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2016-04-01 Friday NewsCity of Mendota Heights Weekly Update Mendota Heights City Hall 1101 Victoria Curve www.mendota-heights.com (651) 452.1850 Visit us on: Facebook.com/ MendotaHeightsMN Twitter.com/ @Mendota_heights DATES TO REMEMBER: April 5 City Council 7:00 p.m. April 12 Parks Commission 6:30 p.m. April 13 Airport Commission 7:00 p.m. April 19 City Council 7:00 p.m. April 26 Planning Commission 7:00 p.m. May 3 City Council 7:00 p.m. May 7 Spring Clean-up Day Mendakota Park 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Attachments: Pipeline April 1, 2016 Spring Clean-Up Saturday, May 7, 2016 Mendakota Park from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Back by popular demand...document shredding will be available during this year’s Spring Clean-Up day event for Mendota Heights residents. We are accepting paper documents for a flat fee of $5 per vehicle . No business materials will be accepted. What to Shred What not to Shred Credit card offers Cardboard Receipts/old bills Books Check stubs Plastics Banking and loan information Hardware Medical/Tax/Investment Records Metals Residents are asked to remove 3-ring binders, binder clips, metal tabs on file folders. Not sure how long personal documents should be maintained? Check out http://publications.usa.gov/epublications/keeprecords/keeprecords.htm as a resource to assist you with your personal records retention schedule. For additional information contact Nolan Wall by calling 651.452.1850 or email nolanw@mendota-heights.com. Summer Hiring Underway The City of Mendota Heights Engineering Department has openings for two (2) full-time Engineering Interns. General duties include assisting in a wide variety of municipal engineering related field and office work including but not limited to GIS data and base mapping, construction staking, and project development. To learn more about summer positions in Engineering and Parks and Recreation, visit www.mendota-heights.com/ employment. Par 3 Scheduled to Open Sunday, April 3 It’s time to dust off the golf clubs and stock the golf bags with tees and golf balls. City staff are hopeful that the weather will cooperate and the Par 3 will open on Sunday, April 3. Updated information on the hours of operation and green fees can be found on our city webpage. www.mendota-heights.com or by calling 651-454.9822. Public Works The Parks Crew continued to work on the sprayer for the John Deere. The slide at Mendakota Park was repaired. The one ton truck was serviced. They helped the Streets Crew haul gravel for an alley repair. The plows were cleaned and stored in the water tower for the summer. Trash was picked up in the parks daily. The Utilities Crew checked the lift stations daily. The jetting truck was serviced for summer use. The Streets Crew spent most of the week helping the contractor with street sweeping. They finished up the sweeping on Thursday night. Snow plow damaged mailboxes were repaired. Signs were made for the storm outlets at Rogers Lake. Class 5 gravel was put down in the alley between Hiawatha Avenue and Fremont Avenue to fix the potholes and then leveled off. Engineering – Project descriptions simplified for easier reading. For more information, please contact the Engineering Department at (651) 452 -1850. City Projects (construction year) Victoria Road Reconstruction & Rolling Green Neighborhood Rehabilitation (2014/2015) – City Council will consider a Change Order at their April 5th meeting for the installation of a retaining wall at the corner of Victoria and Stratford Lane. The retaining wall was not part of the original project scope. Warranty and punch list items to be completed in the spring. Mendota Road Neighborhood Improvements (2016) – Plans have been submitted to MnDOT for review. A neighborhood meeting was held on March 23rd at City Hall. City Council will consider authorizing bidding the project at their April 5 th meeting with a proposed bid opening date of April 27th, and bid award is scheduled for May 3rd. Construction is expected to begin in early June. Update of Local Surface Water Management Plan (LSWMP) – The consultant is completing the initial modeling necessary to complete the plan. A draft plan is expected by the end of June. Watershed approval is expected in August with City adoption in January 2017. Lake Augusta Alum Treatment (2016) –The Lower Mississippi River Watershed Management Organization (LMRMWO) submitted a work plan for the project to the Board of Soil and Water Resources (BWSR). Once approved, the LMRWMO will oversee the contract for the lake treatment, which is expected in the fall. The Pipeline April 1, 2016 N E W S L E T T E R Public Works Engineering County Projects Highway 110 Greenway Trail Crossing (2017) – Design is continuing on the project. City easements for the trail connections will be brought before City Council later this year. An open house will be scheduled for later this summer, which will include renderings depicting aesthetic treatments of the underpass. Traffic Signal Improvements: I-494 & Pilot Knob Road (2016) – Plans are at MnDOT for review. Minimal traffic impacts are expected. Work is expected along with MnDOT I-494 bridge project listed below. State Projects Highway 13 Slope Repair (2015-2016) – The slope repair project needs to be completed this summer. A 4-5 week closure of Highway 13 is anticipated during this period. The final construction phase is expected to begin in early June. Highway 110 Rehabilitation (2017) – A Public Hearing will be held on April 5th at the City Council meeting beginning at 7:00pm. Municipal Consent will then be considered by the Council after the Public Hearing. MnDOT is proposing to close the right-in/right-out access point east of Lexington (except for emergency vehicles). MnDOT also needs to establish new drainage easements along the project. Changes to access through the median are not part of Municipal Consent. For more information contact Molly Cline, MnDOT Project Manager, 651 -234-7723 or molly.cline@state.mn.us. Highway 149 (Dodd Road) Rehabilitation (2018) – Staff is working on getting a bike/pedestrian facility incorporated into the project from Marie Avenue north to Delaware Avenue (see SHIP grant below). Contact Tara McBride, Project Manager at 651-234-7506, or tara.mcbride@state.mn.us for more project information. Pilot Knob Bridge over I-494 Expansion Joint Repair (2016) – MnDOT will be repairing the bridge deck concrete expansion joints on the Pilot Knob Road Bridge over I-494. Work is expected to take two weeks. Staff attended a pre- construction meeting on March 24th. MnDOT will provide advance notice before the repair work begins. Initial schedule shows construction beginning in July. Dakota County 2017-2022 Capital Improvement Program (CIP) – Staff met with County staff to review the next iteration of the County’s CIP. The County has one project in this CIP other than routine maintenance activities. The County is planning intersection revisions on Pilot Knob Road between I -494 and Mendota Heights Road, including the Mendota Heights Road intersection. The project will add turn lanes, and turn the Northland Drive intersection into a ¾ access with left turns being eliminated off of Northland onto Pilot Knob. For more information, contact Kristi Sebastian, Dakota County Project Manager at 952 -891-7178, or ksebastian@co.dakota.mn.us. Other Activities City-Wide Trail Plan Update – The City has received a Statewide Health Improvement Program (SHIP) grant from Dakota County to study the Dodd Road (Highway 149) corridor for bicycle/pedestrian improvements. Staff is developing a scope of work along with our Planning Consultant to complete a plan for the corridor. Staff plans on seeking a grant from the Metropolitan Council for the construction funds necessary to complete the trail connection. Engineering 101 Seminar (April 6, 2016 – Eagan Community Center) – Staff attended the “dress rehearsal” for the seminar presentation. The seminar is scheduled for Wednesday, April 6th, 2016 at the Eagan Community Center from 6:00pm – 9:00pm and will cover municipal requirements and practices for maintaining traffic, streets, storm and surface water, utilities, and a discussion of funding these needs. Southeast Metro Water Supply Working Group – Staff attended a meeting of the working group on Thursday. Metropolitan Council provided a summary of groundwater studies throughout the metro area, including the cost estimate proposal for pumping two billion gallons of water per year into White Bear Lake. Dakota County has several communities that utilize groundwater for their municipal drinking water systems, and modeling shows the potential for future reductions in aquifer supplies to these communities. This group is studying ways to encourage conservation, and reduce demand on the aquifer to preserve future drinking water supplies. Engineering Services Consultant Pool – Staff has received Statements of Qualification from 40 professional services firms that will be evaluated for potential inclusion in the pre-qualified consultant pool for the City. Once staff reviews the submitted packages, a recommendation for selected consultants will be brought before the City Council.