• Let's see. This is the Half Moon Bay Bridge reconstruction project.
• Project identifier by this
• by the state is 67,
• I'm sorry, 8763O5.
• Bridge number 2270050.
• And we're tech tectonic engineering consultant geologist and plant surveying.
• And
• most of my team here is in Connecticut office, but we do have, you know, New York multiple New York offices.
• And with that, I wanna start,
• introduce ourselves.
• Howard, you wanna flip the next slide? I'm Jeff Scala, senior vice president for Tectonic.
• the staff engineer at Tectonic.
• Brian Healy, the village manager, and Frank
• Belby,
• superintendent,
• DPW.
• And then, Brian, you indicated there's 14 people online?
• Yep. We're up to 17 now. 17? Is there a way for them to sign in or for you to record who shows up?
• For the audience, this bridge is the Half Moon Bay Bridge over Metro North Railroad.
• The bridge is rebuilt and heavily modified in 1987,
• so it's been a while since anything had been done on the bridge.
• The road crossing over the railroad leads to Elliot Way,
• Senesqua Park, Croton Land Park, as well as the Marine And Half Moon Bay neighborhood.
• This bridge provides the only public access to the area.
• Albert?
• Yep.
• And this this identified the the the red shape there on the picture identifies the predominant construction area of the project.
• And
• thanks for the opportunity to talk about the existing condition of the Half Moon Bay brace.
• And based on the recent inspection
• conducted by Tectonic
• at the 2024,
• we identified several
• deficiencies
• throughout the structure.
• In this slide on the left,
• we can see, like, a wide spread map cracking
• on the roadway surface.
• On the right side, there is a noticeable, like, chipping and scaling
• at the joints.
• And this could be just a, like, a pavement deterioration
• or reflection
• of the underlying pavement
• underlying, like, the concrete deck.
• Next slide, please.
• And during the inspection, we also observed,
• like, the evidence of corrosion,
• like, on the various structural
• steel components,
• like, with a moderate to heavy
• rust accumulation.
• On this slide, in the photos, we are seeing, like, rust under the deck forms and heavy rust at bearings
• and minor rust at gardens.
• And in the next slide,
• the left picture shows, like, the overall condition of
• their column,
• beam, and braces.
• So here, we can see, like, on the bare cap beam, we it has heavy rust and section loss.
• And in the right side, picture shows deteriorated
• concrete footing
• and
• with, like, a noticeable
• concrete deterioration
• with chipping and spalling
• along the bottom or on the corners.
• And in addition to this slide of existing condition,
• we also noted, like, damage safety damaged safety fence on railing on top of the bridge and utility pipe disconnected
• from their hangers underneath the bridge deck and also concrete hollows at different location at the face of the abutments and
• concrete footings.
• So at this point, I would like to continue
• I can invite Albert to continue rest of the presentation.
• I'm I'm I'm Albert. I'm gonna talk about the objective of the project,
• proposed improvement,
• and some construction details, and a little bit of estimate figures and cost and schedule at the end of the slides.
• So the fundamental objective of the project is to ensure and make sure there's a safe and reliable passage on this bridge for the public, for vehicular traffic, and pedestrian traffic that crossing the bridge. So we're looking to reconstruct and repair the bridge in a cost effective way to expand the life of the bridge and at the same time minimize future costs on maintenance and repairs.
• The proposed improvements
• are listed
• on the screen. These are to improve or repair the existing conditions that we noted during the inspection.
• The main improvement is to replace the existing concrete deck including the sidewalk,
• clean and paint the existing bridge steel components
• including the beams, columns, and braces on the bridge,
• and replace the bridge bearings.
• So with these main improvements,
• it we'll be able able to remediate
• the existing pavement deficiencies,
• deteriorate the concrete,
• and mitigate existing structural steel corrosion
• to preserve and extend the operational surface life of the bridge.
• There's other improvements including the
• for the for the pre cap beams, steel beam corrosions that we see in the previous slide. We we actually gonna repair it in place and to do a structural strengthening of that beams so that can be up to capacity and we can safely use that under the traffic.
• And we're gonna do some concrete repairs at the abutments and the piers. And after the repair is done, there's gonna be a new asphalt pavements on the roadway,
• new bridge railing, and new pedestrian
• safety fence.
• And in the next slide oh, sorry. So here is some construction detail. So the construction is gonna be in two stages.
• The bridge will not be fully closed during constructions. We're gonna use alternating one way traffic patterns,
• which means there's always gonna be one of the two lanes gonna be open during construction.
• At the top, in stage one construction,
• you see the south portion of the bridge is being closed and under construction,
• and then the traffic's gonna be on the north side of the bridge. In stage two is the opposite where the north side of the bridge is under construction and then the south side is for the traffic.
• And then in the next slide,
• it shows the these these are the section view of the construction stages.
• So imagine you're cutting through the bridge looking at the slice of the bridge. This is what you're gonna see. The left hand side is the north side of the bridge. The south the right hand side is the south side of the bridge. Stage one, the south side and the right is being closed and construct.
• North side is where the traffic is. Stage two is the opposite. The north side on the left is being constructed and closed, and then the south side is where the traffic's gonna go.
• And then
• on the there's a existing
• pedestrian trail on the west end of the bridge under the bridge.
• So this trail, we're not gonna close it during construction. Pedestrian access will remain open throughout the constructions.
• And we're gonna put put in some appropriate construction safety measures to make that happen.
• And then here are some estimated figures of cost and schedule.
• So the cost the project cost is estimated to be about 1.7
• millions to 2.3 millions.
• And
• the current tentative schedule is listed in the table.
• The project is currently under design. We're shooting for design completion in July
• and
• construction start in December
• and approximately
• construction complete in March 2028.
• Yeah.
• And that's basically the the project details. And here now we can go into q and a sections. Anyone have questions?
Can, probably there's a is that raise hand function or question function? Or Does anybody else from the town want to make any any information
• or statements at this point before we open up to q and a?
• you know, continue to,
• work on this project as we get closer to the bidding
• the bidding process,
• which will hopefully take place by the end of the summer.
• And,
• you know, when we actually get towards the construction phase, which is when residents will see the impacts from the project,
• we'll be in regular communication sharing updates.
• And,
• you know, we we look forward to having a very,
• very open, and transparent dialogue on the, on the project.
Frank, do you have anything you wanna add? Just to add in, this is federal money coming through the state. Correct?
• Yes. Yep. And we're also working with Metro North for approvals and permits and whatever we're gonna need for this project.
Yeah. That is correct. We had, multiple lengthy discussions with Metro North Railroad on what what we can and can't do within their right away and how to approach the construction of the project, and that is is driven,
• you know, some of the some of the things we are proposing and how we how we're going about it. So we haven't been we're to get discussions with them. Okay.
• on the on the public side, if you'd like to use the raise hand feature,
• we can,
• you know, call on people individually and try to answer any questions that you may have.
• So the first
• question is from Eugene Kim.
• Go ahead, Eugene.
• So, nice to meet you, Brian. I'm on the board at Half Moon Bay, and I have a couple of questions,
• regarding
• one is the traffic and traffic flow.
• So based off of the diagrams, it sounds like there's always there there's always gonna be one lane open. Is that correct?
Yes. That is generally correct. There will be you know, we are looking at constructability when they go to remove the the the structural deck.
• Yep. I mean, excavator out there to do this work. They're gonna cut saw cut the deck and then lift it out with the excavator.
• When the excavator is gonna swing around to deposit the sections into what either a flatbed truck or a dump truck,
• there'll be an alternating with the alternating way one way traffic, there'll be flagging out there and have to stop cars temporarily as they're making the swing because the contractor cannot swing over the railroad. Got it. And will there be a traffic light like,
• will there be a traffic light on both sides managing the traffic flow, like, timed We we had a discussion earlier today. Currently, we're looking at stop sign control, but we do believe that most likely we'll be alternating one way with temporary traffic signals.
Traffic signals. Okay. Because we have school buses going back and forth in the morning and midafternoon.
• So
• if if there's traffic lights or delays, I'm sure the schools will have to be notified.
If you know if you can provide us some information on when they're coming through, it's potentially
• something we can work into the contract in reference to, you know, overrides in the signal to give the buses priority.
Is that Brian, is that something you can work with the schools on? Or Yeah. We'll we'll definitely we'll definitely work with the schools. I mean, there may be a way that can go out through the southern entrance as well,
• depending on the, you know, the bus the bus ramp. Okay.
• Yeah. We'll definitely work with them. And I just wanted to add that we have had,
• experience with the temporary traffic light because we had that on Elliot Way
• when the project was going on. And so I think that worked very well, so I would certainly encourage us to to look at that if that's feasible here.
• their school buses, you know, if you have a lot of traffic signals in your within your designation there, they do have flashes
• on the top of the buses that trip the signals.
Do you have that system in place in your in in Croton? I I'm not sure. I'd have to I'd have to check with the school.
If that was something you already had in place on the buses that we can easily accept the temporary signals that that the bus would trip it automatically
• if if the bus is already equipped. Yep.
• related to on top of the bridge, because it has steel fencing
• so people can look over into the train yard. When the bid bridge gets rebuilt, are are there plans to put up that same steel fencing, or
• are there plans to put something a little bit
• something that hides the the train tracks as you're going over the bridge?
Generally, we try to replace them in condom just unless there's something so there some other driving function.
• You know, if there was a if there was history of of
• kids, you know, throwing stuff through the fence, dropping rocks on trains and so forth, then we we'd consider something more solid. But, generally, we try to replace them in kind.
• Yeah. I think
• I think there were plants
• well,
• I don't I don't know if it was, like, a previous board to have, like, vines or have, like, bushes try to grow
• along this over the steel fence
• because it's kind of unsightly, but I didn't know if there's an opportunity to to change that material.
One of the things we look at too is sideline coming around that curve because you got a pretty good curve on the on the bridge there. Yep. It's maintained sideline. So if we made a a completely solid fence,
• that might block sideline, which caused, you know, some traffic potential traffic issues. Got it. That's okay. So we can look at.
• Okay. Our next question is from Dorothy.
• Go ahead.
Hi. I think mostly my questions were very similar to what Eugene just asked. I live in Half Moon Bay as well, and I was curious about how the traffic flow would alternate and how that would be maintained.
• But it sounds like it'll be a light that will be put in. It won't just be a stop sign, which doesn't seem to make sense to me.
• Yeah. I mean, that's what I would that's what I would say. The con let me just jump in here. The controlling function, whether we go with a signal or a stop sign on this particular location really has to do with the sideline distances coming around the coming around that curve.
• With construction equipment out there,
• you know, we're little bit concerned with, you know, people not being able to see a common car coming the other way. Right.
• And then also the volumes of of cars and what would you know, for peak hours.
• You know, generally, the neighborhood's decent sized neighborhood, but it's not not unruly not so big that we don't think ultimately one way traffic will work with a stop sign. It really boils down the sideline to make sure that, you know, people can see each other coming. If they can't see or not see sufficiently, then it's automatically goes a signal. It's gonna have to be a signal because the turns are there. And even if there's a couple cars there coming around the turn, you're not gonna see them stopped.
So I don't see how it would work any other way, but I'm sure you guys will figure that out.
• My other question is regarding
• timing.
• I thought I heard that it was already starting, and then I also thought I heard that it was gonna be bid out.
We're in the process of the engineering phase at this point. And once we complete the engineering, it'll go through a formal bidding process where the town advertises the the construction
• community
• to build it.
• So we're still in the design. So construction is anticipated to start, you know, late this year. Uh-huh. And
• this bridge in the future? I mean, it just seems like it went way too far for it to be so
• decayed
• without anyone paying attention to it.
• Village. Bridge. I'm sorry. Village. Village. I stand corrected.
• For a bridge this age,
• is this is not unusual deterioration.
Yeah. And just just to add on to that, the village has been looking at this project for a number of years. I mean, we actually
• started,
• this process back in 2015.
• So we've had a number of, engineering reports done on it. And, you know, it's
• very as you can imagine, probably,
• rehabilitating
• a bridge is not,
• cheap. And so we had to identify funding sources
• to get the work done. And so we've done we've been able to do that now, and we have a lot of the plans in place to,
• like Jeff said, move forward starting at the end of this year.
K. It just seems like ten years to continue to watch it rust away is a lot of time, but I don't know all the different
facets and layers that went into, you know, this work. So The modern we are planning to fully strip the entire structure. We remove all the paint and full re full repainting the structure, and the and the newest
• and the latest paints are much better than the stuff that was put on in the eighties.
• So you should expect a much longer life between you know?
• to the river with these paints that will be sprayed?
They they they fully contain the structure when they're painting it, so, you know, there's minimal chance of any paint leaving the site.
• Okay. And the contractors are required to have any spill kits on-site. So if they do spill anything, whether it's a
• fuel line break on the excavator
• or, I'm sorry, hydraulic line break in the excavator, they have spill kits for that. They also have, you know, emergency procedures for handling any spills.
• So that's well contained. Okay. Thank you.
• Okay. Our next question is from Lynn.
• Go ahead, please.
Thanks, Brian. Hi, Brian, and everybody. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. I'm also on the at a resident of Half Moon Bay. Thank you.
• And one thing that's important for you to know, in case you don't know it already, is that the biggest issue vis a vis traffic flow here is that everybody runs the stop sign at Elliot Way. So people exiting Elliot Way to come back onto Half Moon Bay Drive have almost called caused accidents. You know, we don't
• really want a stoplight there, but they they don't pay attention to that stop sign. So you need to know that, Brian, in case you didn't know it. You might wanna think about it. Yeah.
• I know. I've Putting a camera there. Many times. Why don't you put a camera there to enforce it or something? But anyway so there so that was my first question. My second one is, vis a vis the bridge and Eugene's question about the the
• the fencing,
• one thing that could be helpful if if would be if there was any kind of low wall that could provide some noise abatement.
• I don't know if there's a creative way to incorporate noise abatement into it without blocking everything,
• but the that we get noise from Metro North now that we never got in the last thirty eight years,
• and it's like this low constant So
• anything you can do around noise abatement related to the bridge if there's a possibility,
• materials wise or something, that would be really helpful to Half Moon Bay.
• One question I have also is about hours.
• So are the hours of of work gonna be the
• the hours that are allowed in Croton, which is to say 08:30 until five and not later than that?
So that's a huge impact on the Half Moon Bay people in terms of coming and going in the evening and and stuff like that. So you expect to work for twelve hours a day? No. No. I I didn't say that. I was just correcting what what you were saying that the Oh, yeah. Construction hours are eight to eight. But I'm saying our our our stuff at Half Moon Bay. Like, we only allow until 05:00.
Oh, well. But, I mean, this project's not in Half Moon Bay. This No. Know. Nope. It impacted. Yeah. So, Jeff, I don't know. Do we have I don't think we've gotten that far along. Right? I mean, that would be decided that We would we would default to what what the town tells the contractor. You know, one, you know, there is an advantage of shorten the shorten the construction duration
or window during the day for the for the neighborhood and and traffic volumes and that sort of thing. But there's a disadvantage because if you shorten it too much,
• it extends the contract.
• So the contractor needs more days to do it. Yep. And he's in less efficient in cost, you know, cost to taxpayers more money. Right. Well, we would certainly like it to be as efficient as possible. Yeah. There's a happy balance.
• And like like we indicated earlier that, you know, the the road will be opened.
• When he's demoing the structure, there will be, you know, there will be a traffic, you know, person standing out there stopping traffic as he swings the the excavator over the over the lane that's open.
• You know? So we can definitely control that so he's not swinging, you know, excavator open when the peak hours of the day.
Yeah. And, I mean, I think our messaging is going to be, of course, that, you know, as much as feasible,
• the, you know, residents should try to use the southern
• exit and entry of Half Moon Bay so that they're not,
• you know, they're not stuck in any, any traffic or backup
the not helpful to us because we get terrible backups from the Metro North traffic as it is. And then with the construction that's gonna go on in Lot Lot A, it's gonna be a nightmare at the South Gate.
I'm just I'm I'm just saying as much as feasible. It you know, this is obviously it's a construction project.
• It's something that needs to happen, and so we're you know, we just have to try to work through it as best we can.
• I think that, you know, what what Jeff was saying is a good point about, you know, we have to try to maximize the hours within reason so that we don't have actually more workdays,
• because,
you know, then that just extends the inconvenience for everyone. Oh, we agree. We would agree. The the issue is are are people actually gonna be working solidly those you know, when you when you see
• projects on main arteries and things like that, half the time you see people that that aren't actually, you know, working during those hours. So as long as they're efficient at their work, it'll be wonderful to expedite it. One last question. Besides Before
• information to to realize is, you know, we Tectonic works with a lot of contractors directly helping them on on demolition plans and that sort of thing. And then,
• you know, they're not gonna wanna work eight to eight unless for some reason they get behind schedule.
• Because if they go on that many hours in a in a day, they're paying their their labor
• overtime
• plus flagging and all other stuff. So they're they generally don't like to pay overtime unless there's some specific reason to expedite the the contract.
• It just cost them, you know, one and a half times or more.
• good thinking.
• One last question, Jeff. In the the,
• the map that you showed us vis a vis the size of the the
• passage for for the the vehicular passage when the construction's going on, Is that, big enough for a large moving truck?
• Because you had a automobile
• in the in the lane. But
• Correct me if I'm wrong, Albert, but we believe you can get a W B 50 through there. It would be 50. Yep. W B 50 for for the people. Yep. Is it is it is it tractor trailer? So cabin and trailer. A 53 foot trailer. Through that with the curve consider. Yeah. Yes. Yep. Is that bigger than a large moving truck? Those are much bigger than what what we do. Okay. Good. Thank you. Tractor trailer driving on the highway, the ones that make you nervous. Thank you.
• Trustee Nachteller, go ahead.
• I'm very excited about this reconstruction
• project. So thank you. Can you hear me? Yes. We can. Alright. Awesome.
• Questions
• around and I guess it's similar question to Lynn as far as the size of, like, the moving truck. My question is, could a fire truck get through on that single lane?
• So all the fire trucks in in Croton are could get through. Okay.
• And then
• how
• do we go about I don't know if this is
• Frank something Frank does, but do how do we notify fire and EMS that
• we have this single lane now for
• probably a year going on construction wise? So for any emergencies,
• you know, coming into Half Moon Bay,
• if it's faster to reroute through the back gate,
• standard specification for most of the work that is proposed and that notifying the EMS
• prior to prior to changing the traffic patterns is is part of the requirements.
• But we can definitely put a specific notice to the contractor in this specification so it really highlights it.
• That's pretty typical that we do make them notify the, you know, EMS, whether it's ambulance services, fire trucks, police,
• or any other services you might have.
And Okay. Yeah. And on top of that, as as you as you mentioned, we are in constant communication with all emergency services. So whatever changes in patterns or
• anything different that they should know about, we would definitely be letting them know.
• And then as far as, like, we get a lot of delivery companies coming through multiple times a day. So is that
• on, like, the Half Moon Bay
• homeowners association to contact these delivery companies to let them know
• about We a
could put some we could put a notice in the contract, but, typically, we wouldn't do that for delivery vehicles like, you know, FedEx, you know, UPS or anybody else. They are considered just a a typical, you know, larger vehicle.
• Okay.
I guess I could talk to the Half Moon Bay board about that just to see what they suggest we do. It should not be a problem because we're not closing the we aren't closing the bridge, and they're they're a legal vehicle and we're, you know, we'll be able to pass all legal vehicles across the structure.
And and then another question I have is I imagine there are gonna be a lot of vehicles
• associated with this construction
• at any given time.
• Where will all these vehicles be kept overnight?
• You know, if you look at your map in the the plan there,
• property
• site to store.
• this type of question?
• let's see.
• So the color in pink
• pink color, those will be the anticipated locations where the contractor can use
• for storing
• their vehicle overnight.
• And and over here is only the the the side where the the bridge is the lane is closed will be used, obviously, during the the traffic pattern.
• within reasonable distance of this project site that the contractor could store materials and equipment, but that would be a a private deal between the contractor and the property owners.
• Okay. We we do the we do give some consideration to that as we're designing this thing. So, okay, you know, a contractor's gotta put equipment and materials somewhere.
• Yes. We do look around. We do not secure private locations ahead of time. That's really a a contractor's deal. Okay.
That would be yeah. That would be between the double bidder and the the property owner.
• Okay. Alright. Thank you very much. Appreciate that.
• Okay.
• It's a good question.
• I am in my car. Can you hear me? Yes. We can. So
• this is gonna seem like a much more frivolous question than trustee Nachtailers.
• But I am thinking about all the traffic that goes to Sunesqua Park
• during the summer months for the different recreation activities
• that happen.
• And so I just I I know we don't have an answer right you can't answer right now, but I just wanna be thinking about how
• that's gonna impact the you know, those are when we have an event there, it's there's a traffic situation
• anyway,
• and this is gonna compound it even more. So
• I just I I guess I just really wanted that to be on our radar, which I'm sure it is
• manager,
• but just about how we're gonna you know, that park the park is a lot more,
• you know, in in the the weather might be more favorable in the summer and the fall for the project,
• but the
• but those are busy times both at Senesqua
• and at the landing. So I just wanna make sure that we're
• thinking about that traffic flow also, which is very different from the people who live in Half Moon Bay, but still
residents who are trying to access the amenities on the other side of the bridge. Can I ask can I ask you a question in more detail about the the
• you I quote events?
• Are these, like, typical, you know, soccer weekends where you have a a tournament, or is this, like, typical
• run of the mill practices and games?
• on Friday nights, and during the week, there are some other recreation activities. And but it's very busy.
• The the landing is very,
• busy with soccer.
• Every Saturday is a soccer Saturday
• in Croton.
• So, you you know, those that will be something that's going on every week.
• But, you know, at set times, it's not, you know, they're scheduled it's scheduled activities there.
• But there will be that type of traffic and activity also.
• Did that answer the question?
• with a little bit more detail in reference to the the scheduling of this type stuff. So if you're like We're we're aware. That's that's we're aware. Okay.
• We're we're aware. Yeah. Okay. Everything is scheduled on village property. So Yeah. By for sure, the village knows. Okay. So if we could take a look we could take a look at that, then we could discuss that, Brian.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I I have I have been thinking about that. I mean, one of the things that, obviously, we could do is have police officers
• that might be able to, you know, override the light or the stop sign, you know, depending on what's there,
• you know, to to facilitate
• I I'm thinking more specifically for the concert nights when we have hundreds of,
• people down there.
• But, yes, that is something that will obviously need to be fine tuned as we get,
• you know, deeper into the into the actual construction phase.
Yeah. I had no fee I figured it was part of the planning. I just wanted to make it part of the record. Yep. Thank you. Thank you.
• Alright. Dan Oliveri, go ahead.
• Just to
• add on to what the prior person was saying,
• just something with the the Proton Yacht Club and things like that. I know you said that a rather large vehicle can get through there, but just something to keep in mind. Sometimes,
• the boats that get brought down to the yacht club and things that get brought down to the launch ramp,
• to the town ramp,
• sometimes they're a little bit bigger than
• or a little wider,
• and turning radiuses are are are difficult. So for the, you know, boaters that use the town ramp and and the the Croton Yacht Club,
• Just something to keep in mind that sometimes those vehicles are a little bit more not as maneuverable, I guess,
• and maybe something to consider. It's not really an issue for Half Moon Bay and the Half Moon Bay Marina because there's no launching of boats there, but I know they do launch boats down at the yacht club and down at, you know, the the public ramp by Sunesco Park.
• We'd have to somebody's gonna have to canvas. Maybe we or the town can canvas to find out the biggest
• boat that's gotta get through there.
• And the other question is
• if it's too big to get through the construction zone, is there another
• convenient launching location?
We can I I did invite the yacht club to join this meeting? I don't know if anybody is on,
• in attendance,
• from them. But if if not, we can reach out to them and and get that information.
• you know, it might be just it might be something as simple as, you know, providing them notice saying, hey. From this time to this time, the roads can be constricted.
• You know, let us know what you have to get through there. We can take a look at it during construction. If they can't get through there,
• unfortunately, you may have to use a different launch.
• Yep.
• We hate to get a yacht stuck in the bridge.
• Thank
• Trustee Simon, go ahead.
• Thank you, everyone. Hey. Just a couple of points. I just wanted to, first of all, acknowledge all the great questions.
• This has been a really good learning experience
• for me. And so I appreciate, you know, every everyone's input and participation tonight. But then secondly, just in case anyone was wondering, I just wanted to do just thirty seconds of of history on this and and give some credit where credit is due. This is a very large expenditure
• for
• for the village of Groton on Hudson.
• And in fact, I guess about 75%
• of the funding
• came through the very hard work of former congressman Mondaire Jones,
• who used the process in 2021
• and 2022
• to actually write into a piece of legislation
• the the details of this project. And and, of course, you know, Brian and Frank and the whole team worked, you know, exceedingly
• hard and and and very for a very long time with the congressman, and that's how that's how we got we got this funding. And and, of course, it it takes several years because funding then has to be transferred from
• the federal government to the state government, and then eventually, we get to the point where we are now. So I just wanted to,
• thank congressman Mondaire for, for his hard work on this. Really was one of the highlights, at least for us of of his of his term there. And then, and then hopefully,
• we would go forward from here.
• Thank you.
• K.
• And then, Lynn,
• do you have another question, Lynn?
Yes. Thank you, Brian, and thank you again, everybody. I'm going to go back to this area of potential effect slide
• that was referenced a little bit earlier. So there's a a pink area
• at the at the sort of bottom center near near the green space, and that looks like it's on Half Moon Bay property. Is that on Half Moon Bay property?
• easement that the the village has.
• So the dash line here you see is the permanent easement.
• So this one box, two box, and then from this point to the east is within the village permanent Eastman. So the village have access. Well, I'm trying to is it is it at the same level as the is it at the level of the parking area at Half Moon Bay or beneath that? I'm trying to understand where it is exactly because This this part is at the same elevation as the roadway.
As the roadway? Yeah. Yeah. It's on top, basically. Yeah. Oh, so it's it's the grassy area next to the roadway?
• Correct. Yeah. Oh, okay. Okay.
• If it had been it was confusing me because if it had been in our parking area
• inside,
• we don't have enough parking as it is. And and back to the to trustee Slippin's question about
• events and and things going on at Tenaska. There
• have been events where the parking has been inadequate. There've been hundreds of cars in a day, and they've actually taken over
• parking at Half Moon Bay. They've come into Half Moon Bay, you know, without without
• illegally or whatever. So we may need additional help, Brian,
• vis a vis protecting
• people not coming across the bridge and parking accidentally or purposefully into in the Half Moon Bay area when this is all going on.
we'll be willing to have those conversations for sure. That one day that that happened, you know what I'm talking about? The the police the Crown police saved the day because I couldn't I couldn't hold back all the the onslaught.
• Yes. Happened to be out there that day. Anyway, we're gonna need we're gonna need some help.
• Is there anybody else that has questions?
• Use the you can use the raise hand feature.
• Okay. I'm not seeing any other
• hands raised at this point.
• the contact form on the village website
• and or and or they can email me directly.
• My email address, bhealy@crotononhudson-ny.gov,
• which is also available on the website.
• And we have another hand raised here.
• Go ahead, mister Balter.
• that this
• has to be done and that we're that it's a necessary project despite any inconvenience that it might cause, which obviously it will. Is there any issue that this could be avoided that we could avoid having to do this?
• Reading between the lines, this bridge is not gonna fall down tomorrow,
• but
• you do need to address issues. It has been flagged
• during not not on our inspections, but the previous inspections by another firm. There is deterioration in the structure that definitely needs to be addressed.
• And to get the you know, you have the money
• to fix this thing, You know, you could you could put a Band Aid on it and avoid all this, but if you put a Band Aid on, you're you're gonna be back in five years addressing, you know, issues as they arise.
• You know, the best course of action right now is to is to continue down this course to replace the superstructure,
• repair all the steel,
• strengthen some some of the components on the structure right now that it's deteriorated to the point where, you know, you get a, you know, really concerned about it and create a structure that's gonna last you, you know, the next twenty five to thirty years without the town having to do much at all to other than some maintenance repair,
• you know, maintenance work on the joints.
• such as the Quaker Bridge or the Preston Way Bridge in Mount Kisco
• where
• New York State DOT comes and says, oh, you have to close this bridge, we're giving you thirty minutes to do it.
• And it's then, you know, a traffic
• nightmare.
• So,
• you know, as Jeff was saying, the the time to do this is now.
Yeah. If it if it if it deteriorates to the point where the state steps in and says, close your bridge,
• you know, you get a big problem.
• Okay.
Did that answer your did that answer your question? So the answer is yes. You did. You definitely need to do something with approach.
• Seeing no other hands raised,
• I think we can,
• adjourn.
• And like I said,
• this meeting the recording from this meeting will be on the village website tomorrow.
• So please,
• feel free to let your neighbors know.
• You know, I know everyone in Half Moon Bay obviously has a has a vested interest
• in this meeting, so please, feel free to let them know.
• And oh, we have one more hand raised here.
• Okay.
Beth, go ahead. Hi, Brian. So my question is when you walk over that bridge many times,
• it stinks like septic.
• Something is weird. And I just I'm saying that while you're working in that area,
• maybe somebody wants to look into what that is. It's often and it's terrible. And it's just while you're on the bridge. Once you get over the bridge, you don't smell it anymore.
So while you're working on this bridge, that might be something someone wants to look into. I'm sorry. You broke up a little bit. Did would you say it smelled like garbage or or sewage?
• Septic?
• Mhmm.
• don't know if I've ever actually walked on the bridge, so I may have to go test that out and see.
Yeah. I haven't walked over it in the winter, but we walked over it in the spring, the summer, and the fall.
• Side.
• It's on the west side of the bridge that you walk over. Yeah. Okay.
but is there a homeless population in the area? No. I think it's from the train. That would be my guess. Or or the tire factory. Or the tire factory.
• Okay.
• Well,
• I think
• we're good to go now. So if anyone has any more questions that come to them or any more comments that come to them in the middle of the night, tomorrow, whenever, feel free to, reach out through the website or my email address, and we will be happy to, answer them.
Alright. With that said Any any written questions, you know, within the next couple weeks, we'd happy to, know, to to answer those directly, you know, from the town.
• Even after the even after that time period, we're definitely willing to answer questions.
• But if you go too late, we may not be able to address any concerns or questions because we do need to complete the design.
• Okay. Anyone with any final words or are we good to go?
Alright. Thanks, everyone. Have a good night. Thank you, Brian. Thank you for your time. Bye
• bye.