02-01-1988 Town Board MinutesState of Minnesota The Town Board of the Town of Otsego met
County of Wright this 1st day of February, 1988 at 8:00 P.M.
Town of Otsego Norman Freske, Chairman, Douglas Lindenfelser
and Floyd Roden, Supervisors, James Barthel,
Treasurer, Elaine Beatty, Deputy Clerk, and Jerome Perrault, Clerk
were prestnt.
The Meeting was called to order by Chairman, Norman Freske.
Minutes of the January 25, 1988 Town Board Meeting were approved
as read.
The Riverwood Conference Center has been operating a Public
Restuarant without a Conditional Use Permit to do so. Michelle
Lavrenz, representing the Conference Center, appeared before the
Board to say that the Conference Center has applied for an ex-
pansion of their Conditional Use Permit, to include a Restuarant
open tb the public. The reason for this expansion is to give their
employees more stable hours during slack times for the Conference
Center business. At present, they have a wine license and a set-
up license, but not a liquor license.
Motion by Douglas Lindenfelser to purchase an exhaust fan
system from D. J.'s Heating and Air Conditioning for the Township
garage with an 8" drop for the welding bench at a cost of $285.00
and 2 - 6 inch chimneys for the trucks @ $150.00 each. Seconded
by Floyd Roden, passed unanimously.
Motion by Floyd Roden to appoint the following people as
possible election judges for the Annual Town Election:
Marion Alexander
Judy Roden
Marie Corbin
Della Anderson
Joy Swenson
Sharon Berning
Maxine Davis
June Fenstra
Jacqui Rognli
Germaine Beaudry
Elaine Beatty
Stella LeFebvre
Carol Weidenback
Seconded by Douglas Lindenfelser, passed unanimously.
Richard Wolters, a New Technologies Engineer for the Minnesota
Department of Transportation, addressed the meeting concerning the
Department's plans to build a Cold Region Test Strip. The Department
of Transportation is in charge of the Interstate System within the
State as well as all State Highways. The Interstate System is now
complete and Maintenance is now the problem. They are proposing
to build a Cold Region Test Strip just North of the West Bound Leine
of I-94 starting one mile West of Albertville and ending three
miles East of Monticello. This Test Strip Lane will be used to test
verious types of material for pavement repair and maintenance and
West Bound Traffic will be routed over this lane from time to time.
They are also proposing to build a second and shorter teststrip just
North of the first test strip which will be used for special testing
and the general traffic will not be routed over this strip.
They will be needing a Servbe Road to bring material and
trucks into the test area.
They are proposing to upgrade and blacktop 70th Street from
County #19 West to Kadler Avenue and from this point will be const-
ructing an entire new blacktop road through the test area and connect-
ing with Jalger Avenue. This new road will be constructed by the
State Department of Transportation and turned over to the Township.
They will also be constructing a building in the test area to store
material and monitoring equipment. The Otsego land involved in the
project is owned by Arlyn Bajari and Kenneth Zachman. The reason
this particular area was chosen is because of a high -traffic area
closefeas to the Twin Cities and The University of Minnesota, and
this particular areaddoes not have a lot o5r,residential houses. The
project will cost about $5,000,000.00 of which all funding has not
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County of Wright
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save millions by knowing which materials to use for repair and
maintenance.
Motion by Floyd Roden to obtain a seperate hookup and new
phone number for the Town Garage. Seconded by Doug Lindenfelser,
passed unanimously.
Proceeding as a Board of Audit, the Town Audited and allowed
Verified Accounts Numbers 506 to 530 inclusive.
On Motion, the Meeting adjourned.
SUPERVISORS: Douglas Lindenfelser
Floyd Roden
CHAIRMAN: Norm Freske
ATTEST: Jerome Perrault, Clerk
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February 1, 1988 Town Board Meeting
COLD REGION PAVEMENT RESEARCH TEST FACILITY
PRESENTED BY:
Richard C. Ingberg, Research Administration & Des Engr. St. Paul
Paul
Richard 0. Wolters, P.E. New Technologies Engr.
Ronald B. Bray, Dist. Pre -Design Engr. Brainerd, Minn.
INTERSTATE SYSTEM:
They are taking the Transportation System as a whole. No new
pavement. How do we fix and repair and maintain ones being
already built? How do we fix it? With What? It is much more
difficult to repair than building a new pavement or road. Dollars
are not there to keep everything up to standard as everyone would
Our problems are different than Texas because of the warm andlike it.
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ASPHALT OVERLAY - blacktop concrete - howbt?in or thick should
itUNIVERSITY - Aren't teaching treating existing conditions.
I like to do the testing of materials in the field. Along with
that, Minnesota has proposed a COLD REGION TEST FACILITY.0r
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problems and materials are different than other States.
Countries Canada, Etc., are interested. Texas is the proposed
HOT REGION pavement facility. Plan on putting together a program
on pavement that we do not have today.
PROJECT LOCATION: Wright County between Albertville & Monticello.
The red line - Another additional West Bound
ROADWAY: Approximately 3 -Miles east of Monticello to one (1) Mile
West of Albertville. One of the benefits of Test Facility on the
Interstate is that it would give us real time data (In a real life
situation). Real traffic loading. We wouldn't have to hire
people to run on a roadds where they normally wouldn't use it. That
would accelerate the Phe
ss.
CONCEPTS AND OBJECTIVES:
Intensive research at one spot.(instead of a shotgun pattern around
the state).
The project would be fully instrumented and monitored. It would
cost one million dollars for this one section. (computer read out
and weather package is part of that).
ACCELERATED PROCESS:
Quality enhanced - because of one project, will also include as
time goes on a number of variables. This location has access by
rail so over time we could get material by rail if need be.
There will be a big emphasis on getting as much information as
possible about our materials and how it reacts to frost.
We are
trying to get more exactness on that. Lots of material is trucked
on roads. We will be doing pavement and envirmental research on
snow and ice materials. Monitoring of water run-off, for example,
lead. Also, do we mow, burn ohespray
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rails, signs,
TEST PADS:
COLD REGION PAVEMENT RESEARCH TEST FACILITY
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be able to study traffic marking materials, guard
etc.
to study unique garbage truck for instance, farm to
market trucks, (are they better or worse?) We would
like to show the trucking industry different configuration''
and exchange information in a more positive sense.
REHABILITATION:
Making an old pavement new or better. How do we make
that old highway better?
MAINTENANCE:
Why do we get a pothole?
What do we patch it with?
AGENCIES THAT ARE INTERESTED IN THIS FACILITY:
SHRP - Strategic Highway Research Program.
We may have some test sections that would blend in.
CRREL - Corps. Road Research Engineers
LRRB - Minnesota Local Road Research Board - have some interest
in facility.
FHWA - Federal Highway Administration
Superior National Forrest, University of Minnesota, and
Industry - Tie we hope to get in on this.
We would have some kind of a building site four equipment, Etc.
a parallel access road proposed. It will have test sections for
low volume use. Different soil types and different thicknesses.
Traffic volume was another consideration. We wanted a location
where we could make a gradual change onto another roadway that
is there today. We would have construction activities going on
every 5 years and some stockpiling. Designated as ®. Maybe we
would repeat a section. The Test Pads would be to check out new
trucks, Ready Mix, Farm -to -market trucks, Etc. Proposed traffic
flow. (every 5 years it will change.) East bound stays East
bound throughout the life of the project. We would have the
results of these tests in a 5 year period. We hope to have 1989
construction started. We haven't full approval from Dept. or
Federal Highway Administration yet. This plan is now our ideas
we have tried to put on paper. The total initial cost would be
5 -million dollars. HIGH TECHNOLOGY. Computer medium, ag. mining,
agriculture, tourism. This will add to high technoligy and visitors
from all over, coming here. We cannot order pavement from anyplace
other than here. We would have global use of this information. It
will help to build the next generation of pavement expertise.
BOTTOM LINE CONCLUSION:
How this affects us: the Yellow is new addition west bound
roadway. Low volume road loop on end because we can't have the
general public driving on this. Kadler and Julger. We are pro-
posing a new one mile Township road. The Green is the proposed
Right -of -Way which may be involved. Five million dollars is the
anticipated cost for the first stage to get it constructed in 1989.
COLD REGION PAVEMENT RESEARCH TEST FACILITY
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The number one problem in Minnesota is freeze -thaw conditions.
The Green on the Township road is right-of-way turned back to the
Township. One Summer everyfive (5) years, they would be bring-
ing material in for the project.
TYPED FROM ELAINE BEATTY'S NOTES OF MEETING, Town Board Meeting
eb 2/1/88.