A couple of names of note appear on the agenda of ANC 3F’s meeting on Tuesday, September 20th. One is Ron Mason, the president of the University of the District of Columbia, now in his eighth and final year of leading the institution. The other is Jair Lynch, or rather, the prominent DC-area developer’s real estate firm.
Jair Lynch Real Estate Partners is appearing in the context of the Days Inn hotel and parking structure at 4400 Connecticut Avenue, which was put up for sale late last year, and marketed for potential mixed-use redevelopment. That sort of thing is a Jair Lynch specialty.
Here are more agenda items, approximate times and the link to connect to the virtual meeting:
ANC 3F – Regular Meeting Agenda
Sept 20, 2022; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
ANC 3F is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting at https://bit.ly/anc3fmeet
Welcome (7:00pm)
Call to Order (7:01pm)
Roll Call (7:02 pm)
I. Adoption of the September 20, 2022 ANC 3F meeting agenda (7:03pm)
II. Approval of ANC 3F meeting minutes for August 18, 2022 (7:04pm)
III. Regular Agenda – Commissioner Updates and Treasurer’s Report (7:05 – 7:15)
IV. Regular Agenda – Committee Reports (7:16pm – 7:26pm)
– Streets & Sidewalks
– Parks & Watersheds
– Schools & Universities
– Housing & Neighborhoods
VI. Regular Agenda – Community Forum (community leaders and agencies give brief updates) (7:27pm – 7:37pm)
– University of the District of Columbia
– Van Ness Main Street
– Mayor’s Office of Community Relations and Services
– Jair Lynch Real Estate Partners
– Other updates
VII. Regular Agenda – Information Items (ANC 3F will not take a vote on these items)
– ANC 3F Public Safety Update from Bredet Williams, Lieutenant, Second District, Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) (7:38pm – 7:58pm)
– University of the District of Columbia update from President Ronald Mason, Jr. (7:59pm – 8:30pm)
– DC Water Update (8:31pm – 8:51 pm)
VIII. Regular Agenda- ANC 3F will vote on these items (8:52pm -9:10pm)
– Resolution on Hearst Park tree preservation
– Public Space Permit for 4652, 4654, and 4656 Broad Branch Road
IX. Adjournment (9:11pm)
Thank you for joining us this evening. The next ANC 3F meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 18, 2022.
David Jonas Bardin says
There is a vacancy in the 3-member DC Public Service Commission because President Biden nominated, and the U.S. Senate confirmed, DC PSC Chairman Willie Phillips to become a member of the 5-member Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Willie Phillips was highly qualified for his former and his present jobs, in my opinion.
Filling the PSC vacancy requires a nomination by the Mayor and confirmation by a majority of the DC Council.
—When will that happen?
—Will assessment of nominee qualifications be duty of current DC Council members or of DC Council members in office next year?
I am not promoting any particular candidate. But I want DC Council members and/or candidates to be ready to demand attention to reliability and security of electric power and natural gas supplies among other qualifications for PSC membership.
Green Eyeshades says
ANC3F had its monthly meeting last night (September 20, 2022), as the main blogpost reported.
ANC3F makes YouTube videos of its monthly meetings available on this page:
https://anc3f.com/documents-category/livestream/
The most recent video on that page is for the August 18, 2022 Special Meeting. When the September 20, 2022 video is posted, I will add a link in comments here.
The main blogpost reprinted the agenda for last night’s meeting, which includes a report from the ANC’s Parks & Watersheds Committee early in the meeting (item IV) and a 20-minute update from DC Water, which will presumably include news about the endless, ineffective work by DC Water’s contractor on the Soapstone Ravine watershed (item VII). When the video becomes available, I will try to add comments here summarizing the latest information from the ANC’s committee and from DC Water.
Green Eyeshades says
ANC3F posted its YouTube video of last night’s meeting here:
https://youtu.be/IN9uwPNb_nU
There was no report from the Parks & Watersheds Committee because a person was travelling. Nobody offered a report from the Streets & Sidewalks Committee.
At the one hour, 37 minute and 32 second mark (01:37:32), the ANC introduced DC Water for its update on the Soapstone project. As with previous video presentations by DC Water, its presentation last night included numerous slides, a few photos and the narration by presenters that are NOT available in open source anywhere on the Internet. The only way to view the content from DC Water is by watching the video stream. DC Water’s content is not published on any open source, to my knowledge.
DC Water’s presentation lasted from 01:37:32 until at least 01:50:47, not counting the additional time for questions & answers after DC Water finished presenting its slides. DC Water discussed slides covering the endless pounding of rock, pumping of water, and moving of rock from 01:40:44 to 01:41:34. Discussion of the storm water outfall (F-117) at the west end of the Ravine covered 01:42:19 (photo) and 01:42:38 (slide showing “deconstruction” of concrete pipe complete) but sadly the rebuilding of F-117 (and/or the stream bed work at Site 1 at the west end) will continue to the end of 2022! There was no mention of pouring new concrete for the F-117 pipe under Albemarle St.
DC Water discussed a slide about the “boiler permit” from 01:44:18 to 01:44:49. Generalized discussion of Cured-in-Place-Pipe (CIPP) to reline the sewer pipes covered 01:44:50 to 01:45:53, including a paralyzing quantity of information about the schedule for CIPP taking place in countless “segments” of sewer line. The sequence of “segments” was nearly incomprehensible because each segment runs from one manhole to the next manhole and thus each segment is identified by the ID numbers of specific manholes, but the manholes on the construction map in last month’s presentation are not large enough to distinguish one manhole ID from another. Also, the sequence of segments shown on the slide for CIPP work is not continuously chronological, even if you start from the bottom and read upwards, as DC Water instructed.
The essential feature of the CIPP work that did become clear is that the sewer pipe relining using CIPP will begin at the bottom of the Ravine (east end at Broad Branch Road) and move in sequence up the Ravine, from east to West. The CIPP work is currently scheduled to begin in November 2022 and continue through at least March 2023, if I correctly interpreted the weekly color-coded boxes on the schedule.
From 01:46:23 to 01:50:47, DC Water engineer Elledge discussed the Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), the Air Quality Monitoring Plan (AQMP), the EPA’s list of “toxic organics” known as the “TO-15,” and stated that the current intention of those involved in the project and the AQMP is to test for all of the toxic organics on EPA’s “TO-15” list, as well as at least one other VOC (cumene), using a portable Gas Chromotography Mass Spectrometer (GC-MS). However, Elledge stated and a slide stated that DC Water will shield itself to some extent behind the accuracy of claims in Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSes) about what chemicals are emitted by the use of compounds covered by MSDSes in the manufacture of CIPP. The MSDSes are mandated by OSHA and regulated by OSHA, thus DC Water will not verify the accuracy of the MSDSes. Elledge did say that the GC-MS testing will test for all of the toxic organics on EPA’s TO-15 list whether or not those compounds are not mentioned on the MSDSes.
One ANC Commissioner had important questions for DC Water at the end of DC Water’s presentation, and there may have been additional questions from community members, but I have not yet reviewed that portion of the YouTube video.