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afternoon and welcome. Good afternoon and welcome. This time I would like to commit some of our Suffolk City Council work session, and our first item is the galley, pardoned, imagination, library, Mr. Hughes.

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Good afternoon Mayor, Vice Mayor and members of Council, Clint Rudy, our director of libraries will provide overview on this program.

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Mayor of Vice Mayor, Mr. Deputy City Manager.

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I'm very excited to be here today to notify all of you that we have launched

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Dalai Partens of Management Library in the City of Suffolk.

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I can tell you that this and the new downtown library are the

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questions I've gotten over the past 11 years of when are you going to do these things?

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So I wanted to take the time to share information about the

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exciting and impactful opportunity for our community.

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As you may know, a Dolly Parton grew up in rural eastern Tennessee

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in extreme poverty.

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She had 11 siblings and they lived in a one room cabin.

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They eventually did move to a little bit of a larger cabin

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and you can actually see that building at Dollywood.

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Her father never learned to read her right

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and is the inspiration for the imagination library

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to get books into the hands of children.

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In addition to being a Grammy award-winning songwriter, singer, actress, as well as business

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person, Dolly Parton, is also a philanthropist.

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In 1988, she founded the Dolly Parton Foundation, and this focused on her rural community,

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and one of her focuses for her foundation has been literacy, and that expanded to getting books

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into the hands of children and the program started with mailing them to every child in her community

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from birth to their fifth birthday. She later expanded that to the entire state of Tennessee

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to the country and it's now active in five countries.

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In 2023, one in eight children receive a book

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mail to them in their home from this program that is 12% of children under the age of five.

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So, the goal of this is to get books into the hands of children with the idea that it will inspire literacy for them but also encourage families to read together.

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This is a partnership with the Early Childhood Development Commission and the Suffolk Public Library.

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Funding is provided in the Early Childhood Commission Development Commission's budget with 50% of the costs coming from the state.

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two years ago, they passed the General Assembly,

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passed a bill in the governor's sign,

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to provide 50% for any community that participated.

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So, how does it work?

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Parents or caregivers can register on this site

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from the child's birth to their fifth birthday.

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They have to be a suffoc resident

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in order to qualify to participate in our program.

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They will get a book,

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mail to them, personalized each month to their home.

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there are options to get a Braille or audio book as well. Each child receives the same book,

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so it's a kind of a community feel of everyone getting the same book every month,

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and those titles are listed on their website, and they are chosen by

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I'm Dolly Parton's specific Blue Ribbon Committee that works with her foundation.

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To choose the titles.

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The first book that you received is a special customized edition of the classic version of the little engine that could, along with a letter from Dolly Parton, welcoming the child to the program and encouraging them to continue to read and the joy that that brings.

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The last book on their fifth birthday is a special graduation book, and it's a special customized edition of Lookout Kindergarten, here I come.

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And it contains a letter from Dolly Parton, thanking them for participating as well as encouraging

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them to continue to read and enjoy school.

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And this initiative is really about providing an impact to the community, getting a book

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into the hands of children.

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And I'm pleased to report we already have 500 children signed up so far.

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And I want to thank you for your support of this initiative for educating our community.

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I also want to thank the friends of the library for being the required non-profit sponsor as well as the early childhood development commission members in the library advisory board and I also want to provide a special thanks to the Suffolk Postal Service

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which has been really supportive and they're really excited about this because they're going to do all the work of delivering these books each month.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Mr. Chair. Can you answer one of your questions or comments?

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Please make a word.

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How are you?

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Uh, you think we can get it here for a grand opening?

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It's part in here, probably part in here for a grand opening.

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That would be great.

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I think it's outside of our budget, but thank you.

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Thank you, big.

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I mean, we don't know.

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We got time.

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That would be great.

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Can somebody bend it?

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Yes.

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Thank you.

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On the, uh, how did you in the QR code to register?

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And how did the information get out to the public about how they can get children.

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of children, they would be interested in doing this.

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I think it's a great program.

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By the way, I think it's very good that

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he started a very, very young age.

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And I think that means a lot.

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So do you have any way of how you advertise

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and I didn't information out?

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Sure, great question.

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So marketing is a big part of this initiative.

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The Dolly Parton Foundation provides the logistical support

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They provide the advertising templates, provide the template for the press release, and then we have to pay for the actual purchase of the book, which they negotiate, also prices because of the bulk purchasing and then the mailing.

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So they provide a lot of support for us, so we have the templates already to go.

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And the QR code actually goes to our FAQ on our website because we have people have a lot of questions about it.

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And so it takes them to that which will take you to their website, they handle all the registration.

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and we're planning especially partnering with ECDC,

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early childhood development commission.

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We're going to send it to all of the

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possibly 50 registered child care centers,

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and we're already posted on peach star for the schools,

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so we can get the word out to the school students,

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and then we're going to of course promote in the library

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on social media and then work with the Department of Communications

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to put it on city, municipal channel,

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and other places as well.

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And we just released the press release yesterday.

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Okay, thank you.

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because my other concern where a lot of might not have computer or a way of going to the

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app phone where they can go to do that. So I was just concerned about making it available

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for those that didn't have that technology. And they can always come to the library and staff

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can help them or they can use one of our computers. Okay. Thank you. Sure. Thank you.

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Councilman, any other questions or comments?

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If not, Mr. Riri, I'm very excited about this program.

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I did have a question.

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I saw that, you know, that'd be less than five years old.

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Zero to five.

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One book a month is, does each child just get that for a year?

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Or if you're a year old, do you get it for four more years?

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Every month?

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Yes, so you have potential for 60 bucks.

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That's a lot of books.

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Well, I can tell you that my wife being a former kindergarten teacher shows used to comment

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on the different levels of knowledge that kids have their first day of school.

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And that's because of what they receive at home.

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And this program here puts books in folks' homes.

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So, hopefully, with that being the case, I mean, the parents are reading the books to the kids.

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I mean, that's one thing my mother did, we had these little golden books and you got the pick one and everything like she read a book.

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So, I think this is also going to help, you know, in our school system and help prepare the kids better for when they go to kindergarten.

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Other thought I had just off the cuff was, this is going to be a lot of books floating around.

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Do you think it would be worthwhile to have a project that kind of repurposes those books after a while,

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and we could maybe get those books into the schools on a permanent basis, or a recycle them,

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some other way, because that amount of how many people are going to enroll.

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But if there's just like you said, if there's a book a month for four or five months, I mean, four or five years.

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I mean, that's 48-60 books, so just a thought for the future.

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Yeah, that's a great idea to kind of do a recycling drive for people to bring the books

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different places around the community.

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And they can always use the little free libraries.

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Well, you have a record of who requested the books.

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So with that in mind, five or six years down the road or whatever, you can see those same folks

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also and say, if you're not using your books anymore, crop them off at the library, and

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we can get them into schools and get them into the neighborhoods.

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So, just a little way to get some more bang for the bucket, if you will.

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Great idea.

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Okay, thank you very much for your presentation.

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Thank you.

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Okay, our next topic, the discussion for our work session is the Capital Improvement Plan and

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American Rescue Plan Act update, Mr. Yves.

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Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of Council, each summer we'd like to provide you

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with the update on how we're progressing

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on our capital improvement projects throughout the city.

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This summer, you'll also get an update on our ARPA programs.

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You'll see a very robust presentation.

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We will have our directors of public work, utilities,

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parks and wrecks, and capital providing you with those updates.

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And what you'll see is projects that are currently

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under design, about to start design,

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under construction, and recently completed.

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So I'll encourage you to get comfortable.

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You're going to see a lot of slides.

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It's a lot of good information.

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I'd ask just so we can continue to roll through this, maybe we jot down questions and try to

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save them towards the end of possible.

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With that, Robert Lewis will start us off.

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Good afternoon, Mayor Vice Mayor of the Mayor of the Council.

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Vice Mayor, I'm with you.

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I said, hey, where's Ms. Pardon coming?

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I want to meet her.

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So we're going to work on that.

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So today what we're doing is, as Ms. Hughes noticed, we're bringing you an update on all the

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different capital projects that are moving forward.

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I was really surprised that we counter summarized us together all the good news that's

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contained in this.

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And again, it is all good news.

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So we're going to start out in public works.

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And again, we spend a lot of money in the city and public works type projects.

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And again, we'll start off.

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The first one here was the Charleston Road COVID rehabilitation.

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That project is now completed.

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The road is back open.

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It looks great.

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We certainly heard a lot of comments during construction, but again, we've backed, we've got to

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road the secure again.

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Most of this was state funding.

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But again, we're up to date, completed project, long street lane bridge, same thing.

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We literally opened that bridge.

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I think it was last Thursday, so officially today, we're announcing it to the public.

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It is open to the public.

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The detours are out, the signs are out, and that bridge is completed.

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Nice brand new concrete bridge looks lovely.

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No wait restrictions.

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As I note, the bridge is one of the things that I highlight for you over the last four

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five years.

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The city has been very, very fortunate working through VDOT on the State of Good Repair.

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We have been dramatically reducing the number of substandard bridges in our city.

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And in fact, with the ones that we have today that we're going to talk about that getting

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ready to get started, there are only five bridges left in the city to have any restrictions

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and only two of those really have major impacts to traffic, and again, we're continuing

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to do that.

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So we have come a long way on our bridge improvement program.

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Prudence Road added for 60, certainly one of our hot

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discussion areas in our city because of the impact

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of traffic, but that is now complete.

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Essentially complete, there was a little bit of work to do

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in the final close out, but that project completed.

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We now have safety turn lanes out there,

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full lane, right highway divided, so again,

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there's a much safer place.

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Hollen Road widening, deer near to all of our hearts

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because we've been working this way long long time.

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We're anticipating having this finish-up this December.

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It's still significant work to do, but also if you look at there, you're starting to see a highway take shape.

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For the first two and a half, three years of this, so much of this work was kind of out of the public's view.

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It was underground, it was pipes, it was utilities.

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But today you're starting to see the curb and go to the sidewalks, the bike trails, and the new asphalt getting ready to come in.

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So again, it's starting to take shape.

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Shoulder-seal road at Bridge Road, this is one that we unfortunately got delayed for about a year and a half through Verizon dealing with trying to get relocations done, but we are well underway.

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We're anticipating winner of next year being completed, so it's about a year and a half project.

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I wish I could say it's not going to be any pain and traffic, but it's going to be a challenge,

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but we're going to get that done. And when we get done, we're going to have a much better

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intersection that will flow traffic extremely well compared to what we have today.

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Green and Road at 17, another one of those Friday's submitted works for a while. We are nearly

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complete on the utility relocation, which means we're going to put that out for bid. We anticipate

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starting construction this winter. And it'll run about a two year time frame to build that entire

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project up there. But again, something that has the potential to significantly impact the

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flow of traffic in the northern end of the city. Shoulders here widening as we finish up the

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turn lanes there at Shoulders Hill and bridge. The next piece going safe picks up from the end

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of the project we're building today and takes it safe to a round-pused-veal road. Again, it was

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the road to a four-lane divided highway, bring it up to the modern standards. We are in

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getting ready to start preliminary engineering next January and again, construction is

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just a few years further, 28, 29, but we're making progress.

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Now, it's been a will rate overpass. We are under construction as we speak. If you've had the

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opportunity to ride through that since we've made the change, we're now traffic is on the new road.

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It's amazing the impact that that has had just the flow of trappings now.

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So it's almost to the point we said we could have got by what had built on the bridge.

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Well we need a bridge.

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If you happen to catch the news article that Channel 3 did the other day and he had to

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be out there and I said, here comes the train and take some video.

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This is exactly why that's built and being built.

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It is a great project moving forward.

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It's working really well, again it's going to be well received and we are about a year

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away from finalizing that work, right now they're getting ready to start construction on

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the bridge itself.

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On Nancy Park, we've been this past your road out in front of the high school.

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Again, that project at the lead is we work through the design process, but again, we're anticipating

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construction, getting ready to start any time, and again, should be completed by next winter.

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If you remember that's to deal with the issues in front of that, we can figure some roads,

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to move a traffic signal over to sleeping whole road,

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reconfigured the entrance to the schools,

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puts a drainage facilities in.

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Again, spent a lot of time trying to get you

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tell of these move, there's a lot of you

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tell of these through that corridor.

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But again, that's moving forward

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and you'll start seeing that come out of the ground

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very shortly.

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Pitch out a road alignment, real alignment.

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Again, we've been working on that for quite a number of years.

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The utilities are in the process of the way of a quiet

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all the right away.

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The utilities in the process of being moved today,

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I think the best I could tell looking there may be a couple of telephone facilities in a little bit of cable.

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We're nearly complete with that.

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And again, we hope this winter, as we'll get this day to bed, get a contract in here and start working on that.

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And again, that's about a two year time frame.

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And that's got to do with the management of traffic moving back and forth.

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But again, I believe that will make a dramatic impact not only to traffic,

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traffic flow traffic safety, but also to the community in general.

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Here's Bill Drainage phase two, hallelujah with finally here.

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This project is out to add at this point the Bids are actually due back to us on July

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17th and pending getting a bid that we can work with.

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This should start construction this fall and that if you remember that's the rebuild John

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Street, you put a drainage, eight fall down that street, close the drainage and they pick

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all the drainage and make it to where we get rid of some of the flooding would divert a lot

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of that drainage that's now going through folks backyards under their garages through their

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front yards maybe a couple of places on the houses so again it's a really really good

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news project and again we're working in coordination with the city of Chesapeake to make this happen.

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Goblin Boulevard Improvement so there's actually a couple of products from Goblin Boulevard

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that are moving forward. This first one is the idea of widening Goblin Boulevard so we've talked

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about this before. Goblin Boulevard currently is a four-lane divided highway. Traffic needs have

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increased out there and we need to put an extra lane in each direction. The good thing was many

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many years ago when Vito started this project there was going to be a six-lane road they cut a

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lane out but they did it out of the median. So there's an extra wide meeting at median out there.

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This new project will put that there's lanes back into the median. So it will minimize the amount of

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the amount of right away. I can't say no right away because there may be some utilities,

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we have to deal with. But again, this should be a good new story moving forward. Again,

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construction to start the fall of 26 and be completed by 28. Right behind that, again,

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as we look at that.

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One of the challenges that that location is getting on and off of the bypass. And this is going to be one of the first

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diverging diamond interchanges that we're going to build. Probably not the last. This is a new upcoming

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technology. It works extremely well. If you have to have a drive through one of those and you'll have the opportunity

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very shortly. But again, we're in the process of doing the preliminary engineering at this point to get this

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Lasting through 28 and you'll notice both the six leaning of Godwin and this interchange are set to coincide at the same time

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So again, it's going to disrupt traffic a little bit, but it's going to all be done and we're going to have a much better system we get done

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Kings Highway Bridge

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We've been talking about Kings Highway for a long long long time and in fact a few years back

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We've got kind of sort of revisited this.

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We set an alignment.

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Staff has never stopped pushing, trying to find funding for this.

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And as you all were aware, our Senator came through,

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Senator Warner was here just a week ago,

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and brought us a check.

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Now, granted $3 million is not a lot in the grand scheme

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of replacing a bridge, but a business and opportunity

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to get started.

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And what that $3 million will do

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and allow us to do the preliminary alignment,

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the NEPA concurrence, and the archeological historic

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reviews to make sure there are no fatal flaws in the plan we have.

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With that study done, it is my belief we will be very easy, fortunate to find, funding,

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to move into right away and acquisition and finish that design.

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Again, this is a great news story that goes back many, many years.

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Bridge Road 17 widening, again, is we're going to do all this work at the intersection

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and shoulders hill.

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going to go down the cell to see how we also need to start looking at Bridge Road.

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So again, this is the next segment of Bridge Road.

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This will pick up from where the cell to the cell project ends and go east,

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almost to Harborview Boulevard.

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And again, widen that and prove it.

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With that, again, we're starting some preliminary engineering.

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We hope to start construction in 26 and finish it in 28.

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Now, one project we don't have in the slides is certainly

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There's the next piece of that, which is the intersection of Bridge Road and Hoverview Boulevard,

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and we will be bringing you some information back in the very near future as we talk about

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what's the next step and how do we move forward to fix that too?

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Because again, that's just the next piece, staying that process.

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So it is a continuing program we're trying to improve.

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For 60 widening, as we all know, there's a needle for 60 to widen that.

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Some of it is related to the port activity at Port 460, but a lot of it's just the fact that we're growing community.

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And that is a most of that as a four-lane undivided highway.

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It needs to be improved brought up.

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And again, this project will do that.

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We're in the process right now.

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The survey has been completed, so we have very good survey data.

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We have applied for the T-Poff, which is the transportation.

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Mr. Chiefs might have to help me with activism.

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On your ship.

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Partnership opportunity fund, again, possibly 30 million dollars to come in to help us

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with the right away, and we're committed to construction.

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So we will continue doing that and have some more information to report to you and

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the near future as we progress through the preliminary engineering.

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And that project also will include some work at the interchange there at the

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pass.

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Now, as we park, we have a beam as a middle.

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Again, another one of our bridges that had fallen into a state of disrepair over the years

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through V dot.

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We've acquired right away, we're underway, acquiring right away, and we anticipate this

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construction starting this fall.

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This project, I see, got delayed a little bit.

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We were going to replace and count what's out there, and because of the growth there, V dot

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came back and said, hey, when you like to build a little bit bigger bridge, we said, absolutely.

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So, we took a little pause, beat up brought some more money back to us, and again, we're going to build a bridge that's going to last us for quite a long time and meet our needs.

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Peppantine over Mill Swamp, I have to tell you there's probably not a more remote location in the city of Suffolk that you can go to.

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And this particular piece of road, but there's a bridge there that we're responsible for maintaining.

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And again, the state has been very good at giving us money to get rid of these weight restricted bridges in our city.

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This will go, it's under advertising, it's about to go in advertising.

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And again, we hope it's a fairly short project to be completed by next winter.

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State spillway over the, over the, it's the bridge data goes over the,

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I fall of Lake Spate.

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We're in the process of acquisition of right away,

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and we hope to go to construction,

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advertising, construction next fall.

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This was a project.

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And we'd hope to have a little further along at this point, but we've been in a lot of discussions with the city of Portrait.

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Portrait is going to be required by the state to make some updates to their dam and to their spillway structure.

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And again, we didn't want to build something immediately, have a new project carried out.

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So I think we've come up with a compromise to fix this bridge in a way that when Portrait has to do their work, we will not lose the value of our bridge.

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Freedom in the middle of a spotty swamp, that might be the second most part of our city.

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It's way down in the fourth sight these corners, just above the North Carolina line.

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But again, it's a structure that was in need of repair and the state has given us that.

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And we are starting construction next month.

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Our upper projects.

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We had several upper projects that you all had authorized for, and this is just a quick overview

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of the status of those first off we had Lloyd Place.

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And Rosemite, we were installing some curbing, and again we're moving along with that.

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Secondly, web street at Oxford, we're redesigning some drainage improvements in that area.

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Thirdly, web street and deal road, also under development, and working forward and finally,

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bunch of avenue, Randolph Street, and Marshall Avenue.

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Those are also under preliminary design applications, activities, and we estimate those improvements

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hopefully within the next nine months, and again, there will be moving forward.

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And with that, I will pass the baton over to Mr. Retail and he will take a little bit

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more about our public utility improvement.

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Thank you, Robert.

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Good afternoon.

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Mayor Vice Mayor, member of Council, let's pivot from roads and bridges to water and sewer.

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So continuing on with the theme of ARPA, a completely completed project is the third avenue

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in the Williamston area of water system improvements.

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This project replaced the water main, the existing water main,

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with a new increased capacity main,

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allowed us to put in new water meters, water service lines,

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and hydrants.

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And also to also improve the street drainage and curbing.

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You can see in that the left hand photo there,

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that's what that looked like before we started with some

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trenching work that occurred there.

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But then as we overlayed it, the right hand photo is what it looks

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completed, so the curbing was a nice cherry on the top to finish that ARPA project out.

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Moving on, and relatively the same area, killed the avenue water system improvements,

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a little bit of a similar project, replaced the aging water main and water services,

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included some pavement restoration, nice photo shot on the right-hand side there,

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the completed project, and as well, working with public works to slide in some new curbing

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and drainage improvements there.

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That new curbing replaced some of the old treated wood curbing

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that was in place in various sections of that.

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That was also recently completed.

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Shifting the pump stations.

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Pumps station 46 is located on Kansas Street,

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off of Wilroy Road.

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This is an existing pump station with an existing structure.

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They had existing pumps, mechanical, and electrical equipment

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that was dated.

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We're having problems with some of the receiving signals

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back and forth from that pump station, and you can see in the upper right hand photo, you see

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an orange auxiliary pump sitting there, that's to help that pump station get into the system.

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And so we like to take those stations that are having problems or having issues and we've

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got an auxiliary pump sitting there, try to get rid of that, put in some installed new pumps

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to overcome head to get into the system. So, seeing a lower right hand corner, nice shot

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of the inside of a refreshed pump station might not look very exciting, but it's a nice

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space for our folks to work in freshly painted with brand new electrical equipment.

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So one project that's near and dear to my heart, this is the G Robert House, it's the name

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of our water treatment plant up in Chucotuck.

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This is the electro dialysis reversal, that's a mouthful, EDR membrane replacements.

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This is recently completed and so recently, in fact, it was last week that we did the

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batteryological testing on this process equipment and turn the water loose.

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So this is partially funded by $1 million in

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congressionally directed spending.

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The total project was $5.5 million.

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That was just the purchase the equipment.

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So another half a million dollars to install,

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actually a little bit less than that, to have a

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contractor install that and we had some consultant to

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fees on that.

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But what we did is we replaced five trains of

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membrane.

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What I mean by a train is there's a long line of these

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membranes, you can see it in the right hand photo there, where the water passes through

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that each train is able to produce 1.25 million gallons of treated water per day. So that's

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quite a bit. So we restored the condition of those membranes with brand new membranes.

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What this does essentially, it's a process that removes the fluoride from groundwater. We have two

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main sources of water and suffoc, surface water,

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so think of lakes, rivers,

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Things like that. And then we have groundwater. So groundwater, the groundwater, the we take in tends to be high in fluoride, VTH won't allow us to turn that loosened in the system. So we have to pull the fluoride out. So what you're looking at there is essentially a packaged unit that takes a platinum electrode separates the fluoride iron and then the membrane will actually take it out of the water. So it's a complicated process. Our staff does a tremendous job out there maintaining these. So it's exciting to have that completed.

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Also in the Chocotuck area, this is another ARPA project, a lot happening with this, Chocotuck

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Burrow, Oakland area improvements.

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So this is that area that's in the REN, Hawk, Brown area, New Waterman, Piping and Services,

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New Sanitary Sur, Gravity System, Pump Station and Force Main right now that are existing

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septic tanks in that area.

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So those will have the opportunity homeowners to a property owner's rather to abandon those

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to connect to the city system using grant money.

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We also have a separate DEQ,

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ARPA grant, separate from the main city ARPA grants,

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to do work on the private side,

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to turn the plumbing around as I call it,

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from the septic system to bring it out to the front of the house,

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connect to the city brand new gravity sewer system,

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also included in that project or some drainage improvements,

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to regrade some of the ditches in there,

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provide for some better street drainage.

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00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:29,840
That is currently out for bidding.

450
00:31:30,300 --> 00:31:35,820
I believe the bids are going to be received on either the 10th through the 12th, July 10th through the 12th.

451
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:41,680
And anticipated start date that would also start would begin in late summer of 2024.

452
00:31:42,420 --> 00:31:44,760
So, going to be a lot of activity in that area.

453
00:31:45,020 --> 00:31:47,160
So, that's again, one of our main arbor projects.

454
00:31:48,980 --> 00:31:52,120
Again, moving on to some pump station and electrical upgrades.

455
00:31:52,500 --> 00:31:57,300
So, here's a series we have a, we package, we found that it's more cost efficient to package

456
00:31:57,300 --> 00:31:59,420
some of these upgrades of our pump stations.

457
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,280
So we've packaged pump stations in the river view,

458
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:05,780
four steels, the western Thai water regional jail pump station,

459
00:32:06,380 --> 00:32:08,980
dogwood estate, spurkshire, meadows, and then Puzville.

460
00:32:09,420 --> 00:32:12,300
So some of these stations that you can see in the photos

461
00:32:12,300 --> 00:32:14,720
are what I'll call outdoor stations.

462
00:32:14,900 --> 00:32:16,860
They don't have structure to them.

463
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:17,700
There's not a building.

464
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:20,280
So they've really been worn down by the elements.

465
00:32:20,780 --> 00:32:22,520
These tend to be the older stations.

466
00:32:22,700 --> 00:32:24,540
So we're going in there replacing a lot

467
00:32:24,540 --> 00:32:28,480
the electrical panels as well as the pumps to refresh those.

468
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:31,900
So you might see some of these along the side of the road.

469
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:38,340
Also under design, we've talked about this before last year and we're moving through the

470
00:32:38,340 --> 00:32:42,860
easement acquisition process as we speak right now with two churches that we're running

471
00:32:42,860 --> 00:32:46,780
behind Suffolk Christian Church as well as the Suffolk United Methodist Church.

472
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:52,860
So these are two areas, location one is the intersection of bank street and commerce street.

473
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:59,840
There's a section there that runs almost up against the Suffolk Methodist Church Structures.

474
00:33:00,100 --> 00:33:04,780
We wanted to move that away from the building so that we had to ever get in there and repair that.

475
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:06,220
We wouldn't damage the structure.

476
00:33:06,940 --> 00:33:11,040
And then location two is that the intersection of South Main Street and West Washington Street.

477
00:33:11,380 --> 00:33:14,440
That project is taking a little bit of a turn, a little bit of a pivot.

478
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:20,960
We, as we did some exploratory work in that intersection as you know, that's Main Street and Washington.

479
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:27,280
very heavily trafficked intersection. We found that we could not clear with some of our piping,

480
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:31,780
some of the portsmith, water main, the large transmission main, that's in that area. So we're

481
00:33:31,780 --> 00:33:35,880
going to take a turn on that, and we're going to go through the parking lot, that's near a launch

482
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:40,380
dance studio, to city owned parking lot, to get out of that intersection, which is going to be a

483
00:33:40,380 --> 00:33:46,780
win-win for everybody. Robert won't strangle me for blocking traffic in the intersection. So that's

484
00:33:46,780 --> 00:33:49,220
So we're going to go ahead and redesign that section.

485
00:33:49,740 --> 00:33:52,020
So right now we are in the midst of finishing

486
00:33:52,020 --> 00:33:54,660
a Beesman acquisition with one of the two churches.

487
00:33:55,060 --> 00:33:57,400
A key part to this whole project is even though

488
00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:59,760
we're just replacing a couple of sections of sewer.

489
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:03,220
It's both of these contains significant amount

490
00:34:03,220 --> 00:34:05,180
of sewer flow coming out of the downtown area.

491
00:34:05,380 --> 00:34:06,540
So there's quite a bit of coordination

492
00:34:06,540 --> 00:34:09,840
to do bypass pumping as we take those sours out of service

493
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:11,720
to replace them with the new sewer.

494
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:13,820
So that is currently under design.

495
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:19,400
Old town sewer and water replacements, this is a joint project with public works.

496
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:24,360
This is a project where public works can be working to replace some of their storm drain assets.

497
00:34:25,180 --> 00:34:30,040
So at that time, at the same time, the prudent thing to do would be getting there in a replace.

498
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:35,820
Age sanitary sewers, water main piping, and then water and sewer services at the same time.

499
00:34:36,100 --> 00:34:39,200
This is in the Piner Street, Grey Street, and Holiday Street.

500
00:34:39,240 --> 00:34:40,640
So that's currently under design.

501
00:34:42,380 --> 00:34:48,240
One recent addition that we did through this next CIP was the Cedar Lake Shore's water system improvements.

502
00:34:48,780 --> 00:34:51,800
We've had some issues in that area in the past with some leaks.

503
00:34:52,100 --> 00:34:55,020
Really what's going on there is deteriorated water service.

504
00:34:55,300 --> 00:34:58,460
We're the saddle of the water service connects to the main.

505
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:00,000
We've actually done a little bit of exp...

506
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:09,080
Or Tory digging very recently in that area, and to determine the scope of work, so we're going to get that under design here shortly and then moving on to construction.

507
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:24,240
We'll write road water main extension phase two. This is a little bit over half mile of 12-inch water main. Right now it terminates if the children center, and it goes south west, well, currently it terminates if the children center.

508
00:35:24,240 --> 00:35:28,760
But what this does, we're going to extend the Southwest to River Cube Creek Drive.

509
00:35:29,240 --> 00:35:30,320
It does a couple things.

510
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:35,180
One is the old mill Creek subdivision, right now only has currently one water feed

511
00:35:35,180 --> 00:35:35,500
into it.

512
00:35:35,500 --> 00:35:38,140
That's a large area, quite a few dwellings in the area.

513
00:35:38,500 --> 00:35:42,560
If we had a problem with that one feed, we'd take quite a few residents out of service.

514
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:48,640
This project will loop that water main, connected to old mill Creek, provide a secondary

515
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:51,540
means of service into that subdivision.

516
00:35:51,540 --> 00:35:58,140
And also, on the City of Portsmouth transmission main, into River Creek, that's currently receiving

517
00:35:58,140 --> 00:36:02,420
Portsmouth water, we're going to extend this down to River Creek and then connect that area

518
00:36:02,420 --> 00:36:09,760
up to Suffolkwater. So, kills, does a couple things, that's under design. So, then a project we've

519
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:14,380
been working on for quite a while, especially as it's worked through its permitting process. This is

520
00:36:14,380 --> 00:36:18,800
the Cedar Hill Cemetery Gravity sewer replacement. So, think of this, if you look in the photo,

521
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:24,500
you'll see the train station museum there and just looking towards the Pinter Street Bridge

522
00:36:24,500 --> 00:36:26,160
way in the background there.

523
00:36:26,620 --> 00:36:30,700
So this is going to replace a section of gravity so where there runs behind Cedar Hill

524
00:36:30,700 --> 00:36:35,080
Cemetery that's had problems in the past, historical problems, so we're going to utilize

525
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:41,080
a trenchless construction technology with a pilot drill to drill in the majority of that

526
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:41,520
pipe.

527
00:36:42,420 --> 00:36:48,360
That recently where we reached 100% on the design completion, so we will be moving

528
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:53,340
closely to getting that wrapped up and looking to when we can slap that for construction.

529
00:36:54,460 --> 00:36:59,660
West port water pump station you can really see this tank now now that the development

530
00:36:59,660 --> 00:37:04,520
of the West port area is cleared out a lot of the trees you can see the tank off of

531
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:09,800
Holland Road. So this is one of our that tank of that style of tank is a water stand

532
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:15,240
pipe located across from Virginia port logistics. So in that area we're doing some chemical

533
00:37:15,240 --> 00:37:18,780
feed improvements to feed both chlorine and ammonia.

534
00:37:19,020 --> 00:37:22,700
We'd use, if you remember, for maybe a prior presentation, we used both of those chemicals

535
00:37:22,700 --> 00:37:26,900
to form chloramine, which is the main disinfectant in our water system.

536
00:37:27,740 --> 00:37:32,200
So we recognize the need to improve our feed, especially in the warmer months, as the water

537
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:33,640
gets warmer in that area.

538
00:37:34,180 --> 00:37:39,600
We're going to do some pump maintenance access improvements, of course, and then we're going

539
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:42,880
to do disinfecting mixing improvements within the tank itself.

540
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:49,120
We're going to add a actual mixer in the tank to keep the tank from stratifying temperature-wise

541
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:52,240
as that tank temperature stratifies in the tank.

542
00:37:52,500 --> 00:37:56,800
You lose some of the water residuals who want to keep it mixed in addition to keeping the water,

543
00:37:57,500 --> 00:38:01,460
the disinfect and chemical residual up to where it needs to be.

544
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:03,720
So anticipate that's under construction right now.

545
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:06,860
Anticipate a completion date, April of 2025.

546
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:09,540
Moving on to another pump station.

547
00:38:09,540 --> 00:38:15,600
So this isn't a kill be sure's area pump station 17 you look at the lower left-hand corner lower left photo

548
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:20,600
To get one of these as I call it an outdoor pump station. It's tucked between two residential properties

549
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:24,280
Access sometimes is a problem in bad weather and at night

550
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:28,840
So we're actually going to take this and move it down to down to Tano court

551
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:32,960
It's currently under construction. You can see in the right-hand photo. They've cleared that out

552
00:38:33,340 --> 00:38:38,440
They're currently maybe within the next week or two going to start driving piles in that area

553
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:46,320
sheet piling to construct the sewage wet well, anticipate a completion data that is January of 2025.

554
00:38:47,220 --> 00:38:52,580
Another pump station, pump station 4 or this is a big one. We've been going at this for quite a while now.

555
00:38:52,580 --> 00:38:56,520
This is located at the dead end of Lincoln Avenue in the Boston section of Suffolk.

556
00:38:57,380 --> 00:39:02,580
Off of Pitchcattle is a brand new pump station. So the pump station you see there on the left hand side is gone.

557
00:39:03,060 --> 00:39:08,060
On the right hand side that's currently stands. That's the new slab for the new pump station.

558
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:12,720
So the challenge here has just been access, very tight access to get in there.

559
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:17,440
The other challenge here, frankly, has been keeping the bypass pumps running.

560
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,740
This whole station, since we took it off of line to for construction,

561
00:39:21,220 --> 00:39:23,640
has been running out of bypass or auxiliary pumping.

562
00:39:24,220 --> 00:39:27,920
So it's set up with an alarm system, so several times staff in the contract

563
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:32,760
who had to respond in the middle of the night when the equipment malfunctions.

564
00:39:33,240 --> 00:39:34,360
Response, why?

565
00:39:34,660 --> 00:39:36,680
Just to keep things from sewage from overflowing.

566
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:43,360
So, that project is moving long and anticipated completion date on that is December of 2024.

567
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:51,480
Another long time, project we've been working on, Butler Lake Dan improvements, Butler Lake Dan,

568
00:39:51,500 --> 00:39:54,000
We call it in the water system Lake I-Damn.

569
00:39:54,020 --> 00:39:59,700
This is one of our water supply Dan's in the Lone Star Lake Park, run by Parks and Rec.

570
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:16,460
This is an earthen dam, involves clearing and grubbing, removing all the vegetation from the face. We regrade the face of the dam and then we would go ahead and increase the section of the dam with what's called armoring, big stone, to protect it from erosion protection.

571
00:40:16,460 --> 00:40:35,980
So that we just received bids on that, that's a $3.5 million project getting ready to start in the late summer of 2024, so that'll take some significant coordination with our water treatment plant staff contract or actually access that property by going through our water plant site.

572
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:45,040
Another pump station, pump station 62, another one where you see in the photo, you see the the orange auxiliary pump off to the right hand side.

573
00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:49,440
want to get rid of that. That's off Holland Road near Lake on high school. Again, structure

574
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:54,820
stays the same, but new pumps, new pumps, piping, electrical equipment, bring that up to

575
00:40:54,820 --> 00:41:00,660
speed. We should have that online, April of 2025. I'm going to leave you with this, even though

576
00:41:00,660 --> 00:41:06,700
this is not our project. This is Robert's public works project. Holland Road widening project

577
00:41:06,700 --> 00:41:12,140
has been a successful project. Just in our interactions with Robert's staff. He's got excellent

578
00:41:12,140 --> 00:41:14,220
staff on this project, and so do we.

579
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:16,700
Done a quite a few water and sewer relocations

580
00:41:16,700 --> 00:41:19,120
in order to make this project move forward.

581
00:41:19,740 --> 00:41:21,300
A lot of this has been done at night.

582
00:41:21,620 --> 00:41:23,080
We've had so far ahead.

583
00:41:23,100 --> 00:41:24,480
Dean Adams, our construction manager,

584
00:41:24,660 --> 00:41:25,520
go and tell you up.

585
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:29,300
He thinks it's been about 28 water and sewer relocations.

586
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:31,200
And we're not talking about small stuff.

587
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:32,840
We're done by large diameter locations,

588
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:36,320
whether it's sewer force main or water transmission lines.

589
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:39,920
Done a really good job between us and public works

590
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:42,960
to coordinate this to minimize the impact of customers.

591
00:41:43,240 --> 00:41:44,760
That's why we do these things at night.

592
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:46,260
Get good notice out there.

593
00:41:46,260 --> 00:41:48,980
We're closely with the contractor and also with media

594
00:41:48,980 --> 00:41:50,780
to get those notices out there.

595
00:41:51,140 --> 00:41:54,320
But this has been a staff intensive project,

596
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:56,560
but it's also been a successful one.

597
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:01,260
Turn this over to Mark, Parks and Recreation.

598
00:42:01,660 --> 00:42:02,440
Thank you.

599
00:42:07,190 --> 00:42:09,050
Even Mayor Vice Mayor, members of Council.

600
00:42:10,330 --> 00:42:12,790
We're gonna pick it once again to Parks, Trails,

601
00:42:12,790 --> 00:42:15,270
corridors and cemeteries.

602
00:42:17,870 --> 00:42:22,090
We are beyond excited. We got some great news last week. The city

603
00:42:22,090 --> 00:42:28,550
was awarded a $5.3 million grant from a very competitive program. The funding comes directly

604
00:42:28,550 --> 00:42:37,270
from the Department of Transportation and this will provide the funding for the final piece

605
00:42:37,270 --> 00:42:43,190
of trail that was originally envisioned in the 2006 master plan that we did for the Suffolk

606
00:42:43,190 --> 00:42:45,350
Seaboard trail.

607
00:42:45,470 --> 00:42:52,490
So this is the last piece of funding for that segment of trail that was master plan in 2006.

608
00:42:52,850 --> 00:43:02,830
So currently we have 6.6 miles built and that segment's 2 and 4 and we have another 9.3 miles

609
00:43:02,830 --> 00:43:05,210
that are funded and currently under design,

610
00:43:05,370 --> 00:43:06,630
that's segments one and three.

611
00:43:07,130 --> 00:43:09,890
And then we have three, three, three miles unfunded.

612
00:43:10,110 --> 00:43:13,010
So that's what we're calling C-Board West.

613
00:43:13,110 --> 00:43:15,890
And that's from Prenus out to Canyon Road.

614
00:43:16,450 --> 00:43:19,130
That was not originally part of that original master plan

615
00:43:19,130 --> 00:43:20,170
that was done in 2006.

616
00:43:20,250 --> 00:43:21,270
We added that later.

617
00:43:23,190 --> 00:43:26,770
So, but we are planning on going after some grants

618
00:43:26,770 --> 00:43:30,390
next year to fund that C-Board West piece.

619
00:43:30,390 --> 00:43:31,530
So we're really excited.

620
00:43:32,210 --> 00:43:36,290
We've got funding for everything that was master plan back in 2006.

621
00:43:40,150 --> 00:43:44,430
The NASA River boat ramp, we should be closing

622
00:43:44,430 --> 00:43:46,530
on the additional right away that we're purchasing

623
00:43:46,530 --> 00:43:50,310
that will provide two way traffic from Godwin Boulevard.

624
00:43:50,790 --> 00:43:53,610
Within the next 30 days, we're planning on starting design

625
00:43:53,610 --> 00:43:54,790
and fall of 24.

626
00:43:55,590 --> 00:43:58,030
And construction hopefully in 2526.

627
00:44:00,670 --> 00:44:04,870
Constance North Park, we're wrapping up design right now

628
00:44:04,870 --> 00:44:08,170
And we're anticipating going out to bid later this summer.

629
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:15,060
And this is a new project this year.

630
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:19,120
This is our downtown gateways East Washington Street.

631
00:44:20,020 --> 00:44:23,680
So what this project is is we're looking at making improvements

632
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:26,680
to the corridors that lead into the DBOD,

633
00:44:26,700 --> 00:44:28,620
the downtown business district.

634
00:44:29,100 --> 00:44:31,860
And we decided to start with the East Washington

635
00:44:31,860 --> 00:44:33,600
corridor so that I'll be the first one

636
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:34,460
and what this is going to be.

637
00:44:34,500 --> 00:44:37,460
It's going to be made up of smaller projects

638
00:44:37,460 --> 00:44:43,460
that kind of improve the look in the aesthetics of that corridor as you come into the downtown

639
00:44:43,460 --> 00:44:51,060
area. So we'll start planning and design in the fall of 24 and we'll go into construction.

640
00:44:51,420 --> 00:44:56,780
You'll start to see some construction on some of these smaller projects in the winter spring 2025.

641
00:45:00,140 --> 00:45:11,240
Cedar Hill slope stabilization. This project is out for bed, and we're anticipating construction starting later this summer or beginning of fall.

642
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:28,980
Lone Star Lake's North Road Improvements, this project consists of paving the North part of the road at Lone Star Lake's park and also making improvements to the finger lakes boat ramp.

643
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:35,440
And that is currently under design. We're hoping to go out to construction in FY2526.

644
00:45:36,970 --> 00:45:44,010
The Bennett's Creek tennis courts, we recently completed replacing these courts at Bennett's

645
00:45:44,010 --> 00:45:45,030
Creek Park.

646
00:45:45,190 --> 00:45:52,050
We also added in lines for pickleball, so this also gives us four pickleball courts at

647
00:45:52,050 --> 00:45:56,210
the park in addition to the tennis court renovation.

648
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:05,120
And finally, we have a couple of playgrounds that are planned to be replaced this year,

649
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:12,000
LinkedIn Park and the kids' own park at Lake Mead. These are the last two playgrounds that

650
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:19,400
were put in back in 2000, 2001 timeframe. Playgrounds have a useful life of about 20 years and

651
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:24,620
we've kind of stretched the life of these playgrounds out as long as we could. We've been replacing

652
00:46:24,620 --> 00:46:29,960
about three playgrounds every year. So these are the last of those playgrounds to be replaced.

653
00:46:30,540 --> 00:46:34,780
So we're really excited about this project. And up next it's going to be Gary to talk about

654
00:46:34,780 --> 00:46:37,500
capital programs and buildings. Thank you.

655
00:46:43,550 --> 00:46:45,090
Good evening Mayor Vice Mayor Members of Council.

656
00:46:46,330 --> 00:46:49,830
If you're happy about what you've seen so far I'm about to put the cherry on top of you.

657
00:46:50,210 --> 00:46:55,410
Happy cake. I was just telling my staff the other day while I was putting this

658
00:46:55,410 --> 00:46:58,350
presentation together. I said, we got a lot of stuff going on. We got a lot of some

659
00:46:58,350 --> 00:47:04,070
commentary ground. Start with fire station 11. If you've taken a ride up the Harvard view,

660
00:47:04,310 --> 00:47:09,050
you've probably seen this well underway construction of our largest

661
00:47:09,050 --> 00:47:14,570
Once it's all complete, our largest four functioning fire and rescue station, 21,000 square

662
00:47:14,570 --> 00:47:20,290
foot and four bay station that also includes a training and community room.

663
00:47:20,750 --> 00:47:26,590
That community room will get a lot of use about community and can also be set up and used

664
00:47:26,590 --> 00:47:29,690
as a potential voting precinct in the future.

665
00:47:30,310 --> 00:47:35,630
The project is about 25% complete and construction, we have a wonderful contract that we

666
00:47:35,630 --> 00:47:40,850
working on this project, era of Chesson, they didn't a wonderful job force, and I've got

667
00:47:40,850 --> 00:47:46,230
to give a shout out to the fire department and all of their help with not all the design

668
00:47:46,230 --> 00:47:50,390
of this, but they've been heavily participating in the construction of this.

669
00:47:50,510 --> 00:47:56,810
In particular, Battalion Chief, Steve Hinkle, he's done a bang up job and been out on the

670
00:47:56,810 --> 00:47:58,350
site with me and helped me get this thing done.

671
00:47:58,530 --> 00:48:03,470
He's become my go-to clerk at the work for all of our fire rescue projects and you'll

672
00:48:03,470 --> 00:48:07,570
to see him work on this project as well as another one I have to come up in just a second.

673
00:48:07,810 --> 00:48:11,990
This project is on schedule to be complete in the spring of 2025.

674
00:48:16,180 --> 00:48:17,520
Speaking of fire and

675
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:23,160
rescue, the new fire training burn building. As a matter of fact, we just had our pre-construction

676
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:27,280
meeting this morning, kicking off this construction of this project. This project has been

677
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:34,120
bid. We've hired the contractor of MBCon. If that name sounds familiar to you, they're currently

678
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:39,560
building new middle school, JFK middle school also, so we look at the have them very qualified

679
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:45,500
contractor that's going to give us a quality facility. This prize is a 8500 square foot

680
00:48:45,500 --> 00:48:50,860
four-story fire and rescue training burn building located at an operations center down on

681
00:48:50,860 --> 00:48:56,360
Carolina Road. The name burn building is a little misleading because there's a lot more than fire

682
00:48:56,360 --> 00:49:01,660
training that goes on here. Some of the things that are going to be available to do here and this

683
00:49:01,660 --> 00:49:03,820
It took place in the designers facility

684
00:49:03,820 --> 00:49:05,040
and working with the fire department.

685
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:11,520
This is a very building that gives a lot of opportunity

686
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:12,560
to do a lot of different training.

687
00:49:12,860 --> 00:49:15,500
As a matter of fact, they can do things like repel training.

688
00:49:15,660 --> 00:49:16,960
If you look above some of those windows,

689
00:49:16,980 --> 00:49:18,640
you see these large bars.

690
00:49:18,780 --> 00:49:20,200
They can repel in training.

691
00:49:21,140 --> 00:49:22,880
They can repel into windows.

692
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:25,280
They can do confined space training here.

693
00:49:25,300 --> 00:49:27,300
They can do manhole recovery training in here.

694
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:29,240
They are props in everything, set up for that.

695
00:49:29,240 --> 00:49:31,740
is the outdoor and indoor stair training.

696
00:49:32,260 --> 00:49:34,520
They have six burn rooms in this building.

697
00:49:35,220 --> 00:49:36,380
It's a class A building.

698
00:49:37,060 --> 00:49:38,760
Not only can they train in the building,

699
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:40,320
but if you look around the site,

700
00:49:40,820 --> 00:49:42,580
we've set it up so that they can function

701
00:49:42,580 --> 00:49:46,160
and do all of the training needs for some of the outdoor training.

702
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:47,420
As they approach some of these structures,

703
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:50,220
they have to deal with their dealing with power lines

704
00:49:50,220 --> 00:49:51,800
and power poles and those kinds of things.

705
00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:55,300
So you can have the props outside with simulated power lines,

706
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:57,160
all the curving that they run across

707
00:49:57,160 --> 00:50:00,000
and neighborhoods, and commercial districts at that time.

708
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:13,660
To deal with, so there'll be a bit of dissimilar promise any training exercise they need to have here to make to get out firefighters and rescue folks up to par on what they need to be doing when they respond to respond to calls.

709
00:50:14,380 --> 00:50:23,540
This project is, like I said, we just get an under on the way here, and it'll be a completed body year. So some of them next year, we'll turn this over to fire rescue for their use.

710
00:50:26,130 --> 00:50:29,410
And if you've been driving downtown, you've been seeing this one develop.

711
00:50:29,830 --> 00:50:32,890
Downtown Festival Park has really taken shape.

712
00:50:32,910 --> 00:50:34,330
It's coming along very nicely.

713
00:50:34,730 --> 00:50:36,310
We're about 90% complete right now.

714
00:50:36,770 --> 00:50:44,630
This one-point acre parking out downtown will become the home to many of our events downtown

715
00:50:44,630 --> 00:50:51,010
whether it's the Parks and Recs TGIF series, holiday events,

716
00:50:53,070 --> 00:50:53,890
private events.

717
00:50:54,390 --> 00:51:07,990
But for the most part, 90% of the time it's just going to be a day-to-day part that can be used by the public, downtown gores, to add to the quality of life of everyone in the downtown.

718
00:51:09,390 --> 00:51:18,430
As I say, we're a 90% complete and we're going to be opening in about two weeks, that's under two weeks, on the 13th of this month, with a 50-fest event.

719
00:51:18,430 --> 00:51:20,550
So look forward to that

720
00:51:24,170 --> 00:51:26,070
and speaking of the downtown part,

721
00:51:26,590 --> 00:51:28,930
one of the other benefits we're getting out of this,

722
00:51:29,090 --> 00:51:33,890
if you can see just through the south right there of the picture on the left.

723
00:51:34,850 --> 00:51:36,370
There's a map I think I'm going to be paving that next week,

724
00:51:36,470 --> 00:51:40,730
the new parking lot, which brings us another 41 spaces

725
00:51:40,730 --> 00:51:42,690
to add to the downtown parking inventory.

726
00:51:43,770 --> 00:51:45,330
And not only specifically for the park,

727
00:51:45,430 --> 00:51:47,050
but obviously it's going to support the parking

728
00:51:47,050 --> 00:51:48,690
and the events that we have with the park.

729
00:51:48,690 --> 00:51:53,230
But it's an additional parking for downtown users with additional parking.

730
00:51:53,970 --> 00:51:55,750
To support other binge downtown.

731
00:52:00,050 --> 00:52:02,830
And speaking of parking, some of the other parking improvements we're doing downtown.

732
00:52:03,910 --> 00:52:06,850
And the church street lot, we're going to be doing parking improvements there.

733
00:52:06,930 --> 00:52:08,310
Actually, some of those have actually started.

734
00:52:08,450 --> 00:52:10,310
Public works have done some of those things already.

735
00:52:11,190 --> 00:52:14,590
If you've ever had a chance to go through that lot, church street lot has been a little confusing

736
00:52:14,590 --> 00:52:15,630
when you drive through there.

737
00:52:15,650 --> 00:52:20,370
You get a little loss and turn around trying to make your way through there through that parking area.

738
00:52:21,010 --> 00:52:27,770
public works has taken steps to correct that. They've cleaned up some of the traffic flow in there.

739
00:52:28,030 --> 00:52:31,630
Duns and restriping cleaned up some of the curving there. They're going to continue to work on this

740
00:52:31,630 --> 00:52:35,870
all through the next few months to pick up some additional parking in that parking lot.

741
00:52:36,390 --> 00:52:41,910
The Saratoga East parking lot, which is space that we're going to be redeveloping or redesigning.

742
00:52:42,090 --> 00:52:43,370
Well, I won't say redevelop but redesigning.

743
00:52:43,370 --> 00:52:49,270
at the recent acquired Suntrust Building and the Jean-Paulette Building.

744
00:52:50,130 --> 00:52:54,370
We are funding that Matterpike just came along this July 1st that we're going to be engaging

745
00:52:54,370 --> 00:52:59,750
with our consultants to look at redesigning that entire area along Saratobus Street, the

746
00:52:59,750 --> 00:53:05,390
old park nearer behind the Suntrust Building and the Pala Building being a lot more efficient

747
00:53:05,390 --> 00:53:11,690
about a lot more efficient parking in the area to support. Some of the other things

748
00:53:11,690 --> 00:53:13,750
would do a downtown man, the festival park,

749
00:53:13,970 --> 00:53:15,310
and just General Downtown Parking.

750
00:53:20,140 --> 00:53:23,300
And this project, now I have been giving you updates

751
00:53:23,300 --> 00:53:26,900
and presentations on this project for the last 25 years.

752
00:53:26,960 --> 00:53:29,440
And I'm pleased to say I'm not going to be any more

753
00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:30,440
after this one.

754
00:53:30,780 --> 00:53:32,320
I may be one more, one more to say,

755
00:53:32,460 --> 00:53:33,320
we're going to be having a ribbon cutting.

756
00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:35,580
But the central library of the project,

757
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:38,180
if you have a chance to go down the Washington Street,

758
00:53:38,340 --> 00:53:39,620
we've actually started construction.

759
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:41,460
As a matter of fact, they're going to start

760
00:53:41,460 --> 00:53:44,400
pouring concrete, footing some time later this week,

761
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:51,420
early next week, construction of about 38,000 square foot, two-story central library facility

762
00:53:51,420 --> 00:53:55,180
to replace the Morgan Library on West Washington Street.

763
00:53:56,860 --> 00:54:01,300
And once again, the contract on this, we have a very good contract on this from, you know,

764
00:54:01,300 --> 00:54:03,460
it's probably just like this from this scale on this size.

765
00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:08,020
You know, if you have, don't have a good contract that they can not go so well for you,

766
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:11,340
but we will likely get a very good contract there on this part of the YouTube question.

767
00:54:12,100 --> 00:54:16,420
They're also working on the port, so it was nice to have the same contract on both sites.

768
00:54:17,260 --> 00:54:24,120
This project is slated to be open in the, doing how they see this in of 2025.

769
00:54:24,540 --> 00:54:25,740
November December 2025.

770
00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:31,160
So this will be a nice big boat Christmas present to us in the city.

771
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:34,160
We'd like to cut right around Christmas time.

772
00:54:37,260 --> 00:54:41,360
Another project that's underway on the construction, being done by in-be-con,

773
00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:46,820
the same contract that is going to fire training burn building is JFK Middle School.

774
00:54:47,980 --> 00:54:51,680
The 120,000 square foot total facility, 800 students.

775
00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:57,900
If you're not familiar with how this building decides to lay it out, this new school site

776
00:54:57,900 --> 00:54:59,760
has actually three new buildings on it.

777
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:11,500
The two smaller buildings, which is their CSAT building, for their special needs, kids, their IT and technology building, and then, of course, the main school building.

778
00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:18,740
If you go out there, now you'll see the two small buildings are pretty much the main structures are up, and they've started on the main school building in the back.

779
00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:28,920
That project is about 23% complete, and they're scheduled to open fall of 2026, and it's on schedule to do that.

780
00:55:31,580 --> 00:55:33,420
Phoenix Bank stabilization.

781
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:40,040
This is not a project I've been talking about for many years, but we've taken the steps

782
00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:43,660
to move forward with what we called stabilizing the facility.

783
00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:47,800
Now, what this does is we're not creating a new use in this building.

784
00:55:47,980 --> 00:55:53,100
What we're doing is taking this building, which has been sitting vacant for the last 20

785
00:55:53,100 --> 00:55:57,140
some odd years, and it's loaded deteriorating.

786
00:55:57,740 --> 00:56:01,360
So we want to stop that process and go in,

787
00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:04,020
and stabilize this building, go in and point it up,

788
00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:06,960
stabilize this structure, water, make it waterproof,

789
00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:09,500
redo the front facade, bring the front facade back

790
00:56:09,500 --> 00:56:11,380
to its original glory.

791
00:56:12,440 --> 00:56:14,640
And then, from that point on, determine

792
00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:17,040
what the new use will be at some point,

793
00:56:17,240 --> 00:56:21,000
whether that's a city function, or whether that's a private

794
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:22,820
function, or a public private partnership,

795
00:56:22,820 --> 00:56:27,340
that needs to be determined at some point, but the first step is to stabilize the building so

796
00:56:27,340 --> 00:56:34,800
we have something to work with. So when the process right now, we've completed design on this.

797
00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:38,140
We're in a process now with the next, with probably the next week and we can have two weeks

798
00:56:38,140 --> 00:56:43,780
advertised for kids. It'll be on the street for about 30 days and then what we'll do after that

799
00:56:43,780 --> 00:56:48,620
is initiate a contract and it should be getting going, getting going sometime this fall

800
00:56:48,620 --> 00:56:53,120
that stabilization work, you know, take probably six, seven months to get it all

801
00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:56,240
we're all done. And then at that time, we can have all the discussions about what

802
00:56:56,240 --> 00:57:00,120
may or may not happen in this building. So, to be determined.

803
00:57:05,010 --> 00:57:05,990
Police training center,

804
00:57:06,070 --> 00:57:14,330
will of ill. This is a repurpose of the old will of ill community center building for police

805
00:57:14,330 --> 00:57:19,430
training. They need to space where they could do much of their police training. This

806
00:57:19,430 --> 00:57:27,450
not be a very good location, it's kind of out of the way, kind of out of the main traffic

807
00:57:27,450 --> 00:57:31,890
of things, for some sure they like that way, so it's a discrete environment for them to

808
00:57:31,890 --> 00:57:37,370
be able to train in. This building we've already gone in over the last year and a half

809
00:57:37,370 --> 00:57:41,550
or so and done some things in that building which they're using now. They have what's called

810
00:57:41,550 --> 00:57:47,170
the Milo Training Setup Simulator. They're using that cheap I guess what, but year you're

811
00:57:47,170 --> 00:57:54,990
now. It allows them to go in and simulate any situation that they would have to deal with when

812
00:57:54,990 --> 00:57:59,150
they receive calls to make sure their offices are prepared to deal with this but in this

813
00:57:59,150 --> 00:58:06,830
scenario they run across. They're using that right now. We've also gone in back and done some

814
00:58:08,150 --> 00:58:14,350
storm system stabilization. There was a fail storm system in the yard up there that required about

815
00:58:14,350 --> 00:58:19,790
$200,000 to go in and repair that, and got the great redone out there, and they're going

816
00:58:19,790 --> 00:58:23,250
to be using that pretty soon for the outdoor K9 training.

817
00:58:24,430 --> 00:58:29,830
So we're going to be meeting with the Chief staff and the architects over the next couple

818
00:58:29,830 --> 00:58:34,230
weeks and start looking at how we're going to reuse the rest of that building for administrative

819
00:58:34,230 --> 00:58:37,830
needs, other tactical training needs they're going to be doing in there.

820
00:58:37,830 --> 00:58:40,830
So we look forward to getting that going with him and they kind of they have

821
00:58:45,130 --> 00:58:46,550
Yeah, they'll be doing that

822
00:58:47,730 --> 00:58:55,950
We hopefully will get this ready for to walk the beds in the fall of this year and be ready and have all these things done by in about a year

823
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:05,300
And last but not least is the ongoing upgrades. We have gone on that the goblin courts building as you know

824
00:59:05,300 --> 00:59:08,060
We came to use several years ago when started this process of

825
00:59:08,060 --> 00:59:14,640
of taking small bites of making upgrades to this heavily used 26 year old building.

826
00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:18,200
Now, I think when we started this process, there's about 23 years old.

827
00:59:18,860 --> 00:59:21,380
And what we've done in the past, we've gone in and we've replaced the roof.

828
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:27,100
We've done all ASVAC upgrades in the building, including VAV boxes replacement.

829
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:31,400
We've gone in and made security upgrades with the share department.

830
00:59:31,880 --> 00:59:35,380
We've gone in and made electrical and plumbing upgrades.

831
00:59:35,380 --> 00:59:51,260
When the process right now, doing what we call elevator modernization, we've done both public elevators in the main lobby and when the process right now of working on one of the security elevators in the back and we'll have two more to go from there.

832
00:59:51,700 --> 00:59:59,200
Each one of those elevators costs about $200,000 to modernize and you go in and you completely modernize all the systems in and controls.

833
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:06,500
All of the hydraulics and everything in them, so that they're back to new standards. As you can imagine,

834
01:00:06,580 --> 01:00:12,220
something like the Quorum gets a lot of use. So, these elevators have a lot of knowledge on it.

835
01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:18,980
So, we're looking for to wrap it up. Some of the other things we're doing is looking at space needs in the building

836
01:00:18,980 --> 01:00:29,980
and going through and doing upgrades to their furniture, office systems, finishes, and we're in a process of

837
01:00:29,980 --> 01:00:35,280
While we're doing that, we're taking the opportunity to make a much more efficient use of

838
01:00:35,280 --> 01:00:36,140
the space that they're in.

839
01:00:36,700 --> 01:00:41,160
If you can imagine 26 years ago when they designed that building, take something and get

840
01:00:41,160 --> 01:00:42,900
simple as their cubicle space.

841
01:00:43,420 --> 01:00:48,600
A cubicle space back then was designed when we had a big large, deep CRT computer screens.

842
01:00:49,180 --> 01:00:55,660
And so if you're going down now, these cubicles have these 30 inch, deep table tops around

843
01:00:55,660 --> 01:00:57,180
which they waste a lot of space.

844
01:00:57,360 --> 01:00:59,400
Now they have these flat screen computers on there.

845
01:01:00,060 --> 01:01:01,600
And you have a lot of waste space.

846
01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:03,900
So we're able to shrink these cubicles down,

847
01:01:04,240 --> 01:01:06,100
get a lot more people than the same space

848
01:01:06,100 --> 01:01:07,680
which goes to another point they have.

849
01:01:07,740 --> 01:01:10,900
As a city grows, all these department staffs are growing.

850
01:01:11,460 --> 01:01:12,880
They're quickly run out of space.

851
01:01:13,080 --> 01:01:15,200
So this exercise that's going through

852
01:01:15,200 --> 01:01:16,960
and changing out their systems, fun and true,

853
01:01:17,120 --> 01:01:19,540
and cubicles and finishes will give us an opportunity

854
01:01:19,540 --> 01:01:21,980
to really make a lot more efficient space.

855
01:01:22,180 --> 01:01:23,780
The efficient use of their spaces.

856
01:01:23,780 --> 01:01:31,700
And it will also buy us some time and have until eventually at some point in the future expand the courthouse to accommodate the growth of the city.

857
01:01:32,580 --> 01:01:38,100
So that's underway and once again, that's an ongoing thing that will be going on for the next few years.

858
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:42,780
So I would say the next three years will still have all that going on before we can wrap all that up.

859
01:01:43,980 --> 01:01:47,660
And with that, we can answer any questions.

860
01:01:48,740 --> 01:01:49,280
Thank you, Chair.

861
01:01:50,040 --> 01:01:50,600
Mr. Jones.

862
01:01:51,200 --> 01:01:52,920
Council questions or comments?

863
01:01:52,920 --> 01:01:57,800
Councillor interjecting. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And thank you, guys, for a great presentation.

864
01:01:58,180 --> 01:02:02,160
Anybody that doesn't think there's a lot going on in the city doesn't get around

865
01:02:02,160 --> 01:02:05,920
much, because it seems like every quarter that you go to, something is under construction,

866
01:02:06,120 --> 01:02:11,980
something's being improved, or something new is being built. Robert, I just have one quick

867
01:02:11,980 --> 01:02:19,480
question about the pitchcattle road widening, if I can. Because I get asked this a lot, the

868
01:02:19,480 --> 01:02:24,420
Reveans that are on the right hand side of the road, as you head away from town, how did

869
01:02:24,420 --> 01:02:29,880
they factor into what you're doing that new road will go through that area and pass over.

870
01:02:30,300 --> 01:02:33,900
So obviously there will be some drainage structures put in there to bottom to handle the drainage

871
01:02:33,900 --> 01:02:36,100
and then backfield and brought up to level.

872
01:02:37,300 --> 01:02:37,340
All right.

873
01:02:37,440 --> 01:02:38,100
Thank you for that.

874
01:02:38,340 --> 01:02:40,480
And then Paul, one quick question for you.

875
01:02:42,750 --> 01:02:51,250
On the pump station improvements, the ones that are sort of out in the open, is part of the

876
01:02:51,250 --> 01:02:57,470
them, it is well or equipment being designed better to be able to handle being outdoors.

877
01:02:57,650 --> 01:03:02,290
In some instances, yes, for example, at pump stations, 17, since we actually changed the

878
01:03:02,290 --> 01:03:07,290
location of it, we were able to close that in a new building, but the only reason we were able

879
01:03:07,290 --> 01:03:09,430
to do that is because we purchased some property.

880
01:03:09,990 --> 01:03:14,070
Some of the challenges are these areas where we've got some of these outdoor pump stations

881
01:03:14,070 --> 01:03:20,290
that are on these postage, stamp size, sections of property, and be very difficult to go ahead

882
01:03:20,290 --> 01:03:22,270
and build a structure on top of that,

883
01:03:22,290 --> 01:03:25,310
or to even move it, especially in a residential area,

884
01:03:25,570 --> 01:03:27,750
where we might be impacting somebody's property.

885
01:03:28,850 --> 01:03:30,650
So, you know, that's not a perfect answer,

886
01:03:31,170 --> 01:03:32,830
but sometimes, yes, sometimes we can't,

887
01:03:32,990 --> 01:03:34,630
we really can't do anything with it.

888
01:03:35,290 --> 01:03:36,470
Thank you for that, that's all.

889
01:03:38,490 --> 01:03:40,650
Council on the other comments, questions,

890
01:03:43,170 --> 01:03:44,930
Councilman board, mayor board.

891
01:03:45,070 --> 01:03:46,390
First mayor board, we can't be a mayor.

892
01:03:46,750 --> 01:03:50,330
Next time, I'm very impressed with this.

893
01:03:50,790 --> 01:03:58,670
I see why people when you go outside of Suffolk talks about and give us good remarks about

894
01:03:58,670 --> 01:04:05,110
the loud things going on in Suffolk. This is very impressed. I just want to say to Mark,

895
01:04:06,590 --> 01:04:11,690
what you say about the entry is coming in. I mentioned it to somebody. I think that's a great idea.

896
01:04:12,130 --> 01:04:15,630
When you're coming in the Suffolk, I thought that was a great idea. I mentioned it like last week

897
01:04:15,630 --> 01:04:23,190
I think that's a really good idea, I don't know what to tell you, but that's great, man.

898
01:04:23,530 --> 01:04:25,890
When you come in the city, you represent the city.

899
01:04:26,050 --> 01:04:28,310
You've got the first one coming and you just don't want to see

900
01:04:28,310 --> 01:04:30,250
some blatant stuff and nothing going on.

901
01:04:30,570 --> 01:04:31,710
That's a good idea with that.

902
01:04:33,650 --> 01:04:37,310
And Gary, what made it for me to be here for this fire station?

903
01:04:37,350 --> 01:04:39,210
Because I can't wait to this fire station come.

904
01:04:39,750 --> 01:04:41,630
That's what this was going to look like that.

905
01:04:42,450 --> 01:04:43,110
Thank you so much.

906
01:04:43,110 --> 01:04:45,430
I really appreciate it. I've been looking at it.

907
01:04:45,470 --> 01:04:46,490
I'm every day I will pass it.

908
01:04:46,510 --> 01:04:47,790
You know, every day I will pass it.

909
01:04:48,370 --> 01:04:50,230
So I really appreciate that.

910
01:04:50,550 --> 01:04:52,450
Now, the other thing I want to access is,

911
01:04:52,510 --> 01:04:53,190
we're all in this festival.

912
01:04:53,330 --> 01:04:55,170
Do we ever think about having a car garage?

913
01:04:55,370 --> 01:04:57,930
I mean, we can't do that or what?

914
01:04:58,170 --> 01:04:59,550
We're all this parking you're talking about.

915
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:02,280
Is there something that we have something in the future?

916
01:05:05,060 --> 01:05:19,260
Just a few years. So it's on our list. Okay. We've got some measures that we want to identify in order to make sure that it's worth the expense to do it, but we think in the future there will be a parking deck in that sense.

917
01:05:19,300 --> 01:05:27,560
Well, you know we'll be a model in the future. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I will be building to get to. So that's what I'm asking that question. Okay. Thank you.

918
01:05:28,300 --> 01:05:28,820
Richard.

919
01:05:30,060 --> 01:05:30,940
Councilman Johnson?

920
01:05:31,980 --> 01:05:36,400
I didn't push my button, but I will say I'm really excited about what's going on.

921
01:05:36,960 --> 01:05:39,560
I agree with everyone else. It's wonderful. Thank you.

922
01:05:41,020 --> 01:05:41,720
Councilman Bennett.

923
01:05:42,300 --> 01:05:44,900
Mr. Lewis, one question for you.

924
01:05:44,940 --> 01:05:47,040
I want to be with Bill Bridge.

925
01:05:47,780 --> 01:05:50,780
On the D2 and that's called B2 on school time.

926
01:05:51,660 --> 01:05:56,300
How long we're looking at and what we want to do with the D2 down.

927
01:05:57,300 --> 01:06:06,400
Certainly, one of the most time efficient ways to replace a bridge is if we can take a bridge out of service and remove it and rebuild it.

928
01:06:06,540 --> 01:06:11,780
So again, that's what we're doing here. I'm looking back to find that slide as to what our timing is.

929
01:06:11,840 --> 01:06:13,300
I think it's about a year.

930
01:06:15,400 --> 01:06:16,360
Construction begins.

931
01:06:16,980 --> 01:06:19,100
This webinar, I believe it's about a year.

932
01:06:19,300 --> 01:06:22,780
A little more light there, but again, the idea was to do it as quickly as possible.

933
01:06:22,780 --> 01:06:29,820
We do have an opportunity, sometimes something like we did at East Washington Street, we try to take half a bridge out and keep half a bridge in.

934
01:06:30,120 --> 01:06:34,640
But oftentimes, it greatly exacerbates how long that impact to the public occur.

935
01:06:34,960 --> 01:06:39,020
So again, we've been working with the school system, giving them a heads up that have come.

936
01:06:39,640 --> 01:06:43,000
And again, we just felt this was the best way to do that too.

937
01:06:43,460 --> 01:06:47,000
Have pain, have it quickly, get it done, move on and have a new bridge.

938
01:06:47,620 --> 01:06:50,820
So you want to do the whole bridge and not like it did on the East Washington Street.

939
01:06:50,820 --> 01:06:51,240
Yes, sir.

940
01:06:51,320 --> 01:06:55,360
We're going to, this particular case, we will shut the road down for the D2M place and we'll

941
01:06:55,360 --> 01:06:59,460
completely remove the old bridge and build a new bridge back as quickly as possible.

942
01:07:01,160 --> 01:07:01,680
Thank you.

943
01:07:01,900 --> 01:07:02,380
Yes, sir.

944
01:07:02,600 --> 01:07:03,420
Councilmember Williams.

945
01:07:04,940 --> 01:07:05,000
Yes.

946
01:07:06,020 --> 01:07:12,380
Again, I like to pick it back off what some of the other councilmen said as a relates to what

947
01:07:12,380 --> 01:07:13,960
an excellent job you have done.

948
01:07:16,260 --> 01:07:17,120
Keep up the good work.

949
01:07:17,120 --> 01:07:20,020
I'm excited about what our city is doing, what you have done, what you have done.

950
01:07:21,000 --> 01:07:28,500
Mr. Lord, I have one question. I know a few months ago you indicated that you'll be providing

951
01:07:28,500 --> 01:07:36,060
us with quarterly reports. Is that something we still begin to call the report as for your

952
01:07:36,060 --> 01:07:36,540
projects?

953
01:07:37,320 --> 01:07:41,260
Well, we can certainly do that. We do do that internally, and we can certainly share that with

954
01:07:41,260 --> 01:07:41,600
council.

955
01:07:42,440 --> 01:07:48,320
Okay, because that's been very, very helpful when I go to my civilly meetings. I've been passing

956
01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:52,120
out there with quarterly report in the count of how well

957
01:07:52,120 --> 01:07:55,660
expiring into the public, what's going on, having something

958
01:07:55,660 --> 01:07:57,960
that visually there that I can hand them.

959
01:07:58,220 --> 01:07:59,580
So thank you for that, sir.

960
01:08:01,180 --> 01:08:01,780
Got some emphasis.

961
01:08:02,260 --> 01:08:02,880
Thank you, Mayor.

962
01:08:03,520 --> 01:08:08,340
Just everybody has said how great it is, but I would like to thank

963
01:08:08,340 --> 01:08:11,140
each of you in the Department of Health and staff

964
01:08:11,140 --> 01:08:13,560
for putting this packet together and briefing us today,

965
01:08:13,820 --> 01:08:15,940
because this is good information,

966
01:08:15,940 --> 01:08:22,860
because otherwise we probably wouldn't know as much as what's in this packet if you didn't

967
01:08:22,860 --> 01:08:27,980
make this presentation to us. So this is excellent. This is a good information. And it's

968
01:08:27,980 --> 01:08:34,600
something we can share if we wish to do that and maybe some of our HOABs or civic meetings

969
01:08:34,600 --> 01:08:43,240
or whatever. Gary, thanks again for the briefing on that fire towel, burn building because

970
01:08:43,240 --> 01:08:47,620
That nobody in this room really knows what game change

971
01:08:47,620 --> 01:08:49,080
or is about that.

972
01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:53,340
But what it does is it keeps our firefighters internal

973
01:08:53,340 --> 01:08:57,400
to our city for training in most part, where we now have to travel

974
01:08:57,400 --> 01:08:59,200
to Virginia Beach Fire Training Center

975
01:08:59,200 --> 01:09:01,800
to do some of the things such as the burn, stuff,

976
01:09:01,880 --> 01:09:03,940
confined space, things of that nature.

977
01:09:04,620 --> 01:09:07,720
This is more specialized to do exactly that.

978
01:09:08,600 --> 01:09:12,020
This could be expanded and be used for other things as well.

979
01:09:12,020 --> 01:09:19,920
I mean, I think they could be used for tactical if the police department wants to to be able to use that.

980
01:09:21,260 --> 01:09:23,080
And so this is exciting.

981
01:09:23,280 --> 01:09:26,300
This could be great to see when this thing really pops out of the ground.

982
01:09:26,520 --> 01:09:28,020
It'd be interesting to take a look at it.

983
01:09:29,400 --> 01:09:33,880
The other thing is do not ever build another fire station in this city that's not for bay.

984
01:09:34,680 --> 01:09:35,920
Just get it in your head.

985
01:09:36,480 --> 01:09:39,840
Push for bay anytime we build a fire station in the city.

986
01:09:39,840 --> 01:09:45,880
First, stations and that, three Bayes anymore, they're four and five Bayes, and that's because

987
01:09:45,880 --> 01:09:49,740
of the size of the equipment, the amount of equipment that we're doing in the locality,

988
01:09:49,780 --> 01:09:55,660
we put it in, it's paramount that we have a facility to put this equipment into.

989
01:09:56,880 --> 01:09:59,960
So I'm excited that we were able to pry.

990
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:17,820
Guys, to go for a station 11, it's going up there, up in the college park area. So it's all good stuff. So everything in this package was phenomenal. It's great. I didn't realize we had this many projects going on until you just put this on the table.

991
01:10:18,240 --> 01:10:28,700
I knew we had projects but not this many projects. So then again, I think people don't understand what really goes on and how much we're involved in stuff and expanding.

992
01:10:28,700 --> 01:10:34,780
And we'll go to get your little at a time as we continue to grow.

993
01:10:35,680 --> 01:10:38,340
So thanks for everything and I appreciate it.

994
01:10:39,860 --> 01:10:41,040
Council Member Butler-Barlow.

995
01:10:42,280 --> 01:10:44,320
I just want to make sure you all know that I was paying attention.

996
01:10:45,720 --> 01:10:47,080
Thank you so much for the report.

997
01:10:47,280 --> 01:10:49,080
It's exciting what all is going on.

998
01:10:49,220 --> 01:10:50,560
Thank you for keeping us up to date.

999
01:10:50,720 --> 01:10:52,780
Hope everything comes in on time and on budget.

1000
01:10:53,300 --> 01:10:54,460
Thanks so much.

1001
01:10:55,980 --> 01:10:58,180
Council on any other questions or comments.

1002
01:10:58,980 --> 01:11:00,020
If not, I'll wrap it up.

1003
01:11:00,140 --> 01:11:01,200
I don't have any questions.

1004
01:11:03,160 --> 01:11:06,120
The word that comes to me is impressive.

1005
01:11:06,880 --> 01:11:10,800
The last year's presentation was pretty impressive.

1006
01:11:11,480 --> 01:11:15,120
But compared to this year, with what we have going on in so much of it,

1007
01:11:15,140 --> 01:11:19,360
it's going to come to fruition within a year or so, just a couple years.

1008
01:11:20,320 --> 01:11:24,200
And I know that's, I mean, that's great to see.

1009
01:11:24,200 --> 01:11:28,980
Because a lot of the groundwork, just like Robert alluded to, you know, but, you know, you see

1010
01:11:28,980 --> 01:11:32,740
the digging, you don't see the infrastructure or it's like building a house, really

1011
01:11:32,740 --> 01:11:37,060
done look like much until you get the framing up, and that's a big deal, and you get the

1012
01:11:37,060 --> 01:11:37,600
roof on it.

1013
01:11:38,120 --> 01:11:42,940
So we're getting to the point where we're really going to see the fruits of our labor, if you

1014
01:11:42,940 --> 01:11:48,860
will, and the other impressive thing is, you know, we're just the money come from to do these

1015
01:11:48,860 --> 01:11:49,440
projects.

1016
01:11:49,980 --> 01:11:55,420
And I think you need to look at our CIP and look at our budget, but it's a lot of work

1017
01:11:55,420 --> 01:12:02,320
and it goes into obtaining funds, you know, we're leveraging money for state funds, we've

1018
01:12:02,320 --> 01:12:07,620
got federal funds, we've got grants that we've pursued, and when you look at the budget

1019
01:12:08,120 --> 01:12:14,540
to see that a lot of the money that goes into the projects is not on the backs of the taxpayers.

1020
01:12:16,180 --> 01:12:23,500
It's due to a lot of work of city manager and his staff going after these funding sources.

1021
01:12:23,980 --> 01:12:29,160
Another thing that I think is impressive is when you look at the scope of the projects,

1022
01:12:29,660 --> 01:12:33,980
whether it's public works, public utilities, where it's parks or capital projects,

1023
01:12:34,560 --> 01:12:36,560
they are spread out across the city.

1024
01:12:37,440 --> 01:12:40,080
Now we've addressed, we've got some money going in the downtown,

1025
01:12:40,640 --> 01:12:42,760
but it's time for money to go in the downtown.

1026
01:12:42,760 --> 01:13:12,540
But when you look at the rest of the projects, some of them around the bunnies, some of them are closed, some of them are dressing water issues, we get road issues, we really do have a good mix of projects that are benefiting, I would say, virtually all our citizens, our parks and wreck projects, I mean, I can't wait for Brady to get cranked up, we finally get that right away, I know I've had a lot of calls on it and some people would say,

1027
01:13:12,540 --> 01:13:16,920
I'm sure it's really going to happen, I think you're just kind of brought that up.

1028
01:13:17,440 --> 01:13:21,580
But it took a while to get some right away acquisitions so we'd have the room so we

1029
01:13:21,580 --> 01:13:27,520
could have two trucks and boats passing at one time and we do have money in the CIP, so

1030
01:13:27,520 --> 01:13:31,580
it's good to see that we're really possibly going to have something that we're going to use

1031
01:13:31,580 --> 01:13:33,640
within the next 18 or 24 months.

1032
01:13:34,040 --> 01:13:36,560
And that's to go along with somebody's major road projects.

1033
01:13:36,560 --> 01:13:44,860
I know Councilman Johnson will be glad just the thought that 58 will be done is just an amazing

1034
01:13:44,860 --> 01:13:51,520
thing and what will probably happen is once it's complete within a year or so we'll forget

1035
01:13:51,520 --> 01:13:56,260
what it was like before we had to go through the pain part of it.

1036
01:13:56,420 --> 01:14:04,180
Same way with shoulders heel road 17, those projects there, the NANDSmen fly over and will

1037
01:14:04,180 --> 01:14:09,880
road to me. That's awesome. And like I said, that project really seemed to be flying right along.

1038
01:14:10,240 --> 01:14:15,000
So we've got some major major projects that are going to help with infrastructure. And I

1039
01:14:15,000 --> 01:14:20,500
still read comments where we don't pay any attention to infrastructure. Well, there's a book of

1040
01:14:20,500 --> 01:14:27,700
infrastructure. And I'm very, very impressed with what we're doing, how we're doing it, and where

1041
01:14:27,700 --> 01:14:32,860
we're doing it. So with that being said, keep up the good work. I can't wait to have some

1042
01:14:32,860 --> 01:14:34,220
have been cut and shared shortly.

1043
01:14:35,540 --> 01:14:37,120
So that concludes our work session.

1044
01:14:37,560 --> 01:14:39,840
We do have need for a closed session, Madam Clerk.

1045
01:14:40,200 --> 01:14:41,680
We read the motion for consideration.

1046
01:14:45,790 --> 01:14:52,010
I don't number one, pursuant to Virginia Code sections 2.2-37118-81.

1047
01:14:52,630 --> 01:14:55,990
The consultation with Legal Council, employed by a public body,

1048
01:14:56,830 --> 01:14:59,970
regarding specific legal matters requiring the advice of such cases.

1049
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:29,860
And the discussion consideration or interviews of prospective candidates for appointment and the assignment appointment and performance of specific public officers or appointees of the city. Specifically, the appointment is shown in the attach list for the vacancies or term explorations for the Clean Community Commission, the Community Policy and Management Team, the early childhood development commission, the Hampton Road Planning District Commission, the Human Services Advisory Board, the Local Board of Building Code Appeals, the sister city's commission, the South East of Virginia Alcohol

1050
01:15:29,860 --> 01:15:34,440
Safety Action Program, the South-Side Area Network Authority, the Suffolk

1051
01:15:34,440 --> 01:15:38,760
Development and Housing Authority and the TIDWRU Services Commission, and item

1052
01:15:38,760 --> 01:15:45,760
number two, pursuant to Virginia Code Section 2.2-371183, the discussion or

1053
01:15:45,760 --> 01:15:51,060
consideration of the acquisition of real property for a public purpose, or of the

1054
01:15:51,060 --> 01:15:55,860
disposition of publicly held world property, where discussion and open meeting

1055
01:15:55,860 --> 01:16:01,120
would adversely affect the bargaining position or negotiating strategy of the public body.

1056
01:16:01,880 --> 01:16:08,340
Specifically, tax map numbers, 34G-17A, ASTRAC-163.

1057
01:16:10,460 --> 01:16:25,840
34G-17A, ASTRAC-165 and 34G-17A, ASTRAC-165.

1058
01:16:25,840 --> 01:16:27,500
PEI 1776.

1059
01:16:28,240 --> 01:16:31,800
Councillor Minn方面 said, moved to approve of permission for approval from Councilman.

1060
01:16:31,920 --> 01:16:34,000
5짓 Councilman, Williams, II, fifth second.

1061
01:16:34,000 --> 01:16:34,740
Second, perhaps second from Councilman.

1062
01:16:34,780 --> 01:16:36,240
We have the rebonds, I should just go to the motion.

1063
01:16:36,900 --> 01:16:41,240
Are none Council Members, the previous votes, please cast your vote.

1064
01:16:41,940 --> 01:16:43,540
Madam Clerk, please record your vote.

1065
01:16:45,300 --> 01:16:47,780
For the motion is approved by a vote of 8 to 0.

1066
01:16:48,080 --> 01:16:51,440
They conclude your work session and we will reconvene at 6pm.