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W IDSETH <br /> December 4, 2006 SMITH <br /> MOLTING <br /> The Honorable Mayor and City Council <br /> City of Pequot Lakes <br /> PO Box 361 <br /> Pequot Lakes, MN 56472-0361 <br /> RE: Engineering Services for 2007 <br /> Dear Mayor and Members of the Council: <br /> Widseth Smith Nolting would like to thank you for the opportunity to serve as your city engineer in 2006 and <br /> look forward to serving the City in 2007. <br /> We have been working with you since 1993 and think of you as a part of our extended family.We <br /> appreciate our relationship and value the confidence you place in our work.WSN is proud to employ about <br /> 60 people in Crow Wing County—some of whom reside in Pequot Lakes—and to reinvest in the <br /> communities we serve. <br /> In 2007,we will continue to attend your monthly Council meetings and answer questions from City Council <br /> Members and City Staff at no cost to the City (this amounted to a number of hours in un-billed time and <br /> services to the City in 2006,which we will calculate for you if requested; in the past, it has been in the <br /> thousands of dollars). <br /> Following is a summary of a few of the projects we worked on with the City this past year, as well as future <br /> projects for 2007: <br /> ■ TH 371 <br /> We will continue to assist the City in working through all the issues (safety, service roads, city <br /> utilities,cost-sharing, etc.) associated with MnDOT's proposed TH 371 improvements. Although <br /> there have been—and will continue to be--challenging decisions to make,we welcome the <br /> potential opportunities to make Pequot Lakes a better place to live,work,shop, and play. <br /> ■ 2006 Pequot Road Improvements <br /> This project is another example, similar to the McGill Street and Evenson Road project of 2005, of <br /> our"measured" involvement,with City staff carrying out some of the services we would have <br /> provided in the past. <br /> ■ Various Plat Reviews <br /> With the growth in the area, P&Z has asked us to review several plats.We appreciate the opportunity <br /> to work with the City on coordinating infrastructure with planning and zoning. <br /> ■ South Oak Street and Government Drive Improvements <br /> As part of the process started in 2005,we will continue to work toward engineering and funding <br /> solutions for the replacement and expansion of City roadways and utilities in these areas. <br /> 7804 Industrial Park Road ■ PO Box 2720 ■ Baxter, MN 56425-2720 ■ TEL:218.829.51 17 ■ rAx: 218.829.2517 ■ WEB:WWW.WSn-mn.com <br /> - ...,, - ,. I I r A,7 A l C C D\/I(_ r S <br />