1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,360 Good morning. 2 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:19,200 We are here for the mobility committee meeting Wednesday, May 24th, 2023 10am in the council 3 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:26,600 work session room looks like we have a quorum present and so we will come to convene in 4 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:30,240 a regular meeting on today's date. 5 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:34,320 The first item is citizen comments or on agenda items. 6 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:38,820 I don't believe we have any citizens that are commenting as anybody called in. 7 00:00:38,820 --> 00:00:44,340 So we'll move on to our number two items for individual consideration running consider 8 00:00:44,340 --> 00:00:50,880 approval after I say MC two three dash zero one three consider approval of the minutes 9 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:52,960 February 22nd, 2023. 10 00:00:52,960 --> 00:01:06,400 Can we have a motion to approve all right now second and I be MC 23 zero one one receiver 11 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:12,440 report and hold a discussion regarding the city of Denton's transportation mobility project 12 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:17,640 status report. 13 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:24,200 Good morning. 14 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:26,880 By the way, this is my favorite part of the mobility committee. 15 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:31,080 Oh, Barb and set low. 16 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:38,280 Oh, see she said she thought I could do this. 17 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:48,080 Okay, there you go. 18 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:57,360 Okay, this is john poster innovative transportation solutions and we will go over the project 19 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:04,120 report that contains all the on system projects and some of the off system in in the city 20 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:05,920 of Denton. 21 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:12,640 As we always do, we are working on a list of projects that have about a $4 billion impact 22 00:02:12,640 --> 00:02:20,680 once completed on the residents of the city of Denton and some of the projects like the 23 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:29,360 outer loop or estimates at this time and I'm sure that those will go up over time. 24 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:33,800 So 2181 north south this project is essentially open to traffic. 25 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:44,520 We have some lane changes and some punch list issues we're dealing with the erosion control 26 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:51,200 making sure that the grass and everything is established before the contract gets to leave. 27 00:02:51,200 --> 00:03:00,200 We're doing some adjustments to some of the noise wall issues for sight distance and we're 28 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:07,200 making some changes to the turn lanes and but essentially when you drive 2181 now it's 29 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:13,000 open to traffic the way it should be. 30 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:21,360 Finally okay so that 35 North project it's actually broken up into three projects although 31 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:28,200 there are four CSJs the purple CSJ is attached to a project that's called FM 455 through 32 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:35,600 Sanger and it crosses all the way from the high school on the east side all the way out 33 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:43,000 to 2449 towards the end of the county and it includes the inner interchange at 35 but 34 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:50,000 the rest of the project is are the three CSJs that make up the total of the remainder of 35 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:51,200 the project. 36 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:58,900 The two that we're most interested in are the 081 the northern section and the 074 which 37 00:03:58,900 --> 00:04:05,520 takes it from Fort Worth Drive all the way out of the jurisdiction six lanes all the 38 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:13,080 way through ultimately to the county line and it's got a we'll be done with right away 39 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:21,360 this month and we are moving into utility relocations we're anticipating that being completed 40 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:26,400 in December for this year although we've got some issues we may need to address but that's 41 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:34,480 okay because our dollars for these projects are in the out years of 24 and 25 so if we 42 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:41,640 get project ready to let by having the utilities relocated where there's a in the next UTP 43 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:44,680 we can update the UTP to move those dollars to a current year. 44 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:53,200 I have a question about utilities when utilities are moved are utilities only located on either 45 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:58,800 side of a major highway like that or can you find utilities on both sides both sides so 46 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:06,280 what happens is the state of Texas allows the outside Parkway to be utilized as a utility 47 00:05:06,280 --> 00:05:13,380 accommodation zone and so on an interstate is 20 to 25 feet on a state highway farm to 48 00:05:13,380 --> 00:05:20,880 market it's 15 and they have priorities of use right so the outside five feet are usually 49 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:27,480 reserved for your telephone poles stuff like that and then as you progress in then it goes 50 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:35,560 to the underground utilities but there it's there because it's easier to go on a road 51 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:40,360 right away than it is to impact all the residents along that corridor for an easement so that's 52 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:42,200 why they do it okay. 53 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:48,260 So John I might add Councilmember Byrd during any utility relocation that the city's doing 54 00:05:48,260 --> 00:05:53,600 and our team is delivering multiple utility relocations along the 35 corridor we've actually 55 00:05:53,600 --> 00:06:00,320 procured easements outside of the tech stock right away that are water and wastewater specific 56 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:04,440 to be able to put the new infrastructure in and because we obviously need to be able to 57 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:09,600 access it have working room working space to maintain and operate there are a few areas 58 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:15,080 where we did use the utility accommodation zone specifically in areas where we weren't 59 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:19,840 able to work with the property owner or there was substantial land take that would be impacted 60 00:06:19,840 --> 00:06:24,800 but it's been a major process to be able to acquire easements along the entire corridor 61 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:26,080 and we're still working through that. 62 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:30,680 I can imagine all right thank you and these are a list of all the various projects we're 63 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:38,280 working on utility wise on these on these CSJs in their anticipated permit letting and 64 00:06:38,280 --> 00:06:42,900 then they'll provide us with a schedule. 65 00:06:42,900 --> 00:06:49,600 So then the merge is the next project below that from 77 south to the split between 35 66 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:51,880 E&W. 67 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:59,920 We are pressing hard on this project it has a September 23 let date we have you know still 68 00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:04,480 utility issues we have to address but we're working through those we meet with with tech 69 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:11,240 stock folks fairly regularly on these and so we are working through the issues associated 70 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:17,840 with that to try to hit that September date as close as possible and it's fully funded 71 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:22,800 in the UTP. 72 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:29,680 So it says it's got 431 million now and it was 571 we did two things one asked for more 73 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:35,160 money in this current UTP that's before the Commission now and we removed some scope that 74 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:38,880 we thought we could get away with removing in the interim for example we were going to 75 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:47,440 build the direct connects for loop 288 on the north part before loop 288 gets there 76 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:56,280 so all we're going to end up doing is shifting that cost to the loop project so so scope 77 00:07:56,280 --> 00:08:01,200 change and additional money to get to the right dollar amount and we're still like 78 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:13,820 to say tracking for a November let date September is already let six lane divided facility then 79 00:08:13,820 --> 00:08:22,160 Mayhill we're working towards getting this project ready to let by the end of the year 80 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:30,560 there are utilities are basically always the critical path item towards the end of a project 81 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:36,480 the designs done the funding is there the utilities are being relocated and we all feel 82 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:42,080 fairly confident that we're going to be able to hit that ready to let date of 23 and again 83 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:46,600 when we get closer to that we'll be able to submit in the next UTP to move it up from 84 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:52,120 the June 25 date and it's funded as well. 85 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:53,120 When you say move it up. 86 00:08:53,120 --> 00:09:01,360 So right now it's in June of 2025 which is what fiscal year that I think is 24 and we're 87 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:07,840 going to be ready in December and so and in 23 so that's a whole nother UTP cycle and 88 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:12,000 so what we do is submit it say we're ready to go and then though there's projects elsewhere 89 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:19,480 in the state that didn't get ready and so we'll just move into that slot it's a guess 90 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:25,520 when we start these projects back in the whatever 2011 12 22 we're shooting for a let date 91 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:36,480 of 2025 but if we hit it earlier then we get to we get to move them up. 92 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:44,080 Frontage roads we have the section that it's interested to city Denton we have WSP on contract 93 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:49,960 they are working on the frontage roads and when I say a frontage road project at three 94 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:55,200 hundred forty one million dollars that includes all of the great separations in their ultimate 95 00:09:55,200 --> 00:10:03,520 form so at 407 when we hit 407 at the bottom of the limits they'll reconstruct that little 96 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:08,880 bridge that you have like three lanes going under right now that whole bridge will be 97 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:15,620 reconstructed to the ultimate width of the bridge that was planned in the in the schematic 98 00:10:15,620 --> 00:10:23,200 that was approved back in 2020 so all the bridges across the freeway going north will 99 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:27,440 be changed to their ultimate configurations along with the frontage roads being built 100 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:40,280 there's great question on that I had an email from a constituent oh gosh was this back in 101 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:45,120 end of March 1st of April because there was a development proposed or there's some talk 102 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:49,600 about a development down there off Corbin Road UNT and all these kind of things I mean 103 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:55,200 that's just all sort of anecdotal but preliminary but he was concerned about not concerned is 104 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:59,140 questioning about the frontage road because that was part of the discussion that was part 105 00:10:59,140 --> 00:11:03,200 of the discussion of the developer was how there's gonna be a frontage road here so people 106 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:09,420 can take the frontage and he got an email from text dot saying that and on this it's 107 00:11:09,420 --> 00:11:16,540 not showing this is just showing from what is it 407 to 2449 yes so if you look at this 108 00:11:16,540 --> 00:11:24,520 map we're going down down a certain distance on 35 W for the merge okay we thought we just 109 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:28,840 stopped right before the railroad track okay and then on on the project that we're doing 110 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:37,120 south we stopped just north of 2449 because that area in between there's floodplain right 111 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:43,320 but I think we've been reached out by that developer I think the county head and where 112 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:48,160 we worked with text dot once we got some concerns from the property owner and we think there's 113 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:53,840 a way to accommodate their access in the interim we have because I think well I don't know 114 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:57,480 I don't know wherever that project stands I guess my only question was because the text 115 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:02,180 dot response was the frontage road section and I quote and I can send it to whoever 116 00:12:02,180 --> 00:12:09,000 needs it the frontage road section from FM 2449 to FM 1515 which I believe is airport 117 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:15,640 road right so that's from 2449 up to up to airport road is phase three yep and is not 118 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:20,800 expected to be started construction plan for several years so somewhere in a long-term 119 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:28,120 plan there is fill it a plan to fill in that segment from 2449 to airport road with a frontage 120 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:34,720 road have you ever played that game where you draw straws whoever gets the short stick 121 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:39,480 at the end has to build phase three everybody wants to avoid it okay it's very expensive 122 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:46,880 and there's no okay mobility there phase two is from 407 all the way down to Dell Iron 123 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:54,520 Heart just north of the airport I mean the speedway so we're doing the 2449 to 407 it's 124 00:12:54,520 --> 00:13:00,120 phase one because there's a lot of development there 407 to Dell Iron Heart is phase two 125 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:05,520 and then we're coming back to do the creek we know how that goes right but there are 126 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:10,960 that the people that are in that area have reached out to somebody because it got to 127 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:17,520 me somewhere okay with my other hat on and we've found a way to make okay some of the 128 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:23,520 mobility access yeah okay John I would add it also has come through the development review 129 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:29,960 process that particular site and part of the coordination efforts are looking at a lot 130 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:34,240 of that is elevated due to the floodplain in those areas and there's also an ordinance 131 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:39,080 that actually closes Corbin Road right a lot of those conversations have already been had 132 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:42,880 and talking through that with the developer so the portion that TechStats constructing 133 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:47,000 and like he said is in a later fashion but they still have a schematic that shows what's 134 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:51,880 going to happen in that entire area so they at least have a visual representation or schematic 135 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:56,880 that talks about what will happen okay yeah the entire corridor has been cleared and a 136 00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:01,760 schematic approved for them so they know what they're going to get at some point so got 137 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:06,800 you all right fantastic that clears that up thank you so much thank you manager okay so 138 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:12,000 the construction job on 380 from 288 up to 377 progresses I think you've seen now they've 139 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:18,000 got the temporary concrete traffic barriers up in there those are up while they are and 140 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:27,440 they're offset so they can start to build the actual median onto the onto the pavement 141 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:33,080 in those sections so we're we're working on that project it says December this year we're 142 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:39,480 supposed to be done and as our last mobility meeting I think it was was that last week 143 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:48,720 last week it's been a lot of living since then we're still on track for this project 144 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:57,480 it's moving it's moving there they are down behind 21 days right now and that 21 days 145 00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:01,880 gets you to the December 29 but they are working on a recovery schedule to get those 21 days 146 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:15,240 back okay then the frontage roads we're just working on design chain Patel is working with 147 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:19,960 all the entities that are involved we're have a lot of work down at the south that seems 148 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:26,760 that everything at 2449 keeps changing depending on who you talk to so we're I think we meet 149 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:32,920 fairly constantly with city staff to make sure that what all the development folks there 150 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:41,440 want in that area we're making sure the road accommodates whatever the city wants so it 151 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:48,320 is what it is it's a this will do both we're proposing the design we're doing allows us 152 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:52,800 to do both frontage roads north and south before we're just going to do the northbound 153 00:15:52,800 --> 00:16:00,520 and then a grade separation at 380 and the railroad track in the interim and then as 154 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:06,000 development progresses or whatever we'll come back with the main lands and other grade separations 155 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:19,360 and that two frontage roads two grade separations right now is right at 220 million dollars 156 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:27,520 down the air and then because of the work we're doing on excuse me before you go on 157 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:33,240 if you scroll back down to the this is a really kind of it's kind of a crazy question because 158 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:38,160 I know the answer but somebody else may want to have the answer to this that green line 159 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:43,640 looks like it's laying on top of some buildings or something like that does that mean anything 160 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:48,800 in terms you know the buildings the structures that so the white dots if you see if you're 161 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:55,760 talking about like the white dots and stuff right in here those are all well pad sites 162 00:16:55,760 --> 00:17:01,440 gas wells so we really had to thread the needle on this and actually early on the city of 163 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:06,080 Denton worked with us on their transmission line and you can see there's right inside 164 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:11,920 the curve there is a gas well we had to move away from that gas well but it also hit one 165 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:17,480 of your towers but we were able to shift the rest of the road to miss the rest of your 166 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:26,140 significantly expensive towers so yeah we threaded the needle on the gas wells okay 167 00:17:26,140 --> 00:17:32,240 thank you now the reason the rato acquisition is going from environmental clearance of 20 168 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:40,520 we usually only give them a year to 2024 and we have 12 parcels in negotiation three in 169 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:46,880 ed four parcels in possession out of the 19 and we've been at it on these two sections 170 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:53,400 for a while because every time you deal with the gas well as a right away take you also 171 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:59,760 have to deal with the utility issues all at once because the transmission lines or the 172 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:06,280 distribution lines when you take them out of service to move them that's a revenue 173 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:13,160 loss to those gas wells and so the gas well issues are harder to deal with than just a 174 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:19,880 standard utility so you had to do rato acquisition and utility relocation essentially all at 175 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:29,880 the same time on those two those types thank you so as we know we're eventually going 176 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:37,000 to take 380 East as a freeway and it will tie into the city of Denton and instead of 177 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:43,680 a coming through town we're going to have it redirected as a freeway to the loop it's 178 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:48,360 on everybody's thoroughfare plans is that and so in order to do that we have to add 179 00:18:48,360 --> 00:18:54,760 the frontage roads to the 288 section I call it the north section but I can't get anybody 180 00:18:54,760 --> 00:19:02,400 to tell me to stop calling it east and so we're working on that connection more direct 181 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:10,200 connection between 380 and 288 so that the traffic can flow from one facility to the 182 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:15,720 next without having to come to a hard stop or a hard turn and this one I think we will 183 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:20,240 meet with every two weeks because you all got a lot of people wanting to build a lot 184 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:27,220 of stuff 288 and we're just trying to keep the wolves of bay until we can get this thing 185 00:19:27,220 --> 00:19:35,560 cleared so that they can start helping us construct part of it so it's a constant chain 186 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:45,920 ideally where would that that road run into 288 what's the yeah there's a there's a big 187 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:50,360 warehouse development going going down the ground right now we're hitting 288 just north 188 00:19:50,360 --> 00:20:01,640 of that okay we'll go right behind them yeah I've seen that Bonnie Bray so this is so up 189 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:09,200 here on 288 if this is this portion in detail so this section right here we are designing 190 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:16,840 with the Westwood contract the county's picking up the content design for that and it includes 191 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:23,320 Bonnie Bray 7 which is y'all project y'all been working on from the south north for years 192 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:30,360 and this is a segment we put it on this report because although it's Bonnie Bray it's a connection 193 00:20:30,360 --> 00:20:35,720 between US 77 and in the loop and so tech start and cog are funding this and so they're 194 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:40,840 picking it up as a central and on system job and so it has to be environmentally cleared 195 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:46,640 and so we just added it to the 288 job but we wanted it as a breakout so you can see 196 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:54,720 that when you see reports on Bonnie Bray 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 that it's a it's part of the loop 197 00:20:54,720 --> 00:21:09,840 288 job so its lifecycle is tied to the 288 left cycle Airport Road we are moving towards 198 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:15,480 a October of 2024 ready to let we should have all the right of way acquired by the end of 199 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:24,600 this month and I don't know of any real issues on this project that it came up in our last 200 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:31,180 meeting so I think we're cooking with gas or no you can't cook with gas anymore whatever 201 00:21:31,180 --> 00:21:41,800 the other thing is 1173 so the eastern part 1173 is running great we're moving forward 202 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:48,120 we're trying to get all the right of way done for sure on the east now because we want to 203 00:21:48,120 --> 00:21:54,320 do the tie in with the 335 job that we're going to let next you know into this year 204 00:21:54,320 --> 00:22:03,280 the west side they keep changing council staff on me and so and members and so initially 205 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:09,680 we were going to cut the limits off just east of the railroad track right here in this area 206 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:15,200 but I think the new folks want us to come back and talk to them about the art of the 207 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:20,400 possible of extending the improvements all the way to 156 and the hard part is is that's 208 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:29,240 a historical downtown and everything is right on the road I mean right on the road so we're 209 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:37,800 scheduling a meeting between the textile at the county and crumb to discuss the logical 210 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:49,960 terminal on the west side but the east side's moving fine outer loop so Monday today's Wednesday 211 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:56,760 Tuesday Monday they had the second public meeting at embassy suites I'm sure that says 212 00:22:56,760 --> 00:23:05,720 they didn't hear somewhere Monday May 22nd Convention Center from four to seven there 213 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:11,360 were about a hundred plus people that showed up over time right it's a come and go meet 214 00:23:11,360 --> 00:23:17,760 and greet the overwhelming majority of the questions we're getting is where is it going 215 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:23,220 to be and how long is it going to take to get built that we do have some folks are specifically 216 00:23:23,220 --> 00:23:32,480 concerned about alignments that are bringing up that issue but for the for the most intent 217 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:40,260 everybody understands the need for the road and what I would like to do probably on our 218 00:23:40,260 --> 00:23:47,940 next mobility meeting is include a second photograph of this area because people think 219 00:23:47,940 --> 00:23:53,680 we're building the outer loop to attract development and what we have is a picture that shows this 220 00:23:53,680 --> 00:24:02,120 same area with all of the approved developments that are fixing to come out of the ground 221 00:24:02,120 --> 00:24:07,540 those that are in process that are about to be approved and those that are rolling into 222 00:24:07,540 --> 00:24:15,000 the process and they're color-coded and there's not any hardly any white left between thirty 223 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:23,040 five and the county line it's just it's staggering the numbers that you see in this area and 224 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:27,760 so we're not building nobody's trying to get a loop road put here because we want to 225 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:33,120 attract development the developments coming and there is no infrastructure for those people 226 00:24:33,120 --> 00:24:44,760 so we're rolling for a summer of 2026 environmental clearance and the reason it's taking that 227 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:50,440 long is because this is a full-on environmental impact statement as opposed to an environmental 228 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:56,280 assessment which is a lower level clearance we're doing the highest level of clearance 229 00:24:56,280 --> 00:25:10,200 that you can elmond locus this is where i get to turn it over to my boss so i'm sorry 230 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:17,000 i just got choked a minute ago but elmond locus so we met with the state and with textile 231 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:24,240 and also the county and john last week and we are working through we've agreed to the 232 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:29,080 pavement cross-section textile is working through their design and this is all for the 233 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:34,480 portions that are south of hickory that you see color-coded on the map they are going 234 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:41,400 to be working through taking that to the next step which is getting the funding associated 235 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:46,960 with it they're also working through an agreement that we'll have to go to austin for approval 236 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:52,840 for us to turn back the roadway to the state from the state to the city i'm sorry i have 237 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:58,160 asked um amanda miller when she comes to make her presentation at the council meeting on 238 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:03,200 june 6th to be prepared to give you all more specific guidelines and timelines so you have 239 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:09,680 those answers we get questions on that periodically i know you do too and so being able to address 240 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:15,800 those questions and concerns on the southern portion on the northern portion we're currently 241 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:24,160 working through an ica with the county for the funding we received as a um and i know 242 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,880 you're going to ask me that it's not on the top of my head john what what an ica i can't 243 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:31,440 think of the interlocal cooperation agreement operation i couldn't think of the c people 244 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:37,640 call it ila but they've never read the the statute it's an interlocal cooperation agreement 245 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:42,400 there is a c in there thank you for helping i'm sorry i i couldn't remember the c on the 246 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,960 top of my head appreciate it so we're working through that with the county we're going to 247 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:51,720 bring that forward it'll come through council um and that's for the first phase of our funding 248 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:58,960 to start the design of the alman locust cross section from 380 um to right around the downtown 249 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:05,160 area right around oak area um and we already have the funding uh approved in the budget 250 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:09,920 for the water wastewater improvements um and then as a part of the bond package for november 251 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:14,520 it has some additional improvements that are a part of the drainage in that area um and 252 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:19,040 so kind of that collaboration of all of those things together but we've already been meeting 253 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:24,800 with john and his team um through the county process and so that'll be coming forward here 254 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:33,360 in the next few uh weeks as part of a council meeting so progress um anxious to get a copy 255 00:27:33,360 --> 00:27:38,120 of the agreement i've already asked for the draft copy of the agreement for the turn back 256 00:27:38,120 --> 00:27:42,400 so that our legal team can go ahead and start assessing that um there's currently another 257 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:48,200 city going through the same process um which is the city of grand prairie and so they're 258 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:53,200 working through some of those logistics and that'll be the template that's used our ultimate 259 00:27:53,200 --> 00:28:01,480 goal will be to take over elman locust from eagle to 380 as a city roadway so um working 260 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:06,360 through that process and and i'll tell you tex dot is just as interested as getting the 261 00:28:06,360 --> 00:28:12,420 southern portion completed as we are interested in them getting it completed um so they want 262 00:28:12,420 --> 00:28:19,000 to have that roadway reconstructed they agreed to the roadway cross section the design and 263 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,880 we are evaluating if there's any improvements that can be made from a city perspective to 264 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:28,080 sidewalks or ada concerns um just because that's not included in the product part of 265 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:32,160 the project so you may see something coming back forward through the cip process that 266 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:36,680 says we'd like to go ahead and add this because it makes sense to do it all at once um so 267 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:42,760 that'll come through the cip process but definitely move in in the right direction um and i know 268 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:47,760 amanda is very aware that that'll possibly be a question that comes up on her june 6th 269 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:55,680 presentation so i've had her prepare for that all right thank you absolutely did you have 270 00:28:55,680 --> 00:29:01,360 any questions glossary of acronyms there it is we're going to have a test on these yes 271 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:05,680 there's the ica right there if i just would have had it open i couldn't remember the c 272 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:10,440 interlogal cooperative agreement thank you john all right i don't know should i leave 273 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:17,700 it you're good no worries you're doing no worries awesome thank you sir thank you john 274 00:29:17,700 --> 00:29:37,460 okay well then we're going to move on to mc two three dash zero one four receive a report 275 00:29:37,460 --> 00:29:42,160 hold a discussion and give staff direction regarding moving the mobility committee meeting 276 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:50,080 time from 10 till 11 absolutely so as you can see from the calendar we only have a few 277 00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:58,600 dates left we have the june 28th july 26th august 23rd september 27th october 25th november 278 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:05,280 29th and december 20th meetings left so um we have substantial i guess we're halfway 279 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:13,380 there maybe for as far as the calendar year goes um and so um we know there may be additional 280 00:30:13,380 --> 00:30:18,800 committee members that join your team um when those types of situations go through the process 281 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:22,980 um through the council one of the thoughts that had been brought up or conversations 282 00:30:22,980 --> 00:30:28,500 that had been brought up in the past was moving the meeting from 10 a.m to 11 a.m and we did 283 00:30:28,500 --> 00:30:33,600 check with the room checked with billy from as far as broadcasting etc that time frame 284 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:37,800 is available so this action item really for you is just to give us direction as to whether 285 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:43,340 you'd like for us to move from 10 to 11 um or if you're comfortable with staying at 10 286 00:30:43,340 --> 00:30:46,760 we have no preference either way we'll be here for you we just would like your direction 287 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:54,760 madam chair if i could i probably would like to at least withdraw or postpone this request 288 00:30:54,760 --> 00:31:00,120 and i think the request really came from me only because you're right in a month or so 289 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:05,960 the mobility committee may be comprised of different members so i think that's the time 290 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:10,940 if anybody wants to change anything because i may or may not still be here so if i if 291 00:31:10,940 --> 00:31:15,160 it's being changed because of an impact to me i think we need to postpone that absolutely 292 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:20,520 and i can work around it until we see how everything flushes out so sure yeah that is 293 00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:25,520 no problem at all we're happy to do so and we'll bring this back forward to see if there's 294 00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:30,600 any updates that need to be made and i don't have timing on all of that i know the city 295 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:35,440 secretary's office is working through those logistics so i know that's upcoming i know 296 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:40,560 we've been communicating with them so i would anticipate it possibly might be july or august 297 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:44,120 before that time frame happens so i know we're going to get to a point where we don't have 298 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:49,280 a lot of council meetings here in the upcoming due to this summer in the retreats etc so 299 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:54,280 awesome okay well then we can hold off on that item and we won't take any direction 300 00:31:54,280 --> 00:32:02,840 for that okay and uh so we'll move to mc 23 day zero one six staff memorandum awesome 301 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:07,480 so i have trevor crane our director of capital projects who's going to come and give you 302 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:15,000 updates on both of these okay good morning everyone good morning so we'll go through 303 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:21,480 some updates here um bonnie beret street um so the temporary pavement that um that construction 304 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:24,560 or that fix that we were talking about the last couple of times that have that has been 305 00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:30,720 completed temporary pavement is all down so um between i-35 and scripture is open to traffic 306 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:37,000 and fully completed um bonnie beret phase three i won't go through all this again but 307 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:43,200 uh it was re-advertised and is actually opening this afternoon so um fingers crossed we've 308 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:50,040 uh we did get a lot of traffic on that on that um bid um i think we got four or five 309 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:54,140 um contractors that were looking at it and they were all new contractors so we're hoping 310 00:32:54,140 --> 00:33:01,480 that that comes back in um at a better cost so i'll know more this afternoon um bonnie 311 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:05,800 beret phase six i think last time we talked we talked about us acquiring that last uh 312 00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:09,880 parcel that we were looking for so we have everything we need um now we're working with 313 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:14,000 text dot to get the state letter of authority that will allow us to um move that out to 314 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:18,520 bid so that's what we're working at um working at now um and as soon as we get that we'll 315 00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:24,600 be putting that out on the street for bid um and bonnie beret three and six both have 316 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:30,720 a two-year construction timeline um bonnie up uh since bonnie beret phase three is opening 317 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:35,520 today that one's probably going to move a little faster than six um but we're hoping 318 00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:42,200 around quarter three of 2025 and then probably six a little later than that so hickory creek 319 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:46,320 road phase three um really nothing to report here everything's moving forward we're dealing 320 00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:51,000 with a couple of utility issues but um really nothing that should impact the timeline of 321 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:57,120 that project at this point um so it's moving forward um looking at a estimated completion 322 00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:06,600 of quarter one of 2025 um and that's i have a question of hickory creek yes ma'am road 323 00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:14,000 um i know that is a winding road is that right yes ma'am is this project going to improve 324 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:19,240 so what it does be so tight yeah so we're actually getting rid of that all that those 325 00:34:19,240 --> 00:34:25,360 curves we're putting a bridge over hickory creek so from um brush creek all the way to 326 00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:30,180 country club road i believe um it's going to be a a bridge that goes over that roadway 327 00:34:30,180 --> 00:34:35,720 and actual hickory creek as it is now hickory creek road will not be accessible to traffic 328 00:34:35,720 --> 00:34:40,240 okay all right thank you yes ma'am did you know that they're gonna put a bridge over 329 00:34:40,240 --> 00:34:47,800 there it's tight over it's a pretty big bridge yeah all right thank you and that's all i 330 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:56,760 have all right thank you very much thank you trevor yeah trevor has a really cool video 331 00:34:56,760 --> 00:35:03,440 that shows that entire bridge what it's gonna what it looked like before and what it's gonna 332 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:08,680 look like so that's a really um i like the rendering it's something that we are talking 333 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:13,000 about doing more with all of our projects because it's really hard to visualize what's 334 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,840 going to what it's going to look like when it's completed so it's a really cool video 335 00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:20,120 um that was shown during the council meeting but i know it's been a little while since 336 00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:26,280 then so okay so last thing we have is just future items for consideration um for us to 337 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:30,320 bring back to you as part of the staff memorandum so bonnie bray we're giving you the bonnie 338 00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:37,560 bray and hickory creek road updates monthly um ryan we're not doing anything until um 339 00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:43,080 we get closer i think i know we've mentioned this before but ryan's on hold um as we move 340 00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:48,360 through completing hickory creek phase three since they're both the only really true east 341 00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:55,240 west corridors that are substantial um in those areas um the text dot citywide speed 342 00:35:55,240 --> 00:36:00,840 study limit change um the portion um that text dot is actually reviewing brett has had 343 00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:05,720 several conversations back and forth with text dot recently um they've asked for some 344 00:36:05,720 --> 00:36:11,880 updated maps now they're asking for mile markers of the locations so we've made quite a few 345 00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:15,320 back and forth with some maps and working on completing all of those and getting those 346 00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:20,760 all submitted over to them so um the speed study that we did they wanted graphical representations 347 00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:25,560 of actually the locations of which we did the speed studies so brett's i think he's 348 00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:29,640 had several he's shaken his head yes several back and forth um emails i've seen kind of 349 00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:33,480 the email trail back and forth we don't have an estimated time frame on when that's going 350 00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:37,960 to be completed but i'm just working to try to make sure we meet all the requirements 351 00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:44,200 that they're requesting of us so i have a question for that yes ma'am have we actually 352 00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:50,600 i've seen some new fresh signs yes ma'am um and they're wanting to know where each one of those 353 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:58,680 signs are located or i mean which streets changed no ma'am we have not had the so we have not had 354 00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:05,160 the ability to make any of the modifications we recommend on the textile roadways within the city 355 00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:12,280 of denton because they formally own the roadway so um james has made all the updates to all of the 356 00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:17,000 signs that were done that were city roadways james andrews who's our traffic operations manager 357 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:24,040 he and his team have already swapped out all of the signs um and that includes the school zone 358 00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:31,240 signs that needed to be updated but the textile roadways specifically the updates cannot be made 359 00:37:31,240 --> 00:37:36,200 until they're in agreement or have something that they would like for us to modify have additional 360 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:40,360 questions so we anticipate that's going to take a little time to work through that so 361 00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:47,400 any modification to a speed limit sign in textile right away or that is on their roadways 362 00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,720 it's going to be some time until we work through this whole process 363 00:37:51,720 --> 00:37:53,960 did you have a question again you have one question yes sir 364 00:37:53,960 --> 00:38:02,120 on the i think the report was your turn your mic on yeah it's okay the uh the uh 365 00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:09,640 you're reletting the bonnie bray i forgot the phase number from rose lawn to 35 what phase is that 366 00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:16,280 uh rose lawn to 35 is three three okay yes so that's being relet or open or being submitted 367 00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:20,920 or they're submitting the bid today is something open today the bid is open yeah okay so what's 368 00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:28,440 the timeline from for that so is it you get them in how long is it held out for what's the if it's 369 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:33,800 if it's open today so it typically takes a couple of months for us to work through the process so 370 00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:39,960 as soon as the bid's open we go through all of the bid evaluations um i believe this was 371 00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:48,040 one was done competitive sale proposal okay all right cool and that's also due to the council 372 00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:55,320 schedule so yeah um the summer schedule sometimes i know y'all get very packed agendas but it's 373 00:38:55,320 --> 00:39:00,680 because there's only a couple of meetings during the the summer months but um i would anticipate 374 00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:07,160 we're having a pre-con with that contractor probably august so as soon as the council gets 375 00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:13,560 approves the contract then we would move forward with um getting the pre-construction meeting held 376 00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:17,880 having that contractor get on board and then moving forward through the process help me 377 00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:22,360 understand some some some terms because i think i'm a little confused so when you say the bid is 378 00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:28,360 opening today that means people can submit yes today so or is that they're being open today 379 00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:35,000 because they have submitted no they do not submit until but it's opening the bid so about 30 380 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:41,560 so about 30 days ago 35 days ago is when we put everything on the street for everyone to review 381 00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:46,520 and and and turn in their bids today we're at we're actually opening the bids to see how much 382 00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:53,720 gotcha and then what what we'll do is that will give us we'll open those submittals um i believe 383 00:39:53,720 --> 00:39:57,400 it was competitive sale proposal so we'll have a team that goes through those submittals we'll 384 00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:03,080 look at all the contractors um all their the paperwork they turned in all those types of 385 00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:07,640 things and then we'll grade it out we'll grade it out and then we'll bring it to council with 386 00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:13,480 whoever was the the time so you'll know pretty quickly if hopefully that we'll know the changes 387 00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:18,360 you put in place brought things down to a little more manageable level we'll notice today it's 388 00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:22,440 going to be like uh-oh this really didn't change much and so correct we got to figure something 389 00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:28,360 out yeah we'll know that today okay i think what we're saying is if um if it did bring it down and 390 00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:32,360 we find a contractor we want to move forward to then it takes us about two or three months to 391 00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:36,760 go through all the paperwork and then get it on council to approve that contract but if not then 392 00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:42,440 you bring back the same thing you did before and you go we reject all bids and we'll have to look 393 00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:46,280 at it and determine yeah maybe this is just the maybe this is just the real cost of it and that's 394 00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:50,520 what we have to do so yeah appreciate the clarification thank you no problem you know it 395 00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:57,080 sounds like opening the bid sounds like you're putting it out there opening the bid literally 396 00:40:57,080 --> 00:41:03,720 means opening the envelope and correct and looking at it correct so once the project is ready to go 397 00:41:03,720 --> 00:41:11,480 to bid we advertise which is the advertisement which is typically 30 days whatever so today we're 398 00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:18,680 physically opening those right sorry for the confusion interpreted both ways we're going to 399 00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:25,640 open the bid out well and i'll tell you you bring up a very valid point some of the things that our 400 00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:30,440 team's been thinking about is we are so ingrained to a lot of these terminologies and processes that 401 00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:37,960 we use is how um in our next construction guide or even a presentation to council we can talk through 402 00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:43,720 the life cycle of a project and then when you get into construction what temporary payment means 403 00:41:43,720 --> 00:41:48,360 versus what permanent payment the life cycle of a project there too because that we get a lot of 404 00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:53,720 questions that and so do you so we'd like to help educate so um and we don't have answers you know 405 00:41:53,720 --> 00:41:59,160 that are always great from a time frame perspective but we always do our best to try to make sure those 406 00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:05,880 construction schedules are as short as possible um because of my background in education i will 407 00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:14,600 tell you that the uh the level of reading and learning is on sixth grade level for the entire 408 00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:20,600 country for sure so anything that you all are putting out there or we everybody is putting out 409 00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:27,080 there we need to speak as simply as we possibly can absolutely to capture everyone in so absolutely 410 00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:32,120 we're even working to implement that as a part of our pre-construction meetings we're doing with 411 00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:37,400 you know people and many times for example on bunny berry face three they may have no idea what's 412 00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:42,440 under the street and there's a lot of infrastructure underneath our roadways so just trying to help 413 00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:49,400 educate and explain um and really it helps tell the why so right looking forward to those upcoming 414 00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:57,080 conversations um i have the answer to um so i've updated you and given you the answer on the city 415 00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:03,720 wide speed study um i think the other two items that came up from february one was evaluating the 416 00:43:03,720 --> 00:43:09,720 ita's uh presentation schedule i think we talked about did it need to be on a different time frame 417 00:43:09,720 --> 00:43:14,520 i think councilmember bird you mentioned that you would like to still see it every month it was 418 00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:20,280 something that you enjoyed i know you were okay with it so we were just going to ask if you had 419 00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:26,040 any additional questions or comments on that or if we could remove that request from the agenda matrix 420 00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:32,520 and continue with it being monthly okay and then um resident construction updates we brought that 421 00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:37,640 forward in february so we're just requesting to also uh remove that so we'll continue to give you 422 00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:42,920 the bonnie bray and hickory creek and then at such time we have information to share on ryan road or 423 00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:47,160 citywide speed study we'll bring that forward and this now opens up the time for if you have 424 00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:51,160 anything additional that you'd like for us to bring forward at the next mobility committee meeting 425 00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:59,880 on june 27th you have anything i actually have something but i forgot what it was i should write 426 00:43:59,880 --> 00:44:07,000 it down i've been doing that lately um okay i don't have anything okay well if you think of it later 427 00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:13,880 no problem at all so awesome well then oh yes i did have a question yes this is what it was about 428 00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:23,080 the bicycle the uh the what are those called those white ballots yes the ballots i just see the 429 00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:30,840 ballots in certain locations is that project rolling out or are we still in a testing phase 430 00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:39,320 as to which which locations correct and also about the employee that we lost uh moved to florida 431 00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:45,720 the gentleman um that was here for a little while i think it was working on the biking and you know 432 00:44:45,720 --> 00:44:51,960 correct transportation part tell me a little bit about where we are on on that particular um project 433 00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:56,920 so been with those things that we can answer or should we bring those back at the next agenda 434 00:44:56,920 --> 00:45:03,000 at the next next time okay so next meeting we can bring you back as a status update of some of the 435 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:08,600 most recent things that we've deployed and then also an update on the hiring of the bike pad we'll 436 00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:14,120 have brett make those presentations okay that'd be great absolutely all righty then that is 437 00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:18,040 everything and we'll add those two things to our agenda and be prepared for you next month 438 00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:23,800 okay do we have any more any concluding items did you have anything okay well i don't have any uh 439 00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:32,840 thing additional to add uh so we will close the meeting at 10 is that 10 45 uh am this morning 440 00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:35,080 thank you thank you thank you