HomeMy WebLinkAboutX-A-01 Approve Plans and Authorize Advertisement for Bids – Central Water Treatment Plan Raw Water Main ProjectCity Council Memorandum
To: Mayor Fasbender & City Council Members
From: Ryan Stempski, P.E. – Public Works Director
Date: June 2, 2025
Item: Consider Resolution to Approve Plans and Specifications for the Central Water Treatment Plant Raw
Watermain Project and to Authorize Advertisement for Bids
COUNCIL ACTION REQUESTED
Council is requested to consider adopting the enclosed resolution approving the plans and specifications and
authorizing advertisement for bids. Please note this bid package is for the raw watermain project only and does
not include the Central Water Treatment Plant.
BACKGROUND -PROPOSED IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
A 12-inch diameter raw watermain line from Well No. 7 to the Central Treatment Plant is required to ultimately
remove PFAS from Well No. 7. This project includes open cut construction along Forest Street and 7th Street,
disturbing half the road. Along North Frontage Road, Horizontal Directional Drilling will be the construction
method used to install the watermain up to the Central Water Treatment Plant (1290 North Frontage Road).
OTHER ISSUES AND COMMENTS
·OPERATIONS COMMITTEE MEETING –City staff met with the Operations Committee on March 31, 2025,
to discuss the recommended project scope and impacts of the Central Treatment Plant Raw
Watermain Project. The Committee supported staff recommendations on the proposed
improvements.
·PUBLIC OUTREACH –A public meeting was held on March 25, 2025, to discuss the project details and
receive feedback from residents and businesses along the project corridor. Questions were raised
and answered at the meeting from the approximate 13 attendees and a project website created to
continue to provide updates and contact information for questions and comments.
FUNDING
·The project is tracking to be funded within the City’s funding parameters for 2025 and included
within the total PFA Loan amount of $8.4M and $3M Emerging Contaminants Grant.
SCHEDULE
·The timeline for this project is to begin construction by August 2025, substantial completion by
November 2025, and final completion by May 2026.
COUNCIL ACTION REQUESTED
Council is requested to approve the resolution approving the plans and specifications and authorizing the
advertisement for bids.
ATTACHMENTS
Resolution Approving the Plans and Authorizing the Advertisement for Bids
Project Map
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CITY OF HASTINGS
DAKOTA COUNTY,MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION NO.
RESOLUTION APPROVING THE PLANS, AND AUTHORIZING THE
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS FOR THE CENTRAL WATER TREATMENT PLANT RAW WATERMAIN PROJECT
WHEREAS, plans and specifications have been completed by the City’s engineering consultant, WSB.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HASTINGS AS FOLLOWS; that
1. Plans and specifications for these improvements prepared by WSB are hereby approved.
2.The Public Works Director and City Clerk shall cause to be made a matter of record via this resolution
any amendments to design features made by the City Council at the June 2nd, 2025, City Council
meeting. The City Council hereby amends the project scope and plans as follows:
3.The Public Works Director shall prepare and cause to be published on the Quest Construction Data
Network web site and on the City of Hastings official web site an advertisement for bids for the
construction of the approved project. The advertisement shall be published for three weeks, shall
specify the work to be done, shall state that bids will be opened virtually on a date and time to be
determined, and that no bids will be considered unless sealed and filed with the Clerk and
accompanied by a cash deposit, cashier’s check, bid bond, or certified check payable to the City of
Hastings for 5% of the amount of each bid.
ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF HASTINGS, MINNESOTA, THIS 2nd DAY OF JUNE 2025.
Ayes:
Nays:
Mary D. Fasbender, Mayor
ATTEST:
Kelly Murtaugh, City Clerk
SEAL
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City of Hastings Central PFAS Water Treatment Plant &
Water Lines Project
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