10.01 - Engineering Services for 2010

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M December 22, 2009 The Honorable Mayor and City Council City of Pequot Lakes PO Box 361 Pequot Lakes, MN 56472 -0361 RE: Engineering Services for 2010 Dear Mayor and Members of the Council: Brainerd 1 Baxter 7804 Industrial Park Road PO Box 2720 Baxter, MN 56425 -2720 Tel: 218.829.5117 Fax: 218.829.2517 www.wsn.us.com Widseth Smith Nolting would like to thank you for the opportunity to serve as your City Engineer in 2009 and respectfully request re- appointment as your City Engineer going forward in 2010. We have been working with you since 1993 and think of you as a part of our extended family. We greatly appreciate our working relationships with all of the Council and City staff and value the confidence you place in our work. WSN is proud to employ about 60 people in Crow Wing County - some of whom reside in Pequot Lakes - and to reinvest in the communities we serve. In 2010, we will continue to attend your monthly Council meetings and answer miscellaneous questions from City Council Members and City Staff at no cost to the City (this amounted to a number of hours in un- billed time and services to the City in 2009, which we will calculate for you if requested; in the past, it has been in the thousands of dollars). In 2010, we propose to provide similar services that we provided to the City in 2009, again, at no charge to the City. These include: • We will attend your monthly Council Meeting. • We will answer miscellaneous questions from City Council Members and City Staff. In 2009, we provided similar services to the City, the amount of un- billed time and services which we have not calculated; however, we estimate it was in the thousands of dollars. Also, please note that our 2010 billing rates are the same as our 2009 billing rates — we are trying to hold the line during these challenging economic times. And speaking of challenging economic times, construction prices remain very attractive. In lieu of an all or nothing approach to infrastructure, we like to work with our Cities in fashioning a long -term, thought -out infrastructure investment plan that you can then undertake in a responsible and economical manner. We are glad the City has taken this approach too, and we have enjoyed working with the City on projects engineering I architecture J land surveying j environmental services WIDSETH SMITH MUTING