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EN HILLS <br /> Approved: <br /> CITY OF ARDEN HILLS,MINNESOTA <br /> CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION MEETING <br /> OCTOBER 11, 2005, 8:25 P.M. <br /> CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 1245 WEST HIGHWAY 96 <br /> CALL TO ORDER <br /> Mayor Aplikowski called the meeting to order at 8:25 p.m. <br /> Present: Mayor Aplikowski, Councilmembers Larson, Grant, Rem and Brenda <br /> Holden. <br /> Absent: None. <br /> Staff Present: City Administrator, Michelle Wolfe; Director of Operations & <br /> Maintenance, Thomas Moore; and Recording Secretary, Kathleen Altman. <br /> City Hall Generator—Potential Upgrades <br /> Mr. Moore stated at the May 13, 2002 City Council meeting, the City Council unanimously <br /> approved the purchase of a portable 200kw portable generator for City Hall. The intended <br /> purchase of this generator was to supply electrical power to City Hall during a power outage and <br /> for participating in the Excel Energy Peak Power Control Program. <br /> Currently, the Operations and Maintenance Department has two portable generators to supply <br /> backup electrical power to the City's 14 lift station during a weather-related power outage. One <br /> of these generators must be permanently stationed at Lift Station #8, which is the largest with <br /> three wet wells. That leaves staff with one generator to provide backup electrical power to any <br /> number of the remaining 13 lift stations during a major weather related event. This remaining <br /> generator must travel to each of the 13 lift stations and provide just enough backup electrical <br /> power to pump the water level down to a safe level, then quickly proceed to the next lift station <br /> and perform the same task and so on down the Iine until every lift station is serviced. The cycle <br /> then begins again until electrical power is restored by Xcel Energy. <br /> In 2005, there have been three weather-related events where five or more lift stations, including <br /> Lift Station #8, were without electrical power. In addition, there have been two weather-related <br /> events where between two and four lift stations were without electrical power, one of which <br /> involved Lift Station#8. <br /> In order to have the existing City Hall generator available to assist in lift station operations during <br /> a weather-related electrical power outage, upgrades in the amount of$28,670.00. <br /> \\Metro-inet.us\Ardenflills\Admin\Council\Minutes\Worksession\2005\10-11-05 Draft.doc <br />