Minutes - Public Works Committee - 01/19/1999

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PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE CITY OF RAMSEY ANOKA COUNTY STATE OF MINNESOTA The Ramsey Public Works Committee conducted a regular meeting on January 19, 1999, at the Ramsey Municipal Center, 15153 Nowthen Boulevard NW, Ramsey, Minnesota. Members Present: Councilmember Natalie Haas Steffen Councilmember Gerald Zimmerman Also Present: Councilmember Terry Hendriksen Director of Public Works/Fire Chief Dean Kapler City Engineer Steve Jankowski CALL TO ORDER Chairperson Zimmerman called the regular meeting of the Public Works Committee to order at 5:05 p.m. APPROVE AGENDA Director of Public Works Kapler asked to add Case #5: Update Information on Public Works Activity. Consensus was to approve the agenda as amended. CITIZEN INPUT Nolle COMMITTEE BUSINESS Case #1: Update on Trunk Highway #47 STP Project (I.P. #98-14) and County Road #116 Project City Engineer Jankowski noted that he attached the report from SRF following a meeting held on January 5, 1999, with A1 Pint (MnDOT), Dennis Eyler and Pete Fausch regarding the #47 STP Project and the C.R. #116 Project. The memo contains the enumerated course of action, which was the result of this meeting. MnDOT feels the warrants are not met. They feel there will be complaints about unnecessary stop lights. The meeting ended with a consensus of the course of action as follows: 1) The conduit system for a "future" signal at 142nd Avenue will be designed, bid and constructed with the roadway improvement project. Interconnect cable from CSAH #116 to CSAH #5 will be run through these conduits as well. 2) The remainder of the signal system; poles, wiring, etc. will be designed and included in the plans as a separate pay item with contract stipulations of the possible deletion of that pay item at a later date, however, a bid price Public Works Committee/January 19, 1999 Page 1 of 6