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City Council Drainage Study Committee February 22, 2001 Page 2 city's 25% match. City Manager Malone said that any cash needed above that could be taken from the $500,000.00 obligated for miscellaneous drainage projects in the Certificates of Obligation, 2000 issuance. He said that we have already identified more than $223,000.00 worth of work. City Manager Malone asked Terry Townsend to pass out the map and list of sites that he and people from NRCS had identified and Mr. Townsend spoke to the Committee regarding this list. Mr. Townsend advised the Committee that they had accepted all of the identified locations in addition to the one in Paradise Estates and another one located on MLK. City Manager Malone said staff was going to continue to try to add to this list and that is going to be part of what the city staff is going to recommend that the Committee talk to the City Council about. City Manager Malone discussed priority number one that the Committee and City Council has already named, which is 24th Street, Lamar Avenue and Wade Park. He stated that Council was aware that Hayter Engineering was working on a plan profile of the ditch which runs from north from Cherry Street and on south of Lamar Avenue. The review of the plan profile would determine if there was going to be enough fall from the north side of Wade Park to the south side of Wade Park to create a retention pond large enough to alleviate problems downstream. City Manager Malone stated that Mr. Hayter's preliminary review found that there did not seem to be sufficient fall to utilize a mitigation pond. The City Manager advised that there are one or two other areas that he is looking at to see if there is an area where a mitigation pond could be built. These areas would require that the city obtain property. City Manager Malone also told the Committee that the Texas Department of Transportation is planning a project to widen Lamar Avenue from 20t`' Street to Collegiate Drive. He said that TxDOT would likely make some plans about the drainage structures under Lamar Avenue and 24th Street and that our engineer could coordinate with the state in this project. City Manager Malone recalled that the city had set aside $225,000.00 of the Certificates of Obligation, 2000, for the Big Sandy Tributary No. 4, Collegiate Drive to Clarksville Street drainage project. He suggested that the Committee recommendation be to prepare plans for this project, but hold off on construction in order to determine if these funds will need to be applied to the number one priority project, Wade Park, 24th Street, and Lamar Avenue drainage project. Only $626,604.00 had been earmarked for the priority one project and it might cost more to do improvements