Bonding Committee WWTP Remarks

I wanted to thank the bonding committee for your time and consideration today. My Name is Chuck Bradford and I am the Mayor of Mantorville. Joining me today is Tim Tjosaas the Mayor of Kasson as well as representatives from both councils. In front of you there is a small sample of what life in Mantorville tastes like, I hope you enjoy it.

In the past there were efforts to join school systems, Kasson and Mantorville were able to identify an opportunity and combine the two communities educational offering. Today we share a very strong and successful combined school system. Now the two communities are exploring a new area of cooperation, one we feel could work in your districts as well. This new effort combining waste water treatment facilities will

• Lower environmental impact
• Leverage economies of scale
• And provide less financial impact on our citizens.

Your communities would likely be able to see similar results.

The History:

Mayor Tjosaas will go over some of the needs in Kasson, I will focus on Mantorville. Both cites have current update needs. Mantorville’s plant is currently past its design life expectancy. While the PCA has been willing to work with Mantorville on some of our current non-compliance issues, it would be a challenge to meet the new foreseeable regulations at our current location. Our current location’s border is constrained by the surrounding properties and is also in the flood fringe. We are already having issues with bio-solid storage and we have to land apply in increasing frequency.

Mantorville is expecting accelerated growth as part of the positive impact from the DMC effort in Rochester. This accelerated growth will mandate service expansions outside the rate of which we have traditionally planned for.

The communities of Kasson and Mantorville feel that since this is a pilot project for a new area of cooperation, since the two communities are anticipating an accelerated growth rate as part of DMC and due to new state and federal mandates this project is a good candidate for inclusion in this cycles bonding bill. We hope you agree and will include our proposal in the next bonding bill.

Thank you again for your time and consideration, I would like to ask Mayor Tjosaas to now say a few words