Transportation committee approves consent agenda and phases Dry Creek grant; votes at a glance

The Transportation & Infrastructure Committee voted to approve its proposed consent agenda and to recommend approval of a contract change for a state water infrastructure program grant for the Dry Creek Water Reclamation Facility. Both motions passed on recorded voice vote tallies of 10 in favor, 0 opposed and 0 not voting.

Votes at a glance (items read into the record)

- Consent agenda (motion to approve the proposed consent agenda): Recommend approval of the following items (approved 10–0–0): 1) RS 2025‑10‑19 — Intergovernmental agreement for installation, operation and maintenance of transportation art on Mulberry Street/I‑40 overpass retaining wall; (committee item 1) — details: not specified in transcript. 2) RS 2025‑10‑20 — Authorization for Nashville Urban Partners 2006 LLC to construct and maintain aerial encroachments at 905 Gleaves Street (committee item 2) — details: not specified. 3) RS 2025‑10‑21 — Authorization for Mel's Drive‑In aerial encroachments at 148 Second Avenue North (committee item 3) — details: not specified. 4) RS 2025‑10‑22 — Metro Water Services construction agreement with CSX for Dry Creek wastewater treatment plant improvements at 61 Edenwold Road (committee item 4) — details: not specified. 5) RS 2024‑10‑24 — Amendment to BL2024‑632 to accept additional sanitary sewer main and manhole at 251 and 227 Nesbitt Lane (committee item 6) — details: not specified. 6) RS 2025‑10‑25 — Accept new fire hydrant assembly at 4040 Jordania Station Road (committee item 7) — details: not specified. 7) RS 2025‑10‑26 — Accept new public sanitary sewer manhole and vertical adjustment at 1010 Broadway (Yards Landing) (committee item 8) — details: not specified. 8) RS 2025‑10‑27 — Accept new public sanitary sewer manhole at 728 B Due West Avenue North (Madison Place) (committee item 9) — details: not specified. 9) RS 2025‑10‑28 — Accept new public sanitary sewer manhole at 2409 Eighteenth Avenue North (committee item 10) — details: not specified. 10) RS 2025‑10‑29 — Accept new public water and sanitary sewer main, fire hydrant and manholes for 3834 Penhook Road (Penhook Ridge) (committee item 11) — details: not specified. 11) BL2025‑695 — Greenway conservation easement at 1231 Pawnee Trail (committee item 12) — details: sponsor list and project name read; further terms not specified in transcript. 12) BL2025‑696 — Greenway conservation easement at Fourth Avenue North (committee item 13) — details: not specified. 13) BL2025‑697 — Greenway conservation easement at 8033 Highway 100 (committee item 14) — details: not specified. 14) BL2025‑698 — Greenway conservation easement at 2600 Pennington Bend Road (committee item 15) — details: not specified. 15) BL2025‑699 — Abandonment of unnamed right of way between 1321 and 1327 Pawnee Trail (committee item 16) — details: not specified. 16) BL2025‑700 — Acquisition of permanent and temporary easements for Lanier Drive stormwater improvements (committee item 17) — details: five properties described in the caption; not specified further. 17) BL2025‑701 — Accept new public water and sanitary sewer mains and easements at 2122 and 2204 Elliott Avenue (committee item 18) — details: not specified. 18) BL2025‑702 — Abandon sanitary sewer manhole and easement for property at 2000 Ava Place and Addie Way (Nolensville F SER) (committee item 19) — details: not specified.

- Committee item 5 — RS 2025‑10‑23, a resolution authorizing a contract change to a State Water Infrastructure Program grant from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) to Metro Water Services for modernization and upgrade of the Dry Creek Water Reclamation Facility (sponsored by Porterfield and Parker): Approved 10–0–0.

Summary of the Dry Creek item: Mary Peoples of Metro Water Services introduced the matter and said the overall Dry Creek modernization remains planned in two phases after design and bid results. Peoples explained the grant amount remained the same but the project was phased because final design, contractor costs and long‑lead items made the original schedule incompatible with the grant deadline. She said "we took a phase 1. That is everything that will meet the grant funding deadline. Phase 2 is happening concurrently, but then is not tied to the grant funding." The committee had no additional amendments and recommended approval.

Procedural notes

- The committee chair read the full captions into the record before calling for a motion on the consent agenda. A motion to approve the consent agenda was made and seconded; the chair called the vote and recorded the result as "10 in favor, 0 against, 0 not voting." The same tally was recorded for the Dry Creek grant change item after questions from Council member Evan (Siegel/Sigley) were answered by Metro Water staff.