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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION — MAY 27, 2025 18 Councilmember Holden said she wants the Columbus pole and she thinks Council should also pick the top. She likes the traditional. Councilmember Monson agrees. She likes the traditional over the lantern. Mayor Grant thinks they should have the acrylic lens. Public Works Director/City Engineer Swearingen said the options for the street light the option is dark brown or black. Council agreed on black. Mayor Grant said the design manual could change. Public Works Director/City Engineer Swearingen said the last question to clarify for the street light is pre -pay or standard service. In this case he thinks standard service would make sense. C. Proposed Booster Station (TCAAP) Public Works Director/City Engineer Swearingen presented the information for the proposed booster station. This would be constructing an additional booster station at the south tower. He provided an attachment with the full study of the water distribution modeling results. The recommendation is to have the new booster station be constructed at the same time as the spine road. It's important to get ahead of that design. We have to make sure this station is integrated with the existing system. Staff recommendation is to proceed into design and have bidable plans ready to be flexible with the timing of the spine road. Within the study it states that this booster station can be used for the City today, as a redundant system. The booster station we have now feeds our north tower, which creates that northern pressure zone. If anything were to happen to that 16" trunk main, from the booster station, we'd be working against time to fix the issue before the north tower drains. This booster station would allow for a redundant system in case there were any issues with that 16" trunk main. It would be a redundant system for right now but it is needed for TCAAP. Councilmember Holden doesn't want to get this confused with regular and TCAAP. TCAAP needs to pay for this. She asked what the engineering costs will be. She asked if $250,000 is right. Public Works Director/City Engineer Swearingen said he knows it's slightly less than that, but he added some contingency in there, not knowing if there will be further design needed with the SCADA. Councilmember Holden said we don't have SCADA. Public Works Director/City Engineer Swearingen said we have SCADA that talks to the booster and the towers today. We will need to make sure it integrates with this system. Councilmember Holden asked where the money is coming from.