(Arnolds Park)– The Arnolds Park city council Wednesday awarded a bid on a project to resurface 202nd Street and 232nd Avenue. They opted to go with concrete for the project, even though that bid is slightly higher than a bid for asphalt. They took the action based on an engineer’s report showing the life of the concrete would be much longer than asphalt. The low bid for concrete was 530,351-dollars while the lowest for asphalt was 427,978-dollars. The council approved the bid for concrete on the condition the county and city of Milford do the same…since they’ll also be contributing toward the project. Of the overall project, Arnolds Park will be responsible for 73 percent of the cost; Milford nearly 13 percent and the county slightly more than 14 percent.
The council also accepted a proposal to pressure grout and line a sewer on Lake Drive near Trigg’s Resort at a cost of 9,850-dollars; and they established a price of ten dollars to dispose of small brown goods up to and including anything 27 inches in size. That includes things such as computers, monitors, televisions and vcr’s. The cost to get rid of brown items larger than that will be 20-dollars per item.
The council also directed the city’s Building Committee to meet regarding the possibility of constructing a new maintenance building. The committee will be meeting with several other city departments, including the Fire Department, Police and Library to see what their future space needs are.
The council also voted to participate in Iowa State University’s “PLaCE” program at a cost of between one thousand and five thousand dollars. The project will consist of a visioning process for the city’s downtown, city park, amusement park and Gardner Cabin areas. City Administrator Ron Walker says the visioning will be a key component of the city’s Comprehensive Plan and should help land state and federal grants for various projects in those areas. A similar visioning study was done by the same organization several years ago for uptown Spirit Lake.
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