So, this is the neighborhood meeting for the city of Spring Lake Park 2026 street improvement project. And thank you all for being here. My name is Phil Grall. I'm the city engineer. And also staff members here today are Dan Bukoltz, the city administrator, and George, the public works director. So, if you have any questions, feel free to ask any of us. This year's street project is uh basically in the northeast corner of the city and it includes the streets uh Plaza Boulevard, Theren Terrace, Center Drive, Sunset Road and a small portion of the Highway 10 service drive down by the the uh stoplight with Highway 10. The existing streets in this area are were last paved in like 1997. So the they're pretty old. The surface condition is is failing. And that's the purpose of this project is to to repair the surface and to the reason we want to repair the surface now rather than let it get any more damaged is to be able to preserve the subsection and underneath the surface. So, if we treat the surface now, we can avoid any further damage, which would be a more expensive project. There's cracking, there's u batuminous spalling, and there's areas of curb that have settled that we'd like to get repaired. The existing piping under the road is in in good shape. Most of the sanitary sewer has been lined, and we haven't had any known problems with the water man. So there's no utility improvements proposed as part of this project except the uh the drain inlets, the storm sewer catch basins. We we plan to repair those cuz many of them have settled and this would be a good opportunity to get the the top part of those structures rebuilt. The city council ordered a feasibility report for this project and that's the initial step in in any project. Um the feasibility report follows the the past city practice. In particular, our assessment policy is uh is dictated by resolution 98-48. So you know how old that is. That was from 1998. Um the feasibility report includes a list of the proposed improvements, a cost assessment, opinion of of probable costs, assessment information, a schedule, and a preliminary assessment role. The components of the project are, as I mentioned, to preserve the street surface. So the project would consist of a mill and an overlay. And milling is when a machine comes through and grinds off the top section of pavement. in this case 2 in and that material gets hauled off site and reused somewhere else. And then uh after that that surface is ground off if there's any areas identified that need further repair that below that there'd be some small areas that would get additional patching. And um at that time also any of the the short segments of curb, the side concrete curbing that have settled, those would be replaced and and raised up to to new structures. And we'd also replace those storm inlet drains at that same time. Then there's after that there's a a new batuminous mat put over the top. That's kind of the final step. The estimated total project cost is $577,200. And of that um assessments would cover $501,592 and city street funds would would pick up the remainder portion as a city cost. That's $75,68 approximately. These are estimates now based on our preliminary um numbers. Eventually the project if it proceeds would be there'd be final design and then competitive bidding would occur. So there'll be more firm numbers uh at a later date. And that's what the assessments are based on the actual bid costs. This is that 1998 um assessment policy that I mentioned. No need to know all this, but one of the things it says is that um that for residential properties, the city picks up a portion a large portion of the cost, 55% of the cost. And for non-residential properties, the city's policy is to assess 100% of the street repair costs. So on this project, there's quite a few non-residential properties and they have that 100% assessment. So the way the uh assessment rates are calculated is based on for non-residential properties based on front footage. And in this case, we take that $500 and some thousand amount and divide it by the front footage and comes up with this a front foot rate of $5957 per front foot. And we also convert that to a for residential property, single family residential properties. We convert that to a a uniform per parcel rate. And that rate is $2,456. So those are the uh estimated assessment rates. As I mentioned, there will be competitive bidding that will occur in the next few months and these rates will be adjusted based on the results of that competitive bid. So, the schedule for the project if it uh as it stands today is uh the city council ordered a feasibility report and that was received by the council in early March. Um, now we're at this stage of the public involvement process. So, there's this meeting today and the public hearing on April 6th. That public hearing will be at a city council meeting. And if um if the city council chooses to keep continuing at that process, then there would be an opportunity for them to approve construction plans on April 20th and then they would authorize bidding. bids would be received in May and as I as I mentioned the assessment amounts would be adjusted at that time based on final bids. So there' be another public mailing and public hearing at that time and in on June 15th there'd be a public meeting where people would be know their their final assessment amounts and if the council um wants to proceed even at that point then they would award the construction contract and construction would begin in July and it would just take a couple of months. So it it done by liberty.