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o This year's projects involves 7 miles of street resurfacing, 1 mile of watermain replacement and various storm sewer upgrades. • Staff will be opening bids on the following projects in the next month; • 2017 Utility Improvements o Work involves the extension of watermain near Fairview and County Road C and the replacement of a ditch near County Road C2 and Long Lake Road. o Work to begin in June. • Transportation Plan Update RFP o WSB & Associates will be working with the City to update the Transportation Plan and Pathway Master Plan. The plan is to have them at our June PWETC meeting to start the discussion. • Water Booster Station o Staff has started working with AE2S to provide the first phase design and recommended additional staging of the rehabilitation of the City's Water Booster Station. We anticipate Phase 1, which will, at the minimum, include the replacement of the generator, to begin later this year. • Lift Station Project Staff began the design process with its consultants on upgrading the Walsh storm water lift station and upgrading the Lounge sanitary lift station. Ramsey County updates: • Ramsey County will be resurfacing Cleveland Ave between Iona St and County Road D. Work is anticipated to be completed sometime between July and September. Private Utility Work: • Xcel Energy will be replacing a large amount of gas mains ahead of this year's PMP prod ect. • Comcast will be upgrading its network in the majority of the City. Work involves the installation of additional utility cabinets in City right of way. Minnesota Department of Transportation updates: • Snelling Avenue Project— Resurfacing project between Como Ave and TH 36. o Creation of additional turn lanes at Larpenteur and County Road B. o Project has begun. Scheduled to be completed by the State Fair. o Lanes will be reduced to one lane for the duration of the project. Will have all lanes open for Back to the 50's. City Council Update: • The City Council recently reviewed the various CIP's for the City. They had some discussions about potentially shifting dollars from one fund to another to provide more funding sustainability amongst all of the various funds. The May 15u' City Council packet includes a large amount of information on the 20 Year CIP's as well as the current and projected fund balances. • The City Council has been spending a great deal of time reviewing the City's Subdivision ordinance in order to provide more consistency in the submittals for subdivisions as well as cleaning up the ordinance overall. Public Works has been involved in order to remove some of the more flexible standards from the ordinance and moving those into a Design Standards document which the Public Works Department will maintain. Changes to the Design Standards document will be presented to the PWET Commission in the future.