Fox Ridge Municipal Service Benefit Unit (MSBU) Presentation

1:51:14All right, good morning again. Jason Mickle, Pope Works Director. Um at your at your May Sixth meeting We had um an item for the Fox Ridge M SBU. The board asked us to reconsider. um dissolving that MSBU and then to come back to you with some options, some recommendations to do maintenance throughout that community and I'm here today to provide you with a really quick um update and show you what we came up with.

1:51:45So I won't bore you with the timeline, but I'll just show you on that last timeline. There is what I just mentioned. That's where we came to you, to the board. You asked us to go back and explore some other options. Um So Within the community, there's about a 2.7 mile ditch system. That runs to it. I don't know if you're familiar with it at all. It's just to orient you, it's kind of Wesley Chapel area east of 75. Um this system has been overgrown for decades. And there's lots of um kind of invasive trees and underbrush

1:52:15that's that's kind of clogging up the system that's um intended to move water, convey water throughout that community. So there are some there are some blockaged areas that can cause some flooding within the community. Um so our proposal. Is to Uh work with one of our contractors. and to go out there now, I l I'll just I'll just throw it out there, um, for us to do it internally, 'cause that was some of the discussion for our teams to go out there and do it would would be about a Three year or

1:52:45so process would take up a lot of our resources. So we looked at an alternative, which is hiring a contractor. Just to orient you on the map, that's that's some of the canal system.

1:52:57throughout the community. Um if you're famili again if you're familiar with it, it's it's about about ten feet wide. Um Severely overgrown, not a lot of conveyance occurring through there. But what we'll do is we'll use the MSBU money that's currently available. about eight hundred and forty nine thousand of it, which is just less than what we have um within the MSBU. Um we could use that money to hire a contractor and maintain that ditch to the point where we could get most of that cleared out. Um Then

1:53:28what we would do from there is our teams can maintain that clear ditch as part of our stormwater maintenance program. Uh and as as you know, we have uh MSTU uh for our road rehabilit rehabilitation program that we can put these roads on our list for for um for road rehabilitation. Um so we can use the MSTU, which they're paying into, um, to do their roads, and then we could use what money they have in their MSBU

1:53:59to do the um stormwater maintenance that's needed. out there. So, with that, I tried to make it really quick, just give you an update of what we come up with. We can, again, just in summary, we could use a vendor. um to do this work. We have multiple vendors that we can work with. We'll probably go through the normal bid process. Using um that purchasing process to go out to bid and getting the work done would be about an eighteen month process.

1:54:24Commissioner Oakleyana.

1:54:25Yeah, Madam Clerk. Jason, I want to thank you. Yeah. Um Brantford, the team, because this this was started like before Brantford was here. They did some of the work out there, uh but then evidently it stopped. Uh so with all the money that's out there I thought it was very appropriate that we take it forward. So Jason, I'll I'll I support you go going forward to have your team look at it to do it, but I think in speed of eighteen months compared to three years, I think it's worthwhile, depending how the cost bids come out. So I I'm I supportive of uh what you're trying to do and I appreciate the effort. Okay.

1:54:56Great, thank you.

1:54:56Yes, so um do we need action today? No.

1:54:59There's no action today,

1:55:00Chairman

1:55:00Mariano. Uh oh with Chair. Yeah. Yeah, three three years to do a little over two miles. Um That's mighty slow. So, Based on

1:55:11money.

1:55:11Yeah. Anyway. Just glad glad glad I I spoke with some of the board members uh last week. And um they'll be have you talked to them? Have you given them this up that we're gonna be? Yep, our team has met. All right, good. With them. Good

1:55:26deal. Thank you. Okay.

1:55:27Okay, so then you're good to go, right?

1:55:30So will you I'll come back to you with a future board item to move this project along?

1:55:35Yes.

1:55:35Okay.

1:55:40Or were they lucky?

1:55:41I don't think there was any structure flooding, but there's community flooding there.

1:55:44Yeah,

1:55:44yards

1:55:45and

1:55:45it's a

1:55:46it's a wet area anyway. Well

1:55:47let's

1:55:48get it.

1:55:48Everybody's in there. They're they're on acre plus, but it's just

1:55:51Yeah. When you clean those out it really surprised you how quick the water moves out of there and doesn't cause the flooding like we had in the past. It's very good. Okay.