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1.18.2023 City Council Work Session

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Thanks everyone for coming to tonight's capital improvement plan city council work session tonight.

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January 18th, uh councilman tabor, I believe, is finishing up an energy advisory committee.

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Meeting but he will be joining us momentarily, look forward to getting started and working.

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Through all of the hard work that has gone into getting us to this point, I'm going to pass it.

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Over to the city manager and then look forward to hearing from various department heads as listed.

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On the agenda, then, we will have a conversation and then afterwards, we'll take public comments.

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Folks, watching at home I'll look to the zoom if you're on zoom, before I close it out, but.

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Just make sure to raise your hand, thank you matt. Thank you mayor. Thank you. Counselors.

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Thank you to my fellow colleagues here tonight and thanks to those who've joined us in person,.

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Or on zoom steph, and I are pleased to present our requests for the capital improvement plan for the.

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Next six fiscal years 24 through 29, so I have a handful of slides and then we'll jump right.

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In ideally, it would be great if you could hold your questions to the very end of all the of all.

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The of the entire presentation- and if you could just make note that would be super next, please.

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Happy meals, the super extraordinaire staffer is running the slides all right.

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Karen, it won't allow me to share all right, kevin.

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Just move in and figure this all out kevin. The magnificent is on.

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His way to solve all the issues, no pressure, kevin.

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He needs a superman cake.

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Peter well, we wait for this to to happen. What's the over under you're, putting on snow for thursday friday. It's yes.

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It's gonna snow and it's gonna rain and it's gonna freeze and it's gonna be.

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um All right, looking forward to it, yeah it's it's winter, in new england, on the sea coast, no.

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Over under thanks, abby, sorry about that all good. So what is the cip? It's a helpful reminder to.

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Know that first and foremost the cip or capital improvement plan is a planning tool. It helps us.

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Project and plan over a six year time horizon in the way that we plan for and support city-wide.

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Investments we want to engage the community as much as possible and in that vein, the squall.

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We added an extra step in the process to garner interest and input from the community I'll talk.

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About that a little bit more in our next slide it it helps us guide. The funding cycle provides.

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A budgeting and forecasting tool and essentially is a plan and that's important to remember because.

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Plans can be changed up to including up to and including the adoption of numbers associated with.

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The plan in the budget next so this is a this- is a slide to show you that truly, this is a year-round.

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Process happens cyclically, and all of this work is for the purpose of including in the coming budget.

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For fiscal year, 24 all the projects that we're working on that require funding in the coming.

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Year, you'll see some projects that have funding and out years as well as projects for which we.

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Need funding in this coming year, but please keep in mind that we are not expending any money at.

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This point we're looking to build the budget and go from there, so we are two-thirds of the way.

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Through this, the circles, if you will we're on the bottom third, where the city council tonight will.

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Review the cip in a work session, we will then hold a public hearing at the february 6 council meeting.

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This presentation won't be repeated, but it will still be available online and then the council.

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Will adopt the cip in march and incorporate it into the budget planning process next.

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The document itself is sectioned off as follows, and this is the order we'll be presenting tonight.

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We speak to vehicles and equipment, buildings and infrastructure, information systems, transportation.

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Enterprise funding and combined projects that had that cross. These buckets next in the back of the.

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Cip, you will find helpful appendices which should be noted and can be referred to year round really.

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Number one: is the citizen requested projects from back from the time we started doing that as well.

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As state projects which do not have local funding but are done with state dollars within our city,.

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Boundaries, a list of all the studies used in the evaluation of all of these projects, along with.

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Links that make them very accessible provides for a historic document. Restoration index, which is a.

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Listing and price estimate for the city's backlog of historic documents, as well as maps of each.

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Of the five wards, along with an index of all of the city infrastructure within those awards, next.

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So, as we've talked about and as you will see as we talk tonight, funding the cip is indeed.

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A complex process: it involves numerous funding options, opportunities and funding sources and.

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They include the general fund, special revenue fund, enterprise funds, state or federal funding.

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And sometimes in rare occasions, public-private partnerships next so tonight for the current.

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Plan that we're talking about there were a hundred and one discrete capital projects.

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In total and if believe it or not, we'll go through them all in less than an hour.

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107 were presented to the planning board, of which 20 are new projects for this year and 87 were.

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Carried over from the previous cip and updated for current costs and needs, and the planning board in.

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December did add one project for consideration, which is funding a water master plan update.

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And, as mentioned this year, we held a citizen.

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Conversation, we solicited actively citizen requests for which we received 104 requests.

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And they were sorted by our staff into either cip eligible the eligible bucket or shown in green of.

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Which there were 48 or better served by another process shown in that grayish tan, and that was.

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37 so 48 have been concluded here tonight. Next slide, please! So when you're talking about funding.

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The capital improvement plan you're really talking about two different ways to fund capital projects.

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This first slide is by using capital outlay or pay as you go funding and as a reminder, the city.

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Uses a policy to tie in capital expenditures from the general fund to no more than two percent of.

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The city's prior year general fund budget and, as you can see in this chart in the past seven.

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Cip cycles, this number has fluctuated from a low of 0.78 in fiscal year 23 the current year to a.

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High of 1.97 and back in fiscal year 17. so with the prior year general fund budget at 132 million.

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The capital outlay target for this coming year would be 2.648 million and the request we are.

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Suggesting as part of our cip, submission will be at 1.45 percent or 1.9 million for fy24 next.

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Second way to bond capital, projects would be to pay for capital. Projects would be through.

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The bonding process bonded projects, as you know, require separate public hearing and vote of the.

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Council, both after the cips adopted and then the budget is adopted and we usually hold these after.

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The budget passes in the late june early july time frame reminder that the city's net debt service, as.

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A percentage of the general fund budget target is 10 percent and that's combining city and school.

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Net debt- and I can tell you that for the current year it's hard to read, but we are at 7.69 percent.

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And we are projecting 8.82 percent for fiscal year 24. next. So, as you follow us along tonight,.

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And if you grab this document online in the future, there each project element sheet, as we call them.

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Has very helpful information if you, if you know how to just to seek it out and to read this, the.

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The sheets so starting with the top left corner. The first indication is the project type in this.

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Case it's building an infrastructure for bi. The next number is the year. The project was initially.

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Submitted then you it's followed by the department that submitted the project. In this case the pd and.

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The last number is the project sequence, so that we can follow these along in this year's capital.

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Improvement plan next there's also basic project information, along with evaluation criteria. How.

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Does it rank and then in the bottom, in green, the funding requests and the various funding sources.

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That may have may be applicable next slide. There's also a project description in the top right, a a.

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Point something we should point out is the the links to studied studies cited and other partner.

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Websites, that's where you can glean some really important information related to the projects and.

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Just below that would be notes on major changes in funding to the project and those are important.

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Notes as these are as many of these are multiple year projects next, so this is mercifully lat mylet.

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Final slide and uh what I want to remind you all of that this is our large presentation. We.

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Will have a public hearing with no presentation on february 6th? We hope to see the city council.

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Adopt this on march 6th and with that, it's my pleasure to introduce fire chief bill mccoy.

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uh Good evening, uh first project you see here is for an ambulance.

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Replacement to keep our our stock of ambulances current.

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Thank you. The second project you see here is the vehicle replacement for fire engine.

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Number four: uh this was the project that we previously came to for the first step.

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Of the bonding process back in november again to keep our vehicles uh replacement on schedule.

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And then we have the replacement for uh truck five.

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uh Again, trying to keep a stock of vehicles in uh in in fleet.

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And finally, engine six again, these are on the out years here and as.

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We're trying to replace them and keep them uh replaced so that they're ready to go.

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Our personal protective equipment replacement program continues uh in this. This request this.

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Is to replace the the bunker gear to make sure that all of our firefighters are properly equipped.

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And that their gear is up to standard and within they have two sets that are within 10 years old.

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Okay, the fcba replacement project, this project, these have a shelf life and we're at the end of.

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That by the uh by fiscal year, 26 where we will no longer be able to get our cylinders uh certified.

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And uh hydrostatically tested to make sure that they're in compliance for cardiac monitors this.

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Replaces the cardiac monitors on the ambulances to make sure that we have the most up-to-date.

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Technology uh in the ambulances, and that these are replaced before their useful life ends.

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Foreign good evening, the police department, the first uh item on our list is uh police body cams.

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In this fy 24, we were just asking for a placeholder we're not asking for any amount.

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And uh previous years, we've done a study on body cams at the time in 2018 it was decided that.

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um They weren't a need for our department, but as time is uh you know, I.

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uh We have a new police commission and they met with a resident group that thought it would be a.

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Good practice for us to have police cams and in that time frame the uh the state is also through.

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The governor's commission on law enforcement, accountability, community and transparency act.

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Has recommended the implementation of body cams, so we are now reevaluating uh that study that we.

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Did previously and want to get a placeholder there's also a lot of grant money available.

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For these, but we don't know what the overall cost will be so opponent on our list in the whole year.

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Good evening, peter rice, director of public works, I'd like to first acknowledge in.

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Addition to brian goetz, our deputy director, a number of staff that have been instrumental in.

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Putting all this stuff together this evening uh for the packet here, our roberto, our senior.

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Operations manager, jennifer wentworth, our business administrator, eric evie, our city.

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Engineer for planning and transportation and eric fiedler, recently hired city engineer who.

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Is stepping into terry damaris's large shoes, so we're very happy to have him on board and.

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We're not putting him in the hot seat this evening. So the first item that we'll speak.

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To tonight is a what's called brian equipment. This makes a salt solution to assist the city.

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In reducing its use of salt, when it comes to icing conditions and winter operations, it's.

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Helps us meet our federal permit relative to uh what's called the municipal storm separate storm.

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Water system, it's the acronym- is ms4, I'm stumble across every or something over it. Every time.

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The station fire station security upgrade this is to get a consultant in to study the project. The.

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Goal here is to uh try and emulate the building security on some of the other city buildings.

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With key card access and some cameras uh and then in the outer years to uh to actually install it.

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This again is another placeholder as we're trying to get another a.

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New police facility, we have some city sites that we're looking at.

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For locations, but in janson said if we have to purchase land for our location.

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We want to have it in the cip for out year uh as a placeholder with no money attached to it.

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Chief, could you pull the microphone closer to you?

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I think we're having trouble with audio thanks foreign.

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Second, one here is for the cip request for a new police department, as in the past fy 23, we had been.

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Approved for 1.4 million fy24, we are having a placeholder as we use that money and additional.

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Monies that were requested of 2.8 million towards uh the study and design of a new facility.

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And as we continue through the process, we will work towards.

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um Obtaining the balance of the money, which would be 38 million, which will be in our.

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Out year of this.

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Our last request is the additional monies of four hundred thousand dollars to continue uh working on.

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Our current facility, as many are you aware, we've been going through several years of remediation.

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We are finally at the end of the line, hopefully in those repairs, but as we continue in the last phase,.

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Of the remediation we've had to go back and make substantial repairs and we keep coming across.

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Unforeseen costs uh on on certain projects and the rebuild that we are using this 400.

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000 and then for our initial request in the 400 000, going back over the last couple of.

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Years we haven't got to the projects that it was initially for, such as.

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Upgrades with locker rooms and different offices and uh equipment needed for the police department.

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Good evening, everyone, this is a request for the library courtyard. As you may know, we hit our 16th.

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Year in december, and the courtyard has had some issues with the brick walkway due to the growth.

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Of the plants that were put in there 16 years ago, so we'd like to make it safe, we'd like to.

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Make it more usable for outdoors, because over the years of the pandemic, we've had more and.

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More demand for outdoor activities more and more people attending when we had a tent or any other.

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Outdoor activities and we're seeing a lot of people asking for more of that. So to make this a.

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Safe space and to make it a little more usable for things like concerts, which we did one or two of.

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Early on we're asking for sixty thousand dollars to match with existing funds, to make these changes.

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Good evening, the first school element in the cip is the the ongoing facilities.

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Capital improvement element. The next slide provides a greater breakout of detail for you.

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Fiscal 24: the request is for 550 000 300, 000 of which will be for paving 250.

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000 of which is for roofing fiscal 24, will begin a four-year effort to address, paving and roofing.

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uh Throughout the district, estimated 1.3 million in paving 1 million in roofing in.

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Year 24 in the first year, the paving focus will be at dondero elementary, the entire complex, the.

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Roofing focus will be the 1985 section of new franklin elementary school, but in the.

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Out years of 25, six and seven those dollars will be uh dedicated to portsmouth high school.

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2019 traffic study, if I speak to the parking person traffic study was conducted uh primary.

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Focus of that work that followed was on the school entrance, the intersection of lafayette and andrew.

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Jarvis that intersection work was done, as was some of the low-hanging fruit. We anticipate review.

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Of that study to identify any additional changes that should be made as we consider parking changes.

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Including pedestrian walkways and potentially altered traffic flows for enhanced safety at.

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That facility, so the out years of 25, 6 and 7, will be wrapped up in high school, paving and.

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Roofing, additionally, in the out year of 27, you'll, see uh upgrades planned for the athletic complex.

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Security interior work and mechanicals: that's the school facilities improvement. The next element.

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Elementary school upgrade so over the last decade we have conducted we've completed, work.

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At dondero elementary and little harbor, we have done preliminary work at new franklin, including.

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The air handling upgrades that were completed this summer moving forward. We want to finalize.

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And finish the project at new franklin and the five million dollar project that has been.

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Carried in the cip has been split now as a phased effort to help balance bonding expectations over.

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The course of these years, three million of it now in fy 26 and 2 million of it in fy 29. This.

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Will take care of some code compliance elements in the building, as well as interior upgrades.

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The final element is the fit up of the community campus space for the robert j lister academy,.

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There are roughly 12 000 square feet in the lower level of the community campus that we.

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Expect robert j lister will occupy the estimate that has been shared with us at this point is.

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Roughly 300 a square foot for renovation, which would suggest something in the vicinity of a.

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Three and a half million dollar project we are currently working with architect.

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And engineering, firm, reviewed, mechanical analysis of or assessment excuse me of of.

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Current conditions just tuesday of this week and we anticipate having design relatively.

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Complete in terms of the schematic design by the end of the month and are working now.

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To partner with a construction partner, who can help us to put better numbers to this.

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We are, we were authorized by the council, uh 1.5 million dollars for a window project at dondero.

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And little harbor earlier this year we anticipate completing that work with federal funds and would.

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Come back to the council and seek reauthorization of that 1.5 to go with this 2 million dollar as.

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It becomes adjusted ultimately to complete that work, we're working hard to try to get.

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That project done not project, but that estimate done so we can bring you those numbers if it's.

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Not if those numbers are not better and honed for you before the end of this cip process, they.

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Certainly will be ready for you before any bond authorization is requested. Thank you.

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Hi, I'm abby mills, I'm the administrative manager for the finance department.

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Our first project is the permit record storage facility and it funds the um the maintenance.

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And the hopefully, eventual expansion of the city hall, permanent records archive the state.

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Requires, I don't know if you know, but the state requires the city to retain certain records and.

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Perpetuity in accordance with rsa 33a and the current archive, which we renovated in 2017, is.

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Located in the basement of city hall and is made so environmentally friendly for long-term storage,.

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Documents the room currently houses permanent records for numerous city departments, including.

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Planning hrs and finance and the clerk, and it's approaching full capacity and we're working.

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Diligently to identify another location, no funding is requested in fy 24, but is in the next out years.

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um The city this is for permanent and historic document restoration, the cities in possession.

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Of over 1200 historic documents that were at one point not stored properly in city hall,.

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Causing them to break down and be contaminated with molds, these documents are required to be.

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Maintained permanently and thus need to be cleaned and restored by the city. What we.

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Do is we send them out and they get cleaned and rebound, and at the time we also get them scanned.

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To microfilm, to maintain them longer, as well as to digital, to increase access to the public.

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um This funding requested will be split, 50 50 between our um the finance department and.

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The city clerk who's also restoring documents from her vault. We also wanted to note that in.

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um October of fy 23, the finance department was awarded its six consecutive moose plate.

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Grant of 9 600 from the new hampshire state library, which brings a total of uh forty.

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Six thousand dollars that the taxpayers have not had to fund to help towards this project.

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The next project is eve, is a new request for fy24 and would provide us the funds to scan permanent.

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Records that are currently in active day-to-day use by staff, but don't have a backup of digital.

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Means we would start with the assessing department protecting things such as property records cards.

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And other related information that does not currently have digital backup or another photocopy.

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Good evening peter bretz, director of planning and sustainability.

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This first project is land acquisition. This project funds, the purchase of.

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Land that has been determined should be protected for conservation and recreation.

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The amount is five hundred thousand dollars for the for this coming year and 500.

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000 the following year to get up to a balance of a million um conservation properties of any.

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Kind are usually large and expensive in the city, so we're trying to get that balance up and then.

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The thought is, that'll be combined with grants and existing conservation fund money and then in.

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Fiscal year, 29 we'll be requesting again another five hundred thousand dollars to boost that.

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Second, project is for historic district guidelines. This is a project that would update, expand and.

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Expand the design guidelines for new construction within the historic district. These guidelines.

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Are used by applicants in the historic district commission members in review of projects requiring.

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Certificates of approval- this is this- is not funding for this year. It's for the following year,.

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This is a virtual development projects.

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um 25 000 is requested to work on upgrading trails in the city, make some new trail connections in.

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Particular one area we're looking at is along the rail new rail corridor, a connection to the.

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Great bog or through the access to the great bog from buckminster neighborhood.

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This page shall serve as a placeholder until we have a clear and more definitive understanding of.

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The number that will be placed in this column and at that time we will bring it forth to the council.

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Okay, so this study is the groundwater study to identify impacts, as identified in the coastal.

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Resilience initiative impacts, the municipal infrastructure will increase as the impacts of sea.

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Level rise and coastal flooding increases a study which includes groundwater monitoring to better.

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Understand the flow of groundwater over time will help identify where issues with infrastructure.

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Are going to occur, um we've pushed this out to next year, but for fifty thousand dollars to be.

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Better timed, with an ongoing study, that's already occurring um at the state and with contractors.

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um 85., so mass today, of course, is master plan update. um As you know, a master plan.

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Is a planning document that serves the and guides overall character of the community.

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um We've assigned 150 000 for this fiscal year and 150 000 the following fiscal year for this task.

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Will be the master plan? That's we currently have is is due for an update.

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um It's the 2025 master plan that was completed in 2016.

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Good evening, todd handling recreation. This first project is a new project with.

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The city reacquiring, the indoor pool from the save the indoor portsmouth.

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Pool or sip there is a need to set up an ongoing capital maintenance plan uh funds.

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Would be used towards locker room upgrades installation of a family, restroom carpeting.

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Etc, major upgrades were recently just finished at the pool, so there's no fy 24 funding requested.

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This next project is another new project. This was a citizen request and a city request to.

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Replace the south mill pond playground and it would be replaced with an aga and age friendly.

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Playground also an installation of permanent restroom facilities. The funding for this has.

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Been pushed out to an out year, but the fy 24 money that's shown is from a rotary donation.

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This next project is a recurring project that is for upgrades to fields and other.

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Rec facilities and courts. The new recreation needs study will help highlight opportunities.

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For the use of this money in the future, fy24 has money has been reduced to 75 000.

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This next project is for the completion for completing the design and construction of.

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The additional turf field off of campus drive- this has been pushed to an out year.

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This next project is for the build out of the stump dump lot master plan or where.

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The skatepark is being built. The first part of the project is the skate park, but this.

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Is money for additional phases which would include a pump track field playground, slash.

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Pad additional parking, walking paths, etc. Fy 24 money that has shown is from.

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Fundraising from the skate park group, but the rest of the project has been pushed out.

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This next project is for funding for playground, improvements across the city, fy24.

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Is showing for an update to aldrich park and the installation of a basketball area at plains field.

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This project is for improvements and upgrades to leary grandstands.

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And concession area, and just showing fy25 design and fy 26 construction.

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The outdoor pool, aquatics upgrade was bid this last year and the prices came in high.

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Above the previously allocated funds, so these monies are to request to be able to come, get.

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That project built there are additional funds beyond what have been previously authorized.

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The uh recent the city uh recently acquired the community campus uh this 20 year old.

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Facility has a number of facilities that require attention. um The monies here would be set aside.

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Annually um the first year is anticipated to go towards uh roofing repairs or roofing upgrades.

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The city maintains a number of parks that have historic monuments and and other facilities.

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These monies would go towards maintaining those facilities, as well as those monuments.

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uh The city has been a tree city, usa for over 20 years, um and um these monies go.

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To support the programs associated with planting trees and maintaining the trees.

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The city council approved a prescott park master plan back in 2017. we've.

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Been working on design for the first phase of implementation, these monies.

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Would go towards that first phase: additional phases would be revisited with council input.

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uh In addition to the large capital plan, there are maintenance items that are identified.

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That are outside of that, and these monies go to address those additional maintenance requirements.

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uh As the police chief alluded to, we've been working with the heating and ventilation system.

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Of this, uh the city hall complex for a number of years, we've made significant headway, but.

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The the overall system is is really pretty antiquated, and these monies are identified.

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For additional improvements uh to the system uh and for the most part, our out year, expenses.

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uh These monies are identified for upgrade to the.

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City's transfer station, which is located at the city's public works department,.

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um This is an out year project that would create a can close space to allow consolidation of solid.

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Waste so we can more effectively transfer the materials. In addition, there'll be a swap shop.

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Included- and this is something that residents have been requesting for a number of years-.

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The city is responsible for a number of historic cemeteries and burying grounds.

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These monies would go towards the maintenance of those facilities and on the next page, there.

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Are a number of back priority projects that have been identified by the cemetery committee.

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The city has over 30 retaining walls. These monies go to the upgrades and maintenance of those walls.

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Sound barriers has been a an ongoing challenge for residents in many areas of the city along.

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The I-95 corridor, in particular we're working with the department of transportation we've.

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Successfully secured a program that'll build sound barriers along the what I call the north.

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Side or the west side of the of the I-95, which is the panaway manor portion, these monies here would.

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Go towards addressing the sound barriers that the dot deemed not eligible for funding, we're working.

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With the sound sound engineer to perform a study to look at new franklin school in particular and.

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Determine what options we have to address this, so these monies would go towards that city initiative.

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uh The city manages a number of buildings. These monies go towards.

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uh The maintenance of these route, these city facilities and on the next page.

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Identifies the number of projects uh that the monies would be used towards.

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um The city's electric grid is um is, is above ground for the most part, uh and this project.

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Goes towards addressing reliability of that grid, we're working with eversource.

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To identify opportunities to improve the reliability, but it also addresses aesthetic.

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Challenges for the downtown area, so these monies would go towards that.

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um This project would support the installation of ev charging stations for electric vehicles.

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uh The city is going to be installing a few chargers down at the bridge street.

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Lot but these monies would go towards additional chargers um around the city.

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On the foundry garage has some space, that's designated for offices and it's currently not.

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Fit out these monies would go towards fitting that space out. This is not a space that could.

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Be converted to additional parking, it is really it's. It's only intended for office.

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Space, so these monies would be used, and- and I need to note that this is not tax.

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Dollars these are parking revenues that would go to address these costs.

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uh This item is to address a replacement of a wharf that was at 95 mechanic street, which is.

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The old snappy lacava property um this wharf, if people recall, collapsed a number of years.

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Ago we bid this project out and there was not adequate funds to replace the wharf. So these.

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Monies are identified in 20 fy25, the permit for the work expires in 26, so the the intent.

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Is to try to get the if it's so desired, to move this project forward prior to that project, we.

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Would uh require or we'd look to get a public input relative to how that would get executed.

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Foreign sworth, the chief information officer at the city.

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As you can see, our total request is 1 million 56 558 dollars next, on page 113 request for.

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Computers and notebooks, these are replacements for existing equipment on a four-year cycle.

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On 114, you can see our server replacements, which will be two.

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For the police and one in the library that are end of life and need to be replaced.

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Next, other technology upgrades and replacements you'll see a breakdown here of other things, that.

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We need to do next. Police, fire and school are requesting various upgrades, as noted on this.

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Slide the police is continuing to appropriate for the hardware upgrades in the dispatch center.

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Next, on the summary page is a total breakdown of the cost per department.

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Next, on 118 is the expansion and improvement of the network. This is basically to fund professional.

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Services to conduct a thorough network analysis and develop a strategic plan for the future of.

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The network 119 cyber security enhancements the first step in doing cyber security improvements.

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Is to have a professional come in and assess the risks that we have in our current environment. So.

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This funding is for that consultant to give us a road map of what needs to be done in future years.

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120 nothing funded for this year, but this is the document management system which would digitize all of our documents and.

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So that they would be safer for a long period of time and more accessible to to employees.

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uh This project is a joint project between the police and fire departments. This upgrades the.

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uh Some of the technology in the dispatch center and in the the city's fire stations.

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So that alerting devices and video boards can be used to to alert crews of of a call foreign.

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This project is a funding of a new financial software upgrade. Our current erp system was.

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Implemented back in 2000 and has been upgraded numerous times since then, it's beginning where.

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It's time to be in the process to review new softwares and implement a new system to increase.

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Hopefully, efficiency productivity and provide better service to the government and the citizens.

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um This project is to uh to provide pavement upgrade to a number of the.

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City's surface lots parking lots. The monies are parking revenues.

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um The parking revenue is identified in this uh slide are for a replacement of.

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Some of the parking meters systems, as well as the pan display units throughout the city.

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This is a construction of of the road on the hampton or a trail on.

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The hampton branch, the hampton branch seacoast greenway, is out actually the.

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Bid has gone out and and been identified for the contractor to do the work, so the.

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Seacoast greenway project from hampton to portsmouth is being constructed. This.

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Is time for next year to time it so that, once the trail is constructed, we'll add a.

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Path, on top of the trail to provide connections, hopefully from the downtown to the skate park.

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The bicycle pedestrian plan implementation funds- this is fifty thousand dollars to look.

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At projects identified in the bike and pet plan demand for bicycle and pedestrian facilities.

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Continues to grow and these funds will be used when opportunities become available.

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Market street side path, this project will complete.

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A link in the city's bicycle network and improve pedestrians connections.

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um Connect constructing a path on one side of market street between cursage and woodbury avenue,.

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This project is for u.s route, 1 side path. The project calls for creation of walkable.

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And bikeable connection for neighborhoods and destinations along route 1 and it's proposed to.

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Be 10 feet wide. This is funded for the following year and it's being started by new hampshire, d.o.t.

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This next project is, um I didn't, turn the page. Sorry, the u.s route, 1 crosswalking signal so along.

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With the route one side path, there'll be funding, identify, there's a funding identified here to do.

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Signalization for crosswalks along that route, one side path, corridor and then the elwyn park, traffic.

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Calming and pedestrian improvements there's 1.5 million dollars identified to provide safe and.

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Safe pedestrian connections and traffic coming throughout the ellenwood park, neighborhood that.

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Work follows a feasibility study and there'll be additional public outreach for that work.

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uh It's a jump, jump off this side. This item is uh it's a bicycle, a monthly.

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Use path along borthwick avenue to collect the recently completed.

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Let's see the old k street extension, but whatever we call it now. um Thank you very much houston away.

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um The new hudson wave multi-use path uh to um up to the alien dundee eileen holy way.

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I'm stumbling sorry um and to connect to the rail trail, so this is something that's really exciting.

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um The the hospital is completing a project which will take care of about two-thirds of this, so.

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We'll be dealing with about one third of the uh the full length, so it's a it's a great project.

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um The next item is uh paid for by parking revenues. This is a continuation.

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Of our wayfinding system uh and it addresses the pedestrian and bicycle aspects of the way finding.

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um This project identify, as I was identified as uh part of the bicycle pedestrian master plan.

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um And it's uh it's an out year project to provide bicycle pedestrian quarter along greenland middle road.

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This is a market square, upgrade project market stray was constructed in 1977., there's been minor.

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Improvements over the years, this project takes a look at improvements throughout market square.

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Increase of funding here they've the project was previously funded. There was insufficient.

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Funds to actually complete the project so we're asking for fifty thousand dollars.

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Next year, to then begin that project to follow up and finish that project, this project would.

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Complete a sidewalk from odeon point road up to the uh to the bridge, sagamore bridge area.

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Next, um this is a typically a biennial funding source, but this year we've structured it to be.

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um To have a 24 and then push it off to 28.. um It is to address a sidewalk improvements.

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And the next page has a list of the backlog of sidewalk requests and upgrades necessary.

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This item addresses uh the upgrades to the citywide city uh traffic signals.

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We accumulate monies and then we execute projects. The next project that would.

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That is in the queue is at the miller middle um intersection, and that would.

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Be following the union street sewer separation project um in a couple years.

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Similar to the traffic traffic signals, monies are set aside annually for us.

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Intersection improvements, and that is what these funds would go towards.

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uh The russell market intersection has been identified as a project for a number of years. uh This project.

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Is identified here and it's it's actually um it the the design has not been finalized. Yet.

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There's a number of options here, including a traffic roundabout or a signalized intersection.

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These monies would complement or augment the state monies. This is a state project.

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And they have a local participation and these cover that local participation.

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The city has a number of bridges that they're responsible for these monies go.

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Towards the maintenance of those bridges and upgrades.

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The kate street bridge has been a red listed bridge for a number of years. This these monies are identified to replace that bridge.

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The coakley borthwick connector road is identified in anticipation of the.

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Intersection at cottage and coakley signal being eliminated, there's been if you ever.

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Drive through that area, you there's a lot of gridlock, because the concurrent signals right.

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Beside each other- and it's been identified that if the coakley cottage one was eliminated and.

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Made a right turn north lane only you would isolate that that neighborhood. So this allows.

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People to get to a signalized intersection to get out of that into that neighborhood.

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um We've heard from many neighborhoods that traffic calming is a large priority.

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These these monies are identified to assist in uh addressing those concerns.

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Similar to sidewalks, we have a pavement management program uh that addresses the.

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Street, paving uh these monies go towards that program and the next page shows a backlog of of.

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The streets that we will be paving um depending upon pricing, similar to the city's program for.

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Pavement management. We are responsible for the peas roadways. These monies are.

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Identified to upgrade corporate drive, which is in significant need of upgrades, but is similar.

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We have a backlog of other projects that are identified at the peace development as well.

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Jenkins avenue has a number of challenges. The culverts are in need of upgrades, some.

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Of the drainage along the area and sidewalks need improvements. These.

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Monies in and out year would be to upgrade junkins avenue, as well as.

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Add a sidewalk along the north side of the south mill pond along parrot avenue.

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uh Pinehurst road improvements were requested.

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By residents these mice would go towards those improvements.

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And similarly, the madison street roadway would be upgraded to address resident concerns.

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Good evening brian goetz, deputy director of public works, and as always when I introduce the.

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Enterprise funds projects uh remind everybody that these projects are not funded by taxes, but but the.

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User fees for both the water and sewer systems, and also tonight, usually it's it's myself doing water.

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And the city engineer doing tour, but since eric is, is only on his fifth week here with us, he he.

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Gets a pass so he can get himself ready for next year and tonight peter will stand in and cover a.

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Lot of the the sewer projects, so first project is biannually. We fund a million dollars bonded.

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For water line replacement- and this is ongoing work when we have projects and needs, and some.

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Aging pipeline that needs replacement uh the next project. Similarly, we have a number of well.

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Stations and these monies are for continued work on upgrades to the buildings and the equipment in.

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Some of the wells, the reservoir management project, is not your project. We're currently working with.

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A consultant who's identifying upgrades in fy 26 that will address the outfall structure and the.

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Improved outflow of that reservoir and the dam, the the next one for new groundwater source is.

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An ongoing project- these monies here are actually to fund the construction. We do anticipate getting.

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A permit soon for collins wall number two, which has been drilled and pump tested and we're in the.

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Process right now of finalizing that, um so we will move into design and these monies will go.

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Towards the facilities to construct and put the piping and the equipment in of the water storage.

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Tank improvements, this is for the lafayette tank on lafayette. Road are down by constitution, ave.

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And currently we are working on a preliminary study which we'll look at the tank itself and.

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The fy25 monies are for design and beginning of the bidding and then construction, fy, 27.

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uh The madbury water treatment project is just for replacing aging equipment there. Some of.

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The equipment is well over 10 years and, as I always say, with water and wastewater, once we.

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Turn things on they hardly they never get turned off so they're working 24 7. So these monies are.

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For replacing some of those bigger equipment, the uh the green on wild treatment, we anticipate the.

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Epa promulgating or starting the promulgation of pfas regulations, which could possibly impact some.

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Of our other sources, the portsmouth and collins wells, if need be for treatment, would be part of.

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The southern well aquifer for peas, so that would be the air force, but if need be, the greenland well.

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Perhaps might need some treatment, so this monies is in anticipation of that and we're currently.

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Working with a consultant on preliminary analysis and design of of what it would take to equip that.

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uh The next project, the dover, water or emergency interconnection- this is.

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Not the uh the transmission line under the bay, this is actually the the piping.

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um On the third bridge that is uh soon to be under construction for the bicycle pedestrian and these.

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Monies would fund um one quarter of that project so currently through the congressional delegation.

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Both dover and portsmouth have been committed to about 3.5 million dollars from the federal funds.

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Which will fund a good portion of this project and our monies are for the the infrastructure.

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On our side of the bridge and dover likewise would contribute monies on. On the other side,.

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uh The water master plan was a suggested update from the planning board and we put in here as a.

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Place mark, but we are comprehensively updating uh our master plan work. It's it's an ongoing.

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Process- but this would be um to uh in one of the out years, do a comprehensive plan for that.

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For the sewer, like we said, go ahead, peter sorry go ahead. Yeah just I was going to cover the the.

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Sewer line, that's an easy one, so similar to water. We we fund monies, because when we dig up a road we.

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Don't just do the water, we do the sewer lines too so on to peter. You can take this one [laughter].

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um This item is uh the piece wastewater treatment plant sections of the peace plant are over uh is a.

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50 year old uh plant uh built in the 1950s uh and and as well as in the 1990s when it was upgraded.

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um The project is driven uh primarily by regulatory requirements as well as aged.

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Infrastructure and the the desire for additional capacity, if you note the project is, uh is is split.

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Into uh roughly 50 50 uh between a the city portion and the uh private public partnership.

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Which is lonza biologics, um the the apportionment of that cost is based on what we deemed the cost.

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For the additional service uh to provide to lonza, the balance of that is for the replacement of.

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Aged equipment, um so you know the there are, there is a cost apportionment for a project.

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uh This particular project, uh the next project, as I discussed we've been doing uh for years, a.

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Number of upgrades to our water sources, but uh we anticipate our next water source, would actually be.

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Reuse of wastewater, and currently with with eric, he will be working with a consultant here in the.

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Near future, to identify and update what was done, a study, peter rice actually did a number of years.

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Ago, looking at wastewater reuse that would be highly treated and utilized as secondary water.

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So for either irrigation or cooling or other non-potable uses, and we certainly believe that.

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You know utilizing some of the peas discharge. This has has a great possibility, we're also on.

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The list of highly ranked projects for the state, so we feel that you know once we get.

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A better concept of how this might happen that we could also get some leverage here to actually get.

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Some more monies from federal or state to actually fund it and uh and implement this next project is.

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To continue our efforts uh as part of our combined sewer overflow long-term control plan, the city has.

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A historic sewer collection system which combines both stormwater and sanitary sewage into some of.

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The pipes we've made a lot of progress over the years. However, there's still a small portion of.

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The city that is combined and therefore we need to continue to do improvements to our.

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System until we meet water quality, the money is shown here are for that for that process.

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uh The city has over 20 pumping stations, uh wastewater pumping stations throughout.

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The city, these monies are identified to upgrade various pump stations uh as needed.

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The woodbury avenue sewer separation project identifies a short section of combined sewer.

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Near rockingham avenue right after new franklin drive or no franklin school entrance, there.

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And so that would be done in conjunction with some road improvements in that area.

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uh These monies are identified to continue uh supporting the private side of these sagamore.

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Avenue sewer program, sewer extension program. If you may recall um the the installation of the main.

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Lines uh was was predominantly uh completed um and that the private side, which is to put pumping.

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Stations and actually connect to the lines would be covered uh here. We previously had authorization.

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From council to do the first portion of it roughly 67 houses, the remaining houses are, are.

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Would be continue to be hooked up along this area? Actually, I'm mistaken it was 37 houses, not 67.,.

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uh The next is an identified: it's a placeholder for the mechanics to.

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Be pumping station upgrade uh this pumping station treats or pumps all the wastewater.

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In the city uh to the pierce island treatment plant, um it is uh currently.

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Being designed as being done right now to extend the life of the existing station,.

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um We're hoping to to complete the upgrade for the station in about 10 years.

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This item addresses uh the the new treatment plan at pierce island and it is to uh add additional.

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Equipment in fy25 you may you may wonder you know it's a brand new plant. Why do we need new.

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Equipment, um the equipment as part of the design there was a value engineering study done and some.

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Of the equipment was not installed at this time and it was felt that we would get some traffic.

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Some uh some experience running the plant and see what um how much sludge has produced sludge is.

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The byproduct, it's the cellular material that gets produced when you treat wastewater and it needs to.

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Be um squeezed all the water needs to be squeezed out of it and what we, what we're looking at is.

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We're adding an additional, um what's an inclined screw press, which is what treats and squeezes the.

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Water out of the sludge, it is all plumbed up and space is ready. It was intended. It was designed to.

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Be put in there but, as I said through the valley engineering, it was felt that we could hold off, but.

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We feel given the operational needs that will be prudent to install this in a couple years.

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The uh the next series of projects are what we call combined projects um and they're they're.

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When we know this um multiple funding sources- and in this case, uh the fleet street utilities upgrade.

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Has really started as a sewer separation project, but the second, you start touching one aspect of it.

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uh Water follows uh road, streetscape improvements, um so the money's identified here would go towards.

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um In completing the upgrades along the fleet street corridor, uh it includes a little bit of.

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Congress street, as well as up on maul and um first stage is, is anticipated to start this.

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Next year, with the extension of the drain line to north mill pond from hanover street.

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So that would be the first phase and then the second phase would be uh fleet street.

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Ebony avenue is a water sewer project through public input. It was requested.

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That we add a sidewalk to this, these the costs here reflect uh the additional costs associated with that sidewalk request.

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uh City-Wide storm drains. These monies are identified annually to support the.

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Storm drain systems, uh catch basins, drainage lines and treatment systems.

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uh This chapel street project has been designed. It was actually bid.

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At one point, but we didn't have enough funding at the time, so these monies would.

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Go to complete the section from bow street down to daniel street.

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The dpw complex houses, more than just the highway department, the water and sewer departments or the.

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Sewer divisions are housed there as well, and their equipment currently doesn't have adequate.

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Space and these monies would go towards providing additional high-base space to.

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Store sensitive equipment that needs to be put inside during the winter months.

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uh The creek neighborhood uh would be uh is a series of streetscape and.

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Utility improvements uh similar to what was completed along the mcdonough street.

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Area, if you recall, we did a series of upgrades uh between islington and mcdonough street over.

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A number of years- and this is uh envisioned as being similar- that we would fund projects.

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Over a series of time allowing for public input and participation as it's implemented,.

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um Islington street uh this, the second or last phase, is starting in april. uh These.

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Monies would go towards the last phase um and and hopefully um we will see you might.

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Mention pricing pricing. Well, uh this is pricing significantly changed from the.

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When we started the design we've seen about a 70 increase uh in cost associated with this project,.

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um So it's it's a been a very expensive project, uh but we're you know in the.

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Home stretch now and we're looking forward to getting this completed.

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uh The union street reconstruction is um is a sewer separation, driven project.

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um These are previously funded, um monies have been have been allocated, but these monies are.

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Additional monies to um to address the anticipated cost, uh this project should be going out to bid in.

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The near future, uh with the anticipated approval um or or once this is approved, moving forward.

C

That concludes our presentation. Thank you for being patient with us.

B

Take care for all the work and uh thanks council uh for holding your questions until the end.

B

I guess I'll open it up questions and we have all the apartment heads so not sitting at the.

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Table couns are done first, questions for you you're on it. If I have questions for different.

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Department heads should I ask that department head and let other counselors ask that department.

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Head or should I just ask all my questions, the different department heads at once? Well, I would.

B

Say that the majority of the department heads are sitting at the table right now and some have have.

B

Switched out todds in the hot seats. So if you see one up here, well, let's get through it, but I would.

B

Go through all your questions and then I will go on so my um first two questions are for.

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Public works director, peter rice, uh the first ones regarding the playgrounds. If I remember.

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Correctly, all the playgrounds rotate through when they get improvements, and it looks like it's 75.

O

000 a year and I'm simply wondering if the city were to move forward with.

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um Partnering with the pha out at sherburne, if it would be possible to either put money forward.

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For the following years to increase the size of a pan away playground, I know it's a new playground.

O

But there might be more kids so, and you don't need to answer that right now you can come back.

O

When it comes back up, um we could obviously do that. This is actually it's interesting. If.

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You look at the space out there. The pan away playground area is actually a large area of.

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Wooded area around there, so there could be some relatively simple things to create like passive.

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Play area and- and we talked about you know, staff have talked about- you know, how can we.

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Better utilize, this space to provide you know in addition to structures, but also passive.

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Play and also some area for people with pro balls and things like that, and if that would.

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Require more funding, please let us know, so we could absolutely and my second question for.

O

You, it's probably not surprising, is regarding the electric vehicle charging stations. Thank you for.

O

um Including them this year, uh the 150 000, I know the bridge street lot is not included in that.

O

And we're awaiting the chargers, the um I also saw that the high school has paving coming. I think two.

O

Years out and given how it makes the most sense to put in eb chargers when things are being paved, I.

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Would just encourage you to consider putting some at the high school when that paving's being done.

E

Sure would need to work with the school department on that, but um you know it's: it's it'd, be there.

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It's really their project, but if there's an opportunity to leverage funds and and execute.

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um Council directive um we're more than happy to do that. Thank you and I have two more questions.

O

If I may, um the next one is for planning and sustainability director peter peter britz when.

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It comes to the market square study. That's been pushed off. If the city council wants to expand.

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The scope of the market square study to go all the way down to congress street would we have.

O

To increase the funding for the study itself, um yeah I mean it's. It's really only meant to look.

D

At the sort of market square area, but it could be, I guess it depends on the scope if it's okay.

D

Okay depends how far you want to go, but we looked at the area that was outlined in the.

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Proposal from the council, the other night, um and that was really specifically to outdoor dining.

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If that was the ask, then that particular piece would probably be about fifty thousand dollars.

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In addition, okay, that was my specific question and then my final question is for police chief newport.

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I always want to say newburyport, so I stumbled um for the body worn cameras. It mentioned vendor.

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Services does that include storage, because I know that's the largest store. Thank you.

B

Counselor denton council embroidery. uh Thank you mayor. I have two questions.

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um One is for the fire department um and I've been reading about uh the protective gear.

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um For firefighters, containing pfas and I'm wondering, is there a? Is there an alternative.

P

To that at this point or not so unfortunately thank you for the question. um Unfortunately,.

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There isn't at this time uh the majority of the gear makers in the united states are aware of the.

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Problem but uh the issue seems to be that getting the raw material from the uh from their suppliers.

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That the pfas is already in it. um There are. There are multiple organizations at the federal level.

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That are pushing for for changes in this and to be able to find a way to get the protective.

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Ensemble to to do what it's supposed to do without these uh these chemicals in it- and there is also.

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A uh currently there's also a state law where we have to provide to the employees that work.

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For us and have it in their personnel uh jacket, the disclosure from the gear manufacturers with.

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What chemical compounds are actually in the uh in the gear itself, and uh we we do that.

P

Thank you. My second question is for peter on the peter rice on the um uh is electrical.

P

Going underground there, yes, it is I'm transformers too. That's the that's the plan. I I say yes, it is.

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um But the project hasn't been bid and once the project's bid we'll see uh we'll see.

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What it costs to do it, so that's the antennas being designed to bury the utilities. Thank you.

B

uh Council morrow um uh chief newport, do we know so the 1.4 that we've recently spent do. We know.

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When we're going to get the results of the um looking at the different designs and feasibilities.

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So we just at the final stages of selecting a design team and once we.

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Have that in place, then, then things will start moving really fast. Okay,.

A

um Peter rice is there any chance on the ev chargers that we have over a course.

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Of time, if there's a chance of any state funding that we could get to cover that.

E

uh I'm sorry what location? uh Okay, any of them! Just we we have. We have a cmac grant in it's a.

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Congestion, air quality congestion, air quality mitigation act uh request in for additional.

E

um Monies for for ev chargers, the state also has some money identified in their.

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10-Year plan, however, it's it's only forty five thousand dollars, um but.

E

Yeah, it's you know it's incentive for some, it's a mutation. So that's that's better than nothing.

A

um An additional question for you: you talked about the mechanic street wharf and whether or.

A

Not you're going to spend the money to rebuild the war, I'm just curious is it would? Is there a.

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Use for it is there a reason to spend the money to do it. That's um part of the public process.

E

um Will be to to really get a feel for that um you know I. I can see multiple um reasons to do.

E

It it would be a nice location for people to be able to to go out and view the water, and I mean.

E

It's there's a number of things that I could see uh doing it, but this is really we're looking to.

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For resident input, as well as council input before anything is decided, we've showed this.

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Here, mainly in 26 and 25, because the permit itself expires in 26., so we want. We didn't want to assume.

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And just push it out farther: we wanted to make sure we just brought it to people's attention.

A

uh Peter fritz um we've put in money for the master plan update, but I know that the bike.

A

Master bike: ped master plan is actually slightly even older than our master plan. Is there money.

A

Is also sort of part of that to be able to update both of those documents, uh there hasn't been money.

D

Identified yet for the bike, ped master plan that would be a separate, separate effort. There can be.

D

You know in the master plan there can be sort of looks at bicycle, but it wouldn't be as intensive.

D

As the bike pad master plan so just to add to peter we are, we are intending to to work with.

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The funding coming forward this next year uh to do the upgrade to the master to that bike master plan.

A

And then um my last one for peter rice, so many peters in the room um you had talked about the.

A

Peas, waste water treatment, plant and lonza's portion. It looked like 47, so are they gonna be.

A

Participating in all of that, or is that a portion of that the 47 would be the city portion, the 53.

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Would be intended to be lonzas um where we're at right now, the final apportionment and how.

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We go the mechanism with which we do that needs to be worked out. That's obviously something that.

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We would come to the city, council uh and and before anything's finalized brought to you all.

E

um So this is really you know, because it's a planning document it needs to be identified.

E

um You know, frankly, the the we're we're taking steps to start the design process.

E

um So we're getting refined numbers and, as you can imagine, their fine numbers are saying you.

E

Know things may be going up, but obviously we're working as diligently as possible to apportion the.

E

Costs appropriately and obviously appropriately as as quick as much towards the other side. As of the.

E

Equation as possible, thank you, but it needs to be justified and rational and reasonable.

Q

That's all thanks, councilman peter. I had a question just to follow up.

B

On that, since you're on the topic of the peas wastewater treatment plant.

B

um How does this work with a public-private partnership, as well as using.

B

Our ability to uh um to to take out loans, but also this is an enterprise fund, so it.

B

Kind of pays for itself. How does that work from an enterprise fund and a ppp.

E

um I can speak to how we've done it in the past, um we set up a receivable account and actually the accountants can describe it better, but.

E

um We have a, we identify it as we know this money's coming in to offset.

E

um The the loan from it's a state revolving loan fund that we'll be probably working with.

E

uh And it offsets the amount of money that we either pay in principle in interest or.

E

Reduces the overall capital that we have to bond or take loan on. uh It has not been.

E

Finalized at this point in terms of how we apportion it, but we've done this a number.

E

Of times in peace- specifically, we've done this already before, so it is, has been done.

E

um And it's you know: it's not something out of uh out of the norm. So when we um we take our 47.

B

Percent, that's uh for um I guess, I'm just trying to figure out what the 53 percent is that what we.

B

Figure, the the businesses are going to use. So if the future, from an enterprise fund standpoint and.

B

Then we're trying to bring that forward, so we don't have to put our own capital outlay for.

B

That how I guess that's that's the problem, so the the it's it's premature to talk about specifics.

E

Because we haven't worked out all the details, yet another company not named lonzo, so so the.

E

What we do is we look at the total project yeah and we look at each of the pieces of equipment.

E

So if it's a it's a 100 gallon tank- and you know, lawns is going to need a you know, but launches.

E

Addition is going to need to be 150 gallon tank, well, that additional cost would be a portion to.

E

Lanza, so we already need to replace the tank, but the additional tank volume or whatever is.

E

Associated with that would be a portion, so you go kind of an exercise. You go equipment by equipment.

E

The whole way through as well as engineering as well as you know, all the other aspects of.

E

The project- and you say you know, in order to expand this project from just what we do.

E

To what to include the additional capacity it's this additional mount, okay and so, and then that.

E

Depending upon how we structure the agreement, we either just say: you know, cut us a check for.

E

A certain amount or put together an you know, agreement so annually you're going to cut us.

E

Money or, however, we end up with the agreement: that's how it ends up playing out okay and then.

B

So that's sort of like what we did a couple years ago with. I think it was rye. We looked at you know.

B

How much it was going to cost to get you know just water or sewer out there, and then they paid.

B

Additional uh monies towards uh the additional capacity that they wanted in that that case and.

B

So it was separate from the the direct rate payer uh in that case right, so the principle behind the.

E

Enterprise fund is that the benefiting parties pay for the upgrade the expansion right. Okay, so that's.

E

That's the principle, so the existing rate payers aren't shouldering the burden of the of the cost.

E

Okay and then the only thing for folks watching home and myself when we split it out in terms.

B

Of ppp and enterprise funds uh for argument's sake, they're all I guess somewhat enterprise.

B

Funds because they're paying back with ratepayers, but we have the option uh to negotiate with any.

B

Other participant that is requiring the upgrades to find a different funding mechanism, either up.

B

Front or over time outside of the the general sewer and water bill that they they receive.

E

Yes, I mean ultimately, it's a it's a council policy decision, but what we you know we work.

E

We'll work with finance and legal to come up with what we, what we would recommend in the.

E

Best interest of the city, so you know at this point like I said it's premature to talk about.

E

Specifics uh but you know it is something we're cognizant of we know um and we are concerned our.

E

Goal is to to maximize the benefit to the city, uh while minimizing the impact to our.

E

Existing rate payers, all right, thanks peter I saw counselor cook- had her hand up before.

K

The question I have is just on timing. um I know that things are very expensive, so.

K

um And and that the prices have increased for doing a lot of projects, but I I was curious.

K

About two projects that I think are really popular, I think they both follow, fall to dpw.

K

That have been pushed out to fiscal year 2029. uh the south mill pond playground, 80 ada compliance.

K

And and bringing that up up to it, basically rebuilding it so that it's ada compliant and.

K

Also, a swap shop at the transfer station. These are things that I hear a lot about in the community.

K

So is there, is there a reason why we're out in 2029, beyond just trying to control costs.

E

um Yeah, so the nutshell is really to keep our debt below that 10 limit.

K

um And the next one is the kate street bridge. um I noted that it's pushed out another year.

K

um And that seems to me like uh something that should be a real priority is a reason.

K

Why it's in fiscal year 2025 instead of 2024., um I don't believe we pushed it out.

E

um I didn't, I didn't think, no, I'm not saying it's pushed, I I'm not saying you pushed it.

K

Out on saying, it is not this year from the looks of it, a very dangerous bridge space.

K

With considerations of changes coming, possibly um that will change traffic patterns, it needs.

K

To remain open is there a reason why we haven't prioritized it as a priority upgrade for this year.

E

So um I would say: no, there isn't a reason to push it. You know push it forward again. It was really a.

E

Matter of you know, structuring all the projects and and where we're at and getting these things.

E

Done we recently received some monies from the state relative to bridge improvements which could.

E

Be identified or could be used to to start the design process, so that is something that um you.

E

Know we are looking at, um but it was not something that the where there are alternate routes to get.

E

Through the area um you know working with the fire and police to make sure there's adequate capacity.

E

um To be able to get places, um we didn't feel that it needed to be pushed forward.

E

um It's not in imminent um state of you know, ready to collapse. It's just a weight, limited bridge.

E

um You know there it would be nice because when the bridge gets redone they'll be nice, we could.

E

Put pedestrian amenities along the side and then get it all the way up to carter street and it'd.

E

Be a really nice walking way to get up to the senior center, so you know I'm. I like projects.

E

um And I'm not against pulling it forward. um If that is what the council you know, want us to do,.

E

And I, what I would suggest, though, is that we would start the design process, because we're not going.

E

To need the money, the the 25 period for the money would be adequate if we started the design process.

E

um Now and it'll give us time to get all that work done so, but I would I would look towards.

E

Using the monies that we received from the state uh to to start that process, thank you.

B

Council bluff. Thank you. um Thank you all for your presentations, everything I do a lot of hard work.

R

Put into all these projects and planning, my first question would be for peter rice.

R

um I noticed there's nothing here on any in a spinnaker point or any indoor recreation.

R

Facilities would be a good idea to create a placeholder for possibly an indoor recreation.

R

Facility or possible acquisition of the spinnaker point, I know our lease is, I believe, in nine years.

R

I know we're looking six years out here, all right yeah I would I would. I would want to include.

E

Taught in that discussion um to uh we cover facility costs, um we have that overall citywide.

E

Facility uh so that addresses some of the um the maintenance types of upgrades we've replaced the.

E

Roof recently we did uh uh boiler replacement, did some, you know, equipment, replacements um and those.

E

Are all through the facility fundings uh that we have the the city does not own that building as.

E

You know, uh and the discussion of that really comes down to you know you know I'll. Let todd.

E

Speak to the rec need, study and yeah uh as part of the reckoning study we we are, it has identified.

L

To look at spinnaker and I think one of the one of the um recommendations in terms of spinnaker.

L

Was going to be suggesting to the city you know preparing for what's going to happen ahead in the.

L

Next, nine years, so does that mean that the city you know looks to purchase the building? If that's.

L

Even a possibility, or um do we consolidate, you know what spinnaker has somewhere else in the city.

R

Thank you, um my next question um for peter rice um have we looked at. I know we have improvements.

R

On the um recycling and um solid waste, have we ever looked at changing the recycling into.

R

Composting, I know now we don't, we don't buy our recycled products anymore. I know china doesn't.

R

Or I know that has changed, um so I don't know if that has ever been looked at is a we have.

E

Evaluated composting we've looked at curbside composting uh using a contractor. We've looked at.

E

um You know composting as something that we would do. um I in my in a prior life, I was involved with.

E

Composting facilities- and um you know- and I I'm a firm believer in using nature to its fullest.

E

Pretent potential uh to address waste, however, compost facilities are very um expensive to.

E

Operate they require land and they're, very odors um and um frankly, I would not recommend a compost.

E

Facility for the city this time, however, you know if it's something that the city would like the.

E

Council would like further review in addition to what we've done to date. um You know that's.

E

Something that you know staff could could look at, but at this point um we don't believe it's costs.

E

Effective um for the city. Thank you. um I have one more question for peter rice. um I I talked to some.

R

Of the residents who lived down the kate street area- and I know we have the improvements for the.

R

Bridge there has ever been looked at about even just making that bridge just pedestrian or even.

R

Getting rid of the bridge and- and I know that would involve a fire police and everyone else.

R

Planning, but we did look at that and and a review of the uh the traffic patterns, especially if the.

E

Coakley intersection uh were reworked uh that bridge would be critical uh for access to that.

E

Area so, based on the review, uh during that the design of that development, uh it was determined.

E

That the bridge should stay okay, thank you um and yeah. I believe. That's all. Thank you. Thanks again,.

B

Thank you mayor uh for peter rice,.

S

um I'm noticing that our regular rolling upgrades of pavement and sidewalks take a pause 2025 to.

S

2027- and I wonder if you can just expound on that- um I haven't seen that in our past cips.

E

um We've been looking very hard at the uh the debt ceiling and with the anticipation of some.

E

Significant capital expenses coming on in the next couple years, that pushed us over the 10.

E

Percent, so we worked very hard. We looked at the pavement condition index and we were in a position.

E

um To take a pause, obviously, there that'll cause a decline in the quality of the pavement. However, if.

E

We if we felt um along the way that we needed to bring something forward, because it was an extreme.

E

Situation, I would come back to the council at that time prior to the the years that we identify.

E

Additional monies coming forward, but you know obviously I my preference is to keep a regular.

E

Routine going forward, but we looked very hard at the debt schedule, working finance and trying to.

E

To come up with a plan that was, you know, keeping things aligned while absorbing that you know large.

E

You know absorbing some of those capital costs that were going to be coming on, so it's like a.

S

Jar and if you have to put some big rocks in you, have to take some little rocks out yep um the the.

S

Paving projects pan away has been a topic of sidewalk discussion for some time and it looks.

S

Like we have near-term road paving up there, but I haven't seen anything about sidewalks. What what's.

S

The what's the sequence of events up there so sidewalks. If, if you may recall, if we had a a.

E

Number of sidewalk discussions over the last year and pennaways moving forward, it's in final design.

E

We're anticipating it going out to bid, I believe next month, and it will include the sidewalks that.

E

We had talked about, which is one side of the outer perimeter uh and with future phases on.

E

The interior streets, additionally we're looking at some of the some sidewalks along sherburne to.

E

Make some improvements there and along borthwick there's a sharp corner, we're going to make some.

E

Improvements at that location, great um and if I could mayor for peter britz, I was excited to see.

S

The borthwick bike path and the route one bite path coming closer to reality. Are we getting air.

S

Quality monies for that. I know that beverly hill really benefited from air quality money.

D

um I don't think that are those projects cmac, no those aren't cmac funded projects. The.

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um There is some cmacc projects in and the and the um what's, the connector, the fourth foot connector.

D

At the light there that's the cmac project, we've identified and um yeah those side. The.

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Street light and the sidewalk on route 1 aren't see back projects great and last question.

S

And this would be uh about edmonds avenue. I just was hoping you could clarify.

S

It says work will include replacement of a water main low pressure, sewer near maplewood avenue.

E

So there's an existing group of houses that have pumped sewer lines, they use irrigation pipe. They.

E

Use all sorts of different materials and it's a reoccurring, challenge relative to repairs and.

E

Maintenance and things like that, so the intent is to to upgrade those existing lines to meet.

E

Standards, so really that's something that um you know it just needs to be done. It's a.

E

Short section from the wetlands up to the crest of the hill, which is what meadow: what's that.

E

Street, I can't recall um so we're not getting anything into anything of the scope of say the.

S

Sagamore project, no, no, this is existing houses that have existing pumps. This is.

E

An existing system, a small group of houses, yeah, it's it's there's a a series of pipes.

E

That come up through that just got cobbled together over time, and so this would address.

E

um You know kind of straightening that out okay, thank you.

B

Any other questions.

B

I had a few or before we turn it over to public comment, um pat in a t.

B

What is our procurement process? Software is a big line item. Are we using, and I saw that office 365.

B

Was a big chunk of that? Do we buy off any state contracts or larger contracts that exist out there.

B

That sets the price. Yes, we do even on computers, we use the state contract to get a better deal. Okay,.

B

So all of that has already gone through, uh got it yeah um police station. I guess this could be.

B

For chief newport- but I imagine uh peter as well as building facilities, is the estimate right now.

B

Accurate with our expectation of square foot cost for a new police station, we've had some other.

B

Projects come in just a wee bit higher than we've. We've we've expected yeah, I mean see if she can.

G

I mean I I don't know, but I think once we select a design team and start working with them. They'll.

G

They'll get that number pretty accurate, okay and does that affect that number right now is.

B

That what when we hear that we're kind of pausing some of the sidewalk, um that's in part due to the.

B

The potential of this project being more expensive than the 38 million that's listed there currently.

E

There's a number of capital projects out there. Obviously, the police station is a very large one.

E

um So you know I'd need to defer to the finance to you know what exactly is driving what, um but you.

E

Know there there's some significant expenses? Okay, um I guess my last couple of questions.

B

Are for you, peter? um The offices at foundry, who would be going into the intent, is to consolidate.

E

The parking division uh currently parking is spread over a number of different locations.

E

um You know this is something that was originally envisioned when the parking garage was built.

E

um You know it is intended. You know there are some functions down there right now, um so it would.

E

Be to fit that out to be able to keep that that division down there and have their own space. Okay,.

B

And as we consolidate some of those departments, are we looking to cons, I mean, I guess I'll preface.

B

This with um a larger conversation around work from home, but are we looking to consolidate other.

B

um Offices within the uh the broader city of portsmouth that we're going to consolidate and.

B

Build more office space could we expect to see less office space somewhere else, so the currently.

E

You know we're office. Space is at a premium, we have more, you know, demand really for space than.

E

Space available, so we're shuffling people around a lot and the idea would be to to be able to free.

E

Up some space by consolidating parking down there that would free up some additional space for us.

E

If you recall, we moved uh removed the ticket folks down to the garage a couple years ago in.

E

Order to provide additional space for the police department, we have you know. Similarly, we have.

E

Additional needs public works for space, so this is really part of a you know: continued evolution.

E

Of the workforce and what we need for for office space, and so obviously I work closely with the.

E

City manager and other departments, because we manage the facilities for other folks as well.

B

And I guess this would be maybe a follow-up for the city manager outside of the scope of this.

B

But if there is a uh not currently a work from home policy, if there would be one that would be.

B

Developed over the the coming months to be able to, um I guess, make the best out of if office space is.

B

At a premium, and we would assume that some jobs could be done remotely for a portion of the work.

B

Week, if we could have more floating desks or hot desks where folks don't have to come in.

B

To the office, when they're non-customer facing role to save on office space, we instituted for.

C

um The emergency provisions of covid, a telework policy and we've memorialized, that into a formal.

C

Policy that will live on past covid, so I'll um all department heads that have staff that are.

C

Able to work from home um from time to time have their employees sign that form and we try to.

C

Maximize space and recognize who's able to do that, but as you as you mentioned some folks, some folks.

C

On our staff are only customer facing so it's it's applicable on a on a department by department.

C

Basis and for the folks walking watching at home, you are the customer city of portsmouth.

B

Residents we're not selling widgets out there but meeting uh your needs uh peter the sound barriers.

B

um That we're looking thanks for for taking that up is that going to be on our land. Are we allowed.

B

To do anything on state-owned land, I know we got a letter back from dot that it's somewhat tricky to.

B

um Use, I guess we can't buy into their contract for things that are not uh expressly meet the.

B

Standards per federal guidelines, but are we able to request an easement to be able to.

B

Build on their land and do we need to, I can you know defer to eric, but the you know eric.

E

Speak if I'm incorrect, my understanding is that they cannot by law, allow us to to do our own.

E

Project on their land and it comes down to social equity, where communities of need, if they deem you.

E

Know under privilege, community doesn't have the density of people and they can't afford to build.

E

A wall you know, but a wealthy community, that is the same criteria, can just jump in and do.

E

That work, they don't want, um they don't allow it I mean eric. Is that that's correct? Okay, so.

B

It's a federal regulation, but we can do it on our property eric if you want to come up to the podium.

T

Yes, thank you, hi eric eby, the city engineer for parking, transportation and planning. So uh we are.

T

Able to do something on city property, on the school property, which is be at the base of the.

T

Highway right away, so it's a disadvantage because you're downhill from the highway and you have to.

T

Block that line of sight for the acoustics to to be mitigated. So we are starting to do a sound.

T

Monitoring study at the new franklin school and and from that results we'll see what what.

T

Measures are capable of uh mitigating the noise from the highway. Okay. Thank you very much. Eric.

B

And then, uh if you had another question again pool house, that's now well into out years the money.

B

That we're using at the um at that pierce island is for the upgrades that were deemed necessary.

B

For the pump station correct, yes, the aquatics is the liner. It's the gutter system, the piping.

E

In the pool surge tank and the new filter building and filters, okay and then I guess.

B

um When I look at the the master plan for prescott park, we have a chunk of money here in fy24 and we.

B

Have not insignificant money, but the next big chunk of money is in uh fy 28. Is there.

B

um I guess is that driven by the debt ceiling and if it is, would it make sense instead of.

B

Starting the project kind of mothballing it for a number of years, would it make.

B

Sense to start that project later with, potentially the benefit of you know, maybe.

B

State was going to spend any money on. You know.

B

Storm water or climate change, you know prescott parks on a lot of state posters. Would it be a.

B

Opportunity to try to go, get more state funds or federal funds for that, in that intermediate.

B

Time than to start the project kind of pause it and then start it again. So we we did.

E

Go through that thought process uh and what we you know, the first of all the additional money's.

E

Pushed out were part of that that um concern the thought was um protect the shaw building. First.

E

um That was uh kind of a priority, so it'd be to raise that and protect that um if you any.

E

Of folks drove around on the 24th of december, the shaw building was surrounded, surrounded by water.

E

um And it was, it was pretty impressive. um You know it.

E

Was out to marcy street so the the need to raise that to protect that building.

E

um I think is evident. um The question comes down to you know. If you, you know push it out and.

E

um You know, will it, you know, decorate degrade the building that much more more rapidly over time.

E

um You know I I I don't know, I'd need to talk to the historic preservation folks and the different.

E

Things, um but there are um in our minds there was um a process that you know we did in our head.

E

um Relative to moving that portion forward, holding off and looking at.

E

um Doing it another as part of a larger project, see if there's more funds.

E

um Is is definitely something if the council would like us to do that. We would you know we would do.

E

That and pursue figuring out how to do that. um So I mean- and there are some benefits to doing that.

E

um You know there are challenges associated with moving the shaw building.

E

um You know it's a displacement of the the portsmouth arts festival, folks, um that you know we.

E

Need to address is our prescott park staff um that you know would be displaced as well. So there are.

E

Some you know from an operational standpoint. um There would be you know it wouldn't be detrimental.

E

To my operations or to our department's operations um but they're, you know that is.

E

It's I guess, it's worth a a further discussion. You know. Currently the schedule is looking at.

E

Spring 24 uh for the the project, which would mean bidding it out, probably this time next year.

E

um And so in the in in the interim, uh this opportunity to have you know perhaps a opportunity.

E

To sit down with council and have discussion uh further on this to to flush that some of those.

E

Things out, I'm not. I wasn't really prepared at this point to to talk in depth about whether we.

E

Push the schedule out or keep it forward so uh sure. That's why I saved it. For my last question,.

B

uh Thank you for any other questions uh before we get to uh public comment and.

B

Again, this is public comment, we'll have a public hearing.

B

um On uh the cip- and it will do my best to remember not to close the public hearing.

B

This time about extended open uh folks want uh to continue to comment. But at this point.

B

Open it up to it's a public comment and after we get through any folks here, we will go to.

B

Zoom so just come up uh state your name city of residents and look forward to hearing from you.

U

Roy health, so 777 middle road unit, 22.. I have a question and I don't know who it to those who.

U

It's on electric car meters- and I guess peter could answer this one. Are they going to be.

U

Metered, like the parking meters are or are they going to be free for the people to use them.

B

So um roy this is public comment. I can say that the any charge will have a meter component of.

B

It but it's not a it's, not a question and answer. So if you have a comment to make.

B

Here: well, yes, I do. I I can't see that they should be. They shouldn't be metered, because.

U

There'd be taxpayer paying for electric cars meters to charge them and they don't pay.

U

For my gas, so why should we pay for their charging of their electric cars? That's my.

U

Statement then, the other statement I have is a our representative to pease air force base.

U

I don't know who it is, but uh that new planned airline. Are we getting information about what.

U

They're going to do for their gas storage, is it going to cause any problem for our wells.

U

Out there for our drinking water, that's the other statement I have thank you. Roy.

V

Page trace 27 hancock street. um My first comment is to mr rice and I'd like to thank him.

V

For realizing and the mayor for realizing that islington street is important.

V

And that it's still at 2024.. Thank you. um Second of all, I noticed that under number 83.

V

Which is the big 700 pound elephant in the room? There's zero zero under mcintyre.

V

um And I no longer thank you very much. um I find that very interesting shall I put it that way.

V

um Whether it's an oversight or not, um and also as far as foundry street garage back to mr rice again.

V

um I believe that garage was made with federal funds and there was an issue.

V

Many years ago, with putting anything in there, that was making a profit because of the use of.

V

um Federal federal monies, so I assume that the parking segment of dpw would.

V

Be considered a municipal and would be okay to place in that lower section.

V

um That's another observation. Thank you very much. Thank you good to see you see you.

W

uh Good evening esther kennedy 41 pickering ave. um First of all, I'd like to welcome the.

W

New wastewater treatment person, I'm sure, we'll get to know you.

W

um And peter all, I have to say, is: if you listen to us in the lawsuit, you would only have to worry.

W

About one treatment plant and not two right now and maybe saving millions of dollars um with that.

W

Said the pump stations that are being fixed in the now in the future, um the one down by mechanic.

W

Street um was blacktopped. I would encourage us to look at gravel and uh make sure that we.

W

Have storm water uh run off I? I was really kind of interested that we put blacktop down by the ocean.

W

um I also noticed in review of this, the pierce island monies were taken out.

W

um And I have to say over the years being on pearson community, as a citizen being on as a city.

W

Councilor, I know they've dissolved. However, there's always been things that we've used, that money for.

W

That have come up, whether it's um putting in accessible benches, whether it's doing some.

W

Pruning along the path, there's some money that was needed to kind of upkeep beautification. I know.

W

Counselor kelly was uh over there doing trees. I mean replaying trees, so I would encourage.

W

You really to think about putting that 25 000 back and let it build um that's what a cip is.

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For putting money in and maybe putting a little bit every year so that we have it for future.

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Projects out at pierce island um the chargers, I find it hard to believe and I've kind of done, a.

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Little bit of research, not enough for tonight's discussion, but um that we can't get companies.

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Especially a city like portsmouth to support those chargers and put their names on them.

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And I know some communities are doing that and I would encourage us. It shouldn't, be.

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A cost to the citizens for those chargers. um I agree that we need chargers. I know where that's.

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The way we're going, I also have done heard a little bit about what the federal government's.

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Doing in the next year or two with um part of their some of the bills that just got through.

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The senate and looking at chargers and electric cars and motor vehicles, so I would encourage us.

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To see and seek out some of these companies that are producing these vehicles- and I know.

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In many communities they have added charges to those communities, so I would ask you to do that.

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Lastly, I really want to talk about mental health. um The last couple weeks, I wouldn't.

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Wish what we've gone through as a community that I work in on anyone and with that said,.

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I would really like assisted to put the skateboard park and everything else in um we had to battle.

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The bands on friday night- and it was amazing, but the kids there they had over 200 people there. It.

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Was a great showing kids were excited, but they weren't your typical kids that are in sports.

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They weren't your typical kids that um might be an honor society. They were a great group of.

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Kids doing what they love and I would encourage us to really support that population, so I would.

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Encourage you to in this time of crisis and chaos, to really think about that population of children.

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And how do we make sure that their needs are being met too, as a community.

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We talk about all this additional housing for low income or other supportive housing.

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And how are you making sure that our community is a place where their children can be happy.

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I would ask that you would also think about.

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um I've said I said it during the general fund discussion on the budget. I would encourage you.

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To maybe put a study in here on mental health, for our police department and for our community.

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um You know I I we when we were doing adding police officers, I asked to add social workers.

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And I can tell that I've lived in the last couple weeks and I would encourage us to.

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Really think about that in nowhere in here and that's another place we can put in here is to.

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Study mental health of our community in the study of mental health of our law enforcement and our.

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Other people, like our firefighters, there was there's a thing in here about playgrounds.

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And I would ask that I liked what counselor denton was saying, um but we really have we. I.

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Appreciate the ada which you have to do by law, but I really would have asked you to look at an.

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Inclusive playground, this wheelchair accessible wheelchair um uh apparatuses that kids can go on.

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um uh Children with crutches can be part of, I was in a beautiful adaptive, state-of-the-art.

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um Inclusive playground in another community for the ribbon cutting, and it was amazing.

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um We do do some things, but I would ask us to do maybe one playground. That's totally adaptive for.

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All children, whether you're in a wheelchair, whether you're on crutches, whether you have.

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Other kind of mobility questions um sensory issues. We don't really have that playground. We have bits.

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And pieces, but I would encourage us to think about that, as we think about our mental health.

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I'd like to finish up with a swap shop, I agree with counselor cook.

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And I am a frequent flyer of the dump on saturdays and this last past couple of weeks, given all the.

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Drop-Offs of leaves and greens we've been asked to go down to the lower section to drop off.

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um So, instead of going through the fence, you go down to the lower section. It's a beautiful big.

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Area, I don't understand how come it's going to cost thousands and thousands of dollars to have.

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People just line things up down there like bureaus that they might be throwing away. I saw a metal.

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um Bookcase look brand new being thrown away. Why we can't just set that up and and have people if.

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We need volunteers to go there every week and clean things out. I get it things, don't always.

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Go quick but uh they uh can be uh taken out and put in the dumpsters if people have a week.

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To see if they like it, I can tell you I put a little box out of trinket set. I didn't really.

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Need and I were given- and um it was amazing to me that what things the 25 items in this.

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Little paper box, a little computer paper box, um went within three days in front of my house.

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So I guess I would really like us to see. I mean we have the space down there test it out.

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I don't see I get the fact that we might need help moving this stuff up that doesn't go.

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But I really think there's an opportunity here, especially in the financial times. We.

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Might be hitting, and especially with all the new housing. If we look at the z generation.

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There's been a lot of talk about how they are more in tuned to our environment, they're, more.

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In tuned to using old furniture, they're learning the trades of fixing things sewing has become back.

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So I guess um knowing that I would encourage us as a community to really look at that process.

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As part of our mental health, so again all these things in the end here are mental health related.

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And I would encourage us to figure out a way to add them into rcip. Thank you. Thank you. Esther.

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South street, um my I'm gonna ask questions because I know you can't answer. I've answered this before.

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um My first question is um peter um stated a couple times that he's concerned about our.

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Debt ceiling and in the package with the cip draft and all of the detail that you received.

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I noted that the coakley landfill authorized, but unissued is not included in here, which is about.

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Four million 641, it's included as authorized unissued in all of our other reports, like the.

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Kafirs and and the budget, so I guess I would ask, um since it's becoming a an issue here of what.

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Is available to be bonded? um What, if that needs to be included here to be considered.

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The next thing I'd like to ask is on the um it's on page 30 on the financial software upgrades. I.

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Know previously, we had in total about 750 000 ., uh now we're up to a million some and uh we've.

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Got about 300 000 in there now. My question is: um is this just for software? Is this for the whole.

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um Kitten, caboodle, uh conversions and everything when we look at our software needs throughout the.

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I.T area are we looking at um also the conversion costs and everything else, that's related to that.

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Also, um I think this is something that I needs to be pushed forward and I notice it's been pushed.

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Back quite a few years, the fact that we will be getting a new auditor will be very important to.

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For the city to actually be able to uh have systems that they can depend on.

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uh The next question I have is on the same page: it's on the way finding in here.

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And I guess I would ask: why are we putting wayfinding in here when everybody has a.

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Gps on their phone on their car anywhere, you can look. This is quite a bit of money.

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And uh is it really needed or do we have other places that we could uh actually use this.

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um My next question is on um on the roadways. We have um pease international trade, port uh 3.2.

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Million and when peter was discussing this, um he um he said we're working on corporate drive.

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uh We want to write to know that I asked for for the construction progress for 21. we've.

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Already spent according to that report, 315 000., so is this. I mean this. This seems like a lot of.

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Money for for one one road over there, peter so that that would be my question there is this for.

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Other roads also or- and you just noted that or um do we really have that much work to do over there.

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um The other two questions I have are about um um on the same report that I received. We spent.

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About 168 000 on mcintyre, and I guess I would wonder uh since we don't own it, we don't lease it.

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um What are we spending that money, for? Is that maintenance that we put in the budget.

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The about 400 000 last year, or is this something new? uh The next consideration would be spinnaker.

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um As peter said, we had, we did some repairs over there, we did a roof and we did lockers and uh it.

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Added up to about uh somewhere around 500 000, and I know we're looking at that and moving forward.

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um But is this really feasible for the city to keep putting this amount of money in when we.

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Don't own the project. Thank you. Thank you very much, peter any questions on zoom. Your questions.

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On zoom, um I want to thank everyone for uh coming out todd, pat uh chief mcquan, chief newport, brian.

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Peters uh abby: um everyone spoke christine um nathan, welcome eric for this. Hopefully you uh you.

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Know you got 364 more days to get ready for next year, um but this is the start of the conversation.

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Obviously, there are a lot of priorities. It was a goal of ours to receive more information and.

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More input from citizens uh than we've than we have in the past and we met that goal.

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um The the tough part about hearing is then prioritizing, and so we have a lot.

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Of prioritizations to do a lot of big capital improvement projects that are coming down. The.

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Police station uh peas, you know, there's a there's a lot and roads, uh you know even roads. uh One road.

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You know corporate drives, my dad's old office was was out there, it's a long road and it is a.

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In need of some repair out there and it doesn't get easier to repair it, especially around wetlands.

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And what you have to do when you touch roads that haven't been uh worked on in a while, so.

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Look forward to the continued conversation look forward to the public hearing, look forward to the.

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Sacrifice that we will make in order to make sure that the taxpayer is getting what they deserve.

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And that is great services that they expect at a rate that allows them to afford uh life here in.

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Portsmouth, so I appreciate all the work that goes in on a daily basis and then, when everybody gets.

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In one room, uh thank you all for the work that you do on behalf of the city of portsmouth good night.