Director of Aviation - Regular Meeting

Good morning, everyone. We'll call the transportation infrastructure operations committee meeting to order. My name is Melissa Robinson, vice chair, 3rd District. Would my colleagues please introduce themselves?

Eric Bunch, 4th District.

Lindsey French, second district at large.

Jonathan Duffin, 6th District. Kevin O'Neill, first district at large.

Our fearless chair. Nice to see you.

Thank you.

And staff. Will staff introduce themselves?

Clark Ross, city clerk's office.

City manager's office. Andrew Bunkowski, law department.

Ken Martin, water services department.

Jaime Guillen, Creo department.

Cynthia Jackson, Public Works. Wonderful. We'll go ahead and get started. Hopefully, this is the shortest, TINO meeting, to date, but it's a water show. Alright. Madam clerk, if you get us started, please. Thank

you. Ordinance 260175 authorizing a 3,100,000 design professional services amendment number two to contract number 1672 with CDM Smith for the storm water collection and green infrastructure 37th And Norton project authorizing a total contract amount of $5,300,000 and recognizing this ordinance is having an accelerated effective date.

Welcome. Good morning, chair vice chair, should say, and members of the committee. Steve Stumpfig here, Burns and McDonnell. As most of you know, Burns and McDonnell is the program manager for the SmartServe program. Andy Shively couldn't make it today. He's out at the WEX Global Conference actually representing next slide. And then with with the And next little bit

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lot the a future. Design and water main replacement design as well as move into construction phase services for the project. This project is required by the city's federal consent decree, so it helps us achieve our long term goals. It's strong foundation a very strong for for very And impact COVID-nineteen see going the foundation the able construction starting hopefully in October, November timeframe. And I do want to point out a member of CDM Smith's team here, Chad Johnson, is in the audience.

Chad, do want to raise your hand? And with that, I'll pass it to Jacob to speak to some of the technicals on the project.

The project is in the 3rd District. It is in between Indiana and Kensington Avenue, bound to the North by 33rd Street and to the South by 41st Street. This project will involve the sewer separation of approximately 195 acres. New stormwater infrastructure will be added to convey stormwater flow to an open channel located in the green space. This stormwater will then flow through the open channel to the south to a green infrastructure basin.

This basin will be open with our native plantings and have a temporary storage capacity of approximately 2,000,000 to 4,000,000 gallons. The water in this temporary basin will then be released in a controlled manner through a dedicated storm pipe to existing outfall 40, get And sense able replacement in the project area. And That will be replaced concurrent to the sewer work.

So as Jacob said, we're taking a programmatic approach for this project back in 2022 and 2024. There was two public meetings, and outreach consisted of five neighborhoods within a one mile radius. And then 07/12/2022, there's a multi department site tour facilitated by Councilman Robinson. And we plan to continue those outreach activities. We had a little hiatus.

We took a step back to do some value engineering and adjust the budget, get the project back in line with our original budget. And so now we're back on track with finishing up design. And so the team is putting together a public engagement plan now. And we propose starting about a month or two, will start doing outreach again, meeting with the neighborhoods and the stakeholders. And we will continue coordinating with the UMKAC Center for Neighborhoods, which the project is called the woods in the same area.

Goals on the project were request for modification was submitted February 6 and approved at thirteen and thirteen participation. With that, I will pass it to the floor for comments and questions.

Questions. Yes. Curious. When you said value engineered, can you enlighten this or just expand on what was actually BE'd in the original design?

So the original design consisted of five open basins, one large open basin, and then there was four smaller pretreatment basins that conveyed through an open channel as well as a larger downstream pipe that replaced the existing. The team looked at it and realized we could reuse the existing infrastructure pipe that was downstream by supplementing it with a smaller pipe. So there was a major savings there by reusing the existing infrastructure and then constructing a smaller pipe and then also consolidating those base the five basins down to one centralized basin. And so for KC Water two, long term maintenance is much more efficient if we have one centralized base as opposed to five. We still will have an open channel where those original basins were.

If I go back to the figure, so that blue line heading down the green space there will still be a constructed open channel. So instead of having step pools within there, it'll just be an open channel. So those are the two major reductions in cost savings that were were able to be found. There were some smaller ones with we're using some inlets that have been recently replaced and things like that, but those were the major ones.

Is there plans to do any green infrastructure or trail or anything around the open channel itself?

Yes. There will be a maintenance trail and open for recreational use that would come up around the basin and then up along next to the open channel as well.

That was actually going to be my question. What betterments were going to

be included in the open channel? Like a great opportunity for a trail. And is that a I'm trying to remember what is that a park on the bottom?

Yes. That's 7 Oak. Well, 7 Oaks is to the east. They're directly east of the water quality basin, and we will be installing a pipe through 7 Oaks. We actually just recently met with Lisa Trees with the parks department to discuss some to

to And And get

get to north to this park to the south with that trail. So that's really exciting.

Yes. There's a master plan out there for a trail that goes through Vineyard Creek And Park as well and connects up to here. Those are one of the programmatic efforts that have been discussed to date is how that could be connected long term to the trail that we're building.

As part of the bank has done an outstanding job of looking at the heartland conservancy and what they've been doing with the woods and all of the planning that they've been doing and trying to figure out how we can leverage city investment for a more programmatic approach, whether it's sidewalks, roadways, improvements to the park. It's interesting homes that have been built in the floodplain. And so just learning more about how, you know, our quest for so many you know, housing. And then, you know, those homes that have been just they've had some challenges in terms of water flow. So we look forward to all of those improvements because of this green infrastructure approach.

I wish I had more renderings to share because of that value engineering effort. Right now, C. M. Smith is wrapping up hopefully at the end of the month some new renderings that will reflect the current design. So we don't have those at this moment.

If you could share those with us later, that

would For be sure.

Thank you. Wonderful.

Thank you. Any other questions? All right. Is there any public testimony? No. Public testimony. All right. Is there a motion?

SPEAKER: Madam vice chair, I move that order number 260175 be reported out of committee with the recommendation in advance. Did you pass?

SPEAKER: Second.

SPEAKER: All in favor, please indicate by saying aye.

SPEAKER: SPEAKER:

Thank you. Is there any opposed? Alright. The motion carries. We'll see this on Thursday. Thank you so very much. And I know our I see our friends from Bergs and Mack. Nice to see you.

Thank you.

Alright. Madam Clark.

Ordinance 260176, establishing fund number 8196, the 2026 sewer revenue bond fund in the records of the city of Kansas City, Missouri, estimating revenue in the amount of $100,000,000 in the 2026 sewer re revenue bond fund and appropriating the same, appropriating $100,000,000 from the unappropriated fund balance of the sewer fund, designating authority authorizing a 156,641,576 progressive design build contract change number two to contract number 1751 with Goodwin Brothers Construction for the Blue River waste water treatment plant, grid removal, and Fine Springs project for a total contract amount of $170,000,000 $70,564,112, authorizing a 4,000,120 million dollar excuse me. $4,120,509 design professional service contract amendment number two and authorizing a $4,500,000 design professional services contract amendment number three to contract number 1677 with corollo engineers for the Blue River wastewater treatment plant facilities plan plan and improvements design project for a total contract amount of $16,050,441, declaring the intent of the city to reimburse itself from the bond proceeds for certain expenditures and authorizing the director of finance to close project accounts and recognizing this ordinance is having an accelerated effective date.

Thank you. Vice chair and members of the committee, Blake Anderson, Casey water. To my right is the project manager on this project, and to the far right is Kevin White, section head for facilities engineering. Before this committee is an ordinance that does several things, all in support of our sewer utility. It allows us to create a sewer revenue fund for $100,000,000 This is to receive low interest SRF bond funds.

Typically, we get significantly below market interest rate on that. Past practice has been we get about $30,000,000 in cost avoidance and debt service payments by for every 100,000,000 we get from SRF. It is a change order to or adding the GMP for the main construction work for our grid facility and an amendment for year three for corollas design services on our facility plant as well as an amendment three for construction phase services for this project. Where this project located? It is located at our Blue River Wastewater Treatment Plant located near Front Street 435.

The image on the right, can see kind of the cyan light blue color. That is the facility that we're building. We're connecting to under our existing system and building a new grit and fine screening facility. So what does this facility do? So on the left, you can see basically clean and dewatered grit.

These were the prettiest photos I could find of this material. It's smooshed up so it doesn't look quite as bad as it could be. So on the left is kind of grit and abrasive compounds that would otherwise be basically ripping up our pumps and then going downstream into our biosolids. And on the right is basically everything people flush down the toilet and that goes into CSO grates that basically gets kind of chewed up and removed here so it doesn't end up in our final biosolids. We intend to put out a marketing study for our biosolids and potentially get something to either reduce the cost of our biosolids removal, hopefully get it to zero, but we'll need to see what the market says about that.

But in general, I mean, I garden. I don't like a whole lot of plastics and trash in it. So this will help improve the overall quality of that ventral product. So the facility itself will basically have seven regular duty channels and one backup channel. Screenings will basically be put in a dumpster, roll off dumpsters. They'll be removed off-site. You can see kind of the circles in the middle. Those are the grit vortex units. They basically spin the sewage, heavier grit settles in the bottom. We then basically wash that to remove basically organics, other things that can cause odor later.

In general, Courtney Ridge is not a fan of us bringing in really smelly, soupy material. So, the idea is to get a dry product. We don't get any dumpsters rejected by them. In general, I mean, this design is pretty compact, pretty efficient. Just some context on the overall projects that are going on at Blue River right now.

It's a pretty active construction site. So in red, in the north is our biogas area. Spire, who's partnered with Burns and Mack, their design builder, is building a biogas facility on there. They should be moving sometime this spring. Just recently, thank you, this committee has approved ADA improvements and renewal improvements at our admin building in Cyan.

We're right now in the commissioning startup for our biosolid facility. That's the area in purple. This project will be the area in Orange, which is the new grit and fine screens facility. And that facility is essential for a project which will be going out soon for high rate treatment facilities. This will allow us basically to maximize our historic investment in the Blue River Interceptor Sewer, allowing us to treat more flow at this plant and reduce our CSO outflows.

It's a critical project in our 2030 compliance interim sorry, our 2030 interim goals for our consent decree. We've been working with Andy and Smart Zero pretty extensively to make sure that project stays on schedule and stays on budget. And finally, at the very bottom, with all of this work and with the age of our electrical gear, we are right now in the process of selecting design build for a new power pin. That's basically the feeds coming to the plant in the electrical equipment to direct that power to various places and have appropriate redundancy. So kind of overall where we are in the timeline for this project.

So we did our initial assessments. We're kind of basically at the start of the green area, which is our present day. Goodwin just sent us their 60% design. And then to stay on schedule for the smart sewer high rate treatment project, we need to have that site available for them in October 2027. And then just some comparison on the overall price of this facility.

So we're sitting at about $0.55 per gallon. That's a bit under our owner's advisor, Corollo, has recently done a three twenty mgd facility. That was $0.75 And then for Sendero facilities, varies between $60 and $2.5 There's accounting of scale, site issues, soil conditions that kind of vary these. But in general, this kind of indicates that because it's a progressive design build project, their overall pricing for this project is reasonable. And then with respect to corolla's amendment, amendment two is year three of our facility plan.

So because the cost for that are several million dollars a year, water service is elected not to encumber all three or four sorry, all four years of our facility plan. That frees up extra cash to spend on construction projects. So for year three, they're doing nondestructive testing throughout Blue River Primary And Secondary. That tells the existing condition of our assets, major pumps, rotating equipment. Another electrical here lets us put a reasonable replacement schedule and overall life for that.

There's some phosphorus recovery opportunities available here that might help us negotiate with Missouri Department of Natural Resources. We're looking at routing our site piping through this site, our wet weather testing to support our high rate treatment project. We're looking at delaying a major upgrade at our Blue River secondary plant. So the cost of that is we need to look at what improvements need to be done to our biotowers to allow them to basically last the extra ten or fifteen years to extend their life cycle. Also, with all these improvements throughout this, have Kearl is the one party who is basically owning the hydraulic profile.

It's how you calculate and make sure the flow will make its way through the plant. So when you add or subtract things, you have to make sure that you are not causing a back basically. And then the final bit of work is looking at updated biosolids planning, in particular to pencil in on the site space in the event we get PFAS limits for biosolids that we need to meet. This is similar to the approach we've taken at for the water utility where we while our PFAS levels are low and within the proposed limits by the previous administration, We have kind of penciled into the site so we know where it is. That space is sacrosanct for that.

We're attempting to do the same thing here, where we'll get to 10% design, make sure we have the site available for that. We know what the cost is if the regs come in. Typically, the feds have been a little more generous with new regs with external funding. So by doing that, it also kind of positions us in the event that to receive that external funding if that regulatory hit happens. And then amendment three is construction phase services for the grid project itself.

It's about one ish engineer inspection engineer on-site to kind of facilitate with that and help us to review the 60 to 100% design that will come from Goodman Brothers. Respect the design build contract. Creo has approved a request for modifications last week for 11% MBE and 11% WBE. So and then Corollo has also has a approved request for modification for 14% MB and 14% WBE. And with that, any questions?

Any questions? So the sewer revenue bond, is that what was recently added to our was there a vote or Several years ago there was

a vote for I think $750,000,000 by the people to approve additional sewer bonds. Think it was maybe three years ago. We have authorization on that, so that uses $100,000,000 of that authorization. But that is available for us.

Okay. And is this new technology? And is it directly related to the clean water act or? So it's directly related to

the clean water act in two ways. One, this facility is necessary for a future CSO project, and our consent decree is all based on the clean water act. The technology I would say on here is, I would say it's, we're more of a second or third adopter, so it's nothing that hasn't been done anywhere else. So we know it'll work. It's reliable. There's a manufacturing, sorry, there's a supply chain to produce these, so we shouldn't have any lead time on it. But when it comes to grit removal, it has about the highest efficiency.

But we've never done this before. Would this be new technology for the city of Kansas City?

No. We have one that just went into service at our Birmingham Treatment plant in the Birmingham Bottoms, and we have one designed for the top tree treatment plant that is going out bid right now. We'll see it bids in the next couple of weeks.

Let me ask the question How long have we been using this technology?

How long have we been using this technology?

A year. A year. Okay. So it is relatively new.

Yes.

And then you said something about if regulatory if regulation some regulation happens, we'll be Positioned for it. Positioned for. Can you explain So

previous administration in DC established regulations for PFAS or it's a type of forever chemical. So it's kind of in Teflon and some other products. It's used in firefighting foam. So that material, because of how chemically inert it is, it tends to break down very slowly. So there are in place federally.

Some of them have repealed for drinking water. Our finished water is below those levels, so we're good there. I anticipate sometime in the next ten or twenty years that we will get PFAS regs as well for wastewater effluent and biosolids. Some states have regs for biosolids and wastewater effluent. So because it's a potential reg and I can't make more land down here, I want to make sure that we have a plan if those regs come into place.

We have a rough capital cost, that it fits on the site. In my mind, the real cost savings that I can provide for our ratepayers is making sure that we have a reasonable site plan and we're not trying to squish something in there after the fact. So doing that, we have the ability to basically do projects more cost effectively.

Okay. And I know PFAS has come up in our community meetings. The director, director Morgan, I think was bombarded with questions at the third district meeting around our levels of PFAS, and so this is great to hear that, you know, we're utilizing this technology to help make sure that our water is is in better condition. Alright. Any other questions? Okay. Is there any, public testimony?

No public testimony.

Alright. Wonderful. Is there a motion for ordinance 260,176?

Madam vice chair, I move that ordinance number two six zero one seven six be reported out of committee's recommendation in advance if you pass. Second.

Alright. It's been moved and seconded. All in favor, please indicate by saying aye.

Aye. Is

there any opposed? Okay. Alright. This motion carries. We'll hear it on Thursday. Thank you so much for your

so much.

Wonderful explanation. There were little questions because you explained it very well. Alright. It's 09:28. If there's not anything else to come before the the committee, the meeting is adjourned.