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Item # 7.a.

City Council (FY24)

Meeting Date:	11/14/2023
Department:	Parks & Recreation
Pillars:	Excellence in Asset Management Optimize the Addison Brand
Milestones:	Continue to enhance and promote Addison's Identity Promote and protect the Addison Way

AGENDA CAPTION:

Present and discuss maintenance of residential masonry perimeter screening walls.

BACKGROUND:

This presentation is a follow-up to presentations made by staff to Council in 2022 and most recently on August 22, 2023, regarding the maintenance of masonry perimeter screening walls in residential areas. The previous presentations were made in response to several neighborhood groups requesting the Town maintain their perimeter screening walls. Some of the groups indicated that the Town's leadership had previously made a verbal commitment to maintain the walls. As a result, the Town hired a consultant to look into ownership and maintenance responsibilities of masonry perimeter screening walls for the neighborhoods in Addison. The consultant reported their findings at the August 22, 2023 Council meeting. The report identified that the proper easements / agreements were not in place to assign wall maintenance obligations to the Town for the majority of the neighborhoods in Addison. Staff proposed establishing a grant that would allow the Town to participate in the costs of wall maintenance without dedicating a considerable amount of time and expense to acquiring easements for wall maintenance.

During the August 22, 2023 presentation, Council directed staff to conduct research and present information to Council regarding grant programs that other cities offer to help cover maintenance of masonry perimeter screening walls in their communities and to provide the framework for a proposed grant program that could be facilitated in Addison. The purpose of this presentation is to share with Council information related to a grant program. To help facilitate the conversation, staff will also give an overview of the previous presentation and provide some additional information related to the consultant's report that was presented at the last meeting.

RECOMMENDATION:

Staff seeks Council direction.

Attachments
Presentation - Screening Walls