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Phase I will cost $2 Million and has been approved by the Albert Lea City Council..

Phase II will cost over $8 million if approved by the Albert Lea City Council.. (Albert Lea Tribune)

Phase two is expected to cost approximately $8.6 million.

http://www.albertleatribune.com/2016...pansion

“It bothers me a little bit that there is such a large concern from the community that we aren’t spending money wisely,”said Albert Lea City Sixth Ward Councilor Al “Minnow” Brooks.

http://www.albertleatribune.com/2015...xt-year

Director of Public Works/City Engineer Steven Jahnke got the $2 million that could have been used to upgrade the failing Virginia Pl Lift Station that has been allowed to flood residents for decades..


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look at the over stuffed chairs in their break room :finger:
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If they do need more room and an upgrade, why don't they buy the Thermo King building ($1.1 million) or Erlandson's ($1 million)?
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^^I think you folks just found a new cause.

I'ts been decades since I've been I either building but if they've been kept up and the square footage is there, why not.


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look at the over stuffed chairs in their break room :finger:

I'm sure if you drove around town you could find chairs of equal quality on somebody's boulevard, curb, end of driveway or what-have-you replete with a sign that sez 'free' on it.
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Let me get this straight, Virgina place was done wrong and will still be flooded, Bridge avenue is terrible and needs work, are taxes in Albert Lea are very high, and we are going to spend a min of 2 million making the city garage warm and cozy ?  Also whats with all the easy chairs at the garage and three break rooms?
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Do they still have the foosball table in the break room?

Building is a pit and needs updating.  But, they (Engineering) have not proven that they know how to prioritize and make the best use of the tax payers $, just look at what Common Sense noted above.

Questions the City needs to ask on this project are related to life safety and overall efficiency needs of the building.   Are their life safety issues?  mold?  tripping hazards? structural issues that could cause a failure and injury?  Are their efficiency issues?  do they need to move a number of vehicles/equipment to get to something they need?  Are their other times wastes that could be improved by improving the building?  

I'm sure we have all heard the stories of how the workers all take their morning coffee, lunch and afternoon coffee break at the shop.  They can be out working by the high school, have to stop work, button up the work site, drive into the shop and then start their 15 minute break.  Then, about 30 minutes later it is leave the shop and head back to the job site and get restarted.  Shoot, right there is an hour of time lost, and that is just for morning coffee.  I bet by making the workers take their breaks on their work site, in a couple years they will have saved enough in work time (getting more accomplished within the same time) and fuel savings to pay for their $2M upgrade.  And since they all are not going to the shop 3 times a day just for breaks I bet they can make smaller "meeting" rooms and save some $.

The City needs to fix the true problems in the City, and actually fix them, not put a dress on them and call it good like they did on Virginia Place.  After they prove they can actually take care of the citizens then the citizens will have no problem taken care of their work area.
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In regard to the Erlandson site -

That wouldn't be a very good location, location, location. Too far out and congested there.

For a city garage anyway.
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What I don't get is that Albert Lea City Manager Chad Adams says that property taxes for homeowners will not be affected for this project yet property taxes went up in 2016 and possible in 2017.. Water bills went up 8% in 2016..

When the Albert Lea Water and Sewer Fund becomes depleted, water bills go up.. When the General Reserve Fund becomes depleted, property taxes go up..

Chad Adams makes it sound like Free Money is paying for the Jahnke Public Works upgrade.. He is full of crap.. People paying water bills and property taxes are paying for this project..

Albert Lea residents continue to be suckered by these con men, even City Councilmen..
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When I chose to move back to Albert Lea for my retirement years several factors attracted me, one factor was low housing cost and taxes.

We're not going to have low taxes long if we continue to allow our elected officials to proceed with these grandiose schemes.
What we're talking here for the utility is an office/locker-room/cafeteria/meeting room for two million dollars ( phase I ). Phase II is even more spendy.

How much redundancy do we have between the city and county garages? As taxpayers both these government entities essentially work for the residents of freeborn county, wouldn't be more cost effective to combine resources.

Not that we shouldn't spend to maintain our local infrastructure but we have to be fiscally responsible with our limited resources.

Another grandiose scheme is that new terminal at the airport or the plan for the old Farmstead site.

I knew I should have moved to the Villages in Florida!


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