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HRA Regular Session 6. 1. Meeting Date: 09/10/2013 Submitted For: Kurt Ulrich By: Jo Thieling, Administrative Services Information Title: Executive Director's Report Background: Stockpile of Dirt - COR 2 Staff has been asked about the stockpile of dirt on the COR 2 (just south of the McDonald's site) site in regard to why it is there and what is planned for it. The contractor was requested by the City (Landform) to haul and stockpile up to 500 cubic yards of fill material from the Lake Ramsey site onto the COR TWO/Sunwood Retail site to be used for final development of the site. The contractor, North Pine Aggregate, estimated the quantity of the fill material they hauled and stockpiled on the Sunwood Retail site to be 500 - 800 cubic yards based on visual observation. Staff estimates that the actual stockpiled quantity was approximately 1,200 cubic yards. Most of this material will be needed on site to complete the ultimate development, however, there will clearly be some excess. Staff has received negative feedback over the last month or more from the businesses south of the stockpile regarding the visual obstruction of their businesses from Armstrong Boulevard created by the stockpile. Since the city doesn't own a dozer we can't just knock the stockpile down, and since we know there will be some excess material, we have already moved some of it to the Public Works site using city equipment and staff. Currently, we estimate that roughly 500 - 800 cubic yards of fill material will be needed to backfill the temporary storm water pond after the underground storm water storage system is installed, and to fully develop the site. Approximately 1,000 cubic yards of material remains on site and the height of the stockpile has not changed, so it still blocks the view of the businesses. Since we are not able to knock the pile down with City equipment, staff contacted Sauter and Sons Excavating to see what it would cost for them to knock the pile down as flat as possible within the current silt fence area. It is estimated that this would result in the stockpile being roughly 7 - 8 feet high overall. To pay the contractor to mobilize equipment to the site and to spread the stockpiled material over the area encumbered by the silt fence is estimated to be about $3,000. However, Sauter and Sons said they would be willing to do this work in exchange for 200 cubic yards of the stockpiled fill material, which would leave approximately 800 cubic yards for our use as previously noted. Any excess could then be hauled off site after the site is developed. The value of the trade -out of the 200 CY's of a similar sandy fill material is about $6.50 / CY = $1,300. Consequently, we recommend exchanging 200 CY of fill for the dirt work to level the pile to about 7-8 across the current enclosed silt fence area. Notification: Observations/Alternatives: Recommendation: Funding Source: Not applicable. Action: Concensus to proceed as outlined above. Form Review