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INFORMATIONAL MEMO FOR 5-21-85 CITY COUNCIL MEETING PAGE 2 7. Wish to acknowledge the Parks Commission is holding a tour of the City Parks on Monday, May 20th, 1985 beginning at 6:30 p.m. starting at Lions Park. This tour will replace its regular meeting that takes place in the council chambers. Any and all Council Members are invited to participate in this tour of our City Parks. 8. Wish to acknowledge that the County will begin construction on County Road 13B in Lake Elmo on June 4th, 1985. 9. Wish to acknowledge that Clean Up Days was a successful project once again in 1985. The budget was for $1500, and this project was accomplished within that budget figure. While on the topic of the public works budget, I would like to inform the Council that the repair and maintenance catagory appears to be going over budget this calendar year because of an abnormally high number of repairs in our snowplowing equipment. We will be trying to make adjustments to keep our spending under budget in some of the other areas so that the bottom line figure will match our projections. This most easily is accomplished in the gravel capital outlay catagory. The 1986 budget process will be started shortly - once we receive the six month expenditure totals. You can expect further updates and information from the staff on this budget process for 1986. 10. Wish to acknowledge that the Street Sweeping Project that was awarded to Allied Contracting is scheduled to be completed this week. Maintenance Foreman, Dan Olinger has informed me that they are completing the project on schedule and the quality of work is acceptable to the maintenance department. 11. The street crew will be starting to make some small repairs of the potholes in our local streets this next week. There are some areas where larger repairs are going to be needed, and Larry Bohrer will be working with the maintenance crew in this area. We anticipate the need to contract out some of these larger repair items to a company that has a paving machine so that a more permanent replacement of our City streets can be made instead of making patches in the same area year after year. 12. Wish to acknowledge that the City will be proceeding with the installation of a culvert between the pond that is encroaching on 32nd Street and the pond in Reid Park. This item was on a Council agenda in April, 1985 and, the City was authorized to place limerock on 32nd Street to make that road accessible from the Ruppert property. The water has continued to increase, and the limerock is not solving the problem. This culvert will saturate the trails in Reid Park, but once the water recedes, these trails will again be useable with a minimal amount of damage. 13. Wish to acknowledge that the City has been informed by Mn/DOT that they are requiring Mr. Rossow (who had made application in 1978 for the Tri-Star Addition which is no longer valid) to remove the beams that are in the right-of-way along Highway 36. If Mr. Rossow does not willingly remove these beams, Mn/DOT will do the work for them after May 20, 1985, and will bill Mr. Rossow for the work completed. You should note that Mr. Rossow has also discussed getting