Even if they just made the skills of things to say that I think you know we'll still do it once a month.

Okay, we'll go ahead and call the committee to order of the uh public works committee.

And Ms.

Falcon, will you call roll, please?

Mayor Pro Tem Bryant.

Here.

Commissioner Zamora.

Commissioner Porter.

Commissioner Jones.

Clifford Martin.

Here.

Len Voe.

Here.

Randy Rodriguez.

Here.

Donald Goings.

Here.

Okay.

Thank you.

I also welcome Donald Goines is our new member for public work.

We appreciate your interest in this committee.

Thank you.

Thank you for doing it.

Okay, we're down to approval of the minutes from July twenty-third.

Is there any correction, or do we have a motion to approve?

Motion to approve.

Second.

All those in favor, take the common saying aye.

Moves on to new business.

And it allowed us to install around twenty uh solar-powered street lights throughout the community.

It's kind of interesting that uh we received the money during the twenty twenty-five legislative session.

We are now in the twenty twenty-six legislative session, so that kind of shows you how long sometimes it takes us to get the grant agreements in place uh from the state uh in order for us to go and utilize uh those capital outlay funds.

Um, on packet page 14 uh in your packets, uh, we worked with uh our GIS uh folks, and they actually in as well as got data from Excel Energy and Farmers Electric on all the street lights that we have in town.

Uh and then we analyzed the the intersections that do not have street lights at them.

Uh and so we actually have it broken down in two different tables there.

You'll see one where we don't have a street light within one hundred feet of an intersection, uh, and the other table shows where we don't have a street light within a hundred and fifty feet of the intersect of an intersection.

Uh it's broken down by each district, so one, two, three, and four.

Uh I'm just gonna use the top table for the example here.

Uh within a hundred feet, we have a total intersections of three hundred and one uh intersections without street lights at them.

Uh there are sixty-eight in district one, eighty-nine in district two, seventy-eight in uh district three, and sixty-six in district four.

On packet pages uh ten through thirteen, uh we've provided kind of the each district uh shown there.

So district is on packet page 10 is district three, they're not in order.

Uh packet page 11 is district two.

Packet page 12 is district uh one and packet page 13 is district four.

We have had requests um in district one as well as in district three for the street lights.

Uh in District Three, which is on packet page ten, uh we've had individuals request street lights down uh South Main Street in Navajo.

Uh and so that's on the very southern portion of District 3.

Uh and you can see there's probably about one, two, three, four, five, six, seven lights along uh South Main and then on Kimberley uh that don't have uh street lights at them.

In District One, we've received a request for the intersection of Colonial Estates in Lew Wallace.

That's up on the northern portion of the district on kind of the top left-hand corner of the page there.

Um other than that, uh we haven't received any other requests.

Uh the 200,000 dollars, like I said, will get you around 20 street lights.

And so uh if you want to divide that up equally, obviously that would be about five lights in every district.

Um and so just looking for recommendations on on where to place these.

So with that, I'll happy to answer your questions.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Okay.

Any questions?

We probably will focus on district three the last time.

Um are you recommending that we continue in district three or go out into the other districts as well?

Um I would if you want to focus on district three that you certainly can do that.

Um since we have had a request for a street light up in district one, uh I would uh just if we need to get that one light in, I would definitely recommend that.

Okay.

Uh that uh citizen has been asking for a street light on that intersection for several years.

Uh it's obviously in in it's not near an alleyway, and so if we're gonna have a uh wired intersect, we'd have good easements and everything else to pull power across there.

So I think if since we have the funding and the opportunity, I think we should get that one in place.

But however you guys want to divide the funds up, is certainly uh it's your discretion.

Okay, that one in district one.

Where was that at again?

It was on Lew Wallace and Colonial Estates.

So it's actually this I'm sorry, this intersection up here.

Okay.

Yes.

Um question for Justin.

So you did mention district three and then the area that we discussed.

So will that be part of the lights that will be installed?

Uh Commissioners Moore, that that is what we're discussing right now.

And so that uh I mentioned the Navajo Street and South Main Street.

Uh those are the areas that uh we have discussed.

And so if that's the uh direction from this board, uh we will certainly uh place them there.

Yes, that's where I'd like to see, you know, at least a few of them go in because we we've driven that and it's pretty dark there on Brady, and I don't know how far up Brady has lights, but that South Main Street is pretty dark.

So I'd like to see some lights go in there.

Okay.

All right.

Lim.

Uh you know, I would see with all of the uh them kind of uh all the districts are kind of not that far apart.

Correct.

I would think that if we did five in each and and maybe uh do the 150 feet, the ones that are further further apart, maybe think about that anyway.

And uh and certainly the ones that have uh suggested if it's not a hard ship and too hard too costly to put in where they want it uh I don't think that's an issue.

And that is correct uh member bows that since they are solar powered, we can install them wherever we want.

It's it's not gonna be a problem.

Uh and in fact, and talking to the manufacturing rep, if you've noticed the ones around town, uh the uh solar powered the uh uh the the actual panels are pretty large um and heavy, and so we actually have foundation designs and everything to install the poles.

Um the rep has said that the that company has actually continued to work on their technology and they've been able to decrease the footprint of the panels themselves as well as the load.

So they won't be as obtrusive uh when you're looking at them.

Uh so that's good.

That's just for your information.

And the funding we have available, that's for would be for 20 lights?

Approximately 20 lights, yes, sir.

So uh four and eight.

Five in each two.

Five in each.

Yes, sir.

And and plus um uh I think you guys can come up with the the decision better than we can because y'all are out in it every day and and that's uh part and uh certainly department head without the and then consulting with the commissioners in each district and uh upon your decisions.

Okay.

And so we're happy to move forward with placing five in each district, obviously, and working with uh Commissioner Zamora representing District Three, uh getting the lights down in South Main, and like I said, the one definitely up on District One will get that one placed, and then uh just working with public works and on where to place the remaining lights within each of the districts.

We can certainly do that.

Okay, any other questions.

I'd move for approval uh to uh uh do five in each district and and concentrate on the uh 150 foot and and also uh with the uh um consent of the uh each district commissioner.

Um with the uh suggestions from the public works department.

Okay, we have a motion.

And we have a second.

Okay, all those in favor, say don't five by saying aye.

Aye.

Okay.

Any opposed?

Okay, the motion carries.

Move down number two is discussion regarding proposed closing of railroad crossing on Wallhouser.

Who's gonna uh advise?

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

I am members of the uh uh board.

Uh so I was approached by uh BNSF and the NMDOT, and uh they have received funding through uh the FRA through the Federal Railroad Administration, and they're really starting to take a look at the at-grade crossings that they have within uh each one of the railroads uh areas.

Um they're trying obviously with the more at grade crossings you have, the more potential you have for vehicular and train accidents.

Uh and so they're trying to eliminate some of the crossings that they have in place that are not widely used utilized.

Um they started looking at the Carlsbad line, uh which is what you have on packet page.

And so um they approached us and said, hey, there's a crossing at Waldenhouse Waldhouser and there's a crossing also at Brady Avenue.

Uh they've looked at the traffic counts uh on each one of the intersections.

They looked at the uh time that it would take if a crossing was closed to basically go a different route or a different direction, and are letting us and basically kind of informing us that uh they're probably going to be c closing the crossing.

Uh Waldhauser is the one that they are recommending closing.

Obviously, it has uh a lot less traffic on it, average uh daily traffic about 274 vehicles crossing it uh versus the Brady Street crossing, which has uh 4,049 uh vehicles that traff that cross it.

Uh the actual time from an alternate route is about one minute if you're going to the east of Waldhouser down south to uh the Brady Crossing and two and a half two and a half minutes if you're having to go from west to Walhouser around to the Brady Street crossing.

Um obviously we also have the crossing at Martin Luther King uh that we actually received a grant on uh through the FRA working with BNSF to study put in an overpass at that location as well in the future, which would eliminate that at raid crossing as well.

So uh there's not really uh recommendation to be made here.

Uh just more so wanted to have a discussion, let you guys know uh what they are considering and looking at.

Uh if they do uh close it at Waldhouser, they would have funding to go in there and make any adjustments, uh obviously remove the signals, et cetera, uh to eliminate that crossing uh themselves.

What I did mention to them is uh from a dead-end street standpoint and from a fire department standpoint, we can't have a dead end in which a fire truck is not able to turn around, and so they would have to make accommodations to allow for uh a fire truck to be able to make that maneuver if they did get to that point.

So uh with that, happy to answer any questions that I may have, but really just wanted to inform you and let you know uh what the DOT and what BNSF was looking at from a railroad standpoint.

You know, they're looking at closed one.

I would think the Waldhouser crossing would be the one to close.

I mean I've been in that area a number of times, and I just don't see a lot of a lot of traffic in that area at all.

You know what?

I'm surprised when you said 200 cars a day.

Uh that's that surprises me.

It surprises me too.

I mean, one stop feed is on the intersection of uh Hull Street and Waldhouser.

So my guess is maybe it's individuals going to Woods.

I just there's not that many houses from a residential standpoint over in that area as well.

And so, yeah, 270 vehicles was was high, I thought as well.

Okay.

I do have a question, Justin.

Yes, ma'am.

What what is what is the timeline looking at that?

Because Martin and I do use that road because we have family that lives over there, and a lot of times MLK or Thomas is closed, and um so is Brady.

So what is the timeline?

And also my concern is if an ambulance or something has to get there and both crossings are with trains.

What you know, what's where do they have to go, you know, if they can't cross Brady and they have to go all the way to what is it, uh 467?

So there's currently overpasses, obviously, at uh Hall Street and 467, and then Prince Street and then Prince Street.

And so um I they would have to if they were if they're going northbound or southbound, they would have those three options to cross.

Um if if they're going uh eastbound uh and westbound, I mean that's that's where you're coming kind of limited.

Right, right.

And so it's that little square area in um just it's probably county, but Sandoval Street, you know, from uh South Thomas, you know, to that small area that you know helped the people.

Yeah, and so to the west of MLK, Sandoval Street, uh south of BNSF, that is in the county, so that subdivision is definitely out there in the county.

Uh they didn't they did not provide me a timeline uh to go back to your original question.

Uh obviously they're still studying the corridors and and trying to make recommendations on ones that they would like to see closed.

Um they have not provided me that information.

Uh but if if say you were on Sandoval Street uh and I I personally haven't ever experienced a closure at MLK and at Brady at the same time.

Uh but if those were both closed or had a closure going on, uh you would definitely be restricted to uh going all the way out to 467 to get northbound.

Um or I mean in the reality of it is if Waldenhouse closed in the length of trains nowadays, Brady's probably going to be closed at the same time.

Um so that's kind of uh I mean a uh something that can't be.

There's not really as nothing we can do.

Yeah, there's not a good answer for that.

Absolutely.

Yes, ma'am.

Right.

Yeah, that's just my concern because it's you know it's a small area, but yet you know there are people living there.

So, you know, my concern would be getting them the medical help that they need, you know.

And you're right, you know, if Brady, if there's a train on Brady, it might extend all the way to the Walt House or crossing.

You know, so but that was just you know, that's just um a concern I have.

Yes, ma'am, and I'm happy to bring those concerns back to them.

Okay, thank you.

And and I would ask the fire chief uh if he has any concerns with with that before we go.

Yep.

Certainly.

Okay, any other question.

No, okay.

Thank you.

Okay, we'll move on to request for approval for discussion recommendation of residential paving areas.

Mr.

Bunch.

Thank you, Chairman and committee members, and welcome the new member on the end over there.

Nice to see you today.

Uh we'll try to break you in slowly.

Um it's that time again for all the the committee members that's been here in the present in the past.

It's time for the look at residential paving areas through the city of Clovis.

Uh basically we have about one million dollars to spend on residential paving.

We usually contract K-barnett construction to do the paving for us.

They are under contract with the city.

So uh and they are the only local vendor that does that.

So we use them.

Um in the past, we've brought you a list that is before you right now of uh residential areas that we wanted to pave in 2025.

The areas that had been paved are in front of you, uh District 1, Fairway Terrace North from Prince Street to Colonial Parkway has been completed.

Uh District 1, Fairway Terrace North from Prince Street to Colonial Parkway has been completed.

So the next one on the list in District 1, we we recommend doing Ennsdale Terrace from Colonial Parkway to Fairway Terrace North.

In District 2, Ross Street from Grand Avenue to 7th has been completed by K Barnett for last year, and we recommend Axtel Street from Grand Avenue to 7th Street.

District 3, Purdue Avenue from Eccles Avenue to MLK Boulevard has not been completed.

That's on K Barnett's list.

It got too cold for them to pave that at the end of the last year, so they will be doing that that area in the spring.

After that's completed, we we would uh want to pave in District 3.

We want 12th Street from Beta Street to Cypress Street.

That is a short area.

If there's any more money left, we would like to probably come back and do one more street in District 3 if possible.

District 4, Sandia Drive from Thornton Street to Harrison Avenue has been completed by K Barnett.

Uh for the upcoming paving, we recommend Christopher Drive from Thornton Street to Duckworth Avenue.

If you look on the maps that are included, that shows you the actual streets on a map view that we're recommending in each district.

Is there any questions?

Yes, sir.

Cost wise, have they gone up uh from last year to this year?

And can we do as much?

Uh I have not noticed.

Of course, we'll have to get an estimate from K-Barnet if you so deem these are the streets you want done, and I can come back with the estimate and the amount for the total that we we do.

Uh I have received some estimates from other streets, and I have not noticed an increase from last year on some of these other paving projects.

Questions?

Well, one other question.

I know that you said in district three there was a short street.

Yes.

And is there short streets in any of the other districts?

Well, uh you know, on down that one time it's this short street for this district, the next one.

Well, we try to make it as equal as possible.

That's what we always try to do is equal, you know, try to basically spend 250,000 per district.

Sometimes it doesn't come out exactly that way, and when the next year we try to to make up for it if somebody does get short a little bit, it's all you know play by ear kind of kind of thing we do.

Um but if we do any have excess money from that, I would like to do uh we could maybe move on to Elm Street and somewhere between Cameo and Locust, we can go ahead and do part of that also if we do have any excess funds.

Thank you.

Okay, you have the questions.

Okay, this is the next item, so we do need a motion to approve the recommendation.

The recommendations from public works.

I so move.

I moved uh recommend the recommendations the uh for this this year that were recommended last year as we go on down the line.

Okay.

Okay.

I have a second one second.

Okay, we have a motion and a second to approve.

All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Any opposed.

Okay.

Motion carries.

Thank you.

And the last under new business is discussion of road bond projects.

Mr.

Bunch again.

Thank you, committee chairman and committee members.

Um as you may or may not know, the city of Clobus has a recurring bond cycle that uh I believe comes up every three years.

Uh that bond usually produces about $3.2 million that we usually use for large projects in the city.

Um Mr.

Holwall can probably tell you some of the projects we've done in the past with that bond.

I believe MLK is MLK is one of them.

MLK is one of them that's been completed now.

Um this year we're kind of going a different way with the bond.

We're we're recommending that we do some paving projects to spread it out a little bit more instead of doing uh large projects that require new sidewalk, new carbon gutter, drainage.

We decided that maybe we could use that money better suited this year or this third year, I guess, and maybe do some of the streets that are in dire need of paving.

Um if you look on the map, your last map that you have in your packet.

Uh we're recommending Main Street to be repaved from 8th Street, which is where the bricks start on Main Street, all the way to 21st Street.

And as part of that project, that would that would uh be just milling out the existing pavement, putting new pavement in, and uh possibly restriping the area between Commerce Way, by well, I guess it's between Purdue and 21st Street, restriping that because right now it's the existing four-lane.

We don't know why it's a four-lane in that short stretch.

It's just the way it was done on many years ago because of the width.

We would recommend putting uh a turn lane inside there and putting bike lanes and maybe having parallel parking on that roadway for people that utilize the park there also.

So that would be part of it.

I did receive a quote for from K Barnett for that area.

Uh the area would cost approximately one point six three million dollars to do that area.

The other area that we're recommending is 14th Street, and we may move 14th back and forth if if you so deem uh 14th streets uh on part of the area that we have the new reuse line that goes through the city.

So there is a lot of patching down 14th because of that line went down some of those lanes.

So 14th streets in some just distress in some areas, so we recommend repaving that also.

Uh on the map here we have 14th Street between Norris and Prince Street.

That could be moved east or west in any way we so deem.

If it we may even want to go to the east and tie into where the new school is over there, the new Parkview School.

We may want to go west if there's any areas that are in dire need from the reuse line.

It just we'll have to play that by ear and take a look at it.

Uh, if you look at the area, it's about the same footprint as the main street project.

So I'm approximating that the cost of 14th Street will be about 1.6 million dollars also.

So the that total would be 3.2 million dollars, and that's what we have in the bond.

So that's what we're recommending.

I'm not asking for a recommendation right now.

It's just an idea that myself had just been come up with, and we just wanted to run it by you and see what your ideas are.

I think that's a good decision.

Uh uh, I I like the use of the bond projects for you know, for multiple roads.

I think that's a good idea.

And especially for these two.

Uh I don't think we've done anything on Maine from uh uh in that area for a long time.

Maybe maybe a chip seal or a slurry seal is what we've done in the last time.

So yeah, I think I think that's putting the money to get use.

Any questions from the committee?

I do I have a question.

Um Commissioner Zamora.

Um you specified that you're gonna wanted to put angle parking there by the park.

So would that um make Main Street uh narrower to allow for the parking?

Thank you.

Uh uh Commissioner Z More.

And so currently Main Street north of 21st Street is two lanes, Main Street south of Purdue is two lanes, and then we have a random section of four lanes in between Purdue and 21st Street.

And so what we're looking at doing is going from four lanes, uh bringing it down to two through lanes, like it is to the north and to the south.

Uh and then we would look at parallel parking along the curb lines.

Uh and then based on the total width and when we start actually uh putting numbers to the width that we have.

Obviously, we want around 12, 11 foot driving lanes.

Uh parking lane is typically uh around nine foot wide.

And so once we start looking at uh how we would lay that striping out would actually dictate on what we could do uh with the roadway itself.

Uh we may eliminate the parallel parking as we approach 21st Street, uh simply because we wanted to be able to develop a turn lane uh because right now the signal does have uh a turn lane uh section as well as a through lane section.

And so we may have to stop the parallel before we get to 21st Street to allow us to develop that.

Um obviously south of going south past Purdue, it's two lanes.

We wouldn't have to worry about it as far as being able to develop that left turn lane in there.

Okay, I was just trying to picture it in my in my head and you know, just wanted a little bit of clarification.

Thank you for the answer, Justin.

Yes, ma'am.

Okay, Mr.

Coyne.

Uh yeah.

Um just I'm kind of ignorant on how pavement goes and all that.

So when you say you're going to repave, is that tearing up the whole street, or is that paving through like cracks and the foundation and all that?

Well, what we do is when we get an estimate, we have the contractor go out and test the depth of the existing street, and then they give us a price to actually mill out that much of the asphalt all the way down to the base course and then come back up with that same amount.

And w on re on arterial roadways, we would require at least three inches of paving.

So that's what would go back down on Main Street.

Okay, so it's not a cosmetic effect.

No, it's it it will be a it would be a new paved road.

It's not just like an overlay or anything like that or a slurry seal.

It's an actual three inches of new pavement going on there.

Okay.

Thank you.

Good question.

Anything else?

No.

Okay.

So we'll wait.

And you said you're going to bring back the recommended cost of those two projects.

Yes, I already have the estimate on one.

I'm I'm assuming the other one will be very close to that.

Before we make a final decision, I'll bring back the actual uh estimate from the contractor.

Okay.

Sounds good.

Thank you.

But you feel good that it's within the bond.

Yes.

The way it looks right.

And at this time, of course, you know, as you said, things do go up and but we we will get a we're pretty close.

We're pretty good at estimating these things.

We get pretty close.

So thank you.

Okay.

Move down to reports.

We'll start off with our city update with Mr.

Hovalt.

Mr.

Butch.

Certainly.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

So Martin Luther King, obviously, we have finished that project finally.

And so it's it's the times that I've been out there and I utilize that facility.

Uh you definitely see people taking advantage of the sidewalks walking up and down there.

Uh and so it's been a good project and glad to see that one crossed off the list.

Uh the main street improvements, obviously we're still working on those.

Uh during the holiday season, um Nick Griego and Sons, and we were originally started at the northern end of the project and working our way south.

Uh we wanted to have the least amount of impact as we could on businesses during the holiday season.

So they obviously jumped from the north part of the project down to the south part of the project, worked with those businesses.

Uh there's less uh actual storefronts in that area, more residential area, and so now we're working on the south end of the project, working our way north on that.

Uh it is behind schedule than what we had originally planned, obviously with days like we've had over the last several with snow, uh that delays them.

We've had weather days mixed in there.

Um and so they're they're doing what they can to try to get get the project completed on time or not on time, but uh uh try to get the project completed itself, but still working on that one.

Uh Purdue and Eccles, uh the storm drain improvements.

We were on pause.

Uh it's kind of interesting because we were on pause through the winter months.

Uh I feel like we're still in the winter months since we've just had our first snow.

However, they're planning to resume work uh at the beginning of February here uh and complete installing the uh storm drain system down uh Purdue Street all the way to Eccles.

So we're currently at about the intersect or we are at the intersection of Cameo and Purdue.

Uh and so they'll continue those efforts uh on down, uh like I said, Purdue all the way to Eccles Street.

They have a timeline on that project.

Uh let me I'll have to get uh let me get back with you on K Barnett.

Uh I they I did they didn't give me a time what it was going to take them to complete between that section there.

Okay.

But I'll I'll I'll get back with you on that.

Okay, thank you.

Um Goodwin Trails, uh still obviously we've made some progress on that.

They've gotten the drainage work completed down to the playa itself.

They've gotten the playground installed, uh, they've gone out, they've completed the parking lot.

Uh they have gone out and milled off the old trail itself.

Uh of course, waiting for the weather to clear, uh and they'll go back and start concreting uh the new trail that will be put in place to replace the other one.

And then they have some landscape work that they have to do around uh the playground area, some lights that they need to install, et cetera, for that project to complete that one.

Um east of Norris Street.

Uh we're under contract with HDR uh to design that roadway.

Um it will probably go from uh it probably needs a three-lane typical section.

Uh the design is to to have two through lanes, the center turn left, like we have on Martin Luther King sidewalks, lighting, bike lanes, uh, but that one is currently under design uh as well.

Uh north I mentioned a little bit earlier, uh also working with uh the FRA and uh HDR on uh the crossings at North Street and Martin Luther King.

Uh North Street, they're potentially looking at how how we could redo the signal itself, uh not relocate it, but just time it on things, blackout boxes uh to make that at grade crossing a little bit safer.

And then at Martin Luther King, I mentioned that we're looking at an overpass.

And so uh all of that funding is well not all of it, fifty percent of it is coming from the FRA, about 40 percent of it is being funded by uh BNSF and then the City of Clovis is in to it for about 10 percent on that funding.

It's about a 1.2 million dollar um design.

And they're they'll take that all the way through the environmental process, NEPA process up to preliminary designs for each one of those intersections.

Then we would go back to the FRA and apply for additional grants to try and bring that to uh fruition as far as 100 percent design plans and then start looking for construction dollars.

Uh in fact, BNSF actually reached out to me uh and said, hey, the DOT and FRA are um starting once again still looking at those at grade crossings, and they may go down a path of really trying to fund an overpass at Martin Luther King.

And so uh that's something that uh BNSF is really uh obviously it's important to them uh and they're being able to move freight and goods.

Uh and the more crossings that we have blocks and stops, it's not good for the for the company itself and just community relations.

Uh and so they're they're really investing in their crossings and potentially uh work with DOT as well as us to to try and fund putting in a new overpass at that location.

Um with that, I'm happy to answer any questions.

A lot of information.

Questions?

One question here.

Who's doing the concrete work for uh Goodwin trail?

Uh it'll be K Barnett.

K Burnett, I remember originally the uh public works department put in that trail.

They did.

Uh themselves.

We didn't have the budget and public works did that.

And uh we actually paved that with our little paper.

We bought the the uh asphalt from K R Now we actually laid it down ourselves.

Yeah, he kind of gave us a really good dis it came in way over budget, so uh they figured out how to do it, and then that's uh so uh and now it's gonna be concrete.

So we're able to do this.

All the funding for that particular project, uh the playgrounds, parking lots, the new trail itself, the drainage work, uh we funded because we sold the property along uh Print Street, and so uh because that was the parking lot for Goodwin Trails, we reinvested that back into that park uh to make those improvements.

That's awesome.

Thank you.

And I guess one more project uh that that we're working on uh is 21st Street from Prince Street to Norris Street.

Um we applied for and received transportation project funds as well as some map funding uh for that roadway, which is what freed up the road bond to be able to utilize uh elsewhere.

And so uh I've gotten a price from K Barnett with that particular roadway, we're actually going to go all the way down to subgrade.

Uh we're going to lime treat the subgrade uh which stabilizes the clay soils and then bring that back up uh with new base course and then four inches of asphalt uh on that particular roadway.

That what I call uh that's our pavement structural design.

Uh we've utilized that on 7th Street.

It's held up really well over the years.

Um we utilized Lime stabilization on Will Height uh between Prince Street and on uh North Street.

And so that typical section is has worked really well from us from a pavement design standpoint, and so that's what we're gonna go back with on main street or on 21st Street as well.

So we'll start that uh I just received the price on that, uh, get that awarded.

Uh and so it'll be a couple months before we get get started on that as well.

And that footprint with the turn in lanes and the stay the same.

Stay the same.

Thank you.

We on at you, Clint.

So at 21st Street in Prince.

We're actually adding so the median east of Prince Street, that'll stay the same.

Uh we are going to replace the median south of 21st Street.

We've got that rubber one out there now uh with the occasional reflectors on there.

Uh we're going to replace that one with a concrete one.

On the west side of Prince Street, so south of Walgreens, um, we are going to add a median in between there and Ross Street uh to limit uh access access control.

We've talked about it uh in that area there.

Um and so that's all part of this 21st Street project.

What is that what does that do to the entrance on 21st to Walgreens?

So the entrance to that particular driveway will become essentially a ride in, right out.

And so right now, so you'll be able to turn right into it as you're going westbound.

Uh you'll be able to continue to go westbound coming out of it.

Um they have the entrance that goes out onto Ross Street uh to the north of that driveway on the backside, so as you're coming out of the pharmacy, kind of being up there straight.

Uh so we are gonna because we're putting these in.

Right now we restrict Ross Street to a right turn only.

Right.

Um we will change that to where since you're you won't have both those movements with that driveway there in Ross, that will allow us to turn Ross back into a uh full turn intersection, so you'll be able to go left, coming southbound on Ross as well.

And so you'll still have full movements uh in there, but uh it won't be from both those driveways.

Okay.

Now if you're going west on 21st and you want to make a left into subway, will you not be able to do that?

You would have to turn left onto Ross.

Right.

And then come around.

And come around.

Okay.

That's my thought.

Okay.

Any other questions?

Nope.

Mr.

Bunch, if you got anything to add?

Uh yeah, thank you.

Uh that was kind of a perfect segue talking about 21st Street.

And uh on that note, I'm going to invite every one of the committee members and all the city commission to our CERTPO meeting that is March 4th at the Clovis Civic Center at 10 A.M.

Uh Cir CERTPO stands for the Southeastern Regional Transportation Planning Organization.

What that organization does is it uh well basically um we're gonna show you how the sausage is made.

You know, they always say just eat the sausage you don't want to know how it's made.

We're gonna kind of show you how the sausage is made and how we get the funding like we did for 21st and some of these other projects.

This is the committee we have to go through to the first step in getting funding through the state.

We go there.

We I'm I've been a member, I am a existing member of CERPO.

Mr.

Holwalt has been a member of CERPO many times, and he's on some of the actual boards of CERPO right now on the committee uh as committee members on the uh short list, I guess.

Yeah.

Um what we do there is we take everybody's applications that they put in for projects.

We put it into a pool.

Then we as a committee we grade the projects based on a different criteria, different merits that the projects have.

Then we formulate a list that we send up to the state level.

The state will look at that list and then prioritize those projects off of that list.

It's part of their criteria is how they pass out the funds also.

So this is the first time we've had it in Clovis in quite a while.

Um we are the farthest entity to the north of this region.

So most of the time they keep the meetings, you know, Raw's wool, maybe Rio Doso in the more centralized area of that.

But we've we've gone ahead and said we would do the meeting this year or this this quarter.

So I'm inviting you to come and watch and you can be uh parti not participants, but you can be in the audience and kind of see how this committee works and and how we do things.

So I I'd appreciate it if you come by and take a look at what we do.

Where's that gonna be?

At the Clovis Civic Center, March 4th at 10 a.m.

It's usually from 10 a.m.

to 12 p.m.

Okay.

Should be a very educational uh and informative meeting.

Yeah.

So Ms.

Foster, can you send a uh reminder to all the committee members of public works of pertaining to that?

Okay, thank you.

Okay.

Anything else from the city?

I cover everything.

Okay.

Move on to the school update with Mr.

Brady.

I'm sure there's a lot going on with the schools.

A lot.

A lot.

Thank you for the opportunity to come in here again.

I do appreciate your uh time that we're showing what's going on with the school.

Um currently right now uh if you've been around uh Purdue Street and you've seen the work taking place on the uh football slash soccer field that we uh have to replace periodically.

That field uh we do what they call a Gmax test on it.

200, under 200, you're okay to play on it.

Over 200, you're at risk for liability.

Uh that field, we had areas that uh that field we had areas that tested in the one nineties, so it was definitely at its end of life and served its purpose.

Uh there's a new design when you come and you look at from the grandstands, it'll be a dark green, a lighter green, dark green, and it'll have all the purple and the helvis and the wildcats and the end zones.

But we're uh at the end of that project, they're actually laying the turf.

They had to go down into the base course and actually redo all of that stuff.

It's amazing how much street paving and and football fields align and what you have to do.

Uh and then we're putting a liner uh over the top of that that will last for 25 years that will save that that base course that's underneath there from it shifting or doing anything for because of weather and water.

And then we'll uh hopefully get 10 to 12 years out of the lifespan of this uh field, but we're excited about that, excited for our kids.

Uh we actually have uh a material that you put in the turf that is supposed to decrease the temperature, the surface temperature of the field.

So if you've ever been on that uh that turf field before during a 100 degree day, it's actually 130 degrees on that field, so we need to reduce that temperature.

So we're doing some things there to maintain that as well as to uh look for the well-being of our kids that are out there playing football soccer, as well as the band that marches on it consistently.

So uh good project that we'll be concluding.

Um thank you for the to the voters for voting on the bond and approving that for the renovation and replacement of Clovis High School.

We met with PSFA, which is public schools funding authority on the 15th.

They did a site visit with us and we were able to tour the campus.

This is the first step in us going to uh public schools uh I should say the the Capital Outlay Commission for the state.

Uh and uh they came with recommendations after the site visit.

I felt like we did a really good job of showing how we've maintained and extended the life of that public school building.

70 years is not usual, and I'm very proud of what the district has historically done to maintain that, but it is time for us to start that renovation and replacement.

Um hopefully construction costs will come down so that we don't have to go back to the voters uh three uh two more times for bond monies to get the match that funding that we need.

Uh but we are definitely kicking off the planning uh piece of that.

We will be going to the Capital Outlay Committee in May, and then we will start the planning uh with an architect and getting the engineers on site to start that uh phase project.

Um last night the board approved uh a resolution for us to take rain tree properties off of the for sell list, okay?

And so uh we have a purpose for that facility.

When we did the facilities plan two years ago, the the people that came in that help us put those together, which it is a state requirement to have a facility maintenance uh master plan of what you do to uh maintain and and take care of your district's facilities.

Um when we initially had that planning process, they were like declining student birth rate, not as many kids coming to school, you have more square feet than you have kids, you need to downsize.

They call it right sizing.

So that's where we went through the consolidation school closure process, retasked Lockwood to the four-year-old sitter.

Uh there was a lot of work that went into that plan.

And at that time, the recommendation was for us to liquidate properties, the Part View property, the Rain Tree property, then where we had student support at a time, move that group of people that officed in the old student support to uh the old GADAS slash freshman campus and turn that into a multi-use complex, which we are uh we've done and we're in the process of continuing the work over there for offices for our student support and support staff, mental health, nursing, fine arts, as well as the people that deal with our kids that fall under the special ed umbrella.

Quite extensive list of people that work with our kids there.

And so we're in the process of completing that.

We have a plan with the uh architect, and we look forward to going into uh a bid uh to start the renovation of that.

But in the midst of this, food service, I don't know if you understand what we do to feed kids, but I'm gonna give you some numbers.

During the summer, we've taken over the summer lunch program, which La Casa has done for many, many years and done a wonderful job.

They feed 3,000 meals a day to the kids in our community, and we're gonna take that on as a district.

At um Christmas at the holiday we did advanced meals.

We sent 18,000 meals out for that two-week break.

So the district will be filling the gap on what we do on the nutrition side to support students as well as families that need that extra assistance.

And so with that, the cost of doing business, and when I say business, the storage of all of the supplies it takes to maintain that has been housed at the maintenance complex.

We had some people come in that are with POMS, which is a group that works for our insurance authority, and they uh started looking at the safety things that were involved and how we manage all of that.

We weren't managing that appropriately.

So we started talking about what would it take for us to put a complex together for food service to be able to manage all of that inventory in a safe and appropriate way.

So food service, which is not part of our regular funding for our district, they generate their own income for the meals that they they send out.

Uh they have the money, they have the money in place right now to start the work on a complex.

Well, we s like we were like we downsized, we restructure, we did all this.

Why would we build another building when we've got a facility that we can take off the for sale block and we can start utilizing that.

In the original plan that started before I got into this position, we talked about a training facility.

We have the boardroom at the central office building right now on Main Street.

It is not big enough to accommodate.

And recently we did a training for all 550 teachers, K through 12, uh, out at the Civic Center.

And that boardroom is packed.

We're very limited on what we can do when we bring people in to work with our teachers, and so we need a larger training space.

We've needed that for some time.

And having been in the building at elementary, middle, and high school, it's really important to be able to get large bandwidth.

So if you have a math uh training that you want to do, it's really important for a middle school math teacher all the way up to your senior math teachers in the room together, working together, because the way we we work on standards and instruction just is it by 10th grade, 11th grade.

We need to make sure that the foundation is that are going up into those math classes at the high school.

So our facility at Central Office really does not lend to having multi-grade level trainings to get our people into a place to where we're meeting the needs of our students so that they can perform academically.

So Rangree has the space for a training facility that can multi that can uh really double up on multiple purposes.

We could hold events there, we can banquets, we can uh have like ProStart or FC FCCLA, which has been a state award-winning uh program, uh has 300 plus kids and in that program that CTSO and that CTE pathway.

We can host competitions there for that.

Uh and then we have the kitchen and the infrastructure that was already there with raintree.

So all the electrical, the plumbing, the grease traps, all the the fire suppression, all of that's already in the rain tree complex.

So we know when we read when we remodel CHS that we could uh build a new kitchen.

Well, I did the math for the square footage that we have at Range Free, and that's about the size of kitchen that we'd want to put on CHS main campus.

Um it was three million dollars at 800 a square foot.

That's what the architect recommended when we started putting projects together for the bond, and so that's the dollar figure I used on the rain tree project.

It could go up, it could go down, but that's what they recommended us to use.

That's a three million dollar build at the high school.

We can cut that cost at least in half by utilizing the kitchen space at Raintree.

So we have a kitchen, we have a training facility, a ballroom area, call it, and then we have a storage facility that will work with us with our advanced mills, our summer lunch program.

It allows us during the summer, instead of using our kitchens, which is what La Casa's been doing.

They've used a kitchen as a meal, uh a meal prep place and a distribution point.

Um it gets really beat up.

If you've ever seen that operation in place, that is a an undertaking to move 3,000 mills for kids every day.

And so ice chests are stacked to the ceiling all the way down the halls.

We used uh Yucca last year, and so I'll use their kitchen.

You have 50 people in the cafeteria in the serving area as well as in the kitchen, making bagging, prepping mills, getting that ready for distribution, and then you have the pickups with the trailers that come up and you're loading and offloading during the day.

It's quite an well, it keeps us from being able to maintain all that equipment in there has to be maintained every summer.

The floors, the roofs, the water, the electricity, the HVAC systems, the coolers, all of that has to be attended to to maintain it at a level that we get the best life out of that facility as we can.

By using Range as a distribution site, as well as I have it thrown this in at you, there is a new federal reg for nutrition.

50% of what we create has to be scratch.

It's not packaged mills anymore.

So what we have to do is have a test kitchen so that our people who run student nutrition can actually create the meals and the recipes to feed our kids.

And so that's another part that we would use for raintree.

Uh, but we feel like that's a totally uh good utilization of that facility.

Uh it's it's gonna save us a lot of money in the long run instead of building new three million at CHS, probably a million and a half for the food service uh people to build their own warehouse and distribution center on top of the training facility that we were going to renovate at the old freshman campus, but now we'll put in rain tree.

We're gonna get a bigger site, and we've already got the investment in there, so that's what's was proposed to the board last night.

We'll go into the planning process of that and start putting the money and working forward.

The other thing that I want to say about that is that these funds that we use for this, you cannot apply for state funding for administrative buildings, and technically this is an administrative building, okay?

You have to use district funds, bond uh and tax funds from the public to be able to put these kinds of things in.

So if I wanted to go in and completely demo central office right now, that'd be 100% at the cost of the district with no state participation.

So we're gonna hang on to the main street complex.

We're gonna do this so that we can meet the needs of kids and and and teachers uh and utilize that complex instead of selling it.

So uh that was at the board meeting last night.

Um last thing that I'll talk about with uh construction.

February 12th, we have an all-in-mel uh all mail-in ballot for a capital improvement act tax.

Um that tax has been in place we can't find when we did not have that tax.

The state does not give districts money to maintain their facilities.

It's up to the community to do that.

Well, this is the money that we use to do that to maintain our facilities, and because we've been committed to it as a community for at least 50 years, I think it's more than 50 years, we are the second highest rated district in the state for the maintenance and repair of our facilities.

And the only reason we're not number one is because the district that beat us has a completely new uh school complex across the district.

And so we've done an outstanding job.

We continue to do an outstanding job of using our tax dollars to maintain these facilities and keep them up and running for kids.

And so I'll use HVAC as an example.

At James Bickley, which is one of our newer schools, we have a geothermal system in there.

About a month ago, I cut the PO for $60,000 to replace six of those geothermal units that we use to heat and cool those classrooms in that school for kids.

And so it seems to me that when things happen, systems, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, when they start to go, they all go.

And I can't explain that, but it's never a 10 or a 15 or a 20,000.

It's usually a $60 to $100,000 bill when it comes to maintaining those types of systems.

A gas line breaks, the gas line broke at the high school.

It was $25,000 to dig that up and repair it.

Then we had to pressure test the lines, which was another $5,000, just to be able to occupy the building after we did the repair.

So you can see the extent of cost that comes to maintaining that.

And that's what this Capital Improvement Act tax money gives us.

It's the ability to maintain and repair.

So my my message to our voters, I'm hoping lots of people are listening to me out there.

Support this at this election.

Vote your conscience, but it has an impact on what we're able to do for kids.

And this is the money we use to maintain our facilities.

We go to Hobbes.

We're going to go down there and wreck them.

We're really excited about that.

If you haven't made it to a ball game, please do.

And then I'm going to finish up with uh a white paper report that's kind of out there in social media that we took to the legislature.

If you know anything about reading scores, I'm really proud of what we do as a school district because I think we're amazing at reaching kids and teaching kids and developing our future citizens uh in our in our community and in our state.

We did a comparison.

If you understand reading instruction, you can laxile a kid.

A lexile, say from a scale of one, zero to a thousand.

The closer to a thousand, the higher level reader you are, the closer to zero, the lower level reader you are, okay?

They did a lexile comparison off of NAPE.

And they did that as a person who is independent, and they wanted to see are we really last in reading in America?

Because that's where New Mexico is ranked right now.

Well, that doesn't sit well with a guy who's been doing this for 30 years, because we do a great job.

And New Mexico does a great job.

And what we discovered, I'm not gonna give you numbers, I'm just gonna give you the breakdown really quick.

We outscore Arizona, Colorado, Texas, our surrounding states.

Incredibly we're we're way above them.

So what we do to educate a very diverse state is really above the market.

If you put us in the rankings across the United States, we're really in the middle based on our lexile scores than we are on the bottom.

So I want to shout out to all my educators in Clovis for the work they do every day because the readiness factor for kids is not where it once was.

And what we do to move a kid from pre-K to K to first all the way through to high school, it's a miracle every day.

I'm proud of the work that we do, and I wanted to share that with you so you know our state's doing it and our community is doing an out job, uh, outstanding job educating our kids.

With that, I stand for any questions.

A lot of information.

Any questions?

I have uh one question on the summer lunch program.

How many paid employees does uh do you have to employ to get that job done?

Well, it's not been our our gig for the last however many years summer lunch has been going.

I I'm gonna tell you that conservatively there's up to 50 employees to make those mills and distribute them.

Man, the posts that we have out there where kids come up and get those meals to go home, at least 50 employees probably.

Well, thank you for all you do.

Thank you.

Yeah, and I'm not in the old program.

I appreciate the school system continuing that program.

That is so important to our community.

Well, uh uh on a on the business side of it, it'll generate funds.

It'll it'll make the the food food service, the nutrition uh department, it'll make them money and they'll take that money and put that back into our kitchen and cafeteria facilities across the district.

And so it it's a profitable thing, but it is definitely a need, and we just see that by the number of kids that come and access that in families.

Yeah.

I never realized how many meals you actually will that were being provided.

That is that's a lot.

Well, I know David Brasinho ran that program for many, many years, and he did an amazing job here in Clovis and Portalis uh serving uh the families that needed that.

Yeah.

So thanks to La Costa and thanks to the uh Clovis Municipal Schools for continuing that.

Okay.

Any other questions?

Mr.

Bertie thank you.

Appreciate your time and and uh attending the uh public works committee meetings okay next meeting is scheduled for 8 30 Wednesday February 25th and we are adjourned.

Excuse me can me uh for the for the good of the order did we have for the good of the order?

I was going to bring something up okay yeah I'm sorry we did no problem I apologize.

Uh I just forgot to uh I guess uh compliment K Barnet construction for donating and uh I guess gonna sponsor the lunch at the CERPO meeting on March 4th.

Oh okay I I approached K Barnett and they were very interested in they they are the sponsors of that CERPO meeting so I I do commend them for stepping up to the plate and actually sponsoring that meeting.

Yes definitely thank you.

Okay now we're adjourned okay