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MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING Monday, February 25, 2013 7:00 o’clock p.m. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Page 15 of 21 *11. PURCHASE OF NEW ¾ TON PLOW PICKUP Levang moved, Anderson seconded, to approve the purchase of a ¾ ton pickup and snow plow from the identified vendors in the amount of $30,006.64 and to approve sending the current ¾ ton pickup and snow plow to a public auction for sale. VOTE: Ayes 5, Nays 0. 12. STUBBS BAY RAVINE STABILIZATION – WRAP-UP Gaffron stated the Stubbs Bay Ravine stabilization project took approximately two years to fully complete. The City was awarded a grant of approximately $183,000 with the requirement that the City provide matching funds of 25 percent of this amount. The City had its engineers go ahead and put together plans and Staff worked pretty closely with the representative of the homeowners association to address their concerns. These projects involved a ravine situation that was many decades in the making and is similar to one or two other projects that are in similar or worse condition. One of those ravines is located on Wildhurst Trail, which will also need to be looked at in the future. The project the City ended up doing involved grading the channel and side slopes that were eroding, removal of dead trees, creating a series of ripples and ponds, and re-vegetation of the side slopes to slowing down the runoff coming off of Tonkawa. Gaffron displayed before and after pictures of the ravine. The engineers had anticipated that as you get closer to the lake, there would be a swath. Due to the ice, the engineers were required to get the permission of one of the property owners to go across their lawn from West Lake Street and install some mats across the lawn, which resulted in not having to cut any trees next to the lake. Gaffron noted there is very little visual impact as a result of the work but the project will reduce phosphorus loading to Stubbs Bay by 32 pounds per year, which is about a fifth of the goal the Minnehaha Watershed District set for the City. Gaffron stated Staff does have an expectation that there will be TMDL studies completed and a meeting is scheduled this Thursday with the Watershed District to discuss the City’s total maximum daily load of phosphorus. It is likely the Watershed District will set bigger goals for the City that we will have to work with and Staff will be on the lookout for additional grants that can be applied for to help reduce the City’s phosphorus load. Levang commented the end result looks beautiful. Gaffron stated the contractor did a good job and the project actually came in under budget. Anderson thanked the affected property owners for their cooperation in getting this project completed. The City Council took no formal action on this item. Item #03 - CC Agenda - 03/11/2013 Approval of Council Minutes 02/25/2013 [Page 15 of 21]