[Music] I would like to call this meeting to order. We've already had our prayer. I'll move my feet. Okay. Ready? Yeah. U Miss Dean here. Miss uh Miss O'Brien
here. Mr. Suggs here. Mr. Tindle here. And Chairman Morris here. So um anybody in the audience have anything they'd like to talk about? No, nobody's having a block party or
anything like that. Okay. All right. Okay. Um, well then I guess approval of the minutes is first on the agenda and this was from the June 10th meeting. I had a question. Okay. U
the 22A which was one of the roads we picked last time or remember that was our one of our priorities. So that goes from Cherry Street down to what was that? 98
98. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So once again I'll ask for a motion to approve the minutes from June 10th. Sorry. Sorry. Okay. I need a motion.
[Music] Any Okay. Second. Thank you. Miss Dean. Yes. Miss O'Brien. Yes. Mr. Suds. Mr. Tindle. Yes. And Miss Morris. Yes.
And now we are going to invite Mr. Summerland to the mic so that he can give us an update on what's going on with the roads. So, we've already got um the council move forward with awarding
anchor to go ahead and get the engineering for Highway 22A uh North 9inth Street uh in the west side of Lance. Um, some of y'all might have seen basketball Donovan's been riding up and down those roads, surveying, getting all the elevations and everything for those.
Um, so that is underway. As soon as we get that data in, they'll compile it all and get everything ready for our review and then we'll hopefully get it out for bid. I would expect this probably getting moving probably February time, probably
get past the holidays and everything. It'll probably go out to bid maybe in January or February. So hopefully we'll get it moving. Um the the new sheets that I've given you pretty much well this is what we think where our next step's going to be. If you drive down pits after the new water
lines went down it you'll pretty much will understand why because some of these roads the water line just can't fit. So it's got to go down the road and when it going down the road it's just creating speed bumps and everything everywhere a water line goes across. It's horrible. So I tell y'all if y'all
want to drive down pits and you'll understand you'll get a good visual of what's going on. Um so pretty pretty much well the roads that we put on here is pretty well how the water line's going. They've already done pits. They've already done Aster. They've
already been down Germaine. Um they've they've messed up the south side of West Street. Uh they've gone down Maragold right now. um the next is they're fitting to go down fourth and over here by third. So like I said, everywhere that they cut and chew up is just going
to make a real bad area. The roads already been graded pretty much a C or D in that area. It's just going to make it worse. So we're going to try to follow behind the project. I expect that the roads that we go out for bid right now are going to come in at probably 1.5 or
greater. Um, so I've already had complaints on Aster and I've already had complaints on Germaine and I've warned them that we're probably not looking for another road paving over there till probably 2027 because we're going to hit 26. This will get done.
27 will come. We'll hopefully have 26s and 27 infrastructure money coming in. That'll give us enough enough to begin to go ahead and start paving again. That's a good subject you just brought up. How are we doing as far as the money coming in and the money going out? Well, like I said, we don't have any money going out since the last project. The
last project closed that out. Um, I can't on this one. Can you agree with the final what we're looking at? One point 1.18. 1.2. Yeah. One point. It's like one point
118. So, that's what we're looking at right now. It It's been average. Um I think we're bringing in I hate to be it's kind of fluctuating a little bit between five and 600,000 a year. Yeah. Um
so it's a drop in a bucket, but it is making some Yeah. difference. I mean, Highway 22A is a very long road and that's where a lot of So you got to you got to figure you take highway 22A and you try to fit it down pits and Astra and all that that's going to get a big section
not doing another road that size. Mhm. So, the the money is going to go a little bit further on rope paving. Well, that was the one question I have about the updates. Does anybody else have any questions?
Tony, how uh I know you got some sewage issues and other issues, but how are you going to how you going to do you're not going to do all three at one time, are you just going all three of the roads? I know you can't do that. The three wrote the three we picked. Yes. Yeah. That's what we're going to go out for
bid for. Okay. For three roads. Okay. Not one at a time. No. No. Because I mean the problem is you you'll the cost we get so much is mobilizing them here and every time they move they charge us, you know. So once you can get them here,
if we can afford to get all these three done at one time, then we get it done. Because if you bring them back, you just don't get a good bid on one road because it's just not worth worth them coming here. or they want to come here. Like I believe we're going to get most of all the asphalt crew companies that
are here to bid on this job because of 22A just because of how big that road is, you know. But these littleer sides when we start doing these smaller sides or whatever, you might only get a couple on the cruise just because it's just not big enough for them to worry about. Right. That's unfortunate. Well,
anybody else have any questions? Um, on my way to the airport, I've noticed there's going to be a turn roundabout up by Titus Road. Have you ever gone up there? The what used to be a shortcut that's
soon turning into not uh that much of a shortcut anymore uh going over the dam, there's going to be if you cut across Titus and before you make your right turn to the dam, there's a a roundabout that's about to
be started to be built. So, they have these signs of I uh that money to build that roundabout is coming from the infrastructure search tax
and I guess it's the counties infrastructure tax. Yes. Yeah. So do we ever have any opportunity to get some signs like that? So we did have those prior to the storm. Um, I'd have to look and see if we still
have those because normally right right before Michael, we did one of those and we had them placed where we paved those roads. We had them stayed up. I think they stayed up for almost six months that after the roads were paved, the signs went up and said, you know, look at your tax dollars at work. You know, I'll have to look and see if we still
have those. The building that those signs were in, we no longer have. Um, so I just don't know if they were recovered or not, but but if not, we still can get signs. Okay. Because uh before this was voted on it. Uh there was a lot of discussion
going on that was misinformation that was being passed around and that some people didn't understand what it's all about and where their money goes talking about and I think we might be uh it might be a good idea to
Well, we definitely want to get them on 228 because once that road's done, everybody's going to see it be done and then there's so much traffic at the school and people coming in. So they'll see that there's your infrastructure money that you paid where where it's going. Okay. I just think that
Yeah, absolutely. It's not a problem or on horn if you know we we'll make it happen. That's a good idea. Anybody else? No, you answered my question. Okay. I was asking wondering about the timeline and he answered that.
Okay. Okay. I don't have anything else. I guess we will uh look for a reason to adjourn. I I will say that I don't know if y'all want to cancel the next Fifth Tuesday because it's going to be like the 30th right before New Year's. So, I don't know if we want to have another I
don't even know if they'll have well anything the fifth Tuesday. I was going to say that probably the thing to do would be to um wait until you have some more information. Yeah, because I agree with you. There's no sense having because I'm I'm pretty sure by the first
of the year I'll know if we're fitting to go out to bid and we're I thought I was better than microphones. He just tore it up. Making sure listening. Nobody's listening. Okay.
But yeah, I I should have a lot more information about January because I said I know come the holidays everybody's going to shut down. All the projects are going to slow down. So that being the case, then let's look at our calendar for the next meeting. If we're going to skip December
next fifth Tuesday. You're set on that. It's going to be March 31st. Would that be too March 31st? No, that's probably just about right. That'll give him time to Well, we'll we'll see. Let me let me let me look by January to see if I need to bring you in sooner to give you a update
because I I'm hoping that we're already out to bid before March. Okay. So, I can let youall know. So, tenatively, we'll let people know. Yeah. Scheduled to be determined. to be determined. Yes. Based on what's happening around town.
Okay. You'll see some white paint on the roads out there. Um especially on 22A, you'll see some markings on the road. They're actually core drilling to see how thick the road is. So when they bring the the milling machine in, they want to see how far they can go before they hit the dirt. And they want to make sure that
the soil underneath it's good enough to put another road on. We don't want a washboard. No, we don't. We don't. Okay. Hard not to do in this hand. Do I need a motion to adjurnn? No.
Okay, then we're Bye bye. Enjoy your week.