Madam Clerk, would you kindly read the role?

Chairwoman Ryan.

Present.

Vice Chairman Taylor.

Councillor Angel is absent.

Councilwoman Graves is absent.

Councillor Sanchez is absent.

We have two present and three absent.

We do not have a quorum.

Thank you very much.

Okay.

Seeing that we do not have a quorum on.

We are only able to take items one, two, three, and four, discuss them this evening because they require the vote.

So we are going to move on.

I'm actually going to ask the clerks to just post them at the next regularly scheduled meeting.

Is that okay?

Next uh Tuesday.

Yes.

Um right now I would like to have a discussion on Madam Clerk.

Would you read item five?

It's a discussion matter.

There's no vote.

Um obviously we have extended an invitation to a large number of people, and I thank you for joining us today.

Um and if anyone of you is here for the items one through four, you do not have to stay because we will not be hearing those.

They will be heard next week.

So madam clerk, please read item five uh into the record.

The discussion relative to the 2026 through 2031 capital improvement plan.

The following have been invited.

Courtney Hawkins, Chief of Operating Officer, Mayor's Office, Crystal Lindbergh, Deputy Director, Finance Department, Stephanie Lamancia, uh, associate budget and analyst, uh Capital Projects Finance Department, John Arzumanian, Director, Department of Public Property, Benjamin Lebaux, Capital Improvement Projects Manager, Department of Public Property, Craig Hockman, Chief Engineer, Department of Public Works, Brian Anderson, Deputy Chief and Engineer, Department of Public Works, Robert Azar, Deputy Director, Department of Planning and Development.

Chris Martin, Principal Planner, Department of Planning and Development.

Joe Wilson Jr., Director of Art, Culture and Tourism.

Rebecca Newton, Director of Special Projects, Art Culture and Tourism.

Okay, and let the record reflect that we had a uh miss posting on a title for Mr.

Aza and um Patricia Coinfake.

And Trisha Coinfake is with us this evening, the uh director of the department of public works.

Um so we'll get uh we'll get that uh changed.

Anyway, can you all stand up please?

I'd like to swear anyway.

Anyone who's gonna provide testimony today for our discussion.

Please raise your right hands.

Do you spare on the penalty of perjury that the testimony you're about to give is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?

I do um sticker names for the record and stop here.

Joe Wilson Jr., director of art culture and tourism for the city of Province.

Rebecca Newton, Deputy Director, Art Culture Tourism for City of Province.

Joe Welligan is director of planning and development.

Chris Martin, acting director of special projects for the planning department.

Patricia Coinface, Director of Public Works.

Um Tia, budget associate for capital projects.

Wonderful.

At this meeting.

So noted.

Um Madam Clerk's just uh uh point of housekeeping.

Um did notices for this meeting go out.

It went out to obviously everyone here today.

Did you also do the council members get noticed?

They did meet it.

Okay, so please make sure they get noticed and ask them if they are able to attend uh okay for the next meeting.

Uh okay, so we don't fall into a rolling forum on this topic.

Uh obviously, we're not taking uh vote, so we're okay to discuss, and I would like you know, I just stated that we're gonna have this meeting because we've invited so many people, and it's a critically important topic that council members asked me to bring in uh to discuss prior to the budget, so that's why we're here.

I envision we're gonna have a healthy discussion, but if any uh uh anyone has any concerns, questions, thoughts about this matter to avoid a rolling this uh around the forum.

I'm gonna ask that they ask me directly.

Okay, all right.

So that's okay.

Crystal, um is that okay, solicitor?

Did I articulate that properly?

Okay, Christopher, uh, do you want to walk us through this at your show?

Yes, a bunch of people to answer any questions and emerge while you're presenting.

So please stay in the way.

I can't enter these into the record, but they are uh for our discussion.

You've provided them.

Okay.

Wonderful.

Thank you, madam chair.

Um, so included in your packet, you have a report per department which is responsible for various capital improvement projects throughout the city.

All of these reports are formatted consistently.

So I'm gonna walk you through quickly what this looks like for ACT so that you understand the logic that's been applied in this report.

Great.

Um starting from left to right, you can see the activity code.

This is the coding mechanism we are using in the finance department to track every single project that is live with the city of Providence right now.

Uh the final two digits in that activity code, as you can see here, and in 20 or 25, that is indicative of the funding source for that project.

So, for example, um 390-0245-20 is representative of a landmark art allocation in the 2020 bond.

390-240245-25 is indicative of the allocation for landmark art in the 2024 A bond that was closed on last year.

Uh, the next column indicates a description of the project.

Uh, for the purposes of reporting and ease of reviewing, we have grouped uh projects with multiple funding sources together.

So as we get into additional departments, you will see multiple lines which indicate one project but are funded by various funding sources.

Uh the next set of boxes are the actual expenditures that have posted for these projects.

So we have what has been posted in fiscal 2025, just so we can see how projects are moving along.

We also have year-to-date for fiscal year 2026.

Uh, these numbers were updated by the budgeting my budgeting analyst and I this week, so we are up to date through last week's AP rents.

Uh the third set of boxes represents what has been currently encumbered under that project.

One thing to keep in mind is that encumbrances for capital projects may span multiple years because it doesn't necessarily just because we enter a PO on July 1st does not mean that work is going to complete on June 30th.

Oftentimes these projects cross many years, so we will have an encumbrance open for a specific project for the length of the term of that project.

We're not closing them out and reopening them per fiscal year.

Uh the second to last set of boxes represent what was approved by um the council and administration for fiscal year 2026 through fiscal year 2030 spend.

I have only included funded projects in this analysis since we're talking about progress reports and and unfunded projects are not necessarily in progress at this point in time.

Um, and then the last set of boxes is really informational to see where we're at in project completion.

So the project total is going to be referenced what the total that was approved in the five-year period in the adopted current CIP we are operating under.

And the remaining balance reflects what is left after we take into account current spend.

It is not factoring in those encumbrances.

So we do anticipate that when I present um the CIP, the proposed CIP for fiscal 27 through 31, that these remaining balances will be lowered and that there will be some changes based on actual experience versus what was originally planned and expected.

So, madam chair, typically what we do when we go through department when we do the operating budget is I have the departments come up for questions.

Um, this is a bit of a different format, so I'm not sure if you want me to just kind of go through the departments and then allow you to ask questions when they arrive.

These folks have come, they've taken time on their busy schedules to come.

I'd like you to present as you typically would present.

Wonderful.

The only thing different is we're not gonna have a vote on unless the record reflect that we are joined by council members showing speakers.

So noted.

And she has yeah, no cabbage.

So please continue.

Wonderful.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Um, I think at this point, then I'd like to invite up our director of art sculpture and tourism, Mr.

Joseph Williams Jr., um, so that he can uh provide any in-depth questions on what the status updates are.

Uh at this point in time, the city is aggressively trying to spend down the 2020 landmark art allocation.

Um, I've learned that as of actually just recently, we are um looking to finalize some encumbrances for an art installation at the gateway center, which the director can elaborate on in more detail if you guys would like.

Um he is also working on finalizing and locking out the uh existing uh landmark art contract that's underway of what was originally approved in 2020.

Um, and then the 2025 funding has been earmarked for a cathedral square and a potential art installation uh in that new improved section of the city once planning and belting is done with its improvements in that area.

Okay, is there anything you'd like to elaborate on?

Just a correction of the no we do.

Um the public art project, the gateways project is actually the title of it and not related to the gateway at Roger Woods Park.

Uh the gateways project was an idea that we had to um both commemorate 250, but also to recognize the uniqueness of Providence's spirit of welcoming and putting two signature pieces of public art into gateway entry uh points into the city, uh one at Newcompagent Park and the other at North Barrier Park.

Explain.

Thank you for that.

Uh-huh.

Um, and the only other remaining line on this uh department is their OPM and CM services.

This department does not have any staff that is uh uh paid for by the city of Providence.

All of their OPMs are considered by the contractors, um, and they do feel that they have sufficient funds to manage these projects throughout the rest of the five-year term.

Okay, wonderful.

Uh, if there's no additional questions for ACT, can I just ask um committee member um if you have any questions?

Uh there's just council members.

These numbers are just representative in thousands, right?

So you're looking at uh these are actual actual numbers?

Yeah, these aren't in thousands.

Yeah, I mean uh 2025, 26 yes, yes.

Yes, yep, those are the actuals.

So we are um a little bit delayed in sending some of these dollars.

So the director's been trying to think creatively about projects we can deploy, which is where this gateways project you need to play.

Sure.

Thank you.

Just want to make sure.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay.

Wonderful.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you for your work.

Thank you.

Okay, up next we have public works.

I'm not sure who wants to join me up here in the case.

Okay.

Well, yeah, that sounds like a great plan.

Yeah.

Oscar for us.

Thank you very much.

So awesome.

Please continue.

Wonderful.

Um I think at this point in the game, because there are so many public works projects and these engineers are much more knowledgeable about how sidewalks and roads work.

I'm actually going to kick it over to our chief engineer so that he can just walk through the projects he's been working on, and we'll obviously also be relying on Mr.

Anderson here to help us with the sidewalk work.

Um, but I think you know the questions on these will probably be where the projects are at, not necessarily where the dollars are.

I'm happy to provide uh information on dollars from the advice.

Thank you.

Yeah, um, we'll keep off with the Benoit Street retaining lawless slope stabilization.

Uh, a couple years ago, there was a we observed some pretty significant uh erosion of the slope that uh holds up Bodeau Ink Street.

Um we've taken emergency measures to put uh barrier out there, convert that to one way to ensure that we slow the mitigate or slow the erosion of uh the Bodoyan Street uh slope.

Um this initial $50,000 is an hour uh or design article that we're gonna be issuing in the next couple months uh to start developing concepts and cost estimates so we can request further dollars uh for the outdoors of the CIB.

Okay.

Uh bridges is uh a new and heavily funded line item for or not new but more heavily funded line item for us this year.

Um we had two projects that were in a state of design, uh both the Points Break Bridge and the Memorial Uh Boulevard North Bridge, uh, which we're looking to design and get into construction as uh as soon as possible.

Uh we were very fortunate.

We're we were really fortunate.

The Rhode Island Department of Transportation reached out to us to want to collaborate and accelerate the construction of these projects uh and to take on the funding of the construction.

Um so we had 10 million dollars allocated.

Uh that was the cost of those two bridge repairs for which Riot is gonna foot the bill.

Um which was great.

Uh we have no shortage, or we do have a couple other bridge issues which are now able to be accelerated and funded uh with those 10 million dollars.

Uh, one of those being the Glen Bridge Ave over the one of us Wantucket River, uh which is an active design right now, and we're hopeful to get into construction late summer or early fall.

Uh also the VZ Street Bridge over the West River has come up in the Rhode Island uh department or the state of Rhode Island Transportation Improvement Program, uh, which is allocated two million dollars of state funds and federal funds for the reconstruction of that bridge.

Uh, it is a reimbursement, so we do have to front that money.

Uh so that's we're looking at about five million dollars expensive so far.

Um, in the next couple weeks, we're gonna be wrapping up our bridge asset management program, which gives a long-term look or kind of look at our bridge conditions, but also a long range forecast of what those expenses will be over the next 20 years.

Can I just interrupt you?

So there's two line items here for bridges.

Um, one is 20, one's 25.

And what's the difference between those?

What would you funding sources, Madam Chair?

I understand that, but what is it?

What do they relate to?

What projects are they relate back to?

Sure.

So we just broke down a whole bunch of bridges and I can use as to which one.

Sorry, I'll go by I'll go by year.

Um the the 2020 fund is going to be funding the bridge asset management plan, um, which will be wrapping up, and those funds will be expensed by the end of this fiscal year and wrapping up that 2020 bond.

Uh the 2025 bond is where uh this bridge asset management plan will fund a lot of these 2025 bond bridge improvements.

Uh so we talked about five million dollars of existing bridges.

Uh the remaining five million dollars will be allocated towards maintenance and minor rehab of the rest of our 51 bridges.

Um is there a spend down requirement?

Is there a deadline for the land we have to spend on looking at 2020?

I'm just wondering one room, one or obligation.

One of those that bond is spended.

Yes, so ideally, those proceeds would be spent by now.

Um we are not in an arbitrage or at risk of any bond default at this point in time.

Um, but one of the priorities of the finance team has been to push getting these old dollars out as soon as possible.

Um, the directive has been to try to spend all of the 2020 money bond money by the end of fiscal year 2026, so that we are not appropriating any 2020 allocations um into 27 through 31, with the exception of probably the DPW complex, just because of the nature of that project.

Um, you know, unfortunately, what we're seeing is that COVID really did put a bit of a delay in how we were able to effectuate projects, and particularly when it came to sidewalks, um, there was a considerable investment using ARPA dollars, and so I think there's been some struggle in prioritization and deploying resources and trying to use utilize a lot of resources at one point in time.

Um, but I will say that the 27 through 31 ZIP is being proposed with the intention that there is no 25 dollars left to be sent to the outcors.

Is there a deadline drop dead date?

There's not necessarily a drop-dead date.

Um a lot of it ties back to arbitrage and interest we're earning while the cash is sitting idle.

I can't say that we have had to send back some of that interest so far.

Um so you know, again, June 30th is where we're really pushing.

We're gonna definitely be safe if we can do that, but we we really do need to prioritize getting these dollars out.

Um, and so one of the things that we're doing is when we're looking at encumbrances, looking at POs, shifting them to older funding sources if necessary, so that we can get those dollars out the door and then reserve the newer bond funds for you know similar like work.

We always need roads, we always need bridges, but making sure that those old dollars are pushed out as quick as we can.

Okay.

Uh that just strange you got down to side Ross.

I don't need to jump ahead, but you know, 2017 when that is that all spent down, it's still showing the balance.

It will be spent down by June 30th.

Yeah.

And some of that 4.3 is most likely going to apply to that.

I believe there's some closeouts happening that Ryan is working on.

We just talked about that one.

Yeah, thank you.

So I need to jump ahead too.

Like, there's a lot of 20s.

Yes, there are.

So I guess what I'm asking is can you affirm that we state that you believe with the plans you have in place that you feel that we can spend out of that?

Those 2020 bonds by the 30 concern.

I feel fairly confident that we can do that for all except for the DPW complex.

Um, I do think that one of the things we need to be more nimble on is deploying older dollars before newer dollars.

Um, and that is one of the reasons why we've started using this numbering sequence so that we really can keep track of like what is allocated to what thing.

Um, you know, I think historically there's been a scarcity mentality and a fear of utilizing the the old and losing that ability on the new to spend that on things, and so really reinforcing that no one's trying to take dollars away from projects or away from work that's already been approved.

All we're trying to do is make sure we're moving the cash out in the most efficient way possible.

You could go council member Westrain members.

Uh excuse me, council members.

Any questions on that?

Yes, Councilman Dollars.

Thank you.

Um talking about Bordonistry, right?

So you want to reinforce the down wheels, or you want to reinforce the whole slope?

Uh first we have to control uh the stormwater runoff that's causing the erosion.

Um, so we do have to take some stormwater measures um sewer measures on that road first.

Yes, we do want to reinforce that slope and we do have to re-establish that guardrail.

Um that guardrail is in a sad state and not protective of the it wouldn't serve its purpose today, um, which is why we have that barrier out there.

Plus 500, uh 50,000 take them over.

Nope, that's for the uh conceptual development and beginning of design development.

And also we have uh body street bridge.

That is me saying a diary of the last 40 years, I think we bought that to the audio and nobody have knew anything about it.

And then we just waited for somebody to jump on the river and we can find out here, but yep, that is something we plan on funding with the 2025 bridge plan item.

Great.

Um you have another question.

Okay.

The Glenbridge Bridge is any way that we can reinforce the bridge to at least file the property goals over.

And we don't have to wait till we'll uh file the fund to go all the way down to only where they make the move to go on the other side of mention value.

So you may have seen uh water barrier go up on the Glen Bridge Average that was uh last week, and that's to preserve the integrity of the bridge as it stands today.

Um we've waiting to execute a license agreement with Rhode Island Energy, who's gonna shore that bridge up so that they can work in their parallel adjacent bridge, which carries their gas main, which is also in a critical state.

Uh we've been working together so that we can utilize that shoring to perform our bridge repair immediately after.

So we are sequenced.

Um I don't think it's gonna be at the time of the Rhode Island Energy project, um, but we're sequencing so we can come in as soon as possible to restore that emergency access.

That's uh it's a very high priority bridge for us.

Can fire chokes can go true now.

No, not now.

It's not rated for for fire vehicles for emergency apparatus.

Is any way we can get away to the relative girls all right?

That's what we're working towards.

Thank you.

Okay.

So I interrupted you on the bridges.

Let's move back.

Um, if I ask one quick question, certainly councilman Peterson.

Um question on the guardrails.

Um I think of the guardrails that we use in traditional things like small.

I'm thinking of the guardrails that are in my reward.

And I remember we had a conversation early in the my term that we're kind of searing away from the traditional guardrail.

I just wanted to know when you were going to be using in replacement or if you're going to be doing the same thing, or is it a different kind of guardrail?

Okay, so the guardrail on Boto Win Street is specific for roadway departures.

Okay.

Um, and that's what guardrail is really intended for.

I think past practice has been to install these at the T intersection, which is not really intent of guardrail, um, which is the practice we're trying to get away from.

Okay.

Thank you.

So this one is a specific run off the road, and you're gonna go down a couple hundred feet uh and then thank you so much.

Okay.

Are you done with bridges?

Done with bridges.

Okay.

Excited to uh implement this program.

Okay, um the calling street retaining wall is complete, um, and we show this balance here, which we are ready to reallocate.

Did we talk about Canada Dam?

Nope, skip that one.

Thank you.

Uh candidate Plan Dam.

Um we uh the Department of Public Works performed a project here to restore a uh very critical item, the low-level outlet, uh, maybe about seven years ago.

Um, and that got us back into compliance with DEM who brought that to our attention.

Subsequent inspections have brought uh forth some other items which are not as critical, uh, but this is a million or one point 125,000 dollars for design.

Uh the one million dollars is to address some of those items that have been identified through that inspection.

Okay.

Sorry, John Big.

Please continue.

Uh the Call Us Free retaining wall is a complete project, and those funds are available for reallocation.

I'm sorry, say that again, please.

Uh so that that project is complete.

Um, that we built three failing retaining walls.

Um rebuilt the the road that um that's supported by those retaining walls.

Okay.

Uh that project is complete, closed out, and those funds are available for reallocation.

Okay, next uh the Fox Point hurricane barrier system.

Uh we've done a ton of work here and we've been able to do this on a very tight budget.

Um, we've been very efficient in the way that we've been able to spend this.

Um of the 2020 funds, um, we are proposing to reallocate 500,000.

Um, as Ms.

Lindbergh stated, it's the uh fear mentality of never having money again.

Um but we've been successful in advocating it and performing projects there.

Uh so we have about 300,000 planned of improvements over the next couple years.

Um but after that we are ready to reallocate 500,000.

Okay.

Um, we're also going to be requesting a reallocation of some of these 2025 funds.

Um, we'd like to hold on to about 250,000 of these for longer term um maintenance.

Uh we see the maintenance burden increasing over the years.

Uh, but we've decided to reinvest in the existing equipment.

Um talking with tradespeople and mechanics.

Uh the stuff that we have out there today is better than anything that we can get new today.

So as long as we continue with our annual maintenance, it's a lower cost, and we think it's going to serve uh uh it's gonna have much more longevity than anything new that we could uh install.

Okay.

All right, uh I'm gonna hand uh roads over to Brian to uh to speak about the 2020 and 2025 bonds.

Yeah, so um under the 2020 roads, we've been 2020 bonds.

We had five paving contracts that largely ran through the calendar year 2024.

Uh there was some cleanup of that last year, and we're trying to close out uh those contracts with with our contractors uh right now, it's taken a little longer than we were hoping for close those out.

We're hoping to close those out.

Um, and then yeah, any of the uh if there's any remaining little bits of money in those, we'll just try to spend that as as quickly as possible on the road program we're preparing for.

Last year we had another 2025 or 2024 bond.

We had a pavement contract that went out and done larger last year.

We've also been using that to coordinate with the utility companies.

I think most of you probably are uh have heard of the Providence Waters LED service replacement program, which is 25,000 or so lead services located throughout the city.

So we've been trying to make sure we're doing our due diligence with them so that we don't end up paving a road that they then need to come into and uh replace lead services.

That's a program that they're gonna have for that.

How is that corroboration working?

It's working fairly well.

It's a it's a it's a monumental or massive program for them to try to and it's also largely dependent on getting in touch with property owners and getting the timing of being allowed into the properties to make those connections.

So they have a lot of challenges on that as we have challenges trying to react to their challenges.

So what we've been working with, we've also been in some cases where they come in and restore a road.

We've been you know, using some of our available funds to if if they say they were you know 15 feet short and they didn't require to pay for the last little section of a road, we would work with our contractor if we had them under a like contract to get those gaps in the pavement completed so that it can be more cohesive where possible.

So we've been working, I think, fairly well with them.

I can tell you I've got a lot of lead work being done in mind for the case.

Yes, so we've we've worked with Providence Water, we have some roads coming up over near Pleasant Valley Parkway.

Providence water is having this winter to try to get the lead services replaced in advance of us so we can pave and they don't have to disturb the road.

I just want to take the opportunity to say I was very impressed with the um collaboration.

Um the property owners they followed up.

I knocked doors on people that didn't respond.

Um it was really a coordinated effort to make sure that people who had lead lines knew that there was money available on so um cou-to's to uh province water and to your department uh for working collaboratively to make sure that if we had a fixed lead line, we do it before we pay a road.

Yep.

Uh it does take time, and I know it's slow down, but it's certainly worth its weight in payment.

Yeah, so we had trying to sort that all out last year.

We have a much better handle of province water now.

So we've you know, we're we're evaluating a group of roads we know need attention to figure out which ones need the most attention.

We've also had uh very difficult winter and a lot of uh road needs are being present, presenting themselves now that the spring is here and the weather's getting warmer.

So we have a plan right now to spend on the 2020, want to close out the projects, get that spent, and then we are more roads that need attention than we have budget, you know, that cover it in the 2025.

So it may look like there's there's money here, but we are actively over the course of the next few months.

We'll have something ready to present and say these are the roads we're targeting.

Right.

Okay.

Anyone see um council woman figures?

Can we talk about platforms?

Um planned in place.

Obviously, maybe you guys are doing a pretty good job of filling the ones that are reported in 311, but we have substantial issues um of not just actual tackles, but developing sinkholes in several places.

Um and some of them actually align with some of the service lines that have already been done at a little eight industry um with the difficult winter that we've had.

Temporary or whatever they did to kind of asphalt over starting to deteriorate and causing some pretty big um larger pools and things like that.

I've done my do there because of recording into 311.

So I know that people are to actively working on them, but I'm sure this is happening everywhere.

Is this sorry?

Is this in relation to the light service replacement?

Yeah, but in general is really my whole my question.

But what I'm noticing is especially because board 14 was one of the first uh to have this light service replacement done.

A lot of the areas that um have the cutout for it are getting up.

Yes, yeah.

Um please continue recording to 311, they come directly to us, and we have someone dedicated to looking at those 311s.

Um we just issued correspondence uh today, um, releasing our winter moratorium on um on road work.

Um we're gonna be following up by the end of this week to say if we've given you a failed patch um that we've asked you to repair, you've got so many days to fix this, and until you fix this, we're gonna limit your permits going forward.

So, yes, um it's been an extraordinary winter.

We've had four four weeks of non-stop freeze, and then multiple freeze thaw, tons of heavy equipment on our roads, and they've been needed out.

Yeah, um, as well as the uh the patches that have been done over the winter.

But it's important that we do the work over the winter to accelerate that program to get that going.

It's been a struggle.

Um yes, three one is the best.

We get that to quick.

There's a few different so if you're saying pothole things, there could be a bad utility patch, which we have a mechanism place, the tractors that comes in through 311, resign notification that we track themselves.

There could be a private sewer line service, old you know, cast iron pipe or clay pipe that has failed, and then you have you might have a sinkhole or road issue based on um sewer service things, water leaks.

There might be just the road due to the freezing and thawing with the the pavement surfaces degrading as a pothole.

We're working with the highway division too to be able to identify some of the worst areas.

Uh only Will Square had a at what have um playing field was was hit pretty bad.

So that's an area we're gonna be trying to target to do a more permanent repair.

It got made safe, and there's some other areas like that.

So that's part of our program as well, and areas that are not utility or but service or service line related where we know that it's a larger repair than maybe we can accomplish in house.

We're working with our our highway division to type target those and then do some of the funds to go back in prior to next winter to try to fix some of those.

So if you do know those or you do have a area you'd like us to look at, please get in contact with me.

Yeah, and we will we'll work out if this try to figure out how we can best repair those.

Council member Sean, might think you had anything on the thank you.

Um just maybe uh uh to consulting's uh point and just uh poning down on the phases of the lead service uh that's been completed.

Uh you have mentioned in terms of going back and taking care of those roles that are needed.

Um, I'd say serving on the province water board.

Sounds like has been a great collaboration on phase one and two now moving on to phase three, the more pleasant area and those areas.

My question is in terms of now that those phases are concluding.

Uh is uh what is the strategy to go back from the um uh patching these things and and in those areas uh meaning uh ward uh 10, 8, 9, 11.

Um I believe 14 was well one of the first ones and so forth.

Is there a calendar for that?

Is there a strategy that um we're going to take care of some of those um roads or um those areas that uh have had have had or need um some road work in in those neighborhoods?

Yeah, so there's an evolving strategy on that just because as we learn our program we have in place that's happened through last year, where I have one this Friday is once they they have different contract areas, so they might get a contractor and it's a fairly large area, so it gives them enough room to be able to allow them to go on the home and kind of move around those contract areas.

Once those are complete, the the contractors luckily so far, all of their contractors are subbed out to paving contractors that we actually have under agreement or blanket contracts.

So we'll walk the streets of Province Water, see what the impacts were of the life service program and see if it justifies full curve the curve for a distance down the road, if it justifies just patching in front of a home to try to balance out you know fair and equable restoration that they're doing if they need to, but also not unfairly making them just do what you know impacts they don't have they haven't impacted um so that they have more money to complete that program or get as far as they can with that program.

Um moving forward, we're going to consider the possibility of maybe if we can as we see when they're coming in for things.

If there's a road that is in need of paving, we may look if if we have funding to be able to take on the paving of that road, work with the gas company and others to see if everybody can get in there and we will pave that road and take a reimbursement from the utilities if appropriate.

But right now, you may see some roads where half the road, if they if sometimes they use a mechanism that they can tunnel under under the road, so they're not impacting both sides of the road.

So there might be a stretch of the road where um half the roads paved, and there might be a stretch where it's just patches, and it might be another stretch where it's curved occurred for a section.

In this section where they owe us curved the curve, and there's a large portion of several blocks might be.

We are been trying to step in and work with our contractor if it's one that we have under contract to uh add uh dollars to that so that they can complete the full curve current caving in a section or make it a little more cohesive.

So if I uh so uh is there a rolling list or of roads that on the on the first phase or second phase of these uh jobs have been completed by neighborhood we have um was it we have the contract areas and we have an idea of the permits they pull at each location?

The some of the challenges that come up is if they think it's just a sidewalk, a private side water service, they'll do in that they might open up that and realize the lead actually extends out in the street, so now they have a street, or it might be they thought it was a street impact and it's only the private side.

So until they're finished with all the work, it's um we've been challenging to figure out how we establish up front what the restoration needs to be.

Um yeah, um thank you very much, Marshall.

The question is how are we doing those the program that we start about the small contractor?

Are you still working on it?

We are working on it.

It is to be honest with you.

Excuse me, but did you say sidewalks?

The yes, okay.

Can we wait?

Okay, let's go back to the roads.

All right, okay.

Let's go back to the road.

All right, let's think we're all up there.

I'll I'll address that when we get the side.

Thank you.

Sorry.

So do we have an inspector from your department that goes and check the water throws water contractors who's doing the jobs?

We as we get, I mean, we're fairly with the amount of utility work out there.

We do limited inspections if we get a defective patch move that patch as far as there's an agreement we historically with the city and the the regulated utilities that we don't really have the authority to do that.

They have the uh authority to inspect themselves to make sure it's done.

We will inspect it where we get it alerted of issues and if we get defective patch warnings, but we're not doing daily inspections of utility work.

Yeah, and to add to that, the agreements between the utilities and the city does make does put the inspection burden on the utilities.

Um, as far as the consent agreement between the public utilities commission and the city, uh probably back around 2008.

Um, so that's a relationship that we have as far as inspection.

We do after uh capital projects go review the paving and any of the sidewalk work.

Um we do have someone dedicated to doing that.

Uh, but that's post-restoration at the end of the project.

Um, I will point out one other thing that kind of when we went to our online system and we're still refining this, but part of our current permit thing is if somebody pulls a permit for road work, they need to submit photo of the completed repair, uh, the final patch once it's done.

So we can at least, even if it's just in the office, see the photo and it alerts us to certain things.

Some of them you could tell that they don't meet our standards, and then we can address that with them.

Others, yeah, it looks like they did what they were supposed to, and we can move on and close out the permits.

So we're still refining that system, but that's intended to be as time goes on.

We get that, so we can start if people have a lot of outstanding permits they haven't closed out.

We can then say, Well, maybe we should stop issuing permits now until we we're assured that you you have things closed out, and that's so we minimize finding things like oh, this permanent patch is sidewalk panel was never replaced, and that was a permit four years ago.

So that that's something we're refining, but it's is in place.

So it's not a full field inspection, but it is a visual inspection to kind of uh be able to identify potential problems.

Another question, please thank you.

The reason is because when you guys give all the permit for the broad water supply uh or contract, you'll give them like five to ten to twenty permits of it at a time, right?

One shot, or you do it one by one by one by one.

So what we'll do is I will say we group if it's a if it's a lead service program, yeah, it's all the same road, it's on the same couple blocks.

They can submit a permit with up to say for all practice, they can group multiple permits into one permit so that they're not redoing the just the general information, who the contractor is, what the time frame is, and then that reduces all review time, and then we can track it um as if they were multiple individual permits.

The reason is because they go and these is that these are the the water, right?

The shutoff.

So they need to dig here, but what they do is they only cut half of the sidewalk and they crack the rest of the sidewalk and leave the property one with the damage.

That's right.

My was my question.

I've been getting some phone calls that they damage the rest of the sidewalk because they don't have the whole the whole square.

They only they only want to cut where the the water and that's part of why we have the photo thing because we can tell fairly easily in photos if they did not replace the panels.

They have to repair it, correct?

Any panel they damage, they need to repair.

But sometimes they don't know about it, so the 311 becomes important that if somebody then we can go out and inspect that.

So the councilman should advise the you should report that.

And yeah, well, I don't think I don't work with you know we'll walk around the there's also contact information listed in the province water literature.

So what's being delivered to them, there is contact information there, or they can reach out to Province Water Supply Director.

But if there is a thing where it looks like the there's a difference of opinion between our constituent and province water as far as the restoration, the 311 is always a mechanism that can go and we can go out and look at that and see if there's anything further the utility company needs to do.

But the principle is they need if they damage while they're doing their work, they need to repair it, and that's what we can tell our constituents, and we can hold uh you will help us all the time.

Yeah, so they uh for all practical purposes, they need to restore whether it's the road, sidewalk, driveway to the condition it was prior to that.

It's not exactly achievable because you do have the cuts and things like that, but to the best they can they need the restore.

Well, are you looking at those pictures when they're done their work?

That's something that you would scrutinize when you look at it and see how it's gonna be.

Yeah, so we can say we see uh the the patch that looks good, but the striping is not there.

What about they say that we like that before before I've got that?

Okay, councilman.

Okay, anyone else on that topic?

Let's move to Seuss.

All right, I'll uh take sewers back over.

Uh the 2020 bond is uh fully um allocated, and we're just waiting for some invoices to spend that completely down.

Nice.

Yep.

Uh 2025 sewers.

Um, we have been working pretty heavily over the winter.

Um we have just awarded a 1.6 million dollar contract uh to upsize pretty majorly uh drainage at the southern end of Blackstone Boulevard.

There's a low point in a uh the end of watershed for a major major um watershed upstream.

Um it's almost like it's five to six acres, just a huge amount of runoff coming through.

Um that'll upsize and make all pipe sizing at the end, uh, same size and able to accommodate flows there.

Uh southern end of Blackstone Boulevard does flood even kind of moderate rains, uh, but we've seen severe rains where it's very damaging to uh to both city infrastructure and private infrastructure.

Um we're also working on, and this has uh been a project that's been around for uh a little bit.

There's a sewer that runs through the Butler Hospital campus.

Uh we have an easement that goes through there.

Um that got held up pretty significantly uh at CRMC.

Um we're still needing final permitting.

However, we've had a little change of approach recently.

We think we can do this uh less invasively for less money and be less impactful to sensitive ecological areas.

Um so we're exploring and we're pretty close to finalizing an approach for a horizontal drilling where we can open pits in three places and do the same thing that we require us to do open excavation for 2500 feet.

So what we originally had allocated for about three million, we think we can do for about 2.5.

Yes.

Yep.

So we're uh gonna finish that concept.

So we got a meeting this week to finalize our approach and get that into final design and uh permit again.

Um we're beginning our third round of sewer system evaluation and study, um, which will see us come through cleaning uh CCTV, the sewers and come up with repair plans uh for that.

And now we have budgeted over the next uh three years about one million dollars.

And that's gonna be matched with about four to five million dollars of repairs.

Um, some of these findings are critical and we have to address immediately, which we do.

Um, anything that's not critical, we'll wait until the end of a um a section or the end of the program to figure back or figure out what's most critical for us to address with those dollars after that.

Uh we're trying to preserve as much as we can before we have to dig and excavate.

Um we also have a pot of money in there for emergency seal repairs that come up.

Um, these are coming up daily, although we minimize them.

The more we do this work, the more we're we're minimizing these expensive critical uh repairs.

Do we have any more wood sewer line wood pipes?

I guess.

I know the water or the water system had wood pipes.

I'm not aware of any wood pipes on the sewer side.

I know we have stone.

Um wood pipes still in the city province and various places.

I can't uh I'm gonna I'm gonna defer to Providence Mortar on this one.

Okay, I'm not aware of any on the uh mistake.

I get that question all the time.

I figured while I was sitting here, I think it's in the Providence Mortar Museum in their lobby.

Uh yeah, uh, Councilman Michael, yes.

In reference to sewers, um, an ongoing issue that we brought up to you is the one on Hamilton Street, which is uh always a dispute between uh Providence sewer and uh Iron Kansas Bay.

Has there been any progress on those um conversation?

Is there strategy or plan uh to address that uh flooding and and and mitigating the situations there?

So this is this pertains to flooding nuts.

Uh we have some sinkholes over there, which are NBC attributable.

I think we finally got to the bottom of that and they accepted responsibility.

Um I don't believe NBC has taken action any further on Hamilton Street.

Uh, I think their constraints are many of many of their nodes where the city meets NBC.

Um has there had any conversations besides that?

Because they it got to the extreme where Maragasabay had to go in there and really address the issue after three or four sinkholes.

But this is ongoing through industry.

Has there been any uh conversations or any plans?

I haven't had any further conversations with um our sewer superintendent who mostly works on the maintenance of sewer systems, may be in touch with them.

Um I can follow with them and get back to them.

That'd be great.

Thank you.

All right, let's continue.

Councilman Mario says a question.

We I see a lot of uh copy or in these sewers.

Is not not submission in charge of these to repair these sewer.

I'm sorry, uh you see a lot of like I say that we have we invest in a lot of money to these sewer, right?

But we don't want it.

There's not is not a massive acclamation.

No, so we uh we're not investing in area into Bay Commission's uh sewer infrastructure.

Uh we have enough of our own.

Um, and are we charging them to reduce them?

Are we charging them?

Uh no, they charge you though.

I know that that's what that's the question because you use it not only one, but they charge it for two.

That's right.

So we don't we don't receive uh any user fees for our sewer or stonewater systems, right?

We're an unfunded sewer and stonewater system.

About 450 miles, 30,000 manuals and catch basins.

The CIP is our only capital uh funds that come through.

Starting we have to start working at how we can get some progress because they send a bill to you if you don't have to pay them.

It's not fair for us, but that's where it's to be bailed to the sewer line when we don't get no benefits.

They get a little benefit.

Thank you.

Okay.

You're all set on sidewalks.

Sidewalks.

Okay.

I'll start and I'll get to the small contractor with these.

So counsel and volume has a question, but just letting you know.

Um, so under the sidewalks, um, a couple things.

One is there's the uh the 2017.

I just want to point out that crystal maybe we can help this.

So there was an original allocation under 2017 that got spent down, I think, prior to 2020.

And then I think um some other money from other places in the CIP got got put in there because it was out of convenience.

Correct me if I'm wrong, I don't really know.

I think there are other unallocated spent that kind of got put in.

So I just want the original allocation we had prior to say 2021 uh was spent down, but then in a good sense, extra money kind of um made its way to the sidewalk line items, and now we're working with uh Crystal and Stephanie now to figure out exactly how much of that is so we can spend it down.

Uh you know, it'll be the first monies we we try to um get out the door.

And that's still on that Chris just said fairly confident that we were going to have spent before June 30.

That's that's what our goal is.

Okay.

Um but so we're trying to do that now.

I think there's um we use a little bit of that money.

So our last year's uh over the last two years, the the DPW project that used some ARPA funds, you some CIP24 funds, you some pretty much funds from a lot of places includes the ride on um reimbursable funds.

So that we anticipate being spend down and we'll you know, if if there is anything that that is left, we will work to spend that as quickly as possible.

Um and as you can see, actually, the actuals of fiscal 25 do indicate that the department has been prioritizing funding this 17 dollars in advance of the indoor bond money.

So again, we're working on potentially reallocating POs and shifting things around.

So we're getting the oldest dollars out first, but that is a priority for all involved in this process.

Um so the 2020s is just sort of some some final remaining.

There was some uh small amounts there that were reconciling and that it shouldn't be an issue.

Okay.

Um for the 2025, is as I mentioned.

So some of the dollars from the the DPW's recent project, some of those dollars were spent um in conjunction with the ARPA funds and things for this large sidewalk project we had throughout all wards in the downtown area over the last two years.

That wrapped up um for that wrapped up pretty much late last year, just a few punch list items on that.

Um we are gearing up.

Um we have two contractors on board for sidewalks this year for the 25.

We're doing the same approach, we're gonna look at the busy corridors.

Uh we'll be getting correspondence out to council, just letting them know the areas we're evaluating.

And once we're working out with our contracts, we have an air dance improvement and hard for paving or assisting us in getting sidewalks done to the tune of about four million dollars.

We have them for, I think, under contract for this year.

Um, some of the challenges that we're looking for is we've tried to work with Providence Water and Rhode Island Energy to figure out where do we need to come in before them for their work or where do we wait till next year?

So the schedule is largely driven by our contractors of what works best for their logistics and the utilities as far as which wards or which areas of the city that we're going to um do first and progress through.

So we'll be sharing some of that in the next few weeks.

I think sidewalks will probably be getting started now if the weather's nicer, probably as early as next week.

Um, there's also some other things that we're preparing for.

One is uh ADA improvements.

So I know traffic is been had a lot of requests for crosswalks.

When you put a crosswalk in, you have to put curb ramps.

So some of the dollars have been reserved to try to identify those.

We put curb ramps in where crosswalks are needed.

Um we're still working through the details of of some of those and as requests come up over the next year or so that we'll be seeing if we have the money to program that.

Um, there's also some of the budget has been assisting uh the the school um public properties with sidewalks in front of schools.

So if there's a school project and some sidewalk needs some of the CIP dollars have been reserved to assist them with that and do the improvements.

Um and then as far as the side small sidewalk, we've had discussions about the need for when individual repair, you know, three on ones come in or uh you know, a sidewalk that's not part of a figure project where you wouldn't get one of the larger contractors to be cost feasible to come in and just do a one-off repair where DBW crews might have too many that where they to try to assist them to get them done.

We're looking at trying to do a blanket contract or some of some form to um solicit interest from smaller contractors that can react quicker and do smaller repairs more economically.

So we've met with the councilman Vargas and uh a representative of the the contractors uh group or um to try to go with some of the challenges are so we're still looking at that.

We trying to get projects to keep the other the larger projects moving while we're still with that some of the challenges I think you heard that came out of that is payment time frame and other things that you know these these are small contractors are as years the bigger contracts to deal with you know two to three month payment cycles or bond you know bonding requirements always so it's a matter of trying to figure out how do we get them in place in a way that's effective so that our highway you know or DPW or the the highway division can get a cost from them and get them out there with a fairly quick turnaround.

So we're still working on that.

It's gonna take a little bit of a little bit more time to try to get that in place from what we discussed in the or what we were hopeful for in the first meeting.

Okay.

Okay uh one council the sidewalks near the parks who's responsible for those ones.

So if it's within the public right away that would fall under DPWs.

If it's within the park itself, that would fall under parks.

Sometimes we'll work together with parks to have both sidewalks if you want that you might float it's a lot and that I mean there is there's a few in our current program as few parks that we've I we've identified that have similar issues where the the sidewalk along the park is um in need of attention.

So if you know that contact me if we don't have it programmed we can at least put it on our radar for future what's that more I can though okay okay please continue film I'm sorry and see quick question maybe it's like a trick how do we make uh higher ends our ones that finishes um so we just had a recruitment for that we had two positions open um we it's been a struggle to get people with the proper qualifications frankly um but our highway superintendent was very um excited because we had two really qualified candidates I just signed off on one of them today and the other one failed to space CI so we should have one maybe the second one so the second one we can't hire because they failed the BCI.

So again the second one we cannot hire because it we're not allowed in the nature of this BCI we can't hire him.

So we'll remote try again okay thank you we can speak to oh I'm sorry council uh counselor thank you um I have a question with regards to um some of the repairs that are have already been done but they've been done with asphalt to kind of just um secure the areas in the meantime um just kind of wondering when the meantime gets repair so if sorry if you're referring sorry if you're referring to when you if it's a utility no I'm talking about sidewalk specific um so sometimes there is a lift in the sidewalk as a result of a tree oh so okay and they use the um asphalt to help kind of offset while there's larger plan to put in place or something.

So what we what our highway division will do if we get a 311 and other things these are ones that are not part of so the engineering projects tend to be the long linear larger projects where we can bring in one of the the larger contractors and get them through there to make the the repairs needed along a certain stretch where it's individual repairs um based on what our uh ability react and our whatever if we have a contact clue where we're waiting to hire people they will do what they call make safe repairs and a lot of times they might remove a panel and put asphalt behind it until they can get until some point in the future when we can be able to come back and do a more permanent repair.

So on a lot of those the the temporary asphalt repair being the amount of requests we get in for those and other things doesn't make it as feasible with you know our current crews to be able to go back and do a more permanent but they do track that through the asset essentials and 311 system in hopes that we can at some point go back and do those repairs when we get some of those that might be in an area when we come through with a city a larger project will capture those at that point in time but those are on the busier corridors where a lot of what I think you're referring to is probably on the more residential ones and and they're not areas that that we're we're targeting for the the large scale high areas.

So I don't probably need the answer you wanted but it it's very difficult for us to go back in a lot of cases to make those carbon and and many of them are probably attributable to tree routes as well which adds another layer of do we take the tree down is not a preferable thing or how do we work around the tree.

Whereas if we have a tree conflict with a route and we don't want to we can get around it, we might put concrete up to a point and then asphalt along the backside of tree.

Usually we try to alert property owners if it's residential something, we're doing that because a lot of times it's not looked on favorably from an aesthetic standpoint, but from a trying to keep the tree and make it walkable.

It's something that we found is more cost effective where it's just gonna keep popping concrete panels up.

And if it's asphalt, it gives us longer time before there's a need to come back for a safety improvement, and it's something that if it's asphalt, it can be pulled out and put down for every easy and inexpensive by our own curves.

There's a couple of the things you'll see, but uh both of what you're saying is just the big safe repairs.

Just a quick follow-up.

Sure, thank you.

So do because this question will come up with neighbors is essentially we don't have a plan to come back once they've already done that.

And in most cases, and residential in most cases we're trying to make it safe, but then we're reacting to more requests that come in after that.

So I do think we retract those, and in some cases we will get back to fix those by a whole lot of numbers.

The the temporary main safe is there longer than we would like to see.

Okay.

Okay, let's roll along now.

What's that?

Yes, we uh subtracting.

Yeah, we'll move into the uh traffic engineering thing section.

This is CIP.

Good to see you too.

Um, so there are a few traffic engineering related lines in the um CIP.

Uh there are two allocations that were approved by the PPBA board last year for staff overtime.

This is work above and beyond the typical workday of um DPW staff members.

Uh, there has been 216,000 dedicated to overtime for citywide traffic calming initiatives, uh, an additional 40,000 dollars due to due to um available for traffic engineering related initiatives.

Uh, Need, could you just walk me through and the um um council what those what those staff are doing while they're working on that overtime?

Right.

So um, I think it it's probably helpful to just distinguish between what traffic calming is and what traffic engineering might be in terms of the the funding.

Traffic calming is basically infrastructure to reduce the could be cut from traffic, most of the complaints that we were addressing or speed.

Um so um a lot of what was spent last year was a combination of um some of the the office staff time to review a lot of the requests.

Um as you know, there's a traffic county policy that that reviews requests and they're approved or not approved based on the criteria, and then it goes through temporary measures and then public meetings and then final um final uh traffic calming installation.

So um use that and also um some time for overtime for the highway department to to install uh uh temporary measures such as rubber speed bumps.

Um we spent a lot less last year on the highway department.

They seem to have the ability to do a lot of that on regular time.

So um that was that was good to hear.

Uh traffic engineering if you see before you haven't spent a lot on that.

That's basically traffic engineering is really a lot of what we're funding some of these projects are a lot of it's a lot of traffic signal uh equipment improvements um that we can't do with our with our one signal foreman that we have.

We have to hire a contractor to approve a lot of um outstanding traffic signal uh infrastructure improvements.

Um it also includes studies that we do for um for signal optimization, uh safety studies, uh certain traffic safety devices such as flash and crosswalk signs, school zone signs, uh traffic feedback signs uh that tell you speed, those are the permanent ones.

Um and um, so that's kind of the difference between traffic timing and traffic engineering.

Uh so the overtime really hadn't met the need for the traffic engineering projects yet.

So um you know we are also we also hired a project manager that we share with the traffic engineering shares with the curbside department who will be able to help uh in managing um some of those traffic engineering traffic helming projects as they go through design and construction.

signs school zone signs uh um driver feedback signs uh that tell you your speed those are the permanent ones um and um so that's kind of the difference between traffic timing and traffic engineering uh so the the overtime really haven't met the need for the traffic engineering projects yet so um we we are also we also hired a project manager that we share with the traffic engineering shares for the curb side department who will be able to help uh in managing um some of those traffic engineering traffic helming projects as they go through design and construction um uh yes certainly so then uh i'm not sure if you want to talk through what the plans are with the um allocations for traffic homing and then traffic engineering as far as the actual work and not necessarily the staff right components yeah so the the um the activity code 390 012 oh i'm sorry 01820 traffic and calming and subsequently dash 25 traffic calming are are basically for infrastructure traffic coming there is some money in there for temporary measures um we we do have a pretty uh pretty significant stockpile of temporary rubber speed lumps every year we have to buy hardware and and uh to install them uh but most of that money is really for the installation of the permanent asphalt speed lumps can i just ask a question once we put when we repay of the street please tell me about putting temporary speed bumps on replay street are we are we still doing that um because does it depend to the road yeah it depends depends on if it's something that's recently approved because the the you know the the process does have a step in there to put temporary measures in so um we um you know if it does you know if it's something that's been improved as you know that that process was approved a year or two ago so um um was approved traffic calming we we do we do put some temporary methods on there so I don't know that a lot of times that we I can't think of any that we've put temporary ones or something that's been uh okay newly paid I hope there's a some type of control to you know do do a double check yeah um because it does damage the row immediately so I trust that you're monitoring that appropriately I didn't mean to interrupt we have we got a lot to get through tonight so I'm gonna ask that we can okay um sure so I mean it that it's a you know the the two traffic coming options are basically uh mostly for the permanent measures infrastructure measures uh we're we've we if you look at the options for certain traffic timing you have speed lumps are are the most cost effective measure and if you look at some of the data in terms of um the effectiveness it's it's even better than the national you know some of the the studies we've done internally in the city it's a 52 percent reduction and the frequency of speed so it's they're they're very effective you know I don't not everybody's favorable but that's why we have the process um so traffic engineering um if you'll look at some of the next um three items uh for traffic engineering are our combination of uh traffic state improvements like we said um some some studies that we're gonna be doing we are going to be um performing um as much as we can with the funding uh some signal optimization and phasing and timing studies are we're gonna do um we've identified the the two service roads or John J.

Partner way and Dave Gabbett way as a good candidate for a corridor study there um we're also doing some other intersections in the city uh to try to optimize signal phasing and timing and also to try to find the possibility to put some pedestrian friendly uh phasing in there such as uh the pedestrian interval which we've implemented in most uh signals in the city and also exclusive pets um we're also doing um as we said a lot of safety signing the the flashing crosswalk signs at crosswalks um that we we've installed we've installed about school zone signs of around eight schools in the city last year um we we kind of we had a lot of traffic data around the schools and we kind of found the highest areas around those schools and we installed the last school zones there and we'll we'll continue to put some of those safety signings uh based on some data that we have to to find who the best candidates for those safety devices are um sweet um so we've um we're also um we're we're we're there's a need to adhere to the the latest American disabilities act and one of the measures there that that relates to traffic signals is is the requirement to put in uh what's called accessible penishment signals and it's really for the herring impaired so we're still trying to get from the federal government the details of where you need to do that but we've allocated some money in there uh to install those and we anticipate we're gonna have to do those where we're gonna put those is still uh to be determined um we've also um I think about the traffic signal and optimization study um there's a so we've uh um a lot of our studies are we've used the plane department has done a very good job this past year to do a safety and accident analysis that really ranks a lot of the cost

Um we've also um I think about the traffic signal and optimization study.

Um there's a so we've uh um a lot of our studies are we've used the plane department has done a very good job this past year to do a safety and accident analysis that really ranks a lot of the high accident or high safety uh roads in intersection of the cities, and we can we kind of looked at that and we looked at um the road safety order that we did at the Douglas and Admiral Street intersection, and we've allocated some money uh because that it ranked very high in terms of safety issues in the city throughout the city, we've allocated some money to do a preliminary design there based on some of the recommendations in the road safety order that was done a couple years ago.

So that's allocated there.

Um about that.

So and um yeah, I think that's generally um that's what a lot of those those last three items are for.

Uh we do have we do have a specific plan of a lot of specific locations.

Um but generally those are the um those are the uses of those files funds.

Right.

Questions?

Council um well right now.

Is there a room there for you to address uh two things?

One um as far as traffic calming and addressing the safety on on Broad Street.

Um has there been any allocation or any plans for that?

Then the other one is um the the uh the downtown here near Hemingways.

Is that um South Main Street?

Yeah, is that also being addressed or or is that been put on home?

What can you speak to those?

Yeah, well, we just we just saw uh asphalt speed lumps on on South Main Street, yeah.

At Hemingways, yeah, on the other side where it was uh problem uh Southwater Street or Southwater, bike lanes, yeah.

Southwater Street.

Yeah, I I think the planning department has something coming out in the spring.

Okay, they just want to bike lanes of post people.

Yeah excuse me.

Are you done, Mr.

Councilman?

No, not yet.

He's okay.

Yeah, in terms in terms of Southwater Street, yeah, there is a planning department project that's um right.

Yes, uh yeah, yeah, I think that's that that's scheduled that should be soon, but um, so that's that's not Southwater Street that will take the they're gonna be putting back two lanes of traffic there.

So that's not that's to have to do with the they're actually doing they're doing some traffic coming in there too as part of their project.

Okay, yeah.

Something I reviewed, but I didn't um it's it's being managed by the department.

They're managed by what the playing department.

Okay, yeah.

And uh the one on Broad Street.

So Broad Street, um I think I think the issue there that we've we we've struggled with is some of the the bus islands so forth.

Um I think that's something that we've we've mentioned, but it's not specifically funded is is to try to we we've looked at a number of ways to put sign in some flex posts on on the on the bus islands.

Um some have lasted some haven't.

Um as far as the the other thing we could look at um it sounds like funding, but doesn't mean we can't do it is maybe doing some type of striping um ahead of those bus sides to better alert people or direct people away from hitting them.

Um but anything in terms of anything to kind of reversing the project out there in terms of the bus islands, there isn't anything that I have planned for that, or that's limited in my funds that are marker.

So just to be clear, no funding for that area, right?

Um and no yet, no plans for that.

Yeah, I think I think something that that we committed to uh that's probably in the traffic engineering's signal list is um to possibly look at some striping ahead of those um and then just the last one to try to direct not to hit that work to alert them a little bit more that we do have a striping budget and operating budget, it's it's pretty significant.

So if that's something we could look at in terms of that, um it shouldn't be a large cost item.

So um, I think it's just kind of us initiating that and maybe not so much the funding because I think we do have pretty good size striping budget.

Let's stick with the uh planning this before Rose Room, you know, asks for Dell and Road that we can talk about because we could be here all night.

Right.

Um, just wanted thank you.

Yeah, and that's it.

I mean again, just for those those islands are the responsibility of the city.

Yes.

Yeah, okay.

That's all okay.

Thank you, Councilman Pashau.

Councilman, thank you.

Um we still have that one to be done.

These columns.

Yeah, I I have to uh that wasn't done because of planned gas piling.

I have to have a look at look to see what that is.

There's about five um streets that we attempted to do last year, but we couldn't do because of planned utility projects or ongoing utility price, but I have to see where they are.

Talk to their project a little bit in terms of one that may be uh coming and see if it makes sense to go ahead and it or we're just wait for them to be finished.

So I need to get back to the question.

How much money do we have from the speeding for the traffic light cameras?

How much money do we have on hand to rebuild these speed lumps?

Um it's well it's if you're the plan for using the traffic harming safety fund, you know, the 35% or 70% of revenues.

Um the the actual uh uh traffic harming, the speed lumps are paid by the CIP.

We there are other items that are CPUs are used.

Well, we we're using it, it's just not used for speed lumps, it's used for other other safety items.

Uh yeah.

Okay.

Are you guys done?

Do we wrap up on this topic?

I believe so.

The only other remaining lines in this um capital budget are their OPM and CM.

Maybe you have staff that are paid by the city of Soviets and reimbursed by the spawn.

They are project managers um and included in our classification.

Wonderful.

Um excuse me, Madam Chair.

Thank you.

Um, I believe the parks department is up next.

Uh Nelson is ready to come back to learning.

I'm just gonna have response.

So we're um going a little slow here.

So I'm hoping that we can pick up the case.

Um we can get through wherever we can.

And again, this is intended to be the resistance projects.

Oh, oh, yes, that's good.

Um, we like to uh swear in Director Nelson.

She arrived a little bit later than some of us.

Please please raise your right hand.

That's the testimony you're about to give is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

And please state your name and your title for the record.

Wendy Nelson superintendent of parts.

Um so I think at this point in the game, Lendy knows these projects probably better than really anybody else in the city of having.

So I'll let her go through this list and provide updates based on where she's at, but we might um and then if you guys have any questions on numbers, I'll be happy to prefer.

All right, I'm just gonna get going and you stop me when you need me.

Has that sounds?

So A Hong Way is well underway.

Um utilities are under construction.

I believe those might actually be done by now.

Um, and then the project itself for the skate park, that's gonna start hopefully uh going out to bed later in the fall that has nothing can't do start any of that work until the construction is done there.

Um so that's where that's going.

Um Arduine uh Art Wing Park uh projects are um in our design queue.

Um Ashen Street Park is under contract for fencing and trees.

Billy take Billy Taylor Park is um advertised yesterday uh for the umpass there, but that's a 739 um uh thousand dollar project that includes the water park and playground.

Um cabral park was just awarded yesterday.

I mean, just um the bids came back yesterday, and we're gonna award it uh at the next cycle.

That is the water park playground field, basketball court, all that good stuff over there.

The bids came back on budget, miraculous, wonderful.

Um, city center improvements.

Um that is um all of those are underway.

Um, and uh we're gonna be doing some work around the papers there, city center rink.

We're doing coming down on some punch list items there, which is uh flooring and uh lighting and uh uh smaller things like that.

City center water parks, we're down to about 36,000 in that.

That has been used for almost every single water park in the city, including two new water parks at Obadiah and Father Lennon.

Um will be open in plenty of time for this summer as well.

Uh Columbia Park improvements are under design development.

Gainell Park, the bids came in uh yesterday also.

That's going to be awarded for 833,000 with some blended funding on creative funding on that.

General Street Park improvements, that uh that project is done.

Uh and uh Georgia Rougeau Park is um going out to bid on May 4th.

George West Park um improvements that is currently under construction at a total project of 783,000.

Gladys Potter, it's a very small amount that is going to be used to purchase some replacement equipment.

India Point Park, that project for that phase is done.

We're actually on to phase two using ARPA and other grant money.

I think we got 1.2 million dollars in grant money.

So that phase two is actually going out for bid at uh sometime this month, early April.

And that um that is also doing uh permitting simultaneously.

So that is great.

That's for the eastern end, also known as the um the software field area, and the adaptive coastline there.

It's gonna be pretty incredible.

Um Idol French, that is under contract, and if they haven't started, they should be starting any day now.

Uh Joe Williams Park, that is also under contract for base uh for the field.

They are starting, I believe they were going to start today or next week.

Um everybody was waiting for the snow to melt.

Everywhere.

Uh John O'Brien Park, also known as Regent Park, and James O'Brien Park is under construction also.

Uh, that is moving along swimmingly.

Jocelyn uh playground uh is is done, but it's Josh and Water Park right now that is under construction.

That also will be ready for brand new park this summer.

Uh Carrie Coring, that is in design development.

MASHPOG, um, this is combined with the Murphy Trainer one.

We were able to get a $950,000 earmark to re renovate all the trails, Oland, uh MASHPog, uh, the MASH bog park, uh ponds and uh West uh the uh the reservoir triangle.

So that's gonna do a trail improvements in trainer, made the Murphy Trainer Park and also um uh what's known as the Garden House, and also make that a stormwater center.

So really exciting things happening there.

Miguel Luna Park is well under construction, and that's also gonna be ready to debut for the summer.

And hopefully, those kids at Sacket Street School who have been so incredibly patient.

Uh I talked about Murphy Trainer, you know, burial ground improvements is under contract for a master planning.

Um, and hopefully we'll get some good design development sometime in the next two months and go out to contract over there.

Uh Pastory Park, uh, those improvements are complete.

Peace and Planning Park is under is in the uh community engagement uh end of the design development phase.

Uh Pleasant Valley Park that is on under design development that is going out to bid for an engineer for six uh six one.

Uh we're super excited about that.

Uh Richardson Park, that project is down to the punch list of some things that um you know, plantings and things like that that didn't get done, as well as the field is being re is being seeded and such, and the seat the uh the field will be ready in 2027, even though the work will be done hopefully in the next month or so.

Riverside park is under design development, and there's a community meeting um on that.

Uh Roger Williams Park, uh, that is a lot of road work, storm water, buildings, and also the boardwalk, which is going to be complete uh by the end of June, hopefully a month earlier than that.

Uh the Roger Williams Park Sioux, that is their education center that is well under construction.

I think everybody's had an invitation out there to uh see that in in action.

Oh my gosh, did I already go through that?

And then uh Session Street Park is uh under the design development uh community engagement.

They are um they're there now engaging with the community on that one, and also have a follow-up meeting with uh councilman Councilwoman Davidson uh on Thursday.

Uh Wandsteck House, that is uh under design and community engagement, and the only delay on that has been that we uh wanted to walk the area with neighbors, and we weren't able to do that until now.

So that is happening in early April.

Uh the Warren F project is under design development.

Um that is April 1st, should be going out to bid.

Um, and the water place walkways um and the stage and such, that is almost done.

I don't know if anybody's seen the stage down there, but it is spectacular.

It just needs two more codes of the uh the performance coding on the stage, which we need nights of over 50 degrees to be able to do.

So that's been the holdup down there, and that is all she wrote.

Wow, phenomenal, Wendy.

If you could just refresh my memory, I'm sorry.

Arduine and Joe Williams, what are they doing over there?

Uh so Arduine is um uh they're doing some ball field improvements over there and uh some playground and some fencing over there, and uh Joe Williams is doing uh fencing and uh doing some field work over there.

Okay, so that'd be really good.

And last quick question, when they're doing the Murphy trainer uh uh trails.

Are we gonna try to connect that to that wall?

That is the goal is to be.

Because you can get down, it's not clear.

Yeah, and some of that is ADA access.

Well, we're not gonna be able to do that, so you'd have to put switchbacks through, but as much as we can, and then going off-road to connect to JT Owens with signage and things like that, so that you can say if you walk this way, you can reconnect the parks and hopefully we get this appreciation for all the water around NASHPOG.

All the water and all the trails, which are which are impassable, you know.

And uh, so that's that's a super exciting project.

And while we do that too, we're also gonna be addressing a couple of the stormwater um because the fences in the community.

Um, so being able to do that.

So they'll put some benches over there like people can sit.

I know there's one.

Yeah, we're we're gonna we're gonna make markets.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

All right, thank you.

Anyone else?

Councilman.

Thank you.

Uh going back to directed to Jocelyn right on you say that is done.

No, it's not done.

No, you say it's done.

Is that done?

You said then you don't mind saying this splash of water is coming up.

I know that the splash water is coming up, but the the futsal is not done.

No, no, no, no.

The footsal is not done.

I said the play, the play area, the two to five play area is done.

The footsal was not part of the uh SIP funding.

We got we did other funding for the uh foods all over there.

So that is that's why I wasn't recording on that.

But the footsall is um we wrote to them earlier this week.

They got back today, they're waiting for the days that are over uh for 50 degrees.

They think it's within the next two weeks that we're gonna have that, that they're gonna be able to come down from Canada to do that field.

That's not part of the CM.

Okay.

And when we want to be standing doing the splash water, the water splash.

The splash pad should be done by by plenty of time for summer.

Yeah.

Please bring a side.

425,000 of what we plan to do there.

Well, that is one of the things that Sam is going to be at the community meeting with you to hear about that.

But the the there are four play areas there.

So we're hoping to concentrate on one or two of them.

Uh, we just did um uh one or two of those area in the budget is actually 475,000 over there.

Um, and uh as you know, it's a brownfield site.

So the any work that we do there is incredibly expensive and requires permitting.

So we're gonna be focusing on one of the major play areas, reviving that, and we may have enough funding, and we're but we're looking at some other options to possibly do um another smaller player area as well.

So Sam has done what's called the base plan developments, the surveys, he brings all of that to the community meeting, shares some options, some things that things might look like, gets feedback from the community, incorporates all that into this line, and we do that a few times, and um, and so he's looking forward to going to your meeting on that.

I believe that one is tomorrow.

Tomorrow, yeah.

Tomorrow since the you'll be able to shape another question.

Last one.

I don't see these park, gardens street playground, and James Ampers.

Well, Nathan is not finished yet with the the footzall field.

Yeah, we we discussed that we need to put like high fence to protect the boards and that go into the playground.

Okay, yeah, we don't we don't have any funding on that.

That's not something that we're addressing here in the set.

So that would be a outside of the CIP that's before us, yeah.

Is that some project you want to work on?

Happy to work with you on it, and we'll figure it out.

Okay.

Okay.

All right.

Anything else relative to the CIP that's before us?

Councilman Kershaw.

Just on the Miguel uh memorial recruitment park where we talked about the field.

Is that um gonna be reseeded and reconnected in terms of water?

Yeah.

And that's gonna be ready for we're helping ready to type.

So we're doing all that work in-house because we don't have any additional planning for that.

Thank you.

Our guys can do as good a job as they possibly can.

Sounds good.

Thank you.

Councilman Peterson, you have a question?

No, no, no.

Thank you.

Fabulous work.

You made us very proud we have this park system.

I think any municipality.

Thank you.

And I like when I hear people say that they love to come to Providence because every park they visit is always such a treat.

Make each one special.

So thank you for the hard work that we do for all of our students.

Thank you so much.

So thank you.

Our plan.

Okay, what's next, Christopher?

We've got the planning department next.

So much perfect.

All right.

Chris, I'm not sure if who's taking a lead here.

All right.

Wonderful.

Go ahead.

All right.

So I am not gonna be as fast as Wendy and as a patient as Linny, but I'll try.

Okay.

Um so I'll just go down the list and uh you can stop me if you have any questions.

So the first line, uh Cathedral Square.

Uh, these funds have been used are being used for our make safe project in that in that area, uh, using to do investigations for surface and subsurface conditions so that we can get out there uh this spring or summer to fix the some some of the uh uh surface issues that are that are out there.

Uh next line is City Walk.

Uh these funds are being spent down uh by the end of this fiscal year for improvements on existing bust islands on Broad Street.

So to the question that came up earlier with Nate, uh this funding will be used to uh to go towards that to bring them up to city and rip the standards.

Uh the next item.

Uh these are match funds for a state uh department of environmental management uh or recreation grant.

Uh these are match funds for that grant.

If we get that, which we should be hearing about that very soon, um, those will be matched for acquisition and design and development for um Met Nav uh shared use path.

Say that again, Matt and Navna.

Matt and I've been shared use path.

Yeah.

Uh the next line is um it's another match for our um safe streets and roads for all.

Uh one of our safe streets and roads for all uh grant programs for uh temporary safety improvements for 14 intersections throughout the city.

Uh that's a USDOT grant that we're using this for uh match runs for um next one uh uh off-road shared use paths and trails.

So this is uh in uh this is gonna be combined with the one above with the uh state DEM grant uh to develop the designs for that uh for right now.

Uh next line off-road shared use paths and trails.

Uh so this is um for complementary to what uh what I'll talk about in a little bit, but uh the tar bridge redesign um for this year, complementary to what we're doing for in Onyville for the State Street Smiths for All project.

The next one is another um Cathedral Square line.

Uh so this is being used for the redesign, reimagining uh CP upgrades of permanent future upgrades for Cathedral Square.

Uh, we're currently uh in design with a consultant team uh called Howerson uh for this project.

Um they will be bringing designs.

No, they'll be putting together a master plan for the whole Cathedral Square, but then we'll be doing some near-term interim projects uh with uh with this funding as well.

And then public infrastructure improvements below that.

Uh that is also tied to the the one previous for the cathedral square work.

And then uh the upper south upper South Providence Trinity Square project.

So this was something that um there were designs put together a few years ago, but then there was a lot of utility work that was happening in Trinity Square that delayed any of the implementations.

So we're holding off on that for now.

But we are working with the council member, we're working with the neighborhood uh to make sure that these funds will go towards uh sidewalk and road work when once that utility work is done.

Okay.

Uh the next one is a USDOT raise match.

So that's um two million dollars for uh the design and engineering and final permitting for the river walk and wire place park uh designs there.

Let's it's a match for US DOT uh federal uh federal rent uh leveraging 7.8 million dollars from USDOT and a million dollars from the National Fish and Wildlife Fund.

Next one is the other safe streets match that we have.

So this is for the 2022 safe streets and roads for all from USDOT that we received.

Uh that includes projects on Southwater Street, Broadway, Washington secondary, and the only little square work that we're doing.

And so those projects uh are in various stages, the completion all getting close to or almost finished with permitting and design.

Um mentioned earlier Southwater Street.

We're looking at uh construction on that happening this summer, probably, just due to World Cup, we don't want to interfere with the traffic that will be happening around that.

So we're gonna wait for after World Cup and then uh look to do similar punchation.

Next one with asked the Tucker River Greenway.

Uh so this project is finalizing construction.

We're at substantial completion.

Um just working on the project punch list uh to finalize and close out those activities.

So we're very happy about that in the line.

A project on coming, so we're happy about that.

Good.

Is that it?

That's it.

You can't try any questions?

Um, Madam Chair, actually, there is a project that has been previously attributed to the Department of Public Property that we're actually going to be moving under the planning department in next year's CIP.

Um, it relates to supplementary lighting improvements, and so I think it might make sense to have the planning department discuss that project too, since they're um you know they may dismiss themselves and public property.

Take the final stride.

Yeah, so the the plan itself is so uh the this this funding was for uh supplementary lighting and safety lighting improvements.

Um, and so with that uh we put together a plan for uh lighting uh demonstration projects and uh lighting that could be used, uh you know, starting downtown but then taking that and expanding it throughout the city.

Um so we're working with public properties, working with our lighting consultant uh our lighting um CMK lighting uh who does our the lights in the city, and then we have a consult uh design team that uh is we're working on that as well.

Um so that is nearly complete.

Uh and uh Joe, the next steps on that.

Uh we're doing a couple of demonstration projects on uh how we can utilize the uh light poles in different ways uh in to an extent it's the equivalent of having a light socket every couple hundred feet, thousands of them throughout the city, and that includes the potential to integrate with technology, including expanding uh public Wi-Fi cloud, uh using that coordination with public safety for um camera installations, uh as well as decorative lighting, full color spectrum, uh color-changing lighting for events and uh other types of activity to encourage uh greater visitation to the downtown in line with uh life at night economic development strategy plan.

This is just downtown.

This is the north business corridors and upcoming.

We're prototyping it right now to uh see how it integrates.

It's a novel technology, including the control system uh that will be a subscription system in the cloud that then can allow the lights to be controlled uh independently or collectively through uh something as simple as a phone app.

So uh that's something that once we prove the technology and comfortable with the installation, like the first install we're doing right now.

We have a prototype at the corner of Westminster and Union Street.

Uh, and now we're expanding into a lot of area over here at uh um birdside and built more park that will then integrate with the decorative lighting that was installed by the parks department up and from light uh sales or shade sales.

Um, and that will allow us to do dynamic uh lighting for events, including the full colour spectrum as well as standard default uh position of uh of a warm white light.

We're also talking about lighting quality uh in lighting uh coordination so that we have the same uh temperature quality for the lighting uh instead of variations of uh cool white and warm white.

So it's a it's a Kelvin spectrum, 3,000 calvins, uh which is the standard that we'll be making, uh, and also coordination with uh other third party um grade D recipients, including the Federal Hill area where they're redoing their uh poles and their lighting uh controls on that area as well.

So, an example where it can go beyond the downtown area into other commercial districts, and uh once we have the standards.

Are there dollars in place to move it to every business corridor?

Oh not quite yet, no, no, but we could do very small installations uh with different types of technology, different lighting explorations um in the near future.

I'd like to see in every uh every uh business corridor and everyone that's yeah, I think we're appropriate.

It could be uh a good dynamic generator for community pride as well as development and a greater sense of safety of what's the total dollar?

Uh so right now there is a total project out of it remaining at about 2.5 million.

That's a nice amount.

It's a tiny amount.

I love it.

I think it's on the public property uh report.

Um, so it's it was previously under the department public property, but because the project's being managed by planning, we're gonna be moving it into planning budget.

Yeah, so if I wasn't clear, I think it's a great idea.

I'd like to push it into our labelhoods in some way, shape, or clear.

I don't want it just to be downtown in federal don't no, that's the goal.

Absolutely.

Okay, that's my goal.

Um okay, that's great.

Anything else?

Not from me.

Okay, we're good.

I'm sorry, I'll find some shot of uh to Mr.

Martin.

Martin, real quick.

Um, City Walk is referenced earlier about Broad Street.

What is that?

Um just yeah, so those funds are to be spent on upgrading the bus islands on Broad Street.

Uh and that's that line 390.

394 to 20.

And there's a plan for that.

Yeah.

So we follow up on that example that's been selected, and we're going to review those existing installations and reassess and we can see them in a in a more thoughtful way.

We'll love to follow up.

We could okay.

Are you all set?

Yep.

Okay, next up.

Think of that.

Thank you for money.

Public property.

Last but not least.

Thank you for your patience.

You've been smiling back there.

All right, good in.

I'll try and run through these at a high level quickly, but very good.

So first one Academy A roof replacement.

Uh, we have a contract of our general contractor for the roof, about 1.8 million candidate.

Material has been ordered, delivered.

Uh, but we have some significant issues with the underlying deck that we're gonna have to say.

That's the Academy Ave, uh, 552 Academy Ave, is where our public property like operations folks mobilize out of as well as uh police.

Uh okay, south academy, I got it.

Yeah, it's the old uh uh so significant deck issues we're gonna have to eat into.

There's about 600,000 remaining on that line to address that.

Um next one is at Wells Avenue Arch.

This one we're actually transferring that funding to the Federal Hill Commerce Association to implement.

Uh, I do not have an update from them today, but I think they're in the planning stages for how to perform that.

Say that again, transferring it to the Federal Hill Commerce Association, they'll be the ones running that project.

And what is the purpose of it?

What's the intention of it?

It's to restore the the pine nut in the arch in the arch boat.

It's a pine nut.

I thought it was a pine, I thought it was a body level.

Yep.

I thought it was a pine.

Uh next one is exciting.

City hall elevator, which I'm sure you've all heard.

Uh the majority of the shaft work and the library is complete.

Otis is now in their kind of final phase.

They're assembling the new cab inside the elevator shaft, uh, starting in April.

So just in a few weeks here.

It's actually going to be delivered tomorrow.

Perfect.

And they're anticipating completion in July and will be fully spent out for this one.

The next one staying in city hall.

This is the roof uh phase one.

So the background phase one is the replacement of the flat roof as well as the uh historic arched slate shingles, the the dark gray shingles and the copper uh detailing pieces.

We're in the final stages of design.

And we anticipate going up to bid uh shortly after that.

Um, so we should have a contract awarded in early summer of this year, 2026.

Uh scaffolding we'll start to see going up, probably in July August time frame.

There'll be significant scaffolding around the building.

Um historic preservation.

I'm gonna get it wrong.

I think it's the state.

I suppose that the state is doing the SHIPO, is that it?

Okay.

So state historic preservation and loss of time.

Okay.

So they have final approval.

The uh downtown design commission, which are friends and planning, we're a part of, are also in the loop, but it's the state historic and really has the final say.

Uh so we're anticipating 12 months for the total duration completion in summer 2020 at this point in time.

Next, we have citywide decorative lighting replacement and repairs to date.

This has been more of uh a responsive uh effort.

We want to make that a more proactive.

So we're working on master planning feasibility study for how we can be more smart and proactive with these repairs replacements before they go out or before they're in need of immediate replacement.

Uh citywide pool remediation.

Similarly, we're working on a master plan.

We have a consultant on board.

Uh we did investigations just uh at the end of last week to look at all our pools.

Uh our work uh for the repairs that come out are likely to take place between so after this summer between the 2026 and 2026.

Uh five that are managed by public property.

Can you name them?

So West End, Igliosi, Zucolo, Rogers, those are all rec centers.

And then the last is Batistini inside.

Sorry, and Davy Lopes, that's six.

Six.

Bad esteem is our only indoor pool attached to the school.

PPSV actually manages right.

Say that again, please.

PPSD actually manages that one.

That's the Batistini, which is attached to Pleasant Rue school.

PBSD manages Batistini pool.

Yes, sir.

Okay.

Thank you.

I'm sorry.

That's the pools.

Next is the communications building.

Uh, this line is fully complete and fully expended uh between interior improvements and some roof envelope improvements.

There's an overage there, but that's covered by other funding lines.

Okay.

Uh next is the Dexter Street Garage, which has our mechanic garage.

Uh, this one's also complete, fully spent, uh, spent on paving for the asphalt lot, as well as a bathroom renovation inside the shop.

Moving along, then we have the fire station general repairs and renovations.

Uh, a couple of lines here.

Uh, and these are based on you're gonna see this come up again in when we talk about future CIP because there's future phases that we want to fund.

We have a full feasibility report that a consultant prepared in the previous year.

Uh, these two funding lines are split into two projects at two of the highest criticality uh fire stations, which are branch and north main street, uh, branch Avenue, North Main Street, and the two projects are roofing replacements at both stations and HVAC replacements at both stations.

Uh HVC, including electric overhaul because we need to go for full electrified systems.

They also include um heavy emphasis on air exchange because a huge issue is the firefighters coming back to the stations with their dirty uniforms.

They offload them, they're breathing in all the harmful gases.

So that's a huge piece of it, part of why those are highest criticality.

Uh, the roofing project covering both stations is out to bid.

Anticipate awarding that contract in April, mobilizing construction in May uh or June.

And then the HVAC project covering both stations is still in design and anticipating a summer bid fall award.

Uh construction, possibly in spring 2027, depending on uh the HVAC equipment that we have to order as part of that.

Uh moving down the next one, two, three, four, five lines.

So you see four general improvements and then hazard mitigation.

These build budgets for public property to draw from for sort of emergent issues, hazards are related to, as you see, electrical envelope and interiors, mechanical plumbing, and then hazard mitigation, hazard mitigation being when we uncover asbestos that's in a state that has to be addressed, uh, as well as typically accessibility improvements.

Hazard mitigation being women cover asbestos that's in a state that has to be addressed, uh, as well as typically accessibility improvements.

Um, so each of those, based on previous year spins, we expect to spin down by the uh close of FY27, uh, recognizing that we're not gonna bond again, likely for most of these in 26.

But in a couple of cases, you will hear from us uh with the next ask that we'll build up some of those budgets as they're getting low.

Um based on our spends.

Uh the next one down is the big one, the new DPW complex, which construction is fully underway.

This involves uh the whole sort of DPW campus down on Allen's Ave.

We're building a new building that's gonna house a new maintenance garage with nine days on the lower level, new crew quarters for the sewer highway uh and maintenance departments on the top level.

Uh a whole overhaul of the lower operational site, so element asphalt, you know, generators, new transfer station.

Um, the existing garage that stands today will continue to stand, but we're gonna replace the roof, which is critical failure.

That's ongoing currently.

Yep.

Uh this also includes um, so we moved the DPW admin department out of their previous building at 700 Allen's, but now on the newly acquired 75 Chapman Street includes some renovations that are needed to that building as well in terms of uh equipment lift, some security improvements for the interior.

Uh so as I said, all of that is underway.

We anticipate completion in like May June time frame of 2027, and we'll be fully spent with both of these lines uh at that time.

Next, we have a uh the PES88 playground.

This one is sort of offloaded to uh fit in line more with our PPSD projects.

Um John, I don't know if you have an update specifically for I mean it's it's three different playgrounds with three different play uh age groups.

Uh one is has been completed, they're waiting for the weather to get a little bit better better in uh just supposed to stop within the next uh couple weeks to finish the other two playgrounds.

Okay.

I'm sorry, Charlie.

I had pleasant view, pleasant school as one of the oh, yeah.

Then on to the next page, we have uh the public safety complex.

This is primarily uh uh project consisting of a roof replacement and then new rooftop HPAC equipment.

The roof portion is done and under warranty with the new system.

HBAC equipment is arriving in the summer, uh, potentially to be installed in the fall, depending on what we can coordinate if the all the various departments on site uh as far as a shutdown.

Uh it also includes a solar installation, it's gonna follow that HVAC equipment.

And then the next line is the public safety garage just across the street.

Uh we're in the planning phase now.

Some of our biggest needs here have to do with the elevator within the public safety garage.

Uh, and there are some smaller portions of structural repairs and isolated spots that we'll be addressing.

So we're in the planning phase working upon those designs now.

The next line, recreation center general repairs, uh spread across three lines.

This is for HBAC uh replacement and electrification at five of our rec centers.

Those are Vincent Brown, Igliosi, West End, Rollins, and Zucolo.

Uh, this also braids funding with uh ARPA for our rec centers, as well as a congressional earmark.

Uh, all are set for completion by July 1st.

And those are gonna have full cooling and heating.

So those also add cooling in the gyms where there previously was none.

Uh we talked about supplementary lighting improvements being offloaded to planning department, and that's it aside from our OPM and C elements.

So while you're working on what are we going to do when uh 28?

So we have more roofs like that.

No, there'll be more roofs to come, and you'll hear from us uh soon in the new CIP ask we'll hear about some of those plans.

And what we want to work on too, you'll see some of these include in a couple of spots 2019 and a couple 2020 funding.

We want to be better about getting our design phases funded in small amounts early, so that then we plan construction later.

It's a little tricky how we juggle that, but that'll help us kind of keep the wheels rolling so that we don't get this huge you know 50 million dollars for DPW and then sit on it for four years while we design and go through all those steps.

Or two.

Um your project rules are a total of the five years VIP, correct?

Yes, go and then your remaining balances obviously the encumbrance, the actual less total.

It's actually not factoring in the encumbrance right now.

So that remaining balance is taking in what was spent in fiscal year, just fiscal year 26 actual expenditures.

I'm not backing out the encumbrance from the remaining balance, but I am showing it as a demonstration coin um so that we're aware that these funds are under our committee.

Do you have bond balances?

Do you mean like cash balances?

Like what do you have bond balances?

Like in your in your 2025, what do you have naming in that bond to cover the project?

So suppose we can't bond with a huge projects.

Yeah.

What happens if that like where are we with that?

Like so the 25 bond dollars have already been apportioned to all of these individual projects.

So these projects are already funded for the five years.

Correct.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, these everything that is on this list is funded.

Anything that's not funded has not been brought forward to discuss tonight because I didn't want to conflate things.

So everything that we've reviewed tonight is a funded project.

Funds have been identified, and we had confirmed many many times that there's sufficient cash in the bank to pay for all of these things.

Well, so we have a lot of we have a lot of money to spend.

Yes.

Okay.

Yes.

Okay, because you didn't look totals at the bottom of each one.

Yeah, I I can do that first.

Um I can do it too.

I guess I have it.

I just didn't have it out.

Yep.

Yeah, and I can give you bank statements too if you want to see see all of that.

That's one of the things we do every every time we look at this is just add up all these projects, look at them by funding source, and ensure that we have sufficient cash to meet all of the needs for everything we've obligated.

So great, yeah.

Uh yes, uh, in reference to the um recreation center repairs.

Um we'll name five.

Yes.

Um again.

Well, uh, Vincent Brown, Igliosi, West End, Rollins, and Zucrow.

And these uh don't have ACs, HVAC.

So all of them had heat currently, some of them had minor spots of AC.

None of them had air conditioning in the gyms.

Uh almost none of our rec centers do today.

So that's being added, but the whole systems are being replaced.

Uh, how many remain remain that uh don't have recreation centers you mean?

Yeah, that's yes.

So we have another three that are covered with CPF grants that are including uh HVAC overhauls, and then in our new CIP, you'll hear about the remaining.

And there may be four of them.

Most are tied to schools, which make them even trickier.

Um, off the top of my head, sack it, Badistini.

I'm gonna lose the rest.

Um Rogers.

Kennedy, which is under construction, so probably wouldn't be included.

So at least those three would be in the new ask.

Right.

So you hear from that.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Well, is anything else you'd like to say, Crystal?

Do you have any department words for us?

No, I would just have to say that I think you know, Madam Chair, but I'm committed for a while.

I think the internal auditor and councilman Taylor had been um the finance department and public property have not previously been able to provide reports of this level of detail and the project's fund at this level of detail.

And while um, you know, Stephanie and I have done a tremendous amount of work to make this possible.

All of these project managers and their administrative administrative staff are really the people who are doing a lot of the work that are feeding into these reports.

Um, and I just have to say I'm so proud to be on this team because when we started this a year ago, a lot of it was a mess, a lot of it was guesses.

We were all working together, and I was preparing a lot of rules, and sometimes the rules were changing.

Um, but whether it was planning or public property or DPW, everybody has always participated and really showed up and and been a team player, and it just really means a lot to me to participate.

So I do think that they uh deserve a little recognition for doing all of these tricky kind of nuanced and sometimes annoying accounting procedures.

Um, so that Stephanie and I can run these reports and show up in these meetings and provide you guys with this level of detail and really provide the taxpayers with with information on why their bond dollars are going.

So I would agree whole hard at the end.

I thank you very much.

This is great work, we're very proud of these values.

Um appreciate your patience.

Um thank you.

Uh that is it for the evening.

Um