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August 05, 2019 City Council
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             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

        
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