HomeMy WebLinkAbout2025-030CITY OF LAKE ELMO
WASHINGTON COUNTY
STATE OF MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION NO.2025-030
A RESOLUTION RECEIVING FEASIBILITY REPORTS, CALLING
HEARINGS ON IMPROVEMENT, APPROVING PLANS AND
SPECIFICATIONS AND ORDERING ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS FOR
THE 2025 STREET AND UTILITY IMPROVEMENTS
WHEREAS, pursuant to City Council resolution, adopted on September 17, 2024, feasibility
reports for the Irish Court Neighborhood, Teal Pass Estates Neighborhood, 55"' Street / 57' Street / Julep
Way Neighborhood, Lake Elmo Vista (55" Street) Neighborhood, and the Prairie Hamlet Neighborhood
have been prepared by Bolton & Menk, Inc. for the 2025 Street and Utility Improvements; and
WHEREAS, the feasibility reports recommend that benefiting properties be assessed all or a
portion of the cost of the improvements pursuant to the City's Special Assessment Policy and Minnesota
Statutes, Chapter 429; and
WHEREAS, the feasibility reports provide information regarding whether the proposed
improvement is necessary, cost-effective, and feasible; whether it should best be made as proposed or in
connection with some other improvement; the estimated cost of the improvements as recommended; and a
description of the methodology used to calculate individual assessments for affected parcels; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to City Council resolution, adopted on February 18, 2025, the City
Engineer, together with Bolton and Menk, Inc., has prepared plans and specifications for the 2025 Street
and Utility Improvements and has presented such plans and specifications to the Council for approval.
NO ,W THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED,
1. That the City Council will consider the improvements in accordance with the reports and the
assessments of the abutting properties for all or a portion of the cost of the improvements
pursuant to Minnesota Statues, Chapter 429 at an estimated total project cost of $2,609,000.
2. A public hearing shall be held on such proposed improvements on the 6th day of May, 2025 in
the council chambers of City Hall, at or approximately after 7:00 P.M. and the clerk shall give
mailed and published notice of such hearing and improvement as required by law.
3. Such plans and specifications, a copy of which is on file at Lake Elmo City Hall, and made a part
hereof, are hereby approved.
4. The City Clerk shall prepare and cause to be inserted in the official paper and posted online with
Quest Construction Data Network (QuestCDN.com) an advertisement for bids upon the making
of such improvements under such approved plans and specifications. The advertisement shall be
published for at least 21 days, shall specify the work to be done, and shall state that sealed bids
provided by following required electronic bidding procedures outlined by QuestCDN prior to the
specified bid date and time and accompanied by a bid bond or cashier's check made payable to
the City of Lake Elmo in an amount not less than 5% of the amount of such bid will be
considered.
ADOPTED BY THE LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL ON THE EIGHTEENTH DAY OF
MARCH, 2025.
CITY OF LAKE ELMO
(Seal)
By:
Charles Cadenhead
Mayor