8.f Public Works Staff Report- Sept. 18th '18 - Aug. '18 report1
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September 181h, 2018
Public Works Staff Report — August 2018
Roads and Right — of — way
➢ Mowing — ROW — touch up around stop signs, Second round started
Sept. 1 st
➢ Culverts — Arranged for some cleaning, Layton project complete
➢ GIS — Locations of signs and culvert are now on line
➢ Tree down or hanging — 236' / Morgan, 218' - Oak, ROW Lilac
trimming Lofton Ct., Perkins - poplar, Stop sign pruning — Paris / Pilar,
Quint - birch
➢ Signs — Road reconstruction areas — ID signs are assembled and
ready for installation when the project sub -contractor is ready — sign
repaired at Meadowbrook and 238th
➢ City Entrance signs- Done — Facility sign at City Hall completed
➢ Sweeping — City Hall by county for Taco Daze
➢ Patching — Mayberry, 195th
➢ Gravel roads: Quint Ave. N. added and graded,
➢ Construction - citizen complaints - engineer notified
➢ MNDOT ROW planting — completed — seeding areas outside the
landscape zone, Watering as needed
➢ LHL — re -graded and rock dams sifted 2x
➢ Roads — Gravel — graded and second application of dust control —
Dinosaur Hill — gravel added — graded twice
➢ National Night Out — attended by Adam and brought down the newest
dump truck — the youngsters like the loud horn
Sewer — Water:
➢ August `18 - sewer samples were taken at Bliss, Test well samples
taken both Bliss and AE
➢ 201 — July monthly DMR completed
➢ Sludge Judging the tanks of the 201 system and Uptown customers /
PW/ City Hall/ warming house
➢ Pump readings
➢ Uptown aerator motor quit working — old pump on for temporary
➢ Lift station #3 — Bliss — giving false pump fail notices
➢ Hour meter on Lift station #1 pump #2 needed replacement
➢ Reset Anderson Erickson after the storm
➢ Washington Co. monthly sewer report completed
➢ Uptown - Monthly water meter readings completed
➢ 22 Gopher One call requests
Parks:
➢ PT — summer help gone for the year
➢ Monthly safety checks done on playgrounds
➢ Tennis court — completed, seeding and grading completed
➢ Mowing — All park facilities twice, path between City Hall and T -Ball
field
➢ Lilleskogen — Rain garden - weeding by Adam — re -seeded, leveled
and prepared for Memorial dedication
➢ Swedish Monument — Weeded and mowed / weed whipped — 2 times
➢ Hay Lake — Mowed 3 times
➢ Lighted Ballfields —removed from concession stand building
➢ WIP - paths mowed on upland area, signs checked, obsolete path
found — whited out on the trail signs — front sign to be addressed
shortly
➢ Hockey Rink — removed old overgrown landscaping
➢ South field — headed back brush and trees 6' behind the fence
➢ Draft for benches amended
Other:
➢ Holiday Lights arrived — One set up to show council — Brackets
altered to accommodate flags for those getting new lights
➢ Taco Daze set up and dressing up
➢ City Hall — faucet replaced
➢ Additional minor roof repairs at PW and Fire Hall
➢ Monthly building and safety inspections — 1 safety exit battery
replaced, garage door switch at PW replaced
➢ Mock OHSA inspection. Minimal number of items to address
➢ Voting set up and tear down
➢ Annex — holes filled in block foundation