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JAN 1 4 2002 <br />REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION Oit V c>rUHUNO <br />DATE: January 11,2002 <br />ITEM NO: ^ ^ <br />Dcpartmciit Approval: <br />Name RonMoorse <br />Title City Administrator <br />Administrator Reviewed: <br />kl <br />Agenda Section: <br />City Administrator’s <br />Report <br />Item Description: Wetland Mitigation and Monitoring Costs for Joint Fire Station Project <br />Attached are scopes of work and costs for wetland mitigation and monitoring related to the Joint Fire <br />Station Project. These are new costs required for compliance with the rules of the Minnesota <br />Wetland Conservation Act and the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District. These requirements and <br />costs are due to the proposed project impacting approximately 1/3 of an acre of wetland on the site. <br />Because these costs were not a part of the original budget numbers. Council is being asked to <br />authorize the work and the expenditures. <br />The cost for developing the wetland mitigation plan is $5,736.00. This does not include the costs <br />of the actual mitigation work, such as grading and installation of plantings. These costs will be <br />identified once the mitigation plan is completed. <br />The mitigation plan is required to include wetland monitoring for a period of up to five years. The <br />total cost of the monitoring is $ 15,16 1.00. <br />COUNCIL ACTION REQUESTED: <br />Motion to authorize the wetland mitigation plan work at a cost of $5,736.00. and to authorize the <br />wetland monitoring work at a cost of $15,161.00.