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MEMORANDUM From: CSS Builders, Inc. Flannery Construction, Inc. To: Cathy Mehelich City of Elk River Date: Tuesday, September 12,2006 Dear Cathy, Weare glad to report that we have successfully worked together to create a plan for closure of Main Street for utility installations at the Bluff and Jackson Place projects. As discussed in our Wednesday, August 31 meeting with city staff, the work will include removal of concrete traffic barriers and fencing on both sides of the street, followed by six major excavations to complete three water disconnects, three sewer disconnects, two water connections, two sanitary sewer connections and a storm sewer connection. Completion of the utility work will be followed by restoration of the affected curbs, pavement, and striping and re-installation of traffic barriers and fences. We propose to complete all this work within a schedule of 16 working days, from Monday October 2nd through Monday October 23rd. The utility contractor has agreed to field two crews, and this schedule includes as much simultaneous work as possible given the physical constraints of the work area. This schedule also leaves the possibility of weekend work to compensate for weather or other uncontrollable events. In our meeting last Wednesday you expressed concern regarding loss of parking spaces for the Main Street businesses east of Jackson Avenue. To address this concern, we propose that the street disruption occur in two stages. The primary closure would be from the Flannery Construction office at 649 Main Street, east to Parrish Avenue, from Monday October 2nd through Monday October 23rd. Within the timeframe of the primary closure, a secondary closure would extend west to the Cinema Office Building for five working days to allow completion of utilities for the Jackson Place building. At the end of the project, this same area would be occupied intermittently to allow crews to restore the street sub grade, pavement and striping. Finally, the current agreement between CSS and Vanman provides that the Bluff Block boundaries would expand on December 1st back to their pre-August 11th boundaries. CSS will make a final determination on this point by the end of October, but appears it may be possible to operate within current boundaries for the remainder of the project. This would allow the parallel parking on the north side of Main Street to be opened as soon as Vanman is finished working in that area. Thank you for working with us as we developed this plan. Sincerely, />>/..... >>>>) L~'/ -.--J ~ L Paul Lyver, CSS Buil ~~~- Kenneth Allen, Flannery Construction Street Closure Memo 2006-09-11.doc