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Were those LED lights the street lights the ones on Main Street? Grants Director Jeremy Biggs approached the podium and said, that is a great question, Mr. Street. And nothing has been decided as far as location on these street lights. Councilmember John Street said, I was just wondering; because CWL is replacing all the regular street lights with LED. I mean, they should all be done here before too long. Mr. Biggs said, and then also they applied for a BRIC grant as well to replace poles and lights. So if they are granted that, they are going to get to spend a lot more money on poles and light replacement. This will allow us to replace about 70 street lights; but there has been no location identified for this. Councilmember John Street said, I mean, unless you want to give it to CWL and their deal. They would be glad to get it, but I assumed they might be the ones on Main. Mr. Biggs said, there will be an MOU put together between the city and City Water & Light just like we did with the BRIC grant for any kind of street light replacement. It’s just the city can apply for this formula funding that the Department of Energy has allocated to entitlement cities. So it’s kind of just like the CDBG program, how that works. We get an allotment of funds, but we will allocate that money for the street lights. It’s one of the eligible expenses. Councilman John Street said, thank you, sir.\r\n\r\nCouncilmember David McClain said, so not just lights here in the municipal center, but it’s the municipal center and street lights. Is that what I am understanding? Mr. Biggs said, it will be for an energy audit of the whole building that we are in right now. That will be conducted by an energy company and a third party. It will allow us to replace up to 70 street lights based on current cost of LED fixtures; and then also it will allow us to grant out monies to non-profit organizations who own and operate public facilities that are open to the public. So think like the Hispanic Center, if they wanted to apply for a grant to retrofit their building to get it up to maximum energy efficiency levels, they could apply for that funding and we would grant that to them.\r\n\r\nCouncilmember Ann Williams said, I know that it had been mentioned that improved lighting would be covered under the $5 million safety grant. How does that work with this, or is it just in addition to this as far as lighting issues and stuff? Mr. Biggs said, yes it will be in addition. So that Safe Streets for All grant is up the corridor of Highway 91 and Johnson, and also up 141 past Parker Park. So all new lighting will be in that project, and that is already funded. This is just an additional source of formula funding. Councilmember Ann Williams said, that is what I was wondering. I was assuming that was the case. Mr. Biggs said, just allows us to replace more street lights. Councilmember Ann Williams said, right. Very good.","EventItemActionId":406,"EventItemActionName":"Recommended to Council","EventItemActionText":"A motion was made by John Street, seconded by Ann Williams, that this matter be Recommended to Council. 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Alejandra Morales with the Grants Department approached the podium and said, there is actually that plot of land that is next to the JET facility that has that red dirt. That is where we were thinking of doing it. Councilmember David McClain said, so this is going to be a maintenance building, it looks like? Ms. Morales said, correct. Councilmember David McClain said, do we have, I don’t know if things come up throughout the year, but is there a way for us to have, maybe you guys have a spreadsheet of we are applying for this grant. Here is how much we need in matching funds. Is that something we could have or be sent to us? That way, I would like to know the running tally of maybe we are looking to have to match throughout the year that we are going to have requests for. I know everything won’t be approved, but maybe have an idea of what we are going to be applying for and what the matching requirement may be. Ms. Morales said, yes, we can definitely do an Excel sheet and project future grants and what we are thinking of doing; and like you said, the amounts and the matches. Yes, we can definitely do that.\r\n\r\nChairman Joe Hafner said, and Steve or Brian, I don’t have it with me, but our budget includes. Doesn’t it have a page that shows the grants that we have already applied for? I can’t remember if it is ones we have already applied for or ones that are planned to be applied for. Finance Director Steve Purtee approached the podium and said, there are three sections in the budget document. It’s those grants in process, those grants to be applied for, then potential as well. Chairman Joe Hafner said, and I know some may come up through the year that weren’t budgeted for, but is this one that is budgeted for? Do you know? Mr. Purtee said, this one is in addition to that grouping.\r\n\r\nChief Administrative Officer Brian Richardson approached the podium and said, and just to add that the match on this, and Jeremy correct me if I am wrong on this, part of this match can also be a value of the property that is assigned to it. Some of that would qualify, and this would also be the 80% of this would actually come from federal JET funding and 20% would be local match of the match. Is that correct? So it’s not technically $300,000 or whatever that match is that is directly coming out of the city general revenue fund. It’s 80% of that match is paid for with existing JET funds and 20% would be a local match. If that is clear. Chairman Joe Hafner said, and to add on to Mr. McClain’s point, I think if we could get that spreadsheet probably emailed to us maybe quarterly. Councilmember David McClain said, that would be nice too. Chairman Joe Hafner said, that would be great, because it kind of gives us an idea of what funds we are going to have to appropriate. And also it kind of helps us say, hey, even if you have funds applied for, or grants applied for or grants awarded, it kind of lets us see how successful we are being on our applications too. That would be appreciated on a quarterly basis. You know, if you want to do like first quarter now and second quarter some time in July.\r\n\r\nMr. Richardson approached the podium and said, and we kind of communicate that back and forth with Grants throughout the year, so that wouldn’t be an issue. And I don’t like to pass up an opportunity to stress to the public as well that, just because you apply for a grant doesn’t mean that you get it. And I think that always needs to be constantly stated, because we kind of do go above and beyond here with the transparency of grants. A lot of cities won’t send a grant application to council. So anytime that there is a match funding, we bring the grant here to council and to committees first, so I just want to clarify. I know that we all know, but just because we apply doesn’t mean that we get it unfortunately. Chairman Joe Hafner said, like I said, if you add that column of spreadsheet applied for awarded, it helps us know how successful we are being. Are we 20% successful? And I know that, are you looking at dollars to be successful, or are you looking at the number of applications? Because I know it can differ depending on what measure you are looking at as being successful. What I mean by that is that you could have ten grants. One of them could be a $10 million grant and the rest of them could be a thousand dollar grants. But you win the $10 million grant and you lose the other grants. If you went by just the number of applications, that wouldn’t look very good. But if you went by the dollars, that would look really good.\r\n\r\nMr. Richardson said, I continue to applaud our grants department. They are aggressive and thorough. So I feel fully confident that we get our fair share. But I will definitely send over that information as we get it. Mr. Biggs approached the podium and said, I can get it to you as soon as this meeting is over. We have a running spreadsheet of all of our grants that were being applied for and what the match requirement is, what the total amount would be. So I can shoot that over to the whole council real quick as soon as I get back upstairs. Chairman Joe Hafner said, I figured you did. I mean, that is just good business. Mr. Biggs said, and our grants are a little tricky, especially with JETS. A lot of that is formula funding. Of course, our CDBG is formula funding, so it’s almost guaranteed money that is allocated. We just have to go through all the paperwork and all of the requirements that are tied to those grant funding sources. But we’ve got it all separated out too as long as departments go. But it’s a real simple spreadsheet. I can get that over to you here in a few minutes.\r\n\r\nMr. Biggs went on to say, one more thing. While we are talking about JETS, and I think Steve will be happy to hear this too. I know he was last week, but we have been working really hard and Alejandra is really leading the charge on this. She knows all about JETS, a lot more than I do. And she has worked really hard in the past couple of months to get that funding in line and get us caught up. We have a lot of funding that has just been sitting there for many fiscal years that we’ve not just been able to get. There are a lot of issues with that. ARDOT has to sign off. It has to be in the STIP. There is a lot of stuff, a lot of moving pieces. But we should have all that money able to be drawn down here in the next 120 days. That is going to really put us in a much stronger financial position as far as JETS is concerned.\r\n\r\nCouncilmember Ann Williams said, on the topic of JETS and grants and the possibility of that, I had asked Mr. Gibson, chairman of the Public Services committee for us to put on the next agenda of Public Services the question of considering expanding the JETS schedule or more frequent stops and pickups for riders. I think this has been discussed that counterintuitively having more stops will increase the ridership as far as people being willing to wait, or be interested in taking JETS if they know they won’t have to wait two hours. And I think that especially if they rely on it to get to work, and I think we could see the ridership increase. I think we are at the point where we need to think about going bigger. I think we need to do it and accept the fact that we do have a public transit here and that we want to make it viable for people that are using it for employment. I think we need to address the routes, the schedules, the frequency of the pickups at each stop, and whether it is practical for people to use it on a regular basis. I know a lot of people depend upon it, but we need to really think about going bigger.\r\n\r\nMr. Richardson approached the podium and said, I agree and I will just add on top of that. Not only do we want people to enjoy and use that system for employment, but also for any number of reasons. I think that with the new leadership out at JETS, you are going to see some really good changes out there, some increased access for people. Obviously we have increased pretty heavily in our efforts to expand and improve that program. The next resolution regarding routing software is a big piece of that; and really, we just need to continue improving the overall experience and investment in our transit system to make it something that is not just a system that people have to ride, but a system that people want to ride. Councilmember Ann Williams said, and that they will find that it is practical to use. I think that if there are more frequency of stops at each particular stop, if you know you can go to a stop and not have to wait very long, I think that it would become a very viable form of transportation for a lot of people, not just for employment, but for other reasons. People that don’t want to fight the traffic, for example. Mr. Richardson said, correct. And obviously there are multifold benefits to that. Not only is it easier for people to get around, but it does reduce the amount of vehicles that may cause traffic congestion. I think that between the new bus fleet that is coming one of these days, and the additional smart bus stops, the enclosed bus stops, with some of the heightened technology in it to let people know when a bus exactly is going to be there and additional city updates, I think it will be a very valuable tool. I think that it is pretty evident that the administration believes in the JET system, and we are going to continue to push for further and further investments in that system.\r\n\r\nCouncilmember Ann Williams said, and I think also the more that people see buses on the streets, if we amp up our service, it will occur to them to take JETS. It will be more visible. Mr. Richardson said, I certainly hope so. Councilmember Ann Williams said, but it involves a commitment to going bigger and realizing why it is and why it is essential to a town our size to really do it. A town both as far as population and geographic size why it makes sense for us to do it.","EventItemActionId":406,"EventItemActionName":"Recommended to Council","EventItemActionText":"A motion was made by John Street, seconded by Ann Williams, that this matter be Recommended to Council. 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The only complaint I ever get about JETS is the lack of a dependable schedule or knowing if there is some means. Is this where they can have an app on their phone and actually look at it real live time? See when it will hit that stop? Mr. Richardson said, this is not for an app. This is to take both our historic and real-time data to help generate more realistic trip stop goals, and to help generate information that is going to be needed for an app, which expect that coming to a plate for city council soon. Councilmember John Street said, as Ann alluded to a minute ago, the gentleman I was talking about, he had real concerns because he did depend on this as his only way to work and back. And he had to know if it was going to be there so he could get to work or possibly lose his job. He was needing to use it, but the lack of an absolute time schedule for being there and getting back. And he said the drivers were really good about helping him. They weren’t supposed to supposedly, but they did anyway and get him back. Mr. Richardson said, yes, this will be valuable information for whenever that final piece of the software is developed. Right now, it will help with optimizing realistic times to put down on a schedule and provide instant feedback to dispatch there at the JET system on any possible problems that need to be addressed. So it’s a big step in the right direction to making sure that we put the most reliable data out there and to help provide a foundation and some fundamental timings to building an app around.\r\n\r\nCouncilmember Ann Williams said, but we are also going to need to make a serious investment in more rolling stock, more buses. And that is also going to be key to people having shorter waits. We need to consider maybe redoing some of our schedules, our routes rather, expanding our routes. Mr. Richardson said, and that is part of what this software is going to help provide that information to be able to make those informed decisions as far as route expansions or improvements to help optimize them. Councilmember Ann Williams said, but I think it’s important to think about more service as far as our city investment in the system.\r\n\r\nChairman Joe Hafner said, a quick question. This resolution refers to RES-24:008, taking about to apply for grant funding. Have we been awarded that grant? Alejandra Morales approached the podium and said, that is part of the formula funding that JETS gets through FTA. It has been submitted to FTA and they are reviewing it. They were just waiting on Council to allow the mayor and city clerk and Carol to sign off on the certifications and assurances that is assigned every fiscal year, and they are just waiting on that to continue. Chairman Joe Hafner said, thank you.\r\n","EventItemActionId":406,"EventItemActionName":"Recommended to Council","EventItemActionText":"A motion was made by John Street, seconded by Ann Williams, that this matter be Recommended to Council. 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