09-23-2013 Council Work Session Packet

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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ MEMORANDUM . _ _ TO: MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS FROM: ORONO MANAGEMENTTEAM SUBJECT: INFORMATION UPDATE DATE: SEPTEMBER 6, 2013 Information Update—09/06/13 � The attached letter was sent to Amy Hubbard and copied to Jay Kanive per Council's direction at the August 6th Council meeting. • Please see the weekly update for reconstruction on Willow Drive (attached). Perhaps noteworthy: Willow Drive will be paved on Saturday, September 7. The roadway will be closed all day on Saturday but local traffic can still access the local roads. • Weather permitting, Public Works will pour the stamped /color concrete entrance to the golf course main entrance next week Tuesday. • Public Works has begun ramping up the sanitary sewer cleaning. Over the next month PW crews will be working to clean all the sanitary sewer lines in the District #1 (see attached). This is the first year of an annual cleaning program which will clean approximately 10 miles of sanitary sewer every year. The goal of the Sanitary Sewer Program is to clean all of Orono's sanitary sewer lines every 5 years and to inspect (televise) all of the City's lines every 10 years. This will allow staff to adequately assess the condition of the sanitary sewer mains and will allow staff to focus available funds to areas which are in need of repair. • This week Public Works got a call from a resident who flushed a wedding ring down the toilet. We assisted the resident by cleaning the sewer lines to a lift station and then sucked the contents of the lifts station out. The material was dumped in our pit at PW and the material was dewatered. PW then spread the material out and the resident rented a metal detector to try to locate the ring. Unfortunately, PW and the resident were not able to locate the ring. August 2013 Building/Planning/Zoning Update In addition to normal day-to-day business (which includes preparing PC and Council memos, letters written, and regular phone calls, etc) Planning Staff inet with a number of residents, developers, realtors etc in the month of August. Some highlights include but are not limited to the following: