old wind stream facilities out on New Circle, but we're sort of... That's it, probably two years is probably kind of our goal, a year and a half, two years, by the time we get that. You have some time to make the... Yeah, that's a spot. Yeah, it's been since vacant for a little while, and plus wind stream, you know, they knew they were moving, and so anytime you have somebody that knows they're moving, they don't do much. I'd like to call the April 11th meeting to order. We have some new faces. Would you like to introduce yourself and tell us about yourself? Sure. My name's Bill Sally. I'm a retiree from the urban county government about almost seven years ago now. I work for RadioLive, which is a local nonprofit organization, and had many years in the division of planning and development review and things of that nature. So we provide some staff. Went to a lot of planning commission and board of adjustment unions over the years. So we also reviewed a lot of plans that had the stormwater infrastructure. Very glad to be on the board. Thank you all. Congratulations. Thank you. Why don't we introduce ourselves. Donna, what you news? Youself. Hi, I'm Donna. I would have about seven years ago from our county government. Thank you. I'm George Wolwine and I'm a retired civil engineer. I work for the Quest and HDR and now I'm working part time with the early CAV government on the civil construction projects. I'm finding that to be really interesting. It's nice to kind of keep involved in the We have a new staff member. Why don't you tell us about yourself? Yeah, I'm Bailey. I just came on like three weeks ago. And so I've been doing like consulting and I've been working on two RMP projects in the city. So I'm glad to be here and get like my feet wet and get more involved and figure stuff out. Very good. Also for those that don't know, I mean, Evan Thompson's been coming to a few meetings now, but since we have some new spaces, We took Michael Crable's spot to just send you all nowhere. We appreciate your excellent work. Long-wise, keeps out of trouble. All right. First item of business is approval of our January 11th, 2024 meeting minutes. Has everyone had a chance to look over? Are there any corrections, additions? Hearing none. Is there a motion to accept? Move to accept. It's been moved. Is there a second? Second. It's been moved and second. All in favor of the motion signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, like said. Motion carries. Senate grant status update. That's the point is today not much on the agenda, so we'll run through and give you some updates on the process and then immediately following the adjournment, I have a smaller presentation just for some former projects for those that haven't seen any projects, just a chance to view them. Okay. Just a few examples from each class. Yeah. So starting here and the way that these are presented now, instead of a year, they'll be presented based on the type. So Class A, we'll run all through the Class As. you know, go to Class B Education and the Class B infrastructure. This is because the way our system, our grant tracker, we have a new grant tracker, and the way it generates the reports, that's the sort now. So just so you know I'm going to... Can everybody see that, or do I need to dim the lights? Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. There's not many... You nailed it. You nailed it. That's good. Yeah, it's fine. It's fine. I'll just scroll as we move that. So starting at the top, we have the Heartland Homeowners Association. The report has came in that they're in the process of the maintenance, preparing the maintenance agreement, and just calling out the grant. This is one of our 2021 grants. So it's making great progress according to the grant manager. So we'll soon have that closed out. The next one is a Hatton Creek Conservancy. The grant manager kind of reported, he was hoping this one would be completed. It's kind of a simpler grant. It's a feasibility study, and so we're just kind of pushing in to get us the final report and to get these grants closed out as well. Then we have friends of Wolf of Run for their 2022 grant. They just turned in their second request for funds, and so they're about 65% complete now. So they're making good progress. I mean, we was hoping that they move along a little faster since we're in 2024 calendar year. But they're starting to get kind of caught up on their activities. As you know, they're kind of one of our repeat customers. And we have Cardinal Valley. I just spoke to Lane Bowden, who was the contact, and they are – I'm waiting on their date to do some of the maintenance activities that they are planning, as well as to submit an official schedule for all, a revised schedule, since they kind of asked for a request for extension recently, and so she's going to submit a revised schedule, and then give me some dates as to when they'll get out there and do the actual work. So that's from the Valley Ellersley at DeLonge. The design team is working on the design and the construction drawings, So that's where they are in phase of about 15, 10, 15 percent on those design drawings. So we anticipate them to pick up speed once we have those drawings finalized for that one. Continuing with our class A's. For a friend who's working for in 2023, he, King Cookie, now an official request for extension, citing that they're still working on the 2022 activities, as I just mentioned. And they're actually getting those final reports and what have you for, to submit one last final request for that 2022. You know, we just turned in one recently. They plan to wrap it up pretty quick. And they may leave some money on the table, but I'm not sure. So this is kind of like where they are with that. Demetrius did approve the request for extension. Namers United for South Elkhorn Creek, Elements A and B completed, they just completed the detailed design, conducted pre-construction meeting with NUSIC. Element C, the grant manager says, music members organized and conducted waterway educational for water week event that was coming up, or that is coming up, I should say. Riparian area planting stone water quality is what those elements will consist of for water week. Upcoming events submit construction drawings is what he says here. I'm sorry. Apply for the LEP so they're in the process of also applying for the Atlanta Sturmers Permit. That one's making pretty good progress. They're about at 15% too. That's a 2023 plan, I should say. Friends of the Park in Fay County, which is a dogwood park out in Dogwood Trace. design team just received the plans from LSU CG for the capital project. There's a capital project. Mark, do you want to speak to that one a second in terms of where that is? Yeah, there's a stream that's going next. Do you want to go into what the... That grant is fixing a... Spring. Sure. Lots of work for that. So we're diverting water away from it. And right now the plans are about 90%. So we're kind of finalizing just, I think, waiting on permits. So there was some coordination between the grant and the capital project. And we kind of slayed it real quick just to extend a pipe that would get the water from the street to the spring. Because it was just kind of before the spring. We wanted the capital project to go first. So anything that the incentive grant was fixing that it wasn't disrupted by larger spend. So by diverting orders around it, we're kind of protecting our own investment. All right. My next one here is Walnut Hill Club. And they report that the bids that they just received came in high. They're trying to conduct some value engineering to get the cost there. The ground manager is just going to follow up to see how successful they are, and hopefully they can. Otherwise, they may consider trying to . I'm not sure. I don't have the dollar amount. The change of options on the table, but we're hoping that they're able to avoid that, actually. I think that's what the plan is. Waterford II, design team is reviewing the design layout to lessen the impact over the existing sanitary sewer line, which runs below the pond. So this is Waterford II out there off of Taste Creek Road, and they're trying to turn that pond back into a natural stream area. A wetland area, I should say. And so they're just working on the design. They're about 25% on their design work. uh, Beaumont residential, um, the grant grantee, this is a 2024. So they just received a notice to proceed. So we don't really have anything to report on that one. They just now kind of get it going. Uh, I think there's a kickoff meeting plan soon for that one. Um, principal from 2024, no activity to date. Um, still focusing on 22 wrapping up 22 and sliding into FY23 grant activity. So, um, I'm sorry. It's hard to keep up. I'm sorry. Sunny Slope Farm Association, Farm Homeowners Association, they just had a kickoff meeting scheduled for Tuesday, 10 a.m. The project is located at 475 Waibler Museum. So if anybody's out in that area, you can kind of get a preliminary look at what it's looking like now versus what we'll have once they're completed. They're just going to do some tree removal and planting activity out there, just some clean up work. Our next one is still Class A. This was the Rotary Club of Lexington. The kickoff meeting was held here to discuss the project schedule and expectations in terms of reporting. And so we're just in a planning phase still just kind of getting that one off the ground. So at least we've got the kickoff meeting now that they're starting to get those activities going through. Waterford 2, 2024, this is the actual construction part for that design at the pond where they're going to turn it back into a wetland. We're still going through the design, so that's the holdup on this construction phase here. Bluegrass Green Source 2022. This is an education grant and documentation that she said they just turned in a request for funds for four and five. So they kind of doubled up. I guess they kind of held off on one and just kind of turned both of their requests in for funds at the same time. So they're making good progress on that one just with their normal plan activities for that particular grant. They're about 70% completed on that project. University of Kentucky. This 2022. Email the grantee about the invoice received that we need to clarify whether it's for 20. So we received the invoice for this one. And, of course, they have a couple of grants out, and we're just trying to narrow down what the invoice was for because they didn't have a lot of detail. But this project here is about the fertilizer, and they're about 90% complete. We expect this to wrap up. We've received all the deliverables and what have you, and so we're just waiting for their final invoice and final report. Bluegrass, green source. This is for the mini grant program. This is 2023. We just received a reimbursement request for them as well. That project is about 75% complete. So they've been successful in getting some of those mini grants completed. This is where they're going to homeowners and allowing them to apply for the private rain gardens in their yard. It's either a rain garden or any other small-scale stormwater solution that is funded through Bluegrass Green Source, but by LFUCG in terms of the application process. It's administered through Bluegrass Green Source. You see, living going to the Science Center, 2023, we were reconciling items off of the request for funds at first request. They were just kind of getting this one off the ground, and they just turned out a report. We were just going back and forth and reconciling items. We also dealt with them with regard to some inspections on the pavers that they completed back in 2014. So we had them go back and do some maintenance work because we saw that we had some silt built up in the pavers. So we had to give them time to kind of get that maintenance, those maintenance activities completed as well. But the good news is they did complete them and they're functioning properly now. Providence Montessori School, that one, let's see, all the various types of plantings for the rainwater has been selected. And the plantings will begin shortly. This is Class B Education as well. According to the grant manager, he just received an email on the project. According to the project, the design process should be starting soon. I believe this is where they're going to install a rain garden over at Fayette County Locust Trace. So they're going to install a rain garden. It has an educational tool, outdoor classrooms, they're in the design phase. It's going to be a small scale sort of rain garden. So they're about 5% complete, so it's just kind of getting started as well. Bluegrass Green Source 2024, they just received a notice of receipt, so no activity there at, just to mention. Class B infrastructure started building at 2018. This is for the educational center. And we're going to build a part with this one because they were planning to do it over at Setz Away to build, but I think they had been trying to sell the property and to acquire a new one. So we've kind of given them a deadline to acquire a new property. And so if they have it by summer, then We're probably going to ask them to terminate the grant and to reapply, to kind of reset. Unfortunately, they'll have to pay back funds first, because they did request for around $40,000 in those funds. So we'll expect the repayment of those funds before they'll be allowed to reapply. Unfortunately, we've had to... Have you given them a hard deadline? I have. I've told them June. June 30th. June 30th. I've kind of gone back and forth. It was a soft deadline at first. We talked about December last year, and then they had some movement. They had some inquiries about their current sites, but they couldn't tell through. Of course, they had that issue with the storm outlet in the middle of that property, and so I guess they thought about just relocating the project altogether, but it hadn't come to fruition. So they're kind of stuck with that for right now, and they're on the timeline. So we'll see how that goes. I'll keep you up. But we still hope that even if we terminate it, that at some point in time they'll reset and come back and we'll reply for that. That's the hope. Let's see here. Kentucky American Water. This is the 2022 grant. This is one we were going to visit today. But the weather, as you can see, I've kind of canceled that physical tour because it's super muddy out there. So I don't think it would be worth going out there in this type of way. But they're making great progress. We've went through a number of renditions of the trash collector. We've kind of landed on a design that they feel like is going to be effective. Now the plan is to build some kind of dock to make it accessible so they don't have to boat every time because it takes a longer time to have to get in a boat and drag it back to shore. So they're trying to come up with some kind of shallow dock that's going to make it easy for them to come out there and pull it in to be able to be empty. And then they're trying to coordinate with solid waste as well. So we're in that phase of it. So hopefully we're making some good progress, but hopefully we'll see some greater progress the next time I report to you guys. And if anybody wants to see it in between the time, I can coordinate with Eric DeWalt and those guys to go out there and take a look at it. I think, George, you mentioned taking a look at the rainwater harvesting over the U.K. We did it before, but I think a lot of members weren't able to attend, so I'm going to try to coordinate something to get that scheduled to do that again. It's pretty fascinating. University of Kentucky. It's about the infrastructure. This is the one we just spoke about. This project is wrapping up. They're producing their final report and just kind of come up with their final invoices and what have you. But all the construction is complete. So it's an operation? Yes, it's an operation. And I tried to make sure we have, I think one of the objectives was to get one of our float meters to make sure that we're able to gauge when they're using Kentucky American water versus pulling it from the culvert. And so Gabe went out there and checked that out and it looks like everything's operational. So we'll be happy to show that to you as soon as I can pull it up there. They are planning a pre-construction meeting. I believe they just had it as a matter of fact last week. And Craig says that's where they are in the process is just to conduct a pre-construction meeting to get the construction portion they've already completed designed to just get the construction moving forward. so I just wanted to learn just to make sure all of our erosion sediment controls were in place and what have you. That one's about 40% complete. Community Montessori, this is off the Stone Road. That grant, I believe, is just about complete. If you ride out, if you've ever been out there or if you go past it, you'll see the parking lots already installed. It's looking really good. This was the parking lot expansion before we changed our rules that we were not funded in a complete expansion, but the difference between a regular asphalt lot and a permeable lot, they were fortunate to receive kind of full funding for this expansion. But it's a beautiful lot nonetheless. I see a place with you all that were out there. They are trying to turn to their final report and everything to get this project wrapped up as well. and the maintenance agreement. We're at the maintenance agreement phase where we're trying to get that recorded as well. Lexington Center Corporation 2022 grant. They just turned into request for funds. Number two, this is for the construction portion of the park that's going down. They just wrapped up the design portion, which was a 2021 grant. This is the 22 for the construction and the grants components consisted of the Manufactured treatment device as well as all the pavement removal so much of that is complete as far as the grant is concerned But they're installing all the other components the rain barn and everything else that's going along so They're making great progress. I think with regards to the grants portion of them. They're preparing to turn in final documents, but they have to wait until a lot of those other components get installed because some of the invoicing kind of gets entangled. So that's another thing we're watching very closely to make sure that the grants are only covering the grant components. So they're under construction, I guess. Oh, yeah. The Civic Center is complete. They're doing their thing? Yeah. The manufactured treatment device is in place right there in front of the church, Main Street Baptist Church, and then the pavement removal activities have happened, so they've already broke ground. and that's, those are the costs that the grant was to cover. So much of that has happened. We're just anticipating to turn in their request of funds and hopefully get to a final one and just close our portion out. You can get a pretty good view about everything that's going on from the bridge there at Utah. Oh, Lewis? Yeah. Yeah. A bunch of there. This is the Universalist, Unitarian Universalist Church of Lexington. This grant here, the bids came in really high, so they are, they informed me that they're preparing for a changement. I don't think it's going to be for, I think it's going to be for about $50,000. That's how much the bids came in. And so they're planning off giving them a changement application, giving them instructions So we're anticipating those documents to see what staff's position on that will be. And so hopefully we'll have that for you during our next meeting. They requested for a special meeting. I told them they could throw some dates out there and we could coordinate with the board to see if you guys, you all would be available. If not, then they would have to be on the agenda for that July. So are they thinking in terms of an increase in scope or an increase in scope? it's it's the same scope so they're wanting to change or cover the additional additional cost yeah we have encountered just increased cost on all the materials and labor we had give you a brief overview we bid it last fall we We ended up with a single bidder. It was over. We restructured it, talked to some contractors about how to make it better, put a bid package back out. Unfortunately, we received only one bid again. Same one? Same one, but then we encouraged two other bidders to put together estimates or bids, and we've gotten one that is within the range of the grant amounts that we could come back to request for. So that's what we're proceeding with. So we ended up, after a lot of cajoling and coaxing three bids, with one that is within the grant amount. So that's what we're going to be coming back with. Yeah, they're trying to hit that, of course, we have a $360,000 maximum request. So if you submitted an application we're awarded for funding below that threshold, then that's fine. So they are allowed to submit a change order up to the $360,000. In the Centenary Church, the detention basin work is complete. They've completed some invasive species removal work. They're waiting on the delivery of a sidewalk-related drain. and also waiting on the permit from the regulatory agency to begin the stream stabilization work. It's out there at the church. Hi. Oh. Sorry. This is. Sorry. I can't. This is. So this is secondary church out of Tate's Creek Road. So they're doing some stormwater improvements, and that's where they are in the process. They're waiting on the permit to start the stream stabilization work. First United Methodist Church, according to the grant manager, now I'll tell you about this one, they had to change their consultant because I think Barnhart was their earlier consultant and then he was a parishioner, but I think he's since retired. And so I think they backed out of the deal. And so I think they have Colt Engineering Fairbred to take over. And they're just addressing some concerns with the design and whatnot. And I think they're moving forward with trying to reset where they were with Barnhart just to kind of get everything back in order. But the plan is to install permeable pavers at that lot on High Street. Huber Real Estate, a design team working on the final revision to the construction drawings. We've also had some communication with them about the easements and about LFUCG accessing to be able to clean out the Sinko area, I guess on a regular basis. Mark, do you remember this one? When we were talking about it? Hubert. The one we were talking to Doug about the Sinko at 7th Street. So they're making some progress to begin some of the physical work, but they're just trying to formalize some easement activity and access for LFU-CGBA to get in and come to agreement about us helping them clean it out. Let's see here, Bayhead County Public School. This is for the CTE building out of Midland and what we have with that one is they're trying to let them finish the building before we do the parking lot naturally. We don't want them to be storing items on our paper. So that's where we are. We're just kind of waiting on them to wrap up those activities. But other than that, no real change. They're just reporting where they are with the actual greater project, getting the building renovated and what have you. So is that going to be the parking area closer to Main Street? Yes, it is. Yeah. Yeah, they may plan to do something in that back lot as well, but for right now, it'll be that one facing Main Street. Yes, sir. University of Kentucky is just a feasibility study. I believe we have a draft or we're working on a draft for the feasibility study. So that's where we are. They're just being prepared to turn in a draft for that study. And I believe this is this study is for the tree installation. So they're just trying to see out of all their campus where it would be best suited to plant trees basically. that one is. Room to Breathe, this is a 22-2023 grant in the city. This is for tree planting's soil sales. And I believe she says they're expecting design plans for that one. I believe Eric is the grant manager. I think we were going to ask you to chop in on that one as well. Lindsay, this is one of Lindsay's projects that, of course, Lindsay left, and so we just got a new grant manager. Eric Malino and I think we're going to be set to get Bailey involved in that project. They're making pretty good progress. They're about 10%. Let's see here. Next we have Winslet Ventures. They've received the first set of design plans and a request for funds. They're about 25% of this project. And so this is just a feasibility study as well. They're about 25% in getting that study done. See, Brad and Roses, the next three have just received notice to proceeds and so no report or so those. We're just kind of getting in communication with them with the grant manager. And so we anticipate getting those balls rolling. And that would be it. Can we make the last one change their name as part of the name? Right. I'm just talking about that. They didn't do a very good marketing study of that. Or people talking about it. Yeah, I'm like, I guess I'll get you to notice it. I guess you're talking about it. It's a marketing firm. They're supposed to be the spokesman for the small, mediocre business, small business companies. and you know, I don't know if it worked. I don't know. It generates a lot of discussion. It does. You can't afford to eat, but you don't want jobs to go mediocre. Right. And that was located right there in Limestone, right there in Limestone and Eddie Street, sort of like, as one of those buildings facing Limestone right there. They're looking to do a permanent block or something to that effect. I don't know that they have the space. They're trying to do some kind of stormwater solution for some flooding that they had occurring. That's where we are with our project updates. Anybody have a question? Sure. Okay. Hold on. Let me see what we have here. Oh, Denise was just letting us know that she sent out some notice proceeds to Wesley United Methodist Church for their construction grant. That's out there off of Russell Cain. They completed a feasibility study. Thank you, Scott. And now they're headed toward a construction phase. They're looking to do some permeable pavers and I think a bioswale of some sort. Bioswale, repairing and buffer, and permeable pavers removing asphalt. Right now. We've really been involved in a lot of really interesting projects. Yeah. It's kind of good to see, I guess, from the start of this program, to see some of the projects that have been completed. I'm happy to share some slides following the adjournment. If anybody want to, real quick, I'll show some examples for the board members that haven't physically seen any projects. Was there any... I have a question based on what you said. So like, for example, the UK with the rainwater harvesting and using that. Does the department work to try to tell the story and try to get it out there to the community of the projects that we funded and the uniqueness of some of them? Because you don't really see news stories about it or things out there. So could you explain a little bit about how if we do try to get it out there, if not, maybe some of them we could do? Well, that particular grant and most of our infrastructure grants incorporate educational components. So those are the materials that we'll use for marketing. So once we get those, they're actually, that's the last component that they're actually working on is to generate signage as well as some materials that they plan to implement to their curriculum. And so they have a requirement to submit those to us for use as well. So we're coordinating with our Division of Environmental Services to be able to utilize those materials to get the word out about that project and others for that matter. So that's our coordination. We coordinate with Division of Environmental Services to get all the materials, if they have an educational component, to allow us to market it, to allow us to utilize it in our stormwater educational materials as well. I had a similar question about that same project, though, as far as even conventional media trying to get, at least on a slow news day, maybe knows that 27 or something like that would cover that. And then also whether or not the university has done any publications on that as well. Because I know that was one of the things I wanted to make sure that if they produce something, is that we have access to that as well, where you can share that with magazines that feature stormwater type of improvements and stuff like that. Get it out there beyond just going to the site and having signage and things like that. And that's where I'm coming from. I want to see Frank on one of the noon shows. It's a waterfall. I think that's the anticipation is once they finish the educational components to be able to utilize it. Because I think they plan to also get the word out there. So we'll kind of be in collaboration with them to be able to work alongside them to get that marketing piece out there, whether it be on the news or in some magazines or whatever. I think they plan to submit it as well just for some of those words. No. Making a concerted effort over the next year in doing that, I think, is a really great opportunity, though. It's a really great opportunity. Will do. Just curious, the work we did at Lex Park, I've been in the rain, strong water harvesting. The basin? Yeah. Is getting feedback on how that's going? As far as the basin is concerned, well, the only feedback we've done with them recently just to inspect the basin. and it seemed to be working fine. Still doing? Yeah, still doing what it was doing. The pump was working. They had recently went out and cleaned out a little bit of the tree, the bush material that was in there, so still operable. I don't think they're engaging in any marketing materials or speaking about it per se, but we're just monitoring with regard to inspecting it. It's a really neat project. It was harvesting rainwater out at the old IBM Lexmark facility, They had a basin in case of the stormwater and then it was being pumped to a tank, water tank, and they were using that to, it was a heating and cooling for some of the buildings out there. Yes, just like, well different from the rainwater harvesting in the UK because they're heating and cooling their buildings but it's coming from pulling water from the coal burning. In this case, it's really interesting. Yeah, that's good stuff. So maybe we'll visit that as well. Yeah, we'll arrange for a tour to see that one as well, since that's one that you have questions about. Sure. Any other thoughts, comments? Okay. Hearing none, do I hear a motion? Will you adjourn the meeting? Motion to adjourn. Motion to adjourn. Is there a second? Second. In the movement, second. All in favor of the motion to signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, like signed. Motion to adjourn. We stand adjourned. Thank you. At 10.