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AND NO ONE FOR THIS ONE, IT'S YOURS, RIGHT? NOT THAT I'M AWARE OF.
UM, SCOTT WILL NEED HOOKUP NUMBER FIVE TO PRESENT SOMETHING DURING THIS MEETING.
DID HE, DID YOU TELL HIM THAT NUMBER FIVE? OR YOU'RE TELLING HE'S TELLING US THAT HE, THAT PEOPLE NEED, OKAY.
I'M JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE TO SHOULD HAVE BEEN UNDER UTILITIES.
WE'RE JUST TRYING TO MAKE SURE WE CAN LET YOU PLUG.
DO YOU WANT IT ON NOW? ARE YOU OKAY? NOT, YEAH, I CAN JUST TURN 'EM OFF THEN FOR NOW.
I WASN'T OFF IF THAT OFFICIAL OR NOT, SO.
WE'LL CALL THIS, UH, PUBLIC WORKS MEETING TO ORDER.
UM, THIS MEETING WAS POSTED AS REQUIRED BY STATE LAW AND, UH, EVERYBODY'S HERE.
SO WE'LL STAND FOR A MOMENT FOR SILENT PRAYER AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
[Call to Order, Roll Call, Affidavit of Posting, A Moment of Silent Prayer, and Pledge of Allegiance]
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.OKAY, SO WE'LL LOOK AT THE MINUTES FROM OCTOBER 15TH.
DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, ADJUSTMENTS, CHANGES TO MAKE TO THAT PACK?
[a. Minutes of October 15, 2025]
NOBODY SEEING NONE.WILL WILL POST THOSE AS AS, UH, AS ATTACHED.
UH, AND NOW WE'LL GO INTO THE ITEM THREE PUBLIC HEARING.
I'LL ASK THE COUNTY CLERK TO READ THE NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING SPECIALIZED TRANSPORTATION GRANT 85.21.
THE SPECIALIZED TRANSPORTATION ASSISTANT GRANT APPLICATION FOR 2026 IS SCHEDULED FOR A PUBLIC HEARING BY THE WASHINGTON COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH, 2025 AT 3:00 PM IN ROOM 10 19 AT THE WASHINGTON COUNTY, HERBERT J TENNEY'S GOVERNMENT CENTER, WEST BEND, WISCONSIN, 5 3 0 9 5 FOR THE PURPOSE OF RECEIVING COMMENT FOR WASHINGTON COUNTY'S PROPOSED APPLICATION FOR APPROXIMATELY $402,369 OF FUNDING UNDER SECTION 85.2, ONE OF THE WISCONSIN STATUTES TO IMPLEMENT ITS ELDERLY AND DISABLED TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM, SHARED RIDE TAXI SERVICE, INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS, FOUR 80 A BARIATRIC VANS.
WASHINGTON COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE WILL AFFORD AN OPPORTUNITY FOR INTERESTED PARTIES OR AGENCIES TO BE HEARD WITH RESPECT TO THE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF THE PROJECT.
INTERESTED PERSONS MAY SUBMIT ORALLY OR IN WRITING EVIDENCE AND RECOMMENDATIONS WITH RESPECT TO SAID PROJECT TRANSPORTATION MAY BE PROVIDED TO MEETING THE MEETING FOR ELDERLY AND DISABLED PERSONS.
ADDITIONALLY, WRITTEN COMMENTS WILL BE CONSIDERED IF SENT TO WASHINGTON COUNTY TRANSIT SERVICES.
A COPY OF THE APPLICATION FOR A STATE GRANT FOR THE PROPOSED PROJECT IS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION AT WASHINGTON COUNTY TRANSIT SERVICES.
IS THERE ANYBODY HERE WHO WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK WITH REGARDS TO THE GRANT APPLICATION?
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IF YOU COULD JUST SPEAK YOUR NAME AND, SURE.I'M THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS.
THANKS FOR HAVING US HERE TODAY.
I'D LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU A LITTLE INFORMATION ABOUT INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS AND WHY THE 85.21 GRANT IS SO IMPORTANT TO OUR ORGANIZATION.
[a. 85.21 Grant]
WE ARE A NONPROFIT HERE IN WASHINGTON COUNTY.UH, WE CELEBRATED 20 YEARS SERVING THE COMMUNITY THIS YEAR, AND OUR MISSION IS TO CONNECT SENIORS WITH CARING VOLUNTEERS WITH A VISION THAT THOSE IN OUR COMMUNITY, 60 AND GREATER, HAVE ACCESS TO THE RESOURCES THAT THEY NEED TO REMAIN LIVING INDEPENDENTLY.
INTERFAITH OFFERS MANY SERVICES THANKS TO A DEDICATED TEAM OF ALMOST 300 VOLUNTEERS.
AND THE BIGGEST SERVICE IS OUR SENIOR TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM, WHICH PROVIDES RIDES TO MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS, INCLUDING DIALYSIS AND CANCER TREATMENTS, PHYSICAL THERAPY, PHARMACY, AND WELLNESS AND SOCIALIZATION OPPORTUNITIES.
INTERFAITH IS UNIQUE IN THAT WE WILL CROSS COUNTY LINES, UM, AND GO UP TO A 50 MILE RADIUS OUTSIDE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY TO GET OUR CLIENTS TO THE APPOINTMENTS THAT THEY NEED TO GO TO.
THIS MEANS OUR VOLUNTEERS ARE MAKING FREQUENT TRIPS OUT OF, TO OUT OF COUNTY LOCATIONS LIKE MENOMINEE FALLS, GRAFTON, AND PLACES FARTHER AWAY LIKE THE VA MILWAUKEE'S MAIN CAMPUS IN MILWAUKEE.
WE GO TO FOND DULAC, SHEBOYGAN BEAVER DAM, ANYWHERE WITHIN 50 MILES OF HERE.
I'D LIKE TO SHARE SOME STATS THAT REALLY SHOW THE SCOPE OF THIS TRANSPORTATION SERVICE.
WE HAVE ABOUT 170 VOLUNTEER DRIVERS, MOST OF WHOM USE THEIR OWN PERSONAL VEHICLES FOR TRANSPORTATION.
UH, WE HAVE ABOUT 40 DRIVERS WHO USE OUR FLEET OF WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE VANS TO GET PEOPLE TO THEIR APPOINTMENTS.
SO WE HAVE 14 VANS, 12 OF WHICH ARE EQUIPPED FOR WHEELCHAIRS.
WE HAVE ONE IN GERMANTOWN, TWO VANS IN HARTFORD, ONE IN JACKSON, AND THE REMAINDER ARE HERE BY OUR OFFICES IN WEST BEND.
UH, WE COMPLETE AN AVERAGE OF ABOUT 200 ROUND TRIP RIDES EVERY WEEK.
UM, AND SO FROM NOVEMBER OF 2024 THROUGH TODAY, WE'VE PROVIDED MORE THAN 9,000 ROUND TRIP RIDES TO CLIENTS, UM, HERE IN WASHINGTON COUNTY, AND ABOUT 2100 OF THOSE RIDES HAVE CROSSED COUNTY BORDERS.
SO, UH, THOSE TRIPS TO THE MILWAUKEE AREA AND SUCH, OUR VOLUNTEERS HAVE DRIVEN ALMOST 200,000 MILES IN THE PAST YEAR AND HAVE DONATED ALMO ALMOST 12,000 VOLUNTEER HOURS.
THIS PROGRAM IS SO VITAL TO OUR COMMUNITY BECAUSE IT CAN COST UPWARDS OF 250 TO $300 FOR PRIVATE MEDICAL TRANSPORT, UM, OUTSIDE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY.
SO WE ESTIMATE WE'VE PROVIDED THE COMMUNITY ABOUT $650,000 WORTH OF VALUE BY OFFERING THIS FREE SERVICE TO THE SENIORS.
WE SERVE FUNDS PROVIDED TO US BY THE 85, UH, 21 GRANT GO A LONG WAY TO HELP US CONTINUE THE, THIS MUCH NEEDED SERVICE FOR NEIGHBORS HERE, 60 PLUS IN WASHINGTON COUNTY.
SO WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT OF THIS PROGRAM.
IS THERE ANYBODY ELSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO COMMENT ON THE, UH, THE GRANT AND THIRD AND LAST CALL? IS THERE ANYBODY WHO WOULD LIKE TO COMMENT ON THE, THE GRANT? SEE NO OTHER COMMENTS.
WE'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND MOVING ON TO DISCUSSIONS AND POSSIBLE ACTION ITEMS 2025 APPLICATION FOR ANNUAL 85 21 SPECIALIZED TRANSPORTATION GRANT.
I'LL NEED A MOTION AND A SECOND.
[Discussion or Possible Action]
ALEK, SECOND BY SUPERVISOR HARTWIG,[a. 2025 Application for Annual 85.21 Specialized Transportation Assistance Grant]
YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.OKAY, SO THE WISCONSIN THERE, UH, THE WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OFFERS FUNDING, UH, FOR ELDERLY AND DISABLED TRANSIT PROGRAMS THROUGH, UH, STATE STATUTE 85 21.
UH, COUNTIES ARE REQUIRED TO HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING PRIOR TO THE APPLICATION SUBMISSION.
UH, THE 2026 PROPOSED ALLOCATION FOR THE COUNTY IS 345,975, AND IT'S BASED ON THE POPULATION OF DISABLED AND ELDERLY RESIDENTS IN THE COUNTY.
UH, THE 2026 PROJECTS INCLUDED IN THE APPLICATION ARE THE SHARED RIDE TAXI OPERATIONS, REPLACEMENT TAXI VEHICLES, AND NON-URGENT MEDICAL RIDES OUT OF, UH, WASHINGTON COUNTY, UH, PROVIDED BY INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS.
UH, WASHINGTON COUNTY PROVIDES SPECIALIZED TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AND REQUESTS TO ANY INDIVIDUAL TRAVELING WITHIN WASHINGTON COUNTY.
UH, NEARLY ALL SHARED RIDE TAXI VEHICLES CAN ACCOMMODATE MOBILITY DEVICES.
SO THE PROJECTS INCLUDED IN THE APPLICATION
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ARE THE OPERATING EXPENSE, UH, FOR THE SHARED RIDE TAXI PROGRAM, THE 9,000 GOING TOWARDS INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS AND ALSO FUNDS GOING TOWARDS, UH, THE LOCAL SHARE FOR FOUR, UH, BARIATRIC UH, VEHICLES.UH, THE EXPECTED LOCAL CONTRIBUTION IS 69,195.
UH, THE FUNDING REQUIREMENT IS COVERED IN THE RECOMMENDED, UH, BUDGET ALLOCATION FOR 2026.
ONE IS THE PUBLIC NOTE NOTICE THAT WAS READ EARLIER.
AND THE SECOND ATTACHMENT IS THE, UH, GRANT APPLICATION, UH, WORKBOOK.
THE, THE GRANT IS A FEDERAL GRANT.
RIGHT? UH, IT'S A STATE, UH, WISCONSIN STATE GRANT, UH, THROUGH THE STATUTE.
I WAS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND IT AND I THOUGHT IT, WHILE IT SAYS FEDERAL IN, IN, UH, TRUST FUND OF 47 3 94, AND THEN FEDERAL 2 63, 2 68 5 66.
SO THE GRANT ITSELF IS, IS IT A FEDERAL GRANT OR WE SAID STATE, BUT I, AH, YES.
SO IT IS A STATE, UH, THE FEDERAL, UH, I WAS HIGHLIGHTING.
SO THE TOTAL COST OF THE VEHICLES IS 315,000 EXPECTED FOR FOUR VEHICLES.
AND THE TRUST FUND, WHICH IS, UH, A HOLDOVER OF PREVIOUS, UM, 87, UH, 85 21 FUNDS WILL BE USED TO COVER THE LOCAL SHARE, UH, FOR, UH, THE FEDERAL FUNDS, UH, TO PURCHASE.
THE FEDERAL FUNDS WILL COVER 85%, AND THE TRUST FUND WILL COVER A 15% OF THOSE VEHICLES.
BUT THE GRANT, BUT THE GRANT IS A FEDERAL GRANT THAT WE WERE APPLYING FOR.
AND THAT'S WHAT, UH, OH, THIS BULLET, I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND BECAUSE I, I HAD A HARD TIME READING THROUGH, I READ THROUGH IT SEVERAL TIMES AND I'M JUST, THE TRUST FUND IS 85 21 MONEY, RIGHT? YEP.
SO, YEAH, THIS IS A, SO WHAT IT IS, IS THE, THE TRUST FUND IS MONEY THAT WAS DESIGNATED FROM 85 21.
SO THE TRUST FUND IS 85 21 PREVIOUS MONEY THAT NOW WE'VE GOTTA PUT INTO A, A GRANT FORM BACK TO THE STATE AND SAYING, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GONNA USE IT FOR.
AND THEN THE FEDERAL PORTION IS STILL 2 68.
SO THE, THE TRUST FUND, THE 47,000 IS TECHNICALLY 85 21 AND STATE MONEY.
SO THEY, THEY GIVE YOU THE MONEY AND THEN YOU GOTTA PUT IT INTO A GRANT FORM TO ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, COLLECT THE MONEY OUT.
SO WE CAN, THERE'S CERTAINLY DRAFT IT UP A LITTLE BIT BETTER FOR, FOR NEXT YEAR TO EXPLAIN THAT.
KIND OF THE FEDERAL PART IS WHAT'S CONFUSING ME.
SO WE'RE JUST, OR I GUESS TO CLARIFY, WOULD IT, WOULD YOU SAY IT'S A FEDERAL PROGRAM, BUT THE STATE ADMINISTERS IT THEN? NO.
SO THE 85 21 IS A, A TRUST FUND.
SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE VERY TOP OF THAT SAME PAGE REPORT, YOU'LL SEE IT SAYS DEDICATED FROM THE 85.21 TRUST FUND TRUST FUND ACCOUNT.
SO IT'S, IT'S, IT'S STATE MONEY.
AND THEN AGAIN, THEY, THEY SET IT ASIDE FOR US.
THEN WE GOTTA APPLY FOR THEM WITH THE GRANT SAYING, SO THEY PUT, LET'S JUST SAY ROUND NUMBERS.
THEY PUT A MILLION DOLLARS ASIDE.
THIS MONEY IS 85 20 ON STATE WISCONSIN FOR WASHINGTON COUNTY.
AND WE GOTTA COME UP WITH SAYING, HOW ARE WE GONNA USE THAT $1 MILLION? AND WE APPLY FOR THE GRANT TO THE STATE FOR WHAT, WHATEVER DOLLAR AMOUNTS WE DO MM-HMM
AND SAYING, NOW THAT'S, THAT'S THE MONEY WE'RE LOOKING FOR TO PULL OUTTA THAT GRANT TO USE FOR WASHINGTON COUNTY.
SO THEY DON'T JUST SAY, OH, HERE'S A MILLION DOLLARS, TAKE IT, USE IT FOR, WHAT DO YOU WANT, USE IT FOR, THEY SET ASIDE CERTAIN RULES ON IT, THEN WE GOTTA APPLY FOR THAT GRANT EVERY YEAR AND TELL THEM HOW WE WANNA UTILIZE THOSE FUNDS.
I, I GUESS, BUT IT'S COMPLETELY STATE MONEY.
IT SAYS THE 85 20 FUND, 21 TRUST ACCOUNT, TRUST FUND ACCOUNT IS ESTIMATED TO BE, THE BALANCE IS ESTIMATED TO BE $153,000.
SO AGAIN, I JUST, I'M, I'M JUST, I GUESS I'M JUST NOT CLEAR ON THE, ON THE OTHER PART OF THAT TRUST FUND, 47,000, BUT THEN THE FEDERAL PART OF IT, OKAY.
UH, THE TRUST FUND WAS CREATED DURING THE PANDEMIC WHEN, UH, ARPA FUNDS, WHICH DIDN'T REQUIRE A LOCAL SHARE.
THAT'S A FUND THAT WE STILL HAVE.
IT'S A FEDERAL FUND THAT WE STILL HAVE.
UH, SO BECAUSE WE DIDN'T REQUIRE A LOCAL SHARE OR A LIMITED LOCAL SHARE, WE WERE ABLE TO SAVE SOME 85, 21, SOME STATE, 85, 21, INTO A TRUST FUND, WHICH CAN ONLY BE USED ON CAPITAL PURCHASES.
SO IT'S USING SOME OF THE, UH, 26 ALLOCATION FOR OPERATING AND THEN SOME OF THE TRUST FUNDS FOR CAPITAL, WHICH COVER
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THE BARIATRIC VEHICLES AND THE, UH, UH, CAPITAL EXPENSES IN REGARDS TO THE INTERFACE CAREGIVERS PROGRAM.SO THINK ABOUT LIKE THIS, DURING COVID, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT REALLY OVER SUBSIDIZED TRANSIT.
SO INSTEAD OF US USING THE STATE MONEY, WE JUST SAID, STATE MONEY, YOU STAY OVER THERE, WE'RE GONNA USE ALL THIS FEDERAL MONEY FOR OUR TRANSIT PROGRAM.
YOU'RE JUST GONNA SEE OVER HERE, 85, 21 IN OUR TRUST FUND.
AND NOW WE'RE LOOKING, DOING, SAYING, ALRIGHT, THAT FEDERAL MONEY IS NOW GONE OR GOING GONE AND THERE'S CERTAIN RULES, WE GOTTA USE THIS A CERTAIN TIMEFRAME GOING, ALRIGHT, NOW WE'RE GONNA PULL SOME MONEY THAT OUTTA THAT TRUST FUND, WHAT THE STATE CALLS IT IS, IT'S A GRANT.
EVEN THOUGH IT'S A TRUST FUND.
SO IT'S LIKE YOU'VE GOTTA APPLY TO THIS TRUST FUND WITH A GRANT AND THEN THE STATE ASIDE, OKAY, NOW YOU CAN PULL MONEY OUT OF YOUR TRUST FUND.
WE'RE GONNA CALL IT A GRANT MONEY, BUT YOU'RE PULLING IT OUTTA YOUR TRUST FUND THAT THE STATE HAS SET ASIDE FOR US.
I, I KNOW IT'S, IT'S CONFUSING.
IT'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT LANGUAGE, BUT IT'S BASICALLY SAYING, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE GONNA PUT THAT MONEY IN A TRUST FUND FOR US.
IT'S SITTING OVER THERE AND THEN WE GOTTA APPLY A GRANT IS WHAT THEY CALL IT, A GRANT APPLICATION FOR THAT MONEY TO GET IT BACK.
SO IT'S CALLED 85 21 GRANT, BUT THE MONEY IS SITTING THERE WAITING FOR WASHINGTON COUNTY TO APPLY FOR GRANT FOR THAT FUNDS.
AND THE FEDERAL MONEY IS JUST, WE HAVE THAT 2 78 FOR THE FEDERAL MONEY THAT'S IN A TOTALLY DIFFERENT AREA.
SO THAT'S FEDERAL MONEY THAT'S USED FOR THE VEHICLES.
THAT, BUT THAT'S A, THAT'S MONEY THAT WE HAVE SET ASIDE IN ANOTHER.
THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND.
IT'S NOT A GRANT THAT WE'RE APPLYING FOR HOPING TO GET, OR NO.
THE FEDERAL MONEY'S THERE ALREADY.
THAT CLEAR? I JUST, I WAS JUST SURE.
IT WAS KIND OF, WASN'T WORDED VERY WELL AND I UNDERSTOOD.
I'M JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHERE THE MONEY IS AND WHERE IT'S COMING FROM.
NOTHING IN GOVERNMENT IS SIMPLE.
OKAY, NOW WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM B TRANSIT RIDERSHIP REPORT.
I DON'T NEED A MOTION OR ANYTHING.
UH, THIS ALSO INCLUDES, UH, THE PRIOR MONTH'S REPORT.
WITHIN IT BECAUSE, UH, THAT WAS EXCLUDED IN THE LAST, UH, PUBLIC WORKS MEETING.
DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON RIDERSHIP? GO AHEAD.
[b. Transit Ridership Report]
DO SUPERVISOR.SO MY WIFE NOW NEEDS TO UTILIZE THIS, UM, FROM TIME TO TIME AND, UM, SOMETHING I JUST WANTED TO BRING UP AND, UH, SHE TRIED TO CALL FOR A CAB.
SHE WORKS ON Z, IT'S CEDAR LAKES, THE NURSING HOME ON Z UNFORTUNATELY, IT'S JUST OUT OF THE WEST BEND AND SHE CAN'T GET THE WEST BEND TAXI ANYMORE.
BUT SHE TRIED TO GET A CAB TO COME AND GET HER ONCE AND THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY, SAID YOU HAD TO CALL 24 HOURS IN ADVANCE TO TRY TO SCHEDULE ONE AND THEY STILL DIDN'T HAVE ONE FOR HER.
SO, I GUESS MY QUESTION, OR I DON'T KNOW, STATEMENTS DO WE KNOW HOW MANY OTHER PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TURNED DOWN FOR A RIDE? AND I GUESS ME HAVING TO DEAL WITH IT PERSONALLY NOW, IT'S FRUSTRATING WHEN SHE COULDN'T GET A RIDE THAT AT THAT ONE TIME.
SO, SO THE TRIP WAS WEST BEND TO WEST BEND WAS IT? NO.
JUST WANTED TO GET SOME CLEAR DETAILS HERE TOO.
OH, YOU WANNA JUST, I'LL JUST GET UP HERE AND SPEAK.
UM, I NEED THE EXERCISE ANYWAY.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S A BIG PART OF IT RIGHT NOW THAT IT'S, IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO THEN FULFILL EVERYTHING THAT THEY CAN DO.
RIGHT NOW, UH, THE SERVICE IS, YOU GOTTA CALL 24 IN ADVANCE 'CAUSE IT'S A SHARED DRIVE TAXI SYSTEM.
SO THEY PUT IT IN THIS COMPUTER SYSTEM, THEY TRY TO MATCH UP PEOPLE TO, TO DRIVE TOGETHER TO THE SAME LOCATION.
LET'S SAY THERE'S ANOTHER PERSON THAT'S DOING A VERY SIMILAR TIME THAT WANT TO GET THOSE PUT TOGETHER SO THEY CAN DRIVE FROM CITY, WEST BEND, ULTIMATE LOCATION.
AT THAT SAME TIME, WHAT WE ARE RECOMMENDING IS, IF YOU REALLY LOOKING AT IT ABOUT A TWO WEEKS AHEAD OF TIME, ONE TO TWO WEEKS IS ABOUT THE GOOD TO GET A MORE SOLIDIFIED CHANCE OF GETTING YOUR RIDE.
IF YOU CALL IT SAME DAY, THE THE PRIOR WILL DO THEIR BEST TO TRY TO DO IT, BUT GENERALLY SPEAKING, THEY, THEY'RE NOT SET UP THAT WAY BECAUSE THEY GET THEIR MANIFEST TO THEIR DRIVERS IN THE MORNING.
AND THEY, THEY KNOW WHERE THEY'RE GOING.
IT'S ALL, IT IS ALL COMPUTERIZED.
UH, BUT YES, IT, IT IS GONNA BE FRUSTRATING, UH, THIS MONTH AND NEXT MONTH PARTICULARLY, UH, TO THAT EFFECT, UH, WE HAD, UH, GO RIGHT AWAY AT OUR HIGHWAY SHOP TODAY WITH A, I ADDING, UH, A FAIR FOR, UM, UH, POTENTIAL DRIVERS RIGHT AT AN EMPLOYMENT
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FAIR TODAY.IS IT NEXT WEEK, CHARLIE? OR IS IT WEEK AFTER? TUESDAY? TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK AS WELL.
IT'S AN EMPLOYMENT FAIR AT OUR HIGHWAY SHOPS TO TRY TO GET MORE DRIVERS INTO.
NOW QUITE A FEW DRIVERS HAVE MOVED OVER, UH, BUT THERE'S SOME CHALLENGES THAT THEY'RE HAVING RIGHT NOW.
UM, NOT JUST DRIVERS, BUT DISPATCHERS AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
SO WE JUST ASK THAT YOU, YOU BEAR WITH US A LITTLE BIT.
UH, IF YOU, IF YOU REALLY NEEDED THAT RIDE A, A WEEK OR SO WOULD REALLY HELP THEM OUT TO GET IT ON THE SCHEDULE, GET IT THERE.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE'VE BEEN TELLING PEOPLE AND THE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KIND OF RESPONSE RESPONSIVE TO THAT.
UH, THEY'RE ALSO LOOKING AT WHAT'S THAT RIDE FOR GROCERY SHOPPING VERSUS WORK VERSUS KIDNEY DIALYSIS AND STUFF LIKE THAT TOO.
AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE TRYING THEIR BEST TO MAKING SURE THE HIGHEST NEEDS ARE ARE MET IN THE COMMUNITY RIGHT NOW.
EMPLOYMENT'S CERTAINLY A HIGH ONE ON THEIR LIST.
SO, BUT THAT, THAT'S, I YOU DON'T HAVE KIND OF A TIMELINE OR IT COULD GO ON FOR A MONTH, TWO MONTHS, THREE MONTHS.
UH, WE'RE, WE'RE HOPING, BUT BY, IT'S A GENUINE ONE THING.
JANUARY ONE IS NEW, NEW PEOPLE ARE IN THERE.
THEY'RE, THEY'VE GOT THE, THE DRIVERS HOPEFULLY IN PLACE BY THEN AND THAT HOPEFULLY WILL, WILL SOLVE THAT PROBLEM.
UM, IT'S JUST, IT'S AN UNFORTUNATE THING THAT I KNOW WE DID EXPLAIN THAT, OF COURSE, THE NEXT TWO MONTHS WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA GET SOME CALLS.
YOU, YOU MIGHT GET SOME CALLS TOO, AS, AS SUPERVISORS THAT, UH, IT'S, IT'S NOT THE LEVEL OF SERVICE THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR AND THAT WHAT WE HAVE STRIVE FOR, UH, AND WE CERTAINLY WORK WITH OUR NEW VENDOR TO, TO TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT JANUARY ONE, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S MUCH CHANGED.
UNDERSTAND IT'S CONVERSION TO THE NEW RIGHT.
SUPPLIER, UH, SERVICE SUPPLIER.
I UNDERSTAND THE LOGISTICS OF RIGHT.
YOU'RE NOT GONNA TAKE SOMEBODY FROM A HUNDRED MILES THIS WAY TO A HUNDRED MILES OUT.
I JUST, THAT HELPED ME TO UNDERSTAND.
YEAH, AND THERE'S, THERE'S JUST LIKE, OH, THERE'S ALL THOSE TIMES OF THE DAY, LIKE YOU SEE IN YOUR REPORT, RIGHT? THERE'S PEAK TIMES A DAY THAT IF YOU'RE TRYING TO GO AT, I DON'T HAVE IT IN FRONT OF ME, NINE O'CLOCK OR WHATEVER, AND YOU CALL ONLY DAY AHEAD OF TIME, IT MIGHT BE CHALLENGING FOR THEM IF YOU CAN SLIDE THAT BACK OR EARLIER.
AND THAT'S WHAT THEY TRY TO DO, SAYING IF SOMEONE CALLS TO GO TO THEIR GROCERY STORE GOING, ALRIGHT, CAN YOU NOT GO AT NINE O'CLOCK IF WE, IF WE CAN TAKE YOU AT MAYBE 11 OR 12, WE, WE CAN MAKE THAT WORK FOR YOU.
RIGHT? SO THEY TRY TO WORK VERY DILIGENTLY WITH, WITH, WITH THE, THE OWNERS KNOWING THAT, YOU KNOW, WORK AND DIALYSIS ARE CERTAIN THINGS WHERE THERE ISN'T A, A, A ALTERNATIVE BESIDES THAT PARTICULAR TIME.
SO FOR THE TIME BEING CALLED WEEK AHEAD OF TIME, I WOULD, I WOULD HIGHLY SUGGEST A WEEK TO TWO WEEKS AHEAD OF TIME IF YOU KNOW YOUR WORK SCHEDULE.
I WOULD SAY IF, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOUR WORK SCHEDULE COMES OUT AND YOU NEED A RIDE, I WOULD, WE ARE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO CALL AS SOON AS THEY CAN.
WOULD, WOULD, WOULD YOUR TEAM BE ABLE TO GIVE US AN UPDATE ON HIS DRIVERS? AN UPDATE ON WHERE WE ARE WITH IT IN DECEMBER? WOULD, I DON'T WANT TO SPEAK FOR EVERYBODY, BUT WOULD WOULD HELP TO UNDERSTAND, ARE YOU, WOULD YOU LOOK FOR THE, THE CURRENT DRIVERS OF THEIR CURRENT PROVIDER OR WHAT OUR FUTURE PROVIDER HAS OR BOTH? I'D SAY BOTH.
THAT'S WHAT I WOULD RECOMMEND TOO, IS LIKE, WE CAN PROBABLY GIVE YOU A FORECAST WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING FOR, BUT YEAH, I KNOW WE'RE JUST AN OVERVIEW OF HOW TO TRANSITION'S GOING YES.
WOULD BE PROBABLY IMPORTANT FOR ME.
I WOULD SAY UP TO NOW, BOTH, BOTH COMPANIES HAVE BEEN VERY GOOD TO WORK.
THEY WORKING TOGETHER VERY WELL, UH, UP TO RIGHT NOW.
UM, SO WE'RE REALLY HAVING A, HOPEFULLY A POSITIVE TRANSITION.
WE GOT A ONE CONCERN WITH OUR, OUR PREVIOUS, UH, OPERATOR, BUT WE'RE TRYING TO GET THAT WORKED OUT NEXT WEEK OR SO.
JEFF, DID YOU CARE TO CHIME IN? UM, WE'VE TALKED IN THE PAST ABOUT HOW WE WANT THIS TO BE A SERVICE LARGELY FOR DISABLED AND ELDERLY AND GOING TO MEDICAL, THAT SORT OF THING.
BUT THE TRIP PURPOSES LOOK LIKE ALMOST 43% IS FOR EMPLOYMENT.
UM, SO IS THERE SOMETHING I'M MISSING IN THE CALCULATIONS OR WE STILL TAKING A LOT OF PEOPLE TO WORK? NO, I, I WOULD DEFINITELY SAY YOU'RE NOT MISSING ANYTHING.
UH, CHAIRMAN SCHLEI THAT, YOU KNOW, 42 OR 43% ARE EMPLOYMENT OR 27 MEDICAL, UH, THEN EDUCATION AT 8%.
SO AGAIN, IF YOU ADD THE MEDICAL AND EMPLOYMENT TOGETHER, YOU KNOW, 43 AND 27, YOU'RE TALKING, A GOOD PERCENTAGE OF IT IS FOR MM-HMM.
EMPLOYMENT OR FOR, FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES.
THAT'S A GOOD 70% RIGHT THERE.
AND, AND THE UPPER RIGHT HAND CORN, YOU CAN TELL THE DIFFERENT, UM, OF THAT SAME REPORT, UH, HOW MANY ARE ADULTS? AGENCY FAIRS, AGAIN, GOING TO MOSTLY HOSPITALS, HOW MANY ARE ELDERLY, DISABLED, UH, IN THAT, THAT RANGE TOO.
SO YOU CAN KIND OF GET A AND A GOOD PERCENTAGE OF, YOU KNOW, WE'RE LOOKING AT 32% OF OUR RIDES SO FAR THIS YEAR HAVE BEEN FOR DISABLED AND 34% FOR ELDERLY.
SO YOU'RE TALKING 68, EXCUSE ME, 66%, UH, THAT ARE FOR THAT CLASS.
SO A LOT OF THEM ARE STILL GOING TO EMPLOYMENT TOO, RIGHT? BASED ON THE MATH THAT SOME OF THEM HAVE TO BE GOING TO MEDICAL AND ARE PROBABLY STILL GOING TO FOR WORK PURPOSES.
AND I FORGET THIS EVERY MONTH, BUT WHAT IS AGENCY? UH, SO THAT'S WHEN THE, THE PERSON THEMSELVES, THEY DON'T PAY FOR THE
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TRIP WHEN IT'S PAID FOR THROUGH SOMETHING LIKE, UH, AN IRIS PROGRAM, WHICH IS THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT OF, UH, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES.UH, IT'S A, A STATE BUDGET FOR THE PARTICIPANT THAT THEN EITHER REIMBURSES THEM OR PAYS FOR THE TRIP ITSELF.
IT'S LIKE IF FOR HUMAN SERVICES PURPOSES OR HOSPITALS.
AGAIN, THEY'RE MOST LIKELY A DISADVANTAGE OR ELDERLY OR DISABLED PERSON THAT THAT'S, THAT'S GOING FOR TYPICALLY SPEAKING.
AND THERE WAS A QUESTION, AGE FOR ELDERLY SUPERVISOR.
STEWART, DID YOU HAVE A QUESTION? UH, AGE CONSIDERATION FOR ELDERLY? UH, THAT WOULD BE 60 AND UP.
I BELIEVE I, I'LL DOUBLE CHECK ON THAT JUST TO CONFIRM, BUT, UH, KEN, YOU RIDE? YES, KEN.
KEN, WE'RE SENIORS, KEN? MM-HMM
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS WITH REGARDS TO THE RIDERSHIP REPORT? NO, WE'RE GOOD.
GOT EVERYTHING COVERED? ALL RIGHT.
OKAY, MOVING ON TO THE 2060, UH, PLAN, UPDATE THE ROAD PLAN.
I'M ASSUMING YOU'RE GONNA TAKE THIS OVER.
[c. 2060 Plan Update]
I'M GONNA PLUG IN FOR THIS ONE HERE.NICE LITTLE 40 PAGE PLAN HERE.
YOU WANNA READ A WORD FOR WORD? WELL, NOT QUITE, BUT CLOSE.
I'M JOSH GLASSON, ASSISTANT HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER FOR THE WASHINGTON COUNTY HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT.
UM, SO WE'VE, WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON, UH, AS WE'VE ALLUDED TO IN A PREVIOUS MEETING WITH THIS COMMITTEE, AN UPDATE TO OUR 20, IT WAS THE 2050 TRANSPORTATION NETWORK SUSTAINABILITY PLAN.
NOW IT'S BEEN FORMALLY UPDATED TO THE YEAR 2060.
SO I JUST WANNA GO THROUGH, UM, THE HISTORY OF THIS PLAN AND MAKE SURE THAT YOU AS COMMITTEE MEMBERS UNDERSTAND WHY THIS PLAN WAS BUILT, HOW IT WAS BUILT, UH, AND WHERE IT'S GOING, AND HOW THIS IS DIRECTING OUR DECISION MAKING MOVING FORWARD AS THE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT.
UM, SO I'M GONNA WALK THROUGH THE, THE EARLY STAGES OF THIS PLAN, TURN IT OVER TO SCOTT.
HE'S GONNA TALK TO ABOUT SOME OF THE, THE FUNDING DETAILS, AND THEN WE'LL GET INTO SOME OF THE NITTY GRITTY OF WHAT WE ACTUALLY HAVE PLANNED, UM, IN THE NEAR AND DISTANT FUTURE.
SO JUST LOOKING THROUGH A LITTLE BIT OF THE HISTORY UP UPFRONT IN THE PLAN HERE.
SO THIS ORIGINATED BACK TO 2018.
UH, SO WE WERE DIRECTED THROUGH THE COUNTY'S, UH, STRATEGIC PRIORITIES, UM, TO PROVIDE A TRANSPORTATION NETWORK THAT'S DESIGNED AND ENHANCE SAFE TRAFFIC FLOW, EASE CONGESTION, ENSURE EFFICIENT MOBILITY WHILE ENHANCING AND CONTINUOUSLY INVESTING IN SAFE, RELIABLE, ACCESSIBLE, AND WELL MAINTAINED TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE.
THAT'S A MOUTHFUL, BUT THIS PLAN IS REALLY, UH, A KEY COMPONENT TO TAKING A STEP IN THAT DIRECTION.
SO THIS WAS REVIEWED BY THIS BY THE PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE BACK IN 2018 IN JANUARY, UM, AND WENT TO THE COUNTY BOARD BACK IN, UH, 2018 AS WELL IN FEBRUARY.
JUMPING AHEAD TO INTRODUCTORY PORTION OF THE PLAN HERE ON PAGE ONE, JUST GONNA SKIP THROUGH BITS AND PIECES OF THIS.
OBVIOUSLY IT'S NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO READ IT HERE, BUT, UM, THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS IS BOLDED ON THE PAGE.
TO ACHIEVE A FINANCIALLY SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION NETWORK FOR WASHINGTON COUNTY, WASHINGTON COUNTY HAS 172 MILES OF ROADWAY ON ITS COUNTY TRUNK HIGHWAY SYSTEM.
UM, OUR GOAL WITH THAT IS THEN TO DETERMINE A LEVEL OF FUNDING NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN THAT INFRASTRUCTURE WHILE ALSO PROVIDING EFFECTIVE MOBILITY.
TWO BIG PIECES OF THIS PUZZLE AS FAR AS THE FUNDING, UH, STANDPOINT GOES IS, IS OUR CRAB FUND, THIS COUNTY ROAD AND BRIDGE FUND, UH, 3.8 MILLION PER YEAR GOING WITH THIS LAST YEAR'S NUMBERS WITH AN ANNUAL INCREASE OF 3%.
SO THIS IS GATHERING, THIS PLAN GATHERS ALL OF OUR FUNDING SOURCES, KIND OF ORGANIZES 'EM ALL AND PROJECTS THEM OUT TO THE YEAR 2060.
WITH THESE TWO THINGS BEING KIND OF THE, THE BACKBONE, UH, WE ALSO HAVE OUR CIP, OUR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN, UH, 3.8 MILLION PER YEAR.
UM, THAT'S ALSO WITH A 3% INCREASE ANTICIPATED TO 2044.
AND SCOTT, I'LL GET INTO SOME OF THE, THE NITTY GRITTY ON THAT A LITTLE BIT LATER.
UM, SO THE, THE ROADWAY RESURFACING AND RECONSTRUCTION, OBVIOUSLY
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IS NECESSARY TO PROVIDE A TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM THAT'S, YOU KNOW, SAFE HAS MINIMUM CONGESTION, ENSURES THAT EFFICIENT MOBILITY.UM, WE ALSO LOOK AT THE MAINTENANCE OF THAT.
SO WE'RE BEING VERY PROACTIVE.
WE ACTUALLY CONSIDER OURSELVES TO BE PROACTIVE.
AND NOW WE'VE EVEN STEPPED UP THAT GAME EVEN MORE SINCE THIS LAST, SINCE THE 2050 PLAN WAS ADOPTED.
AND I'LL GET INTO THAT AS WELL.
THIS IS JUST A VISUAL ON OUR, UH, THE COUNTY'S STRATEGIC PRIORITIES AND FOUNDATION OF THIS PLAN.
UH, GUIDING PRINCIPLE HERE, AS I MENTIONED, IT'S A WELL MAINTAINED AND ACCESSIBLE TRANSPORTATION NETWORK THAT MEETS THE CURRENT AND FUTURE GROWTH NEEDS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY.
UH, AND THEN THIS PLAN IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
OBVIOUSLY THIS IS, WE HAVE THE NUMBERS TODAY.
THERE'S AN UNLIMITED AMOUNT OF VARIABLES THAT CAN TAKE EFFECT BETWEEN NOW AND 2060.
OBVIOUSLY NOT JUST WITH ROADWAY CONDITIONS, BUT FUNDING SOURCES AS WELL.
SO GIVEN THE KNOWLEDGE AND THE INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE TODAY, WE BUILT OUT WITH THAT, UH, FIRST STEP WAS TO, TO GATHER AN INVENTORY, BUILD AN INVENTORY OF OUR COUNTY HIGHWAYS.
UM, I, I HIGHLIGHTED THAT AT A FUTURE MEETING WITH THIS COMMITTEE IN THAT MASTER SPREADSHEET.
SO THAT'S REALLY A, THE BACKBONE OF THIS.
UM, WENT BACK AND DUG THROUGH OLD RECORDS GOING BACK TO THE NINETIES, EARLY NINETIES.
WIND ROADS WERE LAST REP PAVED, RECONSTRUCTED AND MAINTAINED, AND THEN PROJECTED THAT OUT.
UM, WE'LL GET INTO THE 25 YEAR PAVEMENT LIFECYCLE AND A LITTLE BIT HERE.
UM, SECTION THREE OF THE PLAN.
I CAN MAKE THIS A LITTLE BIGGER HERE.
UM, THAT GETS INTO THE MAINTENANCE COMPONENT A LITTLE BIT.
UM, BUT ALSO, UH, I WANNA TALK ABOUT WHY WE BUILD OUT TO CERTAIN STANDARDS.
TRANS 2 0 5 IS REALLY OUR, OUR GUIDE TO HOW A ROAD SHOULD BE BUILT.
UM, THAT TAKES INTO EFFECT THE ROAD CLASSIFICATION, ARTERIAL COLLECTOR, LOCAL, UH, TRAFFIC VOLUMES.
AND, AND THAT DETERMINES HOW WIDE YOUR LANE SHOULD BE, YOUR SHOULDERS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
IF THAT IS WHAT, IN OUR OPINION WOULD BE A LITTLE BIT OVERKILL FOR WHAT, JUST GIVEN A LITTLE BIT MORE, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A, THAT'S A VERY BLANKET STANDARD.
UM, REALISTICALLY THAT MIGHT BE A LITTLE BIT OVERKILL FOR US AT A CERTAIN POINT IN TIME.
THEN WE WOULD EXPLORE THESE THREE R STANDARDS AS EXPLAINED IN, IN SECTION THREE, TRANS 2 0 5, AND THE THREE R STANDARDS ARE HIGHLIGHTED IN THE EXHIBITS AT THE BACK OF THE PLAN.
WE'LL TAKE A LOOK AT THOSE IN A LITTLE BIT.
UM, BUT THOSE ARE REALLY OUR DRIVING FORCES OF, OF IF A ROAD IS BUILT TO STANDARDS OR NOT.
THAT'S, THAT'S OUR GUIDELINES.
A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATIONS OF OUR ROADS.
UM, THREE BASIC CLASSIFICATIONS.
ARTERIAL COLLECTOR AND LOCAL ARTERIALS ARE YOUR HIGHEST VOLUME ROADWAYS.
UM, WE DON'T HAVE A TON OF THEM, BUT WE'LL, WE'LL LOOK AT THOSE ON A MAP AS WELL.
COLLECTOR, THE LARGE MAJORITY OF OUR COUNTY HIGHWAY SYSTEM IS CONSIDERED COLLECTORS.
UM, AND WE DO HAVE A FEW LOCALLY OR LOCAL ROADS AS WELL, GETTING INTO WHAT WE DO WITH OUR ARTERIALS HERE.
UM, THOSE ARE, YOU KNOW, SERVING OUR, OUR MAIN CORRIDOR MOVEMENTS.
I MEAN, IT'S ALL BASED ON TRIP LENGTH AND, AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
BUT YOU CAN SEE HERE IN THIS TABLE ON PAGE FIVE, THESE ARE SOME OF THE, THE ARTERIALS THAT WERE, UM, HIGHLIGHTED THROUGH OUR 2050 PLAN AND WHAT WE'VE DONE WITH THOSE.
SO THE ONES IN GREEN HERE ARE ONES THAT WERE ACTUALLY BUILT OUT, UH, IDENTIFIED IN OUR LAST PLAN AND BUILT OUT SINCE THEN.
2021 AND 2024, WE HAD SOME, UM, RECONSTRUCTIONS HERE AND ALSO, UH, INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS.
AND THEN THE ONES IN RED ARE, ARE ONES THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED YET THROUGH OUR 2060 PLAN THAT ARE ON OUR, OUR TO-DO LIST, UH, TO BE BUILT OUT A LITTLE WIDER, A LITTLE BIT LITTLE POTENTIALLY SAFER AND HANDLE TRAFFIC A LITTLE BIT BETTER.
COLLECTORS ON PAGE SIX, SAME THING HERE.
YOU CAN SEE WHAT'S BEEN ACCOMPLISHED, IDENTIFIED IN THE 2050 PLAN.
AND THEN SINCE IMPROVED EITHER THROUGH RECONSTRUCTION OR REPAVING ROADS IN RED, UH, IS, IF YOU REMEMBER OUR, OUR CIP PLAN.
AND THAT THE MAP THAT I HANDED OUT IN THE PAST WE'RE CHIPPING AWAY AT HIGHWAY M TRYING TO BUILD THAT ONE OUT, KIND OF WORKING BITS AND PIECES OF IT, BUT, UM, REALLY MAKE THAT CONSISTENT NORTH AND SOUTH ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE EAST SIDE OF THE COUNTY THERE.
SO THERE'S A LOT OF, A LOT OF WORK ON HIGHWAY M THAT HAS HAPPENED AND IS STILL TO COME, UH, AS WELL AS HIGHWAY E THERE.
THAT'S, WE CALL THAT ONE LITTLE E THERE'S THE BIG E FROM 1 64 TO K AND THEN THERE'S, UH, LITTLE E AS WELL.
SO THAT'S THROUGH THAT SWAMP THAT'S GONNA GET BUILT OUT TO BETTER STANDARDS HERE IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
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AND THEN LOCAL ROADS, THERE'S NOT A LOT THERE.THEY'RE IN DECENT SHAPE RIGHT NOW.
UM, AND WE'LL LOOK AT A MAP AS WE GET TOWARDS THE BACK END OF THE PLAN HERE.
NEXT I WANNA JUST TALK ABOUT OUR MAINTENANCE APPROACH.
A LOT HAS CHANGED, UH, REALLY, REALLY IMPACTED, UH, OUR BUDGET AND WHAT WE'RE ABLE TO DO THROUGH OUR MAINTENANCE.
UM, YOU CAN SEE ON PAGE SEVEN, SECTION FOUR, THERE'S THE TABLE THERE ON WHAT OUR APPROXIMATE COSTS WERE BACK IN 2018 AND WHAT THEY ARE TODAY IN 2025.
UM, HUGE JUMPS, YOU KNOW, DOUBLING JUST IN THAT HANDFUL OF YEARS.
WE'RE VERY AGGRESSIVE ON OUR CRACK FILLING APPROACH.
REALLY TRYING TO MAXIMIZE, KEEP THE ROAD SEAL SEALED AND MAXIMIZE THAT, THAT INFRASTRUCTURE GOING FROM 4,000, UH, A MILE.
GENERALLY SPEAKING, OBVIOUSLY EVERY ROAD'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT DEPENDING ON ITS CONDITION.
BUT NOW WE CONSIDER $10,000 A MILE.
IS THAT COST? IS THAT JUST, IS THAT, UM, THAT'S LABOR AND MATERIAL.
SO BACK IN 2018, YOU KNOW, THAT WAS USING OUR LIMESTONE NOW IN 2025.
THE LAST TWO YEARS WE MADE THAT TRANSITION TO GRANITE.
UM, LAST YEAR, NOT THIS, NOT IN 20 25, 20 24, WE DID SOME LIMESTONE AND THEN WE DID HIGHWAY XX IN GRANITE THIS PAST YEAR WE DID THREE ROADWAY SEGMENTS ALL IN GRANITE.
SO YES, THERE IS MORE OF A COST TO THAT UPFRONT, BUT LIKE, AS I SAID IN THE PAST, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TRYING TO, WE'RE TRYING TO, UH, MAKE A TRANSITION THERE TO INCREASE SAFETY BY THE USE OF GRANITE WITH BETTER TRACTION.
THERMAL POWER FOR MELTING OF SNOW AND ICE.
HOPEFULLY REDUCE OUR SALT USAGE.
UM, AND JUST GENERAL TRACTION WHERE WE'VE HAD ACCIDENT HISTORY.
I WAS GONNA ASK YOU, HAVE YOU, HOW'S THE WEAR GOING ON XX SO FAR? SO FAR, SO FAR SO GOOD.
IT'S HOLDING UP VERY, VERY WELL, KNOCK ON WOOD.
UM, TI IDEALLY WE CAN MAYBE GET AWAY WITH THAT ONE, THAT ONE APPLICATION OF GRANITE IN THE PAVEMENT LIFECYCLE.
WELL, TIME WILL TELL AND EVERY ROAD'S GONNA WEAR OUT A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT SURE.
FOR A LOT OF DIFFERENT REASONS.
UM, SO YOU CAN SEE THE VISUAL.
UM, BUT OH, BEFORE I JUMPED THE GUN THERE, YOU CAN LOOK AT THE, ALSO ON THAT TABLE, ON PAGE SEVEN, SECTION FOUR, UM, JUST OUR PULVERIZING EXPENSES, BACK IN 2018, IT WAS A QUARTER MILLION A MILE.
NOW WE'RE TALKING OVER A HALF A MILLION A MILE AND RECONSTRUCTION JUMPED FROM A MILLION AND A HALF TO OVER 3 MILLION.
AND YOU TALK ABOUT WHEN YOU GET, YOU KNOW, RIGHT AWAY, ACQUISITION INTO THE MIX AND SOME OF THE MONSTER HURDLES WE'VE HAD WITH UTILITY COMPANIES, IT IS COSTLY AND IT IS, IT IS A DRAG.
AND, BUT THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT WE'VE BEEN DEALING WITH IN THE LAST, THE LAST FEW YEARS.
DO YOU, DO YOU SEE THIS COST COMING DOWN AT ALL ONCE THE FEDERAL MONEY BURNS OUT AND MAYBE PROJECTS SLOW DOWN A LITTLE BIT TOO, TOO EARLY TO TELL? RIGHT.
AND THAT, THAT'S WHEN I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE FUNDING STUFF IN A LITTLE BIT AND I'LL, I'LL TOUCH ON THAT A LITTLE BIT.
IF YOU, IF YOU'RE OKAY WITH ME JUST WAITING FOR A LITTLE SEGMENT, BUT NOPE, I'LL, I'LL TOUCH ON THE FUNNY THERE OTHER QUESTIONS I HAVE IN A FUNNY, I SAW RED MARKS ON IT TOO.
I'LL, I'LL GRAB THAT IN A SECOND.
SO THAT, THAT RIGHT THERE, THE, JUST THE NUMBERS THERE ARE, ARE JUST, THEY WERE GAME CHANGERS.
SO THAT REALLY HAD TO, YOU KNOW, WE SHIFT OUR APPROACH AND WHO KNOWS WHERE WE'RE GONNA BE, WHERE WE'RE GONNA BE IN ANOTHER FIVE TO 10 YEARS.
SO WE JUST GOT TO KIND OF ADAPT AND ROLL WITH THE PUNCHES AND MAKE, MAKE THE BEST DECISIONS AS WE CAN MOVING FORWARD.
THERE YOU CAN SEE THE DIFFERENCE IN OUR MAINTENANCE APPROACH.
UM, SO GENERALLY WE, IN THE PAST, WE'RE AIMING TO DO CRACK FILLING EVERY FOUR YEARS AFTER A NEW RESURFACING IS DONE THROUGH RECONSTRUCTION OR REPAVING.
SO YEAR 4 8, 12 16, THROWING IN A CHIP SEAL AT YEAR EIGHT AND 16 AND THEN KIND LETTING IT RIDE.
AND HOPEFULLY IT GETS TO 25 YEARS.
NOW WE'RE RATCHETING THAT UP A COUPLE OF NOTCHES HERE.
WE'RE PUSHING OUR CHIP CEILING UP NOW TO YEAR TWO AND THREE.
SO YOU'RE GONNA SEE A LOT OF ROADS THAT LOOK LOOK GOOD, BUT WE'RE TRYING TO GET THAT CHIP SEAL ON THERE EVEN EARLIER.
TRY TO LOCK IN THOSE OILS, TRY TO PREVENT A LOT OF THAT OXID OXIDIZATION OF THE, YOU KNOW, THE SUN AND, AND THE DETERIORATION OF THAT PAVEMENT THROUGH WITH AN EARLIER CHIP SEAL.
NOW WITH THAT BEING PRIMARILY GRANITE, UM, WE DON'T KNOW.
WE MIGHT, WE COULD DO A LITTLE BIT OF LIMESTONE DEPENDING ON CERTAIN ROADS AND, AND BUDGET.
BUT, UH, RIGHT NOW OUR GOAL IS TO KEEP MOVING FORWARD HARD WITH THE GRANITE.
IT'S BEEN A GREAT PRODUCT SO FAR.
AND IS, IS THIS TO GET, INSTEAD OF A 25 YEAR SPAN, YOU CAN GET 30 OR 35 YEAR SPAN? HOPEFULLY.
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ANYTHING MORE THAN 25 IS GRAVY TO US.UM, WHAT'S THE COST DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIMESTONE AND THE GREEN? IT'S, IT'S ALMOST DOUBLE PER, PER LANE MILE FOR THE MATERIAL.
UM, BUT IF WE'RE ABLE TO GET AWAY WITH THAT ONE APPLICATION AND ONLY SPENDING THAT, THAT COST ON LABOR ONE TIME VERSUS TWO TIMES, NOT TO MENTION, UM, YOU KNOW, THE DISRUPTION TO TRAFFIC AND, AND EVERYTHING ELSE, IT'S, IT'S GONNA BE A COST EFFECTIVE MEASURE.
AND IF WE'RE ADDRESSING SAFETY ISSUES, UM, REDUCING OUR SALT, UM, AND KEEPING, KEEPING CARS ON THE ROAD MORE, I MEAN THAT'S, THAT'S PRICELESS TO US.
SO TO US, THAT'S AN INVESTMENT THAT WE ARE WILLING TO DIVE INTO.
UM, SO YOU CAN SEE THERE ON OUR NEW APPROACH NOW IS THAT THAT CRACK FILLING AND THAT, SO IF THERE ARE, IT'S VERY, VERY MINIMAL BY YEAR TWO OR THREE.
SO LIKE EVERYTHING IS BUILT PROPERLY.
UM, SO WE CRUISE THROUGH THERE, SEAL IT UP, AND THEN WE HIT IT WITH THAT FIRST SHOT OF GRANITE AT YEAR TWO OR THREE.
NOW, THEN WE KIND OF SLID UP IT UP, UH, THE CRACK FILLING TO YEAR SEVEN-ISH, 11 AND 15.
UM, YOU SEE THE LETTER M THERE MIXED IN ON THAT TABLE, THAT'S MASTIC.
SO IF YOU HAVE ANY MORE SIGNIFICANT BUMPS ALONG THE WAY, UM, THAT MASICK IS A PRODUCT THAT IN ADDITION TO THE CRACK FILLING AND THE TAR MATERIAL TO, TO HELP SMOOTH OUT THAT RIDE IN ANOTHER WAY OF SEALING UP SOME OF THE BIGGER, UM, FAILURE POINTS ALONG THE WAY.
TRYING TO RIDE, TRYING TO PUSH THAT OUT TO GET AT LEAST 25 YEARS MM-HMM
AND IF WE CAN GET THAT FAR, UH, AND BEYOND, HOPEFULLY WE CAN EVEN GET BEYOND THAT.
UM, I THINK WE, WE'D BE IN GOOD SHAPE.
SO THAT'S REALLY WHAT, HOW THAT IS, IS BUILT OUT WITH THAT 25 YEAR PAVEMENT LIFECYCLE.
AND WE'LL GET INTO SOME OF THE VISUALS HERE AT THE END.
I'LL GO THROUGH THE EXHIBITS, BUT IF YOU WANNA, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO SCOTT FOR SOME OF THE FUNDING DETAILS.
UM, AND SO, UH, GOING OUTSIDE OF THE PLAN HERE, A LITTLE BIT, A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY.
ONE OF THE REASONS THIS WAS BROUGHT ABOUT WAS THE COUNTY BOARD AND THE COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR.
NOW EXECUTIVE AT THAT TIME WAS LIKE, ARE WE SPENDING ENOUGH ON ROADS? ARE WE NOT? ARE WE SPENDING TOO MUCH ON ROADS? HOW ARE WE DOING ON ROADS? 'CAUSE THEY STARTED FEELING ABOUT, IF YOU'VE GOT 172 MILES OF ROADS AND EACH ROAD LASTS 25 YEARS, HOW MUCH MONEY SHOULD YOU BE SPENDING ON ROADS EVERY YEAR TO MAKE SURE YOU'RE NOT GETTING YOURSELF INTO A HOLE? LIKE SOME OF OUR MUNICIPALITIES UNFORTUNATELY HAVE, HAVE DONE IN THE PAST.
WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE, UM, SPENDING THE APPROPRIATE AMOUNT OF FUNDING ON OUR ROADWAYS, AGAIN, NOT OVERSPENDING AND DOING THEM BEFORE THE END OF THE LIFE CYCLE, BUT ALSO NOT UNDERSPENDING AND CREATING PROBLEMS FOR FUTURE BOARDS OR FUTURE, UH, HIGHWAY COMMISSIONERS OR EXECUTIVES.
SO, UH, ONE OF THE THINGS IN THE PREVIOUS PLAN, UH, WE USED OUR, OUR BEST GUESS, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, BACK IN 20 17, 18, TO TALK ABOUT INFLATION.
UH, NOBODY COULD, WELL, WE DON'T THINK WE COULD HAVE SEEN WHAT HAPPENED IN THAT 2020 AND 2021 WHEN, WHEN COVID HIT.
IT'S NOT ONLY JUST THE, THE BILL MONEY THAT CAME OUT AS PART OF THAT TOO, THAT'S THE FEDERAL INFRASTRUCTURE BILL THAT PAT PASSED THROUGH ALL THIS MONEY AT CONSTRUCTION, RIGHT? AND THE PRICES JUST JUMPED DURING THAT.
BUT WE ALSO HAD OIL AND FUEL PRICES AT THE SAME TIME.
WERE JUMPING, UH, EQUIPMENT COSTS.
IF YOU GO AND BUY A NEW CAR AND YOU MEASURE NEW, UM, DUMP TRUCK, I CAN TELL YOU WHAT A MUCH NEW PLOW TRUCK COSTS, UM, EVERYTHING JUST JUMPED AND SKYROCKETED.
SO I THINK IT'S GONNA TAKE A LITTLE MORE TIME TO GET THAT BACK DOWN.
AND I'M NOT SURE IT'LL EVER RETURN TO WHERE WE WERE, BECAUSE IS THAT WORKER THAT'S WORKING ON THAT TRUCK GONNA GET LESS PAY IN THE FUTURE AS THE MATERIALS GOING INTO THAT TRUCK GONNA BE LESS, THE COST TO GET FROM PLACE POINT A TO POINT B FUEL COSTS REALLY IMPACT A LOT OF OUR CONSTRUCTION COSTS, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE.
'CAUSE YOU GOTTA DRIVE THE GRAVEL TO IT.
YOU GOTTA DRIVE THE ASPHALT TO IT.
THERE'S A LOT OF OIL IN ASPHALT ITSELF.
SO IF THE CURRENT PRESIDENT IS ABLE TO GET OUR FUEL AND OIL PRICES DOWN, I THINK WE COULD SEE A SHORT TERM SAVINGS.
AND THAT'S WHAT I'LL TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT FUNDING DECISIONS LATER ON.
AND, AND HOPEFULLY THEY WON'T INJECT A WHOLE LOT OF CASH INTO THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY WHERE THERE'S A LOT OF MORE COMPETITION FOR, THERE'S ONLY SO MANY ROAD BUILDERS OUT THERE AS YOU CAN IMAGINE.
NOW EVERYBODY'S SCREAMING FOR ASPHALT AND THEY, THEY CAN'T MAKE IT FAST ENOUGH WITH SUPPLY AND DEMAND ECONOMICS, RIGHT? SO WE'RE, WE'RE HOPEFUL THAT THEY GO DOWN AGAIN, WE WORKED WITH OUR FINANCE DEPARTMENT TO TRY TO GUESS FOR 40 YEARS WHAT INFLATION'S GONNA BE.
UH, AND SO YOUR GUESS IS AS GOOD AS MINE.
UH, AND, AND WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE IS WE'RE TRYING TO PUT A PLAN TOGETHER AND YOU'RE NOT APPROVING A PLAN FOR NEXT FOUR, TWO YEARS AND SAYING, THESE ARE THE ROLES WE'RE GONNA DO DEFINITELY IN THIS YEAR AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
IT'S REALLY THE, THE HIGHER LEVEL PICTURE OF ARE WE FUNDING IT PROPERLY? AND YOU WILL HAVE A, THE, THE SEVEN YEAR CIP YOU'LL STILL BE SEEING THAT EVERY YEAR, EVERY OTHER YEAR, EXCUSE ME, AT THE BUDGET YOU ARE GONNA BUDGET.
SO FUTURE BOARDS COULD SAY, YEP, THAT'S GOOD.
WE'RE GONNA SEE WHERE THIS PLAN, OR NOPE, WE WANT TO INJECT SOME CASH INTO IT, OR, THAT'S TOO MUCH.
LET'S SPREAD YOUR PROJECTS OUT A LITTLE BIT MORE.
RIGHT? SO IT'S STILL, EVERYTHING'S
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COMING BACK TO THE BOARD.THIS IS JUST SAYING IF WE KEEP OUR FUNDING LEVELS WHERE THEY'RE AT RIGHT NOW, WE'RE ACTUALLY IN PRETTY GOOD SHAPE FOR THE NEXT 42 YEARS.
UM, SO WITH THAT, I'LL, I'LL DIVE INTO SOME MORE OF THE DETAILS AND THEN THE FUNDING AGAIN, WHAT, WHAT JOSH POINTED OUT, WE GIVE ABOUT $3.8 MILLION IN SALES TAX.
ORIGINALLY, WE DID THIS BACK IN 2018.
WE HAD A SALES TAX REDUCTION IN ABOUT 2033.
WE'RE THINKING, GOOD, WE, THE PRICE STAY AT TWO POINT A HALF PERCENT.
WE'RE GONNA SALES IN 2033, WE'RE GONNA REDUCE THAT SALES TAX.
UNFORTUNATELY, UH, THAT'S JUST NOT GONNA WORK OUT RIGHT NOW BECAUSE OF THE, THE MAJOR INFLATION THAT WE HAD.
AND AGAIN, WE'RE ANYWHERE FROM 2.5 TO 2.9% INFLATION AS, AND YOU KNOW, WE HAD SOME HIGHER YEARS IN THERE.
WE CERTAINLY HAVE NOT GONE BACKWARDS.
AND SO WE'RE LOOKING AT CARRYING OUT THAT 3% INCREASE TO THAT SALES TAX ALL THE WAY OUT TO 20, UH, 43, OKAY.
WITH A POTENTIAL REDUCTION THEN IN THAT YEAR BY $2 MILLION IN 2045.
SO AGAIN, INCREASING THAT SALES TAX EVERY YEAR GOING OUT UNTIL 20.
AGAIN, THOSE ARE DECISION POINTS THAT FUTURE COMMITTEES AND BOARDS WILL HAVE TO MAKE, RIGHT? SO THIS IS OUR, OUR RECOMMENDATION.
EVERY DECISION WILL BE MADE, YOU KNOW, BY THE COMMITTEE AND BOARD.
SO THAT 3% INCREASE IN THAT SALES TAX ALL THE WAY OUT TO 2043.
AND AGAIN, ROUGHLY THAT, A $2 MILLION REDUCTION IN THAT TIME.
UH, THE OTHER DECISION POINT THAT'S COMING OUT IS IN 2037, WE HAVE A ANTICIPATED SHORTFALL OF $4 MILLION.
NOW, A COUPLE THINGS WE COULD DO.
WE COULD SAY WE SHOULD BE INCREASING OUR SALES TAX INSTEAD OF 3%, 4% TO BY 2037.
MAYBE WE HAVE ENOUGH MONEY IN THE BANK TO DO THAT.
WHAT OUR RECOMMENDATION IS, LET'S JUST BE PATIENT.
LET'S, LET'S ADDRESS TODAY'S NEEDS TODAY.
AND IN 2036 OR WHEN THAT BUDGET COMES IN, 2035 OR 20 36, 3 7 IS, WHERE ARE WE AT THAT POINT? A LOT OF THINGS COULD HAPPEN BETWEEN NOW AND 2037.
AND THAT'S WHY WE DIDN'T WANT TO SAY WE COULD HAVE GOOD LUCK WITH OUR BIDS, FOR INSTANCE.
UH, WE COULD HAVE, MAYBE YOU'LL WANNA DECIDE TO BORROW FUNDS AT THAT TIME.
AT THAT POINT THEY GET DECIDE, YOU KNOW WHAT, WE'RE GONNA DEFER A COUPLE PROJECTS.
INSTEAD OF DOING 10 MILES A ROAD, WE'LL DO SEVEN.
WE'LL LIVE WITHIN OUR MEANS, RIGHT? WE'LL JUST PUSH A COUPLE ROADS BACK BY MAYBE THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING RIGHT NOW ON OUR CURRENT ROADWAYS, WE'LL PAY DIVIDENDS AND WE CAN SPREAD THOSE ROADS OUT A LITTLE BIT FURTHER THAN WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW.
UH, AND SO THERE'S ALSO, WE COULD MAYBE GET ANOTHER BILL FUNDING OR THE STATE, UH, FUNDING COULD COME IN.
WHEN WE DID THE STATE, THE FUNDING, WHICH JOSH WILL GO THROUGH LATER WITH US IN NICE LONG SPREADSHEET, WE FIGURED IN WHAT'S CALLED STP RURAL FUNDING.
THERE'S ALSO STP LOCAL FUNDING FOR OUR LOCAL ROADS THAT JOSH MENTIONED.
WE ALSO HAVE A COUPLE URBAN ROADS, STP URBAN FUNDS.
SO WE DIDN'T INCLUDE THOSE FUNDINGS SOURCES.
UM, BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENS IS WITH THE STP RURAL, THE STATE OF WISCONSIN BASICALLY SAYS WE'RE GONNA SET 600,000 ASIDE FOR WASHINGTON COUNTY.
YOU BUILD UP YOUR FUND, WE GOTTA WORK WITH ALL THE OTHER COUNTIES, AND THEN YOU'LL GET YOUR PROJECT AND THEN WE GET THAT WE'RE GONNA KEEP PUTTING 600,000 IN YOUR FUND AND THEN YOU'RE GONNA APPLY FOR ANOTHER PROJECT.
SO WE PUT THAT IN THERE AT 1.8 MILLION, YOU KNOW, EVERY, EVERY THE 4, 3, 4 YEARS.
BUT WE JUST DON'T KNOW WHEN THE STATE'S ACTUALLY GONNA GIVE IT TO US, RIGHT? BECAUSE WE'RE WORKING 72 COUNTIES GOING, YOU CAN'T GIVE EVERYBODY THEIR MONEY IN 2026.
THEY GOTTA SPACE IT OUT AS WELL.
BUT WE KNOW THAT WE'VE GOT THAT MUCH MONEY COMING THAT MANY TIME, THAT MANY YEARS.
SO THAT'S WHERE YOU'LL SEE IT IN THERE ABOUT EVERY FOUR YEARS GOING, ALRIGHT, LET'S JUST PUT IT IN THERE AND HOPEFULLY WE'LL GET THAT.
AND WE'VE GOT SOME PRODUCTS WE GOT DEFINITELY WORKED OUT OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS WHAT THOSE PROJECTS WOULD BE.
UH, BUT BEYOND THAT, WE, WE DON'T HAVE 'EM ALL SLOTTED OUT YET.
SO BASICALLY WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN IS I'M TELLING YOU THAT THE PLAN WORKS.
IF YOU, AGAIN, HAVE AN INFLUX OF CASH IN 2037, ABOUT $4 MILLION, OR AGAIN MAYBE WE'RE LUCKY OR YOU SPLIT IT OUT, WHATEVER IT IS, AND THEN 2045 YOU REDUCE THAT SALES TAX AT THE END OF THE LIFE OF THE PLAN, YOU HAVE ABOUT A MILLION DOLLARS LEFT OVER.
AND AGAIN, NO BOARDS CAN JUST LEAVE A MILLION DOLLARS SITTING AT THE TABLE RIGHT AT THE END.
YOU'LL GO, OKAY, WE WON'T TAX AS MUCH, WE WON'T USE AS MUCH SALES TAX THAT MILLION DOLLARS TO THE COURSE OF THE WHOLE PLAN GOING.
IF WE JUST DO ONE LITTLE INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENT, WE'D REDUCE, WE WON CURVE WHILE THAT MILLION DOLLARS IS USED UP DURING THAT PLAN.
SO BASICALLY BY SAYING, IF YOU JUST KEEP ON YOUR, YOUR, YOUR TRACK WITH SALES TAX OF $3.8 MILLION, 3%, KEEP GOING UP UNTIL 20 43 44, REDUCE IT BY 2 MILLION, WE THINK IT WOULD BE GOOD WITH POTENTIAL DECISION IN 2037.
AND WE COULD TELL YOU, YEAH, YOU SHOULD BORROW IN THAT YEAR.
BUT REALLY WE'RE JUST TRYING TO TELL YOU THERE'S SOMETHING COMING IN THAT YEAR.
IT COULD BE BORROWING, IT COULD BE SPREADING OUT THE PROJECTS.
IT, IT'S REALLY GONNA BE UP TO THAT COMMITTEE AND BOARDS TO DECIDE.
AT THAT POINT, WE DIDN'T FIGURE WE SHOULD MANIPULATE THE PLAN TOO MUCH AND MOVE STUFF AROUND TOO MUCH IN IT TO REALLY MAKE IT LOOK LIKE WE'RE FUDGING STUFF AND MOVING STUFF.
INSTEAD OF PAST THAT 25 YEAR LIFECYCLE, PUSHING IT OUT TO 30 YEARS, ALL OF A SUDDEN GOING, HEY, WE'RE PERFECT.
AND WE GET TO THAT YEAR GOING, BUT OUR ROADS ARE JUST AWFUL NOW.
WHY ARE THEY ALL SO BAD? BECAUSE WE WEREN'T FOLLOWING THE, THE PLAN.
SO THERE WOULD BE SOME DECISION POINTS.
SO THAT'S A A LOT OF EXPLANATION FOR SECTION FIVE THAT'S UP ON YOUR SCREEN RIGHT NOW.
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IF THE, THE, THE COMMITTEE AND BOARD AND EXECUTIVE DECIDE TO KEEP, BASICALLY STAY ON TRACK WITH WHERE THEY'RE AT RIGHT NOW, I THINK WE'LL BE IN GOOD SHAPE.I I DOUBT I'LL BE ON THE BOARD AT THAT TIME, BUT I'M HOPING THE NEXT ONE CARRIES, UH, THE SAME PLAN.
WE'RE, WE'RE, WE ALSO GET, UH, WHAT'S CALLED, IF YOU'LL SEE IN A PLAN WHAT'S CALLED C CHI COUNTY HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT, SUPPLEMENTARY MONEY, CHAI MONEY FROM THE STATE, WE ALSO ARE ASSUMING THAT'S FLAT FOR THE WHOLE PLAN.
AND IF YOU LOOK IN THE PLAN, RIGHT, WE'VE HAD SOME RECENT IN THE STATES INCREASE THOSE FUNDS AND AS YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THE COUNTIES, TOWNS AND CITIES ARE AFTER THE STATE FOR INCREASING THOSE FUNDS.
AND SO THIS PLAN IS CONSERVATIVE AND THAT THING, THIS IS FLAT FOR 42 YEARS.
WE JUST HAD THIS PRETTY DECENT INCREASE, UM, FROM FOUR 65,000 FROM 20 20, 20 10, 20 19 WAS 4 65.
IN 2021 IT WENT TO 500 AND NOW IT'S AT 685.
SO THE STATE'S REALLY, YOU KNOW, INCREASED THOSE FUNDS GREATLY OVER THIS COURSE OF THIS PLAN.
AND SO IF THEY DO THAT IN 2037, MAYBE WE'LL BE OKAY.
SO THAT'S WHY WE'RE TRYING NOT TO, TO REALLY TRY TO MANIPULATE THE PLAN TOO MUCH, BUT SAYING THERE COULD BE A DECISION POINT THERE, BUT WE'RE GONNA DO OUR BEST TO TRY TO NOT HAVE ONE.
YOU MIGHT RECALL THE FIRST PLAN HAD BORROWING $10 MILLION BEGINNING, WHICH WE DID IN BORROWING ANOTHER $10 MILLION LIKE FOUR YEARS LATER.
AND WE NEVER HAD TO BORROW THAT OTHER $10 MILLION BECAUSE WE'RE ABLE TO WORK WITH WORKING WITH OUR PLANS AND OUR CONTRACTORS AND GETTING STATE FUNDING SOME BILL FUNDING AS WELL, THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE TO DO THAT SECOND BORROWING.
SO IT WAS A, IF YOU LOOK AT THE OLD PLAN, YOU LOOK AT IT GOING, HEY, IT SAID WE'RE GONNA BORROW $20 MILLION, 10 MILLION AND 10 MILLION.
WE NEVER HAD TO BORROW THAT EXTRA 10.
SO THAT'S A, A TESTAMENT TO WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO BEHIND THE SCENES TO MAKE SURE WE'RE, WE'RE SEEING THE MEANS.
WE'RE NOT JUST SAYING, AH, THE COUNTY BOARD'S GONNA APPROVE THE SALES TAX, DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT.
UH, WE ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR OTHER SOURCES TO MAKE SURE WE'RE SPENDING THAT MONEY WISELY.
I'M GLAD YOU REMINDED US OF THAT.
'CAUSE I WOULD'VE FORGOT THAT WE HAD THOSE COUPLE BORROWING THINGS IN A FEW YEARS BACK.
ANY, ANY QUESTIONS ON, ON FUNDING? LIKE I SAID, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S ALL IN THERE.
I KNOW IT'S MAYBE NOT PERFECTLY WRITTEN, BUT, UH, TRYING OUR BEST TO EX TO EXPLAIN IT, SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE.
UH, OTHER THINGS THAT WE DID, UH, SECTION SIX, UH, WE DID LOOK AT OUR REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION PLAN, UH, TO SEE IF THERE'S ANYTHING WE SHOULD BE DOING, UH, DIFFERENTLY.
UH, AND UH, OUR RECOMMENDATION IS TO NOT TO DO ANYTHING DIFFERENTLY.
UH, RIGHT NOW I WOULD INCLUDE AS A STATE HAS A, UH, OUR 2050 RECOMMENDED JURISDICTIONAL HIGHWAY SYSTEM PLAN, WHO SHOULD ACTUALLY MAINTAIN WHAT HIGHWAY.
YOU MAY RECALL BACK IN TWENTY SEVENTEEN, TWENTY EIGHTEEN AND, AND UP TO 2020, WE HAD A LOT OF JURISDICTIONAL TRANSFERS, UH, TRANSFERRING COUNTY HIGHWAYS TO LOC, MUNICIPALITIES IN SOME CASES DOWN IN GERMANTOWN, TAKING A ROADWAY BACK.
UH, WE'RE KIND OF STANDING PAT RIGHT NOW AS IF YOU LOOK AT THAT, THAT PLAN THAT WAS IN, IN THE, IN THE PLAN, THAT'S IN THE REPORT RIGHT NOW.
UH, WE'RE KIND OF SAYING LET'S JUST STAY WHERE WE ARE, UM, NOT ADD ANY ADDITIONAL ROADWAYS, BUT THERE'S NOT REALLY A ROADWAY OUT THERE, UH, BESIDES MAYBE HIGHWAY C AND HIGHWAY DW THAT MAY BE SOME LOCAL OFFICIALS.
SO WE'LL STILL WORK WITH LOCAL OFFICIALS IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT MAKES SENSE IN THERE.
BUT FOR RIGHT NOW, WE'RE PRETTY MUCH, UH, STAYING FLAT, STAYING FLAT, UM, ON ANY TRANSFERRING, ANY ROADWAYS, UH, IN THE PLAN ANYWAY.
BUT ALWAYS OPEN TO, TO THOUGHTS AND PEOPLE.
SO THE RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE REPORT BEFORE JOSH GOES THROUGH SOME OF THE, THE, THE EXHIBITS AND MAPS, UH, IS TO BASICALLY IF YOU STAY FOR THE NEXT 42 YEARS WITH THE CURRENT PLAN OF YOUR SALES TAX MONEY, UM, AGAIN, YOU MAY HAVE TO, UH, FUTURE DECISION POINT IN 2037.
UM, OTHER THAN THAT AND A FUTURE REDUCTION, UH, I THINK WE'RE IN REALLY GOOD SHAPE FOR OUR ROADWAYS IN WASHINGTON COUNTY.
IF YOU HAVEN'T DRIVEN OUR COUNTY HIGHWAYS, UM, UH, PLEASE DRIVE ALL THE OTHER ONES, UH, THAT YOU MAYBE DON'T NORMALLY DRIVE AND TAKE A LOOK AT THEM.
AND I WOULD ALSO HIGHLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO DRIVE FROM COUNTY HIGHWAYS IN OUR NEIGHBORING COUNTIES, UM, AND, AND LOOK AT THOSE WHEN I WAS, UH, WITH THE CHAIRMAN GOING OVER TO UH, UH, UH, OUR SUMMER ROAD CONFERENCE FOR INSTANCE.
WE'RE ON A COUPLE COUNTY HIGHWAYS AND WE DON'T HAVE ANY THAT ARE EVEN CLOSE TO THAT CONDITION IN WASHINGTON COUNTY.
SO WITH THAT, UH, TURN IT BACK OVER TO JOSH AND YOU CAN GO THROUGH SOME OF THE, THE EXHIBITS THAT ARE IN YOUR, YOUR PACKET.
ALRIGHT, SO THAT'S KINDA LAYING THE FOUNDATION OF, OF WHAT'S ALL INTO THE PLAN.
NOW LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THE DETAILS OF WHAT WE ACTUALLY HAVE GOING ON.
UM, SO TOWARDS THE END OF THE PLAN, STARTING ON PAGE 14 STARTS A SERIES OF MAPS, UM, AND OTHER EXHIBITS.
FIRST MAP THERE JUST SHOWS THE ENTIRE COUNTY HIGHWAY SYSTEM GIVING YOU A VISUAL OF ALL OF THE ROADS THAT ARE KIND OF BAKED INTO THIS WHOLE THING.
YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE ROADS DO HAVE THAT DASHED LINE.
SO THOSE ARE ON OR WITHIN THE BORDERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY THAT ARE ACTUALLY COUNTY HIGHWAYS, BUT UNDER
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A DIFFERENT COUNTY, A DIFFERENT MUNICIPAL JURISDICTION.SO JUST SOME OF THE MAPS KIND OF HAVE, YOU'LL SEE SOME OF THEM TIMES THEY'RE, THEY GET INCLUDED ON THINGS FOR CERTAIN REASONS, BUT FROM OUR STANDPOINT, THE THOSE DASH ROADS ARE NOT OURS.
UM, SO THOSE ARE NOT, NOT IN THERE.
SO DO, WHEN YOU'RE ON A LINE LIKE THAT, YOU DIVVY 'EM UP, RIGHT? IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY.
I'LL YOU TAKE CARE OF THIS MILE.
IF YOU LOOK AT COUNTY HIGHWAY Q AND THE SOUTH LINE FOR INSTANCE, YOU'LL SEE THERE'S AREAS THAT WE MAINTAIN YEP.
AND WE RECONSTRUCT AND WE REPAVE.
WE HAVE COMPLETE CONTROL OF THE, ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ROADWAY.
SO THE BLACK SOLID ARE ONES THAT WE DO.
AND THEN THE, THE DASH ARE ONES THAT WALK SHOT COIN TAKES CARE OF.
SO YOU CAN LOOK AT, FOR INSTANCE, HIGHWAY OR, UH, HIGHWAY Q, LAKE FIVE.
UM, WE'RE GONNA HAVE THAT RECONSTRUCTED HERE WITHIN THE NEXT DECADE.
AND YOU HAVE A PORTION OF THAT.
SO WE HAVE FULL JURISDICTION FROM, YOU KNOW, AT RIGHT AWAY TO RIGHT AWAY BOUNDARY, THE WHOLE THING.
AND THEN PART OF THAT DIPS DOWN COMPLETELY AROUND THE LAKE INTO WAUKESHA COUNTY.
UH, SO WE'RE GONNA BE DEALING, YOU KNOW, WITH MULTIPLE JURISDICTIONS THERE, THAT'S GONNA BE, IT'S GONNA BE AN INTERESTING PROJECT, LET'S PUT IT THAT WAY.
SO, UM, THAT, THAT BRINGS UP A QUESTION IS HOW IS THAT FUNDED? AND IF IT'S, IF IT'S WAUKESHA, IF WE'RE DOING IT, WE WOULDN'T, WE WOULDN'T REPAY PART OF WA WAUKESHA, IT'S OURS, IS IT, EVEN THOUGH IT'S IN WAUKESHA COUNTY, THAT SEGMENT IS FULLY WASHINGTON COUNTY'S JURISDICTION, SO WE WOULD BE FUNDING THAT ONE.
UM, BUT WHERE WE GET INTO, LIKE, UH, WHEN WE HAD THE Q AND HILLSIDE, UH, ROUNDABOUT FOR EXAMPLE, WE DID, WE RECONSTRUCTED THE, OR ACTUALLY INSTALLED A ROUNDABOUT AT THAT INTERSECTION ON HIGHWAY Q.
UH, THAT ONE IS WHERE MULTIPLE JURISDICTIONS CAME IN BECAUSE WE HAD VILLAGE OF RIDGE FIELD'S LEG ON THE NORTH END OF THAT.
WAS IT TOWN OF, TOWN OF LISBON NOW VILLAGE LISBON, YEAH.
AND THEN THE EAST, WEST LEGS WERE OURS.
SO THERE IS WHERE WE HAD, UH, MUNICIPAL AGREEMENTS AND ARRANGEMENTS GOING INTO THAT PARTICULAR PROJECT BECAUSE THEY WERE ALL MEETING THERE, BUT IT WAS FULLY FUNDED BY WASHINGTON COUNTY.
BUT THERE'S, YES, THERE'S, EVERYBODY WAS INVOLVED WITH THAT UPFRONT, UM, IN THOSE DISCUSSIONS.
UM, OH, JUST YOU SEND THEM A PLAN AND THEY APPROVE IT AND AWAY YOU GO.
UH, SO, UH, JUST KIND OF MOVING AHEAD HERE.
SECOND MAP SHOWS THE, UH, SEWER PACK.
THAT'S THE REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION'S 2050 TRAFFIC FORECAST.
UM, SO THAT WAS ACTUALLY THE SAME MAP THAT WAS USED IN OUR 2050 PLAN.
WE, WE, WE KEPT THAT GOING INTO THE 2060 PLAN, EXHIBIT C, PAGE 16 GETS INTO THOSE TRANS 2 0 5 STANDARDS, UM, BREAKS 'EM DOWN BY ARTERIAL COLLECTOR AND LOCAL ROADS, UM, GIVING US THE BASIC DIMENSIONS OF WHAT SHOULD BE BUILT ACCORDING TO THOSE GUIDELINES.
AND THEN YOU, RIGHT AFTER THAT, YOU GOT THE, YOU HAVE THE THREE R STANDARDS TOWARDS THE BOTTOM OF PAGE 17 AND ONTO PAGE 18.
SO THAT'S A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A, YOU KNOW, COMMON SENSE APPROACH BASED ON OTHER, OTHER FACTORS TO MM-HMM
TO KIND OF SCALE THAT DOWN A LITTLE BIT FROM WHAT'S IN TRANCE 2 0 5, IF I COULD POINT OUT THIS IS WHERE, WHERE, WHERE JOSH LOOKED AT GOING, OKAY, HERE ARE THE ROAD STANDARDS.
BUT THERE MIGHT BE SOME AREAS WHERE, LIKE, IF YOU LOOK AT A LOT OF THE, THE DESIGN SPEEDS ARE 60 MILES AN HOUR, 55 MILES AN HOUR, BUT SOME OF OUR ARTERIALS DON'T HAVE THAT SPEED LIMIT ON THEM.
SO I'M GONNA PICK ON COUNTY HIGHWAY PV RIGHT IN FRONT OF FAIR PARK, RIGHT? IT, IT'S TWO LANES IN EACH DIRECTION.
SO FOUR LANES ALTOGETHER GOING, WELL, IT DOESN'T MEET STANDARDS BECAUSE IT DOESN'T HAVE A 10 FOOT SHOULDER ON THE OUTSIDE.
BUT I DOUBT THERE'S ANYBODY HERE THAT'S DRIVEN THAT ROAD GOING.
I THINK IT'S TOO NARROW, RIGHT? SAYING, WELL, JUST BECAUSE YOU DON'T MEET THE STANDARD IN A CERTAIN AREA DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOU DON'T FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE.
SO THAT'S THE KIND OF THINGS WE POINT OUT.
WE'RE GOING, YEAH, STATE STANDARD SAYS I SHOULD HAVE, YOU KNOW, ON THAT PARTICULAR ROADWAY, YOU KNOW, A SIX FOOT OR 10 FOOT PAVED SHOULDER GOING, WELL, IT'S ALREADY GOT TWO LANES OF TRAFFIC, RIGHT? SO THIS, IT'S NOT A PERFECT TRANS 2 0 5, RIGHT? THERE'S SOME THINGS YOU GOTTA LOOK AT GOING USE YOUR ENGINEERING JUDGMENT AND SAYING, WELL, YEAH, BUT IT MAKES SENSE.
THAT DOESN'T NEED TO BE, I'LL, I'LL PICK ON COUNTY HIGHWAY K IN THE CITY OF HARTFORD, IT'S A LOWER SPEED LIMIT, RIGHT? THAT YOU CAN HAVE A LITTLE BIT NARROWER THERE GOING BECAUSE IT IS ONLY 35 MILES AN HOUR.
IT'S NOT 60 MILES AN HOUR, AND YOU GOT TO WORRY ABOUT THAT KIND OF TRAFFIC.
SO THERE'S SOME THINGS LIKE THAT TOO, WHERE THE, THE WHOLE, IT JUST, IT'S A ROUND PEG, SQUARE HOLE, A ROUND ONE HOLE SQUARE PEG TYPE OF THING.
SO THAT'S WHY WE'RE LUCKY GOING ALRIGHT, WE DON'T NEED TO MEET THE FULL STANDARD.
WE CAN GO ON TO THREE R STANDARDS AND, AND USE THOSE AS, AS INSTEAD IT'S ALSO WHERE WE LEAN INTO OUR INTERSECTION AND ROADWAY SAFETY PLANS AS WELL.
UM, AS WELL AS A COUNTYWIDE MAP, UM, PRODUCED BY OUR GIS DEPARTMENT SHOWING JUST ACCIDENT SEVERITY, WHICH I'LL GET TO JUST REAL BRIEFLY IN JUST A MINUTE.
UM, NEXT MAP, UH, MAP THREE, THAT, THAT GIVES A, A VISUAL ON THE HIGHWAY CLASSIFICATIONS.
SO PAGE 19, MAP THREE, YOU CAN SEE THE GREEN AND UH, THERE ARE SOME SEGMENTS THERE.
IF YOU LOOK AT HIGHWAY Q, IT HAS GREEN PRETTY MUCH ALL THE WAY ACROSS.
SO JUST REMEMBER THAT'S CERTAIN PARTS OF THAT ARE NOT OURS.
WE PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE HAD THEM FILTERED OUTTA THERE.
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LARGE MAJORITY OF ALWARD COUNTY HIGHWAY SYSTEM IS COLLECTOR, SO THAT ORANGE COLOR, UM, SO WE GOTTA DEAL WITH THOSE COLLECTOR STANDARDS PRIMARILY.UH, AND THEN A LITTLE BIT OF YELLOW, SO THIS WILL DRILL IN THE NEXT COUPLE MAPS.
USE, USE THOSE CLASSIFICATIONS AS THE BASIS, AND THEN YOU APPLY THE TRANS 2 0 5 AND THE THREE RS TO SEE IF IT ACTUALLY MEETS THE STANDARDS OR NOT.
UM, SO LOOKING AT MAP FOUR, PAGE 20, NOW WE'RE LOOKING AT JUST THE ARTERIAL, SO JUST THE GREEN ONES ON THAT PREVIOUS MAP.
NOW WE'RE GOING TO KIND OF DRILL INTO, YOU KNOW, ARE THEY BUILT OUT PROPERLY NOW OR NOT? SO, UH, FORTUNATELY QUITE A BIT OF IT IS GREEN, UM, AND A LOT OF IT IS YELLOW.
SO YELLOW MEANS THAT IT DOES, UM, IT MIGHT NOT MEET ALL OF THE 2 0 5 STANDARDS, BUT IT, IT DOES MEET THE THREE R STANDARDS.
SO IT'S STILL PRETTY GOOD SHAPE GIVEN THE CONDITIONS IN, IN THE, IN THE BIG SITUATION.
UH, AND THEN THE RED ONES ARE TECHNICALLY UNDERBUILT AT THIS MOMENT AND WOULD BE ON OUR RADAR THEN FOR IMPROVEMENT IN THE FUTURE.
LET'S GO DOWN TO THAT ONE AND, WELL, YOU MENTIONED YOU, I, YOU SHOWED Z ON THERE.
I WAS GONNA GO IN INTO THAT ONE.
YEAH, LET'S, WE'RE GONNA ZOOM IN ON THERE ON A MAP AND KIND OF GO THROUGH THE WHAT, HOW THAT'S ACTUALLY COMPUTED.
SO YOU SHOW Z ON THERE THOUGH.
I I THOUGHT Z WAS ACTUALLY PRETTY DECENT.
THAT'S FROM 33 SOUTH, RIGHT? YES, YES.
AND SO BECAUSE IT IS, UH, THE HIGHER VOLUME ROAD, OR I THINK THAT WAS AN R TWO, IT'S R TWO, IT'S AN ARTERIAL ROADWAY.
SO IT'S SAYING THAT BETWEEN THE PAVED LANE AND THE SHOULDER THAT'S OUT THERE TO MEET TRANS 2 0 5 STANDARDS, IT'S 10 FEET SHORT.
SO WE WOULD HAVE TO ADD FIVE FEET ON EACH SIDE OF THAT ROADWAY FOR IT TO MEET TRANS 2 0 5 STANDARDS.
TO MEET THE THREE R STANDARDS, WE'D HAVE TO ADD TWO FEET OR ONE FOOT ON EACH SIDE.
AND SO OUR THEORY IS WHEN WE HAVE TO REPAY THAT ROADWAY, WE CAN JUST WIDEN UP BY ONE FOOT ON EACH SIDE.
AND WE NOW WE MEET THE THREE R STANDARDS.
WE LOOK AT AGAIN, WHAT JOSH POINTS OUT, WE LOOK AT CRASH HISTORY AND STUFF LIKE THAT GOING, AS YOU JUST POINTED OUT, YOU DO, YOU PROBABLY FEEL COMFORTABLE DRIVING DOWN THAT ROADWAY RIGHT NOW WHERE IT'S LIKE, I DON'T NEED AN EXTRA FIVE FEET ON, ON EACH SIDE OF THAT ROADWAY TO FEEL SAFE DRIVING DOWN THAT ROADWAY.
IF YOU LOOK AT, YOU CAN ZOOM IN A LITTLE BIT MORE AROUND LIKE THE MIDDLE, RIGHT WHERE PV IS.
SO AS FAR AS, IT'S LETTING ME GO AS FAR AS LETTING ME GO.
SO YOU'LL SEE ALSO ON PV WHERE PV IS SAYING, WELL, YOU'RE 12 FEET SHORT OF THE TRANS 2 0 5 STANDARDS, BUT THERE'S ACTUALLY TWO LANES THERE.
AND SO IT'S LIKE, IT DOESN'T REALLY, THE MATH DOESN'T REALLY WORK OUT REAL WELL ON LIKE A ROAD LIKE THAT.
ALSO PICK ON KIND OF HOW A Z AROUND LITTLE CEDAR LAKE, WHICH WE DID.
IT'S SAYING, YEAH, WE'RE EIGHT FEET SHORT ALTOGETHER FOR TRANS 2 0 5, WE'RE FOUR FEET SHORT WITH THREE R STANDARDS.
BUT IF YOU'RE DRIVEN THERE, YOU KNOW, THE SPEED LIMIT IS NOT 60 MILES AN HOUR ON THAT ROAD FOR AN ARTERIAL IT'S 25 AND 35 OUT TO 45.
SO LIKE, AND IT'S AROUND THE LAKE RIGHT GOING.
YOU CAN IMAGINE WITH THE LAKE PEOPLE THAT ARE THERE AND THE LANDOWNERS THAT THERE'RE GOING, OH, WE NEED AN EXTRA FOUR FEET.
WHY? BECAUSE THE STATE SAYS SO, YOU KNOW, NOT, NOT A GREAT EXAMPLE GOING, WE WIDENED IT OUT A COUPLE YEARS AGO AND UH, WE HAVE WALKWAY ON EACH SIDE, A A PAVED SHOULDER ON EACH SIDE AND HAVEN'T HEARD ANYBODY COMPLAIN SAYING IT'S NOT WIDE ENOUGH.
SO IT IS STUFF LIKE THAT WE'RE USING OUR ENGINEERING JUDGMENT GOING, YEAH, IT LOOKS RED ON THE MAP, BUT, AND I'LL PICK ON HOW I ASK, I KNOW SUPERVISOR M**K HAS DRIVEN THAT GOING, IT'S TECHNICALLY TO ME, THREE R STANDARD'S, TWO FEET SHORT ON EITHER SIDE.
THERE'S TRAFFIC ON THE ROADWAY CERTAINLY, BUT I DOUBT HE'S EVER FELT LIKE I'M NOT GONNA DRIVE THIS ROAD 'CAUSE IT'S TOO NARROW.
I DON'T FEEL SAFE ON THAT ROADWAY.
UM, SO THAT'S THE KIND OF THINGS WE LOOK AT WHERE WE'RE USING OUR ENGINEERING JUDGMENT TOO, GOING YEAH.
IF WE REDO HIGHWAY R EVER IN THE FUTURE, WOULD WE ADD TWO FEET OF GRAVEL ON EACH SIDE? WELL, MAYBE RIGHT.
PAVE A LITTLE MORE OF THE SHOULDER AND WIDEN OUT.
CERTAINLY IF TRAFFIC CONTINUES TO RISE ON THAT ROADWAY.
BUT THAT'S WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT GOING WE'RE, WE'RE NOT TOO FAR OFF A LOT OF THOSE ROADWAYS, IF YOU LOOK AT USE YOUR KIND OF, KIND OF YOUR COMMON SENSE, AGAIN, LIKE PVS ONE TO ME GOING NEVER WIDENING THAT ROAD.
THAT'S ALREADY GOT TOO MANY, YOU KNOW, ENOUGH LANES ON IT.
SO THE ONE THAT'S THAT'S CHALLENGING IS THE ONE DOWN ON HIGHWAY Q UH, WHERE IT SAYS WE'RE EIGHT FEET SHORT OF THREE R STANDARDS AROUND LAKE FIVE.
AND AGAIN, UH, IF YOU'RE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THAT AREA, ADDING OUT FOUR FEET ON EACH SIDE OF THE ROADWAY IS, IS GONNA BE CHALLENGING ENOUGH, ADDING EIGHT FEET ON EACH SIDE OF THAT ROADWAY.
WE ALREADY HAD SOME TALKS WITH WAUKESHAW COUNTY, 'CAUSE AGAIN, IT'S ON, IT'S IN THEIR, THEIR COUNTY.
THAT MEANS THEY HAVE TO PROVE THE RELOCATION ORDER AND PLAT, UH, THEY DON'T THINK THEY CAN GET IT THROUGH THEIR COMMITTEE AND BOARD RIGHT NOW BECAUSE WE'D BE TEARING DOWN A FEW HOUSES TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.
AND, AND THAT'S JUST NOT WHAT WE DO HERE IN WASHINGTON COUNTY, RIGHT? SO WE LOOK AT THAT GOING, WE'LL TRY TO DO OUR BEST TO MAKE THAT IMPROVEMENTS OUT THERE TO GET SOME PAVED SHOULDERS FOR THEM, UH, TO WALK TO GET THEIR MAIL, WALK THEIR DOGS, BIKES, STUFF LIKE THAT.
BUT TRUTHFULLY, US TO GET ANOTHER EIGHT FEET OF THE YEAR SIDE OF THAT ROADWAY AND IT'S EIGHT FEET BEYOND THE SHOULDER.
NOW THAT'S NOT JUST ADDING EIGHT FEET OF FROM THE EDGE OF PAVEMENT THAT'S ADDING TO A COUPLE FEET OF SHOULDERS THERE.
THAT'S, THAT'S A HUGE WIDTH OF, OF ASPHALT OUT THERE.
SO, UM, AGAIN, IF WE HAD MORE CRASHES THERE, STUFF LIKE THAT, WE CERTAINLY WOULD LOOK AT THAT.
BUT YOU, YOU HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO GO SLOW
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AROUND THAT LAKE.AGAIN, IT'S NOT, YOU'RE NOT DRIVING AROUND THAT LAKE AT 60 MILES AN HOUR.
SO WE DON'T REALLY NEED THAT WITH SO SOME COMMON SENSE LIKE THAT TOO, WHERE IT'S GONNA LOOK RED IN THE MAP, IT LOOKS BAD.
UM, BUT WE WANNA BRING YOUR ATTENTION TO THOSE BECAUSE THEY'RE THE ONES THAT DON'T MEET STANDARDS.
BUT WE FEEL AS A STAFF THAT IT'S OKAY FOR THOSE ROADWAYS NOT TO TRY TO GET TO THOSE STANDARDS WHEN WE RECONSTRUCT IT BECAUSE A, THE EXPENSE, BUT B, IT'S JUST NOT WORTH THE EFFORT.
YOU GOT YOUR GEOGRAPHIC LIMITATIONS ON THOSE ROADS THAT KEEP PROHIBITING YOU FROM GETTING ANY, NOT TO MENTION ASTRONOMICAL EXPENSE.
THE PROPERTY DOWN THERE WHEN WE DID THIS THE FIRST TIME WE WENT THROUGH ALL THESE ROLES WITH THE COMMITTEE ONE BY ONE TO ASK THEM, DO YOU AGREE WITH US OR NOT AGREE WITH US? SO WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT TODAY IS YOU'RE GONNA GET THIS TODAY, WE'RE GONNA GIVE THE OVERVIEW, WE'LL PROBABLY BRING IT BACK FOR TO MAKE SURE FOR YOUR APPROVAL AT SOME POINT.
SO YOU GET SOME MORE TIME TO LOOK AT IT.
AND IF, IF, IF WE'RE OFF ON THIS STUFF AS STAFF, THIS IS WHERE YOU'RE MAKING THE POLICIES GOING.
WE THINK YOU SHOULD MAYBE CONSIDER, YOU KNOW, MATCHING ALL THE, ALL THE 2 0 5 STANDARDS OR THREE R STANDARDS.
WHAT IT'S, SO THIS IS OUR BEST ESTIMATE.
AND WHEN IT TIME COMES TO ACTUALLY DO THAT ROAD, AS YOU KNOW, THE RELOCATION ORDER, THE FUNDING RELOCATION ORDER, ALL COMES BACK THROUGH THIS COMMITTEE AND THE BOARD.
SO EVEN IF WE DECIDE ON THAT FOR, FOR ON HOW Q AND WORK OUR WAY THROUGH THAT, WITH THAT COMMITTEE AND BOARD, AT THAT POINT YOU WOULD THEN HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE TO SAY, NOPE, LET'S MAKE THIS CHANGE.
SO EVEN IF YOU APPROVE THIS AT YOUR NEXT COMMITTEE MEETING, YOU STILL HAVE ANOTHER FEW KICKS AT THIS CAT DOWN THE ROAD.
SO THAT'S WHAT THE, THE, THE NUMBERS ON THE MAPS INDICATE THAT FIRST NUMBER IS WHAT IT'S MISSING OR IF IT'S NOT MEETING TRANS 2 0 5.
AND THAT SECOND ONE IS THE, IF IT'S NOT UP TO THE THREE R STANDARDS.
UM, NEXT MAP, SAME THING NOW JUST LOOKING AT COLLECTORS.
UM, PRETTY GOOD SHAPE HERE AS WELL.
UM, COUPLE THINGS, COUPLE THINGS TO LOOK AT, UH, ON THAT NEXT ONE DOWN.
SO A LOT OF GREEN MAP SIX ON OUR COLLECTORS WITH THE 80 OR THE AVERAGE DAILY TRAFFIC, UH, INCORPORATED INTO THERE AS WELL.
SO LOOKING AT COLLECTORS, UM, IT'S PRETTY WELL BUILT OUT.
UM, A LOT OF GREEN ON THE MAP THERE.
THERE'S A FEW RED SECTIONS, HIGHWAY H EAST THERE.
UM, THAT'S ON OUR RADAR RIGHT NOW FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND SOME WIDENING.
UH, HIGHWAY Y IS A FEW YEARS OUT.
THAT ONE MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE TO BE WIDENED MUCH.
JUST BE A, I'M GONNA USE A LOGICAL APPROACH ON THAT ONE.
UH, AND THEN HIGHWAY M THERE, THAT'S THE ONE THAT WE, WE TOOK ON FROM CITY OF WAN AND VILLAGE OF GERMANTOWN AND VILLAGE OF GERMANTOWN.
UH, SO THAT ONE WAS RECENTLY RESURFACED BEFORE WE TOOK IT ON THROUGH JURISDICTIONAL TRANSFER.
UM, THERE IS QUITE A BIT OF TRAFFIC DOWN THERE.
SO THAT ONE ACTUALLY MIGHT GET WIDENED OUT THE NEXT TIME IT'S RESURFACED.
UM, THEN LOOKING AT LOCALS, LOCAL ROADS.
SO YELLOW HERE, NOT A LOT ON OUR SYSTEM.
THESE ARE GONNA BE OUR LOWEST TRAFFIC VOLUME ROADS.
HIGHWAY H IS ACTUALLY WITHIN OUR COUNTY, BUT IS ACTUALLY, UM, UNDER DODGE COUNTY'S OWNERSHIP.
AND, AND THEY MAINTAIN THAT ONE EVEN THOUGH IT DOES DIP INTO OUR COUNTY A LITTLE BIT.
UM, BUT HIGHWAY W AND HIGHWAY U UH, VERY RURAL AND, AND LOWER TRAFFIC VOLUMES OUT THERE.
UH, NEXT MAP, MAP EIGHT, PAGE 24.
UH, THIS IS OUR, OUR WASHINGTON COUNTY.
OUR MOST RECENT, UH, VERSION OF OUR ACCIDENT, UH, SEVERITY MAP.
SO THIS IS PRODUCED BY MIKE VANDER SANDON.
I GOTTA GIVE CREDIT TO MIKE AGAIN HERE 'CAUSE HE'S, HE'S THE KEY TO A, HE DOES ALL OUR MAPPING FOR US.
SO CREDIT TO OUR OUTSTANDING GIS DEPARTMENT IN PARTICULAR, MIKE.
UM, BUT HE, HE UPDATES THAT MAP THE ACCIDENT SEVERITY MAP PERIODICALLY EVERY COUPLE YEARS.
UH, JUST ANOTHER PIECE OF THE PUZZLE TO HELP OUR DECISION MAKING ON TRYING TO ADDRESS WHERE WE SEE, YOU KNOW, HOTSPOTS OF, OF SEVERE ACCIDENTS OCCURRING.
I'LL LOOK AT MAP NINE AND TABLE ONE ON PAGES 25 AND 26.
SO THESE, THESE, THIS MAP AND THIS TABLE TIE TOGETHER AS WELL AS THE NEXT ONES IS THEY'RE SIDE BY SIDE ON THESE PAGES FOR A REASON.
UM, SO NOW WE'RE LOOKING AT WHICH ONES ARE ACTUALLY PLANNED FOR RECONSTRUCTION OR RESURFACING OR REPAVING.
SO EVERYTHING IN PURPLE, UH, IS INDICATING A RECONSTRUCT.
I'LL BRING IT UP ON THE SCREEN HERE TOO.
UH, AND THAT, THAT GREENISH COLOR IS A REPAVE.
SO YOU CAN SEE, YOU KNOW, ON THE MAP, GET A VISUAL THERE.
AND THEN YOU GO OVER TO THE TABLE, UH, LOOK BY YEAR.
SO THE, YOU KNOW, LOOKING OUT FROM 26 TO 2030, THESE ARE WITHIN OUR CIP WINDOW RIGHT NOW.
AND WE HAVE THOSE, THAT'S PRETTY FIRM.
UM, FIRST TWO, FIRST TWO YEARS, PARTICULARLY 26, 27, YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE FIRM, YOU KNOW, BUDGETARILY ON, ON THE FUNDING BEHIND THOSE MM-HMM
UH, AND THEN THE REST ARE STILL IN THE CIP WINDOW.
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COULD, COULD BE SUBJECT TO CHANGE.SO YOU CAN SEE JUST KINDA WALKING THROUGH NOW, THE, ON THE NEXT SERIES OF MAPS, I'LL SKIP THROUGH THESE.
UM, MAP 10 AND TABLE TWO THERE YOU CAN SEE THAT IT'S BROKEN DOWN INTO FIVE YEAR INCREMENTS, JUST SO YOU CAN KIND OF ABSORB THAT INFORMATION A LITTLE, A LITTLE EASIER.
UM, SO SKIPPING RIGHT ALONG, LOOKING AT MAP 11 AND TABLE THREE, TABLE THREE, AS SCOTT MENTIONED, THAT'S WHERE YOU HAVE THAT, UH, POTENTIAL SHORTFALL AND THAT'S HIGHLIGHTED ON THAT TABLE.
WE'RE GONNA UPDATE THAT NOTE TO, IT SAYS FOUR AND A HALF MILLION, THAT SHOULD BE 4 MILLION.
SO WE'LL MAKE THAT THAT CHANGE.
YOU ALREADY PICKED UP A HALF MILLION
SO WE'LL MAKE THAT, WELL INFLATION MIGHT CHANGE THAT BACK UP, YOU KNOW,
SO, UM, SO OBVIOUSLY AS YOU GET FURTHER OUT INTO THE FUTURE, IT'S, IT'S A KIND OF A GUESSING GAME.
SO MANY THINGS, BUT, YOU KNOW, EARLY ON, FAIRLY FIRM AS YOU GET OUT, UM, THIS IS AT LEAST A PLAN.
AT LEAST WE HAVE A, A ROAD, A ROADMAP TO GO KIND OF LOOK AHEAD WHEN WE GET CALLS FROM LOCAL RESIDENTS SAYING, HEY, MY ROAD IS GETTING REALLY BAD AND WHEN IS THIS SCHEDULED TO BE REPAVED? AND YOU KNOW, WE CAN SAY, IS IT, IF IT'S NOT IN OUR CIP WINDOW, OH WE HAVE THAT.
THAT'S, THAT'S RIGHT NOW IT'S ABOUT EIGHT YEARS OUT AND IT'S, IT'S NICE TO BE ABLE TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION, HAVE A GRIP EVEN, EVEN FURTHER OUT IN THE FUTURE.
UM, BUT IT'S A POSSIBILITY YOU COULD ALWAYS BORROW MONEY TO CLOSE THAT GAP THEN, RIGHT? THERE'S JUST IN 23 7 IT'LL BE, YES, IT'LL BE BROUGHT, THERE'S MANY DIFFERENT OPTIONS.
I WOULD THINK THAT'LL BE BROUGHT FORWARD TO YOU.
BETWEEN BORROWING MONEY OR SPREADING PROJECTS OUT OR LIKE I SAID, WE MIGHT GET FUNDING FOR OTHER PROJECTS AS WELL.
UM, SO JUST KIND OF, DID YOU HAVE ANY QUESTION? I JUST WANNA ASK ONE QUESTION.
I KNOW ROSS HAS BEEN AFTER MILL ABOUT HIGHWAY G YOU SAID WHAT, 2032 OR SOMETHING THAT, UH, I HAVE TO LOOK BACK.
UM, SO WE HAVE THAT ONE KIND OF BROKEN UP 'CAUSE THAT'S, THAT'S A LOT OF MILES TO TACKLE AT ONE TIME.
SO WE DO HAVE THAT KIND OF CHUNKED UP A LITTLE BIT.
IT'D BE NICE TO JUST HAMMER THAT WHOLE THING OUT AND MAYBE WE WILL.
BUT RIGHT NOW WE'RE JUST TO MAKE THE MONEY WORK.
WE DO HAVE THAT KIND OF BROKEN UP.
WE ALSO GOTTA THINK, YOU KNOW, THINK ABOUT DETOURS AND DISTURBANCE TO THE RESIDENTS AND HOW YOU'RE GONNA FUNNEL, YOU KNOW, FLOW TRAFFIC AROUND CERTAIN PROJECTS.
SO THERE'S A LOT OF THOSE OTHER LOGISTICAL DETAILS THAT, THAT COME INTO ACCOUNT AS WELL.
SO WE DO HAVE PART OF HIGHWAY G UM, 2036 AND WE HAVE TWO OTHER SEGMENTS EARLIER AND UH, LOOKS LIKE A 2031 TO 35 WINDOW, SO MM-HMM
YEAH, THERE'S SOME, IT'S NOT TOO FAR OUT RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER.
UH, AND THEN JUST TO KIND OF WRAP UP THE PLAN THERE, UH, SCOTT MENTIONED THAT JURISDICTIONAL HIGHWAY SYSTEM PLAN FOR 2050.
SO WE DO HAVE THAT IN AS THE LAST MAP IN THE PLAN AND A SUMMARIZING SPREADSHEET.
SO TAKING ALL THOSE DETAILS FROM ALL THOSE FIVE YEAR WINDOWS AND, UH, KIND OF CONSOLIDATING ALL THAT INFORMATION, JUST CRUNCHING ALL THEM NUMBERS TOGETHER IS TABLE EIGHT ON PAGE 40.
AND THERE YOU CAN SEE AT THE END AND THE BOTTOM RIGHT, UH, THAT JUST A LITTLE OVER A MILLION ON THIS SURPLUS, UM, AT THE END OF THE PLAN.
AND THEN THE LAST TABLE IS SOME BRIDGES SHOWING THE STATUS OF THE, UH, SUFFICIENCY STATUS HERE AS OF 2025.
UM, AND THOSE ARE ALSO INCORPORATED INTO THE PLAN.
I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND NOT SHOWING JOSH THAT MILLION SURPLUS GONNA CUT IT OUTTA YOUR BUDGET FROM 40, 40 YEARS AWAY FROM TWO YEARS.
SO REDACT MOM'S THE WORD GUYS.
SO THAT IS, I KNOW IT'S A LOT OF INFORMATION, BUT HOPEFULLY YOU UNDERSTAND SOME OF THE, THE REASONING AND ALL THE DIFFERENT PIECES OF THE PUZZLE AS WE TRY TO PLAN FOR THE NEAR FUTURE AND DISTANT FUTURE.
UH, AT LEAST WE HAVE A PRETTY GOOD IDEA OF WHEN THINGS SHOULD BE HAPPENING.
UM, AND A REALLY GOOD FEEL OF THE CURRENT CONDITION OF THE, THE COUNTY HIGHWAY SYSTEM.
UM, DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON, ON ANYTHING? AND WHAT WE'D PROBABLY LIKE TO DO IS BRING IT BACK NEXT MONTH FOR, FOR YOUR OFFICIAL APPROVAL OF AN ADOPTION OF IT.
AGAIN, YOU'RE NOT BINDING FUTURE COUNTY BOARDS TO BORROW MONEY OR TO DO THE SALES TAX.
YOU'LL ALWAYS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THAT.
THAT'S, UH, WANNA MAKE THAT VERY CLEAR.
UM, BUT YOU'RE, YOU'RE KIND OF AUTHORIZING THE CONCEPT OF IT.
AND IF ANYBODY WANTS TO SIT DOWN, YOU KNOW, ONE ON ONE BETWEEN NOW AND THEN AND, AND GO THROUGH A LITTLE MORE DETAIL, EITHER OF US WOULD BE, BE HAPPY TO GO THROUGH SOME OF THE, THE DETAILS WITH YOU AND, AND GO THROUGH THAT.
SO IF YOU LOOK AT EACH INDIVIDUAL SPREADSHEET THAT'S THERE, YOU'LL SEE
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AT THE BOTTOM RIGHT WHERE THE FUNDING'S COMING FROM, THE INFLATION FACTOR, THAT'S NOT JUST TWO PER 2.5%, LIKE PER YEAR, WE ACTUALLY COMPOUND IT.THAT'S 2.5 AND 26, THEN IT'S 2.5 ON TOP OF THE, THE PREVIOUS YEARS.
SO THERE'S A LOT OF MATH BEHIND THERE TOO, WHERE YOU'RE, YOU'RE, IT'S CUMULATIVE.
SO NO, THIS THIS 2050 PLAN, WHEN I FIRST GOT ON THE BOARD TOO, YOU GUYS HAD ALREADY STARTED IMPLEMENTING, UH, PARTS OF THIS.
AND IT JUST SEEMS WHEN, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE ROAD SITUATION THAT WE HAVE HERE AND HOW DECENT OUR ROADS ARE, I MEAN, IT SEEMS TO BE PAYING OFF MM-HMM
AND THE FACT THAT YOU CAN, YOU HAVE A LONG TERM PLAN, YOU KNOW, TO KEEP UP WITH IT.
THAT'S, I THINK THAT'S A, A GREAT THING, A GREAT WAY TO GO.
SO ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? WE GOTTA MOVE ALONG HERE.
WE GOT ANOTHER MEETING COMING UP ON US HERE.
UH, YOU'LL SEE, YES, YOU'LL SEE IN YOUR PACKET THERE IS A, A LEAD LATERAL UPDATE THAT THE, I APPRECIATE THE LOCAL MUNICIPALITIES, UH, WORKING HARD ON THIS TO GET THE LEAD OUT IN THEIR COMMUNITIES.
UH, HAPPY TO SAY THAT THE CITY OF HARTFORD HAS COMPLETED SEVERAL OF THEIR LEAD LATERAL REPLACEMENTS WITHIN THE CITY, UH, ACCEPTING A GRANT AWARD OF 3 55.
THEY SPENT, UH, REQUESTED REIMBURSEMENT 60,000 THIS YEAR.
UH, SO, AND THEY GOT ANOTHER GRANT I REQUEST, I THINK IN THE HOPS RIGHT NOW.
UH, PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT THE VILLAGE OF SLINGER IS NOW LED FREE.
UH, THAT IS A GREAT ACCOMPLISHMENT BY THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE AND THIS BOARD, UH, TO GET THAT DONE.
SO REMEMBER YOU ORIGINALLY FINISHED VILLAGE OF KIOSKI IS COMPLETE.
NOW THE VILLAGE OF SLINGER IS COMPLETE AS WELL.
SO TWO GREAT ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR THIS, FOR THE EXECUTIVE AND, AND THE COUNTY BOARD.
UH, ALSO THE CITY WEST BEND, IF YOU LOOK AT THE, THE NUMBER OF LATERALS THAT LEAD LATERALS THAT THEY'VE, UM, BEEN ABLE TO COMPLETE, UH, BETWEEN LAST YEAR AND THIS YEAR, YOU KNOW, ABOUT $1.6 MILLION WORTH OF LEAD LATERALS WITHIN THE CITY OF WEST BEND.
AND AGAIN, ALL THE NUMBERS ARE IN THERE.
HOW MANY WERE PUBLIC SIDE, HOW MANY PRIVATE SIDE? I'M NOT GONNA GO THROUGH THOSE.
BUT ONE THING I DID WANT TO, TO BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION, I'M GONNA GRAB THIS BACK QUICK, IS THE COUNTY, AND AGAIN, OUR GS DEPARTMENT IS, IS SECOND TO NONE IN IN THE STATE OF WISCONSIN.
THEY HAVE CREATED A, A DASHBOARD WHICH WE LOOK TO GO LIVE TO, UH, WITHIN THE NEXT SEVERAL WEEKS, UH, THAT YOU'LL SEE UP ON, ON YOUR SCREEN RIGHT NOW, OR MULTIPLE SCREENS WITHIN THE ROOM WHERE THEY'VE GONE THROUGH.
[d. Lead Lateral Update]
VILLAGE OF SLINGER IS 19 AND 19 ARE COMPLETE ON THE UPPER LEFT VILLAGE.KI WASUM 30 OR 30 ARE COMPLETE CITY OF HARTFORD.
AGAIN, I GOTTA GET 'EM THE LATEST DATA OVER THERE.
BUT UP TO THAT POINT, THEY HAD NINE OUTTA THE 190 DONE THE CITY WEST BEND 137 OUTTA THE 9 38.
AND THEN, UM, OVERALL IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT HAND CORNER, UH, 194 OF THE 1,177 THAT WERE SHOWN, UH, WITHIN THE COUNTY.
AND IT'S ALSO HAS A MAPPING APPLICATION, UH, ASSOCIATED WITH IT.
SO YOU CAN ZOOM IN AND THE, AND IT'LL, IT'LL CLEAR UP HERE IN A SECOND.
UH, THE RED ONES ARE THE ONES THAT HAVE YET TO BE DONE AND AGREED ONES ARE THE ONES THAT ARE COMPLETED TO DATE.
SO IF SOMEONE IN CITY WEST BEND WANTS TO KNOW, DO I HAVE A LETTER OR NOT, THEY CAN GO AHEAD AND GO TO THE MAP AND, AND SEE IF, IF THEY DO OR DO NOT.
AGAIN, IT'S, IT'S BEST REPORTED.
SO YOU CAN SEE NOT EVERYBODY, UH, HAS THEM, UH, IN THE CITY.
AND AGAIN, IT'LL CATCH UP HERE IN A SECOND.
UM, BUT IT, IT'S A GREAT APPLICATION THAT PEOPLE CAN HAVE TO UTILIZE TO SEE WHAT THEY HAVE.
AND AGAIN, THE CITY WEST BEND AND THE CITY OF HARTFORD, I WANNA COMMEND THEIR WATER UTILITIES.
UH, THEY NOW BOTH HAVE AN EIGHT YEAR PLAN IN PLACE AS, WHICH IS DOWN IN THE FUNDING PORTION OF IT.
UH, THE AMOUNT OF FUNDING NEEDED TO ACTUALLY COMPLETE THIS PLAN OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT EIGHT YEARS.
SO, UH, THE, THE PLAN WOULD BE TO, TO REMOVE THOSE, UH, LEAD LATERALS.
YOU'LL SEE IN THE, THE BOTTOM PART OF THE REPORT, AGAIN ABOUT AN ADDITIONAL TWO AND A HALF MILLION FOR THE CITY OF HARTFORD, ABOUT 12.4 MILLION FOR THE CITY OF WEST BEND.
IF YOU KEEP THE DOLLAR AMOUNTS THE SAME AS YOU HAVE RIGHT NOW, I WANNA POINT THAT OUT.
EIGHT YEARS FROM NOW, A FUTURE COUNTY BOARD EXECUTIVE, SAY MAYBE INSTEAD OF 5,000 PER PRIVATE SIDE, MAYBE WE GOTTA GO TO SIX, RIGHT? 'CAUSE INFLATION AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
SO THAT'S AGAIN, THE, WHAT YOU SEE, THE DOLLAR AMOUNTS.
AND I WANNA MAKE SURE I'M CLEAR ON THIS, AGAIN, ABOUT $15 MILLION TO COMPLETE THE REST OF THE LEAD LATERALS YOU SAW IT'S ABOUT A THOUSAND OF THEM OR SO LEFT IN THE COUNTY, UH, BROUGHT, BROUGHT FOR THAT $15 MILLION IN TODAY'S DOLLARS.
WE DID NOT ADD INFLATIONARY FACTOR TO THAT.
SO AGAIN, FUTURE COUNTY EXECUTIVE, FUTURE COUNTY BOARDS HAVE DECIDED IF THAT'S SOMETHING THEY WANNA CONTINUE TO GO ALONG WITH.
SO, UM, RIGHT NOW WE'RE FULLY FUNDED OUT UNTIL 2027 AS PART OF THIS BUDGET PROCESS.
SO, UM, IT'LL BE UP TO THIS FUTURE COUNTY BOARD SITE.
THEY WANNA CONTINUE THIS PROGRAM, NOT CONTINUE THIS PROGRAM.
WE DID WORK WITH THE STATE OF WISCONSIN TRYING TO SEE IF THERE'S, UH, GRANTS AVAILABLE THROUGH THAT.
YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARD THAT IN OTHER MUNICIPALITIES.
UH, WE DON'T QUALIFY FOR THOSE HERE IN WASHINGTON COUNTY, UNFORTUNATELY.
UH, BUT WE ARE STILL MONITORING THEM WITH THE NEW, UM, LEADERSHIP IN, IN, UM, WASHINGTON DC
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TO SEE IF MAYBE THOSE REQUIREMENTS WOULD, WOULD LIGHTEN UP OR CHANGE.BUT IT SEEMS LIKE THEY ARE ALLOWING THE STATES CURRENTLY TO KEEP THEIR REQUIREMENTS IN PLACE, UH, WHICH IS CURRENTLY NOT HELPING US.
BUT MAYBE THERE'LL BE CHANGE THERE TOO SOMEDAY.
I I, THAT WAS, I WAS GONNA ASK YOU ABOUT THAT, ABOUT FEDERAL PROGRAMS OR IS THIS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE FUND FUNDING INTERNALLY OR GET HELP FROM THE STATES? SO, BUT THAT ANSWERED MY QUESTION.
THE, THE STATE OFFERS A, A LOW INTEREST LOAN RIGHT NOW.
ANY QUESTIONS ON LEAD LATERALS? ALRIGHT, APPRECIATE IT, SCOTT.
OUR NEXT, WE'LL KEEP BRINGING THIS BACK EVERY QUARTER OR SO.
OUR, UH, NEXT MEETING DATE IS DECEMBER 17TH, 2025.
UH, EVERYBODY HAVE A GREAT THANKSGIVING.
[a. December 17, 2025]
WHAT TIMES? WHAT'S THAT? WHAT WAS THAT? OH NO, WE WILL DEFINITELY BE DONE BY FOUR 30 EVERY TIME SEPTEMBER 17TH.I CAN, I CAN TALK VERY FAST IF I NEED TO.