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CITY OF HUGO <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: City Council <br />FROM: Bryan Bear, City Administrator <br />SUBJECT: 2019 Goals <br />DATE: January 17, 2019 for the City Council workshop of January 22, 2019 <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Attached to this memo is a copy of the 2018 Goals approved by the City Council last year, as <br />well as the 2019 goals that were discussed in recent weeks by the Parks Commission, Planning <br />Commission, Economic Development Authority and Historical Commission. I'd encourage you <br />to review this information as you prepare the City's goals for 2019. As you know, staff uses the <br />goals developed by the Commissions and City Council to direct our work priorities in addition to <br />our daily work assignments. <br />Also attached are the legislative priorities from Washington County and Metro Cities. Please <br />review them. <br />Infrastructure: <br />Pavement management program. In 2016, the city re-evaluated the streets CIP <br />program. Council decided to accelerate the program by dedicating additional funds. In 2017, <br />with a recommendation from the Public Works Director, the council discontinued the city's <br />sealcoating program, and reallocated the previously dedicated levy to the streets CIP for mill and <br />overlay projects. For 2019, staff anticipates updating the streets CIP by incorporating the new <br />mill and overlay program. <br />The reconstruction project for 2019 will be 130th street from Hwy 61 to Goodview. Later this <br />year, staff will provide the council with updates on the condition of city streets and long term <br />maintenance costs (including mill and overlay) and will ask council to consider approving <br />another street reconstruction project for 2020. <br />Gravel Roads. In 2018, staff completed extensive testing of roughly 5 miles of poorly <br />performing gravel roads and developed a series of recommended actions. Following a workshop <br />with the City Council last spring, the City completed improvements to Ingersoll Ave as a test <br />road project last summer. The Public Works staff will continue to evaluate the test project <br />through this spring. Following completion of the test, and assuming results continue to be <br />positive, staff anticipates completing improvements on the remaining sections of poorly <br />performing gravel roadways in 2019. <br />