1 00:00:03,100 --> 00:00:14,720 All right, I want to go ahead and call to order our finance committee meeting. The first discussion is just a carryover from last time. 2 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:28,900 So it's our discussion about our Gehanna strategic plan and I wanted to be able to actually give my colleagues just one more chance to be able to tell the administration 3 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:31,980 anything or even ask, 4 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:41,440 and if not, we can simply go on to the next item. All right. So let's 5 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:48,680 just go ahead and go to the next item, and that's our Q2 financial report. Thank you. 6 00:00:49,060 --> 00:00:51,940 Well, I have updates on the strategic plan. 7 00:00:51,940 --> 00:00:52,820 Ah, right. 8 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:54,120 I'm so sorry. 9 00:00:54,740 --> 00:00:55,940 I went too fast. 10 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:56,960 That's okay. 11 00:00:57,220 --> 00:00:57,980 So please. 12 00:00:58,320 --> 00:00:58,820 I'm Miranda. 13 00:00:59,060 --> 00:00:59,440 Okay. 14 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:00,180 Grant, please. 15 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:00,880 Great. 16 00:01:01,060 --> 00:01:01,760 Thank you. 17 00:01:02,060 --> 00:01:03,980 Tonight I have Kelsey Bartholomeal joining me. 18 00:01:03,980 --> 00:01:09,460 She was on the project team for Arghanna and her and Mr. Bach behind me continue to assist 19 00:01:09,460 --> 00:01:10,940 with the strategic plan tracking. 20 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:13,700 Today we're going to give you the quarter two update. 21 00:01:14,100 --> 00:01:17,660 We talked a lot about public dashboarding before, so we'll give you preview of that and 22 00:01:17,660 --> 00:01:18,680 in the next steps. 23 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:22,480 So, as we've been talking about, this is an alignment year. 24 00:01:23,220 --> 00:01:25,340 So, here's just a little update on where we are. 25 00:01:25,780 --> 00:01:28,740 We've identified strategic plan champions and team roles. 26 00:01:29,540 --> 00:01:35,160 In addition, we have worked to align the strategic plan with the budget, 27 00:01:35,580 --> 00:01:39,660 including a new personnel request form, updating the budget book to incorporate the plan 28 00:01:39,660 --> 00:01:41,600 and then standardizing department narratives. 29 00:01:42,060 --> 00:01:44,340 So, when you do get the budget book later this fall, 30 00:01:44,340 --> 00:01:52,800 You will see some changes throughout they're referring back to Arghihanna and some standardization across those department narratives as well. 31 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:59,340 This is just a brief summary where we are. We have 116 projects in progress that support the strategic plan. 32 00:01:59,380 --> 00:02:03,620 I just wanted to highlight some of them that we've worked on currently. 33 00:02:03,820 --> 00:02:07,480 I just discussed the 2027 priorities and budget alignment. 34 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:13,260 In addition, the public dashboarding, which we'll show you this evening, supports a couple 35 00:02:13,260 --> 00:02:20,880 of the strategies up there to a eight for transparency, as well as to a 12 to utilize 36 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:22,540 technology across all departments. 37 00:02:23,260 --> 00:02:28,400 Under two, a 11 expanding professional development, we have three staff members participating 38 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:32,680 in the Masters of Public Administration cohort through Franklin University that was offered 39 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:38,860 through Opelro, which is the Ohio Public Employers Labor Relations Association, and I serve on 40 00:02:38,860 --> 00:02:39,240 their board. 41 00:02:39,420 --> 00:02:44,100 I think two members of your team, and Ms. Bartholomewell, have started that program this 42 00:02:44,100 --> 00:02:44,900 week, actually. 43 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:46,860 She's a first paper do this week already. 44 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:52,320 In addition, some of Director Feral staff has had the opportunity to attend the National Parks 45 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:57,940 Interact Association, a maintenance school through those expanded opportunities as well. 46 00:02:57,940 --> 00:03:03,000 And then in addition, Citizens Academy is getting ready to kick off next and we've been able 47 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:08,140 to move that from seven to nine sessions as well, beginning on September 2nd. 48 00:03:10,140 --> 00:03:14,740 So we, Mr. Renner just asked, but there's another opportunity if you have any more feedback. 49 00:03:15,580 --> 00:03:22,040 We are starting the budget process this week and so these were the strategies and priorities 50 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:26,780 for this year, Creek Side District, a connected service and then quality of place. 51 00:03:29,620 --> 00:03:38,920 Next, the project management software, so this software will help us track Arghihanna, as well as some other plans as well. 52 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:45,900 So we have Kelsey has led that project in conducted software demos with a focus group of stakeholders. 53 00:03:46,500 --> 00:03:52,800 We've selected a vendor and we are preparing for implementation that kicks off tomorrow. 54 00:03:53,500 --> 00:04:04,920 Some of the software features, which Kelsey will show you here shortly, strategic plan tracking will build out performance management and metrics, as well as project management reporting across the city. 55 00:04:05,260 --> 00:04:13,280 One of the unique features of the software that was selected is it will actually connect the plans to one another, and then additional plan tracking. 56 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:21,440 So not only will Arghihanna be in there, the Parks and Archives Master plan, as well as the economic development strategy and other plans that the city might do. 57 00:04:21,820 --> 00:04:32,420 And so the software automatically track updates that are added about the Parks Master plan will automatically connect to the other plans that are in that for the public dashboarding as well. 58 00:04:33,140 --> 00:04:41,200 So next I'll turn it over to Kelsey and she is going to run you briefly through the shell of our new software. 59 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:48,120 you can see some of that. Good evening. Glad I could be here tonight. We're not at past my 60 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:52,820 bed time this time, so happy to be here. I am going to be brief though because I do have to 61 00:04:52,820 --> 00:04:58,940 go write that paper after this. So this is just kind of what we call a prototype. 62 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:06,060 of what our public dashboard will look like. This is configured in our live environment in the software but you're seeing a preview tonight. 63 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:12,960 So when we roll out the full dashboard, you'll see some changes here and there, some graphics updates, but the general structure will be the same. 64 00:05:13,620 --> 00:05:22,620 So this will be publicly accessible for members of the community to view as well as members of city council at any time you want in addition to the quarterly and annual reports that will provide. 65 00:05:22,620 --> 00:05:27,400 So when anyone visits the site, they'll first be greeted by this banner showing that 66 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:32,440 the Arghihanna, a little bit of history, our mission vision values, and then scrolling 67 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:37,120 down, you'll see a tile for each of the four goal areas in the plan, with a very high level 68 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:40,340 track or showing what progress we've made on the plan so far. 69 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:44,340 Obviously, we're just getting started and not everything's loaded into the software yet. 70 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:47,780 So that's why you're seeing that everything says it is either pending or upcoming. 71 00:05:47,780 --> 00:05:53,220 As we add more data into the software, you'll see these colored bands grow and change 72 00:05:53,220 --> 00:05:57,200 and become more colorful to show that we are actually making progress on these items. 73 00:05:58,900 --> 00:06:03,100 If you do a little deeper into any of the goal areas, you'll see those broken down into the objectives. 74 00:06:04,420 --> 00:06:08,080 And then from there, broken down further into the strategies that make up the plan. 75 00:06:08,780 --> 00:06:12,600 There will be a fourth level of tracking available here once we have the software fully implemented 76 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:17,220 where we'll take these strategies and break them down further into the actual projects and action items 77 00:06:17,220 --> 00:06:19,300 that we're doing to provide value to our community. 78 00:06:20,280 --> 00:06:22,780 Each of those will have, again, those color-coded bar showing 79 00:06:22,780 --> 00:06:25,880 what progress we've made, or our projects on track, 80 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:28,280 are they behind, do we have a lot of completed work 81 00:06:28,280 --> 00:06:29,440 or things that are still upcoming? 82 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:32,440 We'll also be able to customize each of these pages 83 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:35,580 to show any metrics that we may want to link to the plan 84 00:06:35,580 --> 00:06:38,240 and to provide updates on individual projects 85 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:41,700 to show a high level status update on where we are. 86 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:43,800 For example, if we were to provide a status update 87 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:45,520 on something like the Civic Center right now, 88 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:47,120 we would talk about the progress we've 89 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:51,060 over the past quarter with moving in, finalizing the building, so that the community can 90 00:06:51,060 --> 00:06:53,080 track those projects in real time. 91 00:06:59,190 --> 00:07:02,650 So just the next steps, we'll continue building out the 92 00:07:02,650 --> 00:07:08,950 public dashboard and then we are working on drafting the reporting templates and getting more 93 00:07:08,950 --> 00:07:15,150 of Argahana built in to our reports, such reports, the Council of Lainer reports, financial 94 00:07:15,150 --> 00:07:17,770 reporting, see IP reporting, and those items. 95 00:07:19,270 --> 00:07:24,530 That is your quarter two, that's quarter two strategic plan update. 96 00:07:25,910 --> 00:07:26,310 Any questions? 97 00:07:27,650 --> 00:07:28,270 Any questions? 98 00:07:29,470 --> 00:07:35,010 No questions, but love the dashboard and love the community transparency piece of it. 99 00:07:35,030 --> 00:07:38,470 And the ability to see detail on everything. 100 00:07:38,910 --> 00:07:42,790 So just kudos and thank you for bringing that to life for us in the community. 101 00:07:43,390 --> 00:07:45,910 Would you like it? 102 00:07:45,910 --> 00:07:46,670 Any other questions? 103 00:07:47,670 --> 00:07:49,670 Just one quick clarification. 104 00:07:50,390 --> 00:07:52,750 So with regard to the other plans that you mentioned, 105 00:07:53,330 --> 00:07:55,670 do you anticipate a similar dashboard? 106 00:07:56,030 --> 00:07:56,750 Is that what you're suggesting? 107 00:07:57,330 --> 00:07:57,510 Yes. 108 00:07:57,650 --> 00:07:59,670 So the software is built like that, 109 00:07:59,670 --> 00:08:01,050 and you just put the plans in. 110 00:08:01,170 --> 00:08:03,770 And then we'd determine the metrics on the back end. 111 00:08:04,430 --> 00:08:04,630 So yeah. 112 00:08:04,890 --> 00:08:06,510 So the other plans may take a little longer 113 00:08:06,510 --> 00:08:08,650 because some of them are a little more complex, 114 00:08:09,010 --> 00:08:10,490 but the goal is to get them in. 115 00:08:10,910 --> 00:08:14,410 Thank you. Good work, this looks great. Thanks. 116 00:08:16,530 --> 00:08:21,050 Yeah, that is very good. Are they Facebook friendly? 117 00:08:21,450 --> 00:08:26,610 These links, can we post them in some way 118 00:08:26,610 --> 00:08:28,770 that they help communicate them? 119 00:08:29,070 --> 00:08:32,190 Yeah, so the software has all exporting features 120 00:08:32,190 --> 00:08:35,610 to social media graphics, to different links, to shorten links. 121 00:08:35,930 --> 00:08:37,350 So, yeah, all those items. 122 00:08:38,070 --> 00:08:38,110 Okay. 123 00:08:38,850 --> 00:08:39,390 Thank you. 124 00:08:39,390 --> 00:08:48,470 All right, now moving on to physical quarter to financial report. 125 00:09:04,930 --> 00:09:09,530 So, going through, we'll discuss the same things that we always do during this. 126 00:09:09,550 --> 00:09:14,150 What are Q2 results are for the general fund and all the special funds that receive income taxes, 127 00:09:14,850 --> 00:09:21,070 just a brief summary on CIP income tax trends, investments, and then, of course, our conclusion. 128 00:09:23,210 --> 00:09:26,490 So, the first thing that we're going to look at is general fund revenue. 129 00:09:27,630 --> 00:09:34,030 So, the first thing I want to point out is that we did have an uptick for income tax revenue. 130 00:09:34,430 --> 00:09:37,510 And we'll look at the chart later that shows that breakdown. 131 00:09:38,650 --> 00:09:45,530 But, the first quarter was a little bit of a pause back as the work from home requirements. 132 00:09:46,490 --> 00:09:50,970 And some of the projects by ODOT kind of broke that down a little bit in that first quarter. 133 00:09:51,970 --> 00:09:59,450 Other revenue, charges for services, and planning permits, very similar to the first quarter, so other revenue we have that decrease. 134 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:15,620 Those one-time funding for the COHCC dividends and the property tax refunds for 825, and then charges for services we just have some pending charges for the new CAD and RMS shared services and then of course the creek side rent. 135 00:10:16,020 --> 00:10:24,760 And then seeing that permits, licensing and permits are still up compared to last year, showing that we're still having that capital investment throughout the city. 136 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:26,840 any questions on revenue? 137 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:35,800 Moving on to expenditures. We're about 30% of the budget, but when 138 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:42,080 you include in conferences we're about 60%, actual is trending a little bit lower, but again 139 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:46,760 with those in conferences we're showing that we have about 60% of the budget already captured. 140 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:52,920 Main increases, salaries and benefits, which we knew was expected. We had increases and then 141 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:58,300 the addition of the staffing for the new Civic Center. Materials and supplies and majority 142 00:10:58,300 --> 00:11:05,120 that is utility cost, like everybody else. We're incurring those larger energy costs. And then the 143 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:12,540 contract services, that was at COHCC payment that was assessed in 2025. We paid the first corner, 144 00:11:13,020 --> 00:11:16,700 quarter of 26. Any questions on expenditures? 145 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:23,580 All right. So we're going to look at what that has 146 00:11:23,580 --> 00:11:29,920 impact on our fund balance. So at the end of the quarter, we added about 3 million back to our fund 147 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:32,320 Now let's bring in a step to 48 million. 148 00:11:32,660 --> 00:11:35,000 10.9 is reserved for incumbents. 149 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:38,000 And 10 million is our emergency reserve, 150 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:40,440 just noting again that that emergency reserve 151 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:42,760 does continue to increase as our operating expenses. 152 00:11:43,620 --> 00:11:44,320 They are in alignment. 153 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:48,580 And that leaves about 26.9 million or nine months 154 00:11:48,580 --> 00:11:51,480 of operating expenses, which is, again, 155 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:53,820 higher than the two-month requirement by policy. 156 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:57,440 Any questions on the general fund in general? 157 00:12:01,680 --> 00:12:08,000 Nothing really to report beyond what we saw in the first quarter for the special revenue funds compared to the budget. 158 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:15,160 We're about where you expect to be for the public safety fund, revenue-wise and expense-wise. 159 00:12:15,700 --> 00:12:20,440 For parks and recreation, they are about halfway through their season by the end of the second quarter. 160 00:12:20,780 --> 00:12:23,140 So seeing if that's tracking as expected. 161 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:26,700 And then again, engineering with the staffing issues. 162 00:12:26,700 --> 00:12:31,640 they still have some projects on the back burner or that they're working through, but again 163 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:35,740 as they continue to get fully staff, we'll see that start to increase. 164 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:46,360 Compared to the prior year, again seeing similar results that we had with the first quarter. 165 00:12:47,180 --> 00:12:52,500 The decrease in contract services for public safety, again, mental health liaison, moving 166 00:12:52,500 --> 00:12:59,820 from contract services back to staff, and then Parks and Recreation, they had increased 167 00:12:59,820 --> 00:13:05,120 some other seasonal pools based on the past season and seeing that they have more 168 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:11,920 days open, and then charges for services revenue in Parks and Recreation also increased 169 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:13,820 being mainly due to camps and pools. 170 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:18,840 Any questions on the special revenue funds? 171 00:13:22,680 --> 00:13:29,500 I look at the capital project fund, seeing revenue coming in similar to the general fund 172 00:13:29,500 --> 00:13:34,840 with income tax, seeing the investment income come down as we spent the majority of the 173 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:40,300 bond proceeds, expenditures are about 24% of plan but within conferences we have about 174 00:13:40,300 --> 00:13:46,560 97% of that captured and then the decrease related to 2025 is just the line down 175 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:58,540 of the 176 00:13:58,540 --> 00:14:02,800 this thing out, some of that project information, 177 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:07,220 just showing first how we're tracking 178 00:14:07,220 --> 00:14:09,480 by current active projects. 179 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:16,700 We spent about 14.5 million to date and have about 24.5 million sitting on POV. 180 00:14:19,260 --> 00:14:24,580 And then this is just a view by fund and then the type of categories that those funds 181 00:14:24,580 --> 00:14:26,160 are paying for as far as capital. 182 00:14:27,780 --> 00:14:29,020 Any questions on capital? 183 00:14:34,020 --> 00:14:38,400 All right, we're going to take a quick look at income tax and see how we're trending there. 184 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:43,800 Again, the one thing that you'll notice is our withholding tax has rebounded, which is good. 185 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:49,300 We're a little concerned with that first quarter, but it looks like things are coming in as planned. 186 00:14:49,780 --> 00:14:53,120 It looks like we're going to be on track to meet that 4% increase. 187 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:56,380 Individual taxes are on an increase. 188 00:14:56,480 --> 00:14:59,840 There was nothing that stuck out and looking at some reporting behind that. 189 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:06,020 That in general, taxable income for the city is up, as far as individuals go. 190 00:15:06,780 --> 00:15:09,880 And then the net profit, again, last year was unusual. 191 00:15:10,300 --> 00:15:12,500 We brought in a ton of net profit taxes. 192 00:15:13,020 --> 00:15:14,260 We knew that wasn't sustainable. 193 00:15:14,820 --> 00:15:18,500 So now, this is just kind of seeing the normalization of those taxes. 194 00:15:21,060 --> 00:15:22,440 Any questions on income tax? 195 00:15:27,250 --> 00:15:33,290 Looking at our investment portfolio of a majority of that is invested either in Star Ohio or 196 00:15:33,290 --> 00:15:40,330 government bonds, CDs, and commercial paper, you'll see in the third quarter that there 197 00:15:40,330 --> 00:15:44,950 was a movement of some of those inactive funds sitting in Starlhyo, into our investment 198 00:15:44,950 --> 00:15:48,730 portfolio to make sure that we're investing those properly. 199 00:15:54,180 --> 00:16:00,060 And then as we kind of look at how the second quarter ended, you know, at the state level, 200 00:16:00,300 --> 00:16:04,840 there's still that push for property tax reform, we're going to continue to see that. 201 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:11,180 We're continuing to see, you know, the conflict in the middle east, those increase in energy costs and the cost of goods. 202 00:16:11,260 --> 00:16:13,860 They're related to terror of being pushed off to the consumer. 203 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:21,160 Inflation is creeping a little bit, so there's no plan on any movement in interest rates for 2026. 204 00:16:22,780 --> 00:16:25,220 And then we're just going to have to monitor things closely. 205 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:32,980 You know, as cost keep on rising and residents and consumers are trying to figure out how to navigate this economic environment. 206 00:16:32,980 --> 00:16:39,380 environment. You know, there could be a chance for things may stall. I don't see anything stopping 207 00:16:39,380 --> 00:16:45,220 completely. But as this continues, we might see some some redirection or some stall 208 00:16:45,220 --> 00:16:48,340 in some growth. Any questions? 209 00:16:52,140 --> 00:16:52,960 That's all I got. 210 00:16:55,070 --> 00:16:55,790 Kind of one question. 211 00:16:56,350 --> 00:16:57,250 I'm going to go. 212 00:16:58,030 --> 00:17:01,270 Look about the bed tax. Does that bring any amount of money? 213 00:17:01,870 --> 00:17:06,770 Yeah, it's on an increase. We'll go back to the first slide here. 214 00:17:06,770 --> 00:17:09,030 If it'll keep up with me. 215 00:17:15,340 --> 00:17:19,100 So you'll notice, so that is under the other taxes category. 216 00:17:19,360 --> 00:17:21,000 That is our lodging tax. 217 00:17:22,120 --> 00:17:28,780 So kind of seeing that right here, we're at about 54% of what 218 00:17:28,780 --> 00:17:30,180 we had planned for the year. 219 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:33,220 So we're at good, you know, we're halfway through the year. 220 00:17:33,260 --> 00:17:34,680 So that's really expect to be. 221 00:17:35,120 --> 00:17:38,600 And then if you look at how we are tracking till last year, 222 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:41,740 we're up about 43% right here. 223 00:17:41,740 --> 00:17:52,240 And we are getting short-term rental filings in, so there is some compliance on that end. 224 00:17:53,240 --> 00:18:03,700 Determining if it's 100% compliance is nearly impossible, but we did send out to those that we are aware of, and we have had a majority of those comply with the requirements. 225 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:07,180 How many short-term rentals do we have here? 226 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:11,380 Oh, hi guys, I'd have to go back and look at that last report. 227 00:18:11,660 --> 00:18:11,880 We did. 228 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:15,960 There's not a large amount, and it's hard to verify. 229 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:22,780 However, there is some state legislation that will hopefully go through it's pending right 230 00:18:22,780 --> 00:18:23,060 now. 231 00:18:23,260 --> 00:18:30,480 I think it might be in the house where they're going to require those that do the actual 232 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:35,780 management, so your Airbnb's and your vergos and all of that, they are going to start 233 00:18:35,780 --> 00:18:43,600 acquiring that they register these, know what locality they're in and start collecting and remitting 234 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:48,400 for them. That's kind of the hurdle that we have right now is that they're not required to 235 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:53,540 share any of that information with us and there's no requirement that they collect it's really 236 00:18:53,540 --> 00:18:58,320 on the property owner. So hopefully if that legislation goes through it will make it a little bit easier 237 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:03,320 to capture what's actually in our area and make sure that we get better compliance. 238 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:04,000 Thanks. 239 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:04,260 Thank you. 240 00:19:06,700 --> 00:19:07,560 Any other questions? 241 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:10,840 Okay. 242 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:12,140 Is it done? 243 00:19:13,420 --> 00:19:14,480 Capital Improvement Plan. 244 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:15,660 Thank you, John. 245 00:19:42,660 --> 00:19:43,300 Good evening, folks. 246 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:52,660 So Capital Improvement Plan update for, I think, this time last year, I think we did this 247 00:19:52,660 --> 00:19:55,420 meeting actually on the 25 last year. 248 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:56,620 uh... 249 00:19:56,620 --> 00:19:59,980 couch last year's annual update and and what we we largely did was 250 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:07,160 Update you folks on some of the larger projects and kind of give you a preview of what would be coming 251 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:15,520 in the formal CIP update. So, what will change here in a second, yeah, is our CIP adoption 252 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:22,640 timeline. So obviously, the CIP is something that we manage consistently as we go throughout 253 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:51,880 year. It's never, it's never far from our minds and what's coming up in the, in the, in this, in the subsequent year. So in early April, we did have a CIP advisory committee meeting and then that same, I believe that same evening, I gave a project priorities update before before you folks. We did host a second CIP advisory committee meeting of the year in July 21st. 254 00:20:51,880 --> 00:21:03,720 Then you see our date here today to have this particular conversation as it relates to the CIP and then what you see below that is all of the events that will take place between now and the now and budget time as it relates to the CIP. 255 00:21:05,180 --> 00:21:18,880 So we anticipate having the CIP introduced to you guys formally on the 28th of September with final adoption of the CIP itself taking place on October 19th. 256 00:21:19,380 --> 00:21:27,900 And then remember, I always like to make the note that the CIP, the capital improvement plan and the capital budget, while similar, are not the same. 257 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:30,880 So we'll do appropriations and such. 258 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:38,040 Well, you guys have an idea as to what those appropriations will look like, but then we'll introduce the capital budget to you guys formally, 259 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:47,040 per the budget calendar on October 27th, and then just by a note, October 29th is the scheduled budget workshop. 260 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:53,840 So, looking forward to getting into all that, obviously we still have next 30-ish days or so 261 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:58,000 to put some polish on the CIP itself and get you guys some finalized things. 262 00:21:58,460 --> 00:22:02,540 I will say just programmatically each year that we do do this as far as the cycle goes. 263 00:22:02,540 --> 00:22:08,240 It does get a little bit easier to update projects, update the document, make sure that we have current 264 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:14,640 statuses this year based on some of the things that we're going to talk about on the next slide here 265 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:19,960 second. You know, well, there will be a somewhat I refer to it as the shaking of the sand and 266 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:26,720 the living wing of some of the projects for subsequent years. So this is a slide here large, 267 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:35,320 large capital investments, right? I think that the CIP is filled with a lot of smaller type items, 268 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:42,980 but then there's some very large items at the same time. This is a slide here that I largely presented. 269 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:48,400 I think it was this time last year, like I said, but these are the large projects that 270 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:49,220 we're currently working on. 271 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:53,420 So I'd like to give just a quick status update of each and every one of them. 272 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:58,840 Again, it won't be lengthy, so it's going to be more narrative than picture-driven, but 273 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:03,740 the Greek-side garage and Plaza Project, you guys are very familiar with that, we have recently 274 00:23:03,740 --> 00:23:09,980 went out to RFP for construction management at risk services for that particular project. 275 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:17,540 We do have a selected vendor at this particular moment or preferred vendor as we like to refer to it as we're in this contracting phase. 276 00:23:18,580 --> 00:23:28,620 And we will be bringing forth to you guys a contract for construction and construction manager at risk services here in the next in the next couple of months. 277 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:36,600 This project, Creek side itself, the construction thereof, remember we do have, we do have a project, right? 278 00:23:36,660 --> 00:23:44,020 We do know that we do need to do flood mitigation and we're just not 100% sure exactly the birth and scope of the entire project. 279 00:23:44,620 --> 00:23:52,880 So bringing a construction manager on, we very similar to how we handle the 825, one of their first things that they do is, 280 00:23:52,880 --> 00:24:06,120 They'll come in, they will look at the drawings, they will understand the designs and they will start refining the estimates, the project estimates that ultimately roll into a project budget and then a financing strategy for that particular project. 281 00:24:07,360 --> 00:24:11,080 That contract will be broken down in two parts pre-construction. 282 00:24:11,540 --> 00:24:21,120 Pre-construction is estimated about an $80,000 contract, so technically it doesn't need to come before you folks as an item for approval. 283 00:24:21,780 --> 00:24:27,260 based on our rules, but that contract will come before you folks, will come before you folks 284 00:24:27,260 --> 00:24:31,360 because of the significance of the capital, the capital project obviously of creepside so 285 00:24:31,360 --> 00:24:39,400 on and so forth. So we are likely to sign a smaller agreement if you would that basically 286 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:45,920 gives our preferred vendor the ability to get started and not wait the subsequent, you know, 287 00:24:46,060 --> 00:24:51,040 weeks if you would for introduction and then having them get started on estimating 288 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:56,280 and doing those types of things. So we hope that those folks are fully on board here in the next few 289 00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:59,980 weeks to begin estimating that project more. 290 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:11,020 In total, I see a question Mr. Weaver. Yes, thank you, Director. Thank you, Chair. Just while we're on the topic, if I recall from our, if I recall correctly from our last, 291 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:20,100 pick presentation on, on, on many of options that we were discussing and weighing. 292 00:25:21,500 --> 00:25:27,680 It sounds like the administration has our recommended path forward that we'll be coming when you do this, okay? 293 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:32,700 So it's not necessarily, it doesn't necessarily come forward when we bring this particular 294 00:25:32,700 --> 00:25:39,760 contract forward, but when we begin to refine and we bring the remember with A25, we did a guaranteed 295 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:45,540 maximum price contract and the amendment to which gets us into contract, similar to what Director 296 00:25:45,540 --> 00:25:47,720 Ferrell was talking about as far as Academy Park goes. 297 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:50,920 So when the project is ready for bid, we're at 100% complete. 298 00:25:51,660 --> 00:25:55,640 We know that everybody is comfortable with budgets and funding mechanisms. 299 00:25:56,840 --> 00:26:02,780 That's the time at which they'll be a full and complete understanding of exactly what the project is. 300 00:26:02,940 --> 00:26:04,180 So there's still some ramp there. 301 00:26:04,460 --> 00:26:15,320 When we come here in a couple weeks with a construction manager at risk, contract, a lot of their fees and such are percentages there of construction. 302 00:26:15,820 --> 00:26:21,260 Right? So it's not like we're signing up for, you know, we're not signing up for a one million dollar project. 303 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:23,620 and X number of fees, right? 304 00:26:23,620 --> 00:26:28,160 We're signing up for an unknown project amount 305 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:30,700 with percentages associated to it for their fees 306 00:26:30,700 --> 00:26:31,420 for their fees. 307 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:33,020 So if the project was a million dollars, 308 00:26:33,120 --> 00:26:34,720 or the project was a hundred million dollars, 309 00:26:35,580 --> 00:26:37,660 the percentages don't, the percentages don't change. 310 00:26:37,820 --> 00:26:40,200 It might be a small gross exaggeration, 311 00:26:40,340 --> 00:26:42,620 but it was a one million versus a two million dollar project 312 00:26:42,620 --> 00:26:44,580 the percentages there would not change. 313 00:26:46,020 --> 00:26:50,020 So that'll be, that'll come before you folks likely 314 00:26:50,020 --> 00:26:53,300 on the September, in September timeframe. 315 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,200 That was my follow, all right, thank you. 316 00:26:56,220 --> 00:26:56,820 Thank you, Chair. 317 00:26:58,320 --> 00:26:58,900 Other questions? 318 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:01,460 I'm going to I'll pause after each one of these real quick 319 00:27:01,460 --> 00:27:03,880 and see if there's additional questions. 320 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:09,960 So Academy Park Director Farrell just indicated 321 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,840 that we're hoping to be through a bid process 322 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:16,020 or two a bid process by the conclusion of this particular year. 323 00:27:16,300 --> 00:27:20,740 I won't waste our time and I'll just pause for any questions 324 00:27:20,740 --> 00:27:21,880 that there might be on Academy. 325 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,480 being that sort of didn't spoken about this evening. 326 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:30,900 West Side Utility Projects, West Side Utility Projects, 327 00:27:30,940 --> 00:27:33,280 we are about probably about, actually I'll talk about 328 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:35,480 the next two in unison. 329 00:27:35,900 --> 00:27:39,820 The West Side Utility Projects, this is the relief sewer 330 00:27:40,500 --> 00:27:41,680 that's been being discussed 331 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,820 and is in active design on the West Side again. 332 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:48,360 While we're doing that particular project 333 00:27:48,360 --> 00:27:49,960 we're taking the time and the opportunity 334 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,360 to also do transportation improvements 335 00:27:52,360 --> 00:27:59,380 So along my Sean's Town Road, basically from James Road all the way west to what is likely 336 00:27:59,380 --> 00:28:00,480 going to be Goshen. 337 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:05,660 That project is probably at about 30% design at this particular phase. 338 00:28:05,820 --> 00:28:07,840 We continue to make good progress on it. 339 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:13,060 When I do get to my next slide here, we'll see some of the funding opportunities that we've 340 00:28:13,060 --> 00:28:19,500 been seeking in order to, you know, not just have that right on the capital dollars, but also 341 00:28:19,500 --> 00:28:22,640 seeking outside funding as it relates to those particular projects. 342 00:28:23,380 --> 00:28:26,940 I will pause and note on this particular one and then expand the conversation just slightly, 343 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:35,880 but the Columbia Gas Natural Pipeline Project will run in this basic vicinity as well, 344 00:28:36,740 --> 00:28:42,920 down Agler, which is in part where the relief sewer runs, but then also note, as we've talked 345 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:46,800 about, I think we've talked about, at least I know what the CIP advisory committee meetings 346 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:53,020 I'm not sure if we've talked more very formally before all counsel, but that project runs 347 00:28:53,020 --> 00:28:55,680 all the way east to Taylor Station Road. 348 00:28:55,680 --> 00:29:02,280 So that will impact a large portion of the geography in the coming years as well. 349 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:07,980 So questions on the West Side Utility Project in the West China West, I'm sorry, 350 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:11,320 West John's Town Road Improvement Project. 351 00:29:11,660 --> 00:29:12,420 Yes, ma'am. 352 00:29:12,420 --> 00:29:18,680 Will this project address the sewer issues that were in college park and those net that neighborhood there? 353 00:29:18,940 --> 00:29:24,840 It addresses whibs all the way from coronation all the way south to the college park area of the college park neighborhood. 354 00:29:27,230 --> 00:29:27,330 Yes. 355 00:29:27,710 --> 00:29:29,130 We're sorry, water and basements. 356 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:33,660 The big walnut trail. 357 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:35,060 The big walnut trail is a project. 358 00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:38,540 You'll see my asterisk and my change from 28 to 29. 359 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:44,760 We had an opportunity to do some realignment and some redesign of the big walnut trail itself. 360 00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:49,080 That also gave us the opportunity to go back to Lancaster's and seek additional funding. 361 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:55,880 My next slide I'll speak to it more specifically, but we were awarded about two and a half 362 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:59,220 more million dollars for the implementation of this project. 363 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:07,600 But with our commitment to push this out by one year, as opposed to starting construction in 28, we would start construction on this particular project in 29. 364 00:30:15,390 --> 00:30:22,090 Stigler Actors, US 62, director, director already spoke about this particular project. 365 00:30:22,710 --> 00:30:32,810 Right, and as he has indicated, we're picking up, if you would, in essence, from our carpenter Marty's study, right, we had those seven, those seven conceptual designs. 366 00:30:33,930 --> 00:30:38,070 We're currently out to RFP for design services for that project. 367 00:30:41,450 --> 00:30:48,570 The $200,000 was awarded by the TIT is really just a drop in the bucket of what design would actually cost for that particular intersection. 368 00:30:48,770 --> 00:30:54,010 That is a multi-million dollar design that would take place at that particular intersection. 369 00:30:54,850 --> 00:30:58,030 And as indicated, right, it's really for the region. 370 00:30:58,030 --> 00:31:04,170 And it's not just the region, the area, if you would, it's not just for U.S. U.S. 62. 371 00:31:05,370 --> 00:31:15,330 It goes all the way up to Amfield and technically a little bit further north and then it would also technically all would go all the way down to West John's town road as well. 372 00:31:15,930 --> 00:31:22,950 So it takes into consideration a much more larger area to solve the problem because we're not solving U.S. 62. 373 00:31:23,790 --> 00:31:29,970 We're not solving the U.S. 62 issue in challenge without solving some of the other challenges that we have at some of that 374 00:31:29,970 --> 00:31:33,510 interesting geography that that intersection, that that intersection makes. 375 00:31:34,070 --> 00:31:38,990 This project will play directly in line with West John Stone Road, right, as indicated on that particular project. 376 00:31:39,330 --> 00:31:47,290 That project goes from James Road all the way to Goshen, and all of these improvements need to work together and play together 377 00:31:47,290 --> 00:31:53,630 on a multi-year strategy for implementation in order to solve the mobility issues and the transportation 378 00:31:53,630 --> 00:31:56,230 issues that we have at those particular intersections. 379 00:31:57,350 --> 00:32:03,590 So again, while we are very grateful to the Ted for the actual, I don't know if it was the full 380 00:32:03,590 --> 00:32:07,630 award or not, I looked back at Mr. Bach. It was the full award for the $200,000. 381 00:32:09,150 --> 00:32:13,730 The only reason why we applied for a lot less money than we knew that it would take was 382 00:32:13,730 --> 00:32:18,670 because we thought we would go into conceptual design first and then realize that that was probably 383 00:32:18,670 --> 00:32:26,190 an unnecessary step to take. So that application was already in flight. I probably already 384 00:32:26,190 --> 00:32:31,890 submitted when we when we chose to pivot and do a design services RFP for the entire design 385 00:32:31,890 --> 00:32:38,350 of the the intersection in the area as opposed to basically restarting from conceptual design. 386 00:32:39,230 --> 00:32:43,490 Additional questions on Stigler Agler 62 and then I guess I hope it re-open the door for 387 00:32:43,490 --> 00:32:45,070 John's town as well. 388 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:58,580 So the Aquatics Master plan, this is something that we talked about last year and if you remember correctly, we did put some amount of money in order to do a site investigation. 389 00:32:58,820 --> 00:33:01,440 I think the Gahan is swimming pool property. 390 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:10,940 That particular contract is underway and or if not directly underway right now going to be underway in the next couple of weeks here. 391 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:15,700 That site investigation will do geo-technical on the property. 392 00:33:15,980 --> 00:33:20,160 It will understand exactly what the flood impacts are in that particular area. 393 00:33:20,540 --> 00:33:25,140 And basically, its goal is to determine the feasibility of building what is in the 394 00:33:25,140 --> 00:33:27,380 Eclotics Master Plan on that particular site. 395 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:35,540 Obviously, this is a necessary step in order to determine if what we want to build is it relates 396 00:33:35,540 --> 00:33:39,840 to the Eclotics Master Plan is even capable of being built on that particular piece of property. 397 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:43,840 and or how much of it is being, is able to be built on that property. 398 00:33:45,100 --> 00:33:48,620 We will make just a quick note, right, that I think we've made it. 399 00:33:48,620 --> 00:33:53,800 I think we made it at the CIP advisory committee meeting, but that whole 400 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:59,960 FEMA firm map at flood improvement area map is currently under review by FEMA, 401 00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:03,920 which means some of that floodway and flood boundaries are going to change here. 402 00:34:04,500 --> 00:34:08,980 Hopefully we know what that is looking like in the next few months. 403 00:34:08,980 --> 00:34:14,700 It's been under review by FEMA for quite some time, so once we have the fuller understanding 404 00:34:14,700 --> 00:34:20,740 and what that map looks like, that will also impact not just the Gehanna swimming pool 405 00:34:21,420 --> 00:34:27,860 parcels, excuse me, but also the Creek side, the Creek side, the Rajan positive 406 00:34:27,860 --> 00:34:29,120 project as well. 407 00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:39,360 Just one comment that revision can go either way, because absolutely. 408 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:41,380 That's a hundred percent. Yes. 409 00:34:41,380 --> 00:34:46,600 We are often was not in the floodplain and they re-dure the lines and then it wasn't in the flood. 410 00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:48,460 I certainly can go up or down. 411 00:34:48,780 --> 00:34:55,220 Yes, no, it always goes up and down. There's probably some areas that will come out in this probably some areas that will go in. 412 00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:59,760 One of the things that one of the challenges right now is that 413 00:35:01,240 --> 00:35:12,560 We're holy beholden on that particular map revision to FEMA's process and in the time in which it's going to take for them to actually finish the revision itself. 414 00:35:13,180 --> 00:35:24,260 So, I do know that it is a revision that has been in the works for a number of years at this particular point in time with no clear understanding as to when that process may wrap up. 415 00:35:24,260 --> 00:35:28,400 We are allowed to move forward and we're allowed to move forward under the existing constraints. 416 00:35:30,260 --> 00:35:35,600 But like Ms. McGregor, you're just indicated that one day she probably didn't require flood insurance and then the next day she did. 417 00:35:36,940 --> 00:35:39,680 So, there are implications to the map changing. 418 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:45,480 And we're aware of those obviously and taking those into consideration as we go through design on a variety of projects. 419 00:35:48,550 --> 00:35:51,490 The last project on our list is the service and parks garage. 420 00:35:51,490 --> 00:35:53,510 Obviously, I'm just keeping this here. 421 00:35:54,570 --> 00:36:02,230 We have investigated through the efforts of Director Godke, a number of parcels throughout 422 00:36:02,230 --> 00:36:09,210 town and throughout town to see if citing a service garage, a service and parks garage 423 00:36:09,210 --> 00:36:11,790 on those parcels would be appropriate. 424 00:36:15,050 --> 00:36:19,910 Those have led to good conversation, but those have not led to a solution at this particular 425 00:36:19,910 --> 00:36:26,990 point in time. So it's still indicated on this particular, on this particular slide, just 426 00:36:26,990 --> 00:36:33,230 indicate to you, to you guys that while we do not have a solution, it is something that 427 00:36:33,230 --> 00:36:40,450 we are actively working towards thinking about and planning for the unfortunateness in 428 00:36:40,450 --> 00:36:47,290 this particular instances that the seven to 12 acres that we require is at a premium here 429 00:36:47,290 --> 00:36:48,270 in the city. 430 00:36:54,510 --> 00:36:59,030 So the next, well, I'm going to go back real quick, right? So large total capital 431 00:36:59,030 --> 00:37:05,790 projects at the bottom of the slide, they're 85, $105 million, $160 million, right? Just as a comment 432 00:37:05,790 --> 00:37:11,570 there, right? One of the things that we've talked about consistently is we have a lot of work to do. 433 00:37:12,750 --> 00:37:19,770 We have a lot of work to do and we have a finite amount of resources. So how do we, how do we do more with 434 00:37:20,790 --> 00:37:28,890 How do we eat the plate if you would without a bigger fork, right? 435 00:37:29,230 --> 00:37:30,570 Well, build a bigger fork. 436 00:37:32,190 --> 00:37:34,850 And this slide here is really just an indication of the efforts 437 00:37:34,850 --> 00:37:39,670 of the administration to really seek all sorts of outside funding dollars. 438 00:37:40,070 --> 00:37:43,650 I don't want this slide here to be misconstrued in any way 439 00:37:43,650 --> 00:37:48,090 while we have applied for 30 to 40 million dollars in outside funding. 440 00:37:48,090 --> 00:37:52,630 there are some numbers that are on this particular slide where we already know we have 441 00:37:52,630 --> 00:37:57,790 not been awarded. Okay? This is really an illustration, right? We applied for a build grant 442 00:37:57,790 --> 00:38:02,930 for $8.8 million on West John's town road. We know that that grant is not going to hit 443 00:38:02,930 --> 00:38:07,730 this year. We will apply for that grant next year and we will apply for that grant the following year. 444 00:38:08,590 --> 00:38:14,430 Until maybe we do receive some some level of funding for some of these particular projects. 445 00:38:14,910 --> 00:38:20,430 One of the things that Sean Shonbach is in the back of the room, one of the things he pointed out to me today is that some of these grants, for example, 446 00:38:21,350 --> 00:38:27,370 the example he gave me, and I believe it was around the build grant I'm going to quickly look, the around the build grant. 447 00:38:28,010 --> 00:38:35,170 Some of the projects that we're competing on with the build grant are things like, I don't know, the Brown's municipal, new municipal stadium, right? 448 00:38:35,250 --> 00:38:38,950 So that's the type of competition that is involved in some of these pots. 449 00:38:39,450 --> 00:38:54,550 I think one of the differences today versus yesterday is the fact that we're throwing our hat in the ring for $40 plus million dollars despite the fact that, you know, some days, you know, we get disappointing, disappointing news. 450 00:38:55,490 --> 00:39:00,930 You know, as I indicated with the tip, right, we applied for $200,000 and it was a full award. 451 00:39:01,850 --> 00:39:07,810 And then we decided that we were going to change our process and, you know, we need a whole lot more money as it relates to that particular project, right? 452 00:39:07,810 --> 00:39:16,450 We're not allowing the unknown to stop the efforts as they move forward. 453 00:39:17,190 --> 00:39:25,230 You can see $17 million in Stigler Agler 62 funding already applied for as it relates to that particular area. 454 00:39:25,890 --> 00:39:30,210 These may the bottom of the slide indicate 17 applications over these eight project areas. 455 00:39:30,530 --> 00:39:36,690 You guys have approved authorizing legislation in the last few weeks for a number of these grant opportunities. 456 00:39:37,430 --> 00:39:51,190 that are being submitted for, and in the recent weeks there's just been a very in my mind sometimes more confusing than the garbage conversation about a collection versus processing, right? 457 00:39:51,230 --> 00:39:56,490 But it's like, well wait, we just applied for a grant for Stigler Act, which is 62 or West John's down below. 458 00:39:56,850 --> 00:39:59,970 Well, we're basically hitting every pot that we possibly can because... 459 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:07,280 These are large sum projects that do, and will require outside funding in order for them to bring 460 00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:14,300 to fruition. One of the reasons why I was easy to push out the big wallet trail to $2029 was 461 00:40:14,300 --> 00:40:23,540 for $2.5 million additional dollars to bring that project to life, right? So this is making 462 00:40:23,540 --> 00:40:29,580 the pie bigger. These applications make the pie bigger even by just small amounts. We're 463 00:40:29,580 --> 00:40:33,820 very hopeful that that the creek size garage right we've received some dollars 464 00:40:33,820 --> 00:40:39,940 stay capital dollars for creek side garage and plaza improvements but really 465 00:40:39,940 --> 00:40:44,360 just very small sums is it relates to the grand totals of that particular 466 00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:49,780 project but these are the applications that are currently out there I did know I 467 00:40:49,780 --> 00:40:55,320 do note that these are at last review these are all of the grants that we've 468 00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:59,140 applied for even small like seventy five thousand dollars for price road right so 469 00:40:59,140 --> 00:41:03,620 Rice Road was well into construction when we decided that we were going to throw our hat 470 00:41:03,620 --> 00:41:07,340 in a ring for even just a small grant as it relates to that project. 471 00:41:08,940 --> 00:41:14,800 So we do, Sean has been doing a great job at not just the large but also the small and 472 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:20,520 everything in and everything in between, which just goes to show the level of commitment that 473 00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:27,700 we have to bring these projects to bring these projects to life and actually address some 474 00:41:27,700 --> 00:41:32,980 the issues and challenges that we have, knowing that we can't just do this based on issue 475 00:41:32,980 --> 00:41:39,800 12 in other revenue pots that we have that are, you know, sometimes more variable than 476 00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:40,600 the grant opportunity. 477 00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:48,860 So, I just really reiterate the next, the adoption slide this way, you guys can just see 478 00:41:48,860 --> 00:41:52,880 that one more time as it relates to next efforts. 479 00:41:52,980 --> 00:41:57,540 So, basically, in the next 30 to 40 days here, we'll be back before you with the full plan. 480 00:41:57,540 --> 00:42:06,160 itself. We'll have accomplishments for the prior year. What we've completed, what's been 481 00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:12,080 advanced, so on, and so forth, and a new project that we're standing up. Which that's a nice 482 00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:16,300 thing about year after year with the plan itself and how it's organized. There's very few new 483 00:42:16,300 --> 00:42:22,540 things that actually get stood up, which is good. And then we'll be back here, like I said on September 484 00:42:22,540 --> 00:42:27,140 28th with the full plan itself, and then we'll have the opportunity to discuss that over the next 485 00:42:27,140 --> 00:42:29,940 several meetings in October, right? 486 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:33,580 It's not just, oh, here it is on the 28th and one meeting and done. 487 00:42:33,720 --> 00:42:38,380 We'll talk about it for the next, basically, the whole entire month of October, as we 488 00:42:38,380 --> 00:42:39,820 lead up to Capitol Budget time. 489 00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:45,640 So with that, that's what I have for us this evening, and I can take any additional questions 490 00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:46,740 you guys might have. 491 00:42:52,230 --> 00:42:52,350 Okay. 492 00:42:53,250 --> 00:42:53,490 That's great. 493 00:42:53,710 --> 00:42:54,610 Thank you very much. 494 00:42:54,950 --> 00:42:55,530 Thank you, guys. 495 00:42:55,530 --> 00:43:00,970 any news for the the good of the go. 496 00:43:03,090 --> 00:43:05,410 Okay. Then Richard.