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Council Minutes of 9-5-78 -2- the Board of Control that repairs of $31,644 be awaxkd to ,the All~ca Con- struction Company. This whole episode o,f bidding eau} setting specifications for certain designated streets for partial repair, points up the seed for a comprehensive concrete street repair plan. This is scmrething that has been discussed in the past with the City 8agn~er sad the Mayor. It dove-tails with the I and I Study relative to the Sa~i.tary $e~rer System which will be underway upon award of that particular contract. The real problea is t6~tt we ate going to have a physical survey etsde in detail; me ate going to Ia-?v~e to project anticipated casts far proper repair. WitbiB the de~.lar feas-flty of the General Fund Revenue, wie would be trisle~ing Comeeil and ~ tax payers, if we suggest that the resources of t~ City,. out of Gar-eral d Asv~ues, can seat other than emergency repairs of co~actete streets in sasee of t~ ssfidivisions. The Service Department will cosa~inue to s all repairs to keep the streets passable, but to suggest that was are g~ to have pristine, ~evelopasnt type concrete streets under the p t fiscal restraints, I thi~c is unrealistic. It is going to take a longs stu~jr; a long range co~itttsnt of the public officials of thi. coasamitp. 2) with regard to the Mayor's cta a~n vsndaliam, this Spring we agent quite a bit of money an rehabilitation of Clare ~toad_park, particularlg the physical structures there. The f'or'k dc-es seed at1~r work and it is tray by the Recreation Department. We d a~ doors there which were actually dynamited off their hinges. We ra~plae+sd ss~y oaf these steel doors this Spring at a cost of over $150 per door. After t~ su~ser season and especially over Lobar Day, the doors are again battered ~d rs~ ar~d w+e are in the process of ~atlding them shut for the Winter Season. The ~is~ e;uotion at Clague Road f'atk is very high. 3) one good sign of public-spirited pesple iia the area of ecc~log~- is Day Scout Troop 747. Through Octakar 1st, at r'th Olmsted. Service Road, tlxe Service Garage has sn environs~antal c~~lection bin for newspapers. Anybody who has newspapers can drop them aff there. This collection bin will be there just through October Ist. I had only one cam;;-laint about the receptacle being there. We are trying this on a trial basis as a long-range natural resource re-cycling part of the City. Mr. Logan asked the Service Director with respect to what was said about concrete street repairs -looking at the long rsrtge problems the City faces, both paved and undeveloped-streets, what type of a~-pxopriation would minir~,Ily meet your standards for proper street mait~tenat-ce? tat type of yearly appropriation would you sap is a minimum requi t for that adequacy, beginning imaediasiy and extending aver the next. five or .ten years? Mr. Corrigan replied this is a broad question and I cov~ssed a broad area. I didn'tgive detail, just spoke very loosely about.caaa~crete streets. Certainly we have responsibilities far asphalt streets. We have. the abi.2ity within the Serv#:ce Department to handle most asphalt street repafts, provrided of course, we have the sufficient money out of special funds of the General Fad. I think we had a fairly successful street program th#s sums~er. I would like to expand it next summer with the greater materials ~-zQVided by dollar availability. Concrete street problems go back to the standards that were imposed when the streets were originally built. In many cases the standards for street construction were not as strict as they are now. We feel that fragment repairs really do not solve the underlying problems. Some streets need rebuilding ~tnd p~etchng repairs through outside contr~tetors are not the n~ost_QCOnomical way to idle the sityaton. Some of the streets merit rebuilding at this t#.ae. Wlier- we get .into that, we are talking about long range funding; we are talking about equity fuodag; perha;rs for a specific street and a specific subdiv~.son. A Iot of that poses some legal problems -