 Good evening, everyone. I show that we are at 605. So I'm going to go ahead and get started with our presentation this evening. Just a reminder here, please find your mute button. If you can see my laser pointer, I'm circling the mute button here. So find that and mute yourself during the presentation, please. I want to mention that we definitely will have time for questions. And there's a couple of ways that you can do that, either hold on to your question until the end of the presentation. And then at the end, we'll give everybody a chance who's got a question to ask a question or there's a chat function. And you can see it here with my laser pointer and it's highlighted blue on your screen there. That's a chat and you can type your question in there. You can do that at any time and we'll just kind of keep up with them. But we're going to answer all the questions at the end of the presentation. So I'm going to go through the full presentation first and then we'll answer the questions at the end. So there you will definitely have time for getting your questions answered. And just a reminder, the presentation will be recorded this evening. There we go. So tonight's meeting is a community meeting for the Museum Way realignment. And we'll be doing some paving, some sidewalk and some traffic signal improvements. And I want to introduce myself. I am the project manager for the City of Fort Worth for this project. I'm J.T. Aldrich and I want to welcome you. Thank you for joining us this evening. I also want to note that we have seen Councilmember Zeta. So thank you Councilmember Zeta for joining us this evening. We have a handful of other city staff on the phone with us are on the call tonight. Some are supporting, helping me out and answering the questions, receiving questions. And we've got the engineering firm that designed this project for the city. They're represented here tonight. And also we've got the construction contractor with us on the phone. So we have, we have quite a few people and hopefully we can take care of any questions that you all have tonight. So the agenda for tonight, I won't take too much of your time up. We're going to go through the, we're going to go over the project location just to make sure we're all on the same page where we're talking about. I'm going to talk about the existing conditions briefly. I will talk about describe the project that the proposed improvements that we have coming. And I will mention the construction schedule, then we'll have time for questions. So the project location, this is just a large zoomed out picture of Fort Worth. And you can see, of course, we're just west of Fort Worth along West 7th street. Near Trinity Park and the Trinity River there. And this shot is just a zoomed in picture again. I would assume everyone's probably very familiar with the area. But you can see the project location is kind of highlighted by this red shaded box here. So you've got Trinity Park on the Southeast corner. You have the retail and restaurant district on the Southwest corner. You've got a Tom Thumb on the Northwest corner. And then, of course, the hot body burger place on the Northeast corner. So this is just an existing photo from taken from Staten Street for museum way, excuse me, for museum way. About where the entrance to the park is and it's looking toward the North. And this is just another shot from the North side from Staten Street looking toward the Southwest there. And the main purpose for this project is because this two streets, museum way and Staten Street are offset from one another. And the main purpose is to real life museum way, line up with Staten Street on the North side of West 7th. And by doing this, we will be able to decrease the delays experienced by traffic, particularly vehicles at this intersection. And also, this will improve safety for drivers and for pedestrians by realigning the street because it will give drivers and pedestrians more of what they expect. Right. So it's the idea is it'll improve their expectations and it's what people expect to see. So that makes things safer. So this is a view of the project and I hope you can follow my laser pointer. I'm going to use it as I. Talk about some of the proposed improvements that we're planning to make with this project. So you can see here, the paving the new paving for the proposed museum way. And so I guess you can tell in this photo North would be to your left. So this is Staten Street to the North and you've got West 7th Street running up and down here, right East and West. So museum way is going to be realigned out into just the corner of the park here. And then it's going to tie back in right about in front of the park driveway. So we're going to provide this new paving here to be concrete paving. And along with this concrete paving, you see right here, this area that I'm circling, we've provided for a turnout. So this will be a drop off in a pickup area for these, these restaurants right here, right? This retail area. Where cars can pull over and get out of the main lanes of traffic to pick up and drop off. People so I think that'll really help the traffic a lot. And we're also going to provide these red lines that look kind of like bricks red lines that look kind of like bricks. These are going to be the new sidewalks. And we're going to reuse the existing pavers that are along the streets out there along the sidewalks. The brick pavers, we're going to reuse those in the sidewalk areas. So we're just going to, we're going to line museum way with these brick pavers. Of course, we're going to install the traffic signal here, right? We'll have to straighten that up so that the traffic signal lights line up with the new lanes of paint. Traffic will also be installing some illumination. So some pedestrian poles that will look just like the ones that are out there existing today. We'll be putting them over here on the park side. So I believe we're putting in 4 or 5 new. Illumination polls along this, the park side of museum way. Of course, the project will of course have striping and signs. 1 of the features of the project is that this area here that you'll see that I'm circling with my laser pointer is highlighted in green. This would be, I'm going to call this the abandoned area, right? So this is where the street currently is. We're going to abandon that area when we move the street over. And in this abandoned area, for right now, we are going to plant grass. We're going to also install irrigation and we're going to put in some some boulders along the, uh, the edge behind the sidewalk. We're going to put in some some nice looking boulders and then we're also going to, uh, well, I shouldn't mention this. We're going to have to remove 5 trees that are here along this side of museum way. So along with the removal of those 5 trees. We're going to plant 5 new trees right along around the parking lot for the park area. So we'll be planting these 5 new trees in that area. So you'll see some, some, again, some irrigation lines that we'll be putting in out there and, um, and sodding it. Of course, returning it to a nice sodded condition. So during construction, I do want to mention a few things. We will maintain access to the restaurants here. The, uh, Chewie's info district will will remain, uh, access will remain to those. So we will keep those at sidewalk open there throughout construction. And we will maintain the pedestrians along West 7th Street. And we're going to do that by we're going to have the pedestrians are going to use the edge of West 7th Street. Actually to cross east of West to get over right to the park side and to cross and then be on the edge of the pavement. And we'll protect the pedestrians with a concrete traffic barrier between the pedestrians and the vehicles for safety. Another thing that I do want to mention during construction is that as you can see. The entrance to this entrance to the park will be closed for a period during construction. Obviously, because the pavement in the street will be being reconstructed right in front of the entrance to the park. So there will be a period of time where the entrance to the park will be closed. Of course, you know, you can access the park in this parking area from further south in the park. And another thing that we're going to do during construction. Is in order to be able to construct. Particularly this tie in right here back to the existing street. We are going to have to put some narrow travel lanes along museum way so that we can build half of the street. And put half of or keep the traffic open on the other half of the street. So there are going to be some pretty narrow lanes during construction so that we can build half of the street. And then we'll move traffic over to the new pavement will be on the new half of the street. While we construct the other half of the street. Right. So during both construction phases, there will be some narrow lanes. There along museum way. So I just want to point that out to everybody just to keep that in mind. And of course, be careful and cautious as you're driving through the area. We certainly want our construction workers to go home safe every evening. And so we really appreciate you helping us out with that. So those are the primary features. I may have forgotten something that's certainly possible. You can ask a question about it. Well, I just remembered something. So there currently is a bus stop on this on the east bound lanes of West 7th. And we're going to move temporarily. We're going to move that bus stop to the east. So the bus stop can't really see it here, but it's going to be moved up to the east. So there will be a few parking spaces that we'll have to close to allow space for the bus stop to remain operating there. And another thing that you might have noticed recently is there's a bicycle station at this corner. And we have recently relocated the bicycle station further to the east. It's still along West 7th Street right behind the curb. But we've gone ahead and relocated that temporarily. And so that is in anticipation of this project starting up. So this slide right here is basically everything I just told you, except it's just in words. So I'm not going to go in the same amount of detail here. But I just want to kind of reiterate the project will include new concrete pavement. And with a pickup and a drop off area, we are going to reuse the existing sidewalk pavers for the new sidewalk improvements that we're going to make. We'll be installing a new traffic signal. We'll put in some illumination light poles, new course pavement markings and signs. And some landscaping improvements there in the area that we're abandoning some boulders and some new trees that we're going to plant. So with that, of course, comes our construction schedule. So the city has awarded the contract to 2L Construction LLC. And so they will be starting construction on the project in December. So in about a month, a little over a month in December, they're going to start. And the construction should take about four months. That's what we're anticipating. So we should be finished with construction in April of 2021. And that basically covers everything that I was going to cover tonight. And as I promised, we want to give time for questions and answers. And this slide here has my information on it. So I do want you to know that there's my email address and my phone number. And you are welcome to call me or email me if you have questions further later on down the road. If you have a concern about something that you see, we really appreciate that. A lot of times you, as the public, or those of you who live and work and play in this area, you see things, you're there day in and day out, and you see things sometimes from always really from a different perspective than we do. And so we always appreciate questions or even concerns or anything like that as the project moves along. So with that, let's see what questions we have. I haven't seen any, I don't see any questions in the chat yet. Here we go about the narrow lanes during construction. Is there a plan for emergency vehicles such as fire trucks to reach the state and beyond? So the fire truck will certainly be able to pass through the narrow lanes. I mean, they won't be too narrow for, say, emergency vehicles. At the same time, there is always, you know, the alternate route, I'm sure you're all familiar with, of course, it is through Latisse Drive. So it does take you through, kind of through the retail area. But that's always an alternate route to, you know, to get back around to maybe avoid this construction area. Okay. How much will this project cost? I see that question. So the cost for the construction of this project is right about $750,000. I don't know. I cannot remember the exact number, but it's in that ballpark, $700,000, $750,000. Okay. When will the entrance to the park be closed? I suspect the entrance to the park, I don't have a great answer for you. I don't think it'll be closed right off the bat. It won't be closed right at the 1st of December, but there will come a point in time when the contractor will need to, again, to work in that area right in front of the driveway. And I just, I don't have an exact specific time for you, but, you know, it's going to be, it's going to be during the first half of the work. So probably at some point in December, it may be closed and then it may last for a month, maybe even, you know, six or eight weeks, it might be. So, yeah, go ahead. Sorry. Is the contractor in attendance? Chip? He was here. Yes, I'm here. Maybe he can elaborate on closing the park driveway. Chip, do you have any idea? I mean, an estimate? Estimate. You're probably looking at a, at about two weeks in. The way we're phasing the project to leave the existing roadway open, we're going to be working on the east side of the roadway, getting as much done as we can before we switch to going to narrow lanes. So this is an area that we can work in without having to hinder any kind of traffic. So it will be towards towards the beginning of the project. And it'll last. How long? The closure of the park entrance will last the duration of the project once it's closed down, just because of the narrow lanes. We don't want people trying to turn in there, enter, exit with the narrow lanes, with other traffic around. It's just, it's safer for everyone to just keep it closed, detour the traffic, the park traffic to the entrance further south. Okay. Thank you, Chip. All right. I see a, okay. So I want to keep going. I see another question. Can you repeat when it will start and how long it will take to finish? Yes. We are planning to start work in December and, and I think early December. So before Christmas we'll start work and we anticipate completing by April. So by April of 2021. So it should take about four to five months. And let's see. Next question is, is this being paid for by taxpayers? Yes. This is a project that is being funded by the 2018 bond program. So the city's 2018 bond funding is funding this project. And will there be any art project connected to this construction? So there has been some talk of art projects or an art project in the abandoned area. But with this specific project at this time anyway, currently no, there's, there's no artwork planned to go in with this project. But again, I've, I've heard, you know, discussions about it. So it doesn't mean it's out of the question later down the road, but it's, there's nothing associated with this current project. There's no art project currently. And a tough one. Why was this not considered before? Tom and other retailers built their buildings. Seems like this could have been avoided with proper planning. I cannot answer that. We are taking care of that now though. If there's anyone who doesn't have access to the chat feature. So you've called in from your phone, your cell phone or home phone. You're, you're welcome to unmute yourself now and go ahead and just ask your question. Will you be sharing your PowerPoint with Melissa Dunn? Yes, I can certainly share. I mean, that certainly the she's a president. Okay. So again, the whole, the entire presentation is being recorded. And I'm sure that the recording will be available if you actually wanted to watch and listen to it. But yes, we'll definitely share the PowerPoint slides. Maybe a few more comments. Yeah, we're very grateful that everybody attended. I got to give it to JT. You heard a little bit of background in the, I mean, noise in the background. JT is calling from his truck, as I understand. So that's, we got to give him kudos for making it to the meeting and making and doing the presentation from his truck. So big round of applause for JT. He is however safely parked. He's not driving. Yes, I assume that far. That's correct. Did I see someone with a hand raised? Yeah, that was me. I already asked my question in the chat. Okay. But I do have another question. Are any utilities going to have to be removed, moved for this project or any type of water supply disrupted? No, there, there's no utility work with this project. So no water, no sewer work going on with this project. Okay. Thank you. Sure. I don't think there are any more questions, JT. So we can go ahead and thank the public for the attendance this evening. And like you said, it's going to be shared in the presentation. Thank you very much for your attendance and have a good evening. Thank you.