2004-09-17 Friday News
The Friday News
September 17 2004
Mendota Heights Stands Out Again
As you know, the State primary election was held on Tuesday. Once again, Mendota Heights
stood out statistically from the State’s voter turnout. The overall State turnout of registered
voters was 6.6% versus the Mendota Height’s registered voter turnout of 32.6%. Although it
was a very hectic day for the City’s staff, the election was error-free and all of the precincts
returned their materials to City Hall by 10:15. With one exception, all results had been sent by
modem to the County well before 9:00 p.m. Congratulations to all of the polling place judges
and chair people. They did an outstanding job, particularly considering that over half of the 47
judges were first time judges and four of the five chair people have never served in that capacity
before. One had never even been an election judge before. Special thanks to Nancy Bauer for
her exceptional work in preparing for and assisting in running the election and for her many extra
hours spent working on election details on Tuesday and on Saturday. Thanks also to Janet
Bolger, Guy Kullander, Tom Olund, Becky Pentel, Linda Shipton Len Kanitz and Judy Wonick
for all of their assistance in making the election process so successful. Each of them went out of
their way to help wherever they were needed, and, as always, they were an outstanding team to
work with.
LILYDALE ROAD
Lower Lilydale Road was closed by MnDOT (for about 2 weeks) to allow for installation of curb and
gutter and trail construction. MnDOT has informed us that they will reopen the road on Monday.
TRAFFIC ON TH13
MnDOT began detouring traffic to work on TH5 (W 7th St) about 3 weeks ago. This detour
causes a huge back up on TH13 at I-35E. Traffic backs up all the way past Lexington every
morning. MnDOT has informed us that their TH5 work will be done no later than October 7th.
Respectfully Submitted,
Jim Danielson
City Administrator
Attachments: Just the Facts, Pipeline, City Council Agenda, Pr-Application Meeting Synopsis, Sun
Current Articles “Filings close for City Council races in MH”, 2005 budget, levy proposed in MH”,
Bataglia, Vento victorious in Congressional District 4”, TwinCities.com (Pioneer Press) Article “Bataglia
beats out suspected fugitive Shepard”, and Startibune.com Article “Bataglia wins easily in Fourth
District”.