The Public Works Committee met on March 4, 2026, to discuss equipment purchases, illegal dumping enforcement, crew resources for potholes and drainage, traffic signal issues, and the One Percent Sales Tax program. Director Lorenzo Anderson and other staff provided updates and responded to council members' questions.
Okay, let's try it again. Uh call this meeting to order of the public works committee of the city council. Uh we have a very aggressive uh agenda. Uh and are there any opening comments or remarks? I'd like to recognize one of my uh one of my favorite uh neighborhood leaders, Miss uh McGrafty McDaniels in the back. Okay, in fact to have her here listening in. Uh okay. Got a lot of a lot of interesting information. Uh Mr. Anderson, it's the public works director. You want to turn on your mic, sir. Uh are there any opening comments from you or the administration, Mr. Davidson? Anything? You got okay. Well, let's let's dig in. Equipment update, purchase and delivery. All right, uh good afternoon. I'm going to refer to me. Good afternoon, Lorenzo Anderson Public Works Director. Um you're talking about the blight information uh far as equipment and scheduling. Um I'm going to refer to uh Mr. James Caldwell, the deputy director for that. Yeah, uh, can we get a seat for Mr. Carwell up here, up here? Okay. If you don't mind, because I believe uh between the two, we're gonna ask you you two a lot of questions, and Mr. Carwell, we would like for you to be comfortable. Okay, the the first uh agenda item equipment update purchase and delivery. We've come a long ways between sitting down, we did uh a project, a pilot project in our neighborhood to find out what we would need for us clean up the size of the road and taking care of things, and now want to get an update. Where are we? As well as uh a couple of the ski steers we're looking at. I think two of the three, they're being implemented now. We had to get some um account information reset. So it kind of took a minute, but we're getting everything now going through the process. So I can't give you an actual delivery date because until I get the PO's to the actual vendors, I can't give a solid date. The vendors for the truck said it may be about four weeks before they come in, but that's about kind of regular time because they're custom trucks. Um so I don't have an actual delivery date, but about a month from time we get the PO's. Okay, and that's on the skid steer. Yeah. And the trucks. I talked to the vendor other day. He said he can have those back in about two weeks. Two weeks. Yes, sir. He said about two weeks for those. And then how long does it take to get the decals and markings and everything on it? Uh that's gonna be on us and our and our shop. I have to work with them, try to figure out how long it'll take, but we can probably hopefully expand that pretty fast. Okay.