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Regular Council Meeting August 11, 2014 Page 4 bidding smaller and larger jobs, but ultimately his thought was to go with the engineer's recommendation. Council Member Plata said he preferred to go with one big project but that might not be feasible at this time. Mr. Godwin said they could split Contract B into two parts. Council Member Plata inquired if Contract B1 did not work could they come back with a combination of B,C and D. Mr. D'Adam said yes. A Motion to bid Contract B 1 now and then package B2, C and D was made by Council Member Pickle and seconded by Council Member Plata. Motion carried, 6 ayes — 0 nays, with Council Member Hashmi abstaining from the vote. 15. Discuss and provide direction to staff on Valley of the Caddo Museum building requests. City Council heard from Dr. Bandel about the proposed changes to the building in order to accommodate the museum. Specifically, he told the Council their plan was to convert the men's restroom into a multi - purpose room and convert the store room into a men's restroom. Dr. Bandel said the current fixtures were modern and not historical. Council Member Pickle confirmed with Dr. Bandel that PEDC staff and people meeting with the PEDC would still have access to the bathrooms. Council Member Hashmi confirmed with Dr. Bandel that nothing of historical significance would be changed or removed. Council Member Lancaster expressed concern about the cooling and heating not working in the men's restroom and that they could not leave the door open. Don McCaskell said they would check the vent. Council Member Lancaster said she wanted an answer about the men's restroom. Jimmy Don assured her that he would check the unit and if it was not working, that he would fix it. A Motion to approve the building requests with the stipulation that nothing of historical importance would be altered, and that Council Member Lancaster would supervise the changes was made by Council Member Hashmi and seconded by Council Member Plata. Motion carried, 7 ayes — 0 nays. 16. Receive presentation, discuss and act on the city budget for road repairs. Council Member Hashmi gave a presentation regarding the condition of the streets throughout the City, citing there were needed repairs in all of the Districts but the greatest needs were in Districts 1, 2, and 3. He said in May of last year residents approved a 45 million dollar bond package to replace and extend water and sewer lines, and to make repairs to streets and infrastructure that was necessitated by the construction. He said the City earmarked 13 projects and the work had begun. Council Member Hashmi reviewed briefly the 172.5 miles of roadways maintained by the City, stating that 156.1 miles were of asphalt, 11 miles were of concrete and the remainder was of other types of material. He said many of the worst streets were dead end streets with only a block or two long and questioned if it was worth it to the public to redo those streets. He suggested they look at streets in better condition but were traveled a lot more. Council Member Hashmi said KSA rated the streets with a priority rating and none of the streets were covered by the bond project. He further said KSA estimated that these twenty two streets would cost almost 12.2 million dollars. Council Member Hashmi said this fiscal year budget had $460,000 allocated for street repair. He said he was going to make a motion that in addition to