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PUBLIC WORKS * Staff has completed the road ratings for the year. Now all of this data must be entered into the pavement management program. After this step, staff will begin to format the ratings to determine the level of maintenance each rated step will receive. Staff is scheduled to begin crack sealing later this month. * We have been experiencing several electrical problems with the motor control panel at well number five. This control panel and the starters are in excess of twenty years old. Staff has been robbing the starter contacts, and a few other parts from well four, since it is rarely used. New starter contacts for this wells 5 and 6 cost over $3,000. Electrical service calls are adding up rapidly. Staff has been consulting with Bacon Electric to determine the cost of changing this motor controls to Soft Motor Controls. Not only will these controls save electric costs, but will reduce pump and motor wear. Staff will report to council with it's findings. * Staff attended a Rice Creek Watershed meeting last week. Items discussed were increased flows throughout the lower portion of the district, and ditch maintenance. * A representative from NSP and staff surveyed the air conditioning units in all the City's building to see if all of some of them qualify for energy savings switches. When installed these devices will cycle the compressor every 15 minutes during peak energy demand periods. This is another method of saving energy dollars and is free of cost. It appears now, that Random Park, Public Works, and the Golf Course are the only buildings that can participate. The units at City Hall are too large. The limit is 7 ton units. * The security system was installed at the Public Works Facility last week. Staff still has to change the outside lock, but otherwise the system is running fine. Mike