 Good evening, everybody, and thank you for joining us for the Sheraton Drive Water and Sewer Improvement Meeting. If you already have a question, you can put that in the chat, bottom right-hand corner of your screen. You'll see that little bubble. We will take those questions first after the presentation, then we'll take questions from the call-in users. If you can see the PowerPoint, this meeting is the first of two. This one is at 6 p.m. on Monday, and the second one will be at 1 p.m. on December 11th. And as I said, the presentation is being recorded, and I'm going to hand this over to Pratima Pujol, who is our project manager. Pratima. Thank you, Sally. This is the agenda for today's meeting. I am going to introduce the project team. I'll provide you the project overview, project area. We'll discuss some of the frequently asked questions, and then I'll provide you the project timeline. My name is Pratima Pujol, and I am senior professional engineer with City of Fort Worth Water Department, and I am the project manager for this project. My phone number is 817-392-6149, and email is Pratima.Pujol at FortWorthTexas.gov. Leah Brown is the neighborhood development coordinator for this project, and her number is 817-392-8638. An email is dea.brown at FortWorthTexas.gov. Unfortunately, because of some family emergencies, they could not be present at this meeting tonight. RLG is the design engineering firm, and Brent Lewis is the project manager from RLG, and he's present in this meeting tonight. This is the project area. We are going to extend the water and sewer line on the certain drive. This is in City of FortWorth to Council District 5, and customers from historic stop six, stop six fully oversight area will be impacted by this project. Some of the landmarks near this project are... The first one is the fire station number three, which is on the wayside of the certain drive. Another one is Boys and Girls Club of Greater Tarrant County, which is on the north side of the fire station, and the Immanuel Baptist Church, which is on the east side of certain drive. Project overview. This is the certain drive where we are going to extend the water and sewer line. There are currently no water and sewer lines on the certain drive. This project includes extension of sewer and water made from RANI Avenue to certain drive intersection, to sunshine drive, certain drive intersection. In this project, FortWorth Water Department is partnering with FortWorth Neighborhood Services Department on the Community Development Block Grant. Adresses 2510, 2512, 2514, 2516, 2518. Certain drive are owned by FortWorth Housing Finance Corporation and are intended for development of affordable single family houses. I mentioned Community Block Grant Fund. I wanted to give you a little bit more about the fund and the background of this project. In early 2020, a developer applied for a Community Development Block Grant CDBG Fund to install water and sewer lines to connect to a lot beyond certain drive. Through this request, Neighborhood Services staff learned that water and centers sewer main did not exist on this block and as a result, proposed to fund this project with the CDBG Fund to provide water and sewer service to this block in order to support single family infill development on certain drive. Infill development is defined as new development on vacant or on-development land, on developed land within an existing community that is influenced by other type of development. The term urban infill implies that existing land is mostly built out and what is being built is an effect filling in the gaps. The term mostly refers to building single family homes in existing neighborhoods. And if you have more questions about Community Block Grant Fund, then you can contact Leah Brown about that. You can also type your question on the chat and then we'll fold that to Leah to answer your question. This is the project area again on the Saratun Drive where we are going to install 8-inch PVC water line. The water line will connect to a 16-inch water line on Rami Avenue and a 6-inch water line on Sunshine Drive. On the Saratun Drive, we are going to install 8-inch PVC sewer line as well. The sewer line is going to connect 8-inch sewer line on Rami Avenue and 10-inch sewer line on Sunshine Drive. And the construction is include installation of water and sewer line on the Saratun Drive, water and sewer services. Once the water and sewer lines and services are installed, the Saratun Drive will be paved with asphalt and the curb and dodger will be reconstructed. We are going to discuss some of the frequently asked questions. The first one is, will there be lane closure during construction? There will be traffic lane closure on Saratun Drive, Rami Avenue and Sunshine Drive during the installation of water and sewer lines. Mostly the lane closure will be on Saratun Drive, but when the contractor makes water and sewer connection on Rami Avenue and Sunshine Drive, both of those streets will be, there will be lane closure on those streets as well. However, the traffic control signs will be posted to alert the motorist. Does this project include sidewalks? Sidewalks are not part of this project. Now, I'm going to provide you a timeline for this project. This is the design community meeting. The next step will be advertising this project for Beads for Construction. Once we receive the beads, we'll open the beads. Once the beads are opened, the city council will award beads to the contractor. Once the bead is awarded to the contractor, a pre-construction meeting will be held with the contractor and city inspector. Once we have the pre-construction meeting, we'll come back to the community with another Wavex meeting. Wavex construction meeting to update who will be impacted by this project. Currently, we are estimating to start construction on this project by early spring of 2022. If you are interested to find more information about this project or get more updates, you can go to the link over here. You can also go to website www.phototexas.gov and enter 103124 on the search bar. 103124 is the project number for this project. The link for this meeting video, the project map and the project summary frequently asked questions will also be linked on the same project page. If you are having emergency or non-emergencies related to water and sewer, you can call the number 817-392-4477. You can select the option one for the emergency issues and it is a 24-hour service. You can call the same number for non-emergencies issues. They are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. Now you can download my Fort Worth app from the app store or Google Play. You can report sewer overflow leaks and water main breaks, missing or broken meter leads, water tape, water violation, no water service, water pressure issues and other water sewer concerns through the app as well. Again, my name is Pratima Paudel and I'm the project manager for this project. My number is 817-392-6149. Email is pratima.paudel at phototexas.gov. Dya Brown is a neighborhood development coordinator. Her number is 817-392-8638 and the email is dya.brown at phototexas.gov. And RLG is the engineering design firm with designing this project and Brent Lewis is the project manager from RLG. With that, this presentation is complete. If you have any questions, please type that in the chat box and we'll answer that. Okay, Pratima, so far we have nothing in the chat. Does anybody have a question? Yes, I do. Yes, ma'am, go ahead. Laura Bergen here and thank you for putting this together so that we can get up to speed on this as this has been a long time in the birthing process. I had a question right now. Sheraton is fully paved as fault and it has carbon gutter. So does that mean when they come in to do this, the existing stuff will be taken out or just will be impacted and then any repairs that need to be done afterwards will that be patched or how does this work? So when we install the water and sewer line, we'll have to disturb the most of the pavement. So we are going to reconstruct the pavement and the carbon gutter as well. So it will disturb that concrete carbon gutter that's existing? When we install the services, we are planning to install the services for the vacant lots as well. So that will disturb the carbon gutter and then we'll restore that. I see, okay. Another one more question. I noticed that, you know, the lots and I am, we have 2508, which is right next to where the Fort Worth housing starts. Do we, are we able to go ahead and get our tap for water and sewer at that time is the same time that they do or do we have to wait till it's complete and then come back around and put an application in at that point? So as a part of this project, we are going to provide a service with a empty meter box. So when the construction is complete, you can apply for the tap and pay the fees and connect to it. Okay, so we have to wait till after the construction is finished before we do the application? You'll have to check with the meter services, sorry. Tapping, you may apply beforehand, but you cannot have the service until the construction is complete. Well, right, okay. But I didn't want to miss any window of opportunity. So I'll check with them and see and perhaps Leah might also have a little more insight in this or not. Or is this strictly a water thing? It will be strictly water. Leah may not have more information. I can provide you contact information whom you can ask that question. Okay, thank you. Patricia, did you want to say anything about the block grant? No, just that we're very excited that the project is moving forward. And Ms. Bergen, we'll definitely keep in contact with you as you know, Leah is going to be in contact with water. And I know that you are very, we just want to make sure that you're very informed with the whole process. So it won't be a surprise we'll just make sure we're always in communication with you. Well, sounds good. Thank you so much. I know everybody's really been working on this for a long time. So appreciate it. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Go ahead, Laura. Oh, I'm done. Does anybody else have any questions? We will be having that meeting on Saturday at one o'clock. That'll be a WebEx meeting and then like Pratima said, we will come back and do a WebEx or in person. I'm not sure where we'll be at that state for the construction stage. Okay. The next meeting, which is on Saturday, is that right? Is it going to be pretty much the same that we did tonight? Yes, ma'am. Okay. We just wanted to make sure people had a chance to hear about it that would not be able to come tonight. Great. Okay. Sounds good. Thank you. You're welcome. Pratima, do you have anything? No. I'm good. Well, thank you everybody for attending and we will have the summary FAQs and this video up on the website, but I will probably wait until Monday when we have, after we have the second meeting. Thank you. Thank you all. Eddie. Thank you. Bye.