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THE TIME IS NOW 6:00 PM[1. Call to Order.]
THE MEETING OF THE LEAN PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION WILL NOW COME TO ORDER.LET THE RECORD SHOW THAT ALL COMMISSIONERS ARE PRESENT.
[3. Director's report to the Planning & Zoning Commission on action taken by City Council on the September 19, 2024 meeting.]
IS THE DIRECTOR'S REPORT.I'M REPORTING ON, UM, ACTION TAKEN BY THE CITY COUNCIL.
BASED ON THE RECOMMENDATION FROM THE COMMISSION.
UM, THE COUNCIL DID REVIEW THE PARKLAND DEDICATION ORDINANCE AND APPROVED IT.
UM, THEY ALSO COMPLETED THE FIRST READING AND PUBLIC HEARING FOR NORTH TIME NORTHLINE RETAIL.
THEY APPROVED THAT AND THEY ADDED A CONDITION THAT, UM, THEY PROVIDE SIDEWALK CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN NORTHLINE AND, UM, THE RETAIL SITE.
THE FINAL THING THEY HAD ON THEIR AGENDA WAS THE SIMPSON TRACK DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL.
I'M NOT SURE IF THE COMMISSION'S FAMILIAR, BUT THEY HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT PROPOSED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENTS BEFORE THEY'RE ACTUALLY SUBMITTED AND GO THROUGH A PROCESS TO KIND LET THEM KNOW IF THEY SUPPORT 'EM OR NOT.
THIS IS AT JOURNEY PARKWAY AND CR 1 75.
AND, UM, THERE'S AN EXISTING OR UNDER CONSTRUCTION NEIGHBORHOOD ON THIS EXHIBIT.
IT'S TO THE, UM, TOP OF THE EXHIBIT, WHICH WOULD BE WEST.
UM, THERE'S A, A NEIGHBORHOOD THAT'S UNDER CONSTRUCTION, AND THEY'RE LOOKING TO, UM, EXPAND IT, UH, TOWARDS 1 75.
AND THERE'S AN EXISTING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER AT THAT LOCATION.
UM, SO THE, THE COUNCIL EVALUATED THEIR PROPOSAL AND, UH, THEY CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THEY WOULD NOT SUPPORT A PETITION TO CHANGE IT TO A NEIGHBORHOOD RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT.
'CAUSE IT'S, UM, THE LAST OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE COMMERCIAL IN THAT AREA FOR ALL OF THOSE RESIDENTIAL UNITS.
UM, I BELIEVE THERE'S A TIMEFRAME THAT THE APPLICANT HAS TO WAIT BEFORE THEY COULD ACTUALLY SUBMIT AN AMENDMENT REQUEST.
UM, BUT IT'S POSSIBLE THEY MIGHT COME FORWARD WITH SOMETHING FOR THE COMMISSION.
UM, IF THEY CHOOSE TO DEVELOP A COMMERCIAL ON THE CO, IT'LL JUST BE A ZONING CASE.
UM, BUT WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
AND I'D LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR NOTIFYING US ABOUT THAT WORKSHOP ON NORTHLINE.
UH, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE WAS THERE.
I COULDN'T SEE WHO WAS IN THE AUDIENCE.
I WAS LIVE STREAMING, BUT, UM, I, I URGE EVERYONE TO GO ONLINE AND, AND WATCH THAT IF YOU HAVEN'T, SO THAT YOU'LL, YOU KNOW, WE HAD ASKED FOR MORE INFORMATION AND IT WAS VERY HELPFUL TO US.
[4. Review of meeting protocol.]
NUMBER FOUR, UH, IS OUR REVIEW OF MEETING PROTOCOL.ON MY LEFT ON THE WALL IS HOW WE CONDUCT OUR MEETINGS, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT.
NUMBER FIVE IS PUBLIC COMMENTS FOR ITEMS NOT ON TONIGHT'S AGENDA.
IS THERE ANYONE THAT WISHES TO MAKE A COMMENT TONIGHT? SEEING NONE, WE'LL
[ CONSENT AGENDA: ACTION]
MOVE ON TO THE CONSENT AGENDA.ITEM NUMBER SIX, MOTION TO APPROVE.
MOTION TO APPROVE BY COMMISSIONER MAY 2ND.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PASS THIS UNANIMOUSLY.
[7. Conduct a Public Hearing and consider action regarding Comprehensive Plan Case CPA-24-0012 to amend the Transportation Master Plan as set forth in the Comprehensive Plan, Leander, Williamson and Travis Counties, Texas.
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ITEM SEVEN, CONDUCT A PUBLIC HEARING AND CONSIDER ACTION REGARDING COMPREHENSIVE PLAN CASE CPA DASH 24 DASH ZERO TWO TO AMEND THE TRANSPORTATION MASTER PLAN AS SET FORTH IN THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN STAFF PRESENTATION.
I'M A ARY ENGINEER, CITY OF LEANDER.
UM, SO THIS, UH, THIS ZENDA IS FOR, UH, UPDATES TO OUR EXISTING TRANSPORTATION MASTER PLAN.
UH, SO WE ARE RECOMMENDING FOUR, UH, CHANGES TO FOUR OF OUR, UH, EXISTING THOROUGH AIR PLAN.
AND THESE ARE, UH, NOT ENTIRE CHANGES TO ENTIRE ROADWAY NETWORK, BUT ARE SMALLER SECTIONS THAT ARE GETTING, GETTING CHANGED.
UM, FOUR OF THEM ARE, UM, COUNTY ROAD 1 75.
THERE'S A LITTLE REAL REALIGN MALL GETTING INTO THE DETAIL OF THOSE INDIVIDUALLY.
THERE'S A LITTLE CHANGE IN THE REAR WAY ALIGNMENT.
UM, AND THERE'S SOME COLLECTOR ROADS AROUND THE PROPOSED, UH, HOME DEPOT SITE.
SO, UH, FOR, UH, COUNTY ROAD 1 75, UH, AS YOU CAN SEE, UM, UH, THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANGE IN THE ALIGNMENT, UM, WHERE THE 1 75 IS GONNA, I DUNNO HOW WE DO THIS, UM, HERE.
SO WHERE THE PURPLE AREA WHERE IT WAS, THIS WAS THE EXISTING ALIGNMENT FOR 1 75, WHICH IS GETTING MOVED TOWARDS THE HERO WAY, UM, WHICH WILL BECOME A ACCESS CONTROLLED HIGHWAY.
AND, UH, THIS PROJECT, THE HEAT WAVE PROJECT, IS UNDER DESIGN BY THE COUNTY AS OF RIGHT NOW.
UM, SO THIS WAS COUNTY'S PLAN, UH, TO HAVE INTERSECTION OVER HERE.
THERE'S SOME CONFLICTS WITH THE, WITH THE OVERPASS, UH, WHICH, UH, REQUIRED THEM TO
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MOVE THE INTERSECTION FROM WHERE IT COULD HAVE BEEN ORIGINALLY TO THIS LOCATION HERE.SO THAT'S WHAT THE CHANGE WILL BE, UH, WHICH MAKES, UH, US TO MAKE THIS CHANGE RIGHT HERE IS TO KIND OF BRING THE EXISTING 20 TO 43 RM 20 TO 43 TO CONNECT, TO BE CONNECTED TO THE FUTURE HERO WAY THROUGH A, UH, CONTROLLER SECTION.
SO THIS PIECE RIGHT HERE, WHERE IT GOES FROM EXISTING, UH, RM 20 TO 43 TO, UH, 1 75, THAT IS GETTING, UH, THAT'S THE NEW PIECE.
AND, UH, WE'RE REMOVING THIS PIECE FROM ARTERIAL ROAD AND CHANGING IT TO A COLLECTOR ROAD BECAUSE, UH, AT THE END OF THE HEAT AWAY PROJECT, UH, THIS WILL BECOME A DEAD END AS FOR PER COUNTY PLAN.
SO, AND, UH, THE COUNTIES, UH, FROM UPDATES FROM COUNTIES, UH, THAT, UM, BASED ON THEIR, UH, SCHEDULE THAT WAS PROVIDED TO US, THEY'RE AT THE PRELIMINARY S SCHEMATICS STAGE, UH, FOR 1 75.
THEIR FINAL WILL BE, UH, AROUND LATE 2025.
AND, UH, THEY'RE PLANNING FOR, UH, CONSTRUCTION FOR 1 75 AT AROUND, UH, SUMMER OF 2026.
MOVING ON, UH, WE HAVE RIGHT AWAY, UM, THE PERSON THAT WAS REVISITED WAS THE CROSSING ACROSS, UH, THE BRUSSE CREEK IS RIGHT HERE.
AND THEN WE HAVE OUR, UH, OLD RM 2243, WHICH IS, UH, IN A FADED PURPLE COLOR HERE.
SO THE YELLOW IS THE, THE PROPOSED CHANGE.
THE EXISTING THOROUGHFARE SHOWED IT AT THIS LOCATION.
THE COMPLICATION WITH THAT, UM, FROM A ROADWAY, SPECIFICALLY FROM A ROADWAY DESIGN POINT OF VIEW, WAS THAT THE INTERSECTION WAS GONNA BE SKEWED, UH, WHICH, UH, UH, IT'S NOT RECOMMENDED FOR TO BE, HAVE TO BE, TO HAVE THAT IN AN INTERSECTION.
SO WHENEVER THE TEMPORARY, UH, TRANSPORTATION MASTER PLAN WAS PUT TOGETHER, UH, IT WAS PUT TOGETHER WITH A CONCEPT THAT THIS IS GONNA BE A PLANNING LEVEL IDEA WHERE THE RIGHT OF WAY COULD BE PUT IN.
SO AT THIS STAGE, WHEN WE HAVE DEVELOPMENTS HAPPENING AROUND THAT AREA, WE NEEDED TO KIND OF HAVE, HAVE A BETTER LOOK AT THE ACTUAL RIGHT OF WAY THAT'S GONNA BE NEEDED IN THE FUTURE.
BECAUSE ONCE THE DEVELOPMENT HAPPENS, THERE IS VERY LIMITED CHANCES TO ACQUIRE THOSE RIGHT OF WAYS FOR, UH, FOR OUR ROAD, UH, FOR THE RIGHTAWAY ROAD.
SO, SIMILAR CONCEPT THAT, UH, COUNTIES AND TECH DOT FOLLOW WHEN THEY DO THEIR SCHEMATICS, UH, DESIGN, AND THEN THEY ACQUIRE RIGHT OF WAY AFTER THAT, AND THEN THEY DO THE FINAL DESIGN.
SO WE WENT AHEAD AND DID A, UH, ALIGNMENT STUDY.
WE HAD, UH, ONE OF OUR PRE-QUALIFIED CONSULTANTS TO MAKE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS ON WHAT THE ACTUAL, UM, ALIGNMENT FOR THE PROPOSED RATE AWAY COULD BE.
AND THERE WERE SOME, UH, LIMITATIONS, SITE LIMITATIONS, LIKE THE, THERE WAS AN EXISTING, THERE'S AN EXISTING ROAD ON RIGHT AWAY, WHICH, WHICH IS HERE, WHICH IS GETTING BUILT RIGHT NOW.
THAT EXTENDS A LITTLE BIT FURTHER.
ANOTHER LIMIT IS THAT, UM, COUNTY, UH, IS PROPOSING A INTERSECTION FOR RIGHTAWAY, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, WHERE IT, WE ALREADY HAD IN OUR MASTER PLAN.
THE, THE INTERSECTION HAS TO BE, UH, ON ONE A 2043, BUT THERE WAS ALSO A, THERE'S ALSO A CREEK THAT WE NEED TO CROSS, SO THERE WOULD BE A BRIDGE, UH, SOUTH FROM THAT INTERSECTION.
SO THAT CAUSES A LOT OF, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, NEED FOR US TO LOOK AT THIS A LITTLE BIT BETTER.
SO WE WENT AHEAD AND GOT THAT, UM, UM, ANALYZED.
AND, UM, THE CONSULTANT HAS COME UP WITH A RECOMMENDATION, WHICH WE AGREE WITH.
SO, SO THE, THE RECOMMENDATION THAT THE STAFF IS MAKING IS TO, IS TO, UM, UH, CHANGE THE EXISTING ALIGNMENT TO THIS, UH, NEW ALIGNMENT HERE.
UH, THE NEXT ONE IS COUNTY ROAD 2 67.
THIS ONE IS LOCATED, UM, NORTH FROM THE SAN GABRIEL RIVER.
THIS WAS ORIGINALLY PROPOSED AS THOROUGHFARE, BUT, UH, UM, YOU KNOW, PRACTICALLY THIS ROAD, UH, DOES NOT LEAD TO ANY, UM, SERVICE FOR OUR, UH, CITIZENS AS A, AS A COLLECTOR ROAD.
AND WE ONLY INCLUDE THE, YOU KNOW, WITHIN OUR THOROUGHFARE, WE ONLY INCLUDE UP TO OUR COLLECTOR ROAD CLASS.
WE DON'T GO BELOW THE, BELOW THE COLLECTOR CLASS, UH, ROAD.
AND, UH, SO WE RECOMMEND TO REMOVE THAT FROM OUR
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THOROUGH AIR PLAN AS A COLLECTOR ROAD.'CAUSE IT DOESN'T GO ANYWHERE, GOES TO THE RIVER.
SO THAT WAS A, A RECOMMENDATION WE WERE MAKING.
UM, THAT LAST ONE IS, UH, BASICALLY IT'S, UH, KIND OF LIKE THE SAME, BUT THE LOCATION OF WHERE THE COLLECTOR ROAD WAS ORIGINALLY IS GETTING MOVED TO A NEW LOCATION BASED ON THE PROPOSED, UH, HOME DEPOT SITE, WHICH IS, WHICH IS OVER HERE.
SO, AND THAT WILL FACILITATE THE MOVEMENT OF TRAFFIC AROUND THE, THE HOME DEPOT AREA AND THE COMMERCIALS AROUND HERE.
SO THOSE ARE THE FOUR CHANGES.
SO I'M HERE FOR ANY QUESTIONS FROM YOU.
THANK, I THINK REAL QUICK, UM, THERE WAS ONE THAT WAS IN THE PACKET THAT'S BEEN REMOVED, CORRECT.
UM, SO IN YOUR PACKET THERE'S REFERENCE TO HERITAGE GROVE ROAD AND WE'RE WORKING WITH THE DEVELOPER ON THE ALIGNMENT.
SO YOU'LL PROBABLY SEE THAT AT A LATER DATE.
AT THIS TIME WE WILL OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING.
DOES ANYONE WANT TO SPEAK ON THIS ISSUE? I HAD ONE CARD THAT WAS OPTIONAL.
WE WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND ENTER DISCUSSION.
COMMISSIONER COSGROVE? I'M GOOD.
COMMISSIONER OLIVER, QUESTION FOR YOU, UM, ON THE RIGHT OF WAY PROJECT, UH, YOU TALK ABOUT GOING OVER THE CREEK AND, UM, IS THAT, OBVIOUSLY YOU HAVE TO GO OVER CREEK, IS THAT GONNA BE AN ELEVATED OVER 2243, OR IS THAT GONNA BE AN INTERSECTION WITH CONTROLLED, SO A CONTROLLED INTERSECTION, I SHOULD SAY? SO AT THIS STAGE, UH, WE ARE AT S SCHEMATICS STAGE.
THE, THE DESIGN IS TO DO AN ACTUAL AT GRADE INTERSECTION RATHER THAN DOING AN OVERPASS TYPE OF INTERSECTION.
AND THIS IS A COLLECTOR ROAD GOING INTO AN ARTERIAL ROAD, SO IT'S NOT AN ARTERIAL TO ARTERIAL ROAD.
SO OUR RECOMMENDATION IS TO KEEP IT AT AT GRADE.
UH, KEEP THAT BRIDGE AS LOW AS POSSIBLE.
I HAVE ONE QUESTION JUST TO CLARIFICATION ON 1 75.
SO IT SHOWS, I SAY, SO IT'S, IT'S CONNECTING THE, THE BOULDER, UH, DASHED LINE IS WHERE IT'S GOING TO CONNECT.
IT'S NOT GOING TO CONNECT AT BOTH PLACES, RIGHT? SO YES, YOU'RE CORRECT.
SO THE CONNECTION TO, SO THE CONNECTION TO THE, UM, THE FREEWAY, IF YOU WANNA CALL IT THAT, EVENTUALLY WE'LL BE AT THAT BOULDER LOCATION.
THEY DON'T RECOMMEND TO CONNECT EVENTUALLY, ALTHOUGH THEY, THEY HAVE A PHASE ONE OF THIS, UM, THIS HIGHWAY, WHICH WILL HAVE A ACCESS, TEMPORARY ACCESS UNTIL THE FREEWAY IS COMPLETED EVENTUALLY.
AND THIS ACCESS IS GONNA BE CURTAILED, UH, AS FOR COUNTY'S PLAN.
AND THIS WILL BE THE FULL FLEDGED INTERSECTION, UH, THE ONE FOR US.
THE ONE, THE ONE THAT'S CONNECTING TO HERO WAY OR THE ONE THAT'S CONNECTING TO 2243.
THE ONE, THE ONE THAT IS CONNECTING TO HERO WAY.
UH, ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? OKAY, THIS IS AN ACTION ITEM.
MOTION TO APPROVE BY COMMISSIONER KLUM.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.
[8. Conduct a Public Hearing and consider action regarding Comprehensive Plan Case CPA-24-0013 to update the Wastewater Master Plan; Leander, Williamson and Travis Counties, Texas.
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UH, WE JUST HAD TWO
UH, THIS ONE, UH, IS, UH, UH, AN UPDATE TO OUR, UH, EXISTING WASTEWATER MASTER PLAN.
UH, THIS WAS A BIGGER STUDY THAT WE DID, UM, UH, TO REEVALUATE OR OR EVALUATE THE EXISTING, UH, WASTEWATER COLLECTION SYSTEM.
UH, AND, UM, AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS ON, UH, BASED ON THE FUTURE GROWTH, UH, FOR LIKE, WHAT THE, UH, SIZES OF THE, UH, THE COLLECTION SYSTEM WILL HAVE TO BE.
BY, WHAT I MEAN BY COLLECTION SYSTEM IS THE, ALL THE PIPES, ALL THE GRAVITY PIPES FOR THE WASTEWATER LINE AND THE LIFT STATION AND ALL THOSE FACILITIES THAT COME WITH IT, LIKE FORCE MATS AND STUFF.
UM, SO I'M GONNA GO THROUGH, UM, SOME BACKGROUND, UH, FOR THIS.
UM, I'LL TALK ABOUT HOW WE COLLECTED THE DATA
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IN GENERAL AND HOW WE APPROACHED THE ENGINEERING DESIGN AND WHAT ARE THE RESULTS THAT CAME OUT OF THIS THAT, UH, THAT'S, UH, THAT'S IN THE REPORT AS WELL.SO, SO THE BASIC BACKGROUND IS OUR EXISTING WASTEWATER MASTER PLAN STUDY WAS DONE IN 2017.
SO WE'RE WHERE USUALLY WE, UM, WE HAVE A REQUIREMENT TO MAKE AN UPDATE EVERY FIVE YEAR.
SO WE WENT AHEAD AND STARTED THAT.
UM, AND WE EVENTUALLY COMPLETED, UH, YOU KNOW, IN LAST YEAR.
SO WE EVENTUALLY COMPLETED THAT, THAT STUDY.
UM, SO, AND THE STUDY IS BASICALLY, UH, FOR THE PLANNING HORIZON, UM, WE HAD TO TAKE A SNAPSHOT OF WHERE, WHERE WE WANNA HAVE OUR STUDY DONE.
SO THE STUDY IS FOR THE 20 YEAR PLANNING HORIZON.
UM, THE UPDATE, OBVIOUSLY, UH, IT INCORPORATES THE NEW NEWER PLANNING STATUSES, NEWER TECHNOLOGIES THAT WE HAVE OUT THERE, UM, FROM WHAT WAS DONE IN 2017.
AND, UH, AND LOOKING AT SOME OF THE WAYS TO LOWER THE OPERATION COST FOR US.
UM, SO THOSE ARE, THERE ARE SOME OF CHANGES THAT WE MADE, UM, FROM THAT ASPECT.
UM, JUST, UH, ONE THING I WOULD LIKE TO, UH, CLARIFY THAT, UH, WE HAVE THREE WATER, UH, BASINS IN LEANER.
UH, WE HAVE SAN GABRIEL WATER BASIN, WE HAVE, UM, BRUSS CREEK WATER BASIN, AND WE ALSO HAVE, UH, LOWER COLORADO RIVER.
UH, WE ONLY LOOKED AT, UH, BRUSSEL CREEK AND SAN GABRIEL.
THE LOWER COLORADO IS WHERE OUR WEST OF OUR TOWN, WHERE WE HAVE, UH, EXISTING WASTEWATER, UH, TREATMENT PLANT, UH, WHERE VESO IS.
SO IT'S GOT ITS OWN, UM, YOU KNOW, PLAN, FUTURE PLAN FOR HOW THE COLLECTION WILL, WILL OCCUR OVER THERE.
SO WE EXCLUDED THAT BASIN FROM THIS STUDY.
SO THAT'S THE, THAT'S THE FYI
THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS HERE, BUT, UM, SO JUST A BASIC IDEA OF LIKE WHAT OUR WASTEWATER SYSTEM LOOKS LIKE, UM, IN LEANDER.
UM, SO ON THE SIDE OF THIS, UH, SLIDE, THE BLUE AREA IS, UH, CITY OF LEANDER, UH, CCN, MEANING THE PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION DECIDES ON, UM, WHAT CITIES, UH, UH, ARE SUPPOSED TO SERVE WHAT AREAS IN THE STATE.
SO WE, LEANDER HAS THAT MUCH OF A AREA WHICH FALLS UNDER THEIR WASTEWATER, UM, YOU KNOW, SERVICE AREA.
UM, OUR CITY LIMITS IS 13, AROUND 39 SQUARE MILES, INCLUDING OUR ETJ ALTOGETHER, IT'S, UH, ABOUT 88 SQUARE MILES.
SO ONCE THE PROPERTIES ARE INCORPORATED, UH, WITHIN CITY THAT ARE IN THE ETJ, WE, WE AUTOMATICALLY BECOME THE SERVICE PROVIDERS FOR THEM OUTSIDE OF WHAT THE PUBLIC DUTY COMMISSION REQUIRES US TO DO.
UM, OUT OF ALL OF THAT, UM, CCN AREA, WE APPROXIMATELY SERVE AT EXISTING CONDITION.
WE SERVE ABOUT 50% OF OUR CCN RIGHT NOW.
WE, OUR EXISTING WASTEWATER SYSTEM.
UM, THERE ARE A FEW PLANTS, UM, THAT WE USE.
UH, ONE IS, UH, THE REGIONAL WASTEWATER PLANT THAT'S OUT THERE IN, UH, BROWN ROCK.
AND PART OF OUR FLOW GOES TOWARDS THE BRUS CREEK REGIONAL SYSTEM.
WE HAVE OUR OWN, UM, WASTEWATER PLANT, WHICH IS RIGHT HERE NEXT TO OUR OFFICE, NEXT TO 20 TO 43 THAT THAT'S, UH, TREATS ABOUT 2.2 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY OF WASTEWATER, UM, SUPPLY.
UM, WE SEND ABOUT, WE SEND ABOUT, UH, 1200.
IT HASN'T GOTTEN UP TO 1200, BUT THE AGREEMENT IS FOR US TO SEND UP TO 1200, UH, CONNECTIONS TO THROUGH LIVELY MUD DISTRICT, WHICH IS A LITTLE BIT FURTHER NORTH EAST OF THE CITY, OUTSIDE OF THE CITY LIMITS LIMITS AT THE EAST.
IT IS A, SO WE HAD THAT AGREEMENT.
WE ALSO HAVE AGREEMENT WITH CITY OF JOHNSTOWN TO SUPPLY 200 LUE LIVING UNIT VALENT, WHICH IS, UH, A UNIT TO MEASURE THE WASTEWATER FLOW.
UM, ONE YEAR UE, BY THE WAY, IS KIND OF LIKE ONE SINGLE FAMILY UNIT.
SO, SO THAT IS GONNA HAPPEN WITH, UH, TSO TREATMENT PLANT.
UM, THAT WAS THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WE HAD WITH JOHNSTOWN.
UH, WE HAVE WITH CITY OF, UH, LIBERTY HILLS, WE HAVE ABOUT 8,100 AGREEMENT THAT, THAT, UM,
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THAT, UH, GOES TO, UH, THROUGH FORCE MANS GOES TO, UH, LIBERTY HILLS WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT OUT THERE.WE HAVE TWO FORCE MENS 10 INCH AND, UH, 18 INCH FORCE MENS.
AND WE HAVE A PUMP STATION ON, UM, CLOSE TO BAR W SUBDIVISION IN BAR W SUBDIVISION THAT PUMPS THAT FLOW NORTH FROM SAN RIVER.
CRYSTAL FALLS WEST, UH, TREATMENT PLANT IS THE TRABI PLANT, IF YOU WANNA CALL IT THAT.
UH, AT PRESENT IT'S ABOUT 0.52 MGS PER DAY CAPACITY.
AND ULTIMATELY, UH, WE HAVE, UH, THE MUD AGREEMENT, UH, TO GO UP TO 0.93 MCD AND ITS OBLIGATION ON THE DEVELOPER TO DO THAT.
UM, SO CAPACITY WISE, ALTOGETHER EXISTING IS ABOUT 8.24 MILLIGANS PER DAY.
UH, THE PROPOSED CONDITION AT THE END OF OUR 20 YEAR PERIOD, UH, WE NEED ABOUT 11.67 MCD MILLIGANS PER DAY.
UH, THIS IS THE, UH, MAP OF WHAT THE EXISTING SYSTEM LOOKS LIKE.
THE DARK RED COLOR IS OUR EXISTING COLLECTION SYSTEM.
UM, YOU CAN'T REALLY READ THE TEXT, BUT IF YOU FOLLOW THE, THE LINES, UH, OUR WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT IS AT THE END OF THE LINE RIGHT HERE.
AND THEN REST OF EVERYTHING ELSE, UM, FLOWS TOWARDS THE REGIONAL PLANT TOWARDS, UH, ROUND ROCK.
AND THEN WE HAVE A SYSTEM NORTH SIDE OF THE RIVER, WHICH WHERE WE COLLECTED, UH, IN OUR LIFT STATION.
AND THERE WAS A FORCE MAN THAT SENDS THE FLOW TO LIBERTY HILLS, UM, DATA COLLECTION.
SO DURING OUR STUDY, WE, UM, WE COLLECTED SOME OF THE IMPORTANT STUFF THAT'S NEEDED FOR THE STUDY, LIKE FUTURE LAND M SOME WERE MADE BASED ON THE LAND USE PATTERN AND OUR FUTURE LAND USE MAP.
WE COLLECTED SOME OF THE, UH, POPULATION ESTIMATES BASED ON THE DATA WE ALREADY HAD FOR OUR CURRENT WA UH, WATER MASTER PLAN, WHICH WAS DONE PRETTY NEW.
UM, WE SURVEYED ABOUT 797 MANHOLES, UH, PHYSICALLY WENT OUT THERE, DID GPS TOOK THE FLOW LINES AND ALL THAT COORDINATES.
UH, WE MADE PROJECTIONS, SO FOR FIVE YEAR, 10 YEAR, 20 YEAR GROWTH AR UH, GROWTH AREAS BASED ON OUR FUTURE LAND USE AND, AND THOSE THINGS, UH, FLOW MONITOR, WE USED, UH, FLOW MONITOR DATA.
WE HAD A FLOW MONITOR STUDY THAT WE DID WHERE WE INSTALLED FLOW MONITORS IN 2022 AROUND SOME OF THE AREAS AROUND, UH, THE CITY.
SO THAT DATA WE GOT, WE GOT THE, UH, GIS DATABASE OBVIOUSLY.
UH, WE GOT THE SCADA DATA, WHICH ALSO MEASURES THE FLOWS IN THE SYSTEM.
SO WE GOT GATHERED ALL THAT INFORMATION TO, TO DO THE STUDY.
THIS IS JUST ONE SIDE, IT'S A LITTLE, UH, LITTLE TOO MUCH, UH, GOING ON OVER THERE.
BUT, UM, SWAN SIDE TALKS ABOUT THE ENGINEERING ANALYSIS.
WE, WHAT WE DID, WE USED, OBVIOUSLY WE USED THE LATEST COMPUTER MODELING TO MODEL OUR EXISTING SYSTEM.
WE, UH, WE CALIBRATED THE MODEL, WHICH IS ONE OF THE VERY IMPORTANT THINGS YOU HAVE TO DO WHEN YOU MODEL, UH, ENGINEERING STUDY.
YOU HAVE TO CALIBRATE THE MODEL BECAUSE THE MODEL IS VERY THEORETICAL.
IT'S BASED ON NUMERICAL, UM, FORMULAS.
SO YOU NEED, YOU NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT YOUR NU YOUR FORMULAS ALIGN WITH THE ACTUAL FIELD MEASUREMENTS.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S THE CALIBRATION.
SO WE USED ABOUT 14 TEMPORARY FLOW MONITOR DATA TO, UH, TO MEASURE ALL THAT DATA AND MAKE SURE THAT WHEN WE MODEL IT, THEY REPRESENT THE SAME THING IN THE MODEL.
UM, WE USED, UH, THE DESIGN STORM OF FIVE YEAR, SIX HOUR STORM, UH, FOR INFLOW AND IMPORTATION AS
AND IT'S, IT'S KIND OF HARD TO AVOID THAT.
UH, SO, AND YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO USE THE FIVE YEAR, SIX HOUR STORM.
UM, THAT'S A TYPICAL PRACTICE.
SO WE USE THAT AND IF YOU WANT TO KIND OF ARE GETTING FEELING A LITTLE NERDY, UH, IT'S KIND OF LIKE, UH, THOUSANDS TO MILLIONTH OF A, OF A RAINFALL BASICALLY.
IT'S NOT, NOT ALL THE RAINFALL GOES TO THE WASTEWATER SYSTEM.
UH, WE LOOKED AT DIFFERENT SCENARIOS, EXTINCT SCENARIOS.
WE LOOKED AT FIVE YEAR, 10 YEAR, AND 20 YEAR TIME HORIZON SCENARIOS TO SEE HOW IS THE, HOW IS IT GONNA FUNCTION? AND WE, UH, IDENTIFIED THE PROJECTS.
WE DID THE COST ESTIMATES FOR THOSE PROJECTS.
SO THE SLIDES OVER HERE, SO WHAT THE FIVE YEAR, SIX HOUR STORMS SUPPOSED TO BE.
AND, UH, IF YOU GET ABOUT FOUR INCHES
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OF RAIN FOR IN SIX HOURS, THAT'S FIVE OR SIX HOURS FROM, UM, THIS IS HOW THE CALIBRATION WORKS.SO YOU GOTTA MAKE SURE THAT WHAT YOU GOT FROM YOUR STUDY, UH, FLOW MONITOR ALIGNS PRETTY CLOSE TO WHAT THE MODEL SHOWS.
UM, THESE ARE THE FLOW MONITOR LOCATIONS OF THE FLOW MONITOR, UH, RESULTS.
UM, WE LOOKED AT THE EXISTING CONDITION AND, AND THE WAY WE INTERPRET THE RESULTS IS, UM, YOU LOOK AT TWO THINGS.
YOU LOOK AT THE
SO
AND THAT'S THE EARLY INDICATION THAT YOUR WASTEWATER PIPES ARE SMALLER AND YOU'RE SENDING TOO MUCH FLOW INTO THE SYSTEM.
BUT IT'S NOT A ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD ANYMORE WHEN IT'S FLOOD, WHEN IT FLOODS AND FLOODING MEANS WHEN THE MANHOLE IS ACTUALLY OVERFLOWING.
SO IN THAT CASE, YOU KNOW, IT BECOMES AN ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD, IT BECOMES A HEALTH HAZARD, UH, FOR THE CITY.
UH, AND IT USUALLY OCCURS AROUND THE HIGHEST, UH, RAINFALL EVENTS, UH, WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU ARE CATCHING A LOT OF FLOW FROM, UH, IN INFO INFLOW AND INFILTRATION.
SO, UM, SO BASED ON THAT, UH, WE LOOKED AT THE EXISTING CONDITION.
WE SAW TWO INTERCEPTORS THAT WERE FLOODING, SO AT THE FIVE YEAR, SIX HOUR STORM, RIGHT? IT'S NOT FLOODING RIGHT NOW, OBVIOUSLY IT'S FLOODING WHEN WE GET TO THAT INTENSITY OF A RAINFALL.
AND WE HAVEN'T HAD THAT RAINFALL SINCE, UH, THAT INTENSITY RAINFALL SINCE, UH, I THINK LAST TIME WAS AROUND 2015.
SO, AND THEN BEFORE THAT IT WAS AROUND 2010 OR 11.
AND THEN THAT BEFORE, THAT WAS 19 SOMETHING LONG TIME AGO.
SO YOU DON'T GET THAT INTENSITY OF RAINFALL WHEN IT DOES.
YOU'RE GONNA GET, THE MODEL SHOWS THAT YOU'RE GONNA GET FLOODING ON THESE TWO INTERCEPTORS IF WE DON'T IMPROVE THEM OR IF WE, IF IT DOESN'T RAIN, THEN THAT'S NOT GONNA FLOOD.
SO BASED ON THAT, UM, WE, UM, RECOMMEND TWO PROJECTS FOR EXISTING, UH, INTERCEPTORS.
ONE IS THE, UM, SO THIS IS THE BLOCKHOUSE CREEK INTERCEPTOR, UH, AND THAT'S MY, UH, THAT'S THE MASON CREEK, UH, INTERCEPTOR.
AND, UH, THE BLOCKHOUSE CREEK IS KIND OF LIKE ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE CITY CLOSER TO CEDAR PARK.
AND, UH, THIS, UH, MASON CREEK IS OBVIOUSLY WHERE THE MASON CREEK IS RIGHT NOW.
UM, THERE'S A COST ESTIMATE OF WHAT THE PLANNING LEVEL COST, ESTIMATE HOW MUCH IT'S GONNA, IT'S, IT'S, IT'LL TAKE TO KIND OF RECONSTRUCT THAT.
AND THAT'S A RECOMMENDATION THAT IS BEEN MADE.
IT'S NOT AN ACTUAL PROJECT THERE, IT'S, IT'S JUST A RECOMMENDATION.
UM, THERE IS FIVE YEAR RESULTS.
WE, UM, WE ARE RECOMMENDING UP SIZING SOME OF THE, SOME OF THE INTERCEPTORS ON HORIZON LAKE AREA.
WE HAVE SOME, UM, SOME UPSIZING OVER THERE FOR FIVE YEAR PAY PROJECTS.
WE DON'T HAVE A WHOLE LOT GOING ON FOR 10 YEAR HORIZON PROJECTS.
UM, WE HAVE, UH, BENBROOK, UH, INTERCEPTOR, WHICH IS, UH, CLOSE TO THE COLLABORATIVE AREA, COLLABORATIVE WAY, UH, NEXT TO THE, UH, GLEN SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL.
UM, WE HAVE AN INTERCEPTOR ALONG, ALONG BAGHDAD.
UM, SORRY, UH, I, UH, I APOLOGIZE.
I, I, UH, BUT BENBROOK IS ACTUALLY ON BENBROOK PARK.
SO, WHICH IS, WHICH IS THIS ONE HERE THAT IS UNDER DESIGN RIGHT NOW? UH, WE HAVE A DESIGN CONSULT AND WORKING ON THE DESIGN OF THAT RECEPTOR, UH, WE HAVEN'T REALLY LINED UP THE FUNDING FOR IT.
SO IT'S, IT'S UNDER THE, UH, AROUND 60% DESIGN RIGHT NOW.
UM, WE HAVE, UH, NORTH S AND SAN GABRIEL WASTE AREA, WHICH IS THIS BIG ONE RIGHT HERE.
UH, WHERE WE ARE DECOMMISSIONING, WE ARE RECOMMENDING DECOMMISSION THREE OLD LIFT STATIONS, WHICH IS THE OPERATION COST SAVING THAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT.
SO WE'LL GET RID OF THREE OLD LIFT STATIONS AND WE'LL ADD TWO MORE, BUT ADDING TWO MORE IS GONNA SOLVE BIGGER AREA THAN WHAT THREE WAS DOING BACK THEN.
SO MORE AREA, LESS COST, UH, AND, UH, WE HAVE MORE INTERCEPTORS, WHICH WILL BE GRAVITY LINES.
IT'S LESS COST TO MAINTAIN THOSE LINES.
THERE WILL BE FORCE MANS BECAUSE THERE WILL BE LIFT STATIONS.
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THERE IS DIVINE LAKE INTERCEPTORS, WHICH IS CLOSE TO DIVINE LAKE AREA RIGHT HERE.CIRCLE IN RAID WE HAVE SAN, SO, UH, SOUTH BRUS INTERCEPTORS, WHICH, UH, WHICH IS THIS ONE, THIS AREA WE GOT, WE HAVE, UH, SAN GABRIEL, EAST AND WEST LIFT STATION.
SO THE LIFT STATIONS ARE GONNA BE ON SAN GABRIEL RIVER, WHERE WE'LL COLLECT SOME OF THE FLOWS.
WE'LL, WE'LL BUILD A INTERCEPTOR ALONG THE RIVER TO COLLECT THE FLOWS, AND THAT'S GONNA GET PUMPED INTO OUR WASTEWATER SYSTEM.
UH, AND THERE'S SOME OTHER SMALLER INTERCEPTORS AROUND THE CITY.
SO ALTOGETHER FOR A 10 YEAR, UH, HORIZON, UH, THE CAPITAL COST THAT IS ESTIMATED IS GONNA BE AROUND $98.9 MILLION FOR ALL THESE PROJECTS.
SO THE LAST ONE IS THE 20 YEAR, UH, PROJECTS.
UH, SOME OF THE MAJOR PROJECTS HAVE LISTED HERE, UM, WHICH IS CONTINUATION OF THAT 10 YEAR PROJECT.
SO BASICALLY YOU HAVE A, A COLORADO BASIN LIFT STATION, WHICH IS FAR NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE CITY WHERE, YOU KNOW, WE, UM, WHERE THE FLOWS IS ACTUALLY TOWARDS THE COLORADO RIVER.
SO YOUR, UH, THE RECOMMENDATION IS TO BUILD ONE LIFT SYSTEM ON THE DOWNSTREAM OF IT AND PUMP THE FLOW INTO OUR WASTEWATER SYSTEM.
AND THEN WE HAVE, UM, SAN GABRIEL AREA HAS SOME INTERCEPTORS.
THIS IS, THIS IS, SORRY, THIS IS SAN GABRIEL.
THIS IS ANOTHER INTERCEPTOR, UH, AROUND THERE.
AND THEN WE HAVE SOME OF THOSE LAKE, UH, ON LAKE LINE OVER HERE.
THE, THERE IS SOME EXPANSION OF THE LIFT STATION THAT IS GOING TO BE BUILT IN 10 YEAR HORIZON, UH, TO JUST TO, YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE WE DON'T HAVE TO BUILD ONE, A BIG ONE RIGHT NOW IF THAT'S NOT GONNA GET USED.
SO IN THE COMING FORTHCOMING 20, THE 20 YEAR HORIZON, YOU, THE PLAN IS TO EXPAND THAT LIFT SEASON, WHICH WOULD EXIST IN THE 10, THAT WOULD BE BUILT IN THE 10 YEAR HORIZON.
SO ALTOGETHER FOR 20 YEAR, THE CAPITAL COST ESTIMATE IS AROUND, UH, ONE, ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY ONE $0.6 MILLION.
UH, YOU DON'T HAVE TO SEE THIS.
THIS IS THE LIST OF ALL THE
UH, THERE'S A FEW MORE THAT I DIDN'T TALK ABOUT THAT ARE MINOR AS WELL.
THERE'S SOME LESSONS LEARNED THAT I THREW OUT, UH, SKIN CASE, IF YOU'RE INTERESTED TO KNOW.
UM, YOU KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, THE, WHEN WE WERE DOING THE STUDIES, YOU KNOW, UH, WE RAN INTO THE ISSUES LIKE COLLECT, YOU KNOW, WE, THERE WERE SOME MANHOLES THAT WERE INACCESSIBLE 'CAUSE THAT'S HOW IT WAS PRETTY, WE COULDN'T GET EQUIPMENTS TO GO OUT THERE.
SO PREPARE SOME CONTINGENCY PLANS, UM, MAINTAINING A ROBUST, UH, ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, WHICH WE DON'T HAVE UNFORTUNATELY.
AND MAYBE WE NEED TO START THINKING ABOUT THAT.
UH, THAT, UM, HAVING THAT FOR OUR WASTEWATER COLLECTION SYSTEM, IT, IT'S, UH, KIND LIKE AN INVESTMENT, BUT IT PAYS OFF WHEN YOU HAVE A ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WHERE YOU KNOW WHERE THINGS ARE AND UH, YOU KNOW, THE CONDITIONS OF WHERE THINGS ARE.
WE KNOW, WE KNOW WHERE THINGS ARE NOW, BUT IT'S GOOD TO HAVE THE CONDITIONS OF WHERE, WHAT THEY ARE AT, AT ANY GIVEN TIME.
YOU KNOW, IF YOU WORK BETTER ON THE CALIBRATION OF THE MODEL, YOU'LL GET BETTER RESULTS.
UM, WE, UM, WHEN WE DID THE CALIBRATION WITH THE DATA WE GOT, WE HAD TWO YEARS.
IF YOU, UM, TWO YEARS WORTH OF DATA, IF YOU WANNA COLLECT MORE, YOU'RE GONNA GET BETTER RESULTS.
AND, UM, AND THE COST AND COST BENEFIT OF, YOU KNOW, MAINTAINING A LIVE MODEL THROUGHOUT THE TIME VERSUS, YOU KNOW, COMING BACK AGAIN IN THE NEXT FIVE YEAR, COMING BACK AGAIN AND, UM, GOING BACK AND REDOING THE WHOLE MODEL VERSUS, YOU KNOW, KEEPING THAT SAME MODEL, UH, LIVE AND MAKING LIVE UPDATES.
THOSE ARE THE TYPE OF, UH, LESSONS LEARNED THAT WE GOT FROM THE STUDY THAT WAS HELPFUL TO, TO, TO UNDERSTAND.
UM, TOOK A LITTLE EXTRA TIME, BUT, UM, I'M HERE FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
AT THIS TIME WE WILL OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING.
IS THERE ANYONE WISHING TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM? SEEING NONE, WE WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND ENTER DISCUSSION STARTING WITH COMMISSIONER KALO.
I REALLY APPRECIATE THE NERDY, UH, EXPLANATIONS AND THE SQUIGGLY LINES AND THE NOMENCLATURE AND THE MODELING AND CALIBRATION.
SERIOUSLY, THE SITTING HERE LOOKING AT THIS, THE, THE ENGINEERING, THE MATH, THE INFRASTRUCTURE, THE PLANNING THAT GOES INTO SOMETHING THAT FOR MOST PEOPLE IS INVISIBLE UNTIL
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IT DOESN'T WORK.UM, OTHER THAN THAT COMMENT, I HAVE NO QUESTIONS OR FURTHER COMMENTS.
UM, SO I READ IN, I WAS READING IN THE REPORT THAT YOU, UM, I MEAN YOU MENTIONED THAT THE RIGHT OF WAY ACQUISITION, YOU, YOU ESTIMATED 88,000 PER ACRE, I BELIEVE.
UM, I, THAT WAS ON, LEMME SEE WHERE I SAW THAT.
THAT WAS IN PAGE, WELL, PAGE 42.
UM, AND IT MENTIONED, YEAH, 88,000 PER ACRE.
AND SO THE TIMELINE OF THESE PROJECTS, YOU HAVE 5, 10, 20 YEARS.
UM, LIKE WHAT, WHAT IS THE ESTIMATED START TIME OF LIKE THE FIVE YEAR PROJECT, 10 YEAR PROJECT, 20 YEAR PROJECTS? 'CAUSE THOSE ARE OBVIOUSLY DESIGNED TO GET US PREPARED FOR THE FUTURE GROWTH, WHICH YOU ESTIMATE AROUND 207,000 BY 2040 SOMETHING, RIGHT? IS THAT 88,000 PER ACRE GONNA BE ENOUGH? THAT'S KIND OF WHAT I'M GETTING AT.
UH, SO OBVIOUSLY THOSE ARE, UH, ESTIMATES OF BASED ON TODAY WHAT WE SEE TODAY.
SO WE'D HAVE TO KIND OF LOOK AT INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS AND WHEN WE PREPARE OUR CIP FUNDS FOR THOSE PROJECTS, WE'D HAVE TO KIND OF DIVE INTO THE ACTUAL COST OF WHEN THE CIP PROJECTS WOULD BE IMPLEMENTED.
AND LOOK AT THE ACTUAL COST THAT IS GONNA HAVE TO, RIGHT.
'CAUSE YOU CALL OUT 20, $24 IN AIR, WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, WE ALSO DID PUT, I MEAN, IT WAS GREAT THAT YOU PUT IN 30% CONTINGENCY FOR CONSTRUCTION COSTS, BUT I'M THINKING LIKE, IF YOU'RE GONNA EXECUTE SOME OF THESE PROJECTS IN 10 OR 15 YEARS FROM NOW, I MEAN, I WOULD THINK CONSTRUCTION COSTS BY THEN, JUST GIVEN THE RATE THINGS ARE TODAY, WOULD BE ALMOST DOUBLE, RIGHT? SO YOU NEED TO, SO EVEN THE 300, WHERE ARE WE AT? WAS IT 200 AND, SORRY, I'M ZOOM IN HERE.
YEAH, IT'S 266, YOU KNOW, MILLION YOU'RE LOOKING TO GET APPROVED FOR THESE PROJECTS BASED ON THE COST.
I MEAN THAT, THAT COULD BE, YOU KNOW, FOUR OR 500 MILLION BY THAT.
SO, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE PLAN SOMETHING LIKE THIS FOR OUR INFRASTRUCTURE, KNOWING THAT, YOU KNOW, IF WE DO GET THAT TYPE OF GROWTH, UM, I MEAN IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE WE ARE SLOWING DOWN ANY, ANY SOON.
SO, UM, IF WE DO GET THAT GROWTH, THEN IT, IT'S VERY IMPERATIVE THAT WE FOLLOW THE PLANS THAT WE PUT TOGETHER AND PUT IN THESE PROJECTS AS THEY'RE, THEY'RE RECOMMENDED YEAH.
SO YEAH, THOSE ARE THE ONLY COMMENTS I HAD.
I DO, I DO THINK YOU CERTAINLY OUGHT TO RECONSIDER.
'CAUSE I, I KNOW LIKE, LIKE MARK, MARK CUMMINS FROM PARKS AND RECREATION HAS USED THE 88,000 PER ACRE AS WELL FOR SOME OF HIS PARK LAND DEDICATION.
UH, FEE ASSESSMENTS AND SUCH FOR ACQUIRING LIKE PARKLAND AS WELL.
SO I SEEM LIKE IT'S, IT'S A VERY POPULAR NUMBER.
AND SO, UH, BUT I JUST FEEL LIKE IN, YOU KNOW, IN FIVE, 10 YEARS THAT THAT, THAT PRICE COULD VERY WELL BE 120 OR 160, YOU KNOW, 176,000, RIGHT? YEAH.
SO, SO WE HAD TO CHOOSE A, A FIGURE TO COME UP WITH A PLANNING LEVEL ESTIMATE AND THAT WAS EXACTLY RIGHT.
SO THAT WAS THE POPULAR NUMBER.
BUT OVERALL GREAT WORK, I MEAN, A LOT OF DETAIL.
SO APPRECIATE THE PRESENTATION.
YOU DID AN EXCELLENT JOB EXPLAINING ALL THE NERDY STUFF.
UM, I GOT A MUCH CLEARER UNDERSTANDING OF WHERE OUR WASTEWATER TREATMENT'S AT, WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO TO IMPROVE IT, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, IT'S A HARD TO FORECAST, UM, YOU KNOW, TO PROJECT HOW MANY PEOPLE WOULD BE HERE.
I MEAN, FOR ALL WE KNOW PEOPLE MAY LEAVE
WE DON'T, WE DON'T HAVE A CLUE DEPENDING ON, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT THE, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE ENVIRONMENT IS AT THE TIME.
BUT, UM, BASED ON, UH, THE NUMBERS THAT YOU HAVE TO USE, WHICH IS WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW, UM, I THINK YOU GUYS DID AN EXCELLENT JOB.
AND AS FAR AS THE COST GO, WE'LL NEVER KNOW HOW MUCH THAT'S GONNA BE IN THE FUTURE.
BUT, UM, BASED ON THE NUMBERS NOW, UH, IT IS REALLY KINDA LOW
I JUST WANNA CHIME IN REAL QUICK.
UM, AND ASH, YOU DID A WONDERFUL JOB.
UM, SO WHEN WE IMPLEMENT, UH, THE PROJECTS, YOU KNOW, THIS IS SORT OF OUR, UH, YOU KNOW, OUR PLANNING PHASE.
AND WHEN THOSE GET PLUGGED INTO THE CIP PROJECT, UM, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER YEAR IT IS.
AND, AND SOME OF THE PRO, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THAT SO THAT WHEN IT ACTUALLY BECOMES A-A-C-I-P PROJECT, IT'LL HAVE A MORE REALISTIC COST ESTIMATE.
WELL, YOU ALL DID AN EXCELLENT JOB.
COMMISSIONER, MAY, THIS IS JUST A QUESTION.
THE, THE ONE, THE ONE THING I'M NOT SEEING IN THERE IS THE PURPLE PIPE PROGRAMS. I'M NOT SURE IF THAT'S TIED IN WITH WASTEWATER OR NOT.
UM, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING I WOULD, WOULD LIKE TO SEE EXPANDED
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IN THE CITY.WE CAN TAKE THAT AS A RECOMMENDATION.
UH, WE, THE PURPOSE OF THIS WAS PURELY FOCUSED ON THE COLLECTION SYSTEM FOR WASTEWATER SO WE COULD GET ALL OF OUR WASTEWATER COLLECTED AND TRANSPORTED TO THE TREATMENT PLANTS TO GET THAT TREATED AND RELEASED FOR, FOR TCQ REQUIREMENTS FOR US.
SO WE COULD TAKE YOUR RECOMMENDATION AND THANK YOU.
THANK YOU COMMISSIONER COSGROVE.
COMMISSIONER MAHAN, UH, DITTO WHAT COMMISSIONER COSGROVE SAID, AND, AND I ALSO THINK YOU DID A GREAT JOB.
I HAVE TWO QUESTIONS AND THEY'RE JUST KIND OF RANDOM, BUT, UM, I NOTICED THAT YOU SAID THAT BARD W IS PRIMARILY IS THE AREA THAT'S PRIMARILY GOING TO LIBERTY HILL TREATMENT PLANT.
ARE THERE ANY PLANS IN THE FUTURE? I DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING IN THE REPORT TO BRING THAT INTO OUR TREATMENT PLANTS.
UH, YEAH, WITH THE, SO THE IDEA WHEN THE 22, UH, LIFT SEASON 25, WHICH IS THE BAR STATION WAS BUILT, WAS TO USE, UH, LIBERTY HILLS AND WE HAVE INTER LOCAL AGREEMENT WITH THEM TO SEND THOSE FLOWS TO THEM.
SO WE HAVEN'T LOOKED AT IS THERE AN END DATE FOR THAT OR THE CONTRACT OR ANYTHING? IT'S JUST, THERE IS, THERE IS NO IN DEBT.
I DON'T THINK THERE IS AN IN DEPTH.
UM, AND WHY DO YOU UM, I DON'T THINK THERE IS.
I MEAN THE WAY THAT THE UH, SYSTEM FLOWS AND THE WAY, YOU KNOW, GRAVITY GOES, IT WOULD BE REALLY HARD FOR US.
WE'D HAVE TO PROBABLY DO OUR OWN WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLAN IN THAT AREA AND WE DON'T REALLY HAVE PLANS TO DO THAT.
SO WE'LL PROBABLY CONTINUE THAT RELATIONSHIP WITH LIBERTY COUNTY.
I JUST KNEW THEY HAD HAD SOME PROBLEMS THERE, UM, FROM TIME TO TIME.
SO I DIDN'T KNOW IF, IF THAT HAD BEEN LOOKED AT.
I MEAN, WE SEND, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE OUR WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, UM, AND THEN WE SEND, UH, WASTEWATER DOWN TO BRUSHY CREEK, YOU KNOW, FOR, FOR THAT TREATMENT.
AND THEN WE SEND SOME UP TO LIBERTY HILL AND JUST THE, YOU KNOW, GRAVITY, THE WAY GRAVITY GOES, IT WOULD BE HARD FOR US TO, UM, TO SEND IT A DIFFERENT DIRECTION OR, OR CREATE ANOTHER TREATMENT PLANT.
SO THAT'S WEST OF REAGAN IS GOING TO, UM, LIBERTY HILL AND EAST OF REAGAN'S GOING TO GEORGETOWN MORE OR LESS KINDA, YEAH, HE CAN
SO, UH, IF YOU LOOK AT THE MAP, THE, THE GREENISH COLOR OVER HERE AND ALL OF THAT IS SAN GABRIEL WATERSHED.
SO EVERYTHING THAT IS ON THE SAN GABRIEL WATERSHED FLOWS TOWARDS THE RIVER.
SO THE FLOW, THE NATURAL FLOW OF WATER IS FROM WEST TO EAST THIS WAY FOR SAN GABRIEL AND TO TAKE THAT WATERSHED AND PUMP IT OVER TO BRUSS CREEK IS, UH, VERY HIGHLY COSTLY TO DO THAT.
ONE, AND UH, AND AS EMILY SAID, YOU'D HAVE TO BUILD ANOTHER LIP UH, TREATMENT PLANT TO CAPTURE ALL OF THAT FLOW AND ENTIRELY BUILD A DIFFERENT COLLECTION SYSTEM FOR THAT, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, FROM A COST BENEFIT POINT OF VIEW.
ALTHOUGH IT, IT IS, UH, UH, AN OPTION FROM A COST POINT OF VIEW THAT WOULD BE EASIER TO SEND IT TO WITH, TO THE LIBERTY HILLS WITH AN EXISTING AGREEMENT, INTER LOCAL AGREEMENT WITH THEM.
UH, MY SECOND QUESTION IS REGARDING, I, I NOTICED THERE WAS A FIGURE IN THERE ON CONVERTING SEPTIC SYSTEM, UM, USERS TO THE RUNS ABOUT 30,000 PER ACRE.
I'M ASSUMING THAT IS PAID BY THE PROPERTY OWNER.
SO IF THERE'S A SUBDIVISION, THERE ARE SOME ONE ACRE SUBDIVISIONS IN THE CITY, IF THERE WERE DO A HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE, UH, SUBDIVISION PEOPLE HAVE TO AGREE TO THAT, UM, TO, TO CONVERT TO THE CITY SEWER.
I MEAN, HOW IS THAT, HOW IS THAT DONE? SO A GOOD EXAMPLE IS, UH, FALCON OAKS PROJECT THAT WE JUST DID RIGHT HERE, WHERE, UM, WE UM, UH, WE UM, WE HAVE THE OPTION FOR THE PROPERTY OWNERS TO CONNECT TO THE COLLECTION SYSTEM THAT, THAT WE BUILT OUT THERE.
UH, WE CAN'T FORCE THEM TO DO THAT BECAUSE THEY ARE ALREADY IN A, UH, UM, YOU KNOW, WITH A, UH, SYSTEM THAT CREATES THE WASTEWATER FOR THEM.
SO THEY'RE MEETING ALL THE STATE, UH, REQUIREMENTS FOR THAT.
IT'S USUALLY, YOU KNOW, IT'S A BETTER TO BETTER VALUE IF TO CONNECT TO THE WASTEWATER SYSTEM BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, YOU GOT, YOU DON'T NEED A ONE ACRE LOT.
BASICALLY YOU CAN, BUT THE WHOLE SUBDIVISION DOESN'T HAVE TO DO IT.
I MEAN, IF THERE'S A NEARBY, UM, LINE, JUST SOME OF LIKE IF HALF THE SUBDIVISION WANTED, THEY COULD DO THAT, THEY COULD DO THAT.
YEAH, I WAS JUST CURIOUS ABOUT THAT BECAUSE I SAW IT IN THE REPORT.
SO THE IDEA IS FOR THEM TO PROVIDE THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, THAT OPTION TO, TO CONNECT TO OUR COLLECTION
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SYSTEM.ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, GUYS? OKAY, THIS IS AN ACTION ITEM.
I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PASS THIS UNANIMOUSLY.
AND THE TIME IS NOW 6 45 AND WE ARE ADJOURNED.