September 7, 2021 at 5:00 PM - Public Works Committee Meeting
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1. Open Meeting
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2. Roll Call
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3. Items of Business
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3.A. Provide a recommendation to the City Council on approving Change Order #2 with Van Kirk Bros in the amount of $1,660.00 for the 2020 Water System Improvements Project.
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City Administrator Tom Ourada informed the Committee that Van Kirk is settling up on unit prices of things they used more of during the project. Change Order #1 was just for services.
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3.B. Provide a recommendation to the City Council on issuing a Certificate of Substantial Completion to Van Kirk Bros. Contracting for the 2020 Water System Improvements Project.
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3.C. Provide a recommendation to the City Council on adopting Resolution 2021-09: A resolution appointing alternate representatives to MEAN and NMPP.
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City Administrator Tom Ourada explained that Mike Kalkwarf was the representative for years, until the rule changed that you had to live inside the city limits, at which point Brian Schmidt was appointed. The rules have changed again and only require you to be a city employee and Mike has agreed to become the representative yet again.
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3.D. Provide a recommendation to the City Council on amending the Master Fee Schedule to add electric vehicle parking and charging rates.
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City Administrator Tom Ourada reported that these rates would be addressed as part of an electric rate with a schedule of Level 2 charging being $0.135 a kilowatt hour and parking being $10 per hour after 4 hours. This would make charging around $1.05 per hour and no parking charges for 4 hours, after which point they would get charged $10 per hour for parking.
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3.E. Discuss parking and traffic controls in the area of the elementary school.
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Police Chief Steve Hensel expressed concern about the traffic congestion at the Elementary School during dropoff and pickup each day, a lot of which is due to disregard of no parking signs and traffic cones and . Hensel presented these possible solutions for parking issues: allowing parking on the north side of 10th Street between Juniper and Ivy, allowing parking on the east side of Juniper between 9th and 10th Street, allowing parking on the south side of 10th Street from Main to Linden, and to add no parking near the access and egress points that the buses use. To decrease congestion at the 10th and Juniper intersection, Hensel proposed making 10th Street from Ivy to Juniper a one-way going west and Juniper from 10th to 9th Street a one-way going south. There was much discussion on these issues and solutions proposed.
On a side note, Chief Hensel also brought up the idea of sending citations to those who are violating the laws with either picture or video evidence of the violation. This will send the message that we are taking these violations seriously without needing officers standing there writing tickets at all times. Mayor Dave Bauer suggested working with the school to send out a letter to parents notifying them of the severity of the situation and that there will be tickets written and sent to those who violate the laws.
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4. Officers' Reports
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5. Adjournment
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