4.0. SR 04-13-1998ITEM 4.
Howard R, Green Company
CONSULTING ENGINEERS
April 6, 1998
File: 802640j-0060
CONSULTING ENGINEER~
Formerly MSA
Consulting Engineers
Honorable Mayor and City Council
City of Elk River
13065 Orono Parkway
P. O. Box 490
Elk River, MN 55330-0490
RE:
LAKE ORONO SEDIMENT REMOVAL PROJECT
PUBLIC HEARING
Dear Council Members:
As you are aware, the public hearing for the Lake Orono Sediment Removal Project is
scheduled for Monday, April 13, 1998. Please bring the green covered Feasibility Study. If you
need another copy of the Feasibility Study, please inform City Hall and we can make them
available.
Steve Rohlf has been working on this project for the past 18 - 24 months. The project consists
of removing approximately 110,000 cubic yards of sediment from Lake Orono and depositing
them on five (5) different pieces of property adjacent to the lake. Most, if not all, of the property
owners proposed to be assessed for this project, should have a general knowledge of the
project through the various meetings that Steve has held and mailings from the Lake Owners
Association. The estimated cost of the project is approximately $750,000. The City Council,
earlier this year, set the assessment rate at $2,200, per residential equivalent unit. This results
in approximately $358,600 worth of assessments, excluding City property. There is an
additional 26 units or $57,200 of assessments which are City owned property. The remaining
share of the project cost is $334,200 which is proposed to be funded by the City.
At Monday evening's public hearing, both Steve Rohlf and I will be available to make a
presentation and answer any questions that the City Council and/or public may have. At the
close of the public hearing, the Council action needed to have the project proceed would be to
adopt the attached resolution ordering the improvement and the preparation of plans and
specifications. As the schedule in the Feasibility Study indicates, plans and specifications would
be available for City Council approval at the May 4, 1998 meeting. The project would be bid in
late May with an assessment hearing scheduled for late June prior to award of the contract.
The construction is anticipated to take approximately 3 months starting in August and being
complete by the end of October.
If you have any questions regarding this project, please call.
Sincerely,
Howard R. Green Company
Terry ~.~u~rer, P.E.
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RESOLUTION 98 -
A RESOLUTION FOR THE CITY OF ELK RIVER
A RESOLUTION ORDERING THE IMPROVEMENT AND
PREPARATION OF PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS IN
THE MATTER OF THE LAKE ORONO SEDIMENT REMOVAL
IMPROVEMENT OF 1998
WHEREAS,
WHEREAS,
a public hearing relating to the Lake Orono Sediment Removal improvement
was held before the Elk River City Council after ten days mailed notice and two
weeks published notice of the hearing was given; and
the City Council has duly considered the Feasibility Report and those matters
presented at the public hearing by those persons desiring to be heard on the
matter;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Elk River,
Minnesota:
The Lake Orono Sediment Removal improvement is hereby ordered as recommended
in the Feasibility Report dated February 1998.
Howard R. Green Company is hereby designated as Project Engineer for this
improvement. The Project Engineer is directed to prepare plans and specifications for
the making of the improvement and the solicitation of competitive bids..
Passed and adopted this 13th day of April, 1998.
ATTEST:
Henry A. Duitsman, Mayor
Sandra A. Thackeray, City Clerk
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