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St. Joseph City Council Special Meeting
March 28, 2023
5:00 PM
1. 2023 Street Improvements – Consideration of approval of Resolution 2023-014 Accepting
the Report and Calling for Hearing on Improvements.
St. Joseph City Council Work Session
March 28, 2023
Immediately following Special Meeting
1. Review and discuss YMCA/City Community Center collaboration concepts and associated
refined cost estimates. Discussion to guide staff in the development of final agreement
language of the operational agreement. This item as follow up to workshop discussion and
input from February 28 2023. Greg Gack will be presenting via zoom. Scott Justvig and
Jason Wood from Kinetic to will be in attendance.
2. Review of outreach efforts to ethnic communities via neighborhood picnics, social gatherings
and recreational programming.
3. Review transition and orientation plans – David Murphy on-boarding
4. Review coverage/support for Community Development Department
5. Brief review of suggestions for updating and clarifying policies and ordinances governing
advisory boards, commissions and committees for future consideration.
6. Adjourn
STAFF MEMO
Prepared by:
Randy Sabart
Meeting Date:
March 28, 2023
☐ Consent Agenda Item
☒ Regular Agenda Item
Agenda Item #
1
Reviewed by:
Jeff O’Neill, Interim Admin.
Item:
2023/2024 Street Improvements Feasibility Report
ACTION REQUESTED
Motion to approve Resolution 2023-014 Receiving Report and Calling for Improvement Hearing
BOARD/COMMISSION/COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION NA
PREVIOUS COUNCIL ACTION
Ordered preparation of feasibility reports for 2023 Street Improvements and 2024 Elm
Street Improvements.
REFERENCE AND BACKGROUND
The City’s 2019 Pavement Maintenance Plan identifies scheduled bituminous surfacing
improvements for 2023 on several neighborhood streets within parts of the Northland Plat 4 and
5 Additions, Losos 2nd, 4th, and 5th Additions, and the St. Joseph Additions.
The feasibility report addresses proposed sanitary sewer and bituminous surfacing
improvements to Block 11 in the St. Joseph Addition as requested by the Council, and storm
sewer and bituminous surfacing improvements along parts of 13th Ave NE and Iris Ln to improve
pavement damage from frost heave in the Northland Heights subdivision.
Stearns County has proposed reconstruction and expansion improvements to CSAH 133 between
CSAH 75 and 15th Ave in 2024. The City’s 2012 Transportation Plan identifies development of a
planned collector street at Elm St between Northland Dr and CR 133. As such, the feasibility
report addresses both pending bituminous street resurfacing improvements to the existing
segments of Elm St together with the proposed construction of a new street connection
between the two street segments and in the vicinity of the new StorageLink development.
BUDGET IMPACT
STAFF RECOMMENDED ACTION
Motion to approve Resolution 2023-014 Receiving Report and Calling for Improvement Hearing
SUPPORTING DATA/ATTACHMENTS
Feasibility Report
Resolution 2023-014 Receiving Report and Calling for Improvement Hearing
RESOLUTION 2023-014
RECEIVING REPORT AND CALLING HEARING ON IMPROVEMENTS
2023 Street and 2024 Elm Street East Improvements
WHEREAS, pursuant to approval by the City Council on December 5, 2022, the Council ordered the
preparation of a feasibility report, for the 2023 Street Improvements which includes street resurfacing and
sidewalk improvements in the Northland Plat 4 and Plat 5 neighborhood (7th Avenue Northeast, Gumtree
Street East, Gumtree Court, Fir Street E, and parts of Northland Drive and 5th Avenue Northeast);
resurfacing improvements in parts of the Loso’s 2nd, 4th, and 5th Additions, Peter Loso’s Addition and St.
Joseph Subdivisions (Ash Street East between College Ave and 3rd Ave NE), part of 2nd Avenue
Northeast north of Ash St); street construction in the Northland Business Center 2nd Addition (Fir Street
East extension to 24th Avenue Northeast); alley resurfacing and sanitary sewer reconstruction at Block 11
in the St. Joseph subdivision; and storm sewer and pavement reconstruction in Northland Heights (parts
of 13th Avenue Northeast, between Iris Lane and Jasmine Lane, and on Iris Lane East approximately 200
feet on each side of the 13th Ave intersection), and for the 2024 Elm Street Improvements which includes
street resurfacing, urban street construction, drainage and stormwater management, lighting, and turf
establishment improvements on Elm Streets and 8th Ave NE between Northland Dr, County Road 133,
and County State Aid Highway 75 and to assess the benefitted property for a portion of the cost of the
improvement, pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 429. The report has been prepared by City
Engineer, Randy Sabart, of SEH, Inc.; and
WHEREAS, the report was received by the City Council on March 28, 2023; and
WHEREAS, the report provides information regarding whether the proposed project is necessary, cost-
effective, and feasible,
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF ST. JOSEPH,
MINNESOTA:
1. The City Council will consider the improvement of such streets in accordance with the report and
the assessment of abutting property for all or a portion of the cost of the improvement pursuant to
Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 429 at an estimated total cost of $3,133,900.00.
2. A public hearing shall be held on such proposed improvements on the 17th day of April, 2023, at
the St. Joseph Government Center at 6:00 PM and the clerk shall give mailed and published
notice of such hearing and improvement as required by law.
ADOPTED by the City Council this 28th day of March, 2023.
CITY OF ST. JOSEPH
Rick Schultz, Mayor
ATTEST
Jeff O’Neill, Interim City Administrator