HomeMy WebLinkAbout04-22-1974 Council Memo 51'
TO: City Council
FROM: James Cosby, City Administr_ator
DATE: April 19 , 1974
SUBJECT: Agenda Items for Meetinq of April. 22 , 1974
22 . Ray Johnson plans to appear b�fore the Council meeting on the 22nd
to discuss the West Hennepin Human Servi_ces I> 1z�riri i rig I.3oard. If you will
refer back to your packets of February 25 , anc� March 25 , 1974 , I have
included items in those packets which wiJ.l r��l�atc� to the West F�ennepin
Human Services . The City of Or_ono has entc.�rc�d a ,7oint Powers Agreement
to form this Board and the purpose of Mr. . ,7uhn:_>on ' s ��ppe,�rance is to go
into an explanation of how far the �oard h�s f�roqresscd towa.rd its goals
and objeetives and just exaetly what thosc� c�o��ls ar_c� , tIe will also
attempt to feel out the Council as to the F�oSsibility of ��ublic funds
beir.g used in the future to finance speci_fic he�] th needs that may be
identified as a result of their study.
23. You will recall from the last work session 1_hat thc� Council had on
April 8 , 1974 , Hennepin County Highway De��r�rt:merit said that they would be
prepared to come back to the Counci:l this week �-�nc3 rrview the Tanaqer
Bridge project. They also stated that adc�i tion�al maF�s and .inf_ormation
will be provided this offir_e before th�it time , but at tYle timc of_ writing
this memo, no new informati.on has bec�n receivc�d in this officc .
24 . The letter from Orr-Schelen-Mayeron ��ddr<�sses itself to the Council ' s
concern regarding the alternates on the sewer. project in the Hackberry
Hills area. Orr-Schelen-Mayeron needs to know what the Council ' s desire
is toward constructing a trunk l.ine to go north on Wil]_ow Drive; whether
or not to extend it north of Willow will affect the cost of the study being
done by Orr-Schelen-Mayeron as well as affect the size of the pipe for
future uses. In the past, the City of Orono has talked to the City of
Long Lake in regard to running a sewer lin� north on Willow Drive for the
purpose of taking the schools and Washinqt:on Scienti.fic and the future
development that Gagne is proposinq on his property off of_ the Long Lake
system and funneling it past Hackberry into the inter.ceptor in the future.
The Council should tell Orr-Schelen-M�y,��� whether that is still the
desire or not. If the Council does n�� r1--Schelen-Mayeron to draw up
final plans and specifications of the extension of the line north of Willow
Drive , I would suggest that at a minimum�rae i_nstruct the engineers to put
a sufficient size of pipe in Willow phl�C� � - ' ' - - - for the
possible use of it picking up extr_a effluent at some time in the future.
As the engineer stated in his letter, you may make this decision either
now or when the final plans and specifir_ations come before you. But in
either case, I think we should let the enyincer know as soon as possible
what the Council ' s desire is .
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Agenda Items - Meeting of April 2.2 , 1974
Page 2
2.5 . In your packet is a report from Dick B�nson concerning a very serious
w�wer problem that we have on Ke]_ly Avenue . 11s you may already be awa.re
that the sewer line that is in the m�-�rsh ��nd pc�ndi.n�� area is beginning
to sink =n�o the ground. We have r_un a telc�vi.sion camera through the
pipe in an attempt to find out how serious tt-ic dr�maqe is and we were
unable to run the camera the completc� lenc3th of= the pipe. All that we
got were pictures of water so we have a scrious brc��k in the pipe that
needs to be repaired. Th=i_s probl�m beqan i.n I_968 , according to Dick
Benson, has slowly been qettinq worse anc3 the timc� now has eome to
repair it. You should understand that the st-<aff still needs to do some
more work on this project to gather in more co:;t fiqures but the purpose
of bringing it to your att�nti.on now is for your informaLion in view of
some other projects that arc beforc� the Coui�ci_] , T feel that. it was
necessary to inform you of this rig}it away. /�r.cordinq to Skip McCombs,
there are two ways that the pipe can be EixE���. 011� would cost approximately
$10, 600 and the other method would cost from $20 , 000 t.� $22 , 000 . I feel
that the only thing that I could ever recc�mme�nd in ycx�d conscience would
be to spend the maximum amount of money L-o :;o].ve ttus problem once and for
all . I feel that if we take the ch�aper �� ltc�rnat.ivc thc�n we will have
the same problem aqain in fivc� to ten ycars.
26 . May 27 , 1974 is a leqal ho] iday. ] t is M��mor_ial D<�y . It is also
the f_ourth Monday of the month w}iich nc�rmal_] y w<�ulci he Cc>uncil meeting
night. I would recommena to the Counci_ 1 tF��at �a m<�t i_on k>e made chanqi_ng
the Council meeting to Tuc�sd�iy, May 28 , ly'74 ,
11DDT'1'�ION11t.� C(1MML:N`['S
You wil l be glad to know that Marc Whi tc>he�id , t3crn i�� Mi ttelsteadt, and
rnyseli appeared before the Ptiysical D�velo��ment Cc�mmi.ttee of the Metropolitan
Council on Wednesday of this week to testify on behalf of the Orono-
Long Lake interceptor sewer line and making �z portion of Orono ' s sewer line
as a Metropolitan interceptor line, due to thc fact th�t we are going to
be handling eventually the effluent from Minn�tonka I�each. The committee
voted unanimously in favor of moving ahead with the Orono-Long Lake
interceptor line and it is my understanding t:hat canst.r.ucti_on will begin
this year. We also got some encouragement from Mr. Ki_ngs7_ey Murphy to
the f.act that the sewer bo�rd and thc� staff was slowly l�ut surely coming
around to the fact that Orono may be justifi.ed in declaring a portion
of its sewer line as an interceptor, due to thc� fact th�t it will handle
Minnetonka Beach. On this issue of Minnetonk�a f3E�ach we have always had
some pr.oblems with the sewer board and st��ff, k�ut= it appe�irs that a change
of mind is beginning to occur. I was very plc�ased with that hearing and
very optimistic now about our situations with the sf�wc�r boa.rd and the
Metropolitan Council itself.