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Mounds View City Council October 13, 2003 <br />Regular Meeting Page 8 <br /> <br />Public Works Director Lee indicated the main issue is that the bids were almost twice as much as 1 <br />expected. He then said that it is up to the discretion of the bidders. 2 <br /> 3 <br />Mayor Linke indicated that Staff recommends that the City pay for the increased costs to be 4 <br />funded through the City’s municipal state aid account. 5 <br /> 6 <br />Council Member Stigney asked if there is any way the City could prevent this type of thing from 7 <br />happening in the future. 8 <br /> 9 <br />Public Works Director Lee indicated that in terms of bidding the City is at the mercy of whatever 10 <br />bids are received. He then commented that under the new policy the amount would have been 11 <br />lumped into total project costs and divided among the property owners. 12 <br /> 13 <br />MOTION/SECOND: Quick/Marty. To Approve the Staff Recommendation. 14 <br /> 15 <br /> Ayes – 5 Nays – 0 Motion carried. 16 <br /> 17 <br />Mayor Linke indicated that Staff recommends certifying the assessment roll as proposed and 18 <br />when residents are assessed as part of the 2003 street improvement project those assessments 19 <br />should be reduced by the amount of the County Road H2 project. 20 <br /> 21 <br />Council Member Marty indicated that not all the side streets would be done in 2004 or 2005 and 22 <br />he wants to make sure that they get credit in the future. 23 <br /> 24 <br />Public Works Director Lee indicated that records would be kept and Council at the time could 25 <br />determine how to handle the assessment. 26 <br /> 27 <br />Council indicated that they would like it made known to future Councils that they would like 28 <br />those residents to receive credit for the H2 assessment amounts. 29 <br /> 30 <br />MOTION/SECOND: Marty/Gunn. To Approve the Staff Recommendation. 31 <br /> 32 <br /> Ayes – 5 Nays – 0 Motion carried. 33 <br /> 34 <br />Mayor Linke indicated that Staff recommends holding the assessment hearing on October 13, 35 <br />2003 as proposed. 36 <br /> 37 <br />Dave Vinkstra of 3000 County Road H2 asked when the contractor gets paid. He then asked if 38 <br />there was any relationship between that and the assessment date because he would be opposed to 39 <br />paying for delays excuses and a mess. 40 <br /> 41 <br />Blaine Fyksen of 3048 County Road H2 asked if there was a final project termination date on the 42 <br />H2 project. 43 <br /> 44