Good afternoon. Like to call
AUGUST. 26 Board of Public
Works meeting to order on Todd
Wilson chair the Board blacks
or board members introduce
themselves, Suzy Courtney,
Dan, the Redmond Leslie Schull
t thank you all. And I'd like
to also introduce our board
council behind me Merkel and
our board coordinator Jennifer
Domingues. Our first item on
the agenda today is to adopt
the AUGUST. 26 2026 agenda. Do
I have a motion to its out?
The agenda moved so moved by
pa parent a second. Second of
Redmon all in favor signify by
saying Aye, aye, any oppose
motion carries the next item
on the agenda approval of
minutes to I have a motion to
approve the AUGUST 12, many
minutes so moved by. Susan,
according to have a second
seconded by Leslie Schull to
be on the favor signify by
saying Aye. I any oppose
seeing none that motion Like
to introduce our board member
civic. That was a welcome,
sir. Can go ahead, sir,
because you want to. Next item
on agenda. We have a public
acts or board counsel Benjamin
Moore read the rules governing
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board members of the motion to
approve the rules as written,
so moved by. And Hank. Got a
go second a second second by
Wagner and officer signify by
saying Aye, aye, any opposed.
Seeing none. The motion so
glass, please. Thank Chair
Wilson, members of the board.
My name is Joe Class and the
executive director and general
counsel of the Indianapolis
Pond Bank. And the hearing is
for a preliminary
determination to issue up to
50 million dollars in a
metropolitan there for
district debt for the
construction of a new
operations garage current site
of to be operations. This was
approved by the evidence and
Finance Committee of the
Council last night unanimously
and will go before the full
council at the next meeting.
We have included materials
with the board a 10 year
projection the maximum changes
to levy and rates. We asked
that be the memo and the test
information be included in the
minutes of the meeting and
then the board will vote. I
declare resolution approve the
issuance of the bonds. And
we'll have one more my public
hearing at Future Board of
Public Works meeting. So happy
to answer any questions. At
this time. I'd like anyone
from the public that would
like to speak regarding
preliminary determination to
issue Bonds. And do I have any
questions from our board
members? Just that the
existing garage really leave
something to be desired. And
so a new garage. Well, and
greatly improve operations
capacity. Is a necessary bond
issuance for that work. Thank
you for the comment. We have
any questions or well as new
safe or was going to be
consolidated. One of the
existing states. So do Sam
bears with to be able to
address the question. Sure.
Hello. Could you please repeat
the question? He was being a
new site or will be
consolidated the existing
site. The garage, the
operations garage. Yeah, so we
are going to have more detail
to share on that project soon.
Our intent is to build that
facility on existing dpw
property. We've talked about
our West Street campus, which
is the main place where
operations is currently
headquarters, headquartered.
We're still working through
some details about that site
to determine whether that
should. Be the final plan. But
yes, our commitment is we're
going to build a new garage.
On dpw property and it's going
to involve consolidation from
other dpw locations. So we're
going to have, you know, folks
that currently report to one
place in the county reporting
to it to a new area and better
work spaces, more space to
store equipment and cannot say
how excited we are all to get
going on this project because
it's something we've been
working towards for a long
time. Thank you, Sam. Do we
have any more questions or
comments? Seeing none to of
motion to approve resolution.
Number 20 to 2026. So moved.
So moved by pa parent of a
second. Second by to shred
none all in favor signify by
saying Aye. I any oppose that
motion carries. Thank you,
everyone. This public hearing
is now closed. Our next item
on the agenda are bit awards.
Jamie call police. The
afternoon Jamie Department.
Public works construction and
then today I have been award.
L d 15, a 0, 3, 6, Eagle Creek
Dam improvements with James
Babcock Incorporated. The
engineering Division staff
recommends the board of Public
works approve and authorize
the director to award Ld 15,
0, 3, 6 Eagle Creek Dam
improvements to James Babcock,
Incorporated in the total not
to exceed amount of $389,600
on the basis that they are the
lowest responsive responsible,
bitter. Project. Ld 15, a 0,
3, 6 Eagle Creek Dam
improvements consist of a one
m. Project to address
deficiencies identified in the
dnr. Biennial Inspection
report. Substantial completion
is scheduled for JULY 6, 2027
with final completion
scheduled for AUGUST. 20th
2027. The engineers estimate
for construction on this
project was 280,000. On JULY.
30th 2026. 2 bids were
received in the low bidder.
Was James Bat Babcock
Incorporated not to exceed
amount of 389,600. Which was
39% higher than the engineers
estimate. They're part 6 mbe
wbe the be the Obi
participation indicates they
made a good faith effort to
meet the owners goals of 15%
in the 8%. 8% wb, 3% b b, one
percent deal be participation
with 40%. For first electric
supply in the e 0%. W v 0.5%
Hoosier hauler incorporated
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for paraded deal be. They're
posted. Some Middle sub
contractor and supplier
participation shows how those
goals will be met. The office
Minority and Women Business
Development reviewed James
Babcock, Incorporated some
middle and found they have put
forth a good faith effort.
Happy to answer any questions
you might have. Thank you,
Jamie. Do we have any
questions? Here's one. Concern
both bids are almost 40% or
more higher than estimate. I
do Nick, actually for a
generator replacement so that
that is there's not much
concern. Is just a unique for
this one. Good questions. We
have any other questions.
Seeing none to have a motion
to approve the bid award. So
moved by Dan. Hey, call the
second seconded by subjected
to one's all in favor. Signify
by saying Aye, any opposed
seeing none. The motion
carries. Next item on or and
cold brew least.
Warren Killebrew probably
public Administrator. So just
Haitian forbid, award are the
14 dpw. 1, 7, 6, far supply of
traffic signal components. For
caring table. Control
Corporation. It s plus an rtc
manufacturer recommendations
dpw Recommends the Board of
Public Works approve and
authorize director to award a
two-year term agreement. To
each of carrying Gable.
Traffic control court. It s
plus r to see manufacturing.
For the supply of traffic
signal components on the basis
that each is the lowest,
responsible, responsive,
responsible bidder on certain
line items and r b, 14 dpw, 1,
7, 6, 5, Mike Brown is dpw
traffic manages the city's
traffic signal system. And to
do so. It requires various
cabinet modems controllers,
parts and other components.
Dpw maintains agreements with
the vendors, supply and
delivery of these components.
And to procure these goods to
cities, partisan division
published a request for bids
are me 14 dpw, 1, 7, 6, 5,
which included 252 different
line items splitting to 15
different categories the city
received for bids. To see what
carrying gable traffic control
court. It s and rtc
manufacturing being a Lois, be
it on certain line items
expressed as follows.
Estimated out to $800,000 for
the spin. Thank you. Want have
any questions? Seeing none to
a motion to approve the bid
award. So moved by Idris
Redmond to have a second.
Seconded by subjected to want
to favor signify by saying
Aye, any opposed motion
carries. Agenda are change
orders. Yes, this is a change
order. Number 2, final and
final acceptance for br 16, 0,
7, for a Lafayette road over a
Little Eagle Creek with Beatty
Construction Incorporated,
engineering Division staff
recommends the Board of Public
works approve and authorize
the director to execute
change. Order. Number 2, final
and final acceptance to be our
16, a 0, 7, for a Lafayette
road over Little Eagle Creek
with Beatty Construction
Incorporated in a decreased
amount of $46,752.50 where a
new contract amount of
1 million, 627,000 $8.82 and 0
day subtracted from
substantial and final
completion dates change. Order
number 2, final and final
acceptance will provide
conversation and Kwame
adjustments for change order.
The tail 2.1 which is
summarized below this final
quite sure up for the project
contract change. Order number
2, final final acceptance
accounts for 0 days,
subtracted from substantial
final completion date. So we
have answer questions. Thank
you. Do we have any questions
on this change order? Seeing
none too out of the motion to
approve the change order. And
finally acceptance move, so
moved by by a parent or
second. Seconded by take on
the favor signify by saying
Aye, aye, any opposed seeing
none. The motion carries next.
Change order, please. Jamie.
Change order. Number 2, final
as the 39, 0, 6, 2, Rosedale
Hills drainage improvements
county with Calumet Civil
Contractors Incorporated. The
engineering Division staff
recommends the Board of Public
works approve authorize the
director to execute change.
Order. Number 2, final 2 St.
39, 0, 6, 2, Death Row's deal
hills, drainage improvements
with Calumet Civil Contractors
incorporated in a decrease the
amount of $126,180. And $0.37
for a new total not to exceed
contract amount of 4 million,
391,560 $5.16 and 0 days added
to the substantial and final
completion dates. Change.
Order number 2, final will
provide one of the true up for
change order or sealed. The
number 2.1 which is summarized
below. Change. Order number 2,
final accounts for 0 days
added substantial final
mission dates. We have answer
any questions. And questions.
Seeing none to a motion to
approve the final change
order. So moved by Hague of a
second. Seconded by to
strengthen all in favor
signify by saying Aye, aye,
any oppose, seeing none. That
motion carries next. One
change. Order number one,
final for t s 25 0, 1, 9,
video detection at crashed
into intersections. Tc with tc
Electric Incorporated. The
engineering Division staff
recommends the Board of Public
works approved, offer eyes the
director execute change. Order
number one, final tts. 25 0,
1, 9, video crashed into
intersections with tc Electric
Incorporated in the increased
amount of 3,000. Her $7 and
$0.32 for a new total not to
exceed contract amount of
661,000 907 dollars. And $0.32
to include 10 days added to
the substantial and final
completion dates change. Order
number one, final will provide
time and funds for the change
order detail. 1.1, 1.2 1.3
with your summer as well.
Change order number one, final
counts for 10 days at a
substantial final completion
dates. Happy to answer any
questions you might have.
Thank you, Jimmy questions.
Yeah, I guess my question is
my understanding is we can't
have cameras in the roadway.
How do we get around this for
crash detection videos. These
these these cameras are
mounted up on on the polls at
the intersections that they
kind you over the top of it.
Yeah, I would just add to that
state law prohibits video
enforcement for a light red
light running. You can't issue
a ticket based on red lights.
These are not for video
enforcement. These help
control the flow of traffic at
the intersection and then they
also allow us the capability
to collect data on traffic,
light traffic counts and near
ms analysis. We'd like to do
something like that as well.
The question we have any other
questions. Seeing none. 2 of
the motion to approve the
final change order. So moved
by. Susan, according to
second. Seconded by subjected
to wants all in favor signify
by saying aye. Seeing that
motion carries our next item
on the agenda are professional
services agreements. Jamie
still up. This is professional
service agreement for
inspection for e and g 26, 0,
0, 1, on call storm water
inspection services with the
etiquette group incorporated.
The engineering Division staff
recommends the board of Public
works approve authorize the
director to execute in g 26,
0, 0, one on call storm water
inspection services. A new
professional service agreement
with the Antique, a group
incorporated and then not to
exceed total agreement amount
of $500,000 with an agreement
expiration date of DECEMBER
31st. 2028. He indeed. 26 0,
0, one on call stormwater
inspection services is for on
call. Storm water inspection
services. Could group
incorporated in be e w d o b.
The participation will include
infrastructure, engineering.
Indiana Lcmv Powers,
Engineering, incorporated, wbe
veterans, Engineering and
Technical Services, llc for
Bbe. The ndp group
Incorporated was selected
through Rfq Twenty-twenty 6
Dash 2. Happy to answer
questions. You might have.
Thank you. Any questions.
Seeing none. Motion to approve
the agreement. With so moved
by about of a second second by
letting Shealtiel favor
signify by saying Aye. I and
impose. Seeing none. The
motion carries Jamie Please.
Yes, this person that's real
service agreement for
inspection g 26, 0, 0, 2, on
call Storm Water Inspection
services, Firstgroup
Engineering incorporated. The
engineering Division staff
recommends the board of Public
works approve and authorize
the director to execute png.
26 0, 0, 2 on call stormwater
Inspection Services. A new
professional service agreement
with Firstgroup Engineering
incorporated in the not to
exceed total agreement amount
of $500,000 with an agreement
expiration date of DECEMBER
31st. 2028. Project g 26, 0,
0, 2, on call storm water
inspection services for on
call stormwater inspection
services. Firstgroup
Engineering incorporated mbe
Wbe in the participants will
include 10% to 70 engineering
in b 10% to value. Plus,
engineering services in the
and 7% to vets engineering and
technical Services v
firstgroup engineer
incorporates like into Rfq
Twenty-twenty 6 dash 2. Happy
answer any questions you might
have. Any questions. Seeing. A
motion to approve the
agreement. So moved by
increase revenue of a second
second second they can to want
on favor signify by saying
Aye. I any opposed. Seeing
none. The motion carries. Next
Jamie, please. Yes, this is a
professional service agreement
for inspection. The Indy. 26
0, 0, 2, near East side
streetscape tent in rule with
Mueller group incorporated.
The engineering Division staff
recommends the board of Public
works approved and authorized
director to execute de. 26 0,
0, 2, near East Side street
skate 10th and rule a new
professional service agreement
and inspection with Lock
Mueller group Incorporated to
not to exceed total agreement
amount of 1 million, 679,500
dollars with an agreement
expiration date of DECEMBER
31st. 2028. Project ev. 26 0,
0, 2, near East side
streetscape 10th and will
include streetscape
intersection, safety
improvements and placemaking
efforts along 10th Street from
Tecumseh Street to rule street
a long rule street from 10th
Street to Saint Clair Street.
This includes the addition of
a multi-use path, improve
sidewalks and ada ramps,
stormwater management lighting
and intersection realignment
attempt in rule the
substantial completion date is
DECEMBER 31st. 2027 and the
final completion date. Is
FEBRUARY 14th, 2028 Lock.
Mueller Group Incorporated.
Mbe Wbe Vb Ian Deal be
participation will include 15%
to Jake. You'll allow in the
8% a resolution group
incorporated wbe 3% to
veterans Engineering and
Technical Services, llc, d b
and one percent to project
photo Docks llc. Deal be
popular group was incorporated
was selected through Rq 2023.
Dash 2. I'm happy answer
questions. You might have. So
that area on 10th Street has
some pretty low pedestrian
Whiting. Is lighting to
replace pat or is it street
lighting? To some of the mark?
If you have any input on that?
Here is there's pedestrian
specifics lighting. Is that
what you're asking? What you
extreme level Whiting like?
What's lighting component of
this project believe would be
additional street lighting.
Some more street Any other
questions? Seeing none to a
motion to approve the
agreement. So moved by
subjected to want to do a
second. Second of it Treyvon
all in favor signify by saying
Aye, any opposed seeing none.
The motion carries. Thank you,
Jamie. Next item marks in
town. Please, thank you. The
first item I have before you
is a professional services
agreement design on gt Dash 2,
4 dash. '05, which is rss for
a group to project with the
mcs Incorporated, the
engineering Division staff
recommends the Board of Public
works proven authorize the
director to execute gt Dash 2,
4, Dash, 0, 0, 5, es s for a
group to scoping a new
professional services
agreement for design with the
mcs Incorporated and the not
to exceed total out of
3 million, 923,665 dollars
with an agreement expiration
date of DECEMBER 31st. 2031
Project gt Dash 2, 4 Dash 0, 5
is for Safe Streets Project
and that includes the
following road segments Post
Road 30th Street Lyndhurst
Drive 42nd Street Franklin
Road and Thompson Road gt Dash
2, 4 Dash 0, 4 was the
companion scoping projects a
little bit more detail on this
project. The project includes
well, the project has applied
for to us, dot included the
improvement or construction of
approximately 11 miles of
sidewalk. 538 curb ramps. 71
bus boarding areas and the
installation of a team that
blocked crossings. There is
20 million dollars just under
20 million dollars in federal
money associated with this
project and all those road
segments are on our high
injury network. Emc s
incorporate incorporated, mbe
wbe bbe dot e participation
will include 21 point to 6% vs
engineering. 6.1 2% to
infrastructure. Engineering of
Indiana. 0.68% to Compass
outreach solutions, 0% bbe and
0% de o p e the mcs was
selected through Rfq 2023 dash
2. Happy to answer any
additional questions on this.
Thank you, Mark. Do we have
any questions? Seeing none.
Motion to approve the
agreement. So moved by. Susan
Courtney got a second.
Seconded by Dan. Hey, all in
favor signify by saying Aye. I
and post seeing none that
motion carries. Next item on
our agenda, professional
services amendments. And Mark,
you have this Thank Next item
I have is amendment number one
to br Dash '04 Dash '02 monon
trail over 86 Street with Ch a
consulting incorporated. The
engineering Division staff
recommends the Board of Public
works approve and authorize
the director to execute
Amendment one to br Dash '04
Dash '02 on on trail over 86
Street. A professional
services agreement for design
with Ch a consulting
incorporated and the increased
amount of $7,199 for a new
total agreement. Amount of
1 million, 116,499 dollars.
Additional scope of services
and updated consultant rates
included this agreement.
Expiration date will remain
DECEMBER 31st. 2030, project.
We are dash '04 Dash '02 is
for the design of a structure
to carry the monon trail over
86 Street Amendment one
provides funding for the sub
consultant NorthPoint to
perform a full new topic.
Graphic survey of the project
site rather than use prior
survey information taken from
another project. The amendment
also provides updated rates
for the wine trout inland
story, sub consultants and an
why for wine trout. Happy to
answer any questions you MAY
have. Thank you, Mark, we have
question. Is so that's where
really into the preliminary
design work with this
contract. We'll see a j also
be bridge architect towards
that cause it to be handled.
No. There is a separate bridge
park attacked associated with
this project and see aj is
here and they can serve more
specific questions about that.
If you would like you just one
with that, our kids expect to
get involved concept present
to the community. Thank you,
Charlie. Charlie Starling with
Chi Consulting the. Is the
architect is currently
developing. Renderings is
going to under scope to
develop 3 concepts. They'll be
presented to the dpw staff in
OCTOBER and then expect to be
presented to public in
DECEMBER. And the architects
name is real solace. Thank
you, Charlie. Are there any
other questions? Seeing? None.
2 of the motion to approve the
amendment. So moved by the of
a second second by about
parent all in favor signify by
saying aye, any opposed.
Motion carries. All right.
Next item on our agenda is a
presentation were on Our
financial team too, give the
2020's 7 budget presentation
that we gave too. Council
committee on AUGUST 13th. This
is a preventive Reavie, a
diversion of But without
further ado acts, Margaret
Wilson, too, give the
presentation. Thank you. And
we also have sights on the
screen as well. Yes, hi, good
afternoon, everybody. Director
Wilson, thank you. You still
most of my little intro here
for our abridged version of
the 2027 budget presentation
that we gave about 2 weeks
ago. So we cut this down just
2 about the meat and potatoes
of it. So we will be happy to
go into any other questions.
Further details on anything
that you MAY have at the end.
But otherwise, these kind of
the key points we'd like to
highlight 4 the board today.
I'll start off with our agency
staffing. This has been
extreme when for the
department this year you'll
see are filled positions are
at 91.1% And this this as of
AUGUST 4th, when we have this
data for the budget
presentation, this number is
up from 88.6 last year when we
present and for the same
budget presentation. At this
time. We do have all of our
engineering admin positions
filled as well. So that's been
a success for that division.
And I would like to give kudos
to our internal internal Peril
and h r for helping to
streamline the process the
past year or so. We've worked
well together with our new
hires to shorten the amount of
time. And and the back and
forth with the application
process. And I think that is
very important to highlight.
They are kind of that first
face of this city for our new
employees. So having a great
peril team involved in helping
them get started been very
beneficial. Next year. We will
be also implementing the step
in new policy. There's still
some details to be sorted out
with that, that we will share
once that's available. But
that will be an effort to help
biweekly employee retention
let them know that they're
valued not wait to be on the
cola increase that we Spain
every year. Here. We've got
the graph of the filled
positions. This goes back the
past year. And you can see.
You can see we're at 739
positions filled at that 91%
rate as of the end of JULY.
You'll see the increases as
well since the cba took into
effect in 2025. And then just
noting percentage of our union
positions is about 75%.
Getting into the dpw operating
budget dpw. Its is built
around some major revenue
sources. That's primarily
divided up into these
categories here on the screen,
we've got the mv Hrs will tax
storm water user fee, solid
waste user fee and special
service just district tax
Levy, we. It can account for
some of stable increases. And
plan for those along the way.
So you can see we've got a
budget growing about of about
10 million this year. We also
can seek supplemental budget
and some of it, which will be
explained. The further slides.
But we have things like the
inner local agreement grants
and one-time appropriations.
That factor into our revenue.
Big point here on this budget
slide. You'll notice our total
2027 introduced budget is at
335 million dollars. That's
substantial increase about
77 million from last year. So
we're very excited to put that
to work. We have the top line
of this graph. Kinda refers
back to that previous slide of
those dpw operating funds. And
then we also get into our
fleet Services fleet Services,
are funded, mostly by charge
backs. And that's from the
other divisions and
departments. They're getting
an increase this year of about
1.4 million. And that driven
largely by the cola increases
lower vacancy rates and
contractual increases. Our
capital funds are used for the
infrastructure and our capital
in a five-year capital plan
again, we'll get into some
more of those details. Next
slides. Grant funds. We
sometimes have some challenges
to budget those exactly. Those
numbers are based on what we
are But usually within the
mpo. But final number will be
determined by the results.
Usually a percentage of fat
like 80 20 split. So we budget
these as best we can based on
those big dates and
anticipated that results. The
slide will be a budget
breakdown by character. We
have character one through 5.
And if you're not familiar
character one, as for our
personnel cost. That's the
labor and the wages that we
pay all a far employees,
whether by weekly or union and
also health care is included
in that as well. Character to
supplies character, 3 services
character for of Capital and
character. 5 charge backs.
You'll see the biggest
increases this year will be
within the character for
capital for about 71 million
and character. One person now
we've got an increase of about
2.8 million there. Getting
into our engineering division.
That's one of the 5 divisions
within dpw. The primary
increase obviously and capital
character for and that that's
largely where doing on the
road and bridge projects that
you you for the board getting
presented for the bet Awards
and everything. On the right.
We have a chart based on the
program breakdown. This was a
new process last year that we
introduced of breaking down
the budget within the programs
we think of these kind of what
are we offering the city? What
is it? We're doing that then
they can c and name this is
what programs the department
is offering. So the largest
bucket. There's our
transportation capital. When
we get into the top line there
of administrative that would
include overhead costs,
personnel, that character one
technology vehicles, things
like that.
I'm sorry. What is not
captured in the budget package
is the 10 million
appropriation of 2026
supplemental covid this
funding will be used to comply
with sca 1, 7, 9, the matching
requirement for 2027. This
money will be used for the
street rehabilitation projects
and those are targeted too.
Start construction. Early
2027. Have more information on
this within the Capitol plan.
Slides in the next few slides.
Getting into operations.
Again, largely the increase
here we'll see is character
one person now including the
3% cola biweekly. I'm sorry,
biweekly Paula. Then cba
increase for the Union. We
also have some increased and
our contractual. Character 3.
The budgets. When we talk
about character too, for
operations, that's where we
have most of our money for
character, too. And that's
going to be all of the
procurement of salt asked fall
the traffic signal components,
hardware, signs, pain,
everything that keeps our
crews move in every day. Like
to highlight. We had the
motion approved earlier this
meeting for the geo Bond to
provide the 15 million in
capital funding for a new
operations facility. As
mentioned. This is very
exciting. It's been decades in
the works this will involve
consolidating some of the
garages and providing much
much needed upgrades to our
our facilities for workers.
Key point I'd like to mention,
too, is the improved storage
capability that will have for
all of the equipment that we
have been investing in. So
that when we get good, solid
garage up and running, that
can be the safe haven for all
of the equipment that we've
been purchasing.
Getting into solid waste
division, shout out to their
crews as well for all the work
they've been doing with this
flood response lately. And
they've been out helping to
get the debris and trash not
only picked up that sordid
appropriately and disposed of
appropriately as well. We'll
see most of their increase
just in character. One, the
character, 3 services. That is
the bulk of what have their
budget with them. And this
would be for all of the holler
contracts that we have
residential waste collection
And also thank you to our
partners, the our contractual
partners with the flood
response that they've helped
us along with. All see and
planning largest increase
here. Personnel. We have Let's
policy and planning houses the
office of Sustainability, the
environmental group that does
talks drop. We will be adding
a new location next year and
they have since also added
additional days that the Perry
location. We. You'll see most
of the budget sits within
central administrative and
it's that kind of hard to call
out the programs here with
division because they wear
many hats and kind of more
behind the scenes with
everything that we're doing
you know, personally finance
where in policy and planning
so give do is to my team. I
looked at the numbers last
night and we have processed
over 300 contracts each year.
Since 2022. And so that is a
result of everything that you
all during our board meetings
and beyond. And that that back
end of keeping those moving
through process that, you
know, helps get the job
started sooner. Contractors
paid sooner. Jobs finished
dinner. And then last but not
least we have fleet. There
increases with most of the
others, we have character one
increases for personnel and
character. 3 for services.
We've previously for
additional appropriations
within specifically character
3 in previous years to help
with the cost of maintaining
and fixing some of our
specialized equipment. So just
a reminder, fleet does
maintain the vehicles and
equipment for the whole city.
Not just dpw. So when we start
talking about some of like the
fire equipment, specialized,
heavy machinery, some of that
needs to be outsourced to
either vendors to work on that
equipment. And that is where
we see that rising character,
3 cost. So this year, getting
bump up for them in their
budget and their base budget
will be really helpful.
And then a How we've been
prioritizing investment in our
equipment. Even since we
presented this slide 2 weeks
ago, we 3 more units to the
solid waste line. So it's a 16
units we've since had 3 more
Packers delivered and are out
on the street. It's been a big
group effort to be able to
spend this kind of money and
see this kind of result so
fast with the procurement
process. So we've received
100% of those solid waste
units within 7 months of
placing the order. So that
that above and beyond what we
ever expect. And then with the
operations group, we've got
the new additions to this. No
response team. A fleet for
about 12 full-size trucks and
20 to one times. The
additional street maintenance
equipment that we want
purchase. There's about 37.
Different types of machinery.
We have prepared. We have the
paint minor street repair
equipment, mowers, bucket
trucks. Anything like that.
Highlighting some of our
grants. The one we Mark Saint
reference earlier here is the
safe streets for all grant. We
have phase 2 scoping, but
you'll just awarded earlier
and that provide about
20 million to safe, safe
streets for all infrastructure
updates. We also have. The
office of sustainability with
ecb g Grant. We have recently
taking a new energy manager
and they're working alongside
Purdue with this grant. That
is a study and energy
consumption of government
buildings with the goal to
retrofit it with green
infrastructure from there. And
then here we have some grants
and action. The usda grant, we
have planted just over 1800
trees. You see the nickel
plate trail. This one huge
collaborative effort with
multiple funding sources
between the grants and the sea
icf connected Communities
program and then Merck's pill
and am removal. That is they
us sorry U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Grant to preserve the
ecosystem. Getting into our
capital improvement plan. I
will pass it off to you. Chief
financial officers and their
Thank you, Margaret. And you
thank you to both Margaret and
Antony. Start earlier, revenue
manager for extensive work on
this year's budget. I mean it
it presented here in AUGUST,
but this is really work that
starts as early as APRIL. And
we do it every year. So the
budget process is a lot. But I
think that it leads to lots of
important conversations about
how we prioritize our
resources depreciate the
opportunity to get to talk
about it with this body as
well. Moving on to the capital
improvement plan just as a
reminder, dpw produces
five-year capital improvement
plans. Every year we present
them to our Council Public
Works Committee represent them
to this board. They're not
formally voted on, but they're
part of our budget package and
make it endorsed through the
approval of the the overall
budget itself. We produce to
capital plans produce one for
the stormwater side and one
for the transportation side.
So we'll We'll show them
separately here this year. A
lot of work has gone into how
these are put together. I
think we've made some changes
that are helpful the sake of
transparency, both internally
and externally. And I hope
that that those changes are
apparent and helpful to to
folks as we present this
information. So with that
said, first up, going to talk
about storm water, which is
the smaller of the 2 programs,
but also very important. Well,
you can see here is our storm
water funding and expenses
broken down for each of the 5
years in the capital plan. You
can see about 139 million
dollars of funding and again,
this is a this is mostly a
reminder, but capital plans
are always intentionally over
program. This means expenses
will always exceed the amount
of funding in the plan. This
is because we want to make
sure we have an ample pipeline
of projects, projects
schedules, move around for all
sorts of reasons. And we faced
delays who want to make sure
that we have projects ready to
go teed up to make use of that
funding. In general. We try to
have less over programming in
the early years because we
need to be able to it make
immediate decisions about its
schedules and things like
that. And so you'll see more
over programming in the out
years of the capital plan. So
I'm not going to go through
every single line here, but I
did just want to call out 2
things about the stormwater
capital plan. And first on
this plan, you'll see new bond
funds that 2026 storm water
bond proceeds line those as
you heard today, those
declaratory resolutions and
other bond auctions usually go
through this board as well.
That 50 million dollars is
money. We issued that
supporting a whole whole
variety of projects over the
next 2 years. That's why you
see the funding split between
2026 2027. So excited to have
that funding those projects
moving. And then second, I
want to be clear about
something that's come up in
public discussions about our
budget and we're going to
you're going to see on a on a
a few slides down. This year.
Our budget includes using
5 million dollars of storm
water fees. That's going to
show up on the transportation
capital program. And you're
going to see that as a line
listed there. And while we're
here talking about storm
water, I just want to be clear
that we did not cut any storm
water projects. We did not
reduce the scope of any storm
water projects, the stormwater
capital plan has had that
revenue backfilled by a couple
different sources and by
reductions in administrative
costs. And so. The amount of
storm water fees going to
storm water, capital assets is
increased in this budget, not
decreased. It just happens
that 5 million dollars is
showing up on the
transportation side of the
ledger. We're going to be
working on a huge pipeline of
roadway projects over the next
5 years. Those projects. In
many cases have stormwater
components, whether it's
regrading the rotors, actual
investments in new storm water
drains and culverts and things
like that. And so we are we're
excited about all that work.
And I just wanted to be clear
that we're not we're not
cutting stormwater projects to
make that happen. It is it is.
Something that again, you'll
see here in a couple slides.
But I just wanted to talk
about here with what we have
the stormwater information on
the screen. Moving This slide
breaks down the 156 million
dollars of expenses in the
categories. Again, not going
to talk about every role you
can see. The biggest category
here is surface drainage
projects, but you can see the
other types of projects that
we have in our pipeline.
Moving on to the
transportation capital plan.
So before I show you the large
table that barely fits on the
screen here is hopefully an
easier break down to to look
at the funding sources by so
you can see on the left side
of the screen, you have a pie
chart that breaks down our
funding. That 1.2, 2 billion
dollars into buckets. So you
have general fund sources
which General city revenues
that could in theory be used
for lots of different city
purposes. You have
transportation taxes. That's
mostly going to be state road
funding distributions which
come from gas tax and things
like that. Other dpw revenues
which are specific to the
department, but not
necessarily roadways. The
Marion County Cmg line. That's
the 50 million dollars a year
from the state and its
200 million because there's
only 4 years about funding in
the capital plan. 27. 28 29.
30. And then you have one
time. Sources like fun
proceeds council fiscal
actions, money that's rolled
over from prior years. You can
see that in pink. You can see
grandson external. A lot of
that's going to be mpo
funding. But some of that's
going to be from other federal
grants as well. And then you
can see support from tif
districts, whether it's part
of an economic development
initiative or whether it's
just general tips support for
the capital. On the right side
of the screen. What we've
broken out is the ongoing
resources in each year of the
capital plan. So this is
excluding all the one-time
money. It's excluding the
federal, the federal dollars
that are part of our capital
Port program and just focusing
on kind of the stuff on the
right side of pie chart. And
you can see the funding
growing from 58 million
dollars in 2026. And then up
to 190 million dollars as we
later on new commitments from
local income taxes and the new
50 million dollars from the
state. And so again, you can
see see that growth on an
ongoing basis. And here you
have the full version of what
I showed you on the prior
slide broken broken down into
much more detail. They kind of
follow the same category
conventions. So transportation
specific funding includes
360 million dollars. General
city revenues. Again, this is
mostly going to be local
income taxes, adding up to
385 million dollars over 5
years. You can see the onetime
appropriations that would
include, for example, the
40 million dollar bond
issuance that we just
finalized recently came
through this board for
approval so that that money is
showing up down there in the
onetime section. And the
reason we do that is to make
it clear. Okay, what's actual?
New resources that we have to
dedicate in the budget every
year versus a one-time
supplement to what we're
doing. And then down below,
you can see 60 million dollars
from economic development
sources and just under
300 million dollars in
external funding. Most of that
being from from federal
sources. Again, you see the
storm water fees showing up
there 5 million a year
starting in 2027 that I just
discussed a moment ago. And so
I do want to just state this
because guessing there's going
to be questions about this.
And we went into a fair bit
detail about this a couple
weeks back. That committee,
the wheel tax money from
proposal, one 92, it's
projected generate about
70 million dollars a year is
not in this capital plan. So
it's not appropriated as part
of the budget. It's not
showing up here in this this
capital plan as I think. We
walked through probably
excruciating detail a couple
weeks back. Dpw has invested
substantial time and effort
into the framework for making
quick decisions about how to
prioritize roadway
investments. And Mark did a
great job spelling out what
that process looks like. So
all say about the proposal.
One 92 revenue is to the
extent that it generates
revenue. That's not included
in this capital plan. Dpw is
well positioned to make
allocation decisions that
optimize that money. And so,
you know, obviously those
conversations are going to
continue in the weeks and
months to come in. You know,
we're we're we're ready for a
larger volume of capital
funding. Wherever that comes
from. All right. This next
large table breaks down our
transportation capital plan by
programmatic funding area.
Again, this is a little bit
different than how we've
broken down playing in the
past or just said this is how
much goes to streets or
bridges or whatever. This this
gives you a little bit more
detail about how we kind of
control our budget internally.
And I hope I hope this this
helps folks get their heads
around it. But I think it's
been helpful. Exit exercise
for us to even put together
like this. Again, you'll see
that that 1.3 billion dollar
total spending number. I'm not
going to go through every
single one of these
categories. But you do see,
you know that the biggest
batch here is thoroughfare
projects at 467 million
thoroughfare and major
secondary streets. That is in
of itself. A total. There are
different types of projects
that live under that category
from minor rehab projects that
are going to look kind of like
the strip patching projects.
But more on the curb to curb a
sus 2 full on road
reconstruction We've we've
rolled up that, you know,
those different types of
projects in the one line
there. We have left broken out
some some things like
preventative maintenance, for
example, where we're being
explicit about wanting to do
more things like crack sealing
to maintain our assets. That's
a big staple of our I said
management plan. We broke that
strip patching because I think
Kimberly because people are
used to seeing it broken out
on this page. I think again
and a lot of cases, these
minor rehab projects that are
engineering department is
working on might look and feel
like the strip patching
projects and the speed in
which they rolled out when
they can happen in the season.
But the you know, strip
patching remains as an option
for emergency repairs and
getting our roadways into, you
know, safe condition as
needed. And then. You see
local street funding which is
increased to 24 million a year
starting in 2027 again within
that category. There's
different types of projects to
different sorts of treatments
depending on. What the
condition of the roadway is.
But still, I think helps to
give a sense of of how we've
made allocation decisions. And
then there's the different
buckets of of federal types of
projects and those are broken
out because well, you could
combine mpo streets with our
other street categories.
Oftentimes the goals are a
little bit different rate the
goals with these projects are
typically more than asset
management. Often safety
focused and have, you know.
Bigger picture goals than just
extending the life of the
asset. Moving on to the next
slide. Here's a kind of rolled
up version of what I just
showed. You said that the
numbers here are the same. No
match up. But we've broken it
down into thoroughfares and
secondary streets, which is
the biggest category. You can
see bridge projects, local
road projects, preventative
maintenance and repairs.
Again, that would include
preventative maintenance
strip, patching the job or
contract program that we used
to make fast repairs when
things like guardrails or
damaged. And then economic
development, which is usually
funded by specific tip funding
for, you know, something like.
Georgia Street or some of the
work we're doing, by the way,
campus, things like that
multi-modal, it's going to be
sidewalks and greenways
traffic others is a mix of
things. It would include
things like the community
powered infrastructure program
that. Don't necessarily fall
into one category could affect
different types of
infrastructure. Finally, as
always, here's a report on xp
spending breakdown. Not going
to go into detail on this, but
we we provide this along with
their budget every year. It's
available. Happy to answer
questions about it. With that,
I'm sure you all have some
questions for us. We got a
bunch of people from dpw
present. So hopefully we
hopefully we can Thank you
very much. Cfo Sanderson
assistance cfo Margaret
Wilson, for that, the tow
breakdown of our budget by
ordinance. We are to bring the
budget before the board for
review. So that's what we're
doing will open it up for the
group Texan questions or
comments. Please. Jump in.
Couple of higher level
questions here budget for
inflation. Are these old 20
$26? These are all in 20 $26.
Thank in. Seeing staffing. It
was member of vacant positions
the engineering due to my
heart shows 11 vacancies, new
future here. But is the money
for those for those positions
in the budget. Yes, yes. The
money for those positions is
in the budget. As Margaret
mentioned, when she went over
the slide. The good news is we
have had success getting
people in some important
Obviously, you know, I'm not
going to sit here and say that
filling some of these roses
and a challenge, especially,
you know, the more technical
they get the smaller pool of
people out there. You know, it
exists to fill that specific
role. But the money for these
lines is absolutely included
in the budget. We're hopeful
that some citywide policy
changes like stepping grade
will make it easier compensate
people for their experience
with the city and keep people
in those roles. When we do get
them. But obviously, you know,
given the amount of output in
our capital program, making
sure that engineering is
staffed and has the tools that
they need is you know, we
agree. It's it's a critical
time for that. Just thank you.
It's good to know the revenue
sources for 2027. What it was
based on is that conservatives
are really get how sure you of
this, you have a new sources.
Kind of it's kind of different
for everyone. So I can walk
through This isn't every
single source of revenue the
dpw has. This is like our 5
biggest revenue sources and
again, I would note here just
for clarity that will tax
number that 16.6 That's the
pre proposal. One 92 baseline,
which is why at 16 and not 86
or something. So the first
line that's our state road
funding distributions that we
we hear so much about. And so
the main thing driving the
growth there is is that there
is a gas, excise tax and
special fuel tax inflator. I'm
so like next year, JULY first,
2027. There will be a penny
increase under statute for the
gas, excise tax and a $0.02
increase for the special feels
tax. So that's driving. That's
pretty much where you're
getting that 3% growth. This
from that inflator. The storm
water user fee has inflator in
local ordinance. So it goes up
by a little bit over 3%. The
rate that's built on people's
monthly stormwater bills. It's
paid through the property tax
system. So most of the growth
comes from that. Although we
do have a little bit of
measured, impervious surface
area growth every year as
well. That helps contribute to
stormwater revenue growth. The
solid waste user Any growth to
be driven by adding additional
parcels. So one thing that's
been beneficial this year is
our rollout of the lrs
contract has resulted a chance
to kind of holistically. Look
at our address is that we're
providing service to in those
contractor We have been able
to make some updates there and
then that solid Waste, Special
Service District is that's
that's a property tax levy,
which its property taxes. And
then there's other Associated
State money that comes with
property tax distributions.
That is. Kind of a general
city revenue in the sense that
it's property taxes, but it is
specific to the spot. Solid
waste, Special services
district since actually
approved separately as part of
the annual budget process.
That was a long answer. Your
question. But basically it's
all it's all dependent on the
revenue source. And there's
different factors that drive
growth in each of them. Sure.
But but reasonable based on
what we know today, correct.
The Office of Finance and
Management has a lot of
conservative practices that
you don't see here. And one of
them is like things like
interest revenue, which we
generate a lot of the city has
a lot of money in the bank
that generates a return.
Interest is an example of
something that's typically
either not budgeted or very
conservatively budgeted. And
fm has like a bunch of
citywide protocols. They used
to make sure that there are
conservative assumptions baked
into not just our budget but
every city agency when they go
through the revenue
forecasting process. Thank you
in know you're gonna street
lighting was a an issue in
those negotiations. I think
going on with the U.S. Far
rates. And that's where is all
been resolved this budget
contains. The green numbers.
Yeah, there is rate increase
and forgive me. I I don't know
the date goes into effect. But
we half that planned and
budgeted. Just it's within our
engineering division.
Dream number. And on the
right, we the budget for
street like utilities. There.
And that's We're that increase
with a yes, no. Okay. So it's
so you know, for sure that's
good. And I want at this for
sure is maybe a bit too, just
in you know what? With with
knowing that the increase is
coming we can look at that
previous bills and and take
that percentage go from there
with with that include
increased tree lighting.
Whereas I think that would
maybe be more with we can
project themselves within the
capital program for what
street lights would come out
from there. Ok, thank you for
that. Moving on to storm
water. Storm water capital,
12.8 million the bit. That
would go pretty fast. I would
think. Spurs and number. And
you know, the expenditures as
we as we show yet. 26 27.
Okay. But then the really go
down. 28 29, 30. Because we're
not gonna lot of these
projects off the list or is it
because that could back
because it will be moving some
of the projects out beyond
2030. So a couple. Point of
clarification. So earlier on
we have our our budget broken
out into program. Attic
categories and that is those
are numbers that are like
literally included in the
budget ordinance. The council
has to adopt and get submitted
to the state. The capital plan
itself includes a mix of
creation, is that are included
in the next year's budget. And
then also other funding
sources. So like, for example,
you see here. The grant
funding, the bought the bond
proceeds. Those are
necessarily included in the
appropriation totals that you
see on budget slide site. It's
kind of easier to talk about
the stormwater capital plan
here because it's a more
holistic picture. To answer
your question. Like there.
There's almost always when you
look at the 5 year capital
plan. A trend like this, where
you're going to see more work
in the front years because we
just have more information
about the funding that's
available to us in the earlier
years. We know what grants we
currently have awarded. We
might not know what grants
will have awarded in 2030 that
we're currently spending
funding on. We've applied, you
know, we've applied for storm
water related project funding
that we hope to have access
to. But we don't included in
here until we have a pretty
good sense. It's actually
going to be available to us.
The bond issuances, you know,
we got to the point where we
can say with 100% confidence
that it was a good time to
move forward with fish and
50 million dollars and more
bonds, a sponsor rated
Triple-a when they reviewed by
a credit rating agency. As
always, you know, we have
extremely good credit and
robust fight. Financial
management strategies for the
district. At this point, we
don't have another bond
issuance showing up in one of
the out years. But that
doesn't mean that there's no
possible way that the city
will issue more storm water
pond. So I think part of this
is just a little bit more
certainty around what
resources you have available
in the earlier years. But
yeah, continue to work to
identify funding sources
whether its external or
internal to find more storm
water projects as we move
forward. That I could add as
well. I know you had mentioned
the 12 million from that
programs of slide for
engineering for the storm
water division. But this slide
again does do better job of
breaking that down where that
first column top half the
local funds, that's kind of
about what that 10.9 would for
going to torch that capital
program of those dedicated
funds and then beyond that,
still, we have that
48 Million. That is the
additional funds that Sam was
mentioning with Bonds and
prior year carryover, anything
like that. So that does add to
that program robustly from
there. Okay. So it's quite
possible that in these later
years. 28 29 30, that more
revenues could come up
projects to be done. We just
haven't. Yeah. So my guess is
when we're presenting, let's
say that 2028 through 2032
capital plan and a couple of
years that the number for 2028
will be higher than what
you're you're seeing here,
that if you look back at prior
year capital plan, that's
almost always the way it
works. We present a five-year
capital plan with the funding
that we know to be available.
I want piggyback on that,
though. I see the storm. Water
user fees are here. Get This
one is expenditures. This
particular table that we're
looking right now this. So
this this table, it is more
the revenue table. So this is
showing this is showing
sources of funding for the
stormwater program. Adding up
to 139 million dollars over 5
years. Okay. And so but we
have just fees for inflation
every year. So this to the
stormwater fee that the storm
water user fee. Has an
inflation adjuster that goes
through 2030, 40 in our local
municipal ordinance. And so
right now, it's bill, like
there's base billing unit late
assigned to each property in
the area. Right now, I think
it's a $1.65 per be which
admittedly a confusing fee
structure. So take. To get it.
What you're question. The
storm, water user fee funds a
bunch of different stuff and
dpw is budget. So it is a
funding source for our channel
Maintenance subdivision of
operations. For example, it
helps cover the cost of our
forestry Division and the
Capital program is one of the
things that it helps not
shown. Here is the debt
service that we're using it
for. So, you know, there's a
substantial chunk of
stormwater fees that goes to
debt service on. Year. Bond
issuances that we've used to
from the stormwater capital
plan. So the I'm sorry, what
was your question? I think I
can step into. I think the
confusion as thought the 500
staying the same that this is
not revenue of that storm
water use. Your feels the top
line and second line, are one
and then we have broken out
500,000 for the regular
regulations, regulatory
compliance projects that we do
what the water quality group
with an engineering. So
500,000 is there. Programmed
amount for that work that
they're doing out of the
storm. Water user fee. Does
that help? I'm sorry. Yes.
That is that is everything
that murder just said is
correct in everything you just
I just want to make sure this
question. So my question is
these. Fees are adjusted for
inflation. All of these
numbers are in 20 $26. Yes.
Which means if the number
remains the same. In 27. 28.
29. 30. Inflation excess.
We're spending is actually
decreasing across time.
Because the dollar buys less
and 2030 that. We can, we can
look back at prior year
versions of the this sheet
that we put together. And
again, this is. I think it
consistent format that we've
used to Shar five-year capital
plan. As far as I can
remember, we've shown. This
the same way. So this is not
anything that there's no
change to how are displaying
our storm. Water user fees.
What I will tell you is is
that there are. A variety of
revenue source is going into
the storm. Water Management
fund, which again gets used
for a mix of operations and
capital. If you if you want to
look at it that way, you can.
But again, this isn't that
isn't anything specific to
this capital plan that would
you could say that about?
Parsed the way we present our
stormwater capital plan almost
any year. So. After the
flooding. That happened, folks
about to see more money for
stormwater possible. I think I
think you're definitely right.
Kind of what I'm going for. I
think that, you know,
obviously the last couple
weeks has been. Very impactful
to our residents, our public
officials, our staff and, you
know, our our storm, water,
engineering staff, our
stormwater operations team
thinks about flooding events
all the time, right? This is
core to their job. There were
car flood response getting
their work on maintaining our
infrastructure. And This is a
year round. Perennial exercise
there's a charger here. Yeah,
we absolutely agree that this
is a good time to focus on our
storm water assets just
procedural point. Obviously,
this budget is introduced, you
know, beginning of AUGUST and
the major flooding that
occurred a couple weeks ago
would have occurred. Actually,
we presenting our budget to
our council committee while,
you know, rain was still
falling and we had people out
removing, you know, trees from
roads clearing out storm storm
drains and stuff. So, you
know, we our storm water
program remains robust. And as
I said, we to that point, we
just issued 50 million dollars
of new bonds to fund
stormwater projects throughout
the district. Continue to
explore ways that things like
flood control improvement
districts can better support
stormwater projects. And you
actually see in increased
commitment fc id's going into
the stormwater capital plan.
You see that number going from
2.2 million to 3.2 next year.
That reflects increased volume
of work in specific areas that
have flood control improvement
districts established. There
are federal funding
opportunities that we continue
That we continue to go after
and then finally not to dwell
on this, but the 5 million
dollars of storm water fees
going to transportation.
That's new. Again. That is
going to. That is going to
lead to real investments in
our storm. Water
infrastructure and well, a lot
of those assets might not be,
you know, geared towards this
specific type of flooding
event, the most common type of
flooding event that we
experience in the city is it
just rains a lot. And the
water doesn't drain
appropriately off of our
roadways and it's a danger for
motorists damages people's
property. And so our ability
to go out there do these
roadway improvements. And at
the same time make appreciable
changes that impact our storm
water system is a real
investment here. Regardless of
whether it shows up on this
page or the warning for slides
after it. So but your point is
well taken. I've come a couple
questions on the
transportation capital plan.
So I see the community powered
infrastructure program is more
than doubling from 2026. To
27. We love to see that. We're
going from 1.2 million 26 to
4.1 million and twenty-seven
and I was hoping somebody.
Could elaborate on just what
all means. I can give I can
give a number answer. I think
if we've Chris, I don't know
if you want to talk a little
bit about the cpi program in
general and some of the
success we've had recently
getting those projects off the
ground. Some of this reflects
the timing when projects are
able to bid, which is
obviously impacted by a bunch
of different factors. And that
can to year to year variance.
What we have seen. He's just a
really sizable demand for
these projects. And there's a
large pipeline of of projects
that we have to I'm gonna let
Chris talk a little bit about
that work. Yeah, good
afternoon. So community power
and infrastructure is an
umbrella under which
Indianapolis neighborhood
Infrastructure Partnership.
And part in the right of way
live. So this increase in
capacity is do too increased
demand. I guess you could say
and excitement for the
program. We had 17 planned
projects for this year and
we're trying to match an
increase. Those costs are
dollars and also increase our
lending library that is
available to folks at no
charge. And then my other
question is with relation to
the rapid response line item.
What is that? Thanks, Chris.
We under again going to going
to defer some of the projects
Pacific's. That's one area
where we had previously had
one-time funding sources that
we've used to fund these rapid
response projects laundrie's
going to go into a little bit
of detail on. But one thing
that we've done here is
established and ongoing level
of support that we can build
on. So that we can have a
little bit more ability to
plan. Those types of projects
and not have to be reliant on
one time allocations from
fiscal this koala cations from
the council things like that.
So under a one a. Yes. Thank
you. Board members level
Vision, 0 Administrator. So
Rep response is a new program
that we're launching off here
and dpw such as a traffic
safety program that kind
support multiple programs,
whether that's our cpi program
was a fatal crash of you and
some of our common own safety
concerns throughout the
community making those safety
and permits. So how this
started. It is last year the
council approved 500,000 in
the spring, fiscal for some of
the projects that we
implemented earlier this year.
And then later on, because we
share that with the council's
on the needed improvement that
we have for the fatal crash
review team and additional
1 million dollars was
allocated. It's part of the
fall fiscal. So how we broke
that up. Half a million
dollars continue. Love those
projects from the fatal crash
review team. We met those out
those have been designing
going going and construction
party later on this year or
early next year. And then we
set 400,000 aside for. Kind of
quick Bill Repor response
materials. So that the
criminal Process actively
happening right now. That bit
process just took place. And
so currently return those
materials allow us to rapidly
respond to some safety
concerns in the community,
especially those who do a
tactical urbanism If you do it
urban isn't project and we
look at safety improvements
that we see the statistic 7,
how much just had impact on
the community, then we can
transit transition those
impactful with some rapid
response materials. However,
rapid response also want to
support our like I mentioned
before fatal crash review team
and other programs we have
like neighbor way were we can
deploy those materials
internally and make sure we
support those community
projects and also to really
respond to communities who
have concerns about traffic
safety in general. Thank you.
Thank Thank you. Wasn't for
questions. Do we have any
other questions from board
members? Wilson and thank you
very much. Thank you for the
presentation. Very
informative. We don't have any
other business to come before
the board that time. A motion
to adjourn. Please. So moved
by Jesus revenue of a second
seconded by subjected to want
Thank you all. This meeting
adjourned.