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r TO: roOM: DATE: Mayor and City Council Ron Moorse, City Administrator August 5, 1994 SUBJECT: Council Update 2. 3. Spring Park Police Contract. The Spriog Park City CouncU at its August 1 meeting tq>proved the 1W5 Police Service Cmitract. Washington Scientific Consolidation. Washington Scientific Inc., a major employer in Orono which in the past year has experienced a significant number of layoffs, has decided to consolidate its Orono plant and Owatonna plant at the Orono location. The dwision to consoli^te in Orono not only keeps the current WSI jobs in Orono but also will bring an additional 100 jobs from Owatonna. WSI has requested the city provide assistance as they prepare to undertake a major training effort. I will be contacting local vocational technical schools and the local office of Jobs and Training to determine if either can provide assistance. Police Service Contract Cities Meeting. The quarterly meeting of the Police Service Contract Citiw was held on Thursday, August 4th. Items discussed were the 1995 budget includi^ the addition of a 16th officer and the assignment of shift supervisor (Corporal) duties to three officers. Also discussed was planning for traffic problems duriiig the replacement of the Old Crystal Bay Road bridge. The Long inif^ Administrator will request that MnDOT install a temporary signal at Willow Drive. Chief Sullivan will contact the bus company regarding their route plans. Highway 12 Traffic Modeling Information. The City has received and reviewed the population and employment information the traffic consultant has provided related to the Highway 12 traffic modeling process. The population information is accurate. The employment information includes some inaccuracies. Suff will follow up with the traffic consultant to correct the traffic information. At the time the population information was first received, both staff and Council had concerns r^arding areas of the city and of the county that appeared to be excluded from the population information and the modeling process. In reviewing the modeling process with Charleen Zimmer of SRF, she indicated the traffic model will include all population information from the entire Metro area since the model is a Metro wide model. Although the population information provided to the city only includes information specific to Orono, the model itself will take into account all population and traffic information from the entire Metro area. Charleen Zimmer has indicated that the model being used by Barton Ashman is a state-of-the-art model that is used for all traffic modeling in the Metro area. The model is not the property of Barton Ashman. Rather it was developed through the cooperative efforts of a number of organizations in the Metro area.