Based on the context provided in the transcript, the speaker identifies himself at the end ([15:33]) as **Brian Bachmeier**, the Consulting City Engineer for the City of Oakdale. Although Jesse Farrell is listed as the staff City Engineer, it is common for municipalities to use a consulting engineer for specific project presentations. The entire transcript is a singular presentation by him. [0:01] Brian Bachmeier: hello and welcome to the 2025 Street Improvement project PowerPoint presentation this project involves the neighborhood generally described as east of Greenway Avenue North of Hudson Boulevard West of Hadley Avenue in south of 6th Street it includes First Street Third Street fourth fifth upper fifth sixth Grenadier Gresham Greystone groer and Hadley Avenue this is a map of the 2025 project area the purpose of this presentation includes four items number one review the city's need for an annual program number two describe the construction [0:48] Brian Bachmeier: elements of a project number three outline the process of a project and number four present the policies of how projects are funded in the city of Oakdale the city of Oakdale has developed veloped an annual Street Improvement program that has five objectives the first objective is to improve safety there is a direct correlation between pavment condition and safety on our streets for all users including bikers Walkers and motorists the second objective is to control maintenance costs as asphalt gets older it becomes brittle the cost to maintain those streets increases at an increasing rate and we are now to to the point where the maintenance costs are exceeding the revenue that's collected [1:34] Brian Bachmeier: and dedicated for that purpose patching is a very inefficient way to continue maintaining the streets as it costs five times more per ton to P to patch a street than it does to PVE a street the third objective is to replace water mains that have a history of brakes there are a number of blocks in this neighborhood where we've had a series of breaks and it's now time to replace those water ms the fourth objective is to improve the efficiency of our street lighting system and we do that by installing LED light fixtures on the existing power poles and the final objective is to eliminate service barriers in the spring of the year we do have to post the [2:19] Brian Bachmeier: streets to try to protect them from heavy loads and that could affect Service delivery to your neighborhood and so when we reconstruct the streets we construct them to a higher standard so that there is no service Interruption to your neighborhood this is a map of the city of Oakdale showing the pavement conditions throughout the community good and the average streets are generally reflected in blue and green colors and the streets that are in poorer condition are in the red orange and yellow colors and as you look around the community you can see neighborhoods where we do have areas with poor pavement conditions as mentioned earlier the city has an annual pavement reconstruction [3:07] Brian Bachmeier: program and you can see over the next five years we're going to be doing those neighborhoods that had the pavement in poor condition in the previous slide and for next year we are looking at again the neighborhood in the south central portion of the city this is a chart showing how a typical City street deteriorates over time on the left margin is the pavement condition from zero to 100 with 100 being a street in good condition with new pavement and zero being an older street with poor pavement conditions on the bottom is the age of the street from 0 10 30 20 30 and 40 and on the right side is the cost per square foot to [3:53] Brian Bachmeier: maintain a street and what it's indicating here is as the street gets older the maintenance costs increase and there gets to be a point of diminishing returns which generally happens at around 28 to 30 years most of the streets in next year's program have reached that age the third objective we mentioned as part of our street reconstruction program is to replace utilities where they're in poor condition this map reflects where we've had water main breaks in this area over the last 30 years and you can see that there's been a number of breaks on on Greystone Avenue on the west side of upper Fifth Street and on Fifth Street and Fifth Street Court uh these are streets that we are [4:39] Brian Bachmeier: indicating there's been a number of breaks to the point where it should be replaced this map shows the load limits that we have to impose from March to May of every year to protect our streets and the streets that are in red are the ones that have to be posted five tons per axle or less and that is done to try to preserve the brittle pavement from heavy loads to try to reduce the amount of cracking and breaking that occurs as you can see your neighborhood now is to the point where it's restricted to 5 tons per axle and if you look through the map you can see that other neighborhoods in the annual program are also uh restricted by axle weight that concludes the first part of [5:25] Brian Bachmeier: our presentation regarding the city's annual program the second part of our presentation deals with actual elements of a project and we'll start off with a series of pictures showing previous neighborhoods where we've done replacement programs this is a picture of helmo Avenue looking to the north and you can see the existing uh pavement conditions and the amount of patching the city has done in this area this is the same stretch of helmo Avenue after the project and you can see in this particular area we not only replaced the asphalt but we also did some spot patching of curb and gutter installed a sidewalk and replace the lighting system with a collector Street [6:11] Brian Bachmeier: LED system here's another example this happens to be Holly Avenue looking to the north and again you can see the pavement conditions where there's a series of cracks and patching that's been done over the years and this is Holly Avenue after the project again you can see we removed and replaced the asphalt we did curb and gutter repair and we also replaced the street lights with uh the decorative lights in the neighborhood in your particular neighborhood you already have the decorative light post and what we'll be replacing is the top fixture that currently it has a high-press sodium light fixture that will be replaced with an LED light fixture this is a picture [6:57] Brian Bachmeier: of First Street at the GR deer intersection looking East you can see the amount of patching that has been done over the years and you can see it's been done consecutive years just due to the different colored uh of the pavement patches also the curban gutter is in poor condition this is a picture of Third Street looking East at the Grenadier intersection you can see the extent of the cracking and patching of the pavement surface picture of 6th Street looking East just east of Gross Point Avenue you can see the amount of patching that has been done over the years and the last picture here of Greystone Avenue looking to the north you again you can see the condition of the pavement and the extent of the [7:43] Brian Bachmeier: patching uh the curb and gutter is in poor condition and you can also see a water Me patch where there was a break along the left side of the picture the improvements we are proposing for next year's project include removing and replacing the asphalt on all the streets removing and replacing the curb and gutter on all the streets but not including four street from Greenway to Greystone or upper Fifth Street from groer to Hadley as they were replaced in 1995 uh the utility repairs we're looking at replacing the water main on Fifth Street Fifth Street Court Greystone Avenue and portions of First Street and upper Fifth Street [8:30] Brian Bachmeier: we're televising the sanitary sewer to see if there's any needed spot repairs that need to be done we're also televising the storm sewer to see if there's any needed repairs another portion of the project is to clean out Indie uh sediment that is accumulated in the ponding areas where the storm sewer discharges we also mentioned previously that the street light fixtures will be replaced with LED fixtures we're also Al uh looking at and evaluating the street signing to see which signs and street name signs need to be replaced if they've lost their reflectivity or visibility uh we're also working with the private utility companies including gas electric phone [9:17] Brian Bachmeier: and cable to see if they need to schedule and do some repair as part of their our project the next couple of slides we'll talk about the actual construction process generally the first thing a contractor will do is reclaim the pavement they grind up the asphalt surface and turn it into a gravel road then they will start utility repairs underneath the road uh including the water main any gate valves uh manholes that need to be adjusted once that is completed then they will grade the road prepping it for the for any curb repairs that need to be done once the curb and gutter is repaired or replaced they will install the first layer of black top and [10:04] Brian Bachmeier: that's called the base course uh the total pavement thickness is 3 in so it's put in two lifts the first one is an inch and a half thick and that is a base course of asphalt after that is installed then they will adjust the man holes and gate valves in the street getting it ready for the final wear course during the course of construction the contractor is responsible for for providing access and maintaining mail delivery to all AB budding properties the work hours are generally limited to 7 to 7 Monday through Friday if there's any work on Saturday it's 9 to5 and there will be site representatives from the city and from the consulting firm that is managing the project on site if you need to reach [10:52] Brian Bachmeier: anybody uh there will be contact information that will be provided to you you can also uh there'll be weekly updates that'll be mailed out or linked to a City website giving you weekly updates that concludes the second part of our PowerPoint presentation and that was the construction elements now we'll move into the actual process related to this project the first step is to conduct a neighborhood meeting and this PowerPoint presentation is fulfilling that objective that will be made available on November 8th after that is completed a report will be prepared and presented to the Council on December 8th that is termed a feasibility report that'll [11:38] Brian Bachmeier: review the schedule and cost estimate for Council consideration if the council accepts the report they will call for the public Improvement hearing and assessment hearing which will be held on January 28th of 2025 the affected Property Owners will be invited to that meeting and they will have an opportunity to testify before the counc Council in regards to the proposed improvements and proposed assessments if the council then orders the project they will authorize the preparation of plans and the collection of bids which will occur in March a contract will be awarded in April and the contractor will be allowed to start construction in May and the project will take until September of 2025 to complete [12:27] Brian Bachmeier: generally the contractor will break the project into certain phases to minimize the disruption to the neighborhood and minimize the inconvenience uh we do have language in our contracts that generally keep the the window of construction to 28 days from when they remove the pavement to when they uh pave the first layer of black top and that concludes the third part of our PowerPoint presentation regarding the process now we'll move into the fourth and final part of our PowerPoint presentation regarding policies and that's really in regards to how the project will be financed the estimated cost of this project is a little over [13:14] Brian Bachmeier: 7.2 million the city will be financing 81% of the total project or a little more than 5.9 million uh the balance of the project will be financed with special assessments to the property owners and what that represents is the cost to remove and replace the pavement in curban Gutter and select areas on a minimum standard Street based on 2005 construction dollars uh that assessment rate is then applied to the minimum lot Frontage of the each parcel and it's a unit amount based on the minimum lot Frontage up to 80 feet based on zoning district for the residential areas of this project the city is held to a high standard and that [13:59] Brian Bachmeier: the assessments cannot exceed the increase in market value to the property what are special assessments special assessments are defined as a loan that is recorded against the property and spread over a 10-year period the interest rate is 2% above the rate the city pays on a bond sale with interest acur starting in October of 2025 the property owners can prepay without interest up until until that point October of 2025 if the property owner prefers they can make partial prepayments we prefer that they be in minimum $500 increments the first installment uh in the absence of any prepayments or payment of the assessment will be collected with the [14:46] Brian Bachmeier: property taxes starting in May of 2026 the property owners do have the ability to pay the remaining balance at any time if this creates a financial hardship uh for any Property Owners there is a discrete deferral process that can be evaluated by our finance Director people typically ask why am I being assessed for project improvements when I pay property taxes and the answer to that is property taxes go to paying services that the city provides such as police fire and maintenance of public facilities as mentioned earlier if the assessment creates a financial hardship there is a deferral that can be applied [15:33] Brian Bachmeier: for and that's an application through the finance director generally the property is required to be Homestead status uh there are three criteria the property owner can be 65 years or older or retired by disability or some financial hardship uh the deferrals do continue to Bear interest and the deferrals are terminated upon the sale of the property a change in the homes said status or if the council resends the hardship that concludes the PowerPoint presentation I want to thank you for watching and if you have any questions feel free to reach out to myself Brian bachmeier uh the Consulting city engineer for the city of Oakdale at my email address noted Below have a great day