City of Portsmouth, New Hampshire Public Works, 9 Jun 2022

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6.9.2022 Hanover Garage Renovation Public Information

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Thank you good evening um welcome to an informative meeting to discuss.

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The project at the high hanover parking facility in downtown portsmouth, my name we'll, do some basic.

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Introductions um um just for the people here at the table and then we'll introduce the entire.

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uh Team that is working on the garage, but my name is joseph almeida. I'm the facilities manager.

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With the city of portsmouth, uh my name is peter rice from the director of public works.

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My name is paul henry I'm, the facilities, project manager, hello, benjamin fletcher parking director.

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And mark zielowski uh project manager for walker, consultancy, engineer record for the project.

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Very good uh peter you might, if you're able to screen, share um what I have on this thing. um The.

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Other team too yeah, but I'm gonna- I have their names up I'll, have their names up on the screen.

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um Yeah go to the that's it correct. um Can we see that yet on the screen very good, so I just.

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Wanted to make it make some basic introductions and allow the teams to introduce themselves.

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um We're here, because the the high hanover parking facility um for any of you that that.

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Go into it daily or of internet recently know that it is in. It is in desperate need.

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Of some major restoration work, uh the project was advertised um and uh out to bid and the successful.

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uh Bidder was structural preservation systems; they are here with us tonight and walker parking.

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Is an engineering firm that has been working on this garage for several years as a matter of fact,.

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They were involved with some feasibility condition, condition assessments uh back in 2014 and they've.

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Been taking helping us take care of the garage since um so at this time, I would like to.

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Allow the structural team to introduce themselves they're there via zoom, so.

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Rishi, if you want to start introductions of your team, that would be wonderful.

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Sure yeah uh hi everyone, uh myself rishikesh, I'm a project manager with.

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Structural preservation systems- um my team is amicia one of the other project managers who.

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Will be working on this project, uh matt stover? Who will be our superintendent for the job and.

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Then bob miller who's our construction manager. They should soon be joining in, um if not already.

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Very good, thank you and mark you have um your. Your team consists of yourself.

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And, uh and would you like to make other introductions for your team as well.

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I have my project engineer that will be working on the site during construction, nicoheratos.

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Works for us I'll also have the director of restoration out of our boston office as our.

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Peer review, quality control and overseer great great wonderful. um So please know that uh to my.

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Left paul henry is a recent addition to our team. He's been hired uh to manage this project for the.

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City, um he brings, he brings years of experience, managing complex projects like this and he will be.

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He will be at the helm of this project for the city and he'll, be a major point of contact and.

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We do have um you, should the public should know that on the city's website, there's a project page.

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And there's contact information and I have it here just so: you can see what it. What.

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The page looks like when you go into the city of portsmouth website. The public works tab. You can.

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Find the hanover garage project there will be updates to the project on that page as well as.

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Contacts so like, like all of the projects at public works, the best way to reach us is.

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Through is, is this way through the website right to the project tab? uh I'd like for um mark now.

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To maybe talk a little bit about you know what the project consists of and talk to us about. The.

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Fact that it's a uh it's a multi-phase three-year project uh due to the fact that we were avoiding.

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The extreme cold temperatures that uh the project will might be you know, shut down um unless.

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Unless we have mild winters, we can keep working, but it's a very complex project in that way, and.

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There are some milestones on a schedule up here on the screen that we are targeting. We won't.

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Be held to these, but we'll we'll try to beat them, and these are our target dates.

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But mark um I'll allow you to present all right uh so I'll go through a little brief overview of my.

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Experiences with the andover street parking garage working with the city of portsmouth public works.

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Probably in 2014 with the initial appraisal was put together by walker at that time. I think we.

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Were walker restoration consultants, we developed a comprehensive program to restore the garage both.

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Inside and outside the garage- and we presented it to the city and we gave them several options to.

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Consider the best option: the recommended option is the approach we're taking for the long term.

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You know service life and durability on that structure, so it can remain in service.

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The garage has specific areas of attention that have to be addressed in certain sequences or.

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Priorities where we have physical damage to you know structural elements, we're looking.

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At address those in the first year, we're also looking at starting with work on the upper tier.

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As we work through the garage we'll bring ourselves down to the lower tiers that way.

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We're not going back over and going across the work that we completed now. It's broken.

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Into sequences or what we call construction phases, this is to accommodate operations.

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The garage will not be closed, but there will be portions of the garage where the parking will be.

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Considerably reduced we're looking at several hundred spaces out of service at one time to.

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Facilitate the safe construction work and we're going to be taking. You know precautions so that.

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um We can kind of control what is going to happen to the environment, both in noise and dust. So there.

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Are panel partitions with insulation contractor, will seal the floors top and bottom inside these.

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Work zones we have the area directly below the same sequence of protection has to go up.

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The install is shoring and then we start working on the concrete and steel elements of the garage.

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Those will go over a three-year period. There's there's a time in which construction activities.

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May have to be halted because the inclement weather such as snowfall heavy snowfall.

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Real sub, you know, sub cold weather requires a lot of added cost for protection and may not be.

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You know economically feasible, it's something that we're studying right now with the contractor he's.

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Going to work up what he believes is possible through certain parts of the winter, but there.

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May be a period where we just can't do the work and we resume it. My expectation is that we would.

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Probably be able to restart the work in march of next year and the intent would be to start on the.

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Job and run with this job until november again and then decide whether we go through the winter.

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Months of december january and february, so the work in the inside is pretty fundamental.

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It's concrete repairs where there's a lot of concrete deterioration and damage to the floors.

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This repairs to the structural steel, where there's corrosion damage and loss a loss of structural.

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Capacities and then there's treatments to preserve and protect the structure which involve waterproof.

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Coatings sealants paint applications and some improvements in the form of signage and graphics.

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That the city is looking to introduce into the garage as well, so we're looking at a full.

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Restoration from inside and out now I talked to you about the inside. The outside masonry facade.

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There are areas of the masonry facade that have to have more attention than others.

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You know some of the damage and deterioration requires reconstruction. Some of it simply repairs.

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So that would be facilitated over the course of the summer, at least on the contractor's schedule.

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It will go through the course of the summer and uh we'll be working probably on one elevation.

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At a time and moving around the facility so we're looking at, you know how to protect the child. You.

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Know the public interest of mike you know travel around the facility as well as vehicular travel.

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In and out of the facility, those are taken into consideration during construction.

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There are there's work inside the stair towers as well, so we'll in sequence, shut off certain.

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Stair towers, divert, you know pedestrian flow to alternate stair towers. So there'll, be you know a.

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Certain amount of inconvenience to the public, but we feel this is the best and safest approach to.

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Undertaking that particular part of the project's work mark. Thank you thank you for that. I um I.

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Forgot to mention mike cassad is also here um in the in the chambers, as he's a team member.

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With the city as well he's the general foreign of the parking garage and he will be heavily involved.

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As well um peter I'm wondering if you might, when you get a chance, I know that people are.

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People are inquiring right now to participate, but if you could screen share again, I just.

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Wanted to share the phasing plans that I've and again these are- these are small scale.

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For this presentation, but I wanted the public to know that um we have it's probably the next page.

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Yeah, so uh please know that we we have walker has actually with our assistants.

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Painstakingly defined the phases of the project throughout the garage, so we know where we're going.

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To start, we know where we're going to be moving to next, and we know the sequence that we're going to.

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The path we're going to take throughout the project, this rep and again, I don't expect.

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People to be able to read this, I just want you to know that these plans do exist and we will.

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um We will upload the entire drawing set onto the website. This represents 2023.

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That peter's scrolling through now and then the last sheet is represents 2024.

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So again, just to repeat the phases are very well defined um and each of those.

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Phases represent, you know, represent their own challenges. You can take that off now. um They.

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Require signage, they require communication, they require. You know a lot of communication with users.

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Of butters residents businesses, and we expect a lot of that back and forth. I actually myself live.

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50 feet away from the garage, so I know residents are going to be impacted greatly by this project.

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I don't want to suggest that this is going to be an easy project. This will be a tough project.

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So we don't want to sugarcoat it, it will be loud, it will be long noisy and there will be.

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You know unexpected um issues that that arise. um Please do know that we have.

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Within the drawing set walker parking has designed.

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Some sound mitigation features that will be employed throughout the project to try to minimize.

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You know sound traveling outside of the garage, but, as everyone knows, the garage is a very open.

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Structure and when you put tools onto that concrete you know, sound is going to travel, but we.

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Will surround the areas that we're working on with the sound barrier to absorb as much as we can and.

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Deflect and we will expect that we will hear and work with the abutters on on minimizing the impact.

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I didn't know if there was anything that um the structural team wanted to add. I think we um I was.

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Trying to get uh jesse, I can't pronounce his last name uh promoted up to panelists. um I apologize.

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It doesn't seem to be working. Okay, uh that's not a problem at all. That's fine! Okay, um great yeah,.

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um Were there any peter, are there any? um I see that some participants are chatting.

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Is there any? Is there anyone that's trying to ask questions of uh so far as to what we've presented.

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If, if any folks have um a question, I think I think judy miller is really the only person in.

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Attendance uh virtual um and judy raised her hand, so I will allow her to talk very good.

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Hi judy hi judy miller, 77 hanover street, I heard a little bit about sound mitigation and sound.

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Barriers um will that be throughout the project, um especially starting on the upper level.

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We'd appreciate um as much of that as possible. So if you could maybe talk a little bit more about.

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That sure sure mark, I might ask you to to describe the actual sound mitigation feature that you've.

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Designed and you've employed in other projects as well so is joey alluded to the unfortunates of.

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Doing repairs to concrete is you have to break the concrete and the eight the most common method.

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Is and the fees the most feasible method for this particular application is jackhammers or chipping.

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Hammers, the sound attenuation will migrate so we're trying to cut the path and cut the decibel.

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Ratings down by putting up plywood partitioning filled with styrofoam two inches of foam fill.

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In it and it'll be sealed from top to bottom of floor so that we can kind of control and contain.

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The noise inside, however, there will be some noise mitigation that transmits, through the steel frame.

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Just the wrapping and tapping of concrete on the floor slab that's attached to the frame, so you.

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Know any improvements that we can make along the way we're certainly going to make adjustments to.

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Them we're going to listen to the conditions outside the garage to see you know how far.

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It cut off generally, you know. If, beyond a hundred feet, you lose a certain amount of decibels and.

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Noise attenuation so we're hoping that we can really reduce it before it gets to that point and.

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And that you won't have as much um construction noise. It won't be constant I'll, say this. That.

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You know there'll be periods of time for maybe a week or two weeks where they're doing demolition.

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Then there'll be days where they don't do any demolition necessarily, so it won't be a.

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Constant five days a week, you know, for you know, months on end, it's going to be, you know, and the.

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Other is that we're not going to allow any noise related work to start until after eight o'clock.

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So they can do a soft start, which is just getting set up, but no noise. Until after eight, we intend.

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That the work will suspend by 6 pm, so there won't be noise from 6 pm until 8 the next morning. So you.

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Know, hopefully, we won't disrupt the neighborhood too much and judy. I can promise you. I will enforce.

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That, because I'm your I'm your neighbor and I'll I'll, hear it just as loud as you will so there.

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Won't well, there will not be early morning work and late and late into the evening. Work.

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Yeah, well, I had my hand up again. Six o'clock seems pretty late, um but another comment I wanted to.

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Make was, and I'm forgetting when, but a few years ago there was jackhammering at the garage for.

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Some repair that was done um and I'm sure you have the information about that- um was there any.

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Sound mitigation at that point, because that was pretty noisy yeah, that there was none yeah there.

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Was none? There was none so yeah that particular project was small, discrete repair sites. These are.

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More substantial repair sites over the structural framing, so it involves a lot more demolition in.

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In given areas and as far as the six o'clock I said six o'clock but however, the contractor is.

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Going to work generally he's working just eight hours, so if they decide that they need to stay.

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And it may be unrelated to demolition, um they may stay later, but typically.

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They're only going to work eight hours so starting at eight o'clock to five, probably.

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Did we answer your questions judy.

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um Yes, thank you. No I'm not rushing you. I just want to make sure that we were addressing them.

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If you had other questions, that's fine yeah! It's it's just that it's three years.

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And um yeah, so I'm sure your website will be very informative, which will be helpful.

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But I I hope the sound mitigation is foremost on your minds. Yeah construction is disruptive.

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And you know we'll do the best we can to mitigate the impacts to folks. um But you know this is a.

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Critical piece of infrastructure for the city, and this work is is, um is very, very, very.

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Much needed so there's there's really it's not an option to.

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To push this off, it's not a this is not a discretionary project.

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And do know that there are. There are several exclusionary dates of the project. I mean.

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We we at this time we are not planning on working weekends or holidays, and there are.

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Several special events throughout the summer, whether it's um you know market.

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Square day or, and then the 400 celebration, we'll have several days where there are.

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Things going on that we probably will not want to be working the project, so um we will publish those.

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um Exclusionary dates or we'll share them somehow, maybe on the website.

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So, as of right now, we're trying to stay away from weekends, if there's something that accelerates the.

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Project and gets it over with quicker for everyone, and the contractor asks to work.

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A few uh saturdays or something, then we might consider that just to get get it over with quicker.

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So so this I don't see anybody else in the online on the zoom.

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I see judy's hand again, but there's a gentleman in the in the no questions from the public comments.

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Okay, great um we'll go back to her sure judy. um Well, I just wanted to say um we park. We have.

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Two cars, so we park in the foundry garage- and I know in prior years we parked at hanover garage.

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And I was very careful not to park under a pipe or anything that looked like it would fall on my car.

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So I I do- I do realize that this is very necessary, so I I encourage that you know the project be.

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Done, thank you very good, so one other thing to be aware of is that some of our other projects we're.

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Going to be doing monthly public meetings to allow businesses and residents to hear a status update.

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From staff we haven't decided where that will be held and what the dates were will be, but we will.

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Make sure we publicize that and we'll establish a regular routine meeting and that we've done this.

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On the islington project, so that businesses have a conduit to express concerns or or.

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You know thoughts and things like that associated with the project, and you know we understand this.

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Is a long project? We understand this is disruptive, but you know the the way we can minimize and help.

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The project along is through communication, um and you know: that's that's why we have uh paul henry.

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uh On who will be on site and he'll be our direct point of contact. However, ben fletcher.

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Joe almeida and myself are also available, as well as mike. Assad are also available.

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If need be, if you're not getting satisfaction- and you know- and there are things that we can.

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Accommodate but there are things that we can accommodate and we will do the best we.

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Can to mitigate impacts, but there are certain things, unfortunately, that just are disruptive.

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Very good judy: do you have another question? Maybe your hand's just still up.

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No okay! No, I don't thank you, um the other member of the team that.

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We didn't uh mention is sean clancy, sean clancy's, the assistant city manager, for.

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Economic development now sean. If did you want to add anything um at this time.

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No peter um I'll just follow along and being available as a resource. So thank you. Okay,.

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um From the structure team, anything you guys would like to add.

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No, I think you guys covered it pretty well, um uh I think uh we have a good project for the next.

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Three years to start with and work with, you guys, uh the team is pretty strong and I think there's.

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Been a great deal of effort which has been put towards sound attenuation like we have discussed.

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And the city has spent considerable time and and walker as well on doing it.

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Oh there we go very good. Thank you, rishi. As a matter of fact,.

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You had already started the construction of the sound.

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Barriers are actually in fabrication now from what I understand from what you told us and.

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um What we haven't mentioned yet we did flash the schedule up on the screen, but the um the intended.

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Starting window is after the fourth of uh the week of the fourth of july, so it's um it's timing is.

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Good because market square day will have passed by then- and um you know the fourth of july.

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Week will have passed and then and then we're looking at hitting the ground. So um and as you.

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Know foundry garage exists now which didn't in the past and then the resurfacing of the bridge street.

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Lot is now complete, so we have a very nice window to start the project. All right. That really is.

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That really summarizes what we wanted to present tonight. So if there are no other comments or.

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Questions we can actually adjourn. We appreciate everybody coming out tonight and uh look forward.

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To uh working with the residents and businesses as we proceed in this project, thank you. Thank you.