1992-10-27 CC Minutes Special
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ALBERTVILLE CITY COUNCIL
SPECIAL WORK MEETING
October 27, 1992
Albertville City Hall
7:00 PM
PRESENT: Councilmen Donatus Vetsch, Duane Berning, and Mike
Potter, City Engineers Thore Meyer and Norm Gartner, City Attorney
Mike Couri, City Clerk Linda Houghton
Acting Mayor Vetsch called the special work meeting to order.
Vetsch reviewed the items to be considered at the meeting: update
on wastewater treatment project, methodology of assessing sewer
trunk line and the 1993 budget.
Norm explained the options for location of the new facilities.
The facilities can be located either north of Cell #3 or adjacent
to the existing buildings. Locating next to the existing building
consolidates treatment in one area by extending the existing
building. Norm will be able to finalize the location of the
faci I i ties after he receives the resul ts of the soi I borings.
Plans and specs for the facility should be prepared sometime in
November.
Norm reported that PCA has informed him that the City must use
PCA's bid documents for bidding out the sewer replacement project
if the City will be using public financing. The Council has two
options: l) Pull the bids that were let, revamp them according
to PCA bid documents, and readvertise for bids; or 2) Fund the
sewer replacement project without use of public financing. The
Council concurred that public financing would be more economical
and that the bids should be recalled. Norm advised the Council
that they could probably award bids at the second meeting in
December.
Thore reported that Wright County has agreed to pay one half
the cost of replacing Main Avenue after the sewer main replacement.
Thore also described the stipulation in the replacement bids that
the project cannot be restarted in the spring unti I after the
Friendly City Days celebration in June.
The Council reviewed Trial I and Trial II methods of assessing
the trunk sewer line project. Thore and Couri have met and have
proposed one of these methods to use to assess the project. Couri
pointed out that the Trial I method takes the entire cost of the
project, incl uding the extensions to the Barthel, Bebeau and
Heuring properties, and divides the costs among all property owners
based on linear footage and area. Trial II assesses the extensions
to the Barthel, Bebeau, and Heuring properties exclusively to those
property owners and assesses the cost of the trunk I ine to the
property owners benefitting on a linear foot/acreage basis. Couri
recommended the Council use the Trial II method because the three
individual projects are treated consistently.
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Potter made a motion to adopt RESOLUTION 1992-34 adopting the
assessment roll based on the Trial II method presented, setting the
date of the assessment hearing for Tuesday, November 24,l992, at
7:00 PM, and directing the clerk to publish notice of the
assessment hearing and to notify the property owners of the
assessment roll. Berning seconded the motion. All voted aye.
The Council continued discussion on the 1993 budget. Couri
advised the Council of the amounts he recommends be levied for
bonds. The Council worked to equalize budgetary revenues with
expenditures. No final budget was approved. The Council will set
another work meeting to finalize the 1993 budget.
Potter made a motion to adjourn at 11:l5 PM. Berning seconded
the motion. All voted aye.
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