HomeMy WebLinkAboutItem 10 - Well 4 Connecting Watermain-Approve Report AGENDA ITEM1
MAYOR AND COUNCIL COMMUNICATION
DATE: 9/03/2013
REGULAR
ITEM #: 10
AGENDA ITEM: Well No. 4 Connecting Watermain – Resolution Receiving Feasibility
Report and Calling Hearing on Improvement
SUBMITTED BY: Jack Griffin, City Engineer
THROUGH: Dean A. Zuleger, City Administrator
REVIEWED BY: Adam Bell, City Clerk
Cathy Bendel, Finance Director
Dave Snyder, City Attorney
Chad Isakson, Project Engineer
SUGGESTED ORDER OF BUSINESS:
- Introduction of Item ..................................................................................... City Engineer - Report/Presentation ..................................................................................... City Engineer - Questions from Council to Staff ............................................................ Mayor Facilitates - Public Input, if Appropriate ................................................................... Mayor Facilitates - Call for Motion .............................................................................. Mayor & City Council - Discussion ..................................................................................... Mayor & City Council - Action on Motion .................................................................................. Mayor Facilitates
SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUESTED:
The City Council is respectfully requested to consider adopting Resolution No. 2013-71 receiving the
Feasibility Report and calling for a Public Improvement Hearing to be held on October 1, 2013. The
recommended motion for this action is as follows:
“Move to adopt Resolution No. 2013-71, receiving the Feasibility Report and calling Hearing
on Improvement for the Well No. 4 Connecting Watermain Improvements.”
STAFF REPORT:
In accordance with the 2013-2014 Capital Improvement Plan, watermain will need to be extended along
50th Street and Lake Elmo Avenue, from 50th Street to 43rd Street, to connect Well No. 4 to the City’s
existing distribution system. Individual home service stubs and fire hydrants will be installed as a part of
the project as the trunk watermain is extended past existing residential properties. The improvements will
benefit the property owners by providing them the opportunity to connect to the municipal water system
and will provide increased fire protection for the property. The feasibility report is necessary to satisfy the
state required process to assess the benefiting property owners if the City wishes to levy assessments as
part of the project.
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Similar to the Keats MSA Street and Trunk Watermain Improvements, this project is being installed as
part of the overall water system capital improvement plan, and not as a project to specifically deliver
municipal water to the adjacent properties. Therefore the adjacent properties are not required to pay 100%
of the infrastructure extension costs as is seen in other utility extension projects, but the properties will
receive benefit. The feasibility report and subsequent public hearings will be completed at the same time
as the design of the watermain extension.
Staff will present the findings and recommendations of the Feasibility Report at the meeting including an
option to assess a $5,800 lateral benefit charge to ten (10) benefitting properties along the improvement
corridor, and a second option to assess one half that amount, or $2,900 lateral benefit charge at the time of
the project while deferring the remaining $2,900 to be collected if and when the property chooses to
connect to the City water system.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff is recommending that the City Council adopt Resolution No. 2013-71, receiving the Feasibility
Report and calling Hearing on Improvements for the Well No. 4 Connecting Watermain Improvements.
The recommended motion for this action is as follows:
“Move to adopt Resolution No. 2013-71, receiving the Feasibility Report and calling Hearing
on Improvement for the Well No. 4 Connecting Watermain Improvements.”
ATTACHMENT(S):
1. Resolution 2013-71 Receiving the Feasibility Report for the Well No. 4 Connecting Watermain Improvements and Calling Hearing on Improvement.
2. Notice of Hearing on Improvement. 3. Project Schedule. 4. Location Map. 5. Feasibility Report (available for review at City Hall)