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2004-04-23 Friday News The Friday News April 23, 2004 SPRWS SPRWS is the acronym for St. Paul Regional Water Service and SPRWS provides water to Mendota Heights. SPRWS’s former General Manager was Bernie Bullert. Bernie retired late last year and he has been replaced by Steve Schneider. SPWRS provides water to a number of other suburbs too and on Wednesday of this week Steve invited the Administrators and Engineers for all of these Cities to a breakfast to introduce himself, his Board members and his Department Heads. Sue McDermott and I attended the meeting where we met all the SPWRS officials and learned about their on going projects – Moving their offices from downtown St. Paul to a new facility being constructed at their Water Treatment plant located in Maplewood was the biggest project. HIPP A couple Fridays ago in the Friday News I asked for volunteers to help with Dakota County’s High Performance Partnership Project (HIPP) by serving on a Citizen’s Panel. I am pleased to report that Sally Lorberbaum, whom is our Planning Commission Chair called to volunteer – she later told me that she is giving up a night with Yanni to do it. It was just great that she volunteered – but she did more. The City needs those volunteers and she helped me find Holly Brod-Farber and suggested that I get a FD volunteer. Many thanks go to Sally for volunteering – in this very busy time volunteers are always so hard to find. TOWN CENTER UPDATE I talked to Ross Fefercorn, Town Center Developer this week to be updated on the status of Town Center’s construction. He told me that the Gateway Bank building should break ground in about 1-½ weeks, and that he will be bringing the commercial buildings in to the City Council for final PUD approvals and building permit authorization, the first meeting in June. He then plans on beginning construction of building F (the smaller of the two large buildings with underground parking) in late August or September. He will have Caribou Coffee, Brueggers Bagels, Quiznos, Cold Stone Ice Cream and Fantastic Hair as tenant in that building. Sibley Students Clean Wagon Wheel Trail Members of the "Henry Sibley High School Key Club" are honoring the 34th Anniversary of Earth Day by picking up trash along a roadway within the City. A member of the club, Anna Seiver, contacted City Offices on Monday offering to pick up trash along a City roadway. Staff suggested Wagon Wheel Trail from Dodd Road to Lexington Avenue as a street that would benefit from such a concentrated effort. The club plans to clean this mile long roadway on Thursday from 3 to 5 pm. Ms Seiver said that the thirty member club honors Earth Day each year by volunteering to clean up a site or roadway within the area served by Independent School District 197. The students participating in the clean up effort provide their own trash bags, that when filled, are left along the roadside for pick up Friday morning by Public Works. Respectfully Submitted, James Danielson City Administrator Attachments: Just the Facts, Pipeline, Planning Commission Meeting Agenda, Planning Synopsis, Sun Newspaper Article “Laughs for a cause” and “City Council meeting on Passover should have been changed”, Pioneer Press Article “Fitness club takes off”, Friday Fax, AMM News.