Hello Everyone,

Just a short note to update you on where things are going with the project.

The following items have been done:

1. A meeting of the Advisory group was held on April 5th, 2005 at 6:30 p.m.

We discussed the following things:

a. What is a preliminary engineering report and the components of it b. How do you develop the rates for a project?

c. The different tasks that the landowners will do over the project timeframe.

d. Talked about the homeowner survey for both commercial and residential and determined that probably two (one for each group) should be done and sent out. The Engineers and myself will put an existing one together, refine it, and send it to Sandy, the Clerk, who will send it out.

The meeting lasted about two hours and the group had some serious questions asked of the Engineer (Carla Cross) and from Ryan Brandt (Eco-Check). The next meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 17th, 2005, at the Community Center at 6:30 p.m.

2. The Attorney and Consultant put together the Permission forms for the Right to Enter Property and do soil borings and survey work and Sandy, the Clerk sent the legal descriptions to me for putting together the forms. The Engineer provided some maps of areas to review and a cover letter was sent to four properties asking them for permission. As of this date, soils were reviewed on three properties by the Engineers for North American Wetland Engineering and the fourth had football fields located on them by the school.

3. I have spoken with Andrew MacArthur regarding a resolution for re-imbursement and this should be ready for review at the May 17th meeting and adopted at the May 24th meeting. This will allow the Board to recover expenses that were incurred prior to bonding.

4. A budget will begin to be developed over the next couple weeks and there may be some further review for what is called a Certificate of Indebtedness to cover the "soft costs" for planning and doing any work prior to the construction bid.

5. I am hoping that a rough draft of the Preliminary Engineering report will be ready for the June regular Board meeting so that the Board and possibly some advisory group landowners will have a chance to review it prior to setting up for a required Public Hearing process.

6. Finally, once the surveys are in, I will get them to the Engineer and we will work up a plot plan for each homeowner as we begin to get into the project so they can help us decide the design on their property so it will fit with not only what they have now, but what they might want to do with their property in the future (such as remodeling, adding an addition and/or bedroom), etc.

7. In the future, we will be looking to get started on the following in the next months:

a. After the PER and a design chosen, initiate final documents with Engineer for contractual work to do project b. Placing the SSD on the Project Priority list for the MPCA c. Sitting down with the local representative of Rural Development and others for financing possibilities. Review financing and grant possibilities d. Finalizing the design work-up and going forward with a design meeting

(mid-summer)

e. Setting up for articles in the newspaper so people can read the progress of the project and understand the steps to do one.

I will do a brief review at the next meeting on the 17th and also will bring an agenda and some small work books so people can keep track of materials handed out and meeting notes.