City Council - Regular Meeting

standing for a pledge of allegiance. Loving God, we give you thanks that we're able to gather here today and certainly give you thanks for this uh the wonderful staff and directors for the city of Bowmont and all the public servants that we have and give you thanks for the administration and give you thanks for our city council and pray for the health of everybody on city council since there may be a bug present. And we uh ask all of this in Jesus name. Amen.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands under God, indivisible, justice for all. Mayor, before you call for roll call, just for a matter of housekeeping, this is a budget workshop and not an actual meeting. So there is not a where action items will be voted on or presented. So there will be no public comment or um need for a quorum today. Okay. I have roll call, please. Yes, sir. Mayor West, present. Mayor Proim Turner, absent. Council member Durio

here. Council member Hillyard, absent. Council member Williams here and council member Sherwood and Krenshaw absent. Well, Mr. City Manager, I hand this over to you,

sir. Mayor and council, good morning. Good morning to staff. Um the purpose of today's workshop is to give an overview of city finances uh the budgeting process um as well as the uh community investment plan uh that we'll be pro proposing for the FY27 budget. Before I begin, I would just like to extend my appreciation to staff. A lot of work goes into preparing these presentations. Um so I just wanted to mention that as we get started. Okay. And again, the purpose we're going to give again an overview of um budgeting and city financing. And the purpose of that is for the benefit of the public um but also as a refresher uh for the mayor and city council as we move forward through this process this summer. So, we'll start with what is the purpose of the budget? Again, it's required by city charter and state law. It provides the legal authority uh to spend city funds. It allocates resources to achieve city council priorities. It serves as the annual operating plan for the city. And it also communicates the priorities of the city to the public. And of course, it establishes financial accountability and transparency. Our financing and budgeting is done in accordance uh with certain rules and standards. uh the generally account accepted accounting principles, government accounting standards board, government finance officers association, state statutes, as well as the city charter and municipal code. So right now I'll just go over the budget um timeline um as we go through the next few months. Um, of course, today is an overview um of budgeting and finance as well as the CIP.

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All right. Okay. So um again of course today is to go over uh financial um man financial uh municipal financing rather budgeting and the CIP. Uh in a couple weeks June 3rd we'll be going over um strategic planning council request uh projections as we look towards FY27 as well as departmental requests. Um we'll have additional workshops July 13. Um the city manager will propose a budget August 3rd and we'll have public hearings and council adoption August 4th and then finally September 8th. But I will mention the budgeting process is is never complete. Uh we of course prepare it, adopt it, implement it. Uh but it's constantly being evaluated uh in terms of performance. Um and then of course as we discussed at last council meeting um it is independently audited um as well as our finances to make sure that um we do have proper proper numbers for um administration and planning. Best practices for city council budgeting again is to focus on long-term sustainability not just one-year solutions. Understanding recurring versus one-time revenues. monitor reserve levels and debt capacity, link budget decisions to strategic goals um and performance outcomes. I will mention at this time of course the city we have been operating under strategic plan uh for the last few years. I expect that uh probably in the fall of this year we will um we'll open that process back up and take a take a look basically refreshing the strategic plan as we look forward and again as we look to FY28 the idea would be to

readjust the budget in accordance with an updated strategic plan and then again best practice encourage transparency accountability and regular financial reporting So we'll talk briefly about the basics of governmental accounting. Um it's essentially a fund accounting system. Um there are separate checkbooks. Uh essentially each fund does need to balance. Uh we have several different funds. They're in different categories. Uh the primary being the governmental which would include the general fund, special revenue, capital projects. Um the proprietary funds. These operate more like businesses. So your water fund as well as your solid waste fund, these are funded basically on fees for services. But again, it operates more like a business. And then finally, fiduciary tr funds. So these are our trust pension um funds that go to serve the the uh employees. So we'll talk briefly defining a fund. The fund is a separate accounting entity within a government's financial system that is established to meet specific legal policy and operational purposes. And the funds are created to ensure that financial resources are accounted for in a way that supports accountability, compliance with laws and regulations, and effective financial reporting. This is very hard to see, but this is in our adopted budget, and it just lays out um the different funds that we have in the budget based by category. So, general fund, debt service, special revenue, and then over to the right, you see the proprietary, which are more like business. Um so there, that's where you have the enterprise funds like water and solid waste. So, we'll start with one of our bigger um day-to-day operating funds, and that's the general fund. And so,

primarily the revenues from uh that serve the general fund come from sales tax, uh use tax, property tax, fines, and fees. Uh the primary functions of the general fund are public safety. So that's your police, fire, EMS, public works, streets and drainage, engineering, parks and wreck, uh general administration. So executive office, city clerk, legal, and then social and environmental. Next is the cap capital projects fund. Uh so again these are this is to fund uh infrastructure uh major street projects sidewalks water and wastewater parks and wreck facilities and other capital investments. And then finally as mentioned the enterprise funds these are more like uh businesses. So this is your water fund uh and solid waste fund. And then we have our special revenues fund. So hotel occupancy tax of course is collected from uh special tax authorized by the state for uh tourism promotion. Uh municipal transit of course goes to help serve our transit system. Those funds coming a small portion actually comes from the fairest paid. Uh the majority comes from the general fund supplementing federal funds as well as state grant dollars. So um again these are restricted by um use and revenue um and so again that's the reason why they would be in separate funds and then we have the internal service funds. So as we look to operate our fleet uh employee benefits general liability um funds are contributed to the internal service fund uh for these operation expenses. Again, I want to focus a little bit on

the general fund um and specifically the revenue sources. So, this is from the FY26 budget. And here I just wanted to touch on sales tax. So, you look at um the largest portion is 33.14% of our revenue for the general fund comes from sales tax. And again, this is restricted by the state of Texas. So 8 point 8 8.25 cents is collected about a penny and a half goes to the city. Um again as mentioned that represents about 33% of the general fund revenues. Uh the issue with sales tax of course as you all know is it is sensitive to economic conditions and consumer spending. The next C category of revenue is property taxes represents 31.79% of the general fund revenue. And these are based on certified taxable values from the appraisal district. I know that can be confusing sometime for some folks that the city does not set the appraised values. That's done by an independent um group, Jefferson County Appraisal District. In our case, they set what the appraisal values are. Um, our revenues are simply based on u the tax rate which is set by the city council um but restricted by the state of Texas um in order to uh levy property taxes from whatever that appraisal rate is. Of course, public hearings are required to adopt that tax rate. Tax rates are generally divided into two categories. M which is our normal maintenance and operations an INS which is an interest in syncing fund to help for our capital projects expenditures which we'll talk more about today. As mentioned it is restricted uh by the

state law. Um years past we could uh increase our tax property taxes by 8% but more recently that was limited. So now we are limited to a 3.5% increase. I will point out I think the national inflation rate came out yesterday and I think it was 3.8%. So I'll just point that out. Um our current tax rates are um of the total of $100 assessed valuation the tax rate set in the FY26 budget is 659 cents per $100 of valuation and of that as mentioned that is split between Mum at that rate as well as the INS which is the capital um funds for capital and again as mentioned how the property tax rates are set that is done by a third party uh Jefferson County Appraisal District. Real quickly, I'll go over some additional categories. Industrial payments. Um this is our third biggest category of revenue for the general fund. In FY26, it's budgeted to be 20,114,000 and this represents um 11.86% of the general fund revenues. Um I should note that these industrial payments um come out basically come from industry in the most cases. Um and most of these entities are located outside the city limits in the extr territorial jurisdiction and they pay a negotiated amount in exchange for reduced services in exchange for agreement not to annex them.

Um another category is utility in lie of um so this represents about 3.6 let's see well total of 8.02 2. Um, so this is your water, solid waste, hotel, hot tax. Um, let's see. And then the next category, let's see, charges for services represents about 4.13. That is our EMS charges, weed collection charges. That represents about 4 point 4% rather of our general fund revenue. Then going down the list, licensing and permits is about 1.37 of our revenue. Uh building code, you know, building permits, things like that, help licenses, rightway payments, um fines and forfeitures, 1.7 million, that's about 1%. And then as we get down to smaller revenue categories, 1.7 million or about 1% for cultural and recreation. So these are things like rep renting of the event center and other city venues, golf course fees, etc. And then we've got 75% miscellaneous revenue. So that's like use of our fire training facility, rental revenue from the miller. So that's on the revenue side. Uh just wanted to give you a sense of the general fund revenue side going to the expenditure. Uh we won't get into this too much. Um I just wanted to point out uh and again this can all be found in the FY adopted FY26 budget. Um but this is how the expenditure the general fund uh comes through. So you can see police is about 28.73% fire 27.15

public works 8.48% 4 8% uh transfers facility maintenance 5%. So that's the the uh general fund expenditure. This next slide as I mentioned earlier we are going to be um going over projections and requests um and priorities at the June 3 budget work session. And we'll go over things like this more in detail at that meeting. But I wanted to go ahead and share today as part of this meeting quickly um that we we are faced with some budgetary challenges as we look forward. Um we do have in our financial policies that we really that we we should stay at a general fund um percentage of expenditures at 20% that's set forth in our policy. The projections you see here today are not final. Um they are projections as we see them and estimate them today at about the midpoint year in the budget FY26 budget. But I wanted to go ahead and share them with you for planning purposes because you can see if the trends continue as projected at this point um we would be at our 20% gen uh fund balance threshold at the end of FY26. Um and again we'll get into this discussion more June 3rd um as to the why. We all are aware of inflationary pressures. We're aware of uh we've got contractual obligations in terms of um pay increases both for civilian transit, fire, police, EMS. Um so

I just wanted you to be aware of that as we get into the June 3 meeting. Um we do and we have been meeting and we will be meeting um on some possible scenarios as to try to avoid you know continue this trend. But we want to try to um be as conservative as possible um as we do look out into the future because we don't we do not want to find ourselves um in 2027 2028 well below the uh 20% uh threshold. So I just wanted to share this with you on a lighter note. We again as mentioned staff has been working hard to you know come up with different solutions and possible um actions that we will recommend we take um in order to avoid this but here's one potential solution. So again we we're looking at we're looking at some options to um to try to avoid uh this situation. But I I felt the sooner the council was aware of some of the concerns the better. But with that um any questions about the finance or the budgeting process um as as we move into uh the next portion of the presentation which is going to be the capital uh improvement plan. If not I will turn it over to Molly. So, our focus today is on the capital improvement program, and this is our long-term investing, sorry, a long-term investment plan for our uh parks and facilities, our recreation, downtown

development, water, sewer, streets, and drainage. So then on the next slide, uh, per the charter requirements in article 6, section 19, uh, the city manager shall prepare and submit to the council a 5-year capital program. And so that is what we're doing today is presenting to you, uh, our proposed 5-year capital program for fiscal years 27 through 2031. So it is a summary of all our contents uh everything that we propose for the next five fiscal years. Um in addition to that we add a column and you will see it in the summary sheets that says future. And so those are those projects that we have identified a need for but we don't have a specific timing for it. So they may be uh further out into our planning horizon. So on the next uh slide, it is of course a multi-year planning process and we do prioritize our projects as best as we can to align with the strategic goals and also the uh condition of the assets that we are responsible with maintaining and managing. Um so there are several different planning documents that are associated with this. That includes our the strategic plan, our payment conditions study, our parks, recreation and green space master plan, our sidewalk master plan that we will be uh developing later this year, our comprehensive plan, our wastewater treatment uh master plan, our water production master plan. So there's a lot of work that goes into the preparation of today's plan. And so we're trying to that way we can identify the impact both on operating expenses and what our

long-term uh investments or issuances of debt should be. So the next slide is the um the different methods with which we finance these large projects which we depending on the funding source is we can issue certificates of obligation general obligation. So the certificates of obligation uh generally are for those projects associated with the general fund. Then the general obligation uh bonds which we recently had the election and the voters approved. So I'll start on page nine of your pamphlet.

Athletic complex rehabilitation of parking lots in Eagle Brick Drive. Estimated cost 1.6 million. Uh this project addresses the rehabilitation of parking lots in Eagle Brook Drive at the athletic complex. The existing pavement has reached the end of its useful life and shows multiple failures. Work includes repairing concrete panels, stabilizing base materials, milling, and replacing new asphalt. This investment plan improves safety and access and one of the city's most heavily used sports venues. neighborhood park pavilions. Estimated cost 2.9 million. This multi-year project consists constructs new shade pavilions and neighborhood parks throughout the city. The plan is to install approximately two pavilions per year, ultimately serving 16 parks. These pavilions expand usable space for families and gatherings, providing shade and weather protection and improving the comfort of our citizens inside of the parks. Pool upgrades, Magnolia and Alice Keith Parks. Estimated cost 2.3 million. This project modernizes two aging public swimming pools. Magnolia pool built in 1968 and Alice Keith Pool built in the 1990s. Improvements include ADA accessible upgrades, replacement of piping and pumps, updated safety markers, and full system renovations. These upgrades extend the life of critical aquatic facility and support youth programming and summer activities. Splash pad renovations. Estimated cost 367,000. This project rehabilitates splash pads throughout the city while replacing outdated underground equipment with modern above ground systems. Nine of the 10 existing splash pads

require repair. Moving equipment above ground significantly improves reliability, reduces downtime, and lowers long-term cost while keeping these amenities safe and operational. Playground equipment and improvements. Estimated cost 3.3 million. This multi-year incentive replaces playground equipment and adds shade structures at parks identified in the park's master plan. Improvements will occur at multiple parks, ensuring safer, more inclusive play opportunities while modernizing our aging equipment. Renovation of park restroom facilities. Estimated cost 2 million. This project renovates approximately 20 park restroom facilities citywide. Improvements include interior and exterior painting, fixture require replacements, and accessible upgrades. The work is phased over several years, upgrading roughly four restrooms annually to improve cleanliness, safety, and visitor experience. Terra Park upgrades estimated cost 25 million. This project transforms Terrell Park into a regional destination as outlined in the park's master plan. Planned amenities include new playgrounds, a splash pad, walking trails, na nature play areas, outdoor classrooms, and regulation cricut pitch. These upgrades significantly expand both activity and passive recreational opportunities throughout in Terrell Park. Babes of Harris complex parking expansion. Estimated cost 1.4 million. This project expands parking at the Babes of Harris complex to address ongoing safety concerns. Approximately

275 new parking spaces will be added through new asphalt parking lots, drainage, lighting, and sidewalks. This reduces roadside parking and improves access during high attendance soccer events. Ka's Ferry Park renovations 450,000. This project improves Kala's Ferry Park by replacing gravel walking paths with wide concrete walkways, restriping parking areas, repairing fencing, and renovating restrooms. These upgrades enhance accessibility and help maximize the use of Kier's Ferry Community Park in the south end. Estimated cost 4 million. This project creates a new community park in the south end of the city, potentially near the Theodore John's Library. Amenities may include park shelters, playgrounds, restrooms, a splash pad, and open fields and walking paths. Community park in Ward 1. Estimated cost at 4 million. This project constructs a new community park in Ward One. Planned amenities include walking paths, picnic shelters, playground equipment, restrooms, and a small splash pad. I think that's it for me.

Council, um, while Kenneth, let me just add or point something out. If you if you look in, you know, down to play well, starting with uh well, we'll point out playground equipment, renovation of park restroom facilities, Terrell Park upgrades, you'll see those that are highlighted in gold. If you look at the legend to the bottom left, you'll see general obligation bond. And so as we go through these presentations, you'll notice that some of the items that were in the proposed bond, well in the bond package, uh what we've done as staff, not all of them, but most of them, we've kind of shifted to FY29. Um the idea being is to keep them as placeholders um for a possible uh bond election in uh leading up to that fiscal year. Um, so that's that was kind of the theory, kind of the strategy for some of these. Um, if if council as as you see some of these and just you you can decide at this point that um, you know, you you you want to continue this recommendation to revisit these in a future bond issue. Um, or you can decide to push them to future consideration or you can decide to pull them out. Of course, I will just point out that um you know the CIP is part of the budget process so it will be revisited uh every year and so it can always be adjusted as you get closer to a capital project. So I just wanted to point out when you see some of these items and especially in the gold highlight those tend to be well those are geo uh which are bond related. So I just wanted to point that out. Thank you.

Yes. So, I know this is the CIP, but as far as our parks go, it doesn't look like we'll be do doing much of anything to them next year at all.

So, one of the things is, and I'll let Kenneth. So we don't as of this point this is the capital plan and so these are looking at bigger issu bigger capital expenditures in the five-year plan as we get into the budget hearings and department requests um part of that may be Kenneth and his department may be bringing back um maybe smaller amenities um that might be requests as part of the regular budget process but I'll I'll defer to Kenneth to see if Well, if we look at the your booklet or the screen, we do have projects that are going on now. We will be uh installing some new uh pavilions. We have the upgrades on the splash pads going in as well. Uh when it comes to our playgrounds, we don't have anything scheduled for a full playground replacement, but we do uh we are asking for budgeted money for increase on uh basic repairs to our playgrounds. Uh playgrounds are a big cost. Uh so that's something we have to look at. Uh right now they pushed out to 29. Those were all identified in the parks master plan. Uh but it is something we need to look at.

So this and I'm pretty sure this doesn't include like the day-to-day maintenance of the parks and stuff like that. No, does not. But council also has to keep in mind that the items that were pushed back for 29 because they were you're restricted from issuing debt um based on the bond restrictions. So, a lot of your a lot of your larger projects were things that council would traditionally issue debt for, you're prohibited for issuing debt for any item that was listed in the bond. And so, a lot of the projects that are outlined that were pushed were projects that were originally listed in your bond package. Okay. Thank you.

You're welcome. And we also have over a million dollars uh that will start a renovation in Magnolia pool here this year as well too going into 2027. Great. And you can issue regular money like you can you can do regular and you can use grant money. Um so I think in ter park I think we received grant money for some of those project that was uh a part of the bond but it's grant money so you can spend money for that and any other um non-debt related funds can be used towards the parks as well.

Okay. And I will say, Miss Hale Lima, our new grants writer, is uh really active on getting uh us together and looking at uh getting grants for our parks department and other facilities inside of the city as well. Thank you. Thank you, Ken. Thank you. Next we have uh Jimmy Neil who will be introducing our recreation projects.

Okay. So what you see we've got six projects listed. None of these are really going to surprise you. They're things that we've spoken about before. The pickle ball courts at the tennis center. You see a cost of 971,000. We're just waiting for funding to be released for that. Um, that's going to be the courts that are going in at Municipal Tennis Center, which is something we've been working on for quite some time. Uh, the next item is the fitness court. You see 200,000. Um, you've heard me speak about this quite often, trying to get this court built. There's potential for about a $50,000 grant that we would get through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas if we were approved. Uh, when we first brought this to council, probably 21 or 20, the the cost of the court installation was about 125,000. And now that cord has gone up to about 200 grand. So don't be surprised if it continues to go up. The golf course driving range net that you see, it says new. It's a little bit deceiving because we asked for that 3 years ago, but then if you recall, what we did was we did the drainage study at the golf course. Part of the drainage study at the golf course was for the golf course architect to provide us with options to upgrade the golf course. So, we felt like it would be kind of silly to spend the money on a driving range net. So, if you drive through Babes of Harry's Drive, the driving range is directly to your right. Uh there's golf balls crossing the street all the time. U there thankfully cars don't get hit very often. Um but that driving range net is is definitely something that we need. Well, when we thought they were going to potentially renovate the course, thought it would be kind of silly to put up a driving range net when potentially the range could be moved or anything else could be done. So, we put that kind of let it stay back for a while. Since the draining study was completed, we got the opportunity to hear some of the the proposals, which we'll get to in a moment for what it would cost to upgrade the golf course. We realized that that's not going to happen right now. So, we feel like it's a responsible move to try

and get that range net installed. The next item you see, item number four, uh the athletic complex number four, that was in the bond. Obviously, it was it did not pass. So, the difference between complex 4 and complex number two, I'll just explain those briefly so I don't bore you with it. Complex 4, we wanted to do a full renovation, which was going to be turf all the way from home plate all the way to the outfield fence. We're going to try to expand the fences a little bit. The idea was that we could get 13 through 16, potentially 18 year old baseball to take place at the complex. As we know with Dogit, I'm calling it Dogit Park now. I think that's what it's called. uh those fields only go up to 200 feet or 225 feet which really doesn't provide for 13 14 year olds to play baseball. So we're definitely missing out on some revenue potential u with those kids going to like Charles Anowak just built fields. People are going to Anowak to play. They're going to Mont Bellev. They're going everywhere else except here to play once they turn 13 years old for the most part. So the 7.4 million was for the complex 4 renovation. the two million that you see that's solicited in FY20 FY31 kind of my hope and our bond council shot down my hope which is not really uncommon um I thought we could sneak it in because it was a different proposal. The idea for complex 2 was just to turf the infields, keep the fences as they are 275 I think is the distance to the fence. Um so you could host 13 and 14 year old baseball there. The idea was that we could turf the infields, get those ready for baseball/softball, utilize them for what we typically do, and then be able to capitalize on that potential revenue on weekend baseball tournaments. Um, bond council re pretty much told us that that can't can't be done. That's too close to what we were doing with four. So, we're going to have to put that one on the back burner for a while as well. And lastly, what you see

is the uh Henry Hamburg Golf Course renovation with the drainage study. The two proposals that the architect provided were 14 million and 19 million. Um bless you. Those pretty big ticket items. So there was a little sticker shock. We were a little bit scared off by it. Uh the the proposals were great. Town portions of the town portions of the CIP.

Okay. So we'll start on page 27. Kas Ferry boat ramp and pier re rehabilitation at 470,000. The existing peering ramps are in critical condition based on the engineering assessment. Immediate repairs are needed to the structural caps, timber runners and fenders along with planning for full replacement of the pier and longer boat ramps within the next two to 5 years. This investment ensures safe public access to the river and prevents further deterioration of this heavily used recreational asset. Food Truck Park estimated cost 1.3 million. This project establishes a downtown food truck park through a public private partnership. Planned amenities include a pavilion with seating, a small band stand, food truck utility hookup, and restroom facilities. The goal is to create a flexible, inviting space that encourages downtown activity and supports local vendors. Lake District restroom facility. This project provides a new men's and women's restroom facility adjacent to Rotary Park playground in the Lake District. The scope includes plumbing, electrical sidewalks, sewer improvements, and fencing designed to match the surrounding event center architecture. This addition supports families events and increased park use. Multi-purpose center at Alice Keith Park. Estimated cost 11,247,000. This project proposes a new indoor recreation and activity center at Alice Keith Park. The facility will include courts, fitness spaces, classrooms, locker rooms, and administrative areas. It is intended to expand recreational opportunities, support youth and fitness

programming, and serve as a long-term community hub for years to come. Municipal transit roof replacement. Estimated cost 530,000. This project replaces the roof of the Bowmont Transit office and shop facility. The existing roof has reached the end of its service life and poses a risk to the building and operations. The new roof system will meet current building codes and protect a critical transit facility that supports citywide mobility. Police evidence storage renovation, the Goodwill building. Estimated cost 335,000. This project renovates the former Goodwill building to expand secure police evidence storage. Improvements include pallet shelving, security walls, and overhead vehicle access door. This addresses long-term evidence retention needs and relieves overcrowding at the existing police headquarters. Jefferson Theater roof replacement estimated cost 500,000. This project replaces the roof at the historic Jefferson Theater due to termite related structural damage. Combined with recent masonary repairs, this investment stabilizes the building and preserves a landmark venue that is central to downtown's cultural activities. Animal Care Center enclosed of existing kennels. Estimated cost 170,000. This project encloses 31 existing open air dog kennels at the animal care center, adding climate control and permanent walls without expanding the building footprint and improves animal health while maximizing existing infrastructure.

Airport large clear span hanger estimated cost 2.4 million. This project constructs a new clear span air aircraft hanger to support growing demand for from private and corporate aviation. The hanger will generally generate lease revenue, increase fuel sales while supporting future grant opportunities. Airport nested tea hanger 10unit. This project adds a 10-unit T- hanger on the north side of the airport to reduce the existing waiting list for small a aircraft storage. Like the large hanger, this investment supports airport growth, increases recurring revenue, and enhances aviation infrastructure. Animal care services and adoption center. Estimated cost 7.9 million. This project replaces the current animal shelter originally built in 1981 with a modern 18,000qt facility at a new site. The new center will support Bowmont's nokill mission, provide expanded capacity, improve public access, and better serve both animals and residents. Citywide facility improvements. Estimated cost 10 million. This is a citywide facilities investment addressing deferred maintenance, renovations, and safety improvements across multiple buildings. It allows flexibility to respond to facility and ensure respond to our facilities and ensures the city protects and extends the life of his existing assets. Fire Station number four replacement. Estimated cost 6.6 million. This project replaces fire station number four with a

modern facility designed to current operational standards. The new station will improve response capabilities, firefighter safety, and long-term service delivery for the surrounding area. Police headquarters and operations facility. Estimated cost 60 million. This project plans for a new downtown police headquarters to replace existing 1974 facility that no longer supports modern policing needs. The new facility will improve efficiency, technology integration, employee safety, and public accessibility for police services. Restroom facility at athletic complex number three. Estimated cost 445,000. This project replaces outdated restrooms at athletic complex number three with a modern multi-use facility. It supports sport sports tourism, improves visitor experience, and overall an asset that is needed. Restroom facility at Riverfront Park. Estimated cost45,000. This project adds a permanent restroom facility at Riverfront Park. It supports daily park use, large events, and continued riverfront development while improving accessibility and visitor comfort. City Hall complex, an estimated cost of 56 million. This project proposes a new city hall complex with a surrounding downtown plaza. The vision is to create a civic anchor in town hall square that enhances customer service, supports downtown redevelopment, and becomes a focal point for public life in Bulmont. Public safety technology infrastructure improvements, estimated cost 1 million. This project can invest in cameras, fiber optics, and security technology

for new city facilities and major investment investment areas. All systems will integrate with the city's real-time crime center to improve monitoring, response times, and protection of public assets. And you should have a handout. Uh it's on the Julie Rogers theater improvement uh project. Estimated cost 900,000. This project cons consists of the replacement of the existing curtain and rail rigging system at the Julie Rogers Theater. The current system is outdated, deteriorating, and experiencing ongoing failures, requiring repeated emergency repairs. This work will include replacement of worn and damaged curtains, upgrades to the rail and rigging system, and improvements to ensure safe and reliable operation of stage equipment necessary for daily theater functions and events. So that is all of our facilities projects. Are there any questions?

I don't believe so.

All right. So now we'll go to our downtown projects which starts on page 45. Underground power relocation. Estimated cost 5 million. This project relocates overhead power lines underground at the hotel and convention center site. It enhances aesthetics, improves safety, reduces maintenance needs, and supports long-term downtown redevelopment goals. Riverfront Park amenity and landscape enhancements. Estimated cost 195,000. This project adds additional landscaping, trees, sod, and seating to Riverfront Park. The improvements enhance comfort, shade, sustainability, and the overall look and aesthetics of our new park. City Hall courtyard and plaza renovations. Estimated cost 1.1 million. This project renovates the courtyard and plaza between city hall and the civic center with new paving, lighting, landscaping, and site amenities. The goal is to create a more inviting, functional public space that improves pedestrian access, civic center renovations, conversion, estimated cost, vendor kiosk, and familyfriendly amenities. It strengthens downtown's connectivity and creates a landmark destination tied to the hotel and convention center development. Riverfront Bridge Pedestrian Bridge. Estimated cost 4.4 million. This project constructs an ADA compliant pedestrian bridge over the railroad tracks connecting the hotel and convention center site to Riverfront Park. It improves safety, walkability, and downtown connectivity while supporting tourism and redevelopment.

Riverfront walkway from City Hall Plaza. Estimated cost of 1.2 2 million. This project enhances the pedestrian walkway from city hall to riverfront park with improved drainage year, but we felt like uh at this point the best proposal was to go ahead and put them in future consideration.

Thank you. Thank you. riverfront park um to the river. Um that said, we can continue to work on whether grant funded or whether corporate sponsorship or whether federal dollars. Um and if that comes to pass, we could always accelerate um that project in in the schedule, whether through next year's CIP or potentially an amendment. Um, I will say one of the things we are potentially looking at is trying to get another surface crossing. That's going to be dependent on primarily BNSF Railroad um to give us the right to access our park over the railroad. Um, but we are going to renew that effort to get a pedestrian crossway because if you've been to some of the events downtown recently, very successful, but with the parking over in a lot of the parking over in the civic center parking lot, the natural tendency is to try to, you know, cross the rail down there. So, to answer your question, we will we will continue to pursue uh whether corporate or grant, but also part of this part of this look sooner is to try to get a surface crossing.

Okay, great. And I'd also like to include the port uh in that conversation. Uh you know they want us to

is our plan to strengthen the entire water system from the source to the customer so that our system is so our system is reliable, resilient, and ready for the next generation. We'll start on page 55 for the annual dead-end flushing. Estimated total cost $1,240,000. This program will install flushing equipment at dead ends uh citywide to maintain chlorine levels and protect public health. It's a regulatory driven program that aids water quality systemwide. Annual water line replacement estimated total cost 68,250,000. This is the city's primary program for replacing aging water lines targeting 1 to 1.4% replacement. Many lines are over 50 years old and showing signs of deterioration. It's critical to minimizing leaks, breaks, and disruptions to residents. The annual water production system repairs estimated total cost 11,246,000. This project provides ongoing maintenance and repair for the city's water production assets. That includes canals, wells, pump stations, uh treatment equipment, and control systems. It ensures operational reliability for critical infrastructure. the annual water transmission line rehabilitation project for $778,000. This project rehabilitates exposed water transmission lines, overhead crossings, uh canals, etc. It's mainly preventive maintenance, including coatings, wraps just to prevent corrosion. Page 59, the Buns Canal Improvements Project, estimated total cost of $5,500,000. Uh Buns Canal is the key raw water intake for the city of Bowmont. Uh it serves our surface water plant. This project will repair the levies, remove sediment to restore capacity, and replace the manual bar screen with an automated system. That bar screen just protects the the pipeline crossing under

the river and the pumps from being damaged by any large debris, uh sediment buildup, etc. Lawson's Canal Maintenance and Rehabilitation. This is a significant FEMA funded project for $18,750,000. Um the raw water pipeline actually goes inside of Lawson's canal. So after Lawson's pump station, it pumps it through the canal in a pipeline. That line was shown to have actually shifted during Harvey. So we've got some humps with air gaps. We've got some sediment buildup. This project will clean out that line, actually relay it and and anchor it down into the bottom of the canal. It'll also rehabilitate that western levey so it'll be drivable or staff can actually drive along and inspect the line in the future years. Lawson's pump station and bayamement repair uh two 2,785,000. This project stabilizes the nature's river embainment at Lawson's pump station. Um the roadway was stabilized back in 2002. Um but now the actual pump station area needs to be restored. Uh we also have a responsibility in water utilities to meet evolving federal regulations and protect public health. And so you'll see the next two projects, the lead and copper field investigation and lead and copper service line replacement. The field investigation project has an estimated total cost of $6,650,000. This project will comply with the EPA's lead and copper rule improvements. It includes program management, field investigations, customer outreach, and data modeling. and that identifies water service lines on both the customer side and the city side of the line. The lead and copper service line replacement, this is based on the findings from the field investigation project, estimated total cost of 7,964,000. It ensures regulatory compliance and directly supports public health by eliminating potential sources of lead exposure. It'll replace any lead service

lines, but also galvanize lines that require replacement under the EPA's guidelines. the low motor starter and electrical improvement project. Again, partially funded by FEMA here. Um total estimated cost of $6,300,000. This project will upgrade electrical infrastructure at the low groundwater treatment plant. It'll also elevate that uh upgraded equipment. So, right now we have motor starters. We're replacing those with VFDs. We're looking at raising all the equipment that took a really long time to come in or replace after Harvey. Um, so a lot of the chemical equipment was a quick replacement. All the electrical equipment can take years sometimes to replace. So we're looking at elevating all of that. It allows us to restore service more quickly to our groundwater plant. The lobe transmission line inspections, estimated total cost of $1 million. Uh this project will perform advanced internal inspections of approximately seven miles of transmission lines between the wells and then from the wells um to the treatment plant and from the treatment plant to the city. These lines were installed between 1959 and 82. On page 66, the Orange Avenue water mane rehabilitation. This estimated total cost of $1,200,000 replaces a deteriorating 20-inch water man that crosses railroad tracks near Orange Avenue. The existing line shows signs of corrosion and replacement within a casing will ensure long-term reliability and comply with railroad requirements. The Pine Street treated water resiliency line, $8,350,000. It'll add redundancy near the treatment plant with a new 42-in transmission line. It also adds isolation valves to existing lines that will enable inspection and maintenance of existing large lines. Um those were pretty much installed in the 1940s and 1950s. The Pine Street Water Production Plant Administration building renovation total estimated cost of $2,500,000.

This project renovates the existing Pine Street Water Treatment Plant. Um basically built in the 1920s. um a lot of modifications since, but the improvements address structural repairs, hazardous materials baitment, expands usable space, and replaces outdated um assets. The Pine Street Water Production Plant Chloron dioxide injection project, that project is ongoing, estimated total cost of $2,210,000. This project is installing a chlorin dioxide pre-treatment system at the Pine Street plant. Um once online, it'll actually remove iron and iron and manganesees from the city's water supply, which should reduce discolored water complaints in the long term. Uh the Pine Street Water Production Plant generator improvements, estimated total cost of $2,500,000. This project is replacing an aging generator and improves fuel storage at the Pine Street plant. Uh this brings us from two days to four days of fuel storage. I don't, if you recall, we actually ordered this generator about three years ago. That's how long it took for it to be delivered and it it arrived this uh December of this past year. Page 71. The Pine Street Water Production Plant SCADA improvements. The SCADA system is basically a computer system that helps the plant monitor, collect information, and control equipment remotely. Estimated total cost of $1 million and that project is ongoing. Um the upgrades are improving uh hardware, software, just modernizing the system overall. Um they're reprogramming the entire system for water production. The plant uh production plant, South Basin sledge drain rehabilitation. This project replaced aging sledge drain piping and valves near the retreatment basins at the Pine Street plant. Total cost was roughly $400,000. Uh the additional access points here allow for proper maintenance and prevent future operational issues. The next two projects are related to

lessons learned from hurricane hurricane Harvey. um thereabout building a redundant system on higher ground and ensuring that we can always get water to our treatment plant especially during the extreme weather incidences. The raw water delivery line is ongoing estimated total cost of 23,645,000. This project is constructing a new 48 inch raw water line from the new pump station at Collier's Ferry to the Pine Street water treatment plant and it's providing redundancy in the supply and improves overall system resiliency. The raw water pump station estimated total cost of $30,200,000. This project just built a new 45 million gallons per day raw water pump station on higher ground near Pine Street in Cers Ferry Park. The new facility not only provides backup for Lawson's pump station, which was during uh damaged during Hurricane Harvey, but it also delivers a more reliable and resilient long-term solution for Bowmont's water supply. the southeast industrial area water improvements. Um this is estimates total cost at $10,500,000. The project expands water system capacity in that southeast industrial area of town. Uh we constantly have requests for for additional water uh in that area. The improvements position the city to support economic development and future utility agreements and we anticipate working with the future development partners to support this project. The next several projects are um a lot of the projects that we do are asset management, but the next several I would tie specifically to asset management. Um these types of projects don't get a lot of attention, but they do extend the life of major infrastructure and prevent a lot larger costs down the road. The storage tank rehabilitation project for the south elevated tank. This project is complete. uh rehabilitated the coatings and structural components of the south tank, extending its service life and ensuring continued safe water storage. We also added new drainage

infrastructure on site. Uh at total cost was $1,50,000. The storage tank rehabilitation the northwest elevated tank estimated cost $1,550,000. This project will mainly focus on reco recoding restoring the interior and the exterior um of that tank. The low well number one replacement. This project will replace the low groundwater treatment plant. Well number one, originally constructed in 1958. The new well and pumping equipment ensures continued groundwater production as the existing well nears the end of its useful life. Estimated cost is $2,300,000. The Dishman elevated storage tank rehabilitation estimated cost $1,620,000. This project will rehabilitate the dishman storage tank to restore protective coatings and extend the life of the structure. Um after the dishman tank is complete, we will have all the tanks rehabilitated in the last 20 years. And so that'll that'll extend the life of all the elevated tanks in the city for at least another 20 years is is what we expect. Um the storage tank rehabilitation on the lobe steel ground tank. This project rehabilitates the lobe still ground storage tank, including structural roof repairs and recoding to preserve long-term storage capacity. Estimated cost of $2 million. The Pine Street uh waterline replacements. These these next four projects uh pages 81 to 84, they're all conditional projects and dependent on those that inspection following the resiliency line project. So once we have a redundant line leaving the plant, we can now take each of these lines offline individually, inspect, make repairs. This is kind of a worst case scenario budget for replacing the entirety of the line. We'll go to page 85. The Pine Street Water Production Plant filter backwash waste improvements. Estimated cost of

$4,760,000. This project will improve the filter backwashway system at the Pine Street plant, preventing sludge accumulation and improving overall treatment efficiency. The storage tank rehabilitation lobe concrete ground tank uh estimated cost $2,170,000. This project will rehabilitate the lobe concrete ground tank um structurally but also uh coating both the interior and the exterior to prevent any cracks or leaks from forming. Lawson's crossing additional pipeline estimated cost of $5,500,000. Uh this is a pretty critical project here. It constructs a new raw water line crossing the Nature's River. Uh providing redundancy for the existing siphon. After your new raw water pump station is online, this is kind of a single point of failure in the water system. Um and so what we're trying to do here is reinforce that existing line and add a new one. Um, Pine Street Water Production Plant basin vacuum chamber blower replacement. Estimated cost $800,000. This project will just replace aging blowers at the Pine Street plant clarifier basins. Improve treatment operations and reliability. Page 89. Uh, the Pine Street Water Production Plant clear well slide gate replacement. Estimated cost of $515,000. The project replaces clear well slide gates and actuators to improve safety and performance during maintenance activities. And you can see on the individual worksheet there, the the slide gates are currently leaking. It's not a problem during regular operations, but anytime there's maintenance down there, it is a safety issue. The Pine Street Water Production Plant high service pump valve replacement estimated cost of $2,15,000. This project will replace the valves and the high service pumps at the plant. um improve reliability of treated water delivery to the distribution system. The clear the clear well rehabilitation

1.8 million uh this project rehabilitates the clear well concrete repairs coatings uh maintains water quality and extends the facility service life. The text I 10 highway 69 Cardinal interchange water adjustments. Uh the difference here between the next two textile projects, the Cardinal interchange is everything south of Hollywood Boulevard. The Eastex interchange is everything north of Hollywood Boulevard. So uh this estimated cost is $3,754,000. All of these costs are paid by Tex Dot uh directly. The Eastex interchange project we are paying the contractor and then we're reimbured by Text. So I don't have a a firm number on that estimated cost. That's why I think the price difference here. Um, but we did add the Washington water line replacement to that total cost. The ESEX interchange estimated total cost is $12,500,000. And again, just relocating all the water infrastructure to maneuver around Tex's new uh highways. The final three projects here 94 to 96 um are just to extend water service and build infrastructure along the D and extension if if approved. So these major investments in the CIP uh prioritize the city's water supply, aging infrastructure, regulatory compliance, and support future growth. I don't want you to think about it just as a list of projects, but it's a systemwide strategy to ensure that every resident and business has safe drinking water every day. Any questions?

Thank you. Thank you. And now it's Mike Harris's turn for uh sewer wastewater.

Good morning. Morning. Morning.

I'm going to uh talk real slow because I've never had this much time to do CIP presentation. So, uh start out with the wastewater our community investment plan. Uh we're going to start out with uh 23rd Street uh sewer trunk line rehabilitation. Uh this project is ongoing. The phase one is done is being done this year and near completion. Uh phase two, uh the work includes repairing uh structural cavities near the station. I'm sorry, that's phase one. And also uh rehabilitating approximately 8,800 linear feet of aging pipe from Washington Boulevard. And so this is a critical trunk line and these improvements address deterioration and reduce the risk of failure and protect reliability in the wastewater conveyance. Uh the next one, the annual uh collection system renewal. This is an annual budget item that we pretty much put on through every year. Uh this is Bowman operates approximately 746 miles of sewer main uh many dating back to the early 1950s. Uh each year this program inspects 3 to 6% of the se of the system and rehabilitates or replaces the most critical segments to reduce overflows, failures and emergency repairs. Uh normally we try to replace anywhere between 1 to 1.2% every year. uh annual lift station repairs and improvements. This project provides ongoing rehabilitation and replacement of pumps, motor controls, and equipment at the city's 77 lift stations. Uh it also includes a comprehensive condition assessment to prioritize future needs. Uh this work is essential for maintaining reliable system operations to prevent backups. Uh, one thing I wanted to bring your attention to on

this particular one that in FY27, we did increase the budget uh, by 500,000 uh, because we're looking to do a complete list station assessment on all the list stations in Bulmont next year and then once that's over with, uh, it will drop back down to the normal 400,000 budget. Uh, downtown sewer improvements. This project replaces deteriorating downtown sewer infrastructure including relocation of list stations, rehabilitation of force mans. Uh the goals to modernize failing components, improve reliability, and support ongoing downtown development. Uh Harriet Street lift station uh Harriet lift station rehabilitation. Uh this project is one that will bid in a couple of months. uh replaces outdated Heritage Street List Station with a new facility. Electrical controls will be relocated into a separate building to protect them from corrosive sewer gases. New pumps will be installed and old lines abandoned. This significantly improves safety, reliability, and long-term performance. Uh lift station electrical improvements. This is another, excuse me, ongoing project. This project upgrades outdated electrical control systems at several lift stations that have experienced failures including backups. Uh replaces agent controls, improves reliability and reduces the risk of service interruptions. Uh our lift station permanent generators project. Uh this project installs permanent generators to critical lift stations across the city. Uh these generators will prove improve resilience during power outages and severe weather. Helps prevent sewer overflows uh during

emergency conditions. Uh the southeast industrial area sewer improvements. Uh this project increases sewer cap uh capacity in the southeast industrial area to support new and expanding industrial users. Existing infrastructure cannot meet projected demand and the investment uh investment positions moment to accommodate economic growth and development partnerships. Wall and Avenue S lift station. This is another ongoing project. Uh this project rehabilitates the wall and avenue C lift station through construction of new control building, new pumps. Bless you. Bless you. Bless you.

And upgraded electrical system. Uh these improvements address deterioration and improve long-term operational reliability. Um I'm going to skip over the next one. It's the uh 10 MD 10 MGD secondary pump. Uh we just voted on that last council meeting. It's just replace of recirculation pump. Uh going on to page uh the next page on the wastewater treatment plant generator and electrical improvements. This is an ongoing project. Uh this project upgrades the generator system and electrical components at the wastewater treatment plant. Uh it improves the improvements include new process controls and relocation of critical equipment to improve safety, reliability and storm resilience. Uh this project here was actually uh driven by the fire that we had at the wastewater plant several years back. uh wastewater treatment plant high flow station uh monitoring. This project installs flow monitoring equipment at the high flow station to improve performance analysis during rain events. Uh better data data allow staff to manage capacity, reduce overflows and plan for future improvements. Uh wastewater yard uh treatment plant yard plant yard piping renewal. Once again, this is an ongoing project. Uh this project inspects, rehabilitates and replaces aging yard piping between the treatment units of the plant uh including trunk lines along the facility boundary and it ensures continual reliability of internal plant conveyance systems. Uh wetland outfall pipe support reinforcement. Uh this project is ongoing as well. Uh the project reinforces deteriorating pylons that support wastewater treatment plants only

outfall pipe. Strengthen these supports protect against critical element of the plant operations and prevent service uh disruptions. And the Florida Avenue interceptor and phase two uh phase one was already completed some years back. Uh the phase two project uh re rehabilitates the section of the Florida Avenue interceptor originally constructed in 1947. The work addresses failing joints, storm water infiltration and als and that have caused overflows and reduces the efficiency of the Florida Avenue street lift station. Uh going into these next ones, these are uh new projects that we have looked at. Uh all these projects here are found on our um wastewater treatment plant uh master plan that we just presented at the last council meeting. So the uh wastewater treatment plant grit removal system improvements. Uh estimated cost at 2,786,000. Uh this project replaces aging grit removal system equipment at the wastewater treatment plant. Upgrading this system provides treatment efficiency and protects downstream equipment from excessive wear and like I said it is also part of the master plan. Uh the wastewater treatment plant headworks improvements. Uh this project is estimated cost at 1,610,000. Uh this project improves valve crane system at the head workstations to ensure to ensure safe and effective maintenance of influent pumps. Uh the improvements were identified through the treatment master plan. Uh this project here we actually had taken several smaller projects from the CIP in the past put them together to make this one project.

uh wastewater treatment plant, pond and canal improvements. Uh estimated cost at 2,458,000. Uh this project removes settled solids from the treatment ponds in the canals, repairs levy slopes. The work restores capacity, improves treatment efficiency, and extends the useful life of life of these assets. Uh the wastewater treatment plant sludge digtor and clarifier wall repairs. Uh this project repairs cracking and protective coatings on sludge digesttors, clarify structures, clarifier structures. Uh the repair preserves critical treatment infrastructure and prevents long-term structural damage and it has an estimated cost of 1,797,000. uh wastewater treatment plant high flow transfer and outfall pump improvements. Uh estimated cost at 1,325,000. Uh this project evaluates and rehabilitates key pump systems that handle high flow events and discharges. Uh these pump the these improvements ensure reliable operations their storm conditions and peak loads. And this is a big ticket item here that we had talked about at the uh at the last council on the master plan. It's the wastewater treatment plant moving bed bofilm reactor upgrade. Uh it's had an estimated cost of 28 million. Uh this major project project adds a moving bed bofilm reactor system to increase treatment capacity, improves effluent quality. Uh it supports compliance with current and future regulatory requirements and reduces the risk of downstream reduces the risk to the downstream systems.

Since this is so new to us, uh the the master plan just came out, we are going to explore what the opportunities are to help that help with that. Thanks, Molly. Thanks.

Uh wetland cell improvements estimated cost of 5,446,000. Uh this project rehabilitates the treat rehabilitates treatment wetlands by regrading sales, replanting vegetation needed for effective wastewater treatment. Uh the improvements increase efficiency and extend the life of the wetland system. Uh wastewater treatment plant chlorine contact chamber wall rehabilitation. If you notice this one is actually in the future under future considerations. Uh we're seeing some deterioration in the contact chamber of the walls, but it hasn't been enough to where we need to act upon it in the next 5 years, but we want to earmark this for, you know, later consideration if we start seeing more deterioration in it. Uh it does have an estimated cost of 1,400,000. It recotes and repairs the concrete walls and chlorine contract chamber. And moving into the uh text dot uh I 1069 Cardinal Exchange. Uh this is the sewer adjustments for that project. Uh this project relocates the wastewater infrastructure to avoid conflict with text dot. Uh the costs are reimbursed by text on this project and same thing with the text dot I 10 highway 69 east Texas interchange. Uh this like I said is for moving the uh wastewater structures out of the text way. Um as the cardinal interchange as with the cardinal interchange the work is funded by text and going into the last three projects. Like I said these are uh for future extensions on the road extension from college to Washington. The project extends the sanitary sewer service to

support future development along road extension between College Street, Washington Boulevard. Estimated cost at 1 or 1,310,000. Uh Don Road extension from Walden to I 10. The project installs new sanitary sewer lines along the road extension between Walden Road and I 10 to serve as future development. Uh it's also estimated cost at 1,325,000. And finally, the last one is the Don Road extension from Washington to Walden. Uh it's estimated cost at 1,640,000. This project extends the sanitary sewer line infrastructure between Washington Boulevard and Walden Road. So kind of went through it kind of fast. Any questions on any of it?

Great job. Uh, thank you. Yeah. In your uh talking about the uh sewer uh improvements, uh can you tell me in 2027 out of those uh uh line items, which ones are going to focus on alleviating sewer from backing up into uh homes when we have heavy rains? because that continues to be and I know we've made significant improvements but that continues to be a hot topic item with uh

Sure. Sure. Uh I would say the majority of these pro these projects are goal is to prevent the sewer backups. Um majority of sewer backups are caused by the caused by the INI or the inflow and infiltration. So looking at these projects going with uh like your 23rd Street lift station rehabilitating the uh the line going you know the trunk line it's going to of course increase flow which in increasing flow that's going to help us move the waste water out of the lines faster than you know what we can now. uh your annual your annual collection system. I mean, that's that's probably the big one that does the most good as far as this because we're out rehabilitating the existing sewer mains. That's, you know, has outlived their their life cycle.

So, we've spent 6.7 million on that this year. Yes, sir. And we're going to spend 6.1 million on it next year.

We usually spend about six million every year on this project. Uh last year I think we did spend a little more because we had more funding from the AR ARP funds. Yeah, I was thinking ARF, but yeah. So like I said, yeah, that one right there, it's it's definitely a good one. Um and and for a point of reference, and correct me if I'm wrong, the green number, which is the revenue bond, those come from our enterprise funds, which come from charging for water and sewer. So being able to project when we talk about increased water rates often times what they're able to do is help us speed up our ability to do this work and do more work. So even though people don't like them and certainly understand that because every time we discuss them my phone rings but uh it's not just for current delivery it's for it's for future and also playing catchup because we were behind on our sewer you know our sewer many of our sewer lines have outlived their useful

life cycle. And and one thing to keep in mind too when you see these lift station projects, um to kind of go into a little bit how the sewer system works, uh it gravity feeds from the house service lines into the main gravity mains that will go to a lift station. Uh once it gets to a lift station, then it's pumped through force main to another lift station or straight to the wastewater plant. So, anytime we're doing improvements on lift stations, uh the thought is to number one, uh increase the efficiency of that lift station, but also at the same time to move this water out or the waste water out of the system faster into the plant. And once we get the waters and talking in you know rain rain events or you know high water events the faster we can get the water moved out of the system into the plant you know the more relief the citizens have.

So like I said anytime

the uh that's why we're also adding for FY27 the annual lift station repairs. Uh so we have three specific um lift stations that are identified. The Harriet, the Wallen Avenue, C 23rd Street, but our those are three of our largest. But we have 78 of these pump stations in our system. And so this condition assessment is going to begin the process of evaluating all of these smaller lift stations as well to make sure that they are operating as efficiently as possible. speaking to my cares because you can do so much in the system but also too you have to make sure that your pump stations are functioning efficiently getting the water to the big stations so the big stations can get them to the plant.

Avenue C 23rd and what was that third one? Harriet Harriet Harry Harriet Harriet. Excellent. Thank you. Thank you sir. Would that take care of you Councilman Hill? What you were asking? Bring it. Okay.

Okay. Good morning. Good morning.

Uh now I will walk you through our streets projects and we will begin at the beginning with the annual sidewalk repair and that is separate from our citywide sidewalk initiative. This is continuing work to make repairs to our existing sidewalks and um you know just like we found um our brick repairs are uh or we have ADA issues or we have our strong emphasis as well near schools and school related destinations. So this is our our day-to-day sidewalk repair work. Our next program is our annual street rehabilitation and that is uh we're investing on our 667 miles of roadway that we own and maintain. This program can uh includes our asphalt overlay projects, our concrete repairs, uh full depth pavement repairs, carbon gutters and pavement preservation, payment markings and pavement condition evaluations. And these this is also where we use our payment condition study to determine the prioritization for those projects. Then we get to our Avenue A and Avenue C roadway rehabilitation projects. These are the first ones of the general obligation bonds that we are issuing. Avenue A is going to be rehabilitated from Washington to College Street and Avenue C is going to be rehabilitated from Crockett Street to Harriet Street. And these uh roads have experienced significant failure. The scope of work for both of these projects includes milling off of the asphalt, performing base repairs, curbon gutter repairs, then resurfacing and updating the striping along with associated storm sewer repairs or water or sanitary sewer

repairs within that roadway. Next is our bridge repairs project locations uh citywide. This was at 13 city-owned bridges. We will be bringing the closeout of this project to council's consideration next week. So, we are glad that this project has been completed. That's very important to us uh to get these finished. Next is our car Carol Carroll Street and Sycamore Street roadway roadway rehabilitation. I'm trying to go fast and I can't. And that is on page 134. This is also a general obligation bond funded project and it will rehabilitate these streets from Buford to Fulton streets and that is concrete curb repairs, joint ceiling, resurfacing and updated pavement markings. Next is the Yes, sir.

This uh Carol Street and Sycamore Street from Bufort to Fulton. That's right. Outside of Exxon Mobile and the Port of Bmont. Yes, sir. Okay. Are they contributing to some of this damage? They are not participating in this project.

No. Are the damage to these roadways caused by uh vehicles going to their facilities? It's a very high traffic volume, very heavy traffic uh volume and that has led to the deterioration of these streets. And this is the uh project that we presented for consideration in the election at at that $1.5 million cost estimate. I'm sorry, $2.37 million cost estimate. And that's what the voters approved for the city to uh issue debt for to perform those repairs. Okay,

our next project is a grant that we presented to council at the last meeting and that was a $ 1.5 million for the citywide school zone sign improvements project that will install solar powered uniform assemblies with cloud-based monitoring uh citywide to all of our schools and within our school zones including the private schools that have identified school zones. This will improve consistency, reliability, and safety in our school zones. Next is our citywide sidewalk initiative that was approved by the voters in the bond election, and that is estimated at $10 million. Currently, we are estimating to spend roughly uh projected about $2 million per year for the life of the project. And this will pro provide for the funding for the citywide sidewalk master plan. From there, we will have then the guidance that we need to strategically invest the remaining balance of the $10 million to per construct new sidewalks, make necessary repairs, install new uh accessible ramps, driveway replacements, and safety enhancements based on the plan's findings. Next is our Ducet Avenue roadway rehabilitation. And this is also a general obligation bond project estimated just under $2 million uh to rehabilitate Ducet Avenue from Sycamore Street to MLK Parkway. And this is experienced also additional payment failures. It is in the neighborhood of the Carol and Sycamore Streetway. Again, this also includes concrete repairs, curb and gutter repairs, resurfacing, pavement markings, and any necessary utility or storm sewer improvements underneath the payment.

Next is the East Lucas roadway rehabilitation, also part of the bond election, estimated just over just at $1.2 million. This will rehabilitate Magnolia Street, I'm sorry, East Lucas from Magnolia to Pine, and it will uh slightly widen the road, mill off the asphalt, overlay it with new asphalt, and uh which will improve operations, reduce the edge deterioration of the roadway, and provide a uh safe, smooth roadway for the public. Next is our Glattis Street roadway rehabilitation, also part of the GEO bond election, estimated at about $4.3 million. This will resurface Glattus Street from I 10 to Edson and then from Edson to Don. Uh this work includes milling, curb repairs, resurfacing, and updated striping. Uh if you'll recall recently we replaced the water line along the length of this roadway and so now we're coming back and we're going to address the pavement.

Yes sir. Are we going to

your microphone? Will this address the flooding between Howal and Edson on Glattis? We will we will evaluate that as part of this project because it's not going to do us any good to do these repairs and have it get overwhelmed and see what we can do to address that issue between how it always has. It feels goes up over the curbs and becomes a Yes, sir. Okay.

Making a note. Next is our Highland Avenue roadway rehabilitation projects on page 140. This is estimated at $5.3 million. We recently started the milling operations on the southern portion of this project. And we are going to avoid doing any asphalt work until school lets out for the summer. And this is going to be a similar rehabilitation to what we just did on Fourth Street. And so it will be a um payment preservation. We're so we're going to resurface, make concrete repairs, updated payment markings, and a road diet configuration with dedicated bike lanes similar to what you see on Fourth Street. An ongoing project on page 141 is the Highway 105 and major drive traffic study and improvements project. Uh we have se $750,000 allocated to this project. Uh this is the comprehensive traffic study that we've recently completed um on Highway 105 from Keith Road to the fire station and we are continuing our coordination with Texot to identify what opportunities we have to make improvements to the safety of that stretch of road. That has included participation from Tex DOT to improve the signals at East Texas Freeway at Highway 105, improvements to the signals at 105 at Major Drive, roadway striping, and uh as I explained to a caller yesterday, we've not taken any options off of the deta of the table, but we are still continuing to work through that with Texot as our partner.

And what if I might, what is the the the study is now complete because I've heard different things. The we have they've not issued the final. We have uh the draft was sent to Texot. Tex has um been in the process of reviewing it. Once they are through with their review, we will schedule the meeting with our engineer and their engineer. We'll sit down hash through it. Text has comments. we have questions work together to get um a path forward for future solutions.

Okay. And that path forward I I know it would include the potential of the traffic signal at RFD and uh 105, but assuming that there's a chance that may not happen is part of what you're looking at and considering some dedicated uh turn lanes. That's what we're exploring to see what what those construction costs would look like to have a dedicated right turn lane off of Highway 105 onto RFD Road with another dedicated turn lane off of RFD Road onto Highway 105. Those sorts of things. Improving the efficiency of the signal at highway 105 at major drive especially during the peak traffic hours is has a significant impact on what can happen at RFD road. So that is something that Texot is working with us on.

Okay, great. Thank you.

You're welcome. Our next project on page 142 is the last of the streets on the general obligation bonds and that is Hoover, Dallinger, Cottonwood and Seventh Street rehabilitations estimated at roughly $3.7 million. And this is going to rehabilitate a group of truck route roadways experiencing advanced pavement failure. Uh again, this is milling, base repairs, resurfacing, curbon gutter repairs, and storm sewer work as needed. Um many of these that were presented for the general obligation bonds, as as Councilman Durio pointed out, are really associated with the heavy truck traffic that we experienced due to the growth in the city of Bowmont. So, these are opportunities to continue to enhance our economic development in these areas. So project uh page 143, the major drive at Northwest Parkway traffic signal. So estimated cost is at $130,000. We just received a contentive approval from Tex DOT last week. So hallelujah. Uh this will install the new traffic signal at Major Drive and Northwest Parkway. We are our goal is to have everything complete by the end of this fiscal year. So, we are moving forward with this project. Now,

when will they actually see people out there working? We don't have a timeline on that yet. We're still uh determining what the ETA is for the material and equipment. So, but once we have more information, absolutely share that with them. Okay. But we think it will start by the end of the year. We think it'll be finished by the end of the year. Our goal is to be complete by the end of this fiscal year. Now, is the groundwork already laid for those lights? The foundations are in place. So, it's just the poles and the lights, but the wire and everything

and the electric uh well, that's we're still evaluating what the condition of the wiring, you know, or is it just conduit, so we need to pull wire. So there's there's still a lot of detail work that we need to complete on that. But the plans that were submitted to text dot uh several months ago uh we finally got a letter last week saying that they have approved it in concept, but of course we still have to continue to work through this. Uh our next uh project that gets a lot of attention on page 144 is our quiet zone median reconstruction. Uh we were on target. We were doing everything we could to be complete by the end of May. Um to let's just call it railroad drama where we saved the most complicated crossing for last and that is at Langum Road. Uh the railroad threw another wrinkle at us that is affecting our schedule on the south side of Langum Road. Who knew? And um so we are continuing the the contractor is is very committed. They really did they had a short window uh on Tuesday to make progress on this based on the latest developments from the railroad. And I do have to commend them on how much work they were able to complete in a very short window of time. So if we could pray for no rain on the following Tuesdays until this project is complete, prayers appreciated. Uh, next project is our traffic and network fiber replacement down the College Street corridor.

May I just add, Molly, uh, uh, and thank you for that. That's a big deal. And I also want to, uh, say thank you to Councilman Hillyard, uh, despite what some, uh, may critique uh, on Facebook or social media about what you're doing, uh, you have led, uh, the charge on that project. It is something that uh uh we get numerous complaints and concerns about from all uh parts of the city. Uh that is something that you have u uh really carried the flag on and I I greatly do appreciate uh you doing that and for the work of uh staff. I know anytime you're dealing with the railroad, uh it is uh extremely frustrating and difficult and slow and y'all have navigated that and uh the the city is very grateful for uh the quiet zone uh finally coming to a completion.

Amen. Thank you. Thank you. You really have. Thank you. Thank you so much. And I think it's been mentioned one time before, but I know from talking to the contractor, what's also unique about that is the railroad is the one that has to has to provide the flaggers. So when the flaggers aren't there, they can't work. So it doesn't matter if they're they got all their staff there. They can't work. So and they they pay them like what $1,200 a day or some I don't think Yeah. I just think there's a shortage of flaggers. So I am applying

and I will I will apply, too. So the the latest wrinkle is that the southern portion is impacted by a it's an unmanned rail car that is not connected to their flagging system. So on uh so we can only work on Tuesdays and we now have a window of about 4 hours on Tuesdays to work on the south port the south side of Langum Road. So, that was new uh surprise. And we found this out Monday and the contractor did a great job of getting it together and really cranked out some work on Tuesday. So, uh we'll pour concrete next Tuesday, weather permitting, and uh do the best we can with the challenges that they have presented to us.

They have. They've worked. We all got people were upset about the one lane, but yes, contractors are doing a great job. They are. They are. Thank you, Molly. Sir, there's other parts of the city that have been asking for these quiet zones. I hope you don't forget about it. Not a bit. Okay. Yes, sir.

So, our next project is on page 146. It is I'm sorry, the uh mentioned the network fiber down College Street. This is a city fiber optic line that um provides communication between our downtown offices and our facilities on the far west of town. And so we are working with engineering now to get started on the uh railroad crossing permits. Speaking of the railroad, Highland Avenue over the LMBA bridge replacement is estimated at $800,000. Sorry, I was looking at the Highland Avenue roadway rehab. Sorry. And that is our uh project, our bridge that goes over the LMVA canal and it's going to replace it with a wider clear clear span structure. These bridge projects that you will see us bring forward from time to time, these are a result of Tex's offsystem roadway bridge inspections. And so these are projects that we are obligated to complete. So that this Highland Avenue project is part of that program. Next is our Broadway Street roadway rehabilitation scheduled for FY28 and this will rehabilitate Broadway Street from MLK to 11th Street with a full roadway rehabilitation. This is a project that has been on the books for quite a long time and we're happy to be able to bring this one forward. Uh will include milling, resurfacing, curb repairs, and storm sewer work. Next is the Calder Avenue bridge replacement and widening. So it' be on the next slide and on page 148 scheduled for a fiscal years 2829. And this will replace the aging CDRE Avenue bridge over Hillbrand Bow with a wider structure that improve uh provides improved travel lanes and a ped

protected pedestrian sidewalk. Uh we do get a lot of feedback about this bridge being so narrow and so this is our project that will improve that. Next is our Park Street roadway rehabilitation and this will address Park Street from MLK to College. Uh this is a major corridor that brings traffic to our downtown off of MLK, also to our port and to um portions thereof. And so this is estimated at $3 million. Our next two projects are new projects that we are going to propose uh for a future general obligation bond election. That's why they're highlighted in gold. And the first is the Dishman Roadway rehabilitation that is estimated at $1.36 million. This will rehabilitate it in its current cross-section. This is not to bring it to uh the width of what you see on Delaware Street on the other side of Major Drive. This is simply to rehabilitate it in its current configuration to mill and overlay the asphalt and uh shape the ditches. And I think we're going to do some slight widening to that roadway. The partner to that is the Keith Roadway rehabilitation estimated at 1.6 million. And it's similar. This is to rehabilitate it in its current cross-section, not for any future widening uh or development to a different cross-section.

Yes, sir. So, I know this is a concern for both the city and the county. Um, at this point, we're proposing to include it as a go issue in 29. Um, now we are in conversations with them. So, if that if the funding looks different or there are different options, you know, we certainly could could look at that. But right now, you know, the city, especially on the uh Dishman side, you know, we the city is the southern side, of course, is in the city limits. A portion of the northern side is in the city limits. Uh we we we we know and we believe that eventually that will eventually be within the city limits itself. And so our and I will say that you know if you go out to the neighborhoods at the at the southeast corner of Dishman and Keith uh you know those those folks are in the city limits and so they this road services folks who are in the city limits. So looking forward down the line our our thought is to try to accelerate this um through this through this process by adding it to the CIP. But to to your question, if we if we are able to make other arrangements, we certainly will try to do that.

Yes, sir. Those conversations are going on. Yes, sir.

So, next is our uh also a new project for future general obligation bonds election, page 152. It is the $5.2 2 million north end quiet zone project. So this would consist of the upgrades of 13 crossings along BNSF's corridor that parallels Hellbig Road and uh you know it's quiet zone so to allow for the elimination of the train horn sounding while maintaining compliance with federal safety standards. Next is a new project uh for future general obligation bond election consideration $2.4 $4 million to establish the Oldtown Quiet Zone, which includes improvements at six crossings and the closure of one u to improve the safety of the crossings and reduce train noise impacts in the Oldtown area. This is our our um crossings uh that are just west of MLK uh from Calder down to South Street. Next, we have the PA Street roadway rehabilitation. This is a project that has been on the books for quite some time, and we're able to finally start shifting this one into a future plan. This is $2 million to rehabilitate PA Street from Jaguar between Jaguar 7th and third streets addressing the pavement failures um through resurfacing, curb repairs, and storm sewer improvements. Next is our Southoun's quiet zone. A new project for future consideration for the general obligation bond election estimated at $4.4 million. This will imp implement safety improvements at 19 crossings and will close eight crossings to establish the south end quiet zone.

Councilman Duria, any chance of that being moved up?

So, you could always accelerate it in the CIP as an adopted budget. That's up to council. Um, I would also share that to try to manage expectations. This is regulated by the federal government. So, as we look to these, especially these new quiet zones, there are certain regulations and requirements um in terms of being able to establish them as such. So, to answer your question, we could certainly move these up in the schedule. Um but I also wanted to add that ultimately the federal government's going to have to prove whether or not whether the money's there or not, whether or not they can be in implemented. The last evaluation which uh was performed a few years ago at that time recommended eight road closings of the railroad. So depending on the and that is a process in and of itself to reach out to the community that to tell them that their that crossing right by their home is going to be closed. Um, and if that is going to change, you know, we we would have to evaluate that if they're going to want to require additional closures as well. So, that can impede the traffic flow through the city. Uh, we also want to be strategic about these closures and the timing of them because we know that there are other locations where we want to either add a crossing such as to Riverfront Park. And so it is always going to be a a balance and it's never really a balance in the city's favor. Uh the railroad's position is no new onra crossings. So we will have to give up in order to receive or we give up and we don't receive anything.

Where and where is this one going to be from from where to where? Uh this one is from I think college to cardinal. College to cardinal.

Okay. Okay. So, next of a on page 156, this is the College Street roadway rehabilitation. This would rehabilitate College Street from I 10 to Maine uh with pavement preservation treatments on uh the asphalt section which is from I 10 to Amarillo and then concrete panel repairs uh from Amarillo to Main Street. Uh this is to extend the payment life of a major arterial corridor that is seeing a lot of growth and development. Uh following that the next um three projects that were uh previously considered for the bond election, those were the road extensions from college all the way south to I 10 at um yeah there were significant costs. Uh page 160 is a different project. This is a Don Road roadway rehabilitation project estimated at $5.5 million. And this is uh this will combine payment preservation of the portions of the asphalt that are still in reasonably good condition plus full reconstruction of those portions that uh demand it uh due to deterioration in the service life of those portions of the pavement. So that is a that is the existing portion of Don as opposed to the three previous projects which were the extension south of College Street. Next for future consideration is rehabilitation of Jim Gilligan Way uh from MLK to Jimmy Simmons Drive addressing the payment failures on this arterial roadway that serves um some industrial areas and uh some industrial businesses as well as Lamar University. Next is a new project and it is the

Marina Drive roadway reconstruction and it is found on page 162. This would reconstruct the southern portion of Marina Drive and that is from the Yach Club or I 10 south to Pine Street. And uh this would help us acquire the um complete acquisition of the rideway for that portion of Marina Drive. and then be able to reconstruct it to uh have reli safe reliable roads for the industrial growth that is happening on the island. Next on page 163 is the nature street roadway rehab and that is nature street from MLK to uh College Street and that is major arterial to leave downtown to get down to MLK Parkway. And then lastly is the Point Parkway North extension that was uh part of the bond election. Are there any questions on the streets?

Okay. Yeah, Councilman Williams.

So, when will the sidewalks master plan start? So we are getting we have actually have a meeting this evening uh with the bond facilitation committee and so we will uh discuss the finer points of what is going to be in the request for qualifications and we will start the solicitation uh shortly thereafter uh for proposals from qualified firms to help us with the preparation of that master plan. That procurement process ends up taking about 60 to 90 days depending on how long it takes to evaluate the packages that they submit and we'll be able to bring a recommendation to council and then execute those agreements and give them a notice to proceed.

What do you expect them to look whoever we go with? what are the things you think they'll look at and kind of deciding where we

So some of the things that we're we're preparing them for to give them necessary data is uh provide a condition assessment of our existing sidewalks to also identify um where are our pedestrian generators uh where we seeing the pedestrian traffic and also to what are the challenges along those those routes in order to be able to connect them whether it they are the schools. Of course, schools are always going to be our priority. But beyond that then what our commercial centers and also uh medical centers to um be able to enhance the mobility throughout the city and also to to bring to us any best practices whether it is uh maybe we need to update our ordinances, maybe our ordinance is out of date. um what what are some things that we can do to help us strategize not just to spend the balance of the $10 million once the study is complete? Um but also, you know, do we need to come back next fiscal year and amend the first line item of the annual sidewalk repairs and adjust our investment in the sidewalks? Um to really tell us what do we need where you know what addition or what detailed studies do we need to provide as well? you know, because there's uh there's going to be areas that need sidewalks that are going to require significant investment. And where are those easy wins where we can make a big impact uh with a smaller investment and we just need somebody with a independent set of eyes to come in and and tell us these things.

Okay. Yeah, that was going to be my next question. I think you kind of answered it. So, schools will kind of play a big role in Absolutely. Yes sir. And mayor just I'm sorry. Go ahead. Um I thought we had did we not have a short list that we were already working from with

we have well we have the list of feedback that we have received from the committee and I'm glad you asked that question because another requirement is going to be opportunities for the community to provide input whether it is town hall meetings a sharet a website you know some where the citizens can come in and say look from here point on a map from here to here. I have kids trying to get to school every day and they're having to, you know, they're in or the elderly are trying to get access across the railroad tracks, right? And uh we need assistance in these areas. Those are those are the type that's the type of feedback and then that way they can receive it,

quantify it and give us our recommendations. Thank you. That's what I was there. Just just to echo some of what Molly was sharing is

we have as you all know we have hundreds of miles of streets without sidewalks and sometimes there profiles right where you just have to add a sidewalk as you know sometimes we have open ditches or not enough rightway and then it becomes very very expensive. So, I think as Molly was pointing out, we want to try to get the most bang for our buck, but realizing and again trying to manage expectations, this won't, you know, this will this will help us get started um on some of this. But our hope is as part of the planning process is to have kind of an objective scoring criteria u whereby the prioritization is based on you know need um as Molly mentioned generators. At the end of the day, council will decide uh where they go, but hopefully we can provide a an objective process whereby they can be scored and recommended accordingly.

Yes, ma'am. Um I I'm I'm glad you mentioned that because managing expectations when you say sidewalks, we got to let be honest. We are not working on all sidewalks everywhere. Okay. we will have an expectation of what we can do and being honest because people think well they got this money they fixing all the sidewalks. No.

Yes ma'am. Absolutely. Okay. So next is are our drainage projects and this is a not as extensive list. Here we go. So, our first project is on page 67, and this is our annual citywide ditching program. This is a program that's been in place now for uh three years. And this will continue for another three years funded through the general obligation bonds at roughly $3.5 million per year. And this is to mop out. This is uh for this first uh process, we're we're working on about 20% of the roadside ditches per year. So, this will allow us to finish and get us to the 100% of the first pass through the city. And then after that, we have areas that are going to require additional work and additional improvement. And that's where why we are going to continue this program into the future even after we exhaust the uh general obligation bond funds uh to make sure that our roadside ditch system is operating as efficiently as possible. We have already seen a decrease in the calls even though we have been in a bit of a drought. Um but in the areas where we have mopped out these ditches and then the the city comes through and then jets and cleans the coverts after they finish digging out the ditches. Uh we are seeing uh great dividends in the efficiency of our drainage system for these roadside ditches. The next project is our annual storm sewer cleaning which was uh at $2 million per year over three years. And this is to remove the debris, the sediment and the obstructions from our

underground storm sewer system. And a lot of times it also goes handinhand with the ditching project. And so this is a project that's already gotten underway. And we are developing a dashboard that will be in the future will be on the city's website where uh the public can uh observe in real time where the work is being performed and the progress that we're making towards completing uh and hitting these $2 million per year target. Next is our annual storm water pipe inspection point repairs and data asset management project. And this is the partner to the storm sewer cleaning. So this is the line item where the consultant is going out and they are mapping our system performing inspections of the u structures and the pipes and then they evaluate that data make recommendations for point repairs or for storm sewer cleaning. And so then the storm cleaning is a line item that was broken out for that and is being paid through the geo bonds. But the uh the $ 1.5 million per year is uh through certificates of obligation and data asset management. This is one of the areas where I think we had um the most ground to make up in improving our mapping of our storm sewer system. So this is providing a very detailed u survey level mapping of our storm sewer system and uh in the areas where we have performed this storm sewer cleaning we are seeing improvements and so we are targeting the areas for the cleaning uh that have a strong history of flooding complaints and we are are working our way through that program. Next is our annual underpass pump station repairs and maintenance program

on page 170. So the city operates and maintains eight underpass pump stations. And so this is allows us to rehabilitate, clean, repair and replace aging pump station equipment. Next is our Broad out Broad Street Outfall ditch rehabilitation. And this is also a general obligation bond project. and that is to rehabilitate an existing outfall ditch along Broad Street that then crosses Hellbig Road and goes out to Pine Island Bow. This will allow us to acquire the rideway that we need in order to rehabilitate that ditch and then be able to maintain it uh safely. Right now it's pretty wooded and this area has suffered significantly from flooding events uh of Pine Island Bio. So this will go a long way to help help that neighborhood and also the businesses that are closer to East Texas freeway. Next is a grant project. It is the Irving Underpass pump station generator replacement. We uh are still awaiting confirmation of when we will receive these funds, but the Irving underpass pump station generator is very important to access Exxon Mobile and Charlton Pard neighborhood and the Port of Bmont. So having reliable power at that pump station is is critical and so we hope to get uh favorable response soon and be able to order that generator. The next two projects are the result of the 2019 floods uh grant project. And that was the Laura edition drainage improvements and the Phelps Road drainage improvements projects. Each were estimated at roughly $1.5 million. And these were to regrade and clean the

roadside ditches, replace and upsize the driveway coverts, uh replace surface inlets, and reconstruct the storm sewer outfall. uh where it connects to the drainage district 6 system and uh the Laura edition project is complete and the Phillips road project I think council madurio can confirm I think it's just about done we've made a lot of progress on that one next is a federal earmark grant our underpass flooding early warning system improvements I think we just got word in the last week or so that uh this federal earmark uh was approved D. And so the earmark doesn't cover the entirety of the project, but this will allow us to install uh the necessary equipment u to monitor the water levels in these underpasses, activate flashing warning lights and alerts when flooding thresholds are reached. Um, you know, this is this is a very important project uh to preserve the safety and so we are exploring all of the technological uh avenues that we can to be able to communicate to our drivers when these underpasses are flooded. So very excited about what this project will bring to us. And then next is the West Lucas Drive storm sewer rehabilitation. Total cost is estimated at just north of $15 million. Uh the remaining 11 million are what are assigned to the general obligation bond and this will rehabilitate the large steel arch storm sewer pipe that runs along West Lucas Drive. It's about 12,000 ft long and we are uh beginning the engineering pro process on this project and we look forward to seeing this one uh be completed. We're waiting on a I'm waiting on a time

estimate on how long the construction portion will take. Uh it's possible it could take about a up to a year, but I'll have confirmation on that. And as as we work through those projects, we'll be presenting them to council as well. And lastly is a new project, Stonetown Road drainage improvements, uh estimated at $181,000. This is a a road Hillrest drive ends at a dead end, but the roadside ditches continue onto Pine Island Bow. Uh some property owners have agreed to donate drainage easement. So, this project will allow us to acquire uh the additional easement and rideway and rehabilitate and maintain this ditch as part of the public drainage system. Do we have any questions?

Thank you.

Thank you. Mayor, council, I would like to thank staff again for their work getting us to this point. Again, just to review today's process, we went over some city financial um overview as well as city budgeting. Of course, today what we talked about was primarily with capital projects. Those are over $100,000 in value um with a useful life of more than 20 years. Um, moving forward as we get into discussions on more of our operating side of things, uh, our next steps again, June 3rd, we'll have a second budget work session to discuss key issues and trends. And then July 15, um, would be our third work session and that's where we'll discuss a draft budget as again as we work towards adoption of the FY27 budget. That that's all I have.

All right. Thank you. Well, with that, we're going to move to uh council member comments before we adjourn. And I will begin with Councilman Durio. I just want to tell our staff um y'all did a great job with your presentation. Uh really appreciate it. And uh that's about it. Thank you. Appreciate all your hard work, especially you, Miley. Thank you, Councilman Durio. Councilman Hillyard, I'll just echo what Councilman Durio said. Great job. Very informative and uh I know it took a lot of hard work, a lot of extra hours. So, we really appreciate y'all doing that. So, thank you guys. Thank you, Councilman Hillyard, Councilman Williams.

Yep. Thank you for everybody to uh Excuse me. Thanks to everybody for working on this and uh look forward to diving into it. Councilwoman, thank you guys. Great job. We appreciate all that you do and we're happy to help to make Bowmont better. I'm excited about what this is looking like. Let's go. Let's get to work. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilman Crrenshaw.

Uh yes. Uh great job staff. This is my second budget workshop. um having gone through this process last year, to me it seems like um these uh the book and the examples that we have and hearing the information is much more uh concise and uh well put together. uh so many projects that we've been talking about and wanting to advocate on behalf of uh the residents of this city were reflected and it sounds like staff is uh listening to the council and prioritizing what uh projects we want and I greatly uh appreciate that attention to detail and uh what you guys are doing. That's all.

Thank you, Councilman. No words from our madam city attorney Molly. Mayor, I just want to echo what everyone else has said and I really want to thank all of the staff who really put a lot of hard work into putting this document together. They've been working for the last 3 months on on this document that you have in front of them. And there are actually staff who are not even here today who participated in putting the CIP together. So, we're glad to be at this stage because now we can focus on the operating budget which um we'll be doing over the coming months. But you will see this document once again. Uh council will adopt the CIP in September when we bring the bud budget to council for adoption. Thanks.

Thank you, sir. No comments other than echoing thank everyone for all of the work that's been put into this because it has been a lot just to get to this vote. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Thank you. Nothing. Nothing, mayor. All right. And certainly thanks as well. And a smooth meeting 11:32 setting world records here. And with that the meeting is adjourned.