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1.0 11 12 13 14 15 16 1'7 18 19 20 21 22 2.3 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 .34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes March 8, 2005 Page 3 She listed the top five goals for 2005 as: Establishing a funding plan and year for improvements to Silver Lake Road; Make improvements to City Ball and the Community Center; Development a plan for street lights, sidewalks and tree replacements; Develop a plan for Phase 11 redevelopment at Silver halve Village; and. Communicate to the public the value of services. In conclusion, Ms. Kvilvang commended the City for these goals, and for the work they do. She said her firm works with a lot of cities and not many do all this work. She applauded the staff for working well with the Council to get things done. She said looking at St. Anthony overall the past three years she's been working with the city, the City has done a great job. Councilmember Thuesen inquired what the date was when the old Apache site was cleared and the process of building started. Ms. Kvilvang replied the bulldozer was there in April. Mayor Faust added the Plaza was begun to be torn down on April 8 of last year. Councilmember Thuesen commented it has changed incredibly in the year. Mayor Faust commended ibis. Kvilvang and Ehlers & Associates for their work. lie said the City has received very good financial advice and key strategies from them. He stated because they, and Staff, worked at hard as they did, everything stayed on task. He commented it is because of everyone working together that so much was accomplished; it cannot be attributed to any one group. Councilmember Stille commented this document was a lot ofhard work and suggested it be made available for the community to read. He asked when it would be oil the City website and if hard copies would be available at City hall. City Manager Mike Mornson said it will be available on the web site and on the cable access channel soon. Ire said it could be put in the library, and it also could be sent to residents upon request. C. Consider Resolution 05-028 re,: -2005 Street Im rovement ,Bid. Award___"fod.d Hubmer, W SB,_presentin Mr. Hubmer reviewed the Resolution awarding the bid for 2005 street improvement reconstruction project. He noted the area that will receive improvements. He said the City received bids on January 7, 2005 and there were a total of 11 bidders. The low bidder was SM Hentges & Sons with a bid of $1,311,115.72. He explained there are two alternates in the proposal. These alternates were to use a vinyl coated chain link fenec along the cemetery, with the cemetery paying for the difference between alternates 1 and 2 to upgrade the fencing. He pointed out the engineer's estimate was $1,345,000. Councilmember Stille asked why there is such a large difference in the bids. Mr. Hubmer explained that possibly one of the contractors was very busy, but wanted to keep his name in front of the City for future work, and put in a high bid. He said at times there are very few bidders, and the high bidders win. He further noted that SM Hentges & Sons do quality work and have done other work in the city. They have a good understanding of the project at hand.