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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL - APRIL 13. 1998 DRAfT 0 ~ MOTION: Councilmember Aplikowski moved and Councilmember Keirn seconded a motion . to approve Ordinance #304. Renaming a Portion of County Road F, amending paragraph 3a to include the name "Lake Valentine Road." The motion carried unanimously (5-0). Mayor Probst thanked Mrs. Schacht for her help. B. Pay Estimate #3, Lametti Construction, Gateway Business District Mr. Dwayne Stafford, Public Works Superintendent, explained that the City awarded Lametti & Sons, Inc. of Hugo, Minnesota the Gateway Business District, 14th Street Northeast project on October 14, 1997. They have completed construction of the new 21 inch sanitary sewer. The line was tested, approved, and is currently in operation. The contractor is now completing earthwork and water main construction along the roadway and Payment Request #3 includes payment for items associated with that work. He recommended the Council approve Pay Estimate #3. MOTION: Councilmember Malone moved and Councilmember Keirn seconded a motion to approve Pay Estimate #3 for Lametti & Sons, Inc. of Hugo, Minnesota in the amount of$97,OOO.98 with a 5% retainage being held for the project. The motion carried unanimously (5-0). e. Nextel Communications, Lease Amendment . Mr. Ringwald explained that Nextel Communications, formerly known as One Comm, was requesting approval to modify the location of their antennas on the City's Red Fox Road water tower as presented in Exhibit A of the Staff Memorandurn dated April 13, 1998. Mr. Ringwald stated that Nextel and the City entered into a lease agreement on April 26, 1995 to faeilitate the construction of an antenna array. The lease agreement allowed N extel to update or replace the Antenna Facilities with the prior written of the City of Arden Hills, provided that the replacement facilities were not greater in number than the existing facilities and that their location on the leased portion of the Water Tower was satisfactory to the City. Mr. Ringwald explained that the existing approval, as presented in Exhibit B, pages 18, 19 and 24 of the Staff Memorandum dated April 13, 1998, provided for three 15 foot tall whip antennas on top of the water tower and three four foot tall sets of three antennas around the bottom of the water tower bowl. Currently, three 15 foot tall whip antennas existed on the water tower, but the three four foot tall sets of three antennas had yet to be installed. Nextel had continued to pay the lease on the installed and uninstalled antennas. Mr. Ringwald explained that the applicant is requesting authority to remove the three 15 foot tall antennas and on top of the tower and replace them with three sets of three antennas, which would .reduce the number of antennas on the tower. . Mr. Ringwald stated the Staff had two issues that needed to be clarified. The first clarification was in regard to the monthly access charge. Mr. Ringwald explained that he had incorrectly