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I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />! <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />DATE: <br /> <br />september 17, 1996 <br /> <br />TO: <br /> <br />Mayor and City Council <br /> <br />CC: <br /> <br />RYan R. Schroeder, City Administrator <br />Steve Jankowski, City Engineer <br /> <br />FROM: <br /> <br />Merle Mevissen, Public Works Supervisor <br /> <br />SUBJECT: Closing of 171st Avenue NW <br /> <br />It is my recommendation to leave 171st Avenue NW open between Bison Street NW and Zeolite <br />Street NW due to usage by school buses and City maintenance vehicles, especially snow plows. <br /> <br />This road was bui!t by the Ramsey Street Department in 1979, at the request of the bus company <br />and ordered by CitY Council, and it doesn't make any sense to me to close it now because of one <br />person's complain~ts. If there is a speeding problem out there, that's what we have a Police <br />Department for. I~also don't believe we need speed bumps throughout the City. The number of <br />speeders is very s .mall and one or two speeding citations should take care of it. The people in this <br />neighborhood are~so angry with each other now that I'm afraid something serious is going to <br />happen out there ahd we don't want that to happen. <br /> <br />We are out there eYery work day checking the barricades. Some days they just need standing up or <br />putting back on thCroad; however, the legs of the barricades have been stolen several times. The <br />safety fence has b~en cut so many times it is no longer repairable. <br /> <br />We have more important things to do than get in the middle of a neighborhood feud. I am <br />requesting you open the road. <br /> <br />/jmt <br /> <br /> <br />