 Is that we've got everybody on mute at the moment and we're going to look to answer questions at the end of the presentation. So, if you would just hold your questions till then, we will. Uh, recommend that we use the chat function, which is that's uh, here on the screen. You can see there's a. There's a button that's highlighted in blue on the on the first slide here. That is the chat button for those that are call in users. We can unmute you. At the very end and we'll do our best to kind of keep, uh, get you guys. Asking your questions, so this presentation will be recorded. So, we so this can be viewed. After the presentation, so this is the public meeting. For Clark road drainage improvements. My name is Mike Bennett. I am the project manager for this project. I do believe we were expecting the district director. Um, kind of lock on this call. So we want to thank thank him and the council member. The Clark road project is. Project on the east side of Clark road. There are historic flooding issues on the east side. Of Clark road and to the north, I believe many of you may know already that there is. An improvement going on with Crowley ISD they are building a new stadium. So there was concern with the existing flooding issues in the construction of the new school, the new. Facility that it can make the drainage worse and so Crowley ISD partnered with the city of Fort Worth. For these improvements. To make sure that things do not get worse, but in fact, get better. The improvements that the city is bringing to the. Area we've got a drainage channel that's going to be running north south on the east side. That will be constructed. There will be a drainage pipe that runs north south again along the east side properties. Of Clark road. There will be a drainage pipe that runs within Clark road about 3 to 400 feet. There will be another drainage pipe that runs behind the properties that on the north side of Clark road and face North Clark road. On behind those properties, there will be another drainage pipe and a drainage swale to collect. Rainwater and then the pipe will run and connect into the. Crowley ISD improvements. This project will require drainage easements. And some temporary construction. Tignall Tignall and Perkins is the design engineer for the project. We are roughly at the 95 to 100% we're we've got the 100% plans that we're just kind of taking a once over with. So the engineering plans are just about complete. And we're looking to start construction in the 1st quarter. Of 2022. We anticipate the project taking less than 5 months. So we somewhere between 4 and 5 months is what we expect for construction time. And the construction amount is. Roughly about 1.2 million dollars worth of improvements again that is a partnership between the city of Fort Worth. And Crowley ISD. It's not much, I mean, it's not much to present as far as what's going on here. So that's really. The end of the presentation so with that, I can, we can open up the floor for. Some questions. So if there's anybody in the chat that has any questions, there's nothing in the chat at the moment. There's nothing in the chat at the moment. So. Okay, there's 1 question that usually gets asked. Okay, we will have and if you don't have any have any questions today. You can always reach out to me and the number that you see on the screen. That is my direct direct line. You can also reach me via email. But we will have another public meeting prior to construction. So there will be another project meeting. Yeah, we do have a couple of questions showing up in chat. Bill wants to know which way, which direction the water will flow towards the new facility or south. It flows. The drainage naturally flows from the north to the south. So there is a future roadway that will basically be between the Clark Road subdivision and that the school. And so this pipe, this project is collecting water that's coming from the Crowley ISD stadium and it will travel from north to south. This is Joanne on stock. Can you hear me? Yes, ma'am, we can. 1 of my questions was because this is going behind our home and the swell is going to be on our property. We're right here. And that's the lease right there. And because it was going to directly drain into our stockpond, 2 things. Trees that are going to be taken down are going to be just gone. You're not going to replace anything. And what about removal of fences that are there to get this work done? Are you going to take those down and replace them or? All right. So, just ma'am, at the moment, there is nothing, there's no plan to replace trees. Any trees that are taken down? I know at the back of our property, we have some really tall trees right at the fence line. And that's where the 1st swell and that, which is right there by the street area. And that's where that 1st drain will be. And so I'm assuming all of those are going to be gone. And they are like our bumper against a lot of this. Okay. I want to answer your questions. We can spend a little bit of time on the trees to answer your question regarding the fences. Any fences that are taken down will be put back up and they will be restored. Trees obviously are a more difficult challenge. You can't just put up what's taken down there. So in this case, we are doing our best to avoid or to reduce our impact to the trees. But in the end, where they need to run along the swell, these run along the property line. I can't, we can't just take it through the middle of a property. Because these are permanent improvements that we're trying to put in here. So at this time, it is strictly a removal is what we're looking at. And we, now then, if it's your property, we have temporary construction easements or drainage easements that we're looking to get, if yours is a product, sounds like yours is a property that we will be, so we will be discussing that with you when we approach you for the easement. And we can go, we can go over here a lot specifically at that. Okay. Be good. Oh, the other question I had was, you know, we have a stock palm back there that whenever it rained, it would fill up overflow and, you know, and I think, I don't remember who I spoke to, somebody said there's a possibility that the dirt that they take from the swell can be used to, when they make that swell and put in all of this pipes, they can fill that up and the ditch down the side between us and the lease since it shouldn't be needed anymore. Is that correct? So, okay, I'm trying to figure out your first question. I'd like you got a couple parts there. So first, regarding the pond, are you saying that you do not want the pond there anymore? Is that? If it's not going to be needed because no water will flow in it because you're going to be taking it underground, we don't need it. Okay. So I'd assume I would, I mean any dirt that you take to, you know, to dig out, to put in all this piping and stuff can go to fill up that pond. And then the, there's a big ditch that is a natural flow ditch between us and the lease next to us. And if you're going to be taking everything way east and nothing's going to be draining down there, it'd be nice to have that where, you know, we don't have a big hole between our yards anymore because their driveway's been falling into that ditch because of so much water flooding through it. And our yard has gone down and our fence is about to fall into it because it's been washed out so many times. And so if, you know, if you got a lot of extra dirt, I'd just assume have it filling those areas. Then they don't have to haul it off. Yeah, no need to haul it off. Well, that's, I tell you that, that is a nice thing is to say if money, and yes, that would end up, a lot of times that would be dirt that's hauled off. That is something, let's, I'm making a note here. I think this is something that we want to discuss with you, potentially after, after this meeting. Okay. Because that, that certainly is something we can consider. I want to, I want to talk to our engineer and kind of get his opinion on that first. I want to say it sounds like a possibility. Yeah, the one thing I'm going to point out, yeah, well, one thing I always want to point out, it just depends on whether or not the water is considered jurisdictional. Jurisdictional means that it's regulated by the federal government. And that happens when something, if it holds water for a long period of time, and it's, well, there's a lot of things, constraints that could make it jurisdictional. And so that would be something that we'd have to look at first because we obviously can't just go break a bunch of regular federal regulations, you know, with this project, we need to, we need to follow the rules. So that's something that I would have to look into to make sure that it's something that's hopefully relatively easy. But we will start, we will definitely ask those questions and look into that. Yeah, I'd like, I'd love for somebody to come back out who's actually doing this work to just look at it one more time before they start, just to make sure we're all doing what we need to get done correctly. Yeah, and all on the same page. Because I mean, I love the idea and we're going to finally get something done, so we all don't flood anymore. But I just want to make sure it's all perfect, especially for 1.2 million dollars. No, we agree with you. We want, we want the project that is completed and it's beneficial to the community. So we're, we agree. Okay, thank you. This is Bill Parker. Can you hear me? Yes, sir. Perfect. When can we set up a meeting for somebody to come out? Because I would also like to be a part of that meeting to discuss not only the swell that's going to be in the rear of the properties, but also again, Joanne's questions about the tree line, how close we're going to get to the fence line and the very rear of the properties as well as again, the dirt issue. But and then also how far our drainage pipe will go up Clark Road. I say, you know, 350 feet, but I'd like to kind of get an idea of what houses that'll end and where those four ways will be and everything else. So when can we have a meeting where they might have those details or where you have those details where we can look at it physically? That we can definitely do. I'm just trying to think of that might be would that be with T. Gnall and Perkins and will they come out? I would definitely bring yes, we definitely bring T. Gnall and Perkins out for that. What the what I'm trying to think through here is this is a public meeting. So this can kind of get out into a larger group. It almost sounds like there might be a smaller group meeting for you know, anyone local that it's going to be impacted. Of course, we don't we don't ever want to exclude anybody out is trying to think of making sure we're talking to people and making sure everything is relevant to the people we're talking to. So that is something I've got. I think that is something that if there are members of the community that would like to be a part of a meeting on site, I would say reach out to me please. Either the phone number or my email please reach out to me and let me know that you would like like to and we will certainly try and set something up out out there to kind of point out where everything is going to go. I do understand it's you don't read engineering plans. It's not easy to trigger all those things. At least to get some of the details. I have several neighbors. I'm the president of the Clark Road Neighborhood Association. I have several neighbors that have asked me about like a swell in the back where you could be going past the drainage part in other words on and to the other properties to the east or to the west because one was eventually wanting to put like a building in the back and he wanted to make sure that swell wasn't right where he was wanting to put his building. And so that might affect that as well as we have two new neighbors that have moved in and that pipe will be going right in front of their properties that'll be right on the one on the street itself and they were also asking me questions again and I just wanted to kind of make sure where the four ways will go and where it'll end and you know some of the details of that and the driveways that it'll affect and you know those types of things. Absolutely we can certainly do certainly do that so let me I've got so I definitely got you Mr. Parker and on stocks on stocks I've got you both you two down. Okay so we won't call you. No no I I I guess that's all right I guess maybe yes ma'am. I'm gonna ask another question and this is kind of far fetched but I'm willing to pay for this out of my pocket. We have a huge covert ditch in front of our house and my husband and I are getting kind of old and it's very hard to mow that and some of this gonna take care of that. Yeah and I'm wondering if there's any way to put for y'all to put when you're putting that four way in which is gonna go just to the west of me if we could put pipe in that big deep covert ditch and then we can cover it with dirt so we aren't big and we're not in this big ditch anymore. We're not okay. We're not in a plan I don't know. Yeah we can certainly take a look at that with your property and where that that fits in. I'll tell you sometimes that gets to be a challenge just when we're doing our kind of nerdy engineering stuff it's just they're not a way to stay is that that it's not very efficient water trying to get itself into a pipe and so it likes to back up into those those those bar ditches and so a lot of times those are whether you believe it or not they they are acting as a benefit and a storage place so the water's not there then it's going to be up on your property so yeah I'm not saying that we can't do it I just I'm letting you know one of the things that we got when we look at it that's something we have to consider so we'll definitely take a look and see what you're but if that's a possibility. Yeah because I mean the water's going to flow through that bar ditch no matter what yeah it's if I can get sufficiently large enough pipe to go through there and then I can cover it with dirt and grass I would be I have a Hallelujah moment because we are so tired of trying to mow that bitch and because it's so steep ours is the steepest on the whole block. Well Mr. Bennett and here's kind of one of the issues is of course you know when on start Joanne and then moved here the one thing that they were promised from the city of Fort Worth when we were annexed in was curbs gutters and sewage and that you know back in the 70s and that has never happened in the past 50 years since we were annexed in in the 70s and they were called so at this point I mean we're not asking for curbs and gutters but we are asking that we get some of this drainage taken care of and some of these ditches that have been so naturally flowing and causing that we can get some of this taken away since as we've been told about 90 percent of the water will go into these pipes instead of down our drainage ditches anymore so okay and our me discussing there so okay yes we moved in here in 79 and uh or I moved in here in 79 and I'd been told at that time that the we had been annexed just a few years before that and we were told that within five years of annexation and paying our taxes we get sidewalks streetlights curbs sewers gutters you know the whole works and here it is 42 and a half years later yes yes taxes we've got nothing okay I understand challenge okay yes it's a challenge and can you read out your phone number excuse me no is that for me I'm just gonna ask Mike to read to read out his phone number because we have multiple calling users and they can't see the um they can't see the screen so thank you Jeff for catching me on that I guess absolutely so for the calling users you can reach me at eight one seven three nine two seven eight nine one again that number is eight one seven three nine two seven eight nine one I appreciate you doing all of this and looking forward to meeting all of everyone and having an onsite meeting and we can meet at my house we did that before with mr uh Rutledge and uh with uh Phillip uh I can never say your last name Philip I'm sorry and uh so we can meet at 16 12 Clark Road whenever you want to do it I'm assuming sometime after Christmas would be good don't want to do it before if if possible that's my family coming in let's understand that yeah tough time tough time to pull those things off at this this time of year um okay is there anybody else that have any questions Jeff are there anything else in the chat I'm not so let's see the chat at the moment yeah there's only other person in the chat but um we I think we answered all the swell information and getting them being coordinated so okay any other questions out there just uh to the calling users you are currently muted but if you would like to ask a question you can hit star six and it should unmute you and you could ask any questions you'd like but we certainly thank you thank you for taking the time on this mic and we appreciate the time and effort you're going through and we forward to the people that receive this email to uh have this meeting then to let us know when that on-site meeting would be absolutely uh just one last chance uh call calling users it was star six is that what you said Jeff to unmute hi sir star six I can also um request an unmute which will play a little message for him about about it but it'll just say it's star six so yeah thank you everybody has a wonderful Christmas you too ma'am appreciate it we're looking forward to the meeting getting set up and just just give me a holler and we'll do thank you for everybody that was able to attend the meeting and please reach out to me uh if you have any additional questions if you didn't want it if something comes up uh you think about after this meeting I'm I'm here to help out thank you thank you thank you thank you bye