms and also on your website.
[30:42] But one thing of the importance that we'd like to show you now for about two or three minutes are two demo videos that YouTube videos that we created to show residents what they're expected to do to make sure that this program is a success.
[30:58] So, Anna, let's go to the M quick guide, please.
[31:12] The Jakab County Sanitation Division is introducing
[31:15] Automate Excibler Trunks to its garbage and recycling collection fleet.
[31:21] As we prepare to launch this county-wide initiative in late fall 2019,
[31:25] there are some simple curbside collection procedures you need to follow
[31:29] to ensure timely and efficient service.
[31:33] All rural carts must be placed with the handle of the cart facing your home
[31:37] and the lid facing the street.
[31:41] If you have excess garbage, bulky items, or more than one garbage roll cart,
[31:46] all items must be placed three to five feet apart.
[31:51] For households with excess garbage, large capacity 95 gallon garbage roll carts are available.
[32:00] Roll carts and other items to be serviced must be placed as far away as possible
[32:05] from mailboxes, vehicles, blower beds, or anything that could compete servicing.
[32:12] Residents vehicles should not block the collection trucks service area.
[32:18] For more information, contact our customer service team at 404-294-2900 or sanitation
[32:26] at the cabcounty-GA.gov.
[32:29] You can also visit our website at decapsanditation.com or follow us on Twitter at decapsanditation.
[32:40] Okay, so this is the first video we're calling a quick guide.
[32:43] Go straight to the point as to what residents are required to do,
[32:46] and all this information is contained on the staker that I talked about.
[32:51] That's in the packets that you have.
[32:52] We also, if you don't mind, have another video that's slightly longer than this one
[32:56] that goes into more detail about the,
[32:59] about the initiative talking about the benefits itself.
[33:08] The DeCab County Sanitation Division
[33:10] is introducing automated side loader trucks
[33:13] to its garbage and recycling collection fleet.
[33:17] These new collection trucks will service residential garbage
[33:20] and single stream recycling collection streams
[33:23] throughout the sanitation division service area.
[33:26] This initiative provides greater efficiency
[33:28] to curb side collection service,
[33:30] due to improved curved-side collection technology.
[33:34] Benefits include improved service levels to residents,
[33:38] a reduction in employee liability concerns due to reduced employee injuries from eliminating manual servicing of rural carts,
[33:46] the creation of a safer and optimum work environment for employees,
[33:51] and reduce fuel costs due to the use of county-produced compress natural gas for operating the trucks.
[33:58] As we prepare to launch this countywide initiative in late fall 2019, there are some simple
[34:04] curbside collection procedures you need to follow to ensure timely and efficient service.
[34:11] All row carts must be placed with the handle of the cart facing your home and the lid facing
[34:16] the street.
[34:18] If you have excess garbage, bulky items, or more than one garbage row cart, all items must
[34:24] place 3 to 5 feet apart.
[34:30] Roll cards and other items to be serviced must be placed as far away as possible from
[34:36] mailboxes, vehicles, flower beds, or anything that could compete servicing.
[34:42] To ensure our collection trucks can successfully navigate your neighborhood, kindly refrain
[34:47] from parking vehicles in our service path on your step-to-prolection day.
[34:52] residents vehicle to should not block the collection trucks service area.
[34:58] Power our collection procedures. There must be no loose garbage inside the garbage world
[35:03] cart. All garbage must be placed in secure plastic bags prior to placement in the world cart. All boxes
[35:10] placed at the curb should be flattened. Also, remember to place all items to be serviced at the
[35:22] to follow these procedures may cause a delay in servicing.
[35:27] For a larger household with excess garbage concerns, we strongly recommend obtaining a large
[35:32] capacity 95 gallon garbage roll cart for a 1-time fee of $15.
[35:39] This will reduce or eliminate curbside garbage overflow, promote standardized garbage container
[35:45] use, and help maintain aesthetically pleasing neighborhoods.
[35:49] Further, securing excess garbage in a rural cart eliminates household garbage being susceptible
[35:55] to outside elements such as animals and inclement weather.
[36:00] We hope you join us in this quest to optimize service levels for county residents as we
[36:05] continue to serve with efficiency, accountability, resilience, and integrity.
[36:13] For more information or if you have any questions, please contact our customer service team
[36:18] telephone at 404-294-2900 or by email at sanitation at the cabcountyGA.gov.
[36:29] Residents can also visit our website at the cabsanditation.com or follow us on Twitter
[36:35] at D-Cab Sanitation for further updates.
[36:39] It is always a pleasure serving you and we look forward to serving you again soon.
[36:44] Thank you. Well, we believe that the stickers that will be placing on residents
[36:51] roll cards and this damn two-damnel videos will perhaps be the most instrumental in
[36:56] getting information out to the residents that they can know what's required of them. Do you
[37:02] have any questions for me?
[37:08] Thank you. Yes, my pleasure. Thank you for your presentation, pleasure.
[37:12] Because we're going to have questions. Sure. Now we have answers. Yes. And thank you for
[37:17] featuring in one of the shots. More than one of the shots, one of some of the landscaping
[37:23] that the city of Brookhaven installed to replace landscaping that was damaged during the
[37:27] Stratfield Drive Drainage Project. I don't know, Harry, if you thought that nicely
[37:31] done, it looked lovely.
[37:34] I think he's a brilliant role card as well.
[37:36] They should in there.
[37:37] Yes, thank you for that.
[37:39] Yes, yes.
[37:39] Okay, and so for people who don't need to upgrade to the 95 gallon, but made once or twice a
[37:46] have something too large to go into the current trash cans. They can just put that a little
[37:52] bit further apart and someone, the, what did you call them, the refuse?
[37:57] Yes, refuse driver collector. Well, get out and get it.
[38:01] Absolutely, yes. And in the frequently asked questions document that you have, it doesn't
[38:06] decay that yes. There are no changes to the policy of regard to excess garbage at the
[38:10] curve. They just have to be placed three to five feet apart. You can't several bags.
[38:14] And yes, the Refuge Driver Collector will get out of the truck and service those.
[38:20] You also made reference to the obvious efficiency in terms of personnel of this system.
[38:29] And so is there a reduction in workforce accompanying this?
[38:33] Yes.
[38:33] Great question.
[38:34] Absolutely not.
[38:34] What we're doing is we'll be repurposing some of the employees, or currently on the railroad
[38:40] is in a moving over. What we're doing is promoting some employees from the railroad to trucks
[38:44] once we're currently using to the Refuge driver collective positions, as some will be promoted,
[38:49] and others who are not being used for the ASLs will be repurposed to other areas like special
[38:53] collections, bulky items, commercial collections, et cetera. So no one's losing jobs at all.
[39:02] So is there an actual savings to the county of this system, man?
[39:06] Yes, we're estimating about $300 a day per truck for the ASLs. Yes, about $300 a day per truck in labor costs and of course the fuel cost savings because we're using the compress natural gas, which is cheaper and which is produced after a landfill at a renewable gas facility.
[39:26] Okay, so but the labor cost would be salaries paid to employees who would be working those trucks, but they'll now be repurposed and so they'll that'll be spent on their salaries working elsewhere.
[39:39] Well, yes, that's true. Some will be repurposed, yes, but what we're doing is through the process of attrition as well. Employees leave. We want higher anybody to fill those positions, they'll be cost savings there as well.
[39:50] But we're looking at the main cost savings being the fuel cost, because we're trying to move
[39:54] all our trucks to renewable fuels, compressed natural gas, which we produce, so that will
[40:00] be the primary cost savings force with the C-tracks.
[40:04] Okay, and I noticed one other thing that comes up frequently among my constituents,
[40:12] and that
[40:12] that there's an effort now to reduce use of plastics and yet in our Decab County trash cans,
[40:21] we are actually required to bag our trash in plastic bags, correct?
[40:27] So, reduce plastics for recycling, recycling purposes.
[40:32] Now, that's something that came up to the interest, one of us in our staff management staff
[40:36] meeting.
[40:37] Some residents are using plastics in the recycling containers, I'm the shouldn't, because
[40:41] everything is co-mingled as we know, but the garbage must be bagged.
[40:47] It must be bagged, and there's just no way we can go around that one.
[40:51] What we're recycling, we're asking residents not to have recycled items and plastic bags
[40:55] because it's not a good practice for the recycling processes, prats, carostoric, et cetera.
[41:02] But we just have no way around bagging the garbage.
[41:06] It must be bagged.
[41:08] Okay, and I, and I see that it's required to actually be bagged in plastic bags.
[41:16] I, myself, have tried bagging it in, you know, a brown paper bag, bagging it in compostable plastic bags,
[41:25] which, in my experience, are not yet up to snuff, actually, being sturdy.
[41:32] But I hope that as your efforts move forward in the months and years to come, that y'all
[41:38] can look for alternatives to having to require all the cab county citizens to use plastic
[41:44] bags for that purpose even if right now it's necessary to your process.
[41:49] Yes, sure.
[41:49] Yes.
[41:50] Thank you.
[41:51] Thank you.
[41:51] I've seen some new stuff about that.
[41:53] We're probably 10, 15, 20 years off on that.
[41:56] In every guard there, there's new AI technology
[41:59] and about all my sorting and stuff like that.
[42:04] But we're a way, the way the technology's not like that.
[42:08] But I agree with you.
[42:09] All right, John.
[42:12] Nothing.
[42:12] No questions.
[42:12] Thanks.
[42:14] Thanks for coming.
[42:15] Yes, my pleasure.
[42:16] I'll show you the presentation.
[42:17] I think one of the other big cost savings you mentioned
[42:20] that I learned in the presentation, you know,
[42:22] We have a couple of years ago to us, was that your work and comps claims were something
[42:28] like 30% of your salaries, so without having to haul each of those things, you'll have
[42:36] a significant impact on the work of your work.
[42:39] Just to be sure, I understand a couple of the general policies, so we are currently all glass
[42:46] is going in the green bins, right?
[42:48] We're not doing any recycling in the glass and you can't count it.
[42:51] We are still recycling glass, but we have this public containers as containers that we have throughout the county, and they should be there's one in Brookeron Park, Blackburn Park, Blackburn Park, and Bradwood.
[43:04] And Bradwood, yes. So we do have this, but no glass in, I'm perpside recycling anymore. That's stopped if you.
[43:11] The glass, they've got to take it, our citizens take it to our, one more to the location.
[43:16] Yes, yes.
[43:20] And the blue recycling bins, no bags, whatsoever, no bags.
[43:26] No bags.
[43:26] Didn't want to use anything to start in there.
[43:27] It's threaded there.
[43:28] It's single streams.
[43:29] So that's the feature.
[43:30] It's single streams.
[43:31] Everything's cool, mangoed.
[43:34] And then the placement on the road.
[43:36] I saw, it looked like someone were in driveway somewhere on grass.
[43:42] do you want it or should these things be placed on the road or in the driver's place?
[43:48] We are a garbage and recycling containers.
[43:51] What are residents normally put their weather that doesn't need to be a change with that?
[43:55] What we're asking with this automated side load specifically is they should be away from mailboxes and flower beds etc.
[44:02] That's what we're requiring but we realize there's some areas where they know the curves might be a bit of a challenge or
[44:09] So they just place them wherever they've been placing them over the years that will surface them.
[44:15] And it doesn't look like there's any apparatus that turn those things.
[44:18] So they need to make sure that the lid is open towards the street.
[44:22] Yes, yes, and the handle of the roll cart facing home.
[44:26] Yes, that driver's got to get out and manually turn the thing to set it up.
[44:30] If it's not right, because the way the automated system is set up, yes, it's set up to collect from the front part.
[44:37] so it just makes it easier for them.
[44:40] But if a resident doesn't put it the way that it's supposed to be, of course,
[44:44] the refuse driver collector is supposed to get out of the truck and service it man.
[44:49] But either turn it the proper way of service it manually,
[44:51] turning it the proper way would be the better option.
[44:54] Yeah, I think that, you know, the best medication, huh?
[44:57] Yeah.
[44:58] Yeah.
[44:58] And so on that one, I'd say maybe on that stick.
[45:00] Okay, thank you, thank you, thank you. You also have another sticker. That's a good idea. Just put a sticker says, arrow, this way towards road maybe right here.
[45:07] On your top of your thing right now, it's a hard-coded into your container.
[45:16] You may not see it, but it's said, never seen it.
[45:19] Yes, but I agree. She might have to throw a sticker front.
[45:23] Yes, saying that well, that's what the sticker that we're putting on the roll parts to do say that handle facing the the home and the lead opening facing the street, so we're hoping that residents read it.
[45:35] Yes, yes, my pleasure.
[45:36] I mean Joe.
[45:39] Thank you again and enjoy that.
[45:41] That's my pleasure.
[45:42] So, so, Bates and I were actively involved in this conversation early on in the city.
[45:46] because we entertained the option of looking for a third-secondary party to provide our
[45:53] sanitation pickup and we opted to stay with the cab county. Thank you. Yeah, we're
[45:57] good. And because it was, it was the right decision. Yes, thank you. In some of the things we
[46:02] came up with then was especially on the narrow streets from the GIS, I'm sure you identified
[46:08] that's where it's a lot of difficulties occur. Yes. With having the proper room to maneuver
[46:13] those arms to work around the cars, especially in apartment areas, or where this rentals.
[46:21] So if somebody doesn't do it right, and the driver has to get out, do you like sapopecia
[46:26] paper on there or something, saying this was done in correctly, please, in the future,
[46:30] so you don't have to do that again?
[46:32] Yes, actually, that's a good question.
[46:34] We created this door hanger.
[46:35] So what it says is, it reminds people, you know, as a courtesy of the friendly reminder, you're
[46:41] not following the commute, curbside preparation procedures, so we're leaving this and just
[46:46] reminding people of what the proper procedures, preparation procedures are, so we'll
[46:51] just put this, they'll be cut out here, so it'll be on the handle of the roll cart.
[46:55] And for repeat offenders, if someone doesn't understand, they'll be a period of time where
[46:59] we have to give rest in some time to become acclimated to this new preparation procedures,
[47:04] but if we see their repeat offenders, months go by and nothing's happening, they're still
[47:08] not following them, and we'll certainly leave this on the handle of an old kind.
[47:13] But I mean, if somebody has to get out and actually dress it, you need that immediately
[47:17] or after a series of...
[47:19] After a couple of times.
[47:22] Yes, after a few times we will.
[47:23] I would think the first time you'd want to just slap something on just to remind them, please correct it.
[47:27] Yes, sure.
[47:28] Sure.
[47:28] We can do that as well.
[47:29] Yes.
[47:30] We can do that as well.
[47:32] You can do that out of the truck the better, right?
[47:34] Yes, sure.
[47:36] So, I wanted to take you on your pilots to actually get this to be an efficient run where you didn't have to go through all of the secondary steps.
[47:43] A few months, the very first refugees driver collector that we had out there was in the North area was a woman.
[47:52] The name is Tony a person and she's going to be featured on a Delphus B feature story about the ASL and being the first female driver.
[47:58] So she was the first person, and she's the one we used to try to determine how this will go.
[48:05] If any changes need to be made, then we added a couple of male drivers as well.
[48:09] And after a few months, we determined especially about the 7-8-hour average time for one person
[48:16] servicing all the homes on a route.
[48:19] Yes, it only took us a few months.
[48:20] We're, of course, there's still things that we're working on where changing if you technical
[48:24] aspects of the trucks themselves, but generally things are going very well.
[48:28] Yeah, this is a much new step I apologize for your work on this. It looks like you've really got your bases covered, and it's the next step.
[48:38] Yes, absolutely thank you. And I think you're getting to a question about certain areas where the spacing may be a challenge to operate the trucks.
[48:46] We have every commission district, we've identified some areas, some communities where that would be a challenge, where the trucks may be too large to serve a certain areas.
[48:56] So what we'll do in those areas we've already identified most did not all of them throughout
[49:01] the county and we'll have we'll use the same trucks we're using now the rail orders
[49:06] with the yellow tippers and we also have some others even in the Dunwoody area for instance
[49:11] where the trucks are the species really tied as well so we'll have what we call parks trucks
[49:15] which are smaller trucks even than the ones of the yellow tippers so we do have a planted place
[49:20] to address areas like these where they'll be space constraints we've identified those like I said
[49:26] So the ASLs will not be in every community broader service area, because they are some communities where space is going to be a challenge, it will be hard to navigate them.
[49:36] Thank you. Thank you.
[49:37] My pleasure. So before we end, if you don't mind, I just have a tackle here just to talk to you briefly for about two or three minutes about the collection date service.
[49:48] So what we've done, like, based on your question with the routing,
[49:54] actually what we have right now is when we move to this changes in service,
[49:58] using the ASL, or have the lemon route, or the gabby,
[50:02] sorry, touching route for the gabby in brook even,
[50:06] and we'll have the lemon route for the recycling and the lemon route for your yard waste.
[50:10] So, with the system we put in place, we use the leverage of the GIS technology to identify
[50:17] the small areas, unlike my colleagues said, we are using a hybrid system, where some areas
[50:22] we know we can't put the ASL in or we put in the real loaders.
[50:27] And those tropes that we are putting in, we are probably making sure that tropes, that
[50:32] and service the particular area, and for the small tropes, the areas that the ASL can
[50:37] in, but we have just some few houses in that particular route.
[50:41] So it doesn't make sense for us to put the railroad as they were just going to use this more
[50:45] parking, this more parked truck.
[50:47] And in total, we are going to do the service there for brok having the exact value going
[50:52] to be one day, and we have close to 12,000 houses that will be on the Montezavis day.
[50:59] We have a small pocket of ours.
[51:01] It's, I think, executive park view.
[51:03] it's a town room and there are 50 houses in that area. It's part of Brookhaven,
[51:08] where we're servicing that particular town room on Thursday. Because of the location,
[51:13] we're trying to create an efficiency in our operation, so we are trying to find the
[51:19] end optimization of our routes. So the best thing for us to do with that particular 50
[51:23] house is to put it along with other routes, so that when the truck is coming in,
[51:27] they don't have to travel distance from each other, so we'll put that particular area.
[51:31] So that's the only particular spot that we have in Brookhaven, now it tells me.
[51:37] Every other day, every other area would be Monday.
[51:41] So we are taking the right now, the current practice is 50%.
[51:45] One day, 50% tells me, so we are taking almost every single Brookhaven, now it's Monday.
[51:52] So that's the concept we are working with.
[51:55] And as we keep going, we keep improving what we are doing.
[52:09] So, the same truck is doing both the garbage and the recycling at the same time.
[52:14] We'll have three separate trucks, so there'll be three trucks coming into neighborhoods every day.
[52:20] One for garbage, one for recycling, one for yard trimmings.
[52:23] The air recycling and garbage, the ASLs will only be used for recycling and garbage.
[52:27] the ones of the yellow tippers, the rail loaders for your trimmings, will not be using the ASL's
[52:32] VR trimmings. But just to add to what DAP was said, with regard to a change in the service
[52:37] days, we are not ready to do it right this minute. We're just optimizing the routes, which is what
[52:42] DAP will have done so efficiently over the last few months, and we'll let you know when we're
[52:48] ready to make the change in service days, and we'll also get information out to residents in
[52:53] of time. So they'll now. We'll have another sticker going on roll cards and some other methods
[52:58] we plan to use to get the information out. But we're not ready to do this. It could perhaps
[53:02] some time early spring, early to mid spring there about. I'm sure we're going to assist with the
[53:09] communications on this to our publications. Absolutely. Absolutely.
[53:17] Okay. Well, thank you so much
[53:18] before we end, I do have just to say thank
[53:40] you very much
[53:44] okay so unless you have any of
[53:46] the questions I think we're finished yes absolutely my pleasure it's been a pleasure
[53:52] being here yes thank you
[53:55] Okay, we went on, G dot MMP update, Michael Nader from G dot.
[54:02] Come on up.
[54:06] Thank you.
[54:06] Mr. Mayor of City Council.
[54:07] Thank you for having us give us the opportunity to update you on the program.
[54:12] I do want to apologize on behalf of Tim Matthews.
[54:14] He's supposed to be here.
[54:15] His name is on the invite and on the agenda.
[54:18] Last minute on planned the obligation.
[54:21] Unfortunately, so he does apologize for that.
[54:23] And if I would please, if you don't mind, I'd like to defer major specific questions on the program to the public information, open houses, series of open houses.
[54:35] We've got seven of them planned for, I believe, 23rd, 28th and 30th of January. Certainly, you can ask some basic general questions that I'll attempt to answer, but I don't have any of my staff here today.
[54:46] My name is Michael Nader.
[54:48] I represent GDI to work for the program management
[54:51] consultancy firm, H&TB.
[54:54] And we've got the program.
[54:55] We're managing the native mobility investment program.
[54:57] We'll be having GDI, a long side of GDI,
[54:59] and Tim Matthews and his staff.
[55:01] Today's update is on the top end express lanes.
[55:05] And we'll give you a little flavor as well,
[55:06] about the programs, what we're basically
[55:10] tagging as a reboot.
[55:12] You've seen it on the media.
[55:15] you've seen a lot of articles as to the reboot of the programs, some of the projects
[55:20] will push out a little bit on the schedule and some other mini size advanced improvement project
[55:25] will spun off in the program. That's what I'd like to discuss today. It's a brief presentation
[55:29] about 18 slides that should take us long.
[55:37] All right, major mobility investment program, top-end
[55:40] express lanes. You guys are familiar with the top-end express lanes project. Today I'll talk a little
[55:46] about what top and east express lanes is, what top and west express lanes is. That's the major
[55:51] change on the project. We basically, you know, the top and as a project remains as a single
[55:57] project from an EIS environmental impact statement in NEPA, environmental record of decision process.
[56:05] However, the top and east express lanes, west express lanes are two construction packages, phases
[56:11] that we split off to kind of ease the pain and the pressure on the industry.
[56:16] We heard back from the industry, Commissioner Russell, Commissioner Russell, McMurray, heard back from the industry.
[56:23] And they were very concerned as to the size of the project, being a single project that was going to overwhelm the market.
[56:30] I'd let alone the city of Atlanta Metro from a traffic management perspective.
[56:43] There it is. I got a point at that way, I guess.
[56:51] All right.
[56:51] This is, you know, Georgia has been leading the economic development in growth, regionally
[57:00] in the nation.
[57:02] These numbers, again, are not foreign to you all.
[57:05] Those companies are based here.
[57:07] These are headquartered here.
[57:09] Three and a half percent statewide unemployment rate.
[57:13] The expected population growth is near $3 million by 2050, so we'll go from current
[57:18] five and three quarters of Papuaurt and I five million, two well ahead of nine million, well
[57:25] ahead of eight million nine million by 2050. As the greatest way to say it is we'll have the
[57:30] population of Denver come on top and fast right now in by 2050. Denver. Denver. That's yeah.
[57:37] Yeah. It's the same foundation as Denver. So we have our population take Denver. That's put on top.
[57:42] It's 20 say Denver. The reason I trucked a little because I just came from Denver but two and a
[57:47] years ago, I really looked at line of metrics. I was there for about seven, seven years.
[57:50] You're the first one. I should know that. As we why did I come here, I love the city of
[57:56] America.
[57:59] You're aware of the busiest airport in the world, not just America.
[58:05] You know, it's a mess of airport. The Fort Savannah is becoming really busy now. One of the projects
[58:10] that we have on the Major Mobility Investment Program is the commercial vehicle lanes. I 75,
[58:15] commercial vehicle lanes, another massive design bill finance operating finance project.
[58:24] Anyways, self-explanatory, 18, 4,500 companies are based in Atlanta, 32, 4,000 companies.
[58:34] All right, we'll move on to the good stuff as far as the program.
[58:37] The program evolved a little bit, so we have four major interchange projects as it stands today.
[58:43] with one under construction 1695 in Savannah.
[58:47] At 25, 20 West interchange, you've all been aware
[58:51] of that in the East interchange.
[58:53] The new one that's been added,
[58:54] it's a really little mini advanced improvement project
[58:57] we're calling.
[58:58] It's the Pistory Industrial Boulevard
[59:00] Improvement, Call of Events Improvement Project.
[59:03] That's one of six advanced improvement projects.
[59:05] And I'll talk about those in a graphic this coming up.
[59:08] Five major quest lanes projects, East Express lanes, top end,
[59:12] which is of interest to y'all, that stop and e-stop and west.
[59:17] A split of construction packages, and then, of course, you've got the west side express lanes, and then the 400 express lanes.
[59:25] A four major interstate widening projects, pays 185.
[59:30] That's under construction now.
[59:32] I-16 is under construction, done in Savannah.
[59:34] volume, volume, volume, volume. 85 phase two, basically just finalize the request for the
[59:41] folder, RFF, it's a design build project, production design build. 85 Westbound collector
[59:46] distrera lanes, so that is, I do 85 sorry, that is one of the six advanced improvement
[59:52] projects we'll spun off, and that's literally Westbound collector distrera lanes between
[59:57] is for Dunwoody and Jeff.
[1:00:00] We don't really know what you're doing. Westbound only CD lanes. Commercial vehicle lanes
[1:00:07] to serve the growth of the poor that I just mentioned a few moments ago, I-75, four bridge
[1:00:14] improvement projects. All of those projects are the advanced improvement projects that are, as
[1:00:19] of recent, have been spent off of the program. That would be on the Westside Express lanes.
[1:00:25] we have a main line I-25 widening over CS section of southern railroads. We have west side,
[1:00:33] we have three bridges on the west side that need, as well, to be rebuilt to express
[1:00:41] lanes projects. East side, we have three bridges to be replaced and then also on the I-25
[1:00:47] top and we have westbound auxiliary lanes between Roswell Road and Riverside. It does include
[1:00:53] The crossover bridge over a brown and bridge over to 85 that'll be replaced as well as part of that project.
[1:01:06] That's the whole program in the nutshell.
[1:01:09] Used to be 11 now it's 18 including these many spin-off projects.
[1:01:15] Again, the graphic on the left should give you kind of an orientation where we are.
[1:01:20] The circle is the I-25 run Atlanta Metro, the projects are numbered.
[1:01:26] What really spend too much time talking through this is graphic.
[1:01:31] I'll just keep it up for about 15 seconds.
[1:01:33] I have a look at it.
[1:01:35] Very self-explanatory.
[1:01:38] We'll come back to it if you have a question on that later.
[1:01:50] Batteries.
[1:01:51] There it is.
[1:01:52] All right.
[1:01:52] So there's the program schedule.
[1:01:54] As you can see, we try to line up a case of a reason.
[1:01:58] A couple slides later.
[1:02:00] I'll speak to the reasons behind what we're calling the reboot.
[1:02:03] The major reason, frankly, is the market and the city and the city and the city and the city of traffic management perspective.
[1:02:10] As you can see, a cluster of projects will be delivered 2024-26, the yellow bar is the construction bar.
[1:02:16] Really, the design build bar.
[1:02:18] The blue bar is the preliminary engineering that we're currently working on.
[1:02:24] The green cross is the start of procurement and the end of the blue line.
[1:02:29] beginning of the yellow is when we award the project for either design built.
[1:02:36] Those clusters of projects in 2024-2026 open traffic are designed build only.
[1:02:43] We have a cluster of projects that are designed build finance. Those are the two inner change projects.
[1:02:49] Each inner change and west interchange. I believe I have I20.
[1:02:52] And then 400 in top end east up and west, as well as CDL,
[1:02:58] commercial vehicle lanes, will be designed, build, finance, maintain over 30, 35 year life cycle.
[1:03:05] What we've done here is basically spread the pain to give a little bit more relief to the city and to the market by splitting the top end into two projects east and west.
[1:03:18] The top end east lines up with east express lanes, which is pushed out about 18 months, roughly, and then top end west lines up with west express lanes, which is pushed out further out, probably about 2 years or so, to line up with an open traffic at 232 on west end in 2028 on the east end.
[1:03:42] I said, you're not eastbound or westbound, it's just on these part of the circle and then westbound of the circle.
[1:03:49] Okay. Absolutely.
[1:03:51] Okay. So that should sort of give you a flavor on the timeline.
[1:03:57] Oh, sorry.
[1:03:57] All right. This is a good one to go through kind of give you an orientation on the advanced approval projects.
[1:04:02] So we talked about the CD lanes, the westbound CD lanes from Chandler Dunwoody after Dunwoody.
[1:04:08] That's blue. That's number one.
[1:04:10] That is literally between Ashford and Chambley Dunwoody, CD lanes, various separated from the main lanes.
[1:04:19] Separate project altogether, separate independent utilities and environmental process, categorical exclusion, as opposed to an environmental impact statement that used to be as part of the top end project.
[1:04:30] Number two will be the Peach Tree Industrial Boulevard PIB, you'll see in yellow there, ramp improvements.
[1:04:37] You ramp improvements basically to kind of get those out of the way to clear the way for the
[1:04:42] brought-ups up and express lanes, project coming through. The third one in green is the west side
[1:04:49] railroad crossing two widenings of mainline 285 on the west end, over one over CSX and one over
[1:04:59] for southern west side bridge replacements. Those are the three bridges we
[1:05:06] at us book about South Carb Drive is one of them. Bolton wrote is one of them and the last one is
[1:05:13] D.L. Holloway. Holloway Parkway. D.L. Holloway Parkway. Moving over to East side and you
[1:05:22] have other three other bridges Redwing Circle coming to and I will be blend wood if I can
[1:05:27] I'm getting old. West Binoxiliary is part of, used to be part of the top ends, project
[1:05:34] number six in Brown, just west of 400 there, west of 2,500. Those are auxiliary lanes
[1:05:41] that run from Roswell Road to Riverside, also replacing Mount Vernon Bridge over 2,25.
[1:05:53] That is basically a depiction of the meetings that to Matthews and I have been tackling, at least
[1:06:00] 300 frankly. We have a whole log of them. A lot of stakeholders along the entire program between 400
[1:06:09] top and east side west side, the interchange projects. You can see that how busy would been.
[1:06:15] We have not excluded anybody from this process, including schools and localities and HOAs and counties.
[1:06:24] even Marta. So it's been a very busy couple of years.
[1:06:31] Are you going to control
[1:06:31] for me appreciate it? All right, we'll jump into the top end express lines
[1:06:34] project. Next slide please.
[1:06:39] All right, so again top end split. As you can see, the
[1:06:42] top end east is from 400 north north spring station on 400 coming down and
[1:06:50] then come across to the right there all the way down to Henderson Road. Henderson Road
[1:06:55] is where we begin our east side express lanes project
[1:06:58] go with south from there all the way down to the inner change.
[1:07:01] That's top end east project.
[1:07:03] And the top end west is roughly from the 35 current
[1:07:06] 2,500 transform projects on our construction,
[1:07:09] all the way down the pace is very on the west end.
[1:07:12] Again, industry feedback is what drove the decision
[1:07:14] to the split, and to do small construction packages,
[1:07:20] the project on its own was just massive for any single developer
[1:07:24] to come in and really tackle.
[1:07:26] So this provides a little bit of relief
[1:07:28] and provides opportunities for the smaller contractors
[1:07:30] to tag along and the participatory to the construction
[1:07:34] to the design and construction of these packages.
[1:07:37] That alone the operation of maintenance,
[1:07:39] or should say really maintenance, that operation,
[1:07:42] life cycle of 35 years or so.
[1:07:44] Top and east open a traffic 2028, top and west 232.
[1:07:50] We are currently, again, a single single, one under one federal decision, a 23 month process,
[1:07:58] a single EIS environmental impact statement for the entire project.
[1:08:02] So we're going to clear it environmentally all together by October of 2021.
[1:08:09] The NOI was issued in October 2019, so it starts clock ticking for 23 month clock for the one federal decision,
[1:08:16] executive decision by the current administration.
[1:08:20] Local coordination regarding express lanes and transit
[1:08:22] access points has been in the works in the last
[1:08:25] bunch of months.
[1:08:27] The plan is to have in January 2020.
[1:08:30] I mentioned earlier, 23rd, I believe, 28th
[1:08:32] and the 30th January we have public information open
[1:08:34] house.
[1:08:35] Series, there's seven of them.
[1:08:37] It'll be over lunch, period, and evening as well.
[1:08:40] And we'll engage the public.
[1:08:41] We'll have layouts.
[1:08:42] We'll get that feedback.
[1:08:43] and basically follow me in the process right down to the T, and between the PIOH and the
[1:08:48] comments that we get in the PIOH leading up to about a year later to the public hearing
[1:08:52] open-house is when we have really the final preferred concept with the draft final in environmental
[1:09:00] backstage.
[1:09:06] Up in these, again, the scope in itself hasn't really changed, predominantly the same
[1:09:12] the same scope as before, two new barriers separated express lanes in each direction.
[1:09:19] So what you see on Northwest corridor that was recently built,
[1:09:22] it's been a success story for GDOT in the region and the traveling public.
[1:09:27] Precisely exactly the same except that is a reversible system.
[1:09:31] This will be in each direction, okay.
[1:09:33] And generally elevated, for the most part,
[1:09:36] There's certain areas that we're coming down at grade,
[1:09:39] certain sensitive areas,
[1:09:41] environmentally sensitive or right away sensitive,
[1:09:44] we're trying to be cognizant of that as we develop the concept.
[1:09:53] We do drop to one lane in each direction from I-25
[1:09:56] down to Henderson, to tie in to the express lane east side.
[1:09:59] That's only a single lane in each direction.
[1:10:02] And then it goes up, of course, 400 to no springs,
[1:10:05] to tie it with the 400 express lanes, which is two lanes in each direction. That project is
[1:10:12] predominantly at grade. It's only elevated right to tie in with top end and then getting out
[1:10:21] of modern or springs and then drops down at grade beyond Northridge or before Northridge.
[1:10:27] Right, so what I was going to tell you about this on the East Side Express lanes, we're talking about
[1:10:33] But west side goes down, okay, that's east side.
[1:10:35] So let's jump to the next slide.
[1:10:38] It puts us into west side, again, from the interchange
[1:10:40] down to Paces Ferry, that is generally the scope.
[1:10:45] Again, two lanes in each direction, generally elevated,
[1:10:50] and it dropped down a grade to meet with, right,
[1:10:52] a Paces Ferry to meet with the west side express lanes.
[1:10:56] Project was, which is only a single lane in each direction.
[1:11:02] This is the entire Georgia Express Lane map.
[1:11:06] There's a plan and the plan is to progress from what's currently in operation to what the MIP is in green.
[1:11:13] And we're going to start counting here.
[1:11:14] As you click, we're going to see the miles go up.
[1:11:16] That is in current operation 85. 85 Express Lane's.
[1:11:20] And then you go down to 75.
[1:11:22] That's been open for a while now.
[1:11:24] We're up to 27 Centreline miles.
[1:11:27] Of course, not the score has been opened.
[1:11:29] Now it's been a great success story for everyone.
[1:11:32] You click again, and then you get the 85 phase two,
[1:11:35] or 85 that express staying extension phase two.
[1:11:39] And once more, 400 now, we're getting
[1:11:41] the project we're planning right now.
[1:11:42] 400 is under procurement.
[1:11:44] Recently, we had the industry forum,
[1:11:46] and then the top end is literally right behind it.
[1:11:51] So those go in order right now.
[1:11:53] As we're clicking, they're coming online in order.
[1:11:56] east side express lanes, now we're up to 106 miles or so.
[1:12:00] We're up and west, open traffic 2032 and then west side express lanes.
[1:12:06] And that completes network of 123 miles, center line miles of express lanes.
[1:12:13] That is a general bubble timeline of where we've been and where we're going.
[1:12:18] We started in 2018, the environmental process, we are where the yellow arrow points down.
[1:12:28] Today, January is a public information open house.
[1:12:30] Public hearing is about a year later, and we're going to final design between 2022-2023.
[1:12:38] And then, top-end east construction begins around 2023, right following up with that would
[1:12:46] to start the procurement for 20 top-end West.
[1:12:51] So as we're kind of completing construction,
[1:12:54] we start the top-end West procurement
[1:12:56] to bring on basically a developer to take it on
[1:12:59] and finish the design and maintain the project.
[1:13:04] We'll learn more a lot more about the process
[1:13:07] of a environmental and where we are constantly out
[1:13:10] and what potential express thing and access points
[1:13:13] will be in the ints speed right away process
[1:13:15] and the express lane business rules, all of that at the public information open house.
[1:13:19] As soon as we have the public information open house, we will be posting updates on those
[1:13:24] websites. There are some updates currently as, you know, where we are. We'll have a lot more
[1:13:30] after the PIOH. So that's all I've got. Appreciate the time. Again, please general questions.
[1:13:36] Any specific questions if you would, if we could defer to the public information open house,
[1:13:40] We'd be greatly appreciate it.
[1:13:44] I think.
[1:13:47] Well, mine might fall into the category of more specific than you want to address.
[1:13:53] Let me see here.
[1:13:54] I mean, it's been a little confusing because in the city of Brookhaven, we've tried to get out of
[1:13:58] this and prepare our citizens and whatnot.
[1:14:01] And then we've had the delays in the schedule occur.
[1:14:06] So I know we're going to have a lot of questions.
[1:14:07] So, let me just make sure that I have the dates for the January meetings right now, and by the way, we'd love to have you here at Brookhaven City Hall or any of your meetings scheduled for here.
[1:14:21] Very good question. You know, they are on my calendar. Let me see if they are. I don't recall.
[1:14:25] but we have one on the 20s, 23rd, 23rd in Sandy Springs, and then I believe that's here.
[1:14:40] And all of those, all of these will be published very soon.
[1:14:44] They'll be on the media and the invites and all that.
[1:14:48] And they'll be signed.
[1:14:48] The second one is on the 28th in Dunwoody.
[1:14:53] there's two series, so the first one is Sandy Springs between new and basically all the way until about 730.
[1:15:00] Chunk between, you know, lunch hour and then evening hours, 28 in Dunwoody, and then on the 30th, we have a placeholder, or Smurna, a cop, Galleria, and I believe that may conclude them unless we go into February. I don't believe we do,
[1:15:26] but I might be missing one of the invites because what I understand is we have a total of seven.
[1:15:30] So if we've got three days, only scheduled right now,
[1:15:34] sounds like we have two, two, and two, six,
[1:15:37] there's one more in my very well.
[1:15:40] Okay, well keep us in mind.
[1:15:41] We'd love to host you here and it would be most convenient
[1:15:44] for our residents.
[1:15:45] So pass that on to Tim too, as well as,
[1:15:48] you know, I never want to miss an opportunity to express
[1:15:52] that our residents are looking for the best outcome
[1:15:55] for the community in terms of drainage being provided
[1:15:59] and sound barriers being solid and stamped and so forth.
[1:16:09] All right, and I'll save the rest for the meeting.
[1:16:11] Thank you for being here.
[1:16:13] John, thanks.
[1:16:16] Joe.
[1:16:19] So,
[1:16:22] are on general.
[1:16:24] So, top and east is going to go first and east sides.
[1:16:27] Is that how it's going to go?
[1:16:28] It's up and east and east side are kind of lined up to be honest with you together.
[1:16:31] But the East Side Express lanes is a lot smaller project, you know, it's a single lane and
[1:16:37] East direction as opposed to two lanes elevated for the top end, right?
[1:16:41] And they're expected to be off at the same time, basically, completely, roughly at the same
[1:16:45] time?
[1:16:46] Yeah, completely, exactly.
[1:16:47] Yeah, yeah.
[1:16:49] And then West and West side Express lanes, similarly, they'll kind of be in unison.
[1:16:57] And so when these top and east goes, the 400 war had been done.
[1:17:02] Correct.
[1:17:02] So 400 is scheduled.
[1:17:04] Well, 400 scheduled, frankly, to open a traffic early, 2027.
[1:17:10] Oh, just like a year.
[1:17:14] Yeah.
[1:17:14] But we'll be well into construction of 400.
[1:17:18] You know, the award on 400 right now is anticipated.
[1:17:21] The third quarter, about September 2021, so we're willing to.
[1:17:26] I'm the chair of the top end, 285 mayors.
[1:17:29] I feel like we're going to call ourselves seven mayors to talk about transit.
[1:17:33] And we're also doing something about trail.
[1:17:38] And we're going to stay real quick.
[1:17:39] I'm trail, so.
[1:17:45] Excellent.
[1:17:48] Excellent.
[1:17:49] Are you going through the environmental?
[1:17:53] I'm much.
[1:17:53] Very well.
[1:17:54] All right.
[1:17:55] Have a good evening.
[1:17:57] So, next item on the agenda, open container, I spoke with a person who's speaking, their invite had said 7 p.m. or 715 tonight.
[1:18:11] I would suggest we have the point in the meetings of, you know, reports and presentations after consent.
[1:18:17] If you guys are okay with having that presentation, they have
[1:18:26] the restaurant association is coming present or,
[1:18:29] of the restaurant association was planning to be here at this time and speak about it.
[1:18:37] So, yeah, so, yeah, the objective in bringing that in for a work session was to have a back
[1:18:45] and forth.
[1:18:46] And that's not going to be committed during common time.
[1:18:49] Well, no, not public comment, but if we put it in reports and presentations, I can, you
[1:18:53] know, I have a, I have a, I have a gavel, I can determine how it works, I have a reports
[1:18:58] and presentations, and so we can have the back and forth.
[1:19:01] If you guys want it, we do have a forward full-esque agenda.
[1:19:08] So it's up to you, we either do that now or I, we put them into a dinner, but I did
[1:19:16] see the messages that they were, they were told to show up at a regular schedule meeting.
[1:19:22] That was the original communications and apparently there was no follow-up saying it was moved
[1:19:26] to work session.
[1:19:27] So that's unfortunate.
[1:19:30] So what, where would that fall in time, why is tonight?
[1:19:33] We just fall into, I put it in reports in presentations.
[1:19:37] So it would be towards the beginning.
[1:19:39] Or it's the beginning before the new business.
[1:19:42] I mean, I'm in favor of that.
[1:19:46] We have to do public hearings first, then consent,
[1:19:50] general announcements, and then I'll put it right after consent agenda.
[1:19:56] I would be well.
[1:19:57] What?
[1:19:58] It would probably be well.
[1:19:59] I mean, it would be well after some fifteen, right?
[1:20:01] We have five items in public areas.
[1:20:02] Oh, yeah.
[1:20:03] I agree.
[1:20:03] It's going to be a well.
[1:20:04] But they, they, they would, I do.
[1:20:07] Do we want them to be in this meeting or not?
[1:20:09] That's what I'm asking.
[1:20:11] I'm asking.
[1:20:11] I'm asking.
[1:20:11] I'm asking.
[1:20:15] I'm asking.
[1:20:15] another issue for January work sessions is we have the conversation and it was on a presentation
[1:20:20] from the dementia friendly people. So we can accommodate both on that day then.
[1:20:25] I mean, I mean, I could unilaterally do it or I can ask for, you know, dates, what's, would you,
[1:20:33] I mean, I'd like to hear it, and I think since I've gotten the invitation already on,
[1:20:40] I think it'd be good to give this is not gonna take more than five minutes of and think.
[1:20:46] I'll be fine.
[1:20:46] I'll be fine.
[1:20:46] I'll be fine.
[1:20:47] I'll be fine.
[1:20:48] I'll be fine.
[1:20:51] So you're, yes, yes.
[1:20:53] In different, no.
[1:20:55] Yeah, let's go ahead and knock it out.
[1:20:57] I'll tell them to show off in the move.
[1:21:01] Okay.
[1:21:03] I'll send them.
[1:21:03] Okay, you text them.
[1:21:05] Thank you.
[1:21:07] Pre-Gender Review.
[1:21:08] Since we're talking about agenda mayor. I didn't know your announcements are usually done after the public hearings, but I know if you wanted to move him in front of the public hearings for tonight
[1:21:21] just as a matter of
[1:21:24] efficiency
[1:21:26] I
[1:21:27] could do that
[1:21:32] Yeah, because yeah, we'll have
[1:21:35] Okay
[1:21:40] If we could, yeah, we could just move that to the front.
[1:21:44] Then we have the public hearings.
[1:21:45] You guys all know what that's about.
[1:21:46] If we regulated or read that through.
[1:21:49] Good.
[1:21:50] San agenda is just minutes.
[1:21:51] Hopefully, you know, controversy there.
[1:21:55] Everyone understands what's happening in a new business.
[1:21:58] One.
[1:21:59] On the.
[1:22:00] The annexation.
[1:22:01] I'd like that.
[1:22:02] All right.
[1:22:03] So there are three properties that share that are split
[1:22:08] by the city lines that separate Brookhaven and Chambley.
[1:22:13] Two of those properties have approached Chambley about being annexed into Chambley to be
[1:22:19] wholly as part of Chambley in tax because one entity is opposed to having to pay
[1:22:24] city taxes on both cities.
[1:22:27] The third property owner has never contacted anyone so they will remain split.
[1:22:31] but this at DNXation is basically to take out the pieces that are basically the backyards
[1:22:39] of these two homes out of the city limits of Brookhaven and then a family will have their
[1:22:45] second read of their annexation ordinance tonight and both ordinances will take effect
[1:22:50] at midnight on New Year's morning so that there are no holes created in the DNX, the annexation
[1:22:57] annexation and their lawful.
[1:23:00] Right, right over at PlayerMount.
[1:23:03] Yes.
[1:23:04] PlayerMount in 85.
[1:23:06] I don't have a map location in my head.
[1:23:09] It's something to call the law.
[1:23:12] Oh, well.
[1:23:13] Yeah.
[1:23:14] And the houses are in Shambly.
[1:23:15] I think they provide a sanitation for them.
[1:23:19] It's just one of those.
[1:23:21] I think economic impact is a grand total of like $40 a year.
[1:23:25] I don't know.
[1:23:26] It's something novel.
[1:23:29] And, you know, there are other people out there that, you know, we have split lots of work
[1:23:34] shambling, and also working together to clean up those lines and the lot lines that we don't
[1:23:39] have these split houses up.
[1:23:43] Okay,
[1:23:45] Ethics Ordnance, does everyone have any questions about that?
[1:23:48] I just was curious as to the origin of it and what the real purpose would be.
[1:23:54] There was a situation that arose at a Board of Appeals meeting earlier this year, where one of the members of the Board of Appeals had their own application for a variance from their property.
[1:24:08] Our Earth ethics ordinance would have precluded that person from presenting their own application.
[1:24:14] We looked at it and examined the issues, the first amendment issues that are raised by it
[1:24:21] included that in that circumstances and in other circumstances, we ought not preclude people
[1:24:26] who volunteer their time or who are elected to serve the city from presenting their own
[1:24:31] applications when those are appropriate.
[1:24:33] So the changes are designed to accommodate those circumstances and to address those first
[1:24:38] amendment issues.
[1:24:39] Basically, if you're volunteering or elected, you're not going to be, with this change, we won't be violating our ethics order.
[1:24:48] That's correct.
[1:24:48] That's correct.
[1:24:49] Yeah.
[1:24:50] Great.
[1:24:50] Thanks for the clarification.
[1:24:53] Okay.
[1:24:55] Then the GEMA FEMA Bios, we talked about earlier.
[1:25:01] The buyer would multi-use path construction, and then the sidewalk construction.
[1:25:05] I had a quick question on the FEMA team.
[1:25:10] Is this whole pot of money in a great job?
[1:25:14] Well, that's a huge chunk of money.
[1:25:16] That's great.
[1:25:17] For 500 and $50,000 of sitting money, that's a great leverage.
[1:25:21] But will there be a fund that is not intended to be used out of this?
[1:25:28] Or is every one of these?
[1:25:30] Is every bit of this dollar for a designated properties and projects specific?
[1:25:34] Yes, every penny are for a designated properties that have already been run through the process.
[1:25:40] As a matter of fact, this process started in 2017.
[1:25:44] It's fairly lengthy.
[1:25:45] They don't get to this point until their positivity to the properties meet the federal standard for hazard mitigation and they do not see any other alternative.
[1:25:58] So if you go through the agreement, each of the properties is listed with an exact amount,
[1:26:05] we do have some latitude there.
[1:26:07] We can work with FEMA on that if we find that there's a situation that calls for that.
[1:26:13] But it's quite specific, even the dollar amounts are worked into that formula.
[1:26:18] Do we know of any other areas that are, that this is a problem that we don't have in
[1:26:25] I mean, I don't know if any of them.
[1:26:28] There are a few properties down on the off of Harry,
[1:26:32] hope me out of the over by the elementary schools
[1:26:34] that went on clear, about there.
[1:26:37] I'm going to clear it down in that colleague there
[1:26:39] that might be eligible, you know, we can explore those.
[1:26:47] What about, what about some of the properties
[1:26:49] that were, all of the five for the female bile,
[1:26:52] a decade ago, but she was not to leave.
[1:26:56] There may be properties that do that.
[1:26:59] We will not until they give us an affirmative work and absolutely not.
[1:27:05] This is an open offer from FEMA because they feel that this is the best determination for
[1:27:10] public safety.
[1:27:11] Should they choose not to?
[1:27:13] No, we cannot transfer that to another property, is that the question that you had?
[1:27:18] Now, we will have to, should that be the will of council and the recommendation of public works.
[1:27:24] We will enter those properties into a second opening, which we would expect to have in about,
[1:27:31] it's just about 12 months from now.
[1:27:33] They'll start talking to us by now they're opening.
[1:27:36] But that's, that's an opening that you start the process like in 2017 that you have two years after that.
[1:27:42] Exactly.
[1:27:43] that this possible get to this point, and then you are, you know, in any of the other
[1:27:49] years.
[1:27:50] So, just from a full disclosure standpoint, because other jurisdictions find themselves
[1:27:56] in the situation in these types of programs, the federal government will only reimburse
[1:28:01] up to the amount that's in the agreement, which is based on the praise of which is quite
[1:28:05] dated by now, from a policy perspective, the local body does have the discretion to offer
[1:28:12] more out of their own pocket, the federal government may not pay anymore, but the local government
[1:28:18] can actually offer more, if it's a strategic need or something that kind of gets the deal
[1:28:24] done, but for purposes of this voluntary federal program, we're limited to the appraisal.
[1:28:35] Okay, and that would be any other questions about the agenda today. There is no executive
[1:28:44] session. Do we need to make any kind of agenda change officially here to account for tonight?
[1:28:50] I will take care with Susan.
[1:28:56] I had emailed about a resolution supporting for the South
[1:29:02] for Conservancy and I didn't know if that was something that staff had enough time to
[1:29:10] I know Patty made some calls, we want to make sure that the scope of their grant program I did
[1:29:17] read through it early this morning is consistent with the engineering that we desire.
[1:29:24] You'll recall you entered into an agreement, a four-party agreement in Atlanta, a livable
[1:29:38] grant program that they're submitting or they're building program they're submitting to
[1:29:42] this granting edge into the includes a multitude of projects one of them being that bridge
[1:29:47] we want to do the due diligence and make sure it's the bridge that we support so we
[1:29:52] couldn't really get through that today. Patty you have an update based on your communications.
[1:30:00] We started with, we're actually going to have meeting this week, and we had multiple conversations with City of Atlanta. We just need to take our time and make sure there's not a conflict.
[1:30:10] And she understood that perfectly as a matter of fact, this has been a wonderful catalyst for a conversation about one of the aspects of that grant.
[1:30:19] And if it is helpful, we can take a look at it, but she said really the conversation of what was most important to her and she thanked us for that.
[1:30:27] Well, I'd based on your feedback, I certainly would recommend caution and are taking the
[1:30:35] time for the diligence and studying it.
[1:30:38] I do think that their completion of their project is so essential to our the value of
[1:30:47] the piece of your greenway that anything that we can do that doesn't harm us that can support
[1:30:52] their efforts, we really need to see that connection to path 400 in the Beltline.
[1:30:57] So I hope that they understand and learn from some of the things we've done on our design
[1:31:03] in Beltline, Peach Creek, Greenway, and I know at one point that we're talking about non-concreate
[1:31:09] services and that's really, we need to have consistency throughout that path.
[1:31:16] Thank you.
[1:31:17] Thank you.
[1:31:19] Okay, with that, I had earned work session.
[1:31:23] See you guys at seven.
[1:31:35] Come back up there.