Asphalt paving program approval

1:02:43Yes. Thank you, Chair. I just Pardon me when I see Uh big ticket items on the consent agenda, $46 million. I don't have an issue with the item, but to have a $46 million item on the consent agenda. Uh I just figure I'd I'd pull it. But there's also a good story behind it too with the road paving assessment. And I thought it'd be a good time to highlight the multi-year contract. uh and the work that that the Jason and his team

1:03:13are are gonna do so Thank you all.

1:03:16Well w um when I saw you pull this, I wondered are we doing any of the projects that Commissioner Mariano keeps talking about with that spray. Spray jet technology. Yes. I hope that we are.

1:03:30Good morning, members of the board. I'm Jason Mickle, Public Works Director. Um, you know, first of all, Commissioner Weightman, thanks for acknowledging um this item. I do wanna just give the board credit. For approving this last year. You know, this has been a very successful program this year. We are very close to coming back to you and telling you that we have spent every last dollar this year. We're close. So all our projects are in the planning stage, money's encumbered, and we're gonna have a very successful fiscal

1:04:00year 25 and our first. Year with this program. So it's very, very awesome news, and I want to thank you again for that. Um, Commissioner Commissioner Weightman, um, that is a big ticket item. I agree. It's it's huge. You don't really see that type of number on the consent agenda. I I agree. But really, what what we're looking at here is um our next three years of the contract with two vents. vendors. So we'll have two vendors, a second vendor to help us with with this project because one vendor it's it's hard because they have other customers, right? And some

1:04:30of these jobs are hard. There's there's weather conditions that they deal with. You know, there's certain times we really like them to get some work done for us, you know, school when school's out and other and other times of the year. So having a redundant vendor, a second vendor that could really help us is great. Commissioner Yeah.

1:04:48Well I just want to add to it is You know, we've made this change from PVAS to this type of uh paving where we charge us on our tax bills for everybody in the county. And I've had people that actually would be very negative about the P VAS and other things that we do actually speak up and say this is one of the best things we've done is put this on the tax roll where everybody pays toward uh paving the roads and it's it's very welcome to hear that. So

1:05:18Yeah. Good job. Thank you. Thank you. And and just a final uh final point on the big ticket number. Um really we're looking out three years with a opportunity to add more years at the end of the contract. So it does it does have a a large total, but just so you know, um we had one successful year, you know, future results aren't aren't you know any an indication of of uh our our past res past results aren't a uh a result of the future. But yeah, we are um you know confident that we are going to continue to execute on

1:05:48this program. Um we have our three year program already published online as as the public can see. Are we into

1:05:56The ne another year. Have we dropped one year off of that three year?

1:05:59Well, we're still in fiscal year twenty-five, so we're still officially in fiscal year twenty-five. As soon as October first hits, we'll be in in the next in the next slide. So

1:06:06we'll add the next year's near next year's list of roads in October.

1:06:12Yes.

1:06:12So we're still on the initial three year list.

1:06:15Yes. That's right. Yes, correct. And then your uh your question regarding the spray jack technology. Yes, we um we have one vendor that does that here for us, and wherever possible we work with them for the best potential to use that technology, um, and that's where we will we'll use it, where we work together and say, hey, that means and methods is to write for this road um and we work together to um to use that. So yes. We are using it.

1:06:42Great. Yeah.

1:06:43If I could, the um on the spray jet technology When when I look at the the basic fundamentals of putting down a base of asphalt And then having the tack go down right before it untouched, the bond is so much better. For point zero five percent, I I think it's just the best value. I think the industry will get there eventually. I mean Switzerland drive over there, you don't see a you don't see a pothole anywhere. They've been using it for thirty years. I think if you work with the gentleman from let's say October till even like spring. and even do a

1:07:14whole bunch of those jobs in between. He'll have the machine he'll have it have it set to go and we'll get a better long term road. If we want to make these roads better as we talked about We want to make a better investment on these things every step so they last longer. This technology should last longer just by basic fundamentals and the uh coefficients that are out there. So I think if you work with APS on getting them from let's say October till even the spring, you can probably hit a whole series of those jobs. And it won't slow them down whatsoever with their other jobs that they have elsewhere. So if you really would take a look at that, I

1:07:44think there's an opportunity there. But I want to thank you for the great job you're doing. You're getting the roads done. People are happy and I think it's gonna be something that I'll be talking about raising that number up because I know more people want to get it done. And I think if we work on something keeping the P VES for the dirt roads where they can pay extra and not bankrupt the system by having more done, I think we've got a great opportunity there too. Thank you.

1:08:07Um uh last night when I was driving home from the airport, um I I came up Gun Highway. Uh Took the Sun Coast to Lutz Lake Fern came up Dunn Highway. Um are we do we have any projects slated? I don't know if you can answer this one, but there was a big hole, big chunk first missing on Gun Highway, on and I believe it's across the border into our part. But are do we have any plans for fixing that road? That's in bad shape.

1:08:32Uh well I'll take a look at it.

1:08:37I drive it every day too, so

1:08:38I'll definitely take it. Well I just wanna alert you that there's a big pothole there.

1:08:42Okay. Yeah. Thank you. They take your

1:08:44Okay, we'll take a motion.

1:08:46No approval. Second.

1:08:47All in favor? Aye. Thank you.

1:08:50Ramford pothole truck.