Public Amenities Committee - Regular Meeting

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you were able to join us want to start with introductions this morning we do have a special update on our quarterly bond update from our bond team you'll get to hear about it but excited first to start with introductions distinguished gentlemen to my right could you start sir good morning everyone Paul Cashman South Denver District 6

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We appreciate that.

All right. Amanda Sawyer, District 5. Laura Alvarez, Lucky, District 7.

Darrell Watson, Fine, District 9.

Good morning, Diana Romero Campbell, Southeast Denver District 4.

Fantastic. Are there any announcements that members of the council would like to share with the folks listening at home or people here before we jump into our bond updates? Councilwoman Vedras.

Thank you. I just want to share that my heart is with all those affected by the wildflower fires across Colorado today and with the firefighters that we lost over the weekend. That's all.

Thank you so much, Councilwoman. Please present routine.

Thank you. Mr. Mayor. I I agree. It's it's very The weather I guess to add to that as well is also watch the weather index because Outside the air quality is pretty bad. And if you need to wear a mask but it's starting to irritate I think a lot of people and so just something to watch out and I wanted to take a moment of personal privilege. It's exciting and also a big week for my family, but my son is getting married. So Geronimo and Aspen are getting married on Friday. I mean on Saturday, excuse me, on Saturday, July 4th. So there will be a lot of fireworks for that. And we're just super excited and wishing them well in the future. But I also have- You look remarkably composed for hosting a wedding.

I'm the mother of the groom. Much easier.

But I also have sad news to share. One of our community members in Southeast Denver District 4, Bruce Baskett, has passed away. And he is or was a tremendous friend and partner in community, always providing impact, always being that, you know, agree or disagree, just always in for the good of the community and for Denver. And I think it's a huge loss for District 4. There will be a memorial service for him in July later next week. But I just wanted to share my deep gratitude and... and sadness about his passing. Thank you for sharing that. Oh, he was also a member of the, he served on the pedestrian committee, the sidewalk committee, and there was a number of other things. I think he's emailed every council member here as well as you and probably everybody in the audience. Very actively engaged. Yes, yes, actively.

Councilman Watson. Thank you so much, Mayor. My mom's a Channel 8 superfan, and I just wanted to call her out this morning. Today's her birthday, so she's going to be extremely embarrassed. So, Ma, happy birthday. We're going to have some nice barbecue, if not tonight, on Saturday. But looking forward to seeing you, and thank you for being the greatest mom in Denver. I want to share a little bit from District 9 this weekend. The largest Park Hill parade in the, I think it's in the state of Colorado. Maybe it's a city. I'm going to go so big. The city of Denver. The Park Hill parade from 1 to 3 p.m. starting at 23rd and Dexter. Come and join my team to see neighbors. Have a great time. It's a big family event. And if you want to walk with the District 9 office, just reach out to my team on on my website. Thank you.

I will be at that same Fourth of July parade. We've been doing it for decades together. It is a fantastic time. Yes. Kids started on scooters. They will be there still this time. Maybe not on scooters. Do you need Mama Watson? Councilman Washington.

Councilman Gashman. Washington.

Excuse me. How old did you call me? He said Washington. It was a Watson Cashman. It became Washman. He's celebrating.

You've been called worse, Cashman.

As I always say, I have a blended group of five kids. I have been called worse. That's for sure. I wanted to mention, among the celebrations in town this weekend, the Washington Park community kind of divided in half by South Downing Street. West Wash Park is in District 7. Councilman Alvidrez's hood. District 6 hosts Wash Park East. And the two groups come together every 4th of July to do a great celebration by the boathouse, by the rec center. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on July 4th. And I believe, is it that evening, sir, that we're welcoming the good Councilman Watson is going to be participating with the municipal band. What are you reading?

I am reading the, I have to read it again because I need to know the composer. It is insane. James Earl Jones has done this with... No pressure. with bands, and so they asked me, I don't know why, but it's the greatest American composer, Aaron Copland. He has a piece with a Denver municipal band, and we have some stanzas from the Lincoln Portrait. It's a long narrative that includes the Gettysburg Address. So I'll be reading that along with the municipal band and trying to stay in step. With the bed as they're doing a national 7 to 830 PM at Wash Park.

So come to Washington Park on 4th of July.

It's a big time. I love it.

Well, since we're sharing our 4th of July, Levitt Pavilion will also be having the interdependence day celebration with the flow bots. So come down to Levitt Pavilion on the 4th of July. It'll be a great time.

I'm inspired. I want to go to the game now, too.

You want to go to all of these.

Two other fun announcements for those of you that are watching and celebrating the World Cup historic July 1st game. The U.S. is playing Bosnia-Herzegovina. We have a big watch party downtown at Skyline Park, and so a great place to come hang out with friends and enjoy that celebration, and so love to see you there. And then also we have a great... Summer film series, which will be at the Performing Arts Complex. We have National Treasure, the wonderful Nick Cage film, this Friday. If you need to come hang out at the park, watch a film, great way to celebrate Fourth of July weekend. Too many fun things to do in Denver in one week. We would never get to the Bond if we kept enumerating. Anyone else that wants to jump in? All right. Thank you all so much for being here. Thanks for your announcements, particularly the powerful announcement by Councilman Washman, which I thought was great. Could you please save us, Patrick? The lineup is on the bond. Delighted to see you all.

I'll try. So thank you all for having us here today for our quarterly update on both Vibrant and Raz and Elevate. Elena will take us through. So Vibrant is going to talk about our strategic program updates, our four-month procurement look-ahead, where we've been since the last time we were here on our released RFQs, and then just a general update for Council for the legislative look-ahead. Things move quickly on Vibrant, so this slide is somehow still out of date after just yesterday. We are now 56 of 58 projects started. We continue to issue our newsletters every month, so Mae and Jan are out. Anybody interested, denvergov.org slash vibrantbond. That's where you can find our dashboard, where you can sign up for our newsletters. We had 2,500 plus webpage hits from unique hits last month. or in Q2, I'm sorry, and our bond team is now fully staffed. So we are officially all the way staffed and up and running. So when we came to you last time on March 31st, we showed our three-month look ahead of what we wanted to get out. It was ambitious. We had a lot of things to go. We were successful in getting every one of those out. So the only thing that is on this list that has not gone out and will go out today is Garland Park and Platt Park, which Councilwoman Alvedrez and Councilman Cashman, I'm sure you are interested in. So those will go out today. So when you start getting calls to your office this week that there are people walking around with taking a bunch of photos, that is why. We are in the process of a selection on the Montbello Library, Blair Caldwell Library, Montbello Plazita project. And then if you look to the right there, you'll see that we have got quite a few of our selections actually completed, today is the first time that we have announced the successful firm for Red Rocks which was SEH, Short Elliott Hendrickson was successful. We had sent out at the beginning of this that we would like to see the a diverse amount of firms get work that we didn't want to see and just go to the, you know, three firms all the way across. So we have now selected six projects. We have, luckily enough, had six different firms selected across those projects, two of which are MWBE Prime, which we're very happy with. Our three-month look ahead. So first in university, Councilman Sawyer, obviously a big one for you. That's actually coming in the next 24 hours. Thank you. Prior to the holiday. Councilman Flynn's not here. I know Harvey Park's a big one to him. Mayor, bad news on this one. So for Park Hill Park, I'm sure Councilman Lewis would also be interested in this. We are not going to make that July date. And the reason we're not going to make that July date is because we're releasing it today. So unfortunately, the July is incorrect. We're actually going to be out in June. We're happy to make that. It will be ahead of schedule. Thank you so much, team. I thought you would appreciate that. I love that. Otzlin, with the unanticipated closure, we were able to pull that up from October into July through the work of the team. They're making just great progress across the board and we're continuing to push things out. Obviously a busy August and September. October is going to be a huge month for us. So while it's not reflected here, the next time you see us, October is going to be very, very busy. Lookaheads for you all will be back on September 29th. There are a bunch of funding assignment agreements with our cultural partners that are coming through that are in kind of the late stage of development now. Most of these big contracts that we've talked about, whether it's Red Rocks or the libraries together, Betra that's on the street now, the Marion Underpass that's also advertising, those have Q3, Q4 actions for council. So we'll be getting those on committee schedules and getting those ready to go. and obviously some big ones in the beginning of the year, 2027 as well. And that's it for Patrick.

Thanks, Patrick.

Thank you so much. Great to see you. I appreciate you being here.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Council President Pertem and Council Members. I'm Elena McWhorter. I am the Dottie Legislative Affairs Manager. You may have been expecting Molly Scarborough today, who's your usual point of contact, but she has left the city for exciting adventures, so I am taking the baton for her until we are able to bring on a new bond program manager later this month. So definitely reach out. Let me know if there's anything you need related to Elevate and Rise. And I'm excited to be here to provide our program update. And you all have exciting things to do in your community. And thanks to these bond programs, there's going to be more and more coming to you soon. And we want to take a moment to just celebrate all the great achievements through Elevate and Rise before we really see vibrant takeoff and provide more opportunities for our community members to gather, recreate, live, work, play, and gather. So a quick reminder, the Elevate Denver program was passed by voters in 2017. This was a 10-year, $937 million bond program across nearly 500 different projects and seven purpose areas. So libraries, parks and recreation, transportation and mobility, cultural facilities, public facilities, Denver health, and public safety. In RISE 2021, voters approved another bond package to really spur economic activity and construction delivery across four program areas. Again, Denver facilities, parks and recreation, housing and shelter, and transportation. And through the RISE program, we saw another 80 projects. So we have a large portfolio of projects that we're eager to share our delivery timeline on. The highlights today we really want to leave with you is that we are on, excuse me, substantial completion for both the Elevate and Rise Bond programs by the end of 2027. We're currently delivering 566 projects across both programs and within those there are 76 standalone or named projects. These tend to be the ones that your neighborhoods or your community, your constituents are familiar with. They're eager to see be delivered and we're going to touch on some recent openings that we're celebrating and some that will be coming soon. Like I mentioned, 80% of our portfolio is complete and open to the public, which is 447 projects to date. Across both the elevate and rise bond portfolios, voters approved $1.2 billion in investments that the city was able to leverage into a total investment of over $2 billion. In addition, through the Denver Construction Careers Program, the Elevate and Rise projects were among the first to utilize apprentices, where over 100 apprentices worked on these projects and earned over 8.9 million in total gross wages through these programs. I don't know how to use the clicker.

Showing us the good stuff too soon.

I know. It doesn't want to go back to this slide. Okay. Snapshot of achievements. We're going to cover a couple of really exciting openings over the last few years. So the first category here you see is transportation, where we have a number of pedestrian bridges, multimodal, vehicular bridges. We have bikeways. We have pedestrian crossings and signals and improvements. Of course, we're celebrating last year the opening of the 16th Street Mall transformation, and this year the Hamden Multimodal Project. So a lot of great transportation projects Oh my goodness. Transportation achievements this year. I'm struggling with words this morning too, apparently. Happened to me too. I'll mash a few here in a moment. Here you'll see a snapshot of achievements for our facilities and infrastructure. So a number of improvements to our cultural facilities. You see here the art museum, the botanic gardens, red rocks. You'll also see an investment in 2020 for Denver Health and Hospitals Ambulatory Care Center. In 2025, we had an opening for the Volunteers of America Family Hotel. And this year, we are celebrating the opening of the Youth Empowerment Center in Southwest Denver. On this slide, we have a snapshot of our library achievements, so providing places for our communities to learn and explore through library renovations or expansions across every neighborhood of the city, giving people a place to explore their interests. And then last here, a snapshot of our parks and recreation achievements achieved through our bond programs where we have a number of playground replacements or improvements giving people and kids and families places to play and explore outdoors. We have a number of indoor and outdoor pool enhancements and a number of rec center enhancements as well as new recreation centers that we are very excited about. To celebrate including recently in 2026 the Swansea Indoor Rec Center pool All right last for celebrating recent milestones in 2026 You can see in the Green Valley Ranch opening meet they're jumping into that pool fully clothed that was a great

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A wet shirt and goggles.

Glad you kept the clothes on.

So 2026 celebrations, we had groundbreakings earlier this year for Skyline Park and the Globeville Branch Library reconstruction. We also had ribbon cuttings for the Crestmore Park playground replacement, La Rassa Park playground and basketball court improvements, and the Swansea Rec Center again. All right, so in these last few slides, I'll give us the roadmap to completion, where we are at currently in our portfolio of projects and how we are gonna get to closing out delivery by 2027 into early 28. And then I'll also provide, as Patrick did, legislative and a procurement look ahead for the next few months. So as of May 2026, you see here again about 80%, 447 projects are complete and open to the public. We have approximately 54 that are in active construction and 65 that are closing out design this year. By the end of 2026, those 65 in design will drop to only seven. We'll have construction at about 59, and our projects complete and open to the public will rise to about 500, nearing about 90% completion in the portfolio. And on the right, you see all of our major projects that we are celebrating the opening of this year. Coming soon in the next few months are those two at the bottom, the Highline Canal connections and the bridge at Monaco over Cherry Creek. In 2027, the majority of those projects are all going to move into the complete and open to the public bucket. In 2027, we're going to see a number of major openings around safety, so Denver Fire and DPD, police district station renovations, a number of library renovations are going to be coming online. We'll be celebrating the Westwood Rec Center and Skyline Park, Civic Center Park, the Jewel Ave Pedestrian Bridge, which if anyone's driven down Santa Fe, it is sitting on the side next to the golf course, looking very cool, ready to lift and place. So definitely highly recommend anyone driving that way to check that out. Kind of feels like you're in a Sims building your own little neighborhood. Colfax BRT, of course, is a big one. We're going to be celebrating a soft launch later this year, but then full completion in 2027. We have Morrison Road reconstruction, Buptell, 5280 Trail in the Acoma segment in District 10, the Sun Valley Park, and the 47th and Walden Park. So a lot of great projects that we're excited to deliver in the next year. And you're probably wondering, well, what are those three left in construction? By the end or 2028, we will be closing out the entire portfolio of projects. And the major projects opening in this year are going to be these four shown on the right, the Mestizo Curtis Pool, Sloan's Lake Boathouse, the Mae Bonfils Theater at Loretto Heights, and the Bridge Quebec Street over at Erebon. As I mentioned at the beginning of the 566 projects, there are 76 that are standalone or named projects. So this slide really just shows the cadence of project delivery of those projects. And what you'll notice is a trend line in the last couple years of opening those to the public. And that's really demonstrating that these are complex projects that are multi-year projects that have gone through initiation, design, potential real estate, construction, and now we're really excited to be delivering and completing those in 27. A few examples there are shown on the right, so the Skyline Park rendering there, again, Colfax BRT, and the Westwood Rec Center. Among the total portfolio here, this is just demonstrating that over the 10-year term, we really had a consistent trend of project delivery so that our voters could really see what they were voting for and the benefit to their neighborhoods and their families. So last couple slides, here you'll see our six month procurement look ahead. We have a number of on-call construction procurements coming in July and August for our Neighborhood Transportation Safety and Pedestrian Improvement Program, NTSPI, a handful here. But these are really our improvements around traffic signals, curb roll bouts, crossings, roundabouts, different traffic calming and pedestrian improvements there. In September, we will have procurement coming for the Community Transportation Network, or CTN3 bike projects, as well as a number of park restroom facility improvements. In November, we will have procurement for the Sloan's Lake Boathouse renovation. And by December, we will have our procurement for the park maintenance facility in the Northeast District in Green Valley Ranch and our bike infrastructure program in Globeville, Elyria, Swansea. What you all can expect to see at council in the coming months, in July, we will have construction contracts, two amendments coming your way for Loretto Heights and the DPR maintenance facility at Cuernavaca Park. Those are expected later this month, as well as the construction contract for the Eugene Field Branch Library. In August, we'll see a design contract for Washington Street Construction and a construction contract for the 5280 Trail Acoma Segment. And in August, you'll also see ordinances coming through for our local maintenance districts for both Morrison Road and 5280 Trail. And so what you'll see here is the LMD boards are currently going through the process of approving their annual property assessments, which will be increasing in order to accommodate the maintenance and upkeep of these new amenities in their district. In September, you can expect construction contracts, including an amendment for the Ross University Hill Library, a standalone, an initial contract, construction contract for the DPD 6 station, and an amendment for the Morrison Road improvements. In October, we'll have another construction contract coming through for an NTSPI project at 44th and 46th. And then last, we'll have the creation of a new local maintenance district for Washington Street. And with that, I'll open the floor to any questions for Elevate, Rise, or Vibrant Bond projects.

Councilman Stewart.

I think I'll address this first.

Yes, Councilman will address.

Thank you so much for the update. Very exciting things. One of the questions I have is around the Decker Library. I am concerned about the historic nature and that conversation that really put behind the Ross Broadway Library. So curious how you plan to do that differently.

So we have an entire community engagement process that is built for Decker in particular and we've been discussing the historic community as well as the community that is using the library because those are, while there is overlap between those two, those are two very different groups and their concerns are very different.

So you're already gathering those concerns?

We're starting to gather an approach to them and we've already planned to bring that to you prior to engaging with the community.

Okay, I appreciate that. And then one thing that is on my mind is the public art piece of all of these bond projects and how we are going to be doing that and the dollars that are going there. So if you could talk to me a little bit about how that that team is working in conjunction with you all so that things are happening like at similar times.

Yeah. So we actually, as part of the bond office approach with Vibrant, we've embedded public art with us. Hannah Leathers is our main public art person and she is working hand in hand with us. So that way we don't have missed opportunities. We didn't want public art to be kind of a bolt on element at the end because then you miss potential opportunities for that. So they're already working through that now.

So when you say not bringing them at the end, are they being brought in as part of the design process on some of these projects?

They're being brought in as we're launching these projects at the very beginning, yes.

Okay. I think some more public-facing information on that could be helpful because that's a really exciting thing for the neighborhoods as well and with the project is the public art piece. Sure. And then one of the projects that I could have missed but didn't see was the Denver Children's Advocacy Center. Mm-hmm. What's the timeline on that? And if you could speak to that.

Sure. We're working through the last details of the FAA now. So it's included kind of in the legislative look ahead with the FAAs. So it's just kind of bundled in the coming. It's part of the first group that's coming through now. So it's really the zoo, DMNS. The CAC and the Art Museum are kind of all bundled together as like this first tranche. So they're in the last stage of negotiations. So we're getting ready to start scheduling committee now. Okay.

And my concern there is because currently it's in D7 and that building will no longer be used for that purpose. So what is the process looking like for what the future of that building is?

I don't know that the first part of that is necessarily decided. I don't know that they're entirely planning on it not having function there either. So I would have to talk to Lisa Lonely about that. I don't know.

I'd love to have a briefing on that and what that is going to look like there. And then the other thing I didn't see talked about was the housing dollars and the plan there.

So the first acquisition went through. Right. And my understanding, and I can also get a briefing set up for you as far as like what other opportunities are being evaluated right now. I know that we did a survey out to the council members asking for properties that are in your district that you would like us to look at in particular. And I believe real estate is evaluating those opportunities, but nothing has come back in yet from there for the committee to evaluate.

So do we know what kind of projects that they're looking at? Is it vacant land purchasing? And I know it was also part of the bond to improve current properties. Have we talked about how we're allocating those dollars and what the goals are for those dollars?

I mean, yeah, there's a whole one-pager that we've done with that and a whole briefing deck for it.

But it didn't really specify, like, this is how much we want to do for acquisition. This is how much we want to improve our current real estate portfolio.

I can jump in on that. Let me interrupt you, Councilman.

I mean, I think that you understand. Totally understand.

Yeah, I think the priority is, as I think this body envisioned, is to have that as resources we can use to look for great opportunities for the city to acquire land we can use to add housing onto. Sometimes that's a vacant lot. Sometimes that's a lot with a building on it that we would tear down but replace. Sometimes it's an existing, naturally occurring affordable housing we could acquire and preserve. So the real estate team looks for options in all those areas where we can get the most return for city dollars for the most number of housing units. That's the goal. And we'll bring those before you all to approve when they come.

I think in the bond language itself, it did say to improve current properties and other uses as well, not just acquire. So it sounds like we're only focusing on acquiring and not all the other things that we put into the bond language.

All those are potential options. An improve could be if there is someone that has a piece of land and they want to build on it and they want us to be co-partners, we would look at that option. or would be a place that has existing units. We might acquire them and improve those units and put them back on the market if they've degraded. So each of those are options, but the charge we had was to look for places where they're included city ownership as part of the strategy to be able to bring on more housing units and we're open for all options.

Okay. I think we still have, I still have some questions there, so I'll ask for a follow-up briefing on that. Thank you. I'm happy to do that. Councilman Sawyer.

Thank you. You guys have been busy. Thank you. This is great work. Really appreciate it. And really appreciate your willingness to be responsive to the residents. I just forward you all my 13th and 14th emails all the time and you guys manage it. So I appreciate it. Councilwoman Alvidrez, I think her first question really kind of got to the heart of my question for you, and that is how can the council offices partner with you to ensure that we're doing the community outreach piece, right? So up until now, there really hasn't been any because you guys have been putting out RFPs like crazy and scoring them, and now the contracts are all coming through. which I very much appreciate, but once those contracts come through and we have those contractors on board and we know who's gonna be spearheading the project, that's the spot where I think we come in as do you need us to be mailing postcards to our residents for a community meeting? Do you need us to be hosting a community meeting with you? Do you need us to be like, you know, Messaging things in different ways. We're like not quite there yet, but we're getting there. So just curious, like what you guys will need from us and then on sort of timing of that. Just so that we can budget out a little bit on that community outreach is going to look in our budget as well would be super helpful.

I would say it's a yes and. I think we probably need all of those. I think that we have 11 physical districts across the city and what it looks like in District 5 and what it looks like in District 11 are inherently very different and what outreach works in any given district is very different. how you reach your constituents and how Councilwoman Olavides reaches her constituents is different, which is why we had always planned on building our public engagement, community engagement with the council offices. So that way, when we talk about a first in university project and we're in the middle of Cherry Creek, that is going to look very different than Decker, where we have to reach the community and we have to reach a historic group because it's a Carnegie library and the preservationists are going to have certain opinions and the users of the library are going to have a very different opinion. So we've planned this entire time that as these are starting to come online that we would be working with your council offices to get our public information plan, whether this is just an inform or this is really a consult level. It's different toolboxes for each project and we'd be coming to build that with you. So as they're coming online, our outreach team, Molly Veldkamp, Antonio Benton, you'll be hearing from them very shortly.

Awesome. I really appreciate it. And I will just say in my seven years here and doing Vibrant and Rise, I have never seen. We have never been provided with the timeline like you just provided us in this for a breakdown by month of the work that you're doing, of what you're putting out. It is... ton of work to put together but I just want to acknowledge it because it's literally I've never seen anything like that before and it's so helpful particularly for a space like 13th and 14th where it's a historic problem where crashes are continuing to happen and yet in a six-year bond with the BRT attached to it like we can't do a traffic study yet we have to get further along in the process and like messaging that to residents is really hard right because Voters voted on this last November and they're like, where's my project? Which I so appreciate because I want it too, but also like that's not the way it works. So whatever we can do to help, I really, we're here. Just, we just, now that you're getting closer to the time when you know more, we just need to know what that looks like. So keep us posted.

Thanks so much. Councilman Watson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and I know that Council President Pro Tem is trying to get to the producers, but when we're not going through the slides, can you all remove the slides from up so community dialogue, they can actually see who's asking questions and who's answering. My question, 38th Street underpass, give me a little. Give me a little. What do you want to talk about?

I want to know whatever you got, sir. We're working on getting that out. It's on our future forecast. Well, I didn't see the dates. That's what I missed. I think we have it in September. It is coming in September. That's our design procurement. That is a heavy public engagement to help define what that underpass project is. We have a couple of elements that were dictated in the bond. Comfort improvements as we're going through the underpass. We know what it's not. We're not doubling the width of the underpass, but we also I think talked a lot during the bond process of this is not just bird netting and power washing that wouldn't be bond eligible work like we need lighting and we need it to feel better we need to address the walnut the 38th and walnut intersection and we need to make real movement to alleviate the feeling through that area so we're going to rely on some innovative design options there

Thank you and your team on all of the above. Councilmember Sawyer already communicated. I mean, it has been very easy for me to direct residents in District 9 to what's happening, even for Vibrant, much less Elevate and Rise. So really appreciate it. And then for Rise, Mestizo Curtis Park Pool, piggybacking on the ARC, the 1% for ARC. When will we know what percent from that design is going to art so that our community is aware of what type of art, how many art pieces, what can, would love to know kind of the idea of the closing of the final design, the landmarking review, if anyone has any information on that.

I don't have any specifics, yeah, at this time, but I can certainly pull together that information and follow up with you.

Thank you. I was looking to see if any parks people had any. I see a look away from me, so that's all right. All right.

We'll follow up with more information pending.

All right. Thanks, Council Member.

President Pro Tem.

Thank you, and thank you for the update and presentation. I do have a question about one of the projects that I didn't see on here. I believe we got a notification about the rapid flashing beacons for Bible Park, and I believe that they are happening, construction projects. My understanding is that the construction is supposed to occur in July. For those to go up, I just wanted to confirm that those were still in the queue.

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Sure. Thank you. It all seems like magic, but it does actually.

My name is pretty price. I'm from Dottie as well. And the director of the transportation implementation team and yes, the Bible park are fees. There's 2 of them are in a package of 14 other locations and are going to construction this summer. Yes. So July sounds right from the timeframe of when they'll be out there. Yay. Yay. Yay.

Because I think they're from the Elevate Bond.

They're probably NTSBI, potentially.

They're almost like nine years out. They're from our PED program, our PED Crossing Improvement Program, but funding from many different sources, including our community. Great. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. That's great news. We're on camera. People see that. They've been waiting for years. So this is really exciting. Again, for the outreach, excited to see that the skate park was included. And does that mean that it will be the contract for the design firm? It is, yes. To be able to do that additional outreach. Okay. So people are excited, waiting for that one in the queue. Also super exciting. People have been waiting. It's so exciting. And then the other one that I had a question about was the Evans corridor. And so I know that you all have had an opportunity to speak with my office and probably Councilman Cashman's office as well. What is that contract? Is it for the design or is it for actual construction?

The design of... the signal improvements on Evans. So we'll get the designer on, then we'll be meeting with both your office and Councilman Cashman, because obviously that is a shared piece. Councilman Cashman obviously fought very hard during the bond process for Evans, and we plan on honoring our commitments there of Working with your two offices and hearing your concerns, you know your community is better than anyone else. You're the ones that get those phone calls. Can we get that recorded? Yes.

Appreciate it. That's awesome. Any other questions or comments before we close? I underscore Councilman Sawyer's powerful statement. We're really grateful for the work you all have done. It's about to make this really transparent, really accessible for folks to follow on at home and to cheer for you in the process because we're all excited about seeing these projects go up. So now it's even more exciting to know when and how they're coming to neighborhoods near us. And so thank you for the great work you're doing. And with that, we are adjourned. Have a wonderful Tuesday. Everyone go vote if they haven't already.