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King Avenue Parking Lot Task Force Minutes March 3, 2005 10 side of the lot. Page 2 Veit Construction was awarded a contract in late February to remove asbestos from the former Municipal Utilities building, according to Mr. Maurer, and he said the bid package for removing the rest of the building would be completed in April. Mr. Maurer told the group that he wanted to go before the City Council on April 4 for approval of the package and award to the lowest bidder. Mr. Holme remarked that the current parking lot is "cracking up in places". Mr. Maurer responded that it was his intent to patch those areas and then have everything "fog-coated" by the contractor to appear uniform. Mr. Maurer reported to the group that he had reviewed requirements for disabled parking spaces at and around the site and it appeared that there would be a need for one more additional disabled spot in the lot, for a total of six (6), and the final total of spaces available when the lot is completed would be 153. Dr. Jarmoluk asked if his office's disabled parking space could be "changed to the corner near his shop in order to see better" (near the corner of Lowell and Main). Mr. Anderson asked if there was any kind of rule about school buses picking up students at that location? Mr. Maurer said he did not know the answer to that question but asked if the problems would be resolved if a four-way stop sign were to be installed at the corner. Mr. Johnson remarked that another stop sign down the street on Main "wouldn't hurt either" because of all the people cutting through plocal streets. Mr. Maurer asked for the group's thoughts on the addition of a four-way stop sign at Main and Lowell. Mr. Houlton asked if the City's intent was to slow down traffic along Main or push traffic off of Main? Ms. Raduenz asked Mr. Maurer if traffic counts had been done at any time in the recent past in this area. Mr. Maurer responded that traffic counts could be done in the Spring. Mr. Anderson said that the issue was mobility, but added that there was a pedestrian crossing issue near the Cretex building. Mr. Maurer said that the pedestrian problem could be solved today by extending striping before afour-way stop sign would be installed at the intersection. Discussing the staging of construction for the King Avenue Park Lot, Mr. Maurer stated that curb and gutter would be extended to define the drive aisle around the King and Main corner and that pavers would be used to define pedestrian space in the sidewalk by the school district building area. He reiterated that King Avenue would be closed at the northwest corner of the King Avenue parking lot site, that the sidewalk was eight-feet wide near the school district building, and that this would be the "bulk" of the non-vehicle space available at that location. Mr. Maurer said that there would be some elimination of parking along the aisle on that side during the construction process, and that construction would begin around the middle-to-end of May and continue for approximately 4-6 weeks, barring any weather problems. Mr. Maurer said he hoped to confine the construction staging area to the west side of the lot, and leave approximately half of the lot open and available for parking during the reconstruction process. He said that he needed to survey the best time for removal of the former Municipal Utilities building, and once that was completed, the crew would first patch the lot, then take out the curbing along the store side, then put up a fence around the reconstruction site on the bank side of the lot. Mr. Maurer asked the group if they thought about whether or not there should be some sort of signage put up during the reconstruction process saying that parking was available, and, if so, where should it go? There was no response from anyone in the group on this question. Mr. Holme said that "everyone was concerned about where construction workers will park"