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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL—NOVEMBER 14, 2005 3 4. PUBLIC INQUIRIES/INFORMATIONAL Mayor Aplikowski welcomed Troop 419 Boy Scouts from Trinity Lutheran Church. Jonathan Stephens, Troop 419, stated they were working on the citizenship badge. 5. PUBLIC HEARINGS None. 6. NEW BUSINESS A. Authorize the Advertisement of Bids for the 2006 Lift Station Rehabilitation Project. Councilmember Grant asked which two of the four lift stations would be in the base bid. Ms. Wolfe responded she was not sure which two lift stations were included in the base bid and this was still being evaluated. MOTION: Councilmember Grant moved and Mayor Aplikowski seconded a motion to authorize the Advertisement of Bids for the 2006 Lift Station Rehabilitation Project. Councilmember Holden asked what the fund balance would be if all four stations were done. Mr. Siddiqui responded it was a matter of cash flow. If they were to go to four lift stations, instead of two some cost savings would be realized. He indicated he could not give exact dollar amounts, but obviously the balance would dip down significantly, but over the course of time, the fund balance should level off. Ms. Wolfe stated when this was discussed this past July, they anticipated if they did all four lift station, they would go below the internal policy of maintaining the $500,000 balance in the fund. She indicated when the bid came in, they would need to determine if they would save enough money to do all four at one time and if so, they would need to reevaluate some future utility proj ects. Councilmember Holden asked instead of one bid of two and an alternative bid of four, could they have an alternative bid of three. Ms. Wolfe responded they could, but they had determined it would not be beneficial to do only one lift station. She noted if they wanted a bid for three lift stations,this could be made a part of the motion. Councilmember Holden requested an amendment to the motion to have an alternate bid of three lift stations. Councilmember Larson stated he believed they had reached a consensus at a previous work session that this had been decided and he did not understand why they were having this discussion again. He believed Councilmember Grant's question was a reasonable question, but when they go into changing the bidding process again, this had already been discussed.