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BUT I DO KNOW ON BEHALF OF THE DIFFERENT COUNTY, CTC, I CAN'T THANK YOU ALL ENOUGH FOR BEING HERE IN THE SECTOR.
UM, I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE RECREATION AND PARKS COMMITTEE.
THEY WERE GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO ALLOW US TO USE THEIR FACILITY TODAY WITHOUT CHARGING US IT.
SO THANKS TO BERNIE AND TOUCH, UM, TO KICK THINGS OFF RATHER THAN, UM, I THINK EVERYBODY NOTICED MOST, EVERYBODY WOULD, RATHER THAN HAVING GOTTEN THAT.
WE'RE GOING TO GO ROUND THE ROOM.
I'M THE CHAIRMAN OF THE CTC TRANSPORTATION DIRECTOR, CONTRACTS MANAGER, DISTRICT TRAFFIC ENGINEER, AND SENIOR GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEER, DISTRICT CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER ENGINEER, GREG , JERRY HARRIS ASSISTANT COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR IS NEAR AGAIN.
AS I SAID, AT OUR LAST CPC MEETING, UM, WE HAD A, KIND OF A PRELIMINARY REVIEW OF THE FINDINGS FOR OUR PQI THAT WE HAD DONE THIS YEAR.
AND, UM, AGAIN, THE COMMITTEE GETS A GREAT DEAL OF CREDIT FROM WHERE WE STARTED AND HOW WE DISCUSSED VERY OPENLY ABOUT WHETHER WE WERE GOING TO DO PAID AND FALL, YOU KNOW, FOR ROSE.
AND IT'S ALL CAME TO PASS AND HAD A FIVE-YEAR PROGRAM.
AND NOW AFTER AN EMMY IS COMPLETED, THEY'RE NOW PRESENT, UH, YEAR SIX THROUGH 11, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, GOING TO GIVE US A STATUS.
JUST INTRODUCE US CRIME WAS THE HEAVY TECHNICAL SIDE OF THIS WHOLE PROJECT.
UM, IF YOU WOULD GO AHEAD THE NEXT ONE.
UM, SO JUST A REAL QUICK FMA IS A SOUTH CAROLINA OWNED BUSINESS.
WE'VE BEEN HERE 40 PLUS YEARS.
WE'VE HAD AN OFFICE IN BEAVER COUNTY FOR MANY YEARS.
IT ALL STARTED, YOU KNOW, WORKING FOR THE COUNTY AND WE'VE REALLY ENJOYED WORKING ON THESE PROJECTS.
UM, AS CHAIRMAN GORDON MENTIONED, WE DID THE FIRST FIVE YEARS, AND THEN WE WERE LUCKY ENOUGH TO GET A CHANCE TO DO THE NEXT FIVE.
SO THAT'S, UM, I THINK MOST OF THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS HAVE THIS BOOKLET UP THERE.
SO THAT'S WHAT THIS BOOKLET IS.
AND YOUR PACKAGE, I JUST A LITTLE BIT OF MORE ABOUT WHAT WE DO.
WE'RE G ATTACK WE'RE PAYMENT ENGINEERS.
WE ALSO DO PHASE ONE PHASE TWO, UM, ENVIRONMENTAL SITE ASSESSMENT TYPE STUFF.
AND THEN RECENTLY WHAT WE'RE VERY PROUD OF AND LOCALLY WE'VE OPENED UP AN HASH TOW ACCREDITED LABORATORY, WHICH MEANS WE COULD DO ALL THE LABORATORY TESTING ON DAT TYPE PROJECTS.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE LOCAL, WE'RE HERE FOR YOU.
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KIND OF SKIP THROUGH THE, GO AHEAD AND SKIP THIS ONE.UM, THIS IS OUR OFFICER IN PORT ROYAL, AND THEN THIS IS BRIAN AND ANDY, WHO YOU ALREADY INTRODUCED YOURSELVES HERE.
THIS IS OUR TEAM HERE LOCALLY.
UM, AND THEN I CAN'T LEAVE OUT OUR PARTNER, MR. MCPHEE AND SAPPY.
THEY WERE A HUGE PART OF THIS DATA COLLECTION AND DATA ANALYSIS PROJECT.
SO THAT WAS THE TEAM WAS FMI AND STEPHIE THAT PULLED THIS TOGETHER FOR YOU GUYS.
SO WE'LL TURN IT OVER TO BRIAN AND HE'S REALLY GOING TO GET INTO THE TECHNICAL SIDE OF WHAT'S IN THIS DOCUMENT, BUT IT'S JUST REALLY, I CAN'T STRESS ENOUGH TO THE COMMITTEE AND THE CHAIRMAN GOLDEN THAT THIS IS GREAT NEWS, RIGHT? WHAT WE WERE ABLE TO IMPLEMENT THE VISION FROM THIS CTC AND FIVE YEARS GOES BY, AND WE'RE ABLE TO MEASURE PROGRESS AND MAP OUT THE NEXT FIVE.
AND I THINK YOU ALL SEE THAT AS BRIAN GOES THROUGH HIS PRESENTATION, UH, THANK YOU CHAIRMAN FOR LESS COME SPEAK TODAY.
SO I KNOW WE'VE HAD SOME NEW FACES JOINING THE COMMITTEE SINCE THE LAST TIME WE GAVE THIS PRESENTATION.
SO WE'LL JUST GO THROUGH JUST A QUICK, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS PAVEMENT PRESERVATION? CAUSE THAT'S THE ULTIMATE GOAL HERE.
SO PAVEMENT PRESERVATION IS TRYING TO MAINTAIN YOUR ROADWAY PAYMENTS IN A GOOD TO VERY GOOD, UH, SITUATIONS.
SO YOU SPEND LESS LONG-TERM ON TREATMENT.
WHEREAS NORMAL CURVE STARTS WHEN IT'S FIRST PAVED A VERY GOOD, AND THEN IT GRADUALLY DECLINES AS IT, YOU KNOW, IT GETS TRAFFIC ON IT AND HIS WEATHER.
AND UNTIL IT GETS TO A POINT WHERE IT, HE GETS PAID TO REHABILITATION, WHICH IS A MAJOR EXPENSE, IT'S TIME CONSUMING, MAJOR INCONVENIENCE TO YOUR CONSTITUENTS.
SO THE GOAL IS KEEP IT IN THIS TOP AREA HERE AND JUST DO LITTLE PRESERVATION TREATMENTS LIKE A MICRO SURFACE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT JUST EVERY FEW YEARS, MORE OFTEN TO KEEP IT IN A GOOD STATE.
SO, YOU KNOW, WHY DOES THIS MATTER? SO THIS IS AN OLD SLIDE, BUT THE PRINCIPLES STILL HOLD TRUE FOR RECONSTRUCTION.
YOU KNOW, YOUR $200,000 PER LINE MILE PRESERVATION IS $20,000 PER LANE MILE.
SO IT WAS A BIG SAVINGS AND YOU COULD DO MULTIPLE ITERATIONS OF PRESERVATION AND STILL SPENDING WAY LESS HALF OF WHAT YOU'RE DOING FOR RECONSTRUCTION.
SO THAT'S THE BIG GOAL HERE IS TO EXTEND THE LIFE OF YOUR PAVEMENT WHILE SPENDING LESS MONEY.
AND SO HOW DOES THIS AFFECT BEAVER COUNTY? SO IN THE PAST BEAVER COUNTY MAINTAINED THEIR PAYMENTS IN A WAY, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF MUNICIPALITIES AND STATES DID, WHICH WAS A MEDICAL WORST FIRST, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE.
YOU TREAT THE WORST ROAD, I GUESS, THE MOST COMPLAINTS AND YOU TREAT IT BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING ELSE.
I THINK THAT WORKS FINE FOR SMALLER MUNICIPALITIES, BUT YOU'RE SPENDING A LOT OF MONEY ON A HANDFUL OF PROJECTS WHILE THE REST OF YOUR ROADWAYS ARE DECREASING AND GETTING WORSE.
AND SO IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO TOUCH ALL YOUR ROADWAYS THAT WAY.
SO, UH, CHAIRMAN GORDON CTC REALIZED THAT THEY NEED TO LOOK AT HOW THEY DID THINGS AND, UH, NEED TO EVALUATE THE STATUS OF THE PAVEMENT AND THE COUNTY, AND THEN COME UP WITH A NEW WAY OF MAINTAINING, UH, THE COUNTY'S ROADWAYS.
SO I PUT AN RFP AND WE WERE SELECTED TO DO THAT.
AND A BIG PART OF OUR TEAM WAS DTS.
THIS IS THEIR MOBILE ASSET COLLECTION VEHICLE OR MAC.
AND THIS VAN HAS A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT SENSORS AND LASERS AND CAMERAS, ACCELEROMETERS, AND THEY GO, AND THEY CAME DOWN AND RODE, DROVE EVERY PRIVATE NON-PRIVATE PAVE ROADWAY IN THE COUNTY SYSTEM AND MEASURE ALL THE DISTRESSES ON THAT ROADWAY AND CLEAN THINGS LIKE CRACKING RAVELING, POTHOLES, PATCHING, AND THEN THEY'VE PASSED THAT DATA ON TO US AND WE DEVELOP A PQI, WHICH PQI IS DEVELOPED FOR AND USED BY THE DLT TO RANK THE ROADS, TO RATE THE ROADS.
IT'S A ZERO TO FIVE SCALE THAT TAKES IN ACCOUNT DISTRESSES AND THE ROUGHNESS OF THE ROADS.
SO THESE ARE SOME EXAMPLES, SOME OF THE ROADS WE GOT LAST TIME IN 2017, ALL THE WAY FROM VERY POOR ON THE FAR, RIGHT, WHICH YOU SEE A LOT OF POTHOLES, A LOT OF CRACKING, UM, CORE, WHICH HARD TO SEE, BUT PRETTY BAD FATIGUE CRACKING DOWN THAT WHOLE LANE THERE, UH, FAIR, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE BIT BETTER SHAPE, STILL SOME CRACK AND NOT AS BAD, AND THEN GOOD, LESS CRACKING.
THERE IS ONE THAT'S MISSING HERE, AND THAT IS VERY GOOD.
AND AS OF THE LAST EVALUATION AT 2017, ACCORDING TO THE DATA, BUFORD COUNTY HAD NO VERY GOOD ROADS AND ASSISTANCE.
AND SO PQI WORKS GREAT FOR THE DEITY AND THEY CAN USE IT ALONG WITH SOME OTHER CRITERIA TO RANK AND PRIORITIZE THEIR ROADS.
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THEY HAVE A LOT OF INTERSTATES AND PRIMARY ROUTES WHERE, YOU KNOW, MAY NOT WORK THE SAME FOR THE DEO FOR THE COUNTY AND THE SMALL LOCAL ROADS AND NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS.SO WE DISCUSSED IT WITH THE COUNTY AND SAID, HOW DO WE WANT TO BETTER PRIORITIZE THESE ROADS FOR A BETTER FIT FOR THE COUNTY? AND THE SOLUTION THAT WAS TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION PQI AND ADT ADD IS THE AVERAGE DAILY TRAFFIC, WHICH BASICALLY IS HOW MANY CARS TRAVELED THAT ROADWAY IN A SPECIFIC DAY.
SO WE TOOK IT AND THEN DIVIDED THE CALCULATE A PQI BASED ON DISTRESSES BY THAT SCALE FACTOR AND CAME OUT WITH A SCALE PQI.
AND THAT SCALE PQI WAS USED TO PRIORITIZE THE ROWS WITH THE LOWER PQI NEAR ZERO WITH THE HIGHEST PRIORITY, AND THEN BETTER ONES, CLOSER TO FIVE, FURTHER DOWN THE CHART.
AND SO WE USE THAT TO DEVELOP A FIVE-YEAR PLAN.
SO WE CAME UP WITH, YOU KNOW, GONE FROM DISTRESSES TO A RATING ADT TO PRIORITIZATION, THEN USE THAT TO DEVELOP A FIVE-YEAR PLAN COUNTY GAVE US A SPECIFIC BUDGET TO USE EVERY YEAR.
AND SO WE TREAT IT AS MANY ROADS AS POSSIBLE FOR THAT BUDGET IN A GIVEN YEAR.
UM, AND AS WE CAN DID SYSTEM LEVEL RECOMMENDATIONS, WE JUST SAID, DO AN HMA OVERLAY ON THIS ROAD THIS YEAR, DAN DO PROJECT LEVEL WHERE WE SAID DO AN INCH AND A HALF OF ASPHALT.
UM, THE COUNTY JUST FINISHED UP YOUR FOUR OF THE PAYMENT PROGRAM.
AND SO FAR I'VE TOUCHED ALMOST 60 MILES OF ROAD.
SO I'D SAY GREAT PROGRESS IN JUST FOUR YEARS.
AND THEN AFTER YEAR FOUR, CHAIRMAN GORDON CAME TO US AND SAID, WE WANT, YOU KNOW, TO LOOK AT WHAT YOU DID, EITHER FIVE AND REEVALUATE IT.
WE'VE LEARNED A LOT FROM THESE FIRST FOUR YEARS.
WE THINK THE PROGRAM'S WORKING, BUT WE WANT YOU TO GO LOOK AND JUST, YOU KNOW, MAKE SURE THAT YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS STILL HOLD WATER AND ARE STILL REFLECTIVE OF THE ACTUAL CONDITIONS.
SO WE DID THAT AS PART OF OUR QC.
WE WENT OUT AND WE WALKED AND RODE EVERY ROAD THAT WAS IN THE YEAR FIVE.
AND FOR THE MOST PART, WE WERE HAPPY TO SEE THAT OUR RECOMMENDATIONS HELD TRUE.
THERE WERE SOME, YOU KNOW, LIKE THAT WERE REQUIRED, SPECIALIZED CONTRACTORS THAT AT THE TIME MAY HAVE BEEN AROUND OR THAT HAVE SINCE MOVED ON.
SO IT WAS NOT EASILY AVAILABLE OR FINANCIALLY RESPONSIBLE TO USE THOSE TREATMENTS.
SO THE COUNTY WILL GET THAT AS WELL.
AND AS WELL AS IDENTIFY SOME OTHER TREATMENTS THAT MAY NOT BEEN PREFERRED.
SO WE DID THAT FOR THE MOST PART, WE JUST GAVE PROJECT LEVEL RECOMMENDATIONS, YOU KNOW, 150 POUNDS SQUARED RSE OVERLAY ON QUARTER-HORSE, BUT THERE WERE A FEW WHERE WE ADJUSTED BECAUSE OF THE TREATMENTS WERE NO LONGER A VIABLE OPTION.
AFTER A FEW YEARS OF THE PROGRAM, AGAIN, CHAIRMAN GORDON AND THE COUNTY SAID, WE THINK IT'S WORKING, BUT WE NEED TO DO A RE-EVALUATION JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE ON THE RIGHT PATH, SEE WHAT WORKS AND WHAT DOESN'T.
SO THEY PUT ON OUR RFP AND US AND STEPHIE WERE SELECTED TO DO THE SECOND ITERATION OF THIS EVALUATION.
UM, WANT TO TAKE THIS SECTION TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE DLT AND THEIR PAYMENT RESOURCES GROUP WERE HUGE, UH, THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE THING IN 2017, THEY SAT DOWN WITH ME, ANSWERED ALL THE QUESTIONS ABOUT PQI, HOW IT WORKS, WHAT IT IS, AND WE'RE VERY GENEROUS WITH THEIR TIME.
AND THEN 20, 21 STILL VERY GENEROUS WITH TIME, BUT THEY ALSO SENT THIRD DATA COLLECTION VEHICLE DOWN HERE TO COLLECT THE DATA ON ALL THE COUNTY ROADS INCLUDED IN THE RFP.
AND THIS IS ACTUALLY THEIR VAN IN BUFORD COUNTY AT THE INTERSECTION OF PARIS AND WEST PARIS.
I WAVED OUT THE WINDOW OF MY OFFICE.
UM, SO THEY CAME DOWN AND COLLECT ALL THE DATA.
VAN HAS THE SAME CAPABILITIES AS THE PREVIOUS VAN.
WE USE THE SAME SENSORS AND COLLECT ALL THE DISTRESSES WE NEEDED TO CALCULATE THE PQI.
SO WE TOLD HER THE STRESSES AGAIN, FOLLOWING THE SAME METHOD AND CALCULATE A PQI.
SO THIS IS THE BREAKDOWN OF WHAT FALLS, THE PRESERVATION REHABILITATE, WHERE YOU CONSTRUCTION ALONG WITH PQI RANGE AND THE CLASSIFIED PATIENT FROM VERY POOR, POOR, FAIR, GOOD, AND VERY GOOD.
SO THIS IS THE SAME BREAKDOWN WE USE IN THE PREVIOUS ONE JUST REMAIN CONSISTENT.
SO WE'RE COMPARING APPLES TO APPLES AND ORANGES TO ORANGES.
AND THEN THESE ARE, IT'S VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT THE DOTD USES, I BELIEVE ALSO.
UM, AND THESE ARE THE TREATMENTS THAT WE SELECTED FOR EACH OF THOSE RANGES.
A REJUVENATOR IS A SPRAYED ON APPLICATION THAT RESTORES SOME OF THE NUTRIENTS AND COMPOUNDS THE ASPHALT NEEDS.
SO IT DELAYS SOME CRACKING MICROSURFACING IS JUST A THIN EMULSION AND THE ASPHALT OR AGGREGATE THAT'S APPLIED TO THE SURFACE OF FAIRLY ROADS IN FAIRLY GOOD SHAPE.
THEN LIFT IS, YOU KNOW, UH, ASPHALT OVERLAY, GENERALLY THREE QUARTERS TO AN INCH, UH, ROW CAN HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE,
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BUT STILL IN FAIRLY GOOD SHAPE AND THEN VOLUNTEERED AS HMA OVERLAY AND THEN A MILL AND OVERLAY.SO JUST ASPHALT PUT OVER THE TOP OF THE EXISTING ROAD, OR MAYBE MILL OFF THE SURFACE TO GET RID OF THE REPORTS DEFECTS.
AND SO THEN WE USE THE SAME METHOD OF, UH, WE USE THE SAME METHOD OF USING WEIGHT, A FACTOR TO CALCULATE A SCALE PQI TO TRY OR TO PRIORITIZE THE ROADS.
AND WE DEVELOPED ANOTHER FIVE-YEAR PLAN AT THE TIME, WENT SIX THROUGH 10, UM, FOR A YEAR SIX, WE WENT OUT AND GAVE PROJECT LEVEL RECOMMENDATIONS, LOOKED AT EACH OF THOSE ROADS AS OUR QC, UM, AND THEN SYSTEM LEVEL FOR YEAR SEVEN THROUGH 10.
SO, AND WE ARE SHOCKED AND PLEASED THOUGH, THAT WHEN WE STARTED LOOKING AT THE DATA, THERE WERE VERY GOOD ROADS.
NOW THESE ARE TWO THAT WERE PAVED IN YEAR FOUR, AND NOW I TOLD HER THE COUNTY HAS ABOUT 67 MILES OF ROADS ARE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION.
SO I SAY HUGE IMPROVEMENT FROM THREE, THE FIRST FOUR YEARS OF THE PROGRAM.
AND HERE'S A SIDE-BY-SIDE COMPARISON.
THE FIRST THING YOU SEE AT THE VERY GOOD ROADS HAVE JUMPED UP IN 2021 THAT WEREN'T THERE IN 2017.
AND WE NOTICED A SHIFT UP AND CONDITION OF THE OVERALL ROADWAY, UM, ALL THE OTHER PIE SITES AND GOT SMALLER WHILE THE VERY GOOD HAS GOTTEN BIGGER.
SO OVERALL I THINK THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN A HUGE SUCCESS FOR THE CTC AND FOR THE COUNTY.
SO THE SYSTEM AS A WHOLE INCREASE FROM 3.04 TO PQI OF 3.21.
SO THAT'S A PRETTY BIG JUMP IN FOR YOU.
UM, PQI INCREASE OF TREATED ROADS INCREASED BY 0.8, ABOUT 0.8 AND THE REST OF THE ROADS WERE MADE PRETTY STABLE.
THEY DIDN'T DEGRADE THAT MUCH OVER THE, THAT FOUR YEARS.
AGAIN, 67 MILES OF ROADWAY ANNOUNCEMENTS ARE VERY GOOD VERSUS ZERO IN 2017.
AND MOST OF THE MAJORITY OF THE VERY GOOD ROADS, THERE'S LESS THAN A MILE OF OUR VERY POOR ROADS.
THERE'S LESS THAN A MILE HAVE, OR WILL BE TREATED BY THE END OF YEAR SIX.
UM, SOME WE'RE CHANGING YOUR FORCE AND WE'LL BE IN YEAR FIVE AND THEN SOME YEAR SIX.
AND SO I THINK THE BIG THING EVERYWHERE WE LOOK THAT THAT DATA SEEMS TO BE VALIDATED WITH WHAT WE'RE DOING.
UM, WE LOOKED AT THE SMALL SAMPLE SIZE, BUT WE LOOKED AT THE IMPROVEMENT FOR DIFFERENT TREATMENTS AND THE OVERLAY AND MILL AND OVERLAY TREATMENT TIES.
YOU CAN EXPECT BIG GAINS, THOSE INCREASED BY ALMOST A POINT OF PQI, WHEREAS YOUR MICROSURFACING AND THIN LIFTS, UH, INCREASED BY ABOUT 0.3 AND 0.5 RESPECTIVELY.
SO THAT'S PROBABLY WHERE YOU WOULD EXPECT IT TO BE.
UM, AND THEN THAT ALSO IS YOU LOOK AT YOUR SEVEN THROUGH 10, YOU START TO SEE MORE OF THOSE PRESERVATION TREATMENTS INSTEAD OF, UH, THE BIGGER OVERLAYS AS YOU GO ON ARE BECOMING MORE AND MORE, JUST ALL ROWS OF MICROSURFACING OR THEN, UM, UP TO THE POINT WHERE IN YEAR 10, I THINK WE'RE TREATING 60 BETWEEN 60 AND 80 GROWS JUST BECAUSE YOUR MONEY IS GOING FURTHER AND TOUCHING MORE ROADS WITH THAT SAME BUDGET.
AND SO THAT'S THE PAVEMENT PRESERVATION IN ACTION, RIGHT? THERE IS IMPROVING YOUR ROADS, GETTING INTO A POINT WHERE YOU SPEND LESS IN TREATMENT.
AND I THINK IT'S BEEN A BIG SUCCESS AND I CONGRATULATE TERM CORE AND THE CTC AND BEAVER COUNTY ON WHAT THEY'VE BEEN ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.
UH, THE ROADS, UM, THIS YEAR WE ACTUALLY COLLECTED MUNICIPAL ROADS ALSO AND GAVE MUNICIPALITIES THAT, THAT PQI AND THAT DATA TO MAKE THEIR DECISION, HOW THEY WANT TO HANDLE THEIR OWN ROADS.
I WAS DISCUSSING BEFORE THE MEETING THE COMMITTEE, I GIVE A GREAT DEAL OF CREDIT FOR GETTING A VISION.
AND THAT VISION IS THAT WE'RE REQUIRED TO SPEND THE NUMBERS WITH A MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR OF OUR FUNDS ON STATE ROUTES.
AND WE'VE MADE THE DECISION THAT ROUGHLY HALF A MILLION WILL BE SPENT BY THE DISCRETION OF THE VARIOUS COMMITTEE MEMBERS THAT HAVE BEEN PICKING ROUTES THAT THE STATE.
AND WE ALSO THEN ARE LOOKING AT ROADS WITH INTERESTING OF THE ROUGHLY 400 MILES OF STATE SECONDARIES IN BUFORD COUNTY, ROUGHLY 200 OF ADT FOR 500
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OR LESS, WHICH IS REMARKABLE.WE HAVE FROM UNDER CONTRACT THAT IS REVIEWING ALL OF THE FIVE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE HUNDRED EIGHTY OR LESS, AND COMING UP WITH THE PROGRAM, SIMILAR TO WHAT WE HAVE IN OUR FIVE-YEAR PLAN.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE WILL BE FOLLOWING FOR THE FUTURE.
SO DIRECTIVES 84 AND 85 OF DEITY, THOSE ROADS WILL NEVER BE TOUCHED BASED UPON THE CRITERIA THAT THEY'RE USING.
SO THIS IS A WAY WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS AND WE'RE LOOKING AT, UH, DIFFERENT METHODOLOGIES AND WHAT WE'VE BEEN USING UP TO NOW, UM, TO TOUCH THOSE ROADS.
MOST OF THE ROADS ARE IN THE SUBGRADE IS IN GOOD SHAPE.
IT'S JUST THE WRITING SURFACE NEEDS ATTENTION.
SO WE HAVE A PROGRAM IN PLACE AND WE'LL BE SPENDING ROUGHLY 500,000 ON 580 OR LESS, AND WE'VE BE SPENDING MORE MONEY ON THE OTHER RIGHTS THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY.
SO WITH THAT SAID, JOE, YOU'RE UP NEXT, SIR, YOU HAVE MY PRESENTATION.
SO FIRST I'D LIKE TO SAY, THANK YOU TO THE COMMITTEE FOR ADAM VOT, COME AND SPEAK TO YOU.
UM, WE TRULY ARE A PARTNERSHIP AND THE WAY THAT THIS RELATIONSHIP IS SET UP, THERE IS A REQUIREMENT TO SPEND MONEY ON STATE ROADS.
BUT WE VIEW THIS AS A PARTNERSHIP.
UH, THE COMMUNITY HERE, UH, DEPENDS ON THE PUBLIC SERVICE OF YOU ON THE COMMITTEE, AND WE APPRECIATE YOUR PUBLIC SERVICE GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
SO I'D LIKE TO GIVE A LITTLE HISTORY ABOUT THE SEAT PROGRAM, WHICH IF YOU EVER HEAR C PROGRAM C FUNDS, THE CTCS NOWADAYS, THEY ARE PRETTY MUCH SYNONYMOUS.
UM, BUT THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE C PROGRAM WAS BACK IN THE 1940S.
THE STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM WAS DIVIDED INTO A PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SYSTEM.
AND THE REASON WHY WAS BECAUSE MOST OF THE ROAD, UH, THE ROAD DOLLARS WERE BEING SPENT ON THE PRIMARY SYSTEM OR WHAT WOULD BE CONSIDERED THE PRIMARY SYSTEM NOW, BECAUSE THOSE WERE THE ROADS THAT WERE TAKING PEOPLE BETWEEN COMMUNITIES, BUT THOSE LOCAL ROADS OR FARM TO MARKET ROADS, WEREN'T GETTING MUCH ATTENTION.
AND SO PART OF THAT EARLY PLANNING WAS TO SAY, THESE ROADS ARE GETTING ATTENTION.
PEOPLE ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT IT.
LET'S TRY TO PUT SOME MONEY TOWARDS THIS, A SMALLER PART OF OUR TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM.
AND THEN LATER ON IN 1951, THERE WAS A PROGRAM A, B AND C, AND THAT'S HOW THE PROGRAM GOT ITS NAME PROGRAM C WAS KNOWN AS THE STATE SECONDARY PROGRAM.
AND THIS WAS COMPLETELY A DOD PROGRAM AT THAT POINT.
SO A LITTLE BIT MORE HISTORY, YOU KNOW, THE COUNTY TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEES, AS WE KNOW THEM TODAY, DIDN'T COME ABOUT UNTIL AROUND THE 1990S.
AND THAT WAS BY A LAWSUIT ORIGINALLY.
UM, THE DELEGATION, THE LEGISLATIVE DELEGATION THEMSELVES, UH, WERE THE ONES THAT WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR DOLING OUT THESE FUNDS.
AND NOW THERE'S A SEPARATE COMMITTEE.
YOU KNOW, THOSE OF YOU IN THE ROOM AND YOU'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR PRIORITIZING THESE FUNDS AND FINDING A GOOD PLACE TO SPEND THEM.
SO TYPICALLY THE CTCS ARE APPOINTED BY THEIR DELEGATION.
SOMETIMES THAT APPOINTMENT AUTHORITY IS TRANSFERRED.
AND AS I UNDERSTAND IT, THAT'S THE CASE WITH BUFORD, UH, APPOINTED BY COUNTY COUNCIL IN THE C FUND LAW.
THERE'S NO SET SIZE OR TERMS FOR THE CTCS.
AND SO THOSE DECISIONS ARE MADE AT THE LOCAL LEVEL, BUT AS WE SEE IT IN THE C FUND LAW, THERE'S TWO MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES.
AND I HOPE EVERY CTC MEMBER IN HERE UNDERSTANDS THIS IT'S TO PRIORITIZE AND MAKE A TRANSPORTATION PLAN.
AND THAT'S DEFINED IN THE C FUND LAW.
AND I KNOW CHAIRMAN GORDON IS VERY DILIGENT ABOUT THAT AND UPDATING IT EVERY YEAR, THAT'S PRIORITY NUMBER ONE, AND THEN PRIORITY.
NUMBER TWO IS FOLLOWING THAT PLAN AND SELECTING ROADS, SELECTING TRANSPORTATION NEEDS THAT FOLLOW THAT PLAN FOR IMPROVEMENT.
AND THE LAST BIT OF HISTORY I'LL GIVE IS, UH, ACT 40 FROM 2017.
THIS ACT A LOT OF US WOULD REFER TO AS THE NEW GAS TAX AND IT DID TWO THINGS.
IT INCREASED THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF C FUNDS AND IT INCREASED THAT STATE ROAD REQUIREMENT THAT CHAIRMAN GORDON MENTIONED.
AND SO IT DID OTHER THINGS BEYOND THE C PROGRAM, BUT WE'LL FOCUS ON THE SEAT PROGRAM.
SO WHERE DO THESE FUNDS COME FROM? IT'S THE STATE GAS TAX.
THAT'S WHERE, UH, THE C FUNDS COME FROM.
AND RIGHT NOW, AS OF THIS DAY, WHEN YOU GO PUMP A GALLON OF GASOLINE AND BUFORD COUNTY, 26.75 CENTS OF THAT
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PRICE THAT YOU PAY AT THE PUMP IS GOING TO THE STATE GAS TAX IS GOING TO THAT, THAT POT OF MONEY.AND FOR ROUGH NUMBERS, A CENT OF THE GAS TAX EQUATES ROUGHLY TO ABOUT $34 MILLION A YEAR IN REVENUES AND THAT NEW GAS TAX FROM 2017, WE'RE IN YEAR FIVE STATEWIDE OF GETTING THAT IMPLEMENTED.
SO THAT'S A 12 CENT INCREASE OVER SIX YEARS.
SO WE STILL HAVE TWO MORE PENNIES TO GO.
NEXT YEAR, WE'LL BE AT 28.75 CENTS PER GALLON.
THE STATE GAS TAX, THE C FUNDS ARE ABOUT 15% OF THAT.
SO AT 40, UH, IT INCREASED THE C FUNDS FROM 2.6, 6 CENTS PER GALLON TO JUST SHY OF 4 CENTS PER GALLON.
LIKE I MENTIONED, THAT WAS 15% ROUGHLY OF THE STATE GAS TAX.
ONE OF THE BIG PROVISIONS IN THAT WAS THAT THAT TOTAL INCREASE THAT 50% INCREASED, UH, HAD TO BE SPENT ON THE STATE SYSTEM.
THAT DONOR BONUS WAS ALSO INCREASED, WHICH IS OF NOTE FOR BUFORD COUNTY.
BUFORD IS A DONOR COUNTY AS OF THIS LAST YEAR.
AND AS OF NOW WITH NOT WE'RE FULLY IMPLEMENTED, WE'RE, WE'RE AT THE POINT NOW WHERE THE REVENUES COMING IN, OR BECAUSE OF THAT 3.99 CENTS PER GALLON, ROUGHLY $130 MILLION IS FLOWING THROUGH AND RECURRING FUNDS FLOWING THROUGH THIS PROGRAM STATEWIDE.
AND THAT INCLUDES THE GAS TAX AND THE DONOR BONUS.
AND IF YOU LOOK AT THIS YEAR AS A NOTABLE YEAR, THERE WAS ALSO A $50 MILLION ONE TIME EARMARK.
SO THIS, IT WAS $180 MILLION COMING THROUGH THE PROGRAM.
AND ONE THING I WANTED TO POINT OUT HERE TOO, IS OUT OF THAT STATE REQUIREMENT, A LOT OF TIMES YOU MIGHT HEAR IT BEING REFERRED TO AS A 33% REQUIREMENT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
THE C FUND LAW STILL STATES IN THEIR 25%.
AND IT STATES THAT THE NEW MONEY HAS TO BE SPENT ON THE STATE SYSTEM DLTS POSITION WITH THIS ALWAYS HAS BEEN THAT, THAT NEW MONEY THAT'S GOING TO BE SPENT ON THE STATE SYSTEM.
THERE'S NOT A SEPARATE REQUIREMENT.
SO THAT NEW MONEY THAT'S BEING SPENT WILL MEET THAT 25% REQUIREMENT TO START WITH.
AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE ROUND NUMBERS, 25%, WHICH WAS THE ORIGINAL REQUIREMENT IS ROUGHLY 6.66 CENTS PER GALLON.
AND AT FULL IMPLEMENTATION WHERE WE ARE NOW AS THE STATE REQUIREMENT WENT TO 1.33.
SO THAT ENTIRE INCREASE, EVEN THOUGH WE SAY THAT THE ENTIRE INCREASE MUST BE SPENT ON THE STATE SYSTEM, REALLY OUT OF THAT INCREASE, WE WENT FROM HAVING TO SPEND 0.6, 6 CENTS PER GALLON PREVIOUSLY TO 1.33.
SO THAT NEW MONEY THAT CAME THROUGH, I'M PROBABLY SPITTING OUT TOO MANY NUMBERS, BUT THE NEW MONEY THAT CAME THROUGH THE CTC HAS DISCRETION ON HALF OF THAT MONEY TO SPEND IT WHERE THERE'S THE BIGGEST NEED AND HALF THE MONEY HAS TO GO TO THE STATE.
SO HOW DO WE DISTRIBUTE THE STATEWIDE? HOW DOES IT COME FROM THE PUMP WHENEVER YOU'RE PUMPING GAS TO GETTING INTO THE CONTROL OF THE CTC AND THE C FUND LAW SPELLS THIS OUT, IT'S BASED ON THREE FAT FACTORS, POPULATION, LAND AREA, AND RURAL ROAD MILES.
AND IF YOU TAKE A PERCENTAGE OF WHAT YOU'VE HEARD HAS AS COMPARED TO THE REST OF THE STATE AND YOUR AVERAGE, THOSE THREE TOGETHER, YOU GET 2.3, 2% OF THE TOTAL SEIFUN THAT'S ACCUMULATED STATEWIDE EACH MONTH.
AND SO THE GAS TAX COLLECTORS, THE GAS STATIONS AS THEY COLLECT TAXES EACH MONTH, THOSE TAXES ARE DUE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE THEN, UH, TRANSFERS THEM OVER TO STD OT.
AND ONCE WE FIGURE OUT WHAT THAT NUMBER IS, THAT PERCENTAGE IS APPLIED TO THAT GAS TAX AND THAT EXACT AMOUNT COMES TO BUFORD CTC EACH MONTH.
SO, AS I MENTIONED, THERE'S A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT FUNDING PORTIONS FOR THE CTC, THAT NORMAL APPORTIONMENT AND FOR PLANNING PURPOSES, AS I MENTIONED, WE GET GAS TAXES AS THEY'RE COLLECTED EACH MONTH THAT COME TO THE PROGRAM, BUT BECAUSE THERE'S STRINGS ATTACHED TO THIS MONEY TO BE A GOOD PARTNER WITH A DLT AND THE CTC, AND TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER, WE GIVE A FORECAST OF WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT TO GET IN FUNDS.
SO WE'LL EQUAL EXACTLY 2, 5, 5, $3 MILLION.
NO, BUT IT'LL BE SOMEWHERE WITHIN A FEW PERCENTAGE POINTS OF THAT BASED ON CONSUMPTION.
AND SO, AS YOU KNOW, PEOPLE DRIVE LESS WHEN GAS IS MORE EXPENSIVE, WHEN IT GOES WAY DOWN, PEOPLE DRIVE MORE.
SO A LOT OF IT'S A SHOT IN THE DARK, BUT WE GIVE A FORECAST AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR TO PLAN
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FROM.AND IN ADDITION TO THAT, I MENTIONED THAT BUFORD, CTC IS A DONOR COUNTY.
AND SO FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT LIVE AROUND HERE, IF YOU'RE PUMPING GAS IT AND BUFORD COUNTY, BECAUSE THAT NUMBER WILL JUST MEAN THAT BUFORD GETS A BIGGER SLICE OF THE PIE.
IF YOU'RE DOWN HERE THIS PAST YEAR, YOU FORGET $251,000 FROM THE DONOR PROGRAM.
AND THAT'S OUT OF ROUGHLY $20 MILLION STATEWIDE AND THAT'S ON TOP OF THE GAS TAX.
AND SO THAT MONEY RIGHT THERE, THAT DONOR BONUS THAT 251,000, IT DOESN'T HAVE THE STRINGS ATTACHED TO IT, OF THE STATE REQUIREMENT.
AND SO THAT STATE REQUIREMENT, I MENTIONED APPLIES TO THAT TOP NUMBER, THAT 2.553, BUT NOT TO THE DONOR NUMBER.
AND THEN IN ADDITION, THE LEGISLATURE, UH, GAVE $50 MILLION STATEWIDE TO THE CTCS AND THAT'S BUFORD SHARE OF IT BASED ON THE APPORTIONMENT FORMULA.
SO IN TOTAL, ROUGHLY $4 MILLION TO PLAY WITH THIS YEAR AND NEW FUNDS, NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE NEW FOR CTC IS SELF ADMINISTERED.
SO I HAVE THE UNIQUE ROLE AT D O T OF BEING PART OVERSIGHT OF THE CTC STATEWIDE AND, UM, HELPING WITH PROJECT DEVELOPMENT, UH, ACTIVITIES THAT COME THROUGH S C D O T.
AND SO WITH, UH, THE CTC STATEWIDE, THEY HAVE THE OPTION.
THEY CAN KEEP THE MONEY AT D O T AND WE WILL ADMINISTER THE PROGRAM FOR YOU, OR YOU CAN KEEP IT ON YOUR OWN AND ADMINISTER THE PROGRAM FOR YOURSELVES AND IN DOING SO, THE CTCS THAT ARE SELF ADMINISTERED ESSENTIALLY ARE TAKING THE RESPONSIBILITY TO SAY THE REQUIREMENTS THAT ARE LISTED IN THE C FUND LAW, WE'RE GOING TO ENSURE THAT THAT'S MET.
AND THOSE COUPLE OF REQUIREMENTS TO NAME A FEW, UM, ARE, ARE MOST IMPORTANTLY, ARE THAT YOU'RE GOING TO USE A LOW BID SYSTEM.
YOU'RE GOING TO NOT JUST GIVE THIS WORK OUT TO ANYBODY.
YOU'RE GOING TO ACTUALLY MAKE SURE IT'S COMPETITIVELY BID, BECAUSE THESE ARE PUBLIC FUNDS.
YOU'RE GOING TO ACCEPT THE LOW BIDDER FOR CONSTRUCTION.
YOU'RE GOING TO AWARD THAT CONTRACT TO THE LITTLE BIT, OR YOU'RE GOING TO ADVERTISE YOUR CONTRACTS.
AND SO FOR THOSE THAT ARE FAMILIAR WITH GOVERNMENT WORK, IT'S COMMON SENSE TYPE THINGS.
BUT I COME BACK IN ON THE END AND CHECK A VARIETY OF PROJECTS AND SAY, YES, BUFORD, CTC.
YOU'RE, YOU'RE DOING THINGS IN LINE WITH THE LAW.
AND IT APPEARS THAT YOU'RE DOING, UH, YOU'RE TAKING THE NECESSARY STEPS.
YOU'VE SET UP PROCESSES TO MAKE SURE THESE THINGS ARE HAPPENING.
AND, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A 60, 40 SPLIT RIGHT NOW, UH, CTC STATEWIDE THAT ARE SELF ADMINISTERED AND THOSE THAT HAVE THEIR FUNDS AT DLT.
THAT'S AN IMPORTANT THING TO NOTE IS ADMINISTRATION OF THE PROGRAM IS DIFFERENT FROM PROJECT MANAGEMENT.
AND SO A SELF ADMINISTERED CTC MEANS THEY'RE KEEPING THEIR CHECKBOOK, BUT A SELF ADMINISTERED CTC CAN SEND FUNDS BACK TO DLT AND DLT CAN MANAGE A SPECIFIC PROJECT FOR YOU.
AND SO IN TERMS OF VOT, THERE'S THE ROLE OF MANAGING THE CHECKBOOK OR BEING A CHECKBOOK BEING MANAGED AT THE COUNTY LEVEL OR IN TERMS OF PROJECT IS A PROJECT MANAGED BY DOD OR IS THE PROJECT MANAGED BY ANOTHER ENTITY? NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.
UM, MOST OF THE COUNTIES IN DISTRICT SIX, YOU SEE, ARE SELF ADMINISTERED CTCS.
THEY'D TAKEN THAT RESPONSIBILITY ON THEMSELVES AND JASPER AND DORCHESTER ARE THE ONLY COUNTIES IN DISTRICT SIX AND THAT'S THE ENGINEERING DISTRICT.
SO MOST OF THE FOLKS IN THIS ROOM FROM VOT ARE FROM THE DISTRICT OFFICE.
AND THOSE ARE THE COUNTIES THAT ARE WITHIN THAT DISTRICT.
NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE QUESTION THEY GET ASKED OF ME A GOOD BIT.
IS, IS THIS ELIGIBLE FOR C FUNDS? THIS IS A PROJECT THAT THE CTC HAS IN MIND ELIGIBLE FOR SSI FUNDS AND IS VERY BROAD IN TERMS OF WHAT'S ALLOWED.
BUT THE BEST ADVICE WE CAN GIVE IS THAT THEY'RE FOR TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS.
AND SO THAT CAN MEAN YOU CAN SPEND FUNDS ON BICYCLE PATHWAYS, SIDEWALKS, AND THOSE TYPES OF THINGS, BUT TYPICALLY MOST OF THE CTCS FUND, UH, IMPROVING THE PAVEMENTS ON THE ROADS IN THEIR SYSTEM.
AND THAT'S WHERE ONE OF THE LARGER NEEDS IS FOR OUR STATE RIGHT NOW, IN GENERAL, THEY NEED TO BE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
WE DON'T WANT TO SPEND PUBLIC DOLLARS BENEFITING A PRIVATE PROBLEM THAT THEN THAT PRIVATE CITIZEN CAN CLOSE UP AND SAY, NOW WE'RE NOT GOING TO ALLOW THE PUBLIC ON IT AND THEY NEED TO BE ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC NEXT SLIDE.
SO I WANT TO POINT OUT THIS TO THE CTC, YOU HAVE THE AUTHORITY AND THE SOLE AUTHORITY TO DOLE OUT WHERE THESE FUNDS ARE.
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AND SO IT'S YOUR RESPONSIBILITY THAT I MENTIONED TO PRIORITIZE AND SELECT WHICH PROJECTS GET FUNDED.AND THE ONLY REALLY BIG CONSTRAINT I SEE THERE IS ASIDE FROM THE BIGGEST NEED, YOU ALSO HAVE TO BE COGNIZANT OF THAT STATE REQUIREMENT.
AND SO AT TIMES THE STATE THERE MIGHT BE BIGGER NEEDS ON THE STATE AND YOU SPEND OVER THAT STATE REQUIREMENT.
AND AT TIMES THE CTC MAY TRY TO GET CLOSER TOWARDS MEETING THAT STATE REQUIREMENT.
SO OUT OF THE OT, WE'RE 5,000 OR SO A MEMBER ORGANIZATION, UH, ME AND MY ASSISTANT, THERE ARE THE ONLY TWO THAT ARE DEDICATED TO THE C PROGRAM STATEWIDE 100%.
UM, I AM TRAINED AS AN ENGINEER.
I'M A PE AND SHE'S THE FINANCIAL EXPERT.
AND SO MOST OF YOU THAT ARE CTC MEMBERS, UH, RECOGNIZE THAT YOU GET REGULAR FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM MY OFFICE.
AND SHE'S THE ONE THAT'S OVERSEEING ALL OF THAT NEXT SLIDE.
SO I KNOW YOU CAN'T READ THAT.
THAT'S NOT THE INTENT HERE, BUT I BROUGHT THIS DOCUMENT WITH ME, FOR ANYBODY THAT MIGHT CARE TO VIEW IT.
I GOT A LOT OF COPIES, SO SEE ME AFTERWARDS, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO WALK THROUGH THE PROJECT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS VERY BRIEFLY FOR YOU GUYS.
AND THERE'S TWO WAYS, THE PROJECT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS FOR THOSE PROJECTS THAT ARE NOT MANAGED BY THE OT AND FOR THOSE THAT AREN'T.
AND FOR THOSE THAT AREN'T, I'VE CREATED THIS THREE PAGE DOCUMENT THAT REALLY SPELLS OUT FROM ME READING THROUGH THE LAW MANY, MANY TIMES, WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT YOU NEED TO FOLLOW SO THAT WHEN IT COMES TO REVIEW TIME, I CAN SAY, IF YOU DO ALL THESE THINGS, YOU'RE GOING TO GET A PASSING GRADE.
I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU A THUMBS UP AND WE CAN GO OUR OWN WAYS.
IF YOU FOLLOW THOSE THINGS, YOU'RE GOING TO BE GOOD.
IF YOU DON'T COME AND ASK QUESTIONS, WE'LL TALK ABOUT IT.
THE SECOND TWO PAGES ARE ALL MY, UH, INTERPRETATION OF THE PROCUREMENT CODE, BECAUSE A LOT OF THE REQUIREMENTS THAT ARE IN THE SEAFRONT LAW TALK ABOUT COMPETITIVE PROCUREMENT.
AND SO WHAT I'VE DONE IS I'VE GONE TO THE PROCUREMENT CODE AND I'VE SAID, HERE ARE THE AREAS OF THE PROCUREMENT CODE, THE CTCS TYPICALLY USE.
AND IN TERMS OF ME, I CAN'T GUARANTEE EVERY LAST JOT AND TITTLE IS BEING FOLLOWED, BUT I'M GOING TO FOCUS ON REVIEWING A FEW THINGS THAT WILL SAY TO ME THAT YOU'VE DEMONSTRATED THAT YOU'VE MADE A GOOD FAITH EFFORT TO FOLLOW THE CODE.
AND SO IF YOU DO THOSE THINGS, WE'LL GIVE YOU A THUMBS UP.
AND SO I'VE BROUGHT THIS WITH ME.
I WOULD ACTUALLY ENCOURAGE, IF YOU DON'T WANT TO USE THIS, YOU'D COME UP WITH OWN SIMILAR WAY THAT YOU WOULD CONVEY THIS INFORMATION TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS.
BECAUSE AGAIN, BUFORD, CTC IS SELF ADMINISTERED.
SO WHENEVER YOU APPROVE FUNDS GOING TO THE COUNTY OR A MUNICIPALITY, THE CTC THEMSELVES HAS TO ENSURE THAT THOSE ASPECTS OF THE LAW ARE BEING FOLLOWED.
SO THAT AT THE END OF THE DAY, WHEN I COME BACK AND REVIEW YOU, I CAN SAY, YES, WE SHOULD STILL BE SENDING MONEY TO THE BUFORD CTC.
SO THIS IS THE FIRST AVENUE PROJECTS THAT ARE NOT MANAGED BY DLT.
THE SECOND ONE GOES, THE NEXT SLIDE.
I WANTED TO GO THROUGH A STATE RESURFACING PROJECT.
SO I'M GOING TO HIGHLIGHT FOUR ROLES THAT I THINK ARE PRETTY IMPORTANT TO TALK ABOUT HERE.
FIRST ONE IS YOUR LOCAL ENGINEER.
THE ONE THAT'S COMING TO YOUR MEETINGS.
I UNDERSTAND ELIZABETH IS, IS THAT PERSON FOR YOU GUYS? SHE'S THE RESIDENT MAINTENANCE ENGINEER.
SHE'S KNOWLEDGEABLE OF WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE STATE SYSTEM, UM, AROUND BUFORD COUNTY.
AND SO SHE'LL BRING POTENTIAL PROJECTS TO YOU GUYS FROM TIME TO TIME.
AND PART OF THAT IS COMMUNICATING WITH HER, WHAT TYPE OF SCHEDULE, HOW, HOW MUCH SHOULD BE BROUGHT TO YOUR ATTENTION AND SO THAT YOU CAN HAVE THE ABILITY TO APPROVE PROJECTS FROM TIME TO TIME.
THE SECOND ROLE I WANTED TO MENTION AS THE DISTRICT CONTRACT MANAGER, THAT NUMBER TWO, THERE, THE DISTRICT CONTRACT MANAGER, MARCI, SHE'S GOING TO SPEAK IN A MOMENT TOO, BUT T'S RESPONSIBLE FOR BRINGING ESTIMATES TO YOU GUYS, BUT THEN ALSO WHENEVER A PROJECT WOULD BE APPROVED AND COME THROUGH A DOD FOR MANAGEMENT, SHE WOULD BE THE ONE THAT'S WORKING OUT THE DETAILS FOR THAT CONTRACT.
SO SHE WOULD BE ABLE TO PROVIDE QUANTITIES AND SCRIPT MAPS TO GET THAT TO A POINT WHERE IT'S ALMOST READY FOR BIDS, THE THIRD ROLE, WHICH I THINK YOU SHOULD BE KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT IS THE PROGRAM MANAGER.
AND THAT PERSON IS LOCATED IN HEADQUARTERS IN COLUMBIA WITH ME.
AND I THINK THAT'S MIKE FULLMER FOR THIS AREA.
AND HE MIGHT ALSO HAVE SOME ASSISTANCE THAT HE OCCASIONALLY GETS TO INTERACT WITH YOU GUYS FROM TIME TO TIME.
BUT ONCE AN APPROVED PROJECT, UH, IS, OR ONCE MONEY IS APPROVED FROM THE COMMITTEE AND IT'S GOING THROUGH DLT AND MARCY WOULD COME UP WITH THOSE, UH, THAT BID PACKAGE, THAT WOULD BE THE QUANTITIES AND STRIP MAPS FOR THAT ROAD PROJECT.
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IT WOULD COME TO THAT PROGRAM MANAGER AND HE WOULD OVERSEE THAT PROJECT GETTING THROUGH THE BID PROCESS AND HE WOULD GET IT TO THE POINT THAT WE ARE ACCEPTING BIDS FROM CONTRACTORS AND WOULD ENSURE THAT THE LOW BIDDER IS GOING TO GET THE WORK.AND THE FOURTH ROLE THAT I'VE MENTIONED ON HERE IS, UH, THE DISTRICT PERMIT ENGINEER.
AND I HIGHLIGHT THAT BECAUSE THERE IS AN OPTION WHENEVER, UH, FUNDS GO THROUGH ON THE STATE SYSTEM, THAT WHEN FUNDS ARE SPENT ON THE STATE SYSTEM, THEY CAN COME THROUGH DLT FOR DLT MANAGEMENT AND FOR CERTAIN PROJECTS, UH, IF YOU HIRED YOUR OWN ENGINEER, THE WAY THAT YOU WOULD INTERACT WITH THE STATE SYSTEM IS THROUGH A PERMIT.
SO IF SOMEBODY ELSE IS MANAGING IT, WE DON'T WANT SOMEBODY COMING TO OUR SYSTEM AND BUILDING SOMETHING THAT WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT.
AND THAT'S, I THINK VERY REASONABLE WHEN YOU THINK OF IT, IF YOU OWN AND ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN PRIVATE PROPERTY, YOU KNOW, IF YOU HAVE A HOUSE, EVEN THOUGH SOMEBODY IS GRACIOUSLY SAYING, I WANT TO DO THIS IMPROVEMENT TO YOUR HOUSE, I WANT TO ADD THIS DECK ONTO YOUR HOUSE.
YOU DON'T WANT TO COME BACK TO SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE NOT HAPPY WITH.
AND ESSENTIALLY, THAT'S ALSO ONE OF THE MAIN POINTS I WANT TO MAKE TO THE CTC IS THAT NO MATTER WHO OWNS THE SYSTEM, THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE IMPROVING, MAKE SURE YOU GET BUY-IN ON THAT OWNER.
SO WHOEVER'S COMING TO YOU WITH THE PROJECT THERE THAT THAT PERSON THAT'S REPRESENTING THAT COMMUNITY, OR SORRY, THAT AGENCY, WHETHER IT'S THE COUNTY S C D O OT OR A LOCAL GOVERNMENT, THAT PERSON IS ALSO RESPONSIBLE IN TERMS OF THEIR ROLE FOR MAKING SURE THAT AFTER THE PROJECT IS DONE, THAT THAT LOCAL GOVERNMENT OR S C L E OR THE COUNTY IS HAPPY WITH WHAT'S BEING BUILT BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE PROJECT, THE CTC GOES ONTO THE NEXT ONE.
AND IN THAT, IN THAT SENSE, IN TERMS OF HAVING A FUNDING RESPONSIBILITY, THE CTC IS LIKE A MINI DOD, BUT IN TERMS OF PERPETUAL MAINTENANCE, THE CTC IS NOT LIKE A DOD OR A COUNTY GOVERNMENT.
AND SO FROM THAT STANDPOINT, AND FOR ME HIGHLIGHTING THAT ROLE IS WHOEVER'S GOING TO BE INVOLVED IN MAINTAINING THAT AFTERWARDS.
WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE'RE BEING GOOD PARTNERS TO EVERYONE INVOLVED, THAT THE SOLUTION THAT'S PROPOSED IS ACTUALLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE PROJECT OWNER.
SO I'VE LISTED A FEW THINGS HERE ALSO ABOUT THE HIERARCHY OF DEITY.
AND SO I'VE GIVEN THE SPECIFIC ROLES THAT YOU'LL INTERACT WITH THE MOST.
BUT IN ADDITION TO, UM, THE ROLES I'VE MENTIONED AT THE TOP ECHELON OF DDOT, A HUGE ORGANIZATION IS THE VOT COMMISSION.
AND THERE ARE NINE MEMBERS ON THE DOD COMMISSION AND THERE'S ONE PER CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT AND TWO AT LARGE.
AND THE DIFFERENCE THERE IS THE AT-LARGE MEMBERS HAVE TO BE APPROVED BY BOTH THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE.
UM, THEY HAVE A NUMBER OF ROLES ACROSS, UH, DLT, A LOT OF THEM SIMILAR, UH, TO THE CTCS THEMSELVES, BUT IN TERMS OF D O T Y, THEY APPROVED VARIOUS PRIORITY LISTS.
AND THAT'S A REQUIREMENT OF ACT ONE 14, ALL OF THE MONEY THAT DLT CONTROLS WE HAVE TO PRIORITIZE AND SPEND.
WE CAN'T JUST PICK A PROJECT THAT WE WOULD WANT TO, UH, WANT TO, WITHOUT HAVING SOME REASONABLE WAY TO SAY THAT TO THE NEXT ONE ON THE LIST.
THEY'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING SURE THAT STEP IS UP TO DATE.
THAT'S THE STATEWIDE TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.
THAT'S A LIST THAT TALKS ABOUT FUNDING DOLLARS ON THE FEDERAL SIDE THAT ARE BEING SPENT WITHIN THE STATE.
THEY'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LONG RANGE PLAN AND APPROVING OUR ANNUAL BUDGET.
AND THERE'S A NUMBER OF OTHER THINGS ON HERE.
THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO REQUEST TO ISSUE BONDS.
IF THEY WOULD LIKE TO PUT A BIGGER EMPHASIS ON IMPROVEMENT RIGHT NOW, THEY CAN HAVE THAT MONEY UP FRONT JUST AS THE CTCS HAD THAT ABILITY TO, AND THE C FUND WALL.
UH, THEY HAVE, UH, BY OUR PROCESSES, THEY ARE THE ONES THAT ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR APPROVING CONTRACTS EXTENSIONS.
AND IF YOU LOOK AT THAT FROM A REASONABLE STANDPOINT, UH, IN TERMS OF PROCUREMENT THERE'S TIMES WHERE YOU'RE BALANCING THE GOOD OF BEING FAIR TO THE INDUSTRY AND BEING FAIR TO THE TAX DOLLAR.
SO YOU WANT TO, UH, ENCOURAGE COMPETITIVENESS WITHIN THE INDUSTRY, WHATEVER YOU'RE BIDDING, YOU KNOW, PAVING CONTRACTORS, BUT YOU ALSO WANT TO BE FAIR TO THE TAX DOLLARS.
THEY'RE NOT ALWAYS GOING TO BE SEEN, YOU KNOW, HAND IN HAND.
AND SO WHEN THEY WOULD APPROVE CONTRACT EXTENSIONS, UH, WE TYPICALLY DO THAT FOR THE SAME SCOPE OF WORK AND FOR, UH, LOCATIONS THAT WOULD BE VERY, UH, VERY CLOSE BY.
THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO ADD AND DELETE ROADS FROM THE STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM.
AND THEIR LAST POINT THAT WAS CLEARED UP
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IN THE RECENT PAST IS THEY'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR APPOINTING THE SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION.AND SO THEY'RE THE OVERALL ADMINISTRATIVE AND GOVERNING BODY OF THE AGENCY.
AND HERE'S OUR TOP CHAIN OF COMMAND AT D O T.
UH, CHRISTY HALL IS OUR SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION.
UH, SHE IS THE CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER OF THE DEPARTMENT.
UM, SHE OVERSEES ALL OF OUR EMPLOYEES STATEWIDE, UM, HER THREE MAIN DEPUTIES.
NOW SHE HAS MORE PEOPLE THAT SHE'S RESPONSIBLE FOR, BUT HER THREE MAIN DEPUTIES ARE FOR ENGINEERING, FINANCE ADMINISTRATION, AND INTERMODAL PLANNING.
AND, UH, UP UNTIL A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, I REPORTED UP THROUGH THE ENGINEERING SIDE.
UH, I'M NOW UNDER THE FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION SIDE, BUT MY ROLE TO YOU REMAINS THE SAME, UM, OUT OF THAT, THE DISTRICT OFFICE REPORTS UP THROUGH THE ENGINEERING SIDE.
AND, UH, WE ALSO HAVE AN INTERMODAL PLANNING DEPUTY, AND THE WAY THAT THAT ROLE WOULD AFFECT THE CTCS IS THAT A PORTION THAT CHART THAT WE SEND YOU FOR PLANNING PURPOSES, UH, HE'S RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT ROAD DATA COMPONENT.
AND SO THAT RURAL ROAD MILEAGE THAT SEPARATES WHERE FUNDING COMES STATEWIDE, HE'S RESPONSIBLE FOR PROVIDING THAT TO ME ON A YEARLY BASIS AS THAT'S UPDATED, AND THE PERCENTAGES ARE BROKEN DOWN.
SO I HAVE THIS LAST SLIDE KIND OF AS A SOFT POINT, BECAUSE WHENEVER I FIRST GOT MY ROLE, I WAS ALL EXCITED ABOUT IT.
YOU KNOW, IT WAS A PROMOTION FOR ME.
I WAS GETTING A BIGGER PAYCHECK, MORE RESPONSIBILITY MOVING UP IN MY CAREER, BUT I WAS HAPPY NOT ON SOCIAL MEDIA OR ANYTHING, BUT MY BOSS TOLD ME, HE SAID, COME IN TOMORROW WITH A SUIT, WE'LL GET A PICTURE OF YOU.
MAYBE WE'RE GOING TO PUT OUT A PRESS RELEASE.
SO I WAS THINKING I'M BIG STUFF.
AND I WAS EXCITED ABOUT IT, BUT I CAME IN AND GOT A PICTURE MADE.
AND, UH, THEY TOLD ME THEY PUT IT ON FACEBOOK AND MY WIFE GETS ON THERE AND, UH, TELLS ME ABOUT IT.
AND I SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT? I'M, I'M FAMOUS NOW.
SO, UH, SHE WENT AND CHECKED IT OUT.
AND WITHIN A FEW HOURS, THERE WAS ALREADY A NUMBER OF COMMENTS ON THERE.
I WAS GETTING TROLLED AND SOMEBODY WAS LIKE, WHO CARES? JUST PAVED THE DAMN ROADS.
I FELT LIKE I HAD ARRIVED, BUT, UH, BUT THAT'S PRETTY MUCH WHAT THEY, THEY SAY.
SO YOU GUYS HAVE A PUBLIC SERVICE JUST LIKE DLT.
DOES YOUR PURPOSE FIX AS MUCH AS HE CAN TAKE YOUR ROLE SERIOUSLY.
AND I'M HERE FOR ANSWERING ANY QUESTIONS FOR YOU.
HAS THE ABILITY TO BORROW AGAINST FUTURE NEEDS? YES.
AND DID I SAY THAT WE CAN DO THAT AT ACCOUNT LEVEL? SO CPC, SO IN THE C FUND LAW, THERE'S ABILITY TO BOND.
AND IF YOU'D LIKE TO DO THAT, UM, WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT, BUT ESSENTIALLY THERE ARE STEPS TO JUMP THROUGH AND HOW YOU WOULD GO ABOUT DOING THAT.
BUT IN YEARS, PAST DDOT HAD A 27 AND SEVEN PROGRAM.
SO WE HAD A LOT OF, A LOT OF PROJECTS UP FRONT THAT WE HAD TO PICK THAT WE COULDN'T PAY FOR.
WE PAID FOR IT THROUGH BONDING, AND IT TOOK US A LONG TIME TO PAY IT OFF.
WE'RE NOT DOING THAT RIGHT NOW, BUT, UM, THAT IS AVAILABLE TO BROUGHT GAMES.
NOW OUR DEAD SURFACING AND THINGS STILL GOING ON.
WELL, THE QUESTIONS COMING FROM MARCY AND TIM, WHEN THEY COME ON, I'M AVAILABLE FOR .
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ALL RIGHT, I'LL GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED.I'M TIM ANDERSON, I'M THE DISTRICT SIX ENGINEERING ADMINISTRATOR FOR STD OT.
AND, UH, CRAIG SAID THAT WOULD BE A GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR FOLKS TO COME DOWN FROM THE DISTRICT OFFICES, TO SEE OUR FACES AND, AND DESCRIBE TO YOU ALL WHAT WE DO AT A DISTRICT SIT, UM, UP ON SCREEN HERE.
I THINK SOME OF THE SAME STUFF THAT, THAT JOE'S TALKING ABOUT, UH, ON THE ORG CHART, BUT THIS IS OUR FOUR CHART THAT YOU CAN GO TO THE STD OT ON OR WEBSITE AND PULL OFF THE ORG CHART FOR, UH, DDOT LEADERSHIP.
UM, THIS PARTICULAR SITE HERE HAS SECRETARY HALL, OF COURSE, AT THE TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN.
AND AFTER I LEFT, SHE HAD A DEPUTY SECRETARY, AS HE TALKED ABOUT JUSTIN POWELL OVER HERE TO THE FAR LEFT OUT THERE, JUSTIN PILES, THEIR FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION, DEPUTY SECRETARY, AND THE NEXT PERSON OVER IS CARL KARTRA HE'S OVER OUR HUMAN RESOURCES FOR THE STATE.
AND AS WE MOVE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, UH, BRENT RUINS TO THE DEPUTY SECRETARY OF INTERMODAL PLANNING.
AND AS YOU GO TO THE FAR RIGHT, IS WHERE, UH, THE DISTRICTS ARE UNDER IS, UH, DEPUTY SECRETARY LELAND COLVIN.
UM, UNDER, UNDER LELAND, WE HAVE MY DIRECT BOSS IS CHIEF ENGINEER OF OPERATIONS.
UH, ANDY LEE PART AND UNDER ANDY ARE SEVERAL, UH, TITLES.
UH, YOU HAVE, ROBBY IS GETTING DIRECTOR OF CONSTRUCTION, ROB PERRY, WHO'S THE, UH, TRAFFIC ENGINEERING FOR THE STATE AID TO COOK IS OUR, UH, STATE MAINTENANCE ENGINEER.
AND THEN UNDER DAVID, WE HAVE ALL THE DISTRICT ADMINISTRATOR.
SO WE ARE BROKEN DOWN INTO SEVEN DISTRICTS AND I'M THE ADMINISTRATOR FOR DISTRICT SIX.
UM, IF YOU WANT TO GO AHEAD THIS, A MAP OF OUR SEVEN ENGINEERING DISTRICT, A DISTRICT SIX BEING THE WE'RE MADE UP OF SIX COUNTIES, BERKELEY DORCHESTER, CHARLESTON, CASPER, AND BUFORD.
UM, WE'RE ALL STRUCTURED THE SAME PRETTY MUCH.
WHEN ALL ARE THE SEVEN DISTRICTS, WE ALL HAVE A DEA.
WE ALL HAVE A DISTRICT MAINTENANCE ENGINEERS, DISTRICT CONSTRUCTION, ENGINEERS, DISTRICT, TRAFFIC ENGINEERS IN OUR DISTRICT.
WE'VE GOT ONE EXTRA, I GUESS, DISTRICT INSTRUCTION IN THERE.
I'LL TALK ABOUT THEM IN JUST A SECOND.
BUT ONE THING TO NOTE ABOUT DISTRICT SIX, I WAS LOOKING ON THE CENSUS ABOUT THE POPULATION, UH, 2021 CENSUS DISTRICT SIX HAS SIX OF THE TOP 10 MOST POPULATED CITIES IN THE STATE.
YET CHARLESTON BEING NUMBER ONE, NORTH CHARLESTON BEING NUMBER THREE TOWN OF MOUNT PLEASANT WAS RANKED FOUR.
SOME ADVIL WAS RANKED SEVEN GOOSE CREEK WAS EIGHT.
AND IF YOU GO TO THE TOP 20, WE HAD TWO MORE ADDED TO THE LIST AND WE HAD EIGHT OUT OF THE TOP 20 IN 16 WAS BLUFFTON AND 17 WITH HANNAH.
AND SO THOSE ARE A LOT OF, A LOT OF, UM, FOLKS THAT WE DEAL WITH IN AND OUT, UM, ON A DAILY BASIS.
AND THE DISTRICT OFFICE IS REALLY HERE TO SUPPORT OUR FIELD OFFICES, UH, GO INTO THAT SLOT.
I JUST WANTED TO INTRODUCE, UH, OUR, OUR DISTRICT SENIOR STAFF.
UH, OF COURSE YOU HAD ME AT THE TOP LEFT OF THE DISTRICT ENGINEER ADMINISTRATOR.
I'VE BEEN WITH THE DLT OVER 28 YEARS.
UH, MOST OF MY CAREER WAS IN THE, IN THE CONSTRUCTION PART OF IT.
I'VE BEEN, UH, THE DA, IF Y'ALL KNEW ROBERT CLARK, HE WAS THE FORMER DEA.
I TOOK HIS POSITION, UH, OFF TO THE FAR POP, RIGHT? WE HAVE DONNA CLEVELAND IS A DISTRICT.
UH, LADIES ARE REALLY, UH, UNDER THE COLUMBIA.
THEY DON'T DIRECTLY REPORT TO US.
THEY ARE HOUSED AT THE DISTRICT OFFICE AND DO SUPPORT, UH,
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OUR FOLKS AT THE DISTRICT.BUT HEY, ANSWER TO DISTRICT, I MEAN, EXCUSE ME, THE ANSWERS DIRECTLY TO THE HEADQUARTER, DONNA'S OVER IP FOLKS AND MS. MAURICE DARK IS OVER OUR HR.
UH, I LEFT THE RIGHT HERE AND MIKE'S WITH US TODAY.
MIKE, MIKE IS A DISTRICT MAINTENANCE ENGINEER.
HE'S PROBABLY GOT ONE OF THE BIGGER JOBS, UH, DEALING WITH THE FOLKS THAT WORK FOR US.
HE'S, HE'S GOT OVER 360 EMPLOYEES, UH, THAT ARE UNDER HIS, I GUESS, COMMAND, YOU WOULD SAY.
UH, SO MIKE HAS A 606 COUNT HIS SIX RMS, UM, REPORT DIRECTLY TO HIM, UH, OFF TO THE RIGHT, UH, JOSH JOHNSON.
JOSH HAS, UH, BEEN ABLE TO DEAL WITH T LITTLE OVER SEVEN YEARS AND HE HE'S OUR DISTRICT TRAFFIC ENGINEERING.
HE ALSO MANAGES, UH, THE FOLKS OVER AT THE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT CENTER, UH, THE SHIP GUYS, YOU SEE WITH THE BLUE TRUCKS, HE'S ALSO OVER, UH, THE SIGNAL SHOPS, UH, MANAGES OVER 29 EMPLOYEES.
AND HE DOES, UH, JOSH, HE, HIS DEPARTMENT ANSWERS A LOT OF QUESTIONS THAT COME TO THE DISTRICT OFFICE.
EVERYBODY WANTS TO KNOW WHAT, YOU KNOW, WANTS TO LOWER THE SPEED LIMIT.
EVERYBODY WANTS A TRAFFIC SIGNAL.
SO JOSH IS THE GOD THAT ANSWERS A LOT OF THOSE QUESTIONS.
AND, UM, VERY BEFORE HE CAME TO DLT, HE WAS AT THE CONSULTING WORLD AS A TRAFFIC ENGINEER.
SO HE WAS, UH, WELL FIRST IN, UM, DEALING WITH TRAFFIC STUDIES AND KNOWING WHEN A SIGNAL IS WARRANTED OR ANNOYING WHEN STOP SIGNS OR TO GO TO ALWAYS STOPS TO GET A LOT OF THOSE REQUESTS ABOUT THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT OFF TO THE RIGHT.
AND I THINK JOE MENTIONED THE DISTRICT PERMIT ENGINEER, JULIE FLEMING, JULIE'S UP, SHE'D BEEN WITH THE DLT OVER 19 YEARS.
UM, SHE DEALS WITH ALL THE MAJOR ENCROACHMENT PERMITS THAT COME ACROSS.
WE HAVE PERMANENT ENGINEERS AT THE LOCAL LEVEL THAT WORK, YOU KNOW, LIKE IN BUFORD THAT MANAGES, UH, SOME OF THE UTILITY PERMITS FOLKS WANTING TO DRIVE AWAY, UH, SOME OF THE MINOR PERSON WHEN IT COMES TO BIG DEVELOPMENTS, UH, THE WALMARTS, YOU KNOW, THE CITIES AND THE COUNTIES WHO, WHO WON'T DO WORKING RIGHT AWAY, THEY WORKED THROUGH THROUGH JULIE'S OFFICE AND OFF TO THE FAR RIGHT IS TIM PARKER.
WE HAVE A DISTRICT MECHANICAL ENGINEER.
TIM PARKER HAS BEEN WITH US FOR A LITTLE FOUR YEARS.
UH, HE'S BEEN IN THE, UH, INDUSTRY, UH, UH, ENGINEERING FOR OVER 35 YEARS.
SO HE'S GOT A LOT OF, UH, A LOT OF KNOWLEDGE.
HE DEALS WITH ALL OUR BUILDINGS OR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS.
YOU MAKE SURE ALL OUR EQUIPMENT, UH, IN THE MACHINES OR OPERATING AND ALL OUR FACILITIES.
HE HAS A CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS GROUP, A COUPLE OF GUYS THAT, UH, IF SOMETHING BREAKS DOWN AND WE NEED TO REMODEL SOME STUFF, HE HANDLES ALL THAT FOR US.
UH, MAKE SURE ALL OUR, UH, GENERATORS ARE WORKING WELL.
WE HAVE OUR HURRICANES AND OUR SNOW AND ICE, UM, ISSUES.
UH, BOTTOM LEFT IS SUSAN CONNELL, A NEW POSITION THAT, UM, THAT USED TO BE UNDER TIM PARKER.
NOW REPORTS DIRECTLY TO ME, HE'S A DISTRICT SAFETY OFFICER.
SHE'S SHE'S, UH, WENT OUT TRAINING OUR FOLKS, WATCHING, MAKING SURE, UH, THEY'LL DO, THEY'LL DO, UH, I GUESS SAFETY CHECKS AT THE GATES, MAKING SURE EVERYBODY'S WEARING THE SEAT BELT.
SHE'S ALSO CDL TRAINER, SO SHE CAN GIVE THE TEST FOR OUR FOLKS AND HELP TRAIN THEM.
AND THEY DO PROVIDE, UH, THEIR SAFETY MEETINGS EVERY MONTH FOR ALL OUR DIFFERENT OFFICES IN THE SIX COUNTIES.
HE'S OUR DISTRICT BRIDGE ENGINEER, AND HE'S OVER THE CONSTRUCTION OF THEIR FRIDGE DEPARTMENT AS WELL AS OR MAINTENANCE.
SO KEVIN IS, UH, I GUESS I'LL SAY ONE OF OUR SMARTEST ENGINEERS.
HE KNOWS THIS, HE KNOWS THIS BRIDGE AND HE HAPPENED TO BE A HUSBAND TO MARSHALL.
UH, GREAT GUY BEEN WITH US, UH, OVER EIGHT YEARS.
UM, HE MANAGES OVER 47 EMPLOYEES.
THAT INCLUDES THE BRIDGE MAINTENANCE GUYS.
UH, A LOT OF EMERGENCY STUFF THAT SEEMS TO HAPPEN, HAPPENS ON HIS WATCH WITH OUR BRIDGES.
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SUPPOSED TO BE OFF FRIDAY.FOR INSTANCE, I HAVE 26 AROUND MILE MARKER 1 7700 BRIDGE DECK.
ALL OF A SUDDEN HAS A BIG HOLE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.
SO HE'S OUT THERE ON HIS DAY OFF TRYING TO GRAB ALL THE FOLKS HE CAN AND DEALING WITH TRAFFIC CONTROL, TRYING TO GET IT ROUTED AROUND ON A FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
BUT ANYWAY, THAT WAS A LOT OF THOSE EMERGENCY.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS, BUT IT JUST SEEMS LIKE IT HAPPENS IN OUR, IN OUR DISTRICT.
UH, OBVIOUSLY YOU HEAR ABOUT THE WANDO BRIDGE AND, UH, HE WAS, HE WAS NECK DEEP IN THAT, UM, RANK GUY I'D HAVE HIM ON OUR TEAM.
UM, AND THEN DANIEL BURTON, EITHER ANOTHER DISTRICT CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER.
WE HAVE TWO DISTRICT CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERS.
UM, HE MANAGED MOST OF THE ROAD, THE ROAD PORTIONS, THE PAVING, UH, SOME MINOR BRIDGES POSSIBLY THAT HE ALSO DEALS WITH OUR DESIGN BUILD PROJECTS, SPECIAL PROJECTS ENGINEER.
UH, SARAH GAFFNEY WORKS FOR HIM, UH, BUT HE HAS SEVERAL RESIDENT CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERS UNDER HIS THUMB.
UH, ONE DEAN GREG MOORE HERE IN THE BEEF HERD AREA.
UM, TWO IN OUR CHARLESTON AREA AND ONE IN DORCHESTER COUNTY AND MARCY, SHE'S OUR DISTRICT CONTRACTS ENGINEER.
YOU WANT TO HEAR FROM MARCY HERE IN A FEW MINUTES, UH, TALK ABOUT OUR, OUR PAVING PROGRAM.
SO THAT'S OUR DISTRICT, UH, ENGINEERING STAFF.
UM, THESE ARE THESE, ALL THESE FOLKS, OR BASICALLY THEY HAVE PES LICENSED NEW YORK, EXCEPT FOR SUSAN WHO WAS THE, UH, OSHA OFFICER.
AND THEY ALL REPORT DIRECTLY TO ME HERE.
THIS SLIDE HERE IS, UH, IS OURS, IS THERE A PEAK TEEN ORGANIZATIONS THAT'S UNDER DISTRICT SIX OR DIFFERENT OFFICES THAT HAVE ALL OUR MAINTENANCE OFFICES IN OUR CONSTRUCTION OFFICES.
WE'VE GOT A HEAD ROOM REPORT USUALLY ONCE A MONTH OR TWICE A MONTH.
SOMETIMES WE HAVEN'T GOT ONE IN A WALK, WE'LL BE DOING SOME RESTRUCTURING.
UM, BUT OUR FULL-TIME POSITIONS WE HAVE IN OUR DISTRICT 512 FULL FULL-TIME POSITIONS.
UNFORTUNATELY WE ARE AT ABOUT A 35% VACANCY.
SO WE'VE GOT 334 THAT OUR FIELD, 178 POSITIONS IN OUR DISTRICT OR OUR PAGAN.
SO IF YOU HAVE A, ANYBODY WHO WANTS A JOB, DLT IS ALWAYS LOOKING, UM, TALK TO THEM ABOUT A DISTRICT MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS.
HERE'S OUR, HERE'S OUR BUDGET FOR THE OPERATIONS.
UM, SEE ON THE CHARTS, THAT'S ALL OUR, UH, ALL OUR MAINTENANCE UNITS IN THE SIX COUNTIES ARE A TOTAL OPERATION BUDGET IS AROUND 18 MILLION AND THAT INCLUDES $18 MILLION HERE IS MADE UP OF THE LAST, THE OTHER TWO COLUMNS.
WELL, THE IN HOUSE OPERATIONS, THE SEVEN AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS.
AND THAT'S THE DAY IN DAY IN AND DAY OUT OPERATIONS THAT WE NEED TO GET THINGS DONE.
THAT'S OUR GUYS HAVING TO BUY A HOUSE FALL, HAVING A BIKE ROCK, HAVING TO BUY PIPE, UM, TO DO OUR JOBS EVERY DAY.
AND, UH, THE LAST COLUMN IS CONTRACT WORK.
WE DO HAVE LARGE CONTRACTS, BUT MAINTENANCE CONTRACTS WOULD FALL INTO LIKE YOUR MORNING AND YOUR VEGETATION CONTRACTS, YOUR LITTER PICKUP, UM, JUST SWEEPING.
WE DO HAVE SOME FULL DEBT PATCHING TYPE CONTRACT.
UM, AND THIS IS ALL IN THE MAINTENANCE.
WE OBVIOUSLY, WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT CONSTRUCTION.
CONSTRUCTION HAS THE CONTRACTS THAT GO OUT FOR BID FOR YOUR APEX.
THAT'S ALSO INCLUDES SOME CONCRETE SIDEWALK REPAIRS THAT WE WOULD DO IN THE CONTRACT WORK.
AND THEN IF YOU THROW IN OUR PAYROLL FOR MAINTENANCE, WE'RE LOOKING AT ABOUT 11 OVER $11 MILLION.
WE PAY IN PAYROLL FOR THEM AND MAINTENANCE EMPLOYEES.
AND SO IF YOU HAD IN YOUR PAYROLL COSTS FOR ALL OUR SIX COUNTIES AND YOU THROW IN OPERATION, UH, TOTALS FOR SIX COUNTIES, WE'RE LOOKING AT ABOUT ALMOST $30 MILLION BUDGET THAT WE DEAL WITH IN OUR DISTRICT.
AND I'M SURE YOU'LL PROBABLY SEE, UH, BUT THIS IS JUST OUR DISTRICT AND THE NUMBER OF LANE MILES AND THE NUMBER OF, OF CENTER LINE MILES WE HAVE IN OUR DISTRICT.
UM, IT BREAKS IT DOWN IN YOUR INTERSTATE, YOUR PRIMARY OR SECONDARY ROUTES.
SO, YOU KNOW, SOUTH CAROLINA HAS THE FOURTH LARGEST STATE OWNED SYSTEM OF A 41,000
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MILES.AND WE'VE GOT ABOUT 5,000 IN DISTRICT SIX.
SO WE'VE GOT ABOUT 12% OF THE ROADS IN OUR STATE ARE IN DISTRICT SIX THAT WE MANAGE, UH, BEAKERS.
THE ONLY ONE THAT DOESN'T HAVE AN INTERSTATE ON IT, YOU SEE YOU HAVE ZERO MILES AND ON THE, FOR BUFORD PRIMARY ROUTES, THESE ARE YOUR US ROUTES.
UH, YOUR SC ROUTES, UM, CINDERELLA MILES.
WE HAVE, UH, 137 IN DEFERRED FEDERAL AGE, SECONDARY ROUTES, UH, AND YOUR NON VENTILATED ROUTES ARE CLOSED.
THEM DEFER A LOT OF IT TO BE ABOUT 530 MILES OF ROADS THAT, THAT FALL IN BUFORD.
UM, NEXT, NEXT SLIDE IS, UH, THE DASHBOARD REPORT.
IT THAT WE CAN PULL UP ON THE WEBSITE AND KIND OF LOOK AT WHAT EACH COUNTY OR EACH DISTRICT IS DOING ON THE SYSTEM.
SO ON THIS CHART HERE, YOU SEE THE 17,500 NUMBER.
THAT'S HOW MANY WORK ORDER REQUESTS THAT WE GET AND DISTRICT SEX OVER 17,000 AND THE LITTLE CHART AT THE TOP, RIGHT? YOU CAN SEE THE MOST OF THOSE 30% OF THOSE ARE POTHOLE PATCHING.
AND THEN THE NEXT, THE DARK BLUE IS YOUR, UM, YOUR DRAINAGE.
SO THIS IS INCLUDING OVER OUR SIX COUNTIES.
UH, SO YOU HAD A POTHOLE BEING A MAJOR, SECOND PLACE WAS DRAINAGE.
AND THIRD PLACE WAS, UH, BULLYING AND VEGETATION.
AND WE TRY TO AT THE BOTTOM RIGHT-HAND CORNER, YOU KNOW, THIS IS OUR GOAL IS TO TRY TO COMPLETE 75% OF ALL WORK ORDERS.
WE TRY TO COMPLETE WITHIN 30 DAYS, AS YOU CAN SEE, AS A DISTRICT WIDE, WE'RE A LITTLE BIT UNDER THE UNDER PAR CAUSE WE'RE AT 68 AND WE NEED TO BE AT 75.
BUT OBVIOUSLY I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW, WE ALL STRUGGLING FOR PERSONNEL.
THE COVID HASN'T HELPED ANY AND JUST FIND THE PEOPLE TO WORK.
IT'S, UM, IT'S BEEN A REAL CHALLENGE FOR OUR AGENCY AS A WHOLE, BUT ESPECIALLY DOWN HERE IN, IN, ON THE COAST WHERE WE HAVE A LOT OF, A LOT OF BIG COMPANIES LIKE YOUR BOWINGS AND ALL HOES, AND, UM, JUST A LOT OF COMPETITION, UH, THAT WE HAVE THAT WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH IN OUR AREA.
AND I DID WANT TO BREAK DOWN, UH, FOR THE FEE FOR WHAT ELIZABETH HAS TO DEAL WITH IT ON DAY IN AND DAY OUT, SHE GETS, UH, ACCORDING TO THIS CAR, SHE OWNS 2000 WORK ORDERS A YEAR, UH, IN, IN BUFORD, UH, HER, HER MAJOR WINDOW ISN'T POSSIBLE.
IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S MOVING IN VEGETATION.
ABOUT 23% OF HER WORK ORDERS IS DEALING WITH VEGETATION AND MOWING.
AND BY 18% SHE'S DEALING WITH DRAINAGE, OBVIOUSLY WE'RE IN THE LOW COUNTRY, RIGHT? NOTHING FLOWS TOO WELL.
SO WE GET A LOT OF DRAINAGE REQUEST, A LOT OF CLOSED SYSTEMS OUT THERE THAT WE HAVE TO TRY TO PULL OUT AND, UM, AND DIG THE DITCHES.
UH, AND SHE DOES A GREAT JOB WITH THE FOLK.
SHE HAS TO DO THIS AND, UH, AND SHE'S ALSO HAS GOTTEN HELP FROM THE LOCALS AS WELL AND APPRECIATE IT.
I APPRECIATE THAT, UM, FOLK COMING ON OUR SYSTEM, HELPING US OUT BECAUSE WE JUST DON'T HAVE THE PEOPLE TO DO IT.
UM, AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE BOTTOM, RIGHT? SHE MEETS HER GOALS.
SO SHE'S GETTING HER HER IN 30 DAYS, SHE'S GETTING LEAST 75% OF HER WORK OVER TO THE HOUSE.
AND, UM, AND HER, HER CRUISE, I THINK SHE WORKS AND I MIGHT'VE MISSED THAT SLIDE, BUT SHE HAS, UH, SHE HAS 41 FULL-TIME POSITIONS AND SHE'S ONLY GOT 23 FIELDS AND SHE'S AT A 43.9% VACANCY IN HER OFFICE.
AND, AND UNFORTUNATELY THAT INCLUDES ALL OUR OFFICE PERSONNEL AND OUR GUYS IN THE SHOP AND THE MECHANICS.
SO, UH, WITH THAT SAID, I BELIEVE THIS IS GOING TO BE MARCH.
SO WE'LL BE GLAD TO TAKE SOME QUESTIONS TO FINISH THIS.
AND I'VE EVER HEARD YOU SPEAK, I'M NOT GOING TO SELL FOR A, I'M GOING TO START OFF WITH SOMETHING FUNNY FOR ROOMMATES TO LIGHTEN UP JUST A LITTLE BIT.
UM, WE, WE HAVE ONE JOB, RIGHT? AND AS JOE MENTIONED, HE GOT TROLLED AND PAVED THE DAMN ROADS.
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WHAT EVERYBODY WANTS US TO DO.SO THAT'S KIND OF WHAT I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT.
I'M MARCY, I'M OVER THE CONTRACTS.
I PUT TOGETHER ALL OF THE SERVICING AND PRESERVATION CONTRACTS AND ARE THERE CERTAIN EITHER PER STATE OR CTCS? UM, BUT, UH, IF ANYBODY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY OF THESE, I APOLOGIZE.
JUST DON'T RAISE YOUR HAND THAT YOU DID ANY OF THESE.
BUT, UM, WE, THESE ARE SITUATIONS THAT WE REALLY ALWAYS WANT TO WORK TOGETHER TO AVOID.
I MEAN, SOME DAYS THERE'S JUST NO SENSE RHYME OR REASON, BUT AFTER Y'ALL COMMUNICATE, I THINK WE CAN ACTUALLY AVOID THESE.
ALTHOUGH I DO THINK THE DATA ONE MAY COME IN HANDY.
I THINK PEOPLE MIGHT START PAYING ATTENTION TO WHAT'S WRITTEN ON THE GROUND.
IF WE START SPEAKING YODA, UM, AS JOE HAD KIND OF MENTIONED THAT THIS IS THE 10 YEAR TAX PLAN.
IF ANYBODY'S HEARD CHRISSY HALL OR LELAND COLVIN, HOW MANY IN HERE MAYBE HEARD THE TEN-YEAR PLANS EACH OVER AND OVER AND OVER.
UH, JUST WANTED TO POINT OUT ONE THING THAT, UH, JOE DIDN'T HAVE IS IF YOU SEE IT FULL IMPLEMENTATION, WHICH DOES START TO LIVE THIS YEAR, WE ARE STILL SIGNIFICANTLY UNDER OUR NEIGHBORING STATES WERE TRYING TO DIG OURSELVES OUT OF THIS BILLION DOLLAR HOLE, BUT IT'S GOING TO TAKE A LONG TIME TO SO, BUT WE ARE WELL ON OUR WAY HEADING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
I'M NOT GOING TO GO IN THE WEEDS HERE, BUT JUST KIND OF WANTED TO SHOW YOU WHAT OUR TENURE PLAN, WHAT THE INITIAL SCOPE WAS.
IT WAS TO ALWAYS BUILD MORE MONEY INTO OUR RESURFACING PROGRAM.
YOU CAN SEE THAT HUGE CHUNK OF MONEY IS GOING INTO OUR RESURFACING PROGRAM.
AS MANY OF YOU HAVE SEEN THESE TWO FACTS ARE ALWAYS IN THE 10 YEAR PROGRAM, BUT THEY ARE STILL EVER IMPORTANT.
AND THEY'RE CHANGING BY MOUTH, ESPECIALLY WITH THE LATEST, UM, INTEREST IN, UH, GROWTH RATES.
UH, I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF Y'ALL HAVE SEEN THIS, UH, BUT THE, YOU HEARD IT HAS THE HIGHEST BIRTH RATE IN OUR STATE AND THEN OUR DISTRICT, OUR DISTRICT, WE HAVE THREE OF THEM.
SO THAT'S PRETTY CRAZY TO THINK ABOUT, BUT WE'RE ALL HERE TOGETHER TRYING TO LIKE MOVE OUR AGENDA FORWARD AND ALSO TRY TO CALM DOWN THE BURSTING OF THE SEAMS THAT ALL THIS BIRTHRIGHT IS PUTTING ON US RIGHT NOW, TO THE FUN PART, HOW THESE FUNDS HAVE BEEN ALLOCATED FOR OUR 2022 PROGRAMS. THIS IS KIND OF HOW THE DISTRICT FUNDING DROPPED DOWN.
YOU GOT ABOUT $7.2 MILLION AND YOU BUFORD, AND I'LL BREAK THAT DOWN A LITTLE FURTHER IN A, ANOTHER SLOT, BUT ABOUT $7.2 MILLION WAS ON THE STREET FOR 2022.
THE NEXT PROGRAM THAT WE'RE WORKING ON IS ACTUALLY GOING TO BE THE FINAL GAS TAX ALLOTMENT.
YOU'RE GOING TO MOVE UP TO 8.8 AND THAT'S GOING TO BE ABOUT THE SAME.
YOU'RE GOING TO SEE STARTING IN 2023.
NOW THAT IS THE EXTRA 2 CENTS ADDED JUST FOR THAT.
WE'RE ALREADY, UM, THEY'VE ALREADY ALLOCATED THAT TO US BECAUSE THESE ARE 2023.
SO THEY START LETTING LATER, UM, DISCLAIMER, THIS IS MY BORING SLIDE.
THEY'LL THROW YOU TAKE A NAP, LOTS OF WORDS, SORRY, BUT I KNOW THAT THERE'S A LOT OF INTEREST IN HERE ON HOW WE RANK OUR RIGHTS AND HOW WE PRIORITIZE THEM FOR OUR PROGRAMS. YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND THE ENGINEERING DIRECTORS ON OUR WEBSITE, AND I DID PUT A LINK THERE AND YOU CAN FIND ANY OF THE ENGINEERING DIRECTORS THERE THAT I MIGHT MENTION.
UH, WE'LL TRY TO HIGHLIGHT ALL OF THESE, UH, MAIN POINTS AS PAINLESSLY AS POSSIBLE.
BUT, UH, AS JOE MENTIONED, UH, WE HAD AN ACT ONE 14 THAT MADE IT A REQUIREMENT FOR US TO HAVE PROJECT PRIORITIZATION.
WE DETERMINED THESE INDICES, UH, WERE THE IMPORTANT ONES.
AS THE FIRST PRESENTATION MENTIONED, PQI IS HIGHLY WEIGHTED ON OUR SYSTEM.
WE HAVE A ROUGHNESS INDEX AS WELL, AND NOT JUST IS IF THE ROAD IS A ROUGH RIDE, BUT IT STARTS REALLY STABLE.
IT'S GOT A PRETTY HIGH WEIGHT, BUT NOT QUITE AS HIGH AS THE PQI DAILY TRAFFIC STILL COMES IN AS WELL AS TRUCKS.
AND IT'S JUST A WEIGHTED FORMULA.
THEN ALL OF THAT IS PUT TOGETHER THROUGH A LOVELY FORMULA THAT IT GIVES US A PRIORITY RANKING SCORE.
THAT INITIAL PRS SCORE IS A MAXIMUM OF A THOUSAND.
THE HIGHER THE SCORE, THE HIGHER, THE PRIORITY RANKING.
THERE'S A THRESHOLD THAT HAS BEEN DETERMINED BY HEADQUARTERS THAT PUTS IT IN INCLUSION FOR A POOL OF CANDIDATES THAT WE RECEIVED.
SO WE DON'T NECESSARILY AT THE DISTRICT LEVEL RECEIVED THE WHOLE PICTURE.
WE KIND OF SEE A GROUP OF THEM, AND THAT'S KIND OF WHAT WE'RE AFTER, AS FAR AS MAKING OUR SELECTIONS AND TRYING TO LOOK AT HOW WE CAN BEST PRIORITIZE THIS, THEN WE HAVE THE LOCAL FIELD CRITERIA THAT WE'RE ALLOWED TO ACTUALLY INPUT DATA ON A RELATIVE CONDITION.
THAT IS JUST THE DETERIORATION OF THE ROAD SINCE THE LAST EVALUATION OR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE ROAD.
UH, THERE COULD HAVE BEEN A WEATHER EVENT OR THERE COULD HAVE BEEN A SALES TAX PROJECT THAT MAYBE HADN'T BEEN COMPLETED AT THE TOP QUARTER.
CONTINUITY KIND OF SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.
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UP A ROAD OR A QUARTER THAT IS JUST BEEN STARTED AND WE JUST NEED THE COMPLETE, UH, CONNECTIVITY IS LIKE YOUR ECONOMIC CENTERS, YOUR SCHOOLS, YOUR GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS, YOUR EMERGENCY UNITS.AND CONTRACTIBILITY IS GROUPING OF ROADS IN A GEOGRAPHICAL AREA OR LIKE TREATMENT.
SO IF WE HAVE A RECONSTRUCTION ROAD RECLAMATION ROAD, ARE, WE HAVE RADIATION TREATMENTS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO WORK TOGETHER.
WE CAN DO THAT FOR CONTRACTIBILITY AND IT USUALLY GETS DOWN OUR BID PRICES.
IMPORTANT PART TO NOTE IS THE TOP PART, PEOPLE IN HEADQUARTERS PUT THAT TOGETHER.
COMPILOT FOR US LOCALLY, WE'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LAST FOUR OR A HUNDRED POINTS.
HERE'S A WALK THROUGH THE WOODS.
THIS IS KIND OF OUR MAP OF HOW THE PROCESS BREAKS DOWN.
UH, IT'S VERY GENERAL, VERY HIGH LEVEL, RIGHT? BETA SERVICES DOES VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT FMI WAS DOING, UM, AND COLLECTS ALL OF THAT ROAD DATA, ANALYZES IT.
AND ALONG WITH THE DIRECTOR OF MAINTENANCE OFFICE, THEY DEVELOPED THAT THE ORIGINAL PRS NUMBER AND THAT THRESHOLD TO SHOW US WHICH ACTUAL CANDIDATES ARE MADE FOR, I GUESS, ART FOR THAT YEAR CYCLE OR THAT TWO YEAR CYCLE, WHICH I'LL TELL YOU MORE ABOUT IN A LITTLE OFF, BUT, UH, THEY GIVE ALL OF THAT INTO OUR INTERNAL SOFTWARE SYSTEM.
AND THEN OUR DISTRICT CONTRACT MANAGERS HAVE ACCESS TO THAT AND DOWNLOAD THAT.
AND WHEN I GET THAT INFORMATION, I DO THIS ON AN ANNUAL BASIS.
I'D MAKE A SKITTLE SPREADSHEET.
AND IT HAS SKITTLES BECAUSE IT HAS EVERY COLOR OF THE RAINBOW, UM, HOOKED IT, ARMIES, APPRECIATE THAT BECAUSE I'M A VERY VISUAL PERSON.
SO I LIKE LOOKING AT COLORS AND SEEING THINGS.
AND ONCE I GET THAT, I KIND OF GO THROUGH AND EXCLUDE ALL OF THE ROADS THAT MAY HAVE HAD IMPAIRMENT, OR I KNOW, OR HAVE AN UPCOMING IMPROVEMENTS MAYBE IN PIZZA, LESS FOR A FUTURE PROJECT THAT IS, WE JUST REALLY DON'T WANT TO PUT, SPEND OUR MONEY ON IT RIGHT THEN BECAUSE SOMEBODY ELSE IS GOING TO, UM, AND THEN IT TAKES OVER TEMPORARILY ELIZABETH, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON HOW YOU GO ABOUT SURE.
SHE DID MENTION EARLIER WE WOULD GET THINGS LIKE THE CONDITION LOCALLY, UM, THE CONTINUITY, THE CONNECTIVITY AND THE CONTRACTIBILITY.
SO WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT PROVIDING, UM, INSIGHT TO PROJECTS THAT YOU GUYS HAVE DONE ON THE CTC.
UM, LOCAL IMPACTS WITH, UH, OTHER MUNICIPALITIES WITH UTILITY COMPANIES THAT HAVE COME IN THAT HAVE SOME LONG LINE, UH, PROJECTS THAT THEY, THEY PERFORMED AS WELL AS MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES THAT WE'VE DONE IN HOUSE, BUT THEY'RE ON UNDER STRENGTHENING AND LEVELING THAT WE DO.
AND THEN WE PROVIDE ALL THAT FEEDBACK TO MARCY AND SHE HAS A GREAT SKITTLES SPREADSHEET THAT SHE MENTIONED THAT WE WORKED THROUGH AND IT IS APPRECIATED.
UM, SO WE JUST TAKE THE LOCAL IMPACT FROM THAT.
UM, WE ALSO PROVIDE INSIGHT TO, UH, THE CONNECTIVITY ASPECT, WHAT LOCALLY, UM, WE HAVE AND, AND, AND ACTIVITIES THAT ONGOING THAT IT CAN HAVE THE MOST IMPACT ON.
AND THEN AGAIN, WITH THE GEOGRAPHICAL COMPONENT, UM, WHERE ARE THEY LOCATED AND HOW MUCH, HOW MUCH, UM, AND PERHAPS WE CAN MAKE, UM, COLLECTIVELY TO THE WHOLE SYSTEM.
UH, THERE'S NO WAY I COULD KNOW WHAT ARMIES KNOW AND THEIR COUNTIES.
THERE'S JUST NO WAY I COULD KEEP UP WITH THE ROADS AND ITS USE AND WHAT'S GOING ON AND HOW MUCH INTERNAL WORK THEY'VE DONE.
AND THEY ALSO PARTNERED WITH THE CTCS A LITTLE MORE REGULARLY THAN I'M ABLE TO ASSUME.
SHE CAN BE A LITTLE MORE AWARE AND PROVIDE ME INSIGHT AS TO WHAT'S GOING ON LOCALLY.
UM, ONCE I GET ALL THAT INFORMATION FROM THE RMS, I DO THE PUZZLE WORK.
I TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW THE DESIRES AND THE PRIORITIES ARE GOING TO FIT IN OUR BUDGET.
AND SOMETIMES THAT IS LIKE FITTING A SQUARE PEG IN A ROUND HOLE, BUT I DID THE BEST.
I CAN SEND THAT LIST OFF TO THE DIRECTOR OF MAINTENANCE OFFICE WHO SENT IT TO COMMISSION AND MAY OR JUNE, USUALLY WITH COVID, IT KIND OF GOT OFF THERE.
SO USUALLY SOMETIME AROUND THAT TOM BRAIN IS WHEN IT'S IN SEEING THESE LIST, UH, THEN I'M KIND OF CONCURRENTLY WHILE THEY'RE GETTING SENT OFF FOR COMMISSION APPROVAL.
I'M ALREADY WORKING THESE THINGS UP.
UM, WE HAVEN'T REALLY HAD ANY ISSUES WITH COMMISSION, NOT REJECTING ANYTHING.
SO I GO UNDER THE IMPRESSION IN THAT WORK, WE'RE GOING TO GET THESE APPROVED AND WE'RE WORKING THEM UP AND WE'RE COORDINATING OR COORDINATING WITH, UH, ANY KIND OF LOCAL PROJECTS THAT WE MIGHT NEED TO, UH, COORDINATING WITH TRAFFIC WITH OUR PERMIT ENGINEER, WITH OUR OFFICE AND MATERIALS AND RESEARCH.
WE'LL, I'LL GET TO HERE IN JUST A MINUTE.
AND ONCE ALL THAT WORK IS DONE AND THE OFFICIAL COMMISSION APPROVAL IS THERE, THESE CONTRACTS ARE PUT TOGETHER, SENT BACK TO DON FOR FINAL LEGS, SICK AS WE WERE COMING OUT, FIELD BREAKFASTS.
WE, NOW THAT WE ARE NOT RELIANT ON STRICTLY FEDERAL DOLLARS, WE ARE TRYING TO ELIMINATE THE BANDAID
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FIXES, WHICH WE REALLY KIND OF HAD TO SURVIVE OFF OF FOR MANY YEARS.UH, THAT'S WHY THE ROADS ARE WHERE THEY, BUT WE'RE TYING TO ELIMINATE THAT.
SO WHEN WE SEE THESE ROADS THAT REALLY NEEDS SOME, SOME FULL RECONSTRUCTION WORK, WE'RE DEFINITELY GO INTO THE OFFICE OF MATERIALS AND RESEARCH, UM, AND HEADQUARTERS TO KIND OF STUDY SOME OF THESE ROUTES.
THEY DEFINITELY LOOK AT OUR PRIMARY ROUTES AND OUR HIGH VOLUME SECONDARIES SOMETIMES WITH OUR LOWER.
AGAIN, WE HAVE SOME, WE HAVE AN DISTRICT CORY MACHINE THAT WE CAN TAKE A COUPLE OF QUARTERS HERE AND THERE AND KIND OF GET SOME PAVEMENT DESIGN CRITERIA THAT WE'RE, WE'RE COMFORTABLE ENOUGH WITH TO SUGGEST, UH, THE REHAB OR THE RECONSTRUCTION.
UM, ONE KEYNOTE, UM, A LOT OF RECLAMATION HAS BEEN HAPPENING SINCE THE TENURE PROGRAM WAS IMPLEMENTED IN ACCESS.
WE STARTED NOTICING THAT A RECLAMATION, WHICH IS OUR CEMENT MODIFIED RECYCLED BASE IS ACTUALLY CHEAPER WHEN YOU START LOOKING AT 15% FULL THAT PATCHES AND EVEN SOME SHOULDER WIDENING.
UM, WE ACTUALLY IT'S COMING IN CHEAPER CONTRACT PRICES ARE WHICH KIND OF GOOD FOR US.
UH, SOME OTHER DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS, UH, I MENTIONED BLOGGING BIKE ROUTE AND SHORTER WIDENINGS WE ARE CONSIDERING.
AND THAT IS ALL FROM OUR HIGHWAY DESIGN MANUAL, OUR THREE, OUR REQUIREMENTS, AND THAT'S THE RESURFACING RESTORATION AND REHABILITATION, AND ALSO OUR LOCAL ROADS.
SO IF THERE'S SOME ROADS THAT NEED SOME SHOULDER WIDENING, USUALLY THE RULE OF THUMB IS, YOU KNOW, A LONGER ROAD THAT'S GREATER THAN 45 MILES AN HOUR.
USUALLY YOU WANT TO PUT TWO FOOT SHOULDERS ON IT.
IF IT'S ALREADY A 10 FOOT LANE, UM, IT'S KIND OF, THERE'S ALL KINDS OF LITTLE THINGS I COULD SIT HERE AND GO IN THE WEEDS ON, BUT THAT'S KIND OF THE GENERAL ROLE IS WE'RE STARTING TO CONSIDER THOSE TWO FOOT PAIN SHOULDERS, BIKE ROUTES.
UH, IF IT'S ON AN ESTABLISHED BIKE ROUTE EAST COAST, GREENWAY, COASTAL ROUTE, UM, I KNOW WE ARE WORKING WITH MPOS AND THE COGS TO DEVELOP THE APPROVED BIKE ROUTES OTHER THAN THEIRS.
SO IF WE'RE NOTIFIED OF THOSE, WE DEFINITELY WILL LOOK AT INCLUDING THE FOUR, BUT OUTSIDE OF THE LIGHT LINE, IF WE HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY FORWARD AND THERE'S NO MAJOR DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS THAT WOULD BE NEEDED, WE ARE DEFINITELY LOOKING AT THOSE THINGS.
SOME OF THEM PROBABLY DON'T THINK ABOUT, BUT IF THERE'S EXISTING GUARD RAIL OUT THERE, IF IT'S A NATIVE REPAIR OR THE TREATMENTS AREN'T UP TO STANDARDS, OR IT DOESN'T MEET HEIGHT REQUIREMENTS, WE ARE LOOKING AT INCLUSION OF THOSE.
HOWEVER, IF WE HAVE A LONG STRETCH OF GUARDRAIL THAT JUST EXTENDS WAY TOO LONG TO REALLY JUST FINANCIALLY BE FINANCIALLY FESTIVAL FOR THAT WE'RE SERVICING CONTRACT, WE DO TRY TO GO OUT AND SEE IF WE CAN GET THAT UNDER SEPARATE CONTRACTS.
UH, THE PEDESTRIAN, WE FOLLOW OUR ADA TRANSITION TO THAT.
AS FAR AS, UH, IMPLEMENTING RAMPS, UH, UPGRADING RAMPS, WE DO HAVE SOME SAFETY PROJECTS THAT JOSH IS AWARE OF AND LETS ME KNOW.
AND IF THERE ARE SOME OF THOSE SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE CAN INCORPORATE INTO OUR PLAN, UM, WE WILL DO SO WE'LL DO SIGNS OR PAVEMENT.
WE'LL EVEN DO MEDIAN REVISIONS IF WE CAN.
IF WE CAN LOOK AT IT AND WE'LL TRY, UH, JUST WANT TO BRIEFLY TOUCH ON OUR LETTING SCHEDULES.
UM, I DON'T KNOW IF ANYBODY IS AWARE, BUT WE HAVE NOW ADOPTED SINCE THE VINEYARD PROGRAM KIND OF A MARKET AREA APPROACH.
WE HAVE OUR RECON AND REHAB, WHICH IS ALL OF OUR RESURFACING CONTRACTS.
THEY ALL MET IN SEPTEMBER, NOVEMBER, JANUARY, OR MARCH.
UH, THE IMPORTANT PART OF THE MARKET AREA APPROACH IS YOU SEE YOU BURTON AND JASPER STAIR THE SAME MARKET AREAS, SEVERAL COUNTIES IN DISTRICT SEVEN.
AND THE GOAL IS TO HAVE AT LEAST ONE WEDDING OR AT LEAST ONE LETTING IN EACH MARKET AREA IN EACH OF THE MARKET AREA DISTRICTS.
WE HAVE TO COORDINATE SOME WITH THEM.
AND WITH DISTRICT SEVEN, TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE AT LEAST ONE LETTING ONE CONTRACT PER WEDDING PRESENTATION.
THOSE THOUGH IN OCTOBER, DECEMBER AND FEBRUARY, AND THEY'RE NOT REALLY MARKET DRIVEN, THEY'RE PROCESS-DRIVEN OR TYPE DRIVEN SUCH AS CHIP SEALS WILL GO IN THE SAME, UH, PREP SEALS, THIN LIFTS, MICROS.
THEY KIND OF ALL ALL PACKAGED TOGETHER.
ALL RIGHT, HERE'S THE BREAKDOWN.
HERE'S A LOT OF DATA TO KIND OF SHOW YOU WHERE WE ARE AND WHERE WE'RE GETTING.
I CAVEAT THAT BOTTOM ONE, BECAUSE WE WERE RECENTLY TOLD HOW DID THIS CYCLE WITH 2023, THAT WE ARE NO LONGER REQUIRED TO SPEND OUR 10% OF OUR POINTS ON PRESERVATION? NOBODY INDUSTRY KNOWS THAT OUR PRESERVATION PROGRAM IS A KEY TO KEEPING THE SYSTEM IN GOOD CONDITION.
SO THAT'S WHY I SAY THOSE NUMBERS ARE REALLY JUST OUT THERE.
THAT INCLUDES NOT DOING ANYTHING AS FAR AS PRESERVATION ON THAT 2023, WHAT WE THINK WE COULD CONTRACT FROM 2023 AND BEYOND WITH THE 8.8 MILLION,
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THERE ARE THE ROADS THAT WE'RE IN OUR TWENTIES, 20 SEAT CONTRACT.MOST OF THESE WERE JUST LET IN JANUARY AND AWARDED AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS MONTH.
THE ONLY ONES WHERE THAT IS THAT 2 78 BUSINESS, WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO GO, UM, NEXT MONTH, UH, THE PINK HIGHLIGHT AT THE BOTTOM ON THIS WAS KIND OF SHOW YOU, UH, WE HAD SOME EXTRA NFA BONDS THAT DON TOLD US ABOUT THAT WE WERE GOING TO HAVE TO ADD BY SENTENCE AFTER LETTING SO DOES ASSESSING WHAT ELIZABETH HER NEXT RIDE ON HER LIST WAS CHURCH, EAT THE PINK HIGHLIGHT WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO GET TO, BUT OUR BIDS CAME BACK A LITTLE HIGHER THAN WE ANTICIPATED, YOU KNOW, COVID AND EVERYTHING.
SO WE'RE GOING TO TRY AND WAIT THAT OUT A LITTLE BIT ON THE CONTRACT TO SEE IF WE CAN GET THE REST OF THAT DARN WITH THIS CONTRACT, BUT I CAN'T MAKE ANY PROMISES AT THIS POINT.
WE LITERALLY JUST GOT THE BIDS BACK AND THE DATE OF THAT.
SO WE'RE OVER A PRETTY AMOUNT.
UM, SO IF THERE'S ANY UNDERRUNS ELSEWHERE, WE CAN KIND OF SHIFT, BUT IT'S COME TO FRUITION, GREG, AND WE CAN GET THE REST OF THAT ALL ON GREG.
UM, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE HOPEFUL.
I'M HOPEFUL THAT WE CAN, WE CAN WORK SOMETHING OUT AND GET THAT DONE.
SOME FUTURE CONSIDERATIONS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT RIGHT NOW ARE, UH, THE PIECE OF 2 78 BUSINESS BETWEEN YACHT COVE AND THE ROUNDABOUT 2 78, UM, KIND OF FINISHING THAT END PIECE UP FOR LOOKING AT ME AT 17, BUT IN CARLTON AND 21 AND ANOTHER PIECE OF 2 78 BETWEEN BURKE CHURCH AND BUCKINGHAM PLANTATION, OUR FEDERAL AID SECONDARY WE'RE LOOKING AT A SECTION OF MARSLAND TO TRY IS KIND OF NEAR THE WHOLE SECTION, TRYING TO FINISH UP THAT LITTLE PIECE THAT IS KIND OF IN BETWEEN TWO SECTIONS.
I THINK THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY DONE.
UH, THERE IS A PATTY OUT WITH THAT, AS YOU SEE, WE'RE STILL WAITING TO REEVALUATE AND REEVALUATION DATA ON THAT ONE.
THAT ONE CURRENTLY IS NOT ON THE LIST, BUT BASED ON CONDITIONS WE'VE ASKED FOR REEVALUATION DATA, WE'RE HOPEFUL AND CROSSING OUR FINGERS THAT IT WILL GET ON THERE.
SO WE CAN FINISH UP THAT LITTLE SECTION, UM, LANDS IN.
WE DON'T HAVE THE WHOLE ROAD, IT'S NOT ON THE, UM, CANDIDATE LIST, BUT WE ARE TRYING TO GET A PIECE OF IT.
SO HOPEFULLY THAT WILL HAPPEN ON FOLLY ROAD.
THE NEXT ONE, WHICH I KNOW HAS A LOT OF PEOPLE'S, UM, CONCERN, AND THIS ONE IS ISLANDS CAUSEWAY.
THAT'S ANOTHER ONE WHERE I DON'T HAVE ALL THE DATA GET.
I UNFORTUNATELY, AND HOPEFULLY ACROSS THE FINGERS THAT IT'S GOING TO END UP ON THE RESURFACING CANDIDATE LIST.
BUT RIGHT NOW IT IS CURRENTLY NOT.
UM, ALSO WITH THIS ONE, OUR 2023 FUNDS WILL ONLY COVER ABOUT 2.4 MILES AND WE NEED ABOUT 250,000 TO GET THE LAST 0.6 ELIZABETH, THE CTC HAS TALKED ABOUT POTENTIALLY CONTRIBUTING SOME FUNDS TO HELPING US FINISH THAT OUT.
SO WE WILL, UH, WE'LL TALK MORE ONCE WE GET FINAL, OKAY.
THAT WE CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH IT IS PUFFY ROAD.
UM, IS ANOTHER ONE IN CASE ALAN'S CALLS LARRY FALLS THROUGH UNFORTUNATELY HILL SECTION IS NOT ON THE CANDIDATE LIST RIGHT NOW.
GOOD NEWS, THANKFULLY WITH ALL THE PRESERVATION AND THE, AND THE PROJECTS THAT YOU'RE DOING, UH, IT'S LOOKING PRETTY GOOD AS FAR AS THE 10 YEAR GOALS THAT CHRISTIE WALLA SAID, UM, YOUR PRIMARIES SECONDARIES AND YOUR FED.
I MEAN, YOU'RE, YOU'RE DOING GOOD KNOW, THERE'S NO WAY WE COULD DO THAT WITHOUT THE CTC AND THE LOCAL PROJECTS, WE KNOW Y'ALL HAVE DONE A HUGE HELP IN FILLING IN OUR GAPS THAT WE THERE'S JUST NO WAY WE COULD, WE COULD DO WITHOUT YOU.
SO WE APPRECIATE THAT WHERE CDC IS CAN HELP, SIR, I DID A NOT REAL WORLD ESTIMATE, BUT LET'S JUST PRETEND THE WORLD STANDS STILL.
AND THERE IS NO PAVEMENT DETERIORATION.
AND IN ORDER TO GET ALL THE WORDS IN BEAVER COUNTY THAT ARE ON THE STATE SYSTEM UP TO GOOD, THESE ARE THE YEARS I WILL HAVE GREAT GRANDKIDS BY THE TIME THE NON-FEDERAL TRADE IS DONE, BUT THIS IS JUST KIND TO SHARE YOU THE WHOLE WAY AROUND THE WHOLE WE'RE TAKING OURSELVES OUT OF, AND YOU CAN ALWAYS USE MORE COWBELL.
AND THAT CONCLUDES MY LOVELY POWERPOINT PRESENTATION.
AND I FOUND THE BEST DILBERT COMIC STRIP FOR
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CTC.LESS THAN 500, YOUR PLANE DOESN'T ADDRESS THEM.
I MEAN, THAT IS OUR, MOST OF OUR NON-FUNDED ROADS ARE LESS THAN 580.
SO WHERE ARE YOU? WHAT, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? WHAT IS THE POSITION GOT COMMISSION ABOUT ADDRESSING HOW MAIN ROADS IN THIS COUNTY? 200, 200, ABOUT 200 MILES TOTAL IS IN THAT 500 OR LESS CATEGORY.
AND GOING BACK TO THE DISTRICT ENGINEERS COMMENTS, GET THE DAMN ROADS PAVED.
YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHERE WE HEAR THAT GLOBAL VISION, THAT GLOBAL VISION OF THE NINE FIVE, ET CETERA, 2 78, ET CETERA, US 21, ET CETERA.
BUT CVOT IS MANDATING US TO DO MUCH OF THE WORK IN THE 500 ADT OR LESS OF WHICH 200 MILES IS A GOOD CHUNK OF WHAT ELIZABETH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ELIZABETH, IS THAT WHERE YOU GET A LOT OF YOUR COMPLAINTS IN THE 500 OR LESS ADTS.
SO WHAT IS THERE THAT WE CAN DO TO LEGISLATIVE? THAT'S WHAT IT IS.
I'M ASSUMING LEGISLATE THAT THE PERCENTAGE OF MANDATORY PERCENTAGE 33% IS USED FOR CERTAIN CATEGORIES VERSUS THAT OF WHERE THE CUSTOMER IS REALLY OFF.
ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THE 32% YOU'RE REQUIRED TO SEND OUT OF HERE CPC BONDS? AND YOU'RE SAYING YOU'RE BEING MANDATED TO USE THEM ON 500 OR ME ANY ASSISTANCE AT ALL FROM YOU PEOPLE, RIGHT.
BUT SHIT, THAT'S WHERE THE DAMN ROADS COMPLAINTS ARE COMING FROM.
THE TEN-YEAR PLAN WAS SET UP IN A WAY IT WAS SOLD AS THAT OUR PRIMARIES AND OUR FEDEX SECONDARIES ARE THE ONES THAT NEEDED THE HELP BECAUSE THEY HAD THE MOST TRAFFIC I UNDERSTAND, OR I'VE BEEN DRUNK.
UM, BUT THAT'S NOT WHERE THE CITIZENS I UNDERSTAND.
AND THAT'S WHERE YOU SEE THAT MOST OF THE ROADS ARE NOT GOOD AS WELL.
I MEAN, WE, WE, WE UNDERSTAND WHEN WE KNOW, I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY MAINTENANCE IS ABSOLUTELY AWARE OF WHERE WE'RE GETTING ALL THE COMPLAINTS FROM $500,000 A YEAR, WE'RE GOING TO SPEND LESS.
AND THAT THAT'LL MAKE SOME, YEAH.
I MEAN, THAT'S, I MEAN, I CAN ONLY DO WHAT I'M TOLD THE DEGREE FROM THE BOSS.
I MEAN, WE DON'T ABSOLUTELY MESSENGER BECAUSE I DON'T NECESSARILY AGREE WITH OUR APPROACH TO ALLOCATING FUNDS.
WE ALLOCATE FUNDS BASED ON PURE LANE, UM, THAT DOESN'T WORK FOR OUR DISTRICT.
I MEAN, WE HAVE THE MOST POPULATION.
WE HAVE ENOUGH POPULATION GROWTH AND I THINK RICHLANDS ANOTHER ONE THAT THEY KIND OF GET HUNG OUT TO DRY BECAUSE OF THE ALLOCATIONS BASED ON CENTER, LIKE HALLS OR BLAME OFF.
I APOLOGIZE, BUT I CAN'T CHANGE THAT.
UM, I'VE TRIED TO HAVE THAT ARGUMENT.
I'M TRYING TO PUT TOGETHER THINGS TO HAVE THAT ARGUMENT THAT THE POPULATION AND THE COST OF LIVING DEFINITELY NEED TO COME INTO PLAY.
I MEAN, OUR, OUR CONSTRUCTION COSTS, I RA TO TAKE THAT WHEN YOU GO TO THE NEXT, THE MEDIAN COLUMBIA, THIS CPC, THIS VOICE ON THE CPC IS THE PRESENT GREAT CONCERN THAT WE'RE NOT HELPING MR. MRS. SMITH GET THAT DAMN ROAD.
WHEN WAS THIS? UM, THOSE GOALS ARE FROM LIVE TO 50%.
THE GUY WENT FROM THE YEAR THAT THE DATA IS FROM 2020.
WE DON'T HAVE TO UPDATE IT 2021.
THOSE WERE ESTABLISHED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE, UM, TENURE, UH, TENURE PLAN AS FAR AS CRYSTAL BALL.
AND THEN CAN YOU EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE IN THE FEDERAL IN FEDERAL WAY AS ONE OF THE OTHER, UH, FEDERAL AID IS WHERE WE CAN ACTUALLY USE FEDERAL FUNDS, EVEN THOUGH RIGHT NOW, OUR STATE ALLOCATION DON'T USE ANY FEDERAL FUNDS OR USING OUR FEDERAL FUNDS FOR OTHER PROJECTS LIKE INTERSTATES AND OTHER BIG
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IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO, THE NON-FAT AID.WE CAN NOT USE ANY FEDERAL FUNDS.
IT IS LITERALLY, I MEAN, YES, YOU'RE USUALLY IN THE HIGHER ADT CATEGORIES, BUT IT ISN'T NECESSARILY ADT DURING THEN.
IT'S USUALLY OF CLASSIFICATION DRIVEN, UM, AS FAR AS ARTERIALS COLLECTORS, UM, I MEAN, MAJOR COLLECTORS, MAJOR ARTERIALS ARE USUALLY IN YOUR FETTY CATEGORY.
THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE A HIGHER ADT, BUT NOT NECESSARILY HATING TO BE DRIVEN.
UM, BUT THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS ESTABLISHED SOME CRITERIA THAT WE CAN APPLY FEDERAL FUNDS TO WHEN GIVEN NEAR THE END OF THE DESIGN ON THAT SECTION AROUND THE 2 78 EASTBOUND RAMPS ON AND OFF OF ONE 70, ALL THE WAY UP TO 4 62.
UH, AND AT ONE POINT WE HEARD THAT THERE WAS A RESURFACING, UH, PLAN FOR NEXT YEAR ON THAT PARTICULAR INTERSECTION ECONOMIES OF SCALE THAT WE DID THAT TOGETHER AROUND THE PLANS AT THIS POINT, BUT VERY SIGNIFICANT SAVINGS IF WE DID IT TOGETHER.
MICHAEL, THAT PIECE IN PARTICULAR NOW? I DON'T THINK SO.
I THINK THAT'S THE ONE THAT WE, IF I'M REMEMBERING CORRECTLY, I DON'T THINK THAT'S ON THE CANDIDATE LIST RIGHT NOW.
I THINK THAT WAS ONE THAT WE'LL HAVE TO GET REEVALUATED, BUT THE, UM, WE WOULD REALLY, I'M NOT SPEAKING ON AS CRAIG GORDON, BUT THAT YOUR SECTION AND EVERYTHING ELSE.
THIS IS THE TIME TO HAVE THE MONEY PUT IN FOR THE WORK IMMEDIATELY WITH THE WIDE AREA, EVERYTHING ELSE.
AND WE WERE REALLY BANKING ON THE FACT THAT YOU GUYS, INSTEAD OF PROVIDE PAY DOLLARS APARTMENT WITH THIS.
THIS IS A CHANGE TO GET THE BEST DONE FOR THE LEAST AND BE, HAVE A GREAT SIGN AS WE SPEAK.
I WANT TO DO SOME IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE NICE UNDER THEMSELVES.
YEAH, WE, WE HAVE, I THINK ALL TOTAL FIVE DIFFERENT LOCATIONS ON ONE 70 THAT WE'RE TOUCHING AND WE'RE GROWING, WE'RE BANKING ON GETTING THE DOLLARS TO DO THE RESURFACING FROM YOU ALL.
IT'S JUST THE RANCH, NOT GOING 1 70, 2 78 RAMPS GOING BOTH DIRECTIONS.
AND THE REASON BEING IS RAMPS.
AREN'T SEPARATED IN OUR CANDIDATE LIST.
WE HAVE TO DO THEM WITH THE MAIN LOG.
YOU HAVE TO FIGURE OUT A WAY RIGHT NOW, RIGHT NOW, ALL THE MAIN ONES AREN'T QUALIFYING.
AND THEY HAVE BEEN VERY SLOW LATELY TRYING TO GET REEVALUATION DATA.
AND I AM SUPPOSED TO HAVE A TENTATIVE 2024 PLAN THAT KIND OF IS GOING TO STICK IN STONE HERE IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS.
SO I DON'T KNOW THAT I WILL HAVE THAT RE-EVALUATION DATA IN TOM TO MAKE THAT WE WERE PLEASURE AT THE SUMMER.
ACTUALLY JULY WAS OUR GOAL IN THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR.
AND THAT'S WHEN WE THOUGHT THE FUNDS AVAILABLE.
IF THERE'S SOMEBODY WE NEED TO BE TALKING TO, IF WE NEED TO GET OUR SENATOR BALL, TELL US THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN, WE DON'T NEED TO DO IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME, ROLL IT BACK COULD BE POSSIBLY CONSIDERED LIKE, TAKE A LOOK AND SEE THAT ALL THE MONEY ON THE MECHANISM WE CAN DO WITH THAT TIMELINE.
I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF OUR PRESERVATION FUNDS WOULD COVER HOW MANY MILES OF RANCH AND INTELLIGENCE.
THERE'S FOUR RANCH ON ONE SIDE, SOUTH SIDE HAS THE WRAP AROUND WITH FLOODS, ALL THE FIVE THAT NEED TO BE FIXED
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AIR FORCE, NO PROMPTS THAT WE'LL DISCUSS AND SEE IF WE CAN, I DON'T KNOW THAT WE COULD GET THE MONEY, BUT WE'LL SEE WHEN THEY START.I GUESS THAT WOULDN'T BE ABOUT THE TIME THEY WOULD START ALLOCATING THE 20, 23 OFFICIAL FROM JASPER COUNTY, AS WELL AS HARDY BUILT IN A PARTICIPATION.
THAT'S WHY WE WERE BANKING ON THIS AS WELL.
AND THAT, THAT SHOWS COOPERATION FROM THIS.
WASN'T WAITING UNTIL THE VERY END OF YOUR PRESENTATION AND JUMPING THE PROBLEM ON THAT QUALITY IS MARCY.
IS THERE ANY WAY TO GET A SHOW THE ENTIRE STATE AND SEE HOW YOU COMPARE? UH, THAT'S GREAT ON A DISTRICT LEVEL, BUT IT ALSO BE NICE TO SEE, UM, FOR THE THREE DIFFERENT PRIMARY FEDERALLY.
I STILL HAVE IT IN MY INBOX AND MY PROBABLY SO, YEAH, I DON'T THINK I HAVE IT SEPARATE FOLDER AND I'M NOT ON LINE.
I MEAN, THE NEW DATA SHOULD BE GOING OUT SOON TO KIND OF INTERESTED TO SEE HOW THE NEW DATA, YOU ALL HAVE OUR EMAIL ADDRESS.
IT IS A LITTLE HANDOUT THAT I GAVE TO EVERYBODY THAT HANDOUT ISN'T REALLY RELEVANT TODAY WILL BE RELEVANT FOR BUFORD COUNTY.
AND SO THE REASON FOR PROVIDING IT TODAY WAS Y'ALL NEED TO BE TAKING A LOOK AT WHERE JAMIE IS CHANGING.
IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR AND START PREPARING AND WORKING AHEAD ON YOUR DISTRICT, A LOT OF IT IS SHIFTING SOUTHWARD.
AND SO THIS WAS GIVEN AS A MEANS TO PREPARE YOURSELF FOR YOU GOT A YEAR AHEAD CHANCE, LOOK AT IT AND LOOK AT HOW THE ROADS WILL BE CHANGING IN YOUR DISTRICT AT NOVA GIRAFFE TO BECOME ACCOUNTABLE FOR YES, SIR.
THIS IS THE FINAL MAP, RIGHT? THE ONLY CHANGE ON MIGUEL, WHERE IT SAYS THAT IS NOW GOING TO BE ME.
YOU ALL HAVE TO DO THE PROCESS.