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515 Little Canada Road, Little Canada, MN 55117 -1600 <br />(651) 766 -4029 / FAX: (651) 766 -4048 <br />www.ci.little-canacla.mn.us <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: Mayor Blesener and Members of the City Council <br />FROM: Joel Hanson, City Administrator <br />DATE: July 8, 2005 <br />RE: City Center Parking Lot <br />MAYOR <br />Bill Bleacher <br />COUNCIL <br />Jim LaValle <br />Rick Montour <br />Barbara Allan <br />John Keis <br />ADMINISTRATOR <br />Joel R. Hanson <br />With the work on Noel Drive, it seemed like a good time to make some improvements to the parking <br />lot at City Hall. The drive area and much of the main parking lot have been showing significant <br />break -up over the last few years. Staff believes this is caused by perched water as evidenced by the <br />streams of water flowing across the parking lot days after a rain event. To address this problem, we <br />believe the addition of drain tile is needed as well as new base material. We also believe we could <br />modify the grade of the lot and improve drainage between the water tower driveway and the main <br />entrance. This would necessitate some curbing removal and reinstallation. Lastly, there are some <br />other curb sections that should be replaced due to cracking or settlement. <br />Lee Elfering, our City Engineer, obtained a price from Tower Asphalt (Noel Drive contractor) that <br />seemed a bit high (about $63,000 to do the work above and all asphalt surfaces). He has been <br />attempting to get pricing from other contractors and should have the needed information by <br />Wednesday's meeting. He is also pricing various options to enable us to chose the amount of work <br />we want done. We must also keep in mind that we can execute a change order with Tower Asphalt <br />for their full estimate. Pricing from another contractor will have to be under $50,000 to avoid <br />competitive bidding requirements that would add more time to this process. <br />This would be a non - budgeted item that we could address from the infrastructure fund. Based on the <br />pricing Lee obtains, staff will have a recommendation for Wednesday's meeting. <br />cc: Lee Elfering <br />Bill Dircks <br />