[0:04] **Don Theisen**: Hello, everyone. I'm Don Theisen, Owners Representative for the City of Oakdale on the new Public Works facility project. This video is to give you an update on the project. Specifically, here's topics that we're going to cover today. Where's the facility going to be built? Who's going to work there? What will the facility look like? When will the work begin and end? What can I expect during construction? What's the project cost and how is this funded? And where can I learn more and stay informed? So, thanks again for joining us on this video, and let's just jump right into those questions. So, where's the facility going to be built? The address is 3200 Granada Avenue North, and as you can see on this map, it's going to be in the southwest corner of Granada Avenue at 32nd Street. This is [0:50] **Don Theisen**: a approximately 9.2-acre site that is currently owned by 3M. 3M is going to donate the land after some site cleanup, but that's going to be the location for the new public works facility to serve the city well into future. Who's going to work there? Well, Public Works has several divisions, and these are the groups that will be housed there. Streets and Fleet. So, it's the crews that do the road repairs, get out and plow the snow, and also maintain the city fleet including all the firetrucks and police vehicles in the city. Utilities division will also be there, and those are your sewer and water services that the city provides to all the houses and businesses. The Parks division maintains all the great city parks. Those folks will be there in this building, and then finally the Forestry and [1:36] **Don Theisen**: Environmental Services group that looks after all the different environmental issues here in the city and all the great trees that we have. And I also want to mention there will be a fuel island on this site. Similar to the fuel island right now on Hadley Avenue, it will serve all the city functions including the Police and Fire along with the Public Works folks. Moving to the next question, the project design, what will it look like? This is a map of the facility, how it will look after construction. The facility will face Granada Avenue with all the entrances for the workers off of 32nd street. [2:09] **Don Theisen**: The public will have access there off Granada Avenue and be able to access Public Works functions there, if you need, such as getting permits, anything Public Works related. Off of 32nd in the far corner, there is going to be a drop off for residents for brush drop off and that will be a great service that's going to be continued for everybody. The building itself will have offices starting on the right side of the building structure. The center is where all the trucks will be stored, and then the left side is where you'll have the different shops, and the fleet maintenance area being taken care of, and then your typical Public Works yard. [2:45] **Don Theisen**: As you can see a fuel island is there and different areas for storage, and then of course around the site will be some great landscaping for some screening, and it's going to be a great looking facility as you're going to see here shortly from our architect from Hagen, Christensen & McIlwain. [3:06] **Matt Lysne**: Hi, I'm Matt Lysne from HCM Architects in Minneapolis. We were hired by the City of Oakdale to work on the new Public Works facility design. Excited to share that with you today. The first image you're looking at would represent the public entrance. There is a public side on Granada Avenue with visitor parking, a visitor entrance, and the design on this side was to step the building and moderate the scale of the building. We're also providing materials on the side of the building that meet human scale, so brick, natural materials, lots of windows and fenestration, lots of daylight. [3:43] **Matt Lysne**: So the employees have a brightly lit professional work environment and the public who's visiting has a welcoming scale to the building and the public entry. The building is also oriented this way to shield the yard and the working spaces from the street both visually and acoustically. The rooftop design is solar-ready, and the building is designed to meet a LEED Silver Level of certification with ventilation, daylighting, insulation valves, and high efficiency mechanical electrical equipment. So, the view from 32nd street is similar in that we have the high quality materials at the [4:30] **Matt Lysne**: main employee areas where employees are staying and working day-to-day. The building is set back from 32nd so that the scale of the larger portions of the building is moderated for people using that street for public access. The large precast concrete side of the building has large areas of translucent glazing to push daylight deep into the facility, and the large volume is required to handle the large vehicles - the plow trucks and the large vehicles that are maintaining city streets sewer and infrastructure throughout Oakdale. The operation side and fleet maintenance building are a different color and texture of architectural precast to [5:16] **Matt Lysne**: differentiate that portion of the building from the vehicle storage. This area is higher for a couple of reasons. We have storage mezzanines so that valuable equipment and parts are stored inside. We have a large overhead bridge crane that helps service the fleet vehicles, and then there are lifts so that the vehicles can be lifted for safe fleet maintenance and service within the the building. This piece also has glass overhead garage doors both for safety so that employees can see inside now and also to allow daylight into the space. This slide is representing the visitor entry. [5:58] **Matt Lysne**: So, there's a welcoming canopy, flag poles, lots of landscaping designed by a professional landscape architect. In the visitor lobby, there's a reception desk for transactions. So, if people are getting meters, if they're getting buckthorn pullers, the various things that Public Works provides to the public, if contractors are purchasing water or meters there as well, there's a transaction encounter and there's adjacent storage so that employees don't have to go deep into the building to get that material or product for the public. It is secure lines, so that the public is on the lobby side with amenities such as a toilet room and public conference room that can be used for meetings, vendor [6:44] **Matt Lysne**: meetings, or even small bid openings for projects within the city. The employees are on the other side, and they access the office space through an employee entry way. These slides are representing those employee areas. So, we have a large modern open office space with flexible desks. Many of the staff who utilize this facility are in the field almost all of the work day and only need a place to touch down for paperwork or to work on their routes. So it's made to adapt so staff can flex in and out. The foreman and directors have offices adjacent. That's so everybody's able to interact and work together during the day. Then the offices have all [7:33] **Matt Lysne**: new modern workstation equipment, sit-stand desks and and a very professional, safe feeling, modern work environment. There are a couple of areas also of soft seating and a collaboration space, so that people can can have a quick face-to-face conversation as they're moving through their day. [8:05] **Don Theisen**: So now that you've seen from our architect what the project is going to look like, When is it, what is the schedule? So the first that's going to be seen out there is 3M will be going out there to clear the trees and doing the earth work that's needed. The clearing of trees, it is going to be a lot of trees removed on the project, but as you saw from one of our initial diagrams, we are going to plant many, many trees after this, and to reinforce the the site, but [8:18] **Don Theisen**: that site with the work from 3M is going to begin in February, and we expect it to continue to sometime in April of this year. Once the 3M work is complete, the city will begin our project, and there will also be some more earth work involved where we'll be moving dirt on the site to level it off and get a building pad. We hope that work can begin in June and be completed during the summer, and then the building construction itself should start in the fall of this year, September. We're we're planning right now of 2024 with construction going to July of 2025, and then as you can see, we hope to have project completion and move in and start Public Works operations next summer, July of 2025. So, what can I expect during construction? The site will be fenced in for security during construction and [9:06] **Don Theisen**: afterwards, there also will be a site, a fence around the site when we're done. So, the site will be completely fenced in. The contractors will be required to follow city ordinance on work hours which are 7 AM to 7 PM, Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM on Saturdays, and no work on Sundays or holidays. We do not know at this point if they're going to work on Saturdays, but if they do, those are the hours, are going to be limited. All construction access will be off 32nd street, so there'll be no truck traffic coming off the site onto Granada Avenue. The route that trucks will take going to and from the site moving dirt would be 32nd Street out to Granada, north up to Old Highway 5 or now County Road 14, and then out to 694. So the trucks [9:53] **Don Theisen**: will not be really going, will not be going through any residential areas there. The noise from the site will be your typical construction equipment. I would expect most of the noise would just come from backup alarms on equipment and just the banging of equipment, but once again it'll only be done during ordinance hours. No special type of equipment that will cause all kinds of crazy noise is expected for this project. What is the cost of this project? [10:19] **Don Theisen**: The current budget right now is $28.8 million dollars. The project funding that you can see there, a significant portion of it, $22 million, is from the vote-approved local option sales tax. That's a small percent sales tax that's now added to any purchases made here in the City of Oakdale. So not only are the City of Oakdale residents paying this, but also any visitors from other communities whether it's Woodbury or Saint Paul, help pay this tax. They certainly use your roads and other services, and so it makes sense for them to help pay for this Public Works facility. There will also be city bonding of $6 million dollars, and then there's some other sources. 3M is reimbursing the city for some cost. We expect to get some rebates from Xcel for all the energy-efficient items that will be in this project, and those amount to $800,000. So, the project really is supported [11:09] **Don Theisen**: primarily by those three funding sources. If you'd like more information after watching this video, our project website is shown here. Certainly, feel free to go to this website, and not only that, you can sign up for email updates at this website. So, anything that happens on the project, you'll get an update of that happening. At the same time, there's contacts on that website. Feel free to contact, I am the contact, feel free to contact myself for any questions, but once again, during construction, we're going to be posting progress, and if you sign up for email updates, you'll get those and be fully informed. So, thanks for joining us on this video. Once again, thank you also for your support for this project. It would not happen without the voters of Oakdale supporting this project and and seeing it [11:57] **Don Theisen**: forward.