City staff detail street sign rollout, pothole repairs and software launch

Adam, the city’s director of parks and streets, opened his report by saying the city will install 71 street signs and poles in the downtown area and that crews recently patched what he described as "387 potholes" this week. He added that the department will begin work Tuesday and "won't stop until we're done," and that some deep but smaller potholes remain under repair.

Adam also described plans to improve procurement by holding bids electronically to increase competition; he said moving one bid to a wider platform produced 67 plan holders in four days. On utilities, he said staff members "Deidre and Jamie have gone through the first two rounds of training on the software module for utility billing" and are entering accounts so the new portal can go live the first week of February. He said parks will repair a fence damaged in recent storms using three quotes and will not file an insurance claim because the cost is below the TML deductible.

Adam reported that bidding for the Broken Bow Drainage Easement opens Tuesday the 20th at 2 p.m. and will return to council on Feb. 5 for approval. He said the city is waiting on the city engineer to finish a phase 1 drainage review prepared by TMP before moving to phase 2, and listed outstanding projects that include detention/outfall analysis in the Meadows and a street-impact study needed to create street impact fees. He noted some internal disagreement about the exact pothole counts (another participant referenced "378"), and the article reflects Adam's count as stated in the meeting.