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Home My WebLink About2015-05-18 MINUTESCITY OF COTTAGE GROVE PUBLIC WORKS COMMISSION April 20, 2015 Pursuant to due call and notice thereof, a meeting of the Public Works Commission of Cottage Grove was duly held at Public Works, 8635 W Point Douglas Rd, Cottage Grove, Minnesota on Monday, April 20, 2015 at 7p.m. 1. CALL TO ORDER Commission Chair Tony Jurgens called the meeting to order at 7 p.m. 2. ROLL CALL Members Present: Robert Campbell, Bob Dornsbach, Tony Jurgens, Jeff Podoll, Steve Ingram, Michael Smith, Peter Staloch Members Excused: Staff Present: Les Burshten, Public Works Director Harry Taylor, Public Works Supervisor Gary Orloff, Streets Foreman Rick Alt, Utility Foreman Also Present: Steve Dennis , Councilman 3. APPROVE MINUTES Commissioner Ingram, made a motion to approve the minutes of the March 16, 2015 meeting, second by Commissioner Dornsbach. Minutes were unanimously approved. 4. ADDITIONAL AGENDA ITEMS No additional agenda items, agenda was approved as is. 5. NEW BUSINESS A. Booster Station Tour B. Water Tank Tour 6. OLD BUSINESS None 7. PUBLIC WORKS UPDATE Gary Orloff gave an update on the Street Department. Street sweeping went really well once the rain stopped. Streets picked up about 1200 yards of material. They are now into street patching and making signs for Spring Clean Up Day. Road restrictions come off Wednesday, April 22nd. The Shop has everything up to date and ready to go for spring and summer, sweepers and dump trunks. New dump trucks are not here, but are almost completed. The 1 ton truck is here. They are starting to build the storm water truck, a 1 ton with a utility box in the box. Sod day is May 20th, will be taking care of any plow damage. There were roughly 100 trees taken out, stumps will be removed, dirt filled in and hydro seeded, around the second week of May. A discussion was had on the new trees on 80th St. along with other areas and other beautification projects. Rick Alt says pavement management starts this week. Last year a half dozen valves behind Cub on 91st St. were corroded. There are 12 locations the contractor will be digging and replacing bolts. There was only one freeze up this winter, on a newer construction home, not the City’s fault. Not one main or resident freeze up this year. Utilities are on Zone 3 of flushing, should be done by Thursday. The big project now is pavement management. Lots of work going on at Woodridge Park tearing down building and putting up a new one, water, sewer and storm work, and the parking lot will be refigured. 8. ENGINEER’s REPORT None 9. CITY COUNCIL UPDATE Steve Dennis talked about 80th Street, how do we want to recoat this? There was a presentation two meetings ago looking at Concrete (30 year) versus Bituminous Asphalt (15 year), difference was only a couple million dollars. Good reports coming out of The Business Park, a couple of companies expanding, creating about 400 more jobs, American Logics, Werner Electric, and Anderson Windows. More additional employees may contribute to more restaurants, better economic development. As far as the City Administrator, Council will interview 3 search firms to help locate and find candidates. They are looking at September to November for new administrator. Will be an interim until then, Council will look at internal and external candidates. Tomorrow night is the volunteer recognition dinner at River Oaks. Thank you to the Commission for the time you have put in. He opened it up for questions…a Commissioner asked about 80th street, is there talk of widening road? There has been lot of money spent on feasibility studies regarding this. There was another discussion of concrete versus bituminous asphalt. Home Depot and Cub Foods area, negotiations are going on. Ryan has 41 days left and he is trying hard to get this completed before he goes. 10. COMMISSION COMMENTS AND REQUESTS Commissioner Dornsbach commented on wanting to try to get the Commission meetings back here at the Public Works Building. He feels people are more comfortable and will talk. 11. ADJOURNMENT The Commission left Public Works to tour the Water Tank and Booster Station. Motion to adjourn was made by Commissioner Ingram, second by Commissioner Smith, motion was unanimously carried. Meeting adjourned at 8:37 pm. .