Providence Committee on Finance-Tuesday, July 9, 2024-5:30 PM

Good evening. My name is Helen Anthony. I'm the chair of the committee on finance. I'm calling to order our regular meeting on Tuesday, 07/09/2024 at 05:30PM. Madam clerk, would you please call the day?

Chairman Andrew? Present.

Thank

you so much. I'd also like to recognize Ken Scheverini from the city solicitor's office. Thank you for joining us. Gina Costa, our auditor, will be back. She just stepped out of the room.

And I'd also like to thank Lauren Gutierrez and Donna Felicia. Yes. So with that, I am going to ask to take an item out of order. I'd like to have a motion to take item number five out of order. So moved.

Second. Motion made by councilor Sanchez, seconded by council Taylor. All in favor? Aye. All opposed?

I think we have Brian Burns here this evening. He has to get to another event, which counts for interval I must have already been at.

She is.

Alright. Thank you so much. Have a seat. Oh, I'm sorry. We have to spray it in first.

Well,

thank you so much for joining us this evening.

Thank you for having me.

We'd love to hear what's going on at any of my part.

Would you like me to Yes.

If you wouldn't give... I know you have given us these wonderful slides, but if you could just review it briefly, that would be great.

No problem. So in early April, we put the bid out. Well, actually, we put it aside. It's 11/15/2023, at a meeting meeting meeting. And the first thing that we have on this one is the slideshow from that meeting.

So these are the conceptual drawings. This shows really what they were getting. We took their their opinions and ideas and modified the drawings, and that is what we have and and did that. And it's not a complete set. There's a lot of drawings that not really necessary to be received.

This is the intent. This is gonna show you what's happening. So we put it up with the Google account holder and worked out commissioner. And the bid came back. There were two bidders that were received responsible by our office.

The low bidders was John Rockell Corporation, $2,210,600. The second bid was about $440,000 in warrants. So awarded it to John Rockell. This is phase two of what will be the three or four, which

is improvement projects to any point of luck utilizing different funding sources. So back in two thousand eighteen and nineteen, we did a shoreline resiliency project.

And if you look at this, that was done in this area between the Eastern Circle. So that was So any of you that have been there, it's a lot of new dots that project out of the shoreline. We're installing permeable pavers in areas that are very impacted now. So from storm water perspective, we're gonna be filtering all that water and not allowing you to keep the water off that they've seawall that they've done for decades and cause erosion. So that's a big piece of the resiliency.

For an America or a bar that has a steep drop off, and we're putting a dog rail to that one to these on both eastern and. In addition to those major items, personal trash canes and granite ballers and some super cool benches and plants. So if you like about the next phase we have here, I'm trying to highlight some of the stuff. The first is the whole section, and we do the pavers. We're planting the trees.

So that's on L 20. I think with L T 1, let's see if the favors continue. So really the blue pattern that was very interesting to me, the. Again, having more trees, the permeable pavement. And then L L 24 goes that playground.

So with the three medevacs, can playground there. He's done Zoom. Done. We have... We are that will fall because they were focal elements that needed engineering standard, so we really drove the design of the standard.

So this should be great.

And may I just ask... So this is phase two for... How much is the total allocation gonna be to improve in your plan for... Do you know?

This

this contract is 2,250,000. We did the project that we did back in two thousand eighteen nineteen. It's 450,000. Okay. And then you still have an additional $1,400,000.

So total from 2018, it's very constantly operating things, but then it's miscellaneous would be just over $4,000,000.

Perfect. I just have one more question. So I understand that the Friends of Friends of Vindi Point Park finally were successful in getting an agreement with Rhode Island Energy to take those overhead and buy wires down. Wondering if they have anything to do. Will this impact any of the work you're doing?

It will not. And, basically, we stay out of the area where Los Angeles are. Okay. Compromise them. Okay.

So, yeah, it it has nothing to with that project. We will see you. It does too. Questions?

Yes, doctor Sanchez.

Alright. Thank you, Brian. Is there any more, like, plans in terms of, like, resiliency around this part? I think, like, a bunch of this besides the permanent... What'd you say?

Permanent polluter.

Yeah. Is there is there anything else that

that we're doing around there to to make it more resiliency to, obviously, climate change and whatnot? We're doing a lot, but

the plants are 23 screens, I believe, and a bunch of dated plants, and they're showing me one of these growing on this stand out, eight and half by 11. Shows some of the variety of screens that are planted between. That particular. So they get plants grow here. They...

They're obviously, and so they thrive. It's a. So taking some of the more and putting more wild policies in,, and a bunch of other reasons. What I'll tell you is we're in 2018, we did a shoreline resiliency or preservation project. We utilized a design technique that was not very popular at the time as well, waterfrontation design, and it is now widely accepted by all engineers.

So we... A little bit ahead of our time with that. But what we did was there's a full armoring of. So you're not gonna let the ball run at all. So we did a section with...

Using that method. Then we did a partial arm, where you're gonna arm it up to a certain level, but then at a certain time, you'll allow it to move. And then there was nonarmoring whatsoever and created, like, a. We did it to research, and since 2008, we have data on how well they were. And probably don't people imagine the pocket online performed the best.

So the next 1,400,000,000 will be utilizing that strategy to show us well on it. So much more... We felt user experience along with resiliency was important in this phase to build that momentum so that when we do this shawl line stuff, we'll have full alignment. That's one of the reasons. But there's a lot of.

That's a figure.

And armoring, is that what you're saying? I'm so sorry.

What is armoring? It's seawall, basically. It's like seawall.

You mean, like, a wood seawall?

Or No. No. You've shown that word. No. You mean wood

Any other questions?

Make a motion to approve number five. Second.

Make a motion to approve made by council Taylor, seconded by council Graves. All in favor?