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Metro Flood Diversion Authority—June 22, 2017 1 METRO FLOOD DIVERSION AUTHORITY JUNE 22, 2017—3:33 PM <br /> 1. MEETING TO ORDER A meeting of the Metro Flood Diversion Authority was held Thursday, June 22, 2017, at 3:33 <br />PM in the Fargo City Commission Room with the following members present: Fargo City Mayor <br />Tim Mahoney; Fargo City Commissioner Dave Piepkorn; Cass County Commissioner Mary Scherling; Cass County Commissioner Chad M. Peterson; Cass County Commission <br />representative Darrell Vanyo; Moorhead City Mayor Del Rae Williams; Moorhead City Council <br />Member Chuck Hendrickson; Clay County Commissioner Kevin Campbell; Clay County Commissioner Frank Gross; Cass County Joint Water Resource District Manager Mark <br />Brodshaug; and West Fargo City Commissioner Mike Thorstad. Fargo City Commissioner Tony Grindberg and Moorhead City Council Member Joel Paulsen were absent. <br />2. MINUTES APPROVED <br />MOTION, passed Mr. Vanyo moved and Mr. Piepkorn seconded to approve the minutes from the regular meeting held May 25, 2017, and special meeting held May 30, 2017, as presented. Motion carried. <br /> 3. AGENDA ORDER <br />MOTION, passed <br />Mr. Campbell moved and Mr. Peterson seconded to approve the order of the agenda. Motion carried. <br />4. MANAGEMENT UPDATE <br />Program management consultant (PMC) report Randy Richardson from CH2M provided an update on activities over the last month, which <br />include advertising for the OHB levee construction and County Road 16/County Road 17 <br />realignment bids; continued land acquisitions; and refining the P3 RFP documents for a July release to proposers. Priority areas for the next month include sending the FEMA Conditional <br />Letter of Map Revision (CLOMR) notification letters to individual property owners; continued land acquisitions; awarding the OHB levee and road realignment contracts; and preparing for a Federal court hearing regarding ongoing litigation on July 18th. <br /> Robert Cowen from CH2M provided a brief financial update on the overall program status and <br />said $365 million has been expended to date. <br /> Greg Baisch from CH2M provided a construction update on continued work on in-town levees, landscaping and plantings, and Oxbow home demolition and relocation projects. He said <br />upcoming projects include the next phase of the Oxbow levee construction and re-bidding of the Oxbow City Park relocation project. <br /> 5. CORPS OF ENGINEERS UPDATE Terry Williams, Corps of Engineers Project Manager, provided an update of activities, which <br />include finalizing plans and specs for the Wild Rice Dam removal mitigation project; providing <br />Wild Rice control structure draft technical plans and specs for sponsor review; providing draft preliminary engineering report and real estate drawings on southern embankment design for <br />sponsor review; preloading of soils for Diversion inlet control structure; beginning recon field <br />work by biotic teams for geomorphic surveys to begin in September and cultural mitigation of sites along the diversion channel in August or September. <br /> Ms. Williams showed pictures from a flyover of the Diversion inlet control structure, which is scheduled for completion in 2020.