WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:09.260 Good morning, everyone. I'm not sure what our at-home audience is this morning, but 00:00:09.260 --> 00:00:13.980 this is a meeting of the Downtown Economic Development Committee, a subcommittee of the 00:00:13.980 --> 00:00:20.460 Economic Development Partnership of Denton. And our first item of business is to receive 00:00:20.460 --> 00:00:27.460 nominations and elect a chair and vice chair for the Development Committee. One quick note 00:00:27.460 --> 00:00:32.600 before I kind of hand it over to staff, if we have any questions for staff, or rather 00:00:32.600 --> 00:00:39.440 before I open it up for nominations, our policy says that a city council member has to serve 00:00:39.440 --> 00:00:46.160 as chair, and then our vice chair at the moment is Alex Payne. Alex is not here, so if somebody 00:00:46.160 --> 00:00:52.060 wanted to throw him under the bus and re-nominate him, I'm not sure if he'd accept that or not. 00:00:52.060 --> 00:01:02.720 So I'll now open the floor for the position of chair of the committee. Not everybody at 00:01:02.720 --> 00:01:10.040 once. Do we know if Alex wants to continue in that capacity? I don't know. I haven't 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:14.440 spoken with Alex about that. But if you were going to lean one way or the other, I mean, 00:01:14.440 --> 00:01:20.400 probably he does. Probably he does. We all know he's very active downtown. Well, I don't 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:24.040 want to throw him under the bus, but I think he's a good leader, so I'd like to nominate 00:01:24.040 --> 00:01:31.320 him to continue in that capacity. Are you nominating him for the position of chair or 00:01:31.320 --> 00:01:40.360 vice chair? Chair. So the chair has to be a ... Oh, I'm sorry. Vice chair. Yeah, vice 00:01:40.360 --> 00:01:48.200 chair. Okay. Let's start out with chair, just as a formality, but we have to do it. Are 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:55.320 there any nominations for the position of chair of the committee? Is Marty eligible 00:01:55.320 --> 00:02:02.720 to serve again? I'm sorry. Can you say that again? Is Marty eligible to serve again? Yeah. 00:02:02.720 --> 00:02:08.000 So I'll put a little finer point on it. It's kind of an awkward position for me, but I'm 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:16.000 the only one on the committee who's eligible to serve as chair. I don't know. I tried to 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:21.600 say that in the most diplomatic way possible and not nominate myself, but under the policy, 00:02:21.600 --> 00:02:26.320 that's the situation. I want to make a double move then. I'm going to nominate you for chair 00:02:26.320 --> 00:02:33.520 and Alex Payne for vice chair, and I think it's a great ticket. Okay. I second that nomination. 00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:38.920 Okay. We'll take that nomination as a motion in a second. We'll go ahead and vote on those 00:02:38.920 --> 00:02:45.360 together unless anybody has any objection to that. And I'll kind of go around the horn, 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:55.680 seeing no objection to doing that. Hank, what's your vote? In favor. Georgina? Yes. In favor. 00:02:55.680 --> 00:03:12.080 John? Yes. Bob? Yes. Nick? Yes. Michael? I see a thumbs up there. And Peggy? And I think 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:19.040 you're muted, but I think you said aye. I said aye. Very good. And Brock, are you still 00:03:19.040 --> 00:03:24.760 on? Can you hear us? I think he's logged off. He's logged off. Okay. He had to switch up 00:03:24.760 --> 00:03:31.640 devices I think. All right. Thank you all. Then those will be our officers going forward. 00:03:31.640 --> 00:03:39.680 Our next item is 1B, consideration of the minutes of the September 3rd, 2020 meeting. 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:46.000 Are there any additions or deletions to the minutes as they've been distributed? Seeing 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:53.880 none, is there a motion for their adoption? I'll motion for their adoption. John with 00:03:53.880 --> 00:04:01.800 the motion, is there a second? I second it. Georgina with the second. Any discussion? 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:13.240 The move votes, starting with John, how do you say? Aye. Georgina? Aye. Hank? Aye. Bob? 00:04:13.240 --> 00:04:23.760 Aye. Nick? Aye. Michael? Aye. And Peggy? Aye. Thank you. And the chair is an aye. The minutes 00:04:23.760 --> 00:04:32.520 of the September 3rd meeting are approved. That takes us to item 1C, receive a report, 00:04:32.520 --> 00:04:38.760 hold a discussion, and give staff direction regarding the downtown capital projects update. 00:04:38.760 --> 00:04:44.360 And I think that's Rachel. Is that right? Good to see you, Rachel. Good morning, everyone. 00:04:44.360 --> 00:04:50.080 Great seeing you all too. So my name is Rachel Wood. I'm the deputy director of capital projects. 00:04:50.080 --> 00:04:54.320 And this morning, we've got several of our project managers with us that are going to 00:04:54.320 --> 00:04:59.760 provide updates on projects that are nearing completion, projects that are actively under 00:04:59.760 --> 00:05:04.880 construction, and then projects that are in the initiation phase. Because we have four 00:05:04.880 --> 00:05:09.920 different project managers that are going to be covering their projects, our thought processes 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:13.720 will have each project manager go through their list of projects that are in the downtown 00:05:13.720 --> 00:05:18.620 area. Once they conclude going through their slides, then you can ask questions of those 00:05:18.620 --> 00:05:22.960 projects and then they'll transition to the next set the next project manager and their 00:05:22.960 --> 00:05:27.320 projects just so that we don't have to play musical chairs. We can of course answer questions 00:05:27.320 --> 00:05:31.560 at the end of the presentation as well. But we're all going to be operating from this 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:35.960 one chair. So just kind of think about your questions as they're presenting just so we 00:05:35.960 --> 00:05:42.360 don't have to kind of keep circling back and play musical chairs. So we've got first, Kyle 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:48.760 pedigo is going to go through his projects, then Seth Garcia, Trevor Crane, and then Robin 00:05:48.760 --> 00:05:52.440 Davis. So with that, I'm going to pull up the PowerPoint presentation and then Kyle 00:05:52.440 --> 00:06:19.440 will come go through his projects with you. There we go. It's not sharing. While you're 00:06:19.440 --> 00:06:22.420 doing that, Rachel, I'll just kind of note for the record that Beth has joined us and 00:06:22.420 --> 00:06:39.680 Brock is locked back back on. Perfect. Okay, Kyle. Here we go. Okay, good morning, everybody. 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:44.600 Thank you for having me. My name is Kyle pedigo. As Rachel said, I'm a project manager for 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:52.160 the city and I have four projects that I'm going to be reviewing in downtown area. So 00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:57.720 first up, we have the downtown storm sewer phase one. The limits of this is between Bell 00:06:57.720 --> 00:07:02.800 and the Union Pacific Railroad from McKinney to Hickory Street. And it also extends up 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:10.600 oak from the railroad up proximately to Oakland. The design firm on this one was DEH and quality 00:07:10.600 --> 00:07:15.280 excavation is the contractor. This one's currently under construction. And we have been working 00:07:15.280 --> 00:07:21.120 with some of the local businesses where whose parking lots and traffic patterns are directly 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:27.980 impacted. So the scope of this project is drainage improvements and pavement repair 00:07:27.980 --> 00:07:34.440 with an estimated completion of approximately $1.76 million. This project began in December 00:07:34.440 --> 00:07:42.920 2020. Currently, it's on schedule to be completed by quarter four of 2021. And then we've been 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:53.000 coordinating with franchise utilities area businesses and text out on this. Currently 00:07:53.000 --> 00:08:01.360 they cross McKinney Street and they are in the parking lots. Right next to the UPR railroad. 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:09.140 That's their current work area. And they're set to begin work on Oak Street by about quarter 00:08:09.140 --> 00:08:19.120 two of this year. The next project that I have is the downtown quiet zones. The limits 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:25.240 of this project are the railroad crossings at McKinney, Hickory, Sycamore and Prairie. 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:30.280 This one was designed in house. Real quick, the scope of this is the city is going to 00:08:30.280 --> 00:08:35.560 be performing median improvements, sidewalk improvements and railroad crossing improvements. 00:08:35.560 --> 00:08:41.280 And this is coordinated with Union Pacific railroad. The intention of this project is 00:08:41.280 --> 00:08:47.920 to establish a quiet zone in the downtown quarter. Currently Union Pacific requires 00:08:47.920 --> 00:08:54.480 their trains to sound their horn at every crossing. Every time they pass that doesn't 00:08:54.480 --> 00:09:02.640 have a division in the crossing that prevents cars from going around the gates. So with 00:09:02.640 --> 00:09:09.960 the median improvement, with establishing a median there, the city the city's portion 00:09:09.960 --> 00:09:17.240 is the road work to establish the median and Union Pacific's portion is permitting and 00:09:17.240 --> 00:09:22.780 any signalization upgrades. So we're working with them currently because the two of these 00:09:22.780 --> 00:09:30.120 crossings intersect directly with the downtown storm sewer. We're attempting to minimize 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:36.840 the construction impact and perform those two crossings of McKinney and Hickory Street 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:43.960 with downtown storm sewer phase one. The estimate completion for this project is about 1.3 million 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:52.200 dollars. The design was finalized in January and there should be in construction by quarter 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:57.440 three this year. So by the end of the year, the city's portion should be under construction 00:09:57.440 --> 00:10:04.400 coinciding with the finish up of phase one of downtown storm sewer. So this is a that's 00:10:04.400 --> 00:10:13.160 the coordination note that this is being directly coordinated with that other project. Downtown 00:10:13.160 --> 00:10:19.620 TIF sidewalk and lighting. This project is mostly completed. There's two intersections 00:10:19.620 --> 00:10:25.160 outstanding so the limits of this are Elm Street, Oak Street, Hickory Street and a small 00:10:25.160 --> 00:10:31.320 section on a locust. This one was designed by Tignall and Perkins and Floyd Smith Concrete 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:39.560 did the sidewalk work. DME did the lighting improvements and traffic operations is doing 00:10:39.560 --> 00:10:46.000 the two signals that need to be completed. This project included pedestrian and lighting 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:51.640 improvements and sidewalk improvements. The estimate completion is roughly one million 00:10:51.640 --> 00:10:57.780 dollars. Traffic signal design is nearing completion. The two outstanding intersections 00:10:57.780 --> 00:11:06.760 are McKinney and Elm and McKinney and Locust. Once traffic performs their signal improvements, 00:11:06.760 --> 00:11:15.120 we can complete this project with the sidewalk and crossing improvements at those two intersections. 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:21.160 Currently we're estimated to be complete at the end of quarter two in 2021. So traffic 00:11:21.160 --> 00:11:30.000 should be performing their work in May and sidewalks would be nearing completion in June. 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:39.720 And this is being coordinated with franchise utilities, area businesses and TxDOT as well. 00:11:39.720 --> 00:11:45.400 West Hickory Street. This one is currently under construction so the limits of this project 00:11:45.400 --> 00:11:50.320 is West Hickory Street between Welch and Carroll. Again this was designed by Tignall and Perkins 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:58.600 and the contractor on the project is 2L Construction. So this includes drainage system upgrades, 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:04.480 roadway reconstruction, sidewalk installation and pedestrian lighting installation. The 00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:08.600 estimated completion is roughly three million dollars and this one is scheduled to be completed 00:12:08.600 --> 00:12:15.420 by quarter three of 2021. Currently they're complete with the base pavement on the first 00:12:15.420 --> 00:12:25.400 half of the project between Welch and Bernard and they're set to move to the kind of the 00:12:25.400 --> 00:12:31.880 third phase of the project on the north side of Hickory between Bernard and Carroll in 00:12:31.880 --> 00:12:43.120 March by the end of March. We've been working with the Improving Denton website to deliver 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:54.360 all of our notifications on this. We've also worked with UNT to help with communication 00:12:54.360 --> 00:13:00.760 on this project just because of the area it's in and then also communicating directly with 00:13:00.760 --> 00:13:08.800 businesses and property owners with any questions or issues that arise. That is the last of 00:13:08.800 --> 00:13:14.880 my four projects so before we hand it off we figured we could open it up to discussion 00:13:14.880 --> 00:13:27.680 or questions if anybody has any. I have one question Kyle. Can you take the screen down 00:13:27.680 --> 00:13:40.240 real quick so we can see everybody and see who's asking questions? On the downtown quiet 00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:45.800 zones you said that they're going to be coordinated construction with the downtown storm sewer 00:13:45.800 --> 00:13:51.400 phase one project. Am I correct to assume that that means though the city's portion 00:13:51.400 --> 00:13:57.240 will be completed at the same time on all four intersections? There's two intersections 00:13:57.240 --> 00:14:04.120 that will be directly coordinated with downtown storm sewer. It's McKinney and Hickory. Both 00:14:04.120 --> 00:14:10.240 of those should be completed. The city's portion should be completed at the end of phase one 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:16.320 of the downtown storm sewer when we go through with final restoration. The whole idea of 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:21.920 that is it will limit contractors out there, limit impacts on those two corridors and allow 00:14:21.920 --> 00:14:27.760 us to get these built relatively quickly compared to putting them out as individual projects. 00:14:27.760 --> 00:14:34.240 Is there an estimation on completion of the other two intersections? Those two we put 00:14:34.240 --> 00:14:40.040 out as a separate project and the goal is to have those completed roughly at the same 00:14:40.040 --> 00:14:46.200 time by the end of the year. Okay. Thank you. This is Bob Moses. I have a question concerning 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:56.240 the lighting. It seems to me that over the past say 10 years when we've done these major 00:14:56.240 --> 00:15:03.240 sidewalk and street lighting changes or additions down Hickory and other places that we haven't 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:10.760 taken enough concern of keeping the consistent looking lighting and the old fashioned lighting 00:15:10.760 --> 00:15:17.200 and the consistent color of the lights into account. It seems like we're now making another 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:23.280 kind of big move on those major streets and I'm wondering if these different companies 00:15:23.280 --> 00:15:30.560 that are designing these things are taking care to be consistent and if the type of lighting 00:15:30.560 --> 00:15:36.760 is being approved by the city to maintain the look of our town. 00:15:36.760 --> 00:15:42.480 I can't speak to the overall plan but I know for the two projects that I have with lighting, 00:15:42.480 --> 00:15:48.840 the West Hickory Street project and downtown tip that the lighting has been coordinated 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:56.640 to be the historical, what do you call it, the historical look of modern light fixtures. 00:15:56.640 --> 00:16:04.840 So there is coordination between the different engineers on those projects to attempt to 00:16:04.840 --> 00:16:09.600 maintain that. I think it should really be a significant 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:16.680 attempt because lighting at nighttime sets the ambiance and sets the whole feeling of 00:16:16.680 --> 00:16:29.800 our town. So I hope that's being done properly. Other questions for Kyle? I have kind of a 00:16:29.800 --> 00:16:37.560 follow on to Bob's question. I'm assuming that those new street lights are LED. Can 00:16:37.560 --> 00:16:43.280 we adjust the brightness and temperature on those like we can some of our other LED, the 00:16:43.280 --> 00:16:46.120 big street lights that we've been installing through the city? 00:16:46.120 --> 00:16:52.320 I believe so. I can look after this and double check the specs again but I believe they are 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:55.600 adjusted. That'd be helpful to know I think as to Bob's 00:16:55.600 --> 00:17:01.200 point, you know, if you have 10 street lights down the same street or in the same area and 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:06.840 three of them are on one temperature, kind of a different color in the restaurant, another, 00:17:06.840 --> 00:17:11.520 it does make a difference. If you could maybe just follow up with an email to the committee, 00:17:11.520 --> 00:17:19.320 that'd be helpful. Letting us know more. Any more questions on Kyle's portion? Okay. Thank 00:17:19.320 --> 00:17:28.120 you, Kyle. Thank you. 00:17:28.120 --> 00:17:40.240 Alrighty. Good morning, Chair, board members, Seth Garcia, project manager with Capital 00:17:40.240 --> 00:17:51.640 Projects. I will be going through PEC 4 phases 1 and 2 and then PEC 4 phases 3 and 4. So 00:17:51.640 --> 00:17:56.240 the first one's PEC 4 phases 1 and 2. This is the current downtown drainage project that 00:17:56.240 --> 00:18:02.080 we have in construction. The limits, as you can see, is Wainwright from Prairie. We also 00:18:02.080 --> 00:18:08.960 did some pretty substantial utility replacements along Elm and Locust. So the drainage replacements 00:18:08.960 --> 00:18:15.280 began here just at Wainwright and Highland, followed this path along Warren. We actually 00:18:15.280 --> 00:18:19.840 acquired drainage easement and cut through these businesses behind here to where we get 00:18:19.840 --> 00:18:26.900 to Prairie. And then the drainage box decommissioned just behind the Ravelin Bakery in between 00:18:26.900 --> 00:18:34.920 Elm and Pierce on Prairie. The rest of the lines that you see here are the utility replacements. 00:18:34.920 --> 00:18:39.640 There really wasn't a street that we didn't touch in this area, even in between Elm and 00:18:39.640 --> 00:18:45.600 Locust. But good news, we are getting close to wrapping up that project. So the scope 00:18:45.600 --> 00:18:52.040 was to install dual 11 by 8 box culverts for drainage. As I said, we also did pretty significant 00:18:52.040 --> 00:18:57.080 water and wastewater installation and relocations. And then we do have portions of this that 00:18:57.080 --> 00:19:02.240 were street reconstruction. Some of that was on bond project stuff. So I know in between 00:19:02.240 --> 00:19:06.920 Elm and Locust, we did have a 2019 street bond segment that we're working towards completing 00:19:06.920 --> 00:19:14.560 as well with this project. The estimate at completion for this was 15.1 million. This 00:19:14.560 --> 00:19:19.480 project began in July of 2019. And as I said earlier, it is on schedule to be completed 00:19:19.480 --> 00:19:26.200 by quarter three of 2021. We've been coordinating pretty heavily with franchise utilities, the 00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:33.240 media businesses, and as well as for our text dot permitting, as well as the sidewalk ADA 00:19:33.240 --> 00:19:40.080 projects that's coming down South Elm Street right now. 00:19:40.080 --> 00:19:46.600 The next two phases of PEC 4 are phases 3 and 4. We're currently in 90% design on these. 00:19:46.600 --> 00:19:51.000 These take the drainage boxes from where we decommissioned on Prairie in between Pierce 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:56.200 and Elm, all the way north crossing Sycamore and Stroud to Mulberry. And then we actually 00:19:56.200 --> 00:20:01.680 get into the roadway at Mulberry, traveling west all the way across Carroll Boulevard 00:20:01.680 --> 00:20:08.400 to what you see is Bernard here. This is where it will decommission with the full PEC 4 phases 00:20:08.400 --> 00:20:16.040 1 through 4 project. So the scope of this is we install 16 by 8, 12 by 8, and 10 by 00:20:16.040 --> 00:20:21.920 8 box culverts. We will have once again some pretty substantial water and wastewater installations 00:20:21.920 --> 00:20:27.560 and relocations just to accommodate the size of the boxes that we'll be installing. We 00:20:27.560 --> 00:20:33.920 will have significant street reconstruction on portions of Sycamore, Stroud, and Mulberry. 00:20:33.920 --> 00:20:38.400 With the size of these boxes, we're essentially curb to curb with utility cuts, replacements 00:20:38.400 --> 00:20:43.520 as well. So that kind of warrants for a full street reconstruction once we go through with 00:20:43.520 --> 00:20:50.620 these drainage boxes. Our estimated completion for these two phases is 17.7 million. Our 00:20:50.620 --> 00:20:55.600 schedule is kind of dependent upon the easement acquisition. We need to identify some funding. 00:20:55.600 --> 00:21:02.040 Currently, we only have funding for the drainage design. We will need funding for approximately 00:21:02.040 --> 00:21:09.000 53 easements and temporary construction easements. Once we have that, we can better set a construction 00:21:09.000 --> 00:21:14.360 schedule to acquire those easements. We are coordinating with Denton County as we'll cross 00:21:14.360 --> 00:21:19.240 their property, multiple franchise utilities, as well as the University of North Texas kind 00:21:19.240 --> 00:21:28.600 of once we get west of Carroll Boulevard for impacts to student living and buses. And with 00:21:28.600 --> 00:21:36.440 that, that is my two projects. All right, questions for Seth? 00:21:36.440 --> 00:21:43.960 Yes, sir. This is John Cartwright. A couple of things. You talked about Q3 2021, that 00:21:43.960 --> 00:21:49.840 kind of the Elm and Locust corridors are going to be completed with that project. As you 00:21:49.840 --> 00:21:53.100 can imagine, we're all kind of looking forward to that. We're just now beginning the planning 00:21:53.100 --> 00:21:58.760 phases of arts and autos. Hopefully, we can have it this September. Looking forward to 00:21:58.760 --> 00:22:04.400 that. So typically in the mornings, of course, that's the main entrance into the downtown 00:22:04.400 --> 00:22:09.540 square from the south. And that's where we kind of line up. And literally the lineup 00:22:09.540 --> 00:22:17.920 goes from Hickory, I mean, all the way to almost to Locust Eagle Street as the cars 00:22:17.920 --> 00:22:26.000 line up in the morning. So we're kind of looking forward for that completion to be done. Perhaps 00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:31.000 by that, obviously, you know, you can't say yes, we're going to be done, but that's going 00:22:31.000 --> 00:22:39.240 to be a concern. In our Main Street meetings, we've been asked to comment on by streets, 00:22:39.240 --> 00:22:46.560 they did a presentation. And some of the discussion was the Elm and Locust streets and other avenues 00:22:46.560 --> 00:22:52.880 to the square about how traffic maybe could be rerouted or changed. There was a motion 00:22:52.880 --> 00:22:59.420 or an idea talked about when TxDOT actually turns over those two streets to the city, 00:22:59.420 --> 00:23:06.200 that we one way we could change it was to make those two way both Elm and Locust and 00:23:06.200 --> 00:23:12.600 just have that kind of traffic as it approaches the square. Is there any as we get towards 00:23:12.600 --> 00:23:16.480 the end of this project and finally take ownership of those streets, has there been any discussion 00:23:16.480 --> 00:23:22.880 about the traffic patterns in downtown? So I'm not familiar with that as a part of this 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:28.040 project. I know that TxDOT does have a paving plan that they're going to implement once 00:23:28.040 --> 00:23:33.200 construction is complete, I believe towards the end of this year. But as far as making 00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:37.800 any kind of change or anything like that with this project, I'm not aware of anything. I 00:23:37.800 --> 00:23:43.120 think that would go through our city engineer or our traffic department. Is that something 00:23:43.120 --> 00:23:51.920 that maybe this committee can be a part of in that discussion area? Seth, let me take 00:23:51.920 --> 00:23:55.280 a stab at that one because the council talked about this quite a bit. We have to be careful 00:23:55.280 --> 00:24:00.600 to stay on posting since our posting is for capital projects. But I can tell you, it would 00:24:00.600 --> 00:24:06.640 be a significant capital project to undertake a change in the traffic pattern and signals. 00:24:06.640 --> 00:24:12.440 So we can talk about that just a little bit. The last time the council talked about it 00:24:12.440 --> 00:24:17.160 was really the last time we took a hard look at the mobility plan that we've been working 00:24:17.160 --> 00:24:22.640 on in the downtown area. And the mobility plan kind of, it's not on the shelf, they're 00:24:22.640 --> 00:24:28.280 still working on it. But they've changed the approach. We were looking at different kind 00:24:28.280 --> 00:24:33.100 of sectors of the city. And when they presented the downtown, we had a pretty robust conversation 00:24:33.100 --> 00:24:38.480 about traffic patterns downtown. I was on team two way. I don't like one way streets. 00:24:38.480 --> 00:24:43.600 I think they're dangerous and people don't get confused and they're bad for business, 00:24:43.600 --> 00:24:48.680 all sorts of things. Lots of folks were on team one way and there was no consensus for 00:24:48.680 --> 00:24:55.560 making a change. The other consideration was, well, do you do two way on just Elm and Locust 00:24:55.560 --> 00:25:01.520 and keep Oak and Hickory? The engineers came back with basically this mish mash of some 00:25:01.520 --> 00:25:05.280 of it's going to be two way and some of it's going to be one way. And it made less sense 00:25:05.280 --> 00:25:10.080 than just all one way. And then you take into consideration the east of the square, you've 00:25:10.080 --> 00:25:17.000 got two way. It got, basically there's no consensus for changing traffic pattern. If 00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:21.440 that's something this committee wants to talk about, then in concluding items, we ought 00:25:21.440 --> 00:25:27.920 to add that as a, ask for that as a future agenda item. I think the only way that consensus 00:25:27.920 --> 00:25:31.960 would be had on that issue, if there was a significant kind of a critical mass of local 00:25:31.960 --> 00:25:38.480 business owners, probably with supportive residents on the residential portions of Oak 00:25:38.480 --> 00:25:45.400 and Hickory, they weren't real interested in going two way either. So it's a bigger 00:25:45.400 --> 00:25:52.480 conversation. The council had no, there's basically no consensus for making the change. 00:25:52.480 --> 00:25:59.840 And if the committee wants to discuss it further, we should probably have an agenda item on it. 00:25:59.840 --> 00:26:02.440 Thank you. 00:26:02.440 --> 00:26:15.280 Or any more questions for Seth? Good deal. Thank you, Seth. We appreciate it. Real quick, 00:26:15.280 --> 00:26:20.840 while they're resetting also, I'll let y'all know on the, he mentioned funding for PEC 00:26:20.840 --> 00:26:28.880 for phase three and four. The phase three, if I don't get this wrong, Trevor, can you 00:26:28.880 --> 00:26:33.080 pull the screen down for just a sec? We're still, we're still wrapping up the last item. 00:26:33.080 --> 00:26:39.800 Sorry about that. Thanks. This will be real quick. So phase three is east of West Carroll 00:26:39.800 --> 00:26:45.440 over kind of the Bernard street section. Phase four is the downtown portion. An idea was 00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:50.240 presented. Some of y'all are familiar with the item, the downtown TURS took up recently 00:26:50.240 --> 00:26:56.080 and they talked about potentially extending the TURS, the tax increment reinvestment zone 00:26:56.080 --> 00:27:00.560 and using some of that money to pay for that PEC four project, the portion that's south 00:27:00.560 --> 00:27:06.280 of the square. The council talked about that on February the ninth, let me double check 00:27:06.280 --> 00:27:11.640 my date here, but on February the ninth. So if you're interested in that issue and if 00:27:11.640 --> 00:27:19.800 you have an opinion on whether downtown TURS, yeah, February the ninth, downtown TURS money 00:27:19.800 --> 00:27:24.120 ought to be invested in that drainage project and kind of pulling those properties up out 00:27:24.120 --> 00:27:30.040 of the floodplain, then reach out to your council members and let them know how you feel about 00:27:30.040 --> 00:27:34.560 it. That'll come back to us and we'll have to talk about, do we extend the TURS a little 00:27:34.560 --> 00:27:40.360 bit to take in that project? And do we spend TURS money to get that project done? Because 00:27:40.360 --> 00:27:50.840 like Seth said, there's not currently funding for it. Sorry, Trevor. Thank you. You're good 00:27:50.840 --> 00:27:53.680 to go. 00:27:53.680 --> 00:28:04.800 All right. Good morning. My name is Trevor Crane. I'm a project manager in the capital 00:28:04.800 --> 00:28:10.160 improvements department. Before I get started, I did want to touch on an earlier question 00:28:10.160 --> 00:28:15.440 there was about the street lighting and kind of the consistency as far as that. A lot of 00:28:15.440 --> 00:28:22.880 that inconsistency that you've seen to date was kind of a result of the way our specs 00:28:22.880 --> 00:28:27.320 were written and kind of what we were following up to this point. The capital improvements 00:28:27.320 --> 00:28:33.800 department has led a charge to update those technical specifications. Now we have a new 00:28:33.800 --> 00:28:40.120 set that went live on January 15th that will now kind of govern all capital improvement 00:28:40.120 --> 00:28:46.160 projects and all really construction in the city. So you'll see specifically from that 00:28:46.160 --> 00:28:51.640 point on, you'll see projects using all projects in the city using those same technical specifications. 00:28:51.640 --> 00:28:57.440 So that'll lend itself to seeing consistency on everything, whether it's lighting or, you 00:28:57.440 --> 00:29:00.880 know, anything throughout the city moving forward. So I just wanted to kind of bring 00:29:00.880 --> 00:29:04.800 that up to let everybody know that. 00:29:04.800 --> 00:29:09.400 So I'll be talking about two projects today. This first one will be the Elm and Locust 00:29:09.400 --> 00:29:15.980 phase two project. The limits are Elm and Locust Street from US 380 to Hickory Street. 00:29:15.980 --> 00:29:22.080 This project is currently under design with Haffin Associates. We were at 90% design a 00:29:22.080 --> 00:29:28.120 couple of months ago. We're on hold due to COVID. We've recently in the past couple of 00:29:28.120 --> 00:29:34.400 months had an amendment go through to bring that design up to 100%. We should be seeing 00:29:34.400 --> 00:29:39.280 that 100% design here in the next month or so. 00:29:39.280 --> 00:29:44.000 So go through the scope of this project. This is drainage system upgrades along those two 00:29:44.000 --> 00:29:51.280 streets with wastewater and water upgrades along the streets as well. Estimate of completion 00:29:51.280 --> 00:29:56.520 is a little over $20 million. The schedule, as I said, the design should be complete here 00:29:56.520 --> 00:30:01.600 in the next month or two. So we're looking early quarter two, 2021. As far as moving 00:30:01.600 --> 00:30:07.720 into construction, that schedule is dependent on funding, mainly drainage funding. We're 00:30:07.720 --> 00:30:12.960 working to secure that to move forward. Water and wastewater is ready to move forward on 00:30:12.960 --> 00:30:16.640 that project. So as soon as we identify that drainage funding will move forward with this 00:30:16.640 --> 00:30:23.320 project. So coordination, project status updates will begin once funding has been acquired. 00:30:23.320 --> 00:30:27.920 We've been in contact with a lot of businesses that will be directly affected by the drainage 00:30:27.920 --> 00:30:33.280 upgrades mainly. There are some right of way requirements that are going to take place. 00:30:33.280 --> 00:30:39.040 So we've been in contact with a lot of those businesses. And once we get that funding, 00:30:39.040 --> 00:30:45.880 we'll be in touch with them again to let them know we're moving forward with that project. 00:30:45.880 --> 00:30:51.400 Next project is a development service center parking lot improvements. So it's really just 00:30:51.400 --> 00:30:56.240 what it says that you see there in the picture, the new development services of building. 00:30:56.240 --> 00:31:01.760 We are reconstructing the parking lot. We did the design in house and the contractor 00:31:01.760 --> 00:31:08.760 is MSB constructors. They are currently on site doing the construction now. The scope 00:31:08.760 --> 00:31:14.640 is parking lot reconstruction with some drainage improvements. It also includes lighting, sidewalk, 00:31:14.640 --> 00:31:20.760 landscaping, and pavement striping. The estimated completion is $1.2 million. Our construction 00:31:20.760 --> 00:31:28.160 schedule is scheduled for completion in quarter two of 2021. We should see that. We'll be 00:31:28.160 --> 00:31:33.400 liming that subgrade any day now. They might be doing it as we speak. And then we'll see 00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:39.000 concrete getting forward here in the next probably the end of this month, beginning 00:31:39.000 --> 00:31:46.120 of April. Yeah. So coordination, we have bi-weekly meetings with our contractor and development 00:31:46.120 --> 00:31:51.080 services staff to provide updates just to keep everybody up to date of what's going 00:31:51.080 --> 00:32:01.360 on. And that's really it. So I can pause here for questions. Let me un-share the screen. 00:32:01.360 --> 00:32:07.520 Questions for Trevor? Trevor, I know the city staff is going to be very thankful for that 00:32:07.520 --> 00:32:12.800 parking lot. I see them going back and forth across McKinney to the Cedar street lot and 00:32:12.800 --> 00:32:17.000 they'll be happy to be able to park close to their office. Definitely. And just a point 00:32:17.000 --> 00:32:20.880 on that, we gave them six months to do that project. It probably would have been done 00:32:20.880 --> 00:32:28.080 already if we hadn't had the snow and things like that, some weather issue. But we're tracking 00:32:28.080 --> 00:32:32.440 the new way ahead of schedule. So we're working to get that done to make sure everybody's 00:32:32.440 --> 00:32:37.160 got kind of a great parking lot and a safe place to get into that building. 00:32:37.160 --> 00:32:42.720 Very good. Thank you, Trevor. We appreciate it. 00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:57.880 Good morning, members. I'm Robin Davis, project manager for Capital Projects. And I'll be 00:32:57.880 --> 00:33:19.520 finishing up this presentation with you this morning. We'll begin with all-way crossing. 00:33:19.520 --> 00:33:27.180 This is a pedestrian improvement project that will allow for crossing at all four intersections 00:33:27.180 --> 00:33:35.800 at each one of these intersections around the Den Square. The design for this project 00:33:35.800 --> 00:33:48.720 is scheduled for council on March 16th. Estimate completion is 662,000. And we have a construction 00:33:48.720 --> 00:33:55.000 schedule estimated for quarter three, 2022. We'll be communicating and coordinating with 00:33:55.000 --> 00:34:02.920 our area businesses and communities at key phases of the design and prior to construction 00:34:02.920 --> 00:34:13.920 and during construction as well. Bell Avenue sidewalk connectivity. This is just that it 00:34:13.920 --> 00:34:21.220 installs a gap that's missing on East Bell between Sycamore and Hickory Street. It was 00:34:21.220 --> 00:34:29.560 designed by Adams Engineering. We have an estimate completion of 116,000. And construction 00:34:29.560 --> 00:34:34.560 is scheduled to be complete by quarter one of 2022. We're working with real estate to 00:34:34.560 --> 00:34:39.000 determine if there's any temporary construction easement or right of way needs prior to scheduling 00:34:39.000 --> 00:34:48.760 this for construction. And the A train to UNT bike and pedestrian path. This provides 00:34:48.760 --> 00:34:57.960 a 10 foot side path on Sycamore Street from the transit center train station down to Welch 00:34:57.960 --> 00:35:03.600 Street. And then on Welch Street, we have a bike path that will be installed from Hickory 00:35:03.600 --> 00:35:12.920 to Eagle. The design for this project is scheduled for council March 16th. We have an estimate 00:35:12.920 --> 00:35:18.760 completion of 2.6 million. And we're hoping construction will be completed by quarter 00:35:18.760 --> 00:35:26.160 four of 2023. We'll be coordinating with UPRR and DCTA in relation to the pedestrian railroad 00:35:26.160 --> 00:35:32.880 crossing requirements. And we'll be communicating with the area businesses and residents at 00:35:32.880 --> 00:35:40.880 key phases of the design of the project and prior to construction. And with that, does 00:35:40.880 --> 00:35:43.560 anyone have any questions about those three projects? 00:35:43.560 --> 00:35:55.800 >> This is Beth Lewis. Can you hear me? One, two, three. Can you hear me? 00:35:55.800 --> 00:36:10.240 >> We can hear you. We can hear all of you. >> Now you're muted again, Beth. 00:36:10.240 --> 00:36:30.680 >> Okay. I'm having a lot of problems. >> We can handle it. If you can plow through 00:36:30.680 --> 00:36:41.360 the echo with a short, concise question, then I think we'll be fine. 00:36:41.360 --> 00:36:46.360 >> You're muted, Beth. >> You're muted. We can't hear you. 00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:54.760 >> Can you hear me now? Okay. On the A train to UNT bike and pedestrian path proposed project, 00:36:54.760 --> 00:37:03.040 I'm curious about the Sycamore Street 10 foot side path for bicycles. Is that going to change 00:37:03.040 --> 00:37:07.280 the street? >> No, the 10 foot side path is the 10 foot 00:37:07.280 --> 00:37:12.120 sidewalk side path. The bike lane is on Well Street. 00:37:12.120 --> 00:37:17.520 >> Okay. And the traffic signal, what is the proposed location for that? 00:37:17.520 --> 00:37:22.840 >> We believe it's going to be some traffic signal improvements at Bell that will install 00:37:22.840 --> 00:37:29.600 some bike radar. I believe there is the option. We're looking at providing an additional signal, 00:37:29.600 --> 00:37:33.720 but we're not sure where that's going to be warranted at yet. That will be worked out 00:37:33.720 --> 00:37:37.200 through design. >> Okay. Thank you. 00:37:37.200 --> 00:37:44.440 >> Thanks, Beth. Other questions for Robin? >> I would just say Main Street would love 00:37:44.440 --> 00:37:48.560 to be part of the discussion when you start holding community meetings regarding those 00:37:48.560 --> 00:37:53.160 downtown traffic signals. >> Absolutely. 00:37:53.160 --> 00:37:56.040 >> Thank you. >> Robin? 00:37:56.040 --> 00:38:00.000 >> Yes, ma'am. >> Thank you, Caps. As one of those people 00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:10.360 who was a proponent for putting that bike and pedestrian trail on Sycamore years ago, 00:38:10.360 --> 00:38:18.080 does this mean that that railroad crossing is going to be rough as it is right now until 00:38:18.080 --> 00:38:22.240 the end of 2023? >> Are you talking about the UPR crossing 00:38:22.240 --> 00:38:29.560 that's on Sycamore? We had those crossings repaired. That was one of the first projects 00:38:29.560 --> 00:38:36.200 that I had when I came to the city. I believe in 2020, it was either 2019 or 2020, we got 00:38:36.200 --> 00:38:42.880 those improved. UPRR came out and improved their two crossings. So if it's rough since 00:38:42.880 --> 00:38:48.600 then -- >> Well, maybe. It's still rough. 00:38:48.600 --> 00:38:53.280 >> Okay. >> Other questions for Robin? 00:38:53.280 --> 00:39:00.280 >> I have one, Robin. On the all-way crossing, I saw you had scheduled for completion, Q3 00:39:00.280 --> 00:39:06.440 2022. When is that -- and I know we're voting on design, the design contract with Kimley 00:39:06.440 --> 00:39:10.560 Horne on the 16th. When is that scheduled to begin if the council does approve that 00:39:10.560 --> 00:39:15.640 design contract? I'm a little bit concerned about, you know, if we pick it up in 2021 00:39:15.640 --> 00:39:20.280 and we're not done until 2022, that spans potentially holiday lighting and some other 00:39:20.280 --> 00:39:26.920 events around the holidays, and I'd rather do that without orange cones, you know? 00:39:26.920 --> 00:39:30.800 >> Sure. And we can definitely take that into consideration when we're planning the construction 00:39:30.800 --> 00:39:36.280 schedule. >> John mentioned Main Street. That'd probably 00:39:36.280 --> 00:39:42.200 be the best organization to liaise with on, you know, what -- if you're blocking out sections 00:39:42.200 --> 00:39:47.040 of time that we're not doing construction or are not confusing drivers or whatever it 00:39:47.040 --> 00:39:54.040 is, definitely include them. >> I sure will. Thank you. 00:39:54.040 --> 00:39:57.520 >> Any other questions for Robin or on any of the other projects that we've heard about? 00:39:57.520 --> 00:40:00.280 Robin, you're the last one, right? >> Yes. 00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:06.360 >> Okay. I don't see any other questions. >> Thanks, everyone. 00:40:06.360 --> 00:40:13.240 >> Thank you all very much. We appreciate it. That will take us to item D on our agenda, 00:40:13.240 --> 00:40:18.520 receive staff activity reports. Are there staff comments on the reports that we have 00:40:18.520 --> 00:40:23.960 listed in the agenda, Christina, or is it just -- is there anything to present or is 00:40:23.960 --> 00:40:28.800 it just what we have listed in the agenda? >> I think that's up to you all what you'd 00:40:28.800 --> 00:40:32.320 like to see. I can read through the list. There's really not a lot of additional information. 00:40:32.320 --> 00:40:38.600 If you have questions on any of the openings or closings, I'm happy to address those. 00:40:38.600 --> 00:40:41.440 >> Let's not read through the list, but if anybody has the agenda in front of them and 00:40:41.440 --> 00:40:49.720 sees that list of openings and closings, coming soon, and then we also have a grant, a downtown 00:40:49.720 --> 00:40:58.520 investment grant status update, if anybody has questions on those, now's the time. Okay. 00:40:58.520 --> 00:41:03.360 I don't see any. One thing I will note, our next meeting for your calendar is April the 00:41:03.360 --> 00:41:09.280 1st of 2021, and then that will bring us to concluding items, and this is the time to 00:41:09.280 --> 00:41:17.440 ask for any future agenda items. I know John had mentioned traffic patterns downtown. Do 00:41:17.440 --> 00:41:21.520 we want to kind of narrow that just to the one-way, two-way conversation? Do we want 00:41:21.520 --> 00:41:31.020 to talk more broadly about traffic patterns? What's the committee's pleasure? 00:41:31.020 --> 00:41:35.720 >> I would just echo what I said earlier. I would love to be -- I think this is a good 00:41:35.720 --> 00:41:41.240 committee that some ideas won't be run upon. We've got some bright minds here, some people 00:41:41.240 --> 00:41:46.000 that are really invested in downtown. People who live downtown will have to figure out 00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:51.080 the best way to reach them. You know, I'd love to see the square become kind of a roundabout 00:41:51.080 --> 00:41:55.900 where all streets lead to the square. You turn right to get on the square, and you exit 00:41:55.900 --> 00:42:01.820 whatever street you want to and get to. And so we have a big -- well, squareabout, not 00:42:01.820 --> 00:42:04.080 a roundabout, a squareabout. >> Squareabout. 00:42:04.080 --> 00:42:07.720 >> A squareabout. >> The first in the country. 00:42:07.720 --> 00:42:14.840 >> Why not? >> Okay. So that's a future agenda item. 00:42:14.840 --> 00:42:21.660 Any others? Any other concluding items? Very good. Well, I appreciate y'all. I appreciate 00:42:21.660 --> 00:42:27.240 your time this morning. And that will conclude our agenda. Have a good rest of your day. 00:42:27.240 --> 00:42:29.280 >> Outstanding. Thank you, Jesse. Thanks, everybody. 00:42:29.280 --> 00:42:30.720 >> Thank you. >> Thanks, y'all.