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Mounds View City Council October 22, 2007 Regular Meeting Page 8 Debbie Reilly of 8004 Red Oak Drive said she was on the Task Force and would have gladly 1 paid for her assessment to get a new street. She then urged Council to make this project move 2 forward as it is time to invest in the City’s streets. 3 4 Helen Moore of 5503 Erickson Road said that she commends the Task Force for the work done. 5 She then said that she is wondering why all of the franchise fee cannot be used for streets. 6 7 Louise Borgerson of 680 Knollwood Drive said that within the last 10 years the water main on 8 the right side of her broke twice and that cost a lot of money in damages to her basement. Then, 9 a couple of years ago, the water main broke to the left of her, and they did not fix it when they 10 did her road and that concerns her. 11 12 Ms. Borgerson asked if she could get some assistance with paying for her basement like she is 13 giving money to residents to pay for their roads. 14 15 Public Works Director Lee explained that the infrastructure and utilities are reviewed but most 16 water mains were put in at the same time. Director Lee indicated that any water mains with a 17 history of breaking would be replaced, however, there is no proposal to replace large section of 18 pipe with this program. 19 20 Ms. Borgerson said that she paid her assessment and she does not understand why she has to pay 21 something toward someone else’s assessment. 22 23 Brian Amundsen of Wooddale Drive commended the Task Force on the good job that they have 24 done with this recommendation. He then said that he does not feel that any rights are being 25 squelched. Mr. Amundsen asked Council to make a decision tonight because it is important to 26 move this along. 27 28 Brian Amundsen asked the Council to put together some type of return on investment to compare 29 costs for an in house engineer, short term, to save engineering costs for this project. 30 31 Mr. Amundsen asked if the 27% engineering costs were for BRAA only or other engineering 32 costs. 33 34 Public Works Director Lee indicated it would be BRAA costs of 14 to 16% and then the other 35 administrative costs are the other portion of the costs. 36 37 Andrew Casing of 2617 Hillview suggested putting curbs around industrial areas only and 38 surmountable in residential areas because it is not the look he desired when he came to Mounds 39 View. Mr. Casing said he is not sure what is being done with Hillview. 40 41 Public Works Director Lee indicated that Hillview and other MSA roads would have 42 neighborhood meetings to discuss pedestrian movements prior to making decisions. 43 44