work construction started back in two thousand and sixteen regional completion date was supposed to be february this year we were behind and there were some early issues and ambitious schedule with the restriction or site several flooding events contribute to the lays in the construction most recently late in a project we realize that several vital components smooth motor starters for several the pumps have been excluded from the project scope and the contracts and although the stories had always been a part of the zine i change order in the amount of approximate hundred thousand dollars needed to purchase the equipment  the representative and he had even said that we spoke with the thought or original project schedule from the start was ambitious and he said typically projects of this size and complexity extend another six to twelve months just because of what you get in with the size of the project and also the complexity associated with integrating we have a lot of automated instruments and controls in this plant it's all proportional it opens and closes gates based on flows coming through the plant have and other challenge that we had we had experience was there was for this control there's an integration process that has to be centrally all the components in the plant need to be tied to the  system the wiring associated with there was a gap between what was called on in the contract for the electrical contractor and a general contractor  guess it was lost in translation it didn't happen we got to the point we were making the integration it was a general contractor scope of work but failed to secure a contractor to do it and at that point in the game  we couldn't operate the plant so it was a collaborative effort between the project engineer and the electrician and general contractor to bring this point to point wiring integration  the problem with that was though is that it delayed the project a little further so that's why i know you know i hope to be telling you at the first of the beginning of eighteen that we were in line and that this is really what's kind of slowed us up at the end there and in addition to that i'd also mention that we were moving forward with the watering facility but the problem with that is it was located or was planned to be located at the existing site where we couldn't demo that site and start construction on that site until the new plant was because we needed treatment capabilities at the old site so the contractor couldn't do work preemptively to start a project on that sort of the site because we couldn't do any of them work and start construction on the other plant from the financing side the overall percentage change orders was four percent industry standard for a complex multi prime project often exceeds five percent our original went tension was the finding the majority of the watering projects with internal capital funds are recent costs associated with the hidden funds and rather than exhaust our capital funds and eliminate necessary capital projects within our plan the authorities identified lending rates that felt was more prudent to pursue a tax exempt fifteen bank loan one point two million the borrowing walsall go towards refunding our two thousand and three bank loan which was at a higher interest rate so a portion of that's going to be watering for the project in these other projects these additional projects are going to effect that we are essentially right in the middle there are current rate if you look for boars over and has  the projected twenty twenty rate essentially the additional loan debt it's consistent with what we had planned rate increase ten to twelve percent in two thousand and twenty the projected additional debt service equates to less than twelve dollars per year per customer overall with the sewer project i think i know i am and i think the rest when i speak for the rest of the story we're pleased that we met our project objectives and health ensuring the health and well being of the community with state of the art treatment facility allows for continued growth and development the township while maintaining an them we have we have not we are in the process of looking at there's an issue with the timing and they were we're pursuing that right now they had proposed that claim to us and we're trying to sort through that we were like a couple weeks into that dealing with them and it really ties to the timing of it they they have issues they claim they have cost associated with the delay so we're day yeah and that's i think it was it wasn't like it was added it's at the end it should have been included we you know potential exposure there was the the advantage of having some pricing on the next capital project will be the augmentation of or sewer interceptor projects it's the last page in your packet kind of a brief overview we could not increase the pipe size and capacity and so we had a treatment plan online so this is the second phase of that subsequent project designed to have storm water coming into the system but our system both of them are primarily separate sanitary systems there's no so that's not an issue next year paul and i had talked i think this housing sales in the town to put it was pretty significant this year and we were really prepared to address that will be ready for the next year  but to answer your question about the dye testing we are looking at that we'd like to try to move forward with area wide by testing  type yeah there's going to be costly come back to the property owner to that use easier to do at the time a sale because you have an exchange of funds there on the table it's a little more difficult to walk into a neighborhood  especially with so many of the residents on fixed incomes and try to impose the them replacing their lateral we're doing something significant so we're taking a hard look at and trying to figure out what's the best way to go about that interceptor i'm sorry the construction that isn't dissipated the start of a spring and we're anticipating six months we've had some communication with planning and they had said with us doing work in an area in the school district would like us to be done any of the road work before school gets back in so that's what we're trying to work our planning around that sixty four in essence a colony something like this this and this particular second amendment clarifies that makes it clear how system in our going to be a different part of their system so they will these shoes what are they taking from us i don't understand they're they're taking eleven customers on links that's it yeah and we're going to be between our percent claire and peters township subject to the peters township sanitary authorities approval dollars which includes fourteen million dollars in compensation for the property as well as interest of two hundred sixty six thousand four hundred thirty nine dollars it's my recommendation  the condemnation in the moment there's no i don't think so because i think all the all the other parties were named in the condemnation where the mineral rights owners and other people who potentially had an interest but i think in the course of this week flat out that to not only cover the additional cost associated with this plane deposition but also to have sufficient funds to undertake the projects which we are committed to and rolling hills are already which include the road in the intersection improvement in any additional projects we may want to do in terms of the government of the car it will be necessary for the  for any in the bills that are in her for the development of the property prior to the issuance of the bomb we need to pass a resolution that expresses our intent to do so that's what this resolution is advise counsel man only on the structure of the bond issue but also the timing they walls who assist with acquiring other professional services including taking competitive  one question does the location of the driveway connecting the barrio make any difference i guess they decided to put the driveway down at the other end would it make any difference so do we want to add a condition on the plan the dr the southern and or something then i'm only asking that because of poor granting you know the departure based on the representation that the driveway is going to be up on top and let's say they redesigned the house they come in on the other end if that's an issue if it's not an issue  one hundred sixty thousand dollars this project the cost of the project probably doesn't change our share of the project will increase by this is an example of what we can hope to see inside do the coming in use on a couple different occasions but i want to cage we had a complaint from a resident concerning an arrest that occur in that house and when you saw what was on the the videos and you saw it when you listen to what was being said in the stories were completely opposite and one of the things they demonstrated was the  video that you're camphorated is incredible and so here's the essence we're talking about cameras also point out that the a traffic light cameras were installed caught the guy who was ripping off the a the problem or to submit plea ins and have them approved we are now nine days in a year later and in my opinion we are no close to planes being approved than we were on that date and that again i don't sure of the mr or mrs court with your own perspective but but quite frankly with regard to this the planning department has been more harmony and could have been with any other developer trying to get those approvals done but yet we're still none they are so recently we have been told that the building that was the that was emitted with the planning for the building is not the building that they wish to build now rather instead of a two stor and gentlemen my name is pamela ank i represent ed and susan courtney in regards to the property at two fourteen valley brook which is also known i believe you mentioned as the st petersburg  center this has been going on for a while and as mr lauer referred to the original plan was a two story building for that piece of property part of that i'm just going to give you a little bit of an explanation as to why the court has decided to change the plan down to a one story there was an easement along arrowhead trail which they had been assured that they were basically going to be able to use them for in perpetuity we had been progressing along several meetings and at one point it was made known to us that the township felt that the had been extinguished and to make a long story short notice was served at the end of march i believe to terminate that easement that threw a big monkey wrench into the managed a number of projects she's got a back and a background in engineering she began working with the site plan engineer to try to see to try to accommodate what the township was asking for again several meetings occurred in june there was a meeting there was a meeting in february again in march the easement was a sting extinguished in the end of and it out point there was another meeting in june after i believe you guys had looked at the site plan and there were two other letters that came i believe from the sanitary already and the other one escapes me  engineers and at that point things got a little bit mucked up because right after that they got the last letter i believe the letters were issued on the eighteenth of june and the twenty seventh of june for the same property there was a criminal complaint issued this is courtney and mr courtney were actually kind of on me all the time saying we need to talk to them about this and i said look i don't do criminal law but i'm not let you talk to anybody right now and they're cream and so they hire criminal counsel who told them the same thing in the meantime this is courtney was not idle that's when kind of when she had this little bit of idle time was when she and mr barton looked at the plans over very very well and decided that the loss of that easement was pretty much fatal to a second to a two storey building so that's when they began  redrafting the plants that took place basically between july august and early in september the criminal charges were not dismissed until the end of september and by that time right before that happened we met with mr zoo  and i understand the council was pretty much down this road is mr lauer explained today however the situation is differ now she has drawn up plans mrs courtney has and they've actually been prepared by an architect  you to withdraw the original plea and submit a new plea and they do understand that there's a cost involved in that mr mrs courtney do and they're willing to do that that's part of what i'm here to tell you this evening and but ultimately not interrupt you but so if you're going to go to a one story building you're going to have to demolish what's there now right well part of the top floor and that's the thing and that's part of it is what i wanted to assure you guys i have discussed this with mr courtney last week  if he has permission from you guys i cause we didn't know if we would need a permit to begin that he could start taking that down like next week he can start taking down the top floor of that building so it's kind of like you guys get your cake and eat it too because they can he can start tearing that building down while you're working on reviewing the new site plan in the new building plants and that way i mean i don't know that this is i believe i have faith in this is important to mr courtney i believe that they're going to be able to come up with a plan that's going to be acceptable i think if you guys all work together ron has you're going to have a nice building there but um and then this is the point that i would like to make that's a in the state of the building and this actually goes back to this building permit originally about twenty years ago and the state of the building has been this for eighteen years so where i can appreciate the i believe that they couldn't take any action until there was a permit issued if there is some kind of an interim permit or something that will allow them to work on it bill do it to give not because this property just like all other good have those approvals and we work diligently with him to do that as best we can but despite that adverse ninety days and a year later we're still in the same place well  thing which is what mrs courtney as i explained spent a lot of the summer time doing and she specifically asked on numerous occasions again since the criminal charges have been lifted that  a design professional who works in this area should even be asking these questions we have signed players for commercial properties submitted them for dollars on our job is to make sure the don't have in more retaining walls or any of that there was also a sheet for any of them i submitted that was of advise on building one there are some items on that site plan that are there only because i have a bumper behind the building along the bike trail i don't know what to do with it i was not able to talk to the township about any of this under my council that building while we were working on the other building we didn't start it until two thousand and four there was a lapse in time i will admit that we had two bankruptcy's o larger tenants and when my husband had two strokes and two heart attacks there is a lapse in time there but in two thousand and sixteen my husband contacted mr mussy and said he was going to restart the building he was down there coming i would actually ask and i'm just going to ask that you table that because now that we've been able to be here in in in front of everyone and it's actually been nice to have everybody in the same room i would ask that you table i think there needs to be more communication on that and that's what i mean that's what i would ask to happen well i don't think there's anyone on this panel that really wants to go out and tear down a building unless it's absolutely necessary but i think that in this case we've done more than bend over backwards and again all we're going to do tonight if this resolution is approved is put this out for business certainly also by the time we get bitten by the town approving a bit actually comes in front of us i give the courtney sufficient time to work out  whatever issues they may have with regard to their plans to renovate the building so i don't think this is a drop dead date for them by any stretch of the imagination so i'm going to move that we authorize a township manager to solicit bits of the demolition warns public expenditures asap that the private property owners are in agreement on implementing the solution but they do it without our help and we're going to bring in one t d it's going to be a minor expenditure when he here was to insist that we have trench boxes so that we did not education to the credit of the to the police department in the municipal employees we have because like the bonds amongst our ourselves for the purpose i just wanted to let that out there case anyone in