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N City of <br /> 44)NEW <br /> H ON <br /> the city that works for you <br /> Council Worksession <br /> February 28, 2012 <br /> Present: Mayor Dave Jacobsen <br /> Councilmember Char Samuelson <br /> Councilmember Mary Burg <br /> Councilmember Paul Jacobsen <br /> Councilmember Gina Bauman <br /> Absent: <br /> Staff in Attendance: <br /> City Manager Dean Lotter <br /> Director of Public Works <br /> Dave Olson, Public Works Supervisor <br /> Scott Boller, Public Works <br /> Craig Schlicting, Engineering <br /> Others in Attendance: <br /> Seth Peterson, Bolten&Menk <br /> Bob Kohler, Kohler Consultants <br /> The meeting was called to order at 5:30 PM. <br /> High Service and Forestdale Tower Discussion: <br /> Director of Public Works Grant Wyffels stated he wanted to keep the Council informed that this summer the <br /> City will have to take the High Service and the Forest Dale water towers out of service to repaint and for minor <br /> structural repairs. The High Service Tower serves the Wexford Heights and Seminary areas and when the tower <br /> is out of service,New Brighton will have to interconnect to the City of Columbia Heights. Columbia Heights <br /> has soft water from the river provided to them by the City of Minneapolis and New Brighton has hard water. <br /> Residents will be notified as this temporary interconnect may require residents shutting down their water <br /> softeners for the duration of the project. The Forestdale Tower works in combination with other towers/wells to <br /> service the remainder of New Brighton. When the Forestdale Tower is out of service no special connections <br /> will be required as flows and service will not be significantly impacted. The total projected cost of these <br /> improvements is $300,00.00. Bob Kohler, with Kohler Consultants gave a brief presentation on the life cycle of <br /> coatings and the scheduled repairs on each of the towers. He noted that the communication equipment on the <br /> towers would need to be powered down or moved if they could not be powered down. <br /> Director Wyffels stated that the costs for these projects are based on rate studies and they are not the actual <br /> project numbers. The City will solicit bids for this project. <br /> Seth Peterson, with Bolten& Menk and Bob Kohler,with Kohler gave details of the project to Council. <br /> Director Wyffels provided Council information regarding the lettering and painting options. The Council <br /> elected to utilize the current City logo, however they chose to use an adjusted scale for the High Service Tower <br /> 1 <br />