By Chad Koenen

Publisher

New York Mills will get a better grasp of the overall condition of its streets as part of a new plan unveiled by Apex Engineering last week.

During its regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday night, the NY Mills City Council approved a proposal from Apex Engineering to develop a city street pavement evaluation and maintenance plan report. The report will provide an evaluation of city street conditions, which will include an assessment of the condition of street pavements and a short-term maintenance plan. 

The goal of the plan is to not only create an overall assessment of street conditions, but to also develop a maintenance plan to increase to longevity of the city streets. The plan will allow the city to take a more long-term planning approach to city streets and subsequent infrastructure. The report is likely to be completed by April or May of 2024. 

In other news

• Heard the monthly liquor store report, which showed that combined gross sales were down for the month by 3 percent from last year, while the cost of goods were down 1 percent as a percentage of sales from last year. The liquor store profits are up for the year as the city’s net revenues year to date is $64,166.48 before transfers. 

• Heard the fire department responded to 21 calls in October, a majority of which were city and rural rescue. The department did respond to three fire calls during the month. 

• Heard the gas service construction is done for the year as the utility department installed six new services since the October meeting. During the past year the city has completed three service replacements, installed two future stubs for homes on 383rd St., installed five existing service tie-overs to new gas main, one service relocate to allow for a building expansion, installed 13 new services, installed 2,000 feet of 1/2 to 1” service pipe, 150 feet of 2” service pipe and 2,600 feet of 4” main pipe. 

• Heard the utility department remains busy with Arvig fiber installation utility locate tickets. NY Mills Public Workers Director Kyle Mattson estimated the city will have completed over 600 locates for the season by the end of last week. 

• Heard the police department responded to 173 calls for service in October, while issuing 4 citations and 48 warnings. 

• Approved the appointment of Tim Muehler and Caleb Monson as new members of the NY Mills EDA. They will take over the positions previously held by Amy Sobieski and Jason Schik, who both recently resigned from the NY Mills EDA.

• Accepted the donation of $7,500 from the NY Mills Lions Club to the City of NY Mills for the pool project.