Motion to adopt a motion second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Minutes are approved.

Item number one.

New business is approval professional services agreement with Duncan Coker associates for the Jack Warner Parkway, Alabama 297 intersection improvements.

The project total is 272,443.

Bill, welcome.

Thank you.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

So yes, sir.

So for a professional service agreement with Dr.

Coker, this is for the intersection we're describing here, Jack Warner Parkway and Alabama 297.

This is what leads on to the Bryant Bridge.

By way of orientation.

So from City Hall to the project location up to the right there, it's about five miles to the due east situation that we're dealing with here.

Volumes flowing through the intersection during peak morning and afternoon hours just overwhelming some of the available uh dedicated turn lanes and it creates congestion and unnecessary delays.

The objective here is to improve the traffic flow through the intersection by providing some dedicated turn lanes and expanding an acceleration lane, as well as just introducing some separation and organization that'll make the intersection flow more efficiently.

So a bit of an eye chart here.

I apologize for some of the font, but the intention here, and what we're showing to the bottom center and to the left of the graphic.

It's a dedicated turn lane.

There's one that exists there currently, but we'll essentially double the length of that that adds more stacking capacity.

Get the people that are looking to turn left out of the way that are looking to not turn left and carry through and allow the traffic to flow through eastbound more efficiently.

And then uh just above that on the westbound side, adding a dedicated acceleration lane coming off the Bryant Bridge, so that right now uh coming off the bridge, you almost come to a dead stop as you look back to the traffic coming to uh heading from behind you to make sure you're not gonna be running anybody, so we're adding a dedicated acceleration lane there, and then on the right side of the graphic extending some of the separation on the on ramp that goes on to the Bryant Bridge right now.

You have an unnecessary merge, and then it opens back up to two lanes, so no reason to force that congestion.

We can open that back up as well as a couple of dedicated turn lanes coming off of Bryant Bridge and uh heading eastbound.

So, as I said, all this intended to improve efficiency through the intersection and the budget for this is available at the general fund RF5, which was approved in last year's budget cycle.

What's the anticipated timeline, Bill?

Be about a year of design, sir.

Design permitting design and permitting, yes, sir, and then the improvements six months.

Yes, sir.

I think so.

And do we know where the uh the actual road money is coming from as opposed to the design money?

There is some uh additional funding still available in the budget, but we'll have to come through the design to see the final estimated cost, see if that'll be enough to cover.

Yes, other questions, committee member motion motion second, all in favor say aye.

Aye, motion carried in the cycle problem.

Item number two is approval of a professional services agreement with John Galloway for annual bridge inspections, total of 72, 400.

Zach, welcome.

Good afternoon, council.

Good afternoon.

So this is the uh typical uh bridge inspection contract that usually comes from public works, it's now under OCE.

He's not so we'll be taking it over now.

Uh this project will inspect 17 bridges that are due for this year.

Uh he'll inspect them, submit all the paperwork that goes to the out.

So how many bridges do we have?

So it's 46 and a couple, and I know at least one of those is a pedestrian bridge.

So I think that's later on this agenda.

Is that the John Fail?

Uh is that the John Fail pedestrian bridge?

Trying to remember.

Uh Zach Why these 17?

Why are these batched together for this contract?

So it's they get inspected every two years, and some of them, depending on condition, have to do every year.

So it's it's 15 of them are on the every two-year cycle, and two of them are on the every year cycle right now.

So they're set, they're sent by Albot, as these are the ones that have to be inspected this year.

They maintain it in a system that we submit all our paperwork to John.

And is Johnny?

Is that a company or their person?

He's a person, he's a consultant bridge inspector.

He's who's always done the bridge inspections for us.

And if the other 46 is are any of those our responsibilities well?

Yes, all 46 would be ours.

We we inspect City of Tuscalosa responsibility.

Yes, sir.

And how's the price compare with what we normally do?

Uh it's a little more.

Uh I think that it has been in the past, but they recently changed at the beginning of this year.

They actually changed the criteria and made the inspections a little more in-depth, so he has more work he has to do during the inspections.

And for you or Miss Standridge, is this a normal account that we always fund and just draw down from?

Well, this is uh it's an annual contract, so it's always funded out of outside services, and they just utilize the contract until the end of the of the year.

Okay, I'm good.

You good?

Motion.

Thank you.

Mr.

Fail good to inspect it.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay.

All right, got a motion.

Second, all in favor say aye.

Aye.

Item number two is quickly approved.

I number three is approval of a minor public works contract with Dixie painting and sandblasting for tank washing and painting.

The total is 81, 301 dollars, Mr.

Gurney.

Welcome back.

Thank you.

Um so this is for take and washing at 29th Street West End tanks and some touch-up painting, Dixie sandblasting is the same contractor who recently rehabbed our Mercedes tank.

Um this is paid for out of our an operation fund under water server special projects, water tanks, pressure washing line item.

Any questions?

Should take 60 days once we get under contract.

Questions?

How do they do that now?

We get two men up with repelling ropes and going down painting.

We're using drones.

We're running drones up there to spray them.

These are using drones.

I know that this is more labor, because the campus one that we did recently used drones and wouldn't solve that one.

These are taller, so I know they're not using drones.

You do you know any detail on that?

So it it depends on the location of where the tank is.

If we can use water like the university, the tank of the university was more open areas we can use water and and not have to tint the tank and do things like that.

If they're more residential areas, then we have to do more protective measures while we're doing it, so they'll tint the tank and then or put a canopy on it sometimes.

Yeah, like this is a canopy over for over spray or things like that, but and then also depending on the shape of the tank, like the university tank is just vertical with the bowl at the top, where if they have legs, it's a little more labor-intensive with that, so you don't use the drones as much on those as well either.

Or we have it now, other people might have it.

Cool.

See, I'm good.

This is very educational in the projects committee.

The drone thing was cool.

All right, any other questions?

No, we've got a motion, a second on favor, say aye.

Item number three is approved.

Item number four is approval of professional services agreement with iTron for sale or service and maintenance of the AMI meter system total, not to exceed 102,000 dollars, Mr.

Gurney.

Sir, so this is an annual agreement for iTron to provide hardware and maintenance services for our AMI system.

So specifically, this includes hardware maintenance.

So we have a communication infrastructure network of radio towers, uh collectors, repeaters uh that transmits the AMI data.

Uh so this includes maintenance of those systems, a hosting agreement.

So itron has the right uh properly certified and secured servers to host the data associated with the AMI meter system, and then it also includes the software subscription and support for that software.

So the Temetro software, which is the software interface used to organize the AMI meter data.

That's the this is the subscription for all that.

Any questions?

It's paid paid for out of an operations budget for meters outside services.

This is our this is our subscription fee for our AMI.

Subscription fee for the automated is that the whole all of all of it?

Yep, yes, sir.

102 grand a year, yes, sir.

Okay, and the money's budgeted where in meters outside services operations.

Good.

Yes.

Before we vote, you know, we talk about a lot of things in here that sometimes real life doesn't hit very much to me, but we just replaced meters at my office.

We had a problem with some meters.

Okay.

We've got it on this new system.

I got a letter today in the mail that said we needed to check some things because our water usage is going on constantly.

Scratching my head thinking, what in the world could that be?

Well, it was true, which would save waste, but it also saved the company a lot of money, right?

You know, because I got a letter that's telling me that it looked like something was leaking.

And I'm pretty, I mean, appreciate that.

Yeah, that's one of the wild benefits of that.

I got a letter today about that.

So that's a side note for those at home.

No one probably cares with me, but I think that's a shout out to y'all.

That's a shout out to y'all.

Wonderful.

I think it's great.

I really do.

I think it is.

Nor, you know, when when a constituent calls is absolutely they can, it's probably already been checked.

So it's a good segue to our next option.

I just wanted to thank you.

See, but we try to make this where it's informational and people can learn, okay, including council folks.

We're happy about that.

And what I'm dumb down two notches.

Yeah.

All right, so have I got I got a motion and a second?

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

I'm sure there's some great comments going on right now with what I just said on Facebook, so I appreciate that.

Item number five, we've got approval of profession services agreement with United Systems Software for Phase 2B of the AMI water meter conversion.

The total is 2,643,82.80 cents.

Right.

So in short, this is the remainder of the small meter conversions for our meter, all our meter systems.

So our meter, we roughly have 55,000 meters.

50,000 of those, 90% is small or small meters, one inch or smaller.

And so right now we're in a contract with phase two A.

We expect phase two A to uh wrap up around Thanksgiving of this year.

Um the installer USS will seamlessly go into phase two B, which is this contract, and we expect them to be done with phase two B the end of next year, early 27.

Um phase two B is 26,000 meters.

This is funded with 2025 B bond.

How many when phase two A is done?

How many meters will we have completed?

We'll be almost halfway there.

We will be halfway there.

So we have so phase there was a phase one, which was uh prior to this, it was roughly five thousand meters.

Phase two A is nineteen thousand, so that'll be total twenty-four thousand, so we'd be roughly halfway.

That's good.

Questions?

Motion motion second, all in favor say aye.

Item five is approved.

I number six, approval of a balancing change order number one with Amison and associates for construction of the downtown Y pickleball course, a deductive total, 27,516 cents.

Tim, welcome.

Thank you.

Good afternoon.

So, yes, sir.

This is to close out our project with AMS Amazon Associates for the YMCA pickleball project.

Uh the deductive total brings our total investment for the construction portion of the project to just over half a million to 500,342.

So the total dust settles about a half million.

Yes, sir.

Okay.

I would draw part of my rant back at the three quarters of a million more.

Um withdraw your rent permanently.

No, I just I just withdraw the quarter million.

Oh, the quarter parcel.

You can say you can say that for finance.

They're they're up and working.

I played.

I got beat by a pregnant woman the other day.

A substantially pregnant woman.

Motion.

I don't even know what to say.

Okay.

Nothing but motion.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Item number six is approved.

Item number seven is approval of a minor public works contract with war construction for refurbishing the monument sign and at Shelby Park.

The total is 21,867.

Yes, sir.

So this is the work that we discussed in projects a few weeks ago.

Um, this is to um revitalize the net Shelby Park signage.

Um it involves replacing the precast panel, installing new dimensional lettering and then pressure washing the sign itself.

If that car that blew through the fence flipped three times and rolled, just gone a little to the right.

Maybe insurance could have done that for us.

Oh well, I guess unfortunately it did not take out the sign for us.

When are we expecting to be done?

So I think we can be finished by the end of October at the latest.

Okay.

Most of this cost is for the actual physical lettering.

Correct.

So the precast paneling is being done by Browning Masonry, and the dimensional lettering is being done by night sign.

The dimensional lettering has the longest lead time.

Those are cast and as ordered.

So that's going to be the longest lead time.

Installing the uh the products themselves is not going to take very long at all once everything arrives.

Okay.

Motion second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Item number seven is approved.

Item number eight is approval of amendment number one to the minor public works contract with Olympia sprinkler installation for the FY 2025 fire suppression and black black flow, black.

I can't even read.

But backflow prevention, increasing compensation by 28,000 for a total not to exceed 61,260.

Can you make sense of this police town?

Yes, sir.

I'll be happy to.

So the initial contract is was for annual inspections as well as five-year inspections.

The amount that we are adding is to cover all the maintenance costs for the fiscal year.

This is work that was done on an as-needed basis.

You know, this equipment always has to be addressed immediately when it when we have a failure or an issue of some kind.

So this is to address all of the repairs that were done, the $28,000 worth for all of the fiscal year.

Questions.

Second.

Motion is second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Item number nine is approved.

Item number 10 is approval to enter.

Am I looking at all?

Sorry, approval of amendment number one to the minor public works contract with PCI technologies for fire alarm maintenance and inspection, increasing compensation by 16,500 for a total not to exceed 25,971.

Yes, sir.

And similar to the the previous initial contract was to cover all of the annual inspections of the fire alarm systems.

We are doing two things with this additional, these additional dollars.

One uh at the recommendation of OCA, we are including fire alarm monitoring within the contract, which is something we did not do previously.

PCI Technologies monitors a large portion of our fire alarm systems, so we're including that monitoring service into this not to exceed.

That is roughly 7300 of this additional of these additional dollars, and then 9200 are for repairs that were done throughout the year to fire alarm systems.

Questions.

So did OCA volunteer for that portion come from their budget.

No, no, sir.

They did not.

I'm not gonna ask for that.

But they recommend this is already this was something we were already funding.

We just did not capture that amount within our not to exceed.

Why not?

You know, that's a good question.

Um we have not done this, I guess historically.

Um we have made some adjustments to who does our monitoring.

We've kind of aligned that based on the type of fire alarm system.

Um that eases any adjustments to programming that happens.

So we've aligned that with the company that does the monitoring, who also services the system.

And and so I guess historically, we just uh for whatever reason did not have a contract for those monitoring services, and we're making a change now, sir.

How is it getting paid?

It was just being funded out of our um our outside services line item.

Okay, have we got that aligned going forward?

So it's in there, yes, sir.

We will we will ensure that that's done the same way.

So it wasn't an OCA came up with a new bright idea, it was we've been doing it, just had not capturing it in the not save.

Yes, sir.

Okay, okay.

Motion motion second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Item nine is approved.

Item number ten, approval to enter into a minor public works contract with Bag V elevator to furnish and install security access control to five elevators with total of 7670.

Tim.

Yes, sir.

So so to clarify, we are already doing work for access control on these five elevators.

We brought that to projects committee a couple of months ago.

Um this portion is for bag they have to upgrade a couple of elevators and the five they're getting access control.

They have to upgrade a couple of those elevators with new circuit boards.

Um, and so this is for that equipment as well as their assistance in hooking up to the controller itself.

Access control does that mean you have to have a badge to go up or down or well so it or to go to certain floors or certain floors, correct?

So we did have a separate contract for the access control portion of this previously.

And you may recall, so what we're doing in Annex 2, municipal core, is we are controlling second and third floor.

So you would have to have a badge to go to either of those floors.

For this building, we are controlling floors ground one and four.

Um and then for annex three, we are controlling the second floor only.

Okay.

And that money is coming from where that is the facility maintenance security enhancement budget.

Okay.

Motion motion and a second.

Right?

Yeah.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Item 10 is approved.

Tim, before you sit down, what what is the forecast on that?

Um I made a joke about that iron defense, but literally took it out.

Yes, sir.

What's the four hours?

Correct me if I'm wrong.

You guys have already been talking to Tusco on that.

Do we know a lead time on are you asking for a forecast on when or how will it be fixed?

I would say four to six weeks.

Four or six weeks.

Okay, all right.

Thank you.

Item 11 is approval of a minor public works contract with George Campbell, DBA Radco electronics for preventative maintenance of emergency lighting inverters.

The total is not to exceed 5500.

Scott, good afternoon.

Welcome.

Yeah.

Okay, so this will be funded through outside services general fund.

Um this is emergency lighting inverters.

We have eight locations throughout the city.

They basically go through and check connection across and voltage.

Okay.

Um good.

Second.

Got a motion, second.

All in favor say aye.

Item 11 is approved.

Item number 12 is approval to enter into a professional services agreement with Hearst Media to administer streaming ads for police recruitment.

The total is 9,995.

Sarah, welcome.

Good afternoon.

How are y'all?

Good.

Yes, sir.

So this is a contract with Hearst Media to administer streaming service ads.

So Hulu, Netflix, etc.

for our TPD recruitment campaign.

Good.

So when you say network?

I mean everywhere.

Yes, yeah.

Um, so obviously some streaming services have paid versions that don't have ads and unpaid versions that do have ads.

Um so depending on the service, but yes.

I've been noticing the ads, they look really good.

Thank you.

The one that um I noticed yesterday was talking about sign-on bonuses for five thousand dollars, which was which is good, and there was another one.

So it seems like we're they're saturated market.

That's good.

Yes, a good thing.

Really good.

Locally, I've seen them on billboards are good.

Yes, sir.

All right, questions?

Motion.

Oh you have it.

Is it a specific commercial that we're streaming?

Yes, it's the one um that's on the screens in City Hall currently.

And what what's what's the kind of defined goal out of this particular piece?

Um, this the goal is just to get the awareness that TPD is looking for officers out into the market more.

Okay.

How do you know that work?

I'm ready.

Want to help me with that one?

So I'm right on my team as in judge of marketing.

And and don't worry, I'm not picking on you.

I always want to know how how do you know it works if it involves the stream and all my stuff.

Well, how do you know you're winning?

Is it how do we know I'm sorry?

How do you know you're winning?

Um, we know we weren't we're winning by the data, so we'll run the ads and then focus on the numbers that are returned by it, um, and then go from there.

Also numbers that do what?

Views.

That view.

So that's you measure if they act.

Um you can we can measure if they watch it and for how long they watch it, if they skip something or if they watch it all the way through.

Catherine Buddha, we can also what we'll do.

We started uh campaign ad we've seen in the past, we'll see our number of applicants go up with that, so we know that that's has an uh effect on that.

Okay, so somebody's charging out the facts.

I guess we don't have to shorten views uh it's expenditures on streaming, yes, and correlating those, Jessica Yes, and together we measure campaign effectiveness by that.

Okay, yeah.

Let us brief us if you would.

I don't know whether the correct is strategic communications with TPD, but let us know how that does.

I would think if you get applicants from out of town, you ask them why in the world they want to come here.

We do we get a feedback on our applications when they come in during our review process, yes sir.

Thank you.

Yes, sir.

Motion.

Good job.

Thank you.

Got a motion.

Oh, actually, uh we got a second.

Do we need to discuss that anymore?

No.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Item number thirty uh twelve, I'm sorry, is approved.

Is there any other business to be brought before our committee today?

Hearing none, I would entertain a motion to adjourn.

Second.

Motion and a second.

Our next public projects committee meeting will be next Tuesday, September 16th.

Got a motion to second.

All in favor for it.