you know we handle all the infrastructure that's above ground i leave the underground stuff to that but above ground we deal with our streets and highways and basically anything that's associated to the infrastructure of streets and highways including traffic signals ation we have ninety six intersections that have traffic signals in them you're starting to reduce that by the increase of roundabouts as we start to move towards that and then we have traffic control signs that go throughout the city and what people really don't understand is when i talk traffic control signs it can be anything from a stop sign to a street name sign to a directional sign there are over fifteen thousand four hundred of those signs in the city of service over that we're responsible for and what about the streets and sidewalks streets and sidewalks or part of our responsibility also you know basically or streets we have a little over three hundred miles of streets that are paved that includes our alleys sidewalks about a third of that in regards to those in our responsibility is to maintain those on a regular basis to keep the quality of life that everybody is expecting here in the city of sarasota to you know in regards to that in regards to our streets and highways you know and i resurfacing program we're spending about two million dollars a year every year to resurface or reconstruct our streets in the city and that gives us about eleven miles a year you know reconstruction sidewalks we just finished looking at our sidewalk program in regards to additional sidewalks in the city we had our staff take a look at areas where there are not sidewalks and where there could be more connectivity you know as part of this year's budget will actually be coming to the commission to look at funding that program to move forward to it there are definitely some areas where regarding our parks and being able to access you know in one of the things that are really becoming and you know the city's monterey is the walkability of places versus the corps and also being getting access by bicycle they exactly you know in so being able to do that and that's what part of our responsibility is to make sure that everything is there for that to happen and yet you handle everything below ground  most everything is below ground that we provide the drinking water for the citizens and also the waste water collection and treatment in the reclaimed water for the water supply we have about fifty six wells all of our water comes from wells we don't use any surface water we have to treatment the silt to serve both on twelfth street and about three hundred thirty miles of water pipeline to distribute that water to the citizens of fourteen hundred fire hydrants which are probably the most visible but we serve about a little over nineteen thousand buildings with water the permit capacity of our treatment plant is twelve million gallons a day and we're currently running around six million gallons a day so we're only using about half of the capacity that we've built in the wastewater treatment we've got one treatment facility also on twelfth street  permit it ten million gallons a day and we're currently around six million gallons a day so we have some spare capacity at the treatment plant also we have eighty eight live stations some are being rehabilitated some are under construction  scattered around town and about two hundred eighty miles of pipeline the reclaimed water which is highly treated waste water effluent the cheese for irrigation and or other golf courses  don't get some of the reclaimed water has got about thirty seven miles of pipeline in the reclaim system so if you took our pipeline and started going north own seventy five you'd wind up in chattanooga tennessee oh my goodness fortunately it's all right here to maintain or without driving that far but it is quite a distance a pipeline that we maintain every day we actually serve a population of fifty three thousand on a continuous basis so we have capacity built into the plants and the water supply for future growth still don't talk about what it cost per year to maintain our about ground and we operate twenty four hours a day every day of the year on christmas morning there's somebody at the water plant making sure you've got water to your house and that's twenty two million dollars a year debt service is about five million you we've got about fifty three million dollars in and what's that for the debt is mostly to go went to the construction or reconstruction or rehabilitation of the water and sewer infrastructure now we have what we call and make sure city and that we have infrastructure that's been installed and then it's aging i would like each of you to talk about how do you maintain this aging infrastructure and how how you need to do that and i'll start off in regards to what you see above ground in regards to our streets and highways and stuff like that i mentioned you were spending about twenty two million dollars in reinvestment we have a capital improvement program that we bring to the commission on the annual basis which is a five year program and basically what it does is it describes the projects that are needed over the next five years to maintain the infrastructure or to improve the infrastructure basically what will be presenting this coming year is basically about one hundred forty seven million dollars over the next five years to be doing that and that goes from construction of osprey avenue for an example resurfacing of many areas around about programs things of that nature all that's the improvement of that to make sure that the infrastructure gets where it needs to be it is an aging infrastructure and it's constantly changing you know mitt's commitment is a little more challeng because we see it right what's below ground dozens you mentioned osprey avenue that's a major project that's coming up that the public really needs to hear about and you want to describe it for the public short in regards in it will be a phased project over a couple years in we're going to do it on top of the ground we'll be looking at resurfacing redoing curbs and gutters adding bike lanes and also increasing sidewalk size now i'll turn it over in a minute because there are some underground work that's going to be going on also and this is something that doug and i do quite often we combine our projects and if we've got a large pipeline project to do that and will incorporate public works to do the final paving and osprey actually started out as we need to rebuild the street and when doug make that decision then we look at our underground utilities we look at the age of the pipeline our magnets history of the pipeline and determine what needs to be replaced in conjunction with this paving project so that hopefully we don't come dig the street up right after it's been paved and we do that on all of our projects osprey is one where we're working together not i think actually it's turning out that the utility cost is more than the street cost on osprey what is mutela the cost on osprey avenue i think it's about seven million and we and doug just talked about the c i p which is that five year plan for infrastructure above ground how how do you maintain the utilities how do you fund utilities well and we also have c f p program for just utilities were funded strictly with the revenue you receive from the when people pay their water bill other than the small portion that goes to doug for solid waste comes to utility use and that's how we operate totally on the utility bill that funds our operating cost and our debt cost and our capital improvement program is all comes from the utility bill and is that called an enterprise fund it is an enterprise fund which means we're supposed to act people ask a lot about why water bills are increasing four percent a year do you want to talk about the aggressive plan of upgrading our sewage infrastructure sure i took a cursory look  at our water and sewer infrastructure and what it would cost to replace it to do again we go back to sarasota boundary was pretty much set in the early seventy's and the water and sewer pipelines to serve that area were were constructed forty fifty years ago and that is beginning to to reach the end of its of its life and we're going to have to replace it or rehabilitated so the four hundred million to replace the water and sewer system that we currently enjoy we spend about seventeen million a year in our capital program replacing pipelines or or replacing parts at the treatment plant several projects that i think some of these have actually gone to commission for authorisation to construct others will be coming up in the next few months we're going to replace a water main on us forty one from  boyce currently that's an older pop wine it's right underneath the the west curb of us forty one and it breaks with some regularity and it is very expensive to replace that water main to repair that water main actually there's a water main so the water main is just it's just a pipe under the ground and it's just carrying the water from the plant to the houses ok so that's it's just a conduit but there was a water main on us forty one i think it was august of last year and it broke and the pavement repair cost was a quarter million dollars and where was that it was all it was on the north trail all right i don't remember the exact cross street but it was just as it was just a small eight inch water main it was one of the older asbestos seam of pipes that were continuously replacing but the it's not so much the repair cost of the pipe but the pavement and the damage that it causes when it breaks it's very expensive so we're trying to get those old remains out of the system ok and othe projects going to set just to go with mitten regards to it you know one of the things from the infrastructure standpoint is that the streets within the city are not just the city streets you know we have a florida department of transportation that comes through here us three a one state roads and then also we have county roads that they're responsible for that come through the city of sarasota so when things do happen in some of those streets the different things that have to happen in regards to organization in getting those things together and they have different rules in regards to how they expect the street to be repaired sometimes that what we would want some of our secondary streets and things of that nature  and some of the streets that are not city streets are which ones well as i stated in regards to your us forty one three zero one those are state roads those are florida department of transportation but if a street actually starts in the county goes through the city and ends up in the county that is actually maintained by the county an example of that would be total but neiva those types of streets that actually start in the city mean and in the county go through the city and in the up in the county those are the streets that are maintained by the county and what about the ridge road the ridge road is actually a state road even though it is called the ridge there is a state number associated to it so it is a state road in regards to responsibility i know as a city commissioner i get a lot of so the sun complaints about the project that's going down the rigs road because it's a major  one washington boulevard but you know people don't do it in the same way with ringling causeway is really a state road the bridge project that's going on it can keep bridge is a state project it's not a city of zero so to project so there some confusion in regards to those types of things but there is a lot of coordination that has to happen between the organizations post state local in regards to making those things happen and you were talking about other projects well and then you brought up the ridge yeah even though that is a state project there's a city water main to be replaced as part of that project the deity's contractors so the coordination that i have with city streets we also do with the county and d o t on their pavement projects we can we look at our underground utilities ends and determine if this is the right time to replace that pipeline for the benefit of the pavement and the inconvenience it's causing to the public we don't want to come back and have to do that pipeline immediately after they do the paving project you know i think that you know another thing in there regards to that where the citizens really don't understand or don't have an understanding of it is like our street lights there is actually three separate entities that have street lights within the city as city is here so to has its own street light systems and those are the decorative streetlights that you mostly see downtown in some of the neighborhoods that's either a wood or concrete pole that's usually an f p o pole and the best way to take a look and determine who's it if it is an f p o pole is they have a tag on their poll that has a number on it in a lot of times we will get the calls in the city in regards to the street light being our employees get it repaired not understanding that it's not our street life that we have to rely on f p help to do that and really a lot of times if the citizen calls they get a better response than we do by the city calling f p and l and they have the capability of doing it appeal dot com has the ability to take those calls if you take the tag number when you go to  website and you can enter it in and report and white out or you can still call the city or go onto our website also and put in a service request i will contact them but it's usually will bit longer term in regards to them responding to us than it is to the city so now that you brought up the service request would you tell people how they make a service request if they have an above ground issue sure on our on the city's website it serves sort of gov dot com there is a button there that citizens can go ahead and click on and i actually walk them through entering a service request that can be anything from you know a sidewalk that may be raised maybe a pothole in the street maybe a street light out any of those items they can go in and do that and that automatically gets sent to us in regards to that our risk bonce time if it's one that is not a media response such as a stop sign or a traffic signal call  since you know through and you can call us at nine pipe poor for one nine eight four one four eight and that is actually manned all twenty four seven all the time somebody is it's always somebody there to do it and we deal specifically with those safety issues immediately on call if it's a streetlight out one light out or something like that we try to get to it within seventy two hours or so and so what is considered to be an emergency issue or a safety issue you to a safety is it's what's going to be a health issue or a safety issue or a stop sign down that's a safety issue if a traffic signal is not working that's a safety issue in regards to or if you've got a tree that's down in the street that's a safety issue for us you know if but like i said if it's a circumstance where there's a pothole that if it's getting big yeah i'd like to know about it but you know if it's a pothole or if it's a race sidewalk it's not in immediate danger to someone that would not be what i would considered immediate response and it would you consider an emergency in your system you need time to water bubbling up on the ground regardless of where the water came from that would that's probably an emergency that we're going to respond to mediately we do have crews that work monday through friday from seven to four but are also on call after hours so if there is an emergency that  citizen notices or if they're out of water at her house if they will call our customer service number which is nine five five two three two five now that's our normal business our number after hours it's nine five five four eight three eight then we can get a crew out to take care of that emergency kasia only if it's a minor water just running down the gutter and can wait till the crew comes in for the normal shift will let will let that happen it's so that we save some of the overtime cost but if it's really if it's really causing disruption of the pavement or the property or if someone's out of water then we'll go ahead and call a crew in on overtime to take care of that situation now what if you see a red light on clashing on a lift station what do you do yeah all of our lives stations are monitored by the plant operator but we also do have the red lights on each loop station and when that red light comes on and the result problems at the the station in that same number the nine  station but just a street location will get us there again we'll roll out a employee to check it out if it's after hours again they'll be a technician that responds they can handle some of the issues if it's a bigger problem than they'll call in a whole crew to work on it and if they don't remember the number and they know watch the show how could somebody find a number to call actually it's on the city's website about halfway down on the left side and on the very front of the city's web site and also isn't it on the list station itself it's it is we had an issue with a live station of  back and we actually went out and checked in and the phone number is on the list stations we are making sure that every live station has that phone number posted so that they will be there and that's that's  project we're working on currently and you didn't finish your list with regard to you know the sewage capital projects and we're got to get to the big one pretty soon and that's what i would save in that one but another one that  actually we're probably going to start work on in august of this year is replacing the pipeline from live station sixteen all the way to the treatment plant on twelfth street and let station sixteen is on gulf stream right in front of dolphin towers in this pipeline goes up gulf stream to coconut turns and goes down to six and then meanders back over to the wastewater plant but that's about a seven million dollar project that work in conjunction with the hotel that's currently under construction their own coconut so that we're coordinating our work with their hotel work to minimize this disruption of coconut street another one that will have coming up later this year or early next year is some filters new filters that water plant that will help to improve the taste issues that we've cage really have with the with the drinking water that's about a two million dollar project that it will be totally within the plant on twelve street no one will see it but they may notice the difference and in taste of the water well a lot of times we get these notices from companies that cause us to question whether our drinking water quality meet standards and we now know about the flint michigan issue does our drinking water in the city of sarasota make standards for safety and drink ability here hard to argue deliciousness and all my notes here that's the one thing i didn't write down is the number of water samples that we take every day it's well over two hundred samples of the water that we take each and every day to ensure that we are compliance and we are and have been for quite some time total compliance with the federal drinking water standards the issue in flint was  related to lead pipes there was a program a move to twelve years ago in the city where we aggressively replaced all of the lead pipes in the city so we've already addressed some of the issues that is just now going through yes and there are other infrastructure issues that you haven't had an opportunity to discuss well you know some of the projects that are coming out about one of the things that from an infrastructure that we didn't talk about streets and highways is is her back a we're in the process of getting ready to do a project where the ten st programs where we're going to be dredging that out there in regards to busiest boat ramps in this area and so we'll be looking at that and i mean that's a collaboration between the swim in the southwest water management district sarasota county and the city of sarasota in regards to putting that project together it is a huge project and there is also the in the water management district or right coast and the west coast and when we basically when we use them for grant funding you know they were funding source in regards to wanting to make sure that there is access to water and they will fund projects that improve that access so we have gone to them and they are funding part of this project through grant process and we've talked about the capital improvement program which is a five year program and there is a big day coming up that the public might want to know about yes may twelfth we will be holding a workshop with the city commission starts at five pm in the commission chambers and we will be this will be the first time for the commission to see the proposed capital that program for the city of sarasota for the next five years projects that have come often projects that have been added and how an item get on the list there's been several ways that an item can get on the list most of the time it's because of something that is happening within the infrastructure in the aged him for structure and having to replace something but there's also through neighborhood association meetings with the neighborhood development services group in regards to things that they would like to see happen or by coming to a commission meeting they have the opportunity to come to a commission meeting and present to the commission during public input if they want or they can get with the commissioner and get a presentation put on the commission meeting to be able to do that and it how does something get on your l well most of the projects that we have on our capital improvement program are driven by pipelines that are reaching the end of their life we've had a repair history or a break improvements that we're going to be doing this year we've had a few concerns about taste and odor issues with the drinking water and so this is that and driven by customer concerns we also  the commission has awarded the first phase which is the micro tunneling of the pipeline from the link to the live stations in liquid park in the contractor should be working on there in june of this year well i want to thank both of you for coming in and telling us more about the infrastructure in our city and why it's so important and i would i think this is these are two programs that we just take for granted as citizens and i thank you so much for coming today and telling us a lot more about it and i urge you to come back and watch your commissioners corner in the future and thank you so much for turning in