Good morning everyone and welcome to this session the government operations and fiscal policy committee This morning we have a number of Capital budget amendments to walk through and we have council member Freetzen Virtual with us this morning and I'm gonna turn it over to misdemean to walk us through the packet Good morning as noted before you there are several CIP amendments for the upcoming Ministry of Health. There's also one F-25 supplemental appropriation. In short, my recommendations are, these are all January amendments, but some projects that were submitted by the executive January have also been amended in March. So, and those two projects that I'm recommending that we defer recommendation on are the Americans with Disabilities Act compliance CIP as well as the energy conservation MCG CIP. My other recommendations are to otherwise approve all other remaining CIP amendments that the executive submitted in January and as well as approve the FY25 supplemental appropriation for the elevator modernization project. So, I'll stop there. Let's see if there's any comments from DGS. Great, this is DGS M&E. Hi, David DICE Director, Department of General Services. We've read Mr. Meas Packet, we don't have any disagreements with it, but I do want to stress the importance of these projects. These are represented in a lot of things that are typical for general services. the routine things that people don't see but are critical to be done. And we certainly understand the capital funding pressures that the council's dealing with. I did want to advocate in particular for both the Brookville Depot, which is critical for the working conditions for the folks that are working there. AC system is malfunctioning. If you want details on that, I'm joined by Greg Boykin to my right, who is my chief operating officer and manages all of our facility maintenance things, and he can attest to the poor conditions of this facility. To my left is Greg Ascent who manages my capital portfolio. And all of these projects are very critical. The ADA project in particular is dealing with improvements to the German town outdoor pool. And it's characteristic when we're doing ADA improvements to anything that once we move in and start working on those projects, we find things that it's like peel in an onion except the onions rotten on the inside. And so these are typical projects. So we hope the council will understand the pressures that we're encountering in order to deliver the best facilities, not only to county employees but to the public that uses the county facilities. So thank you. Great, thank you. Mr. Meade, do you want to just walk through that and we'll see if we have any questions or clarifying points. I just want to note there's another CIP project, the ABS Retail Refresh CIP, that will review the economic development committee in April. So that's in the Scategory, but that's administered by ABS. But otherwise starting on page two of the packet we do have one new project as noted the brookville depot hfack This was submitted as a new project in January. It was resubmitted in March with an amendment, essentially affecting the timing of the funding sources. So not really materially changing the scope or schedule, just moving the money around a little bit to account for a fiscal capacity. But otherwise, as by Dr. Dice, it is building a new HBAC system for that facility. It's a four-year-old system currently in place, so it would be replacing that. So staff is recommending approval as recommended by the executive in its March CIP amendment. Let's see any questions or objections. Okay. Page three of your packet. Item number 2 is the ADA compliance. The executive is recommending a transfer of $100,000 FY25. This funding was sent to the facility site selection CIP to essentially provide for a deposit for the only community building we covered previously in the joint session. The executive is also recommending adding $3.28 million for the Germantown Outdoor Pool. The proximate scope is listed in the packet. The funding would impact several, the schedule of several other existing projects in the CIP, in this particular CIP. The executive did submit a new amendment in March, which essentially appears to be withdrawing that Germantown outdoor pool work. So we do need a little bit more time to understand the impact on everything else. So staff recommendation is to defer a recommendation on this project until April. Great. I just had a question on this one, and I know there seems to be a moving target. But I think it was if we did include the Germantown Outdoor Pool deferral of some other projects. And so, Director Dice, could you just give us like what the think he is now understanding this is a bit of a moving target? It is and we work with our colleagues at recreation to coordinate these projects. But yes, as I mentioned earlier, we appreciate the fact that the CIP is packed pretty full and to advance one thing means to push other things out. And so these decisions are based upon the criticality of some of the work that needs to be done. The German town outdoor pool is one of many pool projects that we're working on that coordinate with recreation schedule. And oftentimes it's the scope of the work that proves to be challenging so it has to be done in phases. Since our window of working on both indoor and outdoor pools is fairly narrow window. It's not like we can go in a close-up facility and be there for a year. We have a window of literally just months to do some of this work. And so it's the process of coordinating that with these other projects that's resulted in what you see now. Thank you, Madam Chair. As I break everything that's up here. I'm concerned about the time frame for the correctional facility in the pre-release center. Do you know if we hold these back, when will they actually be done? I don't know if I've got the schedule on that. Do you have that? We have not available. Gregory Boykin, Deputy Director of DGS. We have not finalized the schedule for the correctional facility. However, it is important to note some work at the correctional facility will continue continuously. It is an as if we are not doing anything. Right. Bless you. Thank guess this comes back when is it and you said more detail in April? Yeah, we'll have a better sense of They if you could give us a better. Thank you. Yeah, what we'll do is well, we'll provide the Schedules for all of the projects that mr. Meas listed here so we can you can make a better discern judgment on the. Great, that would be great. Because I had questions about the Coal Field Center in Georgia Avenue. So if we could, I mean probably for all five of these, then we hit everyone. Yeah, people will, as we, when we get back. All right. Okay, I think we can, we're delaying action on that until we have more information. Page four item number three is the Council, this particular bill in the COB renovation CIP. This is, the amendment is simply recognizing acceleration of expenditures. We have fly 25 and to fly 24. This is really to the ongoing destruction of the second four cafeteria. Staff is recommending approval. All right, seeing no objections? We can move on. Is that's we just. It's a shame it couldn't be done yesterday. Yeah. The building would be vibrating a whole lot more if we would. Yes. Item number four is the elevator monetization CIP. This is a level of effort project that replaces and renovates aging and outdated elevators. The executive is recommending $1.2 million in FY25 and 26, including a supplemental appropriation of this year, FY25, to essentially replace the elevators at progress place. Those elevators, despite being nine years old, have become unreliable, they have used continuously. And so the executive is recommending replacing them in the next two years. So staff is recommending approval of the amendment and the FY25 supplemental. Yes, so I can just say, and I know, TGS knows from how many emails and calls my office makes regarding the elevators. And I do want to say thank you, because I know we need to do this work in a much more holistic way and look at these elevators that are getting much more use and wear and tear than I think was anticipated when they were put in almost a decade ago. Yeah, I'll just add, I've made public this fact for years now that we've learned a lot from progress place and a lot of that informed subsequent shelters that we've constructed but progress place was built to more of a hotel standard than an industrial standard and and you've all heard me say that if it moves it breaks so elevators in particular are a challenge here as well as many of our facilities here in the Council Office building, we've got. That's a very far. I benefit from the fact that Deputy Director Boykin is an expert on elevators in other conveyant systems. So he can sort the fact from fiction on these things, but the progress place facility, not just the elevator, but the entire facility, is extremely is extremely hard used and we pretty much have staff there perpetually fixing one thing or another. All right, without objection, we'll move forward. Page five, the next project is the Energy Conservation MCG as noted this was submitted both in January and as well as in March amendment. The January amendment essentially programs some additional funding in FY25 and as well as shifts funding from FY28 to 26 and 30. As we call last year in the full CIP, a significant amount of GeoBoz's attitudes project in the out years, FY28 2030 to essentially conduct assessments and have some initial funding for bringing county buildings to BEPS compliance. So the executive is recommending some ships in his January submittal. I am recommending that we defer again till April to give us a sense of the schedule and impacts of his latest amendment that was transmitted on this past Friday. So that's the recommendation for this project. All right. Nothing objection? Next is the Exxon PEPCO merger fund project. This is simply recognizing an FY25 supplemental that was approved by the Council in December. So no significant changes on this one. Recommending approval for this. Okay, no objections? Next is the facility planning MCG. There's no cost or schedule impact. This is simply adding some additional projects and revising the list of projects that are slated for studies and early initial planning. This includes modifying the Fort District Police Station to include a, it took sport including a co-located Park Police Facility adding the Western County Recreation Center and then as well as adding the Poolsville and Damascus Highway and Maintenance Depot assessments as well. So, it's down there. And recommending approval as submitted. Okay. Not seeing any objections? Did he? Okay, next is the facility site selection. This is recognizing a transfer of $100,000 of geo bonds from the ADA compliance project to this project. This money was used to essentially provide a deposit for the land acquisition for the only community building. So recommending approval for this. Okay, not seeing any objections. Just what I had to do. Yep. All right, and the final project is the lactation rooms in county buildings. This amendment is simply recognizing cost savings that were realized during construction renovation. So I'll get a recommending approval. Great. That was good to have a cost savings. Council Member Freizen. We have cost savings agreed. We just want to thank DGS for their diligence and fidelity on this. This was a bill that I had put forward to make sure that we were supporting our working women and supporting our kind of workforce and just want to thank the department for really taking this on and doing it in a cost effective way so really appreciate it. Madam Chair if I could. Yes absolutely. Following Council Member Freed since compliments it be remiss for me to not recognize the fantastic job that our facilities division did in attacking this project with bigger gusto and efficiency. My accommodations to all of them they did a comprehensive job and finished it not only at cost savings but ahead of schedule so congratulations to facilities. Perfect. Well I think that's no objection there in recognizing that savings. And I think that's a good place for us to end on a high note. There aren't many high notes as we look at the budget this year, but that's a good one. I want to thank DGS.