Public Works Council Committee - Regular Meeting

First item is minutes, approval of minutes twenty six zero oh, I'm sorry, roll call. Mark your attendance when prompted. And we do have a quorum. Next item, approval of minutes, minutes 26.11 from the 02/03/2026 meeting.

Like a motion to approve.

Second. Motion is same to approve. Any comments or questions by anyone on the committee? If not, please mark your And those passed. Next item, resolution is being introduced.

Resolution 26,017. Resolution by mayor and city clerk to accept a permanent drainage easement from Bridge District Investments LLC for the purpose of constructing and maintaining drainage improvements. Whereas the city of Jonesboro, Arkansas desires to accept the following described easement for the purpose of constructing and maintaining drainage improvements. Legal description follows, containing 3,342 square feet more or less of Utah rights of way and easement of record. Now therefore be it resolved by the city council for the city of Jonesboro, Arkansas, that section one, the mayor and city clerk are hereby authorized by the city council for the city of Jonesboro, Arkansas to accept the easement described above.

Mister Mr. Chair, where is that at? Brookfield's first. Craig?

This is over on Kate Street. It's one of the pipes next

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ment and abandon that old system since there's a problem of with it and it's it's underneath the building that we can't maintain and there's a issue with with that cross connection that's causing the basically the flooding of city water light sanitary sewer system.

It's relocation, isn't it? Of a pipe that's already in existence.

Like a motion recommended to the full council, mister

chair. Second. Motion recommend Resolution 20 six-seventeen to full council. Any comments or questions by anyone on the committee, staff or anyone in attendance? If not, please mark your ballot.

And that will forward to full council. Next item, resolution 20 six-eighteen, resolution request free utility services from city water and light for traffic signal. Whereas the city of Jonesboro is requesting that city water and light provide free utilities at the following location, 3506 U Pleasant Valley Drive. Now therefore be it resolved by council for the city of Jonesboro, Arkansas that section one that city water and light be requested by this resolution to provide free utilities to the location listed above. Section two to permit such services to be provided without charge.

The city of Juniper hereby affirms to City Water and Light that the ultimate use of City Water and Light utilities so provided is now and shall remain a use or purpose which the city is engaged in as part of its governmental or proprietary functions under authority to it by the state by state law.

Move to recommend full council. Second.

Motion second forward full council. Any comments or questions by anyone on the committee? Staff or anyone in attendance? Okay, if you would, please mark your ballot. And that will be forwarded to full council.

Next item, resolution twenty six zero nineteen, a resolution requesting free utility services from Seawater and Light for bus shelters. Whereas the city of Jonesboro is requesting that Seawater and Light provide free utilities at the following locations, 1418 U East Washington Avenue, 200 U Creve Avenue, 900 U West Monroe Avenue, 301 U South G Street, 621 U South G Street, 1421 U West Nelson Avenue, 315 U West Oak Avenue, 1210 U South Church Street, 1003 U East Matthews Avenue, 1301 U South Caraway Road, 1737 U South Caraway Road, 181834 U Grant Avenue, 2405 U East Nettleton Avenue, 1500 U North Church Street, 2404 U Ray Street, 1900 U Lateret Drive, 5504 U Kruger Drive, 2601 U Richardson Drive, 2904 U Phillips Drive, 2608 U Fair Park Boulevard, 2106 U East Johnson Avenue, 220 U North Main Street, 2028 U North Church Street, 2410 U North Church Street, 105 U Belt Street, 1435 U, Belt Street, 2001 U, Belt Street, 1904 U, East Johnson Avenue, 300 U, Carson Street, 200 U, Kate Street, 2046 U, Century Boulevard, 401 U, Union Street, 301 U West Highland Drive, 125 U Forest Park Drive, 3800 U Ray Street, 501 U West Highland Drive, 316 U West Washington Avenue, and 1751 U West Nelson Avenue.

Now therefore be it resolved by the city council for the city of Jonesboro, Arkansas that section one that city water and light be requested by this resolution to provide free utilities to the locations listed above. Section two to permit such services to be provided without charge. The city of John Bourne hereby affirms to City Water and Light that the ultimate use of CWL utilities so provided is now and shall remain a use or city is engaged in as part of its governmental or proprietary functions under authority to it by state law. Move recommend to the full council. Second. Motion second recommend for the full council. Any comments or questions by anyone on the committee?

We have a question.

Yes sir, Doctor. Coleman. Good to

see you today and everyone. So those bus stops, two parts. One, I know the lights and utilities for that, are they the ones that are covered? Is this for the lights that's going to be covered and kind of all the above and where we are with the covering of those various stops?

So what these shelters will have, they'll have an LED lighting system system that will be in there to provide lighting for people to feel safe whenever they're at the shelter and then also an LED display screen which will show the bus times of when the bus will arrive. This is all a part of that shelter process that we're doing. It's the reason why we have so many of them. This is a combination of the existing shelters that we had in town plus some additions that we were able to do with these 45 shelters we were able to get.

So with the 45 and the others would that be all 100% with shelters now with bus stops?

No. We've got about 140 approximately bus stops all over Sorry,

I didn't know that. That's good.

You. That's all I had. Do you have a question by anyone? I have a question. Yes. The lights are they be protected?

Yes, yes. That's one of the things that we've been working on is to find a system that was not only viable to use to provide the light but also that would be both safe to the public and also efficiently protect itself when it's in place.

And it's LED, like you said.

Yes, so and that the reason why I bring that up is because that's very low power usage on that.

So I have a follow-up with Doctor. Coleman. I think he asked a good question. Those screens, is that like a forgive me for my lack of knowledge, like a TV screen or something? And then it'll have bars in front? I mean.

No. It's it is similar but what it is, it's it is a for lack of a better way to explain it, it is a very large metal box and when I say metal, I mean it's thick encased metal that locks up. The wires run into it. All of the components are inside it. It also has ports for air and things like that to come through, fans that are built into it.

There's actually a heater in it as well. I know we don't get to those types of temperatures, but if it did drop low enough, it would actually turn a heat strip on that would heat the inside to keep the components from freezing up. It's just an all in one encased piece that has that protective shell around it. There's an LED screen, a display screen. It's similar to a TV, but it's not quite the same that is inside that. And then there's also casing on the outside of that LED screen that protects that screen in case anyone were to attempt to damage that in any way.

Good, thank you.

Any question by one in the general audience? Okay. If not, please cast your vote over twenty six zero twenty. I'm sorry, twenty six zero nineteen. That motion will forward to full council resolution.

Next item, resolution 26,020, resolution by the Jonesborough City Council to accept the low bid and enter into a contract with Meadows Contractors LLC for a Craighead Forest Park ATV Trail rehab project, RDOT job number 101148202601. Whereas the city of Jonesboro desires to accept the low bid and enter into a contract for repairs and rehabilitation of trails at the Craighead Forest ATV Park, Rdot job number 101148202601, whereas the low bidder and firm selected for the project is Meadows Contractors LLC, whereas the funding for the execution of the contract shall come. Recreational Trails Program, RTP grant funds and capital improvement budget and compensation shall be paid in accordance with contract documents and therefore be resolved by the City Council of the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas Section one. That the city of Jonesboro shall accept the low bid and enter into a contract with Meadows Contractors LLC for the Jonesboro Craighead Forest Park rehab project, RDOT job number 101148202601. Section two funding for the execution of the contract shall come from recreational trails program, RTP grant.

Funds in the capital improvement budget and compensation shall be paid in accordance with the contract. Section three, the mayor and city clerk are hereby authorized by the city council of the city of Jonesboro, Arkansas to execute all documents necessary to effectuate this contract. And, Meadows was the low bidder at a $144,358.7 The next one and only other one was Crabtree and Sons. They were at $174,832

We recommend to the full council.

Second. And motion second to recommend forward to the full council. Any comments or questions by anyone on the committee?

I have one. Yes, sir. This ATV, is that the same one as that other and you probably can answer this, but is that the one with the We just had one two or three years ago. Forget what you call it. Y'all know what I'm talking about? Well, you had the okay, so this is something different?

So this ATV is out of Craigford Forest.

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to give emergency access to the trails if in event something happened. So the improvement work is really to improve some of the water drainage and to make sure that the EMTs have access to the entire park in the event something unfortunate happened.

Gotcha. Something different. Gotcha.

Thank you, Jim. Any other questions about anyone on the committee? Anyone in attendance or staff? If not, please cast your ballot. Okay. That looks like that will be forwarded to full counsel. Next item is pending items. I know of none. Other business? Anyone have any other business for the committee?

I don't know if it fits into public works, why not? Brian, I e mailed you on this and I realized I think I e mailed your old e mail address and it popped back and I didn't ever send it to the right e mail address. I copied Darryl on it. Back in the old days, we used to like look at permits and how many permits from the previous year and what was the volume of the permits on commercial and residential. And I felt like we hadn't done that. I felt like the media used to do that. I don't feel like they do that anymore either. So I think it'd be great if y'all could do that for us every six months or something or another so that we had that.

Yeah, sure, we can especially now that all that stuff goes into project docs and we can pretty easily pull a report and there will be some statistics presented later at State of the City that also cover some of those from last year. We can put that report together.

All Any other business by anyone? If not, next item is public comments. Any comments from anyone in the public on anything that was not on the agenda today? Greg?

In answer to Mr. Bryant's question, the Matrix Group who's been doing our study of our permitting process, they've compiled a lot of that information for the last three years They're planning to give a presentation sometime in early April to city council. So you will get that information for the last three years.

Thank Any other comments by anyone in the public? If not, next item is adjournment.

So moved.

Motion is second to adjourn. All in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? Meeting adjourned. Thank you.