ALC-Highway Commission Review and Advisory Subcommittee
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Senator John Payton
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3:00
all right we'll have the meeting come to order i'd like to welcome everybody to the highway commission review and advisory subcommittee
of the arkansas legislative council uh we have a lot of reports to review uh so we're going to get started i think it's going to be the director wiley show and whoever whatever support he wants to bring with him to the table if you would introduce yourself and you'll be recognized thank you mr chair i'm jared
Speaker 5
3:27
wiley director of the arkansas department of transportation thank you and uh if you want
Senator John Payton
Unverified
3:33
to just go with whatever you've got it planned to present these but i understand they're for like the past nine months so if you can show us the last month yes sir first maybe we can maybe we can get through them a little better and if we have questions we'll entertain the questions thank you yes sir you're recognized that's why i
Speaker 5
3:50
have all this documentation is nine months worth i'll jump to the to the latest
Speaker 7
3:54
before i start i want to thank you guys for your time today and thank We have two of our highway commissioners here with me today, Commissioner Marie Holder from Little Rock and our newest commissioner, Jerry Halsey from Jonesboro.
And I have quite a few of my great staff members behind me today if we have questions that I cannot answer. So the first up on the agenda is the report of our ALC efficiency study and the implementation progress that we have made. so since our last meeting in december nine months have passed we've gotten a lot of things accomplished this chart shows the progress that we've made in the implementation of those rules
to date eight of the 13 recommendations are fully implemented and i won't read those off you can see them on the screen but 81 of our 90 individual actions that were under that report are complete Which is a 90% completion overall. We have five more items that we're working to complete Most of those are tracking to be complete by the end of the year And if you have questions about any of those, I'll be happy to try to answer those for you Thank
Senator John Payton
Unverified
5:03
you. And so the 81 out of 90 they're complete. Do you
have a timeline on the other night?
So recommendations Let's see 3, 5, and 8 They should
Speaker 8
5:15
be completed in October or November and then the number seven will probably be late this year early next year So within six months. Yes. Thank you. Any other
Senator John Payton
Unverified
5:27
question? Seeing no questions will Consider that report received so we go to item C All right
Speaker 7
5:40
Our item C is the report of land conveyances. We had three submissions covering the fourth quarter of calendar year 24 and the first and second quarters of this calendar year. These reports are submitted in accordance with Arkansas Code Annotated 22-6-1-17 and 27-67-3-21. In your packet, you'll see the transmittal letters and those three reports, so if you have any questions, I'll try to answer those. Do we have any
Senator John Payton
Unverified
6:13
Representative Crawford, you're recognized for a question. I think I
Chair
Unverified
6:18
have to. Okay, let me get you there. Okay, now
Representative Cindy Crawford
Unverified
6:24
you're on. Stand by. There I am. Thank you.
Representative Crawford. I was looking over these, and I was wondering about the land conveyances. Can you talk to me a little bit about that? And you have quite a few here, January, April, and July. Just kind of how those went, what they're for, and how the landowners
Speaker 7
7:09
reacted. Yes, ma'am. So these land conveyance reports are done any time the Highway Commission sells property to an individual or a company.
Speaker 8
7:19
So it's excess or surplus right-of-way or capital assets. So typically somebody will come to us and they'll ask if there's some right-of-way they think we aren't using or don't need anymore. We'll review that. And if it's determined that we can make a sale of that, we have a process that we follow. And we go about that. we get appraisals for that property and it's reviewed internally our staff makes sure that we don't have a need for it for the future for highway purposes and then we'll make that that sale that's good i
Representative Cindy Crawford
Unverified
7:49
noticed that it says in here that it will not be used for highway at all yes
ma'am for agriculture okay i just didn't understand it and thank you for clarification you bet you bet
Senator John Payton
Unverified
8:00
thank you representative lundstrom thank you over here so the
Representative Robin Lundstrum
Unverified
8:05
highway department surveys the land they take the land for the highway and then they've taken too much after they bought the land and then they have to get an appraisal for the land that they've already bought and then resell that again do they sell it back to the landowner or this seems like a lot of gyrations for this process yeah so that's a
Speaker 5
8:28
it's a great question representative so most of these transactions that we have um
Speaker 8
8:32
maybe we come through and we buy we bought right away decades ago for a highway and uh the parcel that remained wasn't all needed for right of way but it wasn't economically viable for us to walk away and buy that frontage so we ended up maybe buying that whole parcel so that we didn't put that landowner in a bad situation so a lot of these were that uh somebody an adjacent landowner one of these was on highway 65 up north of harrison we built that that freeway facility that controlled access
facility back in the late 90s 2000s and now an adjacent landowner wants to buy three of those remnant parcels from us and we're happy to sell it to them oh yeah fair market value yes ma'am okay and the fair market value that
Representative Robin Lundstrum
Unverified
9:15
you get is the current market value and then you don't negotiate it down like you do when you purchase a land you're going to go for the best price possible they bring us appraisals and
Speaker 8
9:28
we review those appraisals and uh and accept those appraisals if we think they're valid yes ma'am okay all right thank you
Senator John Payton
Unverified
9:38
thank you representative so the potential buyer is the one that brings the appraisals that that's correct kevin am i correct
Speaker 5
9:45
on that yes okay thank you any other questions seeing none will uh
Senator John Payton
Unverified
9:53
that report's received committee members uh we're not necessarily reviewing and definitely not approving it's just stated that we have to receive these reports so all right item d all right item d is the
Speaker 7
10:11
quarterly report so there's three quarters in here that identifies where we're using our federal highway funds under the infrastructure investment and jobs act that's the current federal transportation legislation that came into effect october 1st of 2021 so this report it's in attachment d3 in your packet it lays out where we've utilized that funding since october of 2021 through june 30th of 2025 you'll see at the bottom the total dollar amount that we've
obligated to date in federal funding is about 2.5 billion dollars under that ij bill and and so exhibit
Senator John Payton
Unverified
10:53
d1 and d2 are both contained in d3 yes sir because they're three quarters and the final quarter shows all of the historic data that's in the first two yes sir all the way back to october of 21 thank you any questions on item d seeing none that's received
then we move on to item e all right
Speaker 7
11:20
item e is the report that we do on projects that are 10 million dollars or more
and this covers again three quarters second and third and fourth fiscal year quarters of 2025 this project list out or this report lists out projects under construction in two different sortings one by route so you can find if you know the highway number or one by county if you'd rather look at it that way there's individual project status reports on active and upcoming projects the information shown on your screen is in this report but i'm happy to answer any questions you
guys have about any of these projects
Senator John Payton
Unverified
12:04
or any other ones okay so once again if we look at e3 We're seeing all the information that's contained in the first two quarters or are these independent? So
Speaker 7
12:14
Yes The the only difference may be if a project was
Speaker 8
12:17
on the report But it was completed during before the next report was published Okay, that's the only
Senator John Payton
Unverified
12:23
thing that might be missing. Well, we'll give everybody a minute to review that
If anybody has any questions on items e 1 2 or 3 We'll entertain
those. Seeing none, we'll mark it reviewed. Is
Speaker 8
12:49
there any other business? Yes, sir. I have one more thing, if I may. Okay. Some of you may remember this. Former Director Tudor started this before she left. We've been working hard to create a memorial on our campus to honor those fallen workers that we have,
our workers since 1954 we've lost 91 individuals on the job and I want to say thank you to y'all for all the safety legislation that you approved in the last session it's really making a difference and we feel that support and we thank you for that and our our team and our staff members appreciate as well but we're getting close you can see on the screen that's the current picture of the memorial we raised private funds internally and and really worked hard to do this off the clock but on October 9th we're going to dedicate that memorial weather permitting
so I wanted to extend the invitation to you guys to join us there on campus it's at one o'clock on October 9th we'd love to see you there we expect to have a big turnout I'm expecting over 12 to 1500 people there at that event that day so we would love to have you guys there if you're able to
Senator John Payton
Unverified
13:56
make it well that sounds really good can you make
sure everybody gets an email and definitely need to share that outside this committee with all the legislators. Yeah. And is that a picture of it there?
Yes, sir, that's a picture of it. Are there no
Speaker 8
14:13
orange cones? No orange cones. That was our temporary monument. We had orange cones with the names of the fallen workers on sleeves, and we wanted to do something that would honor them in a better way. Well, not to make light of it. But, yes, there's some symbolism in that monument. You know, it looks like a highway going to heaven there, infinity, and then we've got their skip line up there suspended by some steel bars. And it's a really nice monument. There will be a viewing platform where folks can come reflect on what it means.
Senator John Payton
Unverified
14:43
Certainly looks nice. Anybody have any questions? I think we're done. All right. Thank you, sir. Thank you for the invitation. Yes, sir. We're adjourned. You
Agenda
A. Call to Order
B. Report of January through September 2025 Monthly Updates of the ALC Efficiency Study Recommendations Rules for Implementation [Exhibits B1-B9]
C. Report of 2024 4th Quarter and 2025 1st and 2nd Quarter Land Conveyances [Exhibits C1-C3]
D. Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) Reports [Exhibits D1-D3]
E. Report of 2025 2nd Quarter, 3rd Quarter and 4th Quarter Reports on the Progress of Each Highway Construction Project of $10 million or More as Required by A.C.A. 27-65-107(a)(19) [Exhibits E1-E3]
F. Other Business
G. Adjournment
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Senator John Payton
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Speaker 5
Speaker 7
Speaker 8
Speaker 13
Chair
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Representative Cindy Crawford
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Representative Robin Lundstrum
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