Good evening everybody. How you doing? >> Let's talk about Lindon Avenue. I'm Chuck Bolano. I'm superintendent of public works. DJ Frederick, James. These are my assistants as far as water and road repairs. So you'll see a lot of us on the jobs. I'll be on the job one or two times a day. These guys might be
there five or 10 times a day. This project is well overdue. Lynon Avenue is a mess. It needs a lot of work. Um, I'm going to tell you right now, the job's going to be noisy. It's going to be messy, and you're going to be inconvenient. You got to look for the end product. When we get done with the job, it'll be all done nice and nice,
and it'll be a nice new street. Um, your garbage, your recycling, everything is picked up as normal. Your life goes on as normal. The only inconvenience you're going to have is when you come home, the road might be closed. Maybe you can't get from Sego. You might have to come into Melwood. You might not be able to get your drive. You park in the street
for a couple hours. No, >> that'll be the biggest inconvenience you will have. >> Everything else, your day runs as normal. You have a problem before you leave tonight. Here's my business card. Uh for people online, my phone number is 973 857-4806.
My phone is on 247. My office phone goes right to my cell. So, if you have a problem any hour of the day, any hour of night, don't hesitate to call a trench, you can't get in, they took out your apron, they took out your sidewalk, you can't get to your front door, just give
me a bus. Um, as of right now, you've noticed we are working on Lynon Avenue. That's the town crew working there. We are in the process of checking for lead lead water services. A mandate through the state. We have to check the entire town. So, as you notice, everybody got a
over the last year or two, you got a letter from one of my guys getting the house, check your service. We're digging the street. We're trying to check every service down Lynon Avenue. They don't want to come back later when the road is paved. The job consists of, let me the rundown. First of all, we will replacing sidewalks. Sidewalks that were replaced
will be raised by town trees only. If the sidewalk in front of your house is shot and there's no town trees, we're not repairing that. We're only repairing sidewalks raised by town trees. You're more than welcome to make a deal with the contractor if you want to do your sidewalk. I highly recommend get more
than one price. Don't just go by his price. Sometimes they hit you up high because they don't want to do it. So if you want to get a price to do four or five sidewalk slabs, call somebody else and get another price and they might be better. >> Except the sidewalks are marked. So it >> I was the ones
>> I marked all the I already walked Well, the job's going to be broken down into zones because I don't want to screw up all London Avenue. So, the first zone of work is going to be from Compton Avenue to Elmer Road. That's where we're going to start the job. If
you notice, yeah, like you said, I marked all the sidewalls by the shade trees, and how many slabs I'm taking out. That doesn't necessarily mean that's all I'm taking out. I might have to take one or two more to make the grade right, to make the slope, right? Um, once the sidewalks are pulled, I'm
going to walk the site with the shade tree commission and our arborist the next morning or that afternoon. decide which trees have to come down. If we're affecting a hip root and I'm gonna take the integrity of the tree away and I got to worry about it falling, the tree will be removed. If I could just shave the
roots and make it nice and nice, we will not remove the trees. If you really want the tree in front of your house and you really don't want to lose the tree in front of your house, you could talk to me. I could curve the sidewalk in under your property a little bit. I need a I need a threeft clearance
wheelchair capability. So, if you say, "Really, I don't want to lose this tree. I want I want the tree to stay. I can talk to you. I can show you what we're going to do, and we can do something to save the tree." We don't want to take down trees. >> You take the tree down. Can we request
another tree be put in its place? >> Yep. I'll get to that. Yep. I just That's my next thing. After tree removal, every house on Lynon Avenue does not have a tree in front of it. We're going to let you like a shade tree. Shade tree commission will pick the variety. Yes. If you decide it's a
hip route, you're going to have to take the tree out. Are you going to contact the person who lives there and say, "Would you give us egress to make it white or you just take it out if they're not out there screaming?" >> I will try I will try to speak for as many people as possible. I will try to knock on doors. You know, I'm working in
small zones, so I'm going to do my best I can between one of us to let you know your tree's coming down. >> Okay? >> You know, through my past experience being here 43 years, most people want the tree out and they want a new one. I like the old big trees. You know, they they're established, they look good, but
some people want the new style trees. As I was saying, once the job is complete, every house that does not have a shade tree in front of will get a letter if you would like a tree. Sha tree commission will pick the kind of tree we're going to plant, depending if there's wires, if there's no wires, what
kind of tree will we plant it? It's strictly up to you. If you would like a tree, you're going to say, "Yes, I would." Send it back and we will plant a tree. If you will not like a tree, you put no I would not and send it back. When you plant a tree, we have to mark water and gas boxes. So I might you
might the tree might come to you and go, "Well, I want it out my bay window." You know, I can't put it there because there's a water box and there's or a gas box there. You have to put in the right location for for future. We don't want to we don't want to integrity away from the water and gas boxes. Uh
there's a bunch of sun pumps on Lynon Avenue that ice up all winter. Matter of fact, I don't know if 97 is here. sent me an email today. All these sun pumps will be tied in underground. They will be tied right into the storm source system. So, you're not even going to know they're there anymore. So, there should be no icing on the roadway. I
identified two, three, four, five, six, seven. I identified about 11 of them already. I think I got them all. I've been trying to watch them all winter. Hopefully, I didn't miss any, but they will all be tied into the ground. Curving, we're going to replace curbing where needed. You already have Belgium block curbs.
That's the future. No more concrete curbs. Everybody's going to get Bel any Belgian block curb that needs to be replaced will be replaced. Might be a section, might be the whole front of your house. It might be two blocks. We will mark all the Belgian block curve that I didn't mark out yet. Um catch
basins. Every catch basin will be inspected, rebuilt, make sure it's got the child safety tops on them, which they all pretty much do. So, every catch base can be rechecked and rebuilt or or fixed whatever is needed to be done. Every manhole will be inspected,
rebuilt, reset, regraded. Um, certain handicap corners will be ripped out. Uh, I think Elwin and Lyndon that all that's all coming out because it doesn't meet the criteria we need. Atgo is fine. I think I'm skipping the Atgo one, but every handicap corner will
be looked at and addressed one way or the other. Um once all the concrete work is done and all the trees have been removed and all the sidewalks are in and all the curving is fixed and the manholes and catch basins, we'll come in and mill. Then we'll come in and pave. Milling is not a problem. You can get in
and out. You can move around inconvenience. The day I pave, we're going to get a letter. You need your cars off the street. We need at least 6 to 8 hours after the road is paved to stay off the black top. If it's a hot
hot summer day, which I don't think we're going to be in the midst of the summer. I might need more than that, but you'll be able to park on surrounding streets, you will not get a ticket. If you do get a ticket, you'll contact me. I will police department. They will know the Lindon Avenue people are not parked
on Lindon or in their driveways tonight. Um, young lady over here before talked to me about the the speed and the the traffic and all the problems. If you notice last year, we did a test with barriers and cones and signs and
different stuff like that. From the feedback we got, the whole test did not work, but certain things did work. So, we're taking a small part of it down by the bridge. We're going to do some additional striping. We're not going to build an island, but we're going to make it so it's a little tighter over the bridge. So, you're a
little slower when you're making that curve. >> Well, it's already it's already narrow now. You can't go around that curb without going into the other lane. Now, >> we're gonna restripe it. So, you'll be able to get around the curb without going the other lane, but it'll still be
tightened down a little more. Corner Clander went to do some different kind of striping, maybe some barriers, plastic barriers out there. So, cars that have to go around, it's going to have to slow them down when they get to the crosswalks. All right. Between Fairview and Grove,
we have a couple ideas we're going to do in there. We're not sure we're gonna do We're not gonna do that thing we did where this park and that parked in this park. It was like a ride at Disneyland, right? >> They're knocking down the cones. >> Yeah. Knocking down the cone. We're not going to do that. It's going to be a striking situation or something like
that. We do have more planned, but we're trying to do little steps because the overall project when we did that test, we got 50% people liked it, 50% people hated it. >> Stunk. >> All right. Yes. When the road gets paid, there's going to be a speed zone. Cops
will be spoken to. They'll be out there more. There'll be more enforcement. >> Never see a policeman on Lynon. >> Talking to the wrong guy. I love how it works. >> They go they go 55 60 miles an hour up and down Lynon. >> You got to call the police department for that. That's out of my control. I I handle everything but speed and and
police officers. >> Chuck. >> Yes. >> Um any thought about putting speed bumps in the road? >> Speed humps. We talked about the problem with speed humps. They have to meet a speed bump. Ty speed hump. Okay. It has to meet a certain criteria. They looked
into it. It has a lot to do with the grade, the hill, the curves. We possibly could do them, but it's it's the amount of paperwork and aggravation. It it's probably not going to work out because of the grade of the hill. Speed humps are basically, not to be funny, on flat roads,
>> no curves, wood trees are there, but they get an accident. So, they looked at them, they thought about it, and right now they fixed that. I'm not saying it can't happen, but right now that's not the kind of >> they they addressed that years ago and they said it was too dangerous. >> Well, boys would be immense.
>> I'm sure they got the same results. So, like I said, we're going to do some different things with striping, crosswalks, stuff like that. Um, the biggest thing I can tell you, do not talk to the contractor. You have a problem, call me or call my office. The contractor, 94% of them probably don't
speak English. the foreman on the job is just going to yes you to death. Anything you see, anything that's wrong, reach out to me, reach out to my office, reach out to my guys. We will address the problem. We'll come and see you. We'll address the problem. We'll fix it with the contractor. Some things be fixed. We'll
do this, this, and that. Some things I got to go back to the engineering firm. But this job is pretty cut and dry. It's not a major major reconstruction. It's curving sidewalks, catch basing, mill pave, restraightening. So that's basically it. Yes, sir.
>> While you're doing the sidewalks, will the roads be closed? >> Yes, those sections will be closed, but you still be able to get there, like I said. So, we're working between Pmpton and Elwood. >> Yeah. So, between Pmpton and Elwood, uh my concern is there's a lot of children that walk to and from there. There'll be two police officers there every day.
>> That intersection of Lynen and Elwood >> all the way down the job, there'll be two police officers. So, when we work between Pomp and Melwood, there'll be two officers. Between that one and on seagull, there'll be two officers. Between at Seigo and Wildwood, there'll be two officers. >> Okay. Yes. Yeah. There'll be officers on the job every day through the duration
of the job. When we get to the milling paving phase, I might need more officers. I got to figure out what's involved. But during the actual construction, there'll be typically be two officers. We're supposed to start tomorrow, Wednesday. It's going to be a little screwed up because they're going to be there and my crews are going to be
there. We have about 11 more. >> Yeah. 11. 11 more test tolls and stuff to do on Lyndon. We're trying to stay at the lower end. So, it's going to be a little screwed up. We are going to definitely work from Len to Fairview. We're going to work around the school
hours. A lot of kids go to school. A lot of people drive their kids to school. We're going to try not to get there till after 8:30, quarter to 9. Try to get out of that section by 2 2:30. It'll work for a while, but sooner or later we're going to catch up to one another and then we'll address that with the police
officers. If you needed more police, we'll go more whatever we need. Yes, sir. >> Yeah. You know, like with all the uh softball baseball practices going up to your field, there's always a backup car up at where I live up by uh by Fairview.
>> Always >> back up. People going left there accident. >> We should be off the site. We should end the job. The contract will end by probably 4 4:30 unless it's something I need to get done. If he has a late pour. So hopefully when the practice or stuff will meet it, we'll beat it. Uh Alicia,
our um information person has put the email out to the entire town. >> Yeah. No, I'm just saying people are going to be >> No, we put we put the email out to let people know we're working on Lyn and try to avoid it. You're going to the high school, go up personnel, go up Franklin Street. You know, we're trying our best
to get the word out. I think she has it on every site that's out there from Facebook to Instagram. We're trying to get the word out to everybody in town. >> Yes, sir. Yeah, I have a line going out to the street from my drain. When they
replace the sidewalk, it fits right over that pipe. I hope they don't destroy it. >> Oh, we're going to rip it out and leave you with no more lines. >> Yes, sir. We We pull out a sidewalk. >> This happened before. >> If we pull out a sidewalk and there's a drain pipe under it. If it's a sunpump
drain, you're not going to see it no more. We're going to tie it in the ground. If it's a regular roof leader drain, we'll bring it back out to the curb. when you um locate these trees and stuff, you guys don't mark out the sewer lines from the houses, do you? No. >> We have
the homeowner responsible from the shoreline from his house to the sorane. We have no idea where they go. >> No, I know that. >> You have no idea. For me to hit a shoreline, we got to be down three and a half, four feet. >> Mhm. >> You know, of course, if I cut a tree down and I rip the stump out and you start having a problem, give me a call right away. We have cameras. We'll send
the camera to the ground. But we should not be 3 and 1/2 to 4 ft down. >> Now, I just don't want to plant a tree on top of the sewer line either. >> No, we try our best not to. We try to look at the house, try to figure it out. But like I said, the trees we plant now are
smaller variety. Um, we planted certain trees under the wires so they don't reach up to the sky and reach in the wires no more. Uh, we try not to plant high rooted trees no more. The shade tree works very hard picking the right species of tree to plant where they have to come from. So
>> you definitely want your tree to be a candidate. Do we have to tell you that >> a candidate >> to be removed? >> It will only be removed, sir. If it's affecting the sidewalk, it is. Yes. We're not just saying Mr. So and so wants his tree down. If it's affecting
the sidewalk, the tree will be removed. If it's not affecting the sidewalk, the tree will not be removed. much. I've seen some trees already. My guys being out there, I got a couple trees that got holes in them. >> I know they're coming down. I'm not looking to take a lot of trees
down, but it could be a few, six, eight, two, four. I I wouldn't know till we start bringing sidewalks up. That's why I'm bringing the artworks down so he can make the decision and not me. >> Going down. I'm sorry. Going down to 23. That that needs help badly right now. You know,
>> that's where we're starting. It's gonna need more help when I get done in the week. >> It needs right now. That looks like uh >> I'm closing that as of tomorrow or Wednesday. >> Yeah. Is that when it starts tomorrow? >> We're shooting for tomorrow. Weather permit. Shooting for tomorrow, Wednesday. We were shooting for today, but the weather just kicked us out. Um
first of all, there's no plants open now, so I can't even patch. >> Yeah. >> Ash for cooks out April 1st. >> You know, that's when most of the plants start working. But it'll get done at the end. >> Yeah. Good. >> At the end. >> I'm sorry. What you say about the schedule though? You starting more what
on milling or >> No, tomorrow we're our first thing we start like I said is sidewalks. >> Gotcha. >> First thing we do is sidewalks and trees. As we go along the job as we we're in that area, we'll tie the sun pumps in. We'll do catch bases and manels in the section we work. The milling and paving is the last last
thing we do. I think this job has 20 or 140 days to complete, but I think it'll be done a lot sooner than that. >> All the way from 23 to 30. >> We're going to be very aggressive on this job. I mean, >> has a lot to do with weather. People don't want to believe winter's not over yet. >> I mean, I remember snow on Easter.
>> So, >> you know, people think it's, you know, winter's over. We're gonna go, you know, we could have a snowstorm next week. That stops the whole project. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Um, you're talking about the downspouts and whatnot. And the if I've got a down spout, it goes to the street. When they put in the Belgian block, I was out
there with, you know, orange ties and everything else to make sure it still went out to the street. >> It was there when we got it came in the house. It comes down from the house. We're only changing curbing where needed, >> right? So, that would be fine. That's >> that would be fine. As this young man said, if it's under the sidewalk slab, I love
>> then I got to make sure I put a new one in and back to the slide. But if yours is there and your curb is fine in front of your house, >> okay, >> we're not going to touch you. >> I have a couple questions online. Go ahead. >> Um, just repeat the number you'd like everyone to call. >> 973
8574806. That's my direct number. If by any chance you cannot reach me, call the police department and they will reach out for one of three of us. >> Okay. Um, will drainage issues, icing on the side street be addressed?
Specifically, Wildwood Terrace. >> All the sun pumps that ice up Wildwood Terrace. I think there's a house about four doors up from that has a sun pump or two. All the sun pumps will be tied in the ground. We're trying to get rid of all the icing problems on the street.
>> No, it's a one across street. Let me finish up with that. What else you got? >> Uh, is paving going to be done by section? >> Yes. We can never pave this job in one day. The milling will probably get all done and then we'll pave in sections. As
we mill and pave, you'll keep getting letters. Alicia will put out information and it'll be there. Uh, the smartest thing for everybody to do when you got to your letter. What's it called? Alert. >> Alert. If you sign up to Alert Verona as you got your letter in the mail, there's
a paper with it. It's a it's a cell phone app. Um, we can help you do it or give you information. Anything we send out, you get it. Like today, Alicia sent out, there's a meeting tonight, 7 o'clock, you get it on your app. So, if you want to make sure you start it for the afternoon.
>> So, tomorrow, March 17th, you start with sidewalks on the bush between 23 and Elwood. >> Yes. But asphalt plants don't open till April 1st, >> correct? >> So you're saying starting tomorrow until at least April 1st.
>> The job will not be paved until everything is done. >> So you're going to go all of Lynon sidewalks, trees, >> right? The fairy >> and then you're going to come back mill and pave this. So it's actually two. So you'll be by each house at least twice. >> Right. Correct, sir. The milling paving.
We want to pave. We want to keep paving and keep the joints hot. So I don't want to be paving section to section. When everything else is done, we'll come in, we'll mill, we'll pave, and then you'll get your letters for shape. >> It's a two-stage thing. So you'll come through and then at some point after that, you'll be back through again. >> So we'll get the notification again
about milling and paving. >> You'll get letters for everything. It won't get wet. You'll get letters. >> Okay. >> Anybody else is >> Nope. >> Yes, ma'am. >> I'm going back to the trees again. If the if you've had a tree that has fallen down in the past, like say within the past year or so, will they replace those
if they request them? >> Every house that does not have a tree in front of it will receive a letter >> and you decide if you >> not just the ones that you took. >> Every house that does not have a tree on the cake down or not, you will receive a letter
next people over here. Um we lost uh one tree uh within the within the year was cut down Roberts but about 10 years before that. comprehending if you're replacing both trees. >> When you send your when I when I drop the letter off to your house or one of
my guys drops a letter off and says if you like the shade tree, you're more than willing to write on there. I am requesting two. I will come and take a look at it. If there's enough room and it's possible, I'll give you two. I'll give you three. Whatever fits in front of the house accordingly, you will get.
Some people I might be able to give two. Some people can only give one. Like I said, it all depends on water boxes, gas boxes, what's out there. >> Gotcha. Thank you. >> It sounds like there's not going to be a lot of trees that are taken out because of the hipper or whatever, but do that as it may. Um, and you were talking
about the sidewalk that goes around this if you can contact them and that's another extra thing. >> Um, would it be possible to create some piece of paper that says, you know, um, due to this project, your tree is coming down. Um, unless you would like you will let us make this workound on the
sidewalk. You have 48 hours to say yes. Otherwise, it's coming down. >> You need less than that's why we're going to try 24. >> We're going to knock on doors. If I if I pull sidewalks, let's just say I pull sidewalks tomorrow, >> right? >> The arbur comes in Wednesday to look at them. The tree guy will probably be there Wednesday afternoon or Thursday morning,
>> right? >> So, we're going to we'll try to knock on people doors, but I know what trees are coming down and let them know. >> But that's what I'm saying. People may work till 5 or 6 or 7. If you had one piece of paper and said, "Look, you got 24 hours here. That's what's happening. Call this number. I don't sleep. Tell
me. >> I can leave that notice, which isn't a problem, but they need to get back to me immediately." >> No, that would be fine. I'm just saying some piece of paper because I get the knocking on doors, but nowadays people don't even answer those doors when they're home. >> Thank you. >> No problem.
Yes. >> While London Avenue is closed near Compton Avenue, do you know if they would allow um from Woodland Avenue left onto Compton? >> I doubt it very much. That's a police department question. I doubt it very much. That's a police department
question. Can't have an answer for that. >> Does it all the time? I still do it all the time. Just total corona. >> Anything else? Anybody? Any more questions? >> We have one more online. >> Go ahead. >> Uh, we are planning to get our driveway
done. You recommend waiting until this work is complete for that process to begin. >> I highly recommend you wait till the work gets complete because you're putting a new driveway in. You don't want to be tracking in things from the road. Um, spills, concrete, anything that messes the road. I would highly
recommend you wait till the job is complete to keep his driveway put in. >> Thank you. >> Uh damage to vehicles during milling work you >> call you you'll call the police department. You make a police report and you'll go through the right for the
insurance with the insurance thing. You know what I mean? And that's another thing during the milling work. You know I milled your street tonight. I'm letting you back on your street to park. Take a look. Is my apron too big because I drive a little Maserati. Am I going to scrape the bottom? I got to park in the street tonight. You know, you have to
use your head a little bit. Got to be able to drive a big 4x4 pickup. It's no problem jumping the curve. >> I got this little Corvette. I can't go up there, you know. So, I I need you to be a little knowledgeable and look around. What's
going on? Anything else? Anything online? Alish? >> Nope. We're good. >> Folks, I thank you very much. Please take our business cards.