78-2735 CITY OF HOPKINS
Hennepin County, Minnesota
RESOLUTION NO. 78-2735
• RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND CITY MANAGER
TO SIGN CONTRACT FOR REHABILITATION.
NOW, THEREFORE,BR IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF HOPKINS, MINNESOTA, that the Mayor and City Manager be authorized
to sign the contract with the Office of Planning and Development of
Hennepin County for Cooperative Rehabilitation Grant Program for
the City of Hopkins.
Passed and adopted by the Council of the City of Hopkins, Minnesota,
at a regular meeting held the 7th day of November 19 :.
• H. E. RICHARDSON, dEqN R. MITTFR,
City Clerk Mayor
JOSEPH C. VESELY,
City Attorney
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October 31, 1978
To: Mr. Craig
From: Gordon Anderson
• Re: 15th Avenue South Project
We have received a request from G. L. Contracting Company to extend the
completion date on the 15th Avenue South project to June 15, 1979,
(copy attached) .
Specifications and Bid documents were prepared in July for an August award
of contract. A completion date of November 1, 1978, was specified. This
should have given the contractor sufficient time to complete the project.
Since award of Contract, a serious portland cement shortage has affected
this area. (see attached MDOT Memo) . Although the sewer and water portion
of this contract has been completed for over a month, concrete has not been
available to install curb and gutter. This has to be done prior to instal-
lation of asphalt paving.
The contractor has been making continuous efforts to acquire cement and a
contractor to install curb and gutter. The City and the developer in the
area have also tried to intercede on their behalf to no avail.
At this time the Contractor is still attempting to complete the project.
If he cannot get cement he will install an asphalt base surface on the
street, completing the project in 1979.
His specific request at this time is to extend the completion date to June 15,
1979. This would waive the liquidated damages of $250 per calendar day that
would be charged after November 1, 1978.
Our recommendation is that the completion date be extended to June 15, 1979,
with the provision that a minimum of an asphalt base be constructed this year
and that liquidated damages not be assessed until after June 15, 1979.
G. L. CONTRACTING, INC.
P . O . BOX 340 `C' I 11421 W. 47th ST.
HOPKINS, MN 55343 MTKA., MN 55343
( 612 ) 935 - 8645
October 26, 1978
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Engineering Dept.
City of Hopkins
1010 S. 1st Street
Hopkins, Mn. 55343
Attn: Gordon Anderson
Re: Sanitary Sewer, Watermain, Storm Sewer, & Street Construction-15th Ave. So.
Dear Gordon:
We are requesting an extension on the completion date
of the above named project until June 15th, 1979.
This request is being made due to the inability of our
sub-contractor to provide curb and gutter on this project,
due to the lack of cement.
. Your consideration of this matter will be greatly ap-
preciated. If you have any questions feel free to call me.
Thank you,
G. L; Caontract' g, Inc.
Gilbert L. Swanson /�
Pres. " I
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MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES DIVISION
Technical Memorandum No. 78-66-C-7
October 16, 1978
• TO Distribution Lists 57, I , J
FROM F. C. Marshall , Assistant Commissioner
Technical Support Services Division
SUBJECT: 1978 Cement Shortage Delays
Problem
The cement shortage delays experienced during the 1978 construction
season have been generally found to be valid. A number of Minnesota
construction projects, in virtually all sections of the state, have
been adversely affected by the cement shortage. The extent of the
1978 cement shortage is such that Mn/DOT has determined that the cur-
rent cement supply situation constitutes an "areawide" shortage. On
this basis and in accordance with FHWA policy, jobs delayed by the
cement shortage do qualify for Extensions of Contract Time or in the
case of Working Day contracts, qualify for Revisions of Working Day
Charges.
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• With reference to Mn/DOT 1806. ID(7), all suppliers who received cur-
tailed, reduced, or diminished cement shipments were thus experiencing
"extraordinary delays in the delivery of materials. . .of a nature beyond
the power of the contractor or his supplier to foresee and forestall ."
Similarly, jobs where it is known that manufacturer-suppliers chose to
dole out their available cement on an allocation basis are not to be
considered liable under the "priority" clause of I806. IA(3) . This al-
location of cement has been ruled to be simply an understandable business
practice, and cannot be viewed as an avoidable delay on the "Weekly Con-
struction Diary."
Remedy
Each job thought to have been delayed by the cement shortage before the
issuance of this memorandum must be examined, independently, by the
Engineer to determine that the progress-controlling-operation was actually
affected. Working Day jobs which are found to have experienced genuine
cement shortage delays will need Revisions of Working Day Charges to
reflect these delays. Said revisions can be made by memorandum showing,
in tabular form, ( I ) the particular days affected, (2) the original Working
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Day charges, (3) the new or revised Working Day charges, (4) the difference,
and (5) remarks. These memorandums must be co-signed by the Assistant District
Director and should be addressed to P. M. Bergman, Contract Administration
Engineer.
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Technical Memorandum No. 78-66-C-7
Page 2
October 16, 1978
Engineers on contracts which are still experiencing delays due to the
cement shortage may assess reduced Working Day charges only if the
contractor/supplier can prove on a daily or weekly basis that the cement
• shortage is ongoing and still valid as a deterrent to effective work on
the progress-controlling-operation.
Calendar Completion Date contracts will require a formal time-extension
recommendation, including the two tabulations shown in the .800 series
of the Construction Manual , ("Delays During The Contract Period" and
Workable Days Chargeable After The Contract Period") . This recommendation
must be co-signed by the Assistant District Director and should be addressed
to R. G. Brennan, Construction Engineer.
Any questions regarding the cement shortage and relevant problems should
be directed to P. M. Bergman, Contract Administration Engineer, Room G4
Transportation Building, Telephone 296-3054.
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Cement shortage Plant apartments plan energy swap
Midwest contractors want help 1
to prevent winter shutdowns A 46 -building housing complex in New
j York City plans to try to swap waste
Two I in.' :•• :• • ociations, methane from a nearby sewage treatment i !; 1 t
reflecting concern throughout the Mid- plant, which it would burn in an existing :,i i'.ii� i .:! '�i., 4. -. .
west over dwindling cement supplies in on-site power generation system, for heat -- ,,t, _ H r , i •
the face of imminent cold weather, have the plant can use to warm sludge digest- , "_- •:---4), . - —
asked municipalities in the state to restrict ers. •
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•available concrete for use only in pouring The Starrett City complex, which has
foundations. 5,881 apartments plus schools, shops and ,,,--e"- ..,.- Y
Ralph Harwood, president of one of a community center, received a $1.2- .—
the groups, the Home Builders Associa- million grant from the Department of ''-'7"
tion of Greater Chicago (HBAGC)—the Energy last week to study an energy link .': • •.
other group is the Home Builders Asso- between the development's 18-Mw co- Digester tanks provide methane to trade.
ciation of Illinois (HBA])—claims that if generation plant and an 85-mgd second-
17,000 foundations in the Chicago area ary treatment plant on an adjacent site. In exchange, the sewage plant would
are not poured by next month,as much as The project will result in a preliminary receive electricity, hot water for heating
$816 million in construction workers' design for the energy link. digester tanks and steam for space heat-
wages could be jeopardized. Harwood The powerplant's boilers and diesel ing. The project would increase the Star-
says that these foundations represent engine generators now run on either gas rett plant's ability to use waste heat—it
almost half of the area's housing starts for or No. 6 fuel oil,but engineering subcon- already uses the steam by-product of
this year. tractor American Hydrotherm Corp., power generation for space heating and
The cement shortage has already cut New York City, will study adapting the for driving cooling equipment.
into workers' jobs and income. "Up to system to be capable of using the lower- Another consultant for the project,
50% of the cement masons are out of Btu methane gas by-product of the treat- Camp Dresser & McKee, Inc., Boston,
work on some days," says Ronald E. ment plant's sludge digesters as a supple- will study the possibility of drying sludge
Thelin,president of Chicago Local 502 of mental fuel source. Engineers will also produced at the sewage plant using low-
the cement masons' union. And Minneso- study using secondary effluent water level thermal energy from the Starrett
to contractors say that as many as 50,000 from the treatment plant to cool the plant.
construction workers in the state have lost powerplant's steam turbine condensers, Barbara Tillman, project manager at
some work due to the cement shortage, either replacing the existing cooling tower Starrett City, says the project could even-
Which halvecfthie state's cement supplies. or at least eliminating the need for make- tually satisfy 10 to 20% of the develop-
Wisconsin contractors are predicting up water in the system. ment's fuel needs.
layoffs as a result of the regional shortage.
Harold Wipperman of the Sam R. Parisi
Construction Co., Madison, Wis., claims
his firm is losing money because it doesn't Airline ponders $125-million relocation offer
know"from one day to the next"whether
it is getting cement. The Dallas/Fort Worth Airport Board is offers to sell up to $125 million of bonds
Construction on a suburban Detroit prepared to sell up to $125 million of to:
subdivision has been stopped and might revenue bonds to finance construction of a • Buy the existing American Airlines J:
be delayed until spring because of a lack new office building and a reservations flight academy and learning center build-
of a commitment for cement, reports center for American Airlines, Inc. to get ings and the 80 acres they occupy from
Donald Van Every, president of the the company to move its headquarters to the City of Fort Worth for about $16
Builders Association of Southeastern Mi- Texas from New York City. The city million, the amount of bond indebtedness f
chigan (BASM). The foundations cannot councils of both Dallas and Fort Worth still outstanding. 1
be poured before winter because roads to have endorsed the proposal. • Buy from the company the 57 acres
the site will not be built by that time. Now under way is a company study to it owns near the now-closed Greater
And,while work has not stopped on all determine the economics of expanding its Southwest International Airport, for not 1,
projects, the lack of cement has been headquarters staff in New York City or more than $3 million, and construct on
blamed for construction delays in the relocating it to the Dallas-Fort Worth that land a central reservation center to i
area. Terry Good of the Pulte Home area. A decision may be reached by Dec. replace the one there now used by Ameri-
Corp., Bloomfield Hills, Mich., says it 1, although an airline spokesman says can. s
now takes as long as six months to build a that date could change. • Buy from American for $3 million,
•house whereas in the past his firm "could Of the 8,500 persons employed by the amount paid by the company, the
get one built in 90 to 120 days." American Airlines in New York City, land near the present learning center,and
To alleviate such situations, BASM, about 1,200 work at the executive and build on it the new corporate headquar-
along with HBAGC and HBAI, have general offices located on seven floors of a ters building. Cost of this is estimated at
suggested that asphalt, rather than building on midtown Manhattan's east $50 million.
concrete, be used for roadbuilding and side. Division and other operations would In addition, the bonds would improve
BASM has requested that a limit be set on be unaffected, no matter what decision the areas around American's hangars and
the amount of road construction in its company officials reach. terminal cargo area. All told, about 375
area. The written proposal sent to the airline acres would be bought. i
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November 2, 1978
To: Mr. Craig, City Manager
From: John Strojan, City Engineer
• Re: Highway 18 Construction
Bids are to be opened on November 7, 1978, for the construction of Highway 18
from 4th Street South to 2nd Street North and of Highway No. 3 from 9th Avenue
South to Monroe Avenue.
As a part of this project, curb and gutter will be installed on certain streets
and a charge made to the City for the curb and gutter. As this is a direct
benefit to the property adjacent, a project and assessment district should be
set up to assess these benefits to the adjacent property. Those streets affected
are:
Excelsior Avenue - Monroe to Jackson
St. Louis Street - Adams to Monroe
County Road No. 3 - North side, 5th Avenue to the RR
Washington Avenue South Milwaukee to 3rd Street South
As a part of the project, 2nd Street North will be improved by the County from
• Washington Avenue to the Burlington Northern Railroad. Second Street from the
Railroad to Monroe Avenue has not been improved for many years. It is in need
of widening and surfacing and curb and gutter. An assessment district and pro-
ject should be set up at this time to construct this street in conjunction with
the County Road 18 project.
These items should be referred to the City Council for their consideration. The
action needed at this time is a Resolution requesting an Engineer's Report.
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