 All right, so welcome everyone to this virtual community meeting regarding the upcoming address and area street improvements project. My name is Greg Robbins, and I'm a project manager in the city of Fort Worth transportation and public works department on the call with me as well. Our representatives from the Port Worth water department, the engineering consultants who's doing design and some others from transportation and public works. They'll be around at the end at the presentation to help you answer questions. If needed. So this presentation is meant to provide you with some information about the scope of the project that's happening in your area and give the community a chance to provide feedback or ask questions. About the project and how you'll be impacted. So here's the agenda of what I have to cover in my brief presentation. I'll be talking about the project as a whole providing a summary of the improvements on each street associated with this project. Discussing the project schedule moving forward and blocking off some time at the end for your questions and your input. So, first, we'll talk about the overall scope of the improvements associated with this project. This project is part of the proposed and upcoming 2022 bond election, which will be voted on in May of this year. The city manager and city council have kindly provided us some funding to start the design of this project and several others associated with the bond in anticipation of bond passing here in a couple of months. So, this project includes eight streets in the area that are slated for reconstruction. So they are and street from Avenue C to Avenue D. Ascrescent Street from East Bickery Boulevard to Avenue E Avenue B from South Riverside Drive to Ascrescent Street. Avenue C from Ascrescent Drive to MLK Freeway Avenue D from Ascrescent Drive to MLK Freeway. Belzey's Terrace from Avenue C to Avenue D, Elmwood Avenue from Belzey's Terrace to MLK Freeway, and Uvalde Street from East Richmond Avenue to MLK Freeway. So, on the next couple of slides, I'll be discussing the existing conditions present on these streets and give a street by street breakdown of the proposed improvements. So, this slide shows the existing conditions of these streets and why they were slated for reconstruction. You can see from the pictures, the issues that we will be correcting will include damaged asphalt pavement, missing or broken curbs and gutters, damaged or missing sidewalks, damaged or missing concrete driveways, as well as replacing or upgrading the water and sewer utilities under the street. So, next I'll go through East Street individually and discuss the improvements that are expected to be made. On Ascrescent Street, we will be replacing the existing pavement and concrete curbs or adding curbs where none are existing. We'll also be replacing the existing driveways with new concrete drives. These new driveways will be a minimum of 11 foot in width or will match whatever your existing driveway is if it's wider than that. Ascrescent will be getting new 5 foot sidewalks on both sides of the street. As far as water and sewer improvements, we'll be replacing this existing 8-inch water with a new 8-inch. Now, a lot of the improvements are similar on East Street, so forgive me for repeating myself, but on Avenue B, we'll be upgrading existing 6-inch water to an 8-inch. As far as paving improvements, we'll be doing new pavement with new concrete curbs and also replacing the concrete driveways along that street. On Avenue C, we'll be upgrading the existing 6-inch water to 8-inch. New pavement, new concrete curbs and gutters, new concrete driveways, and Avenue C is getting 5 foot concrete sidewalks on both sides of the street. On Avenue D, we'll be up-sizing the existing 6-inch water to an 8-inch for paving, new pavement, new concrete curbs, new concrete driveways, new concrete sidewalks on both sides of the street from Ascrescent to Belze's, and then a new 5 foot sidewalk on the south side of the road from Belze's to MLK Freeway. On Elmwood, we'll be installing a new 8-inch waterline, new pavement, new concrete curbs and gutters, new concrete driveways, and a new concrete sidewalk on the north side of the street. Uvalde Street will be up-sizing the existing 6-inch water to an 8-inch and also replacing the existing 8-inch sewer in the street. New pavement, of course, new concrete driveways and a new concrete sidewalk on both sides of the street. On Ann Street, we will be upgrading the existing 6-inch water to an 8-inch, new concrete, I'm sorry, new pavement with concrete curbs, new driveways, replacing the existing driveways, and it's also worth noting that this street and the next one, Belze's, are being funded by the water department. They're not technically part of the 2022 bond, but they are included in this project. Yeah, Belze's terrace upgrading the existing 6-inch water to 8-inch, new pavement, new concrete curbs, replacing the existing driveways with concrete, and like I said, the water department is funding this street. So this slide and the next one shows something of what you can expect the finished product to look like once the construction that's finished. We'll be providing a full depth reconstruction of the existing pavement and rebuilding existing driveways with concrete. We'll also be providing concrete sidewalks on many of the streets, which will include new ADA accessible ramps where they are needed. So next, I'll speak a little bit about the anticipated schedule for the rest of the project moving forward. The dates shown here are what we estimate going forward for the project milestones, and it is kind of based on the voting date for bond approval. This project is currently in design, our engineering designer who's on the call with us is currently working on the design of the project about to finish up. We're currently about 90% of the way finished. We received their 90% plans just last week, and we're currently reviewing them and making final changes and adjustments that we need to get the plan set finished. You can see the next item on the schedule is the 2022 bond vote, which I wanted to remind you about so we can get funding to make the improvements that I showed you earlier. After that, if all goes to plan, we plan on advertising for bids sometime in June of this year and receiving bids from contractors about a month later in July. It takes a couple months for the award process to complete, so we hope to get City Council approval by October and then award the contract to a qualified contractor by November. After that, the last step is the construction itself, which will most likely start after the first of the year in 2023 and last about a year, the total length of construction we expect to last about a year. If you would like any additional information about the 2022 bond program, you can go to the link that is here on the screen and find out more information about funding, the included projects, and any other items of interest. I'll stay on this page for just a few minutes so that anyone who wants to write down the link to the website to the information about the bond can do so. Alternatively, if you just go to Google and type in City of Fort Worth 2022 bond, it'll be the first one that pops up if you wanted to view it that way. Like I said, I'll stay on this page for just a few minutes, but this does take me to the end of my presentation. So at this time, if there's any questions that you have about improvements on your street in front of your house, now's the time, you can type them in the chat box or if you'd like, go ahead and unmute yourself and I'll take your questions that way. Yes, we've just moved into a house on Avenue C and as a part of the building, the sidewalk is brand new. Will you replace that sidewalk or match it? So if it's the house I'm thinking of, I believe we spoke to you the other day yep so I think if I remember correctly and someone from the consultant can chime in but it's brand new sidewalk and I believe brand new driveway so if possible we were at least going to save the sidewalk there because it was brand new. Great, we would prefer for it to not be disrupted and how does the project disrupt the neighborhood when you're repaving the roads will we get advanced notice to know when it's going to be hard to get in and out and what kind of timeline is the road going to be torn up like how long do you expect the road to be torn up in front of an individual's house? So we'll know more about the construction timeline once we once we get a little closer to construction walks we have another meeting where we where we have the contractor here and they can discuss the the details of the schedule but in general when it you we're talking about disruptions to you you'll be notified before things like you know water shutoffs or your driveway is being replaced you know things like that you'll be notified before that happens so that you can make plans. And is there any remedy? I mean to make plans do you just park your car someplace else in the neighborhood and walk to it or is there I guess I'm just trying to wrap my head around how we're going to be able to come and go when the neighborhood is sort of covered with when all the ways in and out are basically blocked. Sure well we we hope to never completely block off the street you know but there will be situations where if uh maybe not yours because you have a brand new driveway but you know for other people when we're replacing your driveway there's a few days when you just won't be able to access it so the the best course of action is usually to you know speak to a neighbor or something or across the street and see if you can park in their driveway for a few days something like that. But and I also want to mention that yes I showed that the project was going to be construction for a year but that's a year to do the eight streets that are associated with the project so it won't be one year of your street completely torn up. The construction happens in phases usually utilities come first so you know water the sewer will be done will be done first and then the things like curbs and gutters and sidewalks will be done next and finally the last thing that'll be done is the paving and it kind of it kind of comes in phases during the project but yeah when I say the project is under construction for a year I don't mean necessarily that you won't have access to your to your house for a year. Certainly certainly I just I've seen neighborhoods other neighborhoods in Dallas where the streets are basically removed for weeks at a time and the coming and going is challenging and I want to either prepare for the challenge well in advance or just being forewarned to score armed by just knowing that it's what it exactly is going to be in the lead up is going to be really really helpful. My other question is about what the quality of the road is going to be is it just going to be another asphalt road or is there going to be an improvement to the actual street itself? We have a lot of construction vehicles that pass through this neighborhood. People who work here drive large trucks and carry trailers often with equipment on it and so it's probably not you know another a replaced asphalt street is not going to last terrifically long I wouldn't expect but I don't know I don't I don't really know so. So as of right now the project is being designed as an asphalt replacement we won't know we won't know the final material until we get a little closer to construction. Very good. Well just to be advised that lots of big trucks with equipment there's a lot of people working construction around here and they bring it's not people building in the neighborhood it's people who live in the neighborhood who have large vehicles that are dragging stuff around and so there's a that is what one of the reasons I think the roads are increasingly worse around here is those you know as they degrade and then those vehicles go over them and you can just see it ripple up up and down the road. I thank you very much for presenting this it's really this is good to know and I'm glad that I'm glad that you've made this available. Not a problem thank you for your question thank you for attending as well is there any other questions like I said you can either unmute yourself and and ask or you can place it in the chat and I will get to it that way. If there's no more questions I'll go ahead and wrap up the meeting thank you so much to those of you that took the time to attend today this is my contact information here on the screen please feel free to reach out to me by phone or email if you have any follow-up questions or comments or something you you know didn't think to ask or thought about it later to ask feel free to give me a call about about any issues related to this project whether the issues about the design or construction that's what I'm here for so you can give me a call and I'd love to talk to you about it. I'll leave this slide up for just a little bit so if you want to have a chance to copy down the information copy down my phone number copy down my email address you can um if there's nothing else I hope everyone has a good evening thank you again for attending and I look forward to hearing from you thank you