All right, so we are being recorded.
All right.
That case I called to order the Monday, July 27,
2026 meeting of the city of Fort Washington board of public works.
All members are present other than Camp Holly.
As we do have a quorum.
We'll move on.
And I have number two public comments and appearances.
Make it give a public comment or appearance. We should have a sign in somewhere,
but please be sure to sign in state your name and address.
And we ask that you keep it relevant to the items on tonight's agenda. Thank you.
Let's work.
You drive it.
My name is Tracy Finch.
I am here because the community needs clarity,
accountability, and protection as the man to develop and continues expanding in
his footprints.
In Fort Washington,
vantage is planning major infrastructure projects,
the wastewater facility plan, the value of Greek and.
Interceptor replacement, a new water booster station and a KW sewer and water
extension that cannot even be bid out with until the PFC review is late.
And that PSC review is now tied up in the Oracle lawsuit.
Make advantages timeline unstable and their approvals uncertain.
The city should not be advancing anything on their behalf until the regulator
environment is clear, but the most urgent issue is water.
Bantage is using wells north of Lake drive for what gas for describes,
as well as for their home and offices.
Then though gas for menthe is our post is being used as offices.
Those wells sit in close proximity to resident properties and the risks are real.
Ground water.
Drum down.
Pressure changes and contamination pathways are documented
concerns when large water users use ground and water in your homes.
Relying on private wells and not miss the cold water.
This is not hypothetical.
It's a threat to the stability and safety of our shared water sources.
Public works has a responsibility to protect residents first.
Then that means the nine any permits that are well,
advantage to continue using expanding these wells.
One strong water is going to compromise.
It could not be undone.
We cannot gamble with the water table for corporate conveniences.
And let's be honest, the engine does not have been a good neighbor.
They operate independently without regard for surrounding homes of or the town.
If they already are using houses as offices,
what's this happen from buying more land and housing for workers next?
This pattern deserves scrutiny, not rubber stamping.
I urge the committee to act.
They see simply scrutiny.
The entire project.
The night of a little permit and prior time of protection of Fort Washington's water
resources above all else.
Thank you.
Anyone else in public comment?
Time to four, four, six, five.
Wireless away.
First, I would like to thank Alderman Miller.
And Alderman be served for asked actually asking questions at last week's meeting.
In the year and a half that I've been here speaking at these meetings at.
All different committee levels and council matter.
That's the first time an Alderman has ever asked any questions.
And I'm sure that's because mine, fewer, excuse me,
the mayor expects everyone in lock set.
And that didn't happen.
And it was so refreshing. And that is what governance looks like.
Asking questions for the benefit of the community.
Second.
You know, I'm reading these supposed deadlines for vantage.
If you're not going to get the water up to late drive.
Until at least 20, 27.
How do they keep moving forward?
They're not going to have power.
They're not going to have water.
No other business. Hell, his wife's air stream had to jump through law moves in order to get.
Situated and running. It's crazy.
There's no way you can possibly be considering giving them an occupancy permit if they don't have power in water.
And we sure as hell enough in a sit back and allow them to use those diesel generators 24 hours a day.
And so the PSC, the DNR, they're all under fire right now.
Someone is going to step up and do their jobs and maybe you guys should all look at doing that too.
Again, wastewater treatment.
Where is their wastewater going right now?
We still haven't gotten any answers. We never get any answers.
And then you don't understand why we're upset when we come to these meetings.
Think about it.
Think about how you would feel if you've been asking the same questions for a year and a half.
At all different levels and no one ever answers them.
Those FAQs that were supposed to be on, you know, the website, no answers.
Where's the big poster that was rolled out that was going to show us what all the different completion dates and all that are nothing.
How come we're not notified when they get to work on their Sundays.
They worked all day Sunday.
No one could tell us why.
There are just there's no accountability and there are no answers.
And it's about time that someone at some level stepped up.
So again, I want to think, thank, Alderman Miller and Alderman Beaster for actually asking questions on behalf of the citizens.
All right. Are there any other public comments or appearances?
All right. Seeing none, we'll move on to item three consideration and possible action on the draft 10 year capital improvement plan.
20, 20, 72, 20, 36.
Okay. So in front of you, you have the spreadsheet that has just that information.
Opposed 10 year capital improvement plan for 2020, 30, 36.
And we have all our division heads with us tonight who are going to assist me in going through this. So you don't just have to listen to my voice, but I'll, I'll kick it off.
And so we have about an hour to finish. In fact, we're.
All right. So we're down to 54 minutes.
So we'll keep a pretty good pace, but if there are questions, please don't hesitate to.
To ask them.
All right.
And so, so the spreadsheet in front of you, it's broken down into eight different sections.
I just want to make sure that for the other one to just switch the source.
I didn't.
Listen.
Just need to switch the source.
Yeah.
Because right now, we're in the.
Yes. Okay.
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Found it.
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And we're going to have to.
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There you go.
And then you should pick the tab.
You are.
Thank you.
Not to lie.
Side of the way.
Okay.
Thanks for your patience.
All right. So starting off with North Holden street.
And East Washington Avenue.
We're currently in the design phase.
For this project here in 2026 next year, 2027.
We intend to reconstruct and resurface holding street.
All the way from Van Buren up to.
Is it Barry?
Barry? Yeah.
And so we have a.
Wisdom grant for that $400,000.
And Washington street. So that's just the section from.
Franklin to.
To Lake street.
And we have that estimated. So just this.
Just a road portion at $500,000.
And that's being paid for through two.
All right.
Downtown street light improvements.
That again is for 2027.
This is a downtown.
Replacement of street lights. This is one of the.
One of few systems in the city that's still owned and controlled by the city of poor Washington.
And again, we're currently in the design phase, but they have reached the end of their lives and can effectively.
Did have one that that fell over in a windstorm and we certainly don't.
Want to see that happen again. And so we are, we'll be replacing those next year.
Ali replacement program. So this isn't every other year program. So there won't be anything in 27, but we are working on them in 26.
More alternating alleys and streets every other year.
And the calendar, I'm sorry, the map lays out the projected projects based on.
A rating system of.
Or to do.
Oh, sidewalk maintenance. We have a sidewalk program that.
Every year it's a fairly modest program, but it does cover some critical areas. And we.
At the next, at the next board of public works meeting, we will be awarding the 26 project and.
Roger 27 projects is going to be what neighborhood.
I think we're moving.
Was towards.
Okay, so is that the green, you know, okay.
Yeah, I was sorry. Yeah.
Then we have a future street projects.
Which.
Yes, mated costs are there in front of you.
They're roughly formal round $4 million per year. We're designing it in the, in the odd years.
But the focus of these projects is going to be on areas not only that have.
Our poorest condition ratings, but they also have water mains desperately in me to repair will have.
Frequent breaks and lunch service laterals that also need to be replaced.
Esauch road, that's the section.
West of Newport shores.
Oops, that's a section.
That's a section that has four.
Is controlled by four different jurisdictions and in town and graph.
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I weigh 32, 33, that's something we're not under, we don't have an agreement with the state yet, but we anticipate that coming in the near future it's kind of a program from 2034.
The inner urban railroad.
Inner urban trail railroad underpass. We budgeted money for that. We talked about that at a previous meeting.
The WIS dot ADA.
The WIS dot ADA.
Ramp replacement that's scheduled for 2029 at our meeting just last week. We approved a financial agreement to include crosswalks high visibility crosswalks and above Portview.
And what street is that on.
Oh, that.
That thanks that's on our state highway essentially just on state highway 32.
So south spring street and then Franklin street and north Wisconsin street.
We left out Grand Avenue because that's going to be included in the 2034 project.
You're talking about the ADA ramp.
Yes.
Okay.
What is item one that dash aim again.
One dash eight.
That is the reconstruction of highway 32, 33, which is Grand Avenue.
That would be some Franklin street to.
Martin drive. I mean, I'm not.
There's something tower.
Okay.
Yeah.
Is there assistance from the state?
Yeah.
Right. So they paid. So we haven't seen the financial agreement with it yet, but they, they pay for the entire cost of the pavement.
Generally, they make the cities pay for the areas where there's parking.
So that'll be something we'll look at.
Or parking restrict the less you pay essentially for the cost of the highway.
With that also with that will tie in with water main replacement and let's serve as lighter or replacement because we had.
Let's service slide.
Okay.
Roger, I'll let you talk a little bit about storm water and pond improvement one dash 12.
All right. Yeah. So, so, I mean, we talked about the TMDL and previous meetings told my expert daily limits and.
Really, we're anticipating our permits going to.
Our storm water permits going to start requiring an action plan to.
To comply with the TMDL and so that that's what this $100,000 is.
Right now, largely placeholders. So we have money to.
Start developing our plans.
Locating where we want to put detention ponds, rain gardens, things like that.
All right.
The traffic safety committee.
That is traffic safety that.
That's for.
We're in our urban is crossing County highways, basically.
So we can make those crossings safer. So we have money in.
This year's budget for down by the justice center.
Port view crossing route just mentioned will be handled.
The NAA project. So the next one will be jumping up would be up by.
So yeah, so the picture there is an.
Example of these rapid flashing beacons on trombone arms.
I'm sorry, I didn't skip the urban trail, baby.
Okay.
I did.
So that was a.
That was approved in a budget amendment.
Earlier this year.
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That was approved in a budget amendment.
Earlier this year.
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That was approved in a budget amendment.
Earlier this year.
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So that was approved in a budget amendment.
Earlier this year to accommodate the county schedule for.
Pating their interurban painting project.
This is an area where it's partly.
Under the jurisdiction of the city, partly under the jurisdiction of the county.
After making our budget amendment as it turns out,
they weren't able to complete the work this year and so on.
I'm.
Essentially carrying forward that money to next year.
So won't be spent this year, but the way.
Mark wants the budget to look is that.
Rather than having budget amendments, you actually just rebudgeted further.
For the following year.
So moving on to section two.
All right.
Garage expansion and renovation. This is.
This came before the.
The board.
Last year, this is for the.
Expansion of public works.
Facility.
Which.
Essentially is the due for the expansion.
We have.
A program.
The other.
Putting modern equipment and ended meeting in our service garage.
We needed that the needs of a modern.
Public works garage.
We've asked also passed last year.
Impact fees that will help.
Over the cost. So there will be another presentation on this at the next.
Board of public works.
Meeting, which.
keeping the head and we're hoping to have that the fourth Tuesday of August.
But the city hall projects, those are all slated for 20 and 29 for HVAC generator.
Like the generator working, but it's a little undersized.
So we would like to replace that.
Again, because something's in 2029 is future doesn't mean it's not important.
It doesn't.
It just means we can't do everything in one year because we don't have the money to do everything in one year.
This staff capacity to do it. So some of these projects have been.
But, you know, we've prioritized them in terms of what essentially we feel the order of importance is.
So HVAC, the generator, up sizing, the plumbing and city hall occasionally springs a leak from time to time.
And so we've been essentially patching it, but eventually we need to just bite the bullet and replace it all.
The fire alarm panel is the same thing. That's.
You know, piece of technology that's nearing the end of its useful life.
Yeah. Okay.
Rob, can we just jump back to two dash one? Yeah, real quick.
In 2027, you have 600,000 for that. Is that.
That's for architectural fees.
Okay. Yeah.
Okay. So the rest of the items, again, are.
Facilities maintenance for the recreation department, the senior center and the library. And of course, as we go into future years will always reevaluate a way to something moves up in urgency world will move it forward or something.
This remains less urgent. It could be moved back.
The only thing is the sandstone block that's over the senior center entrance.
That's one that was identified in the still the maintenance schedule is having.
High and.
High level of importance or higher.
No one is hurt by falling on their head.
Do we know when that's scheduled for it next year? Like, will it be later on the year?
We're going to do it right away. In fact, you know, the quote, the quote we've asked for was only $11,000. So we may be able to even start before next year to get that work done.
And do we know the value of the building?
Not off. Not off and.
I just, the cost ratio.
I would, I would expect that the items on here are more costly than what we could sell the building for.
My thought.
You still need a park.
No, the senior center.
Well, you need a park at the senior center.
Yeah.
I know, but.
For the cost of all of those items.
Just a thought.
Okay.
Moving on to.
We've talked about this.
Talk about this at our last meeting.
And so we currently have $7.8 million.
And estimated for construction work in 2027, of course, did.
That will move forward. If we, we anticipate that will move forward.
If the grants that we go fight for are awarded to the city, if not, we'll have to.
Reevaluate.
But if, if the grant applications are successful as well, they are.
That's the, I guess the best case scenario that we've laid out. So again, a lot of.
Variables and moving parts for Valley Creek.
Upper Lake Park next year. We just, we have two items.
One is the upper Lake Park bathrooms. Those are the restrooms that are currently on the, on the south side of the park by.
The beer garden.
John is here. I don't know if he has anything to say about it beyond what I just said.
Well, it's our highest use area. The bathrooms have been.
I'm renovated to the best of our abilities.
And we're at a point where.
It's, it's not worth putting anything more into them. So we are looking at.
Expanding.
A new bathroom building as well as concessions and small pavilion adjacent to the other pavilion sort of.
There would be multiple uses for these new bathrooms.
We have a fair amount of weddings at this location.
At upper Lake Park or had the increase because we don't have the beer garden anymore.
Yeah, all of the rent because of.
I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I'm almost certain that every.
Weekend throughout summer is rented out and.
As soon as we opened up those dates from the beer gardens and.
Not being used by civic organizations almost days they are rented out.
So it's steadily our eyes.
Utilize area for rentals.
Right, because I use those restrooms in 1975.
Yeah, I mean, we want.
Not probably the same toilet and they were old then and they were all then.
Yeah, it's, I mean, it's plastic by the time.
You go through any amount of work and labor.
It's really this.
Could be an opportunity to.
It really is our gym and we ought to showcase it as much as possible.
So are we exploring them looking at.
Or this would still be with other concession improvements with still be separate.
Buildings are we looking at doing one building that includes the bathrooms,
including some one session one building one building in Jason,
just west of the current pavilion. Okay.
And I have been talking with the civic groups.
Do use that.
So I've got a meeting and I want to work with them on.
Design to get some input from them. Okay.
Okay. And then the three middle item moving the road and replacing the lighting and the walkways.
Of course, we, we moved over a section of the roadway.
So it's a little further from the bluff's edge, but.
A long term solution.
And I think we're going to be looking at in greater depth is.
Moving the road over more or creating a single road through the park is this one option that's been considered in the past.
And then a looping road.
The lighting system up there is owned by we energies. They've told us they're no longer going to.
Replace lighting that.
Is no longer functional. And so you may notice that.
The light here there occasionally is this.
No longer in service. So eventually we do need to replace that system.
And then walkways, it's, it's long been a.
A goal to have an off road.
Walkway between Ailes trails and the road down to Veterans Park.
So.
That's on there as well for the future.
We did receive a grant for Prairie expansion and dried attention to.
To.
The Western bluff from, from continued erosion. So if you go over there, you'll see that the.
The storm sewer pipes are exposed in the, in the bank. And so this would.
Again, kind of expand that parent prairie that started there before.
And so we're waiting on another grant from the DNR before we proceed with that work.
So if the upper leg parks.
Lighting is.
Owned by Webco.
Is that true of Veterans Park too?
Yes, that's also okay. So that's why those lights have not been replaced is because.
The electric company has them. They haven't said anything about Veterans Park.
Just properly park.
Thanks.
Inside the park.
Oh, okay.
Oh, I went to my slide.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
It's ours.
How do I park these?
Okay.
Thank you.
All right.
Oh, there's the, there's the picture of the drive attention system. So that's all.
Very grass.
Okay.
Cool study.
Oh, John, talk about the pool study.
Yeah. So we're going to have a specialist do a study.
Next year.
Overall, I'll look on our long term expenses of the facility, including the base and.
Here's the filter systems.
Everything to give us a better idea of long term costs for.
Operating the pool.
And which direction we want to go with that.
Oh, and that I would add that that will, I think, provide greater clarity to.
What swimming pool upgrade costs will be, I mean, that's a number from.
Again, from Krause Anderson. So I think the pool study would refine those costs.
Correct.
Yeah.
Okay. All right.
Comperience of outdoor recreation plan. That's a, that's a requirement to.
And that rewritten every five years. And so we're due for that.
Cobok park playground equipment.
John, you want to comment on that.
Yeah, this is pretty standard. We've been going through.
Free aggressively all of our parks.
And.
We do.
Every three, three years, we do a.
More intensive inspection on the playground equipment and then annually.
We do go through just for safety, but.
Within that week, we look at the age and.
Usage of parks.
You know, another problem is when, when this equipment gets so old.
If something breaks on it, we can't.
You can't modify playground equipment in any way and.
And finding parts and replacement.
He says for.
Equipment is.
Next to impossible and it becomes as old as.
Some of this equipment is.
One that we're going to do.
And like I said, pretty standard.
That we've been going through all the parts and just keeping a.
Systematic upgrade.
Forward, so we don't get it with a.
A ball cost.
Oh, once.
Old is that equipment.
All of my gas.
Do you have a number on that?
Before me.
We live there.
We started living there in 1989 and that equipment was there.
And old at that time.
Yeah, I would say a swing set like.
Like that.
I don't have, I have to really do some.
Bigging records, but it's.
Probably from the seventies.
Right.
So,
John has laid out some.
Park improvements for.
Each year for the.
Next.
The next six years after that.
He has also has $2,000 as a placeholder for.
Expansion of the South Beach parking lot.
He is going to be working with an engineering firm to.
Assist what necessary permitting and planning for that.
And hopefully working with the street department,
expanding the parking lot.
Anything to add on that?
No, I mean, that sums it up, but.
Just overall, since.
Is everybody knows how popular that destination had become.
With the improvements that were put into place.
Prior.
We can hear, but.
You go down there any.
Week day when it's.
More.
The other, I guess I should say the other portion of that.
It really sums it up in this picture.
Is people.
Just pull up there and.
On the east side of the.
Parking lot.
And fill that in part of what we want to do is.
Have the spaces.
To the east of where the extended pavement to the east.
Half spaces, then we can have a more controlled area.
And then we can have a more controlled area.
And then we can have a more controlled area.
And then we can have a more controlled area.
In front of that.
For, you know, the picnic tables and everything else goes.
Right now it's, it's kind of a.
A free for all when people go in there and it's really hard to.
Control and.
Police that.
So, I mean, we do have signs.
It's gotten much better, but.
Like I said, if we extend those parking spots to the east,
you can control that area.
You know, for the picnic table.
And then also it is a really.
We have as many possible spaces in there right now,
but it also gets very tight to try to turn around in there.
So extending it.
You know, to the south is really going to help increase the.
And we're ability of traffic.
And we'll take a closer look at that with the engineer.
We're very good.
Talking to him and you know,
You know, look at what the options are is how far we can extend that to the south.
All right.
And then they added on to this.
The pebble house rehabilitation.
This was scheduled for 2026.
I've been working with the architect from legacy.
Out of this project.
I'll be bringing in a proposal from that firm.
The board of public works at the next meeting.
Unfortunate.
So we had, we had gotten some.
Cost estimates.
From local contractors to do this work.
That we're being warned by legacy.
And then they added on to this.
The pebble house rehabilitation.
This was scheduled for 2026.
I've been working with the architect from legacy.
Out of this project.
I'll be bringing in a proposal from that firm.
The board of public works at the next meeting.
We're being warned by legacy are probably going to be too low to.
Complete the project for that amount.
And so we're moving this project from 2026 to 2027 and.
Added about $100,000 in construction costs and.
Another $60,000 in architectural fees.
So it has to.
Because it's on both the state and national.
Register of historic places.
There's additional work that needs to take place in order to.
Approve any work that.
Would take place on the building. So.
The state tune that will be coming to the next.
Board of public works meeting.
Questions on this.
Yeah, question about the parks.
This came in the context of.
Consituent reaching out about metals.
And I thank you, John, for jumping all over that stuff.
But.
You know, I think there's got your Austrian pines that are kind of in decline in that.
And that part.
Our trees.
Usually capitalized like replacement trees.
It's a really nice park. It's got nice open space,
but it also has a nice little mini forested area.
So how would we.
Either part of our operating costs in there and.
We actually have plans in quite a few newer trees in metals park with.
Part of the urban forestry grant, I believe, four years ago.
Austrian pines. Yeah, there are several in there that are in decline.
And.
Some of those areas in the front.
I think what you're talking about that have all the.
Parts aren't that's growing up under that are kind of choked them out.
Probably looking closer at possibly just removing those sections.
This fall on our winter.
And then we would replace them with something else because.
They tend to.
Well, some of the areas.
Draw.
Well, we found we find forts and then.
So anyway, I mean, they have limited life.
But yeah, those, those are.
Those are looked at and that's just part of our operating.
Expenses and operating plants every year.
Okay.
We're down to section four and in the.
Interest of time. I'll just ask. So all of this equipment is to listed is.
Replacement equipment.
The none of it.
Let's see.
As far as new equipment.
The master machine. We currently.
At least that every year.
We would like to purchase the mask.
The master machine.
So many communities.
Rent it that is difficult for us to get it at the.
Time and we are that we would like to use it and we would like to use it more often.
And then you have the ability to get it.
I don't JD want anything to add.
I don't want to add anything to that.
Yeah, basically, I mean, the hardest thing to do is rent.
Oh, we need it.
It's a very common thing.
No, I can use a photo.
I can use do a print down.
I think it's going to be able to get to the colony.
So we get a little bit of money back.
And it's, it would also replace.
Our hot box machine for different bottles.
Cause this is what we live in.
So that was going to be replaced.
I think next year, like 35,000.
And it would be much, much more permanent fix.
So.
And then the only other kind of new thing is develop plus balls.
So we'd be looking to purchase four more of those.
And retrofitting.
Some trucks.
So.
You know,
you talk about salt reduction.
This is the number one way to do it.
We currently have four trucks with these all on them.
And when they go through, they basically get down to bear payment.
They flex to match the contour in the road.
So when you're down to bear payment, you have to use very little salt after.
And if you've been to any of our presentations,
you've seen it had a pretty good reduction in salt over the last five,
six, seven years.
Well, this is the next step to doing that.
So.
And everything else in here is pretty much just replaced with stuff.
Forget any questions that we have to answer.
Everything else in here is pretty much just replaced with stuff.
Forget any questions that we have to answer.
But for time sake, I'll keep moving.
And then parks decision.
John parks division right there.
These are all replacement pieces.
Correct.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Any questions on equipment replacement.
And with every, I mean, with every.
Piece of equipment that's replaced, we certainly.
Increase our.
Productivity.
All right. Section five.
So.
Do you.
Wasn't included in this packet, but in the previous packet,
they had a section about how.
Mark.
Or vehicle replacements, how he did that.
It's.
It's the last.
It's the last four pages of.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's.
It should be for the.
I know it's there and I'm pretty sure that.
It shows the criteria.
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It's not.
Sorry, it's not in that.
It would be down.
It's in the, it's in the actual packet packet.
It's.
Yeah.
It's.
Yeah.
Right here.
Oh, I found it.
So yeah.
So he has age.
Use mileage.
Yeah.
In condition.
And then he has a, there's a rating score that determines whether or not it would be replaced. So yeah.
Yeah.
I wanted to thank him for that.
Come this time.
Let's go.
We figure what we write though.
Spine small enough.
You just have to approve.
Good.
All right.
Okay.
So sewer utility.
Okay. So every year we, we televised about one eighth of the.
The sewer system to.
Keep on top of our maintenance.
We line about two miles of the sewer.
And then we're going to go back to the next year with a,
with an emphasis on the streets that will be.
Reconstructing or resurfacing in the near future.
And then of course,
any problem that we see from our televising.
We attack those areas as well.
This year we're adding.
We're going to.
Focus more on sewer laterals than we have in the past.
Of course, that's where a lot of the infiltration and then flow comes from.
We're now going to begin either replacing or rehabilitating the laterals
between the, between the main line and the.
And the property line going forward.
That's again, all of these are charged to the sewer utility.
Mineral Springs crossing.
We talked about that in the past.
We have two sanitary sewer.
Interceptors that, that are exposed in mineral Springs Creek and of course,
that's a, that's a risk we've had that in the past where one was completely
exposed and then we had to the case in concrete and then.
It became a dam and.
We had to work with the county to rectify that situation.
So this is something we're staying on top of.
And so you'll be seeing a.
A proposal for that work coming up. I think also at the next meeting.
Yes.
Septed receiving station. These are upgrades.
We had approved earlier this year.
Some work to essentially do.
Perform schematic engineering.
This is again to modernize our septed receiving system,
which is now down in minerals.
And mineral Springs industrial park.
We will be next at our next meeting.
We'll also be looking at what to be visiting.
We are looking at the possibility of moving that septed receiving station to.
A new location.
So there will be, but either way.
We budgeted the design class to.
Improve that. And so you'll hear more about that at the next.
Meeting, but right now that the septed receiving station that we have is.
Very.
Say more on the low tech side where we.
Would like to have greater controls of.
Was dumping.
So,
I don't want to know how much.
So a lot of it is essentially on the honor system.
And that doesn't always work.
Any.
Questions regarding any of the equipment.
So I'm down.
Well, I'm sorry.
No, I skipped.
No, I skipped a bunch.
Moving down to the lift station.
We have, this is from our collection system needs analysis that was performed by Strand.
So these are areas that are were identified as in need of improvement. So that covers all our list stations one, two, three, and six.
The utility truck will be up for replacement. We'd like to put a crane on that truck so that we can perform regular preventative maintenance on our pumps that are in the list stations currently.
We have to rent. We have to rent a crane to do that and as a result that maintenance has not been keeping up with the needs for our pumps in the in the list stations.
We're moving down 517 through 520. So the ecosystem on the, on the wastewater treatment plant so that's the essentially decoding that's over the brick on the plant that's failing in a number of areas.
We would like to repair those areas and put on a new coat of paint so that it looks as bright new as our as our newly reconstructed water filtration plant door and doors and security.
So that again, use need to be modernized at the wastewater plant.
The gravity belt, fickeners, both of them need to be rebuilt. So then we have that reliable redundancy and the digestive glass.
So that's what we're going to do.
We're going to have a nice flow meter replacement.
Also, well, it needs to be replaced as well.
Any questions on any of that.
I just want to make sure we cross the finish line.
I can show you a picture of it. It takes, it takes the sludge and.
It's from a watery sludge to a dryer sludge.
So, which I feed into our annual digester, sorry, annual digester and processes.
See, please.
And that's the reduces the water content of the sludge.
Rebuild of the first one and 27 and then the second one and 29.
It is.
We need to run one.
So we run the one and then.
That new one.
We're trying a lot to second.
We have one.
That needs to be replaced next year.
Rollers and stuff are delaminating on it.
And the other one is the same age.
Same same number of hours.
Same. So we're just anticipating, you know, right now it's not showing that same failure.
We anticipate it will happen.
If it doesn't happen, we can push the project goal.
All right.
So under the store utility, there are some.
Projects that I included in the TID.
Oh, I'm going to 522. So there's.
The narrative section, which I have up on the screen.
There's.
You know, a number of projects. And so the first of which.
Is a.
There are.
For a treatment plant facility plan and essentially what that will be as an analysis of the wastewater treatment plant to.
Project.
Future.
Future expansions needs that may or may not be caused by.
Increased demand.
From the.
newly annexed, uh, managed property. And so that's a project that will be, um,
taken on next year and we haven't, we haven't moved forward with it yet, but that's
included in the test.
Actually, you know, that was our way. We did this board approve that work to get
started earlier this year, and it's ongoing, but we're not anticipating getting
finished. So our guys care is, uh, as you mentioned earlier,
alien spent funds. He wants to see budget. This is, oh, I got it. Okay. All right.
All right. No, I was saying that I was, and I'll just have some of these plans.
A lot of plans going on right now. So, all right. Um, okay. The 26th one that's sewer to
Canalesville. So with our agreement with the town of Fort Washington,
for the annexation, we agreed to provide sewer service to Canalesville. And so that
is the project to provide that, um, to provide water to essentially to,
to Canalesville. And I'm sorry, this is just sewer. So sewer, I'm currently drunk at age,
so it goes down both H and KW, uh, in 27 and in 28.
Um, terrace drive sewer interceptor. So that's exactly what it says it is. It's, uh, the
interceptor that runs along terrace drive. And then it runs essentially through
Valley Creek down to the, down to the plant. That is, um, scheduled for 28, um, for the
section that's near the wastewater treatment plan. And then another section along the
interurban, um, for about a million dollars. Uh, the Jackson Street sewer interceptor is, um,
um, um, undersized. And so that is scheduled for, uh, 29 construction. So 28 is, is designed.
Um, so on terrace drive, um, terrace and Parkway, that's, uh, again, for 20, 29 to, um,
to increase the size of that sewer. So the reason we're starting with the project down
street first is of course that ties into the Valley Creek project. So we want to
coordinate that work. And so that's why that's ahead of the schedule on the terrace drive work.
Um, bus stabilization for the wastewater treatment plan. So if the facility plan,
were to come back and, uh, dictate that, um, uh, additional bus stabilization is necessary. That's,
uh, that's, there is money in the tid for that work.
And then, um, there's a section of, of canalsville that, um, while there's a section, I think, I mean,
essentially the east side, which would be,
and when it says east, that's, that's the one on LL correct router.
Yes. So yeah, so we have a lift station plan for an LL and a lift station, uh, planned on,
that's KW AW. Um, so those two lift stations in order to serve, um, uh, canalsville are currently
slated for 2030. Moving on to sections six.
All right, Marina, then this is here. So, um, last year they had the north building
renovation, uh, in the budget. That was, uh, put on pause. So in 2027, there is money scheduled
for, I mean, um, set aside for architectural fees. And then in 2028, um, the, uh, updating of the
north building renovation. So that'd be essentially elimination of the breezeway,
expansion of the, the lounge area, um, new finishes and, and, uh, tile in the, in the
restrooms. Um, Dennis, you want to add anything to that?
Uh, we, uh, we would plan to, uh, change the public restrooms, which now I have like 15,
12 to 15 stalls for women's room and, uh, an ordinary two to three for the events. We could,
we could cut that in half and make one, the men's room and one, the women's room and pick up a large
area of storage for storage area and that. Okay. And then, um, as part of the, um,
ongoing maintenance of the, the marine control building, uh, they have, um, budgeted money to
replace the windows and doors. Right.
That's it for the marina.
Okay. Water project. So a lot of the, that's touched on before. So, um,
because they kind of follow the, the sewer work and the street work in this case. So
Holden street, Washington street, both have, uh, water main replacements, uh, associated with
those projects. And of course we have a lot of water main to replace ahead of us in,
in upcoming years, seven, four, uh, let lateral private, uh, service replacement. So that is
something we've been working on for some time to identify, um, where let laterals are. And so we
are, uh, want to meet the EPA deadline of replacing all lead laterals by 2037. And so we budgeted
accordingly and at the next GGF meeting on August 4th, uh, both the policy and the revised
ordinance will be brought, um, to GGF for greater discussion. Uh, the west side main loop.
This, um, came out of our water, uh, master plan and, um, and, uh, essentially connects,
because most of what's on the south side of the, or the southwest portion of the city is,
is essentially reliant on single water main. And so we'd like to loop the system so that if there
were some problems or some failure in the water main, that it would be fed from two different
lines. And so that's there for, um, on, right now, designed in 2029 with the plumb theory construction.
Um, at the water treatment plant, um, we have a new generator, but to service it, they have to drive
their, um, very heavy equipment over the grass. And so we like to put in a driveway. Um, east of the
plant, um, there's a need to construct a ramp and, uh, Dan has a larger vision for, um,
or what that area will look like tied into the valley creek, um, project. And so that's budgeted
for 2027 and 2028. Excuse me. Dan, can you tell us a little bit about a platform? How big is this
platform for 75,000? What, what is, why is it so special? 25,000 is included during the class.
Okay. So it's a platform and the driveway to get to it. Yeah.
And does it need to be like extra because it's the equipment that's going to be on it or the
generator, like a weight? Yes, the platform. No, it'd be the platform is basically for maintenance,
maybe it's an administrator. Okay. The exterior. Right. I mean, right. So that's how you work
around the generator. Okay. So a slab and a driveway for 75,000. And that's going to be
Yeah. Yeah. So a catwalk means above to me. Is that what you mean or just a strip around it?
Okay. So, um, is that coming back to us or is that just the, has it been pre-approved and it's
carryover or is this a new project? This is a new project. Okay.
Okay. Just want to make sure, sure. Thank you.
Okay. Um, Thomas tower.
Water. Oh, the roof replacement. Okay. That's a couple of years down the road.
Thomas tower, Sketa and mixer, excuse me for 2028.
Um, Woodland Avenue, that's a pressure reducing valve. We've replaced, I think,
two pressure reducing valves this year, right?
One this year. One last year, right? Okay. Yeah. All right. And, um,
Okay. So yeah. So that's failing and the need of replacement.
Saw Creek water main crossing. So we had a little water main break and one of our
water mains underneath saw Creek this year. So we were able to isolate it and turn it off.
Finally, we never successfully repaired it, right? So correct. Yeah. So it's still off. We have a,
we want to move forward with actually replacing that lot two lines.
Uh, in the next, in 2028. And so we have designed in 2027 and instruction in 2028.
Here. Okay. All right.
Okay. And then some equipment, um, a backhoe loader.
Uh, aerial lift equipment and a floor scrubber for the, uh, for the water filtration plant.
There's any questions on that or anything anyone wants to add. And, um, okay.
Simply a question. Keep moving. Move six, 29th. All right, next night.
This is for these are tid related projects. So we talked already about sewer extensions to
service canalsville. So we have that in 2027 bringing water to canalsville.
Um, on both H and Kw. Um, we, uh, we need to replace, uh, we would like to replace our booster stations.
We currently have two. We'd like to replace it with, um, one, uh, booster station that is of
greater size and has a greater reliability. So that was included in the, uh, tid. And, um,
because we, uh, have an expanding brief in the water utility and we lost our space down at
the water filtration plant. Uh, that's another project that was included in five. I mean,
we have a placeholder $12 million for that in 2028. So we will be talking about that again that
in much, much greater detail at our next meeting. Um, we hope to schedule on August 25th.
Uh, we have the water main project scheduled on 27 and 28 point down, um, how we trunk H, um,
the water main to the eastern section of canalsville, uh, on LL and, um,
and then ultimately, uh, the water main loop in LL.
Shh, are all tied to two, two, five and then last, um,
cellular tower construction. So it's one of our goals to remove so, um, cellular antennas from
our water towers. And, uh, to do that, we're, we're proposing the construction of, um,
essentially monopoles that would hold the, all the, um, antenna. And so that's something that will
be coming in the future. We don't have that planned for next year, but, um, more high in 28 and 29.
So there'll be more discussion in the future about that and make sure everyone is aware of, um,
our intentions. And then some projects that, uh, are essentially in that, um, you know,
I'm always looking for feedback on, um, uh, the urgency of these projects, but ultimately,
we'd like to see, uh, sidewalk on County Trunk LL from Sunset Drive, uh, down to the bike trail.
So that's in front of clean test and then County Trunk LL from Astra Street, that's in woods at
White Pine down to where it terminates, you know, about, um, I'd say like 800,000 feet south of there,
um, improvements to the sunset and County Trunk LL intersection. Roger just mentioned that traffic
safety approved, um, and intersection control evaluation for that, uh, intersection because
we've had a number of, um, serious crashes there. Spring Street and Garfield box culverts, that's,
um, a project that, um, uh, has been, uh, has been, uh, scoped for, um, alleviating flooding that comes
from, uh, Crocker and lay, uh, lay every streets. Safe routes at school is one of, one of the, um,
recommendations from the, the bike pet plan. And so we put a placeholder there for 2030.
And, uh, there are grants available for that. So if we were to pursue that, um, there's,
you know, grant money available. And then the downtown plan has a number of elements that, uh,
we foresee, uh, possibly coming before opportunities coming before this, uh,
uh, committee and council and the upcoming years. And so we have placeholders for those projects as well.
Three minutes over. If there are any questions.
From here, it'll go to, um, the common councils, uh, on August 4th.
Um, that's a leap from tomorrow. Um, but, uh, we are looking for, uh,
a recommendation to the council from the board of public works, um, means that I don't.
And then the recommendation is to staff recommendation is to, uh, approve.
All right. Anybody have any additional questions or, or, uh, do you want to take a message?
I'll make a motion to have food, uh, and your capital plan.
Uh, we have a motion by Alderman Beaster. Is there a second?
I'll second.
Second by, uh, committee member, uh, any questions on the motion?
Seeing none. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye.
Aye. Opposed? Motion carries.
All right. Uh, that brings us to item four or second quarter report on the board of public works
charter, which might be second.
Okay. As I mentioned in the memo, because I knew we would be short on time. If anyone has any
questions about any of the charters or if you'd like me to bring them back to the next meeting,
I can use that as well. So if we track our, uh, charters poorly, we set them in January.
And, uh, for the most part, we're, we're staying on schedule for all our projects.
With the exception of the couple that I mentioned here in the budget.
All right. Um.
Now, I guess I don't have any questions. Anyone else? Any? No. All right.
That will bring us then to the motion.
Do we need a motion to accept that? No, that's just a report.
Okay. All right. Uh, that brings us to item five, uh, review staff monthly reports.
And there are any questions from the reports?
No. All right. They'll take us to item six, chairman's business. I have no business this month.
Uh, item seven, members liaison's business. Anything from members or liaisons?
All right. Seeing none. Uh, next meeting date, uh, was scheduled for August 11th,
but, uh, there's a conflict with the company is the council chambers. So that's going to be
rescheduled. Um, Rob, you thought it is the fourth Monday, potentially.
We're going to be looking at the fourth Monday or fourth Tuesday,
fourth Tuesday. Okay. At five thirty back up in the council chambers. All right.
We'll see. Yeah. So August 11th is the partisan primary. And so the council chambers are not
available. So the 25th. Yes. All right. Any other questions on that? Uh, seeing none. Uh,
then we'll move to item nine, adjournment. Uh, we have a motion to adjourn.
Motion to adjourn. Uh, motion adjourned by Alderman Miller. Is there a second?
Second. Second by Alderman Beecher. Uh, all those in favor say aye.
Aye. Both. We are adjourned.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Guys.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
I want to see.
Seems like a lot to me.
And so just six hundred.