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2011 ANNUAL REPORT | DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS <br />PAGE 5 <br />Community Center before interior painting Community Center after interior painting <br />In-House Engineering Services <br />In addition, the engineering division performed the following services in-house and/or realized <br />savings from overseeing the following projects and its consultants: <br />Project Activity Est. Fee <br />Water Tower Reconditioning Project admin., specs., bidding, award $ 25,000 <br />Street & Utility Improvement – Area D Project coord./mgmt., S/U Cmte., LUA, etc. $ 50,000+ <br />Street & Utility Improvement – Area E* Project coord./mgmt., S/U Cmte., negotiate $ 100,000+ <br />Lambert Park Shelter Design, project coord./mgmt./admin., inspection $ 30,000 <br />Reroofing of City Hall & Well 5 & 6 Project coord./admin., inspection (partial) $ 7,500 <br />Elect. Mods. Well No. 2 Motor Conversion Contract admin., inspection, close-out $ 8,000 <br />Comm. Center Painting Improvements Design, bid, construction $ 5,000 <br />80-kW Emergency Generator – City Hall Design, construction $ 7,500 <br />Traffic sign inventory and management $ 20,000 <br />NPDES MS4 permit SWPPP activities $ 5,000 <br />MSA Annual Reporting $ 2,000 <br />Total $ 260,000 <br />*engineering services reduced by $280K <br /> <br />Capital Improvement Projects <br />2011 was another extremely busy year with capital improvement projects. Another 2.3 miles of <br />streets were reconstructed in Area D of the Street and Utility Improvement Program, bringing the <br />total to 11.4 miles complete and 14.5 miles to go. Construction costs continue to be much lower than <br />expected and the bidding environment is excellent. Combined construction costs for Areas A <br />through D are currently tracking approximately $1.34 million below the budget amounts established <br />by the task force. <br />Evaluation of building facilities that began in 2010 were put into action in 2011, including reroofing of <br />City Hall and Well House No. 5 & 6, installation of a stationary 80-kW emergency generator to <br />provide backup power supply at City Hall during catastrophic events, interior and exterior <br />improvements at the Community Center involving repainting the interior and improvements to <br />furniture. A retrocommissioning study was approved for the Community Center, and Well No. 2 was <br />converted from an old natural gas motor to an efficient 200-HP electric motor with a variable <br />frequency drive. The City received $13,000 in rebates from Xcel Energy for the improvements <br /> <br />In addition, a new traffic signal was installed and paid for by Ramsey County at Silver Lake Road and <br />County Road H in 2011. This signal was desired due to increase traffic and safety concerns.