So we all know about the two big issues at the council meeting tonight at 7pm. Here are a couple of other things I found interesting at the meeting tonight.
First the city of Duluth is doubling the contract amount for hot mix street fill. The old amount is 325,859.60 the new amount we buy would be 717,069.60. Now many of you may say well no big deal this is the stuff we use to fill pot holes so it is a good thing.
Well here is my problem with it, as we fill pot holes we don't properly pack this hot mix into the hole. Well we do use a hand held roller to attempt to pack the hot mix in it does not work. So cars run over the hot mix before it has a chance to settle in and it gets pushed out by the car tires and with in a couple of weeks we are back fixing the same pot hole because the hot mix is no longer there.
What is the point it we are back filling the same hole in a couple weeks. I like the hot mix because it works well when used correctly. It is our procedure that fails not the workers that do this, they do great with what they have. We must look at have a better system to pack the hot mix down or it will be a continued waste of money. Even a light motorised roller would work okay to pack it in.
Second is spirit mountain. They are asking for the line of credit from the city to be increased from 900,000 to 1,200,00 which is an increase of 300,000 for this year. Why well if you ask city administrator David Mongromery just because there is new head coming into spirit mountain and he does not want them to have any short fails to deal with. Plus the last couple of seasons have been rough because of cold weather for the skiing season.
I don't know I have some real reserve in just handing out money like this.
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