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! I CONSIDER PETITION REGARDING IMPROVEMENT PROJECT//99-67 (MISSISSIPPI RIVER STORMWATER SUBDRAINAGE DISTRICT NO. 1) By: Steve Jankowski, City Engineer Background: On January 9, 2001 the attached petition was presented to the City Council requesting that the City not construct the storm sewer project and drop the eminent domain action acquiring drainage easements along the border of their properties with the railroad to :facilitate this storm sewer. The following is a brief history of this project: On September 1999 the City Council ordered staff to initiate the creation of a storm water sub-district which would service the area between Highway #10 and the railroad tracks, the eastern City limits and County Road #57. This area was selected because of these man made features. Providing a storm sewer crossing of these highways becomes a very significant expense because of the long distances which must be traversed a through an expensive trenchless construction: Overall cost to provide service to this area could be minimized by limiting the number of such borings. On November 9, 1999 an ordinance was introduced following a required public hearing for the creation of such a drainage sub-district. Subsequently the ordinance was adopted on February 22, 2000 effective in March 2000. o On January 25, 2000 the City Council ordered the preparation of a feasibility study on the least costly of five different schemes for providing storm sewer to this district. The five options ranged in cost from $391,000 to $470,000. Feasibility Study was prepared in January 2000 identifying the improvement costs and financing of the most cost effective of the five. alternatives for providing storm sewer service to this area. 5. The City Council ordered the project of April 11, 2000 following a required public hearing on the project. o A contract in the amount of $265,517.66 was awarded to Meadowvale Construction on September 27, 2000. The project was phased into two segments; the eastern portion for which easements were available and the greatest immediate project need exists, and the western portion where easements will be secured in April 2001. Construction began in October 2000. The first phase which has a bid price of $128,929.20 should be substantial complete except for restoration within 'two weeks. Phase two has been anticipated to start in the spring as soon as frost-conditions will allow. -205-