All right, we'll call the finance and taxation committee to or finance.

I'm sorry.

Jumping ahead.

That's not me anyhow.

Board of Public Works to order.

First item is roll call, please.

Older Tolman here.

Older True Heart.

Older Schaefer.

And older Frankie.

Here.

Okay.

Item A is correction of minutes.

Okay.

Otherwise, we'll go on.

There seems there's none.

They'll stand in as um presented.

C is viewing of bills.

The first item or the only item is Whitney Tree Service Invoice.

So with that, there's one invoice from June 15th.

This is storm damage kind of cleanup and pickup.

And the total is for $8,648.

I guess I just need a motion to approve this, then motion for approval.

I will second that.

Any discussion.

Looks like none.

So I'll ask the clerk to call a roll.

Older Thoman.

Hi.

And older Frankie.

Hi.

Okay, that's approved.

Item D, Park Supervisor.

Discussion impossible recommendation of common council regarding requiring twining walkway repairs and paving.

All right, good evening.

Uh park supervisor Tremy here.

Um, just bringing this item to you.

Um, so this is something that's been on our capital plan for a few years now and finally uh come into fruition here.

Um so those of you familiar with twinning park, there's the backside of the park.

You have the map there that kind of explains or kind of shows the the walking trail that that goes back behind um at twinning park there.

So that trail um has been there for quite some time and is due for some improvements.

Um, as you kind of said, you could see in the um summary sheet that I had there.

Um there's just some deteriorations in some areas.

There's some you know, some cracking, some even spots, um, some trip hazards here throughout that that trail.

Um, so with that, we were looking to explore some different options on that trail and how we can make those improvements and do it the most cost effective way.

So we looked at a few different options, talked to some different different contractors just to get their opinions on it too, just to kind of see where things were at.

Um so we explored some different options and and um as you can kind of see there in the quotes.

You it's kind of the variety of different things out there.

We looked at potentially doing you know some repairs with an overlay.

Um, that was one of the things that was discussed uh in the proposal that we we were recommending.

Um, the other thing we looked at was you know, potentially a complete reconstruction where we tear out, redo the grade or do the base and then do a repave.

Um we looked at some different options there.

We looked at potentially having a contractor come in and just do the um stripping of the old asphalt, putting in the the new base, and then having the street department uh do the paving of it, just trying to like I said, look at different options.

Um, and then we had the full fledge having the contractor come in and do all of the work.

Um basically what we ended up getting back to, kind of long story short, is we got back to um doing a few repairs and doing an overlay.

Um, and the reason why Bartelt has that proposal and the opportunity to do that is they have a paver that not a lot of people have, it's called the trail paver.

Um, so they can cover like a smaller area, whereas all the other contractors in this area, uh, they they have a wider paver.

For example, the the street department paver, I think the minimum smallest they can get to is like eight and a half feet, um, and then they go wider, you know.

So whereas uh bartel is the ability to have a small paver that can overlay the existing path, that existing path that is there varies from anywhere from five foot wide to six foot wide throughout that trail.

So we felt from a cost perspective, um, and and a long-term solution to that trail.