let's call the Tuesday March 11th 2025 F council member Barnes is it council member dumbuya here council member Ross here council member Rowan here council member Von Lewis Here council member council member teal here mayor Spooner
here the all right approval of the agenda any [Music] changes I think I'll take a motion second motion by Peter Vance loose
passes presentation and introductions we have none uh approval of the minutes February 25th 2025 5 and special council meeting March 4th 2025 second by post
motion quest to be heard did we have any up there moving on to consent agenda items consent agenda a through P make a motion to approve my R second my S
public hearings first one is resolution 2025 order improvements and Order preparation plans for specific specific specifications specifications for residential street overlay and sidewalk
improvements contract 2025-the [Music] in presentation first first that's acceptable to the mayor thank you mayor members of the council and the public uh this is the first of three public hearings tonight consider three
of our street Improvement projects the first one is our 2025 Street overlay and sidewalk improvement contract 20252 um the map on the screen shows the streets proposed to be overlaid we have a couple stre are also proposed to get some sidewalk and we'll go over them in
depth project areas here project scope on a Mill and overlay project will come in Mill the street either an edge Mill for a first overlay or a full width Mill if it's the second overlay for street we repair castings and structures within the roadway that need attention replace
any defective existing curb or sidewalk um just because a sidewalk or curb is cracked does not effective it's got to have some settlement and because of your curb or sidewalk or crack does not mean effective last thing that's typically done is
to the Chart down the right hand side of the slide here is our street life cycle program you can see from original construction we get a couple of seal coats in there before we do a first overlay typically another couple seal coats before a second overlay and then A fifth or and sometimes a sixth seal coat
before we get to full reconstruction our goal for modern streets is to get 60 years of life out of them this project is divided into four specific project areas the first area area one is Jefferson Place and Fair viiew Avenue this is the area down right to the north side of
Don picture on the right just Prov pement example just a millon overl sidewalk second project area is kind of the burnhill neighborhood west of Western Avenue as well as some of the Country Club Estates editions you can see some of the streets included there
we'll talk about 25th Avenue Northwest a little bit more in depth relation to the sidewalk that's what the as there the rest of the streets that are included in this project area too here again is a map showing the streets in yellow that are proposed for
an overlay project and little green line in the top left of the picture on the left is the sidewalk segment for that portion of 20 pictures on the screen show examples of the existing pavement conditions Mill and overlays are really pavement preservation projects we want to do them
at the right time to preserve the underlying pavement and gravel base so people ask why you know this street is worse than the streets you're overlaying why aren't you doing this street it's because those streets that are worse typically have exceeded useful life of a Mill and overlay and it would just be way to Mill overlay them because they
would too fast so that's why it seems like we're doing streets that aren't as bad as some other streets time to invest get another they mentioned 25th Avenue Northwest according to our Council approved 2021 comprehensive sidewalk and Trail plan is proposed to have new
sidewalk extended from 15 and a half Street up to 17th Street Northwest can see that on the diagram left sh the north south Red Line there project land just north of 17th
Street uh this is developable land here that a developer does own they've been into the city a couple of times with development proposals and just have followed through all the way so we do anticipate that that Land north of 17th Street will develop in future and at that time 17th Street which is a gravel
road west of Western Avenue all the way over to that would get improved to a modern Street section Urban Street section sidewalk would be installed with that project then you can see what this does is it creates a a pedestrian loop around
West Side of Western Avenue that also ties into the trail system along Western 17th Street Highway 21 picture on the right here is just an aerial photo again the existing sidewalk is along 25th Avenue and terminates just here
15 and a half aerial photo you can see here the sidewalk along the town homes from Carriage Home subdivision that was put in with that subdivision obviously the homes that were built north of there predate our subdivision reg did receive a couple of
correspondents from some residents along 25th Avenue asking about why the sidewalk was on the west side of the road cost wise we've run the numbers a whole lot of cost difference we go on the east side of the road we have to add five four or five ped
ramps stay on the west side cross driveways in course a peace but with that I I'm sure we'll receive some comments regard for feedback reference
of we can discuss project area three is Cardinal Avenue and Cardinal Lane again there's a sidewalk proposed on Cardinal Avenue here's the project area this is the area boy what's out there now Hardies B
in north of the truck stop this sidewalk is proposed to go on the west side of Cardinal Avenue to connect the trail and sidewalk system along 30th Street up to what is presently the hotel but is transitioning day treatment facility I believe so it's a way to provide
pedestrian access out to that trail system also been various development proposals for the vacant land side horseshoe here felt like now the so it's there and established Anders can work also now two apartment buildings
this a lot residents out here the final product area in this contract is Acorn Trail from 30 Street Northwest to the city limits just 30th Street similar most recent years uh we
didn't host an inperson we sent out a letter to all the residences adjacent to the project virtual informational meeting personal presentation very similar to what we would give at the in person but allows folks to read it and participate at their own time and Leisure rather than
having had a lot of positive feedback time and not trying to shuffle schedules around invite folks to just reach out they have any questions this year questions I received up till tonight
questions about the sidewalk on 25th Avenue and what side general questions about access during construction the least half hour of time when the Mills that they're Paving the only other time for some
reason your curb or driveway pavement would be replaced that's definitely the exception folks have ACC get questions about costs and folks are reminded that back in starting in 2022 Council transitioned from special
assessments to franchise fees this fund our street fund total estimated project costs including engineering contingencies and design fees is just under $ 1.3 million see a majority of that over 90% is funded through the street Improvement fund which as I mentioned for this
project is funded through our the remaining portions are funded to the various utility funds fixing structures hydrant Val charge those back project schedule pending approval of ordering the improvements in plans
and specs tonight we would look to be back in two weeks with final plans and specs for approval and to establish a bid opening date in April 16th to award a contract on April 22nd participate construction depending upon road restrictions and when would start
be wrapped up by the end so with that we would ask that you hearing inclusion of the public hearing ask there is any direction the council like to provide resolution there any questions
for open public second Bruce in public hearing anybody wishing to speak on this matter St your name and address and the microphone and would you please speak directly
into there is you mayor my name is Nick parus I live on 16022 fth Avenue North for over 30 years there's a six houses there that
are original whatever to this and we've never had any sidewalk and don't see a need for a a sidewalk to go nowhere you know it's going to dead end at 17th Street until that property
they've been talking about developing that for 25 years or what development I yeah sometime in the future maybe there will be but visit the sidewalk ISS that
time or if the sidewalk po you know has to go in but it possibly go on the east side of the street where there's no obstructions whereas on the west side of the street all of the utilities run on the west
side of the street six driveways to cross and he's talking about some ped ramps that are having to put ped ramps in well it's a lot cheaper to put ped ramps and you're going to rip up everybody's
driveway at least 20 feet could you have to could your sidewalks got to be Ada accessible so it's get but I am not at a 2% pitch for adaa 2% all the drive
most of the driveways are four to five driveway so everybody going to come driveway going to have a big hump get up you know go up in your garage and like I say all the
utilities that the people have to work around that doesn't come free or whatever he told me well the U companies got to move them well who's got to pay for that you know my rates my utilities are going to go up because
they got to move their you know all their there four cables whatever phone we got got phone fiber gas cable TV light poles like and the uh uh other point I got
where the existing uh sidewalk is where was built built in where the tow houses are south side of 15 the side the street and the sidewalk was all built at the same time well all
of the the house pads are set back farther from the street you know from where our original six houses are set back farther so that sidewalk wouldn't
be would be like somebody walking side walk it probably be closer from my window to you you know like I say if it's got to be put in at this time maybe we could the east side of the street or could we consider
holding it off till the street reconstruction needs to done in 20 years because the street itself is 40 years old plus it was built in the
early we're talking 40y old street now this is the second in overlay the first one was 25ish seven years ago Edge Mill
paved now this time it's going to and you're going to hope to get your plan right that's goal right right right your goal I you know I work for a contractor I kind of know how this stuff works so we worked on some of the
projects but yeah like if uh visited then or I guess that's all I okay thank you sailor and I live at 1526 25th Avenue and as far as where the sidewalk is
supposed to go it's going to go right through my front yard and it's going to be like 20 ft off my front my my window I don't want somebody walking by my house and being a ble to watch everything that I'm doing know and then
to have to move um I've got a planter out front that would have to be moved my mailbox is going to have to get everybody's mailbox is going to have to get moved I mean I am there's no reason why I can't go across the street where
there's yeah there's there's no mailboxes because all the mailboxes are on our side of the street so and there's our trees the the utility box es there's no reason why I can't go on the other side of the street thank
you see no one else coming forward I'll take a motion to don't move I have a motion to close the public we are out of public hearing correct it will be placed within
the public right away that portion for just the sidewalk when do you think sidewalk in 17 it's hard to say I said we we've met with in just the seven years I've been here I've
met property to the we're in a little bit of an unusual time I'll say with interest rates and but what about putting it on the south side of it could go on either side on 17th as
well if we put it in ahead of that project it could go in now if that's what your question well it it would delet the Circ and if we want one more thing in just looking at
it are the houses closer on one side of the street than the other I mean it looks pretty pretty similar I I think I think and this is an architectural change here is when houses on the West Side were built they're more of that ranch style home where they were house
forward garage back or the house is even with the garage the house is on the east side are newer and they're garage forward house back so distance between the nearest point of the structures are that the homes on the west side
there base I would say is generally closer to the RightWay than the houses on the west northernmost house on the east side house portion actually fronts off of okay thank you I'm very familiar with the neighborhood
thank you for for coming today um public and speaking I agree with what you had said I'm very familiar with the area the homes do seem to be a little bit closer to the roadway there
isn't there isn't a need immediately I don't believe for sidewalks in that area because it is a gravel road it's a dead end Street there I think people traffic area my concern is if we wait will the expense be more of course
it probably will be but secondly with construction on that road if there is development bu crack break I'm just wondering best to wait until that just just to a clarification this product does not include the
sidewalk just the sidewalk comprehensive plan that showed the dotted Red Line includes both segments this project the current scope is just I'll just say this I've been an advocate for sidewalk I pushed for the
one down on Westwood Drive this one really on the I think we should just develop guys add 5 to 10% inflation to whatever year you want to project them out to I would agree with council member bar
one I have a motion by Peter Van SLO second by Barnes to approve resolution 2025 including sidewalks all those in favor
signify up next resolution 2025-the overlay sidewalk improvements contract 2025 director duch thank you mayor Spooner Council and members of the public uh this is our second overlay project and the reason we split these two projects is the previous project as
I mentioned was what we call our residential or local overlay project that's funded primarily out of our 401 Capital Improvement fund fet Avenue is on our minicipal state aid system and so this product will be funded out of our state aid account there's different rules and specific ifications that we
have to put into this project that make it a little bit more expensive because we have to follow prevailing wages and some other state funding regulations so that's why we separate but this project is a mill in overlay of hit Avenue from 7th Street Northwest all the way up to Highway 3 or
Street Northwest going on the map here again a Mill and overlay depending upon the age of the street and the condition of the street it's either an edge Mill or a full width Mill repair castings and structures as needed replace effective existing curb and sidewalk and then we pave the
Batum street life cycle right hand side of this slide this is got one project area but it's divided into two Avenue from sth Street to here's some sample pictures of the existing pavement conditions
also included in the scope um when we put this into the CIP last year and it was approved we had included uh completing a loop of water main on the south end of this project highlighted in yellow here this brings a water main and heet Avenue all the way up to 17th
Street Northwest and completes a loop subsequently during tour project along Highway 3 last year we had a failure of the water main red line at the top of the picture here up having to abandon that water in place it was not to be
repaired due to where it was located in the over power lines and a bunch of other Utilities in there so we abandoned that water main in place subsequently now we are proposing to at least add an alternate bid to this project to put water m in to complete that Loop and it
will restore a redundant system for that area in the Northwest Quadrant Southeast quadrant of oh here so this water M used to loop around like this now with this segment it would be this is an unbudgeted
improvement get alternate again there virtual meeting notices were sent out to all the adjacent Property Owners I received comments from one property owner oh sorry that I receiv comments from two Property Owners both regarding sanitary sewer one on the North End which the
sewer is available on the south side of the ditch of Highway 3 or on the West Side property similar we received a question from some Property Owners not have SE ends in hulet just south of them it's only like so to extend it up to them it
would be so that's why sewers never talk to the property owner and explain city were to make that extension Improvement the benefit would be assessed 100% to the property owners more economical for them to look at what power restoration on the east
side of the road did when they renovated they put in uh being pump and they pump public sewer this project does not contain the extension project costs uh for this
project are just over $870,000 with the alternate that's with the additional water M see the costs are split the road Improvement costs will be paid for out the state aid funds improvements water sanitary improvements are not so the water improvements would be
PID some minor sanitaries 870 with the alternate um you see 586 587 without similar project schedule to the last one we're here tonight to order the improvements and preparation of plans and specs same bid schedule we're
looking to come back in two weeks with approval of plans and specs and set a bid date of March 16 second coun project timeline instruction depending final completion then we ask hearing and then
consider resolution 5062 question for hey take a open the public second motion by Ron second all thank you
mayor when we uh go to make a motion on this add or is that our I I mayor if I may um I would only say if you don't want us to consider it if you would provide that direction if you're open to at least considering the alternate but we'll move forward with it and we can make a final
decision okay so it is in yeah but if you don't even want to consider the additional cost you know that'll save us some time now right no it's but the the bid for it is included yeah that just is just ordering us to improve the plans and specs absent
uh recommendation not to move forward with a bid alternate we will bring forward here Spooner yes I'll make a motion to approve resolution 2062 a second by Barnes to approve right allos next
item resolution 202- 63 order improvements and speci 2025 thir Avenue contract
202- director thank you mayor members of the council and the public uh before you tonight is our third contract but a different project this is a full reconstruction Third Avenue Southwest from Division Street to Third Street the old reception Divine Mercy School block
plus the again before you is our street life cycle chart here showing from original construction to reconstruction of a modern how we try to like to get 50 to 60 this is just an example of everything that's included in a reconstruction project so from the pavement section the
curbs the sidewalks um Public Utilities the lime green manhole and pipes represent the sanitary sewer system generally runs down the center of the street the teal piping represents the Water System including the hydrant and valves the orange system is representative of storm
sewer system only thing that we the city of fairb is not responsible for is natural gas cable TV fiber a lot of times those are run within the boulevards within the public RightWay but they are not
removing this segment of Third Avenue is pre 1950 construction we actually record documents constructed but we know went in in the 1940s so we're 80 foot right away generally the
southern two blocks have a 36t width northernmost block the block adjacent to the old M Conception Church is 55 ft wide because of the angled parking side of the road and we'll talk more about that play sewer pipe from the 19 1940s
some of our oldest remaining water M remains in this project we have some 4in water M that was installed between 18 one as well as a 12in water main that dates back to 1915 again we don't have any records of the storm sewer installation but we're assuming picture on the right is from
our comprehensive surface water management plan that was updated a couple years ago it's just depicting that according to our modeling that was done no known areas drainage from this project the majority of drainage project will drain through our recently construct recently
constructed Pond system down there at the old lockerby site so this is one of those instances where building that Regional Pond benefits projects like this because absent that we would have been looking mandated poos improvements we will replace that sanitary sewer and services to the
property line with materials that's here new water main we're going to replace the 4in water man with 8 place the 12-in water M new 1in services and curb stops there are a number of placing them to the curb stop and
contacting the property owner service extends lead from the curb stop to the property to the home they'll be responsible for that cost and coordinating it there is sometimes some cost savings if they get some coordination so once we have a
contractor we'll make properties then we'll replacing the store stor sewer with a new storm sewer to meet 2020 proposed improvements we are proposing to just put in a 36 foot wide Street on all three blocks removing
parking along side of the northernmost block this was broed with the current property owner most recent past when we've reconstructed a street that had angled parking in Downtown proper owner has been responsible agreement with the city to
maintain for it correspondence with the current property owner he this proposal does move the angled parking and put in new bis pavement curb and gutter and driveway approaches and again a virtual information meeting letter was sent out I only received
correspondence from one property owner Who had who lived on that northernmost block and had a question about his driveway replacement and the slope of his driveway and I explained to him that the road up his driveway will actually get a bit a little long flat out is slope total project cost and funding
again including contingencies and Engineering fees is just under million dollar costs are split amongst the various funds including our street Improvement fund which in our water and sewer and storm scheduled of the previous two
March 11th here tonight to order preparation of plans and specifications be back in two weeks with final plans and specifications to be approved and set a bid date of April 16th contract Award of April 27 instruction on this project will likely
right after school gets out finally complete set a completion more flexibility we give the contractor the are bidding and risk existing businesses and schools have alternate off of
first similar to the previous two we asked that you conduct a public hearing and then consider resolution that should be hey any questions where the parking is now the angle parking is now yeah it's within the public right away so
it's who bought the property adjacent to the angled parking or the angled parking I just the it it it's in the public RightWay so it it predates subdivision ordinance and what so that angled parking is in the
public RightWay so it's public parking in in recent past when we've reconstructed streets angled parking specific for a property not needed for a public purpose unlike down toown where
parking is shared whatnot in these instances and believe the most recent one was just over here apartment buildings kitty corner from Hall when parking put back they were responsible for the cost of that parking and entered they remove the snow from that
parking responsible for following that same precedent that project parking exists for the business the residential street typically by The
Proposal following precedent if Council Direction pivot and it technically zoned commercial that would be a question for Council staff on to maintain the parking
and then whether they want to maintain the parking City cost or whether they want to pass the cost onto the policy decision for the counc we can design we can design either way else questions this time I'll open it
up so moved in non emotion second all right of public hearing um in relation to what uh council member was discuss I would say
if current property owner of that I understand your point of view that why I should the and again very busy uh
School we're just pushing the parking out I could see for the good of the neighborhood saveing 20 parking and Mr there will still be parking on that
site just be parallel park Ang for the F question is how many balls is the difference there will still be parking that was this there'll be parallel parking on both sides also of all the parking on
thater I'll make a motion to approve resolution 20 five Dash a second 63 hold on just just clarify the motion is as presented
without as presented without the all right now I have a motion I all opposed items for discussion ordinance 202-1840 [Music]
on sections 52 and 59 ordinances regarding backflow deves second reading this ordinance updated revision uh essentially addressing U the state plumbing code which
does governs how these things are installed and also addresses testing requirements for non-compliance of such a backflow device this uh first reading was on February 25th there been staff has received no comments and there have
been no revisions made with that I would recommend approval of ordinance 2025-the [Music] a second to accept ccil member Barnes council member dumbuya yeah council member
Ross council member Rowan council member V SL council member teal mayor Spooner Austin ordinance pass
make a motion to approve ordinance 2025-the of 1 Avenue Northwest Second Street Northwest ju thank you mayor and Council all right um by way of background here uh Steve
Schmidt of Schmidt homes uh on behalf of Community Action shelter Associates Incorporated which is associated with Community Action Center is requesting a conditional use permit to allow two multifam structures in the CBD or Central business district at the site
that's commonly known as first and first or First Avenue Northwest and First Street Northwest by way of background we have been working with Community Action Center for several years uh they have worked with the city and in the council has taken a tour of the
Food Shelf um that they have um but they do a lot of other work for the city um helping with housing issues emergency shelter housing as well as um Workforce affordable housing um over the last several years we have been looking for a
variety of sites um uh that they could begin to provide housing for our residents um that are in need um again with Workforce and emergency shelter housing um we've explored a number of them over the years but ultimately the
former property that the city owned at first and first um that was a site um that received some funding they worked with our city administrator Jessica Kinser to get some grant funding to develop that site for the housing that you for us by way of um location map
here that you have this is just again first and first is just a block South here so it's actually just north of it's the area that you see in yellow on the the center of the map here the area photograph uh just to the South is
Hillside apartments that M Hamilton has to the east is the Crown Apartments and then North as well as to the west of this site I mentioned this is in the central business district that's shown in purple here there's two uh Parcels
that are being looked at and the applicant again is looking at putting two multifamily showing those in in the brown uh here so it's a little easier to see uh but there' be two buildings with onsite parking to address the needs site with
two Ada accessible one for each unit or each building that would go on the site um this has been a challenging site given the slopes uh associated with it we've been working very closely with Community Action Center now I would say
the last year particular in on this site and they've done a really nice job of trying to pull together something that works for that neighborhood as well as addressing the housing needs um the uh Community Action Center
the the out building elevations that you see here they've worked hard to try to integrate that into the residential character of the neighborhood here so you'll see twostory units here provide that Workforce
shelter for families here's the other uh this proposal has gone through our development Review Committee the development reiew committee felt that it it was a good project it met the requirements of
the conditional use permit findings it also went to the Planning Commission planning recommended approval of this as well because this is in the historic U Heritage preservation District it does require that it get a certificate of
appropriateness from the preservation commission which brought there and they issued a certificate of appropriateness for this development so it has met the ordinance as um required um in terms of the conditional use we do have Scott
wapa here of Community Action Center so if you have uh detailed questions for Scott you would be able to answer those uh I'm happy to answer any plan and Zoning or development related questions from the city but we are recommending
approval of resolution 2025-the slides that mayor I'm happy to answer any questions that you might have any questions for sth uh thank you mayor um this I'm just asking this B curiosity
and I I see the two buildings are right around 2200 take out square footage for are these apartments really only on um I'm going to let If U mayor and
councel um Scott wapa can probably answer that question more clearly just making sure this works got w a community action any other introductions your specific question eight units four units in each building put
each so so in other words the footprint is roughly 22 living space actually on I was just curious thank you oh you're
67 65 okay have a motion to approve resolution 2025 065 by a second by Teal all those in favor say I I opposed motion
passes on tune resolution 202- 66 approve a conditional use permit for a ground mounted solar array at 927 thank you mayor and Council Tom Farley uh the applicant and owner um at
927 St Paul Avenue is requesting a conditional use permit to put a ground mounted solar array the ordinance currently allows up to 120 square ft for a ground mounted solar array in a residential area uh but you can go higher than that with a conditional use
permit Tom Farley is hoping to go up to 527 square feet so therefore there is a conditional use permit associated with this um the site again is at 927 St Paul Avenue I've just put up the location map this is across from the city water
facilities there at the top the the big towers or top of St Paul Avenue um one of the things you have in front of you is a revised additional use permit
resolution and I will go through that in a minute the reason I bring that up is um earlier today uh council member John Rowan had U mentioned that we have on the The Towers there we have some communication telecommunications radio
Services associated with that and wanting to make sure typically in in cases like that and I know we do this with cell phone towers for example can't interfere with things like 911 and we want to make sure that the
solar does not interfere with this we don't think it will um it's backyard but still one of the um conditions that we included and it's in your resolution and that's why we put this on
here approval number one was added that's the project cannot cause harmful interference to federally licensed radio services and it's not requiring the homeowner to do a study on this it's not
costing any additional again we don't see an issue with it but if there was something unusual that happens we would expect and it's related specifically the solar panels that that be handled so that's what we're looking at um this map
here or this plan shows where those would be in the backyard of this the ordinance does require um screening of that the DRC and Planning Commission looked at that the ordinance does allow flexibility in situations where um it
isn't highly visible that we can reduce that amount of landscape screening and that was chosen um the recommendation of the DRC as well as the allow this to happen so in short the proposed solar array meets the cup
requirements did qualify for a landscape production really is no anticipated impacts on the surrounding areas um and as I mentioned previously the proposed array we added the condition here that the pro proposed
array cannot cause harmful interference associated with that the recommendation before you tonight is to approve the resolution 2025-the had I'm happy to answer any additional questions that you might questions you might I'll just make one comment years
and years ago when I was a Planning Commission member this is the ex perfect scenario big [Music] yard second oh
a second byya all those being done all those motion by R second by dya approve resolution 20 under resolution 2025-the Avenue County Road 48 improvements
sap 066 d648 D6 thank you mayor Spooner members of the council uh before you tonight is a resolution to Grant Municipal consent for Rice County's Casa 48 or lindel Avenue South Improvement projects this
is a 2025 product that the county had programmed basically Mill and overlay Lindale Avenue from where their territory takes off there from the south I35 ramp down by the El Tequila Restaurant all the way up to Highway 60 so they'll be doing a full depth Mill
overlay on this project as I was discussing this project with the County engineer and talking about the municipal consent requirement which is a state statute that requires counties to seek Municipal consent for any within the corporate limits of municipality we started looking at the intersection he started explaining that they're going to
have to replace all of the signal Loops for the signal system at Division Street Lindale pull that up um we got to discussing the project and realized that now is probably the time to include Now's the Time to include
improvements of the signal system to add flashing yellow left arrows on the lindel Avenue North and southbound approaches so similar to all the rest of the signal systems along 21 now it would now allow that permissive left turn with that we're also then going to
revise the PED ramps right now the city added that new Trail on the east side of Lindale the existing Crossing system on Lindale from years ago was to cross on the North side to cross back on the west side to the South to go down the sidewalk along the carbon side of
Division Street with these improvements we're going to look to extend this South median a little bit to provide the crosswalk on the south side of the road with that similar to previous projects and similar projects along the Lindale Avenue Corridor when signal improvements and lighting improvements
are usually been split based on the number of section leg so just the portion of the projects related to the signal improvements and the walk improvements City's cost shares estimated final construction final cost
share will be based on actual that could go up that could for you tonight is a resolution to approve the municipal consent as well as the County's cross participation agreement formal cost participation policy so when
we have a Cooperative project everything is done via Cooperative construction agreement that c caps our costs just related to certainly answer questions but resolution resolution
2025 by all right motion passes under resolution 2025 -71 approved quotes authorize the purchase of a 2025
tror truck 100 uh thank you mayor Spooner members ofil resolution 20271 isote andth uh the resolution is before you tonight as a result of an accident
truck Bridge resulting in the truck being total coverage for that an endorsement make up of the piece of equipment and limit for that endorsement was $431 three scenarios laid out there in
the memo how up with how the uh value was determined lowest of those three amounts that beinging the $50,000 deductible the city has that resulted in insurance payout or will result in insurance payout of
348,000 the quote to purchase a new truck is 78557 results C 33029 69 to offset or reduce that
amount is recommending foregoing a $1,000 project that was budgeted in thep for addition for the gun view lift station going that portable generator for
that doing so in that that leaves the remaining $2,290 69 very sewer fund does have1 38,000 currently available cash cash for
equipment and with that I would recommend the approval of Mr Black I'm not on you but I'm I'm curious so you had mentioned that the unique make the VOR VOR truck is
spe sounded like we pie far as the equipment is it's a chassis and then Body and Equipment on it so it's not purchased as that whole piece of equipment it's
customized so it would on our street that is corrected the initial um makeup that truck is a low profile vehicle I will add that the contributing factor to the strike was the piece
equipment was having an equipment Mal was not lower uh into its transitionary or the position that during Transit which is a contributing factor curious there's a few questions
that come to for insurance reasons when you altercation setting that aside let's say something like really big expense of end result which leads me to question there
I know there's older ones out there well and what do these there's some out there for us but I guess just give me your reasoning why we're going with a well typically for the brand new the
reason we're going brand new is the likelihood of all of those trucks would not fit under that have contracted trucks right now they're using I do not they fit underneath that that bridge Island that was special ordered with that low
profile CH that is one reason also another reason is when we these this piece of equipment is gets an extens amount of use and when they're used they're they're used buying
something used uh in my opinion for this for the amount that we use our truck I'm not comfortable with buying something that is you're you're buying unn just from a a reliability stand another thank you
mayor um you know we just recently had expected $1 million repair to our water system no uh it's a bad time to bring up Finance issues but we're going to really have to keep track of this because now
we're into 1.3 million of budgeted expenses for this going to have to really pay for this through the year and as we budget for the next year because milon out of our budget is pretty big
number so it's really not a question demanding an answer I'm concerned focus and pay ATT how many of these unexpected things are box like the primary splitter box at the Wastewater tree yeah but that's the
one we e there's there's money there but correct me if I'm wrong the cash and that fund balance is already somewhat earmarked for future projects is isn't that where we collect you know
future proper term is infrastructure shirs and maintenance and upgrades to so all it's there and we can use it some other point we're going to still have to replace it correct yeah
so amount of one more question so I know with the specification that would work just for fairo loan and with the bridge you had mentioned um I did look too to see if there was anything out there that would in your defense there really isn't much out
there it's an it's a vehicle that's so unique but with that said do you think there's anything we can find good used one um honestly I do not like I said um
just just with the unique of it and um this truck is specifically set up for our operations how we clean our truck is used talk to other folks in Industry Distributors of it our truck gets used more than a lot of folks that our truck
is out right now if we had the truck it would be out doing our all of our own clean a lot of places they will contract those servic out the supplement so they use one truck for emergencies for backups that thing so our truck Ju Just
Just for the nature of of the volume of use that that's that's why I would prefer this method the 21st is has to and if we miss that window you're because with the 21st getting a quote approved by the 21st
we're looking at May or June without that you're looking at maybe the late late fall the bulk of our our work is with that truck is coming now mayor Spooner as painful as it is I'll make a motion to approve
resolution second any further discussion I have a motion to approve resolution 2025 do right motion passes BS of
none boards and commission reports announcements um is aant but thank you anybody else wanted to share that the paradise center for the art Jo Bandy the Northerly gate TS uh Saturday March 15th
7:30 and then also the Riverbend Nature Center is hosting their Maple syruping program morning out the weekend before my surgery February 21st 22nd I went to the advanced um train in Minnesota
cities city council people from all very fun time it's always nice to get out and talk to people in the similar things what we do and all you us elected official anybody Evers on League of Minnesota
cities please any conferences webinars anything they want to participate in please let us always nice to just simply Network and talk to other people second with in June for