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Good afternoon and welcome to PDC. We're going to hand it over to Mr. Tom Martin for

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time for planning or a minute for planning or whatever your preference today, Tom.

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I think I'm supposed to still keep it to a minute.

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Okay.

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So we'll get going. Good afternoon, members of council. A couple of things you guys might be interested in is

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we've received a conditional use permit application for property on 802 Court Street.

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that property is going to be one they are proposing to convert it into four

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residential units. We've received a site plan proposing construction of a 3,180

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square foot car wash and parking improvements at 2735 Wards Road that's

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just below going south of the Wawa that's under construction. We had a

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subdivision plat for three lots at 5206 Tariana Road. Another subdivision plat

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proposing the creation of 60 lots for single-family homes at 5153 Boonesboro

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Road. The building permit for the Wawa at 101 Marigold Court which is

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Rose Hill has been issued. And then some neat things that we don't normally get

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to talk to you about is these are some condemned structures that are no

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longer condemned, one of which was due to a fire at 212

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Winhurst Drive. All of those repairs have been completed and

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that structure is no longer condemned. Also 1107 Polk Street

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that building had been condemned since 2025.

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All the renovations have been completed.

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1714 Monroe Street, another condemned structure that those

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repairs have been done also no longer condemned and then a permit for 3102

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Memorial Avenue that was a fire earlier in April of this year I believe it might

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have been arson but they have pulled permits to renovate that building so a

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lot of good things going on thank you Tom yeah you know to Court Street which

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was zone b1 what is it zone now for the four residentials it's but it's

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zone to be worn, which is a limited business office.

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I'm looking for a CUP.

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By CUP, if approved by council, they

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could do the residential.

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Yes, sir.

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Any other questions from Mr. Martin?

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All right.

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Thank you so much.

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We are going to kick it over to Greg as we go,

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I'm assuming, Gainel.

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Yes, thank you.

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We have major project updates next for both public works

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and water resources.

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I think Clay Simmons is going to walk us through some,

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and Gaynell through others and I will turn it over to them so as they sort out which

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projects belong to which.

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Hello, Lee Newlin is on vacation so that's why I'm here in his stead to report on the

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transportation projects.

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The first one is Bedford Avenue, the total cost is $24 million.

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We do need some additional funding from VDOT, hopefully some smart scale funding in the

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amount of $8.8 million.

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We hope to start in spring of 27 and finish in winter of 29 or 30 where we've

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got a preliminary bridge report that is submitted to VDOT for review and once

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they approve that we'll be able to move on that will actually get the project

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back on time and back on budget once VDOT approves that and then we'll move

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on with the rest of the project. Basically this project is going to be

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replacing the bridge it's rated poor and we are going to add a sidewalk in that

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particular area.

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Breezewood drive improvements there are a total of ten

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point three million dollars by the way there is a map because I think Ms.

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Redeemer you liked the map so there's a map right there in front of you sorry I

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should have told you that of the project location so you know where

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they are.

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We've got additional funding of 486,000 through revenue sharing

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We anticipate construction to start in summer of 27 and finish in winter of

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2029. We're in 60% design. We had a public hearing June 25th at Heritage

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Baptist Church and it was fairly well attended. It was workshop type event and

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there was about 20 people there along with our consulting engineer getting

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input from the public. This project will entail improving the pavement,

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adding sidewalks, increasing the lane width a little bit,

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and improving some of the drainage.

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And the project is currently on time and on budget.

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Fifth Street project is a $7.3 million project.

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It is fully funded.

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We are in the throes of construction right now.

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We anticipate finishing late this year

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or early next year in winter.

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We're working on underground utilities at this time.

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It is on time and on budget, but we are hoping that they can add some additional crews and speed it up a little bit and get it done a little early.

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And so we're hoping on that. This project will finish the Fifth Street corridor, all the improvements along this corridor.

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We're replacing utilities as needed, removing the concrete pavement and providing new asphalt, improving drainage, and also improving ADA access with improved sidewalks.

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This is a downtown renewal project. You'll hear a little bit more probably from Scott

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Parkins on this. We actually provide construction administration for this and

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we our part in this is to fund the actual streetscapes and I'll let Scott

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get into this. Our part of it on the public work side is about 6.1 million

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and that is just for street great scape improvements and those types of

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things. And I believe there's a ribbon cutting coming up here in July 21st so

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We're excited about that, and Main Street will be done.

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John Lynch Bridge, $7.2 million project.

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We started construction in winter.

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We anticipated it to be done in 2020 July of this 2026.

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The railings are underway now, and the project

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is going to be a little late.

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And there's a couple of things, reasons for that.

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The railings are behind because they're actually

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having to drill the holes onsite

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to make sure that they fit properly and that has slowed progress down tremendously.

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We also have some things on back order like ADA compliant plates for the bridge joints

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as well as inlet coverings so that it's safe for pedestrians. Those are back ordered.

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We still anticipate being done into August beginning of September for that project.

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221, 501, 221 Intersection, $93 million project.

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You all are all very familiar with this project and we're really happy.

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We got the grant recently, the $24.9 million, that was huge for us.

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So that was a huge win for us.

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Now the project appears to be fully funded, so that's good news.

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and we have a public hearing scheduled August 20th at Heritage Baptist Church

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to move that project forward. The project is on time and on budget. We do have a

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pop-up scheduled for the work session today to recognize some of the public

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work staff who worked really hard on that grant. So I just wanted to let you

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guys know as we're going through this that that is planned for four o'clock

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for the full work session. The Hollins Mill Road Bridge, a $19.1

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million dollar project. It is rated poor. This hopefully will be fully funded

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with additional revenue sharing. We should start in fall of 2029. This should

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actually address the low water bridge that is a part of the trail so that

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that will improve that. That low water bridge is often not, you cannot use it

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because it's covered in water. So we plan to improve that. People will tend

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to cross the road there, little kids with bikes, crossing Hones Mill Road, so that's

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going to be a part of this improvement.

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So we will make a better access to the trail from there.

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The preliminary bridge report is being prepared now and then that will go to VDOT for approval

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and it is on time and on budget.

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And I will turn it over to Clay for his and I'll just keep clicking.

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If we could actually do a quick pause, I don't know if anybody else has questions.

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I always have questions.

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So I'll pause here. Does anyone have questions for gain now? Okay. All right

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I'm gonna run through just a couple really quick. Okay, and thank you so much for the updates here. This is awesome

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Oh, and I don't remember what that question was. We'll skip to this one. Okay

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Breezewood drive improvements, I'm just curious how we prioritize

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sidewalks and if that has to do with the revenue-sharing arrangement or why.

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Just because when I drive Breezewood Drive I don't typically see pedestrian

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traffic and maybe I'm missing it and I love sidewalks. I'd love to connect more

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of our sidewalks and I know Tom loves sidewalks. I love sidewalks but I'm not

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sure just from a fiscal standpoint if Breezewood Drive would be where I

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would typically prioritize it. So I'm just curious how that plays out when

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it comes to revenue-sharing the decisions that are made with that element.

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What happened with that is this was actually a three-phase project, and this last phase

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got eliminated.

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So we had intended to go all the way to the end of the project, which would have been

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at the apartments.

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And we have been getting complaints about not being able to walk.

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There are walkable places there, Aldi sheets.

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So there are places that you can walk.

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we have been getting complaints. Okay. This pavement is in poor condition, so we

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were going to have to do something. The drainage is in poor condition. We had to

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do something, so we prioritized this in the CIP as a complete transportation

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project and not just repaid it. Okay, that's helpful as far as thought

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process. I really appreciate that, and I'm a fan of multimodal. I was a bike

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commuter for years in the city which is a lot friendlier to bikes now and then

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with Hollins Mill Bridge lighting is their opportunity for and I don't know

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how that would play into this project per se but the lighting has been a real

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struggle at least for me I know Kurt likes to complain about his old eyes I

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think I'm gonna have a new prescript here when I go in so lighting along in

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there what can be done to just increase visibility as well as kind of that

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multi-modal element with pedestrians. Yeah I think what what we'll do is I will

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pass this on to Lee Newlin and we can definitely consider that as a part of

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the project. We are just in preliminary design so this is the time to make

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suggestions like that so as we move through design that we can look at what

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we can do to improve the lighting through there. Okay that would be

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I think there is power down there because the park is lit a little bit, but the road is kind of dark, especially under the bridge.

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Yeah. Okay. I would definitely pass that along. Yeah, just with the trees, it gets really shadowy.

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And there have been people walking, and it's really hard to see people walking at dusk and at night.

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Okay. I think that's all I had other than the congratulations on 501-221.

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one. But I'm sorry. It was the last of the bridge on House

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Monroe. When was that last done? Oh gosh, I couldn't really tell

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you quite honestly. Obviously now since I've been deputy director

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assistant director. So that's about all I can tell you. But it

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is in poor condition. So we definitely need to do something

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with it. We're just taking that opportunity to improve the

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access. Yeah. Excellent. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Okay. Good afternoon. Thank you for

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having me here today. I'm talking about Miller Park pool for a second. The project

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consists of the removal and replacement of the pool along with some minor

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interior innovations to the existing pool house. Total cost of the project is

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$10.5 million, it's fully funded.

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Anticipate start construction start

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is going to be summer of this year.

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Anticipated construction finish will be summer of next year.

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And we are just now wrapping up design.

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The project is out for bid, so we're

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in sort of that transitional phase.

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With the project, we expect to have bids back next week.

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and currently the project is on time and on budget.

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There we go.

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Talking about the, moving on to the public library

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renovation, total cost is $12.2 million.

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Construction is fully funded.

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The FF&E was approved in the FY 27 budget.

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Construction started March of 2026.

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The anticipated construction finish is summer of 2027.

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We are under construction currently, well underway with the notice proceed being issued March of

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2026. Currently the project is on time and it's on budget.

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Those are my two, I believe.

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Any questions?

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Yes, sir. That got released. We'd be happy to get it back to you. We put out

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about a public notice for that, showing the latest concept design, be happy to send that

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to you again.

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Thank you.

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If I went to, like, Splash Valley or something, and...

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County the other day and just see what they had. I'm trying to make a comparison of what they had

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which is a county project versus what we're doing here in Lynchburg. So I'll just I'll look at that

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when I get another copy of it. Sure. Thanks. Appreciate it. Thanks so much and we'll hand it

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over to Mr. Tim Mitchell.

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It's my pleasure to give you an update along with Scott Parkins of

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the major capital projects for water resources. A quick update on the Blackwater CSO tunnel.

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tunnel. We just finished the drill and blast operations, so we're all the way to the end

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of the tunnel now with the excavation that wrapped up on Saturday. And now the next step

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with the tunnel excavation would be the shaft going vertically to a long point of

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honor trail up near Hollins Mill Road for the drop shaft for the sewage and storm

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wanted to drop into the tunnel. So that will be ongoing here soon. There's a lot of activity

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at that end of the tunnel as well. The project is on schedule and on budget. So we are moving

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ahead very well with a big project with no issues really. I mean it's a pretty amazing

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project that we've gone this far with really relatively few issues.

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led service line inventory. This is the city-wide project that y'all are pretty

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well aware of because of all the discussions we've had related to it but

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we are currently trying to identify all the unknown service lines in the city

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about 18,000 privately owned and about another 2,400 publicly owned lines that

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we do not know the material of. We are out working throughout the city to

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excavate small test pits to identify the material. We're also plugging that

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information into, it's called machine learning, it's a computer program basically

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that will help us to reduce the number of test pits we have to do once we get

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enough data. So we'll use that to help identify the service lines and the

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the Virginia Department of Health has approved that process. As far as the cost of it, we're

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in the $10 million phase now. We recently were awarded the $15 million that we've discussed

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with you previously. We anticipate the total project cost over the next 10 years of being

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around $30 to $35 million. So we still have a ways to go. We'll see how that progresses

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as we identify the number of lead service lines and lines that need to be replaced.

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Dreaming Creek Anderson? Yes.

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How is this impacting citizens in Lynchburg?

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What is your feedback and what kind of participation are you getting in the

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identifying of things? Is it what you anticipated or?

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Pretty much. We've had some citizens that express concerns about

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even the General Assembly gave us authorization

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to excavate a small test pit on their property.

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We've had some concerns, not a lot, but a handful.

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And we're trying to address those individually.

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If the customers are really opposed to it, we will move on

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and try to address that later and figure out another way

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to identify the service line material.

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So overall, relatively good feedback.

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And again, when we find a lead service line or a galvanized line that needs to be replaced,

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the funding will cover the cost of replacing those on the private side as well as the public

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side.

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So that will be part of our plan.

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Once we identify them all, then next October we have to submit a replacement plan of how

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we're going to proceed through the city replacing all the service lines.

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Is there a map on the GIS system that allows you to see where the pipes have been identified?

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Yes.

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Is that out there?

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Okay.

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I just didn't look, but it didn't.

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Yeah.

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And basically you can pull up any address in the city.

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A lot of them are still unknown, but the ones that have been identified, there's a

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circle that has two halves of it.

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One half is color-coded indicating the material type on the private side and one half is

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color-coded indicating the material type on the city side.

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And the big picture, can you do it just by individual address or can you see the whole you can see the whole

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When you're zoomed out and see the whole thing you just see a bunch of little dots

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It's hard to tell but you can zoom in specifically and see individual addresses as well

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Dreaming Creek Interceptor this is the the project that we're working on jointly with Campbell County

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Utilities and Service Authority because of the additional capacity that they need in

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the age of the interceptor.

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They're actually funding about 56% of the cost of this project, so it's a $9.2 million

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project and it's currently under design and we'll be working to acquire the easements

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that we need over the next year.

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We anticipate construction start sometime in the winter of 2028 with about an 18-month

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construction period with completion around fall of 2029 yes

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you probably heard

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me do my dreaming about Dreaming Creek bike path to follow along same lines as

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the center stuff there is there any way we can design this project in order to

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make it efficient and less expensive if in the future a future council decides

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to turn that into a bike path of some type?

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We can, as we're developing the easements for it, potentially we could, usually the easements

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identify the specific use of the easement.

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We could potentially add a trail or bike path or whatever, I don't know how, some property

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owners would be favorable to that, others maybe not so much, but we could certainly

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explore that as an option so that the easements would be at least in place to proceed forward

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with it.

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If somebody wanted to do it, it would be not another brand new redoing the wheel.

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Right.

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And we'll have to look a little bit at the alignment of the sewer line, too, to see

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if it makes sense to have a path over the top of it.

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We would have to be able to have access, so it should be accessible.

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So it certainly was something we could work with.

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They put the accesses off to the side of the bike path, but the only real obstruction is

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Dreamy Creek Road.

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That one would be probably the most expensive part of a project like that.

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But how are you all dealing with that for the interceptor pipe?

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So the road crossings would be, I think we're deciding that to be warrings, as

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you said.

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So we wouldn't be.

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You don't tear up the road at all.

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Don't tear up the road.

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They'll be tunneled underneath the roadway.

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So we would probably need a similar path,

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like what goes over there, Holland's Mill,

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which I think they built in the 80s, if I remember right,

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because I used to bike that all the time.

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But that would probably be the way

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to get past that obstacle on Dreaming Creek

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if somebody ever wanted to do it.

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We can certainly bring up the suggestion to the design team.

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and Campbell County is involved in this as well so I don't know if I don't know

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that there'd be any additional costs maybe a little with the easement

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acquisition and I would imagine that would fall to the city since that would

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be a city benefit but but we can bring it up to the design team and report back

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next time we do a capital project. I'd like to know what the additional cost

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is and in any way we can anticipate potentials that we could save a little

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a little bit now to save a whole lot later.

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Okay.

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Make a little bit now to save a whole lot later.

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All right, sounds good.

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I'm gonna turn it over to Scott

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to talk about the Abert water filtration plant, please.

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Okay, thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the council.

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So the Abert is one of the two city water treatment plants

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that serves primarily the western half of the city.

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The plant was constructed in 1974, 75 timeframe,

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So it's got about a 50 year life on it right now and we did a preliminary engineering report

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and have come up with some areas that need to be upgraded on it.

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Some of the items that have been identified of concern such as the pumps,

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we're looking at doing operational funding to basically remove the pumps,

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get them refurbished.

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But there are several capital concerns that we do have that are going to be scheduled

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in the next five to eight years, looks like 2033,

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with the raw water pump station at Abert

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and the plant itself.

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So currently we're looking at about five

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significant projects over the next eight years here,

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the first of which is the raw water pump station

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influence screens off the James River, which is used

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when we have to pump from the James River

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due to peddler water levels being low

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or if there's an emergency situation

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on the raw water line that requires us to use the James River.

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So we deem that as our highest priority project.

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The other projects include chemical feed system improvements,

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concrete and structural repairs and masonry repairs to the building itself,

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electrical and control improvements at the water plant,

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and then lastly a generator and electrical improvements at the pump station.

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Combined it's about $27 million estimated cost and again this will be split up over about eight years of the capital program.

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Currently we are in design for the raw water pump station influence screen and the chemical feed systems.

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Both of those are on schedule right now and we'll be moving into construction probably in the next year or so on the first project.

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We already talked a little bit about the Main Street East Renewal Project, which I'm very

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happy to say we are in the final stages of.

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It looks like that we're going to be doing the striping this week on the road.

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We've got final pavement down.

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All the concrete work is done, utility work is done, so we should be reopening the

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road either Friday or Monday.

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I'm going to be conservative and say it'll probably be Monday.

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But it's a big milestone.

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I know everybody has been waiting for this day and we have as well.

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It looks like that we are going to be about $500,000 underneath the contractor's guaranteed

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maximum price.

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So we're going to be saving a little bit of money with the city here.

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I'm saying that the work is 99.5% complete.

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We do have some plantings that need to go back in the last phase of the work that

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And obviously this is not the time of year to do planning, so they'll be coming back

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in September or October to just do a little bit of wrap up work there.

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Richland Hills sewer, we are well into that project as well.

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Currently they are working continuously on the sewer and the water connections, water

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replacements and connections.

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We have a spend deadline in November and looks like our anticipated construction

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finish is going to be in October at this point.

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So I think we should be able to meet the spend deadline for the ARPA funds that are on the project

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So I'm calling this on time and we are on budget with this one as well

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The next phase of our sewer extension program is going to be reaching out into the Maple Hills area

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So we've got currently a combined water and sewer

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So we'll be doing sewer extensions and we'll also be hitting the water replacements that are needed in this area as well with one

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It's actually going to probably be a series of projects starting with

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construction in spring of 2027. We're about 50% complete on the design phase

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of that project right now. So this will be hitting the areas such as Maple

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Hills, Drive, Wayne, Bryant, Westburg over in that area of the city.

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One of

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our two ongoing water line replacement projects is over in the Daniels Hill

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area. We just started construction with that with Council and Dobbins back in May, so we're

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very early on in the construction, not even 25% complete yet, but I think we've already

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got at least one of the roads. The water line is complete on one of the roads, and they're

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working on services there on Norwood Drive. So we're looking at an anticipated finish

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of around October 2027 for that. Everything seems to be going very well on that project

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project right now. We do have a second phase of the Daniels Hill Improvement Projects.

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We're calling the north segment. That project is in design phase right now. It is currently

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at about 90% design. What my anticipation is, is that that project will follow after

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we complete the south section, so there won't be overlapping of the two projects.

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The second ongoing water line replacement project is over on Fillmore, Buchanan,

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and Pierce Streets. That one started in January of 2026. Anticipated completion is in July of

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2027. We've got about 25% of the work complete. I think it's probably actually a little bit more

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than that now. That was probably last month. One thing that we did hit over the last couple

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weeks on that project, it does include three blocks of work on 11th Street and our bugaboo

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has been the trolley track system, the old trolley track system that's underneath some

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of the city streets.

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We were not aware of it under these in the design, and when we hit it, it became an

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issue of going back to the designer, looking what we could do to alter any design to get

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it out so that we don't have to go under the trolley tracks.

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But unfortunately, that street is very clogged up with existing utilities.

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We are looking at a change order of about 300,000 for the removal of the trolley tracks for three blocks.

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And the concrete base that they're on as well.

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Yes, yeah.

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The next project is the next phase of the downtown renewal, which is going to be, we're calling it Phase 5,

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the fifth project, and it's going to be taking place on Court Street between Fifth and Ninth Street.

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We are currently about 50% complete on the design.

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We're looking at wrapping it up by the end of this year on the design side of things

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for a spring 2027 construction schedule.

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This project will be a little bit different than the other downtown projects

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where we saw extensive street removal and rebuilding.

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This project is really targeting utilities mostly.

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We are doing a little bit of repair on the streets and the sidewalks

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but it's not gonna be nearly as comprehensive

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as what you've seen on the other downtown phases.

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So it's primarily gonna be funded

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through the water resources side of things.

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There'll be a little bit of public works

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general fund money on it, but mostly water resources.

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And I think that covers everything.

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So, questions?

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Now, Main Street.

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So the completion is this month, you said?

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Yes, we should be wrapping it up this week, actually.

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That's amazing. So happy. Thank you for that. Appreciate it. Thank you very much.

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What did y'all switch from the black polyline to the blue polyline?

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Water lines. On the water lines? Yes. I noticed that.

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Okay. So in years past we've used

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copper for water service lines and ductile iron

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for the main lines. We're still requiring ductile iron, which is the black

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for the main lines, but we do allow PVC or HPE for service lines.

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We changed a couple of years ago to allow a cheaper option from Copper.

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And so that's what you're seeing a lot of the plastic and the blue is the service lines

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going to the meters.

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Okay.

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I was just curious.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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So I can run it any time I want.

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That's right.

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Okay.

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All right.

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Any further questions?

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All right.

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Thank you so much.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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All right. Moving on to information item number three. We get Tom back. Hey, welcome back, Mr. Martin.

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Oddfellows Road Bridge naming request. And I'm actually going to hand this over to Kurt to run because this is a constituent request in Ward three.

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So I'll hand it over to Mr. Demer and Mr. Martin.

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Just very briefly, as Councillor Simmer just mentioned, there has been a request to name

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the Odd Fellows Road Bridge over 460 in memory of Earl Lee Brooks Sr.

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Mr. Brooks passed away in July 2010.

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I learned a lot about him this week, an interesting gentleman, and I believe one of his sons

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is with us this evening, but he was known as the Earl of Lynchburg.

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He raced in what is now the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series from 1962 to 1979, raced in hundreds of races.

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Excuse me.

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No

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hurry.

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You want me to jump in and pinch that for you?

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Sure.

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I do appreciate Tom doing this.

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I passed out a informational material to everybody here today.

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just this did come to me from from Dave Falwell initially and it's nice to see a

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family member here as well. There's definitely community interest in this

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and I've been approached by quite a few folks in Ward 3 that I represent. Being a

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big NASCAR fan I was kind of excited about this as well for that reason but

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the mayor corrected me this is not a renaming this is a naming there is no

460
00:34:27,060 --> 00:34:29,420
on the current name if I'm correct about that.

461
00:34:32,180 --> 00:34:34,460
The bridge is part of the Virginia Department transportation

462
00:34:34,460 --> 00:34:35,240
system.

463
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:41,240
If council desires, we would need to have council

464
00:34:41,240 --> 00:34:45,280
pass a resolution requesting the Commonwealth Transportation

465
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:45,900
Board.

466
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:47,420
Thank you so much.

467
00:34:48,060 --> 00:34:48,660
It's

468
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:52,200
heck getting old, isn't it?

469
00:34:52,860 --> 00:34:58,080
So the council would need to pass a resolution

470
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,220
requesting that the Commonwealth Transportation Board

471
00:35:01,220 --> 00:35:04,300
name the bridge in memory of Mr. Brooks.

472
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:06,700
As part of that resolution,

473
00:35:07,300 --> 00:35:10,260
Council would also need to agree to pay the cost

474
00:35:10,260 --> 00:35:13,040
of preparing and installing the signs.

475
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:15,260
That's approximately $1,000,

476
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:17,340
probably a little less than that

477
00:35:17,340 --> 00:35:19,840
and those signs would be installed by VDOT.

478
00:35:21,940 --> 00:35:25,960
So what we're looking for from PDC is direction.

479
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:32,340
If you'd like for us to prepare that resolution, we would have it on your next work session agenda.

480
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:35,360
Well, that would be real helpful. Thank you.

481
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:41,540
They've also gone out and gotten petition signatures from local citizens.

482
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:45,280
A significant number. You'll see that in your packet as well.

483
00:35:45,940 --> 00:35:49,080
If you have any questions, I

484
00:35:51,420 --> 00:35:54,040
look forward to meeting you after this is over with, hopefully.

485
00:35:54,040 --> 00:36:00,360
I hope you'll hang around and if y'all have any questions now it's a great time

486
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:05,440
you got all the folks here that are interested that might be able to answer

487
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:09,900
some of them it seems like a worthy request in my estimation so that's why

488
00:36:09,900 --> 00:36:13,560
I'm happy to get behind it and support you in this endeavor.

489
00:36:15,780 --> 00:36:16,560
Apparently his

490
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:23,440
garage was pretty much right underneath that bridge at one point. That's very

491
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:28,380
interesting that's what earlier today Mr. Patrick Ford to do some information

492
00:36:28,380 --> 00:36:33,080
prepared by Ted Delaney up at the museum system okay awesome I didn't see that

493
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:38,100
yet so yeah that was one of the things okay that was Ted's always on top of the

494
00:36:38,100 --> 00:36:44,580
history I love it I believe also one of his race suits is in the museum so is

495
00:36:44,580 --> 00:36:53,200
that right display currently or not but I think it was for

496
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:57,300
for a while as part of a sportsman's exhibit, I believe,

497
00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:02,780
but of that information in some of the research that Ted did.

498
00:37:03,900 --> 00:37:04,460
Thank you.

499
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:11,200
Well, I believe you're looking for a motion for a recommendation

500
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:12,600
to bring it for a work session?

501
00:37:12,940 --> 00:37:16,360
Or, I mean, Kurt's able to agenda-wise, so I'm not sure.

502
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:18,380
Right, so I think we'll have this on the next work

503
00:37:18,380 --> 00:37:20,080
session agenda, and then we'll go from there.

504
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:20,760
Thank you.

505
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:21,340
Appreciate it.

506
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:23,960
And I apologize for my voice.

507
00:37:24,060 --> 00:37:24,500
Not at all.

508
00:37:25,020 --> 00:37:26,360
Thank you so much.

509
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:29,040
As a guy with a bad voice, I'm very empathetic about that.

510
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:33,860
All right, moving on to general business, we have two items today.

511
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:37,260
Both will come forward for a public hearing, so we're not going to...

512
00:37:37,260 --> 00:37:37,640
Oh, no?

513
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:39,440
Well, good news on item five.

514
00:37:39,700 --> 00:37:40,080
Okay.

515
00:37:40,220 --> 00:37:45,480
In that there's recent court filing that identified both the administrator

516
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:49,460
and the sole heir for the peace property on Florida Avenue.

517
00:37:49,980 --> 00:37:52,920
So I sent an email out this morning, subsequent to that email,

518
00:37:52,920 --> 00:38:04,760
So we actually got confirmation that the administrator has agreed to accept the offer for the right

519
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:08,460
of way and we're preparing the documentation now to have that signed and we should need

520
00:38:08,460 --> 00:38:09,400
to go down this path at all.

521
00:38:09,580 --> 00:38:14,720
So we've removed the item from this agenda and then also from the agenda later this

522
00:38:14,720 --> 00:38:14,900
evening.

523
00:38:15,180 --> 00:38:16,280
So great news.

524
00:38:16,720 --> 00:38:16,860
Great news.

525
00:38:18,620 --> 00:38:19,680
Connected to the dots now.

526
00:38:19,900 --> 00:38:21,020
That was what we were trying to do.

527
00:38:21,020 --> 00:38:21,320
Yeah.

528
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:21,840
Exactly.

529
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:22,860
Okay.

530
00:38:23,620 --> 00:38:23,820
All right.

531
00:38:23,980 --> 00:38:29,280
So agenda item number four, and my understanding is this is coming for public hearing, and

532
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:33,040
so we're not going to make a motion on it today, but awesome, thank you.

533
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:36,640
So Liberty University has approached us.

534
00:38:36,940 --> 00:38:42,140
They would like to take fiber optic up to their new dorm that they're renovating now.

535
00:38:42,240 --> 00:38:48,080
They're taking it from their property on University Boulevard, and there's a map

536
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:49,940
over there that it's so small.

537
00:38:49,940 --> 00:38:53,980
that's why I printed you one it's difficult to read but the vertical road

538
00:38:53,980 --> 00:38:58,360
is Candler's Mountain Road the road to the left is University Boulevard headed

539
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:04,300
to the University and this other road is actually in access to the shopping

540
00:39:04,300 --> 00:39:10,600
center that is owned by LU Holdings so they're fiber optic from their property

541
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:16,980
they want to bore under Candler's Mountain Road about 108 feet and then

542
00:39:16,980 --> 00:39:21,220
And up to their property, which is the new dorm for them to have fiber optic.

543
00:39:21,540 --> 00:39:26,220
It shouldn't hurt traffic in any way or impede traffic in any way.

544
00:39:26,580 --> 00:39:32,200
And so we are asking, we are going to be coming and having a public hearing to have a license agreement with them for

545
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:34,520
them to provide fiber optic to that dorm.

546
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:37,420
And that's the just of this request today.

547
00:39:38,220 --> 00:39:39,740
And it will come again in August.

548
00:39:40,820 --> 00:39:42,620
Any questions from Ms. Hardy?

549
00:39:44,740 --> 00:39:45,440
Thank you, ma'am.

550
00:39:46,020 --> 00:39:47,640
Thank you, thank you.

551
00:39:49,180 --> 00:39:50,420
Okay, roll call.

552
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:53,220
Yeah, roll call.

553
00:39:53,380 --> 00:39:53,900
Dr. Wader?

554
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:56,360
Okay, I had a great fun at home office.

555
00:39:56,580 --> 00:39:58,980
Someone called about some situation on Table Street,

556
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:03,140
some high rush stand that's on the abandoned property.

557
00:40:03,720 --> 00:40:04,300
It's been abandoned for years.

558
00:40:04,380 --> 00:40:06,300
I'll give you the address afterwards.

559
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:08,860
I just have to send us through an email yet, so quickly.

560
00:40:09,300 --> 00:40:11,460
But they've just said it's been vacant for several years.

561
00:40:11,660 --> 00:40:12,340
Press have passed away.

562
00:40:12,900 --> 00:40:13,880
No answer in the community.

563
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:21,540
I think in Baltimore somewhere and it says she's called the office several times about the property being like overgrown and the kind of thing

564
00:40:21,540 --> 00:40:26,540
But I'll give you the address later. It's on Taylor 15th and Taylor Street, and I was referenced to early Brooks

565
00:40:26,540 --> 00:40:29,360
I wasn't aware of him. So thank you for the information. I wasn't aware

566
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:34,160
The mic when I look into maybe a historical marker as well. I'm gonna take the lady can check into that

567
00:40:34,660 --> 00:40:39,240
We don't have this white anymore who was who was amazing in and get a historical marker

568
00:40:39,240 --> 00:40:40,800
because I was a rock community, but it just,

569
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:42,700
but Ted can't tell you if it was,

570
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:44,480
it was a candidate for something of that nature.

571
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:45,020
Okay.

572
00:40:45,060 --> 00:40:45,760
I'm going to throw a marker,

573
00:40:45,860 --> 00:40:47,020
but I'll be talking to Ted Delaney

574
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,600
in front of his team and they can look into that.

575
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:50,440
That's all I have.

576
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:50,780
Thank you.

577
00:40:51,380 --> 00:40:53,540
I remember when that movie, Grease Lightning,

578
00:40:53,740 --> 00:40:56,900
came out back in the, what is it, early 80s,

579
00:40:57,500 --> 00:40:59,080
I watched it and moved in.

580
00:41:00,100 --> 00:41:02,960
Him and no Richard Prow, who played Wendell Scott.

581
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:03,580
Right.

582
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:05,240
They were partners.

583
00:41:06,340 --> 00:41:08,280
And no, Grease just played my dad.

584
00:41:12,100 --> 00:41:16,760
My dad was very close and a good friend, very good friend.

585
00:41:17,180 --> 00:41:19,260
Did your dad run moonshine with Windows?

586
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:21,800
No, my dad did not run with Windows.

587
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:24,260
That's before the party was raised.

588
00:41:24,620 --> 00:41:25,900
My dad was my friend.

589
00:41:29,580 --> 00:41:31,660
You don't have to answer these questions.

590
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:33,200
Just so you know.

591
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:35,580
We had fun.

592
00:41:35,580 --> 00:41:44,400
He was dead, son of his moonshine, so I got to keep the claim up, but they were very close.

593
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:50,060
And yes, that movie was actually written in the living room of our home.

594
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:57,760
The movie company came in with big, real to real recorders, and Wendell and my dad

595
00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:01,180
sat on their cell phone and told stories of things that happened to him.

596
00:42:01,180 --> 00:42:07,160
Of course when he got to Hollywood or where they kind of changed the things around the head to probably

597
00:42:09,420 --> 00:42:13,240
That's good. It's good to meet you. Thank you. It's good to meet you all and

598
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:19,460
Thank you for the support. I just really love it. It tickles me to death

599
00:42:20,500 --> 00:42:27,080
We lived our whole life was right there where the bridge was the shop was there the house was there

600
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:34,640
The whole family, the grandmothers, the grandfather and everything lived there, and the whole deal.

601
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:45,720
And the race shop, you know, he'd run the races out of there, and he also, he supported Lynchburg

602
00:42:45,720 --> 00:42:51,380
very big on this race car, on the back of it, I don't know if you have any pictures

603
00:42:51,380 --> 00:43:00,940
or whatever, but it was, see the historical James River in Lynchburg, Virginia, everything

604
00:43:00,940 --> 00:43:11,240
on the call, you know, and it was, he would present the Chamber of Commerce gave him litigia

605
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:16,940
and he would hand out that litigia in different places down through the, we raced everywhere

606
00:43:16,940 --> 00:43:22,240
were from Daytona to Oxford, Maine to Riverside, California.

607
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:24,880
It was just everyone.

608
00:43:25,700 --> 00:43:27,520
And he would spread it out.

609
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:30,900
He was very proud of his city.

610
00:43:31,240 --> 00:43:36,920
When he was elected into the Sports Hall of Fame in Lynchburg,

611
00:43:37,260 --> 00:43:39,760
that was so meaningful to him.

612
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:41,420
And he just broke down.

613
00:43:41,580 --> 00:43:44,400
That was the greatest news he had ever gotten, I believe.

614
00:43:47,140 --> 00:43:55,700
Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank y'all. Mr. Mayor, do you have any? Thank you. Do you have any further items? Okay. Mr. Deemer.

615
00:43:56,200 --> 00:44:05,540
I just, if you started getting calls on street lights again, that's the danger of becoming the light guy. And that's okay. I'm not complaining.

616
00:44:06,940 --> 00:44:17,000
But is there been any efficiencies or just the ability to get those into a pipeline and

617
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:18,380
then track when they're done?

618
00:44:18,660 --> 00:44:22,580
Has anything happened or is there still using the same system pretty much?

619
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:28,420
Yeah, and that's an APCO system and at this point I don't think they have any new technology

620
00:44:28,420 --> 00:44:30,440
beyond what they had last time we were here.

621
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:40,820
I know we are pushing them very hard on both reporting, being able to provide us with reports

622
00:44:40,820 --> 00:44:46,620
of what's out and what's not and what's been reported, and then getting everything done

623
00:44:46,620 --> 00:44:48,280
quickly that we report to them.

624
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:48,880
Okay.

625
00:44:49,660 --> 00:44:54,320
I don't know if this is possible, but maybe what we do is we more prominently link

626
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:59,980
back to the app code system on our side of things, that if there's any way to...

627
00:45:00,620 --> 00:45:09,020
To bump it up in visibility a little bit, give it a logo, or AI will make it all in 10 seconds

628
00:45:09,020 --> 00:45:18,320
for you. You know, something about, this is the fastest, bestest way to do it, and I think

629
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:24,720
the closure thing is still the part I would love to get solved, that we can see when the

630
00:45:24,720 --> 00:45:30,560
job was done without the citizen going back out and calling back up their city

631
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:35,900
councilman and the city councilman says well that's good and everything okay but

632
00:45:35,900 --> 00:45:40,940
it's the ones that that seemed to languish for several months got it

633
00:45:40,940 --> 00:45:44,900
brought razor to the attention that it was and now since we don't have

634
00:45:44,900 --> 00:45:48,720
anything new maybe we can just make it a little more prominent on the city

635
00:45:48,720 --> 00:45:52,460
side of things promoted a little bit. That would be really helpful.

636
00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:56,000
That's it.

637
00:45:57,660 --> 00:46:01,780
I've got one item and I'll bring it up in roll call with the work session as

638
00:46:01,780 --> 00:46:06,420
well just because that's when the constituent will probably watch but if

639
00:46:06,420 --> 00:46:11,860
if Ted Delaney would be up for doing maybe a presentation on one the

640
00:46:11,860 --> 00:46:18,580
cemetery again and any development that has happened there but also there

641
00:46:18,580 --> 00:46:22,920
are some historical sites in Lynchburg that are listed with the state and also

642
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:28,700
nationally but aren't necessarily recognized on the city website. And so my

643
00:46:28,700 --> 00:46:34,020
understanding from Kent is that when it comes to the city recognizing a site

644
00:46:34,020 --> 00:46:39,060
there's usually some kind of land use tie to that and so I just like to

645
00:46:39,060 --> 00:46:42,940
understand that in a fuller dialogue as far as you know we've got some great

646
00:46:42,940 --> 00:46:45,740
history in our city how can we highlight that more what does

647
00:46:45,740 --> 00:46:49,200
council need to do in order to support that and promote that.

648
00:46:50,020 --> 00:46:54,460
So that ties into your discussion with the marker and our discussion today with the bridge.

649
00:46:54,900 --> 00:46:56,580
If he could come and we could have that dialogue.

650
00:46:56,780 --> 00:46:57,800
I'd love to have that.

651
00:46:59,300 --> 00:46:59,740
Awesome.

652
00:47:00,420 --> 00:47:00,740
Okay.

653
00:47:01,260 --> 00:47:03,600
Well, we've got 13 minutes.

654
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:04,200
Yes.

655
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:06,140
So we've got a moment here.

656
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:07,120
Our next meeting.

657
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:07,740
I'm sorry.

658
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:08,620
I should have pulled it up.

659
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:10,220
When's our next meeting?

660
00:47:10,540 --> 00:47:11,400
September 8, I believe.

661
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:11,840
Okay.

662
00:47:12,300 --> 00:47:13,300
We're going to go with it.

663
00:47:13,500 --> 00:47:14,960
Our next meeting will be September 8.

664
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:18,660
at 3 p.m. here in the training room meeting adjourned