Call the meeting to order.

I'm gonna do a roll call at this time.

Mayor Pro Tem, are you here?

Councilmember Joyner, I believe, is in is here.

Councilmember Andrews.

Here.

Councilmember Lau.

Here.

Councilmember Santa Guida.

Here.

Councilmember Clinton Quintano.

Here.

And the chairs here.

Everybody's here and accounted for two proclamations tomorrow night.

We also have the consent agenda.

C one.

Resolution rejecting the bid received for the downtown alley improvements project.

C2 is a resolution designated an official depositories for city funds.

C three is a resolution adopting comments on the proposed programmatic agreement between the multiple state and federal agencies and the North Carolina Historic Preservation Office regarding the transportation program in North Carolina.

C4's approval of the minutes.

This is being read on a second reading.

Item O two A is an ordinance making appropriations to the general fund grant projects, financial plans, enterprise fund, debit service funds, special tax district, and convention center for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026.

O2B is an ordinance making appropriations to the Capital Projects Funds for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026.

And then 02C is an ordinance amending various chapters of the City of Wilmington fee schedule for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026.

03 is an ordinance to amend various funds for the issuance of limited obligation bonds series 2026.

And then 04 is an ordinance to amend the stormwater management fund for the refunding of revenue bonds series 2015A 2015A.

And then 05 is an ordinance to amend the parks and recreation capital projects fund to comply with governmental accounting standards for the recording of the Greenville Loop Road Future Park property and the gross purchase price.

And then 08A is a resolution accepting public streets and storm drainage facilities within woodlands at Echo Farms track number two.

Then 08B is an ordinance establishing a speed limit of 25 miles per hour.

Musket Bay Drive and Old Titanium Court.

And then resolutions.

R1 is a resolution urging the North Carolina Department of Transportation to consider traffic impacts related to this simultaneously undertaking of the Eastwood Road Overpass Project and Bridge Replacement Projects at Wrightsville Beach.

And then R2 is a resolution expressing support for North Carolina Senate Bill 970 slash House Bill 1084.

And then R3 is a resolution expressing support for Navy Week to return to Wilmington, North Carolina.

And with that, that concludes this agenda.

Are there any questions?

Any council member would like to hear separately?

Can we go back to the top of the consent agenda, please?

Yes, we can.

For C1 rejecting the bid for the downtown improvement projects.

Can we just get an update that on that?

I want to highlight that since um there was a request from the municipal services district advisory committee to do some alleyway improvements.

Um and I think the funds that they were requesting anticipated that we would be moving forward with these bids.

Yes, sir.

Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, members of council.

Um my name is Justin Carter.

I'm the director of our design and construction group.

Um so right now we only got one bid on that project.

Um we did have to actually extend the bids because we only got one.

We believe that bid came in higher than what we would anticipate that doing.

We also heard a lot of feedback during our pre-bid process that we think we can go in and improve what we have to bring those prices down to a better price for the project.

So we would like to reject these bids or reject this bid, and then go back, make some of those improvements, such as providing a staging area, um, removing some items in terms of things that we don't think are needed.

Um, we've been coordinating with CFP UA, there are items that are coming out, um, and that should bring our prices down to a much more reasonable level to allow us to spend those dollars a little bit better.

But we are still planning on moving forward.

We're looking at probably a month to month and a half to make those changes and coordination with some of the utility companies to put that back out to bid um to see what we if we can get more interest in a better bidding environment.

And can you just describe what the improvements are?

Yep.

Um, so if we do have this presentation here, I won't go all the way through it, um, but I absolutely can.

Um, but if we look at we have Quince, Henderson, and Wilkinson Alley are the three alleys we were looking at.

Um if we look at all the utilities, so part of this really is looking at the infrastructure in the base layer of what is out there.