 Preconstruction Community Meeting for Safe Rouse to School Improvements Project for the Daggett Elementary School. City project number is 102-403 and Council District 9. My name is Brenna McKinnis. I am the project manager. My contact information is on here. It's brendan.mcinnis at Fort Worth, Texas dot gov. The project engineer is Kimley Horne, as well as the contractor is Urban Infra-Construction. I just want to take a moment for some brief introductions of. I don't see Council member back on, so we can start with the city staff. Was that you want to start off? Absolutely. Good evening, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us this evening so you can find out about improvements coming through your neighborhood. My name is Lisette Acevedo. I'm the program manager of the mobility infrastructure group, which handles projects of this nature of sidewalk construction. So we're really excited about finally taking this project into construction. Thank you so much for joining us. Jeff. Sure, I'm Jeff Allen. I'm actually communications for the Department of Transportation. So I assist with meetings and try to get you of all the information you need on projects with the website. In various other things. Chat, this is Chad Allen. I'm a project manager in Lisette's group. I'm working on 1 of the other safe access school projects. We also have Matt Kane. He'll be the. Inspector for the project as well as Scott Arnold. He is the design engineer. And I think Yagi Yagu. Is on for the contractor. Uh, yeah, I'm from urban construction. I'll be the project engineer from urban. Thank you, sir. The purpose of this meeting tonight is to provide information about the construction of the safe routes to school project in the Duggett elementary area. The meeting will include information on the project limits, the project scope, the typical construction process. Project phasing and traffic control as well as the project schedule and notifications. And at the end of the presentation, if you put your questions in chat, we'll try to go through those questions as well as opening up the mic and taking questions for any calling users or anybody else. On the screen, you'll see the general project limits in red. This map represents the general area that you will see construction activities in for the project and we'll get into some more project specific areas here. The project area will include the following streets. These streets are listed in the current projected construction sequence order. Uh, West Robert Street, South Adams Street, Ryan Place, Elizabeth Boulevard, Page Avenue, Lipscomb Street, Jessamine Street, 5th Avenue, College Avenue, Hemp Hill Street, and Lylac Street. In the map over on the right, the light blue, cyan lines are existing sidewalks and the yellow lines are proposed sidewalks or some areas sidewalk replacements. So blow up of the area so we can discuss these and let y'all see them a little bit better on the northeast side of the project. The work areas are for on Jessamine would be from 5th Avenue to College Avenue. The sidewalk for most of Jessamine Street will be on the south side of Jessamine with one section on the north side. As well as Lylac Street would be the intersection of Lylac and College Avenue, replacing a little bit of sidewalk there as well as curb ramps at that corner. Moving into the northwest project area, we'll be doing Jessamine Street. Um, from Lipscomb or from College Avenue to Hemp Hill Street on the north side, as well as the intersection of Hemp Hill and Jessamine. And Lylac Street will be putting sidewalk from College or College Avenue to Hemp Hill Street on the south side, including intersection ramps at Allston Avenue and Lipscomb Street. In the southwest corner, we'll be placing sidewalk on Ryan Place from Jessamine Street to West Roberts Street from West Roberts Street to Elizabeth Boulevard. The sidewalk will be on the east side of the road and from Elizabeth Boulevard to Jessamine Street, the sidewalk will be placed on both sides of the road along Elizabeth Boulevard. We'll be placing sidewalks and ramps at the intersections of Ryan Place, South Adams Street, and College Avenue. And along West Roberts Street, we'll be placing sidewalks in the intersection of South Adams and West Roberts, as well as sidewalk on the north side of West Roberts from Adams Street to College Avenue. And in the southeast corner of the project, we'll be placing sidewalk on Page Avenue from College Avenue towards Hemp Hill. A majority of that sidewalk will be at Lipscomb towards Hemp Hill Street, as well as Lipscomb Street from Page South on Lipscomb until the bend near the railroad track. The project scope is approximately a quarter mile radius from each school. We'll be replacing new sidewalk, driveway approach, reconstruction, curb ramps, replacement of non-compliant sidewalks, as well as signs and pavement markings, including crosswalks. Typical construction process, there'll be a notification phase where the contractor will put out message boards, as well as door hangers and project signs. We'll implement the traffic control in the area of work. We'll set up erosion control for any inlets or anything in the area. They'll do their required site clearing, adjust any underground utility work and adjustments. Driveway removals and replacements. This is typically the driveway approach towards the right-of-way line. Then construct ADA ramps and the sidewalks in the area, following closely behind with landscaping and sodding of the disturbed areas. And then we'll be removing the traffic control and cleaning up that area. Typically, we'll be doing this street by street and kind of progressing as we go and cleaning up as we go. During the period of the driveway approach work, there will be no access to driveways during that period of time, while they'll completely remove and replace that section of driveway. This is typically around a 7-day process for removal and replacement to get the required concrete strength breaks to be able to return access to the driveway. These are a few pictures of some of that typical construction that you'll see in the field. On the picture on the left is a driveway replacement. So, this will typically be the first thing we do is replace the driveway approaches to the limits of construction. And then they'll tie in the sidewalk, which is the picture on the left or the right, tying that sidewalk into that driveway to make sure it's ADA compliant. And these are a few pictures of the finished products after the sod has been in the landscaping been replaced of those same driveways on the right as those previous driveways. And the picture on the left is showing a driveway that's constructed up against the back of curb with the sidewalk versus right, which is offset. A little bit about the historical resource protection. We do have plans to maintain the historical resources. These include curb names, the entrance gates, street lights, hitching posts, fences and walls. I have a few pictures on the right of those items. This is not all inclusive. But there is a plan to protect all the historical resources in the area. And if you need more on the historical resource protection, we have added that document to the city's website. That can be accessed with the link at the back of the presentation project schedule and notification. This project is estimated to start in late April to early May. It will have a duration of 240 calendar days with an estimated completion of February of 2023. Work hours will be from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. 7, 30 to 8, 30 and 3, 30 to 4, 30. Closures are prohibited immediately adjacent to school when it's in session. As well as 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. They're allowed to work if requested in writing and approved for the weekends. Project notification prior to the contractor start and work, they will be placing project signs in the areas as well as putting door hangers on the residents and businesses 7 days before construction. We're going to try to keep these closer to the date that your street will be impacted to make sure you're aware of it right before construction comes. And as a reminder, the schedule could be affected by any unforeseen events such as utility conflicts or weather at this time. I'd like to open it up to any questions that you might have. Could you go ahead and talk about the trees since that question has already been put into chat. So, Brendan, there is a question in the chat box box about trees. The question is, last time they did work like this, they killed the old growth parkway trees. What assurances do we have this will not happen again? In the plans, we do call out to have active tree protection and we will have the city forest or review areas where we're close to trees to make sure they're protected properly before construction begins. There are some trees in the project that do get removed and those have been called out in the plans. So, and those will be looked at with the forester as well prior to removal. Where are those plans? The plans will be on the city's website, www.fortworthtexas.gov, slash projects, slash cfw-srts-daggot-mcray. Would the tree protection be similar to what was in Ryan? I drove through Ryan today or yesterday and took pictures. Will it be similar to that? I would have to look exactly what they have set up, but it's typically it's like a fence of wood pickets around the tree. This was that temporary plastic fence, but it was done well. We're just scarred here in Fairmount because they killed like six blocks of trees the last time they did sidewalk and street work. I will have to look at the plans to see the exact protection method to see if it matches Ryan's place, but it is the city standard for tree protection. Okay, I'm not shy. I will email you. That is perfectly acceptable and I will answer back. Then four people on the phone. If you do have a question, my contact information is brendan.mccanis at www.fortworthtexas.gov. That's b-r-e-n-d-a-n dot m-c-i-n-n-e-s at www.fortworthtexasallspelledout.gov or you can reach me by phone at 817-392-2817 and then I believe Jeff copied the city of Fort Worth website into the chat box for anybody who would like to look at some of those documents. Any other questions? Bryn, I don't see any other questions in the chat box right now. Thanks, sir. There is one more question that comes in the chat. Madeleine would like to know if will easement access be included at? Is that easement access for reconstruction or which aspect of construction if I can get clarification? Madeleine, you can unmute if you would like. Yes, the easement that is to the south side of my property, there's been a curb put there and it is still an easement so when vehicles have to get onto that easement for utility purposes they have to jump the curb, dig into the ground and when I talked back when this project was opened that they would add that, make sure they added that easement ramp and take the curb away so that it did not destroy the ground and that would be one house off of Elizabeth on Ryan Place Drive on the houses on the west side. We, hi, this is Chad Allen. I spoke to you about this a couple of different times and yes, we have added that pavement at that alley entryway as you requested that is in the plans right now. Perfect. Thanks, Chad. Sure. So if there's any other questions, well, thanks everybody who attended today. If you do have any questions that you can think of don't hesitate to email me or call me and I'll answer them for you. Thanks again everyone for joining. I hope you all have a good evening. Thank you.