I call to order the September 8th,
2026 City of Port Washington,
Board of Public Works meeting to order.
Chairman Gaspard is not able to make it tonight,
so I'm filling in for him.
Also not in attendance is Mr. Brooks.
I guess item two is to approve the minutes
from the previous meeting.
That would be August 25th, 2026.
Any questions or comments on those minutes?
No, but I'll make a motion to approve the minutes
as written.
All right, a motion by older woman Miller.
I have a second.
Second.
Second by Mr. Paulie.
All in favor.
All right.
Agenda item number three, public comments and appearances.
Anybody wishing to address the board
can step to the podium, address your name,
state your name, address,
and you have three minutes to speak.
Any publics, public comments?
No.
Seeing none, we'll move to item number four.
Presentation of kid number five, project planning.
Kapoor.
Thank you.
I think we're all set here.
Thank you everybody for having us back up.
My name is Ben Wood.
I'm with Strand Associates.
I recognize Aaron Grohl from Kapoor.
We're here tonight to give you an update
on the overall TID 5 project plan.
We were back in front of you last, back in April,
kind of laying out a plan for you.
Part of that plan talked about how important it was
to coordinate and work together
across the community here.
Tonight's presentation is a follow up on that
now that the projects have some more definition
to them, it's a good time to provide an update to the board.
And of course, we recognize that we're still striving
to work with the city to partner across departments
and whether it's businesses or outside entities
that are affected by these projects
to coordinate often regarding this plan.
So tonight we're going to just touch very briefly
on an overview of the TID project plan.
We'll look at a broad project map and schedule.
And then we're going to go through each
of the forthcoming projects, kind of one by one
to give you some details on their scope and schedule.
And we'll wrap up with a summary.
So all of the projects here are identified
in the TID 5 project plan.
Reminder that TID 5 is a developer finance TID.
The developer is at risk for the financing of this plan.
That includes approximately $180 million
of city led projects.
The basis of the project need in the TID project plan
includes, of course, the expanded service area,
but also redundancy and resiliency projects
within the existing city and its infrastructure and capacity.
This map you'll recognize from a lot of meetings
in the past, but I just want to break it down.
This is the overall map of the city led TID projects.
Of course, in the upper portion of the map,
we have the yellow and the pink.
Those are the vantage-owned lands
and the yellow is what's under construction right now.
The blue areas, kind of toward the southern portion
of that are the Canalesville obligation areas
where the city has agreed to provide
municipal utility service.
The green areas that kind of surround that are areas
that the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission
encourage the city to include as ancillary areas
that may have potential for future development
that could also connect to municipal utilities
sometime down the road.
And then individual projects on this map,
I guess I'll point over here.
These are all numbered by project year
and they're kind of grouped together by color and purpose.
And I know this is kind of hard to understand
and digest individual projects on this,
but we'll get through each of these sort of one by one.
But generally speaking, we have projects associated
with the TID 5 development site up here to serve that.
We have projects that are within the existing cities,
service area and realm of infrastructure
that need to be addressed in order to improve service
to that area that are in this plan.
A new portion of this since April is an overall
Gantt chart of how all of these projects
and their schedules align.
There's a lot going on here and this is,
I'm showing this now to kind of set the table
for going through these one by one.
But I wanted to start with this overall summary
but for now what I want you to understand is legend.
The overall project arrow here just represents
the entire project length starting at design
and permitting all the way through final completion.
The star on that Gantt chart represents
the construction contract award
and then the hatched lines here
represents when active construction will be going on.
So the first three projects at the top
are utility extensions intended to serve
the vantage lands that are under development right now.
The black and gray projects in the middle
are projects that are more internal
to the city's existing infrastructure,
including wastewater treatment, plant planning,
water projects, some interceptor work,
the Valley Creek restoration.
The pink projects here represent three different phases
of the interceptor that needs to be upsized
at the downstream point of the vantage lands
all the way to the wastewater treatment plant
and how that's getting phased over multiple years
and multiple bid packages.
The two different types of blue projects
or the two different shades of blue projects down here,
they represent utility looping around
the existing vantage lands
as does the last project, the Brown project down here.
Those all have this note that those
are development dependent right now.
We're trying to get through these most urgent projects
to get them a minimum level of service
and then depending on how adjacent lands
could potentially specifically develop
might kind of shape how the schedule
and the planning of those final looping projects
are how those come to pass.
With that, we're gonna get into these kind of one by one
and I'm gonna turn it over to Aaron
to talk about the first project.
Thanks, Ben.
Good evening, everybody.
Thanks again for having us.
So this slide should be familiar to you
other than a few updates, basically the schedule.
So this was bid outs just recently
and prices were submitted by contractors for this 26-1,
which is Highland Drive utilities.
It's about 8,000 feet of water main
and 3,000 feet of sanitary sewer
and it's to serve the sewer and water
for the Canalsville area.
We're also looping on the south to the south connection point
within the city and serving the obligation areas
part of the inter municipal agreement
between the city and the town.
Bids were received as I just stated a few weeks ago
and the intent is to recommend for award this October
upon internal reviews between staff, city staff,
the consultants and also the attorneys.
The intent for this project is likely to start up
in as early as January, but most likely would start up
in March in 2027 with completion
and towards the end of next year.
This is however subject to DNR and PSC approvals
which they are in the works as we speak.
26-2, similar to 26-1.
So this is the northern portion to serve
the north side of the vantage site
that runs up KW up to Lake Drive.
This is just water main and we're attending
on installing these in trenchless methods
to minimize amount of construction impacts
and traffic impacts to the property owners
along this stretch.
Also adding metering vaults, pressure-reducing
station and automatic flushing hydrants
for this project as well.
Again, the purpose of this is to loop the water
all the way to the northern connection point
for the development and to serve
Knesswell obligation area as well.
Similar to 26-1, bids were received a few weeks ago.
We're under review as we speak
and we anticipate bringing that to the Board of Public Works
next month for recommending award
assuming our review suggests so.
Again, this as well is pending DNR and PSC approvals.
The construction schedule for this
likely would start up in January of next year
and would run into late spring, early summer.
So key considerations that we identified
through these projects, we worked hand-in-hand
with the DOT, Ozaki County, the town,
the vantage development and we wanted to make sure
that we address traffic.
Traffic was a big issue to ensure that we can route
the residents that live in this area,
businesses that are in this area around the site
and that these projects combine with vantage traffic
that they will flow together.
So we worked hard together with the vantage staff
and their team to ensure that these traffic patterns
work with what they're intending on doing
and try to minimize the impacts to the city
and also the town residents and the county residents.
So the traffic routes that you see here
are detour routes.
Again, these have already been approved by the DOT
and the county and the town as well
in our coordination efforts and trying to make sure
that we're all on the same page.
So the next step, the next project is 27-2
which is County Trunk Highway H.
So this is the next phase to serve Canalsville
in the obligation area.
This basically is from the intersection of KW and H
and it runs to the Northwest from the intersection.
We're about 2,500 feet or 2,400 feet of water main,
1,800 feet of sanitary sewer.
As I just stated, it's to serve the Canalsville
obligation area and also create a connection
between a water main connection between County Trunk KW
and County Trunk H to improve water flow
and service for the residents
and the property owners in this area.
We're currently designing this project.
We are anticipating on going out to bid
with this late in 2026 or early 27
with construction in 2027.
Permits have not been submitted for this stretch yet.
So they'll be submitted once we get a little bit further
along in our design.
Aaron, can you tell everybody what the Canalsville
obligation area is or what it means?
So let me go back here real quick.
So the Canalsville obligation area has been stated earlier.
It's in blue and I know you can't, it's hard to see
but there's the annexation of the area that's in yellow
and pink that was town and now is city.
The agreement was to between the town and the city
was to serve water and sewer to the town of Canalsville.
So the town of Canalsville is actually
the town of Port Washington.
It's a portion of the town of Port Washington.
And in order for this agreement to move forward,
water and sewer being extended first to the area,
the larger blue area that's to the left,
which holy is running up and down KW and H
and then also a little bit left on Mink Ranch Road.
And then the second area, which is a small
sliver along Konechunk Highway LL
as you're heading to the northeast.
That's another area that is also within the town
of Canalsville.
That has been agreed upon to be served in the future
as that section of that portion of the service area develops.
Okay, all right, sure.
All right, from that, I'm gonna turn this back over to Ben.
Thank you.
Wastewater treatment planning, the schedule,
this doesn't have any construction associated with it
on that little bar chart at the top there,
but both wastewater treatment plant facility plan
and a sanitary sewer service area updates
are happening concurrently right now
and they're expected to be completed
toward the middle of next year.
So shown on the left there is obviously
the footprint of the wastewater treatment plant.
You can see that reality comes at a premium down here.
It's kind of running out of space.
DNR requires that as you're approaching 80% of plant capacity
that you have to go through what they call a facility plan
to proactively review options
for how you would expand your treatment processes
within your existing plant footprint
or how you might expand the plant
in order to address capacity.
So far, based on the flows that Vantage has given us,
we're not expecting that a capacity expansion will be warranted,
but again, we're going through this process proactively
just to follow the DNR guidelines in that regard.
Part of that includes reviewing options
for how the plant would be expanded
if extra capacity was needed.
The image on the right shows the service area.
Again, it's got that same composition of the yellow
and the pink being the Vantage lands,
the blue being the Canalsville obligation
and green being those adjacent lands
that the Regional Planning Commission asked the city
to include that sewer service area update
is actually a process that is led by sewer pack
or Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission.
It's led by sewer pack staff
and as far as we know, they are on track
for a second quarter completion of that plan next year.
This plan and the areas within it,
sewer pack has to approve this service area
before sanitary sewers can be indeed installed
and permitted by DNR to kind of serve the rest
of the areas beyond that.
So what's included right now is all
of the Canalsville obligation area,
all of the yellow lands,
and then it's the pink and the green
that are kind of subject to sewer packs update right now.
The next one, this is kind of a busy slide,
but it's an important project for the city.
It's the Water Booster Station,
Water Distribution Facility and the Associated Water Means.
So I'm gonna ask you to just focus on the pictures
first.
So on the upper left here we have one
of the existing two booster stations
that are out in the distribution system.
This is the Oakland Station.
Stray and conducted a water system master plan
and facility condition assessment of this
and presented the findings of that to the Public Works Board.
I believe both in January and in March
that these existing two,
both the Oakland and Sunset stations
that are out in the system,
are aged beyond their useful life.
One of the stations actually had a critical failure,
I believe that was last year in 2025.
And it's very important that those booster stations
be replaced.
Our master plan demonstrated the best way to do that
is to build a brand new consolidated booster station.
And we were asked as a followup
to do a booster station sighting study.
We reviewed seven potential sites throughout the city.
The selected site is actually right next
to the existing Oakland station still on Oakland Avenue.
And then the larger map down here on the bottom shows
that along with a upsized and consolidated booster station,
the yellow path shows the route that we're proposing
that water mains be replaced with a larger diameter main
in order to have the carrying capacity
that those pumps can put out through that station.
Now this route has a couple of jogs in it
and part of that is taking into account
the condition of the existing water mains.
And we tried to route the water mains along areas
that have other needs anyways
where the existing water main has experienced
a lot of breaks or potentially has led service lines,
et cetera.
And that just helps kind of
economize the project and get the highest return
on investment for the project scope.
So included in the scope would be a new booster station.
We would demolish the Oakland and sudden set stations
relay approximately 6,000 feet of water main.
And then also what those past master plan
and sighting studies considered was that the water
department is in need of a new distribution garage facility.
We talked in the past that due to the current
and almost completed capacity expansion
at the water plant right now,
they actually lost garage spaces
as part of that construction project.
They're in desperate need of room for equipment,
materials, et cetera.
And again, that booster station,
this water main and that distribution facility,
are projects that are in the TID project plan
and will be funded through the TID.
So understood that the city is still looking at
high level options as to whether or not
it makes sense to put that station at this site
or consolidated at a different site
apart from the booster station.
The purpose of the project,
this booster station pressurizes the high zone.
So if you take a look at this upper middle graphic right here,
this graphic is covered colored by the different pressure zones.
The water plant pumps into the main zone,
which is shaded in purple and then booster pumps
pressurized that to even a higher hydraulic grade
up to the green area, which is the high zone.
And TID 5 is indeed in that high pressure zone.
At project completion, that zone will be pressurized
by dedicated pumps at the water plant
and a dedicated transmission main
that currently pump up there.
And then this booster station will provide
the required redundancy to work together
with the pumps at the plant to make sure
that zone is constantly pressurized.
For project schedule, we expect design to start yet this year.
Bidding would take place in 2027.
We're anticipating approximately the third quarter.
We understand due to the existing or past failure
at the Oakland station, that booster station
is kind of a critical need.
We still have to go through public service commission approval
on the project, things of that nature
because we're talking about process and controls equipment.
Some of those things require a more involved design
and have longer lead times.
And that's why you see kind of a schedule here
with design taking approximately nine months
and then construction starting by fourth quarter of next year
and going all the way through 2028.
That was a lot.
Take a break here.
Valley Creek restoration.
So I know that Rob has been in front of the board
in the past talking about this project as well.
The scope is stream restoration
and the overall Valley Creek restoration plan
is shown in this map here.
In the bar chart across the top,
we're showing that Valley Creek has been under design.
The city has partial funds for this project
are identified in the TID project plan
and they understand the city's expecting to hear back
whether or not a grant application was successful.
They're expecting to hear back on that in October.
That funding will help to kind of dictate the schedule here
and that's why we're just showing this phased over
potentially several years depending on how the funding works out.
So there will have to be, I'm sure more updates
on this project will be forthcoming
once the funding is understood better.
The purpose of this and why it's in the TID project plan
is it provides resiliency down at the treatment plant sites
obviously the wastewater plant and water plants
are right next to each other
and they've experienced flooding in the past
associated with Valley Creek.
Key consideration here is that coordination
between the design team that's working on this
which is Stantec and then both Strand and Kapoor
is ongoing as the interceptor relay projects
kind of are in a shared corridor with this.
So just know that we've already had
some coordination meetings to try to optimize
the design between all the teams working in this corridor.
I'm gonna tee up the Jackson Interceptor project
and maybe ask Erin to chime in on this one a little bit.
So to get oriented with where we are on the map here
you can see the wastewater treatment plant is up here.
The Jackson Street Interceptor has experienced
charging in the past during wet weather events
where the manholes kind of back up
and the pipes don't have adequate carrying capacity.
It's in the TID project plan to upsize this interceptor
in order to provide some wet weather relief
just to make sure that those surcharging issues
are not exacerbated by any of the additional flows
that may be coming into the plant
as the result of all of the development
in the TID 5 area.
The schedule on this is that Kapoor has already surveyed
this and has designed ongoing.
We're looking at a 2028 construction year
and that was selected kind of in coordination
with Roger and Rob to be cognizant of other city projects
that are already planned for 2027 and 2029.
28 was the best year that was identified for this.
And I guess with that Erin, did you want to talk
any project stats or specifics?
Really the only update that I have is that survey
is mostly complete.
We will be starting design here very shortly.
And beyond that, I think Ben covered everything else.
Thanks.
All right, great.
And then that kind of ties into the sanitary interceptor
up sizing.
If we look at this map, the black lines up here
actually the projects that were completed earlier this year
that the city took on over this last winter.
And that was the initial sanitary and water utility
extensions to the southern point of connection
to the vantage development area.
So what we identified is the need to upsize
a couple of the portions going all the way
from Terrace Drive all the way down
to the wastewater treatment plant.
Now this is broken into three separate phases.
Phase one is, well, they're ordered here
by construction year.
Phase one is project 27-1.
That's the furthest downstream,
and we need to upsize that add capacity.
We're actually splitting that 27-1 into two sub phases,
A, which is actually on the grounds of the wastewater plants
and B, which kind of follows the Valley Creek corridor
and goes up a little bit.
That'll include up sizing sewers
to both 30 and 36-inch respectively.
And 28-2 is the second piece that runs,
forgive me, I'm blanking on the cross street here,
but runs all the way up to Terrace Drive
to the LL area, hails trail, thank you.
That includes a little over 4,000 feet of 20-inch,
21-inch diameter sewer.
And then 30-1 is the middle piece,
and we're saying that we're only gonna touch that if needed.
And the background on that is,
we included that in the TID project plan to be conservative,
but that middle piece that 30-1
is already 21-inches in diameter.
And so when we've done our updated planning
since that TID project plan was approved,
we identified this needs to be 21-inch all the way down
to here where it needs to get upsized to 30-36,
accordingly, as you get closer to the plant.
So upon further analysis, this one is in good shape
for the flows in that planning area.
So that's why on the bar chart at the top there,
that 30-1, that middle portion is pushed all the way out
on the schedule.
It's actually more likely at this point
that that project is not needed at all.
Schedule on this, 27-1 is the most important piece.
Design, Kapoor is designing this 27-1B.
They've already started on that.
Stream needs authorization from the board,
which we'll be approaching you with next month
to do the furthest downstream on the grounds
of the wastewater plant.
We'll need to get started on that next month.
That's it for the interceptor.
Utility looping projects, these are all clumped together.
And as I stated earlier in the presentation,
these are the projects that kind of complete
this overall loop.
So 26-1 and 26-2 loop the site on the west side
all the way up to the northern point of connection
to the existing vantage construction area.
These last remaining projects would loop water
and sewer up on the east side
and also extend sanitary service on the west side
within the Canalsville obligation areas.
Again, we're pushing those out a little bit yet,
just waiting to see how exactly things develop
and allow for kind of sewer pack and DNR input
on finalizing the service area plans
before we get too far down the line with those.
I believe that's all I need to say about those projects
unless you have anything to add, Aaron.
All right, so in summary,
specific city-led projects are being refined
and are becoming actionable.
You're gonna see Aaron back next month,
hopefully with a recommendation on awarding 26-1
and 26-2 strand, we'll have some contracts
coming before the board also in October
and potentially November.
Approximately $100 million in city-led TID-5 projects
are planned over the next five years.
Financing again is by the developer.
Extensive project coordination is ongoing
between the different projects and the project teams.
The governments and departments involved
as well as the community and the organizations
and this overall plan's gonna continue to be revised
as we work through the plan and specific projects.
With that, all that's left is to open it up to questions,
but as stated, I just wanted to put this overall schedule
back in front of you and that you have a little background
on each of these projects and can again,
try to digest how these all kind of align together.
We'll take any questions?
Go ahead.
Can we go back to 26-3 for a minute?
Got a couple questions.
Let's see, we've got 26-1 and 26-2
and then we've got 27-2 is the county A-H,
I'm sorry, the county A-H project.
What is the project where you the Oakland Avenue?
Oh, the booster station, 27-3, sure.
Oh, it's 27-3, okay.
Yep.
So that yellow section that goes across the railroad tracks,
is that kind of where we're moving at North
because we keep hitting obstructions?
Is that what that plan is?
Yeah, I'll just say that all that is
entirely different projects.
It's in the same vicinity, but that yellow section
is entirely on Oakland Avenue.
It does have to cross our need to railroad tracks again.
But that's water, the other project is sewer.
Oh, I see, okay.
So with the areas where it goes along the street,
will the street be ripped up for a few months
when we get to that?
Yeah, that's actually a great question.
What we've planned is areas of the street
that are in good shape and are okay
with just like your standard utility trench patch,
fine, that'll probably be the approach.
But a lot of these streets actually aren't in good enough
shape that a trench patch would make sense.
So in those cases, it's gonna be a full reconstruct
of the road surface also.
And then that would be scheduled to coincide
with the lead line replacements
when the street gets ripped down.
Correct.
When we're doing the water means, Dan already has
an inventory of the lead service laterals
and anywhere we encounter those, those will be replaced.
Thank you.
Yep, for sure.
So just that, that's not probably be about
six, seven months of construction in that area.
Yep, road's torn up.
So expect it to be a whole summer when we get there.
So I don't know if you know this number
any of the city employees know this number,
but how many customers, commercial or residential,
will we have in that small little blue silver strip on LL
that runs, I mean, I know pliers is there
in the town of Port, but are there any other
homes or businesses along that route?
Yeah, it's a great question on this little blue strip
over here, right now there's only approximately
four rooftops, I would say.
It's agricultural.
It's one of the reasons, you know, the city is obligated
to provide utility service, and I know there's
an agreement kind of ongoing, but we've won
to at least delay and take into consideration
will there be more users or more connections
kind of on this corner before really starting
to put this portion in.
Okay, and then I'm sorry, it's in the same area,
this utility looping project.
So the light blue and or the dark blue,
is any of that like redundancy or is that like,
makes it supercharged or am I not getting it completely?
No, actually you're asking a really great question here
because I'm just gonna say the light blue projects
which are labeled over here, that's just,
they kind of go to here on LL.
The dark blue project is just sanitary sewer
and the sole purpose of that is to be able to serve
the rest of the Canalsville obligation area here.
Okay.
And then the brown project just kind of completes
this northeast corner to make the water main loop.
So without this project, the water main
the water main's will be able to serve
the current advantage development area adequately.
This looping adds redundancy that somewhere down the line
if this water main is out of service
or there's water main break as things age or whatever
then there's another loop.
Okay.
And it also makes it more expandable.
Yes.
So within TID-5, all of the pink lands are also in TID-5.
There is, there has not been any specific site development
proposal for that.
But yeah, that's another good point is that
and why we're kind of delaying these projects
is depending on how the pink lands develop,
it might be better, more strategic to expand sewer over here
or sewer over here.
Maybe it still makes sense to do both.
It all kind of depends, but.
Oh, that date might change depending on.
Correct.
Whatever is other.
Yep.
Thank you.
Yep.
Any other questions, comments?
Well, thank you.
Yes, absolutely.
We'll be doing it again at the council meeting on the 15th.
Cool.
Moving on to agenda item number five,
consideration and possible action on water treatment plant
change order number seven to improve the east path
behind the water treatment plant
with concrete paving, a ramp and storm water drainage.
Dan.
Sure.
Okay.
So I'm just going to have some pictures in the background, but I'll start talking first.
The East Path Project has been on our list for improvement since the treatment plant project started.
Unfortunately, we had a rough start with some of the unknowns which caused a lot of the change orders before this one.
It was unknown if we were going to have enough time or funds available to plan and complete a project like this.
So what we did is we put it on our 10-year CIP, identified it as a project that we wanted to do,
and basically had a placeholder in case we were unable to complete this as part of this project.
With our current schedule, we are showing in two weeks from now we're going to do our last underground work
behind the building on the east side of the property.
So this created an opportunity for this project to be completed before winter.
So we asked SCH and CD Smith to design and give a surprise for completing a project like this.
I just want to say that so this project is not only for utility needs,
but it's also to kind of bring back the popular destination that this area was before the project started.
It's been two years now since this path has been closed and we're looking at another eight months potentially if nothing is done now.
We have had many surrounding citizens and residents reach out and ask when the path was going to be completed.
Or what's going to happen with it and concerned about security of with the fencing around and not being able to access
between the park and the south side of where the lighthouse is and everything.
So restoring this path, gaining access and I guess making it more safe for customers and residences.
Another big deal for us.
So we want to move on with this.
So I want to just show some pictures. This is kind of the before of what the path looked like.
You can see basically what they did in the past is they put grass and topsoil right up to the building wall.
When they redid the plant in the 90s and they put this EFS finish on the plant.
So what that grass did is actually destroyed all of the EFS that it is touching right now.
So when we had to remove all of this to do some of the underground work in the back, we also had to replace all the EFS along here.
These are the two pump rooms, the current pump room plant one and plant two.
And this is kind of looking to the north that larger grassy area is the plant to clear well.
So the more flat area is actually an underground tank.
And then this is kind of just looking at it to the south. So this is standing in the park looking south.
A lot of the say brush bushes you see those are kind of just overgrown bushes that were allowed to grow.
That has since been removed with the project.
So this is just an overview of what it kind of looks like right now.
And then I'll get to the rendering here. So this is what we're looking to do.
This is from the south side looking north.
You'll see the very south portion of the building. That's the new clear well tank and then pump room right to the west of the tank is a ramp.
So that ramp leads to a new pump room door. The original plan had just a stoop with staircase.
But the tank would have needed extra cover along the footing.
So we would have had to have gone back to this type of look to get that extra weight over the footing.
If we didn't decide to put a ramp there.
So the ramp also gives us access. You can kind of see the the white door where I was showing the pointer.
It gives us access to the new pump room. Right. Thanks. So, yeah.
Okay. So right here is the new pump room door.
And then the ramp gives us access to get in that door.
Otherwise we're having to go upstairs and we have to bring in service trucks and potentially cranes to pull up pumps and stuff.
So this makes access a lot better.
This is from the north looking south.
I'm just actually going to go back to this first slide. So.
Right here, these are.
Kind of bump outs, but they're actually our two shore well tanks.
So the plan would be to actually have a curb go north south in front of the tanks.
So it's kind of not exactly how it would be.
But we want to we have to access those tanks with large vehicles and.
Our large jet truck every couple of years. We actually sent a diver into these tanks to clean them.
So currently before this project, it was kind of logistic nightmare to get bigger equipment back there.
So making this path concrete and widening it.
Not only gives us better access to inside the facility, it's a better access to the.
The actual shore wells.
So that's the utility need of this.
If we.
Continue on to the north, like I said, this is the current clear well.
The plan would be to get rid of the soil that's on it right now and push the path to the west.
So we would have an exposed tank wall just like we do in many other spots throughout the building.
And then the path would hug the wall and we would open up more green space to the east.
So all of this space over here.
Would be approximately 20 22 feet wide.
We're now in spaces. It's maybe eight feet.
So this gives us potential for future bench spots picnic table spots.
If you guys remember the south side of the property had was all grass and some trees and we had a couple of picnic tables and.
Quite a few people throughout the seasons came and sat there and enjoyed the time.
So we want to open up the view again and make it more accessible for.
Residents and visitors to enjoy the beautiful view that's right there.
Part of the cost.
So.
The ramp up I go back.
The ramp was about 32,000 of this cost was to build this ramp.
And then it was about 80,000 to do the utility portion of the concrete path.
And then an additional about 27,000 to do the extended footage to get us to.
The north portion of this property where the water treatment plant meets the park.
It was brought up.
What would the cost be if we did this at a future date?
Are we reached out to CD Smith and they said that.
Next year they're they're anticipating maybe a 15 to 18% increase on the construction costs and materials with.
The high construction demand as you just heard.
So.
Doing this project now not only gets us to a faster.
Opening but then also.
If we choose to do this saves us money by waiting to do it in the future.
Any questions?
Of course.
Yeah.
So I just thought of this now and I apologize for not bringing it up earlier.
But.
The Cedar Creek Valley project.
One of the things at the very end will have a bridge.
Where the creek's going to flow into the.
How will that work with this new project.
Or do we have have we thought about that.
So it's.
Kind of hard to see but the outfall is right here.
Yeah.
So it's kind of like at the end there.
So this very last pipe.
Yeah.
That would be the end of the path which there's already kind of a break there anyway.
Okay.
So that.
Kind of would be the start of that.
That other.
We wouldn't be laying down concrete just to pull it up later.
Correct.
Thank you.
Continuing north of that bridge then is there.
To replace the asphalt behind the Yacht Club to the wastewater.
Concrete because there's kind of that section of ready asphalt.
Yeah.
I think that would be that would tie into the.
The Valley Creek project is.
Replacing that final footage.
Of that section.
Yeah.
So with the budget you said 80,000 is the.
The tanks and the infrastructure is does that need to happen right now.
Regardless or is that part of the original plan was to just.
Replace the asphalt and put back top soil.
So there's about 10,000 in the project.
So we'd actually have a 10,000 credit.
If we did this that would go towards this price.
But there is money in the budget to just put the asphalt back.
And then put the soil back where it was.
Also with that the path itself right now.
Like to the north here.
It's barely 10 feet wide.
So we're adding another four to six feet.
So if.
If there were to be some sort of emergency in the park or the Yacht Club.
It's pretty impossible to get a fire truck back there right now.
Or any ambulance would fit, but it'd be pretty tight.
Can you go back to the rendering slide.
Maybe the one with the view from the north.
Yeah.
So it's 20 feet between the rocks and the.
East edge of the concrete there.
Yeah.
With this were to be 16 feet.
We could even take this and take it down to 14 to give two more feet here.
If you remember being down here, this is a pretty steep.
Decline from the the rock wall.
So this curb that would go north south would actually be 12 inches.
So we're going to gain a little bit elevation where we'll try to level this.
Grassy air out as best as we can with that extra footage.
We'll be able to make it a little.
Yeah.
So the rendering is a little deceiving because the grade actually comes down.
Yeah.
To that path rather than being flat across there.
And then there's a storm, a catch basin on the south end of the walk to.
Yeah.
So not shown, but right about in, in this area, we'd have a catch basin and it'd connect
into a storm catch basin right here.
So we'd be able to take most of the pass flow.
Catch it and then, you know, put it into our sewers.
Right now, we'll pre project.
It was pretty icy back there during winter.
So that curb is going to extend past those kind of half circle concrete areas where the
benches are.
Yeah.
It'll be a step there.
And how, how high did you say that was?
12 inches, 12 inches.
And we have a, there's an electrical transfer box right here too.
That's not shown, but that would be protected by the curb too then.
Will there be breaks in that curb every so often to allow access onto the green space?
Yeah.
Good question.
So we were anticipating.
Two or three spots on the north side more, kind of away from our working area that we
would do stairs into the area.
So that's built into this quote too.
Well, I think it looks great.
I'm thrilled to have a path back.
Yeah.
Any other questions or.
How long do you think the project will take and like what's the, what's the, is there any
risk with lead times and parts or anything that gets started yet this year?
Luckily most of it is concrete.
The only lead time issue might be a getting the storm catch basin.
But there's plenty to do for CD Smith in the meantime.
So if the underground work is slated to start September 21st, if that takes two weeks or
one to two weeks, CD Smith would basically start immediately going into this project with hopefully
completing it by the end of fall.
It should be pretty easy to get down to further ground freezes.
Yep.
And avoiding any winter concrete costs.
One last question.
So I can't tell by the existing site.
Are there trees there or would trees have to be planted?
There's currently no trees and there, there wasn't any trees.
Any kind of like.
Shade.
Any kind.
We could try to add trees more to the north area.
But again, this is a rock wall.
So the rocks, although you see them here, they do extend to the west.
So we'd have to pick the right kind of tree to.
Our wastewater treatment plant outfall runs down that path too.
So we can be cognizant of that.
Okay.
But we could do we approve those paths in the front.
It could be something similar maybe later on down the road.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
How many benches do you actually anticipate being along there?
That depends.
I don't know our bench policy here.
I was I was anticipating to.
I was thinking about the.
Picking table areas.
You know, with hopefully shade in the future and then benches between.
So I would say at least for benches.
It's a it's a large area.
Okay.
Only ask because the rendering looks really nice.
Yeah.
Yep.
That's the goal.
Any more questions?
Just just one.
Would this be considered under park and rec then as part of the park?
Or is it going to be part of the water treatment?
This would be water treatment.
I mean, we we take care of it.
Right now.
Okay.
Yeah.
There's no more questions.
They entertain a motion.
I'll move to accept or to approve the recommendation of staff on this project.
As written.
The motion by elder woman Miller.
The second.
I'll second.
I guess if there's no more comments or discussion all in favor.
Hi.
Motion carries.
Thank you.
Thanks, Dan.
That brings us to item number six.
Review staff monthly reports.
Okay.
I'll just add.
We just met two weeks ago.
So I won't necessarily go through all these, but are there.
Are there any questions about anything in any of the reports.
For this evening.
Yeah.
Not that we're not very busy or that there aren't exciting things, but.
Yeah, I'll just take any questions if anyone has any on the reports.
I guess not.
Okay.
Moving on to chairman's business.
I have none.
Members liaison's business.
Nope.
Next meeting is October 13th, 2026 here at 530 p.m.
And I guess that brings us to item 10 adjournment.
I have a motion.
I'll make the motion to adjourn the meeting.
Motion by Alderman Beaster.
Second.
Second by Mr. Polly.
I'm all in favor.
Hi.
Do I do this again?
Yeah.
Thanks, Nick.