04-11-1988 - Agenda Packet City Council - regular meeting

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i,ATE : April 6, 1988 TO: Mark Bernhardson, City Administrator FROM: Mel Kilbo, Chief of Police SUBJECT: Minnetonka Beach Siren I am the Emergency Preparedness Director for the Citv of Orono. The other contract cities of Minnetonka Beach, Sprinq Park and Lonq Lake have also designated nee as their Emergency Preparedness Director. The Federal Government does give some fundinq for emergency mitnage- ment assistance work for processing oroarams , but only in cit,.es :)f over 5,000 population. Therefore the other cities would not be el- igible but they still have to have an emergency prenaredness director. As a part of the emergency plan, the City of ( -)no, through myself have a master siren plan, almost the entire i _v is covered with sirens in the projected plan. "o far in the overall plan, there are onlv 2 sirens in the Lonq Lake area, funded by Long Lake, a siren at Navarre, funded by Orono with a share from Snr.inq Park. A map of the siren plan is enclosed for your review. The Civic Association of Minnetonka Beach hag ar-roached the council to request a weather siren. The Minnetonka ranch Council requests me to look into it. 1 have given them a copy r,f our master siren: plan and have obtained two quotes for them. One of the sirens is a 115 decibel siren which is a smaller siren than we have at Navarre. The other would be the same size as the one we have at Navarre. Naturallv these will give varvinq amounts of coverage for the City of Minnetonka Beach a..F well as the City of Orono and Big Island. The range of both of these sirens would be somewhat enhanced by the fact that Minnetonka Be,r .h is almost completely surrc,unded by water, and as a resulf. the sound would tend to travel further both towards Pia Island and the Crvstal Bay area, and might be nroiected by the granh. In 1986 the City of Orono budgeted $14,000 fcr a weather siren placed in Navarre in 1987. At that time we indicated to the Ci.v of Snrinn Park that we would be interested in sharinq this siren because of its location at the Orono Water Plant on Blaine, as it would certainly supply warning services for they, and again it fit into our raster sit plan. In subsequent months we came uv with a orojected share and in this particular case we came up with a 'A share of the total cost of the siren, looking at the land mass and area it would cover into Sorina Park. Or, December 2, 086 the City Council of Sori na Park authorized exner.- diture of Spring Park's share at $3,100 and it was nrov+ded to %,- �n the 1988 budget. The siren was oneratior:al on or about March of 19t This memo is to request permission and input into a nossirle oroonsal to neaotiate with Minnetonka Beach trl share in their siren cost. as anv sire•. olaced into Minnetonka Peach. whether it be the 115 decibel or +he L15 * -1bel will give alertirn to portions of Orono. The 111) deci- bel would cover part of they Arcol:i Brides area and possibly acme of the Nrth Shore Drive area. The 125 decibel w---,uld cover almost into Crvstal Hay and cover portions of Hi(- IS 1 an,i and aoai n dep-rdi nq on the water