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Mounds View City Council March 9, 2009 Regular Meeting Page 4 1 position.. 2 3 Ayes - 5 4 Nays - 0 Motion carried. 5 The Council and staff welcomed Mr. DeBar with a round of applause. 7 C. Resolution 7419, Approving a Longevity Increase for Office Kasey 8 Keckeisen. 1o Assistant Clerk-Administrator Crane presented the finding of Deputy Chief Tom Kinney that 11 Officer Kasey Keckeisen has satisfactorily performed in the capacity of his position. Therefore, 12 Deputy Chief Kinney recommends a longevity wage adjustment, which is consistent with the 13 Police Officer Labor Agreement. She advised that Officer Keckeisen will go from longevity of 14 3% at $33.42 per hour to longevity of 5% at $34.07 per hour, effective March 17, 2009. 15 16 MOTION/SECOND: Mueller/Stigney. To Adopt Resolution 7419, Approving Longevity 17 Adjustment. 18 19 Councilmember Mueller read the resolution in full and thanked Officer Keckeisen for providing 20 a Crime Prevention Tip of the Week. 21 22 Ayes - 5 Nays - 0 Motion carried. 23 24 D. Resolution 7420, Authorizing the Preparation of a Preliminary Feasibility 25 Report and Consultant Selection for Area C of the Street and Utility 26 Improvement Program. 27 28 Joe Rhein, Consulting Engineering, presented the staff report and recommendation to accelerate 29 the schedule by combining Area B (scheduled for 2010 of 1.4 miles) and Area C (scheduled for 30 2011 of 2.7 miles) to create a larger sized project, hopefully resulting in favorable bids in this 31 time when the economy is depressed. Mr. Rhein stated to consider this option the City needs 32 adequate cash flow, to determine if it makes sense to combine the Areas, and the project 33 schedules need to be compatible. He reviewed staff s findings that accelerating the program by 34 one year will result in a negative cash flow so a one year break would be needed at some point, it 35 does make sense to combine Area B and Area C, and the project schedules are compatible. He 36 reviewed the potential savings equaling $75,000 to $100,000 due to economy of scale, one less 37 year of maintenance costs in Area C, and need for only one combined engineering document 38 resulting in lower engineering, legal review, and advertisement. Mr. Rhein reviewed the 39 anticipated project schedule and recommendation that Bonestroo Engineering be used since it 4o had completed the survey and Area B feasibility report. He noted the draft resolution would only 41 commit to doing the Area C report, not moving forward with construction or a combined report. 42 43 Jim Battin, 2332 Laport Drive, Street and Utility Commissioner, noted the Area A bid was • 44 $700,000 under the estimated cost due to the depressed economy so the combined bid for Areas 45 B and C could be $500,000 lower than the estimate if bid one year earlier.