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Good evening I'll call the thursday. August 27th. Uh 2026 meeting. Of the.
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>> transportation and. >> economic development. Corporation to order and we.
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call the roll. >> please president. Flores here. Vice president there.
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secretary villareal. Here. Board member bassi here. Board member. Mossman.
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>> board member. >> yvonne present. Board member sherwood here. Thank you.
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>> citizen communication. Anybody wishing. >> to address the board. Seeing
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none. That will take us to. Uh, approval of minutes. D1 consider approval of the
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minutes from the july 23rd. 2026 transportation. Economic development corporation
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meeting. Are there any questions on the minutes entertain a motion to adopt the
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minutes. Some of. Second I. Have a motion by uh board member basis second by.
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secretary will. Any other discussion. All right. >> all in.
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>> favor signify by raising your hand passes unanimously. Thank you. Resolutions e-1
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consider resolution approving a proposed amendment to the. Transportation capital.
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improvements program. Tcp to increase funding. For the following projects kenny fort
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boulevard segments five and six and white omen springs drive extension. Michael good
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evening. Uh, before. >> you is uh, an. Amendment number 56 to our.
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transportation capital plan. Uh, I'm going to give a little bit of an update.
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>> on some of the projects that are going on, uh, that are type b uh, funded. And then also
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talk about the. Two items here where we need additional right away money. The first.
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>> thing we do in transportation is. >> we do a master plan.
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>> of our city. Uh, we update this plan about every five years. It shows, uh, the
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projects. That we. >> need. >> uh, so that we can. Meet the
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future. Growth of our community. Uh, a lot of arterial roadways on here. And
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if you've been. Around town now there's a lot under. Construction, uh, in the city.
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but this is our roadmap. Uh, we take this. Plan and then we develop based on and it's based
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on, uh. Land use assumptions. Our projections of where the growth is going to happen.
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that's how we determine the roads that we need. Uh, and then we put a schedule on that
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and then we come before the board for financing for that. As you probably know, we
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leverage as many opportunities as we can. We talked to tax dot williamson county we have
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roadway impact fees. Uh we have the type b fund all that we come in we use as many of those
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funding options to leverage uh to be able to build these projects. Uh, today. Here is a
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list of six projects that are exactly seven seven projects that are under construction in
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the city. Uh, if you've been around town you see a lot of construction. So wyoming
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springs road second one this is on the west side. It's going from creek bend uh, heads north
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across brushy creek and ties in at old sellars boulevard and sam bass project is in its last
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month or so uh, about to be completed. We're planting trees out there and finishing up, uh,
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it's a four lane divided roadway at two bridges. Uh, it's gonna be a wonderful
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project that takes warming springs to there. Uh, and then we go wyoming springs extends
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through burns ranch and then we have a future project coming that's going to take that
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wyoming springs all the way to 1431. Uh, we're starting to work on that, uh, acquiring
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right away for that one county road 112 east and county road 112 west is on the east side of
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town, uh grimes and heads east all the way out to county road 110 uh, basically on the north
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side of paloma light mud. Uh, another nice roadway that's under construction. Uh, we'll
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be finishing up some time next year on that project on sellars boulevard extension. Uh, this
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is if you take out settlers past. Oh. >> settlers park heading east,
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you tend to redbud lane. Uh, right there we take old settlers head east all the
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way and tie it into counter 110 to the east. So some major arterials on the east side
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that's really going to help traffic flow. Uh that project uh basically right at the end
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we're pretty much finished with the road. We're waiting for the traffic signal at redbud and
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old settlers to be uh, worked on and then we'll be able to open up that road here really
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soon. Redbud lane north, uh, under construction. That's at 79 as you head north and you're
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on the east side of old settlers park and it goes all the way up to counter 117.
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uh, that's a four lane roadway that's under construction. Uh, still got at least about a year
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or so work there until we complete that road. Gary school road segment six. Uh, that's
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the far east project and get a school that takes us from via sonoma. East six lanes all the
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way to redbud lane at gaddis and redbud. Uh, started that project this past year. Uh,
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still got a little bit of work to do on that one probably another year year and a half of
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work there and then greenlawn boulevard uh, that's over there by by the district it ties
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that's going to make that roadway a three lane roadway each direction from 45 frontage
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road as you bend around back south westerly to the interstate frontage roads. Uh
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uh a lot of work going on there if you've been over there that's kind of a little war
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zone. Uh, but that'll be a nice little six lane road there when we finish. So these are all
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projects that the type b has helped fund. Uh, they're all moving and progressing in a
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very good way. Uh, and we'll get these projects done. So I want to give you an update on
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some of those. That's not all the projects that we have going on. We have a lot we have some
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traffic signal projects, roundabouts, right turn lanes, various things around the
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city uh, that we continue to work on so that we can manage the traffic flow in this city.
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as you all know roundabout continues to grow and and people are moving here every
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day. Back to the item before you uh, amendment number 56. Uh, we have two projects that
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are under design and we are looking for uh, additional right away money. Uh, we've
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come before the board uh, previously and we basically deposited or got approval for
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$2 million for each one of these projects for future right of way. Uh, we knew that was
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not enough, but we had not gotten into the project enough, did not know how many
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properties we needed to buy. So we've already been approved for $2 million each. And on next
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slide I'll kind of show you how much we're asking for for each one of these but the two are
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kenny fort boulevard segment five and six that is taking kenny forward. So kenny for
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today as you head north tees and the old sellers boulevard uh kenny fort five or we'll
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start there head north all the way up to that county road 112 I just mentioned and then kenny
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for it segment six will take it from 112 all the way up to uh, the john nelson property all
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the way up to uh university. Uh, both of these projects will really be uh they'll be three
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lane divided uh, just like you see on kenny fort heading south. So great projects. Uh,
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we need additional right away for that and then wyoming springs extension. I should.
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>> pull up the map so I can talk to it better. Here's the kenny fort five and six of five
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starts right here at all centers. Makes its way right up through here and ties in right
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there at county road 112 we are renaming that the avery nelson parkway. So avery nelson
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parkway is already in the uh where the the schools are at grounds and it'll extend all
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the way to the east to county road 110 and then beyond that through the subdivision to the
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east and then here's kenny fort six will start right here and head through the pasture in t
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and right here at university. Uh, kenny four it won't stop there. There's some, uh,
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developments that are going to be occurring to the north of my screen here uh, that we will
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extend kenny fort with those developments in the future. So that will take you all the way
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from the north side there all the way down to 45 kenny fort. We'll when this is all said and
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done. Wyoming springs extension I just mentioned that earlier. So the project we're completing
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is going up to sam base actually it's already built through barnes ranch right
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here. So we're taking this project right in here and we will be building this road from
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the north side appearance ranch all the way up here to 1431 city around rocky. It's only
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responsible for the right of way acquisition on this project. Williamson county is
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responsible for the design and construction. So, uh, we're working with the canyon that
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this property will be uh, we'll be negotiating with the sneads texas crest stone for this
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acquisition. So for those two projects what we're looking at uh, as I stated, there's
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already 2 million allocated for both of these. Uh, so it kenny four, five and six we're asking
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for ten more million. Uh, that'll get us to about 12 million total for the right of
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way acquisition needed for that project and then the warming springs extension the 2 million
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already plus the 5 million 5,500,000 will give us 7.5 million. Uh, with all these
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projects we start with some money, get approval to get it going. Uh, we bring it to get
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right away. Acquisition money will come before y'all for design money and then as we
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move through the project we get a better feel for how much we need. So that's why we come
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back two or 3 or 4 times on a given project. Uh, once we get through with design then we'll
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come before you with construction money. Uh, so that's kind of how the process
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works. So tonight we're asking for approval for 15.5 million for this amendment. I will say
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yesterday we had a meeting of all of our capital projects on transportation and we looked at
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them by fiscal year and we move some some projects are being delayed. So we moved them out
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and we were able to move out uh a little bit more than 15.5 million out on the other year.
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so by getting approval for this 15.5 it doesn't change our overall budget for fy 27 going
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forward. So that's just to kind of give you an idea we were able to move some money
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around to make this a little easier for the approval. So be happy to answer any.
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>> questions. Any questions from michael. All right. >> well thank you sir. Uh all.
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>> right entertain a motion to adopt resolution e1. Make a motion. Second.
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>> uh. >> I have. >> a first by, uh, secretary
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I'll second by board member bassey. Any other discussion? All in favor signify by raising
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your hand. It passes unanimously. Thank you. All right. And that brings us to
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the conclusion of the meeting. I did want to say, um, tonight is the, uh, last meeting of,
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uh, senator rick where we go uh ,it's the last meeting of, uh, board member privacy. It's the
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last meeting of, uh, vice president ryan. They're all so we. Certainly appreciate.
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>> your time and effort to be on this board and to contribute to the efforts of the city and,
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uh, on behalf of myself, city manager and and the rest of the city, we thank you for.
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>> your. Time and and dedication. There's no other for anybody want to comment.
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generally making the comments? No. >> it's been.
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>> a pleasure. Serving on the board. And uh. Meeting the different parties.
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>> in. The city. >> and. All the city staff. >> have done a great job and
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it's been a great experience. >> and. The city of red rocks and good hands. Thank you for
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your kind words. I've enjoyed enjoyed it. So all right. Well very good. Well then I think uh
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we are adjourned at 513. Thank you everybody.