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City Council Drainage Study Committee February 22, 2001 Page 3 downstream in lieu of the previously proposed mitigation pond. The $225,000.00 earmarked for the Big Sandy Tributary No. 4 project might be needed to complete priority one. City Manager Malone discussed with the Committee the drainage problem identified by Jay Guest in the area between the NE Loop and 36th NE and FM 195. The drainage ditch coming from the Loop does not make a connection to the ditch behind Mr. Guest's property which flows on to and beyond FM 195. He suggested that this might be a project that could be accomplished by digging a pilot channel utilizing contract labor when the weather is dry in late summer. Terry Townsend, Director of Public Works, came forward and discussed three other projects that former City Engineer Earl Smith had initiated. The drainage inlets at 24th and Lamar Avenue, in the 700 block of Bonham Street and Graham Street, and in the 500 block of Clarksville Street and Lamar Avenue are thought to be too small. TxDOT has offered to correct the problems if the City would do the engineering. Mr. Smith utilized Hayter Engineering to study these locations. The State indicated that the City would have to take responsibility for any effects to the downstream drainage. Mr. Hayter's findings were that the downstream drainage would definitely be significantly impacted; for example, at 24th and Lamar the downstream drainage load would be increased by 19 %, so that work would be necessary downstream before the project could be accomplished. City Manager Malone reviewed the minutes from previous meetings of the Drainage Study Committee and advised the Committee what city staff has recommended with regard to the drainage problems identified through the public hearings as follows: July 17, 2000 - City Council Drainage Study Committee Meeting Robert M. Browning, 445 42 "d SE, Charles Taylor, 835Paradise Drive, and Dr. Joe Deupree, 730 Sherwood Drive were all drainage concerns that relate to the drainage ditch along 42nd Street SE and through Paradise Estates. The staff recommendation was to utilized NRCS money if it comes through to address a great deal of the problem. The City then can utilize some CO money to follow up that program later in the summer. Leonard Kammer, 2311 Lamar Avenue, identified a problem which will be