2006-07-28 Friday News The Friday News
July 28, 2006
CITY HALL PARKING LOT
Next time you visit City Hall your cars will glide smoothly into their parking stalls, because, this
Thursday Bituminous Roadways repaved the upper level parking lot at City Hall. They fixed the
soft spots, (removed 332 loads of goop and replaced it with good granular material), repositioned
some curbing to make the lot drain better , and paved the base course. They still need to come
back in the fall, fix any settlements and pave the surface course.
NEXTEL UPGRADE
City employees use Nextel phones and Nextel coverage has been very poor at City Hall.
Because of this Police Chief Aschenbrener has worked with Nextel to improve their coverage at
City Hall at no additional cost to the City. This week Nextel installed two new antennae in the
upper and lower levels of City Hall and installed a repeater on the retaining wall around the east
side of the building aimed at the TH55 and I494 where their main antenna servicing this area is.
(They told Guy that this work cost them $9000.)
ANNUAL TENNIS PICNIC
This Friday Nancy, Teresa and Kathy all served hot dogs, chips and beverages to the 80 some
kids who were in the summer tennis program. It was sweltering hot but the kids had a great
time.
FILINGS FOR CITY OFFICE
The filing period for City offices opens at 8 A.M. on Tuesday, August 29th and runs through
COB Tuesday, September 12th.
The City’s new Auto Mark voter assist terminal will be on display at City Hall for voter’s
demonstrations beginning on August 2nd. Purchase of assisted voters equipment was mandated
by federal legislation in 2002. The Auto Mark is the only system certified for use in Minnesota.
Respectfully submitted,
Jim Danielson
City Administrator
Attachments: Pipeline, Just the Facts, City Council Agenda, Pre-Applicatio Meeting Synopsis’,
Southwest Review Article “Lilydale Tennis Club may become condos” & “Change in zoning size akin to
‘city theft’,”and MNSUN Article “Superintendent contract” and TwinCities.com articles “City Hopes
roadwork curbs street damage” and “Cell-tower proposal rejected again.”