Aug 05, 2019 City Council on 2019-08-05 11:30 AM

Welcome everybody to this meeting of the joint meeting of the Dent City Council the Dent independent school districts on Monday August the 5th 2019 it is 1135 the City Council does have a quorum here so I will call that meeting to order and welcome to the joint meeting and the Denton ISD Board of Trustees does have a quorum and I will call that meeting to order. Just as a reminder this is being broadcast live stream so sometimes we forget and turn our mics off but if we do we've got this trusty little light here that they'll tell us in the control room as a signal to keep our mics on so we'll just go down through the agenda I'm not quite sure I guess we'll just go to the agenda with Adam A and I believe that's yeah receive a report from Denton ISD and hold discussion regarding the mentor Denton program. Dr. Wilson. Thank You Ms. Price Mayor Watts members of City Council and city staff thank you all for hosting this meeting this afternoon I guess it's almost afternoon. Today is the first day back for all of our employees in the district so we have a few people here today but we did welcome all of our new teachers here and those different pieces and as we get started today if it's okay Mayor Watts can we just go around it for introduction purposes just to make sure we know who's in the room and who's doing what and then we can get started with the reports so start with Mr. Stout I guess I don't know how you guys usually start. My name is Randy Stout I'm an attorney representing the Board of Trustees of Denton Independent School District. My name is Charles Stafford I'm a member of the Denton Board. Doug Chadwick the ISD trustee. Paul Meltzer at large place six. Jim Alexander member of Denton ISD Board. Gerard Hutsmith district one representative mayor of Brooktown. Todd Hyoman city manager. Chris Watts mayor. Mia Price Denton ISD Board trustee. Jamie Wilson superintendent of schools. Deb Armantar place five at large City Council. John Ryan place four City Council. Dorothy Martinez Denton trustee. Keely Briggs Denton City Council district two. Aaron Leal city attorney. And I think we have a we have a new person also Mayor Watts that's with us so Dr. Rainey if you'll please stand she's our area superintendent for the Denton high zone she's new that most of you may not know since last time and then Derek Jackson who works in our communications department and Chris Ice in our communications department and Julie Swarer has moved into Mario's former position if you guys remember Mario so she's in communication and then also one of our best partners just from the chambers perspective Erica if you'll please stand we had a great event this last week at Denton High School our new teachers that was sponsored by the chamber just we appreciate all your work. I'm glad you're here today for this joint meeting. Thank you. Anything else? No I think that's it. Okay all right so Courtney now you know who you're talking to. That's right. All right and we're excited to bring this this report to you and this has been a a long-standing work that's gone on in a partnership with the city and the school district with regard to mentors and getting getting our our most at-risk children a caring adult if you look at the research on the 40 developmental assets of adolescents and youth do you have a caring adult to be someone that you can go to that that knows and cares about you and cares about your well-being is one of the primary predictors of their success so this has been a great partnership with the city and the school district and Courtney's here to give you a little bit of a rundown of all the different pieces that we have that it's engaging our citizens with our schools and through the city's partnership in that area so Courtney. Absolutely well thank you so much I appreciate you allowing me to come visit with you my name is Courtney Martin I'm one of the community engagement specialists for Denton ISD and I work with mentor Denton so to get started so mentor Denton was started a few years ago and I have been here about three and a half years new to Denton new to Texas and new to Denton ISD and Denton ISD is constantly growing so it has been a challenge to keep up with the growth in our district but we are doing the best that we can if you'll remember some of you might have been involved or here when mentor Denton was put in place and so our goal is to get 10,000 mentors for our at-risk students in the district you'll see the numbers later on but we are slowly chipping away at that number and our enrollment is going up and up so I'm sure that we could use more than 10,000 mentors so just to give you a snapshot this is what a mentoring relationship might look like in our district this is one of our mentors ID and her mentee Anthony and they are at WS Ryan and for the last year or so year and a half and they've been working on reading specifically and so our targets are kind of that second third grade level with our mentors we'll take mentors at any grade level but this is kind of our target is that second third grade the students who might not be on on par with their reading levels that we know if they're behind by third grade then they're potentially going to be behind when they graduate color or graduate high school so that's our target and these particular mentors and mentees you'll see them they've got some activities there we had a little holiday party with our mentors and our mentees our mentors have bought books for our students off the book fair so it's benefiting the school that way through the book fair but benefiting the students who can walk away with a book and so their targets are kind of working on literacy and fluency and understanding a lot of our mentors are saying well my student reads really well well have you asked them some questions about comprehension maybe they're not reading quite as well as you think they might sound really good but we're working on our mentors with their questions and training with that so to get started Denton ISD we have 871 students who are considered to be homeless whether they're displaced or not living or they're living in a temporary housing situation whatever that might be we have over 12,000 students who receive free lunches and almost 2,000 students who are on reduced price and you'll know that our enrollment is past 30,000 so that's a significant number forty three four percent of our student population are considered economically disadvantaged and thirty seven point seven percent are considered to be at risk in our district 14.4 are English language learners and we'll come back to that so some highlights from this last year we had five new mentoring programs that were started up several of these programs were at elementary schools Blanton EP Newton razor and Savannah and then Meyers middle school and our elementary students at these particular campuses were mainly paired up with pals they were paired up with high school mentors who were coming over from our high school campuses so that's a great partnership that we have with our high schools allowing our students to come mentor younger students in our district and we had a few churches sprinkled in there that were new additions this year large mentoring populations and then for Meyers middle school it was pals from Ryan high school but that one in particular they lost their some of their communities and schools funding and so that partnership started to change in those students were needing mentors all of our campuses no matter where they are our students are desperately needing male mentors so that is something that across the board whether it's Denton ISD Big Brothers Big Sisters communities and schools we are all looking for those male mentors we don't have enough of them in our district that is a population that significantly needs those mentors and it's so hard for us to recruit so if you know of any men's groups in town or anything like that we'd be more than happy to come recruit and then we had nine campuses who had significant increases of at least five mentors or more and overall we had a 96.7% increase in total mentors from this last year with 561 new mentees matched so you'll look at these numbers from the 2017 2018 year we increased over 550 students were matched with a mentor I know there's a discrepancy between fall of 18 and spring of 19 numbers in terms of the hours of mentoring part of that is we don't start our mentoring programs until after Labor Day to kind of get our campuses some time to get adjusted give our students time to get acclimated to their classrooms and allow our teachers to really understand their new students for the year and so we do start those programs a little later towards the end of September first part of October so we did lose some weeks there and then in the springtime there's testing and other things going on so we do end a little earlier in the spring so these are some examples of our mentors we have mentors that work on reading like I said at Evers Park it's an example of one of our ropes and ranch mentors who dresses up as Captain Hat and comes to read to our students for read across America in addition to mentoring every week we have some reading programs at WS Ryan and at Boardman Elementary our mentors are focused just on the social emotional well-being of our students and so they might play games with our students they might sit there while the student eats lunch and talk about their day for all of our students these are the mentors who are not their parent you're not their guardian you're just a caring individual who can be a supportive role model for our students and whether that's talking about life talking about school your goals how are things going at home what can I help you with whether it's academics or just play games I'm a tour to student who was one of seven children and by the time that I've done mom was expecting number eight dad worked out of state and so mom with seven kids was not able to provide as much one-on-one attention for that student and so I was able to work with her and I ate lunch with her and then we played games for 30 minutes and so that one hour a week she looked forward to it and when she switched schools I followed her and so we do have a lot of mentors who do end up following our students to middle schools or high schools and watching them succeed throughout their academic career other than that we have campuses that are constantly requesting mentors and so this is our list that is growing this is as of this morning the list but we have Atkins Elementary Alexander Blanton Newton razor Paloma Creek Savannah and WS Ryan elementary and then we have Myers and middle and Rodriguez middle schools and I know that sometimes you might look at that list of campuses and think well maybe some of those are more affluent campuses that does not mean that they don't need the mentors a lot of times when we ask for adopt school wish list from each of our campuses we ask for three things almost all of them are responding we need mentors we need people we need volunteers so a lot of times our campuses are just looking for your time not looking for money or anything else like that so that's what some of these campuses if you look at our demographics might be looking for they really just looking for someone to come talk about career days to come visit with our students in a one-time setting or to really commit to mentoring and so mentoring in our schools is 30 to 60 minutes the same day same time with the same student every week and so you're really developing that relationship with our students you are one-on-one with that student we do have group settings available but most of the time we try to keep it intimate and you're in a one-on-one setting and our mentors go through background checks and we are working on placing training and information sessions and orientations this year and all of our counselors are available on campus to help those students and those mentors as well with that relationship so some of our goals for this next year is to create a marketing campaign you'll see these flyers that have passed out so this is our kind of branded theme for the year it fits with some of our other things that we're producing for our our department and our district and if you open it up it talks about becoming a mentor there's some frequently asked questions a lot of times we get asked I wasn't a teacher I have never really worked with students what can I do or am I really the best fit to be a mentor and the answer is simply yes as long as you pass your background check and you have the desire to help a student and be a positive role model for that student we would love to have you and even if some of those campuses I mentioned are not the best for you in terms of geographic location you work or you live somewhere else or you have a connection to another campus or the days and times of those specific mentorings are not fitting with your schedule it does not matter we have 42 campuses in Denton ISD and we would happily place you wherever works best for you we want to make sure that that matches the best for everybody involved and then we do have several from the volunteer impact program that the city has we have several that go to Alexander Elementary and a few others that are closer here in central Denton we would love to expand that and work with you in the city to get more of your employees involved in our our schools in volunteering and mentoring and we would love to increase our grandparents and public schools program it is I would say for 55 and older and we have our grandparents program who they come from Robson branch they come from RSVP foster grandparents retirement communities around the area retired citizens living in the community who just want to give back and so we're looking to increase that by at least 20 people and we're going to start going out to our retirement communities to recruit those as well and then just growing our current programs and expanding where else we are needed so some of our recruitment strategies we have print media we're going to start placing ads and articles in our living magazines around the area our newspapers and newsletters those should be coming out in the next month you'll see this photo forward I'll show you the ad in a second so but it's this photo and and so we are working on placing those ads in our our area print media and then in person we're going to be doing mentor information sessions around the district trying to recruit some mentors drum up some interest for those and so to have in-person conversations with people and answer any questions that they have and we'll be going to UNT and TWU volunteer affairs a lot of times our college students are not able to mentor on a one-to-one basis simply because their schedule is one crazy and overloaded but two they can't really commit to the same schedule for the entire academic year based off of their college courses and so a lot of our volunteers from those campuses do our one-time events like reading across America reading dr. Seuss books helping out with campus volunteer events like field days and bulk festivals and carnivals and that kind of thing and then if there's any more presentations that you are aware of that we can do at churches civic groups retirements you name it we will be there and then we'll be doing a website and social media campaign and this is a an example of the ad that would be placing out as well so encouraging everyone to become a mentor and the steps on our website are up there we have frequently asked questions we have a mentor application that will ask you information contact information basic information like that and then trying to pair you up to see where you might be interested if you're looking for a specific geographic area you're only available at this time of the day or these days of the week or you're interested in tutoring whatever it might be so that we can go through and really match you and make sure that it's the best fit for everybody involved and then like I said everybody does have to do the background check and in terms of our operating budget the study does contribute a third of the compensation for the position we have recruitment we budgeted for some ads and refreshments at those meetings orientation materials events we've got some campaigns that we're wanting to start with our students just thanking their mentors whether it's national mentoring month in January or sending out holiday cards to our mentors that kind of thing and then there's a conference that I found in DC it'll be like January February and so the hope is to be able to attend that and that is budgeted in our department budget for that and there's also I believe one that will be happening in San Antonio - so with that any questions Councilman Metzler thank you what a few questions what worked so well in 2018 such a huge increase true so I think a lot of our PALS programs picked back up some of them had stopped doing the PALS program so that was a big part of it UNT sent a ton of volunteers whether it was the football team two different sororities that's a lot of college students who were going monthly and we do consider that to be mentoring they're not able to go on a weekly basis but they were going monthly and reading with students and working with students at Jennings Elementary and some at Houston Elementary too so I think that was the biggest piece and then there was a few other churches that stepped in as well First Baptist picked up Newton-Razor and some others like that I'll commit right now to being one more wonderful at least to applying I did see that Dalton slipped through yeah Councilperson Briggs so I did hear you say communities and schools can you kind of talk about the difference do you work together is it separate are you you know is there volunteers from each absolutely so our goal in the district is to fit in where communities and schools is not so that we are working together so communities and schools has some daytime programs at some of our campuses and so those are the programs like Borman Elementary has a large group of Robson mentors who are kind of considered to be under our umbrella for our Grandparents and Public Schools program but when they're on that campus they're mentoring through communities and schools so we work very closely with them and the site coordinator there and then they'll be going out to our recruitment event that we do at Robson Ranch and then they have some campuses like Alexander where they were they have the after-school program and so they don't have anybody to mentor during the daytime but they still have the need there and so that's where we're fitting in and in finding those mentors during the day so yes we do work closely together the director of volunteers and I work closely and communicate often and she recently came back from maternity leave I was on maternity leave before that so between all of our maternity leaves we're definitely communicating and making sure that everybody is taken care of and everybody in our absences or we have someone else at the place to talk to you as well so first I wanted to say just looking at the photos here and and on the web page I know that the children are not always the best at faking happy and comfortable and these children are so happy these children paired with their mentors you can just see so that that speaks volumes when you see a kid who just looks so comfortable and happy I was wondering as far as hours go what is the the range of available after school hours for people who can't come during the school day sure so to touch on your first point there was something else I forgot to mention one of our students at WS Ryan and I can't give you her name but she was a third grader and has gone through things that no third grader no person should have gone through and some sexual assault from her mother's boyfriend moving a lot of schools so she was in our bilingual classroom and she was mentored by one of our mentors from Robeson Ranch and she at WS Ryan they use the alphabet to kind of face their reading levels and so for a third grade student at the end of the year they should be on level P like pig and she was on B boy so she has a long way to go she's slightly more further along in the alphabet in her Spanish reading but not very much further she was one of who recently just passed the star test so we are very excited about that and so that's proof that her mentor gave her more confidence and helped her with her reading and it's one of the best stories that we have to be honest and you're right you can't fake the happiness and the students look for me every week I'm there to pull them out of their classroom to go meet with their mentors and they come up and give me hugs I could be there on a Monday and they think it's mentoring day they get a little disappointed because it's not it was on Thursdays so those students they they just fall in love with their mentors and they really do develop those relationships to get to your other question now that I started talking I forgot your question thank you after school so we have some tutoring opportunities at some of our middle schools it would probably be right around that three to four range maybe five o'clock depending on the campus be right after school and then our other we have two elementaries that I know of Hodge Elementary is working with the Village Apartments by Denton Bible and then Stevens Elementary is working with another complex behind Lowe's that I can't think of the name at the moment but they are working with those campus or those apartment communities and so they have like a community room community center that the apartments have let them use and so the teachers are going there after school and working with giving up even more of their time and working with the students on tutoring and homework help and so I know they're looking for some people to not only just jump in and help with those situations but to kind of give our teachers a bit of a break after school too so those are two other situations that we have that are again right after school but I know specifically looking for help thank you yeah and I'll just say in case it for anybody who's watching and thinking wondering if they might not have experience you know to be a mentor that there is no experience necessary and we have all you know this is peer mentoring works and we have all had experience of being a kid and so if you can just relate to that experience and draw from that experience you can be a mentor absolutely mr. Stafford full disclosure I'm also on the board of communities and schools and something that's important for us to keep in mind is that these kids 99% of the kids who have a mentor it's it's for at-risk kids but 99% of the kids with a mentor promote to the next grade it's an it's an incredibly effective dropout prevention tool and if we had enough mentors I mean logically everybody graduates but just to have somebody a person come in once a week for an hour and say you can do this you matter you matter to me it's magic Councilman Briggs my question is for our city manager because I know that our council I get a year or so ago maybe two years ago approved a volunteer program for our city employees where they could leave work and go volunteer since I'm wondering if this is something that is put into their hands so they're aware of it this program and if not if we could do that of course okay well thank you thank you thank you all right and I wanted to announce that there's an overflow room down in the city manager's conference room if people come in and can't find a seat so it's being streamed down in the basement we'll go on to agenda item B which is receive a port from the city of Dent staff and hold a discussion regarding road construction projects including but not limited to the following Bonnie Bray Street Teezy Lane FM 2181 including sidewalks US highway 380 excuse me 383 77 I 35 E and I 35 W Mayhill Road McKinney Street and FM 428 all right well seeing as how it's noon good afternoon it's a few seconds after I'm Todd S the city engineer we'll just run briefly through a few of the projects that we currently have ongoing or proposed to have going here shortly I don't know if you're at the beginning so somebody who did a trial run earlier I apologize for the technical difficulties we're still having them there we go all right so the first project is Bonnie Bray I believe we've had an update on this before we currently have seven phases to this project now it starts at vintage Boulevard all the way to the south ties into 377 and 35 W and goes north all the way to loop 288 currently phase one is nearing completion we've been waiting on one gas line to be relocated and that project should be wrapped up here we're we're hearing right now from contractor we should be done and out of the way with that road open by November of this year phase two that is the vintage Boulevard connection so if you've done that nice little whoopty-woo technical term that the engineers love it is whoopty-woo we just kind of go from the two-lane to the widened two-lane segment and you feel a little unsafe trying to get through there that will go away with this project that project is bidding now so we anticipate going to construction later this year on that phase phase three you have seen I'm sure if you've driven that southern part of Bonnie Bray below 35 E you've seen some construction going off on the sidelines well that is what it's really a second project that is the precursor to the Bonnie Bray phase three roadway and that's a water line it's a large water lines 42 inches in diameter so typically most water lines that run to your house or maybe three quarters of an inch or five eighths of an inch this is 42 inches of water running north and south it actually feeds a southern part of the Denton City of Denton and can connect all the way over to what would be west of 35 W but then draws a line all the way up to McKenna Park up in here where that tank sits currently so that services a good portion of southern Denton when it comes online that work is being done now with all the utility relocations all of that gets done and then surely I believe towards the end of this year pre-term around this fall we will be bidding phase three for the roadway work so about the time that the water line work starts progressing and they're covering up ditches then we'll have roadway coming in right behind that water line building that next phase phase four we actually broke that into two pieces so that is from 35 E going north up to scripture so the piece that you see under construction now is the intersection improvement the roundabout at Bonnie Bray and scripture that project has been an interesting one from the get-go we are currently working 24/7 six days week to make that thing happen we still anticipate having at least all of traffic open in one direction by the end of August although it is getting tight so that is still the goal that's what we are working towards then we will finish up the remainder the things on the sides towards the end of October that be more the landscaping sidewalks street lights those kinds of things will come in afterwards then what we would call phase 4b the engineers love to break things in all these little number designations will follow shortly thereafter we should be bidding that later this fall as well so it can go to construction with the water line that connects to what's going on in phase 3 phase 5 6 you see this dashed line here which go up next to the future Denton high school campus that is all under design right now we're at 30 percent or 60 percent design we're at 30 percent design currently we've passed that we should be going into we should be getting 60 percent plans hopefully in the next month so we are still on target to getting that out to bid this year but we are start challenged with a couple of hurdles on the right-of-way side so that'll that'll definitely be the thing we keep our fingers on the most then here on phase 7 text dot has agreed to do this part as part of their addition to the overall project so they're going to put in an overpass at 288 they'll pick up here at 77 and take an overpass over with some fronted road frontage roads that tie into 77 back towards that intersection so it'll get a much-needed upgrade now the timelines very different than the rest of the project since the state has a like take that on so it may push that out into 2024 2025 before it goes into construction we're still working on the details with the state on that one so that's a bit that's a not so brief overview of Bonnie Bray but that is yes just because I know we've got agenda item C is talking about the upcoming bond program our parts of phase 6 and 7 part of that bond program is that already it's already been funded is that part of the bond five and six would be covered under the upcoming bond for construction the designs already funded okay good thank you FM 21 81 Teasley Lane so you've seen that nice construction equipment and torn up roadways along that side of that right away for a while now the contractor that was originally brought on by the state awarded the contract they went bankrupt so that contract has been dissolved the state has is working with their bonding company that started in January to bring on a new contractor they feel that they're getting close but it may still be towards the end of this year before they actually have a contractor back on the ground to do some work out there we are working with the county currently or not county but the state to make sure that sidewalks at least some kind of semblance of sidewalks are improved and in shape for school to start the first day this year US Highway three weeks 77 so that one is under construction and going quickly with the railroad was a big one for us and once they finally get over the hurdle of getting that permitted and everybody on board it is moving a much quicker pace than 2181 that projects proceeding I think we're still on the November 2020 timeline so that one is moving fairly rapidly I 35 e improvements pretend you want to handle these Todd real quick on the on the forward drive yes project that's for the whole segment but the segment from the railroad north to I-35 when do you think is there an estimated time of completion on that I know they're they're moving pretty quickly on that to sort of most of that back up yeah most of what they're doing right now has been the railroads and the utility work but they've not given us any idea when you actually may have roadway traffic open there again thank you good afternoon my name is pretend they spoke I'm the deputy city engineer and this is another text that project it's a large project start with the first one which is a combination of three interchange upgrades one is a brand new interchange at Brinker that's currently underway loop 288 is an upgrade to the existing interchange that was very undersized highly congested area and then the third was a minor update and the Mayhill interchange so it's a combination of three interchanges it is moving forward there was quite a stall about eight or nine months ago when the actual construction was progressing at a really slow speed it was not moving forward apparently OHL the contractor has picked up speed and they're really moving forward with the construction we're we're looking at the end of this year for wrapping up that construction at least at this time text on is pretty positive they're pretty their expectations are pretty high at this point from the contractor so what will happen is we will have a full interchange with dual left turns under the loop 288 after this project opens up so that would be much wider much more traffic will be accommodated under the freeway on top of that there will be additional capacity under the Brinker interchange so not only will traffic have the opportunity to use the loop 288 interchange but they will also have additional capacity at the Brinker interchange so with these two in place we will be in a very good shape for at least next five to ten years to handle the growth and demand in this area the last one was the minor u-turn addition as part of the Mayhill but there is another upcoming project which is the next one the Mayhill Road interchange this project is currently under tech stop they are running the design on this what will happen here will be similar to what happened to loop 288 you will have dual left turns under the bridge it would be a much larger connection with six lane facilities three lanes in each direction and it's part of the much larger project additionally with this project what tech side intends to do is get the right-of-way acquired between Brinker and Mayhill on the north side that right-of-way is getting cleared at this time but they will acquire right-of-way for the ultimate cross section on 35 so that's also part of the Mayhill project both these projects if you look at these dollar amounts pretty high and I think we will be wrapping up Mayhill at least for now the schedule is end of 2022 for that construction project to be completed and so on the the Brinker though that one is going to be done and completed before the other two correct so that would be completed end of this year so end of 2019 with these three projects I was my understanding that Brinker would open before the other two would be completed is that is that being rolled back now so what there were some safety concerns if you look at the way the ramp exits today on the southbound side of 35 that connects to the French road it it directly pours in front of Buc-E's so they have a line of barrel in front of Buc-E's currently so if they open up the interchange the line of barrel and the safety was a big concern so they there was traffic coming down the freeway at 60 miles an hour right in the air intersection and they could not open it because it was much more of a safety hazard so what they've done is they've rolled back that that timeline to match to when the project is going to end just for safety concerns I understand they they had the plan of opening that but their ramp exit ramp is not going to move anytime soon and that's the issue so if people are going to exit at that particular location then there they won't be able to open the intersection it won't function well okay that's the way it is may protein so by the end of the year I think it's about a year total behind correct right okay and just a note I know we're way out in the front but may hill when they the term the two what is it it'll be left turn lanes there if we could kind of plan ahead to get a sign back towards in front of racetrack because you see that problem currently and so I'll give you another note so University Drive is same thing right it's a two left turn length two left turns under I-35 but no one knows so it backs up you know because you can't see the sign so I'd like to see us try to work to get us work with tech stop to get a sign on University that's 380 you know yes we can definitely ask for that US 380 to be upgraded and then yes we're in 60% so city will get a chance to comment on how this is laid out what the signage and marking will be so we'll definitely have that in yes so about Brahms at 380 if we could get a that'd be awesome okay thank you so couple question on the mayhills 2022 enhancement overpass enhancement that will not affect the u-turn the Texas u-turns they put in currently I mean they they did those with this expansion under the overpass in mind I mean and I have to tear that out are they gonna have to tear that out that might be the case because the whole bridge will be torn out okay it will be expanded on the bridge so what what had happened is the bringer change was scheduled to complete a year ago a year and a half ago right when Bucky's open so it was to address that scenario as an interim fix it was not planned do you think you know because we talked about this as the project was beginning on the brinker I-35 that the question was it's obviously gonna need signals signal it's gonna be need to be a signal intersection but the warrants have to prove it out before text are we able to get that figured out before we actually open that up so that when we open it up it will be signaled instead of having to have because this you have the same problem you can have people coming off the highway shooting you know 45 50 miles an hour down the service road and even if brinkers open and the barrels are gone you still have that that same issue but are we anticipating it will be signaled by the time it officially gets open yes it will be all right great thank you yes what I recall from the last meeting they anticipate shifting the traffic to the southbound side in mid to late August in that brinker would be be opened up that had that new ramp open by late September move on to the next one this is another one that textile is working on there are several projects along the 35 corridor there are more on 35 W as well but this is the next piece that will tie into 35 e I think I think moving in this moving north of North Texas we still have this why where the connections it connects 35 W with 35 e and all the way up to us 77 that's that's the piece that they're looking at ultimate widening they're under design currently it's a much larger project if you see the total cost is $240 million this project will is not ready at this time so they'll by the time they go to construction it's gonna be January of 2023 they will be looking at connections here there will there will be a full interchange that connects in all directions as well as adding more lanes and capacity in this as part of that project also they will be tying into the current issue that we were facing at us 380 there the weave they're trying to make sure that the weaving in this really short span where people are trying to get off at 380 as well as merge from the southern section that will be taken care of so there will be a weave where they will be great separated so there is no congestion for people that are trying to merge and people that are trying to do so this will be taken that will be taken care of in this particular project any questions and so that will let date that means completion they will be going for construction that's one okay that's a start of construction and so in the meantime you know where they're kind of short-term ways to address that that issue we are working with them to address some of the issue through signal timing we want to see that some of the demand on that particular ramp is high during certain hours so we want to see if we can add more green time for that particular for those folks to clear but at this time we're purely working on a really constrained intersection with signal timing which is we may achieve some efficiencies but it's really hard to actually fix the issue yeah thank you all right so Mayhill Road so if you've driven down Mayhill you've noticed that you're no longer on the pothole side of Mayhill Road you're on the nice concrete new side of Mayhill Road they are moving a lot faster on the old Mayhill Road piece because we moved all the utilities other way through the first section so they are anticipating by the end of this year that we would have all traffic on four lanes of roadway now that still leaves a couple of pieces the bridge over the DCTA rail line to the south we are progressing on the plans for that particular project that project won't actually let until next year and then we are also working on the intersection at McKinney and Mayhill so that project would be tied in if you drive right now you'll notice there's kind of an empty spot between Mayhill and McKinney where it appears that two lanes are not there well there's a piece that will get change ordered into that project and make sure that gets taken care of with the Mayhill project we had two projects going at the same time that being McKinney as well as Mayhill and the timing of those two as such that we're going to actually change order the Mayhill piece that intersection into the Mayhill Road project instead of trying to tackle it with the McKinney project so that just get the two going at the same time that project as I said before is later to be done by the end of this year and the intersection being completed at the beginning of next year any questions on that one and then McKinney so overall we're doing the design plans for McKinney there this is loop 288 right in the middle we are in construction on the first phase of this road the second phase will be bidding this fall so that it will be going to construction at the very beginning of next year or we will be working on this entire remaining piece of McKinney all the way over loop 288 the segment in blue we are working on what we would call 30 percent design or conceptual design all the way over to Carroll Boulevard so this shows going to Woodrow but we're actually taking it all the way over to Carroll so that as we start to work with Council of Governments and potentially finding other avenues to upgrade that segment of McKinney we'll have plans ready to go just move on to has a question can you speak to if sidewalk continued sidewalks at Ryan on that end of McKinney will be part of this so Ryan there will be sidewalks on both sides of McKinney all the way down this segment at least as far as Ryan but should be carrying all the way down to the properties to this to the East excellent thanks yes Councilmember Briggs yes so we said to be under construction with the entire remaining amount by the end of this year so we will be letting that project this fall and so we'll just and you may have kind of already talked about it but will Mayhill be almost complete by the time this project gets started yes okay so we're already constructing the first phase so we are technically under construction for the first phase of McKinney and then the rest is what we'll be going to bid this fall what may he'll will be complete before they actually get to the construction of there any other questions all right FM 428 so Sherman Drive as I think of it but as soon as you start leaving loop 288 and going north it's FM 428 we have had conversations with the state where and the council governments where the council governments has agreed to work with the state and making this a limited what I would call limited access facility basically that means frontage roads and main lanes if you look at this purple line to the north that's where the outer loop so if you've heard of that one that's the prime target for the next phase of the outer loop is Denton County it's this northern region up here so they are looking to go to construction was it 2024 ish so around 2024 to be under construction this northern segment we're already seeing a significant amount of commuter traffic that travels down 428 from Prosper and other areas so the state has agreed to enter into a feasibility study which is the precursor to actually go into construction on this entire segment so it would be a limited access facility from about where the limited where the outer loop would be down to loop 288 and then it would tie into the loop was it came under the overpass it go back down to the four-lane divided roadway that we anticipate long term for Sherman so the segment from the loop to the outer loop would be by the state what we are doing now is a small transportation project where we would expand the two turn lanes so we'd have turn lanes under the overpass and signalized intersection there at the end at the intersection councilmember breaks I think that's by the end of the year about Windsor it's not here on another separate slide but it is scheduled to be redone and I don't really know what the date of that is and I know that we have two schools along Windsor that are also going through construction and so if you could just help me understand the timing of that if that is going to be planned to be under construction at the same time either of these schools are as we just got an update for Strickland on drop-off and pickup and a lot of that is going to be heavily on Windsor and so you know I have some concerns for kids crossing there with all the traffic being directed pick up and drop off on Windsor so I'd like to discuss some options there a little bit later but if you could just talk about construction and timing sure so we'll be bidding that this fall that entire piece it's Hercules along with two other roadway segments and Windsor when we go to construction the timing we've discussed has been that it'd be towards the end of next spring so that's a time when people have had time to get used to the configurations of dropping kids off and picking them up so when we introduce taking a lane or two as we're doing utility relocations we would not be right in the middle of school as far as them not knowing what they're doing on a normal basis we kind of would be introducing something new when they've already kind of gotten into a routine not at the beginning of a school year now we do meet with Paul Andrews and his staff at least every two months if we don't meet every month to discuss these issues so it's not like we're not having the discussions about when the schools are going to construction and we're going to construction obviously right in front of the schools we would prefer not to be doing paving until the summer months so that we could potentially shut segments of road down right in front of school and really get in and get out quickly and that way when school turns over again starts up then we're out of the way and they can go back to normal operations. Councilmember Armitage. A question about the part of Sherman that passes by the natatorium and waterpark I know that there's you know new development family development planned for there and residents in this the surrounding rural area have expressed concern about kids you know crossing that that busy street especially is it slope to get to and from the water park are there are there plans for to eventually have have some sort of protected crossing way of some kind. On 428? On Sherman. Yes yes okay so based on this very there was a discussion last time I presented at council and that was for one of the developments that came in after which we had a discussion this is a textile facility so I mean I went out there and met with textile staff and discussed this very issue and the way it would work out especially textile they don't have an issue to installing a protected crosswalk which would be protected by a signal if the development comes in and that main road that connects from the development to Sherman warrants a signal they'll be more than happy to have that crosswalk in place and work with us to put it in in use but if there is a development that really doesn't necessitate that kind of pedestrians if the pedestrian activities really low if there's one or two pedestrians what they recommended is if it's not warranted textile doesn't really want to install anything that would be unsafe for people that gives them faults and some security so we are working with them as development grows and there is growth in this region we'll definitely look for spots like the long road connection at Sherman or the new development connection for any other developments that are in the future and look at signal warrants analysis look at appropriate locations for for pedestrians across and pedestrian infrastructure thank you so much we can on that on that point on it this was a new development I believe is agave ranch that we talked about all right are you able to sort of get an idea ahead of time what the warrants will be like we know what the configuration of the number of homes we can estimate the number of trips we have an idea of what the trips are along 428 are we able to some preliminary not necessarily a full-blown TIA but to go if these are warranted or if they're not so that we're not waiting till the actual time when all this gets built to try to formulate a plan B if the warrants aren't met because what I heard you say is if the warrants are met and there's a signal in there text that's fine with a crosswalk which makes sense because there's a signal but if there's no signal there's no crosswalk so are we able to determine that yes so we've asked the developer to come up when they look at the analysis we'll ask them to provide a signal work analysis just based on the numbers that they're developing the other option is to have sidewalks or pedestrian facility along one edge of the street and then help them cross at long road if that one words before yeah coming down that that side that side okay great thanks I think I'll take the next one off so small transportation projects there are about as part of the council initiative is about a year and a half two years ago there was an effort to add capacities to a lot of intersections that were constrained a lot of congestion within the city there were about approximately 14 to 15 locations that were identified that really needed and upgrade a capacity enhancement and an operation enhancement so we are currently working on all of these projects some of them were completed about four or five we've already completed and they're working this is a picture from Dallas and Teasley but we for the rest of them especially the one that we mentioned at Sherman and loop we are working on the design we're 90% there some of them are a little bit of hold-up I know Carol Sherman they're a hold-up because of the right-of-way take there are more complications and negotiations are ongoing so some of them are a bit more complicated when it comes to right-of-way especially in the dense areas of the town but we are moving forward and we have every intention to get construction on most of them yes I'm worried about Hercules you're making a big mess over there and I'm about two houses down from and I go out there and look and nothing's moving you also put a bunch of condos that I was hoping with for sale they're not there for rent and I want to know when Hercules is going to be finished and I was worried that you were going to try to put a road out of that addition rental down our street Royal Acres when which would be unsafe because you have a little hill and you can't see those people coming from over there till you're in the middle of that intersection of that road is that going to be a four-way is there a way to protect people if they're going to go across there or is there going to be a road straight across our neighborhood so let me get the bearing straight I'm not sure I understand yet it sounds like I'm going to call you Dorothy because that's how I know you start to Martin Dr. Martinez do you are you saying from like Stewart Road on over to Sherman that part of Hercules are you talking about that being widened or are you talking about from Stewart on West yeah yeah it's not very far I think we're three streets from Sherman Drive yeah I'm on Royal Acres and you're paving streets around me but you're not paving me for some strange reason I think you must know who we gave them special instructions so this is the part that we just talked about the package that was going with Windsor Hercules as part of that there's actually development private developer that's coming in doing a good bit of residential neighborhood work in this area they're also required to build that part of Hercules so that segment of Hercules is being reconstructed by the developer most of what they're tearing up right now it has been for work that they're doing within their private development now they've turned over dirt and I have to redo my windows every time they read just turn over there and I'm trying to do a window if there are specific concerns you have about that private development if you'll let me know afterwards I'll be glad to see what I can find out because I want to know if they're gonna come right through my street out of that it developed because it's rental it's not a home buyers yeah I can't I'd have to look at the specifics to be able to tell any more questions on the small transportation projects yes so I believe Hobson's part of the state's project so the state actually is going to put that in with what they're doing on 377 and then we're 1830 connects they'll be doing some work on Hobson as well any questions on small transportation problems okay thank you oh yes go ahead councilmember Meltzer and then I'll call agenda item soon before you get started right yeah I wonder if we'd mind dialing all the way back to Barney Bray first slide you know I don't have that hard of time explaining to people what the big concept is on Hickory because it goes from west to east it doesn't mean that they're satisfied with that answer but at least I can explain it goes from west to east I just didn't understand a body break you know or how I would be able to explain why the completion dates sort of bounce all around north to south you know like phase five comes in after four and six and phase sevens you know in between because we as engineers really like to keep you guessing succeeded yes no that really the the prime reason for that has been there was funding and previous bond packages for phase four to go to construction there was not for phase five then phase six up to Windsor had money in it for construction but it wasn't enough to carry Bonnie Bray all the way to the north of 77 so the phasing has mostly been because that's where the dollars were you do still have a four lane four lane roadway while it's not divided between scripture and University Drive so it does have capacity currently so it would be one of the last phases that we would infill the driver for phase six has been obviously the increased demand we know we're going to have in a very short order with the high school going to the north so that really accelerated the timeline on that project you I don't know that predates me so I don't know okay we'll move on to agenda item C unless there's other questions for agenda item B seeing none agenda item C is receive a report from the city didn't staff and hold discussion regarding the projects included in the proposed 2019 city of Denton bond program good afternoon David gains director of finance we're going to give a brief overview of the potential 2019 bond program potential 2019 bond election with this presentation if you have any specific questions obviously we have staff here to answer any of those so the the development of the 2019 bond program really started first with the August 2018 council works work group workshop where they set out a priority of having a bond program to focus on some streets and ultimately our public safety facilities this year in April we came back to council and had multiple meetings where we talked through a potential bond program and what projects could be included and ultimately on April 23rd council approved the creation of a bond committee we had our first meeting with the bond committee on May 30th and really every week after that after that May 30th meeting every Thursday we met with the committee eight times ultimately to get to a point where they made a recommendation to city council last week on August 1st above their recommended bond program council then last week discussed the recommendation made a few changes to the potential program and that's what we'll present to you today so here are here's the proposed bond program by project and by proposition the recommended program would have four propositions the first proposition being public safety facilities now entirely devoted to police facilities starting with the police renovation project renovating our current police station adding a substation a police substation and then also including funding for a new police firing range and we'll touch on each of those projects as we go through the presentation for street improvements we focused on a few major major roads that are listed here as projects we've already talked about Bonnie Bray quite a bit in the previous presentation but those additional phases for Bonnie Bray the Hickory Creek additional phases for our Hickory Creek project we now have 70 million dollars recommended for street rehab which are local streets and neighborhood streets and we'll discuss the approach that we have toward that to that amount later on in the presentation as well also dollars for sidewalks and then finally street lighting and Ryan Road are also included in these streets proposition we do have proposition 3 which will be at five million dollars that's entirely devoted to open space land acquisition for our park system and then we that City Council has recommended that we pull out of public art and make it its own separate proposition in this bond election we've had public art in our last two bond elections that have been in accordance with our public art policy based on the last election in 2014 based on rural construction costs which we're in within propositions that were already established having it having this as a separate proposition would allow it to be voted on separately and if approved you'd have more we have more flexibility on how that those public art dollars can be used as we as we look forward to issuing issuing that debt total bond program with all of these recommended projects it's two hundred and twenty one million dollars two hundred twenty one point five million dollars one thing that Todd Todd mentioned earlier in his presentation that is really a focus of this bond program is the amount of dollars that we can leverage specifically with the streets the streets improvements proposition you can see in streets improvements we're recommending a total package of city funding for 154 million dollars but a total project cost of 377 million dollars and that's really by leveraging those state those the cog dollars county dollars to complete up those roads that really have those that regional impact especially with Bonnie Bray and Hickory Creek and that was going to be something I pointed out that primarily those are the two street segments that make up the majority of the I mean the funds that we need from some other source whereas they've got twenty seven million thirty four million for Bonnie Bray and Hickory Creek which is 61 million but of that 271 is what we're trying to leverage so there it almost looks a little bit more than two to one down at the total but when you really break it out actually the roads that are specifically targeted for those additional findings it's a much it's a much greater leverage absolutely yeah so some of the financial impact of of the bond program we are looking at a six-year bond program program that would be issued over the next six years starting in FY 20 and we anticipate three and a half cent max tax rate and create increase on the debt service tax rate throughout the life of the program that's obviously just within a given year it could go up to three and a half cents over our current debt service tax rate not throughout the entirety of the program and that's also obviously contingent on those assessed value assumptions and what how assessed value actually comes in we have five percent assessed value assumptions in future years to come up with a three and a half percent increase obviously if you look at this year we're significantly over five percent in our assessed value we were also over significantly last year and if you look at our past bond programs we've been just to pay anticipated between three and four cents increases in 2005 and 2014 and those were not realized we were able to essentially stay stay steady on our debt service tax rate because those assessed values have obviously come in as you all know higher than anticipated so we'll go through each of the propositions quickly and again I'll touch very high level on these projects but if you have any questions we can definitely answer them you can see in total for public safe public safety facilities a sixty one point nine million dollar dollars in recommended funding that difference between total project costs are really just CEOs we've already issued that we've already issued for design for the police station and and and substation so again at a high level here are some of those needs that that were identified for the public safety facilities a new police headquarters that addresses these the items noted here under sir undersized work areas in efficient space configurations really just outdated fixtures City Council went on a tour of the public safety facility early at the beginning of the calendar year and saw the conditions of the facility and this really moved up to the top of the priority list from Council's perspective of knowing that we had significant issues with our current station and we needed to address them additionally obviously we have our first substation in the city would be part of this bond program and not only does it allow additional space as our police department continues to grow but it gives us those enhanced response times to get to parts of the city that are further away from the current station and then the firing rate the police firing range obviously they are to improve this the safety around the firing range which will touch on a little bit of our current firing range but then have more accessibility for our officers to get out there and have those training opportunities with the firing range while there I just want to highlight that and echo what the chief told us last week regarding the fire range and you see a tragic incident in Arlington and where an officer fires his his weapon and the chief talked about the the motions that go with that process and needing to practice and needing to get that muscle memory and this is it was already high as a priority for me but it just kind of shows a real-life example of how urgent we need to get that up and running and allow the officers to get out there as early and as often as possible to continue to hone their skills and master their craft so thank you so here's a here's a design of conceptual design of police station renovation of the police station renovation we have projected if again construction of the renovation in November of 2020 with completion of the project in February 2022 obviously this is also connected to our city alleys so you can see where we have the city services there and and and each piece of of the design of the new of the new renovation our police substation again construction beginning in 2020 July 2020 with project completion in July 2021 for this project it really the goal is for this project this completion to end prior to the renovation so we can use some of the space out at the substation as constructions on the way at the renovation here's the overall site plan for the substation you can see here often off of vintage the news the new station here with some opportunities for future expansion we also have some some land there additionally for future training center or other accommodations that that we might make could we go back to the existing please could you or someone speak to I don't know mr. city manager but I think while we have the school board here it may be good to go back and readdress kind of what we're trying to achieve as far as the entrance at trick exits and that the I forget the name of the street behind the police station but to kind of touch on that mayor Pro Tem are you mentioning are you referring to East Oak that area there on the back side yes sir yes and we don't have a map do you still have that do you still have the Google Maps up from sure thank you just thought it would be good to know you get orientated here a little bit so if you'll follow my cursor you'll see East McKinney going east to west here here's where city hall leases with a police station as David Gaines was mentioning and some city operations what we're looking at doing with this area that things come to fruition as we're hoped as we're hoping the intent would be to close off portions of East Oak right now so through Street and portions of and while it doesn't show up on the on Google Maps this road right here is frame so the intent is to close portions of frame along with portions of East Oak and the reason is because it's a through Street our employees of Police Department Park in this lot right here and as we add additional parking for their for the staff from a safety perspective in the jails on the backside of the police station as well just from a safety concerns we've been talking with Police Department about would there be an option to close off again as mentioned portions of frame in East Oak so that it would be more of a pedestrian walkway secured with gates etc so to be accessible by our police station staff but not for the community public and really is just from a safety perspective so that as folks folks are coming to and from the building on or off shift no one can can literally park and do things that could be done to be construed obviously in a negative fashion so we're working with our engineering folks with the architects along with our real estate division with the acquisition some additional property in that area so to help accommodate that that street closure our street closures is that sufficient thank you any questions so the firing range is now included in our in the recommendation for moving forward to toward the bond election we have five million dollars or four point nine million dollars currently included for funding for the firing range we shown here is our existing firing range obviously it's an outdoor range one of the biggest safety concerns that's currently happening out at our outdoor range or spent rounds from from the firing range or ending up in private property outside of the range so obviously that's that's a major concern safety concern which some sets been taken to to mitigate that but really the solution is going to be to not have the firing range at its current outdoor location so that's what prompted some of the discussions on a new firing range to the point where now we have some some conceptual designs on what an indoor range would look like which we can get to here on the next slide so the the firing range proposal that we're looking at right now would be in again an indoor range with four to four six foot wide shooting lanes 15 lanes in total and the total estimated cost is five point three million dollars you see that we've included four point nine in the budget for this project the idea would be as we move forward with the station and substation include the firing range we be able to gain some efficiencies in those costs and get the cost down to that four point nine million dollars that we're targeting here's an overall floor plan of the current design we have for the firing range obviously you can see that the lanes throughout not in a lot of the open space and then here we have a office space and some classrooms and some other some other functionality that we'll be able to gain out of the building so moving on to our streets improvements proposition proposition again we'll touch on each of these projects at a high level Bonnie Bray and Hickory Creek as discussed of major regional projects that we're leveraging a lot of dollars from outside entities for the street rehab program sidewalks street lighting and then the Ryan Road project David real quick you'll go back to that slide so is it safe to say on the Bonnie Bray five six of course seven is the text dot portion I think is what if I remember correctly but on five and six that the Delta there is because we've got a willingness of participation from cog or some regional transportation organization that if for some reason let's say the bond funding doesn't come through then those projects Bonnie Bray for four or five and five six and seven most likely I mean is it safe to say that they may be in jeopardy if we don't have our our local match to get money break extended and part of the rationale for this was to avoid the kind of situations we've had in the past where you know we've had school districts and the city hasn't been able to extend out roads or text out to where when the new high school opens up that we're not behind the curve with transportation infrastructure that will make that transition much smoother for for that transition in school district is that is that part of the rationale for for moving forward with this and also with the the region's participation in this particular project correct you have multiple players who are very willing because there is funding that we're intending to set aside to match that and go beyond if that match is not there then obviously they're matching funds disappear - okay thank you so as we began this process starting at the end of last year and then really have those conversations in April of what do we what did the council want to write point the bond committee to and consider here are some of the some of the pieces that really led to the projects that were put forward as options the capacity congestion the safety on the roads particularly with Hickory Creek and then knowing that we're gonna have future capacity a lot around a lot of these major roadway projects that were moving forward and also these are the roads that as city staff we've heard the most about from citizens and these really are citizen driven projects for those arterial roads and obviously the leverage of the dollars that we've been discussing and in the street rehab program which that that amount has as we've gone through this process increased up to the 70 million dollars to focus on those local streets and we'll talk a little bit about the methodology behind how we're looking to use those funds so we've already spent part of the time on the Bonnie Gray five six and seven but you can see here how it's broken out face five going forward and how it will relate to the new high school and then face seven going to a full four lane divided road Hickory Creek Road or total city cost of 34 million dollars and then obviously the dollars that we're able to leverage ultimately all when it gets out to 35 at some point it would be a six lane divided facility but not that would not be it immediately up to that six lanes see that the detail design are the dollars that we could spend right away with the funding that we would have and we've leveraged those dollars to get out to 35 truly making it that regional connection connecting 35 W off the 2499 just to also summarize what we talked about at our bond committee sort of workshop that even if somehow though these dollars from text out or the regional transportation organizations don't come through if this bond package this particular portion of the roads in general passes the 34 million will get us passed get us up to is that 18 1830 yeah 1830 with four lanes I believe a bridge or two lanes in other words it's gonna solve that public safety issue that we've had there near the creek between the county and the city transition of jurisdiction correct that even if the bond passes but the alternative funding to help make it a bigger project goes away we would get three lanes all the way over to 1830 so a lane in each direction and a middle turn lane and one of the bridges because there would be two parallel bridges and the ultimate configuration but one of the bridges would be complete and in place all the way to 1830 thank you so the street rehab program is again are the dollars that will have a site set aside for local roads and really taking an approach what we've called here is a kind of a combination hybrid approach to how we'll tackle our street rehab program and over the six-year bond issuance where we're gonna focus not only on neighborhoods where we gain some efficiencies we go into a neighborhood we know there's a lot of roads in need of reconstruction but there also could be water and wastewater improvements that will happen we can target a few neighborhoods that we know are in need and go in there once instead of going in there with a streets crew one year and then next year coming back with a water wastewater crew and we can also gain efficiencies by focusing on certain neighborhoods that have multiple roads will be working on and schedule them out and at an appropriate time so about half of the dollars that will issue will be focused on a few specific neighborhoods that will point to you can see them highlighted here in blue and we'll show on a map where those are and then the remaining 35 million dollars will focus on our lowest OCI streets for that throughout the city OCI really a measure of the quality of our streets and anything below 30 or low OCI obviously anything below 20 are our lowest OCI is in the city and we're able to utilize these dollars to say we're gonna go after all these streets that are 20 and below throughout the city regardless of where they are or will be improved with this bond program obviously as we go through the bond programs more streets could be could fall under that range but we'll target those those streets that are currently at 20 20 or below OCI here here broken out in this map obviously can be can be difficult to see in detail you can see all of these all the blue here streets that are between OCI zero and 25 so the majority of these blue streets will be addressed with the bond program and you can see they're also they're kind of scattered throughout the city so by going at these streets individually you don't gain the same efficiencies of going after a neighborhood but it does gain that that that need to go after these streets that are just in really poor condition so that way that's a focus for about half of that of that street rehab those street rehab dollars and then the second approach is to focus on those neighborhoods to say we're gonna go in there with these neighborhoods that have low OCI's and need other improvements and and and will tackle those neighborhoods as a whole section if currently the current recommendation is to go after neighborhoods one you can see here one three and four is the is a goal with those dollars so another another project of program that we'll have in the bond bond program would be funding dedicated to sidewalks we would go forward with twelve million dollars over six years to dedicate strictly to sidewalks to issue about two million of those dollars each year and those would be focused on streets that lead to and from that are around schools and so we would also be utilizing safe routes to schools funding to make sure that we get those sidewalks in for all those schools that don't have sidewalks right now and you can see all sidewalks with this funding all sidewalks within a quarter mile of a school would would have sidewalks at the conclusion of the bond program we also have funding dedicated to street lighting in this program we went to the bond committee and talked to council about different options that we could put funding towards street lighting for for those major roads not for not for local streets that we have other funding mechanisms for but for those major roads how can we how can we dedicate some funding to get to get street lighting out in the city the prior the recommendation from the committee and then ultimately recommended by council as well as to move forward with getting street lighting on on University Drive between 35 and Old North Road and our cost to estimate for that is seven million dollars finally on the in the street in the streets proposition is Ryan Road Ryan Road is an interesting one when we started the process we had more funding allocated for Ryan Road but as we got an analysis done on what the impact of expanding Hickory Creek would do it lessens the need for a more expensive Ryan Road project so right now the plan is to to issue four million dollars for Ryan Road with a total cost of ten million dollars ever as we were able to leverage another six million dollars for the intersections that go along with Ryan Road it would widen it from from two lanes to three but then this would not include drainage and sidewalks although I think there may be there is some room to work on sidewalks on one side of the road with Ryan with the Ryan Road project we as we presented this at the meeting last week to City Council we have a few items that we'll be following up with tomorrow with City Council but wanted to note note those as this as we had the discussion on the first one being or really the first two going hand-in-hand with what would be a what would it take to have a Ryan Road connection to Vintage Road and then what would it also take for Hickory Creek Road to go to Vintage Road and what are the considerations that need to come along with that so what we have in that discussion with council tomorrow as well and also looking at Ryan Road as a four lane facility instead of that three lane facility that's currently in plans our third proposition is devoted solely to open space land acquisition for our park system five million dollars right now recommended to go to move forward with to go purchase land that we can dedicate to parks you can see them how we've developed a parks department has developed a master list of some of those properties throughout the city that we could that we could purchase and utilize for parks with a scoring system of how how we arrive at which which one of those those available land could be best used for parks and so the committee recommended five million dollars and the council has recommended that as well in the bond package public art at six hundred and nineteen thousand dollars represents 1% of our vertical construction that's how we derived at the number for six hundred and nineteen thousand and as mentioned earlier right now the recommendation is to have that be a separate proposition proposition voted on and outside of the other three propositions ultimately so that the as we move forward and actually utilize those dollars there would be more flexibility on how they can be used as opposed to being within one proposition where they can only be used on projects or or on within that proposition itself it's just occurred to me I don't think this is likely to happen but if you've got the language in there that it's based on 1% of vertical construction if for some reason the proposition with the vertical construction and it didn't pass would that have implications for for this the vertical construction is only within our public art policy of how we derive the amount so once it becomes on a proposition it would be completely separate at that point so it's just a mechanism for us to calculate how much we would recommend so here are our next steps we just over the next couple of weeks we'll be moving forward very quickly with the process leading up to November net on tomorrow will be addressing City Council again in a work session item for the bond program and we'll also have a public hearing to give any anybody anyone from the public that would like to come speak on the on the project as presented and then next Tuesday on the 13th Council would consider the body election ordinance for approval with our deadline for that being August 19th so next Tuesday is really our last council meeting before that deadline and then Election Day would be November 5th any questions yes just a comment every item on the agenda today has reinforced something that I think we all recognize but it's really made it clear in my mind as I've listened today we are all in a joint venture here to make the quality of life better for the people of Denton and our priorities intersect over and over and over again and there are so many places here where works what's good for the city is also what's good for the school district and vice versa and it's just reinforcing the importance of us coming together and sharing a joint vision and looking out ahead together three and five years out so that we address these problems before they get to us and I see a lot of real progress being made on these agenda items and I'm very pleased and very proud of that and I can tell you that what I see in this bond proposal is just as important for the school district as it is for the city and I want to do all I can do to help that process continue any other questions on this agenda item or really anything yes my kids would like me to ask if the beginning of the school year could be delayed I see was too late for that I didn't think so yes told me I'd be going to jail if I don't that's right you have to you have to you have to come to school so excited about that and to the city folks just a just a sincere appreciation for those you they're able to make our welcome to Denton event last week for our new teachers I'm explaining them all the time what a special place this is how good the quality of life is here and how supportive our community is of our public school system in this community and and you all be in there and being present being visible really goes a long way second piece to that we invited the League of Women Voters and a couple of other entities to be there to register our new teachers as voters knowing that if if we're going to ask our business partners in our community be engaged in our schools that we make sure that our employees are also engaged in the voting process and weighing in on a bond referendums and local elections and statewide elections so just know that that was intentional that that we bring those people in as as they get to hit the ground running being engaged as we move forward and I think you saw Dr. Rainey she just left because she's got a big group going today so we'll welcome over 31,000 students next week I would ask that as we get phone calls about traffic the first three or four days of school those end up working there themselves out over time so just have everyone exercise some patience and the first couple of days everybody thinks they leave at the same time they have to get there at the same time and they begin to figure it out that maybe if I leave five minutes earlier or five minutes later or that I don't have to take my child individually every day be better if we took less cars to school anyway there are more people carpooled and more people rode the bus or public transportation or whatever so just just a couple of quick things that everybody breathe we have school every year they keep getting home and and we understand that we'll work through all of it the the little go-around for $24.99 on the southern portion of the district with the Teasley expansion has helped tremendously with the traffic flow at our high school this city has been very responsive to all of our pedestrian needs their sidewalks walking across from the southern section of 2181 same thing out McKinney so while you all don't know all the individual conversations that go on they go on daily sometimes multiple times a day to make those things happen so just an appreciation to Todd his staff for we continue to make that happen and we'll continue to work to do our part thank you thank you yes I just wish other school districts across the state could see the governance at work here I mean how many council members brought up concerns about the school district at this meeting today and I mean without prompt I might add I mean that's so heartening for us as school board trustees we did not have to ask the questions because the council members did that's good governance at work and it is in the best interest as dr. Alexander says for all of our citizens and our constituents so I think the model that we present here is truly an outstanding model and it is an absolute pleasure and honor for all of us to be here with you today we appreciate your time the staff's time on both parts for you all to take the time to be with us and to educate us on what's happening because it truly does serve both entities very very well so thank you thank you all very much yes may pretend I hope this fits so stop me if it doesn't there but I don't know what it does how it reads but dr. Wilson if you could take a couple of minutes I would like to give you the floor to talk about a project I saw in its infancy when I was touring ATC but now it's a real thing and that being the food truck and just explain how we can book that you know let's allow me to share that because I think that's that's phenomenal I mean that's real-life experience so that's that's pretty fantastic we can certainly get that to you and send it along thank you and thank you all for coming thank you so much for the cooperation because I think the the proactive approach that we're taking now as a school district in the city is borne out of discussions that have happened over many years and I think one of those is coming to fruition in the Denton High School relocation you know we saw the the struggles and the infrastructure issues we had with with Ryan and so I really appreciate your staff's time to really spend the time with our staff to ensure that we find and meet as many interests of our particular jurisdictions as possible so I agree with you madam vice president that I think it is a good model and and I appreciate all of y'all support in helping create that that model so thank you so much any other comments or questions all right I will close the City Council meeting out and then they can close out this so I will adjourn the City Council meeting at 1 12 p.m. on Monday August 5th 2019 Board of Trustees meeting at one I can't see that well thank y'all