CITY OF ELLSWORTH NEWSLETTER 02/06/2017

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Greetings from City Hall

Happy Valentine’s Day

Please welcome Sam Quam as the new Parkview Manor Administrator. Thank you Mike Werner for your many years of service and best of luck to you on your retirement!

Update on the Verizon Cell Tower: All the paperwork has been completed by the City of Ellsworth and City of Ellsworth Attorney. We are hoping they will get started thisspring!

Update on the Street, Water, and Sewer Project: DGR of Rock Rapids, Iowa has put together a few more options for the city. Replace water main and replace pavement between the existing curb & gutter for 10.5 blocks in SE part of Ellsworth. The water main work will consist of installing new 6” & 8” water main to replace the existing 4” water main. Fire Hydrants will be replaced and services lines will be reconnected.

The Street work consists of removing the existing asphalt pavement between the curb & gutter and replacing it with 6” of Portland Cement Concrete pavement.

Replace Water Main and Water Service Lines (8.5 blocks).

SNOW REMOVAL ~ please be courteous enough to remove your vehicle off the city street if you see that the snow plow is out.

SNOW PLOWING STREETS WITH VEHICLE REMOVAL ~ if your vehicle has not been removed off the city streets this winter, the Ellsworth City Council has no choice but to have a no parking ordinance in place from November 1st through April 1st. Which means absolutely NO parking on any city street at any time.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION: The City of Ellsworth can prohibit the deposit of snow on the street from private property owners. Essentially the city can clear the snow from the street. If the individual property owner choses to have a parking lot or spaces (or driveway) then they would be responsible for removing the snow on that area. Even if it is snow that the city pushes there in the process of cleaning the street. For instance, your driveway.But the property owner does not have the right to take this snow and move it back to the street or to move snow from their private property to the street. Please be patient. Snow removal does take time.

Watch the Ellsworth Facebook page (Like us on Facebook: City of Ellsworth, Minnesota) and the City website .

2017 Schaap Sanitation Recycling Calendar included on the back side.

~ The Ellsworth City Council