Good afternoon, everybody.

I'm Vivian Olson.

I'm the chair of the Parks and Public Works Committee calling the Parks and Public Works Committee meeting to order at 3 p.m.

on August 18th.

With us, we have committee member Chris Eck and Council President Michelle Dodge and Mike Delilla from staff, as well as the city clerk running the running the meeting.

So we can jump right into committee business.

Item 2.1 is the preliminary bid results of the Yoast and Sea View reservoirs, the repairs and upgrades.

And this is the first time that it's coming to council.

So I will give the floor to Mike Delilla.

All right, thank you.

Again, uh Mike Dalila, City Engineer.

Uh I'm here to present uh the uh preliminary bid results for the OCNCV reserve reservoir repairs and upgrades.

So uh this work entails uh doing structural earthquake retrofits to our uh Yoast drinking water reservoir, which uh if you don't know where it is, uh think of where the pickleball courts are in Yoast Park.

Uh so the reservoir is actually underneath there.

And also at Sea View, and this is uh a green field that is located on 184th, just south of 90th.

So if you notice this park that it looks like a park that has no trees or and just grass, um, that's actually our drinking water reservoir.

Um those reservoirs were built in the uh mid to late 70s uh based on uh structural, whatever you want to call it, calculations that were done back at the time, which is the best data available.

But now that we have a better understanding of what earthquakes can do and the magnitude that they are, there are some needed uh structural retrofits that need to happen.

Uh some of them are going to take place uh as part of uh there we're gonna be putting fiberglass reinforced plating on the inside of the structures.

So think of the same thing that ended up happening for the West Seattle Bridge for reinforcements that happened recently.

So that's what's gonna happen to our reservoirs, and then we are going to be doing some additional uh fastening or structural improvements uh to the roof itself because uh both roofs actually are not uh fastened uh on the roof itself.

So they're really counting on gravity to stay on top.

So we're we just need to make sure that there's some additional fasteners that are placed around the entire roof so that if a serious enough work earthquake comes in, we don't have the roof slip off.

Um so we did receive uh bids on uh August uh 18th, and we actually only received one bid, uh, which is fine.

Uh it's from a company called Combined Construction.

Uh the engineers' estimate was 7.56 million.

Their estimate was 7.73 million.

So it was uh about two and a quarter percent above engineers' estimate, which is definitely well within uh any margin of error.

And honestly, I was a little surprised that it was actually that low just because uh a lot of the budgeting that has been set up for this project was of course has been years in the making.

And within the last six months, as we all know, there's been a lot of things happening that have been affecting oil prices and all those other things, and fiberglass reinforced plating requires a lot of uh said materials.

So we're glad to see that those costs weren't that much greater than that we were supposed to be.

Uh, we are still in the process of doing our uh due diligence and checks so far.

Everything seems to be checking out.

Um, but uh we won't know for sure until probably a few more days uh that we have it all finalized.

But so far the checks seem to be okay.

All the paperwork seems to be okay.

Of course, we still need to finish that due diligence, but um it looks like we are definitely on schedule uh to uh bring it forward uh on September 8th.

Uh and uh then on top of that, um, let's see uh any other items uh to bring up.

Um I guess I'll open it up to questions uh since my brain right now can't think of anything else to add to it.

Chris, I saw you take your mic off.

Are you ready with your question?

I am, thank you.

So I mean, to me, this seems fairly important.

Anything having to do to retrofit or uh preventing damage in the event of an earthquake.

But um Mike, is this something I was curious?

Have we delayed this or is it just right on track with um it's been going a little slower than what we had originally planned?

I think it's probably about a year behind schedule.

Um the main reason is is just uh the amount of effort that needed to be done in regard to the fiberglass reinforced plating.

Um it's uh at the beginning there were certain assessments that made it sound like we needed to do a lot more work uh to the system itself.

So uh there needed to be a lot more engineering just to make sure that we did uh verify that we could cut back on what needed to be done and and we were able to do that.

So I think in many ways um we were able to, because originally the price was supposed to be a certain amount, and then all of a sudden they found a lot of other unknowns.

It's like remodeling at home.

Uh, you know, we all start with a budget, but then as soon as you open things up, you can find other things.

And we did find some other things, but then we were able to find some additional old record drawings that uh put our minds at ease about some of the uh structural requirements for for said uh reservoirs.

All right, thank you.

That answers uh my question.

Um Michelle, did you have anything?

Okay.

Um I had asked um a couple questions in advance.

Um, one of them that I got the answer for already, and one that I didn't, and just for the public's information, um, if it had struck them as strange, like it had me um that we were using utility funds to um um redo the pickleball courts.