 So welcome everybody to this virtual community meeting regarding the upcoming polytechnic height street improvement project. My name is Greg Robbins and I'm a project manager with the city of Fort Worth transportation and public works department specifically in our neighborhood streets division. On the call with us this evening are all our representatives from the Fort Worth water department, the engineering consultant is doing the design and others from TPW. So they'll be around at the end to help answer any questions that you may have. This presentation is meant to provide you with some information about the scope of this project that is 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 hope 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 expected schedule moving forward and blocking off some time at the end for your questions and 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. So just here in a couple of weeks, the city manager and the city council have kindly provided funding to start the design of this project and several others in anticipation of the bond passing here in a couple of weeks. Funding for this construction of this and other projects are included in the bond package. So please remember to go vote and let your opinion on this be counted. So there are six streets associated with the polytechnic hide area that are slated for reconstruction. So they are Avenue C from Thrall Street to Wesleyan Street, Avenue E from Bishop Street to Campbell Street, Avenue G from Binkley Street to South Collard Street, Holm Street from East Rosedale Street to Avenue G, North Avenue H from the West Dead End to Miller Avenue, and Thrall Street from East Victory to Avenue D. On the next couple of slides, I'll discuss the existing conditions present on these streets and give you a street by street breakdown of the proposed improvements for each one. This slide shows the existing conditions of these streets and why they were included in this bond package for reconstruction. You know, these streets were included in this project because the repairs that are needed go beyond the standard maintenance and require full reconstruction. You can see from the pictures the issues that we're going to be correcting include damaged asphalt pavement, missing or broken curbs and gutters, damaged or missing sidewalk, or missing damaged or missing driveways, as well as replacing or upgrading the water and sewer utilities under the streets in several locations. Next, I'll go through each street individually and discuss the improvements that are expected to be made on each one. So, on Avenue C, we'll be replacing the existing pavement and providing new concrete curbs or adding curbs for an under existing. We will also be replacing existing driveways with new concrete drives. These new driveways will be a minimum of 11 feet wide or match your existing driveway if it happens to be wider than that. Avenue C will also be getting new five foot wide sidewalks on both sides of the street. In addition, we will be upgrading the existing six inch waterline under the street to an eight inch. On Avenue E, we have new paving with concrete curbs, very similar to the previous street, new concrete driveways, minimum 11 foot width, new five foot sidewalk on both sides of the street. In addition, we will be replacing the existing 12 inch waterline under the street. On Avenue G, new pavement, new concrete curbs, new concrete driveways, and we'll be providing a new concrete sidewalk on both sides of the street. In addition, we'll be upgrading the existing six inch water to an eight inch. On Holm Street, we'll have new pavement with concrete curbs and we'll also be providing new concrete driveways on this street. Also, upgrading the existing six inch sewer line under the road to an eight inch. On Avenue H, this is a short little street, we'll be just replacing the pavement with new concrete curbs and replacing the driveways along there with minimum 11 foot or matching whatever is out there. On Thrall Street, we have several improvements for paving, new concrete, new pavement with concrete curbs, new new driveways, a new five foot concrete sidewalk on one side of the street, replacing the existing eight inch water as well as rerouting and replacing an existing 30 inch storm drain into the city right away between Avenue A and Vickery. So, this slide in the next show is something of what you can expect the finished product to look like once the construction is finished. As I mentioned earlier, 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, many of the streets, which will include new ADA accessible ramps where they're needed. So, next I'll speak a little bit on the anticipated schedule for the rest of the project. So, the dates shown here are what we estimate going forward for the project milestones and it's partially based on the voting date for bond approval. This project is currently in the design phase and we are a little bit more than 60% of the way finished. We received and reviewed the 60% plans from the engineer and we're planning to move to the next deliverable soon. You can see that the next item on the list is the 2022 bond vote, which I wanted to remind you about so that we can get funding to make the improvements that I showed earlier. After that, if all goes to plan, we plan on advertising for bids sometime in the fall of this year and receiving bids from contractors for the work in around November. It takes a couple of months for the award process to complete, so we hope to get council approval by the 1st of 2023 and then award the contract to the qualified contractor by March. After that, the last step is the construction itself, which will most likely be in spring of 2023 and we expect it to last for about a year. If you'd like any additional information about the 2022 bond program, you can go to this link and find out more information about the funding, the included projects and some other items of interest related to the bond. I'll stay on this page for just a few minutes so that anyone who wants to write it down, the link to the website can do so. Additionally, if you don't want to write down this link, I believe if you go to Google and just type in city of Fort Worth 2022 bond is the 1st link that pops up. So that's another way to do it. You can go there and read more about the bond and the projects that are included. And with that, we basically come to the end of the presentation so we can move now into our questions and input portion. So if you have any questions, you can either, if I see any in the chat, we'll take those first and then we can get to anyone who may have questions on the phone. So, Jeff, do we have any chat questions that we can start taking? There's nothing in chat at the moment. All right, so we don't have any questions in chat. If anybody is on a phone and would like to unmute themselves, we can take your questions that way now. Mr. Robinson, how are you today? I'm doing well. Thank you. All right. This is Deborah Williams and my address is at 3424 Avenue. I am my concern was Avenue. I was left out and on 1 part of the street. It was updated about 2 years ago. But the other part of the street is Ragley have holes in it. Some of them need sidewalk. And I'm just wondering why street was passed by. I'm not I'm not for sure why Avenue I would have been passed over. I know that, you know, streets that are in the bond were included based on their condition and in their needs for repairs that go beyond just traditional maintenance. So that's the reason these particular streets were included. I'm not exactly sure why I would not have been included. You say it was recently part of it was recently redone. Yeah, part of it. But the rest of it has holes in it and no sidewalks and people run up and down them. And the curve for bad. Just wondering why we can get an update in this bond as well. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you for bringing that to my attention. Like I said, I'm not exactly sure why it wouldn't have been included. But unfortunately, you know what? I don't know if it wasn't included in the later project. Jeff, do you happen to know? I don't know anything. I don't know anything up the top of my head. Mary may know. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. This is Mary from TVW. I'm a junior manager of our neighborhood street. The project and the bond. We actually did a whole city ranking for the street. And based on their conditions, the worst of the worst was chosen. I mean, we have a limited budget. We cannot do every single street in the city. So we had to go and rank the street and top take the top. Some streets can be slided for other projects like water and sewer replacement and we'll do some bathing. Some streets are done through maintenance. So it's as a list have been going around. We have public meeting for over a year and a half now asking the public for input on the list. But by this point, the list is already approved and on for both. Go ahead. No, I mean, it's out of our hand now. I can give Greg the correct person. You can email for customer service. And if there is holes, I mean, there is pop holes in the street. They can come, our crew can come and fill this and it won't be hazarded or anything until and we can put it on a schedule for maintenance or something. I clearly understand that, but you went to Avenue C, E and G and H, skipped over I and went to Holmes and you went to Seroz. And the issue also some of the streets have cast iron water. So we need to replace it. So there is other thing it may not be visible in the streets, but it's an issue. So the ranking was have so many things like Avenue Troll have the school there. So that's make it the street rank higher. So there is some other things that you look at when they ranking the three because we have to have to go to school. I mean, our group are giving the street list. There is a planning group who decide and rank all the street in the city based on the condition. And I thoroughly understand that as well. We have a daycare at the end of the corner is just as important as school kids. We have little kids at the daycare. So we can enter this data. We don't like we don't have daycare. We entering school data in there, but we can we can tell the people who do that to start looking at the daycare data. But I mean, we can get your information. Greg can send you the email and you can contact the customer service and they will update you what can be done for that street. Seriously, we we have a very good customer service will respond and will do our best to make sure the street is not hazard or it's not drivable or anything until we can put it in a list for another project. I think an easy way that also is with the my for worse app. You can report potholes and things on there, I believe. Okay. We do have 2 questions in chat now as well. Okay. The 1st 1 is are the 60% plans available to the public. Is there something in particular if there's something in particular that they would like to see I can set with them or or call them individually to discuss it. We don't typically make make intermittent submittals public just because things change. So we don't want you thinking that something that shows up in 60% but didn't show up in 100% plans was a mistake or was left out. So if anybody wants to contact me, so I'm going to go and sell my contact information up here. If you have a specific question, then you want to see something in the plans related to your property and the specific improvements related to your your specific specific law or street. You can give me a call here and or email me and I can get with you. I can get with you that way and we can discuss. That's great. Thanks, Greg. Great. And the other question when construction starts on the streets, will the new sidewalk walks be marked out well in advance so we can relocate any planting that may encroach by by layout. Do you mean, you know, like, like paint on the ground or something because usually we, it'll, there'll be some stakes that'll be out there. And then we'll start seeing forms go up if they'll excavate the area and then they'll start putting forms up where the new sidewalk is going to go. So if if things needed to be moved out of the way, the contractor is can be directed to not just throw things in your yard away. If they need to be salvaged to you, if it's a, you know, rocks for your planter, or, you know, you have some other sort of delineation that needs to be moved out of the road. We can definitely tell the contractor to do that if it needs to be if it needs to be protected or salvaged back to you so we don't throw it away. And James, one other thing, one other thing to keep in mind is is you'll probably see the stakes, but you'll also get a hang tag on your door before they are like a week ahead of time. So if you don't see stakes at that point, you can always contact Greg and make sure that they don't do anything you don't want them to do. Very good. This is Jimmy Gresham. I'm the director of facilities at Texas Wesley University. And you'll hear me. I can hear you just fine. Okay, good. Thank you. I just want to say we're very excited about Avenue C. It's probably got to be one of the worst streets in the city. Personally drive down it several times a week and very excited that's going to be repaved. I think the timing is going to be great for us too because our classes are out for the spring semester in May. So sounds like you are starting sometime in the. You know, he said May 2023 so it weren't good for us. Okay, and that's posted a construction will definitely be coordinating with you. To make sure that we're not, you know, having a negative impact on kids getting to school or something like that. Okay, yeah, and then the, I have a new see, we have a parking lot there, but there's 2 interests is 1, 1 from Wesley Street and 1 from Avenue C. So, which shouldn't see problems with the grass that parking lot. Okay, we're excited about it. We have a construction project, which David Pritchard is our design engineer. I think, yes, a question earlier that may, we may need to coordinate with you offline. Is this the 1, the apartments on Avenue G? No, it's a project between a Rosedale and Avenue C that we're working on. Okay, and we can just meet, can we set up a meeting with you maybe on. At a later date where we can discuss the details of that. It's just a little bit of coordination I see. Sure, absolutely just feel free to give me a call or your email me and we can set that up. Okay sounds good. Now, yeah, we're pretty excited about this. I don't think anything going on Avenue G would affect us too much is kind of south of all the properties on there. So. Thank you. Did anybody have any other questions on the phones? Jeff, did anybody else put any questions in the chat? No, sir, there's nothing else in the chat. Just a sounds good. Thank you from James. Okay, great. Well, if there's not any questions, we can go ahead and go ahead and close this meeting. If you do think of a question, you know, just right after this meeting or you think of it here in a couple of days or weeks. Always feel free to give me a call. That's what I'm here for. I'm here to answer questions to help out. You can call me at that number or email me and I'll get back to you just as soon as I can. So. Thank you everyone for your attendance. Thank you for being here on this Monday evening. Thank you for taking your time. Thank you for your interest in the project. And I look forward to look forward to hearing from you. Thanks, Greg. We do have one calling user so the phone number is for Greg is 817-392-2333 in case you need to call him since you can't see the screen. Oh, thank you, Jeff.