All right.

Good evening.

This is the uh May 5th, 2026 meeting of the Stanford Planning Board.

Uh first on our agenda is the planning board meeting minutes from our last meeting, April 28th, 2026.

Um do any members of the board have any questions or corrections for the minutes?

Nope.

No.

All right.

Um hearing none, uh, kind of a motion of approval for the minutes.

Right, we'll move uh motion from Drew, second from chat.

All in favor.

And it passes.

Thank you.

Um first uh on the uh business docket is request for authorization, supplemental capital project appropriation requests.

Um uh the first is capital project closeout recommendations.

Um you want to go ahead and uh introduce yourself for the record to present uh the items.

I imagine they're linked together.

Actually, so if you'd like me to read into the record multiple items, please let me know.

So uh Lou Castleau, City Engineer, I'll present the the items.

Uh you are correct.

The items are uh interrelated and um connected to each other.

Uh just to start off.

Um, I think sorry, Lou for um just let's get let's read them both into the record right now just so we can tie up the ends.

We're good to go when we ready to vote.

Okay.

All right.

Um, so reading into the record the capital project appropriation requests, and the first is capital project closeout recommendations inclusive of transfer station, canal wall replacement, um, and the amount of 2,537,000 federal grant.

Um item two on the agenda, transfer station canal wall replacement project CP 400062, total request of 3,437,000.

Um item three, Stanford High Priority Project.

Oh, not Stanford High.

Okay, just those two.

Okay, got it.

Yeah, those two items one and two.

That's what we're gonna be talking about.

I'll do this as quickly as possible, and I'll try to be as clear as I can.

Um just high level.

Jeremy joined at 633.

Thank you so much, Lou.

Please go ahead.

Okay, no problem.

Um, this project is to basically appropriate funds for the design and the construction uh of a new replacement seawall uh along the east branch of the Stanford Harbor.

This is an existing wall that is in poor condition that supports the solid waste facility and the WPCA if you're familiar with that area.

Um you know currently the wall is uh vintage 19, 1980, 81.

Uh there was a lot of work done there in the mid-80s.

It was done in different phases, but the wall has been hit a number of times, it's um heavily deteriorated and uh eroding um uh significantly.

Uh I've done several needs assessments on the wall back in 19 uh 2019 and also in 2023.

So I'm pretty familiar with its condition.

Um it uh just so you know, um the capital budget appropriation was approved uh on August 5th of 2024 for the project.

Um these funds were that were appropriated were based on an EDA economic development uh grant uh that was being pursued at the time, and at that time the grant split was 8020.

Uh that was you know we're going into this thinking it was gonna be 80 20, and the funds that were appropriated back um uh in um at that time were were sufficient.

Uh since then, uh we've learned that the EDA cost share has changed from 80 20 to 60 40.

Okay, so this is teeing the item up now for the reason why we're here.

So um so currently the the EDA is uh interested in funding the project, but not at 80 20, but at 6040, and they're not going to fund the design.

So that's um, this is what's going to happen in item two.

We're going to talk about that a little bit more.

So the first item is a capital project closeout for CP 400 062 and the amount of two million five hundred and thirty seven thousand in federal grants.

That's basically the 20% uh reduction in the federal share from the uh 80 80 to the 60.

Okay.

You following me so far?

Okay.