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8.f June Public Works Reportf SCANDIA July 1711, 2018 Public Works Staff Report — June 2018 Roads and Right — of — way ➢ Mowing — completed 1St round — some breakdowns and lack of staff slowed the effort down ➢ Culverts — another cleaning list being made ➢ Tree removals - 2 at 18126 Layton in preparations for ditching, 1 along 190th that was a hanger — contracted out, 1- along Oak Hill Rd. ➢ Sign repairs — Lakamaga / Newgate intersection — ➢ City signs being repainted / updated — 2/3 done ➢ Tree Pruning- trees hanging over the road — Lofton Ct. — Amur maples ➢ Replacement street signs for 2018 road project arrived ➢ Sweeping — Contractors swept the roads from the spray patching and Washington Co. swept ➢ Patching — Meadow Ridge trail - gopher or woodchuck tunneling, 205th — craters only, Meadowbrook off Hwy 97 N. side, Kirk Ct., ➢ Construction — Light repairs for line hit by Co. 52 contractors — They are paying the electric bill — Scandia staff dug the conduit deeper ➢ Crack sealing — completed — Spray patching still in progress — Fat Cat Route maintenance completed ➢ MNDOT ROW planting — preparations — tilling, turf removal ➢ Sanitary Sewer basin and cover installed with the Co. Rd. 52 project — The City supplied the casting ➢ Sediment Pond LHL emptied out — about 7 yards of material Sewer — Water: ➢ June 18 - sewer samples were taken at Bliss, Test well samples taken both Bliss and AE ➢ 201 — May monthly DMR completed ➢ Pump readings ➢ Drain fields mowed / weed whipped by controllers ➢ Washington Co. sewer report completed ➢ Uptown - Monthly water meter readings completed ➢ 44 Gopher One call requests Parks: ➢ Monthly safety checks done on playgrounds ➢ Tennis court — Prep. Work for reconstruction - Reconstruction occurring as of 6-27-18 — Paving complete ➢ Mowing — PT staff is on board and in training ➢ Lilleskogen - Rain garden — outlet found — lost some plants to drowning ➢ Monument — Weeded and mowed / weed whipped ➢ Hay Lake — Mowed 4 times ➢ Working with Watershed on the Boundaries for Lilleskogen ➢ Ballfields — dragged each day there is scheduled play ➢ Lighted Field — a lot of effort into getting it prepared for Men's tournament — new home plate furnished by the Women's Softball Club - Men's fast pitch tournament was a success and they want to repeat next year — last week in June ➢ Working on the budget and have included funding for the projects we agreed should be acted on in 2019 Other: ➢ Fat Cat race preparations: 3.5 tons of asphalt mix, Spray patching of Mayberry, Maxwill, 197th, Hay Lake pavilion mowing and trimming, path mowing, LHL gravel -rolling -branch removals, and mowing dragging exit from William O'Brian, ➢ Training in the new PT personnel ➢ AC units cleaned at City Hall / PW and Fire Dept. ➢ '/2 Plant materials arrived for MNDOT planting project — set up nursery ➢ Start of shrub pruning at City Hall - weed removals