drawing that shows you what your park is going to look like once its contract is that i think you want to so construction on a project started in february twenty sixth you can see from the diagram the majority of the plant is all subsurface treatment tanks and storage tanks and vessels primarily most of the twenty six team was spent with excavation and construction and concrete work the challenge of the site as you can see with all the tank ages there's little room to do any other work so that did slow the process down i think was a little more than the contractor it is the pay did they had a more aggressive schedule but because of the site restrictions they weren't able to work in different areas of the site because of all the excavation work you can  by the size of the tanks there but twenty five thirty feet deep in the ground of all the excavated material around it it really limited the access for the contractor to move forward quickly work with the we have three process buildings on the say there's a process building ahead we're going to control building just a little tidbit approximately seven thousand cubic yards of concrete which has gone into currently the contractor is working i'll give you a little more view here this is this is a little further along this was probably about a month ago you can see the vessels are all completed on the back side of the site this is actually the foundation work for the front building control building the control building on front of the site this was the staff all the process control equipment in the chemical treatment equipment the  go between this plant or other plant and they also do the work on the conveyance system too so that they're doing multiple roles typically you're going to have an operator and at least one maintenance person on site  restrooms and there is one conference room in there  some challenges as with any construction project it's typical site related issues two of our major ones we had two floods when charters creek breached its banks this is one of the  it flooded the ditch line which then all the creek water poured into the plant the facility is at it was raised intentionally up above the hundred year flood plain so we don't anticipate flooding after the fact  it's over one hundred year flood but this was one of the major setbacks that put the contractor vatican a little bit the there weren't there wasn't any major damage but that the issue with the  underneath the wall so that it had all be reactivated and put down the engineering back bill the combination of these items has led to the contractor requesting an additional forty day ago some other items that have included in recent change change orders were project enhancements such as a larger operator interface on the field see some technology advancements wit impact of the five construction change orders is approximately four percent which is it dissipated or was anticipated in the original project contingency is is fairly typical for a project of this size  the next item i wanted to talk about briefly was just at the watering facility the watering process is one of the final steps in wastewater treatment where the water from the digest that sludge after it goes through the treatment facility it goes to the digester and from there it's pumped or it's from there it's the water which basically means you're taking the water out preparing the soil for landfill  originally when we did the project it was not in the original design due to the initial treatment plant cost but it was forecast as a necessary future project favorable favorable project bids at the time facilitated the authority to pursue additional construction of the water facility subsequently to give you a little perspective on on the think the thinking behind that the award winner of the plant construction call it jack was three million dollars less than a pretty big total construction estimates so the additional funding that was or the dish that was left on the table that he thought were decided to move forward with the project at summer months at least those portions of us who are project s and just really closing the completion of these projects is going to help us to ensure there sufficient capacity for sewer availability for future development within this whole water area and the treatment facility to ensure that there's a moratorium on taps as long as we comply with our corrective action plan to get these projects completed they'll be sufficient capacity for development in this area there's about seventy percent on our budget at this point which is really consistent with where we are construction we're right in line with where your there's not been any major cost overruns and we anticipate to have sufficient funding to follow through and sixty eight percent increase in two thousand i want yeah originally those numbers i had pulled some old information on the original projecting was going to be a thirteen percent increase in the twenty with te facility where there is an existing facility what he had intended to do i think temporarily was to use or brush one facility which is in the other watershed we have a good watering press there but that the water impresses over thirty years old  so we were we had hoped to do that at some point in the future sooner than later with a view on facility and with the bids coming in it was favorable so it made sense to do it at this time and i and eighteen operating budget is projected to be two percent less in operating expenses then in this year so we're trying to make sure that we are very prudent and understand our financial obligations to is that the interceptor that services that is is indeed of upgrading and one of the things that were attempting to do with the sanitary and the worry is to look at some type of partnership to make that happen one of those opportunities that's out there is that there are a couple grant programs that may be available and one of the things that i have encouraged to do because there are many other community been here for almost twenty five years but these ordinances were place in eighty one eighty two we revised those in two thousand and seven and here stands a proper it's been abandoned for four years and nothing being done on that but there was an effort in pla businesses that i don't think are going to change in some time and when you proposed putting a four story building in the middle of an area that technically again correct me if i'm wrong we're only off three stores it's going to be out of place i think one hundred twenty seven units the argument the traffic with only forty five forty seven during peak hours is inaccurate i don't know the number of employees you're going to need when you talk to men shop as well as the you know other types of care that's given the need to be there for some residence we have the sanitary thore here there's a truck where there are guards to water in times from flooding when you're going to put in a massive parking lot as well as lose some of that land structure i think that you're going to increase that and i find two individuals that voted in favor that doesn't fit in regard to that proposal i think for individuals one above and beyond om allowing at take place i understand that you have a conditional use policy to protect what we desire as a community but i think it was done in favor of one entity we heard before previously that it was not feasible for them if it was three stores we need to think of our community first in not the feasibility of one business to come into our community we need to say what we want and i just wanted to make those comments because i think that was lost i think we will regret the decision years down the road and that's  representation in regards to this decision and i say that because i care i will die in his community if it's in my own home and i am with drive or hopefully only a three storey says the living facility ok so come before you this evening to discuss last our landstar council meeting i happened to pick up a copy of the data sheet dealing with the budget and took it home with me after the meeting and i've been looking at this for over a week now and i'm getting to the point where i'm beginning to become more angry about what i'm saying mr or kerry your right you were right last week when you pointed out that we're on that short road by that i mean any time that we are spending more money than we're bringing in we have a problem  frankly i can tell you this og managed by the chin my past and certainly what i would have done in this circumstance is i would have called in my department heads and my managers and i would have told them that they're to go home and come up with a ten percent reduction in their budgets and don't come back unless you do and i would have done it i've done it before what concerns me is we're also looking at this rolling hills park now let me remind you that it wasn't too many years ago that we voted on financing the peters would park and there was a gentleman on the council his name was that consent and i think he looked over right exactly right what concerns me is that and again i'd like to just mention what i said last time i think we've bitten off more than we might be able to ch we get into the rolling hills park and we found out today that we need some sort of work how much is that going to cost before we ever get that part done it's going to cost us a ton of money but money and i'm being nice we're in a sample we're going to get it we're going to go borrow it let me point something out very simply our debt service that a million nearly a million and a half is higher than our library costs i want to tell you something about the library our library gets more community use than any other service that we provide thank you library the fact that i'm looking at a debt service that's going to grow higher than say some of the other services like recreation in very short order it's got me a problem i got a telephone call this past week from some people who are very concerned about what i brought up the last time i spoke here and they mentioned to me that the school board has got some problems with finance as well and that's billing over and i say this based upon what i was told as i understand it the financial picture in this township is beginning to road some of the confidence that people might have in moving to our township their own certain about what tax fees are going to be and i know there are certain people in this community who feel that they want to be another mom eleven or upper st clair you can take mount lebanon up or st clair and put it somewhere else the point i'm trying to make counsel is is this the proceed you're that you're comfortable with in terms of bringing these policy questions in front of council to bring them to a regular meeting and have a discussion here or question for council tonight is how would you like to proceed with these you want the stall be reviewed by the solicitor prior to them coming to counsel do you how do you prefer to do that i think they should be reviewed by the the policies are quite boring which the ones that we have to do so to sit down in it would be more than one session to sit down and go through the roof if that's the route you choose to choose to go on i don't i mean i don't several different categories and we do get into some personnel matters and i think those are wholly appropriate for the council one in terms of men it was a look at those that are more technical in relation to the law in the application of law accreditation standards are regarding enforcement and that's something more that would fall to us to research to determine the best practices and policies that suit us and then we can obviously send all of them if you wish to the so what i what i think your counsel saying is that what we would like to do is to gather these they have them reviewed by the solicitor and add some appropriate time have workshops on a number of the policies they would choose not to take action on the resolution tonight but rather after the solicitors had a chance to review had my guess is what we're going to do before we have a workshop is to add to that list of r ten or twelve months maybe not even the point that many depending on the complexity of some of those policies that we will get done as we work through those we may need to have a workshop in to in may june and then sit down to categorize which ones you want to eventually enacted has he did with interviews and we're actually in a position to implement this it would be in the ear if council would agree you have from the union a signed copy of the of this problem with these people opting out is going to resolve itself in two thousand and eighteen because you're going to have retirements and and that will be a concern the other day gives we're not going to have because these two today seven zero mr lauer the next later would be a request for a traffic camera as we've been approached by the district attorney to washington county as well as the district attorney for or who took the child we can enter that play these are these would be two of a total of i believe seven cameras going in washington county there already in excess of two hundred of these same camera systems  stationary defense it doesn't work the enemy goes around it under the circumstances my last discussion i told you about some of the implementation that's being done with drones much rather have a camera on a drone that can follow an offending vehicle than i am on one photograph of the back of some fifty seven and i think that's the route to go because you would be able to track that criminal not just through donaldson's crossroads but east west south and you would know where he is or she is at any particular time that's the future cameras for obsolete they only cover a limited area time to move on start thinking about implementing morrows criminal prevention technology which is good observation through a variety of me well what i'm saying is i think if you want to save the money and look at a drone policy to put it into doing some research on other means more progressive modern methodology  and the other great thing about them appealing is we don't have to pay the balance of the award now until the appeal process gets completed