City Council - Regular Meeting

after back-filling of black dirt has been placed. Project milestones and the substantial completion date are the same, as well as the project scope still remain the same. Unless John has anything to add.

No, just continue pushing on with the concrete work here. We were anticipating to start concrete last week. The rain last week and the amount you guys got really kind of hindered that through here. Crews kept pushing, able to finish out the base course. Just started slipping curb here again yesterday, or with those guys in town with some hand-poured stuff, but just did that stretch on Bates and now moving down to Brock and continue on Brock. So big push right on the front end here is curbing gutter, fillets, that way we can kind of keep the asphalt guys on track. Originally we were shooting for the last week of September. It's probably going to be push at the end of that week, just looking at what our forecast is.

us today my niece has a daycare on wind right south of wind and broad and she has when she goes for walks with the kids nobody's you know there used to be a stop sign there on on broad It's gone. Is there any way you can put that back up temporarily so people stop?

Is it laying down somewhere? It's laying there.

Yes, it's laying there.

Is it wind and broad?

Yes.

Or is it just the one?

Just the one. Just the one. And you know the one where Marsha Iverson that was here that one week, there still hasn't been put back up either. Even though you can't get there, it's not up.

We'll have to give signs at once when we're done. We can just go through every intersection. Because they all still should be laying where they got taken out.

Right, right. Most of them still have to be replaced, don't they?

Some do.

What's the other intersection, Chair?

Crescent and Elm.

I didn't have that in my notes.

Yeah, and that intersection still has work going on.

Right, yes, it still does.

Now that the, if the radiuses are staked out, we can probably get it back in, and if the concrete guys need to pull it, they can, but I know they pulled a couple of them that got put back in on the radiuses.

I just sent Rick a text, he's still in town, so we can look at a couple of the spots and get that.

Our water pressure in South Crescent is really low. I shouldn't say really low. It's lower than what it has been, and it's changed like in the last week to 10 days. Okay.

Which house are you? 703. 703. Oh, so you're not in where we would have torn up? No. Okay.

It's like there's a valve not opened all the way or something. I don't know. No, your neighbors around you have complained, though. I haven't talked to any of them. Okay. That's one of your neighbors sitting back there. He comes up abroad.

He comes up abroad? Yep, yep. Unfortunately. Okay. I want to say it might be a coincidence that maybe there's something that got in your screens, or you don't have screens, but... Can you pull the meter on that, Dan?

We did that.

Minimum three weeks ago, probably later than that. So maybe the shutting off or repressurizing of the lines might have gotten something in your water line that might have plugged something up somewhere would be my guess. We'll just have to figure out where. But because I was going to say, if you're in the project area, there has been a couple homeowners that when we screw the curb stop box back on, it's been like half closing the valve that a couple people came to us and was just simply opening the valve. But if you worked on the project area, that's...

of all I can think of. I want to thank you for making the roads at least drivable this year compared to last year.

We'll do some investigation there.

Do you have all your arms for asphalt this year? Do they have all the arms for asphalt to do that this year yet? Sorry, 25 years of supply chain.

That's still a sore subject from last year. We've had them tentatively scheduled for the week of the 28th of September right now. I know what caught us last year was We had them lined up. We had that cold snap that came in quick and I think they even shut their plant down two weeks early and they picked and choose. And unfortunately with the way the contract was written, this one was, we were wanting to asphalt it and it was going to be like our risk, but technically the roads are supposed to, the first year we're supposed to sit over the first winter under gravel. And so they use that as kind of their out for not paving us. So, but yeah. but this year we're not waiting no no it was i think a lot of it just had to do with you know that's the downstream end of the system so a little bit more depth on the sewer over there and i think we had some wetter soils if i remember right kind of through that wet and park area that's where the drainage all goes and it was that first year that was going to sit and just sit through the freeze thaw and then the next year had to get paved at the end of the season so but the soil in town's been great like

mean at the end of the day if they're even if it's sat through and still settled it's still under our warranty so it'd still be an item that get repaired by us so i know we've had gravel down now i don't remember what day they brought it in on base and then on elk but when we had that heavy rain and stuff so do they come back and kind of check that because you know When we had that rain, we had like a 20-foot, I mean, you know, the river that comes down from the farm is way out past the middle of the street.

Yep.

And so when we do drive on it, when we come down on Elm, you know, maybe it's kind of like this. So do they double check that to make sure you don't need to bring more gravel in and stuff?

Yep. So it's... Right now it's rough graded, I guess is the best way to put it. They've got to leave it a little high for the curb machine because they've got a trimmer on the front end of that curb machine that will come through and trim it down to where it needs to be. So they usually leave it about a tenth high. It's a little higher right now, so they're having a couple passes with the trimmer. But once that curb and gutter is in and done, then you'll see IMA will come back through. We call them blue tops. It's basically a... eight inch wooden stake with like a flicker tail on the top so kind of what are they plastic yeah like a feather type almost that'll get pounded in the center of the road yeah and so then they'll come back through and fine blade that so basically the reason why I call it a flicker tail is as soon as they hit that get all that base off it it kind of they stand kind of upright so then you know you're hitting the top of the stake that's where the base needs to be and then on the curved side they're measuring down off that gutter face that three inches for the ass for the four-inch mat. So, yeah, it'll get all re-graded out through right before the paving occurs. So, yep.

That's pretty bumpy. But, okay, then we were just wondering on our area, like, you know, when will Claflin be around to take out the big tree stump? Because we want to bring our own dirt in for that, for the yard part.

Yep.

You know, is it going to get done this year yet?

Yes. So that's the one item that we're pushing them on is as some of this curb and gutter gets done. They're trying to get a backfill before the grading operations get too far so we're not driving back over the asphalt. The same thing, they're still hoping to get in this week with kind of a smaller crew, do some of the sidewalk removals. Get some of those items removed so they're not working around the new concrete surface.

Is that why they leave all the dirt piles along the sides? Are they using that dirt to fill back in?

Some of the other stuff is just the fact that they just haven't scooped it up yet for whatever reason. Some of the other, there's some smaller piles that the curb machines come through and kind of milled out with some of the smaller gravel ones. But, yeah, they might leave a little bit of dirt that they kind of push if there's still right-of-way space there, and then they kind of wing that back in when they come back to the edge. But, yeah.

There's still a lot of dirt, like, in our area.

Yep.

A lot of dirt piles laying around. I don't know, do I need to talk to Ernie? Because on the east side of our property where the lilacs were, they're growing back nicely. I saved some.

Yep. Because you had somebody that was going to come take a few, didn't you?

I did. He did not come, but our son is going to take some. But there's more than I need. We're going to do something else there in the future, but the On the south side of our privacy fence. It was kind of a nice shield for our trailer that sits back there. That one we want to leave.

Okay.

So we don't want to take that one out.

I mean, they're only this tall right now. I can mark it out and put some flags in. Just so we know which ones are going to stay.

And the other ones will all get pulled out. Yep, and he put that by some trees in some of the other houses, too, that we ended up not pulling. Yeah, I'd say if we could put a laugh there, it would be good. Yep, I'll mark it out.

John, I was kind of wondering when asphalt does happen, where abouts are they going to start at? Does that be broad? Elm.

Elm and bait to get it done.

Honestly, a little bit of it is going to depend on the farmer down there, too. Yeah, I'd like to get some of the center stuff filled out, but if we have a gap to where we can get in, and let's say, I don't want to mess with harvest going on either, but if we have a gap where we've got three, four days to get that done, we get broad slipped in and then kind of work our way back too. But it'd be nice to get kind of that northern, get prairie pulled up. That'll get that completed out. And then we've got some tines on the east side too with park as well, and then kind of work our way to the south. So, yeah, as long as he's not running around when we're starting to actively pave, because I just, I got a feeling we're going to be, that's going to be a timing issue down there. So it might have to be like half of it, catch one of his driveways and then go up work on some of the other streets. Then come back and do the other half and then same thing. But typically they go around and they do the bottom lifts on everything. I know they did it a little different on this phase just because of the tonnage that they had that they can fit in. They were switching the mix already and getting some of the stuff around the church. So I know some of that got top lifted before I think center and broad intersection got bottom lifted. But we should be sitting at about a solid week's worth of work, five to six days.

If that's all we got, we'll call our meeting. Thank you, guys.