Aviation Board - Regular Meeting

Should I just can I just start or we're good? Alright. So we're gonna call this meeting to order at 10:05AM on 03/30/2026. Director Trane is excused with her absence. All other park board of public works park board. Well, all other board of public works members are present. So I will now move to the approval of the minutes from 03/23/2026. Motion made by council president Dickinson, second by director Gallagher. Any corrections or changes? Alright.

Seeing none, please vote. Alright. Moving on to the construction contract final payments. Director Gallagher.

There are none today, mayor. Thanks.

Awesome. Moving on to bidders' proof of responsibility, agenda item twenty five one one seven two.

We have two today, August Winter and Sons Inc. From Appleton, Wisconsin for 134,000,292 and $660 sorry, $292,660. Waukesha Construction Company Inc. From Winona, Minnesota for $21,575,132. Those are the only two.

Alright. Motion approved by director Gallagher, second by council president Dickinson. Any discussion? Seeing none, please vote. Alright.

Moving to our next agenda item, twenty six zero two zero four, resolution dedicated city property Lot 42 of what's the street? Oh, Sex edition. It's just the the subdivision. Okay. Sex Hours edition to the public for right of way purposes and a proven request from Badger Corrugating Company to vacate a portion of thereof.

Is there a staff that's gonna speak to this, or is this you? Okay. Director Callender.

Sure. I guess in anticipation of any questions, this is prepared by the city surveyor. It will be at the city planning commission tonight and then moving on to the council. This is kind of a housekeeping item that needs to clear up an issue of a parcel that was to be dedicated decades ago for the public right of way at the North End Of 13th Street by Hyde Avenue. That's necessary to complete the transaction of vacating part of the right of way for Badger corrugating along the West Side Of 13th. So this kinda has to happen first. Again, just a house cleaning item.

Okay. Any questions for staff from board of public work members? Seeing none, the motion to approve by director Gallagher, second by council president Dickinson. Seeing no other discussion, please vote. And the motion passes unanimously. Next is item twenty six zero two three eight, resolution allocating unused sanitary sewer funds for the final payment on the wastewater treatment plant upgrades. Is there someone from staff speaking to this? Jared?

Good morning, Board. The reason purpose for this resolution is after five years, we're nearly completed with the wastewater treatment plant upgrade. As we get close to the end of this project, it was a $65,000,000 upgrade at the wastewater plant, and we're over budget by about $120,000 on a $65,000,000 project. So we need to increase the value of the contract so we can close out this project. The the resolution to move funds over to cover for this will be covered by the Clean Water Fund, in the end to be reimbursed.

Okay. Any questions for council member Gagan?

So it it says that this is the funds to cover change order 12 final chain. Is this this is it now? This is done deal? No more money going to this project?

Yep. This is the last change order.

And because I don't understand all the way this is, so forgive me for my question. Absolutely. The 120,000 to be reimbursed by the Clean Water Fund, so we're gonna use a 120, but it's gonna come back to us somehow. Correct. So no financial impact net. Correct. Thank you. I really appreciate that. Thanks.

You're welcome.

I'll just say I am super excited. Like, we have to figure out a way to promote this so that the citizens recognize what this upgrade means for the city, Especially recognizing the fact that we are able to now, correct me if I'm wrong, but we're able to use our own methane to create electricity for the entire wastewater plant now.

Correct. For about forty days now, we've produced our own electricity, so we're not purchasing XL energy or electricity at this time, burning methane gas that were produced by the anaerobic digestion process. We're also drying bile solids currently as we speak for class a fertilizer, using the heat off the cogen to dry the bile solids, heat the digesters, and heat Campus. So that's where we're at today, and we're meeting low level phosphorus limits and regulations.

That's man, that is so cool. I love it. Thank you. Alright seeing no other questions, motion approved by Director Geileger, second by Council President Dickinson. Please vote.

And that motion passes unanimous. Thank you, Jared, for your leadership in this.

Thank you.

Moving to our next agenda item, twenty six zero two four seven, approval of payment excuse me. Yeah. Payment list of easement accusation acquisitions, woah, for Highway 16. It's Monday morning. Is there a staff speaking to this item as well? Oh, so I if I looked up, I would've saw you.

I snuck up on you. It's my bad. So during the design process, our consultant engineer that we hired to do the design identified these four parcels as parcels that we needed to acquire easements from in order to install the new 24 inch water main along Highway 16. So this has been a quite a long process to acquire these easements, but we finally received sign offs from the four property owners. And the this the check request document shows the agreed upon amounts that we've signed for.

Okay. Councilmember sorry. Council president Dickinson.

Could you explain, do we need any further easements, and why did we need these particular ones for this project?

So the current design, we do not need any more easements. We've acquired all that we need with our current design. I guess that's not to say that with unforeseen conditions in the field, we might have to alter the design, although that might be unlikely in my opinion. I think just due to the kind of condensed nature of Highway 16, it's pretty there's limited real estate out there and due to some existing conflicts with utilities, the design that worked for the new pipeline was unfortunately we needed to acquire easements in order to properly install it.

Thank Thank you. Councilmember Goggin.

Hello. In the information that you gave us, the the total of these easements are 54,500. Where does that money come from?

That'll be come from the project fund, which is, clean water alone.

Okay. Thanks. And then my second question is, so it says that the these are temporary limited easements, and they shall terminate on the completion of said construction on December or 12/31/2026?

So just that one easement for parcel d, we require a little bit more space to do the construction, construction, so that's the temporary easement. The the the four other water main easements will be permanent because we'll have a pipeline running underneath their property.

Okay. I just thank you. Yep. Just clarifying. Thanks.

And how common is this practice of needing to purchase easements in order to do water main and other construction?

I think along state highways and other or busier roads, I guess, could say. It's pretty fairly common. I know through this process, Stephanie Swart has told me that for the South Ave project, La Crosse Street project, had to do require many, many easements to in order to complete the work. So it's fairly common in my opinion.

Okay. Council president Dickinson? You don't have anything? Okay. Alright. Thank you. Thank Motion approved by director Gallagher, second by council president Dickinson. Any other discussion? Seeing none, please vote. And that motion passes unanimously.

Next item twenty six zero two four nine, public hearing application for Grecky excavating for a limited exemption for construction noise for installation of water main along Highway 16 from the Cross Street to the Turbo Sports Complex. Were we able to get them all? Okay. Do we wanna start there, or is their staff gonna talk to this? Or okay. Director Gallagher.

Thanks, mayor. So, by code, the city of La Crosse restricts certain noises and certain activities from 7PM to 7AM. And anytime that we anticipate, construction going outside of those hours or if there's necessary coordination, say, on a large state highway, to do nighttime work or work outside of those hours. Sometimes it's concrete sawing. Sometimes it's excavation that that can't be done during the day, for one reason or another.

We're required to come here to the board of public works for an exception to that. So those requests go through the clerk's office. I believe the clerk's office sends those notices out. We have to issue a notice for a hearing here to to get input from the public as needed. In this case, Highway 16 will require, some limited time to to work at night or outside of the noise restrictions.

I know that that generally speaking, the request is for the entire possible duration, but there are usually only a few select times at night or outside of hours when work actually will occur. Occur. So I will defer to the applicant to explain what their particular needs are.

Can the applicant representing Gurke's Gurke excavating, unmute and to be acknowledged.

Morning. My name is Scott.

Hello, Scott.

We are we are planning on you utilizing some night work to just do some staging. And as you know, we can't shut a lane down of traffic during the day. My time when you shut any lanes down would be at night after 7PM till 6AM. So we'd like to utilize the noise ordinance to stage materials by shutting a lane down and do if we had got any trucking or anything like that where we need to put a truck out in the lane, we'd do that then. We we have no intentions of putting installing the water main during the evening. It's just doing some staging work and and prepping for the

day work. And do you have a, this is the mayor speaking. Do you have a schedule for the days where you might work outside of those times, or is this just a continuous project that you plan to work outside of the allotted quiet hours?

It it's just continuous on the project, and we'll use it as needed.

Okay. Any questions from board of public work members? Alright. Seeing none, thank you very much. Motion is approved by council member Goggins, second by director oh, valid. Are there any individuals online? Because there's no one in the room that are here to speak from the public. Alright. There are no members from the public here to speak on this particular item, so we'll move forward with a vote. So board of public work members, please vote.

And that motion passes unanimously. Thank you, Gerke, excavating for the work that you are doing for our city. Moving to our next agenda item 20 nope. I guess that was actually public here. 260296, Donahue Service, WWTP loading rerate. Director Gallo oh, no. Jared.

Sorry. I missed what this agenda item last week, but pleased we're we've first of

the

we've seen a a in of we've lot of at the past. Wastewater plant. So we increased a digester the capacity, which means solids loadings to the plant. So now that, that's said and done, we want to hire Donahue to rerate the plant. What that means is we want to take a look at all the loadings coming into the plant, how we convert that to solids and where the solids go to ensure we can increase or handle loadings of solids.

So currently, our wastewater plant has BOD loading. We use biological oxet demand as a loading rate to the plant. Right now, that's 29,759 pounds per day. And if you noticed our CEMAR last year, we took a hit on that at a letter score, maybe a D or an F because we exceeded that. Now that we have the upgrade completed, we want to rerate the plants.

We want to hire Donahue and associate to rerate the plant so they can do all the mass balance for us, do all the calculations, submit that information to DNR so we can move the plant up to maybe 40,000 pounds of BOD, which then helps compensate or account for that loading coming into the treatment plant. So the purpose for this contract with Donahue is to re rate the plant, get that information to DNR so we can have that increased value or that capacity without taking kind of a ding on the front end of the plant. We have a lot of hydraulic capacity We can pass 35,000,000 gallons of sewage to the plant on a daily basis, but we have that limit on BOD to the plant. So we're looking at to rerate that utilizing Donahue's services.

Awesome. Thank you. So question for you. With this rerate, does that then increase customer fees?

Won't change the rates at all. It just gets us out of trouble with DNR and then gives us a more accurate number of how much pounds of BOD we can treat at the sewage plant.

Alright. Councilmember Goggin. Hi. Hello again. Does this

money come out of the Clean Water Fund as well?

This one comes out of our operating budget. So we have a budget for consulting services, so it comes out of our operating budget.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Alright. Thank you very much. Any other questions? Seeing none, motion approved by council member Gaga, second by director Gallagher. Please vote. Thank you, Jared.

Thank you.

And that motion passes unanimously. Alright. Next agenda item twenty six zero three one nine, construction contract change orders wise. For a minute, I thought that was the same thing. Was like, that doesn't make sense. Do we have I think there's

There are two, mayor. They are both attached, I believe. It's change orders number 1214 for the La Crosse Public Library interior renovations. Evan's here, I believe, and can answer any questions if you have them.

Any questions from board of public work members? Alright. Council President Deakinza.

I know they just had their grand opening. Do you anticipate a few more change orders, or are we getting close?

I believe 14 might be

the last.

There might be a 15. I'm not entirely sure. But we're getting to the end of them. That's all. That's what I know.

Thank

you. Any other questions? Alright. CNN, I'll take a motion. Thank you, Adam. Motion approved by director Gallagher, second by president Dickinson. Seeing no other discussion, please vote. And that motion passes unanimously. Alright. Happy Monday, everyone. Good morning, and have a great day. This meeting is adjourned.