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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, August 09, 2010 Page 8 the requested variance specific to the north end of the Rice Street project particu- larly related to bridge work. Mr. Arndt reviewed projected construction schedules through this fall, over the winter months in removing the bridge decking in the spring, and abutments for flyovers for safe transition to the new bridge over Rice Street, all in an attempt to alleviate area business disruption and move away from residential areas. Further discussion included the primary contractor and multiple subcontractors doing the work making it difficult to stipulate that there would be no pile driving in the early morning hours while scheduling work in conjunction with utility companies in the area; traffic transitions needed to keep the corridor open; con- flicts with existing signal lights causing some delay; and variances provided by neighboring cities, with Maplewood allowing atwenty-four hour variance south of Highway 36 and Little Canada allowing the same variance being requested from the City of Roseville, with no residents impacted on the Little Canada side of the project until County Road B-2. Additional discussion included the type of work across all jurisdictions requiring removal of old infrastructure and utilities while limiting disruption of services; grading; hauling gravel and some paving; and the removal of the existing bridge at Highway 36 and Rice Street; and Mr. Arndt advising that the majority of the noise would not be related to pile driving, but there would be trucks and graders, and offered to attempt to route construction vehicles to drive in rather than reverse to reduce back-up alarms on those vehicles disrupting residents. Discussion ensued related to work being done in the Maplewood jurisdiction on a twenty-four hour basis that could disturb residents of Roseville with no impact on that jurisdiction given the lack of residential properties in that work zone on the Maplewood side; caveats for work necessitated by emergency situations; penalty clauses in construction contracts for completing the work on time; and delays possible from private utilities completing their work and precluding Arndt Con- struction, doing the earth work, or delays for the primary contractor, Lunda Con- struction, in arrival of materials, from completing their portion of the project ac- cording to projected schedules. Mr. Arndt assured Councilmembers and the public that their rationale in seeking the noise variance for extended work hours was to complete the more disruptive portions of the work for area businesses and to facilitate traffic flow by accelerat- ing the work schedule. When suggested by Mayor Klausing, Mr. Arndt expressed willingness to amend the variance request to begin work at 6:00 a.m. rather than 5:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. on Saturday; while his preference to avoid overtime costs for his employees where possible, through the proposed twelve-hour shifts and operational schedul-