City Council - Regular Meeting

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Good evening. It's 7 o'clock. We'll call the November 6 Dotto City Council meeting to order. Start with roll call, please. Lane. Hon here. Daniels, yes. Patterson here. McMarin. Uh, Mr. Mayor, it looks like um council member McMarin is absent today. Okay. I would invite you all to please rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Right. Our first I'm gonna let Edgar Walker. Yeah, a little dance tonight.

All right, our first item tonight is our consent agenda. Tonight, on the consent agenda, we have approve approve minutes from October 2nd city council meeting. Approve payments number 107. Approve quote from Sergeant Drilling for well 18 cleaning project. Approve settlement agreement with permanent easement for the five mile sewer project. and consider donation requests for fall vendor festival. Is there any item we anyone would wish to remove for further discussion? Hearing none, could I have a motion to approve the I'll make a motion. Second.

All right, we have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Lane, yes. Patterson, yes. Daniels, yes. Hon, yes. Motion carries.

Okay. Item two is called to public. Members of the public are welcome to use this time about any matter relating to city comments that are discussed under call to public may or may not be acted on by the council during the meeting. Does anyone wish to address the council under call? All right. I'm not seeing anybody. So, we will go to item three, old business. We don't have any, so we'll go to 4 A. Consider change order number one from Mcinany Construction for the 2025 street overlay. Mayor and council members, thank you. As I talked about earlier, when we approved the original contract from Macany, the bids were uh very well that we received and that we'll be adding uh these streets to their contract. Um, so here is the the formal change order to add those streets um to the 2025 mineral program. This still leaves us with about $100,000 left um to make any final changes or any additional improvements to the roadways that uh we're working on this year.

Okay. Any questions for uh Joe on the change order for the street program? Make a motion to approve change order one in the amount of $17,928.85 uh for the addition of three street sections to the um mill and overlay program. Second. All right, we have a motion and a second. Any discussion of the motion? Roll call, please. Hon, yes. Daniels, yes. Patterson, yes. Lane. Yes. Motion carries.

All right. Item B, consider GMP number four with Garnney Construction for the construction of two new

Yep. Thank you. Yep. So, back in May of 2023, we approved the agreement uh actually the design build agreement to GMP for uh the water treatment plant. Um, as we're working on the water treatment plant, we also had funding for um the improvements to our our water wells to be able to supply water to the water plant and then to not only Panasonic with the citizens of Dotto. Um, so we've been working with HDR and Garnney over the past several months uh to put together um a bid package. Um so this GMP4 is the bid package to uh drill two new wells, offset wells. Uh one is for well 7, the other is for well 11. Uh these are both on the north side of the river and are in the better area of producing water. We recently uh did an offset for well 19. Um that's in and that's producing somewhere around 900 gallons a minute. We anticipate these two wells to uh produce in that same range providing adequate water uh to the treatment plant, be able to supply Panasonic uh have redundancy in our wells and um so after going through the different bid packages and comparing um with the different vendors, uh the recommendation here for you is to approve the GMP number four in the amount of $2,82,82,458. $8. Uh in the write up, you will see who the low biders were uh for the different packages that were put out. We anticipate with approval of this that we'll start um uh construction early on in the beginning part of the year and hopefully to bring these wells online by uh midsummer.

And I'll stand for any questions. Is is this the last of the um improvements related to water as part of the Panasonic project? Yes. Yes. So, yeah, this would be Yeah, this would be funded by the uh the development agreement that the city has with Panasonic.

Questions from council like it's a solid team. Yeah. I'll make a motion we approve uh GMP number four amount in the amount of 2,800,2458. The contract amendment uh will be executed later. I'll second it. All right, we have a motion and a second. Any discussion of the motion? Roll call, please. Patterson, yes. Daniels, yes. Michael, yes. Lane, yes.

Motion carries. All right. Item C, consider agreement with a fitness for the 95th Street sewer.

Yep. It's been a busy night for me tonight. Seems like it's either nothing or a lot. Um, so thank you again. Tonight we're asking for approval uh of a contract engineering contract with the fitness to do the design of the city's sewer benefit district which runs from basically the kind of the southeast corner of 95th and Lexington uh back to the west and up u kind of 95th street back along K10 all the way up to Sunflower. Um so we went uh we put out notices we received five proposals. uh we had a selection committee to go through those u aphasis was the highest ranked uh firm and um so we've been uh working with them to uh identify the scope and fee which are attached for your review. Uh the one thing that that I did do as we were going through this process uh and reviewing their fees is to look at the original estimate given the fact that we um have a current project almost finishing up that um um SRL is doing as a benefit district to run sewer lines. So I was able to get their um I think they had four contractors bid that project. So I was able to get their bids uh work with the fennis to take the original scope and to look at the reason that that that I was concerned with with kind of the original estimate is the amount of rock that we've encountered um not only on this project but also the five mile zero project that that Panasonic did. So, I wanted to kind of take a look to make sure that that we were looking at actual numbers and and and having bids here recently uh in the same vicinity that we're working in. Um seemed like a good lit litmus test to to see where we are with construction cost. After going through that exercise, um it looks like construction costs are about $5 million

as compared, I think originally was $2.7 million given all the rock excavation that we anticipate and and the boring that uh will occur there under intersection of 95th and Lexington. So bringing all that together, looking at at at the fee that we're presented with, we're right in line with with um expectations. I did talk to Call Valley to see where their fees landed with. I also talked with some other consulting firms uh to make sure that that I was looking at um uh apples to apples so to speak. Um so after going through the exercise u I'm confident that that what we've got here is a good fee for engineering design and I think we've also got a very um uh good start for our engineering estimate for the construction cost. So, I did uh my recommendation tonight that we approve the engineering contract with the fitness. Uh let's see, get down to in the amount of $427,364. And I'll answer any questions.

Questions for Joe.

Mayor, if I could sure just point of clarification. Um when we formed the benefit district that set the assessments for the property uh owners, the estimated project cost at that time was 3.5. So this 2.7 was an early estimate. I think it was before we added on the 80 acres parcel on the south side there. So the maximum assessments that was uh approved um uh within the benefit district is 3.5 million. That's the most the property owners could pay. Um so if the actual cost of the project is more than that, then the city can decide to pick up the rest of that cost, not do the project, do something else. But under the current benefit district uh structure, that's the most that they'll pay. So that's important to keep in mind. And we won't really know the cost until we do the engineering get another piece of the

Okay. Thanks for that. Sure. Questions? Not a question, but I'll just comment.

Yeah, just kind of piggybacking on that. I completely agree. I think you know from when we looked at the um proposals that were submitted there's some really good options or opportunities here with design in terms of picking the alignment to make sure maximize the develop involved and I think also getting you know geotechnical information is important. So yeah, the big issue is going to be, you know, the budget as you bring it up, Mike, relative to uh the early thoughts, but really we got to get into the engineering to, you know, at least preliminary engineering to figure out how do we optimize the design and and control the costs going forward uh to be able to understand what that really is.

And I just had a quick question. How many property owners are in that? I can I tried to think. Oh man, I can't remember. I want to say around 12. That sounds right. I was going to say 10 somewhere right around there. Yeah. Yeah. And that would include like the properties on the northwest corner or actually northeast corner of Sunflower and 95th that properties but don't have any. Correct. Yeah. So we include one or two like that. You were owners then properties.

Yeah. Okay. Thanks. And yeah, I'm happy to see a project moving forward. I mean, worked a year with the homeowners, property owners to get it. I'm not happy to see a fitness on it because they are the ones that did the roundabout and shrank it without uh being telling council when we had direct them otherwise. So, that's not a company I would have chosen based upon their past history here. But to keep the project moving forward, I'm glad to see it moving forward and be supportive. Yeah, the the other thing to note um sorry um with approval tonight uh we expect surveying to occur uh before the end of the year you know late November early December uh so if you're a resident um you know expect that to be that activity to be taking place the survey

yeah the other thing I think as far as a residents on the timeline is the construction phase when it would potentially end and that means when the assessments would potenti potentially be looking at for their first assessment would be what 2028 likely. Yeah. According according to that, of course, this schedule has a construction continuing on. I believe it' take most of 27. Yeah. To construct, which means the assessments wouldn't be till 28. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think your point about, you know, surveying being a that they're able to get on the surveying early on is going to be important to keeping the thing moving forward. So,

yeah, and it's good time of year. Leaves are down. Yeah, leaves are off. Um, and again, however we can optimize the design both for construction cost as well as maximizing the develop properties that are involved is going to be really important. I think it was a good submitt. Okay. Well, I'll make a motion to approve the uh proposed business uh in the amount of $427,000 $427,364 and authorize the city administrator to st sign sign this the standard engineering agreement. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion of the motion? Roll call, please. Daniels,

yes. Hannah Michael, yes. Patterson, yes. Lane. Motion carries. Item D, consider ordinance 2669 approving IND.

Yes, council. Um you previously approved a pilot agreement last year authorizing a 75% uh property tax abatement um for phase one of this project $33 million. So what you have before you denied is simply the the final step in authorizing issuance of the bonds. Um so that recommend motion to approve ordinance 2669. Stson Baker is here. There any questions? Questions for city attorney or the developer?

I'll make a motion we approve ordinance 2669 authorizing 33 million. Double checking the numbers there. Missing a zero. Uh authorizing 33 again and industrial revenue bonds for phase one of the project at 34040 West 90th Street. Second. All right, we have a motion and a second. Any discussion of the move? Roll call, please. Lane, yes. Honor Michael, yes. Daniels, yes. Patterson, yes. Motion carries.

All right. Item E, consider ordinance 2670, levying special assessments for the evening star road benefit.

Yes, council. This um ordinance is the last step in forming the benefit district and this is setting the maximum assessments. Um as referenced by Mike for the 95th Street, this is the ordinance that will levy the maximum assessments uh for the Evening Star Road project. Um Chad Tenpenney, representing Guyer is here. um recommend adopting ordinance 267B leving the max assessments.

Questions from council. I'll make a motion to approve ordinance 2670 providing for the leving of assessments for the evening star project. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion of the motion? Roll call, please. Patterson, yes. Daniels, yes. H Michael, yes. Lane, yes. Motion carries. Mike, I hear reports that live stream may not be up.

Yeah, the YouTube live stream is not working right. Item F, consider issuance of and sale of general obligation improvement bond series 2025A. Item one, ordinance 2671, item two, resolution 20, item three, resolution 2083.

Just mayor, quick uh introductory here. Um you'll remember earlier this year you passed uh some resolutions authorizing projects authorizing us to issue the bonds. Uh the way these happens is is the bond sale is set for the day of the council action. So the sale was conducted this morning. We had five good bids on on those. Uh Jim Pritchard and and Derek Maher are here with Columbia Capital to uh address any any questions you might have. They were here. There they are way in the back. address any questions you might have, but we did receive uh the results of those uh this afternoon. Um good results uh under 4% interest rate, which is uh better than we expected. Uh and the structure of the debt is such that it will positively impact our mill rate for debt service um uh looking better than what we have budgeted for next year and the five-year projection. So, we'll be able to update those uh as we move along. So, uh, with that, Mayor, um, any questions? I' I'd leave to, uh, to Jim or Derek.

Okay. Questions from council. Well, they're here. I'd like to hear from them. All right. Please come up.

Good evening, Mr. Mayor and City Council.

Thanks for having us. Um I'm Jim Pritchard with Columbia Capital here with my colleague Derek Mar Andrews. Um so yes, we've been working on this bond sale for you for a few months now. Um of course this was planned years ago. Um but this morning we were able to hold a competitive auction for your bonds and thrilled to report we had excellent results. Um five bids like Mike had mentioned. Um that's more bids than you got in 2022. We had 2022 A and and B bonds offered. We got two bids and four bids back then on those two series. So, more bids uh this year. Um the interest rate came in a good 10 to 15 basis points better than what we had modeled leading into the sale this morning. Um and we've been in the market um this is our our fourth deal of the week. Um so um we've u had a good pulse on where these should come in at and um getting the results shows that you know there's a lot of good demand for the city's bonds um because you have a strong credit a good story and um I think you guys should be uh pleased with the results. So happy to answer any other questions.

Okay, questions. There's a lot of words and a lot of pages. So, who who's buying the bonds? Um, Robert W. Baird is an underwriter. They're going to purchase the bonds from the city. Then they'll have investors lined up to then also buy those bonds. But they'll they'll be the ones buying from the city. Yes.

Anyone else? I'll make a motion we approve ordinance number 2671 as written. I'll second it. All right. We have a motion and a second to approve ordinance 2671. Any discussion of the motion? Roll call, please. Lane, yes. Patterson, yes. Michael, yes. Daniels, yes. Motion carries. I'll make a motion we approve resolution 28 2082 as written. Second. All right, we have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Hon, yes.

Daniels, yes. Patterson, yes. Lane, yes. Motion carries. All right. Did you did I'll make a motion we approve resolution 2083 as written. Second. All right, we have a motion and a second to approve resolution 2083. Any discussion of the motion? Roll call, please. Lane, yes. Patterson, yes. Daniels, yes. Hon, yes. Motion carries. Okay,

moving on. Item G, consider ordinance number 2672, reszoning 8870 Commerce Drive from IO to M1. Um, think we have a request to table this item. Is that correct? Okay. Um, so I would ask for a motion to table item. And you had a specific date you wanted to December 12th. I think it was December 18. Yeah, just give me 30 days. I'm still rush. Okay. All right. I'll make a motion to table item 4G until the 18th of December.

Second December meeting. Second December meeting. Thank you. Second. All right. All in favor say I. I. All opposed. Okay. Item H, consider ordinance 2673 updating the comprehensive plan with revised future land use map.

All right. Thank you, Mayor and Council. What you have before you is the update to just the future land use map, but it is approved by the council. It does get incorporated into our comprehensive plan. So what you have in your packet is the currently adopted 2022 future land use plan and then the updated future land use plan which incorporates Astra Enterp Enterprise Parks development plans and mostly that's just the area south of about 115th Street which is all encompass pardon me 119th Street which encompasses the solar area that was all mixed use that's been changed to light industrial which matches up with what the solar

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development would need. The other area is of course overall it's the southwest growth area plan has been adopted for that area between Lexington now energy way and K10. So that reflects all the changes from the southwest growth area plan and also we included the uh Carnip recommendations which is the comprehensive arterial road network plan that uh Mike and Joe worked on with county staff and also Mid America Regional Council. So those are the changes to the land use plan. I did have one note. I did get a call from Britt Palberg yesterday and as you know the Palbergs are pretty uh intense on knowing where their property is, but for some reason this little polygon shape didn't get caught. So it showed up as light industrial and it should be green for park. And so uh just want to make note of that. That's why you have this handout that they would like to request that change. So with that, I'll stand for any questions you may have.

Questions from council on the update to the future land use map? Uh question. I hadn't, you know, I haven't looked back at all the zoning, but is the far um western little triangle of Flint Commerce Center shown it's shown as commercial. Is that consistent with current zoning or was that all light industrial? It's all light industrial, but we've consistently now we've got the data center project. Uh, but we've always shown that as on the comp plan, pardon me. Future land use. Yeah. As commercial. So, you're gonna at this point you're going to maintain that in the future.

Yeah. That was, you know, we kind of got into some of those areas with the planning commission, which which was a reason why it took us a couple meetings to get through all this after the public hearing because there are some areas like that that they know might be changing. Do we include that or do we just stick with the, you know, the Carnip stuff, the Astro development and the southwest growth area plan? And as you know, we're going to be looking at the whole comprehensive plan next year. and they felt like they just wanted some additional data before they started getting into some of those other areas uh beyond just the like I said the Aster development the Carnip and the Southwest growth area plan.

So it's it's not all completely consistent with current zoning. Not all current zoning plus some anticipation of what how much extr territorial planning is shown on this? Obviously north of K10 is extr territorial. Uh I assume some of that east of Sunflower is as well.

Yeah. Now this is consistent with what we adopted or looked at in the 2022 plan. the our sort of growth area or our management plan has always been Garden Road to the east, county line to the west, and then south 143rd and then the Kansas River to the north. So now obviously the light shaded areas are county uninccorporated Johnson County and we're not making any recommendations there. It's just all rural a

what is the um engagement between planning staff, planning commission and county planning relative to any extr territorial uh planning on our future land use map. Is there much engagement there? Well, I I mean I do reach out and talk to planning staff quite a bit on things and I did county plans.

Yes, county planning staff and yeah, we talked about the carnip and the arterial stuff. In fact, uh the county uh GIS department actually is doing all this work for us. So, they're well aware of what happens and we're doing a lot better job of when we have a reasonzoning. Now, they do pick up our ordinances and things like that, but they've been really good to work with as far as making some of these minute changes here and there like this item that Brent Alberg brought up. That was Monday and they've now given me an updated map that uh reflects that change. So, they've been really good to work with. Thanks, Brad. All right. Anyone else?

Mike, is the map you're showing us up there the same one in the packet? Because that green area you were saying should be park looks park in here. It's uh So, in the packet you have the existing one. Okay. It's that one and then this one that I'm showing. Yeah, this one will be I want to show Yeah. All right. Other questions.

So, we have an ordinance then 2673 updating comprehensive plan. I'll make a motion to approve ordinance 2673 to update the future comprehensive plan with a correction to be noted um on a parcel um along the railroad tracks uh that is shown light industrial which should be shown as parks uh at at the intersection of Sunflower Road and the the extension of Sunflower Road and the railroad. track.

Second. All right, we have a motion and a second. Any discussion of the motion? Roll call, please. Daniels, yes. Hon, yes. Uh, Patterson, yes. Lane, yes. Motion carries. All right. Item I, discuss five-year capital improvement plan update.

Uh, yes, council, we're back. Uh, we're back to the capital improvement plan. We hope to be able to pull this together sooner in the year. Uh, but uh the budget process was a little more involved this year than we would. Um, the the intent tonight is really to present to you the results of several surveying efforts that we did uh over over the summer months really. um along and combine those with and remind you of the results of the surveys that we've done here internally with the city council and with city staff to kind of boil all those down uh and the recommendations and show you what uh essentially the entire community what seems to be the top priorities within the community. uh kind of show you what those projects are and then discuss some ways forward on some of them because uh some of them are smaller projects that can be funded within current uh current resources and and others are are not. Um and so I I wanted to present that. Um and also mayor before I get too far into it I did want to recognize we have uh Trent Dansel's in the audience and he's going to represent uh the transportation committee of the economic development council. Uh Kevin Han Michael's also on that committee. They provided uh a good a report on their impact for the five-year CIP which is included as exhibit C in your in your packet. So um to go through the exhibits quickly, I don't want to belabor them. We can certainly pause and and look at those, but um Whitney has done a fantastic job administering these surveys and wrapping up and and and summarizing them uh in these really these documents that are that are in the attached to the staff report. The first one really is the executive summary of the the pulse the flash vote polling. Um so you can you

can see that the the colorized we were showing um areas of strong agreement council priorities staff priorities uh and community priorities are summarized there and then exhibit B is a more comprehensive a longer version of of what those uh sort of priorities are. Again, I'll just quickly go through um then the the next exhibit, exhibit C, is a recommendation of the transportation committee. Um which are incorporated into the memo we'll go through uh here in just a second. Um and then also as a reminder then exhibit D of the staff report, more of a reminder to me than maybe to you. Uh but exhibit D is a list of what we have determined to be mandatory projects. uh you'll remember maybe early earlier on this year there are a number of these projects that are on the CIP list that we really have to do but uh either because we've already started them or because uh they are just absolute necessities. Um so that's exhibit D. Um, exhibit E is a a new freshly updated um five-year financial projections of the capital improvement fund incorporating the mandatory projects uh into that. And then exhibit uh F is a listing of pipeline projects. So, PIP, these are the really the three main ones that that rank very highly on the opinion surveys, um, but are of such a scope and scale that we're not going to probably get them done even in five years and if we had all the resources. Uh, but those include the 83rd Street corridor as a general project all the way through. We just we did that 83rd Street corridor study uh earlier last year. Um, so it's broken down into phases, but still a monumental effort there. The other one is the 95th Street corridor. U really primarily that

section between Sunflower Road and Lexington Avenue, but actually the whole corridor there between Sunflower and Kill Creek Road. And then the last one here on the list is the community center project. So that's a quick run through on the exhibit. So I do want to get uh to a summary then of some of these uh key findings of the uh from from the feedback. So the the top ranked projects and community goals the the and really I think these I think these are in kind of order. We'll see here later on. Uh among the top uh rank priorities uh of the community are the annual sidewalk program. Um this is one that's been in the CIP for a number of years. It had a budget level of $80,000 a year which was about a block and a half or so. Uh Brad's been the main point of contact implementing that project and we've been checking those off as we go. Um in the budget uh actually 25 budget and again in the 26 budget we've doubled that 80,000 to 160 that shows um all the way through and actually this is one of the mandatory already incorporated into the five-year CIP projection. So annual sidewalk program uh ranks very highly. Another one that ranks highly is also a sidewalk kind of a pedestrian pro uh project, Kil Creek pedestrian path. And this would be a recreation path along Kil Creek Road between 83rd and uh and K10. Um ranked highly in the community, highly among council, and highly among staff. It's got a pretty hefty price tag at 1.4 million. Uh the next one is the 83rd Street corridor in general terms as a general concern for uh safety and efficiency of both motoring public and pedestrian public including bikes uh and other forms of transportation. Uh school crossings also was was kind of a one of the things we heard during these survey outreach. Uh 83 street corridor in

general is a is a very big ticket item. I think in the $75 million 76 million range by the time we get it all done. Our corridor study broke it into three different phases each with a pretty monumental price tag and then further broke that down into some intersection improvements. Um but any the implementation of that is going to be a year'sl long process. Obviously we'll do it in phases. big part of that is preliminary um preliminary design, preliminary engagement, seeking outside funding sources will an absolute must on that one. Uh the other next project that ranked highly is 95th Street Bridge over Kill Creek. Uh this is one actually it's kind of two options we can go with on this. Uh the bridge deck is is at its useful life. It needs to be not just repaired but pretty uh replaced. um it's on the mandatory project list at $ 1.5 million. And so in our current five-year projections for the CIP that's already plugged into in there uh as the as the mandatory part, we have to do something with that bridge deck. But then there's also an opportunity to consider a larger project of completely replacing the bridge. Uh that's a $4.5 million effort. And that would be the concept would be you replace it uh wide enough so that the ultimate section if we if we go and improve that section to some sort of an arterial standard in the future that the bridge would be wide enough to accommodate that and long enough to accommodate and obviously have to accommodate the the wreck path that goes currently goes under that that bridge as well. So it's another one that ranked highly a small a small one that ranked highly. Uh, also Lexington Avenue lighting, street lighting. Pretty simple street lighting project. I think it's less than $100,000. Um, you know, we're uh it looks like we're almost ready to turn flip the switch on the Commerce uh drive lighting project. U so all those polls are up. Um anyway, it ranked highly among the uh among the the

priorities there. The next one is the 95th Street Sunflower to Lexington. We mentioned that before. Um so those are the ones that generally ranks highly on on the the surveys. So um in addition to those uh general support uh the EDC transportation committee specifically uh addresses K10 corridor advancements. So you know there's a recognition that that Kot just did this study on the K10 corridor. It recommends improvements. The the primary one for us being Lexington Avenue interchange, but there's also improvements recommended at the Evening Star interchange as well. Uh and then the addition of additional lanes through uh western Johnson County. uh the transportation committee of the EDC suggests that we remain engaged in that and and uh try to uh um try to be a partner in KOT's efforts toward implementing some of those uh projects. Also, the downtown streetscape enhancement um planning and doing some streetscape improvements downtown. And then the K10 signage visibility. We've had a K10 monument sign floating around our CIP I think for 20 years now. Uh several different iterations, but the uh transportation committee also suggest uh prioritizing that. Uh we also have some utility based projects. These were not ones that we submitted for the public to rank. So the public didn't really have a a a ranking on these. We did that because we didn't think um it was appropriate really to re to ask the public um you know to really weigh in on these uh these issues because they're they're kind of out of the public eye and it's difficult to communicate the need on those. So among those are u development asset management plans. This is just a plans for the water and the sewer couple to develop a comprehensive

asset management plan for for each of those systems. um water mane replacement to Waverly Tower. This would replace a water man connecting uh kind of the eastern part of town with Waverly Tower to to the western part. Two $2.7 million there. Uh a little over $500,000 for list station generators and replacing the rest of the force main um second street. So those are other items of note. uh already talked about the mandatory projects uh talked about capital improvement fund projections there in exhibit E. If you uh want to go through line by line, we certainly can. I don't think anybody's interested in doing that. But um the the the the the final line on that is that it it appears that without any additional funding sources um looks like there's about $2.5 million in resources that could be allocated to capital improvements over the 5-year period uh without any new money, without any outside funding sources, without any new money. um that includes a $750,000 figure uh that's shown as a contingency in the 2026 budget. As we were doing that budget during the summer, we didn't know where the CIP would end. We decided to throw that figure in uh into the 26 budget. So 2.5 million includes that uh contingency amount. Um, and also, you know, it it occurred to me uh recently after the council packet came out, we um we have a $500,000 grant uh from the EPA to uh to contribute toward the Astro Water Tower. Um that was awarded to us through a congressional um earmark through Shice David's office. uh we were not able to utilize that for the water tower, but it is they they're saying they want us to use it in some manner to designate some other public improvement projects for that. So you might we may be a able eventually to add another

$500,000 to uh select one of these projects and apply that that grant funding to that. What if be a water related project?

It uh the door's pretty open on consideration. Might be easiest if it were. Um, list station generators seems like it, you know, pretty easy fit there. You know, not we don't have to make a decision, but just a little piece of possible good news there to add. Um, talked about the pipeline project and then so the combined priority rankings. Um, what did I say here in this? Oh, explaining the column the table. So, I want to spend just a little bit of time, mayor, if you don't mind, talking about this table that's uh that's on page four of the staff report. Um, so ignore the right columns for now. Um, but but the the most of this table is really dedicated toward showing you where the the the in ranked order where these projects were uh ranked in within the community, how they rank um So the first one there's the 83rd Street corridor. It ranked the highest. Um again, so I'm showing the average ranking of the survey polls and then there's also a column for uh the recommendation of the EDC committee. Um they didn't have a number ranking to any of them, but they they did state in their their report uh what they were recommending. So this is kind of the the the order of them. So the first one is 83rd Street Corridor. It's a pipeline project and like I said it's more than 70 it's about $76 million. Um in terms of getting that effort started and taking the initial steps um broken that down into two initial phases. One would be just kind of consulting and engineering trying to seek outside funding sources and then um the next one would be some preliminary engineering and acquisition of rightway uh for that effort. The next project is the Killil Creek Road pedestrian path 83rd the Kill Creek. Uh again, it's it's a $ 1.4 million project broken into two phases

here. Design 300,000 and then construction uh 1 million. Um the next one's the annual sidewalk program. We talked about that. Uh the next one is a community center. Again, it's a pipeline project uh within the CIP. The overall budget to the community center, I believe we have it at 35 million. So that's a that's a figure that's a placeholder. It's widely varied. When remember a few years ago when we made an application for a grant state for that we estimated cost somewhere closer to 20 million uh whether it has a pool where the we just don't know where that's going to be. But uh for the purposes of the five-year CIP uh shown some initial uh feasibility planning efforts which we are uh going to um proceed with have been proceeding uh with that have proposals for the feasibility study in hand. uh and then a another small initial step p land purchase option or some some momentum some effort toward uh finding a site locating it securing a site. Uh the next one is the replace the water man to the Waverly tower. This is the one that's kind of important for hydraulics from this system. Again broken down into design and construction there. Uh the next lift station generators 500 grand for that. Next one's 83rd Street Force main replacement. These are kind of meat and potatoes. They're not near as flashy as the rest of them, but they're important. Uh, next one there is a 95th Street Bridge over Cedar Creek. This is the one shown here is the $4.4 million option. We've already incorporated the $ 1.5 million option into the CIP um five-year projections. Uh, pipeline project 95th Street Sunflower to Lexington Avenue. Um we have uh we have cost estimates on that entire project. Uh somewhere around $13 million was approved study uh for

that section. This includes initial phases um the and the first one being uh some sort of intersection control of traffic light most likely at 95th and Lexington at $750,000 and then rightaway acquisition design. We anticipate you know the um seeking outside funding sources for that uh and some other funding uh mechanisms to fall uh into would have to fall into place in order to implement that uh pretty big element of of the uh pretty big dollar figure to incorporate into the CIP. So there's avenues to pursue there. The next several are some parking lot next two are parking lot improvements. parking lot at Riverfest Soccer Fields. We'll be implementing that project soon. Uh adding a parking lot, half a million dollars. And then Miller Park restrooms to redo those $450,000. Lexington Avenue lighting uh project shows up here. A restroom and concessions at Riverfest. Uh 95th Street Lexington to Killil Creek Road. Don't have a a dollar figure for that, but it's shown there as a pipeline project. Um the next big pipeline project 83rd well sort of pipeline another land uh wreck path improvement 83rd street multi-use path it'd be along 83rd street from Laram to Corus uh Miller Park splash pad sunflower road reconstruction 91st and 95th uh and then the corus road multi-use path. So you see these multi-use paths pretty hefty price tags uh kind of the larger projects but rank pretty highly. I rank ranked highly and as you know the the trails uh parts they've they've ranked highly on just overall city satisfaction surveys quite a while we know they're they're pretty popular uh popular projects. So that's the list that's I think that's the top 20 um unless I lost

count somewhere. Um on the right, these four columns are just some potential funding scenarios. And I'm call them funding scenarios, but really they're CIP incorporation scenarios. If we if we chose to incorporate these certain projects, then it shows up as a green box here with a dollar figure. So you can kind of see how the bottom line would be impacted, you know, under scenarios one through four. you know, anywhere from it's like cheapest ones four and a half million up to almost $6 million, you know, if you choose those projects. Not suggesting we need to make uh decisions on those projects tonight or anything, but I did want to show you that, you know, under none of these scenarios have all these top 20 projects going. So um it's it it is important to note that you know even even with selecting port portions of these projects obviously the bigger ones going to need outside funding sources but even even still um we are going to probably be looking at additional debt service in the CIP potentially. So, uh, toward that end, I refreshed some of these scenarios that I think we'd seen, uh, in the spring, just looking at the debt service fund. What impact would it be if we added another $5 million debt service if we added another 10? Um, you know, a five million would equate to about 1.8 mills. A $10 million increase would equate to about four mills. Um, and of course, there's all sorts of ways to structure debt where it wouldn't impact so much. that's just a flat impact over the 20 year uh assuming current bond market or something reasonable to assume there. So those are that's just food for thought. Um that's the end of my presentation or the end of my memo anyway. Um happy to answer any questions. I did I think I think we'd love to hear feedback from

the group on um your your priorities, your reaction to the the projects that are here now. Um and then the next step would be to kind of try to whittle down actual funding scenarios, some incorporation scenarios, and get this CIP get this five-year projection sort of laid out um and get a path forward on some of these pipeline projects. What do we see as the schedule to try and get to what do we

uh you know it's a self-imposed deadline but I' I' I'd hope to wrap it up by the end of the year. Certainly that's a self-imposed 26 budget set you know so certainly uh by the second quarter of next year we really need a firm direction because then we're then we're at the 27 budget cycle. questions, comments. I think Trent's here. I'd like to Oh, yeah. ask you if you if you don't mind inviting. Not at all.

Good evening, uh, Mr. Mayor, members of the council, city staff. It's good to be here. Uh my name is Trent Danzel and I was on the still am as far as I know on the transportation committee for the Dodto EDC. And as in your packet, you can see exhibit C for this agenda item includes the results of our, you know, review of how transportation investment may benefit or enable economic development in Dodto. So, I was just going to run through um you know the highlights uh for the the investments as we kind of prioritize them. Now, it wasn't just me. There were um you know, six other members of the committee, Jay Aber, Jamie Feain, Eric Man, Katie Stucky, and we were chaired by Kevin Hanichel. So again kind of the the work the charge of this committee was to use our perspective and um as appropriate professional expertise to develop this commentary which again we feel will just kind of optimize economic development through investment in transportation infrastructure. And an additional lens that we were looking through was how do we uh enable and support wellplanned growth. Okay. How can we use these investments to improve quality of life in Dodto uh for future investment existing residents? Um how can we use these investments to attract and retain businesses,

support and grow existing businesses? So with those kind of thoughts in mind, you know, the goals and guidance, this team came up with exhibit C here. So let me just kind of run through these quickly. I don't I'm not going to belabor it because it is in your packet, but uh the southwest growth area. Um we spent a lot of time with that plan. Very solid plan. What really jumped out to us was 95th Street, Lexington to Sunflower. Investing in that would open up a great deal of land for economic development. Um to invest in that upfront would also eliminate the potential for a peacemeal um improvement and peace meal economic development in that area which we found um to be preferred. as we considered things within that um that stretch of 95th Street, we think it's important that the city consider and quantify its investment in that piece of infrastructure so that an incentive plan or structure for the private market can be clearly defined and communicated. We think communicating that to the private market is is critical. Uh we talked a lot about the K10 corridor. The committee guidance on this largely is associated with uh the perceived need for the city to engage in um you know proactive, collaborative, welcoming manner as improvements to K10 occur. Um, you know, a few opportunities according to the committee are engaging with federal, state, local, regional stakeholders. Mid America Regional

Council has already been involved in in the work that this committee has done. Um, engaging with elected officials um in a in a proactive, welcoming, communicative way. We see tremendous value in that. Um, as far as K10 is concerned, you mean our congressional delegation relative to elected? Is that what you're Absolutely. Elected delegation, um, state, local, regional, of course. I'm at the local delegation right now, I suppose. Yeah. Um, yeah, federal, state. Thank you.

83rd and Lexington corridor. This was again a very wellstudied piece of transportation infrastructure. We think a lot of the investments are um you know, appropriately defined and laid out. We viewed this as a quality of life opportunity. You know, there's existing businesses, existing residents. There's a lot of opportunity to um benefit all stakeholders with investment in 83rd and Lexican. We do think it's um sorry the 83rd in Lexington corridor when you when that is being considered programming the initial uh phase to include all intersection improvements. We think that's um something to consider. Um so sidewalks and trails made our list. again, quality of life um benefiting existing residents, existing businesses. Um again, there's more backup in the memo, but sidewalks and trails are important to economic development. The 95th Street Bridge certainly received um you know, some focus consideration from the committee. Um it's it's a vital piece of infrastructure. you're looking at one of the two primary east west corridors. So making sure that the bridge is um accommodated we think is important down downtown streetscape um again a quality of life issue. We see this as an opportunity to support existing businesses um leverage uh new economic development to benefit the entire city and walkability is just universally adored. So um downtown streetscape um considerations, studies, investment, we think this is important.

leveraging additional funding sources. Um the committee would encourage uh that to you know be top of mind to the city. Johnson County has a few programs cars smack funding um as transportation but some of the other CIP considerations you know become more real. the committee thinks it's uh you know wise to leverage these existing funding sources smack and cars and uh you know primarily through grant writing of course and then lastly K10 was was discussed here K10 signage specifically um as as the committee kind of looked at this we thought well there's a tremendous opportunity here for DInnesota to brand itself you know make sure that that um folks who don't know exactly where those city lines are along K10 can say okay we're in Dotto now and that investment is happening here. So kind of a um you know branding opportunity. So just in closing, you know, the committee first of all appreciates the opportunity to present this to um city council, but yeah, we encourage investment in transportation infrastructure for economic development, quality of life, business attraction, retention, and growth. would encourage the city to collaborate with uh partners such as Mark, but also elected officials in a robust and ongoing manner and pursue existing funding sources that can benefit the implementation of this CIP with vigor.

All right. Thank you. Thank you, Trent. Any questions from council? Right.

So action tonight is to consume the information.

Yeah. Um yeah, I did want to, you know, have any feedback you you uh you would like to make um on on the phasing, the pipeline projects kind of specifically, but relative to phasing and bonding. So, you know, we some of the phasing options include wreck paths and and other improvements. If the if the CIP, can we specifically earmark wreck paths for existing funds and bond um hard infrastructure or if we have a CIP that includes both? Um because I know there is a bonding an election requirement for bonds that are spent on

recreation. Recreation. That's right. Yeah. Uh, one school of thought would be to package those recreation projects that we think and put it to the voters for a for a for a vote.

Um, the other the other is to uh bond the stuff that we that is not recreation and use uh CIP funds, existing funds for the parks. Um, you know, it would would seem like it's easy to kind of differentiate the parks and recck stuff from uh the other uh infrastructure items. The the other thing is um some of these things relate to utility systems um which we might want to differentiate from general general fund thing like the street and parks and and roads improvements are not uh going towards systems that are are funded by rateayers. So there's a distinction there that could be made. Um and then you know the last thing is this pursuit this outside funding sources that that are just difficult to predict. Um and and you know each one of these projects might not be feasible without them. Uh so you might pull those specific projects out and treat them separately. Uh so you know as we as we take the next steps and try to formulate a plan for implementation uh I think the reason I kind of wanted to show you some of the mill levy impact on some whether it's a a voter approved mil impact or just a bond or a revenue bond that's funded by water rates. Um the general impact to the to the to the rateayer is is generally the same. I wanted to show you uh what that might be. And so kind of what it comes down to is, you know, over the next five years, what is this governing body's appetite for additional expenditures given everything we know? Um and and and also knowing that these five-year projections in the CIP, these uh those those mill levy impacts that we're projecting now are based on all these assumptions, these decisions that we've made to incorporate into our 26 budget and and into those uh the general

fund projections and the water fund and the sewer fund. This all kind of funnels back, right? Uh so so we we hope that we've been um conservative in our estimating of revenues and expenditures uh sufficiently that it's only good news from here on out, you know, in terms of the impacts. Uh but we know that those chickens haven't hatched yet and we still have basket of eggs. And then bottom line is any any uh project uh funding scenarios in excess of $3 million are going to require some either outside funding or some bonding. Yeah. As you're looking through the list. Okay.

Question. Sure. Um although I'm sad and disappointed to not see the downtown streetscape on that top list. I just based on years and years of people bringing that up. I I don't I think that should be a more of a priority. Thanks Trent for uh backing that up as far as uh that goes. Um so like the sidewalk program, does that include downtown sidewalks? That includes everywhere like and then you prioritize which sidewalks to Yeah. Um two good points. So you know the first point more okay well those first two were good.

Okay.

Uh to the downtime this is the reason we have the conversation. This is what the numbers show doesn't mean it's what you know that that we would make a decision we make as a as a body. Right. So uh good point. the downtown streetscape project didn't make the numbers list but certainly can't doesn't mean it can't be incorporated. Uh the annual sidewalk program um you know it's shown just as an annual expenditure in the CIP. Now uh we could develop a plan that says we're going to do this first that next this next. You know so far we've been you know kind of putting out the worst fires more or less. Uh we could certainly choose to prioritize that in any manner we want to. What it t generally happens is toward the first of the year, Brad comes to the council and says, "Hey, these sidewalks are the worst ones. Is it okay if we do these?" And we say, "Okay." And he goes out and does it. Um, if we want a more, you know, programmed out thing, it's certainly a reasonable, but the annual decision is made by this body each year of which ones to do. a clarificate. I think the the planning money or the the design money, the study money for downtown streetscape is in this year's budget.

It is. So I mean the the construction of it is not in this but there is that we do have have allocated funds to start the planning process. So is there um past resources as far as that planning process? I feel like it's just been on a list for a while. Like, are there already a list somewhere that shows these are the areas to help improve downtown funded the the the

No, mayor. Um, I'm sorry, mayor. It is It's not It's not in the CIP now. But so, so what what we've identified is a downtown streetscape master did one of these in the early 2000s. you might remember. um to refresh that or throw that away or burn that and start all we could have done and

yeah uh but that that might be a $100,000 it might be $100,000 effort uh to start that and I think that would you know that would be the recommendation of the EDC committee uh that we do that study engage those business owners the community what do we want to do what does it mean what's it cost um that would be another way to get that project started without allocating $5 million to some improvement that Yeah. Right. But no, it's it's not in the current projection. All right. My mistake

because I just think that's a an area that um needs to attract and retain current residents, not just bringing in new business. Not that I'm all for new business, but I just think that that's a um heart of the city, and I think that's a good place to really start and um show more effort. Yeah, we've we've put a spotlight on it down there in the last several years, haven't we? Yeah, it looks Yeah, absolutely.

Literally on the water tower. And then the other one is that uh I like that gateway signage piece also that thank you again Trent for putting that on your list to signify and that branding on both uh ends of the town. Um, I would just like to add that in cooperation with the um I guess downtown streetscape as well as the gateway streetscape. I guess I would add that. I think that's it. Thank you,

Mayor. If I can maybe just highlight a couple of points. One, I'm going to acknowledge my limited uh influence or opportunity to engage in this. But just throwing out uh a couple of thoughts. One is, you know, the Southwest Growth Area is our really our expansion opportunity. Everything else is um either maintenance or improvement or enhancement. say the 83rd Street corridor is not really one that sports is going to be paid for by economic development in that area. Whereas Southwest's growth area has got some opportunity for advanced tax base, enhanced growth, enhanced regional income. So I think it's going to be really important that the incentive plan be synchronized with what the intentions are for the growth in that area and in particular, you know, as Trent mentioned, sending a message to the development community about what what the city's going to do to uh invest in the infrastructure in that area to promote um planned um logical development versus peace meal improvements to public infrastructure. That's something the future council is gonna going to have to wrestle with and make a real statement on. So the synchronization between the incentive policy as well as the capital improvement plan is going to be unique from what we've had to deal with in the past.

Good point. Anything else from anybody? Will this be an ongoing agenda item then for or unfortunately? Yes. Yes, mayor. I Yeah. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Mike. Moving on. Item five, executive session. We do not have anything. All right. So, advisory reports, city administrator.

Uh yes, mayor. Just quickly, I wanted to uh give a status update. We've we've had some communications from uh Philadelphia Baptist Church about their utility service connection uh situation there with the improvements that are about to begin across Sunflower Road to the uh Clear View City. Um it it appears like historically the church has been fed services uh from across the road and and that might not be able to continue into the future. Um, just want council to know that I've Patrick and I uh met with Pastor Turk is in the audience uh tonight. Um, I will be reaching out to to Mr. Rhodess who's also in the audience this evening to see if there's some way we can facilitate uh uh solutions there on the water and sewer. Uh there's also an issue possibly issue with the Atmos gas service uh to the building with the improvements going on in the area. uh Atmos is indicating that they might have to discontinue service to that area. So wanted the council to be aware the uh water connection is pretty easy uh sort of solution. We have a water man pretty close to connect there. Uh sewer solution is going to be tougher. Um uh but we we're we're going to try to work with the parties to come to an amanable uh amanable solution on both of those. So, no action uh for tonight, but at the next C uh well, hopefully by the I'll I'll have a report for you at the next meeting and possibly some action on that.

Is that the end of your report? Yes, it is. Patrick, city attorney? Nothing for me. All right. City planner, any report tonight? No, mayor. Thank you. Okay. City engineer couple items. So they start today 95th Street going back to the west repairs as soon as they're done full street work and that's ever project who is based on their uh earlier work. Yeah.

Okay. uh priority saying cont orchard the rail across the street hope the next four days we've been out tonight they're out here for the next week so all right mayor if I may a couple questions or comments um do you have any status report on the street light at 95th and Lexington uh getting that street light replaced.

I don't I'll get with EverGee again. I talked with uh uh Matt about it a couple months ago and just said, you know, yeah, we just wanted on a one of the existing wood poles if that be done and you know, it'll be there until we make improvements to the the intersection. So, u it's kind of gone silent with EverG. Yeah. Yeah. So, I'll get back with with Matt and see if uh we can bring that back to life. Yeah, that would be appreciated because it's, you know, it's a real contrast there because you do have the lights on Lexon, but then that intersection's really dark. Oh, it is. Yeah. Um and then second, great job on the Waverly Trail.

Uh it's come along really, really well. Uh it's getting cleaned up really well and almost every night I've already seen trail. So, yep. I think we just a couple areas left to uh to wrap up on on the uh concrete ramps. Yeah. Thank you. Yep. Okay. Anything else, Joe? That's it. All right. Thank you. Brandon's not here, so we will skip the assistant city administrator unless Edgar, you want to inform us. All right. Council comments. Danny, anything for the group tonight?

Uh, yeah. I wanted to say that um people have been walking, riding, a lot of bikes and a lot of walking paths along Cedar Creek. A beautiful overlay and striped and uh I'm a little concerned about it looks like a racetrack down through there and uh I'm a little worried about that, but the public I've had many calls on it so far. They're pleased. They're happy. It was a good job. It's smooth. It's not hilly even though it's in a hilly area. It's a beautiful job and people have really been appreciated. A lot of walkers, a lot of bikers, and a lot of motorcycles and that's probably going to cease pretty soon, but with the weather, but very nice job done by the city. And Mac, is that who was you? Yeah.

All right. Very good job. Thank you. Thank you, Rob. Anything for the group tonight? Congratulations, Joe and Zach. Also, over the last few years, spent a lot of time with the 95th Street residents with the sewer benefit district and also uh working with Leslie. Appreciate Mike's help with Leslie Jansen. Uh her property finally after all this time is restored. Got the opener in. Yeah. The gate and the opener. the last pieces in. So very happy to say that her property is finally after all this time restored. So to satisfactory so long time coming, a lot of time working with them. Rhonda,

yeah, I had a quick question on that. The future land map, land use map. Is that an easy go-to for the public if they want to go on the site and look at that versus having to go to the council agenda, click on there, go to your Yeah, it is uh as a standalone document on uh the website as I understand it. It's by the zoning map as well. So, and based on tonight's we'll get that updated pretty quickly. So, if they if someone wanted to like they can just put in future land map if they just type in future land use map in the search bar it'll come up real quick. Okay. So, for those of you listening that's how you find it. We're going to get a demo. There we go.

We're gonna get a demo right here. I like I like demo on hands on. There it is. Perfect. I just wanted to clarify that that was easy to get to. Yeah. Okay. Search functions great on that. Or you can ask ask Chad Belchure. Abbott. Ask Abbott. Abbott. Kevin. Were you done on this? All right. Thanks, Kevin. Anything tonight? I do. All right. Um, yeah, I don't think I have I guess I will echo Rob's congratulations, Zach, on your election and Joe online, I guess. Congratulations.

Uh, and with that, I will make a motion to adjourn. Second. All right. All in favor say I. I. I. All opposed. We're adjourned. asking