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<br />Item #: 7A <br />Meeting Date: July 8, 2013 <br />Type of Business: Council <br />Administrator Review : ____ <br />City of Mounds View Staff Report <br />To: Honorable Mayor and City Council <br />From: Heidi Steinmetz, Economic Development Specialist <br />Item Title/Subject: Resolution 8117, Authorizing the Purchase of a New <br />Electronic Message Sign for City Hall <br /> <br />Background <br /> <br />On June 10 and July 1, 2013, the City Council discussed several quotes received for a new <br />electronic message sign (with base) for City Hall. On July 1st, the Council provided <br />direction to City staff to continue discussing the project with DeMars Signs out of Coon <br />Rapids, MN. <br /> <br />The City’s existing electronic message sign is located at the northwest corner of County <br />Road 10 and Edgewood Drive. It was originally purchased in 1999 (fourteen years ago). <br />The sign is 13 feet tall, 14 feet wide and 2 feet deep. It’s located at the northwest corner of <br />County Road 10 and Edgewood Drive. The sign is used as a communication tool for the <br />City of Mounds View. Below are images of the original rendering and the existing sign. <br /> <br /> <br />Below is a timeline of the sign’s history: <br /> <br />December 13, 1999: The Mounds View City Council approved the purchase of Daktronics <br />electronic message board with incandescent white lighting in the amount of $40,741.00 <br />from AIM Electronics. <br /> <br />November 14, 2005: The Mounds View City Council approved the purchase of a retrofit of <br />the existing message board with a red LED lighting system in the amount of $34,980.57 <br />from AIM Electronics. <br /> <br />