LETTER FROM OUR ACTING MAYOR

Anne Hunt
Acting Mayor
City of Minnetrista

7701 Co Rd 110 W

Minnetrista, MN 55364

April 21, 2014

Dear Hunter’s Crest Homeowners:

I regret that I will not be able to attend your meeting this evening.

I wanted to give you a brief update on the water treatment project. We approved a feasibility study with Bolton & Menk to provide accurate numbers for different options to address our drinking water needs on April 7th. The alternatives to be researched are gravity filtration, centralized or distributed water treatment plants and also reverse osmosis treatment.

On May 5th, Bolton & Menk will present the options and the costs at the City Council meeting. Then we will put together a survey online and via mail for our municipal water users covering the different options. We will ask for your responses by the end of May. We plan to vote on the preferred option during our first meeting in June.  Our goal is to send the project out for bids this fall and have the plant (or plants) operational in 2015.

 I want to thank you for your patience with this process. The City Council and I are committed to building a solution that will last more than a few years and maximize your financial investment. We don’t want to come back in a few years and tell you that we are out of capacity or that the technology is no longer sufficient to provide safe and aesthetically acceptable drinking water.

Sincerely,

Anne Hunt