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ARDEN HILLS SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION — JULY 28, 2025 13 Councilmember Weber asked what the 590 is. Mayor Grant said it's a front end loader with a yard bucket and a back hoe. Councilmember Weber said leasing is not a good deal for the City. Is a cooperative agreement with the County an option? Maybe they can load for us. Does the County store salt for us and we purchase it from them? Are they loading for us? Public Works Superintendent Frid confirmed. If their trucks are out there the same time we are there, they do. Councilmember Weber said if they aren't there, can our operators use their loader for loading salt? Public Works Superintendent Frid said no. Councilmember Weber asked if they typically have a yard operator there. Public Works Superintendent Frid said it depends on their schedule. Councilmember Weber said that's why we start at 2:00 am, because that's when the county does. Public Works Superintendent Frid said that is one of the advantages. Sometimes we start at different times than them. Councilmember Weber asked how often that is used to plow or do any other tasks outside of the yard. Public Works Superintendent Frid said it's a back up plow for the three single axel wing trucks. We have three main street routes in the City. If one of those trucks go down our back up is the loader with a wing and a plow or we rely on the two trucks that are still running to get three routes done. It's a longer plow. We've used the loader a fair amount in bigger snow events where the dump trucks get stuck in cul-de-sacs or other areas. With a big enough loader, we can pull the truck out. We have used it on projects like man hole work where we have to move a lot of soil. We use it a lot in the yard when we have what we call "spoils". Spoils are when we excavate a water main break. It's soils that we can't use. We have to load a truck and haul those out. We stockpile it until we're full but then it has to be removed. We use it to screen the cutback so the concrete chunks from watermain breaks or anytime we have to tear a street up. That is why we need a loader that is the size of what we currently have. The County has loaders much larger than ours but the one we have has been the right size for what we need it for. He looked at the City of Mouns View's loader, it's the same one that we are requesting. They use it in exactly the same way we do. Mayor Grant asked how big our dump trucks are and how much will they hold. Public Works Superintendent Frid said three to four cubic yards, maybe five depending on what you're hauling.