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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES APPROVED: APRIL 15, 2003 1 � using them. Pagers do„'t work Well. Rick Gustafson has received pages, run into the office to find he was wanted at the other end of town. He reminded the council that the city is down to one employee in Public Works who is not a manager. Dan Olinger will get a pass to work part time in a few weeks. That will give the city the go-between that is needed to buy this and move that. The Acting Administrator suggested that staffing be handled by staff and council M/S/P, DUNN/DeLAPP, to accept the recommendation of the Maintenance Advisory Commission to purchase the Nextel cell phones/walkie-talkies and to review their performance in one year. VOTE: 4:0. 8. CITY ENGINEER'S REPORT Resolution No. 2003-019 Partial Payment #9 for Well Pump House No. 2 to EnComm Midwest, LLC. The City Engineer reported that the interior work is done, and landscaping will get done in spring at Well Pump House No. 2. He recommended lowering the escrow to 2%. M/S/P, DUNN/DeLAPP, to adopt Resolution 2003-019 releasing Partial Payment #9 for Well Pump House No. 2 to EnComm Midwest, LLC. VOTE: 4:0. Resolution No. 2003-020 Final Payment to Keys Well Drilling for Well No. 3. The City Engineer reported that the well on Hudson Boulevard is complete. The city saved money under the bid. M/S/P, DeLAPP/SIEDOW, to adopt Resolution 2003-020 releasing Final Payment to Keys Well Drilling for Well No. 3. VOTE: 4:0. Resolutions No. 2003-021 through 2003-025 New State Aid Routes. The City Engineer said that every few years we accumulate additional miles in our state aid routes. As we gain more street miles, we get an additional MSA `needs and funding.' We have 2.5 miles we should declare as state aid routes. There is specific criteria to be met, they must be collectors or higher. The first is a section on 50°i Street. It is our last gravel road that is not a dead end. It is traveled only several hundred vehicles per day. Councilmember DeLapp said this is a new formula for state aid roads. He asked if there was a way to transfer this money to a bigger road instead of paving this little road in a rural area. The next route is 391h Street from Highway 17 to Highway 5 and 38`h Street from Highway 17 to Laverne Avenue. He works to determine if the road system will be able to accommodate the traffic that may be coming soon. There may be upgrades that can be done. Councilmember DeLapp said he did not want to have a minor aspect of a development control what a road will look like. Councilmember Dunn said that if a road has been there 20 years and needs to be torn out, we should do it if a new development is coming in. It will cost us less in the long term. She explained that the city can change a road's designation and put the money somewhere else. The City Engineer agreed that the city can change around these designations as long as they haven't spent money on the road in question. The City Engineer also looked at Hudson between Highways 15 and 17 as fitting the mileage the city needed to use up. It was just paved and re -shouldered this summer. The Engineer said it was LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES MARCH 18, 2003 4