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[0:13] Good afternoon and welcome to PDC. We're going to hand it over to Mr. Tom Martin for
[0:18] time for planning or a minute for planning or whatever your preference today, Tom.
[0:22] I think I'm supposed to still keep it to a minute.
[0:25] Okay.
[0:25] So we'll get going. Good afternoon, members of council. A couple of things you guys might be interested in is
[0:31] we've received a conditional use permit application for property on 802 Court Street.
[0:38] that property is going to be one they are proposing to convert it into four
[0:43] residential units. We've received a site plan proposing construction of a 3,180
[0:50] square foot car wash and parking improvements at 2735 Wards Road that's
[0:56] just below going south of the Wawa that's under construction. We had a
[1:03] subdivision plat for three lots at 5206 Tariana Road. Another subdivision plat
[1:09] proposing the creation of 60 lots for single-family homes at 5153 Boonesboro
[1:15] Road. The building permit for the Wawa at 101 Marigold Court which is
[1:22] Rose Hill has been issued. And then some neat things that we don't normally get
[1:27] to talk to you about is these are some condemned structures that are no
[1:32] longer condemned, one of which was due to a fire at 212
[1:38] Winhurst Drive. All of those repairs have been completed and
[1:42] that structure is no longer condemned. Also 1107 Polk Street
[1:48] that building had been condemned since 2025.
[1:53] All the renovations have been completed.
[1:57] 1714 Monroe Street, another condemned structure that those
[2:02] repairs have been done also no longer condemned and then a permit for 3102
[2:10] Memorial Avenue that was a fire earlier in April of this year I believe it might
[2:16] have been arson but they have pulled permits to renovate that building so a
[2:20] lot of good things going on thank you Tom yeah you know to Court Street which
[2:27] was zone b1 what is it zone now for the four residentials it's but it's
[2:32] zone to be worn, which is a limited business office.
[2:35] I'm looking for a CUP.
[2:37] By CUP, if approved by council, they
[2:40] could do the residential.
[2:41] Yes, sir.
[2:43] Any other questions from Mr. Martin?
[2:46] All right.
[2:46] Thank you so much.
[2:48] We are going to kick it over to Greg as we go,
[2:51] I'm assuming, Gainel.
[2:53] Yes, thank you.
[2:55] We have major project updates next for both public works
[2:57] and water resources.
[2:58] I think Clay Simmons is going to walk us through some,
[3:03] and Gaynell through others and I will turn it over to them so as they sort out which
[3:06] projects belong to which.
[3:10] Hello, Lee Newlin is on vacation so that's why I'm here in his stead to report on the
[3:15] transportation projects.
[3:17] The first one is Bedford Avenue, the total cost is $24 million.
[3:22] We do need some additional funding from VDOT, hopefully some smart scale funding in the
[3:26] amount of $8.8 million.
[3:28] We hope to start in spring of 27 and finish in winter of 29 or 30 where we've
[3:36] got a preliminary bridge report that is submitted to VDOT for review and once
[3:41] they approve that we'll be able to move on that will actually get the project
[3:47] back on time and back on budget once VDOT approves that and then we'll move
[3:52] on with the rest of the project. Basically this project is going to be
[3:56] replacing the bridge it's rated poor and we are going to add a sidewalk in that
[4:01] particular area.
[4:05] Breezewood drive improvements there are a total of ten
[4:08] point three million dollars by the way there is a map because I think Ms.
[4:12] Redeemer you liked the map so there's a map right there in front of you sorry I
[4:16] should have told you that of the project location so you know where
[4:20] they are.
[4:23] We've got additional funding of 486,000 through revenue sharing
[4:29] We anticipate construction to start in summer of 27 and finish in winter of
[4:35] 2029. We're in 60% design. We had a public hearing June 25th at Heritage
[4:42] Baptist Church and it was fairly well attended. It was workshop type event and
[4:48] there was about 20 people there along with our consulting engineer getting
[4:51] input from the public. This project will entail improving the pavement,
[4:56] adding sidewalks, increasing the lane width a little bit,
[5:02] and improving some of the drainage.
[5:05] And the project is currently on time and on budget.
[5:10] Fifth Street project is a $7.3 million project.
[5:14] It is fully funded.
[5:15] We are in the throes of construction right now.
[5:18] We anticipate finishing late this year
[5:21] or early next year in winter.
[5:24] We're working on underground utilities at this time.
[5:27] 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.
[5:35] And so we're hoping on that. This project will finish the Fifth Street corridor, all the improvements along this corridor.
[5:44] We're replacing utilities as needed, removing the concrete pavement and providing new asphalt, improving drainage, and also improving ADA access with improved sidewalks.
[5:58] This is a downtown renewal project. You'll hear a little bit more probably from Scott
[6:03] Parkins on this. We actually provide construction administration for this and
[6:08] we our part in this is to fund the actual streetscapes and I'll let Scott
[6:14] get into this. Our part of it on the public work side is about 6.1 million
[6:18] and that is just for street great scape improvements and those types of
[6:22] things. And I believe there's a ribbon cutting coming up here in July 21st so
[6:27] We're excited about that, and Main Street will be done.
[6:32] John Lynch Bridge, $7.2 million project.
[6:36] We started construction in winter.
[6:39] We anticipated it to be done in 2020 July of this 2026.
[6:44] The railings are underway now, and the project
[6:48] is going to be a little late.
[6:49] And there's a couple of things, reasons for that.
[6:52] The railings are behind because they're actually
[6:54] having to drill the holes onsite
[6:57] to make sure that they fit properly and that has slowed progress down tremendously.
[7:03] We also have some things on back order like ADA compliant plates for the bridge joints
[7:10] as well as inlet coverings so that it's safe for pedestrians. Those are back ordered.
[7:15] We still anticipate being done into August beginning of September for that project.
[7:25] 221, 501, 221 Intersection, $93 million project.
[7:30] You all are all very familiar with this project and we're really happy.
[7:34] We got the grant recently, the $24.9 million, that was huge for us.
[7:40] So that was a huge win for us.
[7:44] Now the project appears to be fully funded, so that's good news.
[7:48] and we have a public hearing scheduled August 20th at Heritage Baptist Church
[7:55] to move that project forward. The project is on time and on budget. We do have a
[8:00] pop-up scheduled for the work session today to recognize some of the public
[8:04] work staff who worked really hard on that grant. So I just wanted to let you
[8:07] guys know as we're going through this that that is planned for four o'clock
[8:10] for the full work session. The Hollins Mill Road Bridge, a $19.1
[8:17] million dollar project. It is rated poor. This hopefully will be fully funded
[8:23] with additional revenue sharing. We should start in fall of 2029. This should
[8:28] actually address the low water bridge that is a part of the trail so that
[8:33] that will improve that. That low water bridge is often not, you cannot use it
[8:39] because it's covered in water. So we plan to improve that. People will tend
[8:43] to cross the road there, little kids with bikes, crossing Hones Mill Road, so that's
[8:48] going to be a part of this improvement.
[8:49] So we will make a better access to the trail from there.
[8:54] The preliminary bridge report is being prepared now and then that will go to VDOT for approval
[8:59] and it is on time and on budget.
[9:02] And I will turn it over to Clay for his and I'll just keep clicking.
[9:06] If we could actually do a quick pause, I don't know if anybody else has questions.
[9:11] I always have questions.
[9:12] So I'll pause here. Does anyone have questions for gain now? Okay. All right
[9:16] I'm gonna run through just a couple really quick. Okay, and thank you so much for the updates here. This is awesome
[9:27] Oh, and I don't remember what that question was. We'll skip to this one. Okay
[9:33] so
[9:34] with
[9:35] Breezewood drive improvements, I'm just curious how we prioritize
[9:40] sidewalks and if that has to do with the revenue-sharing arrangement or why.
[9:45] Just because when I drive Breezewood Drive I don't typically see pedestrian
[9:49] traffic and maybe I'm missing it and I love sidewalks. I'd love to connect more
[9:54] of our sidewalks and I know Tom loves sidewalks. I love sidewalks but I'm not
[9:58] sure just from a fiscal standpoint if Breezewood Drive would be where I
[10:02] would typically prioritize it. So I'm just curious how that plays out when
[10:06] it comes to revenue-sharing the decisions that are made with that element.
[10:11] What happened with that is this was actually a three-phase project, and this last phase
[10:17] got eliminated.
[10:19] So we had intended to go all the way to the end of the project, which would have been
[10:23] at the apartments.
[10:24] And we have been getting complaints about not being able to walk.
[10:28] There are walkable places there, Aldi sheets.
[10:34] So there are places that you can walk.
[10:36] we have been getting complaints. Okay. This pavement is in poor condition, so we
[10:41] were going to have to do something. The drainage is in poor condition. We had to
[10:45] do something, so we prioritized this in the CIP as a complete transportation
[10:52] project and not just repaid it. Okay, that's helpful as far as thought
[10:56] process. I really appreciate that, and I'm a fan of multimodal. I was a bike
[11:02] commuter for years in the city which is a lot friendlier to bikes now and then
[11:09] with Hollins Mill Bridge lighting is their opportunity for and I don't know
[11:16] how that would play into this project per se but the lighting has been a real
[11:21] struggle at least for me I know Kurt likes to complain about his old eyes I
[11:25] think I'm gonna have a new prescript here when I go in so lighting along in
[11:30] there what can be done to just increase visibility as well as kind of that
[11:36] multi-modal element with pedestrians. Yeah I think what what we'll do is I will
[11:42] pass this on to Lee Newlin and we can definitely consider that as a part of
[11:46] the project. We are just in preliminary design so this is the time to make
[11:51] suggestions like that so as we move through design that we can look at what
[11:54] we can do to improve the lighting through there. Okay that would be
[11:57] 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.
[12:04] Yeah. Okay. I would definitely pass that along. Yeah, just with the trees, it gets really shadowy.
[12:10] And there have been people walking, and it's really hard to see people walking at dusk and at night.
[12:17] Okay. I think that's all I had other than the congratulations on 501-221.
[12:22] one. But I'm sorry. It was the last of the bridge on House
[12:28] Monroe. When was that last done? Oh gosh, I couldn't really tell
[12:33] you quite honestly. Obviously now since I've been deputy director
[12:38] assistant director. So that's about all I can tell you. But it
[12:41] is in poor condition. So we definitely need to do something
[12:44] with it. We're just taking that opportunity to improve the
[12:47] access. Yeah. Excellent. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Okay. Good afternoon. Thank you for
[12:54] having me here today. I'm talking about Miller Park pool for a second. The project
[13:00] consists of the removal and replacement of the pool along with some minor
[13:07] interior innovations to the existing pool house. Total cost of the project is
[13:13] $10.5 million, it's fully funded.
[13:17] Anticipate start construction start
[13:19] is going to be summer of this year.
[13:23] Anticipated construction finish will be summer of next year.
[13:28] And we are just now wrapping up design.
[13:31] The project is out for bid, so we're
[13:33] in sort of that transitional phase.
[13:35] With the project, we expect to have bids back next week.
[13:39] and currently the project is on time and on budget.
[13:56] There we go.
[13:58] Talking about the, moving on to the public library
[14:01] renovation, total cost is $12.2 million.
[14:05] Construction is fully funded.
[14:08] The FF&E was approved in the FY 27 budget.
[14:12] Construction started March of 2026.
[14:15] The anticipated construction finish is summer of 2027.
[14:21] We are under construction currently, well underway with the notice proceed being issued March of
[14:27] 2026. Currently the project is on time and it's on budget.
[14:35] Those are my two, I believe.
[14:38] Any questions?
[14:41] Yes, sir. That got released. We'd be happy to get it back to you. We put out
[14:47] about a public notice for that, showing the latest concept design, be happy to send that
[14:55] to you again.
[14:56] Thank you.
[14:57] If I went to, like, Splash Valley or something, and...
[15:00] County the other day and just see what they had. I'm trying to make a comparison of what they had
[15:04] which is a county project versus what we're doing here in Lynchburg. So I'll just I'll look at that
[15:08] when I get another copy of it. Sure. Thanks. Appreciate it. Thanks so much and we'll hand it
[15:14] over to Mr. Tim Mitchell.
[15:20] It's my pleasure to give you an update along with Scott Parkins of
[15:24] the major capital projects for water resources. A quick update on the Blackwater CSO tunnel.
[15:29] tunnel. We just finished the drill and blast operations, so we're all the way to the end
[15:36] of the tunnel now with the excavation that wrapped up on Saturday. And now the next step
[15:42] with the tunnel excavation would be the shaft going vertically to a long point of
[15:50] honor trail up near Hollins Mill Road for the drop shaft for the sewage and storm
[15:56] wanted to drop into the tunnel. So that will be ongoing here soon. There's a lot of activity
[16:03] at that end of the tunnel as well. The project is on schedule and on budget. So we are moving
[16:11] ahead very well with a big project with no issues really. I mean it's a pretty amazing
[16:19] project that we've gone this far with really relatively few issues.
[16:26] led service line inventory. This is the city-wide project that y'all are pretty
[16:34] well aware of because of all the discussions we've had related to it but
[16:37] we are currently trying to identify all the unknown service lines in the city
[16:44] about 18,000 privately owned and about another 2,400 publicly owned lines that
[16:49] we do not know the material of. We are out working throughout the city to
[16:56] excavate small test pits to identify the material. We're also plugging that
[17:03] information into, it's called machine learning, it's a computer program basically
[17:08] that will help us to reduce the number of test pits we have to do once we get
[17:14] enough data. So we'll use that to help identify the service lines and the
[17:21] the Virginia Department of Health has approved that process. As far as the cost of it, we're
[17:30] in the $10 million phase now. We recently were awarded the $15 million that we've discussed
[17:35] with you previously. We anticipate the total project cost over the next 10 years of being
[17:41] around $30 to $35 million. So we still have a ways to go. We'll see how that progresses
[17:48] as we identify the number of lead service lines and lines that need to be replaced.
[17:55] Dreaming Creek Anderson? Yes.
[17:59] How is this impacting citizens in Lynchburg?
[18:02] What is your feedback and what kind of participation are you getting in the
[18:06] identifying of things? Is it what you anticipated or?
[18:10] Pretty much. We've had some citizens that express concerns about
[18:16] even the General Assembly gave us authorization
[18:18] to excavate a small test pit on their property.
[18:23] We've had some concerns, not a lot, but a handful.
[18:29] And we're trying to address those individually.
[18:31] If the customers are really opposed to it, we will move on
[18:35] and try to address that later and figure out another way
[18:38] to identify the service line material.
[18:41] So overall, relatively good feedback.
[18:44] And again, when we find a lead service line or a galvanized line that needs to be replaced,
[18:53] the funding will cover the cost of replacing those on the private side as well as the public
[18:58] side.
[18:58] So that will be part of our plan.
[19:01] Once we identify them all, then next October we have to submit a replacement plan of how
[19:06] we're going to proceed through the city replacing all the service lines.
[19:09] Is there a map on the GIS system that allows you to see where the pipes have been identified?
[19:15] Yes.
[19:15] Is that out there?
[19:16] Okay.
[19:16] I just didn't look, but it didn't.
[19:17] Yeah.
[19:18] And basically you can pull up any address in the city.
[19:22] A lot of them are still unknown, but the ones that have been identified, there's a
[19:26] circle that has two halves of it.
[19:28] One half is color-coded indicating the material type on the private side and one half is
[19:33] color-coded indicating the material type on the city side.
[19:37] And the big picture, can you do it just by individual address or can you see the whole you can see the whole
[19:43] When you're zoomed out and see the whole thing you just see a bunch of little dots
[19:49] It's hard to tell but you can zoom in specifically and see individual addresses as well
[19:58] Dreaming Creek Interceptor this is the the project that we're working on jointly with Campbell County
[20:04] Utilities and Service Authority because of the additional capacity that they need in
[20:09] the age of the interceptor.
[20:10] They're actually funding about 56% of the cost of this project, so it's a $9.2 million
[20:16] project and it's currently under design and we'll be working to acquire the easements
[20:22] that we need over the next year.
[20:26] We anticipate construction start sometime in the winter of 2028 with about an 18-month
[20:34] construction period with completion around fall of 2029 yes
[20:41] you probably heard
[20:45] me do my dreaming about Dreaming Creek bike path to follow along same lines as
[20:51] the center stuff there is there any way we can design this project in order to
[20:58] make it efficient and less expensive if in the future a future council decides
[21:04] to turn that into a bike path of some type?
[21:07] We can, as we're developing the easements for it, potentially we could, usually the easements
[21:15] identify the specific use of the easement.
[21:18] We could potentially add a trail or bike path or whatever, I don't know how, some property
[21:27] owners would be favorable to that, others maybe not so much, but we could certainly
[21:33] explore that as an option so that the easements would be at least in place to proceed forward
[21:38] with it.
[21:39] If somebody wanted to do it, it would be not another brand new redoing the wheel.
[21:44] Right.
[21:44] And we'll have to look a little bit at the alignment of the sewer line, too, to see
[21:48] if it makes sense to have a path over the top of it.
[21:52] We would have to be able to have access, so it should be accessible.
[21:58] So it certainly was something we could work with.
[22:00] They put the accesses off to the side of the bike path, but the only real obstruction is
[22:08] Dreamy Creek Road.
[22:09] That one would be probably the most expensive part of a project like that.
[22:13] But how are you all dealing with that for the interceptor pipe?
[22:20] So the road crossings would be, I think we're deciding that to be warrings, as
[22:25] you said.
[22:26] So we wouldn't be.
[22:27] You don't tear up the road at all.
[22:28] Don't tear up the road.
[22:29] They'll be tunneled underneath the roadway.
[22:33] So we would probably need a similar path,
[22:37] like what goes over there, Holland's Mill,
[22:40] which I think they built in the 80s, if I remember right,
[22:42] because I used to bike that all the time.
[22:45] But that would probably be the way
[22:47] to get past that obstacle on Dreaming Creek
[22:50] if somebody ever wanted to do it.
[22:52] We can certainly bring up the suggestion to the design team.
[22:57] and Campbell County is involved in this as well so I don't know if I don't know
[23:02] that there'd be any additional costs maybe a little with the easement
[23:05] acquisition and I would imagine that would fall to the city since that would
[23:10] be a city benefit but but we can bring it up to the design team and report back
[23:16] next time we do a capital project. I'd like to know what the additional cost
[23:19] is and in any way we can anticipate potentials that we could save a little
[23:25] a little bit now to save a whole lot later.
[23:28] Okay.
[23:28] Make a little bit now to save a whole lot later.
[23:30] All right, sounds good.
[23:33] I'm gonna turn it over to Scott
[23:34] to talk about the Abert water filtration plant, please.
[23:38] Okay, thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the council.
[23:43] So the Abert is one of the two city water treatment plants
[23:46] that serves primarily the western half of the city.
[23:49] The plant was constructed in 1974, 75 timeframe,
[23:53] So it's got about a 50 year life on it right now and we did a preliminary engineering report
[24:00] and have come up with some areas that need to be upgraded on it.
[24:04] Some of the items that have been identified of concern such as the pumps,
[24:09] we're looking at doing operational funding to basically remove the pumps,
[24:13] get them refurbished.
[24:14] But there are several capital concerns that we do have that are going to be scheduled
[24:19] in the next five to eight years, looks like 2033,
[24:24] with the raw water pump station at Abert
[24:26] and the plant itself.
[24:29] So currently we're looking at about five
[24:31] significant projects over the next eight years here,
[24:34] the first of which is the raw water pump station
[24:38] influence screens off the James River, which is used
[24:42] when we have to pump from the James River
[24:44] due to peddler water levels being low
[24:46] or if there's an emergency situation
[24:48] on the raw water line that requires us to use the James River.
[24:52] So we deem that as our highest priority project.
[24:55] The other projects include chemical feed system improvements,
[25:00] concrete and structural repairs and masonry repairs to the building itself,
[25:06] electrical and control improvements at the water plant,
[25:09] and then lastly a generator and electrical improvements at the pump station.
[25:15] Combined it's about $27 million estimated cost and again this will be split up over about eight years of the capital program.
[25:24] Currently we are in design for the raw water pump station influence screen and the chemical feed systems.
[25:31] 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.
[25:41] We already talked a little bit about the Main Street East Renewal Project, which I'm very
[25:46] happy to say we are in the final stages of.
[25:50] It looks like that we're going to be doing the striping this week on the road.
[25:54] We've got final pavement down.
[25:57] All the concrete work is done, utility work is done, so we should be reopening the
[26:01] road either Friday or Monday.
[26:03] I'm going to be conservative and say it'll probably be Monday.
[26:07] But it's a big milestone.
[26:08] I know everybody has been waiting for this day and we have as well.
[26:15] It looks like that we are going to be about $500,000 underneath the contractor's guaranteed
[26:22] maximum price.
[26:23] So we're going to be saving a little bit of money with the city here.
[26:28] I'm saying that the work is 99.5% complete.
[26:31] We do have some plantings that need to go back in the last phase of the work that
[26:36] And obviously this is not the time of year to do planning, so they'll be coming back
[26:39] in September or October to just do a little bit of wrap up work there.
[26:46] Richland Hills sewer, we are well into that project as well.
[26:52] Currently they are working continuously on the sewer and the water connections, water
[26:58] replacements and connections.
[27:00] We have a spend deadline in November and looks like our anticipated construction
[27:05] finish is going to be in October at this point.
[27:08] So I think we should be able to meet the spend deadline for the ARPA funds that are on the project
[27:13] So I'm calling this on time and we are on budget with this one as well
[27:20] The next phase of our sewer extension program is going to be reaching out into the Maple Hills area
[27:28] So we've got currently a combined water and sewer
[27:31] 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
[27:38] It's actually going to probably be a series of projects starting with
[27:43] construction in spring of 2027. We're about 50% complete on the design phase
[27:49] of that project right now. So this will be hitting the areas such as Maple
[27:53] Hills, Drive, Wayne, Bryant, Westburg over in that area of the city.
[28:03] One of
[28:03] our two ongoing water line replacement projects is over in the Daniels Hill
[28:08] area. We just started construction with that with Council and Dobbins back in May, so we're
[28:15] very early on in the construction, not even 25% complete yet, but I think we've already
[28:21] got at least one of the roads. The water line is complete on one of the roads, and they're
[28:25] working on services there on Norwood Drive. So we're looking at an anticipated finish
[28:31] of around October 2027 for that. Everything seems to be going very well on that project
[28:37] project right now. We do have a second phase of the Daniels Hill Improvement Projects.
[28:42] We're calling the north segment. That project is in design phase right now. It is currently
[28:47] at about 90% design. What my anticipation is, is that that project will follow after
[28:54] we complete the south section, so there won't be overlapping of the two projects.
[29:01] The second ongoing water line replacement project is over on Fillmore, Buchanan,
[29:06] and Pierce Streets. That one started in January of 2026. Anticipated completion is in July of
[29:14] 2027. We've got about 25% of the work complete. I think it's probably actually a little bit more
[29:21] than that now. That was probably last month. One thing that we did hit over the last couple
[29:28] weeks on that project, it does include three blocks of work on 11th Street and our bugaboo
[29:35] has been the trolley track system, the old trolley track system that's underneath some
[29:39] of the city streets.
[29:41] We were not aware of it under these in the design, and when we hit it, it became an
[29:46] issue of going back to the designer, looking what we could do to alter any design to get
[29:52] it out so that we don't have to go under the trolley tracks.
[29:55] But unfortunately, that street is very clogged up with existing utilities.
[30:00] We are looking at a change order of about 300,000 for the removal of the trolley tracks for three blocks.
[30:09] And the concrete base that they're on as well.
[30:12] Yes, yeah.
[30:14] The next project is the next phase of the downtown renewal, which is going to be, we're calling it Phase 5,
[30:21] the fifth project, and it's going to be taking place on Court Street between Fifth and Ninth Street.
[30:27] We are currently about 50% complete on the design.
[30:31] We're looking at wrapping it up by the end of this year on the design side of things
[30:36] for a spring 2027 construction schedule.
[30:40] This project will be a little bit different than the other downtown projects
[30:44] where we saw extensive street removal and rebuilding.
[30:48] This project is really targeting utilities mostly.
[30:52] We are doing a little bit of repair on the streets and the sidewalks
[30:56] but it's not gonna be nearly as comprehensive
[30:58] as what you've seen on the other downtown phases.
[31:01] So it's primarily gonna be funded
[31:04] through the water resources side of things.
[31:07] There'll be a little bit of public works
[31:08] general fund money on it, but mostly water resources.
[31:13] And I think that covers everything.
[31:15] So, questions?
[31:20] Now, Main Street.
[31:22] So the completion is this month, you said?
[31:25] Yes, we should be wrapping it up this week, actually.
[31:27] That's amazing. So happy. Thank you for that. Appreciate it. Thank you very much.
[31:32] What did y'all switch from the black polyline to the blue polyline?
[31:38] Water lines. On the water lines? Yes. I noticed that.
[31:41] Okay. So in years past we've used
[31:45] copper for water service lines and ductile iron
[31:49] for the main lines. We're still requiring ductile iron, which is the black
[31:53] for the main lines, but we do allow PVC or HPE for service lines.
[31:58] We changed a couple of years ago to allow a cheaper option from Copper.
[32:03] And so that's what you're seeing a lot of the plastic and the blue is the service lines
[32:07] going to the meters.
[32:09] Okay.
[32:09] I was just curious.
[32:10] Yeah.
[32:11] All right.
[32:12] So I can run it any time I want.
[32:15] That's right.
[32:16] Okay.
[32:17] All right.
[32:18] Any further questions?
[32:19] All right.
[32:19] Thank you so much.
[32:20] Thank you.
[32:21] Thank you.
[32:23] All right. Moving on to information item number three. We get Tom back. Hey, welcome back, Mr. Martin.
[32:31] 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.
[32:41] So I'll hand it over to Mr. Demer and Mr. Martin.
[32:44] Just very briefly, as Councillor Simmer just mentioned, there has been a request to name
[32:52] the Odd Fellows Road Bridge over 460 in memory of Earl Lee Brooks Sr.
[32:59] Mr. Brooks passed away in July 2010.
[33:02] I learned a lot about him this week, an interesting gentleman, and I believe one of his sons
[33:07] is with us this evening, but he was known as the Earl of Lynchburg.
[33:11] He raced in what is now the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series from 1962 to 1979, raced in hundreds of races.
[33:22] Excuse me.
[33:26] No
[33:47] hurry.
[33:48] You want me to jump in and pinch that for you?
[33:51] Sure.
[33:52] I do appreciate Tom doing this.
[33:55] I passed out a informational material to everybody here today.
[33:59] just this did come to me from from Dave Falwell initially and it's nice to see a
[34:05] family member here as well. There's definitely community interest in this
[34:09] and I've been approached by quite a few folks in Ward 3 that I represent. Being a
[34:15] big NASCAR fan I was kind of excited about this as well for that reason but
[34:23] the mayor corrected me this is not a renaming this is a naming there is no
[34:27] on the current name if I'm correct about that.
[34:32] The bridge is part of the Virginia Department transportation
[34:34] system.
[34:36] If council desires, we would need to have council
[34:41] pass a resolution requesting the Commonwealth Transportation
[34:45] Board.
[34:46] Thank you so much.
[34:48] It's
[34:51] heck getting old, isn't it?
[34:52] So the council would need to pass a resolution
[34:58] requesting that the Commonwealth Transportation Board
[35:01] name the bridge in memory of Mr. Brooks.
[35:05] As part of that resolution,
[35:07] Council would also need to agree to pay the cost
[35:10] of preparing and installing the signs.
[35:13] That's approximately $1,000,
[35:15] probably a little less than that
[35:17] and those signs would be installed by VDOT.
[35:21] So what we're looking for from PDC is direction.
[35:25] If you'd like for us to prepare that resolution, we would have it on your next work session agenda.
[35:33] Well, that would be real helpful. Thank you.
[35:36] They've also gone out and gotten petition signatures from local citizens.
[35:42] A significant number. You'll see that in your packet as well.
[35:45] If you have any questions, I
[35:51] look forward to meeting you after this is over with, hopefully.
[35:54] I hope you'll hang around and if y'all have any questions now it's a great time
[36:00] you got all the folks here that are interested that might be able to answer
[36:05] some of them it seems like a worthy request in my estimation so that's why
[36:09] I'm happy to get behind it and support you in this endeavor.
[36:15] Apparently his
[36:16] garage was pretty much right underneath that bridge at one point. That's very
[36:23] interesting that's what earlier today Mr. Patrick Ford to do some information
[36:28] prepared by Ted Delaney up at the museum system okay awesome I didn't see that
[36:33] yet so yeah that was one of the things okay that was Ted's always on top of the
[36:38] history I love it I believe also one of his race suits is in the museum so is
[36:44] that right display currently or not but I think it was for
[36:53] for a while as part of a sportsman's exhibit, I believe,
[36:57] but of that information in some of the research that Ted did.
[37:03] Thank you.
[37:08] Well, I believe you're looking for a motion for a recommendation
[37:11] to bring it for a work session?
[37:12] Or, I mean, Kurt's able to agenda-wise, so I'm not sure.
[37:16] Right, so I think we'll have this on the next work
[37:18] session agenda, and then we'll go from there.
[37:20] Thank you.
[37:20] Appreciate it.
[37:22] And I apologize for my voice.
[37:24] Not at all.
[37:25] Thank you so much.
[37:26] As a guy with a bad voice, I'm very empathetic about that.
[37:29] All right, moving on to general business, we have two items today.
[37:34] Both will come forward for a public hearing, so we're not going to...
[37:37] Oh, no?
[37:38] Well, good news on item five.
[37:39] Okay.
[37:40] In that there's recent court filing that identified both the administrator
[37:45] and the sole heir for the peace property on Florida Avenue.
[37:49] So I sent an email out this morning, subsequent to that email,
[37:52] So we actually got confirmation that the administrator has agreed to accept the offer for the right
[38:04] of way and we're preparing the documentation now to have that signed and we should need
[38:08] to go down this path at all.
[38:09] So we've removed the item from this agenda and then also from the agenda later this
[38:14] evening.
[38:15] So great news.
[38:16] Great news.
[38:18] Connected to the dots now.
[38:19] That was what we were trying to do.
[38:21] Yeah.
[38:21] Exactly.
[38:22] Okay.
[38:23] All right.
[38:23] So agenda item number four, and my understanding is this is coming for public hearing, and
[38:29] so we're not going to make a motion on it today, but awesome, thank you.
[38:34] So Liberty University has approached us.
[38:36] They would like to take fiber optic up to their new dorm that they're renovating now.
[38:42] They're taking it from their property on University Boulevard, and there's a map
[38:48] over there that it's so small.
[38:49] that's why I printed you one it's difficult to read but the vertical road
[38:53] is Candler's Mountain Road the road to the left is University Boulevard headed
[38:58] to the University and this other road is actually in access to the shopping
[39:04] center that is owned by LU Holdings so they're fiber optic from their property
[39:10] they want to bore under Candler's Mountain Road about 108 feet and then
[39:16] And up to their property, which is the new dorm for them to have fiber optic.
[39:21] It shouldn't hurt traffic in any way or impede traffic in any way.
[39:26] And so we are asking, we are going to be coming and having a public hearing to have a license agreement with them for
[39:32] them to provide fiber optic to that dorm.
[39:34] And that's the just of this request today.
[39:38] And it will come again in August.
[39:40] Any questions from Ms. Hardy?
[39:44] Thank you, ma'am.
[39:46] Thank you, thank you.
[39:49] Okay, roll call.
[39:51] Yeah, roll call.
[39:53] Dr. Wader?
[39:54] Okay, I had a great fun at home office.
[39:56] Someone called about some situation on Table Street,
[39:59] some high rush stand that's on the abandoned property.
[40:03] It's been abandoned for years.
[40:04] I'll give you the address afterwards.
[40:06] I just have to send us through an email yet, so quickly.
[40:09] But they've just said it's been vacant for several years.
[40:11] Press have passed away.
[40:12] No answer in the community.
[40:13] 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
[40:21] But I'll give you the address later. It's on Taylor 15th and Taylor Street, and I was referenced to early Brooks
[40:26] I wasn't aware of him. So thank you for the information. I wasn't aware
[40:30] The mic when I look into maybe a historical marker as well. I'm gonna take the lady can check into that
[40:34] We don't have this white anymore who was who was amazing in and get a historical marker
[40:39] because I was a rock community, but it just,
[40:41] but Ted can't tell you if it was,
[40:43] it was a candidate for something of that nature.
[40:44] Okay.
[40:45] I'm going to throw a marker,
[40:45] but I'll be talking to Ted Delaney
[40:47] in front of his team and they can look into that.
[40:49] That's all I have.
[40:50] Thank you.
[40:51] I remember when that movie, Grease Lightning,
[40:53] came out back in the, what is it, early 80s,
[40:57] I watched it and moved in.
[41:00] Him and no Richard Prow, who played Wendell Scott.
[41:03] Right.
[41:04] They were partners.
[41:06] And no, Grease just played my dad.
[41:12] My dad was very close and a good friend, very good friend.
[41:17] Did your dad run moonshine with Windows?
[41:19] No, my dad did not run with Windows.
[41:22] That's before the party was raised.
[41:24] My dad was my friend.
[41:29] You don't have to answer these questions.
[41:32] Just so you know.
[41:33] We had fun.
[41:35] He was dead, son of his moonshine, so I got to keep the claim up, but they were very close.
[41:44] And yes, that movie was actually written in the living room of our home.
[41:51] The movie company came in with big, real to real recorders, and Wendell and my dad
[41:57] sat on their cell phone and told stories of things that happened to him.
[42:01] Of course when he got to Hollywood or where they kind of changed the things around the head to probably
[42:09] That's good. It's good to meet you. Thank you. It's good to meet you all and
[42:13] Thank you for the support. I just really love it. It tickles me to death
[42:20] We lived our whole life was right there where the bridge was the shop was there the house was there
[42:28] The whole family, the grandmothers, the grandfather and everything lived there, and the whole deal.
[42:35] And the race shop, you know, he'd run the races out of there, and he also, he supported Lynchburg
[42:45] very big on this race car, on the back of it, I don't know if you have any pictures
[42:51] or whatever, but it was, see the historical James River in Lynchburg, Virginia, everything
[43:00] on the call, you know, and it was, he would present the Chamber of Commerce gave him litigia
[43:11] and he would hand out that litigia in different places down through the, we raced everywhere
[43:16] were from Daytona to Oxford, Maine to Riverside, California.
[43:23] It was just everyone.
[43:25] And he would spread it out.
[43:27] He was very proud of his city.
[43:31] When he was elected into the Sports Hall of Fame in Lynchburg,
[43:37] that was so meaningful to him.
[43:39] And he just broke down.
[43:41] That was the greatest news he had ever gotten, I believe.
[43:47] 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.
[43:56] 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.
[44:06] But is there been any efficiencies or just the ability to get those into a pipeline and
[44:17] then track when they're done?
[44:18] Has anything happened or is there still using the same system pretty much?
[44:22] Yeah, and that's an APCO system and at this point I don't think they have any new technology
[44:28] beyond what they had last time we were here.
[44:31] I know we are pushing them very hard on both reporting, being able to provide us with reports
[44:40] of what's out and what's not and what's been reported, and then getting everything done
[44:46] quickly that we report to them.
[44:48] Okay.
[44:49] I don't know if this is possible, but maybe what we do is we more prominently link
[44:54] back to the app code system on our side of things, that if there's any way to...
[45:00] To bump it up in visibility a little bit, give it a logo, or AI will make it all in 10 seconds
[45:09] for you. You know, something about, this is the fastest, bestest way to do it, and I think
[45:18] the closure thing is still the part I would love to get solved, that we can see when the
[45:24] job was done without the citizen going back out and calling back up their city
[45:30] councilman and the city councilman says well that's good and everything okay but
[45:35] it's the ones that that seemed to languish for several months got it
[45:40] brought razor to the attention that it was and now since we don't have
[45:44] anything new maybe we can just make it a little more prominent on the city
[45:48] side of things promoted a little bit. That would be really helpful.
[45:55] That's it.
[45:57] I've got one item and I'll bring it up in roll call with the work session as
[46:01] well just because that's when the constituent will probably watch but if
[46:06] if Ted Delaney would be up for doing maybe a presentation on one the
[46:11] cemetery again and any development that has happened there but also there
[46:18] are some historical sites in Lynchburg that are listed with the state and also
[46:22] nationally but aren't necessarily recognized on the city website. And so my
[46:28] understanding from Kent is that when it comes to the city recognizing a site
[46:34] there's usually some kind of land use tie to that and so I just like to
[46:39] understand that in a fuller dialogue as far as you know we've got some great
[46:42] history in our city how can we highlight that more what does
[46:45] council need to do in order to support that and promote that.
[46:50] So that ties into your discussion with the marker and our discussion today with the bridge.
[46:54] If he could come and we could have that dialogue.
[46:56] I'd love to have that.
[46:59] Awesome.
[47:00] Okay.
[47:01] Well, we've got 13 minutes.
[47:04] Yes.
[47:04] So we've got a moment here.
[47:06] Our next meeting.
[47:07] I'm sorry.
[47:07] I should have pulled it up.
[47:09] When's our next meeting?
[47:10] September 8, I believe.
[47:11] Okay.
[47:12] We're going to go with it.
[47:13] Our next meeting will be September 8.
[47:14] at 3 p.m. here in the training room meeting adjourned