| Topic: 318% TAX INCREASE by Mayor Vern Rasmussen Jr, LEGACY DESTROYED IN ALBERT LEA, MN | < Next Oldest | Next Newest > |
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was1 
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Posted on: Jan. 12 2016,8:52 am |
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Have you made a formal request for this? (I'm guessing you have). Get your neighbors to go with you to every council meeting and all speak on this until it is resolved.
Has any of the news agencies looked into this at all? Get the paper to do some stories on this.
Any movement yet on the "investigation"?
Good luck. hopfully something gets done right.
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| Post Number: 212
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was1
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Posted on: Jan. 18 2016,12:24 pm |
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Stables area sewer and water included in Governors Bonding Bill. The following is from the Trib.
QUOTE District 27A Rep. Peggy Bennett, R-Albert Lea, said she is happy the governor included the project in his water quality and infrastructure plan.
“Wastewater treatment and drinking water infrastructure are vital to cities throughout the state like Albert Lea and are expensive to build, upgrade and operate,” Bennett said. “This type of project is a good example of an essential priority that impacts both the local and state levels.”
How about getting money in the bonding bill for fixing the failed existing CITY sanitary sewer on Virginia? Do the current citizens of Albert Lea, who have paid City Property Taxes for years, paid their sewer and water bill for years, which should include funds for the eventual replacement when they fail, not matter as much as people living in the stables area who do not pay all that? (I honestly don’t know if that area is part of the City of Albert Lea now or not, which would affect if they are paying city taxes or not).
It’s great that something got include in the bonding bill, it’s sad that the sewer issue, which has been going on for 40 year on Virginia Place was not even asked for. For 40 years the city has been saying it is too expensive to fix and there is no money for it, yet, they don’t even put it in a bonding bill request.
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| Post Number: 213
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alcitizens
Albert Lea
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Posted on: Jan. 19 2016,2:42 am |
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I have a brand new 10-inch gravity sanitary sewer line right outside in the street that runs to a brand new manhole that was designed by City Engineer Steven Jahnke.. Even he admits that he designed it to FAIL..
Jahnke offering a city funded Grinder Pump System to go with this new oversized sanitary sewer line is clearly admitting to guilt..
Backups happening for decades and now of all times they offer a grinder pump system to connect to the new sanitary sewer..  
The sanitary sewage that crosses Virginia Pl comes from nearly 100 homes and businesses, not just S Virginia Pl..
This issue should have been a priority long ago and yet local government officials still choose to spend the money elsewhere..
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| Post Number: 214
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alcitizens
Albert Lea
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Posted on: Jan. 19 2016,11:10 am |
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A simple cost effective way to eliminate the sag in the sanitary sewer line between Newton Ave. and James Ave and greatly reduce the infiltration from storm sewer flooding and sanitary sewer backups into properties in the area..
If the sanitary sewer line at the east side of the 1121 Newton Ave property line has an elevation of approximately (1208-feet 4-inches) above sea level, this plan will work and it will also save the City 10s of thousands of dollars over boring a new line from Newton Ave to the 6th St and St John sanitary sewer lift station and then reconstructing the lift station deeper..
1201 Virginia Pl would require a grinder pump system..
If possible, lining the old sewer running under the house would add life to that section of pipe..
The circles are manholes..
1116 James Ave is City owned and the house no longer exists..
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| Post Number: 215
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irisheyes
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Posted on: Jan. 19 2016,1:42 pm |
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Quick question, what are you using to add arrows and circles to your photos? I've seen you do this before in this thread and I have a hell of a time finding decent software that's easy to use on my laptop.
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alcitizens
Albert Lea
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Posted on: Jan. 20 2016,10:06 pm |
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Let me be clear that I don't want to be doing this crap.. In a perfect world we would trust the word of an engineer like the City Council has always done but I have seen those words falsified by the City Engineer.. Figures of $20 million for a project that can be accomplished for $2 million.. To bore a new sanitary sewer line and reconstruct a sanitary sewer lift station when low cost alternatives are available.. It makes me question both his integrity and his intentions for elevated costs on projects and for proposing the impossible.. Either way the projects that need to be done will not get done because of his word only.. This sh!t needs to change..
A storm sewer forcemain is a pressurized system that has to go through a pump after going through a screen to remove any large items.. So why would the City Engineer say a 24-inch forcemain that is pumping 15,000 gallons of storm sewage per minute would require manholes just in case the line ever plugged?
Plugged with what for God's sake.. 
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| Post Number: 218
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was1
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Posted on: Jan. 21 2016,10:49 am |
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Since the sewer was originally designed to flow from Newton to James what you are proposing should work and should have been something the City looked at as soon as they discovered the sag issue. Putting in a new line in that alignment, correcting the sag, would cost very little as it does not require any additional street restoration. And since you are saying 1116 James is gone, then there is no hangup to replacing that line.
I really do not understand the blind eye the city is using on this project. Fix the problem and do it right. The Citizens should not have to put up with this, and they really should not have to be the engineer for the project.
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| Post Number: 219
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alcitizens
Albert Lea
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Posted on: Jan. 27 2016,9:59 am |
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Capital Improvement Plan 2016-2020
TH65(Broadway Ave) to 6th and St John Sewer Line Replacement $350,000 in 2017.. (Sewer Fund)
Virginia Place Storm Water Sewer System Study $50,000 in 2018.. (General Budget Fund & Shell Rock River Watershed, 50/50 split)
http://cityofalbertlea.org/wp-content/uploads/CIP-2016-2020.pdf
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| Post Number: 220
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was1
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Posted on: Jan. 27 2016,10:51 am |
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those should have been done prior to the Virginia work.
So, how long will they be in the CIP before they are actually done? Virginia was what, 15 years?
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