 We'll just introduce ourselves real quick. We're gonna pack this house. First of all, thank you to everyone for actually showing up. It means a lot to us. It means a lot to the city of Fort Worth that you take time out of your schedule to show up to hear about what we have going on. Usually a lot of these meetings you'll see more city staff than you will residents. So I'm glad to see it the other way around tonight. If we haven't met yet, I'm Charlie Lowersdorf. I'm the newest council member for district four. And so I happen to represent you guys, council right now. Of course, we have a lot of big things going on, including the budget. So if you're following that, Allen and I together, we're fighting for the north. I can guarantee you that. Thankfully, we got some help from Macy and Carlos as well. But Allen and I, we're taking a brunt of the fight to represent you guys north of the loop and reminding them, Fort Worth is north of the loop as well. So we're trying to get additional police officers. We're trying to do more by being good stewards of your tax dollars. So the proposed tax rate reduction, we've got a lot of good things coming up. It's all proposed right now, like I said, we continue to fight it. So I just want to take a moment and introduce myself. I'm going to go ahead and pass it over to Allen Blalock. And I'm going to let him introduce our team for this evening as well. So good evening, everybody. Thank you very much for being here. I am Allen Blalock. I live here in Heritage. I'm councilman for district 10, which is basically everything north of Heritage all the way up to Texas Motor Speedway. We're here today to talk about one of the, oh yeah, and west all the way to 287. But we're here today to talk about Ray White and getting it finished up through the east side of Heritage here. And so I'm going to introduce to you to Alejandra Ayala, who is our TPW manager responsible for this project. So I'm Alex Ayala for short. I'm in TPW capital delivery. And what we do is we deliver capital to the residents of Fort Worth. I'm the project manager for Ray White Road. And I'm going to introduce some of the team that's helping design and construct this road in the near future. Dennis Ingram, he is with Burns and McDonald. He's one of our design engineers. And we also have McCarthy. McCarthy is our construction manager at risk. We already picked the contractor for this project. And we have Colleen and Dave and John. They're with McCarthy Buildings Construction Company, Inc. And they just finished Harmon Road. So if you guys have been over off Presidio on Harmon Road, this is the team that did it. And they were selected to do Ray White Road on this side of the freeway now. And so I'm going to give you a brief presentation. I also wanted to introduce Burkett. Burkett Berhain is back there in the corner. He's one of our new project managers with TPW. As a matter of fact, this is his first week. And so in about three or four months or maybe five, as soon as he trained him, he'll be taking over this project in the future. But I'll still be around to answer any questions you may have. So I just introduced our team. I'm going to give you a little bit of a agenda. I'm going to explain what the project manager roles are. I'm going to show you the Project Mac overview, the scope of the project, and let you know that McCarthy Building Company is our CMAR. We also have a very estimated project schedule and budget, and contact information and questions. I also printed out a little sheet that in the future, we're going to have more of these meetings. This is just kind of the 30% where we introduced the project on paper and let you all see it. We'll have another meeting, probably about 60% plans. And then we'll have a third community meeting when it comes time for to start construction so you all know how the construction is going to work. And so this little sheet, we're going to build upon it as we fill out the names from design to pre-construction services to the construction phase. So like that, you know how to communicate with the city, communicate with our project managers, and communicate with McCarthy once this project gets started. So our project team consists of myself, Burkett, and Raul Lopez. Raul Lopez is not here tonight. He is our program manager. And then from Burns and McDonald's, I have Dennis here tonight, and Hailey Smith, she's also another one of our engineers. And then from McCarthy, Ricardo is not here, but Dave Wallace is. He's actually the project director. So we'll be in communication with him throughout the whole time to mitigate any kind of issues we may have out in the field. And this is just kind of a little brief description on what my role is for the project. I am responsible for coordinating, procuring, and managing contracts and services for the delivery of projects whose limits and scope are predefined by the transportation planners. So this road does go through a vetting process with the city. Our planning division basically are the ones who map out how these streets are going to look like to accommodate the growth. And then they give us what the road should look like, and then we build it. Our consultant project manager role is Dennis and his team at Burns and McDonald. And what they do, they help us procure our contractor. They help us design the road. They help us do all the engineering of this road. We don't do any in-house engineering at the City of Fort Worth. That all gets sent out to our consultants to do that work for us. And then our construction manager risk is McCarthy, like I mentioned. This is their fourth project for the City of Fort Worth. And so we're super excited to have them on the team, because they're a very good contractor, and they did such a great job on Harmon. They did finish on time, so we're hoping that that's the case here, but you never know about weather, right? So the project map. So everybody that drives down very white knows that as you come off of Kroger Drive and you head north, that it chokes down to a two-lane country road. So we're going to pick it up from about Mirage Drive, wind that out to a four-lane divided all the way up to the Bear Creek Bridge. So half of that, the connection's already there for us to tie onto. And so we're just going to widen that road. Most of the ride-away has been obtained on this roadway. It was dedicated back when all the developments that grew around this road came in. And so we only have a small portion of ride-away that we need to obtain, which is closer over to Wall Price Road. So one of the things that needs to happen on this road is that we are going to put in a traffic signal at Wall Price Road at that three-legged intersection. We're going to widen the intersection at Wall Price Road and include northbound right turn lanes and westbound lanes. Most of this road is going to be a four-lane divided roadway with race medians. And in some areas, we have to put in left turn lanes. We are going to construct sidewalks on both sides of the street. This is going to have street lights. And we're also going to do modifications to the existing roundabout at Windbrook in order to accommodate. Right now it's just a single lane. It needs to become a dual lane. And we're going to reconstruct it to accommodate the expansion of the roadway. So I'm just going to go through some pictures of the existing conditions. Many of you know what it looks like because you all probably drive and you all know it's a two-lane road. We have side road ditches and lots of traffic. And with the high school being at the corner at Kroger, I'm sure that a sidewalk would be a welcome addition through this older area of the road. And then here we're approaching that roundabout. And then there's the connection at that existing bridge over Bear Creek. Right now we have a lot of drainage going down this little ditch. I'm sure it becomes a little, rushing little creek when we have those heavy downpours. So all that will be underground. That tree is going to come down. I did get asked by Forestry Department if I could put a median around. I can't. It's right in the middle of one of our lanes. So this is pretty much what our typical section looks like on this road. I'm not going to spend too much time. But basically we're trying to squeeze, when I say squeeze, this road into this right-of-way the best we can. We're kind of left with what we're left with. And so we're going to try really hard to not displace people and to try to work around. There's a lot of trees out there. Unfortunately, I cannot save them, most of them. We're going to save what we can. But it's either a sidewalk or tree, you know, or roadway or tree. And we've looked at it from the eyes of trying to preserve it. But because I do get asked that a lot, are you going to cut down these trees? Yes. And those that I can save, we will save. But for the most part, we have to put this roadway in there. At Walprice Road, it's going to have a through lane and a left turn and a right turn lane at that intersection. So this is a little brief schematic of what it's going to look like starting at Mirage Street. So this section of the road does have medians. And most of these streets do meet the spacing requirement for a median. So we're going to add medians to add all the crossings. And then here we are at Walprice. And then as we continue northbound, pretty much this road is basically the existing lanes are going to stay there while we build the new lanes to the west. So it's a good thing that we, and then we'll switch traffic over in the future when we finish one side. I know there's been some questions on Hillcroft Street needing a signal light. We're in the process of getting traffic counts, but we have to wait for school to start because otherwise our counts are not accurate. So we're going to let school start, let it do what school does for a couple of weeks, and then you'll probably be seeing those black tubes across the street. We're going to start counting cars to see if it warrants a light there. Typically when you put a light up or downstream of an intersection, that does tend to slow cars down at the lights and does create those traffic gaps, in the amount of cars coming, and it makes it easier downstream of that light to make those left-term movements. And here's the roundabout. The roundabout's not going to be a circle. It's going to be what I call an eyeball because we had to fit this roundabout in the existing right-of-way. We burned a McDonald played with various different shapes to not impact people's backyards. And so this is what we came up with. Also this shape also helps cars. One of the things about roundabouts is you can't make them too circular. You do have to put in some radii in it to force cars to slow down. Otherwise they don't work like they should. So all the geometries in place to help with both fitted in the right-of-way we had and also to slow the cars down as they go around the roundabout. And there's a close-up picture of the roundabout at Windbrook, Ray White Road, and then it's Altavista, right, past that. And then here's the last section of this roadway as it ties into the bridge. We have all the right-of-way on the west side, so we won't be acquiring any right-of-way at that north end of the project. So some of the project challenges, we're highlighted here on the slide. So trying to build this road while people are on it is definitely a challenge. And we're going to try to maintain the most efficient traffic flow as possible for the traveling public during construction phases. We understand there's a lot of schools in the vicinity. And so we keep a list of stakeholders that we communicate any time that we have changes to traffic patterns to make sure we communicate, especially to the bus drivers. And also pedestrian traffic safety from the roundabout to the bridge. We also have to relocate some franchise utilities, protection of existing utilities, and facing of strong drain construction and right-of-way constraints at Wall Price Keller Road. Those are just some of the challenges that we had to take into consideration while designing. I've had several residents call me and ask me about drainage. This project, right now the water flows from the west to the east and goes down the hill where some of you live. A lot of that water will be intercepted by the street because it's going to have, you know, your typical underground storm drain system with carbon gutter. So all of that rushing water that used to come from one side of the street will get conveyed through the street into the storm drain system and go off to Big Bear Creek. So here's a very, very rough estimate of where we are as far as schedule. We've been working with Burns and McDonnell and McCarthy to finish design. We're at about 30% right now. We still have a lot more to go. So we're thinking that we selected McCarthy back in February, and then we started our constructabilities reviews with them in April. So we're about to start a right-of-way acquisition this fall. We have to get a little bit further past 30%. Make sure our street's going to fit. Make sure that we're not moving our medians or our sidewalk before we actually start obtaining right-of-way. Once we obtain right-of-way, which is critical, then we have to relocate a lot of franchise utilities. So that's going to be, and we can't do it until we have, give them a place to go. So I'm estimating that it usually takes about, I don't know, six months to a year to get right-of-way, and there may be six months to a year to get utilities moved. So that's why it seems like it takes forever for us to build anything, and it's mainly because of the right-of-way acquisition time and the franchise utility relocation time, because we've got to clear all that out of the way. And then all the coordination that goes with them to make sure they don't put their lines in our storm drain, et cetera, et cetera. So we're thinking construction is going to start sometime in the winter of 2025. And right now, I just say it's going to take about 24 months to complete. The schedule will become tighter as we get more into design, as McCarthy reviews plans, as McCarthy is able to figure out how they're going to build this, then we'll start honing in closer into actual dates. So right now, I'm just kind of giving you seasonal dates, because that's the best I could do at this point in time. The project budget, the project budget is about $19 million. Right now, this was part of the 2022 bond fund project, which we received $23. million for this project. And we also have traffic impact funds from other sources that contributed $2.3 million into the budget. And really, that's the end of my presentation. But I did want to tell everyone about, and a lot of people don't know, we have my Fort Worth app. If you could download that from your Samsung or iPhone app store, it's really convenient. It allows you to basically take a picture of whatever it is you need, needs to be addressed. It actually drops a GPS date, a pin on it, and you could send it off. It's anything from potholes to missing signs, to street animal control, code compliance issues, it's pretty loaded with information. And you could just take a picture of it and send it off to the city and somebody will respond to that complaint. And there's my name, Alex Ayala. And my phone number, I also have cards up here. And then for traffic concerns, Rosh Gupta is our traffic engineer for the city.