he is have you heard this one no he won't be here okay good enough all right we got everybody we need okay we want to call this meeting to order uh today's the continuation of professional engineering services interviews agenda
and today is April the 15th everybody got your tax to paid yeah all right well it's too late now no it's not you have till midnight cpa over here uh April 15 2025 and so
Kobe um how you want to run through this okay Mayor if we could quickly do two housekeeping things how you'd like to run the meeting so first um you know we done it the last time do we want to have the applicants give their presentation and then the council ask questions after
or do y'all want to ask questions as they go through their presentation that's up to the body how y'all like to go about doing that i think it probably I know everybody's kind of concerned about how much time it'll take i think if we condense it at the end of their spill it probably go much quicker uh
because you know you could chase a rabbit for a long time that's up to all of y'all how y'all like to do it sounds good to me i see the end presentations i So we do that and Okay there's a couple of here is going to give you points for
being short so I'm just going to but we want you to you know share your We're about this your presentation we're not mayor and then secondly council members you'll see before you two sheets you'll see a evaluation scoring sheet which is
a criteria that was inside the RFQ and then you will see a ranking sheet which is simply a one through five so I think we need to decide on how you all would like to rank the applicants as they go through understanding that we will not be voting today this is just a workshop so applicants will give their interviews
and we will have this back compiled on the April 28th for y'all all to vote on exactly who you like it to be so I think we need to decide on which criteria so everyone's on the same sheet of music and I will say as always everyone knows public record so that's an FYI but I
think we do need to decide on which one y'all would like to use sarah was doing the same thing say the ranking machine i would prefer this one yeah I agree council Harrison um I'm okay with that i
mean I think we have to be consistent what we're looking at and that gives a good guideline as to that um but we can summarize on one sheet councilman Cos with that okay so mayor we will use this sheet for the official ranking and again
we won't be voting today so you can write it down if you like or you can hold that until April 28th we are recording right correct this is a live meeting if everybody wasn't aware um and so thank you all for coming we'll ask real quickly is Anchor CI in the room
okay baskerville Donovan CDG Midtown Associates and Okonnell Associates all right thank you'all mayor all the applicants are here um so I think we're ready to go does everybody understand how the process for today all
right thank you Mayor you want to follow that order we can we'll go to the order on the agenda all right the order on the agenda was uh alphabetical that's how we did it all right okay and so give me the name of
first group anchor anchor all right your finger wants to come and uh begin your presentation we'll give you that and then we'll uh ask questions at the end yeah there is a there is a uh up to everyone
there's seating out here in the lobby there's seating here there's a training room around the corner behind the elevator and there's a conference room here and an employee lounge that has a bunch of seating as well so as always you're you're more than welcome to stay in the room but I can tell everyone understands professionalism to it so plenty of places to go that was gonna
make me a little nervous we don't usually present to other professionals did we close the door no sir we cannot close the door thank you hey good afternoon my name is Britney Trumbull i'm the vice president of Anchor this is Elizabeth Moore she's our
president and Brian Osborne he is uh one of our main project managers first of all we appreciate y'all having us here we appreciate you're ranking us uh I I think tied for first um when you went through our proposals and uh we know that takes a lot of time it takes a lot
of time to do this and uh and just want to say thank you first of all um and we will be short i don't think we'll take up all 30 minutes so I don't know if Mayor if you meant short in stature we get extra points we're short in presentation maybe I get both i don't know i'll take them both you mind them both
u first of all I'm going to tell you a little bit about Ankor uh Elizabeth and I founded Anker in 2015 so it's been almost 10 years um our office is trying to figure out uh some of our office staff is trying to figure out if we're going to have a party for that 10 year anniversary but I got to figure that out but before that we both worked for
Prebbleish which was the company the precursor of uh Deubberry we neither one of us worked for Bubberry but we did work for Prebbleish um and we at the time worked for Defunia u Elizabeth was the main point of contact for Defunia at that time and and in the years prior to
that so um we started Ankor and as a womanowned business we are a woman of business we're the two sole owners we um are disadvantaged our DBE we have our DB certifications with DOT and the state and we also um
uh I think that's probably it sba with um small business association with the federal government so um we started anchor we thought at the time we wanted to focus primarily on construction inspection we had done mostly municipal work up to that time both of us had and you know if we thought that there was a
real opportunity for inspection work at the time and that was great for a little bit but as we have grown we have fallen back into our roots of municipal engineering which is really about what both of us like so today we probably do about 50 to 60% municipal work
uh 30 so um inspection work and project management and then about 20% private development work uh our office our main office is in Panama City um most of our staff lives in in Bay County not all of it brian is a Walton County resident he
he's um he's over here with you guys so that's kind of our um so we're not too terribly far away i know proximity is important if um Bay County and Walton County are a lot alike though these days and um we understand your concerns and we're never far away
um proximity-wise uh but Elizabeth and I as we started Anker we kind of got into um we have we have grown over the years we've grown slowly i feel like lately we are kind of growing exponentially um and as we grow we're kind of trying to head west and um would love to have an
opportunity to work with you guys go to the next one oh I have it excuse me all right so who we are i talked a little bit about our um our DV certifications and our womanowned uh certifications but really and and I want to also mention that we are inspection
and uh design certified with the state for uh in DOT um and you can see our certifications listed we also have a licensed architect on staff but I want to mention today that while we think we are very qualified we are very qualified we're
good at what we do what I think sets us apart from other firms you may hear from today is our uh is the difference that we can make for the city that we're not um we're not a big box firm and we have the flexibility of a small firm and we operate more like
an engineering firm of the past where it's whatever you need it's extension of we and we operate differently for different um clients it's we can be extension of staff we can be more integrated in your system or we can be an on basis needed we do that for
different clients that we have um we don't have to have a signed proposal to answer the phone and have a conversation with you we can um again that's the flexibility of a small firm some you know I know that's kind of some models the bigger firms have gone to that you it's a little bit
more formal but we like to operate a little bit more whatever the needs to to make sure we understand the needs of the city and that we're falling into the needs of the city so um I think that that's a way that we could set ourselves
apart and that um that if you if we have someone assigned to the city and we are communicating efficiently and effectively if we understand the needs of the city on a regular basis that we um and that we integrate ourselves in the city with with each of you that we
have relationships with each of you that that that's the way that we set ourselves apart and that's the way we operate differently than other firms and we do that for our current clients now we would like the opportunity to do that for the city here are some of the team members we propose to work on the Definiac uh
contract um as you can see uh that's some of our inspection staff that's some of our drafting staff our architect and our other engineers in our office u but I also wanted to point out some of the subcontractors that we use on a regular basis who are listed at the bottom who we have really good relationships with
and we think do really good work um that would be the first one is Magnum Engineering the principal of Magnum and the principal of Cypress Environmental elizabeth went to high school with them um Buchanan and Harper is a very u longstanding really good surveying company in Bay County that we use on
most of the projects that we do and they do really good work and we have long personal and business relationships with uh Buchanan and Harbor um and I think that's important because we take everything we do personally um when Elizabeth and I
started this business we said our our it's hard to put this in a logo but what we want to do at the end of the day is be able to lay our heads on a pillow and and be comfortable that every decision we made was ethical and moral and that's the way we operate and everything that
we do and we feel good about those um subcontractors that they do the same that we've listed that's not to say that those are the only subcontractors we use but that's who we listed on our teaming agreement um you know we're I think we're pretty good about knowing where our boundaries are and u but also and
boundaries as in where we can perform and where we can help but also knowing how who to look for help if there's some if it's something outside of the scope of services that we could perform um pulling somebody else in so again those are the ones we have listed not the only ones we use but we do feel pretty
comfortable with those so what do we specialize in well we really don't specialize in in much of of anything we're we're civil engineers we're kind of a a jack of all tra all trades um but we do have a we do have a lot of experience just between the the three of us i think we have 70 some
years of of of experience um I'll tell you how much I experience I have of 22 years i'm not going to tell you their experience so you can do the math um so I'm not not going to do that to to them um but um Elizabeth kind of if she specializes in anything it's it's in municipal i
mean that's she's she's done that most of her whole career it's not to say Britney and I haven't done the same thing we have um but uh Elizabeth is really an expert at that i really like site development that's what I love it kind of covers your your streets your storm water you know sewer water just a
little bit of everything and then Britney she really specializes in construction she does a a really good job of that uh holding contractors accountable and make sure you guys get what you're paying for um so I might just uh so just on on our services there
obviously the water and sewer um we we're we're good at that um the um storm water transportation um all that we we we do really well on i also might highlight our our plan review um we do plan reviews for several
municipalities um those aren't huge money makers for us and it's not really glamorous but we understand that that's uh that's super important first of all there's a Florida statute that requires it to be done in a certain amount of time so we understand that and we also understand that when a developer gets angry because something's taking a long time you guys are the ones that get the
phone calls um so we we we understand we we definitely understand that aspect of it um then we can also do um a simplified checklist for for uh for developers to to take a look at to make those submitts a little bit easier um
and then uh grants as well um we understand grants and you guys have done a really good job of securing some pretty uh substantial grants um so we understand those funding agencies and and those requirements um and and know what to look out for on the design side of that so um and then like like uh
Britney mentioned we also do construction engineering inspection so if you guys do you guys want to talk about that just a little bit that that service you got yeah i mean so our construction admin I think a lot of times people end up especially whenever you're looking at different job costs and um and we get it you end up spending
a lot of money with your engineers so I think a lot of times whenever different cities and counties are looking at okay how do we reduce these costs a lot of times you end up looking at your construction admin um and but one of those things is that it's con it's often overlooked and we try to keep those fees low but still provide a solid inspection
service you're putting a lot of money into your infrastructure you need to make sure that it's being um put in the way that it was designed and in a way that it'll last now that doesn't mean that you can't use your inspectors if you have on-site inspectors and you have people there we're happy to work with your inspectors that's not to say that
we have to be the ones to do it but we definitely want to be involved um it helps it helps the city and it helps us as well so that we can make sure that what we designed is actually what's put in the ground and so that we can make sure that like I said it's designed the way it's supposed to it it eliminates a
lot at the end so that say you have a road that you built and it's got a problem well of course the contractor is going to say it's the designer's fault and then the the inspector is going to say it's somebody else's fault and the geotech's going to say it's you know it it's so if we're out there for one we can stop problems before they start
because we're inspecting say your base um and we see that it's pumping or we see that they're not using the correct material that was designed but try to do that after that's a little bit harder so we do believe that the construction admin is a huge part of it and that is what we started out to do it's not our
focus but we've certainly learned over the years that's something that you you don't want to ignore and you want to make sure that your engineer has that plus there's been I I can't tell you how much we have learned going out in the field and meeting with the contractors and going "Oh I mean we're not we're not
above it to say you know what you're right that we should tighten that spec up." Or you know what that's right we need to fix that and help them help us so that we put a spec together that is attainable and that makes sense and that is constructible because I don't know I've looked at a lot of plans especially
in these plan reviews that he's talking about and you learn so much from being out in the field so and it's forever changing and it changes for every area and it changes for each project so we like to get out in the field all of us not just our inspectors but all of us get out in the field and actually look to see what's going on and I can tell
you we engineers we don't like to leave our cubicles so um but we do we we encourage everybody to go out and look at our look at our projects before they're built while they're being built and after they're built so that service too can vary from we've had clients that
we are full owners representatives so we do everything to answer every question act as the owner we've had clients that we do one or two inspections and do a final certification so and anything from here to here too yeah depends on what the
city needs that I think that also includes we didn't really talk about this either but um but contract development bidding services and all um we have really have a tremendous amount of experience in that making sure that contract documents are set up
correctly bidding is done legally um and you know that kind of goes back to your grant requirements or or whatever requirements the city might have for that specific project and bidding actually is a little bit of an art form um you really have to think like a contractor and you have to think about where they're going to hide the
where they're going to move it like you have to limit mobilization cost so they don't put all of it at the front get all their money up front but at the same time like you have to be able to be fair it's it's a it's an art for sure and so that's why Brian didn't say I've been doing it for 25 years and I was the city
engineer for another municipality for a few years too so I understand both sides so our approach um like I said we are um we're engineers with a lot of experience we we can do
everything on on on this slide um we can and quite honestly so can everyone else sitting out there um they they can do that as well but what what makes us different well if you look at those uh bottom two two lines there um the um I think uh I think there's
there's two things that set us apart it's communication so like like um we want to hit the we want to hit the ground running as soon as as soon as we're awarded we want to be able to to to meet with staff and be able to um you know find out exactly what your your
needs are and help you guys out um and and and get things going um so part of that is uh is is good communication um if you get an email from us or if we give you a business card every single one of us our cell phone numbers are are listed on there um you can call text
email us anytime um we strive to have same day um um response on all all emails and uh text messages and phone calls um and then for for larger projects what we like to do is have if if staff likes
it have regular meetings where at the very beginning we establish a timeline um and and go through that time and meet every week or every two weeks whatever frequency works and go through the timeline go through the budget um go
through what items we need from you guys uh and then and then you guys are uh and then give you guys an update on give staff an update on on where we're at with that project basically we what we want is you guys never to want uh to staff to never know what the status of a project we want you guys to always know
what what it is um we don't want to hide we don't want to we don't want to be behind or anything like that those those uh those meetings help you help keep you guys keep us accountable and then keep you guys informed as well um and then
can I add one thing depending on level of um service to a municipality too we have municipalities that we meet with every week and go over all project lists or if it's a specific project during that project time but but also just you know we could set up monthly meetings we
could do bi-weekly well that's that would be up to whatever the city would want um and then and then like it says there there at the bottom I do live in Walton County so um I can always um I'm available for meetings and stuff like that for instance one of our clients is
it's Freeport so it's really convenient for me to run by Freeport either on the way in or on the way home um and then I also like to play Eagle Springs quite a bit so um so an afternoon meetings like 3:30 something like that it' be perfect get round of golf in so that's
beneficial to both of us so um and then the other thing uh billing budgeting and cost control um we work for a lot of small municipalities that have have limited resources and if we blow the budget on something you know there's no more money to go back and ask for you know they just they have they have
limited resources so so we'd have to eat that so we're careful about making sure we meet budgets um and stay stay on uh uh on budget um and we know it's your guys' job to protect the city's resources um so we we understand that
aspect of it as well um we also like to bill at certain frequencies it may be a little bit unusual what he's saying is I I don't bill every month i don't like much to our accountants she doesn't like that but um
but I don't I'm not an actual accountant that's right my ears are perked up because I do all of our books she's the CO so technically so but the issue is is that I spent a lot of years invoicing every month i don't like sending out an invoice for $500 um unless you know it's
just a development order with you or something like that i would much rather wait until we have a milestone and then submit the invoice whenever I can submit you with a set of plans and I can say "Here's your 30% set of plans here's your 30% invoice." I don't like to come to meetings where people see our invoices and want an actual and they
don't have anything to show for our efforts so instead of sending every month an invoice I'm more of a quarterly invoicer but again that's what how I set up the milestones i set the milestones and once we hit those then I send the invoice so it's not unusual for us to be um we have a project right now that's
that's um it's a large project i'm about to submit the 30% we have not invoiced anyone we have paid for the surveyor we paid for the geotech um and we're um about 30% done with design britney is probably going to have me write an invoice on the way home but but but my
point is is that you know you guys you all have to be good stewards of the city's money and if you don't if I were a homeowner and I paid for a service I'd want to see the service that was provided therefore I'm not going to send you a bill for something that we haven't completed so that's part of our our goal
we spend your money like it's ours um we try to be very good stewards of the city's money because we realize that y'all are being good stewards of somebody else's money on that note we try to think about the same thing in design we're not going to design you a Taj Mahal when you're asking for a spec house um to use that example I mean I I
think we we pay really close attention to what the city can afford and then design to you to get the best bang for your buck within that not what we think should be built or what we would like some spotlight project we would like to see you know it's like a waterline extension or something do we have to go
out there and get a topo survey every 50 feet and spend you know $15,000 on a survey when we can go out there walk the job in an afternoon see what kind of material the driveways are made of and it's a water line and we know what's required there so those are the kinds of things that we try to do for the for the
cities that we work for and and just and back back to building just a just a little bit um we we'll work with staff on whatever whatever the the the city's needs are on on billing we we'll we'll do that and we'll bill however you guys want us to if you wanted to be build more
frequently we we would happily do that just do that for some no just wouldn't do that unless you required it and sometimes it's required for different funding agencies and stuff like that too so um so we we can be flexible in that regard
um so our clients um so obviously um we um we work for a lot a lot of cities that's not all of them we work for a lot of cities and a lot of counties um there there's a few more that we we we could
have added um and just keep in mind that we've been in business 10 years less than 10 years right um so that's a pretty impressive list um of it um in our in our packet we we put in there um the the phone numbers and contact for for people on that feel free to reach
out to them you guys don't have to score us yet reach out to them and give them a call i mean we're we're not afraid of it we we know what they're going to say about us and two there's there's a wide range of clients in here like we talked about earlier some of these clients we we touch every day city of Parker I I
know exactly when public works director goes to lunch i know what day he's off i know when he gets to work and when he leaves and I often call after that but in the he enters the phone and he calls me on weekends you know we had this water line blow out can you come over here and look at it we'll come over and look at it um you know we don't send an
invoice for that that's just we know we know that we're going to be good to them and they're going to be good to us so um but like City of Appalachiccola we have a grant writing um contract a grant management contract with them um Hen County we do mostly road paving with them so you know the point of all of
this that we're saying is that we're going to tailor our services to what the city needs so as Brian mentioned within the first 30 days we're selected we're going to come meet with your staff we're going to sit down say "Hey how often do you want us to build hey how often do you want to meet do you want to meet once a month you know how do you want to do this you know how do you need Brian to come and pick up development
reviews?" Whatever that is that's we're going to tailor it to whatever you guys want all right um so these are some of the projects that we're either currently working on or just closed out we mention them mainly because we feel like these are
the types of projects that um probably DeFunak Springs has ongoing or is in need of um you know established 1884 you probably have some aging infrastructure y'all are in Walton County y'all are growing um the first thing that you start looking at is infrastructure water
sewer roads so um you know we mentioned we believe that you have um you know a good grant writing process y'all are obviously doing well in that regard but it's super important that your engineer knows the ins and outs of your grants um and your funding sources one because you want us to be able to watch and see
whenever a need comes up say "Oo hey mention this to the grant writer this is something that you can get funding for." Um the other thing is you know yeah getting the money is a big first step that's big there's a whole lot that comes after that you have quarterly reporting you have um you know CDBG will
look at your website to make sure that it's ADA compliant they'll make sure that your bathrooms are ADA compliant i mean y'all know this you um I'll show you in a minute but I've helped y'all get a CDBG grant a while back but you know all of these different projects they require different kinds of expertise on our part not just from an
engineering perspective but also from a grants perspective and almost all these are um that isn't to say that the only thing we work on are grant funded projects um we've worked on sports parks we have worked on skate parks we have worked on um uh different marina
projects we have worked on uh seaw wall projects um you know really and truly municipal engineering is fun to me because you just never know what you're going to do that day um and after doing it for 25 years um you know I've seen a lot and I've done a lot um Brian Britney
we've all worked and done a lot of different things and we have a lot of expertise that we can bring to the city except for making the slide go it is not on here um so um these are the different grant programs that we
have experience with and that we're either working with now um we have seven minutes we're not going to get our points for being brief so I'm just going to tell you that um CDBG um both disaster recovery ne neighborhood revitalization all of those we're familiar with all the different kinds i will say that Britney when we used to
work here before did go door to door one street down doing uh income surveys for one of the CDBG grants so it's a life experience that is asking knocking on somebody's door and asking them how much money they make people love that i was her boss at the time i
stayed in my office um so FEMA grants I mean if you've ever dealt with FEMA you know all of the wreckage requirements they have we are very versed in those and we have a ton of paperwork to support it um all of them have their I'm not going to go through them all all of them have their nuances and we're very
familiar with all of them whether it's um resident compliance inspection to make sure that the people that are out there are meeting federal wage rates we have experience with that we know how to file all the forms if your staff wants to do that work and we can just assist them that's okay too um you know however the city wants to set that up is there
anything we need to add to that um okay so I mentioned that we have some history with the city of Defunia um and and we do um CDBG grants it was a while back but we did um obtain actually I don't know if you didn't have a a
grant writer at the time or if we were just um they were mostly engineering projects but Britney and I actually wrote over I think $3 million worth of grants whenever we were here for the city of Defunia um for projects that range from um DRF uh USDA water mate now we didn't write
all of these but we were definitely involved in them on at some level um your um your um the CDBG concrete asbestos pipe replacement um FDPS or life northwest water management district water system improvements we've worked
on several projects here within the city so we do have a familiarity and then Brian has familiarity with other projects that you want to mention those uh yeah so pine estates um phase one I don't know if you guys are familiar with that one but that one set uh vacant after the economy tanked um after the
downturn turn for quite a while so I was involved in getting the the the sewer reinspected you know the the water tested the road wouldn't have tested the storm water redone getting the pump station going back up uh so I handled all that stuff and then I was also involved in phase two of that which I
don't think has been constructed just to the north of it um but I believe that has been approved by you guys and then North Davis Town Homes is as well as involved in that one as well so so we all do have some history with the city hey that's the end of our presentations
we'd be happy to answer any questions that y'all might have but we do appreciate your time okay let's just uh around the room we'll start with Todd i've got a couple questions here so can you kind of touch briefly on the thought process behind selecting your example
work that's included in in the packet the example work that we went over here that and in the the original submittal so most of that I think we were just trying to show you a depth of knowledge that Ankor has for the types of projects that we believe that you're going to need um so we went through and found
some of our more significant projects that we have completed in the past couple of years and uh just wanted to highlight those okay um where do you understand that this our city is going okay let's see the population of Phoenix range y'all probably know this was 5,000
in 2010 it's almost 8,000 now um that's a pretty big this is a pretty substantial what is it a 20some percent increase in 15 years and I don't think that's changing uh I think as south the county grows the north county is going to grow too of course your infrastructure needs are going to change
too because you're carrying traffic through from all over the place down south uh I see I see people realizing how great Walton County is and hey we can we can live in this really cool place that's hilly and has trees and is beautiful but also have access to the
beach so I see your development orders increasing which increases your utility needs increases your road infrastructure needs that increases your demand for um public you know grocery stores and
that kind of thing so that's kind of what I would say we've seen that change in the last dec last two decades specifically the last decade it's just continued to ramp up so you touched on this a little bit during your presentation but can you describe
your ideal client relationship honestly I I do like the one that we have with the city of Parker um we do have a it's a true friendship um we um we talk to them daily and I like that better for a lot of reasons one because
uh it gives me a better sense that I know what's going on and I know that their needs are being taken care of if I don't talk to a client in a few weeks I start to get nervous um because I don't know what's going on and I don't know the climate of the city and so I I do like the kind of model
where whether it's city council or staff can call us at any point in time i do like the model where we have a weekly it's it I've set it up with a couple of different clients where it's just it's a weekly meeting but it's like five minutes and I can if we don't have anything that you need from us or that
um we need from you we cancel it but it's five minutes where I have your undivided attention where I can say I need signatures on this or I need this record from what happened here or these water records or that kind of thing but it's just five minutes of designated time where y'all have our undivided
attention and we have yours so um I mean that's that's that's what I prefer all right and lastly do you tend do you plan to attend regular city council meetings you know I do tend to leave that up to the city itself if you want us here at the meetings we'll absolutely be here if
you want us to come just every other meeting but I used to come to every meeting and I sat next to that lady that knitted the whole time and I can't I can't remember her name mary mary i knew it was Mary i sat next to her and she was the sweetest lady and then I got to know the ladies that own the shop up on
81 I think anyway yeah so that's I leave that up to the city um uh if you want us to be at every meeting we can absolutely be at every meeting this room is much bigger than your other one too it's different but I remember Mary and her knitting that's all I have good mayor um
to follow up on something that you just said the city of Parker I'd never heard of it where is it and what is its population and how are they are they similar to us uh they're smaller than you uh they're about probably about half your size okay um they're they're they're in Bay County they're adjacent
to uh Panama City basically they are right outside City and Mexico Beach so they don't have like a their own planning division or anything like that you guys No they don't have their own planning division of course they have Well they do but it's small i mean they have two people in it because I like your flexibility i like what you have to
your presentation and I like your overall flexibility and your willingness to hey look this is a relationship so but I will say this keep in mind though now granted I was a little smaller but that was very similar to the relationship I had previously um I
talked to your city clerk on a regular basis she and I were friends um and so you know I it was and the finance director actually I still see her at some of the meetings um the Northwest Florida League of Cities meetings but you know I do prefer that i prefer that there's an open relationship where there's a lot of communication and like
Brian said all of our cell phones are on our cards you can call anytime we answer the phone i don't have an office phone because I hate it so much we have a debate as to why not have an office phone i just have a couple quick questions they're real easy brian where are you from in Walton County uh I'm I'm
in San Rosa Beach where santa Rosa Beach oh okay very nice and what city did you were you the city engineer for callaway it's right next to Parker oh he's from Key West okay i'm a Monroe County yeah
between Panama City and Weiwa but close to Panama City yeah probably don't know where we But uh but yeah no city engineer my dad yeah my my dad said "Do they know the the ink is dried on your diploma?" Because I started right out of school it was a uh drinking from a fire
hose situation on local government so um but it it was effective and just one more quick question and Kobe this you're going to have to refresh my memory and then it's going to go to Brian but he mentioned he w you guys were part of the Pinehurst development the Walton Road
and is that right in 20 what did we just refuse to accept the roadway that neighborhood their HOA came forward and we what did we refuse to take so when the development submitted you know the plans and all that and we did the testing the testing did not meet the city specifications so we didn't take
the roads over so it recently came up where members of that community and HOA particular some members were upset with the condition of the roads but they're not citymaintained or controlled because HOA never turned them over but we wouldn't accept them as why they didn't we wouldn't accept them because they didn't meet our specs so we've have talked to HOA we've told them if they're
willing to go and make the upgrades to make that meet our specifications then we would bring that forth else to duration but that's probably getting a little further off top right now but yeah that was the situation because and what did y'all do for that development so the plans were already done and the
infrastructure was mostly put in like the roads weren't paved or anything like that but in order for D and the city to accept the water lines the sewer lines all that stuff it has to meet certain testing requirements the roadway as well I believe that roadway was designed as a road I don't think it was ever meant to
be taken over by the city but so all the all the acceptance testing um uh the startup of the of the lift station um I don't know how much road testing was was done on that but then the storm water ponds as well all the storm water infrastructure had to be built according
to the plans all that had to be brought up in order for them to start building their first house out there so me as a new city council member just you know under just right at two years what could we do what could I do better sitting up here to
know so that as we're making our decisions on should we adopt this development plan or what should we have looked for was there a red flag or I mean because that's bound to come up we're going to continue to grow there's going to be
neighborhoods I don't want to see that those same HOA folks coming back and us saying sorry we can't help you and yet we're the ones that made the decisions in the first That probably comes let me help you out it goes 20 years after it had been specked out well
I'm just saying from a learning curve from me what generic would I look for like that you know how would this engineering firm that we're going to hire help eliminate so was it in the city whenever it was first developed it it was in it was in the city i believe they had a gate those
roads were always going to be private yeah so it's been my experience that um for subdivisions especially but if they propose a private road to me that's problem it's a problem because inevitably over time especially if it's a small HOA it they come back to the
city because they don't manage their HOAs correctly same same with utilities yep exactly so I'm learning so this is a good learning curve for me because there's so many more neighborhoods now that have just been approved and I would say a blow station is probably more
problematic normally than a road that if a private if a private developer wants to build a subdivision and then have a private station well in three years they're going to be gone exact that's my whole point hit the road but the city
can require that those be public that they that they be designed to public specifications that the city So they're not so right now they can design it correct under a different set of rules they're going to be managed by the HOA thank you that that piece of
knowledge is so valuable to me thank you l yes u three or four little questions here um we're looking at water and wastewater master plan do you all have experience in that or how h
how can you how can you help us with with that so I've completed several uh water and wastewater um and and to me they can they these again can run the gamut i can spend hundreds of thousands of your dollars and do a really detailed exactly
have plans so that it's a roadmap to how you get basically all brand new lift stations and infrastructure you probably won't ever build it because it's too much money to build so I tend to take more of a conceptual approach to it the approach
to that would be first meet with your staff um and actually you you should have a preliminary engineering report that you completed probably um for a lot of the city for part of the grants that you've received so a lot of that would be digging into some of the information
that you've already paid for um the second part Yeah and then the second thing is is again I like to start as more of a broad stroke and just kind of say look overall where's your priorities okay help me pick out one or two kind of thing help you come up with a capital
improvements list with some approximate costs so that you can budget it throughout the next 10 15 20 years um and then um put some numbers to it knowing that it's going to escalate every single year and that it's going to be more and more but start there and
then slowly move into design as opposed to come up oh yeah engineers love it whenever you say we need a study um it's true um and I there's plenty of studies I bet that line all of your offices sitting there on the counter and nothing's ever been built out of them so
again I like to start small and then let's pick a few projects we design them we find funding move to the next that's not to say there wouldn't be a master plan in mind just not a mahal plan earlier yeah my vision and I wasn't going to get into this or ask it but
it's a good time to do it you know of a master plan is it it might be Taj Mahal but realistically we know it's not going to happen that way right and so would a master plan for you all and it might be standard i don't know i'm fairly new at this as well so would it be like a
phased thing like by year three you you guys can realistically accomplish this this and this uh by year five by seven by whatever something like that is that typically the way you would do I would I wouldn't go too far out things change too fast um I wouldn't go too far out
but definitely but probably phase not years just because things change with the economy and true funding sources funding yeah absolutely funding okay thank you um the other thing um conducting condition assessments of roads water like we have a lot of
streets that need to be repaid but we don't know which ones need it the most the most urgent and that kind of thing how could you help us with that we can look at that too kind of the same I would say the same type approach maybe doing some preliminary geotech and doing some cing and looking at base material
because base material is why roads fail it's not the asphalt right normally it's base material looking at base material or and then kind of putting together a cost estimate on or rough cost estimates on different roads and then I think again I would say that kind of goes back to funding as much as anything else how
much is it going to cost to do this road well we could do this but that's the only road we can do this year well instead what if we do these two and put that off another year that's that's a good point it's all about the funding if you guys have a ton of money to spend there's some I've done some condition assessments i did I did a condition
assessment for uh all all the streets in watercolor and what we did we did it and they had a lot of money to spend because it's watercolor um so what we did was a uh it was an AI based kind of drone thing that did that and then go through it goes through does it condition
assessment and then you know we go back through and then check it and all that stuff but there's different technology different options for for different things like like that but but it depends on how much money you have $5,000 to spend versus $5 million to spend then you probably don't need to spend a ton of time on like that but you do need to
be strategic check your water and sewer underneath those roads before you pave them well that was that was part of the the list of the assessments was water and sewer well buildings facilities her point is if you're going to replace a sewer man that's down the middle of the
road you also get the road yes yes so CDBG for instance the you get the score for sewer is the highest i think it's 70 points okay you get 70 points for sewer but for a road project you might only get 20 points but if the sewer is in the middle of the road you can get your 70
points but then you also get your road too why would you ever just ask for a road that's her point yes good um and reviewing development plans like we're looking at can I say this we're looking at two possible firms here so that we um
if one is Toby how can you explain this would where we so this so a number of the firms that are being interviewed today also do private work right city's only ever deal with engineering firms only done this work so eventually you are going to design a plan that comes in the city that you can't review right so that's why we're looking at two so we
can avoid these conflicts in the future um that's what I think that's right um we're super sensitive to that super duper sensitive so if one comes up we start my brother likes to develop property in Bay County and if a lot of times for cities that I'm working for
and I very quickly tell him and the city this is his and we do the same thing with anything we're working on this is ours or you know are you okay with us proceeding with this project we were approached by it um we actually have an agreement with the city of Mexico Beach that um theirs actually required that we don't do any development within the city
so um you know hire we whatever y'all want sorry yes if y'all hire us we're our our commitment is to you yeah and and lastly I saw your list of working with DOT and and all these different various state agencies so how would you
describe I'll just ask it this way your relationships with we we do a tremendous amount with DOT D all the time airports incredible the the levels of of state and federal agencies and county and and all those things so do
you how strong are you in your relationships in your contacts with those agencies good question i was born in Panama City i'm going to die in Panama City elizabeth was born in Panama City she's going to die in Panama City
yeah that's true but the panhandle is the panhandle these people are all from here or we've touched them or worked with them at some point we've known all of these people for a very long time yes so very strong very good yes yes good kids go to school with their kids go to
church with them all that stuff and you know the people it's the same people here as over there from all the same agencies so thank you being local and accessible goes a really long ways uh one of the things that I kind of got
the impression of that is when you go to inspect these projects uh whether it's done by your own contractors or or somebody else is that if it's not done right um I'm hoping you're going to tell me you're not
afraid of stepping on toes no problem there okay because this is going to have your seal on it well at the end of the day you're our client not the contractor very yeah u we may be tiny but we're pretty mighty we uh we don't have any problem with with
stepping up to contractors and they know that and something that caught my ear was uh we do have some grant writers with the city but you said something about uh grant maintenance contracts can you expound on that yes so a lot of what
I talked about as far as all these um different agencies have so many requirements and so much paperwork that's required that um some cities will actually just hire us to do the grant management so after you get the grant like I said that's the first step there's a lot that comes after that um
is it is it Liberty Partners is that right yes do they do they do the closeout and stuff too or they just acquire grants or do you So um we Liberty Partners is under contract with the city and we also have a grants coordinator on staff that handle reimbursements and all that with the state uh what the engineers in the past
have done most typically is deal with SRFs um and those infrastructure related projects uh directly and they would handle those but even so let's say you get a let's say you get a um a DOT lab project your grant coordinator would handle the stuff in the office but if
the the stuff isn't done correctly in the design you know if your design if your design doesn't meet the lab requirements and then if you're not doing the inspection per the lab requirements the grant manager might not know you might get to the end of the project and then go to close the project
out and DOT says no no this is not you didn't do this correctly and then what do you do so um yeah there's certain language that has to be in the advertisements for the different agencies there are quarterly reports that you have to do I mean and again you know I mean your staff knows how to do a lot of this I'm sure but it does help to
have another person that's available say hey by the way did you remember to file that you know and then they hey don't forget to put this in this paper and not that paper and so it it does help to have that knowledge or you know some if there's federal money involved in a project there are even more requirements
than if it's state money and and we do we do this all the time um it's called residence compliance specialist so you're making sure that a contractor is make is meeting um that Davis Bacon wage rates that they're paying their people asking literally asking construction
workers as they're doing something hey I need you to fill out a survey how much do you make an hour do you get paid fringe benefits um do you know who your contact is in your office who your uh for if you have an issue with discrimination that kind of thing so and
that all not that your grant manager doesn't do that or not that your person on staff isn't doing that but that there are project requirements too of grants and it's important that all three of those people are working together and all three of those groups know what's going on okay i don't know if I'm
getting another neighborhood mixed up with Pinehurst but it's not uncommon for when developers present their uh project you know to be approved either by the city or the county um to have sidewalks and
playgrounds and all that stuff in there and then and street lights and you know uh amenities that enhance safety and quality of life and all that and then you look at Pinehurst and then there's no sidewalks and where and where' the
playgrounds go and there's no street lights i mean it is dark in that neighborhood at night and I knocked on every door in that neighborhood and they were complaining about you know playgrounds you know they they clearcut everything um how do you protect yourself against
Have you ever seen these projects that start off looking really nice and it's got all the bells and whistles and then sure it all the all the bells and whistles disappear and you thought it was part of the DRRi for sure so how does how does that happen so do you want
me to do it you got it so we we do run into that quite a bit and so before they can have their water and sewer cleared and before that the city will sign off on the development so that they can get their certificate of occupancy because they can't sell that house until they get the nobody can move in until they
get their certificate of occupancy so we either require us to have tested all that and for them to have a bond in play you have to have this in your land development code we can't say that yeah your landing development code would have to be very clear and I'm not sure what's in your land bill yeah we don't know that now but Panama City if you have if
you get a development order for a subdivision Panama City you are required to put a a sidewalk in front of your in front of the subdivision and if it's not built in time then um before you can uh before you can get approval from the city you have to have a bond in place for those improvements now again it has
to be part of we have not dug into your I don't remember what was in there from last time I was here but um dug into your land development code to see if that's there but we if it's not there we can always help you yeah but same thing with street lights or same thing with parks but I guess you're just walking a fine line as you sit in these chairs
that you want development you want developers to be able to come in and build houses so that people have somewhere to live and that's an important part of growth in a community but you want to make sure that they're doing it in a way that everybody's happy with at the end of the job so it's a balance so and one of the reasons that
Pine Arts number one didn't have that is because again it was designed either late late 90s or early 2000 around 99 okay yeah so it was uh they own property next to me that's
where I knew it all right good dan um let's see okay we've got a a street scheduled I believe to be paved um this summer uh to the north of this
neighborhood um Pine uh Twin Lakes I believe it is does this ring the street The street is Twin Lakes Drive be repaved okay go from 90 to go from 90 to Walton Road okay so I don't know how the pipes are under
there i don't know if if anybody here does has that been inspected this has been before my time we haven't gotten that far yet so we're still waiting on the state has awarded the grant but we're waiting on after July 1st when the state's new fiscal year comes for them to to assign the money and go to the project okay at that time whoever
whatever engineer gets attached that job from the city they would be responsible for identifying all the water sewer lines gas everything as part of design and was recommend to the city if something need to be moved at that time before we repave the road okay and there's there's residents up and down
that street that if we did pave the road and they decided later uh well you know what I want to hook up to city sewer and then dig up a brand new road um is there are we going to have is everybody going to be connected before that road is paved so that's a that's a total that's
a separate deal from the council that's an action the council took here a few months back and identifying all these people that aren't hooked up so we will we working through that now but they will identify whoever the engineering firm at this project for the city they'll identify those things as we go along and how many houses are north of that road on just on the other side of
Walton i don't know are you talking about new project development coming in i believe it's 124 125 okay so right now the kids are getting up and down the road on you know walking in the street and with that that road's fixing to be a
major thorough affair and we need sidewalks on there and has that part of the plan or is that would that be say if they hypothetically if they got the if they got the contract that would be their responsibility yeah it would be a part of the design so the city's currently our land development code doesn't require
sidewalks as they you heard me mention that's why we're going to Atlanta code update actually start that here very soon about a two-year process um so we currently don't require that okay but for the safety of the key that's a that's a family neighborhood could we do it anyway could we require that this this council whenever an engineering
firm is brought on board to do that project they could recommend that to the city and show you what that would cost and it's up to this council if we want to do that or not you know once we figure out what the cost of that would be so but it's not is not a part of the initial design an application the grant was strictly to repave the road to re to
take it down to the bear redo the base and then repave it and engineerally uh speaking from an engineer's point of view would it be more advantageous before you put down a new road to go ahead and hook everybody up to the sewage would that be a cost savings and not It's up to the city it's going to be
up to the city whether we do that or not so and I think what you'd probably do in that situation didn't cut it off but what you'd normally do is if you're putting a new sewer line and say there's lots along there you go ahead and stub those out for future connection in case is there existing sewer down there now yes correct then you could go in and stub out the
locations but you wouldn't have to make them tie in at the time you could just stub them out and then cap them off but we don't know if that do we know that that main trunk that pipe running under Twin Lakes is is that a good solid sound
pipe it's not been evaluated yet we would all that will have to occur something i want to bring us back to the what we're here for and that's to check their qualifications i know you want to learn as much you can about our water and sewer but not let's take care of
this interview and if you got any more questions about their qualifications thank you i've got two quick ones mayor it'll be a quick yes or no um natural gas experience we have some natural gas inspection
experience not a lot of design experience it's my experience so that usually the gas company actually designs it and then we will we do have inspectors that have gas inspection but typically could be different for different gas companies but typically they want to they want to install their own yeah that's fine well we're our own
gas company that's why I'm asking and we do not have PE on stand that's what so um and then lastly uh you you know updates and stuff meetings we you know if this is the way the council we would always work that out but uh ability to provide a monthly project
report have software for that you can send a report all the projects you are working on for the city and update regularly typically we we don't necessarily have a a a program for it we do use several programs that are handy but we typically just have a either a spreadsheet or a word file or something like that that we send out and we do try
to time it um so that it's right before like a Thursday before your council meeting so that we send it to you so that you're updated and then we also try to time our um if you want a monthly meeting or a weekly meeting we try to do those before the council that's all mayor thank you the only question I had was what would be
your as anchors what your largest project that you guys have taken ever yes it's actually an easy question when Elizabeth and I were a baby firm this 2016 the TDC the CBB at the beach the
Tourist Development Council which is subsidiary of the county but really complicated relationship bay County bay County yes um they hired us to do the owner's representative services for the public sports park at
the beach um we took over the design it was an out of town firm and they had designed very much a Dodge Mahal that they wanted to manage we took that over redesigned it did all the bidding took some value engineering it was you know it was was 2017 at the time
um and then did all the construction management and inspection to completion we're still working on it now there we're about to build a indoor facility at the park so um it's it's for a long time elizabeth it was Elizabeth's baby
i I had a baby the day that the project did it wasn't ideal so it became Elizabeth's baby it was a 40 $40 million project that we pretty much solely managed ourselves we bought every baseball every piece of fence we oversaw the installation of the underground
drainage the lights the co-op purchases the agreements with Gulf Power for the lighting we chose the turf that was used that was a $8 million purchase it was fascinating very educational but really great experience but utility work um I
was involved in the 36 inch um alternate water supply was a uh I think it's about 20 miles of pipeline that uh Bay County installed as an alternate water supply um from Ekenfina to the water treatment plant and I was the lead designer for
the actual pipeline for that so um that was the probably the second largest most most I guess influential even though nobody knows about it but it was that was the other project that was a huge one we have multiple um $10 million projects right now like um infrastructure improvement projects
they were they're all um Hurricane Michael funding that has just now kind of come through so we're doing one in Panama City one in St joe those are pretty big projects take a couple years seven million in Parker for their water re 10 in 10 in Panama City Beach seven in
Parker so y back then you were rebel rich uh you guys were taken over by Deubberry and u you had I guess you had a copy of all our records of everything y'all did for us uh which went on to
Deubberry correct so Deubberry has probably got our past 15 year history in their records they sure do for sure okay all right remind you we have not worked for for Deubberry we never worked for Dubberry but I will tell you we have a good relationship with Deubberry to this
day i've talked to their engineers on and off because we have taken over several of their not taken them over but we're like construction admin um and in the past we have been able to or the city has been able to and are encouraging get those files back if you
can you paid for them ask nicely get those files back they are huge there's tons of asbuilts in there there's engineering reports there's a lot a lot in there if you can well thank you so much and thank you guys very much thank you i hope everybody else doesn't think
we're going to get this long and then I'll keep I keep my short and stature points points all right well thank you very much we'll get back with you thank you who's next kobe next week baskerville and Don and Raphael if you wouldn't mind who is it baskerville and
Donovan anybody need anything real quick all right we'll do it after the next are we going to set the timer or something because I do not want Yeah we have a timer we went way over yeah so we did So Rafael did set a 30-minute timer for the presenters and
that's what they stuck to they were done prior the Q&A part yeah i mean if y'all would like to set a timer that's fine but it's up to you it'd be great if we could if we could just like wind down and have five minutes before the next group just to make whatever final notes we need we'll never remember all this something
because you want to take five now is that what you're saying uh no i'm just saying if we do it for now i I managed to keep up but you want to tell the guy to hush up i'm talking about us yesterday that's why I'm saying now before they get not to ask well if we keep us down to 15 minutes that's a
45minut presentation because there's five groups so that's five hours if we go at the rate we were just we'll get better let's just be sensitive to each other yes please hi everybody [Music]
okay all righty [Music] no we don't have wire did they uh plug it in yeah they plug in thank you michael's right there you go
raphael if you'll click that for them please yeah yeah that's fine he He'll click it for you as I go through this let me All right if y'all soon as Amy gets back you can introduce yourself and we'll get started and we'll save all the questions
till you get done okay yes sir i think I can hear sounds good all right uh well thank you very much uh for having us here today my name is Jeff Huggin with Baskerville Donovan um with me I've got Jim Wait we've got David Lee
and we've got Rick Delt um our should just Oh I'm sorry i'm very sorry i know you guys used to do some work for us back uh when I first came here in 13
and uh of course Bre was here as well i think both of you yeah we did the CNG compressed natural gas facility then the price of gas went down wasn't feasible
yeah that that was turned into almost a circus there but remember that now but anyway all right Amy's back so if you'll begin again yes sir again thank you all uh for having us here this
afternoon um we're here from Baskerville Donovan my name is Jeff Huggin um civil market director we've got Rick Bell uh David Lee and Jim Weight with us here today um we'll uh walk you through a little bit about us and and let you know some of the projects we've worked on and
um some of the uh uh uh just different items that we feel you know we would uh be able to contribute to um Definiac Springs next slide um all of our team uh we are local um we are a Northwest Florida um civil engineering firm or you
know and then uh water resources firm um all of our staff uh are you know right here that we work with every day um in in Northwest Florida um uh this is just a handful of those uh people that uh um we all work with every day and um who would work on um you know projects here
in the city and then of course this is our uh also local water resources team um that uh work in our building as well under Rick's direction um that again um all here uh locally in Northwest Florida very familiar with the uh um regulations
requirements and and uh those items specific to municipal municipalities um and local governments in Northwest Florida um these are a few of our partners uh that uh we work with often um for you know everything from our streets planning um transportation uh
solid waste engineering uh structural geotechnical um those sorts of uh things again local representation with each of these firms and we have a long uh standing relationship with our partners um this is a handful of those uh common
experiences specifically to my market the civil market um I don't think that these are anything different or out of the ordinary from what you would see from any of the local uh firms Northwest Florida firms um however um you know one thing that I think that does set us
apart um is our strategic approach and and working with municipalities uh local governments here in Northwest Florida again uh for the um specifics to uh you know everything from environmental concerns and requirements relationships with uh those uh agencies having
jurisdiction uh for environmental and other uh local governments um and and really our approach our approach is to um work to be an extension of uh that municipalities of your staff um work with staff to not only um come up with a solution to specific um you know
different elements and and areas of engineering um but to really program um make sure that um the the deliverables that and and services we're able to provide to uh the city um would be something that you could use um in the future as well um and we'll talk a
little bit about that and some of those approaches um starting out with uh any project or or any problem that uh we're we're approaching uh for resolution um information gaining that information uh making sure we have all of the you the full picture so that we can uh move
forward and and giving those you know being a consultant uh not just an engineer on a task but uh truly being a consultant help you to um work within your budgets u make sure we're not having negative impacts on the environment or any local um areas or communities or adjacent communities um
as we uh move forward with the program uh storm water modeling and GIS um is something that uh we're we've been working uh for uh many years now uh to uh get updated on uh to assist our uh clients with uh updating their GIS systems um so that again um uh for rapid
recall being able to get a hold of the information that you need um whether it be anything from um you know specific storm water sites areas of historic flooding um or areas that public works has frequently had to look at how does that incorporate into our overall approach in in a specific area when we
start moving forward with um looking for funding solutions um andor you know making recommendations for changes to your existing infrastructure um we uh utilize ICPR for modeling software um we uh do a lot of projects and and modeling as far
as storm water goes into a 2D model um again so that we can see um what specific design storms um what impact those are going to have on a certain area um and we can model a little bit on playing um you know what if uh if you will um on on uh certain recommendations
and and what impact that's going to have um and then also uh working with our clients GIS in general um just any other information that we're able to um help you with um u and we'll talk a little bit about our data recording and our in the field uh recording u to where we can
not only get you an uh an overview and a general in you know idea of of where different components are in stormwater infrastructure or other infrastructure but um we can actually record information from the field photos those sorts of things so um public works and and your other offices are able to
rapidly get a hold of that information next slide um hydro dynamic modeling um our coastal uh program uh we do again northwest Florida we do a lot on the coast not only uh for the marine side but also for
um riverine and lakes as well um uh modeling different flow uh you know currents um looking at what impacts discharge might have on a adjacent area um uh when we're working on a lot of our solutions um those are able um um items
that we're able to model um and to uh satisfy any requests for additional information from um environmental agencies or um avoid in a pre preliminary stage avoid having those impacts or or moving forward with a design that's not feasible from the
get-go next slide please um our data collection uh we do have in-house surveying um David um our licensed surveyor and uh uh vice president and survey manager can answer any questions y'all may have specific to our survey crews and our operations um
but having that in-house uh u u staff and and having the ability to uh move forward uh whether it be an emergency situation or um have the ability to go out and pick up additional data um we have that in-house and rapidly available
um for our our designers use and for our clients use um we do stay up to date and have uh uh gained a lot of new technology um and you know to to stay up to date in the the recent past uh ground penetrating radar for utility coordination um and location so um that
we can hopefully try to avoid any conflicts in our design um the utility vac and actually potholeing um to confirm um in areas that we may be close and and need that uh higher level of assurance um and then our LAR drone um our our drone uh is is uh the latest and
up-to-date uh information and it's been very useful in a lot of projects we've really been able to integrate that into a lot um not only in uh just LAR and having more information um on a a storm water project or um any other infrastructure but also uh helpful all
the way through construction and helping the bidding process um uh when uh one that comes to mind here recently um where we're working very close to high voltage lines um uh you know power lines uh being able to use the LAR to identify the sag in those power lines um in an
area where the terrain gets pretty close um is going to be very helpful uh for the contractor to um put together a buildable workable plan um to install some of the drainage improvements that we've got um and not violate any OSHA um issues as well um so we're finding
things uh as we move forward that uh you know weren't the original tent but have been very handy um in the design process next slide please um again I spoke uh a minute ago about our data collection um we don't just
have our in-house surveyors uh to to go out and locate items um we do have uh uh tremble units data collectors um and you know just other elements tablets that our engineers um and our interns are even able to go out um and get
fine-tuned data um also um identify uh drainage elements that may on the modeling come up as an anomaly and we need to know and and go put eyes on it we're able to um take our maps out into the field um record additional data pick up structures those sorts of things um
and and uh that that's a super uh I mean just a fantastic um tool uh for that design process and keeping um you know streamlining keeping the the design process moving forward um and then of course we also have uh um you know means for hydrographic survey via our boats um
uh and other uh uh software and and equipment next slide please um and collecting all that data um one of the the best things that you know we're able to use with that not only to design but also looking for funding sources um from the modeling software
from the different drainage basins um uh using the GIS software um historic flooding of structures those sorts of things that really sets up a database that we're able to use and and um your staff is able to use um to start going after funding for flood mitigation
assistance uh HMGP um those sorts of things that are going to require that uh um that data to procure and to get the funding and costbenefit analysis for those projects um we try to collect that data when we are in the field we try to
collect that data specifically for uh those different matrices that may be used to um identify um say if a storm comes through and um our area is you know identified as a tier one um for HMGP or something like that just for an example um we have a lot of that
historic data already in our GIS system so that we can um assist the city with rapidly putting together those uh u applications for that funding um uh this is a chart of just you know cities throughout the past um everything from
the FEMA u relocation of u um grant that was for the relocation of uh the waste treatment plant in downtown Pensacola um down to Gulf County we've we've really had a lot of success helping our clients in the past uh secure funding for capital improvement
projects next slide um again this is just a uh another uh you know list of similar experiences uh that we've had in the past and and um you know relevant to something you know again small municipality uh type uh work
that um we would expect you know with most of our municipalities and cities um in Northwest Florida um drainage uh studies and master plans uh FEMA HMGP uh grant funding and assistance and securing those uh projects uh marine facilities and then
coastal facilities um and then of course ADA compliance and transition plans as well and we'll talk a little bit about that next slide please um our drainage design um again uh northwest Florida we have a little you
know significantly more uh uh rainfall call and in and advance uh than most of the country um again with our our modeling software um being able to run through some scenarios and and quickly put together uh preliminary designs and concepts for uh our field crews and and
surveyors to um go locate and confirm um you know really you know puts us ahead um you know in in design and and drainage design um we uh make sure to stay up to date of course we've got new uh drainage u uh rules that are you know
forthcoming uh we stay up to date with the nutrient removal um we are prepared for that and uh to assist our clients with uh those issues um and we'll talk a little bit more about that as well next slide please um again uh these are just local projects that we've worked on um
everything from uh just um uh large storm water retention ponds uh to areas Herbert field on the right uh uh just uh modification of existing structures that aren't operating to compliance um so um
again just you know all around drainage design really making sure that uh we don't have negative impacts um you know when we're putting implementing these designs so uh next slide please uh treatment vaults um we've designed and installed over 150 treatment vaults
um and and as of this year uh we've continuously done that whether it be a component for an HMGP or a another grant emergency watershed protection grant um and then also uh forthcoming on the new rules and regulations uh for nutrient removal but also for total suspended
solids um on drainage improvement uh projects and um uh infrastructure you know prior to discharge to our open waters which are valuable both environmentally and uh recreationally um you know throughout the Northwest Florida area next slide please
um this is just an example of our one of our drainage basin studies and what we're able to provide um to uh the board members uh in a presentation um uh here in Northwest Florida um we're currently working on two other um basin uh models um all the way up to 13 square miles in
size um able to identify and put together a matrix of um independent dependent projects um and uh also identify uh potential funding sources for those uh dependent projects um so that uh public works um your staff have
uh that that matrix and that information you know in front of them and readily available for any opportunities either in funding or um issues where uh improvements need need to be made to the existing infrastructure um quickly identifying with our heat maps and our
2D modeling um those choke points and and areas to start watching next slide please um we spoke uh a little bit about our coastal um and our marine estuaries u just designed along the coastlines um
really what we focus on here is not only to uh provide an amenity um or coastal protection um shoreline protection uh but also to uh uh not have any negative impacts you know to our um you know waterways next slide
please parks and recreation um we've done a lot of parks throughout Northwest Florida um these are two the one on the left is Maritime Park in Pensacola um and then uh the one on the right is the Miracle League field in Tiger Point um which is a um you know composite surface
uh uh field um for special needs um so and then uh one more slide please if you go to the next one um and then playgrounds and parks um in different areas environmentally sensitive areas and um uh throughout Northwest Florida as
well next slide uh streets um most of our work um while we are familiar and stay up to date for uh FDOT standards um and we're able to work with FDOT on any uh grant and and funded opportunities with DOT um really most of our specialty is local streets
um and and horizontal design um the what what is different about that is we are using um the same standards and and level of care uh for DOT standards and our vertical and uh horizontal uh design geometric design um but we're also taking into account the the element of
the community um not just doing something because um you know it is always u straight out of the DOT manual but um taking into account that this may be impacting somebody's yard somebody's house taking that time to um stay flexible look at other options uh other alternatives that we may be able to
utilize um so we're not always having a negative impact when we're um going through trying to make a safety upgrade andor drainage improvement and and improving those roadways um and that's something that uh takes a lot of time a lot of community outreach uh making sure
that uh the um the staff and our clients have as much information as possible um before we start you know um having those discussions with land owners that you know may be impacted by a roadway you know expanding into their property next slide
please um sidewalks and multi-use uh same thing um uh providing a safety element but again uh taking that care to make sure that um you know when we may be impacting uh or or um helping people to get to other places making sure we're not having a negative uh impact on those
people that are already there um and of course u making sure the the welfare and safety of the public is um accounted for in design next slide ada compliance uh we've worked with several clients municipalities now um on uh ADA transition plans um again
uh Northwest Florida uh one thing that uh um seems to be a constant um u uh challenge uh that uh we that does take a lot of work to um uh make these improvements is just our environmental conditions and and sometimes um the
challenges that go along with uh trying to uh provide universal access to um all areas of our um you know outdoors we've been very successful in this uh with with multiple communities throughout the Northwest Florida coast
yes sir next slide please and I'll pass it over to Mr delt i'm head of the U water resource department at Baskerville Donovan that's uh water wastewater collection systems
wastewater treatment plants reclaim systems and things like that um on collection systems the key key component of all collection systems are the u lift stations required to move the the uh
wastewater to the wastewater treatment facility we've designed thousands of u different types of lift stations from grinder pump stations to uh what's what would be referred to as a quadruplex four pump uh lift stations uh those are
on a regional basis moving a lot of waste water we currently have uh two uh projects uh inhouse that are working on conversion of septic tanks to uh sanitary sewer systems uh through grants
that uh we've helped our uh client get uh next slide this is uh this is the largest uh wastewater treatment plant between uh Mobile and Tallahassee i know you all don't you you don't have wastewater
treatment plants you you're just a collection system if I'm if I remember right um but this is where it's got to go and and uh to show the the broad spectrum of what we can do is is we can go from the small pump stations to to a
full wastewater treatment plant next slide reclaimed water coming off of the the back end of a wastewater treatment plant is uh critical to u u the quality of the waters around our fac the neighborhoods
um and and reclaim water is becoming very u uh high on the radar of u the DP and water management districts specifically for funding purposes to uh
be able to to use this reclaimed water uh in as as a beneficial reuse source such as residential and commercial uh applications to uh spray field applications and things like that uh to
make sure that the effluents are not going into our surface waters next slide we do uh uh all phases of water treatment facilities from from uh water wells in both the sand and gravel
aquifer and the Florida aquifer uh throughout Northwest Florida uh accompanied with that are the uh treatment facilities uh fortunately we're fortunate in in Northwest Florida not to have major treatment uh processes
most of most everything we do is chlorination pH adjustment uh little bit of stabilization and uh then it's ready to go on to into this to the distribution system and to the clients uh we've
designed a lot of distribution systems many of the uh rural utilities were started by Baskerville Donovan in the 60s and 70s and uh some of those we still have as clients and and we continue to upgrade their systems uh
elevated tanks necessary to maintain uh pressure on the system and so you don't run your pumps 247 trying to keep up with the pressure and the flow uh and we've done some uh uh GAC uh water
filters recently that are dealing more with a uh uh PAS POS regulations that have come out and been placed on the uh uh source water being the water wells next
slide we we are experienced with natural gas we mentioned early on that we actually uh designed a compressed natural gas facility here for uh the city of Defunia Springs up here behind the uh fire department but uh economy
turned a little bit and the return on investment uh between uh using natural gas or compressed natural gas and gasoline was not enough to uh make it worthwhile to do that project and it
kind of uh died uh without saying much more than that we have done a lot of natural gas transmission mains we uh worked with the city of Gulf Breeze to get natural gas from their system to uh
uh Pensacola Beach pensacola Beach did not have natural gas available all the motel and hotels were using uh propane uh so we got uh worked with the city uh 4,800 foot directional drill across the
the sound for a 6 inch uh feed line to the core area of of the beach and that project became so popular amongst the the residents of the beach that we ended up in a uh design build uh relationship
with the contractor and the city kept us moving forward until the entire island had uh na uh natural gas available from from the uh east end to the Fort Pickings on the west ended up being a very large project
we have done some natural gas for uh the city of Milton as well next slide please we use uh just like they do in storm water we have uh modeling capabilities in water and wastewater
force mains uh we use uh uh some uh software called uh KY pipe uh water CAD a sewer CAD are several that we are familiar with that can uh model how a uh
uh either a force main is uh working how several several pump stations work together in a force main and also for water systems especially if you're getting into uh uh pressure zones where you may have a higher area and a lower
area and you need to work with a pressure pressure zone in between and this we can do this all in our modeling program and establish where those uh regulators need to be uh where your high points and low points are and what your
uh um needs may be in the line of elevated storage or some kind of storage facility to help move the water around from one area to the other next slide we work with uh many different
permitting agencies D water management district core of engineers um uh DOT on almost all of our projects are involved uh one that's not up there that I'm working with now is CSX getting a pipeline across
underneath a CSX railroad uh that'll be the second one of those we've done but uh permitting is key we have relationships with these uh different agencies uh both in the permitting for current projects and and with the uh
their abilities to to administer grants out to different projects that qualify next slide please after the uh design of a project we we are ready to take it on to uh the bidding services we put together uh
detailed uh bid forms so that uh when a a bid comes in it's very comprehensive and complete uh later on in the uh uh construction of the project if there's issues with uh quantities or something like that all your your prices and
everything are established upfront and you you don't get any surprise of well I I need two 8 in valves instead of one 8 inch valve but this one is going to cost you more because I didn't tell you what
what the first one cost you so uh we avoid things like that by putting together these comprehensive bid packages next slide uh it is very important and and even more so now than before ever before is as you're developing a project you
need to get the uh public involved we actually have set up uh websites uh for some of our projects so the the public that that is impacted by that project they can go onto a website and see what the status of the project is uh and what
they can expect coming up in the next three or four or five months of the project it gives the uh early on it gives the public the opportunity to express any concerns that they may have uh if you've uh followed the uh Milton
wastewater treatment plant the issues that are going there it was uh the public was left out from in the very beginning and uh the they uh came down to a point of getting ready to break ground and the public got
involved and said "Whoa wait a minute." And and things really backed up from there it is reversed now the public is heavily involved uh the plant is going to into an area now that is more conducive to uh the public's concerns
and the environment so uh it was it's very important that that you always get the public involved in a project next slide following uh going on into construction after bidding is we provide uh engineering services during
construction we we uh look over all of the pay requests make sure that they're correct uh we uh review material uh submitts before the material goes into ground to make sure that it is compliant with the plans and specifications of the
project and we do uh periodic uh inspections during the course of a project certain milestones uh we uh are involved in monthly progress meetings with the uh contractor and the owner uh
to make sure that everything is still moving along fine if there's any uh uh concerns it's the opportunity to point it out and get it corrected at that time next slide and that's the end of our
presentation so we'll open it up to questions okay all right we're going to go around the question here we'll begin with Mr beerbomb and uh run right through the council uh what is your understanding of where the city's going
um just in general terms uh you know improvement on existing infrastructure um and um uh yeah I think that's you know more or less the the overview that you know I have as an understanding so all right um
add to that just a little bit i'm I'm up here almost every weekend my uh family uh my wife's family owns property up here uh north of Defunia and we drive through here every weekend and the progress that I'm seeing from uh
where I was coming up here 11 12 years ago and what I'm seeing now is that the the city of Defunia Springs is making great strides in improving the the uh transportation corridors throughout the city and uh looks like from what my
observation is very uh pedestrian friendly as well okay and then can you describe your ideal relationship uh my ideal uh and our ideal client relationship um is just that of an
extension of your staff um uh you know I make it my job when I'm working with a client um to u make sure I understand uh what is their why what is um the overall approach and and purpose of what they want to do or what issue they're having um again that way we can get it into a
program um start looking at those um uh potential um impacts costs those sorts of things um but if things um if situations change or we identify something that would cause a negative impact or um lead to the the client not
being able to um you know achieve their overall goal um we need to be able to pivot andor make necessary corrections um but really just uh having that you know a true relationship um to where I know what the client needs um what that municipality needs and and what they
what they're looking for i'm good Mr good um you guys have a lot of the engineering services in house you don't have to sub out a whole lot is is that am I getting the right impression here that's correct yes sir
um um on master plate of wastewater uh water and sewage master plant creation we are beginning to look at that i asked the the prior uh firm same
same question so what what experience do you all have we have done a uh complete uh water wastewater reclaim water uh master plan re well very recently for uh destin water users but we did the
previous two master plans prior to that um the city of Callaway we're uh over in uh Panama City we have just uh delivered the uh water wastewater master plan for their system as well we do a lot of uh u
just singular water master plans or uh wastewater master plans as well okay um I'm going to go straight to another one i saw that something about streetscapes can you tell us um where where you have created what cities you have created
streetcapes for uh for different streetscapes uh uh cities city of Guff Breeze San Rose Island Authority Pensacola Beach um the uh the access road on Pensacola Beach uh which runs from the toll plaza um to the boardwalk um did a you know the the complete
design and analysis on that um for access and um to eliminate uh for traffic control eliminate left turn movements um we've worked with the city of Guff Breeze um city of Pensacola um all of Maritime Park
um quite a few um those are just the the recent ones that I can think of any experience with main street uh streetscapes yes sir um in the city of Pensacola um as part of the maritime park um uh project uh there were some streetscape changes with that project um
as well as right now we're working with the city of Pensacola on um Palifox and um bringing a very very old uh street and all the infrastructure with it uh um you know widths between buildings um a lot of obstacles um in that and dated infrastructure um that's where we're
able to use the ground penetrating radar on the LAR um to capture all that information quickly um so that we can move forward with that um thank you
no questions questions quick Mr mayor um you did much of them planning development reviews i'm not sure if I've touched on the presentation i've done those for other municipalities I've worked with yes sir and then uh monthly reports you have the
ability to provide the city with a monthly project report progress report or whatever y'all are doing that be through software however you'all internally do it yes sir yep do that multiple different uh platforms and then lastly condition assessments kind of like Council Harris about master plan but like street condition assessments
stuff that nature y'all have done y'all done that particularly you had a very thorough on street absolutely several different uh um different purposes everything from um full reviews and ADA compliance for transition plans uh post uh uh storm um assessments and then um
existing conditions for um desired modifications thank you man okay and I just the only question I had was in working with grants uh we have uh we have a a grants manager that works for us we have had more than one may again
and we also have Liberty Partners who does a great deal of work of securing the grants and anyway sometimes there's kind of a little confusion as to who plays what role so I suppose you've had
that experience the biggest thing is not whether you can do it or not biggest thing is how well can you work with others who uh you may feel like may be overbearing or intruding or whatever we we've worked very closely with Liberty Partners
Jennifer Green and uh Tim Parsons i know him very well and uh we've done a lot of work with them we know where the division line is yeah yeah what's what's my responsibility and what's your responsibility and we don't cross those lines that's good all right yeah that's
what I want to hear okay any other last minute questions all right we will uh get back with you and we thank you so much for your presentation and your willingness to answer questions all right thank you thank you
kobe why is the why is the half of the PD here i don't know i wasn't waiting you weren't getting nervous were you yes I was five minutes so either they're practicing or could be
is it city or county city if it was county I'd really be worried they came right to our IT department i'm not sure what that is did that Did that fell say we didn't have any waste water he sure did okay thank you because they
were they were said they have treatment vaults that deliver out into open water and that was a concern to me when he made that comment because that's saying you basically got a set tank here allowing it to go out what was his Yeah exactly
uh for that part it was just a ball treatment i was like you guys have a laptop interesting okay yeah your question is right on point though because it's alluded to like to one guy that applied for I forget if it was
finance director city manager that time i'm like he had not even done any of his homework on the city before he showed up that day to even determine what the city's about speaks volumes my lesson must be training y'all got a couple of big old buildings
over there to train in i don't know if I catch you afterwards so somebody know there's some uh there's a couple painting bugs that went off they think something either somebody accidentally hit it or they got a couple that went on there didn't you no under
here if we do I'll probably hit it a million times there's probably I wish we'd really invest in a new chair because I feel like I'm sitting I feel like Lily Tomlin like I'm sitting on the floor you do too
thanks sir well can I convince you to buy me a new chair for this team right here the best chairs are chairs that dispatch we do have really but you can't just have one look different than the other i would love that even give me a pillow
or something to sit on and one I got it just go down the bottom it up for which group is this that's where I am half we were CG we'll go over that we changed
names as of April 1 April 1 it was April fools okay now we change names what you get you get what what's happened just what I'm going it's like wait this group wasn't even on the list
[Music] we just showed up like "Hey wait trickery on board." Enjoy the police i just said it's like "Wait why are they why are they all on the why are they all in the lobby?" Like
half Where are y'all from so our headquarters is [Music] in seven okay now we got Wednesday and Friday this
week because Thursday they're closed okay okay raphael did you buy snacks i know right at this point man no hey we got Door Dash you know what stickers it's I'm thinking the same
thing i saw Josh already had it should have done that that was I know i was like that's dangerous one of my guys gave it to me earlier today so it'll get you squirming now we need to take a break real quick and run down to the set oh right get some wings
there you go raphael could have made us a buffet line up front of the mic no turkey no turkey i am going to start bringing now those uh that mixture of nuts and M&M's and what do you call that trail mix trail
mix i'm going to start that's what I'm going to bring us every meeting from this day forward i will say this though I've learned that this thing makes noise so I'll cut it off when I take a drink if we got it chewing nuts and my hair
horses crunch they did on April 1 april Fool's that was their name this is Do you want to see this this is This was the tax strategy no that's what it was and that's what
it was it was the wrong strategy the secretary of state told me don't do that see we'll never forget y'all oh yeah those are those April Fools guys that's right we'll come back and present the other day
well guys we welcome you here in Phoenix and uh we uh want to give you your time for your presentation then we'll wait till you get done and then we'll do around to hear questions and
um we'll go ahead and begin right now if you'd like uh introduce your team and then tell us about yourself okay sounds good uh my name is Ray Rollins uh I'm in business development for Three Notch Group so uh with me I have Scott Trot
our chief strategy officer he's also one of our pees uh TJ Kelly he's one of our transportation pees and then we have Sydney Sanders she's our proposal manager okay um right now we're representing offices Dothan and and
Alabama and Alabama so that's that's the kind of offices that we work out of first id like to say congratulations to you mayor on being reelected and uh Councilman Harrison on being reelected and Councilman Cosen for being elected so congratulations to you i saw
you swearing in last night so I so congratulations on that also thank you for having us we're happy to be here we're excited to be here and you know hopefully we'll get to work with you so you gohead to the next slide all right so this is just an outline of
what we're going to kind of go through first thing I want you to just kind of tell you what you're going to get out of our presentation is um kind of who we are as a firm uh our capabilities our project approach um how we manage projects we're going to go over some
specific projects and uh and then I'm also going to get into the name change so and we like you said we'll do questions after you can go ahead thank you all right so we had a name change April 1st as you heard um nothing changed
other than the name no ownership change we weren't bought none of those kind of things what happened was we have a growth strategy and part of that strategy is to move into other states and the name CDG uh although we had it in Alabama we didn't have it in other states and in order to be order to grow
to these other states we needed a new name and that's kind of the the simple answer of why we'd had to change our name but again no ownership change just had to change it on paper for uh legal reasons so
um all right you can move on from that one thank you i hate telling you what to do sorry wear him out don't worry about he's a marine he just Okay gotcha yes sir all right so this is our proposed project team um as you can see we have
Scott up there as a project manager and kind of what we do as a as a firm is we give you a single point of contact so you're not having to chase down this person that person this person to get in touch with them you you have a single person you get in touch with them not saying you can't call those other folks because other people are working on
projects but that's kind of how we do it this is the team that we put together on this particular uh RFQ because we we took a look at your capital improvement plan that you had online and seen what kind of projects you had you wanted to do in the future
and so we saw some environmental stuff a lot of utility was on there and um transportation and and some other things natural gas that sort of thing so we we did take a look at that um but we also offer environmental and um uh solid waste sorry about that it
left me for a second so we have we can do anything we don't do a lot of subbing so we we're one somebody you can call and we can do just about any job that you got so all right on this slide here it's just kind of a breakdown of commitment to projects
for Definiac Springs we took we looked at available time and we wanted to make sure that you that we would have time available for Definiac Springs and be able to put time towards that so you can see we have ample amount of time through
people to to put towards your projects so and that's that is it for me i'm gonna hand it over to Sydney so y'all don't have to listen to me speak the whole time and uh Hi how are y'all good good how are you good i'm Sydney Sanders i'm a proposal
manager for Three Notch Group um while these gentlemen are out building projects and building up our firm I'm building our brand i'm building our story and I'm conveying the most important information to you guys to make sure it matches up with everything that you're looking for um do you mind going to the next
slide and that starts by conveying our story and our story actually starts in 1946 with two civil engineers they had a plan they had a goal to get together to build public infrastructure across the Southeast and almost 80 years later we're here now with more than 200
professional technical and administrative staff with nine southeastern offices across three different states and we are a top 500 engineering firm ranked by ENR so we're continuing that mission today almost 80 years later you flip to the next
one um as you can tell we have a myriad of in-house services um this is just a small sample of what's probably the most relevant to your capital improvement plan but they all sort of integrate together and they all work cohesively together under a singular quality assurance program there's multiple
checks and balances and there's also additional services that feed into this one of which being funding administration and procurement those all kind of work in single-handedly through these services um one thing that we wanted to make sure that we touched on that we weren't able to tackle enough in
the submitt for our solid waste services um we have a slew of solid waste services inhouse including facility site selection design and permitting remediation um leate management landfill gas systems and more just let me know yeah sorry this is my
first rodeo so local staffing and resources we have two key offices that we like to feature both are less than 65 miles away from your city one being in Andalusia and one being in Dothan our Andalusia office houses our corporate office as
well as our Andalusia branch with almost 60 employees as well as accredited in-house labs and it hosts all of our drill rigs and support vehicles so that way we can bring everything remotely on site for any geotechnical and testing needs um also due to our growth strategy in the panhandle we expect to have our
lease for birth at the Pensacola office in two weeks so we can continue to serve and develop and grow opportunities here with you all um do you mind if we can the next slide please um and this is just an overview of our municipal client examples that we thought were the most relevant
comparably to what you guys are looking for and what we've addressed in the past um unlike most of the firms in the engineering field we have a primary focus on municipal clients um meaning that we're familiar with navigating budget constraints funding administration and compliance
stakeholder involvement and the importance of your time not just the time of our firms and other firms involved um so that being said this is just a very brief overview we've completed thousands of projects across multiple states over our firm's history um and it has been monumental to the
development of the Southeast as a whole um that's all I have on my end of it i'm gonna pass it off to TJ he'll be leading our Pensacola office efforts thank you Sydney so my name is TJ Kelly i am a professional licensed here in Florida u
I'm actually from Andalusia born and raised can't tell by my accent just old country boy u but glad to be here thank you so much for your time u really just want to talk about project management side of things uh can you go to the next slide please so our project approach uh really
begins uh right from the start from the data collection and conceptual design we feel like this is the the actual the backbone I guess you want to say of a of a project you know this is really solidifies uh what we're going to do from this point on moving forward and carries on to the next step next step so
from here we really want to go into the detailed engineering design and then onto the bidding services we uh their help with project procurement um at that point on we're very active in the construction side of things we had our CNI team uh we'll be on with the on-site
inspectors um you know going on with administration of paperwork you know auditing is a big thing with federal projects being funded so we'll make sure we got all the paperwork ready good to go so you know anything that comes up in the future we're going to have it uh all squared away so be easy you know to go
through if that comes up uh but you know we don't just stop there you know during the post construction services we want to be active and be available for any questions we want to make sure this is a successful project so you know successful project to us is guiding you from the bottom step all the way to the top you know we're not going to abandon
you at any point we're going to hold your hand all the way through and uh you know at the end of this project whatever it is we want you to say hey this was a successful project you know if that's successful to you that means that we did our job right um so you know and part of
that excuse me is just uh like I said making sure you don't feel abandoned okay we don't want you to feel like you can't get in touch with us we won't be available i want to be here whatever we can do and so as Sydney said you know I'm leading the the charge on our I guess our lease for our Pensacola office but you know growing up in Halusia
Junia's all the way that's I've been through here plenty plenty of times going to the beach uh very very often so it you know it's not far away so you know hopefully if we work with you guys I'll be available you can call me for anything that you need so go to the next slide
please so effective schedule and budget management begins with setting clear expectations uh and a detailed scope now we want to utilize current data and uh set you know our timeline realistic timeline schedules um and also assign
task ownership within our project team you know clear and consistent communications you know uh begins with pro you know I guess our progress monitoring we do progress reports on a weekly basis and I'll talk about that in a second but we want to be flexible to you know any change management because
all these are key elements to a successful project that's you know within budget and on times you know that's what really what we're striving to do for our clients uh progress reports is something I take very dearly to my heart because I do it on a weekly basis you know our goal is we get a one
sheet document says what we've done the previous week what we're doing this next week and also has the milestones on each on that progress report shows the dates that we're trying to hit we want to be transparent we want you to hold us accountable to that and also you never have to wonder especially as a council and the mayor like what where are they
on this project you know you know communication is key you know that isn't the only form of communication that we're doing we're going to call you and let you know but you'll always anybody ever ask you you can pull up the latest progress report say "Here here they are this is where we are right now." Or "Hey you know this is what we're trying to do or whatever." So we that's that's very
important to us so you know and also at the end of the project uh you know we want to know what we did successfully we want to have like a post review on any projects that we do we want to know what we did did well we want to know what we could do better for you guys so you know our success really depends on the
successful for you so uh that's it in a nutshell for me um I'm gonna hand it over to Mr scott Trout right now so thank you thank you hey good afternoon guys hey we're gonna take it to heart that you said if we got done early we got extra points or some
kind of bonus or something i don't I could imagine sitting through five of these um in the day but um wanted to kind of take what my team has said so far about how we do things and start talking about some things that we have done so with an 80-year history we've got a long list of projects we could talk about we try to look at recent
things but also as Ry mentioned going through your capital improvement plan try to look at projects are very similar to what you've done um you know your municipalities face challenges they're very similar no matter if you're here you're in Wyoming or wherever you are um want to kind of highlight a couple of those um to see that next slide please
can't believe I forgot my flicker that's my fault um the first I want to talk about is a Panama City SRF project um they have numbers for their basins this was D11 so if you're ever in Panama City look for D11 don't know what that means um this was a multifaceted project
included water work sewer work and a little bit of transportation work um to fix some things that got busted along the way um 6,000 ft of corridor on this one which that was replaced water sewer and all of the sidewalk that goes with it um what made this project unique
though was it was in a very busy downtown corridor um that's the first thing so we had to maintain service couldn't cut off sewer service believe it or not people don't like if you say "Hey by the way your sewer doesn't work on Tuesdays." So we had to keep things going the whole way which is a lot of bypass pumping a lot of diversion um
also all the the stores had to be open so maintain all that but really the most unique one on this was the funding um this was funded under FDP and through the clean water SRF program and you'll see SRF in almost every project I talk about the federal government has thrown
almost all the money lately through the state minus one project we'll talk about um so we had to maintain that but let's make it even more fun and one that I'm sure you're all very near and dear to your heart is FEMA we also had to deal with FEMA hazard mitigation HMGP hazard mitigation grant plan program so we had
these two things working together which was a unique challenge but also a benefit we were able to do more because certain parts of the project could work underneath SRF the straight utility things but some of the drains for instance we could fund that under FEMA so we were able to put together a project that allowed us to take you know a small amount and make it about about a
third larger um putting the two programs together so um at the end of the day this became a very successful project i think that um all the stakeholders that came together in our stakeholder involvement meetings they voiced their concerns um we heard them and where we could mitigate challenges such as access to your business or um construction
issues um sediment erosion control things like that we to listen to them i think people felt that they were in there so it was a fairly successful project might switch to the next project um another good one um this was a larger uh straight sewer project um I always look at what's the purpose of the
project well this project was an inflow and infiltration reduction um project as council members as professionals you hear inflow and infiltration those are flows in your sewer system that aren't because of users it's rainwater it's ground water it's everything else every system in the world has them um you're never going to get them to zero but you
can get them down also spend a lot of money on it this one also had the tie up it had an administrative order on consent or consent order um tied to it as well um this happened to be a point where I was doing consulting work for EPA at the same time so we had a little
bit of a different in on this one um but 11,000 ft of line had to be addressed and it was in a very busy trunk line area sure we didn't have traffic or anything else but we had high flows and we had to show something because part of the reporting on the consent order we had to show yes we had a reduction in flows so this started with doing flow
monitoring which I think is one of the best ways to address your system um you can sit around all day and say I think I know where the problems are no you know where the problems come out i know where the the water comes out of the sewer um but when you get flow model you can actually track it down in a very definitive black and white um manner i'm
an engineer i like black and white i know you're in the accounting world you probably love black and white as well especially today of all days uh so we went through this did a very val very large plan um CCTV smoke testing manhole inspections all this to figure out where are the problems what needs to be done
and put together this project threw it back to the state threw it back to EPA they approved it went through the project and did all this um part of this that was kind of neat though is EPA allowed us to fund some of this mapping so they were able to start a new upgraded GIS system as part of this so we can go back and look at color-coded CCTV data they can pull up on their
phone say "Hey here's where the pipe is here's what condition is." Um it's really a neat tool um to go into had learned a lot of lessons as to what data was useful and what data was not useful but still cool to look at um big difference in those two things from time to time so uh went through all that was very successful project I think next one
if you so this little project over in Vernon um was interesting just because it was a citywide replacement of all the sewer um everything there was aged it was terracotta pipe um as part of that it became both water and wastewater um replacement on everything so um again
this was CWSRF funded and then on the drinking water site was DW SRF um there was a little bit of FEMA that came in at the end but wasn't directly related to the utility on this but culminated in 24,000 ft of replacement on all of this um as well as some water improvements
which included a new well um that was put in our our involvement this one started with funding having to write all the grant applications get all that funding lined up went through design fitting and construction inspection on this one that's a next one i'm going to
switch gears just a little bit because this is what's near and dear to me and I can't do a presentation without talking about something like that so this is a new wastewater plant um my background is in process design engineering for this so um this project had an interesting need um the city was a satellite system
they sent all their flows to somebody else the person they sent it to came under a consent order and because of that rates were going up and they were limited on the flows so doesn't really impact the way you guys do do work all the time however what it did was it said "Hey we need to look at a better way to
deal with our wastewater situation." So we started doing an analysis on the funding what's available what can you pay for what do you need to build what's your flow what how how big can you grow because you can um you can build the biggest wastewater plant in the world um but it's not going to operate efficiently if it's not the right size
so that's what this what came up with this um I guess probably one of the few times you'll say this luckily we had this thing happen um called CO And from COVID came a lot more money under the American Rescue Act um and that funded a lot of this project so we had done the financial analysis to show they can afford this with rateayers but then we
were able to take a $5 million project and knock $4 million on top of it with grant funding tied that with SRF and they got a $5.7 million plant for at the end of the day about a million dollars um so the money there I'm not a CPA but I can tell you the money there was really good um so this project came up
with that one uh the complexity here is raise your hand if you want a waste water plant in your backyard um the only property available was going to be in some fairly uh well-known citizens backyard so we had to do a public involvement to get all that figured out to mitigate those challenges and the
plant was designed a little differently to help help do that so um stakeholder involvement was really key on this project making it successful um did an alternative analysis to figure out what types of treatment could be done um and what makes the most sense our our involvement with this one this is about
the most cradle to grave you'll ever see was from the project development the funding through design permitting construction and our operations group actually operates um this plant as we turn that over to um the city next slide please just to throw some water
discussions in there i've got two of these um the first one is a 24inch water man um that was put in um this is up at Huntsville in North Alabama big growing area fastest growing area uh in the state of Alabama um this was for service reliability they kept having breakage on this antiquated large diameter line i
think it was a 16inch line um they ended up breaking so went in and did this now this was right through the middle of downtown this project the quarter they had to open here was it was rough there was sleep loss over this one um but went through figured out the best way to to route this to do the replacement to keep
service up luckily here the system was backfed so keeping service up was not a big concern um but we were able to do it um very detailed survey to keep everything out on that again design bid permit on this one next slide please last water project I promise um
so the city of Walnut Hill was chasing loss revenue um water usage they were using minimum bill data for some people because they couldn't get good readings and they had a huge labor cost for rereads um don't their reread rate was 15 to 20% at times which meant labor was
going out there to miss meter readings so what they said is let's put in automatic meters um they consulted everybody said okay there is no good brand on this so did a full analysis of what worked for them um to do this as far as the multiple systems and they resulted in replacing 3600 of their
meters put their reread system down to less than 1% on this because we're getting good data connection i have a similar project uh with the city of Atlanta I did in which the number of meters replaced was huge and the rere rate was 02% um when we got done and those were always problematic so um as
part of this though we were able to do some system mapping and found out they also had some pressure problems so we're able to go in and put some VFDs on their systems so that basically their big pumps weren't running in the middle of the night um so save some power there so this project was net positive cash flow wise almost
immediately next one please so natural gas let's talk revenue generating things um this was a large one that came from an analysis done by the public service commission that said "Hey you have all of this piping that needs to be replaced." Um so under the
bipartisan infrastructure legislation that came out law um we were able to put in competitive grants for this that worked very quickly we got $15.3 million in about six months um for this project to be completed i don't know how this would have been funded otherwise would have been pieced together over decades
had we not done it this way but out of this we're placing 31 miles of cast iron man um again some of this runs through some difficult areas um part of that has involved a bunch of gas mapping um we got to do the pressure map for the system to figure out how everything's coming off their regulator station um to
get everything done it's been a interesting project um it is not 100% complete yet um they're still doing some gas there were some supply issues that came up in the last couple months on that so still got to be there next slide please so TJ's our roadway guy but I'm going to talk about him because I'm standing here
so if if I say something wrong just look at TJ um Denton Road project this was this was great this was my way to work um so this was just shy of 6,000 ft roadway work uh in addition to having to increase for capacity there was a bridge on here that failed the um inspection so
a school bus couldn't go around it so they had to reroute all the school buses for a period of years um to get through this so the Metropolitan Planning Organization the NPO got together and said "This is a priority project we need to do this." And it was done in multiple phases the DOT came in and funded it um did that it was again you're doing a
roadway you're you're widening you're doing a corridor study um doing all that and then you're obviously we decided to replace that bad bridge we didn't just leave that in the middle of it um so went through all that and then the traffic signalization work we had to do to do the traffic study and then figure out what needed to be done at the end of that next slide please
um so the last one I'll talk about is down in Appalachiccola um doing so this was a long-term project um this is CDBG CDBG CDBG DR that's a lot of lot of names now you see why we're not CDG anymore um so this was a disaster relief
um project this had a lot of parts to it including some building renovations roofing fixes that came from that disaster recovery fund um but the biggest one here was the sidewalk improvements um it was not ADA compliant um it's a low area it's hard to maintain some of that so what the goal of this project has been is to maintain all of
that 88 compliance the entire way through downtown um also using their regional CDBG um compliance folks which has been a little bit of a challenge but it's been a great great experience at the end of the day so on this one we're doing the design the bidding and the construction inspection and I'm looking
forward to have that one closed out here pretty soon at that point I'm going to turn it over to Ray because see that that's how much time you left we have to get extra points so okay thank you so much that's not a problem all right so next slide please
so just wanted to highlight a few things that we went through um first uh ready to serve one thing I didn't mention earlier that I'd like to is we do have a 24-hour emergency hotline so if you have something that happens you can call us anytime um and we will we have a that's
like designated we have a response uh team for that and then also municipal focus we are uh municip we mentioned earlier public focus we want we understand the issues that municipalities deal with uh like Sydney mentioned with budget constraints
schedule constraints um funding compliance those sort of things so we understand that um funding knowledge as well and then uh the big one too also single source responsibility so you know if you if you set call three notch and
say "Hey we need you to look at this job." It's going to be Three Notch that's doing the work so that's just some highlights to what we have uh in the presentation today and one thing I also did fail to mention is I I asked Scott today his birthday and I said
"What do you want for your birthday?" And he said "I want to go to the Springs for an interview." And I said "You got to." So happy birthday to Scott so um and with that being said I'll close it out and we'll take any questions all right yeah my question is uh where do you
understand our city is going i hate to sit down well to me so one thing I wanted to mention is like last night when I was here when y'all y'all were talking about the money and you were doing the allocating it to the long-term plan the five-year plan y'all were talking about that so I know y'all
are wanting to grow you're wanting to u be almost a destination is what it seems like somewhere people want to come and be not just pass through to go to the beach you want to be somewhere where they stop and spend time spend money and that sort of thing so I may be wrong that's kind of what I'm gathering um
because that I'm from Dothan and that's what we were for a long time we were we're pass through on the way to Panama City for everybody so you don't want to just be the pass through town to to me but I could be wrong but that's just kind of how I how I see it so Uh right how would you describe your
ideal relationship so professionally personally or client relationship i know i'm just messing with me for me it's so we're we we want to be a part of the team part of the family we're not trying to come in and
take over what the Phoenix Springs wants to do we're not going to say "No you only do that you need to do this." we're going to look at it and say "Okay this is I think if you want to do that this is how we probably need to approach it." Or this may be a bigger a bigger need now like y'all talking about the um the
airport with the hump in the runway and then the effluent line last night you know you're talking about your priorities so it's just we want to be there for help you decide what those priorities are and then just be a part of the team like we mentioned earlier we're just trying to work with you and not over you
or you know work we obviously for you but alongside you if that makes sense yeah I think that to add to that um we've also seen you know this isn't a you and us relationship you know we're all here to accomplish the same thing um
early in my career I would tell you I thought every city had unlimited resources and unlimited manpower and everything else so I would say "Hey here's great things for you to do." And that's just not the case um to me I think the best relationship is we have a certain breath of knowledge that we can bring to you you have a certain set of desires and we have to put those
together and there's certain things that we can come in and we can help you fix and there's certain things we can't um I'd love to tell you we can fix all your problems but we can't um we can come in and we can we can tie those things together funding is always an issue um public opinion in my opinion has always been an issue as well you got to make
sure people know what you're doing while it's there so I always view that relationship i mean it seems so cliche but it's a partnership we both get alignment on a goal here um and we've we've had places we work that we don't work anymore because goals were just very different
um nothing neither side was wrong in that it was just that goals weren't the same so I think we have to be very open um the underlying term on everything we do is communication um if I don't know what you guys want you guys don't know what we're doing which we see that all the time um you got to know that for
that partnership to work um you know Ray made the question of what type of relationship that works for your personal or yours at home i guess my wife's going to tell you otherwise but I don't do that well but I think I do work at least so I probably communicate better with you via email than I do with my wife
that's a That's a different good you know your wife is watching this probably this wasn't tomorrow well I do have some but one before I forget it was the availability there was a chart in here somewhere i can't find
it but it seemed like there was a couple of categories that were like 15% uh several at 20 one couple at 25 maybe can you explain it because I I mean I'm fairly new at this i I admit so uh I've
seen some of the other uh companies just over the last year that I've been in involved with and how much time and there they range up 50 60% very few 60% but you guys have the same recollection about some of our engineering availability so I'm just wondering what
that 20% how you looked at that is fantastic question so we use an enterprise resource management program in ERP that allows us to track all of our employees time and I have them booked out to You like that don't you yeah yes um it was done by our
accounting team too uh so we we have that out there so we can look and I can say what I'm committed to um I'm a corporate employee so my time is limited but I work in this area so my time for instance is set higher to this one so we look at my available hours and we see what's there and then we take a swag as
to other things that we know going on what I don't want to do is come in here and tell you that I'm going to give you 20 hours a week on your projects if I know I can't do that because I've got other um obligations now for each of these people these are all of our practice leaders they have staff that works for them that they could be 100%
on your staff but I wanted to report we wanted to come in and report a minimum number so we don't I don't want to set an expectation that we can't meet um these are hard numbers to prove and I've been in the world where we we'll come in and show you some high numbers that just you got to put them through a snip test a little bit so um but we do t typically
in our contracting we will do an actual hour number but in joint you can take that and multiply by working hours um if you're the Department of Labor I'm going to tell you that's 40 hours a week if you're a teacher I'm going to say that's 55 hours a week um so oh this is recorded right that was a joke we work
40 hours a week so that's how we come up with those numbers looking at our resource planning everyone comes up in the system is green green yellow red as to what they have available and we run for this thank you um on on waist water and wastewater master plan creation how yeah that's you
right me let's talk all right tell me what you got okay so w so sanitary sewer collection waste water wastewater treatment typically so what we have seen in these is you have got to look at capacity quality and growth patterns um
I can extend a water line to a new development a whole lot quicker than I can extend the sewer service in a reliable manner you made the comment about where are we going you asked the question about where are we going um very big in your sewer master plan um we've done these for a number of communities and I had one that we did
over um actually for an Indian tribe as a matter of fact that have done it they have followed every porch creek Indians um they have done it every year and they follow the plan what we did there is we looked at the growth the growth projection and every year we benchmarked that against what was actually happening and man we got it right one time um the
growth projections actually match what's happening you have things that happen throughout times to do that so we're looking at flow Then we're looking at where's our waste water going now how are we treating this how are we disposing of this also you have to have set aside money because all the regulatory limits they're not getting lighter especially in this state um we
just had to green field okay so I have to admit this i was sitting out in the lobby and I saw a Facebook post with your picture on it from Gan Wright gan Wright is a dear dear friend of mine i had to get a green field permit for him a couple years ago which was a brand new there's no discharge and we had to get
one and D I can go get you permit just about any state I can tell you give me about 90 to 120 days not not far you don't this is where I work most of my life it doesn't happen but so you have to figure out what's your permit you have to know that ahead of time and start planning for that setting the money aside because
those are not minor expenses and the government just gave us all a lot of money to cover these things i don't have a crystal ball but I don't expect that's coming so we have to look at not only what are the projects we need how do we prioritize those and how do we fund those but getting that priority that's a big thing about where are we going
what's most important to us right now um to get it in there so okay i have some great examples of wastewater plans some based on various different criteria and what you hold important um because it's not an offtheshelf type type document all right
um I noticed in your in your paperwork that you have your own labs am I correct on that so as far as conducting condition assessments of roads buildings u wastewater all of those types of
things correct um what tell us what you could do because we've we've identified a lot of streets that need to be paved as in every cities have but we have to have a system of prioritizing those you want to talk about so roadway evaluation is a very
specific um thing tj you want to talk about road robotics evaluation yeah yeah so we we've actually partnered with some some companies uh one in particular with City of Montgomery in Alabama very large city uh doing a pavement evaluation so this company's you know using AI but
also integrating uh with the human touch going around and I think it was uh 12,000 miles center line miles of roadway throughout the whole city of Montgomery so with that you know they come back with the data and it's actually user friendly uh and actually gonna post it on the website so people
can actually access and look at it but with that you know we come in behind them and take that data and give a pavement evaluation three-year PL paving plan so you know we look at you know it get grades all your roadways you know not just A B C D but actually out of a 100 scale and you can go through and
look and see which ones are priorities for you know each district uh you know break it down and so then we can actually you know come back to the client and say hey this is the order of you know for the next three years this is what we recommend you need to do researching however we want your input
like tell us okay well this street isn't really a priority for us for you know xyz reason so we take that input and then the final you know evaluation we'll have you know the the paving plan for the next three years so you can do three years you can do five years whatever you you know the the I guess the data that
we've seen really is after three years you probably need to re get you know redo the data as well because I mean after that you know it starts declining uh so three years is usually the I guess the norm for you know revisiting the data so that's why we do a three-year payment evaluation but you can it can be
longer than five years we wouldn't recommend it any more than five years so back to your you know by the lab you know we actually uh we do any concrete we break uh concrete cylinders test them for any you know all our construction projects especially any concrete you
know pedestrian sidewalks we got to get test cylinders for that bring it back to the lab test it make sure it passes for DOT specs or whatever uh we're also any of the soils you know we have all the geotech in house we have you know rigs go there we do borings we'll bring that
all that soil back to the lab do all the tests and make sure we get the right compaction for the contractor and our in our design plans so u that's just a few things we'll do with our our lab does that answer your question yes on the wastewater side we have certified operators to pull those samples do the
analysis all that as well um that's a little more rare for things usually often times you contract those out some of those will have a certain hold requirement on timing so getting the nuts and bolts of it so we can do all that in house which stops fingerpoint also on the G side because we have our
own drill rigs um lately we order drill sometimes we'll use third party as well it's good availability the lead time on that can be really long but it's really nice when I call somebody on the payroll at 8 o'clock on Saturday say "By the way on Sunday afternoon we're doing this." Sometimes have those things okay
and one one last question thank you um on reviewing development plans and back to the percentage of your time availability what um my concern there is timing you know how how what's the turnaround you know
for reviewing development plans because we all know projects take forever that's one lesson that I've of this process that I have learned things take forever to get done so turnaround's important so do you have like if we had a project we were trying
to move along quickly I mean do so we will typically um go to those engagements we operate as the city inst hall for a number of clients where we are there is what three days a week three days a week in some um and less than others and we also do remote plan review for things as well typically we
will look at what your ordinances say for review time and we will try to cut that in half on our because you're going to have things you have to do administratively to those however you're going to have things that come up from time to time and have to be pushed forward i mean so that goes back to this partnership discussion of you know if we're communicating things and you know what's coming you know you got a big
development platform subdivision something coming you know we can turn those things around very quickly because unfortunately they're often notable things have to come back we're doing plan review for Appalach for instance and we get major drainage issues on just about everything you call them there and
tell you the same thing it is rare that we have something that doesn't come back in a drainage change is major change it's not changing site i can add uh you know we also do traffic engineering in house i think we mentioned that but you know planning on the traffic engineering side is really
big on development as well because you got to make sure your infrastructure is ready for growth and make sure you know we got the right turn lane warrants traffic signals whatever we need to do we got to make sure we do that up front that's something we added several years ago to our services because you know that we found out that that was at the
beginning of any project the traffic engineering side was really what I guess the basis of before we can move anything moving forward so you know we added that services and that's what I do also in house is our traffic engineering where studies feasibility studies corridor studies uh but you know we we are job
pre-qualified u you know for major and minor road design traffic signal timing and our GH and CNI as well so uh but yeah planning on that is just as you know same thing that you mentioned but very very important i think one thing to your question is important to note is we
mentioned that we're municipal focused um working for a municipality working for a developer are two very different things however in this role you have to interface with you have a group that works for the developer and you have a group that works for municipalities the two rarely cross however we get a plan with you that is the one time that we do
interingle those people because your desires and desires develop often times unfortunately we do this thank you sorry okay
um so yeah you touched a little bit but a lot of uh you know a lot of Alabama work relationships with DOT and FTP here in the panhandle y'all have those what's you have those relationships you know the people who work in those offices you've done projects with them so TJ's
head up a lot of our FD um I've had a f those relations have been there for decades plus that regulator there person there changes all out quite often so we maintain those
they help with especially the grandson those relationships just like those partnerships you tell them what you're doing you're always even if you have a mistake you let them know it works out so much better for all we've always been on DOT side getting them involved
early you know because I've seen a lot you know in the past people trying to do a project and not let DOT know till you know submitting a final set of plans and there's like we can't do this so we like to bring them in on the beginning you know uh so we can get you know get feedback from them say "This is what we
want to do can we do that are y'all good with this?" It makes it go a lot lot smoother yeah do don't want to give you no money but they want to tell you what to do i can only tell you if you wanted to call Gene Rice
over that well hopefully he's still living right now um man um his D with the relationship we have DP got him the most ridiculous amount of money for their project out there that I think that's a testament to what our team have done it's
not somebody else lastly uh monthly project reports because y'all provide those to the city do you have a software however you do it internally yeah typically we uh we just do it via email that's what we typically do like I said it it really is whatever you want to do I I lean toward the weekly progress
reports but you you feel like well that's too much just do bi-weekly or monthly but like I said we I do it on weekly because I tell you what we did that that week what we're doing next week and so it's it's just you know the date on it so you can always pull it and say "Okay here and so asked you where we are on this project here we go here we
are right here." So thank you that's all Amy has one more question tj I have one for you and then one for Scott but she uh Glenn had asked and you had answered about the roadway study uh how long does that take and approximately what's just
give me a range of whatever that one you're discussing would have cost it really depends i know that's a cliche answer i don't Anybody know how much roadway we've got here that needs evaluated so all of it i know how much okay so so many Well if you if you want
to do like a pavement evaluation plan you know the like a core like what do we that three-year plan we wanted to produce one of those how long would it take to get the data really doesn't take much take long at all but going from beginning to end uh I think the one in Montgomery we actually doing in three to
four months as far as getting you a final document to give to give us here's our recommendation for your back and forth with you guys saying and then by the by about the fourth month it'll be one that here's the document that you've agreed upon as well like so we want your feedback we're going to come to to you with
recommendations but then like I said you may say well this isn't a priority this is then we come back this then we revise it and say here's a and just roughly how many miles uh was that study or whatever and what did it cost to gather that information
and put that data together i think it's 14,000 center line miles I believe yeah that's right we're about we're about 57 57 57 miles so the uh uh first step is the that's actually the name of the company uh that that's all they do they
they drive they actually get all this data and so we partner with them on different they've done city mobile hunts all these big but they also do smaller towns as well but uh and they they come with all a menu of all kinds of things you can do but as far as just looking at the the aggregate of the actual uh
asphalt they charge us $100 about $100,000 and our part was about 30 so the project total is about $130,000 to get them an actual plan a three-year payment plan $15 a month thank you thank you and then Scott I have one thing for
you was the city of Vernon the water and sewer rehab project the 24,000 of sanitary yes ma'am uh what year was that done and what was the amount of that project the amount of that project uh I'm going to take a guess at it i think it was about $4.5 million four and a
half million four and a half i think I'll double check on that um that's about what year i think it was commission 2017 okay thank you i remember correctly i'm good thank you man all right well thank you guys so very much thank you
thank you and happy birthday happy birthday and we'll stay where you stand so thank you so very much bye y'all
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5'4 so and it's like girl pull up that hair like I I don't think she was very tall i think she was 5'4 or 5'5 but I always remember watching her on TV at night singing like she had three sisters and they all
looked alike too who were her sisters they were a group she must have been the youngest she came from She did she did because she was better than she [Music] was
a long one of those right there i was her granddaughter or something oh really kind of watched that so I don't know but I do like to see she was different i mean her sound was completely different
i mean you know even Sher had long hair but not as long as Crystal Gale no hers was down the ground really i hadn't cut mine since 1991 i mean my husband you know he cuts off the dead ends or whatever for me but he
has never haircut i don't even color it anymore how do y'all say your pronounce your name for me midtower midtower midtower like that castle tower yeah sounds like it but it's with two T's okay it's German I think
midtower thank you sir huh it's German huh yep loretta Lynn loretta Lynn okay was her aunt did you say sister her sister yes yes yes her sister crystal Gail's
sister is Loretta Lynn yeah there's another There's a third few months younger than I am how old are me oh 74 75 come on you No for real later this year yeah i would have never said that married
i didn't either i think he's I think he's fooling us man wayne too oh really bless your heart i'm
scared man's got present he does he did have a dry cleaners here years ago the one that burnt down no was on the 11th night he was a he's
he started pastoring when he was probably in his late 20s and anyway he's you know that little church on this side of town called what's Ben's church called world Changers International
is that behind that robert's Automotive back there yeah yeah yeah I know yeah wayne he started that that's his son-in-law okay there now but anyway never heard of him and uh of course Wayne Connors he's down at the he's down
every Wednesday at the Heritage Museum he does know how he does on he's the actually he's the county historian pretty much if you want I know that where he traces your family trace like
genealogy hey you know that just reminded me because you kind of put me on the circle right there building there's a building where Mary the CTA in town was located did she move i just drove by there and her name's not not on that building
did she move or retire i think she moved because I contacted her about taxes for the theater and she she was just recently yeah she basically said "I'm full i can't accept your clients." I know we're all like it's amazing how many Yeah
we share or send to the check these two and see but yeah I just drove by there and her name's not on that building anymore oh yeah she right there by the visitors visitor mhm
everybody all right if you guys want to introduce yourselves and give your presentation then we'll ask the question after we get done we've been watching already all right good afternoon city council and
selection committee my name is Kellen Lindseay senior project director and engineer for Midtown Associates and with me here is John Petravich grant project funding specialist and Ashley McDonald project coordinator first of all we'd like to
thank you all for having us here today your beautiful city and allowing us the opportunity to present to you all uh for the opportunity to serve the city having grown up in the panhandle area over the nice over in niceville um it's truly an honor to be here in the Punia presenting
to you all and we look forward to the opportunity to serve the city on a continuing engineering service basis again I'm Ashley McDonald i'm project specialist coordinator um pretty much what I do is I provide support for all of Kellen and our other engineers projects from start to finish so what we
do we collectively work together with the city staff providing essentially an extension of staff for you guys um we help you in support from conception all the way to construction close out that includes anything that you're needing
with grants anything um that has proven that that strategy I apologize has been um a proven success for both our communities and all of our projects so Midtower has been around for over 35 years bringing with that experience and
stability we maintain a flat organization with direct leadership access and fostering collaboration our team brings an average of 12 plus years of tenure um our main focus is on municipal infrastructure improvements including water wastewater reclaimed
water roadway storm water and drainage thank you Ashley as Ashley mentioned our firm was was founded over 35 years ago with a mission to deliver highquality cost-effective and personalized civil environmental water and wastewater
engineering services to municipalities counties and utilities across the state of Florida since the firm's since the firm's inception we've grown our staff to over almost 30 individuals with seven engineers four CAD designers six field personnel a
survey team and a grant and admin staff we serve largely small to medium-sized municipalities similar to FDA Springs uh and we currently serve 40 plus communities on a continuing services basis many of whom we've served
for 10 to 20 plus years um and have helped them obtain over 700,000 sorry $700 million in grant funding along the way uh and I want to emphasize too as Ashley mentioned um as part of our flat organization u we provide that extension
i know people have been talking about it we want to serve as an extension of your staff that's that's who we are i know everyone else says that as well but that's truly our goal and that's how we've developed these long-term relationships with our clients over many years um and just to hit on the flat
organization as the engineers in the engineers in the office we work right down the hall from our coordinators from our grant funding specialist and when we're working with our communities we're just a phone call away and we will answer the phone we're responsive and make sure to get back to you immediately
if we happen to be in the field um I know a lot of a lot of other communities we work for have bad experiences with engineering firms where they call and never picks up the phone we want you to know that we will answer the phone we'll be there we're not going to charge you for a phone call we're going to work with you every step of the way to get
those projects done and we're figure out the best solution to make that happen earlier this year Joe Midtower uh the founder and president of our company announced his well-deserved retirement after 35 years uh of service um like the like the firm that was here before us we
are in the process of going under a name change and uh transition as well um but after Mr midtower's board multitude of options uh had decided to join forces with CPH consulting uh a reputable and similarly minded engineering firm
headquartered out of the Orlando Sanford area cph along with many other national firms were very attracted to our company due to our track record of developing long-term relationships with municipal clients and our ability to pair multiple grant funding opportunities with
infrastructure projects as of la last month as of last month our part our partnership with CPH became official and our office will now service the company's North Florida municipal infrastructure home base we will
continue to operate as we always have serving our individual communities but we will now have the added res resources of a larger firm with over 420 staff and will have the ability to provide additional services beyond a water trait water wastewater focus with services
including architecture interior architecture landscape design uh broader scale traffic and transportation capabilities u added surveying staff uh MEP um public facilities and parks and a
a larger CI services as well u CPH was founded in 1981 in the Orlando area and has expanded over the years throughout the state including a branch office about an hour away from here in Panama City Beach although they
primarily located in the central central Florida area between the two firms we now have a combined 79 years of engineering experience in serving communities throughout the states so the RFQ that we've submitted is for your to serve as your continuing
services engineering firm um and this is an example of our breadth of engineering services and the work that we do uh this is an example this is a small coastal community of Cedar Key you all probably heard Cedar Key during the storms uh over the Big Bend area uh with
a population of just over 700 uh we have served them now consistently for 19 plus years since 2006 uh we're now up to 31 projects with Tier Key as well as their associated water and sewer district uh and we do projects ranging from large to
small from uh their streetscape and utilities program phases one and two which was funded by their CRA a $4 million project uh back in 2008 and 2011 um USDA RV water system improvements project uh which was a $1.8 $8 million
project funded through USDA uh which was over 11,000 ft of 12in water being luther system as well as adding a rever reverse osmosis system to the water treatment plant um to smaller task order assignments like waste water treatment
permit renewals um assistance with test wells uh the vice president of our company Greg Lang is even driven over there himself in the middle of the night to help them do their testing uh when they had saltwater intrusion in their folks public supply wells
um we currently with Cedar Key have several grant applications underway uh including legislative appropriations request due to due to the impacts of Hurricane Medalia uh for water for water treatment plant and wastewater treatment plant improvements totaling 5.8 million
in anticipated construction costs this variety of projects both large and small is consistent with most of our long-standing clients uh where one day we may be working on a small impact fee study or impact fee analysis to site plan reviews uh to the next day
coordinating with coordinating with staff on conceptualizing a $700,000 community development block grant CDBG um project scope to the next day working and designing say a multi multiMGD advanced wastewater treatment
plant um so we we have kind of the experience of serving very small projects through you know multi-million dollar projects and that's that's how we operated for a very long time now um again as Ashley mentioned we would work hard with your city staff with you with
your city staff from cradle to grave uh on a project to project basis beginning with a detailed kickoff meeting to fully scope out each and every project uh so that we have a great understanding of what the city's needs are on a project by project basis or on a continuing services basis um through determining
what the funding approach will be figuring out the best source of grant funds um or looking at the city's existing budget um through engineering design and permitting whether it's D water management district uh FDOT uh Army Corps of Engineers there's the list
goes on and on sometimes um and then through assisting the city uh during the bidding phase of the project once you're ready to go out for construction uh communicating coordinating with contractors responding responding to any questions they may have as well as addendums um and then reviewing the bids
recommend the recommendation of award uh and then through the construction phase which would be anything from prepping and coordinating the execution of the contract documents um through holding the pre-construction conference holding monthly progress meetings review pay
reviewing pay requests processing any change orders that are needed uh as well as grant compliance we do a lot of grant work as we as I mentioned um which would you know apply to any any program whether it's SRF any of the D funding sources uh that require Davis Bacon
compliance American Iron Steel B American Iron Steel Act uh then the new by American build American by American act that's coming through will be a lot more difficult than AIS so uh we've got a lot of experience in that as well with processing dispersement requests and reimbursement requests to the funding
agencies uh and working with your city staff your city clerk finance director uh to get those processed in a timely manner um and then providing full-time inspection services having having a person on site an inspector on site at all times during the project assuming
it's warranted um and being there every step of the way from you know through project completion including substantial completion walkthroughs any startup services that are required uh and then project close out and and closing out the the payout and um getting the final
bond you know closing out the bonds um and final release of leans um as mentioned we primary primarily focus uh on water and wastewater uh within our office um and these are just a few
examples of collection of wastewater collection and water distribution systems projects that we've worked on u just as an example Builtmore which is JA the utility over in Jacksonville area uh this is our 66th project with JEA uh
we've served them since 2008 on a continuing services basis and this is a septic tank abandonment program that the city's working on uh that has over 350 septic tanks that'll be abandoned uh as well as water mane upgrades and improvements throughout this particular
area uh another one we've got is Umatillaa wastewater wastewater forcep interconnect with Eustace uh this was an SRF funded program or sorry SRF funded project uh totaling $6 billion and it included an inter interconnect with the
neighboring city of Eustace uh involved an interlocal agreement that we helped facilitate between the two communities um and it included over 12,000 linear feet of 12-in force bane um another one smaller community Glenn St mary uh we've served them since 1995 this was a CDBG
and SRF funded north side gravity sewer extensions uh to add new service to add new customers and take them off septic uh and then Mlenny we've served them since 2014 on a continuing services basis i think we're up to 25 projects with Mlenny now uh this is an ongoing
sewer rehab project but it sounds like you all have have experienced some infiltration inflow as well uh this was this project was the was the first start to correcting those issues that they had uh phase 1A which was completed in 2021
was about a $4 million project and had over 5,000 ft of gravity sewer fully replaced along with manholes and then almost 23,000 ft of CIP lining um to repair rehab the existing gravity sewer lines that were worth keeping or able to
that that were there weren't any major issues that needed that warranted replacing um and then phase 1B which is currently under construction is currently at 4.6 6 million also funded through SRF um and this has almost 4,000 ft of gravity sewer that's being replaced and then another 15,000 plus
feet of CIP lining from 8 in to 15 in uh largely clay pipe that we're lining so um we Yeah please is this on a swag and sit uh we also have extensive expertise on the water treatment plants and
wastewater treatment facilities um these are just a few examples of of of many CCUA which is Clay CL Clay County Utility Authority their MClay wastewater treatment facility expansion project uh we've served them since 1992
uh and this was a almost a $14 million project uh for an expansion of a expansion to a two MGD plant um Green Cove Springs is another client we've served since 1989 um I think this was our 70th
project with Green Cove Springs um and this project was almost a $17 million project uh with expansion upgrades to their existing WRF plant um expanding it an additional 1.25 MGD uh another one I wanted to mention Monaceel um which is
which we did the original design and construction for uh this was funded through USDA rural development uh this was a 08 MGD wastewater treatment facility uh AWT uh advanced waste treatment and then reason I'll let John talk about because he was involved in it
but we recently did funded through SRF a solar array a 500 kil 500 KVA KVA solar array but I'll let you speak to that yeah so that was it was a neat project because um one of our first projects when we started serving Monosella in
2008 was to build a replacement plant they ran out of capacity it was old um in the existing footprint that you see in in picture number three there was the old wastewater plant so unfortunately just the way that it
was designed and they ran a capacity the previous engineer did not consider those factors so they're still paying on it actively they got these five more years which is something we would admit and said let's give you enough capacity so that this could live out through its life cycle but so we we demolish that
and they utilize the S clean water SRF program they had an 80% principal forgiveness loan on that and as of April it's been 100% powering the wastewater plant also giving credits back to the system for for the production that's and that's through most of the year during
the winter you do have lower sun and sky so kind of utilizing each of those credits Thought that was really neat and for one of the first projects where I was truly boots on the ground alongside the engineer most times I'm I client leaison i predominantly work on Grant Funny and keep my thumb on the pulse of
that but what I thought was really neat was how our ability to coordinate with city staff the contractor there were no change orders but because that site was so old we didn't have proper record drawings i mean as you start digging the ground it was very congested a lot of water lines sewer lines that is that
live or not so to make those decisions real time and come with a solution that was you know there were no spills there were no issues nobody got in a fight or anything it was it really worked out well so I was excited about that but that's a that's a neat capability that that we're able to pair alongside the
plan so in addition to water wastewater which is like we said our bread and butter at our office um we also have the ability to do roadways multimodal improvements and the capability of of providing this service is supplemented now with the
additional resources we have through CPH who have a lot of different we have a lot of different staff that specialize in these specific uh specific type of projects um so those are just a few examples there throughout the state
um and we also specialize in you know doing some of the SCOP programs i know you all have done some SCOP uh applications and have some projects funded through that so we have a lot of experience in that with with the small communities that qualify for the SCOP municipalities program um we also have
storm water and drainage capabilities um including master planning for storm water um so we have that ability um there's some multiple examples there of master planning that we've done and then taking those master planning
uh reports and turning those into projects um based on the city's needs uh this is more CPA we we again we we are more water wastewater focused but CPH does have the ability for public safety and industrial facilities and
buildings um complete streets complete streets uh sports and recreational facilities as well as parks um and with that I'd like to turn it over to John now so we can elaborate a little bit more on our grant funding experience
[Music] yeah so uh this board here really it it shows predominantly a lot of the programs and different agencies that we've worked with have exper extensive experience with um and what we found is that we're able
to keep our thumb on the pulse of where the funding is flowing from have a good understanding of our clients work closely with them to firstly understand their needs on a deep level what what would you like to see for your community how do you envision your community uh growing or staying the same what
improvements do you need we have that deep understanding particularly it's been it's been water in in wastewater now we have the capability to you know kind of expand and dream beyond that what that looks like is when we understand where the flowing comes from um the funding the funding flows from
we've been able to build a good rapport with these agencies and we've been very successful at securing I mean at this point it's over 700 million in grant funding for our community since the the creation of our firm uh largely in the CDBG program um and then probably in
about 2010 time frame it really started expanding heavily into SRF as as the Florida government it seems like you hear all this talk of federal funding coming to a stop and there's not understand what's going on that way but traditionally what we've seen is that
particularly in Florida they just pour more money into infrastructure and into our community so you know it is a blessing to be here in Florida really capture that out of out of the D program but with CDBG the small cities program we do more of those in any engineering state they'll every every
new cycle I'll tune in i'll see their application webinar to see if there's any new information that I relay to our clients and I'll find that they'll they'll take our exhibits and put those up say here's what a you know a site plan should look like or a base map you know things like that so it's pretty
interesting and what we we mainly serve to do is is fit our clients needs with the most applicable program and that's not to throw a wide net it's to say here this is a good fit or it's not and really try to leverage once we understand the need a number of these
programs all together to create a maximize grant minimize debt component and we we do see um you know project from planning as Ashley said all the way to to the grant management reporting all
the way to the end utilizing these these various programs and one of the main things we do is keep up with um emerging opportunities that that is key because of storms or legislation new opportunities are created all the time and if we can understand what's going on
with those programs we can best serve with fit them with our community's needs because we have an understanding what they are that and that is I've heard that term we tuned in live the extension of your staff you know kind of throughout the previous presentations that's truly what we do you know there's communities where mayors will call me up
you know personally i'm thankful for that we can talk through things and whether it's good approach or not or any needs across the board and that's really what we aim to do we have engineers at our at our shop who been doing that for almost 40 years now and it's really been an honor to see the last three years
that I' I've been with so I want to talk about kind of what this looks like in real time and that's uh with the community of Fort me the reason they were selected so whether you have or have not heard of Fort me they're about a thousand people less than the fiac springs um but
they're actually kind of they're like south central Florida you basically go through Orlando you'll make your way down through there in about I think an hour time or so um but I think for me is a great demonstration of what it looks like when we serve our communities well
and really have that relationship centric you know uh uh situation going on with how we're addressing projects in the community's needs so this community had it started with a small CDBG small cities program to to rehabilitate their
sewer system we looked at this sheet that you know it's called grant history saw they hadn't been served in that department really that's scoring is subjective for CDBG if there's funding bill when you have a viable project you should be able to to attain that if you have consultants that are looking out for you so we brought
that to them and it started with that and we just continued to build rapport and I can say is I've been part of my role is to be client leaison serve the engineers like if we're you know given the the the privilege to serve the fiac you can certainly reach out to me at any time and kill and I and actually work
closely together but this community has seen nine city managers in two years so it has been very Does that be enough and that's not uncommon you're making us feel better it's it has been very tumultuous but
through the years we've served them since 2015 so since uh being able to build that rapport stay close to the fire i didn't bring it with me i was tempted to but I have this tracker that I've created through Excel and made it very simple for layman as much as I could it's got how much project funding
has been expended and where we're at and the grant numbers and different notes to it's got you know legend to say because we'd have a new city manager come in so I' I'd take a trip down there and say here's where we left off here's where we need you to you know so for both parties
it's not it doesn't serve the stakeholders well it doesn't serve anybody well because so much knowledge and momentum is is lost during those times but I will say that this current group it's been six months which is kind of a record the
last two years or so so we're doing okay but uh we've worked very well with them but nonetheless that hasn't because we're the knowledge keepers throughout this process we know their needs and we work at risk for these grant applications these are something if we know your needs we'll reach out to you would you have us do this you know oftentimes it's a thumbs up because
you're not going to get a bill for it so we'll we uh that's how we earn our paycheck is through often through grant funding largely and um so we had an understanding of what their needs were i mean uh severely deteriorated sewer sewer collection system it was the terracotta piping like you'd have you
know you put a plant in they had a lot of inflow and infiltration that was taxing their wastewater system um it really was a bad situation so they're in a they're in a unique spot that seems like every few years they get hit with a hurricane pretty pretty bad so um
CDBGMIT program that's the one this is not the total the totals down there we did highlight this because uh development block grant was um kind of a unique win but that was uh following hurricane um Irma and the government
moves slow um often so a few years later funding opportunity came available they created this new CDBG program for that funding we're able to put in an application and secure some of that funding for them to replace the most vulnerable portions of the of the sewer system um SRF loan utilized and that
that's about 80% principal forgiveness for a for a backbone here to to help mitigate their flows and on and on it went we knew their needs we we uh secured some funding through 100% grant funding for uh some septics that they wanted to take out by this really beautiful lake as you're driving into
the city and I I'll I'll end on this i think this this really showcases kind of what it means for for us to be on your team i'm certainly doing this is these are the called special appropriate appropriations for hurricane Fiona and Ian and when Hurricane Ian came through
it really tore up Fort me pretty pretty good so they they lost power at their wastewater plant they lost power at number of lift stations at their water treatment plants and it really their system was already aged and deteriorated it just showcased how much more tax it would be you know when when these storms
rolled through so because of our effectiveness at helping funding agencies I mean they exist to provide funding to municipalities how effective we've been to accomplish their goals sf reached out to me directly and said "John you probably have some communities in this area that were impacted and
surely." So what we did is um got to work immediately it sounds like you're familiar with what's called the request for inclusion where you submit that to SRF they allocate money towards you we had a tight deadline it was like three weeks to apply for this money so they gave you very little time um you know
while my son's bike sat in the garage before I could put it together for Christmas I said "Buddy I got to get this done it's very important." So we we uh powered through and we and they were due on January 1st so we made it happen it's 100% grant funded for the both of those programs and that was really just being nimble um and understanding needs
we met with the city we already had a scope developed we really work work quickly so really really proud of that and um that's what you know that's what it means to be a part of our team we do that for each of our clients it treats you like you're the only one and truly an extension of your staff when we know
your needs we can build that rapport and we could be looking out for the things that you're eligible for and really could benefit your community in whichever ways you need help or want to grow or otherwise so um and as we as we help you know as we hopefully get to know the city of community a little bit
better um and and understand what your needs are like John said once we understand what those are we've already started looking at your CIP and just get an idea of what projects you've got coming down the pipeline projects that you're looking for funding for um but you know once we have a better understanding of those projects is like
John said we'll be proactive reaching out to you all saying "Hey there's a new opportunity hey there's you know this cycle's coming up you'd have an idea that kind of a project that would fit this you know this budget this ballpark range so we're always you know working on the city's behalf you know even you know when we're not you know not on the
phone on a daily basis look you know thinking what programs might help the Punia and how can we make you know improve the community how can we make you know make these products happen for you i got a little too excited i didn't want to point out this slide here but I got a little too excited about what I could envision how great we could serve
the act so you'll see at the bottom legislative appropriations Scott Municipality up top rural infrastructure fund a number of that funding uh these are all recent grant awards by the way in the last two years or so um those are opportunities that um due to hurricanes
or in need you know you have a quick turnaround time but when we understand our community's needs we're afforded that that uh privilege to understand what you need that we can be on the lookout for you and I and make those decisions alongside your professional staff on your behalf and you know legislative appropriations we we're very
uh very used to working alongside sometimes communities have lobbyists or just alongside staff themselves alongside reps House representatives aids or senators uh to work those in as well so any kind of angle we can we can work to to help you accomplish a need
for you guys is something we do so Turn it over to you Kellen sure yes sir thank you so what is consistent with these projects is that we've fostered and developed long-term clients uh similar size communities as the beauty
springs um as well as developing those relation long-term relationships with their staff members whether it's the clerk finance director city manager councilmen council women uh that that's that's our goal that's how we that's how we are successful and have have built
our firm up over 35 years um and then working alongside you all to conceptualize and develop project scopes over time and in coordination with the various grant agencies as well um so that we can develop and provide the best long-term uh budget
friendly minimal ON you know we we want to maximize any capital cost that you have so that we can minimize the on and cost moving forward um we want to work with your public works staff uh your utility staff so that we understand what their needs are we understand you know
we're engineers we you know we've gone to school for this kind of thing but we aren't there out there operating them every day so we want to make sure we get the input from your staff understand what they want and work with them to come up with the solution that's going to work for for them ultimately um you
know and in addition to that we've assisted all of our communities like I said with with multiple grant packaging multiple grant funding sources to successfully accomplish these projects um in doing our background research along with when we're preparing the RFQ for the effluent force main uh
replacement project which was due yesterday uh it's evident that if springs along with Walton County is has experienced and is going to continue to see rapid growth um which is resulting in obviously resulting in an increased strain on your existing infrastructure
um as such we we do believe you know our extensive municipal water and wastewater experience and expertise uh coupled with our history of success in multiple grant funding programs as well as the recently added resources that we have at ours and
and the city's disposal um we believe we could be the perfect fit uh to navigate and address the city's needs and challenges as as the city moves forward so in closing um on behalf of the midtower and CPH team
uh we appreciate y'all again uh for having us and providing us this opportunity to present and with that we're happy to answer any questions all right Mr well as you probably heard four times now where do you understand our city is going well
uh it's growing it's growing with the with 331 expanding south to Walton County i mean Walton County is uh in particular South Walton count South Walton is has boomed it continues to boom and um I talking to one of my best friends from that I went to Niceville
High School with just last week and we were talking about you know there's a lot of it's grow it's grown significantly but it looks like it's going to continue to grow and like we see you know all over the state uh you know it starts starts at the beaches and then kind of works its way outward uh we
see it you know from Orlando basically to Daytona to Tampa um and you're seeing it here i've seen it in Niceville growing up i mean when I was uh when I moved to Niceville in 1990 uh Mid Bay Bridge hadn't been built yet so um I know my parents kicked themselves every day with saying we should have bought
some land out there and I wish they had too obviously so uh but I mean as far as where's growing or going um it's really up to you all as as the council is where you want to see it grow i mean do you all have a a kind of a joint um approach
or growth strategy that you you want to see i mean it's really we're here you know from our standpoint we're here to serve the city and we want to help you all grow in whatever cap capacity you want to um I think you all have done a great job of being proactive and um you
know understanding that you've got to manage your own growth um otherwise it's going to build up around you so um I'd like to ask you all as as the council and selection committee what direction do you do you like to do you want to see the city grow i mean that's I'm interested to hear if you
have any have any feedback or if there's anything but um that's it's really can grow any any direction you'd like to see it go all right but I know with your airport you've got your airport project that you're working on the expansion there uh that's going to continue to you're going
to continue to see growth there um and with all of the roadway and and highway improvements that they're continuing to do um I mean just even the 331 expansion and road widening that's been every time I come home to see my parents uh there's five new things that have popped up
going south so uh I would think it's going to continue to grow southward um then work its way up all right how would you describe your ideal client relationship i'll take it sure yeah
i think for us it would be really having that in-person time together firstly i mean it goes through these these kind of moments um and then really it's spending time together understanding needs meeting key key
staff members understanding how um the council or commission operates understanding the the city's needs and if there is no vision in place help to be a part of that vision by just conversational really is it's been the
ideal relationship is is strictly that relationship centric you know don't for our clients to not feel worried about picking up a phone call you know phone or texting us or saying an email and then having to sit on that um I found
that what often benefits both the city the most and and us being able to serve the city is that open line of communication not not just and and if it's not in water and wastewater just keep our thumb on
the pulse of what's going on that way we can truly be consultants not just engineers and help advise in the right direction so I'd say it's really that simply put just just relationship focused we're happy to be in front of a council anytime that our you know our staff requested or a mayor or any
council member really just be responsive so we can be proactive for our community be being here for workshops helping you all talk through things um coming up with solutions but you know like like we've said reiterate is our goal is to to not only develop a immediate
relationship but develop to but to develop a long-term relationship where we can work with you all and you know through multiple you know multiple iterations of staff like John said we you know unfortunately a lot of cities do have turnover it sounds like you all have a little less than some others which is great uh and we love working
with with communities that have low turnover because it's a it's a sigh of relief sometimes but um you know our goal is to is to work you know alongside the community and be you know kind of a like you said extension of staff but but be there alongside the community long
term um so we can see projects through and you know grow as the city grows thank you good you've heard you've heard these um first off um I noticed when we first looked
over this several weeks ago you do a lot of work North Florida Northeast really and then Central Florida and you mentioned which I didn't realize maybe I overlooked it that you have an office in Panama City awesome so I just kind of scrolled through looking for the
availability you know I think was something that we were interested in in uh how much time you would be devote to our for our services i I don't see that anywhere did I overlook that it should be there should be it should be the RQ okay but to answer your question I guess
I'll answer in two parts one is now with our added resources and and us joining forces with CPH they do have a branch office in their over in Panama City Beach which is like I said about an hour or so away um they focus more on kind of the private side uh that's just kind of
how that that office has evolved but they are working to build up their municipal side as well um and we're we've started interacting with them and kind of getting to know them um so we're going to continue to build that relationship and and develop our you know combine our resources with them as far as our availability um we're busy
just like every other engineering firm is we've said it before is if you're an engineering ser engineering firm right now and you're not busy you are doing something wrong because there is there are a lot of projects to go around and uh that there we're there's no shortage of work but with that being said uh we
have dedicated staff that we've talked about internally working with the Funiac um if we are able to move forward have the opportunity to move forward with the city um and we do have availability to work on your projects and hit the ground running as soon as you're ready so would that that staff be out in Panama City or
would they be We would we would we would initially the intent would be for us to serve as your as your team um we would bring possibly bring some of them in to assist but our goal is to serve you all um as as your engineer and as your project team yeah so this that has just
recently happened the CPH merge correct about it started they started going down the path uh kind of exploring the options multiple multiple months ago uh but it was it became official as of a month uh month March March 15th okay um
so master plan creation weight water and waste water have y'all created those absolutely yeah we've got we've got experience with a lot within a lot of communities putting those together and and and you started off saying you do a lot of small to mediumsiz cities correct
yes a city like Deuniac is kind of our sweet spot as far as you know communities that we serve um you all are you know it's small enough it has that hometown feel which we we love and it's you know we enjoy working with people that you know live in communities like Defunia you know you're relatable you're
easy to work with um but you also know what what you need to have done what your what your needs are um and you know definiac versus some of our communities that not so much Cedar Key but there's some communities that are you know 500 people or less that uh is hard to get them to you know answer an email
sometimes so uh a community size of Definiac is is is ideal and you all qualify for a lot of grant funding uh that makes you know a lot of different opportunities to package different sources together to really present you all um you know a really good project
and size project with minimal debt components to it okay I'm not asking some of the same questions because you all have answered them uh so that's good thank you very much if we had a catastrophic systems failure
in one of our utilities water sewage how long would it take you to respond and have boots on the ground we'd be ready call my cell phone i'll give you my number what's the response time where are you going to be traveling from i we would be in I'm in Jacksonville so for us to get here would be three three and
a half hours um but like I said we do have the office that's that knows that we're trying to trying to compete to work with you all uh in Panama City that could be here within an hour and we've talked with them already extensively but the ones in Panama City do private they do largely private but they have some
some municipal experience as well i think that's just where their business has kind of they've just found that work over there in the Panama City area uh but they do have municipal experience and like I said they are building out that um trying to build out that side of their office as well so thank you
um a quick natural gas experience with natural gas we do not uh that is something we we will ask that's a good question i heard y'all mentioning that earlier uh we do not have little little to no experience in natural gas but CPH may uh certainly can ask but I did not
did not uh come prepared to to talk about natural gas so um planning development reviews yep firm does those absolutely okay um the uh ability to provide a city with a you right now a monthly report you'll track those software project reports
provide those we can do it on a project by project basis just a you know general update however you know whatever works best for you and the city's needs uh we do it every client has you know different requests or you know different preferences but you know some clients will give up like John said he'll put
together a spreadsheet with an update on every project every Tuesday I have a meeting with with four me but that is kind of a unique circumstance but uh but and K's got communities where once a month they'll put up a little project men send a project memo you know day of
the agenda deadline something like that so you have an idea of where we're at so that all the you know council and city is aware of where we're at um you know we we certainly can be you know and if there's we could be here for any any council meeting yeah we we we're willing to drive that's you know we we've traveled for 35 years you know that's
not going to stop tomorrow so we we enjoy doing that we enjoy meeting with our communities and being there in front of you in person that's it Mary okay well thank you so much appreciate you presentation absolutely your willingness to come and answer questions so company
will be in touch with you and give you a kind of see where you are in the standing when we get done that sounds great appreciate it thank you all thank you make a cup of coffee in your office somebody should be You got your You want You got your key uh
yeah thank you do you want me to keep streaming what's up buddy [Music] [Music] yeah what's in there yes thank you have a good one
sounds like he drives right like I do the next about three and a half hours that's about my about my time frame for How any points you say we get for being fast i imagine that the rating has gone way
[Laughter] up i'm sitting there thinking you know we need everybody to kind of do a refresh you know been there all day listen but uh
anyway well we're we're going to take it easy on you we're going to be we're going to be pretty quick i heard all the same stuff yeah have y'all heard the questions have been asked no actually no we haven't i was going to say only advantage would be you
could sort of answer them in your uh presentation no uh we we weren't listening okay well it was pretty generic it's been pretty generic now if I let Dan cut loose right
here he'll he'll wear you out he wants to learn everything today it's his second day on the job i got I got some catching up to do i've had council councilman on the other side of the podium from us at planning
commission meetings so I know you've got lots of questions we're happy to answer you remember when I was on the planning commission yes sir yes I do yeah yeah no worries no worries at all
you guys got I was right next door how many what was the answer yes I guess you need to see she's doing good she's a mama though well she got a lot going on too she's
down yeah she got a lot going on yeah last night I got a fix well before I let I say it was dying oh why oh lord it was 8 o'clock she's like dying i mean she said "I'm hungry." She was tired
hi fellas hello bring food i was just I was just telling the mayor bring some laughter i was just telling the mayor we're going to take it easy on you promise promise all right she just heard me huh my wife just she
wants me to get food i guess everybody else here does tasty freeze and hold this last session i got a cracker who wants a cracker i got a cracker who wants a cracker got a cracker come on pass him
around goldfish i know give me a little cheesit hey say Josh quickly say a prayer i may have some Cheeits in the car [Music] that person should
really said that said that I just heard you made a promise that's what I'm saying i'm just joking okay i know what Clay would say don't you dare those crackers give him one okay crackers yeah and then pass them around when I talk old I'm talking like
80s doing they sit right here in the front always start there well the back starts at 10 10:00 uhhuh the lunch is at 12:30 at about 11 11:30 she'll pull out a little lunch box to give to him and my dad I said "You wonder how many packs of crackers
he eat in his life?" Every time the same time every time that's funny are we yeah oh Mr i hate him finance rafael you mind to track him down make
sure I think he I seen him in finance wait until the last step out paging Dan Cosen dan Cosell was in the bathroom finding des turn the speaker on where'd you fellas travel from
great beach oh you local boys way down far away yeah i figured if we get done in time I can get back to my desk and get a little work in today it's 4:30 you ain't getting back to work today
there's 24 hours in a day not not if your wife's hungry mama feel like better get home now boy want something to eat [Music] one of these mayor
about second Tuesday no yes he did sitting right there you want a cracker buddy i know good thank you hey Todd oh I'm good thank you thank you
you get the last one yeah I agree there's some candy in there too in the break room right there yeah oh did you know that is that a candy stash oh my goodness your stash Raphael i've been torturing
him with it because he's fasting i took him to Oh sorry i took him to Sweet Southern Comfort and I had the chicken fried steak and mashed potatoes i've been eating candy he's been fasting all table one there and at the jail it's like
going to a mini market and both of them there's rows of vending machines i seen him go you pull them out you just scan it and pay for it um you know where the radio room was the armory radio room whatever that thing was directly across from it that little
break room right there there you go and then in the I think you did they took that was a good time i was trying to get I need sugar i said did anybody check outside to see
if he was smoking [Music] hand this off to you guys to introduce yourself please and give presentation we'll wait till you get questions great well thank you very much Mr mayor city council uh my name is
Neil O'Connell i'm the owner and president of Okonnell and Associates Consulting Engineers um I actually I promised you we were going to make this pretty quick but I'll start by saying that I actually wasn't even going to speak today he was going to speak but I've just got a little bit but first of all what I wanted to do what I felt like
was important for just a take just a minute for us to get to know each other a little bit um I've worked as an engineer for 26 years 20 years of that is in Walton County um in fact it's strange when we were at breakfast I mean at at lunch this afternoon I was looking
at the date and actually today is my 20th anniversary of working in Walton County as an engineer um I started my career uh in Walton County working for Mr dewey Wilson at Regional Utilities um at the time um he he made me an offer
I couldn't refuse uh Regional was working with several different consultants uh it was a busy time in the market um but as I understand it they had some issues with those consultants uh being slow um they were expensive and
more so they were unresponsive right um and so Dewey wanted to start an engineering department and he hired me to do it i worked for them for nine years um and um over that nine years I helped them de develop that department uh where I I I assumed responsibility
for all the all the engineering design and permitting work that came out of regional utilities and that was a pretty formative year for them um and I just real quick just might share some projects that I worked on that you may or may not be familiar with but just a couple of quick statistics um they're
all Walton County based and so you may be familiar with them uh there's a pair of 24-in diameter ductal iron pipelines hanging underneath the Chakahhatche Bay Bridge i designed those and permitted those um there's a 30-inch Subacquius pipeline underneath the Chakahhatche Bay
that was put in in 2009 it was a few years ago but I designed and permitted that as well with the core and DP um there's a 2400 acre reclaimed water spray field over here in Freeport um with a 30 million gallon day 30 million gallon a day uh capacity for uh disposal
of reclaimed waste water it is also permitted as a class A bioolid disposal site which at the time that we designed and permitted that it was the first one in Northwest Florida and was only the second one that I'm aware of in the
state while I was at regional we tripled the size of the well field from three wells to nine wells we doubled the size of their uh water uh uh storage and pump stations uh we uh doubled the capacity of their
wastewater plants we developed a systemwide pressure sewer model and we also uh developed a potable water model we developed and maintained a 10-year master plan and then just
recently last year our regional utilities hired us back to do an update to their master plan in preparation for a bond issue so we've done quite a bit of work in Walton County and that was me and I want to make sure I distinguish the fact that that was me when I was working for
regionals before I struck out on my own um but um in 2014 I struck out on my own and I the nine years before that when I was working at regional utilities I had the benefit of reviewing every other engineer around here i got to
review their work so I figured when I got out I knew exactly what I was competing with right um so straight out of the gate a quick story if I may real quick i I So right out of the gate um I made a couple relationships and we were
invited um by DAG Architects to join them uh and meeting with a client it was a big client it was a big deal for our company at the time we were just out of the gate and we came out of that meeting and it was a really successful meeting and I was feeling really positive about it so I'm walking out with a couple of
the principles from DAG Architects and I'm kind of bouncing around them thanking them so much for for including us right and I and as I recall the conversation going I said "Hey look I really appreciate you bringing us along and the faith that you have and it's I
really appreciate that i I won't let you down." And as we're walking through the parking lot he looks at me and goes "Well we we really appreciate that you answer the phone right?" And I was like "Oh okay well you know maybe one day as we're continuing to walk." And I said
"Well maybe one day you know you'll think of us as good engineers too." And they stopped and they looked at me and without smiling without a pause without anything they looked at me and they're like "Maybe." And that was a really important formative part
of me being a business owner and an engineer right i mean I understand who we are right were in many ways a commodity or traded around you know the economy like coffee and orange juice right but it was at that point that I realized I was like I mean everything that I was taught at regional utilities
you never let the red light blink on your phone you always return phone calls and here it was just confirmed for me when I got out on my own that they really just wanted us to answer the phone and so that has become a formative part of who we are we answer the phone uh we are our our three core values are
community communication and quality of work so having said that 11 years later here we are we have 27 staff members 17 engineers and it didn't actually occur to me until I was talking with Ryan last
week and and he was putting together this presentation that it occurred to me that that this company now is the largest privatelyowned and operated consulting engineering firm in Walton County i did not realize that and and it
may be it may go beyond Walton County i'm not really sure that's not something that we really care about but it just it occurred to me and it didn't happen because maybe we're not the best engineers there are some great engineers that gave great presentations today but what I do know is that we answer the
phone we're great communicators and we find success in our relationships right we can do everything that everybody else does to some degree if we don't know the answer we know where to find it but really uh where we I think where we
where we get ahead is is in our relationships so really I think the question you have to ask yourself is you know um who are you going to call um are they going to answer the phone and obviously at the end of the day how much you know how much is it going to cost um
but anyway that's that's just a little about me that's a little bit about my background that's a little about us and the company um and unless you have any questions um I'll turn it over here to my colleague Brian uh and he'll give you the the dog and pony show
well I'll say uh good afternoon mayor and council members but at this point it's probably evening so uh we're going to try to keep it sweet simple i think I only got five or six slides um but as Neil said we're Okano Associates um one a couple things I want to point about Neil that he didn't mention was he was
appointed to the citizens advisory committee for the Okaloosa and Walton County TPO and in 2014 he was also a chairman of the DOT District 3 uh utility coordination committee so I myself I'm Ryan Scott uh I previously was a city engineer for the
city of Dustin left there in September um so that gives me a unique view to deal with municipal projects from both sides like I I've dealt with both sides of it now before that I lived in Southwest Florida and Fort Myers and Lee County um I was the continuing service engineer for Fort Myers and Lee
County and then for the quasi juditional um municipalities for Florida GF Coast University Florida Southwest and for the health system Lee Health down there so in the 14 years that I was there we got a lot of work done uh together uh with that partnership
i want to introduce to you our subconsultant team to kind of round out everything and and try to cover all the needs of the uh city this is what we consider our A+ team this is the team the people that we go to when we need help around the city for any of the projects um let's start
by first saying Sage Entitlements that's our planner Tina Ecklad she's got over 19 years experience navigating permitting and land planning in the public and private sectors throughout the entire state we'll follow that up with uh Destin Architectural Group otherwise
known as DAG they're an award-winning firm um they won the AIA Florida Firm of the Year in 2007 and 2020 and they have been operating in over over 44 years uh we also have UES uh Universal Environmental Sciences you might have
known or heard of a firm Biome in the area that was doing environmental work biome got absorbed by UEES a lot of the folks in Biome are still with UEES they're good group uh they can help out with any ecological environmental archaeological and geotechnical engineering needs then we have uh
Gustin Cathern and Tucker GCT they are a local veteranowned surveying firm out of Niceville and they've been working in this area for 43 years uh then to round out the team we got two different firms to fill out the transportation and traffic engineering
and both of them are pools so it makes it easy to remember so we got Cheryl Pool owns uh Pool Engineering and Surveying Inc uh she's got over 34 years experience um in transportation and had previously worked with DOT and then uh RCOR is Joe Pool joe Pool has 36 years
experience and he worked 18 years at DOT and you may have previously heard of Southern Traffic Services in the area um they were absorbed by uh RECOR so why us because we are your local engineering partner we're locally based like Neil said we have 27 um
professionals in the office uh we are flexible we are able to respond to the city's needs we're hop skipping a jump on down 331 to get to you um a lot of our team members live in Walton County playing Walton County you might see us around town on the weekends um we are
available for you we are here to answer your questions to help you wherever whenever it's needed um we also have extensive experience in our local local permitting and we have extensive experience with like Neil said with utility design with water sanitary
sewer storm water um and environmental design and we have a deep community ties to this area we have um deep regional expertise to this area and we wanted to make sure that our well-rounded team of professionals had that same um attribute
and we believe we have hit that with the team that we're presenting today also why us we're committed to the long-term success of the city of Defin Springs we have recently been awarded with the egg architects the John B lawson amphitheater redevelopment project um so we're excited to work with
the city the council the community to try to reimagine that beautiful area in DeFiC Springs so that's something we're really excited about we're also we just responded yesterday to the wastewater effluent forcement replacement RFQ so we're here we want to be a partner with
the city of Phoenix Springs and hopefully we have a chance to work on that with you all too not only um the team that we provided um brings a lot of expertise but we also have additional services inhouse that the city of Phoenix brings could use if need be for example we have a structural
engineering division with proven experience in residential commercial and municipal projects across 13 different states we have a historic building restoration and waterproofing division that specializes in forensic investigations routine inspections and construction document development to
restore and revitalize buildings and finally we have a contract administration division that helps uh the communication from beginning to end of a project making sure a project gets done on time and within budget so like I said short and sweet here we are conclusion so I want to make
sure that we understand that we as Okcono Associates don't want to work for the city we want to work with the city as a partner that's our goal we've exper we have the local presence we have a deep um understanding of the regional needs we have a commitment to
responsiveness um and we have demonstrated this commitment through the RFQ that we've already been awarded and the one that we're going after now we also uh as I mentioned have the multi-disiplinary divisions within our um company to help with additional
services um and so we appreciate the opportunity to earn your trust and look forward to building a relationship with the city of Defunia Springs any questions dang i didn't hit 10 minutes that was quick that was really quick all
right huh oh you were going to go down to 10 minutes no I thought you were going to go to 20 30 to 20 well you know we could stand up here and show you uh slide after slide after slide of all the projects that we've worked on over our career and it would look similar and
different to the engineers that came before us but the reality is is um you know we understand um the needs of the city uh we've been working in Walton County for 20 years uh in municipal utilities we've got a lot of the
relationships uh in the city uh in the state government um right and so you know really what we're here to do is is not sell ourselves necessarily on that we're better than the other engineers that have came before us our math is just as
good right our drawings are just as pretty um we're smaller firm we're closer that makes us more responsive that me makes us uh easier to contact right and I don't know if anybody else was in here was actually the president
of the firm but but I am and you know I here's a I made this for you Mr mayor here's a copy of my business card with my personal cell phone number on it pass around um that's and that's how and
that's how we do business and so um we're not experts in everything but we can solve we can help you solve your problems we can be a partner with the city of Defunia so I'm happy to answer any questions that you got all right where
do you see our city going where do you see your city going i mean I that uh in so far as Walton County in general Walton County is an extraordinarily attractive place to live um all three of my children have been born here and raised here my first one was about to
leave for college i really want Walton County to be a place that um in the city of Defunia city of Freeport South Walton i want this entire community to be a place that our kids will come back to and have opportunities so I'm strongly
in favor of responsible growth and business business opportunities but in order to get there we need infrastructure right okay um can you uh you've kind of already done this but how can can you desire uh how do you describe sorry your
ideal client relationship uh it's a a personal and professional relationship it's a one-on-one i'm the president of the company i I pass my cell phone number out to my clients um I
like to be treated just the way you guys like to be treated it's one based on trust and mutual respect like I mentioned to you we understand what our role in the world is right we're problem solvers we're not dreamers we're not you know we don't paint pretty pictures it's
lines and numbers ones and zeros move the decimal point left and right right that we leave that stuff up to y'all um y'all tell us what you want you show us where the you feel like the problems are and we're going to help you solve them
thank you get this right you'd mentioned that you did some wastewater projects where uh in for regional utilities in Walton County which ones in particular i'd like to know specific oo okay um so um I was
part of the addition of um a number of wastewater surge tanks at the three wastewater treatment plants and uh for regional utilities the Sandeston wastewater treatment plant uh Point Washington and Serest um we um have done
multiple uh modifications and upgrades to those plants adding clarifiers reclaimed water systems new pump stations um influent wet wells um add right before I left there in 2013 we
just finished adding um a new sledge digtor uh and we're in the process of designing and permitting a new sledge digest that was a point Washington and we're in the process of uh designing and permitting a new one at at the Sand Destin plant now you we No this was back
in right before I left in 2013 anything since you've been on your own no honestly um since um since I started on my own we've really been focused we were a smaller company right so we didn't have a lot of horsepower and didn't have
a lot of legs right so uh that was that bigger work was mainly reserved for some of the bigger firms and so we were kind of left with the scraps uh and a lot of that came in the form of of of um private development not that those
are scraps at all it's growth um but in the meantime we've been continuing to um you maintain our relationships with uh the utilities um regional utilities South Walton Utilities uh worked closely
with Alicia Keer before she left South Walton Utilities uh we're working closely now with Destin Water Users because we're actually doing a um a multi-use trail project with the city of Dest so
and then I saw and I'm trying to find it right now did you do something on this building uh in your proposal so we were so uh we were hired um to start a project here and do a condition assessment of this building and I
believe the uh the city administrator at the time had hired us and then um there was an abrupt departure and there was some confusion and the our contract was canceled which city manager that's a good question i'd have to go back and look it was six or seven years ago you
had to be male or Thompson if he said it I' had to be male or Thompson it was 20 who was here in 2018 is anybody we had inter uh we had our last permanent manager in ladder 16 she had an interesting last
name i can't think yes that was it yes but that was maybe three or four years ago wasn't it four years ago 18 19 okay so that's about it and that's what this project says it's was 2018 so you didn't finish that uh we
didn't because our contract was with him and um after his departure we reached out and I believe that it was it was basically like yeah we're we're we're stopping all of this and we'll reach back out to you we'll circle back up and so we just kind of gave everybody some
space um no further questions okay have you guys written any master plans for like water and sewage or anything like that uh we we have for regional utilities yes for regional yes
sir i got you well we as a we as a company Okonnell and Associates didn't we as a company just updated the master plan that that we worked on when I was specifically with regional utilities as as an independent Neil Okonnell engineer so have I done it yes have we
done it under Okonnell and Associates no we updated it recently i imagine they update it pretty pretty routinely as much as it has grown down there uh they they update it every five years um
and so we just updated it again for a for a bond issue yeah okay um condition assessments is one thing we're looking at conducting condition assessments of roads water sewage
facilities those types of things have you much experience in doing that um we do based just on my experience uh with the utility right so we're not uh we've had a continuing
service contract with the city of Fort Walton Beach for about 9 years and so we were brought in periodically to do uh condition assessments of their elevated water tanks um some of their um their chlorination stations and wells and
pumps and things like that so we have um we're we're we're familiar with it and understand how it how it works um Okay um reviewing development plans yes sir like um Yes sir so that was one of my roles when
I was at regional for nine years and we develop you know uh development plans now um so typically before they're uh you know issued for permit we're we're viewing them internally ourselves so that's certainly a service that we could offer but like in construction projects
as well like building construction projects things like that yes sir like we had a huge airport project you know um any of those types of development housing project uh development we so we
have extensive experience in civil land development design as well as structural design um as well as building envelope and waterproofing so uh if a project was to arise where y'all needed um say a peer review of that project we could
perform those services uh we also have a contract administration department that um performs observations reviews pay applications uh submitts uh conducts progress meetings that kind of thing during construction uh we don't like to call it
construction management because our our insurance company doesn't like the word management but so we call it contract administration u but that involves the review of drawings and confirming that um the client is getting what they're paying for
thank you i was pretty impressed with some of the presentations today with how much grant money um I don't know if about the other commissioners that I had no idea we were eligible for and how good they were in
tapping into other resources um other agencies um we we've got more projects to do than we have money so grants is a big deal how much experience do you have with that none we don't do any grant
work unfortunately but I do know that some of the other engineers that you spoke with today that's that's that's their bread and butter so um in the in the instance where that arises out there in the world where we have a client that's looking for grant money we'll
partner with another one of the engineers maybe that might have been in here today or other engineers that are out there yes sir thank you uh any natural gas experience
um normally anything happening in Walton County Oakloo Gas likes to handle all their natural gas work so we work plenty around natural gas but don't do actually any natural gas work design work ourselves although we did design
Okaloosa Gas's new headquarters in Val uh Valp yeah we're our own gas company so that's what I was asking oh okay yeah okay uh and then the ability to provide you know uh frequent updates whether that be project specific or just in general of the services you got going on
task orders monthly project updates can provide to the city absolutely yeah that's all all right well we thank you very much and you did make it quick thank you for that thank you yes it is yes actually it is yeah well again like as I mentioned
you know we're we're local um that's um that's what we're selling we're good engineers we know how things work in Walton County we've got a lot of relationships in Walton County we believe that um you know business is done based on relationships um trust and mutual respect and so we appreciate your
time thank you thank you thank you very much uh mayor we will Rocky now we'll have this on the next agenda and at the next at that meeting you want to see this bring it back right yeah we can do it at the meeting i want to limit public
record you know well it's fresh on our mind you want to They got a five they got a meeting they got a five o' mul it over we'll have a We'll have it on the agenda and we'll do it at the agenda we'll hand y'all the sheets we'll let y'all write it in and then we'll tally it live oh okay
thank you everybody thank you Kobe for the crackers yes and the coffee i know right i'm gonna replenish for him