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Elk River. <br />Municipal Utilities <br />13069 Orono Parkway • P.O. Box 430 Phone: 763.441.2020 <br />Elk River, MN 55330-0430 Fax: 763.441.8099 <br />JOINT UTILITIES COMMISSION AND <br />HERITAGE PRESERVATION COMMISSION MEETING <br />TO: FROM: <br />Ells River Municipal Utilities Commission Troy Adams, P.E. -Director of Operations <br />John Dietz -Chair David Berg -Water Superintendent <br />Daryl Thompson -Vice Chair <br />Al Nadeau -Trustee <br />Heritage Preservation Commission <br />Kristin Harris <br />Mark Konietzko <br />Lance Lindberg <br />Debra Mortensen <br />Ste hen Rohlf <br />MEETING DATE: AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: <br />Tune 14, 2011 5.1 <br />SUBJECT: <br />Jackson Street Water Tower Discussion <br />BACKGROUND: <br />In March 2002, the Utilities Commission authorized the demolition of the Jackson Street Water Tower. <br />The Heritage Preservation Commission (HPC) then requested a delay to look into options saving the <br />tower for historical reasons. The HPC offered that a plausible source of revenue for offsetting ongoing <br />maintenance costs could come through modifying the historic tower to house communication antennas. <br />Shortly thereafrer, a communication company did. install antennas on the tower. That company went <br />under and ERMU did not receive payment in full for the lease. <br />In 2008 the topic of the demolition of the water tower was again discussed by the Utilities Commission. <br />The decision to demolish the tower was tabled. More recently, work has been done to determine whether <br />or not the tower could be registered as a historic site. It was believed that if the tower were registered as a <br />historic site that there may be gant money available for renovating it. <br />Attached for review are the following: <br />• May 6, 2002 -Memo to ERMU Commission <br />• May 15, 2002 -ERMU minutes for agenda item #5.2 <br />• June 3, 2002 -Memo to ERMU Commission <br />• October I, 2002 -Memo to ERMU Commission <br />• October ] 0, 2002 -ERMU minutes for agenda item #5.1 <br />• January 14, 2003 -ERMU minutes for agenda item #6.4 <br />• February 29, 2008 -Memo to the ERMU Commission <br />• March 11, 2008 -ERMU minutes for agenda item #6.3 <br />• March 21, 2008 -Memo to the ERMU Commission <br />• April 17, 2008 -ERMU minutes for agenda item #5.2 <br />