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All right, everybody.

We now have a quorum, and we can convene.

Uh Councillor Jonathan Lambert Melton has an excused absence today.

Um, and Mayor Pro Tem Ford is running a few minutes behind, but we'll be joining us, and we are here to talk about the twenty twenty-two Parks Bond update with Shaw Shine Baker and Kelly Ham.

Thank you.

Good morning, Mayor, and good morning, members of the council.

I'm Shaw Shane Baker with Raleigh Parks.

And this morning, my engineering services colleague Kelly Hamm and I are presenting a progress update on the twenty twenty-two Parks Bond project.

And towards the end of this presentation, I'll be giving a brief overview on the annual Parks Capital Improvement Program supported primarily by the Penny Tax Revenue.

First, the bond projects.

The neighborhood and community connections partnership is going strong currently in permitting phase.

We also recently secured pretty substantial partnership with a private developer for the office renovation activation on Dix Park.

In addition to all that, we have received over $800,000 from City Raleigh stormwater program for the implementation of green stormwater infrastructure on some of the bond projects.

We still have a couple in the pipeline and we continue to look around.

With that, I would like to have ask Kelly Ham to uh start talking about the projects.

Thanks, Shashem.

All right, and we're going to talk a little bit about the project status.

And this slide may look familiar to you.

We've used it a few times as we've provided updates.

So as we go down the slide vertically, we have the park bond projects.

And then as we uh go across the top from left to right, we have the phases of the project, starting with early phases like RFQ, planning, schematic design, construction documents through permitting bidding, construction, and finally uh completion.

And our progress uh since our last update to you all, which was in um March, is shown in blue.

And I did want to note even if you don't see an entire phase advancing in blue, we are making a lot of progress.

And we're going to talk about the projects based on the fiscal year.

They were funded a little bit here.

So for fiscal year 24, um, we have one project that is open to the public, and wow, what a wonderful project to be the first one delivered through the park bond or resounding uh success with the Play Plaza.

We've got a couple projects under construction, and then Green Road is in the bidding category.

Um a significant number of the projects uh funded in fiscal year 24 are in permitting.

I won't read all of them, but um for I wanted to point out Biltmore Hills is the farthest advanced.

It's in the um building permit phase, and the remainder are primarily in um site plan permitting.

And the remainder of the fiscal year 24 funded projects are in design, um, as you can see here.

And the fiscal year 25 funded projects are also in design.

So happy to report all the projects are rolled out and in um design or further along phases.

We just wanted to briefly mention some of the ongoing challenges, and this is not to alarm anybody, just to say that we are um anticipating planning for these um factors and trying to work to minimize uh their impacts on our project to the extent we can.

So um some of those challenges are tariffs, um bidding conditions and contractor availability to do the work, increasing costs.

Um there are some projects for which we have federal grants, so we want to be extra careful to make sure that we meet all the requirements for those projects.

And then relocation of impacted services.

So even as we are um planning for design of renovation to some of the community centers, our um parks counterparts are working very hard to put in place plans to um relocate some of those services and to minimize any impacts to programming overall.

And so now we're gonna talk about the dashboard.

And we will see.

Okay.

So um we last provided you an update on the um park spawn dashboard at our last update, and um we wanted to preview it for you today.

So we're calling it the 2022 Park Spawn spending tracker.

And um, I'm just gonna go over it briefly.

You can um pick all projects or you can pick a specific project.

So right now we're looking at all of them.

It has an interactive map here where you can click on um project, so each of these dots represents the project.

And the bigger the dot is um the more bond funding the project has.

And then as we go over here, if I pick a we'll do this in a minute, we'll pick a specific project, but um when we pick that project, it'll tell us what phase it's in.

It tells us what is the total budget.

So this represents the 275 million of bond funds plus any other donations, grants, or other funding for a total of 325 million here.

And then it shows us on the next line how much have we spent from the parks bonds.

So we've spent 55 million, and then um it'll give us for each of the projects individual, but but our goal is to spend down these funds by December of 2029.

And then as you go down farther, um there's a cash flow curve here.

So um we actually so this is how we plan to spend the funding over time.

So the blue line is just that that projection.

How do we plan to spend this 275 million of bond funds over time?

And then the green line here is how much are we actually spending over time?

So the blue line is a projection based on a curve, and the green line is based on actual invoices and pay applications.