Good evening.

I'd like to welcome everyone to our July 21st work session.

If you'd all rise with me as we uh recite our Pledge of Allegiance, please I fled to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.

One nation under God.

Thank you and welcome everyone.

This evening we have one, two, three, four.

We're gonna have five items on our work session.

I will be adding a sixth, even though it's really a fifth.

Um it's gonna be our uh public works vehicles.

Uh they were on our agenda, but we'd like to move them to our work session just to open that up for any more discussion we might have from the public or from anyone here tonight.

So our first item of business will be the origin park entrance road discussion, please.

So I had this brought to me while I was at the uh the ribbon cutting, and I will tell you I was rather surprised to find out how the road structure was set up to come to Origin Park.

And it's difficult for us to force citizens and the public to reroute to a longer route to get into Origin Park when the road is tore up.

Um it's there's a lot of places that the base and sub base have been damaged due to water and erosion.

And so when we've had our discussions, we just couldn't find the money originally.

Heritage, um, the River Heritage Foundation reached out and and said they would be willing to do uh a matching fund if we were to commit to a two to one scale.

So every two dollars we do we commit, they'd commit a dollar.

Um and so Brad has done a lot of work and he's would been able to come up with a plan that will solve it.

And do you have the the picture that they sent?

So if you look at this, it's kind of there.

You go perfect.

Um the first part of the road was as you come in is county road.

So the first thing he had to do was reach out to the county and see if there was some willingness to first fix it, and then when they said they didn't have the funds to do so, allow us to fix it.

Now they sounded like they're willing to convey it to us if we went to the process.

Um the problem comes in down to that would slow everything down, and we're trying to mitigate the impacts of the vista being open, and the amount of of traffic that is going through a community that wasn't designed.

It's it's not a thoroughfare to go through there, and so it's not designed for the amount of traffic that is currently impacting them.

And so one of the things I tried to do is is speed this up and get it to you all in a fashion in which we can execute.

So, what we're talking about here is getting permission to support doing this, and and having this discussion will allow us to move forward with getting both the county's support and then the follow-on committing the contract to actually do this, and I think if you see in there, it's roughly a hundred thousand dollars to fifty thousand dollars.

The specific numbers are in the cover sheet.

Um, but that's the plan, and that's why I wanted to bring it all to you.

If there's any questions, I'll be happy to support, or Brad could could answer the very specifics.

What part of this section is in the county actually?

The the first part of the road there, if you're looking at from uh, I guess we can't zoom out, but if you're looking at where the intersection is all the way down to the main road going in, so that dark blue part is the switch where we transition from county to city road, and that goes in from that point on is all city.

But the first section, and it has some of the worst uh uh base and sub-base structural problems.

It's important to go ahead and get done.

And and just so you all know, we also gave information on how to properly get uh get signs put up that show that this is the origin park main entrance, and Brad has even volunteered to help him walk through that process when they're they're ready to do that.

So signs can be put up coming from 65 to allow people to know how to get there.

That's awesome.

Thank you for that.

I've I actually asked reached out and asked about that since there is no way of telling uh when you're coming down 65 or going up or up 65, that there's even an origin park here in Clarksville and that we have something wonderful to offer.

Um I hope they add that and the Falls of the Ohio at the same time and bring more people in Bradley, what's the difference between base pave and surface?

So your base would be anything underneath the road, so it would be your uh um so when you when you build a road, you come in with stone, and then above the stone is where your base layer goes, and your surface layer goes on top of it, which gives you the ability to ride smoothly, or also for cyclists and stuff to ride on it.

Uh, your base material, if you were to if you've ever experienced uh chip and seal, would feel very much like that.

It's a large stone versus a smaller stone, and that's really the difference between the two.

So, also for the clarification on that.

So, your sub base is where they do minimal compaction to allow for structural strength of the base.

The base is where your compaction layer is.

That's the support for everything that's going to be done, and then the literally the asphalt they're walking driving on is the wear surface.

It's nothing but an impervious layer that allows the base to structurally stay in strength.

And so, what's happened is is the water is eroded underneath the sub-base and damaged both the base and sub-base, and they have to repair.

What is being done?

The complaint was the water flooded the roads.

It looks like both sides of Emory Lane, they backfilled about two foot deep to make the old junk boiler or Marshall's junkyard higher than the street.

What is done being done to fix that?

That that naturally drains backwards, so it would naturally drain toward towards the north where you're talking about.

And uh currently, where the failure is, if you've been down there and you've seen the blocks that we have where that failure is along the edge of the roadway, beerman says dumped nearly 200 tons of stone in there of their own to try and support it, uh, which is definitely helped, but it still hasn't broken the uh the plane of the water yet.

So I think they'll continue to offer that.

Um it is their their base in there.

Um but the water comes back that way, and then it should drop off into there is a manhole there, or there is a catch base in there that where it should drain into that pond, um, and that's where it should ultimately go.

Thank you.