 So, good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining the meeting today. Today, I will be presenting about the Pencil Street sidewalk project. And I'm Shwetha Rao, I'm with City of Fortford TPW. I'm the project manager on this project. And with us, we have today Mayor Pro Tem, Bevels, and then our director, Lauren. Lauren, do you want to say a few words? No, I'd like to keep you short and sweet. So, let's get on with it. Thank you. So, our current project, we will be going over the agenda today. So, the agenda includes the project background and the location map, the project schedule. Some frequently asked questions about sidewalk projects and the project contact information coming to the project background. This project will improve pedestrian safety and mobility along Pencil Street from Village Creek Parkway to Car Valley Avenue. This project will also be improving some of the pedestrian safety aspects around some schools, GPS health center, and the public transit stops. So, we will be installing some bus paths along the transit stop along the corridor to provide better place for the pedestrian to halt while they wait for their bus. This project is funded using 2022 bond program funds. So, coming to the location map, this is the location for Pencil Street from Village Creek to Car Valley. I'll show the more zoomed in map. So, we will be installing sidewalk on the south side of Pencil Street all along the corridor. Coming to the project schedule, the project is currently in design phase. We are estimating to start construction in spring of 2025. The reason that we show the duration to be longer from this point is because we have some on-court poles that need relocation along the corridor. And we show some time for us to coordinate with on-court for that relocation. If it gets done sooner, we might start sooner, but that would be something that would be impacting our construction start on this project. Estimated construction duration is 6 months and the construction cost would be around 1.7 billion. Coming to some frequently asked questions on the sidewalk project, what would be the typical width of the sidewalk? So, for a typical width, City of Fortford Standard has it to be 5 feet when it's detached from the curb or when it's closer to the curb or right next to the curb, it's 6 feet. We are going to some places where we would be reducing the sidewalk width to 4 feet just to preserve the trees that we have along the corridor right now. Will we be impacting any drivers as part of this project? There will be reconstruction of multiple drivers along the corridor, just to meet the requirements. The drivers that are there right now that are like more than 2 that have more than 2% of cross-loop that won't be meeting AD compliance will be reconstructed to meet the compliance. But the property owner will be given access at all the time. So, we will be replacing 1 panel at a time so that. The property owner can still access their property. Will any existing tree removal be necessary? So, we are not planning on removing any trees as a part of this project. Will there be any detours? So, we are not anticipating any detours. Our contractor will be working on the outer lanes, but the lanes would still be open for traffic at all time. Next is, will any irrigation system be impacted? So, if there is an irrigation system that's existing right now in the park, where we are installing the sidewalk, we will have our contractor replace them or sorry, relocate them to back of sidewalk as part of this project. Will the construction materials and equipment be left on site during construction? So, yes, our contractor will have some equipment and material on site during construction. But the travel lanes will be reopened once the contractor leaves the site. So, at the end of day's job, the contractor will reopen all the lanes for traffic. Those were all the frequently asked questions that we usually receive for our sidewalk projects. Here is the project contact information. I am the city project manager for the job. And here's my phone number and email ID. Todd Buckingham from Frisian Nichols is our design engineer and here's his phone number and email ID. So, for all other service requests that are not pertaining to this project, the residents can still reach out to city of foot, using either my foot, what app for Apple or Google or they can text hello at 817-835-6939 or they can call the city call center at 817-392-1234. Thank you everyone again for joining the meeting. I'll take the questions now. If anyone has any questions I do and thank you for such a thorough, clear presentation. I think everybody will be able to see what's coming. I did take a few notes. I know 1, you know, people will be asking us, why do we do just 1 side of penson? And I know we'll be doing the south side. What's the answer for not doing both sides? I, I think Chelsea, she is from our transportation management department when we started planning this project. And when we were looking at either north or south side due to budget constraints, Chelsea had some plans for the sidewalks on the north side as a part of different project. I'm not exactly sure on when that will be happening. Well, I can jump in, I can jump in. Thank you. No problem. I'm having difficulties right now with my internet connection at home. So I won't turn my camera on. But originally we had planned to do sidewalks on both sides of the street. As Shweta mentioned, due to kind of cost escalations and. Budget constraints, we had to reduce or make a decision about which side of the street to install sidewalks on. So, originally, in making that decision, we're going to do it on the north side. But once we did some more constructability assessments and looked at the level of effort required to install the sidewalks. We decided to go on the south side of the street, because there were more utility relocations needed. And so we thought, you know, we would take the more challenging side of the street to install the sidewalks so that those property owners on the. On the north side would have an easier time put it in sidewalks, and we may still come back in the future to do some smaller sidewall gap installations as well on the north side. So, I'm, I'm, I'm not clear. Are we not doing the north side because of money? Or because of the utility. I don't, I don't understand primarily for funding. Okay, yes. Okay. And so at some point in time, maybe a future bond issue could include north side because that's certainly a question. People always ask, why didn't you do both sides? So just be prepared for that. And the other question that I have, or it's really just an offer to help. If you run into any difficulties involving on core pose, let me know because I know you all have your contacts. But between Don, perfect and Richard, we could for sure not let pole relocation be a problem because they take pride in helping. And the other question that I have, I know people know that I'm real sensitive to trees, but I'm not unreasonable. I want to make sure we're not compromising accessibility for people who have wheelchairs because we're leaving trees. And so when, when I look at 6 feet, you know, that I would think we would need more width than that. So you might want to take a look at that again, because if you've got a wheelchair and someone is with you and most people who visit JPS and wheelchairs are not alone. And so you might want to take a look at that and make sure we're doing the best that we can buy people who are accompanied in their wheelchairs and not everybody has a mobilized wheelchair. So I'm real concerned that we do the right thing by people with wheelchairs. Sure, we'll do that. So thank you for all the help that on call. We'll reach out to you if we have any issues in the future. And we will look at the sidewalk with along the GPS clinic, just to make sure we are providing enough for the residents to access the facility. And who will get back with me on that? Because if you need help with JPS, I can help with that too, in terms of, because they know who their clientele is. But, you know, one thing I know for sure is people in those manual wheelchairs, that's 2 people right there. And people shouldn't have to get off the sidewalk because we built a sidewalk that's too narrow. Okay, I will check out design plans after the meeting and I'll get back with you next week. Thank you. Thank you. And thank you for this meeting. Thank you. And I also wanted to mention along why we selected the South side since we had like the schools, the GPS clinic, everything towards the South side of the corridor. And we also have multiple bus stops along the corridor for the Trinity Metro. I think that was 1 of the factors that we wanted to choose the South side instead of the Northern side of Vincent Street for the project. Okay. And can you send that to me in an email? Sure, I'll do that. Okay, that because I couldn't write that fast and had this phone from ringing too. Thank you. I'll see y'all at your next 2 meetings. All right, what are you guys is this it? We're done. I was just checking if you have any more questions. I need to see if I have any chat. Looks like I don't have any questions in chat. I think that is all I have them. We will see everyone back at 3 o'clock for the quail road in Lake Arlington. I think we're actually doing 2 projects and Philip is about to present the 2nd one. Philip, are you and it's already? Um, yes, originally we were starting at 1.5, but I guess if everyone's here, we can start now. Chad, I think the mailer said 145. I'm not sure. I see. Okay. Yeah, we might not be able to start early. Okay, we might have people calling in specifically at that time. So, um, we should probably wait, right? Lauren. I think so, yeah, let's wait, but let's not do it like this again in the future. Okay. All right, this is council member Bivens. I have another question. I noticed there's a collar on from WFAA as in TV. Did you guys invite the media? So just just so you know. Yeah, ma'am, I don't think we specifically did, but we do send out general invites and post it to the the city calendar. Well, you might want to call back the number that's recorded for them for channel 8 and see if they need any additional information. Yes, ma'am. Okay. Okay, well, we'll all jump off. You know, the channel open for 30 minutes, but we'll come back at 145. Exactly. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Good job, Shweta. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everyone.