The Powell Operations Committee met Tuesday, September 16, 2025, at 6:30 PM in Council Chambers, 47 Hall Street. Members present: Taylor Brown, Tom Counts, Carr, Miller, and Tyler Herman. The committee received staff updates on tornado siren installations, AEP utility work, the Facilities Master Plan, and multi-use path projects. The only action taken was approval of the minutes; all other items were informational.
Okay, I will call to order uh the uh operations committee meeting for Tuesday, September 16th. Please call a roll. Taylor Brown right Tom Counts here Carr here. Miller Tyler Herman. Here's the um minutes were included in your materials. There are any additions or corrections to be made. No. Then the minutes will be approved by consensus if that's okay. Um the first item is an update on tornado sirens. Andy. Thanks. Um quick update. Um we got some momentum going a little bit this week. Um provided me documentation um from the county with regard to the uh cooperative agreement we had for the use of the sirens and the operation, so that's in place, signed. And uh Aaron was contacted by um the siren company, they will be here this week to install um the structures. So that's the big update. Um is there anything else to add to that that we have or just you said they'll be here next week, just a quick correction. Um, probably the only other thing we'd mention is if you remember a few months ago we brought back um the location of the signals, and we talked about those a little bit. Um, and even in that meeting, there was some some concern about one of the locations, and it was um up at the site of Glenn. And since that time, we found an alternate location that is in that same vicinity, but actually better coverage of the schools um, but isn't adjacent in that parking, isn't adjacent to a neighbor that had outdoor um horses and livestock. So there's an area just um kind of near the home and sites intersection, which is just you know a few hundred feet north of where we originally planned. Um but I think it's it's kind of win for everybody. I think you know we don't have the visual impact, we don't have to deal with the overhead, and we don't have this located in our our park land. So you'll see that, and in the other one, there was a slight adjustment. There was one that we had shown on Bennett Farms, but we've seen kind of with the planning that that probably would not be a great location for it. So we went out and found an owner location um kind of towards the south edge of Arbor Ridge based on what um where we had electric service. So we've we've toured that with the AEP and with electrician. Um we we heard this morning they said someone else fell off their schedule, so they'll be out there, they said starting next week. So we should start to see some of that happening. The only other thing I wanted to mention through staff's good work and consideration of impact. Um I think the modifications are well served. They cover the same footprint. Um, but there's a small gap towards the southeast closer to the Franco County line. Um if we wanted to consider policy down the road to add a fourth, we had a good location in the right-of-way uh adjacent to the target, and that would be another facility that wouldn't be as impactful, but that placement there would give us 100% coverage throughout the entire municipality at this point. Um remember the concentric areas that the uh acoustics will be heard. There's a little spot down there. Uh I I think it's covered by some some of the stuff that's going on right now. But um, it's something to consider as movement forward. Those uh three should be up and running here here this fall. Questions for Andy or Aaron. Okay, great. Thank you. AEP. Yeah, if if anyone had occasion to be through the four corners between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. today, you would have had uh a little bit of a headache going around an area outside of Kohatch to run in uh some conduit under 750 to support general construction that area. Um this had been going on for probably two months with regard to permitting. There was some impact to the private property owner to the east and some confusion. Um staff worked. I think I think Aaron was on vacation when we called him down in Florida initially, so sorry about that, Aaron.