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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL - June 9, 2008 6 None. 8. UNFINISHED BUSINESS A. 1&1 Update Public Works Director Hoag stated that the memo contained progress to date in each of the categories that Staff was working on. Mayor Harpstead asked for additional comments regarding the smoke testing being moved into a future year and Staff focusing more on the manhole repair. Public Works Director Hoag stated that the memo and documents represent a first working draft of a gant chart or overall schedule and this would be changed over time based on the data that was being collected. He also stated that work plans are based on the data that is available at that time. He stated that this year's manhole inspections were completed and that data needed to be compiled in order to bring a manhole rehabilitation project to the Council for approval. The costs for the manhole rehabilitation project are not known at this time and it may be necessary to move the smoke testing project into next year in order to stay within budget He stated that staff would be meeting with Mr. Janski from Bonestroo to evaluate the data collected from the manhole inspections in order to put together a rehabilitation project. Mayor Harpstead stated that the temporary flow meters were installed and asked if there was any data available from the last series of rains. Public Works Director Hoag stated that there was no data available at this time but this information may be available by Thursday. Councilmember McClung asked for clarification regarding the focus on manhole rehabilitation over doing smoke testing. He stated that it was the Council~s understanding that the smoke testing would help in finding and identifying the larger areas where 1&1 was occurring. Public Works Director Hoag stated that Staff was working to systematically identify where the City will be able to do the most good in eliminating 1&1. He also stated that there may not be one large thing that is creating the 1&1 but rather several smaller areas that need to be addressed and fi x ed. Councilmember McClung asked if the data was available to tell Council and Staff that the 1&1 problems were the result of several smaller problems versus fewer larger issues. Public Works Director Hoag stated that at this time Staff is not suggesting that smoke testing will not take place but rather utilizing the budget to fix an identified problem that will work towards reducing 1&1 and if funds are still available, continuing with the smoke testing. City Administrator Moorse clarified that the data collected from the manhole inspections may show that there are a significant number of manholes that have a significant amount of 1&1 and that these should be fixed. These fixes may use a large portion of the budget thus precluding the ability to do smoke testing for this year. But, if there are funds still available, then smoke testing could still be done this year.