At the city council meeting on May 20, Stanley council members voted to approve the project extension requested by Haas & Sons due to “mud.” Brian Lambert of Ayres Associates explained that due to the project’s early start in April, the rains, and the added seventeen sanitary services and “a couple water services,” Haas is requesting the timeline to be extended for one month to June 21 so the base can set for a few weeks because the base is softer than they wanted for running concrete trucks on.
Alderperson Mark Fitzsimmons agreed, “We don’t want to come back and relive this nightmare.”
With a few houses on that street participating in City Wide Thrift Sales set for May 30 through June 1, Lambert said that the Second Avenue street base should be “good” for vehicles to drive on.
“So, you’re saying that residents can drive on the streets to get to their houses?” asked Alderperson Jason Meyer.
“Yes,” confirmed Lambert but added that the driveways may be “a little tricky.”
“But they can definitely make it, I think, without four-wheel drive. They may need a little clearance.”
Mayor Mike Henke asked if the extension would cause a problem with the grant and Lambert stated that the city has two years for the grant.
Lambert also stated that two sanitary services were added to the Johnson lot on the northeast corner, that is essentially three lots, but all owned by one owner. “It was recommended by the city to add two more so that if they ever sold off the lots everybody would have sanitary and water service.” He added that one inlet was added to the south side of east Second Avenue and one water service, and it cost approximately $4,000 but confirmed that it was coming out of the grant. The council unanimously approved the extra work for the Second Avenue Project.

City Shop Repairs
The Stanley City Council approved the construction of a City Shop Salt Bin from ABE Concrete for up to $7,000 at the Monday evening meeting.
Alderperson Mark Fitzsimmons mentioned that he contacted two other contractors in the area for bids and the first contractor said, “We’re not interested,” and “the second one never got back to me.”
Fitzsimmons stated, “The DNR is going to continue to push forward for the salt containment.”
Huff said it needs to be installed to protect the city’s reed bed.
As the meeting continued, the council decided against stripping and removing the asphalt of the city shop parking lot instead deciding to pulverize it. Fitzsimmons explained to the Council that Haas Sons, Inc. is the sub pulverizer for Senn.
“I got a rough number of $3,000 to pulverize the lot and then we will retain the material for our own use at that given point,” he said. Fitzsimmons mentioned that Monarch Paving also submitted a much higher bid of $91,000 and didn’t include pulverizing but did include removal and disposal of the current surface.
The council approved the bid not to exceed $61,000 from Senn Blacktop, Inc. for grading and paving for the City Shop parking lot with pulverizing from Haas Sons, Inc. after the recommendation from Fitzsimmons.