[1. Call to Order.]
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I'D LIKE TO WELCOME EVERYBODY.
EXCUSE ME, TO OUR WORKSHOP ON THE TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE.
UH, WE GOT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO PRAY FOR THE TWO SHERIFFS THAT WERE SHOT.
IF YOU DID NOT KNOW, WE HAD TWO SHERIFFS, OKLAHOMA COUNTY SHOWERS THAT WERE SHOT THIS AFTERNOON.
IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING ONE HAS NOT SURVIVED AND THE OTHER ONE IS VERY CRITICAL.
UH, AND SO PLEASE KEEP THEM IN THE FAMILY AND THE, AND THE LAW ENFORCEMENT IN HER PRAYERS WITH THAT.
[2. Presentation and discussion on future city, county, and state transportation infrastructure projects in the City of Edmond, to include: City Street Widening and Infrastructure Projects City Overlay Projects City Traffic Technology Projects (ITS) Oklahoma County Projects Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) Projects City Pedestrian Mobility and Safety Projects. ]
WHO'S GOING TO KICK US OFF.MANOCK YOUR DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING HERE.
CAN I GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON A FUTURE TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS? AND THAT'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT MODES.
IT'S NOT EVERY MODE, BUT IT'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT MODES OF TRANSPORTATION THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
SO WE HAVE KIND OF A PRESENTATION TO GO THROUGH.
THIS IS GOING TO GIVE US A PRESENTATION AS WELL.
FOR SOME PROJECTS THEY HAVE GOING ON IN THE CITY WHEN WE GET THERE.
SO LET'S GO AHEAD AND WE'LL GET STARTED.
THIS IS KIND OF A BRIEF OVERVIEW.
UM, THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT PROJECTS GOING ON.
WE HAVE INTERSECTION PROJECTS THROUGHOUT TOWN.
THERE'S A, A LIST WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH HERE SHORTLY.
WE HAVE OUR OVERLAY PROJECTS, WHICH WE DO EVERY YEAR, JUST RECENTLY AWARDED ONE ABOUT A MONTH AND A HALF AGO.
AND THEY'RE ABOUT TO GET STARTED HERE SHORTLY.
I'LL GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON THAT ONE.
WE HAVE ITS UH, RIGHT NOW OUR THIRD PHASE IS CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION ON 15TH STREET AND WE HAVE A FOURTH PHASE IT'S UNDER DESIGN THAT WE'LL MOVE FORWARD WITH HOPEFULLY HERE IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
IF WE CAN GET FUNDING AS WELL.
WE HAVE, HE STIRRED OUR PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR HERE TO HELP GIVE US SOME UPDATES ON THE COUNTY AND CITY PROJECTS WE HAVE OUT IN THE EAST, GOOD COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIP THERE.
AND THEN WE HAVE SOME PEDESTRIAN AND MOBILITY SAFETY PROJECTS ON SECOND STREET IN DOWNTOWN.
SO WITH THAT, LET'S JUST, WE'LL JUMP RIGHT IN KIND OF.
AND THESE ARE IN THE YEAR THAT THEY'RE CURRENTLY FUNDED FOR CONSTRUCTION.
AND THE FIRST PROJECT WE HAVE IS A WIDENING OF SOONER ROAD.
UH, IT'S BASICALLY WHERE CONFERENCE CENTER DRIVE IS TO, TO THE HOTEL CONFERENCE CENTER AND WHERE THE CREST IS GOING ON THE WEST SIDE.
SO THIS WILL WIDEN THAT ROAD OUT TO FIVE LANES AND PROVIDE FOR A LEFT TURN AND A SIGNAL INTO THAT INTERSECTION AND UH, KEEP TRAFFIC MOVING WITHOUT HAVING TO BACK UP ON ONE LANE.
WHEN SOMEONE'S TRYING TO TURN IN THERE, SOMETHING THAT WAS VERY IMPORTANT, I BELIEVE TO CRESTON TO THE CITY AS WELL.
SO THAT ONE IS MOVING FORWARD.
AND AS SOON AS WE KNOW THAT WE, UH, DON'T HAVE ANY UTILITIES IN THE WAY, HOPEFULLY, AND WE HAVE ALL THE RIGHT OF WAY WE NEED, THEN WE'LL BE ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD ON THAT QUICKLY AND GET THAT DONE.
HOPEFULLY BEFORE THEY'RE EVEN DONE, THIS INCLUDES THE REPAIR OF THE INJURY RIGHT THERE AND TO CONFERENCE CENTER DRIVE.
WE'RE GOING TO WIDEN OUT CONFERENCE CENTER DRIVE RIGHT NOW.
SO WE'LL HAVE ONE LANE WHICH IS A, A KIND OF A THROUGH RIGHT.
WE'LL HAVE ONE THAT'S A LEFT AND THEN WE'LL HAVE ONE LANE IN.
SO ALIGN UP PERFECT WITH THE PROPOSED CREST DRIVE WITH SIGNAL LIGHTS, WITH SINGLETS.
AND CREST IS ACTUALLY DESIGNING THE SIGNAL FOR US AND GOING TO GIVE IT TO US TO BID.
SO IT DID SAVE US SOME FUNDING ON DESIGN COSTS.
THE NEXT PROJECT, WHICH HAS A LOT GOING ON, I HEAR IS DANFORTH AND KELLY.
THIS PROJECT IS WELL KIND OF GIVE YOU AN UPDATE WHEN WE DO THESE ROAD PROJECTS.
THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS WE LOOK AT.
IN OTHER WORDS, THE CONGESTION AT THE INTERSECTION ON THE ROADWAY, WE LOOK AT THE MOBILITY THROUGH THE INTERSECTION.
THIS ONE IS OUR NUMBER ONE ACCIDENT SITE IN THE CITY OF EDMOND.
IT CONTINUES TO BE THE NUMBER ONE ACCIDENT SITE IN THE CITY OF EDMOND, ALMOST YEARLY, UM, BY FAR.
SO THIS IS GOING TO BE NOT JUST FOR IMPROVING TRAFFIC MOBILITY, BUT IT'S TO IMPROVE SAFETY.
WE'LL BE ADDING MEDIANS IN THE AREA SO THAT CARS DON'T TURN ACROSS FIVE LANES OF TRAFFIC AT FIVE O'CLOCK AT NIGHT, TRYING TO TURN LEFT WHEN THEY COULD GO TO THE INTERSECTION AND MAKE A PROTECTED U-TURN AND GO BACK THE SAME DIRECTION SAFELY.
SO WE DO ALLOW THAT THE INTERSECTION, ONCE WE'VE HIT THE MEDIUMS, CARS CAN STILL GO THE OTHER DIRECTION.
THEY JUST GET TO MAKE A SAFE RIGHT TURN MOVEMENT AND THEN A LEFT TURN MOVEMENT WITH THE GREEN ARROW.
AND HOPEFULLY THEY DON'T HIT THEMSELVES OR HIT SOMEONE ELSE AND CAUSE ANY PROBLEMS. SO THIS ONE IS IN THE DESIGN PHASE.
CURRENTLY LAST MEETING, WE HAD A PROJECT AGREEING WITH AND TO START MOVING OR TO ORDER THEIR POWER POLES, UH, BECAUSE OF THE LONG LEAD TIME.
IT JUST TAKES SOME TIME TO GET THERE.
THE THIRD PROJECT ON OUR LIST IS SECOND BOULEVARD.
WE HAVE ITS ON SECOND STREET AND ITS IS GREAT WHEN WE CAN MOVE TRAFFIC.
IF WE HAVE ENOUGH LANES, WHAT HAPPENS IS THAT SECOND AND BOULEVARD, THERE IS SO MUCH NORTH, SOUTH TRAFFIC AND PEOPLE TURNING LEFT AND RIGHT ONTO SECOND STREET, THIS LOCATION, WE NEED ADDITIONAL CAPACITY.
THEREFORE WE'RE GOING TO BE ADDING IF YOU'RE GOING SOUTHBOUND, YOU'LL HAVE DUAL LEFT TURN LANES TO THREE LANES AND A RIGHT TURN LANE.
IF YOU'RE GOING NORTHBOUND DUE TO RIGHT AWAY CONSTRAINTS,
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WE HAVE A LEFT TURN LANE AND A RIGHT.AND THE ONLY WORK THAT WILL BE TAKING PLACE ON SECOND STREET IS TO ADD A RIGHT TURN LANE THERE BY THE CHURCH.
SO WE'LL BE ABLE TO PUT A RIGHT TURN AND GET THOSE PEOPLE OUT OF THE THROUGH AND GET THEM OUT AND MOVE CARS THROUGH THERE SAFELY, UH, UH, AS WELL.
SO THAT'S UNDER DESIGN AND IT IS CURRENTLY A FEW YEARS OUT BEFORE THE CONSTRUCTION IS SCHEDULED.
AGAIN, WE'LL HAVE TO STILL MOVE UTILITIES, WHICH IS GOING TO BE A CHALLENGE AND WE'VE ALERTED DIFFERENT UTILITIES ALREADY LIKE GETTING ELECTRIC.
THERE'S A LOT OF FACILITIES IN THIS AREA THAT, SO THEY'RE PLANNING FOR THAT.
AND WE'RE WORKING WITH THEM AS WELL TO TRY AND MINIMIZE THE RELOCATIONS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE NEXT PROJECT.
THIS IS ANOTHER PROJECT WHICH KIND OF EQUATES TO LEVEL OF SERVICE AND GROWTH.
THIS IS DANFORTH AND SOONER THIS INTERSECTION IN THE AM RUSH HOUR OR THE PM RUSH HOUR IS JUST BACKED UP FOR A HALF MILE OR MORE ON THE EAST WEST DIRECTION.
THERE'S NO TURN LANES AT THE INTERSECTION.
THERE IS NO SIGNAL LIGHT AND IT JUST IS ALMOST AT A STANDSTILL.
SO THIS PROJECT WILL BE TO PUT A LEFT TURNS, RIGHT? TURNS TWO THROUGH LANES.
AND WE'LL WIDEN DANFORTH ALL THE WAY BACK TO THROUGH SCHOOL STREET, WHICH IS WHERE THE FRANCIS TUTTLE IS AND PROVIDE HER A SINGLE AT FRANCIS TUTTLE TO HELP THAT BE A SAFE MOVEMENT FOR ALL THE PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING TO THAT FACILITY AS WELL.
SO UNDER DESIGN RIGHT NOW, WE'RE KIND OF WORKING WITH ODAT ON THAT PROJECT AND MY BILL TO GIVE AN UPDATE, BUT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WHAT WE'RE DOING MATCHES UP TO WHAT THEY'RE DOING, BECAUSE THEY'VE GOT A, AN INTERCHANGE PROJECT HERE IN A FEW YEARS OUT ON THEIR EIGHT YEAR TIP.
SO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR DESIGN MATCHES THEIR DESIGN AND WE'RE WORKING WELL WITH THEIR DESIGN FIRM TO MAKE SURE THAT HAPPENS.
SO YOU GETS, DID YOU WANT TO COMMENT ABOUT YOUR FUNDING SOURCES OR I THOUGHT WE COULD DO THAT AT THE END, BUT WE CAN EITHER DO THAT NOW OR WHATEVER.
RIGHT NOW OUR FUNDING SOURCES.
UM, WE CURRENTLY HAVE THE 2000 CIP, THE 2017 CIP, AND THEN WE USED TO GET A LOT OF AYCOCK FUNDING CRITERIA CHANGED A LOT AT AYCOCK.
SO IT'S MUCH MORE DIFFICULT FOR US TO GET ROAD WIDENING FUNDS.
WE CAN GET THEM FOR MULTIMODAL FACILITIES.
WE CAN GET THEM FOR TECHNOLOGY LIKE ITSMF, BUT THE FUNDING JUST ISN'T THERE BECAUSE OF THE, THE ROAD WIDENINGS.
SO WE'RE STILL APPLYING EVERY YEAR, AS YOU'LL SEE ON A LOT OF THESE PROJECTS, WE'RE APPLYING BECAUSE WE HAVE A LOT OF THOSE FACILITIES IN HERE AND I'LL KIND OF GET TO SOME OF THOSE WHEN WE GET TO THOSE SPECIFIC PROJECTS TO TRY AND GARNER THOSE POINTS FOR AYCOCK.
UM, FORTUNATELY THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA HAS SOME FUNDING FOR SOME OF OUR PROJECTS.
AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT WITH THE
SO THAT'S REALLY THE FUNDING THAT WE HAVE.
UM, JUST IN GENERAL NUMBERS RIGHT NOW WE HAVE, I CAN JUST GIVE YOU THE TOTAL RIGHT NOW WE HAVE ABOUT $121 MILLION WORTH OF ROAD PROJECTS AND THAT'S RIDEAWAY UTILITIES, CONSTRUCTION.
UM, AND ABOUT 85 MILLION OF THAT IS NOT FUNDED.
SO LET'S KIND OF WHILE WE'RE HERE TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE PROJECTS NEEDS AND HOPEFULLY DEVELOP SOME GAME PLAN AND SEE WHERE WE NEED TO GO WITH THOSE.
AND IF WE NEED TO REPRIORITIZE THINGS OR WHATEVER THE COUNCIL NEEDS US TO DO IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO DO.
SO, ONE THING WITH AYCOCK TOO, THERE'S GUIDELINES THAT ONLY EACH COMMUNITY CAN RECEIVE SO MUCH FUNDS, UM, ANNUALLY OR EACH YEAR.
AND SO EVEN IF, EVEN IF IT DIDN'T EVEN IF IT DID FIT WHAT WE NEED FOR, FOR OUR PROJECTS, WE CAN ONLY GET SO MUCH ANYWAY.
THAT IS THE MAXIMUM, UM, ANY ONE ENTITY CAN GET AND THERE'S 35 MINUTES.
SO DISTRIBUTE TO EACH, TO EACH COMMUNITY, WHICH, WHICH IS FAIR AND IT IS FAIR.
SO WE AND THE CITY HAS DONE WELL IN THE LAST 30 YEARS ON AYCOCK FUNDING AND PROBABLY DO THE MATH ON THAT, BUT I'M SURE IT'S A HUNDRED OR $150 MILLION WORTH OF FUNDING AND STILL DO WITH OUR TRAIL AND SIDEWALK PROJECT.
WE DO ADA AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
SO THEN THOSE ARE ALL IN HERE.
SO WE ARE GETTING SOME FUNDING.
UM, BUT THAT'S THAT NUMBER I'VE GIVEN US KIND OF TAKES THAT INTO ACCOUNT.
SO THE NEXT PROJECT WAS A PROJECT THAT REALLY CAME OUT OF SOME DISCUSSIONS HERE AT CITY COUNCIL, WHICH WAS BROADWAY IN COFFEE CREEK.
UM, DUE TO ALL OF THE CONGESTION, ALL OF THE DEVELOPMENT THAT'S OCCURRING WITHIN THOSE SECTIONS OUT THERE, UH, THE TRAIN, THE AT GRADE RAILROAD TRACKS, WHICH WAS, THERE'S NOT A FEASIBLE WAY TO GET AN OVERPASS OR UNDERPASS IN THAT LOCATION.
SO WE NEEDED TO WIDE THE INTERSECTION BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, IF YOU'RE, IF YOU'RE GOING NORTH AND A TRAIN IS COMING, EVEN THOUGH THERE'S A SIGN THAT SAYS DO NOT STOP WITH THE TRAIN THEY STOP AND IT BACKS UP CONTINUALLY.
UM, SO IT'S, IT'S A CHALLENGE ALSO, IF YOU'RE GOING WESTBOUND AND SAY YOU WANTED TO GO NORTH OR EVEN SOUTH CAN'T REALLY TURN THAT SIGNAL LIGHT GREEN, UM, WHEN THE TRAIN IS PASSING.
SO ONCE WE GET THE INTERSECTION DESIGN AND BILL WILL TIE INTO THE SIGNAL CONTROLLERS FOR THE TRAIN
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SO THAT WE CAN EITHER TURN THE LEFT, TURN ARROW ON, IF YOU'RE GOING WESTBOUND AND GET YOU GOING SOUTH OR NORTH, THE TRUTH, THE THROUGH TRAFFIC WAS STILL HAVE TO WAIT.UM, BUT THE TURNERS WON'T, AND THEN THE TURNERS ON THE NORTH SOUTH WILL HAVE TO WAIT, BUT THE THROUGH CAN KEEP GOING.
SO THAT'S THE GOAL IS TO GET THAT AREA FUNCTIONING BETTER AS A PART OF THAT DESIGN.
CURRENTLY, THAT LOCATION IS ON THE BICYCLE MASTER PLAN.
SO WE'VE WORKED WITH PLANNING AND WE WERE INCLUDING BIKE LANES ON COFFEE CREEK AND WE'RE INCLUDING EXTRA WIDE SHOULDERS ON BROADWAY BECAUSE IT TIES INTO A NON CURB AND GUTTERED ROAD.
SO WE THOUGHT THAT WAS THE BEST AVENUE AT THIS TIME, PROVIDE SAFE MOBILITY FOR THE BIKES, AT LEAST FOR THAT HALF MILE, AT LEAST THROUGH THE INTERSECTION.
AND THEN AS THINGS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP, WE'LL WORK TO SEE HOW WE FUNCTION THERE NORTH AS WE WIDE MORE ROADS.
BUT WE DO LOOK AT THOSE OTHER PLANS THAT WE HAVE, IF IT'S THE TRAILS PLAN OR THINGS OF THAT NATURE AND TRY AND ACCOMMODATE THOSE WITH THE ROAD WIDENINGS, UH, THERE'S BEEN A COUPLE IN THE PAST WHERE THERE PHYSICALLY WASN'T ANY RIGHT OF WAY TO BUILD SOME ON-STREET FACILITIES.
SO WE WERE HAVING TO DO SOME SIDEWALKS OR MULTIMODAL PATHS NEXT TO IT, UM, DUE TO MAJOR OVERHEAD POWER LINES, UH, LACK OF RUNAWAY, THINGS OF THAT NATURE DRAINAGE PROBLEMS. SO WE DO LOOK AT THAT AND TRY AND COORDINATE WITH OUR OTHER USER DEPARTMENTS TO MAKE SURE WE'RE INCLUDING EVERYTHING IN OUR ROADWAY DESIGNS.
AND WE'VE HAD, I'VE HAD SEVERAL RESIDENTS AT NORTH THERE AND IT SEEMS LIKE AS FAR AWAY EVERYBODY THINKS IT'S SO FAR AWAY, IT'S NOT.
AND WE TALK ABOUT CONNECTED CONNECTIVITY AND WALKABILITY.
IF YOU COULD JUST GET THEM TO BE ABLE TO WATCH SOMETHING TO WALK ON, THAT'S HALFWAY SAFE, JUST EITHER DOWN COFFEE CREEK TO KELLY OR FROM COFFEE CREEK TO COVELO RIGHT.
THEN THEY HOOK UP AND THEN THEY'RE DOWN AT MITCH PARK, RIGHT.
THEY CAN GET ON DOWNTOWN, THEY CAN GO ANYWHERE, BUT IT'S SO NOT SAFE, RIGHT? SO WE'LL, WE'RE ADDRESSING A LOT OF THOSE HERE.
AND THEN SOME, AS WE GET INTO THE ADA FUNDING, WE DO HAVE SOME, SOME FUNDING IN THERE EACH YEAR, NOT A LOT FOR MISSING PEDESTRIAN LINKAGES SIDEWALKS THAT COULD HELP ALLEVIATE A LOT OF THOSE CONCERNS.
IT'S JUST A MATTER OF GETTING THOSE ALL LINKED TOGETHER.
SO THE NEXT PROJECT, OUR LIST IS THIS IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF EDMOND, NORTH, UH, DANFORTH, UH, FROM THOMAS TO FRITZ.
AS YOU KNOW, THERE ARE NO DESIGNATED TURN LANES IN EDMOND NORTH, THERE ARE NO LEFT TURN LANES ON THE THOMAS DRIVE.
WE HAVE, UH, ITS IN THIS AREA.
SO WE'RE MAXIMIZING THE ROADWAYS AS BEST WE CAN.
BUT WHEN ONE, ONE PERSON WANTS TO TURN LEFT, IT JUST STOPS TRAFFIC.
SO THIS ROAD AGAIN IS WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO APPLY FOR AYCOCK FUNDING.
THIS IS ONE WHERE WE HAVE MULTIMODAL PATHS ON BOTH SIDES.
WE ACTUALLY HAVE A BUS TURNOUT AS WELL ON THIS PROJECT FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE RIDING THE BUS, UM, TO TRY AND GET ALL THOSE MODES OF TRANSPORTATION SAFELY IN THIS CORRIDOR.
UM, AND ALL THOSE POINTS HELP, BUT WE JUST HAVE TO CONTINUE TO APPLY EVERY YEAR EVERY TWO YEARS AND TRY AND GET THESE POINTS UP AS HIGH AS WE CAN.
IS THAT WHAT WE'RE CALLING A COMPLETE STREET SIMILAR? VERY, VERY SIMILAR.
UM, THERE'S NOT ON-STREET BIKE LANES RIGHT HERE, BUT WE HAVE THE 10 FOOT MULTIMODAL PATH.
WE HAVE THE, UM, THE SIGNALS WE'LL PUT IN NEW, UH, THE PROACT, THE ADA ISSUES AND ALL THE SIGNAL LIGHTS TO MAKE SURE THE ADA GRAHAM'S ARRIVED AND THAT THE CURRENT ADA ACCESSIBLE SIGNALS ARE THERE.
AND THEN AGAIN, THE BUS TRAFFIC FOR MAINLY OVER BY THE REASON LANDING, A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT RIDE THE BUS RIDE IN THROUGH THERE, AND WE'VE GOT ROOM FOR A BUS TURNOUT TO MAKE THAT SAFE, TO GET PEOPLE ON AND OFF THE BUS.
NOW WE GET INTO SOME OF THE MUCH BIGGER PROJECTS.
UM, LONG-TERM THIS IS COLDWELL FROM, WE CALL IT FROM BROADWAY TO BRYANT, BUT IT'S REALLY ABOUT NEAR WHERE THE ST MARY'S SCHOOL IS.
WE FOUR-LANE IT TO THEIR LIMITED, THE UNDERPASS.
AND THEN THIS WOULD TAKE IT THROUGH BRYANT ABOUT A THOUSAND FEET, 1500 FEET.
AND THIS WOULD BE TRUE FOR LANE AND POSSIBLY DIVIDE WHERE POSSIBLE THERE ARE SOME AREAS SPECIFICALLY FROM BRYANT BACK WEST.
WE HAVE 50 FEET OR RIDEAWAY ON EACH SIDE AND WE'RE GOING TO DO GOOD TO GET OUR 50 FOOT OF PAVEMENTS AND SIDEWALKS IN THERE WITHOUT GETTING BROUGHT ON THE FRONT PORCH OF SOME OF THOSE HOMES THAT ARE NOT VERY FAR OFF IS THAT BACK.
SO AGAIN, THERE'S SOME PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS ON SOME OF THESE PROJECTS, BUT THIS IS ONE THAT, UM, WE DID THE INTERIM PROJECT MANY YEARS AGO AT THE INTERSECTION OF BRYANT, WHICH CONTINUES TO FUNCTION WELL WHERE WE PUT THE LEFT TURN LANES IN THE RIGHT TURN LANE ON COBELL AND THAT ONE'S FUNCTIONING WELL, BUT AS TRAFFIC CONTINUES TO GROW, EVENTUALLY THAT WILL BREAK DOWN AND WE'LL GET TO A LEVEL OF SERVICE E OR F WHERE PEOPLE ARE WAITING FOR A HUNDRED, 120 530 SECONDS PER CYCLE.
AND THAT'S WHERE IT CAN HURT ALL SORTS OF THINGS LIKE AIR QUALITY, THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO, YEAH, WE'RE STILL WORKING ON IT.
WE HAVE THE DESIGN GOING, AS THINGS ARE COMING, WE MAKE SURE WE GET THE CODE REQUIRED RIGHT AWAY TO ENSURE WE CAN BUILD WHATEVER WE NEED OUT THERE IN THE FUTURE.
BUT THERE'S JUST GOING TO BE SOME, SOME, UH, IT'S GOING TO BE A CHALLENGE TO, TO DO THAT INTERSECTION AND THAT SECTION OF ROADWAY IN THE FUTURE.
SO THAT'S WHY IT'S PRETTY EXPENSIVE ON OUR LIST.
SO THIS IS WHY YOU'RE ASKING FOR THAT
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70 FEET PRETTY CONSISTENTLY, AT LEAST 70 UP TO A HUNDRED.UM, IT MAY BE A LITTLE BIT MORE WHEN YOU HAVE THE GRADES ON THOSE STREETS, THAT THOSE WERE MAINLY, UH, COUNTY ROADS THAT THEY PAVED AND THEY DIDN'T TAKE INTO ACCOUNT SIGHT DISTANCE.
SO YOU CAN LOWER THE SPEEDS, WHICH IS GONNA INCREASE THE CONGESTION.
UM, BUT THAT DOESN'T HELP WITH MOBILITY.
SO WE'RE TRYING TO DO THE BEST WE CAN WITH BOTH AND LOWER THE GRADES OR RAISE THEM WHERE WE CAN WITHOUT IMPACTING MUCH.
WE BUILT A LOT OF RETAINING WALLS TO AGAIN, TRY AND LIMIT THE AMOUNT OF IMPACT WE HAVE TO THE ADJOINING PROPERTIES, WHICH THE SECTION EAST OF COLTRANE, LOTTA RETAINING WALL DOWN THERE THAT WE'RE ABLE TO BUILD.
BUT THOSE RETAINING WALLS TAKE A LOT OF SPACE WHERE UTILITIES NEED TO GO, UH, UNDERGROUND FIBER OPTIC GAS, PHONE, CABLE, POWER POLES.
SO WE DESIGNED AROUND ALL THOSE THINGS AND IT, IT'S KIND OF A, IT'S LIKE PUT A PUZZLE TOGETHER AND MAKE SURE IT FITS.
BUT, UH, BUT YES, THAT'S THAT'S RIGHT NOW.
THE NEXT PROJECT IS COLDWELL FROM BRIAN'S COLTRANE.
UM, WHEN IT COMES TO DESIGN CONSTRAINTS, THERE IS A MASSIVE FLOOD, PLAIN FLOWING FROM THE SOUTHWEST TO THE NORTHEAST.
HE GOES THROUGH THE WHOLE INTERSECTION.
WE HAVE THAT LARGE GAS REGULATOR STATION.
THAT'S SURROUNDED BY A CONCRETE WALL, UH, WHICH IS NOT NECESSARILY AN IMMOVABLE OBJECT, BUT IF THEY WANTED TO MOVE IT GLADLY, LIKE FOR THEM TO MOVE IT.
BUT IT'S A, IT'S GOT SOME REALLY LARGE GAS LINES COMING INTO IT AND LEAVING IT.
SO THAT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT CAN BE SHUT DOWN OR MOVED EASILY.
UM, WE CURRENTLY HAVE VERY LITTLE RIGHT AWAY.
WE HAVE A COUPLE OF SECTIONS WHERE WHEN THE GOLF COURSE CAN WE HAVE 50 FEET ALONG THAT NORTHEAST CORNER, AND I'M GONNA EXPLAIN HOW THAT'S GOING TO HELP HERE IN AN INTERIM SECTION IN JUST A SECOND.
BUT THIS PROJECT IS EVEN MORE EXPENSIVE BECAUSE AS YOU KNOW THAT ROAD, IF WE GET A LARGE RAIN, IT GOES UNDER WATER AND WE HAVE TO CLOSE IT.
SO THAT INTERSECTION TO FUNCTION CORRECTLY, IT NEEDS TO BE RAISED SOMEWHERE BETWEEN FIVE AND SEVEN FEET.
AND WE HAVE TO PUT DRAINAGE STRUCTURES EAST AND WEST OF THE INTERSECTION AND NORTH WHERE THAT CHANNEL COMES THROUGH AND GOES THROUGH THE GOLF COURSE, VERY EXPENSIVE, UH, DRAINAGE IS JUST VERY EXPENSIVE TO BUILD ON THESE PROJECTS.
SO, AND THEN THE EASEMENTS NEEDED TO GET THAT WATER TO GO FROM POINT A TO POINT B MAKES IT MUCH BIGGER THAN THE 70 OR 90 FEET.
IT'S PROBABLY 120, 130 FEET IN SOME OF THOSE AREAS.
UM, SO WE'RE, WE'RE ACTIVELY A FEW MONTHS AGO.
THE COUNCIL, UH, ALLOWED US TO MOVE FORWARD WITH RIGHT AWAY ACQUISITION.
SO WE ARE LOOKING AT ALL THE RIGHT OF WAY NEEDED ON OUR ROADWAY PROJECTS AND TRYING TO ACQUIRE THOSE.
AND WE'RE WORKING WITH THOSE PROPERTY OWNERS RIGHT NOW TO TAKE THE RIGHT OF WAY.
THOSE ARE THE CORNERS OF THAT INTERSECTION ARE REALLY CRITICAL TO THE OVERALL FUTURE WIDENING.
UM, BUT THAT'S GOING TO BE A WHILE BEFORE WE CAN GET THOSE.
SO WITH THAT SAID, UM, RECENTLY WE AWARDED AN OVERLAY PROJECT TO HASKELL WHEN, AND I MENTIONED AT THE PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE AND THEN AT THE C COUNCIL STEADY PLAN THAT I AM GOING TO TRY MY BEST TO GET AN INTERIM IMPROVEMENT OUT HERE.
AND, UH, ALMOST FIELD ENGINEER, UH, FIX THIS RIGHT HERE, THE MATH THAT'S ON THE SCREEN, WHICH IS NOT IN YOUR PACKET BECAUSE WE JUST FINISHED IT TODAY IS WE HAVE WORKED WITH HASKELL LIMITED TO COME UP WITH A DESIGN THAT WE CAN DO OFF YEARS.
I KEPT SAYING THAT THIS IS WHAT WE'D LIKE TO DO THIS ON ALL LEGS, UNLESS THERE IS SOMETHING OUT THERE THAT'S IN THE WAY THAT I JUST CAN'T MOVE.
SO AS YOU CAN SEE, OUR PLAN IS RIGHT NOW IS WE HAVE ENOUGH ROOM AND SPACE TO DO A WIDENING ON COBELL ABOUT SIX FOOT ON EACH SIDE OF THE ROAD, WEST OF COLTRANE ON THE EAST SIDE OF COLTRANE.
I DON'T HAVE ANY RIGHT OF WAY OVER HERE.
IT GOES STRAIGHT UP IN ORDER TO DO ANY WORK.
WE'D BE ON PRIVATE PROPERTY, WHICH WE DON'T OWN THEIR OWN GENIE POWER POLES RIGHT THERE THAT ARE IN THE WAY THAT WOULD NEED TO BE MOVED EVEN FOR AN INTERIM, WHICH WOULD TAKE FOREVER.
UM, SO WHAT WE'VE DONE IS WE CAN ACTUALLY PUT 12 FOOT ASPHALT ON THE NORTH SIDE AND I CAN GET A LEFT TURN LANE TO COME BACK SOUTH GOING NORTH.
WE ACTUALLY HAVE 50 FEET OF RIGHT OF WAY HERE.
UH, THIS IS A BIG DRAINAGE DITCH IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH THAT AREA.
SO WE CAN GO THREE FEET TO THE WEST AND NINE FEET TO THE EAST, AND I CAN GET A RIGHT TURN LANE TO TURN, TO GO OUT TOWARDS THE INTERSTATE.
ALL OF THIS WORK CAN BE DONE, UH, FOR ABOUT $440,000, WHICH IS OUR CURRENT PRICE THAT WE'VE GOT FROM HASKELL LEMON, 125,000 OF THAT IS NEW ITEMS OF WORK, WHICH IS BELOW OUR LIMIT FOR THE STATE LAW.
AND THE REST IS OVERRUNS OF EXISTING ITEM, TACK, STRIPING, ASPHALT, SUBGRADE, THOSE KINDS OF THINGS.
BUT WHAT I WANT TO SHOW YOU IS, IS THAT I CAN'T DO ANYTHING TO THIS LEG.
THERE IS A 72 INCH DRAINAGE STRUCTURE COMING OUT THAT THEN GOES NORTH.
THE TOP OF THAT DRAINAGE STRUCTURE IS HIGHER THAN THE PAVEMENT.
SO I CAN'T WIDEN TO THE WEST BECAUSE I HAVE, I CAN'T MOVE THE DRAINAGE STRUCTURE.
I CAN'T LOWER THE DRAINAGE STRUCTURE AND I CAN'T PUT DREW TWO DRAINAGE STRUCTURES IN BECAUSE I'VE GOT A CONCRETE WALL AND A 12 INCH WATERLINE.
SO THERE IS LITERALLY NOTHING AT THIS POINT IN TIME THAT I CAN DO TO HELP THIS SOUTHBOUND LEG WITH THE LIMITED RIGHT-AWAY AND
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ALL THE UTILITIES THAT ARE OUT THERE IN THE WAY DO SIGNALS COME INTO THAT.THE SIGNALS ARE, WE'RE WORKING WITH KEITH AND PUBLIC WORKS AND ACTUALLY GLENN AND ELECTRIC I'VE TALKED TO GLEN.
LYNN CAN PUT UP FOR WOOD POLES.
UH, KEITH IS LOOKING AT INVENTORY AND TALKING WITH SOME OF THE SIGNAL CONTRACTORS FOR A SIGNAL HEADS SPAN, WATER SIGNALS, SIMILAR TO WHAT'S OUT AT, UH, SECOND BRYANT RIGHT NOW BECAUSE TRYING TO GET MAST ARMS WITH ALL OF THE OTHER THINGS, EVERYTHING HAS TO MOVE.
THERE'S SO MUCH STUFF IN THE WAY THAT JUST THE, THE SIGNALS ARE A POLES AND SPAN WIRE SIGNALS IS WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING.
I DON'T HAVE A TOTAL COST FOR THAT YET.
THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING WE WOULD EITHER GET FROM THE MAINTENANCE BUDGET, OR IF WE HAVE TO PUT IT OUT, WE'D PUT TOGETHER A SIGNAL PROJECT AND PUT IT OUT TO BID DEPENDING ON WHAT INFRASTRUCTURE WE HAVE IN STOCK.
WE'RE AGAIN, TRYING TO FAST TRACK THIS USE AS MUCH OF OUR RESOURCES AS WE CURRENTLY HAVE.
AND THIS IS, I'VE KIND OF MENTIONED THE PAST THAT YOU WILL NOT BE AN ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL INTERSECTION, LIKE, UH, LIKE BRYANT OR SANTA FE.
IT WILL FUNCTION AND I WILL HAVE TO LOWER THE SPEED LIMITS DOWN TO 35 THROUGH THE INTERSECTION BECAUSE I'VE GOT A SIX FOOT OFFSET FOR THAT LANE AND GOING THROUGH AN INTERSECTION AT 45 MILES AN HOUR IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.
SO WE DO NEED TO LOWER THE SPEED THROUGH IT AT 35.
AND IT, MOST TIMES OF THE DAY WITH THE CONGESTION, THEY'RE GOING TO BE ON 25 OR 30.
ANYWAY, I THINK THE TURNING LANES WILL BE REALLY POPULAR.
WELL, AND EVEN THOUGH YOU CAN'T FIX THAT SOUTH, RIGHT SOUTH OF A COBELL, IF FOLKS ARE PRETTY SMART AND THEY'RE GOING TO FIGURE OUT, WELL, WHY COME DOWN DANFORTH AND HEAD NORTH AND COLTRANE, IF I NEED TO GO NORTH OF COVID, WELL, LET ME COME DOWN AND COBELL, I'VE GOT A RIGHT-HAND TURN.
I'M GOING TO ZOOM THERE AND GO NORTH.
SO HOPEFULLY IF THEY FIGURE THAT OUT, THE NORTHBOUND TRAFFIC, THERE WOULD JUST BE FROM THE FOLKS THAT LIVE RIGHT THERE.
AND, AND WE'RE HOPEFUL THAT THE PEOPLE THAT ARE DOWN HERE A LITTLE BIT FURTHER TO THE SOUTH ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO DANFORTH OR THE SECOND, IF THEY'RE GOING TO SOUTH GOING SOUTH.
SO I THINK, YOU KNOW, CAUSE I'M SITTING HERE THINKING, WELL, IS IT WORTH THE MONEY? WELL, IT ABSOLUTELY IS BECAUSE SOMETHING HAS TO MOVE THOSE.
THEY GOT TO GO TO WORK, RIGHT? THEY GOT TO GET TO WORK AND THEN THEY'VE GOT TO GET HOME AND THEY DIDN'T EXITS.
RIGHT, RIGHT NOW TO CERTAIN TIMES, THIS, THIS WILL BACK UP TO GRIFFIN, WHICH IS THE SIGNALIZED INTERSECTION.
AND WE BELIEVE BY PUTTING THE SIGNAL LEFT, TURN LANES HERE THAT WILL GO AWAY.
UM, AND IN THE MORNINGS I'VE COME THIS WAY.
OF COURSE, I, I DON'T ANY MORE, BUT I'VE COME THIS WAY AND BEEN UP BY THAT EDITION, WHICH IS HALF A MILE, RIGHT.
SO WE'RE HOPEFUL THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE TWO DISHES HERE, BUT MAYBE NORTH OF COFFEE CREEK, THOSE WILL GO AND USE COFFEE CREEK TO SOONER.
IF THEY'RE GOING TO THE INTERSTATE, BECAUSE WE'VE GOT A NICE BIG INTERSECTION UP THERE THAT WILL WE'LL HANDLE THEM.
BUT THE, THE ISSUE IS HERE IS THAT I'LL BE ABLE TO RUN THESE SIGNALS CONCURRENTLY.
SO WE'LL PUT UP LEFT, TURN ARROWS, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO GO, WE'LL PUT THE FLASHING, LEFT ARROWS UP, POSSIBLY IF WE CAN GET THE CONTROLLERS TO WORK, RIGHT.
AND THE THROUGH TRAFFIC, THERE WILL BE A PROBLEM.
SO THAT'S GOING TO HELP THE EAST-WEST TRAFFIC TREMENDOUSLY, WHICH IS OUR MAJOR BACKUPS RIGHT NOW.
UH, THE NORTH SOUTH WILL BE OFFSET.
SO THIS ONE WILL GET TO GO FIRST BECAUSE I'VE GOT A GREEN ARROW AND THE THROUGH, AND THEN IT'S GOING TO HAVE TO GO TO RED TO LET THESE PEOPLE GO.
BECAUSE IF ONE PERSON IS WAITING TO TURN LEFT HERE AND I LEAVE THOSE AROUND AT THE SAME TIME, THEN I DON'T EVER GET TO GO.
THEN THAT INTERSECTION DOESN'T CLEAR NORTHBOUND.
SO WE'VE GOT TO RUN THOSE OFFSET.
THESE WILL BE OFFSET, UH, DURING THE SIGNAL PHASING.
BUT AGAIN, IT WILL BE 10 TIMES BETTER THAN WHAT IT IS RIGHT NOW.
THAT'S NOT PERFECT, BUT IT'S IT'S, I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE A HOT BETTER.
IT'S NOT PERFECT, BUT IT IS AGAIN, WE WE'VE LOOKED AT EVERY OPTION.
I COULD, YOU CAN SEE THAT THAT'S A BIG DRAINAGE STRUCTURE, CONCRETE STRUCTURE RIGHT THERE WHERE THOSE BIG PIPES COME INTO, WE PULLED THE LIDS.
ENGINEER'S SMALLEST PERSON TO GO CRAWL DOWN THROUGH THERE.
HE WOULDN'T DO IT FOR ME, BUT IT, IT JUST, IT DOESN'T HAVE ANY COVER UNTIL IT GETS TO ABOUT HERE.
AND THERE'S, I HAVE NOWHERE TO MOVE IT.
SO THIS ROAD EVENTUALLY, LIKE YOU SAID, FLOODPLAIN UP THERE TOO.
SO EVENTUALLY THIS WILL HAVE TO MOVE SLIGHTLY, PROBABLY TO THE EAST TO ACCOMMODATE THOSE STRUCTURES.
BUT ONCE WE RAISE THE INTERSECTION, IT WON'T BE A PROBLEM BECAUSE WE'LL BE FIVE TO SEVEN FEET HIGHER.
SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU ALL UNDERSTOOD WHAT'S GOING ON AND MAKE SURE THAT'S ACCEPTABLE AND AGREEABLE, BECAUSE I ACTUALLY, WE HAVE OUR CONTRACTOR LINED UP.
THERE WAS A LITTLE MISCOMMUNICATION.
IF THERE THEY ACTUALLY PUT SOME ROAD CLOSED SIGNS UP THIS MORNING, WHICH WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN.
UM, HASKELL WOMAN DIDN'T TELL HER DON'T STOP HER.
WELL, NO, WE HAD TO BECAUSE WE DIDN'T ALERT ANYBODY.
AND THERE WAS, IT WAS GRIDLOCK.
SO WE, WE KNOCKED THE SIGNS OFF THE ROAD AND GOT EVERYBODY MOVING AGAIN.
BUT THEY WOULD, THEY ARE, THEY'VE GOT CREWS TO COME DO THIS WORK AND ARE ITCHING TO COME DO THIS WORK.
SO WHAT WE'D LIKE TO GET THEM STARTED WE'LL PROCESS THE CHANGE ORDER HERE IN THE NEAR FUTURE, UM, WITH THE CITY COUNCIL'S BLESSING.
BUT IF Y'ALL ARE FINE, WE WILL GET THEM STARTED.
I HOPE IN ABOUT A WEEK, WE'RE GOING TO GET SOME MESSAGE BOARDS OUT THERE TO ALERT THE PEOPLE THAT, WHAT, WHAT HAPPENS IS THAT WHEN YOU'RE, WHEN YOU'RE WORKING THIS CLOSE TO TRAFFIC, UM, IN THAT EQUIPMENT, IT IS VERY UNSAFE.
SO THEY DON'T WANT TO PUT THEIR WORKERS AT JEOPARDY OF GETTING HIT.
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WE MAY CLOSE ONE LEG OF AN INTERSECTION SO THEY CAN DO BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET.OR WE MAY CLOSE A SECTION HERE SO THEY CAN WORK ON BOTH SIDES.
WE BELIEVE WE CAN GET ALL THIS WORK DONE, NOT THE SIGNAL THAT THE ROAD PAVEMENT, THE ROAD WORK IN ABOUT FIVE TO SIX WEEKS WITH INTERIM CLOSURES.
PROBABLY MAYBE CLOSE IT DURING THE DAY AND OPEN IT BACK UP AT NIGHT.
UM, THERE'S SOME PIPES RIGHT HERE AND HERE AND HERE.
AND WHEN YOU'RE DIGGING NEXT TO THE ROAD AND TRYING TO REWRAP THOSE PIPES, IT'S JUST DANGEROUS.
NOT ONLY FOR THEM, BUT THE PUBLIC IT'S, IT'S A NARROW ROAD.
SO WE WANT TO MAKE IT SAFE, BUT THERE'LL BE A LITTLE INCONVENIENCE FOR A FEW WEEKS.
THEN IT'LL BE NICER WHEN WE GET DONE.
SO WITH YOU SOONER AS OPEN IS UP AND BACK UP SO THEY CAN ZOOM OVER THERE.
SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE, AND AGAIN, WE'LL PUT ALL THE APPROPRIATE SIGNAGE THERE, BUT I KNOW THE ROADS CLOSED OR IT'S OPEN, BUT SINCE IT'S GOING TO CHANGE, IT MIGHT BE FOUR DAYS HERE.
AND THREE DAYS HERE, WE'LL BE PUTTING OUT PRESS RELEASES AND FLASHES.
WE'RE GOING TO KEEP MR. BEGLEY INCREDIBLY BUSY ON THIS PROJECT, LETTING THEM KNOW WHERE THE CONTRACTOR'S WORKING, BUT JUST SOMEONE MAY SHOW UP DOWN THERE.
AND I DIDN'T KNOW, THE ROAD WAS CLOSED.
AND AGAIN, WE'LL TRY AND OPEN IT UP AT NIGHT WHEN THE PEOPLE AREN'T OUT THERE WORKING AS LONG AS THERE'S NO HOLES IN THE ROAD.
UM, BUT THIS IS AN AREA WHERE WE'RE GOING TO MILL AND OVERLAY ANYWAY.
SO IT JUST FITS HIM PERFECT WITH WHAT WE'RE DOING.
UH, SO RIGHT TIME, RIGHT CONTRACTOR, RIGHT PLACE.
EXCELLENT PRICE TO DO IT AND WANT TO MAKE SURE Y'ALL WERE OKAY WITH THAT SOLD.
SO, SO WE ONLY HAVE WHAT, SIX WEEKS FOR PEOPLE TO BE UNHAPPY.
IF NOW, IF IT RAINS FOR FOUR OF THOSE WEEKS, THAT MIGHT BE A FEW MORE.
I JUST WANT TO WARN YOU ON THAT.
BUT SEPTEMBER IT'S, IT'S, WE'RE, WE'RE GOING TO WORK AS THEY'RE GOING TO WORK AS FAST AS THEY CAN.
A GOOD CONTRACTOR BEEN AROUND A LONG TIME.
THEY KNOW WHAT WE WANT, THEY KNOW WHAT TO DO, AND, UH, WE'LL MAKE IT SAFE AND GET IT DONE AS GOOD AS WE CAN WITH THE LIMITED SPACE AND ALL THE UTILITY.
I DIDN'T TURN ON ALL THE OTHER UTILITIES.
THERE'S WATER, THERE'S ELECTRIC.
UM, I'VE, I'VE EMAILED ACTUALLY THE GOLF COURSE TODAY.
THERE'S SOME OLD BRADFORD PEARS UNDERNEATH THE POWER LINE THAT REALLY ARE THERE UNDERNEATH THE POWER LINE, BUT I'M GOING TO GET THEM WITH SOME, SOME PHIL.
I WANT TO LET THEM KNOW THAT I'M GONNA TAKE THOSE FIVE OUT BECAUSE IF NOT, THEY'RE GONNA THROW ME MANGLED.
SO THEY'RE IN THE RIGHT OF WAY.
UM, BUT WE'LL, WE'LL MAKE IT NICE AFTER WE GET DONE, SOT IT, MAKE IT LOOK GOOD.
SO, UH, NEXT PROJECT NUMBER NINE IS AS YOU KNOW, THIS IS, UH, GETTING TO BE A VERY BUSY AREA OUT HERE AS WELL WITH ALL THE DEVELOPMENT.
AND THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN UNDERDESIGNED FOR AWHILE.
AND IT IS TO, TO WIND ABOUT A HALF MILE SOUTH OF OUR DEPOT BACK TO
AND THIS WOULD BE FOR DUAL LEFT TURN LANES AND RIGHT TURN LANES IN TWO THROUGH LANES IN ALL DIRECTIONS.
THIS ANCHORAGE RIGHT HERE IS OWNED BY EDMOND PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
SOME OF THERE WILL BE SCHOOLS THERE, HERE IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE.
AND WHEN I SAY NEAR FUTURE IN ROAD WIDENING TERMS, THAT'S WITHIN THE NEXT FOUR OR FIVE YEARS, BECAUSE IT TAKES ABOUT A YEAR FOR US TO DESIGN A ROAD.
IT TAKES A YEAR TO 18 MONTHS TO BUY THE RIGHT OF WAY.
IT TAKES ANOTHER YEAR TO 18 MONTHS TO GET ALL THE UTILITIES OUT AWAY, AND THEN ANOTHER YEAR AT LEAST TO CONSTRUCT IT.
SO THAT'S KIND OF ON AN EXPEDITED, EXPEDITED SCHEDULE.
SO WE KNOW IT'S COMING, WE'VE GOT UNDER DESIGN AGAIN, FUNDING.
WE CAN TALK ABOUT THAT, BUT WE KNOW IT'S CRITICAL AND THERE WILL BE MORE PROJECTS COMING UP.
THESE ARE THE PROJECTS WE HAVE RIGHT NOW, WHETHER IT'S OUT EAST, NORTH, SOUTHWEST, WE KNOW THERE ARE GOING TO BE OTHER ROAD PROJECTS THAT COME UP BECAUSE OF CONGESTION, ACCIDENTS, DELAYS OTHER MOBILITY ISSUES, WHETHER IT'S BIKE LANES, BUS TURNOUTS, THINGS OF THAT NATURE THAT ARE GOING TO COME UP.
SO THESE ARE THE PROJECTS WE HAVE RIGHT NOW.
AND AS WE MOVE FORWARD, THERE WILL PROBABLY BE MORE.
SO IS THIS ONE THAT YOU, THAT YOU HAVE TO GET AHEAD OF? UM, IT WOULD, IT WOULD BE NICE TO GET AHEAD OF IT.
UM, AS YOU CAN SEE, WHEN, WHEN THE SCHOOLS GO OUT THERE, WE, IT WOULD BE REALLY NICE TO GET AHEAD AND DO IT IN THE SUMMER.
NOW WE COULDN'T JUST THAT THAT'S ABOUT A YEAR LONG PROJECT, RIGHT? SO, UM, WE WE'VE WIDENED, UM, 15TH STREET IN FRONT OF MEMORIAL, UNDER TRAFFIC.
UM, IT WAS ONE LANE EACH WAY, AND IT WAS A CHALLENGE TO SAY THE LEAST WIDEN 15TH STREET IN FRONT OF SANTA FE.
FORTUNATELY SANTA FE HAD A BACK ENTRANCE, WHICH HELPED, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF KIDS AND A LOT OF PEOPLE AND A LOT OF BUSES GO TO THOSE SCHOOLS.
THOSE WERE HIGH SCHOOLS, BUT SAME THING ON, IN FRONT OF THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, THERE'S JUST A LOT OF CARS GOING AND THE LANES WE CAN GET OUT THERE BEFORE THEY ACTUALLY OCCUPY A SCHOOL, UH, THE BETTER OFF WE ARE.
UM, SO THERE, THERE ARE A FEW OF THESE, AND THERE'S SOME EXISTING SCHOOLS OUT EAST THAT ARE HAVING SOME, UH, GROWING CONCERNS WITH TRAFFIC, UH, OUT SOME OF THOSE AREAS.
AND I'M SURE THERE'S GOING TO BE MORE SCHOOLS OUT THERE THAT, THAT ARE GOING TO HAVE SOME TRAFFIC CONCERNS IN A PERFECT WORLD.
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FAR IN ADVANCE WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE NOTIFIED BY THE SCHOOL SYSTEM OR ANY OTHER MAJOR DEVELOPER IS GOING TO HAVE TRAFFIC IMPACT AND THAT WE MIGHT POTENTIALLY HAVE TO DO ROAD IMPROVEMENTS FOR HOW FAR IN ADVANCE WOULD YOU LIKE TO GET THAT FIRST NOTIFICATION? YOU KNOW, IF, IF EITHER THE DEVELOPER OR THE SCHOOL OR THE PROB THEY OWNED EVERYTHING ON ONE SIDE THAT HELPS TREMENDOUSLY, IF THEY WILL DEDICATE THE EASEMENTS TO US, BECAUSE THEN WE CAN START WORKING WITH ED AND ELECTRIC SO THEY COULD START LOOKING IF THEY NEED TO MOVE POLES OR IT'S OGE.BUT IN REALITY, WE NEED A COUPLE OF YEARS NOTICE IN ORDER TO GET SEVERAL TWO, THREE.
I KNOW, RIGHT BEFORE I STARTED, I GOT TO FINISH IT DANFORTH AND SANTA FE, WHERE THE WALMART CAME IN.
I THINK THAT TOOK BETWEEN TWO AND A HALF AND THREE YEARS FROM CONCEPTION TO GET THAT BILL WHEN THE WALMART AT DANFORTH AND SANTA FE CAME IN, AND THAT WAS, THAT WAS MOVING REALLY FAST ON, ON THIS.
AND THAT WAS WHAT THEY CALLED FUNDING.
NOW, CITY FUNDED MY ABILITY TO GET SIX MONTHS OFF THAT NOT HAVING TO GO THROUGH THE SUPPLY PLANS TO A CARGO DOT, TO GO THROUGH THOSE REVIEWS.
SO WE CAN EXPEDITE AT SOME IF IT'S CITY FUNDED, BUT REALLY THE RIGHT OF WAY AND UTILITIES RIGHT NOW ARE THE BIGGEST HOLDUP WE HAVE.
THERE AREN'T ENOUGH CREWS TO MOVE THEM.
AND THE RIGHT OF WAY IS JUST EXTREMELY EXTENSIVE, AS WELL AS THE CONSTRUCTION WHERE RIBS, OUR COSTS ARE GOING UP LIKE CRAZY RIGHT NOW.
SO NEXT PROJECT, AND THIS IS ONE THAT WE'RE HOPEFUL WE'RE GOING TO APPLY FOR FEDERAL FUNDING.
UM, BASICALLY YOU CAN SEE IT'S 33RD STREET BOULEVARD AND BRYANT, UM, SEVERAL INTERSECTIONS.
AGAIN, ITS HELPS US TO BE ABLE TO CONTROL THE SIGNALS FROM OUR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT CENTER, WHICH HELPS AT THE INTERSECTIONS.
INSTEAD OF ADDING MORE LANES, WE CAN, WE CALL IT STOP TIMING AND I CAN KEEP A SIGNAL GREEN LONGER TO LET MORE CARS GO THROUGH.
UM, WE'RE DOING THAT, UH, ON SOME AREAS.
THE TECHNOLOGY NOW ALLOWS US TO DO WITH BIKES AS WELL, WHICH IS WHAT WE'VE DONE ON AIRS FROM WHERE WE TOOK THOSE LANES OUT AND MADE THE DESIGNATED BIKE LANES AND SUCH TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR, UM, OUR DETECTION PICKS UP THE BIKES, WHICH WERE, WE NARROW THOSE DOWN.
SO TECHNOLOGY IS GETTING MUCH BETTER FOR US TO DO THAT.
BUT, UM, THIS PROJECT WE'LL BE APPLYING FOR IN SEPTEMBER, IT'S ABOUT AN $11 MILLION PROJECT.
THIS TAKES CARE OF MO WE'LL PROBABLY HAVE ABOUT 20% OF THE SIGNALS LEFT IN THE CITY AFTER THIS ONE.
THAT'S NOT ON ITS THAT ARE MAYBE FAR OUT THAT AREN'T CLOSE TO ANY OF OUR FIBER, WHICH WE'LL WORK ON THAT FOR A FUTURE PHASE, BUT THIS WOULD TAKE CARE OF MOST OF OUR CONGESTED AREAS TO HELP US BE ABLE TO, TO MONITOR THE TRAFFIC.
DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTION? YES.
WHEN, WHEN WE HAVE THE, IT S ON A INTERSECTION AND SOMEBODY GOES UP TO THAT INTERSECTION, UM, THAT PERSON BEHIND THE MONITOR, HOW ARE THEY TRAINED AND HOW DOES, IS IT COMPUTER TELL THEM WHAT'S THE MOST EFFICIENT WAY TO CLEAR THAT INTERSECTION OR IS THAT A JUDGMENT CALL FROM THE PERSON BEHIND THE MONITOR? BASICALLY, IT'S A JUDGMENT CALL FOR NOW.
WE DO HAVE SOME ALGORITHM SET UP.
SO IN OTHER WORDS, WE'VE SET PROGRAMS IN PLACE FOR CERTAIN EMERGENCY SITUATIONS LIKE, UH, AND IT HAPPENS MORE OFTEN THAN YOU THINK, LIKE A RECORD 9 35, THAT CLOSES LANES.
SO WE HAVE A CERTAIN PROTOCOL SET UP THAT WE CAN TURN ON FOR SECOND STREET TO HELP THOSE SIGNALS FUNCTION GOING EAST-WEST AND AT LEAST NORTH, BUT I DON'T HAVE 15TH STREET ON IT YET, BUT ONCE WE GET ITS ON 15, WHO WILL BE ABLE TO GET THEM, LET'S SAY, IF THERE'S A WRECK RIBO NEAR THE SECOND STREET BRIDGE AND WE CAN GET THEM OFF AT SECOND STREET, THEN THE, WE CAN MOVE THEM DOWN THE FRONTAGE ROADS BACK ONTO THE INTERSTATE AND NOT HAVE SO MANY PEOPLE TRYING TO CUT THROUGH ALL OF OUR SECTION LINE ROADS AND NEIGHBORHOODS TRYING TO GET THROUGH BECAUSE THEY THINK CONGESTION'S GOING.
SO THERE ARE SOME, WE HAVE TIME OF DAY PLANS.
UH, THERE ARE SOME WHERE WE CAN JUST CONTROL IT.
UH, FOR INSTANCE, UM, IF THERE'S A LARGE, LIKE A LARGE PARADE OR, UH, A FUNERAL PROCESSION, WE CAN ACTUALLY SET UP AND STOP TIME THAT SO THAT WE GET THE CARS THROUGH.
AND THEN WHEN THAT LAST CAR GOES THROUGH, WE LET IT GO BACK TO NORMAL OPERATIONS.
IT'S VERY SIMILAR TO THE, UH, THE PREEMPTION FOR THE EDMOND FIRE DEPARTMENT THROUGH OUR SIGNALS.
PREEMPTION ALLOWS THEM TO TURN THE SIGNALS GREEN FOR THEM.
AND THEN ONCE THEY GET THROUGH THE SIGNAL STOPS READING THEM AND IT GOES BACK TO NORMAL OPERATIONS.
SO THERE'S, THERE'S THINGS LIKE THAT.
A LOT OF IT IS STAFF DRIVEN BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THE SITUATION IS.
A LOT OF TIMES WE CAN LOOK AT OUR MONITORS AND IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT BROADWAY AT 15TH STREET AND THERE'S NO TRAFFIC FOR FIVE MINUTES, THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG, EITHER NORTH OR SOUTH.
SO WE GO BACK AND LOOK OKAY, IS THERE A WRECK SOMEWHERE IN OUR PEOPLE GOING AROUND? SO IF THEY'RE CUTTING BACK TO KELLY OR SOMEWHERE ELSE, AND WE NEED TO LOOK AT THOSE SIGNALS TO MAKE SURE WE'RE GIVING THEM ENOUGH GREEN TIME FOR THEM TO TURN LEFT AND RIGHT.
SO IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF BOTH AND KIND OF LIKE I ASSUMED THERE'S PEOPLE IN THERE SEVEN DAYS A WEEK, SATURDAYS ON THE SOCCER GAMES, I'M WONDERING WHO'S AT DANFORTH AND KELLY, ALL THE GAMES, LET
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OUT TO JUST GET THOSE FOLKS THROUGH THE INTERSECTION RIGHT NOW, IT'S KIND OF A SELF ACTUATOR.UM, BASED ON THE VOLUME OF TRAFFIC, WE GO BACK TO USING THE LOOPS.
WELL, WE HAVE VIRTUAL LOOPS THROUGH OUR RADAR DETECTION OR INFRARED DETECTION.
THEN WE HAVE IN PAVEMENT LOOPS.
AND THAT WILL, WHAT THAT WILL DO IS WE'LL MAX OUT THAT ONE DIRECTION TO GIVE THEM AS MUCH TIME AS POSSIBLE.
SO IF YOU'RE LEAVING THE SOCCER FIELDS AND GOING EAST, WHEN YOU GET TO KELLY, THOSE LOOPS OF KELLY ARE LIKE, I'VE GOT A WALL OF CARS.
SO IF WE HAVE TIME OF DAY PLANS SET UP, HE CAN GIVE IT 60 MINUTES OR 60 MINUTES.
THAT'D BE NICE, 60 SECONDS INSTEAD OF MAYBE 36 TO LET THE THROUGH TRAFFIC GO BEFORE IT SWITCHES TO THE OTHER PHASES.
BUT WHEN IT GOES TO THE OTHER PHASE, IF WE HAVE A GAP OF TWO SECONDS OR THREE SECONDS ON THE LOOPS, THEN IT CAN SWITCH BACK TO THE LOOPS THAT ARE BEING USED, WHICH IS THE OTHER TRAFFIC TO GIVE THEM MORE TIME TO GET CLEAR.
SO WHAT DO YOU TELL THE FOLKS WHO SAY, WELL, I WAS SITTING AT A STOPLIGHT AND THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NOBODY AT ANY OF THE OTHER INTERSECTIONS.
AND WE WERE THE ONLY ONES THAT WERE RED.
I NEED TO TELL HIM NOT TO DRIVE DOWNTOWN BROADWAY.
THIS IS, I DON'T THINK THAT'S WHERE THIS WAS INTENTIONAL THERE, BUT YEAH.
AND WE WANT THEM TO CALL US BECAUSE IF THAT COULD NOT BE ON OUR SYSTEM AND IT COULD BE A FAIL BLUE OR IT COULD BE A FELLOW CONTROLLER.
SO WHEN THAT HAPPENS, DON'T JUST GET PEEVED ABOUT IT.
OH, EDMOND, I ACTUALLY, I CALLED MY, I WAS OFF ON FRIDAY AND I WAS STUCK AT A SIGNAL.
I SAID, WHAT'S GOING ON? AND THEY CHECKED IT AND SAID, OH, THIS IS GOING ON.
WE'LL GET THAT SERVICE REQUEST AND GET IT TAKEN CARE OF.
THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT CAN GO WRONG FOR A, FOR INSTANCE, A LOT OF THINGS WE CAN NOW DETECT FROM OUR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT CENTER IN THE PAST.
FOR SOME REASON WE WOULD GET, I THINK SOMETIMES PEDESTRIANS THINKS, WELL, I PUSHED THE BUTTON, BUT IT DIDN'T GIVE ME ENOUGH TIME TO GET ACROSS.
SO I'M GOING TO WATCH SOME PAPER UP AND STICKING IN THERE TO HOLD THE BUTTON.
WELL, WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT EVERY PHASE OF THAT SIGNAL, IT THINKS SOMEONE'S PUSHING THE BUTTON.
SO IT'S MAXING OUT FOR THE PEDESTRIAN AND THERE'S NO ONE THERE.
SO THIS HAS A SOLUTION FOR THAT.
HOW MUCH DOES SYNC SYNCHRONIZING OR SYNCHRONIZATION COME INTO ITS A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT? UM, WE DO, WHAT'S CALLED TIME OF DAY PLANNING ON BROADWAY TO LET THE, THE PLATOONS GO.
SO, UH, FOR INSTANCE, I CAME UP NORTHBOUND ON BROADWAY A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO AND ACTUALLY I WENT SPEED LIMIT.
I MADE THROUGH 33RD, 15 SECOND.
I ACTUALLY GOT A GREEN ARROW AT BOULEVARD TO GO NORTH.
THEN HE WENT TO THE CASINO I THOUGHT ABOUT IT, BUT SO IT DOES HAPPEN.
SO THERE ARE CERTAIN TIMES OF DAY WHERE WE KNOW THE TRAFFIC IS SUCH AND WE CONTINUE TO TAKE TRAFFIC COUNTS SO THAT WE KNOW HOW MUCH TIME WE NEED TO GIVE THOSE SIGNALS.
AND IT'S, WE KNOW THAT WHEN UCO IS LETTING OUT AT THIS TIME, IT'S GOING TO BE WALL-TO-WALL CARS.
SO WE'RE GOING TO MAX OUT THE TIME TO GET THEM EAST, WEST AND THEN SOUTH, WHICH IS WHERE MOST OF THEM ARE GOING.
UM, AND GET THEM UP AND DOWN BROADWAY, SAME WAY IN THE MORNING AND THE SAME WAY FOR THE MORNING OR THE EVENING RUSH HOUR COMING HOME.
THERE ARE JUST SOME INTERSECTIONS LIKE KELLY.
THERE'S JUST NOT ENOUGH CAPACITY FOR ALL THE CARS DRIVING ON KELLY.
ESPECIALLY AS YOU GET TO SECOND STREET, THOSE LEFT TURN LANES ARE SHORT.
SO ONE PERSON TURNING OR THREE PEOPLE TURNING BACKS UP INTO THE THREE LINES.
THE WHOLE BUBBLE STOPS THE WHOLE BOAT.
SO WHAT WE, WHAT WE ASK IS THAT IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM, GIVE US A CALL.
OUR SYSTEM CURRENTLY GIVES US WARNINGS NOW AND WE CAN SET IT TO DO WHATEVER.
SO IF WE GET A PEDESTRIAN WARNING AT KELLY AND DANFORTH 10 TIMES IN A ROW AT THREE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING, WE PROBABLY GOT A BAD PET BUTTON BECAUSE THERE'S PROBABLY NOBODY OUT THERE AT THREE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING, BUT THAT'S SCREWING UP THE SIGNALS, BUT THAT'LL GIVE US AN ALERT SO THAT WE KNOW WHEN WE SEND THE SERVICE REQUEST TO THE STREET DEPARTMENT TO GO LOOK AT, HEY, LOOK AT THIS, THIS SITUATION RIGHT HERE.
INSTEAD OF JUST SAYING, HEY, THE SIGNAL IS NOT WORKING AND THEY'RE OUT THERE GOING, OH MY GOSH, THEY KNOW WHAT TO GO LOOK FOR.
SOME OF THOSE, LIKE IF SOMETIMES WE GET SOMETHING HIT AND IF IT'S A PEDESTRIAN PHASE, WE CAN ACTUALLY TURN THAT PHASE OFF IN THE ITS SYSTEM.
SO THE SIGNAL IS FUNCTIONING CORRECTLY UNTIL WE CAN GET THAT ONE PHASE WORKING.
SO THERE ARE THINGS THAT WE CAN DO UPSTAIRS WITHOUT HAVING TO SEND PEOPLE OUT TO THE FIELD, GET IN TRAFFIC, THEY GET OUT THERE AND THEY'RE LIKE, I DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT MATERIAL FOR THIS.
I'VE GOT TO GO SOMEWHERE ELSE.
IT SAVES A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF MAN HOURS AND MUCH SAFER.
SO WE'RE TRYING TO GET TO WHERE WE CAN DO EVERYTHING UPSTAIRS.
WHAT IS THE NUMBER THEY CALL A (405) 359-4770.
THAT'S THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT TO, TO GET BACK TO THE QUESTION OF WHEN DOES IT, MAN, WE'RE CURRENTLY MANNING IT MORE OR LESS FOR THE, THE, THE LUNCH RUSH DURING SCHOOL AND THE PM RUSH HOUR.
UH, THE MORNING AM ISN'T AS BAD.
W WE KNOW HAVE LOTS OF PEOPLE GOING TO SCHOOL, BUT THEY'RE ALL GOING ONE DIRECTION.
THEN THEY'RE MAINLY GOING SOUTH SO THAT WE CAN DO REALLY WELL WITH TIME OF DAY PLANS ON OUR SINGLES, THE EVENING RUSH.
IT GETS A LOT MORE, UH, DISCOMBOBULATED BECAUSE
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WE HAVE PEOPLE COME TO SCHOOL AND GO TO SOCCER, PRESS, GO IN THE STORE, GOING HERE, GOING THERE SO THAT THE TRAFFIC IS DISTRIBUTED FOR AWHILE, THE CERTAIN DIRECTION.AND THEN IT STARTS GOING DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS.
SO STAFF IS HERE FROM NINE 30 TO SIX 30, MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, AND I AM CURRENTLY DOWN ONE STAFF PERSON IN MY TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT CENTER.
I'M STILL TRYING TO FIND THEM, SOMEONE CAN APPLY NOW WITH THAT, RIGHT? THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS.
AND I DON'T WANT TO GO DOWN A RABBIT TRAIL, BUT COULD YOU TELL US HOW THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENGINEERING AND CITY PLANNING IS WHEN IT COMES TO DESIGN OF TRAFFIC SIGNALS? AND YEAH, WE HAVE, WE WORK WITH RANDY AND WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING IS WE LET RANDY, WE GET WITH HIM ON EVERY PROJECT THAT WE HAVE.
AND MAINLY IF THE MOST OF IT HAS BEEN, UM, EXCEPT FOR DOWNTOWN, WE WORK TOGETHER FOR DOWNTOWN TO MAKE SOME OF THOSE CHANGES THAT WE COULD WITH THE LIMITED TECHNOLOGY WE HAVE DOWNTOWN.
THOSE CONTROLLERS ARE EXTREMELY OLD AND CAN'T DO SOME THINGS THAT WE'LL GET TO LATER IN THIS, BUT WE TRY AND ALERT THEM TO, IS THIS ON THE BICYCLE MASTER PLAN? IS THERE A TRAILS PLAN? IS THERE SOME OTHER MODE HERE WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT? UM, IT COULD BE BUS STOPS, IT CAN BE ANY OF THOSE TYPE THINGS.
SO WE, WE KNOW WHERE THEY'RE GOING AND CAN TRY AND ACCOMMODATE FOR THOSE, WITH WHATEVER THAT IS.
UM, SO RANDY COULD PROBABLY COME AND ANSWER.
WE STILL GOT CURIOUS AND, AND HE, HE HAS, WE'RE ALWAYS OPEN TO ANY IDEAS HE HAS FOR THE MUSCLES THIS MORNING.
AND YESTERDAY MORNING WE HAD ONE BLINKING RED IN DOWNTOWN AND IT GLORIOUS.
UM, THAT IS THE VERY BEST SOLUTION WITH MY LITTLE MIND AS TO TRAFFIC IN DOWNTOWN.
I MEAN, I THINK THAT WOULD SOLVE A LOT OF PEOPLE'S FRUSTRATION IF AFTER HOURS, UM, YOU HAD THOSE ALL BLINKING REDS.
UM, YEAH, WE'RE, WE'RE OPEN TO, TO WHATEVER THE CURRENT, BUT I JUST DON'T KNOW.
I'M SURE PLANNING WOULD HAVE IDEAS ON THAT AS WELL.
AND I'M SURE YOU ALL HAVE IDEAS AND I JUST KNOW HOW YOU ALL WORK TOGETHER ON, ON THAT.
AND THEN YOU'VE GOT A CITY COUNCIL THAT HAS HIS IDEAS.
WE LOVE ALL YOUR IDEAS, RANDIANS PLANNING DEPARTMENT.
UH, WE WORK PRETTY WELL TOGETHER RIGHT NOW.
WE'RE GOING THROUGH THE EDMUND SHIFT PROCESS, WHICH IS THE MOBILITY PLAN FOR THE CITY.
ENGINEERING'S REPRESENTED ON THAT, UH, AS A STAFF MEMBER AND A REVIEW OF THAT.
UH, AND DON'T FORGET WE HAVE $2 MILLION IN ARPA MONEY SET ASIDE FOR PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENTS DOWNTOWN.
AND WHEN YOU START HAVING THOSE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT WHAT'S THE NEXT THING WE CAN DO, WHAT'S THE NEXT ITERATION WE CAN DO FOR DOWNTOWN STREETS TO MAKE THOSE SAFER.
AND I WASN'T THE ONE TO CRAM THE PAPER IN THE PEDESTRIAN, I'D USE DUCT TAPE, BUT, BUT YES, WE, WE DO A LOT OF THINGS TOGETHER.
UM, FOR INSTANCE, GOING BACK TO ROAD WIDENING, IS THIS SOMETHING TO, TO ADDRESS NEW DEVELOPMENTS ARE REQUIRED TO WIDEN THE ROAD ADJACENT TO THEM AND PUT IN SIDEWALKS.
SO THE CODE REQUIRES AND AT LEAST DO THAT PART.
UM, IF IT'S ON CERTAIN SECTIONS, THEY'RE ALSO REQUIRED TO DEDICATE THE REQUIRED RIGHT OF WAY PER OUR TRANSPORTATION PLAN.
NOW THAT ALL COULD CHANGE BASED ON WHAT COMES OUT OF THE, THE, THE EDMUND SHIFT AND THE MOBILITY STUDY AS TO WHAT'S NEEDED AND WHERE, UM, WE ALSO JUST TALK TO STAFF.
WE HAVE THE, OUR ROUNDABOUTS THAT WE DISCUSSED.
WE ACTUALLY HAVE DIFFERENT DESIGN CRITERIA.
NOW WE'RE LOOKING AT THOSE TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE ALL DIMENSIONED APPROPRIATELY TO SEE WHERE SOME OF THOSE COULD BE IMPLEMENTED AS IN, WAS IT FIVE? IS THAT WHAT IT WAS? WE'VE GOT THEM IN AND BASED ON PROPOSED RIGHT OF WAY THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH GRANTEE, WE CAN FIT THOSE IN THOUGH.
THOSE TAKE THE BIGGER THEY GET.
THEY TAKE A LOT OF RIGHT AWAY AT THE CORNERS FOR ABOUT 500 FEET, WHICH IS GONNA BE A LITTLE BIT OF A SHOCK FOR SOME PEOPLE COMPARED TO WHAT WE'RE DOING NOW.
AND WE'RE LOOKING AT, THEY'RE NOT ALL THE DIMENSIONS AREN'T QUITE ON THERE.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE MAKING SURE THE ENGINEER THAT DID IT DIDN'T NECESSARILY WANT TO GIVE US THIS WILL WORK EVERYWHERE.
AND I UNDERSTAND WHY, BUT WE KNOW WHAT, WHAT THE INTENT IS.
AND THESE ARE, THESE ARE KIND OF BOILERPLATES TEMPLATES TO START THE DESIGN WORK AT SOME OF THOSE AREAS.
SO BECAUSE OF THOSE, AN WHERE IT TAKES INTO ACCOUNT BIKES AND PEDESTRIANS AND ALL THOSE THINGS.
SO WE'RE MOVING FORWARD ON THAT AS WELL.
UM, BY, BEFORE WE GO TO OVERLAKE, ONE QUESTION, SORRY.
UM, ALL THE INFORMATION THAT YOU'RE GETTING FROM YOUR NORTH, SOUTH EAST, WEST ANALYSIS AND ALL THAT, AND SOME OF THE, SOME OF THE INFORMATION IS BEING COMPUTER-GENERATED THEN THE OTHER PART OF IT IS BEING HUMAN CONTROL OPERATOR GENERATED.
SINCE WE ARE IN OUR INFANCY STAGE OF, UH, DOING A LOT OF THIS ANALYSIS.
I WANT YOU TO THINK ABOUT, SINCE WE WERE LOSING PEOPLE OFF AND ON, THEY'RE GOING TO GAIN A CERTAIN SENSE OF KNOWLEDGE.
HOW DO WE CAPTURE THAT KNOWLEDGE BEFORE THEY LEAVE? BECAUSE THAT OPERATOR UP THERE, WHO THEY, I CALL THEM A GAMER IS UP THERE MOVING THE SWITCHES AND ALL THAT.
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HE OR SHE, ALL OF A SUDDEN LEAVES, BUT THEY'VE HAD THIS, THIS FIELD ABOUT THIS, THIS PROGRAM WAS GOING ON.THEY'VE SEEN IT A NUMBER OF TIMES.
THEY KNOW THE FLOW, THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY'RE GONE.
AND THEN WE'RE STARTING FROM SQUARE ZERO.
AGAIN, THAT SUCCESSION PLANNING IS A CHALLENGE BECAUSE WE, WHEN WE HIRE SOMEONE, UM, BUT THIS WAY, MY TRACK, HE WON'T EVEN LET ME HAVE ACCESS TO THE SIGNALS.
I KNOW WHAT TO DO, BUT HE'S LIKE, YOU CAN'T TOUCH THEM.
SO OUR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT CENTER HANDLES THAT.
SO WE KNOW WHO'S MAKING THE CHANGES AND THEY'RE DOING IT CORRECTLY ON AN HOUR BY HOUR, DAY, BY DAY BASIS, FOR INSTANCE, AND TO GO TO YOUR POINT AT SECOND, BRIAN WOULDN'T KNOW IT, BUT WE CONNECTED THAT DURING CONSTRUCTION TO OUR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT CENTER.
SO THROUGHOUT THE DAY, THAT THING HAS BEEN CHANGED, THE TIMING HAS BEEN CHANGED NOW OVER THE COURSE OF THAT PROJECT, THOUSANDS OF TIME TO ALLEVIATE CONGESTION, BECAUSE WE CAN SEE IF SCHOOLS ARE LETTING OUT FROM ONE DIRECTION, WE HAVE A WHOLE LOT MORE AND MORE OUTBOUND TRAFFIC THAN WE HAVE SOUTHBOUND.
SO WE'RE GOING TO TURN THAT GREEN LIGHT TO GO NORTHBOUND FOR AN EXTRA 20 SECONDS AND TAKE IT FROM THE, FROM THE SOUTHBOUND.
SO WE ARE DOING THAT CONTINUALLY AND YOU ARE CORRECT.
FORTUNATELY, I HAVE THE TWO MEMBERS I HAVE UP THERE.
NOW, DO YOU HAVE A LOT OF EXPERIENCE HERE AT THE CITY? UH, I DID LOSE TWO THAT HAD A LOT OF EXPERIENCE.
UM, BUT THEY'RE, THEY'RE DOING A FINE JOB, BUT I JUST NEED TO TRY AND EITHER CHAIN THEM TO THE CHAIR OR SOMETHING, SO THEY CAN'T LEAVE.
BUT, UH, WE'RE, WE'RE DOING WHAT WE CAN TO KEEP AND RETAIN EMPLOYEES AND MAKE SURE THAT, UH, EVERYTHING THEY'VE DONE IS ON THE COMPUTER.
SO WHETHER IT'S A TIME OF DAY PLAN OR DIFFERENT TRAFFIC STUDIES, THEY'VE PERFORMED, WE MAKE SURE I KEEP COPIES AND PUT THEM IN OUR FILES SO THAT WE CAN TRAIN THE NEXT PERSON THAT COMES IN TO DO THE SAME THING.
THERE'S ABOUT 15 DIFFERENT SOFTWARES.
THEY HAVE TO LEARN AND IT TAKES YOU.
THEY MAY BE A GREAT ENGINEER, BUT WE'RE NOT GOING TO GIVE THEM ACCESS TO THE SIGNALS UNTIL WE RUN THEM THROUGH TEST PROJECTS THAT ARE SIMULATED TO MAKE SURE THEY CAN DO IT CORRECTLY.
IT'S OUR NEXT NEXT, UH, IS YOUR, OUR OVERLAYS, AS YOU KNOW, WE, WE CURRENTLY HAVE A PAYMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, BUT IT IS OBSOLETE.
SO WE WERE PUTTING TOGETHER A REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS OR OUR JUNIOR REQUESTS FOR PROPOSAL TO GET A NEW SYSTEM THAT IS, CAN BE INTEGRATED INTO OUR GIS SYSTEM.
OUR OLD ONE WAS NOT, IT WAS, YOU PUT STUFF IN AND IT WAS DIFFICULT TO USE AND IT WAS DIFFICULT TO USE.
WASN'T IT? SO TAKING INTO ACCOUNT SOME THINGS THAT LIKE THE STREET DEPARTMENT DOES, IF THEY GO OUT AND DO MAINTENANCE ON THE STREET, WE CAN PUT THAT IN THIS NEW SYSTEM.
AND THAT'S GOING TO SHOW THAT MAYBE IT'S PROLONG THE LIFE OF THE PAVEMENT FOR FIVE YEARS OR FOUR YEARS.
INSTEAD OF, WE DON'T KNOW THAT THEY WENT OUT, SPENT A BUNCH OF MONEY BECAUSE IT'S NOT IN THE SYSTEM.
IT'S JUST, WE DON'T HAVE THAT CAPABILITY RIGHT NOW.
SO WE'RE PUTTING THIS TOGETHER.
AND THAT WAY WE CAN COME BACK AND GET NEW, FRESH PAVEMENT CONDITION RATINGS FOR OUR WHOLE CITY.
UH, RIGHT NOW OUR PAYMENT CONDITION CITYWIDE FROM MY OPINION, IS A 75 OR LESS, WHICH MEANS MOST OF OUR STREETS HAVE POTHOLES THAT ARE CRACKED.
THEY'VE GOT SOME ALLIGATOR CRACKING, SOME WRITINGS, SOME SHOVING ON THE ASPHALT AND THE CONCRETE IS CRACKED AND, AND PASSABLE.
BUT WE WANT TO DO IS WE WANT TO GET OUR STREETS UP TO AN 85, 85 MEANS YOU MIGHT HAVE A LONGITUDINAL CRACK, BUT THEY'RE SMOOTH.
THEY'RE NOT POTHOLED, THEY'RE NOT PATCHED.
AND I'LL KIND OF EXPLAIN AS WE GO THROUGH A COUPLE OF THESE PICTURES THAT JANE IS GOING TO SHOW UP KIND OF THE PROGRESSION.
SO LET'S GO BACK TO THE VERY WELL, LET'S GO, LET'S START AT THE RIGHT.
AND THEN WE'LL GO DOWNWARD IF THAT'S OKAY.
THIS IS ACTUALLY, UM, BROADWAY NORTH OF, OF COBELL.
THIS HAS BEEN ON THE, ON THE GROUND FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS.
IT'S NOT, REDDED SHOVED FAILED.
SO EVEN THOUGH IT'S A FEW YEARS OLD, THERE'S NEVER A 100% PAYMENT, BUT THAT PAYMENT'S IN GREAT SHAPE.
THE NEXT ROAD IS A NEIGHBORHOOD THAT'S ROCK HOLLOW.
YOU SEE ONE LONGITUDINAL CRACK WHERE THE TWO STREETS MEET.
AND THAT'S PROBABLY WHERE A LOT OF THAT'S WHERE THE TWO DIFFERENT PAVING SECTIONS CAME.
THERE'S GOING TO BE A JOINT THERE, NO MATTER WHAT, BUT THERE'S NO MAJOR POTHOLES.
THERE'S NO ALLIGATOR CRACKING.
SO IT'S 85 IS AN EXCELLENT STREET.
THE NEXT ONE IS, THIS IS BROADWAY NORTH OF COFFEE CREEK UP NEAR TWIN BRIDGES.
THAT'S RIGHT NEAR THE TWIN BRIDGES ENTRANCE.
BUT WHEN YOU GET OUT AND LOOK, YOU SEE THE, THE TRANSVERSE CRACKS, WHICH IS WHERE THAT IS.
AND THEN THERE'S LONGITUDINAL CRACKS UP AND DOWN AND YOU SEE THE ALLIGATOR CRACKING WITH THE WHITE STUFF, KIND OF COMING OUT OF THIS KIND OF THE AGGREGATES BREAKING DOWN AND STARTING TO COME OUT THE TOP, BUT IT'S STILL SMOOTH.
SO 70 WORKS GREAT UNTIL WE KEEP HAVING EITHER SUB-ARCTIC TEMPERATURES AND SNOW OR LOTS OF RAIN.
AND THEN YOU GO TO THE NEXT PAYMENT ON THE LEFT.
AND THAT WOULD BE CHOWNING NEAR DANFORTH.
IT HAD THE PAYMENTS BASICALLY FAILED.
IT IS IN EXTREMELY BAD SHAPE AND NEEDS TO BE REPAIRED.
AND THAT IS ONE OF OUR STREETS.
IT'S ON OUR CURRENT OVERLAY PROJECT.
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ONE OF THE REASONS WHY WE'RE OVERLAYING IT.SO THAT'S KIND OF A GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION.
WE'D REALLY LIKE TO BE AT THAT 85 WHERE THERE'S JUST SOME CRACKS, BUT WE HAVE A WHOLE LOT MORE STREETS THAT ARE AT 70, THAT ARE GOING TO DETERIORATE MUCH QUICKER.
IT TELL YOU IT DOESN'T TAKE LONG TO GO FROM 70 TO 50.
IT TAKES QUITE A WHILE TO GO FROM 85 TO 70.
SO AGAIN, THAT'S KIND OF WHERE WE HAVE NOW THIS, THE LAST OVERLAY PROJECT.
WHAT WE DO IS WE PUT A LOT OF DIFFERENT SIZE NEIGHBORHOODS AND CITY STREETS ON THE BID SO THAT IF WE HAVE TWO AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS, I WANT TO AWARD $2.5 MILLION SO THAT WE CAN GET THE MOST DONE THIS YEAR.
WE HAD ABOUT 1.8 MILLION BASED ON SOME OVERRUNS FROM PAST PROJECTS.
THE REASON WE HAVE ALL THESE DIFFERENT SIZE PROJECTS IS ONE NEIGHBORHOOD MIGHT BE 500,000.
ANOTHER ONE MIGHT BE 300,000 JUST BASED ON THE SQUARE YARDAGE AND THE LINK THAT WE'RE DOING OUT THERE.
SO WE TRY AND BID AS MANY AS POSSIBLE THAT ARE ALL IN BAD SHAPE SO WE CAN MAXIMIZE WHAT WE'RE GOING TO AWARD.
ALL THOSE TOGETHER CAME IN AT ABOUT $9 MILLION.
AND THOSE ARE THE W WE HAVE OTHER BAD STREETS, BUT THOSE WERE MOST OF THE, THE WORST ONES NEXT YEAR.
THERE'LL BE 10 MORE JUST LIKE THAT OUT THERE THAT WE NEED TO DO.
BUT SO THAT'S WHERE IT JUST SHOWS THAT WE WERE KIND OF FALLING BEHIND ON THE ASPHALT.
AND THESE ARE THE ONES THAT ARE KIND OF RELATIVELY PAINLESS COMPARED TO AN INTERSECTION BRIDGE, UM, YOU KNOW, WEEK AT A TIME.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S ALWAYS AN INCONVENIENCE.
UM, WE'VE, FOR SOME REASON WHEN IT SAYS, YOU KNOW, WHAT TAC WOULD ASPHALT DRIVE SLOW.
SOMEONE LIKES TO GO FASTER THERE.
THEN THAT KICKS THAT TACK UP ON THE CAR.
AND THEN WE GET THE CALL AND WE TELL THEM HOW TO GET IT CLEAN OR GIVE THEM THE CONTRACTOR'S NUMBER.
BUT SO IT'S RELATIVELY PAINLESS.
YOU KNOW, THE NEIGHBORS ARE INCONVENIENCE FOR TWO WEEKS WHILE WE MILL AND THEN ANOTHER WEEK WHILE WE LAY IT BACK OUT, BUT THEN WHEN WE'RE DONE AND THE STREETS ARE BRAND NEW AND YEAH, I FOUND THEY'RE KIND OF WILLING.
THEY'RE OKAY WITH THAT BECAUSE THEY KNOW A NEW ONE'S COMING.
AND WE GET, WE GET A LOT OF REQUESTS FROM CITIZENS.
HEY, UH, THIS, UH, THEY'RE NOT EVEN NECESSARILY ON HERE COPPER LAKES AND THERE'S SOME OTHERS THAT I GOT CALLS AFTER THIS.
WHEN I WENT OUT THERE AND DROVE IT AND THERE THEY ARE BREAKING DOWN EXTREMELY FAST.
MOVING TRUCKS ARE HEAVY, EVERYTHING'S HEAVY, EXTREME WEATHER AND EXTREME WEATHER.
THE, THE EXTREME WEATHER IS THE WORST THING THAT CAN HAPPEN TO ASPHALT SHRINK, SWELL.
YOU HAVE THOSE CRACKS MOISTURE GETS IN SWELLS, POTS, EVERYTHING OUT, AND WE HAVE TO GO OUT THERE AND PATCH IT.
SO THE TREE DEPARTMENT DOES A GREAT JOB OF TRYING TO FIX ALL THOSE THAT THEY CAN.
BUT MOST OF THEM, THEY NEED A LOT MORE REPAIRS THAN WHAT THEY'RE SET UP TO DO THAT THE SAME NUMBER FOR CITIZENS TO CALL SAME NUMBER.
YOU SAID 4 7, 7 0, CORRECT? YES.
SO THE NEXT ON OUR LIST WOULD BE A KIND OF PEDESTRIAN.
THESE ARE SOME THAT WE HAVE, UH, WAS ALREADY MENTIONED.
THE ADA SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENTS ALONG SECOND STREET FROM OUR 35 TO SANTA FE.
THIS IS REALLY TO UPGRADE AND REPLACE EVERYTHING.
THAT'S NOT ADA COMPLIANT OUT THERE.
THERE IS SO MUCH THAT THERE ISN'T SIDEWALK.
MOST ALL OF THE SIGNALS ARE ADA COMPLIANT BECAUSE WE DID THAT WITH ITS, BUT WHATEVER ISN'T, WE'LL REPLACE THEM WITH THE CORRECT AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
THIS IS ONE WHERE WE ACTUALLY HAVE THE, UH, THE GRANT, UH, ODAT HAS APPROXIMATELY A 2 MILLION, 2.1 MILLION AND OURS IS 1.9.
SO WE WORK WITH ODAT A LOT ON TRYING TO GET AS MUCH FUNDING AS MUCH STUFF DONE AS POSSIBLE.
SO WE'RE MOVING FORWARD WITH THIS AND THESE PLANS ARE GETTING RELATIVELY CLOSE TO BEING DONE AND READY TO GO TO BED.
SO AGAIN, I'M SORRY IF I HAVEN'T BROUGHT THIS UP BEFORE, BUT, UM, IT'S ON MY MIND RIGHT NOW.
CONNECTING DOWNTOWN TO ARCADIA LAKE.
IF YOU'RE RIDING A BIKE OR ANYWHERE IN THAT IN BETWEEN THERE, IF, IF THERE WAS A SIDE PATH FROM, AT THE INTERSTATE WHERE IT STOPS GOING EAST DOWN TO GOING SOUTH DOWN TO THE UNDERPASS AT THE INTERSTATE, THEN YOU REALLY COULD GO FROM DOWNTOWN AND JUMP ONTO SPRING CREEK.
WE MAKE A NOTE HERE REAL QUICK, IF THAT'S OKAY, UNLESS YOU'RE FINE WITH THEM RIDING ON THE FRONTAGE ROAD, WHICH WELL THERE ARE WE NOT A GOOD IDEA? I MEAN, THEY'RE ALLOWED TO, BUT WE, AGAIN, WE'D LOVE TO MAKE IT AS SAFE AS POSSIBLE.
WHAT WE NEED TO LOOK AT THAT BRIDGE.
UM, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S ACTUALLY A SIDEWALK ACROSS THAT BRIDGE.
IT MIGHT TAKE ANOTHER SOMETHING THERE, BUT WE'LL TAKE A LOOK AT IT.
IT'S JUST A THOUGHT, HOW CAN I FIT NORTH OF 15 CROSSOVER? AND WE WAS TALKING ABOUT FROM SECOND STREET DOWN TO BASICALLY THE CHISHOLM CREEK WHERE THE TRAIL WAS OUT.
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AND THERE'S NOT A SIDEWALK ON THE WEST FRONTAGE ROAD.SO THE ADA TRANSITION PLAN IS ANOTHER THING THAT WE DO.
UM, THERE'S $200,000 PER YEAR FOR SIDEWALK GAPS.
THAT'S NOT A WHOLE LOT OF MONEY IN TODAY'S CONSTRUCTION ENVIRONMENT.
IT HELPS FILL IN A FEW GAPS HERE AND THERE.
UH, WHEELCHAIR RAMPS ARE WHAT REALLY GETS DONE A LOT.
WE, WE, WE GET NOTIFIED OF THOSE.
WE GO OUT AND GET THOSE FIXED AS QUICK AS WE CAN TO MAKE SURE WE'RE IN COMPLIANCE.
WHEN WE'RE GOING BACK TO MELANIE AND OVERLAYING A SECTION LINE ROADS, IF THERE ARE SIDEWALKS AND ADA FACILITIES NEXT TO THOSE ROADS, WE ARE REQUIRED TO UPGRADE THOSE TO THE LATEST ADA STANDARDS.
SO PART OF OUR ONE POINT, WELL, PART OF THE $2.5 MILLION WE HAVE EVERY YEAR FOR OVERLAYS GOES TO SIDEWALK AND RAMP IMPROVEMENTS.
AND THAT'S PROBABLY A HUNDRED, $200,000 A YEAR AS WELL, BASED ON WHERE WE DO THE OVERLAY.
SO WE SPEND A LOT OF THE OVERLAY MONEY ON ADA IMPROVEMENTS, WHICH AGAIN, WE'RE TRYING TO TAKE CARE OF THOSE.
WE NEED TO TAKE CARE OF THOSE.
SO THERE'S JUST A LOT OF THINGS THAT WE ARE REQUIRED TO LOOK AT ON THOSE.
AS WE DO THIS ON THE ADA TRANSITION PLAN, DOES IT LOOK AT THE TYPE OF SURFACE THAT THE SIDEWALK IS SO DOWNTOWN THERE'S, UM, COBBLE, I CALL IT A COBBLESTONE BRICK AND I'VE, I'VE RECEIVED, UH, CONCERNS ABOUT PEOPLE IN WALKERS.
I'M NOT SURE I HAVE TO GO LOOK AT WHAT'S CONSIDERED LIKE A TRIP HAZARD.
AND I DON'T KNOW THAT OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, I'D PROBABLY NEED TO DEFER TO PHIL JONES, OUR ADA TRANSITION PLAN COORDINATOR.
BACK TO YOUR TRIP HAS HER THANKS FOR, FOR THE PROPER TERMINOLOGY.
WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT'S NOT OUT THERE.
SO THE NEXT TRUCK, YOU KNOW, IN MY FOUR YEARS, THREE YEARS OF BEING A CITY COUNCILMAN, PROBABLY THE BEST THING THAT YOU ALL EVER DID FOR ME AS A CITY COUNCILMAN, WAS THOSE SIDEWALKS THAT YOU DID AND ADA THAT YOU DID IN DOWNTOWN EDMOND, I GOT MORE COMPLIMENTS AND MORE PEOPLE ARE NOW USING.
I'VE GOT I'LL BET THE TRAFFIC IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE WITH PEDESTRIANS.
I DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY COME FROM, BUT THEY DIDN'T COME BEFORE.
UM, AND IT'S AMAZING JUST THAT, WELL, JUST THAT IT WAS A LOT OF SIDEWALKS, BUT THAT WAS A PROJECT THAT WAS JUST REALLY, REALLY IMPACTFUL ON OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, AND WHEELCHAIRS, I DIDN'T KNOW THAT MANY PEOPLE WERE IN WHEELCHAIRS, YOU KNOW, UM, THAT LEADS RIGHT INTO THE NEXT PROJECT FOR THE ARMY FUNDS.
YOU KNOW, IN THE PAST WE TRIED TO DO LIGHTING ITS SIDEWALKS DOWNTOWN THAT BID CAME IN WAY MORE THAN ANYBODY COULD HAVE EVER EXPECTED.
SO THIS IS, UH, WHAT WE'RE EXPLORING TO COME BACK IN AND AGAIN, TRY AND DO SOME OF THOSE THINGS THAT RANDY TALKED RANDY, TALK ABOUT WHETHER IT'S UPGRADING TECHNOLOGY, DOING ADA RAMPS, SIDEWALKS, IF NEEDED, LIGHTING, SIGNAGE, ALL THOSE THINGS.
UH, THAT'S AGAIN, THAT'S $2 MILLION DOWNTOWN TO, TO DO EVEN MORE OF THOSE IMPROVEMENTS.
AND THEN THEIR NEXT ONE IS THE PEDESTRIAN UNDERPASS.
UM, THIS IS IN DOWNTOWN, AS YOU KNOW, WITH ALL THE INCREASED RAIL TRAFFIC, PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC, WE'VE HIRED KIMBERLY TO DO A FEASIBILITY STUDY ON WHERE A POSSIBLE UNDER PASSKEY GO AND A POSSIBLE COST.
THEY'VE KIND OF GIVEN ME THE COST BASED ON LINKS, WHICH IS THIS FOUR TO $7 MILLION, DEPENDING ON IF YOU GO ABOVE GROUND OVERGROUND, THEY'RE LOOKING AT ALL THESE DIFFERENT OPTIONS.
WE ARE COMMUNICATING WITH THE BNSF AND THAT TAKES TIME TO GET THEM IN THE ROOM AND DISCUSS NEEDS REQUIREMENTS.
THE LAST MEETING WE HAD, THEY SEEM VERY OPEN TO ALLOWING A POSSIBLE UNDERPASS AT SOME POINT IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA.
AND THEN IT GOT INTO WHERE AND WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO? AND ARE YOU GOING TO MEET OUR DESIGN STANDARDS? AND WHAT ABOUT FUTURE SIGHTINGS AND WHAT ABOUT DOUBLE TRACKING? AND SO THERE WAS A LOT OF DISCUSSIONS AND THEN HOW WOULD WE BUILD ONE OF THESE? SO WOULD WE BUILD, UH, WOULD WE, AS THE CITY HAVE TO PAY FOR, WHAT'S CALLED A SHOE FLY DETOUR, WHICH IS A SIDE A SIDING FOR THEM TO MOVE THE MAIN LINE TO, TO DO PART OF THE, WHETHER IT'S AN UNDERPASS, THEN MOVE THEM BACK ONTO THE EXISTING TRACKS AND BUILD THE REST OF IT.
WE BUILT A SHOE FLY AT COLDWELL WHEN WE BUILT THAT BRIDGE OUT THERE AND THAT SHOE FLIES ABOUT MILLION BUCKS, DEPENDING ON THAT THEY ONLY ALLOW 1% DEFLECTION.
SO IT REALLY COMES INTO PLAY AS TO WHEN AND WHERE IT COMES IN.
SO THERE'S A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS GOING ON.
IT'S KIND OF A LITTLE BIT LONGER STUDY WHEN YOU BRING THE BNSF IN TO KIND OF COME TO TERMS AND WHAT THEIR REQUIREMENTS ARE GOING TO BE, HOW DEEP DOES IT NEED TO BE? HOW MUCH LOAD DOES IT NEED TO HOLD? SO WE ALL HAVE DIFFERENT IDEAS AND THEY HAVE CERTAIN STANDARDS THEY WANT MET.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE WORKING THROUGH THOSE
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TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING THAT HOPEFULLY CAN BE BUILT AS WE MOVE FORWARD INTO A DESIGN PHASE.SO TALKING WITH BNSF IS PART OF THAT INVESTIGATIVE STUDY THAT WE'RE, THAT WE APPROVED.
YEAH, WE'VE GOT, IF WE DIDN'T BRING THEM IN AND CAME UP WITH SOMETHING, WE WOULD TAKE TO THEM AND THEY WOULD SAY, NO, GO AWAY.
SO WE BROUGHT THEM IN FROM THE VERY FIRST MEETING, WHICH TOOK A WHILE TO GET THEM.
UM, AGAIN, WE'RE LOOKING, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT LONG-TERM THINGS AS WELL, COMMUTER RAIL, THOSE KINDS OF THINGS, WHERE WOULD STATIONS BE? HOW WOULD THAT, UH, IMPACT THIS POSSIBLY? AND THAT'S KIMBERLY HORN, RIGHT? WHO'S ALSO TALKING WITH BNSF FOR RTA AS WELL.
SO THAT'S WHY WE BROUGHT THEM ON BECAUSE THEY ALREADY HAD THAT DIALOGUE GOING.
NOW IT'S DIFFERENT BRANCHES BECAUSE THE BNSF HAS FREIGHT MOVEMENT.
THEY HAVE TRANSIT, THEY HAVE THIS, THEY, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE THINGS THEY DON'T WANT IS THEY DON'T WANT TRANSIT AFFECTING THERE, WHICH IS A DIFFERENT SUBJECT, THEIR FREIGHT RAIL, BECAUSE PEOPLE SOMETIMES TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER THE RAIL.
THEN THE RAIL SITS THERE, THEN THEY PARK TRAINS.
SO THERE'S JUST A LOT OF DISCUSSIONS GOING ON AND ON HOW TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.
AND, UM, BUT THEY ARE AT THE TABLE WITH US RIGHT NOW.
IT MUST KEEP HEARING ADMIN, EDMUND, EDMUND, AND WE BUGGED THEM IN A POLITE WAY AS MUCH AS WE CAN.
SO, BUT THAT'S KIND OF, I'M GOING TO TURN OVER THE NEXT PHASE.
HE'S GOING TO KIND OF BRING UP SOME, SOME THINGS, RICK, I'M JUST GONNA LEAVE THIS UP HERE.
UH, LIKE I SAID, MY NAME'S RICK ALLEN.
I WORKED FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION.
UM, YOU FOR BEING HERE, STRUCTURED ENGINEER MAINTENANCE ENGINEER, BROOKLYN MECHANIC, CANADIAN COUNTY, UH, TRAIN JANUARY AS MY DISTRICT ENGINEER, MY BOSS HE'S AT A CONFERENCE THIS WEEK.
SO HE VOLUNTEERED ME TO COME SPEAK.
SO I'M JUST GOING TO TALK ABOUT A FEW THINGS WE'VE GOT COMING UP, UH, THAT MAY INVOLVE, UH, THE CITY OF EDMOND OR IN THE VICINITY.
UM, I GOT A FEW SLIDES THAT I CAN SHOW THAT MAY PULL UP AND I'M JUST GOING TO KIND OF TALK ABOUT EACH ONE OF THE PROJECTS AND FEEL FREE TO ASK ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE, AND I'LL DO MY BEST TO ANSWER FOR YOU.
SO, UM, ONE OF THE FIRST PROJECTS AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT, OR I GUESS ACTUALLY, IF YOU WANT TO BRING UP THE YEAR PLAN, UM, OUT ON OUR WEBSITE, WE'VE GOT OUR EIGHT YEAR CONSTRUCTION PROJECT PLANNING.
SO THIS IS BASICALLY OKLAHOMA COUNTY HERE, ALL OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY.
AND THEN YOU'RE WELCOME TO GO OUT THERE AND LOOK AT ANYTHING THAT MAY COME UP ON THERE.
I KNOW IT'S HARD TO READ HERE.
YOU ALMOST HAVE TO BE ON A COMPUTER, SO YOU CAN BLOW IT UP TO SEE EACH ONE OF THESE, BUT, BUT THERE IS A, BASICALLY A DESIGNATION, UH, ESTIMATED COST AND A LOCATION IN EACH ONE OF THOSE PROJECTS, BUT I'M NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT EVERY SINGLE ONE THAT WAS JUST THE ONES HERE AROUND THE OPEN AREA.
SO, UH, FIRST ONE I'M GONNA TALK ABOUT IS, UH, BASICALLY, UH, C MILLEN OVERLAY HERE ON, UH, BROADWAY EXTENSION, 77 AND SECOND STREET.
UM, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT, UH, THAT WE'VE SEEN FOR PROBABLY A COUPLE OF YEARS NOW, THAT'S STARTING TO DETERIORATE, LIKE HE WAS LIKE, STEVE WAS TALKING ABOUT DETERIORATION OF, OF ASPHALT AND ALL THAT.
UM, A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO WE SAW A NEED FOR THIS CAUSE WE'VE BEEN IN SOME MAINTENANCE ON THE ROADWAY ITSELF.
SO WE STARTED PUTTING SOMETHING TOGETHER AND OUR EIGHT YEAR PLAN, IT STARTED OUT AS, UH, BEING LAID OUT FOR 20, 28 BEDS.
SO WE'VE, UH, GOT OUR PLANES TOGETHER ON ALL THAT AND MOVED IT UP.
UH, SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE CURRENTLY LOOKING AT SOMEWHERE BETWEEN NOVEMBER OF THIS YEAR IN FEBRUARY OF NEXT YEAR.
SO THE WORK SHOULD START SPRING OF NEXT YEAR AND WE ARE GOING TO GO IN AND BASICALLY DO, WE'VE GOT SOME AREAS THAT I'M SURE ALL OF YOU AWARE OF THAT HAVE SOME DEEP READING ON THE OUTSIDE NORTHBOUND LANE, GO IN AND DO WHAT WE CALL THE DEEP MAIL.
SO GO IN AND DO LIKE A SIX INCH MILL AND THOSE AREAS, THOSE OUTSIDE DRIVING LANES, FIX THOSE AREAS AND THEN COME BACK AND DO A TWO INCH MILL OVER THE WHOLE ROAD SERVICE.
SO WE BASICALLY GO START A COMFORT DRIVE, GO ALL THE WAY NORTH TO SECOND STREET.
AND THEN, UH, FROM 77 EAST TO BASICALLY SITTING THERE, THERE IS A SECTION OF CONCRETE THAT IS JUST NORTH OF THE HOME DEPOT.
WE'RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND TAKE THAT OUT.
SO IT'LL ALL BE ASPHALT SECTION THROUGH THERE.
UM, THE CONCRETE SECTION THAT'S TO THE EAST OVER BY SUNA ROAD IS FAULTED AND, AND THE PANELS HAVE KIND OF ROCKED A LITTLE BIT.
SO WE'RE GOING TO GO IN AND CALL IT, DEAL WITH THE COLOR DALBAR RETROFIT.
SO GO IN AND DO ALL THAT, FIX THOSE PANELS TO KEEP IT FROM ROCKING AND THEN DO A DIAMOND GRIND ON LOTS OF SMOOTH IT ALL OUT.
AND LIKE I SAID, THIS PROJECT SCHEDULED SOMETIME LATER THIS YEAR, EARLY NEXT YEAR TO LET SO WORK SHOULD BEGIN ON THAT NEXT BREAK.
LIKE I SAID, MAYBE IT INVOLVED ABOUT THE CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE.
I SEE KIND OF WHAT WE'RE HAVING TO PUT SOME MONEY TOWARDS.
SO THAT'S WHEN I GET WITH OUR DISTRICT ENGINEER AND TALKED TO TRENT AND I SAID, HEY, WE NEED TO PUT A PROJECT TOGETHER.
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OF THOSE WAYS LOOKED AT, STARTED A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO.AND THEN FINALLY GOT SOME PLANES PUT TOGETHER AND KIND OF GO FROM THERE.
CAN YOU REMIND US WHERE COMFORT DRIVE IS? THAT IS BASICALLY RIGHT DOWN THERE.
JUST WHERE THE, UH, THE TREADMILL, I SUPPOSE RIGHT THERE.
SO WHEN YOU DO THAT WORK, WILL YOU REROUTE NORTH ALL NORTHBOUND ON SOUTHBOUND, SOUTHBOUND ON WHAT THAT, WHEN YOU'RE WORKING THE OTHER WAY? UM, I DO NOT THINK WE'RE GOING TO DO THAT.
CAUSE I PLAN ON DOING LIKE ONE LANE AT A TIME AND THEN WE'LL PROBABLY DO SOME WORK AT NIGHT IN SOME AREAS.
I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS TO BE THERE, SO THAT MAKES IT GENERATES A LOT OF NOISE.
SO, UM, WE'RE GOING TO DO OUR BEST TO NOT DO THAT BECAUSE IT WILL DEFINITELY DISRUPT A LOT OF THE SIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS AND ALL THAT.
UH, ONE THING THAT WILL TAKE PLACE, I KNOW YOU'VE CURRENTLY GOT A SECOND BRYANT, SO WE WON'T BE TOUCHING YOU IN THAT WILL BE BRAND NAME, BUT THE INTERSECTION INTERSECTIONS, WE DO TOUCH, WE'LL PUT NEW LUPUS DETECTION IN THERE AND ALL THAT.
SO TO HAVE YOU SURFACE, WE'LL DO SOME CURVE REPAIRS WHERE IT'S NEEDED TO BE, UH, SOME DRIVEWAYS IF THEY NEED TO BE REPAIRED AS WELL.
UM, NEW STRIPE AND ALL OF THAT.
SO WHEN YOU SAID SPRING, NEXT SPRING, DO YOU MEAN 23 OR 24? 23? YEAH.
SO I GUESS I KNOW YOU SAID THIS FALL INTO NEXT YEAR AND THEN START NEXT SPRING AND I THOUGHT, YAY.
I PUT 23 DOWN AND THOUGHT, OH YEAH, NO, IT'S DEPENDING ON HOW FUNDING IS RIGHT NOW, WE'RE LOOKING AT, LIKE I SAID, EITHER A, LET DATE TO GO OUT FOR BID EITHER IN AS EARLY AS NOVEMBER OF THIS YEAR AND MAYBE AS LATE AS FEBRUARY NEXT YEAR.
SO EITHER WAY THE WORK WILL START NEXT SPRING.
UM, UH, ANOTHER ONE I HAVE HERE IS, UH, WE HAVE A PROJECT THAT'S GOING TO START HERE IN ABOUT TWO WEEKS.
UH, WE'RE GOING TO DO A MILL AND OVERLAY AND 9 35 ITSELF, NORTH OF SECOND STREET, ALL THE WAY TO WATER LATE, UM, THAT ONE'S ALREADY BEEN AWARDED TO TJ CAMPBELL.
AND, UM, ALL THIS WORK WILL BE DONE AT NIGHT, BUT WE ARE GOING TO GO IN AND DO SOME DEEP PATCHING IN THAT SOME AREAS WHERE THERE'S SOME FAILING OF SOME OF THE PAVEMENT GO IN AND DO THAT.
AND THEN ONCE IT'S DONE, GO IN AND DO WHAT THEY CALL IT, SURFACE MAIL ON IT AND THEN DO AN OVERLAY.
SO IT'LL HAVE A BRAND NEW SURFACE ON IT.
UM, AND LIKE I SAID, THAT'S GOING TO START, I THINK THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 11TH.
SO THAT'S STARTING SEPTEMBER 11TH.
UH, LET'S SEE, WHAT ELSE DO I HAVE HERE? UM, ONE OF THE MORE INTERESTING ONES, I THINK I HAVE A FILE ON THIS ONE.
UH, THE, UH, THREE TO FOUR TO FIVE CONCEPTUAL PLAN.
YEAH, THIS IS A LITTLE BIT WORKING, I THINK WAS TRANSMITTED TALKING WITH STEVE ON THIS ONE, THIS KIND OF GO IN CONJUNCTION WITH WHAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT.
AS FAR AS THE CONNECTIVITY THERE, ALONG THE FURNITURE.
THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN TALK ABOUT.
TALK WITH STEVE AND TRIM ALL THAT WITH SOME, WE CAN MAYBE MAKE HALF A MANGER, BUT IS A COUPLE OF PROJECTS WE HAVE HERE.
WE'RE GOING TO DO A, THE COLOR, LIKE A TURNAROUND BRIDGE, TEXAS TURNAROUND TYPE BRIDGES ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF SECOND STREET, EITHER SIDE OF 15TH.
AND WE'RE GOING TO, THOSE ARE SCHEDULED RIGHT NOW FOR FISCAL YEAR 2024.
UM, THIS IS ONE THAT, UH, CITY OF EDMOND HAS SOME FUNDS IN THIS.
AND, UH, THIS HAS ALLOWED US TO KEEP THESE PROJECTS ON TRACK AND KEEP THEM WHERE THEY NEED TO BE.
OR IN CASES LIKE THIS, WHEN WE HAVE OUTSIDE FUNDING, WE USUALLY TRY TO MOVE THOSE UP IF AT ALL POSSIBLE.
UM, BUT BASICALLY WE'RE DOING THE TURNAROUND BRIDGES AND THIS IS IN CONJUNCTION WITH TURNING A LOT OF THOSE, UH, FRONTAGE ROADS INTO ONE WAY.
AND WE'LL DO THE, UH, THE BRIDGES IN SAY 24, AS I SAID, THE MOST, YOU ALREADY TOLD ME 24 AND THE FRONT ENTRANCE, THE 25 FRONTAGE ROAD STILL USABLE AS YOU'RE DOING THE BRIDGES.
UM, THE, THE ONLY THING THAT'S PROBABLY GOING TO AFFECT US, A LOT OF TRAFFIC ON THAT 35 ITSELF.
AND WE'RE STILL WORKING OUT SOME OF THE PHASING ON THE BEST WAY TO PUT THESE IN, WITHOUT AFFECTING TRAFFIC TOO MUCH AND HOW WE'RE GOING TO FACE SOME OF THAT.
UM, BUT ONCE WE DO HAVE THE BRIDGES AND THEN WE'LL COME BACK IN AND DO THE CONNECTIVITY ONTO THE FRONTAGE ROADS, UM, YOU CAN SCROLL A LITTLE BIT, YOU CAN SEE ONE OF THE MAIN THINGS WE'RE GOING TO DO IS GET RID OF THOSE, WHAT THEY CALL A BUTTON HOOK RAMP.
AND THAT'S WHERE TRAFFIC GETS BACKED UP SO MUCH TURNED TO COME OFF ON 35.
SO WE'RE TRYING TO PUT IN MORE OF A TRADITIONAL ON AND OFF RAMP TO GIVE YOU A LOT LONGER ACCELERATION THE ACCELERATION AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO THERE'LL BE A LOT OF WORK GOING ON AND A LOT
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OF THESE AREAS, UM, AND YOU CAN KEEP SCROLLING DOWN THROUGH THERE.AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, UM, AS YOU GET UP TO SECOND STREET, WHICH IS THIS ONE, RIGHT THERE IS THERE'S THE TWO FRONTAGE OR BASICALLY A FRONTAGE ROAD AND THE OFF RAMP WHERE THE TWO SIGNAL LIGHTS ARE REAL CLOSE TOGETHER.
THEY'RE ON THE EAST SIDE AT 35, WE HAVE A PLAN TO BASICALLY MERGE OFF-RAMP IN THE EXISTING FRONT END, DROVE THEM BY THE CHURCH.
SO IT BASICALLY REMOVE ONE SIGNAL LIGHT AND HOPEFULLY HELP WITH SOME OF THE CONGESTION.
SO THAT'S THE PLAN WITH THIS ONE.
AND LIKE I SAID, WE CAN TALK WITH, UH, I'LL GET IT WITH TRAN STEVE, AND MAYBE WE CAN TALK ABOUT SOME CONNECTIVITY AS FAR AS THE, THE TRAILER.
OH, IT WOULD BE, IT WOULD BE SO POPULAR.
THEY'RE INVOLVED DOING A LOT OF THAT TRAIL ON THE, ON THE OTHER SIDE, YOU DID DO THE ONE GOING SOUTH FROM THE UNDERPASS.
AND IT GETS USED A TON FROM THAT DIRECTION AND I THINK WOULD FROM THE NORTH TO, SO THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN DEFINITELY LOOK AT IF SOMETHING TO GET ADDED IN THERE, OR AT LEAST FIGURE SOMETHING OUT.
SO, UM, ANYONE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON ANYTHING AS FAR AS THESE FRONTAGE ROADS OR THE TURNAROUND BRIDGE IS AT THE MOMENT? BECAUSE I THINK CURRENTLY WE'RE DOING SOME UTILITY RELOCATION BECAUSE I THINK THERE'S SOME ELECTRICAL IT'S ABOUT THE ONLY THING THAT'S IN THE WAY OF DOING SO.
SO ONCE THAT'S DONE, THEN WE'LL HAVE THE GREEN LIGHT TO ONCE FUNDING IS AVAILABLE.
WELL, PLEASE TELL TRENTON JUST KIND OF LIKE BNSF, THANK YOU FOR APPEARING FROM EDMOND SO MUCH BECAUSE WE DO, I MEAN, I'M SURE Y'ALL ARE FAMILIAR WITH OUR GROWTH IN THE STEADMAN AND AROUND THE INTERSTATE.
I, I BASICALLY LIVED OVER OFF OF, UM, KELLY AND SECOND OR EDMUND ROAD FOR 20 YEARS.
AND I RECENTLY, FIVE YEARS AGO, I MOVED OUT TO WATERLOO THE 9 35 AND IT'S JUST AMAZING THE GROWTH OF PAPER.
SO YEAH, I UNDERSTAND THE GROWTH OF EVERYTHING THE EAST ABOUT 35 AND ALL THAT.
SO, UM, ONE OTHER ONE QUESTION ON THE COMMUNICATION, I, 35 CON UM, CONGESTION, UM, CONSTRUCTION AT NIGHT, WHO'S GOING TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE COMMUNICATION TO THE CITIZENS THAT IT'S HAPPENING.
A LOT OF TIMES, WHAT WE WOULD DO IS WE'LL PUT OUT ALL A LARGE MEDIA PRESENCE AS FAR AS, UH, ONE OF THE NEWS STATIONS.
SO WE'LL LET THE, THE NEW STATIONS WE'LL HAVE A LOT OF THAT, BUT ALSO DEPENDING ON HOW THINGS ARE GOING, WE USUALLY HAVE OUR CONTRACTOR OR ONE OF OUR INSPECTORS ON SITE USUALLY GO THROUGH AND TALK WITH LIKE BUSINESS OWNERS OR WHATEVER, AND THINGS LIKE THAT TO LET THEM KNOW WHAT IS COMING UP.
SO WE USUALLY GIVE THEM AS MUCH LEAD TIME AS WE CAN, WHATEVER'S RELEASED, WE CAN PICK UP IMMEDIATELY AND, AND SHARE IT.
AND WE TRIED TO DO A VERY GOOD JOB ABOUT NOT BLOCKING ANY ACCESS OR TAKING AWAY ANY, ANY ACCESS, WHETHER IT'S A BUSINESS THAT ONLY HAS A SINGLE DRIVE.
WE DO OUR BEST TO, IF WE HAVE TO GO IN THERE AND REPLACE THE DRIVE, DO YOU HAVE AT A TIME? SO THAT AT LEAST THERE'S STILL ACCESS AND LIKE, THINGS LIKE THAT WE'LL USE LOOK AT THE BUSINESS OWNERS OR HOMEOWNERS OR WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE, LET THEM KNOW.
UM, LET'S SAY, I DUNNO, YOU'RE INTERESTED IN NAME EVERYTHING, THE ONE ON EAST PAST ARCADIA AND ALL THAT.
CAUSE WE'VE GOT A PROJECT FROM BASICALLY POST ROAD TO WEST MINISTER.
I RAN THAT IT'S CURRENTLY A NARROW TWO LANE, UH, TO POP'S.
UH, WE DO HAVE A PLAN TO WIDEN THAT.
UM, NOW WHEN IT'S SCHEDULED RIGHT NOW, FISCAL YEAR 2023.
SO SOMETIME NEXT YEAR IS WHERE WE PLAN ON, UH, STARTING THERE AT POST.
WE'RE GOING TO WAIT EAST TO POP'S.
SO WE'RE A WIDEN THAT FROM TWO LANES TO FOUR LANES WITH 18 BE FINISHED BY 26.
THE REASON WE TURNED IT TO GET SOME OF THIS DONE.
YEAH, NO, WE GOT A BIG THING GOING 26 OR 66.
WELL, WE HAVE THAT ONE IN 20, 23, AND THEN WE HAVE THIS SECTION THAT'S EAST OF ARCADIA, DULUTH THE ROAD.
THE ONLY SECTION THAT WILL BE LEFT THAT WE WOULDN'T HAVE DONE AT THAT LIGHT IS THROUGH THE TOWN OF ARCADIA ITSELF.
UM, AND THAT ONE IS A LITTLE BIT MORE DIFFICULT.
JUST DO THE CONSTRAINTS, THE ROUND BARN AND ALL THAT.
BUT WE DO HAVE PLANS TO DO SOMETHING TO REDO THAT SURFACE, BASICALLY EAST OF POPS, WHERE THAT BRIDGE IS OVER THE CREEK INTO THE TOWN ITSELF, INTO THE EAST SIDE, UH, PLANS ON THAT ONE ALREADY INCLUDE, UH, WE'RE GOING TO DO SOME WHITENING THROUGH THERE, NOT ENOUGH TO DO FOUR LANES, BUT THERE'LL BE A CURB AND GUTTER SECTIONS THROUGH THERE, ALONG THE SIDEWALK, ESPECIALLY AROUND THE ROUND BAR AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO, SO IT WILL DO A LOTS AS FAR AS THE PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENTS.
SO NOW THAT WE'RE IN THAT AREA, I WILL SHARE, WE DID A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE PLAN FOR THE TURNPIKE EXIT AT, AT POST ROAD.
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AND I THINK THERE'S SOME WITH OKLAHOMA CITY THAT I THINK THERE'S SOME WORK TO BE DONE ON POST ROAD BETWEEN THAT AND BACK AT OUR CITY LIMITS AT 33RD, WHICH MAY INCLUDE THE COUNTY.AND Y'ALL A LITTLE BIT, BUT JUST WANTED TO TOUCH ON.
WE WERE, WE'RE THANKFUL FOR THE TURNPIKE EXIT AND LOOKING FORWARD TO IT.
ARE YOU AWARE THAT ALSO THE CITY IS WORKING FOR THE 66 CENTENNIAL AND THAT WE'RE HAVING EVENTS ON 66? A LOT OF CITIES ARE.
SO, I MEAN, WE, UH, JUST TO SIDE NOTE WHERE YOU'RE OUT THERE DOING, UH, OR GETTING READY TO START, UM, WHAT THEY CALL THE, UH, UM, THE PONY CHARGE BRIDGE OUT THERE IN THE FAR NORTHEAST CORNER OF CADDO COUNTY, IT'S ACTUALLY NOT OUT OF OUR DISTRICT, BUT SOMEHOW WE GET STUCK WITH IT AND THAT'S, UH, UH, A 38 SPAN BRIDGE THAT'S ON THE OLD ROUTE 66.
IT WAS ACTUALLY IN THE GRAPES OF WRATH AND ALL THAT.
SO WE PLAN ON STARTING THAT HERE.
UM, THEY ALREADY HAD THE CONTRACTOR AWARDED ON THAT.
SO SOMETIME HERE WITHIN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS AND WE'RE ACTUALLY REBUILDING THAT WHOLE BRIDGE.
SO, AND THEN WE'RE TRYING TO GET THAT DONE BEFORE THE CENTENNIAL.
SO YEAH, THERE'S, THERE'S A LOT OF THAT THAT WE BASICALLY KNOW A LOT OF CITIES ARE DOING DIFFERENT THINGS AND THAT'S ONE OF THEM BEING THAT IT'S ON THE OLD ROUTE 66, WE WANTED TO GET THAT ONE DONE AS WELL.
UM, IT DID A FEW MORE HERE THAT WE CAN DISCUSS.
AND IF YOU WANT TO GO TO, UH, IT'S GOT, UH, AT 35 AND DANFORTH, THERE'S A KIND OF TOUCH ON WHAT STEVE WAS TALKING ABOUT AS FAR AS THE GROWTH AND EVERYTHING TO THE EAST SIDE, THIS IS A LITTLE BIT DIFFICULT TO SEE BECAUSE IT DIDN'T TURN OUT KIND OF COPIED THIS OFF THE KMZ VAL FROM GOOGLE EARTH, BUT THE, UH, THE YOLANDA GC AS A CURRENT CONFIGURATION AND, UH, WE'VE ALREADY, UM, DID SOME ACQUISITION TO BUY THE, UH, THE PROPERTY OVER ON THIS SIDE OVER HERE.
AND THESE, THESE OUTLINE LINES HERE, YOU CAN SEE WHAT'S GOING TO BE THE NEW OFF-RAMP TO CONNECT TO DANFORTH AND GIVEN THE CONSTRAINTS OF THIS PROPERTY UP HERE, WE COULDN'T PUT A TRADITIONAL DIAMOND INTERCHANGE IN.
SO WE HAD TO DO A LITTLE CREATIVE THINKING ON THAT.
SO WE BASICALLY HAVE DONE A LOOP ON-RAMP FOR NORTHBOUND.
SO THERE WILL BE A FULL INTERCHANGE HERE.
UM, LIKEWISE, UM, ON THE SOUTHBOUND SIDE, UM, WE ONLY HAD THE ON-RAMP, THAT WAS WAY SOUTH, JUST ALMOST RIGHT BEFORE SECOND STREET, WE'VE COME UP WITH A SOLUTION OR A SOLUTION TO THIS.
SO BASICALLY YOU'VE GOT AN OFF RAMP HERE FOR SOUTHBOUND THAT WILL COME OVER TO SOONER AND THEN AN ON-RAMP THAT WILL COME ON AND GO SOUTH.
SO TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT MORE ACCELERATION, THE ACCELERATION THROUGH THIS AREA, UH, THIS ALSO, WE'RE GOING TO REPLACE THE BRIDGE THAT IS CURRENTLY OVER AT 35 AND STRAIGHTENED OUT THIS, THIS WAS ONE THAT STEVE WAS TALKING ABOUT.
SO I WAS WORKING CONJUNCTION AS FAR AS WHAT YOU ALL ARE DEALING WITH THE INTERSECTION THERE AS CENTER AND WHAT WE PLAN ON DOING AS FAR AS, WITHOUT 35 AND ALL THE OFF-RAMPS IN THAT AREA.
UM, THIS PROJECT RIGHT NOW, I THINK WE HAVE A SCHEDULED FOR, LET'S SEE WHAT THE DATE IS 28.
UM, WELL WE DO, I TAKE THAT BACK.
IT IS ON 2020 RIGHT NOW, BUT WE DO HAVE PLANS OF MOVING THAT ONE UP.
SO, CAUSE I KNOW WE'RE PLANNING ON, UH, WINDING TO SIX LANES THROUGH THAT AREA.
SO WE, WE DO HAVE EVERY INTENTION OF MOVING THAT ONE UP IS ONE OF THOSE WHERE HE PUT IT AS A PLACE HOLDER IN THE BUD, BUT YET WITH ALL THE GROWTH AND EVERYTHING, UM, TALKING WITH STEVE AND ALL THE NEW ADDITIONS OUT TO THE EAST, WE KNOW THERE IS DEFINITELY A NEED FOR SOME IMPROVEMENTS THERE.
SO THIS ONE IS ONE THAT WILL GET MOVED.
AND ONE LAST ONE I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT IS IT, BUT AT 35 ON WATERLOO AND THERE IS A FILE ON THAT ONE AS WELL.
UM, THIS IS ONE THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR A LITTLE WHILE.
THIS ONE IS SCHEDULED TO LAST IN FISCAL YEAR 2024.
UM, IT'S KIND OF HARD TO BELIEVE, BUT ANY OF Y'ALL THAT LIVE IN THAT AREA, THERE IS JUST AS MUCH IF NOT MORE TRAFFIC THAT EXITS ARE AT WATERLOO THAN THERE IS AT COVILLE.
SO, AND I LIVE JUST EAST OF THERE.
SO I KNOW, UM, PLANS ARE ALREADY BASICALLY REDO THE BRIDGES OVER AT 35 OR OVER WATERLOO ON AT 35.
UM, WE'RE GOING TO WIDEN THOSE FOR PLANNING TO BASICALLY WIDEN 35, 6 LANES TO THAT POINT.
UM, I'VE TALKED WITH TRAN, I'M TRYING TO GET HIM TO, UH, LOOK EVEN FURTHER NORTH INTO THE SOUTH END OF GUTHRIE.
HE SAID, HE'S NOT READY TO DO THAT, BUT I'M STILL PUSHING THIS ONE'S IN 24.
THIS ONE WAS IN HIS 24 WHERE YOU DID HAVE IT SCHEDULED FOR FEBRUARY OF NEXT YEAR, BUT DUE TO THE DEVELOPMENT ON THE NORTHWEST CORNER AND WE NEEDED TO
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BUY ABOUT AN ADDITIONAL 17 FEET OR RIGHT AWAY FROM THE DEVELOPMENT.SO WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF DOING ALL THAT RIGHT NOW.
WE'VE ALREADY PURCHASED ALL THE PROPERTY THAT'S ON THIS CORNER HERE BECAUSE BASICALLY THE NEW FRONTAGE ROAD WILL COME UP AND TIE INTO ACROSS FROM THE, UH, EAST ENTRANCE TO THE ON CUE.
UM, AND YOU KINDA CAN SEE THIS AS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT, UH, INTERCHANGE.
IT'S WHAT WE CALL A DIVERGENT DIAMOND.
AND I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF Y'ALL EVER DRIVEN THROUGH THIS ARE A LITTLE DIFFERENT, BUT IT TAKES THE PLACE OF A, LIKE A FOUR-PHASE DIAMOND INTERCHANGE AND BASICALLY CHANGES IT TO, TO FACE THE HELP OF SOME OF THE TRAFFIC CONGESTION.
UM, WE'VE GOT ONE OUT IN WEATHERFORD THAT THEY JUST FINISHED UP, I THINK LAST YEAR.
AND I KNOW, UH, MISSOURI HAS QUITE A FEW ON THE I 44 CORRIDOR.
SO IF YOU'VE EVER GONE UP TO MISSOURI, ONE OF THOSE, IT'S AN ODD INTERSECTION.
IT'S WHAT THEY CALL A DUCK DIVERGING DIAMOND.
UM, SO THIS ONE SHOULD BE EARLY 20, 24, AS FAR AS WHEN THIS ONE GO OFF FOR BED AND HOPEFULLY START SOMETIME LATE SPRING, EARLY SUMMER OF 2024.
AND THAT'S KIND OF JUST A FEW OF THE THINGS THAT ODA HAS GOING ON.
UH, LIKE I SAID, I THINK TRENT AND STEVE TALK OFTEN, AND WE'RE ALWAYS OPEN TO LISTEN TO THINGS.
AND WHEN, SINCE YOU BRING UP THE, UH, THE CONNECTIVITY, THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN DEFINITELY LOOK AT AND GO FROM THAT POINT.
AND I'M SORRY, THERE'S A FEW OTHER THINGS WE PROBABLY HAVE GOING THAT, UH, IS HASN'T MADE A WHOLE LOT OF HEADWAY YET, BUT IT'S IN THE WORKS.
I THINK THE GOOD NEWS IS YOU'RE AT THE STATE LEVEL, YOUR APPROPRIATIONS HAVE BEEN VERY STRONG AND SOLID TO KEEP MOVING FORWARD WITH YOUR EIGHT YEAR AND EVEN MOVE.
LOOK AT MOVING THINGS UP THAT NEED TO BE MOVED UP.
YEAH, WE'VE BEEN PRETTY FORTUNATE THAT, UH, WITH A LOT OF THE STUFF THAT'S BEEN GOING ON, OUR BUDGET HAS INCREASED A LITTLE BIT.
UNFORTUNATELY LIKE STEVE MENTIONED IT ALSO THAT A LOT OF THE, UH, PRICES ARE GOING UP AS WELL.
SO THERE'S STILL A, A POSITIVE GAIN ON SOME WHAT WE CAN DO.
I'M JUST THANKFUL WE DO HAVE THE ADDITIONAL MONEY AND THE FUNDS AVAILABLE TO GET SOME OF THIS DONE SO WELL, WE APPRECIATE OUR RELATIONSHIP AND THAT A LOT OF THE ITEMS THAT WEREN'T ON THE EIGHT YEAR PLAN SOMETIME AGO, NOW THEY ARE.
AND, AND PRETTY SOON WE'RE GOING TO SEE OUR FAVORITE COLOR ORANGE CONES OUT THERE.
WE JUST GOT A COUPLE OF LITTLE THINGS HERE.
WE HAVE OUR, UH, WHAT FROM THE COUNTY PROJECTS, AND THIS IS WHAT THE STREET DEPARTMENT PARTNERS WITH OKLAHOMA COUNTY.
I CAN KIND OF CLICK ON THE MAP.
THESE ARE WHAT HE HAS SCHEDULED OVER THE NEXT, I BELIEVE FIVE YEARS, 23, 24.
THEY GO OUT AND HAVE THOSE AIR LOCAL AGREEMENTS AND PAY FOR THE MEN EQUIPMENT MATERIALS AND GET IT BUILT.
IT'S A REALLY EFFICIENT WAY, A VERY GOOD WAY TO BUILD THOSE ROADS OUT THERE AND GET THEM TO LAST FOR QUITE SOME TIME.
SO AGAIN, ABOUT FIVE AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS, WHAT THE, THESE ARE GOING TO COST OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS FROM, UH, FROM THE STREET DEPARTMENT.
SO REALLY THAT'S KIND OF THE END OF THE PRESENTATION THAT WE HAVE.
[3. Discussion of current and possible future funding sources for transportation infrastructure projects in the City of Edmond. ]
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR ME BEFORE I TURN OVER TO MR. RIGBY, CAN I ASK YOU ONE THING? UM, I'VE BEEN TALKING WITH THE, WITH THE GUY THAT'S DOING THE, THE, UH, ALLIE, THE MOVING OF THE, OR UPGRADING OF THE UTILITIES IN THE ALLEY DOWNTOWN, UM, TRYING TO HELP HIM FIND PLACES TO STAY STUFF WITH SOME OF THE OWNERS AND STUFF LIKE THAT.UM, THAT PROJECT, ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH IT? HAVE YOU WORKED? YEAH.
IT'S FOR THE WATER LINES AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
WHEN THEY WATCHED HIM SO FAR AND THERE, WILL THEY TAKE OUT THE ENTIRE SECTION OF THAT ALLEY OR WILL THEY JUST DIG WHERE THAT WATER LINE IS? YEAH, WE WEREN'T GOING TO REPLACE THE ENTIRE ALLEY, CAUSE THAT WOULD BE A HUGE COST, BUT THEY ARE GOING BACK IN AND BRINGING IT BACK UP AND TRYING TO FIX IT.
I CAN LOOK TO SEE HOW WIDE THEY'RE GOING, UH, IN THEIR PLANS, BUT WE DIDN'T INCLUDE THE ENTIRE WIDTH OF VALLEY BECAUSE SOMETIMES WE, FOR INSTANCE, WE WERE DOING SOME WORK AT, UM, JUST TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS WHERE THE LARC IS AND TOOK SOME CURB AND GUTTER OUT AND THE GUEST SERVICE LINES WERE ACTUALLY IN THE CONCRETE.
SO WE REALLY DON'T WANT TO PULL TOO MUCH OF IT UP IN THE OLD AREAS BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S IN IT, BUT WE CAN LOOK TO SEE IF THERE'S ADDITIONAL AREAS THAT NEED TO BE.
SO THAT, THAT ALLEY IS A MISMATCH OF CONCRETE, ASPHALT, GRAVEL, ALL OVER THAT.
I WOULD SAY IT WOULD BE REALLY NICE WHEN WE'RE DOING A PROJECT LIKE THAT TO DO THE WHOLE THING, BUT I'M SURE THAT'S NOT FEASIBLE, BUT IS THERE EVER A TIME OR A PLAN TO GO IN AND REMOVE AND REPLACE THOSE ALLEYS? I
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THINK THAT IF WE GET ALL THESE IMPROVEMENTS DONE, THE WATER, THE SEWER, THE SERVICES, WHATEVER ELSE OUT THERE THAT MIGHT BE A GOOD TIME WHEN WE KNOW THEY'RE ALL DONE.UM, IT WOULD BE VERY, I KNOW IT'S DISRUPTIVE NOW.
JUST GOTTA BE REAL CAREFUL BECAUSE A LOT OF THOSE ARE PAID RIGHT UP SOME OF THOSE OLD BUILDINGS AND WE'D HATE TO DAMAGE THEM, UH, TRYING TO GET IN THERE, BUT SOMETHING I CAN TALK WITH JIM SMITH ABOUT RIGHT NOW, THERE ISN'T ANY BUILDINGS ON MOST OF IT.
AND SO NOW WOULD BE A GOOD TIME TO DO SOME OF THEM, BUT I'LL JUST REMIND YOU THE AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC THAT GOES DOWN THOSE ALLEYS BECAUSE OF THE TRAIN.
UM, IT'S WHERE WE, IT'S WHERE DOWNTOWN PEOPLE CUT AWAY.
INSTEAD OF WAITING ON THE TRAIN.
ONCE THEY REALIZED THE TRAINS PARKED THERE, THEY TURN AND THEY GO DOWN THE ALLEY.
AND THE SECONDLY THE AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC THAT OUR TRASH TRUCKS RUN UP AND DOWN THOSE ALLEYS, UM, IS SIGNIFICANT.
UM, CAN TAKE IT FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH.
I'LL DISCUSS THAT WITH MR. SMITH AND SEE IF WE CAN GET BACK WITH YOU ON THAT.
SEE IF WE TAKE A MINUTE AND IN A WAY MOVING FORWARD, TALK ABOUT YOUR FUNDING NEEDS WHAT YOUR CURRENT FUNDING CAPACITY IS, NOT JUST ON THEIR MAJOR PROJECTS, BUT OVERLAYS, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE BEHIND ON SOME OF THOSE, WHAT DO I TAKE TO CATCH UP? AND THEN WHAT WOULD BE TO BE AN ONGOING BASIS TO STAY CURRENT? RIGHT.
KURT CURRENTLY, LIKE I SAID, WE, WE NORMALLY HAVE TWO AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS FOR ASPHALT OVERLAYS THIS YEAR.
WE ONLY HAD 1.8 BECAUSE WE HAD SOME OVERRUNS LAST YEAR ON, WE HAD SOME COMPLAINTS ON SEVENTH STREET, SOME DRAINAGE ISSUES.
AND WE OVERTLY, WE MOVED THAT PROJECT UP AS SOME CURB AND GUTTER INTO TAKE CARE OF SOME FLOODING ISSUES FROM A GENTLEMAN THAT WAS EXPERIENCING SOME FLOODING.
SO THAT TOOK SOME MONEY OUT OF THIS YEAR'S BUDGET.
SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE GOING OUT FOR A NEW RFQ, RFP FOR OUR PAYMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, BUT FROM EXPERIENCE.
UM, RIGHT NOW WE HAVE TWO AND A HALF.
IF WE HAD ANYWHERE FROM THREE AND A HALF TO FOUR AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS FOR THE NEXT FOUR OR FIVE, FIVE YEARS, THAT WOULD GET US CAUGHT UP WITH JUST WHAT YOU SAW ON OUR LIST UP THERE.
AND SOME OF THE OTHER ONES THAT ARE COMING.
UM, WE HAVE A LOT OF NEIGHBORHOODS THAT WERE BUILT NINETIES AND EARLY TWO THOUSANDS.
WE HAVE NEVER TOUCHED A STREET IN COFFEE CREEK AND I WOULD ASSUME TO MILL AND OVERLAY THE STREETS IN COFFEE CREEK ALONE WOULD BE SIX OR $7 MILLION, MAYBE MORE JUST FOR THAT ONE NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND THOSE WERE ALL BUILT OVER ABOUT A 10 YEAR TIME PERIOD.
SO ONCE THE FIRST ONE STARTS GOING, THE REST OF THEM ARE GOING TO JUST, JUST CONTINUE TO BALLROOM SNIP SNOWBALL.
AND WE HAVE A LOT OF NEIGHBORHOODS LIKE THAT.
THAT'S WHY THE SILVER CLOUD FAIR CLOUD, WE HAD TO DO THAT IN THREE PHASES, FOUR PHASES, BECAUSE ONE PHASE WAS FOR THE WHOLE THING WAS I THINK, 4 MILLION.
SO WE DID A MILLION AND A MILLION AND A MILLION AND JUST FOUND LOGICAL BREAKING POINT.
SO AGAIN, TO GET CAUGHT UP WITH WHAT WE JUST BID, WE WOULD NEED AT LEAST TWO YEARS FUNDING AT FOUR AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS TO DO THE REST OF THOSE THAT WOULD GET US CAUGHT UP THERE.
UH, BUT I'VE GOT A WHOLE LOT MORE PROJECTS THAT AS I'VE MENTIONED, THAT WE'RE GETTING CALLS ABOUT THAT WE GO AND LOOK AT THAT ARE DETERIORATING RAPIDLY, THAT AREN'T NECESSARILY ON OUR LIST, BUT THE WEATHER WE'VE HAD HAS JUST BEEN REALLY HARD ON.
SO THAT'S KIND OF THE, WHERE WE ARE ON OVERLAYS.
AS I MENTIONED, WE HAVE TOTAL OF ABOUT $121 MILLION WORTH OF PROJECTS.
THAT'S OVERLAYS THE COUNTY PEDESTRIAN SAFETY EVENTS WIDENINGS, AND WE ONLY HAVE ABOUT $84 MILLION BUDGET.
SO, I MEAN, WE HAVE $84 MILLION SHORTFALL TO BUILD ALL THOSE THAT ARE CURRENTLY UNDER DESIGN THAT'S CURRENTLY ON THIS LIST.
SO I THINK THE NUMBER WAS ABOUT 70% UNFUNDED OUT OF THAT LIST WITH WHAT WE HAVE CURRENTLY DESIGNED, KNOCK TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THOSE OTHER PRIORITY PROJECTS THAT ARE GOING TO COME UP HERE SOON FOR TRAFFIC.
WELL, AND AT THE SAME TIME, THE, THE MONEY THAT YOU DO HAVE BUDGETED FOR THAT AS COMING FROM CIP WHERE THERE'S COMPETING INTEREST FOR GOOD QUALITY OF LIFE PROJECTS.
AND SO IT'S, IT'S NOT ONLY ARE, IS THERE A SHORTFALL FOR YOU, BUT WE'RE, WE'RE SHARING, SHARING IT KIND OF A TINY BUCKET.
IT'S NOT TINY, IT'S A LOT OF MONEY, BUT IT'S W BUT AS FAR AS THE NEEDS ARE CONCERNED, REALLY HAVING TO SHARE CORRECT MAYOR, CUSTOMER, WHERE YOU BRING UP A GREAT POINT.
I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S, WE HAVE TREMENDOUS NEEDS.
AND THIS ISN'T JUST BECAUSE OF GROWTH IS BECAUSE OF OUR EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE.
AND JUST OVER TIME AT AGES, UM, KIND OF LIKE ALL OF US OVER TIME, WE JUST NEED MORE HELP TO, TO KEEP UP DEFERRED MAINTENANCE.
SOME ARE BETTER AT IT THAN OTHERS.
UM, I'LL JUST LEAVE IT AT THAT, BUT, UM, SHE'S BACK DENIED.
I'M SPEAKING FOR MYSELF, MOVING ON.
UM, THAT WAS A RABBIT HOLE THERE, BUT
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I THINK THE IMPORTANT THING IS WHETHER EVEN IF WE WERE TO STOP THE DOORS OF GROWTH, WE STILL HAVE THESE NEEDS RESTRUCTURE.WE ALSO KNOW IN A LOT OF ASPECTS THAT YOU JUST HEARD WITH WITHOUT A, WE ARE A PASS THROUGH CITY FOR PEOPLE GOING NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, AND WEST TO HAVE TWO STATE HIGHWAYS OF 77 66, THAT CUT THROUGH ARE, THERE'S A LOT OF TRAFFIC BETTER COMING TO EDMUND, BUT GOING THROUGH ADMIN, WE ALL KNOW THE TRAFFIC.
I'VE HAD A GREAT DISCUSSION WITH SECRETARY GATZ AND HIS TEAM.
AND I THINK WE HAVE SOME INNOVATIVE IDEAS COME DOWN THE ROAD THAT CAN FURTHER THAT OPPORTUNITY, BUT JUST ON OUR ROADS AND OUR OVERLAYS, UM, WE ALL TRAVEL THE ROADS AND WE SEE THERE, THERE COULD BE IMPROVEMENTS AND THAT'S THE CHALLENGE OF A MATURING ORGANIZATION.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS YOU'LL SEE ON THIS REPORT, WE IDENTIFIED SEVERAL DIFFERENT FUNDING OPTIONS FOR THE CITY TO CONSIDER DOWN THE ROAD.
SOME OF THOSE CAME OUT OF THE EDMOND 2050 PLAN.
UH, AND I THINK WHEN THE INTERESTING THINGS, AS I READ WHEN I FIRST CAME, WE HAVE IN 2050 PLAN AND SAID, EVEN IF YOU DEVELOP AS THE INVENTORY, 50 PLANNING CALLS OUT, I THINK RAN, IT CALLS FOR $9 MILLION SHORTFALL ANNUAL BASIS OF COSTS THAT THE CITY WOULD FACE BADASS TRANSPORTATION, A LOT OF THAT AS WATER AND WASTEWATER AND ASPECTS.
SO WE GOT TO FIND A WAY TO CHIP AWAY AT THAT.
THERE'S NOT GOING TO BE A SINGLE SILVER BULLET THAT SAYS, OH, YOU GET THIS TOOL, YOU'LL SOLVE ALL YOUR ISSUES.
IT'S GOING TO BE A COMBINATION OR EXISTING CIP FUNDING.
AND WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT KATRINA, SOME FEDERAL AND STATE FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES.
WE'RE GOING TO OUR CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATIONS TO FIND OUT WHAT, UM, WHATEVER THE, THE I'LL CALL IT, THE FUNDING MECHANISM OF THE DAY FOR, FOR FEDERAL FUNDS, WITH, WITH A COG FETTER MEANS WITH OUR, OUR LOCAL DELEGATION HAS BEEN GREAT TO WORK WITH.
WE NEED TO BE LOOKING AT OUR DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS, MAKE SURE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT OCCURS OUT THERE.
THAT'S A GREAT WORD, PAVING OR PAIN FOR THEIR FAIR SHARE OF THE IMPACT OF THE BRINGING, WHETHER IT'S, YOU KNOW, CITY SCHOOLS, PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT, MAKING SURE THAT THE BURDEN PLACE ON THE, ON THE D ON THE AREA IS THEIR FUNDING, THEIR APPROPRIATE SHARE TO DO THAT.
THE ASPECTS THAT WE COULD BE LOOKING AT.
AND I THINK EDMUND 20 FEET, IT CALLS OUT IS FOR DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEES.
UH, SHOULD WE EXPLORE PARK DEVELOPMENT FEE, IMPACT FEES, WATER, WASTEWATER DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEE.
SHOULD WE LOOK AT TRANSPORTATION IMPACT OF PUBLIC, UH, SAFETY IMPACT FEES TO MAKE SURE THAT WHILE WE WANT NEW DEVELOPMENT TO OCCUR, BUT IT'S NOT ADVERSELY IMPACTING THE EXISTING ENVIRONMENT OF THIS AND OUR EXISTING RATE PAYERS TO, TO HAVE THAT HAPPEN.
AND THEN THE OTHER ONE, I THINK THAT'S BEEN, MUST DISCUSSED OVER THE NUMBER OF YEARS IN THE COMMUNITY.
I THINK IF, IF MY STAFF TELLS ME CORRECTLY, WE'RE THE ONLY ONE IN THE REGION THAT DOESN'T HAVE THIS TOOL, WHICH IS A GEO PROPERTY TAX.
UM, SO YEAH, I KNOW AS I TALKED TO HER ELLEN, ELLEN DELEGATION AND OTHERS, CONGRESSIONAL STATE, AND THEN OUR LOCAL PUBLIC, MOST PEOPLE ARE UNAWARE OF THAT.
THEY THINK WE ALSO HAVE THAT CAPABILITY, BUT WE DO NOT.
AND THAT LEAVES US SOMEWHAT AS A DISADVANTAGE TO CATCH UP AND THEN GET AHEAD OF SOME OF THESE CHALLENGES.
IT WAS A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF WORK THAT STEVE AND JANE AND KEITH AND ANDY, AND PUT TOGETHER ON THIS.
I KNOW IT WAS A HEAVY LIFT OR WORKSHOP, BUT I THOUGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO SHOW THE MAGNITUDE.
I MEAN, THERE'S A LOT OF GREAT THINGS THAT ARE GOING TO OCCUR.
I MEAN, I KNOW THE MAYOR, YOU JOKED ABOUT THE ORANGE CONE, BUT THAT MIGHT BE OUR, OUR CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT FOR THE NEXT FOUR OR FIVE YEARS.
AND WE NEED, UH, WHAT I WOULD SAY IS OUR COMMITMENT WITHOUT, WITHOUT OD AND OTHERS IS WE'RE GONNA TRY AND BE AS PROACTIVE AS WE CAN FAR ENOUGH AHEAD OF PROJECTS TO WORK WITH OUR BUSINESS LEADERS, OUR BUSINESS COMMUNITY, AND OUR RESIDENTS TO KNOW, HEY, THESE PROJECTS ARE COMING.
YOU KNOW, YOU MIGHT BE DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD FRIDAY, MONDAY, JUST HEADS UP, YOU KNOW, CERTAIN WEEKS IN ADVANCE MONDAY MAY BE A DIFFERENT TRAFFIC CYCLE FOR THAT, BUT HERE'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO, TO MAKE, UM, EDMUND BETTER.
SO TONIGHT YOU'LL SEE, UH, ONE OF THE ITEMS ON THE AGENDA IS TO UTILIZE ONE OF OUR, UH, ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS WILL DAN TO DO SOME PRELIMINARY WORK ON SOME OF THESE DIFFERENT TOOLS TO SEE, WOULD THEY REALLY PROVIDE ENOUGH TRACTION TO BE WORTHWHILE, TO CONSIDER? SO MOVING INTO QUESTIONS, OPEN TO STAFF, THANKS AGAIN, TRAPPED STAFF, TREMENDOUS HEAVY LIFT TO BRING THIS.
AND I DON'T THINK IT'S BEEN MENTIONED THE NEW WEBSITE THAT, WELL, I'M GOING TO SAY UPDATED THAT, SHOWING THESE PROJECTS AND THAT'S LIVE ONLINE AND THAT'S BEEN ASKED OF US BY THE COMMUNITY FOR THAT.
AND SO I, I THINK IT LOOKS FANTASTIC.
WE UPDATE THAT ON A MONTHLY BASIS.
IT USED TO BE QUARTERLY, BUT NOW WE KNOW, BUT AS FAR AS INTERACTIVE, IT'S GOT THE MAP.
I CAN CLICK ON WHERE THE PROJECT IS BEING PLANNED OR DESIGNED AND, AND GET MORE INFORMATION ON THAT.
AND I THINK IF CITIZENS WILL USE THAT, IT WILL BE REALLY HELPFUL IN SPREADING INFORMATION AROUND TOWN.
I APPRECIATE THE TIME THE EFFORT IS IN THERE.
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A FOUNDATION TO BUILD OFF OF THIS AND GO FORWARD FOR FUTURE CONVERSATIONS AND WHERE WE NEED TO GO AS A CITY.ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL OR WORKSHOP? A LOT OF INFORMATION.
CAN WE HAVE A GERMAN FROM THIS WORKSHOP? I MOVE.