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Home My WebLink About1990 Edition 68 July im am BROOKLYN CENTER 1 1II11 CITY NEWSLETTER NUMBER 68 JULY, 1990 BROOKLYN CENTER No Charge to Dispose of CRIME Yard Waste in Maple Grove PREVENTION FUND Brooklyn Center residents can Yard waste brought to the site now dispose of yard waste free of should include only grass clip - charge at a site located in Maple pings, leaves, and garden waste. Grove. The City has contracted with No brush should be brought to the property owner to "landspread" the disposal site. yard waste at this site. Garbage haulers will continue to "Lands preading" involves collect yard waste in Brooklyn 00 Q Q spreading the yard waste in a two Center. Residents requiring 561 6649 O� to three inch layer and working it curbside collection of yard waste Q Q- into the top soil. should contact their garbage hauler � SERV \G� for prices and policies. The site is located approximately 10 miles from Brooklyn Center. Residents can follow County Road This newsletter represents the Support D.A.R.E. 81 (old Highway 169) north past City of Brooklyn Center's con - Program With Osseo to County Road 121. Turn cernfor conservation ofresources left onto County 121 and take and energy. This issue is printed Contribution the first right onto 101st Avenue on 100% recycled paper. North and follow the signs to the The Brooklyn Center Crime Pre- site. vention Fund just completed a busy year of activities. In addition to the The site is open Monday through please Help With traditional activities of providing Friday, from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m Food Donation (Continued on Page 4) The yard waste site is closed on Sundays. Summer is always a difficult time for CEAP's Foodshelf, lo- Major Road The site is open to Brooklyn cated at 7231 Brooklyn Boule- J Center residents at no charge. An vard. Last summer, 1080 fami- Construction attendant will be on duty to assist lies received food through CEAP. Proje you and to check driver's licenses J as proof of residency. Another rea- There has been an increase of Work is under way this summer son for the license check is to keep 31 percent in the number of on two major street construction a record of the number of Brooklyn families receiving food during the projects in Brooklyn Center, along Center residents and quantity of first three months of this year with preliminary work on a third material brought to the site. over the same time last year. project scheduled for construction While there is no direct cost to If this increase continues in 1992. residents using the site, the City is through the summer, 1400 fami- FREEWAY BOULEVARD /65TH/ billed $3 per cubic yard for all waste lies will come to CEAP for food 66TH AVENUES disposed at the site. between June and September. Freeway Boulevard /65th /66th Because landspreading involves Food donations are desperately Avenues will be improved this working the yard waste material needed this summer. Please call summer from Shingle Creek to into the top soil, it is important that CEAP at 566 -9600 for additional Camden Avenue. Left turn lanes yard waste brought to the site be as information during normal busi- free of brush and other woody ness hours, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., (Continued on Page 3) material as possible. Monday through Friday. 1 Proper Disposal of Household Hazardous Waste Proper disposal of household oil based and latex paint contain in Maple Grove. Major Appliance hazardous waste and problem mercury used as a preservative. Service (291 -1100) and J.R's Ap- materials is important. Residents Unlike latex paint, the mercury in pliance Disposal, Inc. (454 -9215) often call City Hall with questions oil based paint does not bind to the will collect appliances at the curb on the proper disposal of house- paint when dried and can be re- for a fee. hold waste that cannot be disposed leased into the environment if the CAR BATTERIES —As of July, of routinely with their garbage. paint is disposed of improperly. Oil 1987, all places selling lead acid based paint should be saved for the batteries, such as auto part stores, Many common household chemi- household hazardous waste drop discount stores and service sta- cals referred to as "household haz- off. ardous waste" require special dis- tions, are required to accept used posal to avoid any contamination TIRES —Many local tire sales batteries. of the environment. outlets accept old tires for a small BUTTON BATTERIES —Used in Household hazardous wastes fee. cameras, hearing aids, watches, etc., include adhesives (glues, epoxy USED MOTOR OIL—As of Janu- button batteries can be recycled at Target Stores, Drug Emporium, resins, tile grout, etc.), aerosol ary, 1988, it is illegal to place the Hearing Aid Center in containers, cleaners, gasoline, motor oil in the garbage. All places Sears Sears ale, Warner True Value antifreeze, lead acid batteries, that sell motor oil in Minnesota Hardware in Brooklyn Center, and pesticides, solvents (paint thin- must collect used motor oil or post all Snyder Drug Stores. ners, wood alcohol, nail polish information indicating the nearest removers, etc.), used motor oil, place that accepts waste oil. ANTIFREEZE — Antifreeze may be wood preservatives, and paint. poured into the toilet. Make sure it APPLIANCES — Appliances can be is diluted with plenty of water. Do Currently there is no central drop dropped off for a fee at North Hen- not pour antifreeze into storm off for household hazardous waste nepin RecyclingTransfer (425 -2239) sewers. items. However, Hennepin County's garbage transfer station under construction in Brooklyn Park will Make Your Home Safer Through include a permanent household hazardous waste drop off area. The Neighborhood Watch Program facility should open this August, and will be available this Brooklyn You can make our community a ing a pizza giveaway on National Center residents. safer place by getting involved Night Out scheduled for August 7. through the Neighborhood Watch Brooklyn Center has grown to Some of these items can be dis- Program. include 45 Neighborhood Watch posed of properly at home if proper In this program, block residents Groups in the community. To precautions are taken. The Min - get to know each other and to re- help fight crime and to get in- nesota Pollution Control Agency, port any suspicious behavior on volved, please call Officer Grass 643- 3473, will provide informa- their block by calling 911. at 569 -3333 for additional infor- tion on proper disposal. Henne- mation. pin County, 348 -4919, also has To begin the program, a neigh - staff to assist with questions on borhood meeting is arranged with (''� �/ hazardous waste. at least half of the homes in the R R V V K L i N area represented. A police repre- The following steps should be sentative will describe the pro- CENTER taken to dispose of household gram, choosing a volunteer con - hazardous and problem waste ma- tact person who will be respon- NEIGHBORHOOD terials. sible for passing out quarterly ft newsletters, and any special CRIME PAINT —For le over latex paint, messages from the police depart - brush paint in layers on newspa- ment. per or cardboard or pour about a one inch layer of paint into acard- The watch groups are encour- board box lined with plastic. When aged to have an annual fun get the paint is thoroughly dry, it can together, which many times is held be disposed in the trash. Disposal on National Night Out. WATC H of oil based paint should be treated This year, the Brooklyn Center differently from latex paint. Both Crime Prevention Fund is sponsor - 2 Road Construction Underway (Continued from Page 1) will be added; new traffic signals will be installed; public utilities FREEWAY BOULEVARD CONSTRUCTION PROJECT will be improved; and a bicycle /pe- 1 - I U I U I I L--'- I 69TH AVE N , II destrian trail will be constructed. 6VFH AVE N Humboldt Avenue, from 65th to z z 69th Avenues, will also be resur SHINGLE HUM"OLDT F'LACE Ut faced as art of this p roject. _ . = N P p A "'(WAY 67TH AVE N p OVERLAY These improvements will cost ap- PARKWAY CIR 6TPH AVE N ONLY ti o proximately $1.2 million and are sir - =' z WIDENED e i WALK NEW BIKE PATH expected to improve traffic safety N om- = == W <: 1 BROOKLYN ENTF:f2 and the flow of traffic, while in- NEW BIKE PATH j HIGH SCHOOL FIRE OUSE PARK /tt a p ; 1 / t creasing both pedestrian and bi- SIGNALS SIGNALS EAST FREEWAY FIRE, cycle safety. HLUO ` STATION 65TH AVE N o The three major intersections JA MES W 0 4 on Freeway Boulevard /65th /66th � �' " � � � � � (at Shingle Creek Parkway, at - 5 LANES s LAJ Humboldt Avenue, and at Du- pont Avenue) will be redesigned risdiction of the street to the City. to provide protected left turn y' similar project is in the planning l 69TH AVENUE lanes. Permanent traffic signaa systems will also be installed l stages for the Brooklyn Park seg- The 69th Avenue project, a $6 each of these intersections. The ment of West River Road. Approxi- million state aid construction roadway between Shingle Creek mately $675,000 of the estimated project proposed for 1992, has Parkway and Humboldt Avenue $1,550,000 cost of the project will been approved by the City Coun- will be widened to provide a cen- be financed by state funds. cil. ter two - way - left -turn lane. West River Road will be totally This project, which will recon- Between Humboldt and Camden reconstructed, and the intersec- struct 69th Avenue from Noble Avenues, a center two- way - left -turn tion of 66th Avenue will be rede- Avenue to Shingle Creek Parkway lane will be established after the signed. The new street alignment as a four lane parkway with left roadway is resurfaced. On this will provide long, broad curves; the turn lanes, will redesign the inter- section, the roadway width will not use of retaining walls and substan- sections of 69th Avenue and be changed, except in the approach tial landscaping and the construe- Brooklyn Boulevard and 69th Ave - area to Humboldt Avenue. tion of a bicycle - pedestrian trail nue and Shingle Creek Parkway. will give the new street a parkway This project was the subject of sev- The project includes construe- feel. There will be no parking on the eral informational meetings and a tion of a bicycle /pedestrian trail on new street. public hearing this spring. the north side of Freeway /65th/ Street construction is expected The construction alternate cho- 66th. This trail will provide a link to be completed by September of sen will require the City to acquire between the existing Shingle Creek this year, with the landscaping the 23 houses and two commercial trail, and the proposed T.H. 252/ completed under a separate con- properties located along the north West River Road trail. The sidewalk tract during the spring of 1991. side of 69th Avenue, between West on the east side of Humboldt next Palmer Lake Drive and Brooklyn to Brooklyn Center High School The 10 foot bicycle - pedestrian trail Boulevard. will be widened. on the west side of the street will be WEST RIVER ROAD an important link in the City's bi- Those properties will be ac- cycle- pedestrian trail system. It quired, and the houses moved if West River Road, from 66th Ave- will connect with the new I -694 possible, by July 31, 1991. More nue to 73rd Avenue, will be recon- trail that will cross the Mississippi detailed plans will be developed structed this summer. This project River; with the proposed trail in by the end of 1990 after input is is being financed in part with state Riverridge Park south of the I -694 received from additional neigh - Tumback funds, and is the "final bridge; with the proposed Brooklyn borhood meetings. Some prepara- phase" of the state's T.H. 252 con- Park West River Road trail to the tory work will be done in 1991, struction project. north; and with the Freeway Boule- with construction expected to vard /65th /66th trail, which will in begin on the project in the spring After the City completes construe- turn connect with the Shingle Creek of 1992. tion, the state will "turn back" ju- trail system. - - -- - - - - - - - - - 3 Water Conservation Program Curbs Geese Measures Population In Community Brooklyn Center residents are reminded that the City contin- Brooklyn Center has a contract become the most cost effective in ues to observe a Stage One Gen- with the University of Minnesota the long run, especially as fewer re- eral Warning regarding water use calling for the removal of mating location sites are available for birds adult geese and young birds dur- which are removed. While precipitation levels are ing the two -week "window period" normal, groundwater and lake lev- in early summer when all of these els have not yet recovered from birds are unable to fly. D .A. R.E. the drought. This is done to curb the Canada and is far more (Continued from Page 1) Residents should use water g oose population prudently, and lawns should be efficient than the costlier "egg re- rewards for the arrest of criminals watered after 8 p.m. to reduce moval" programs. This removal and bestowing awards to residents demand on the water system. should significantly reduce Brook- who assisted the police, the fund lyn Center's fall problem. spearheaded the drive for the col - If the water demand becomes too lection of donations to provide A fall removal program is also necessary classroom materials for Two Water Rest ct this being evaluated at this time. In this the D.A.R.E. program. stage, � e, all nonessential outdoor water Program, adult birds are trapped g with large nets which are shot over The D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resis- will be banned from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. uses, including lawn sprinkling, the birds with the use of small tance Education) program is a 17- b p olice rockets. week curriculum taught y p � daily. All residents will receive a officers to the fifth grade students notice should this become neces- This will work only if the birds in all Brooklyn Center schools. sary. can be baited to use a small feeding area on a regular basis before the The City, through the Police De- All water appropriation permits nets are set up for the catch. To partment, pays the wages for two for pumping water from lakes and date all birds have been released. full time officers and provides ap- rivers continue to be suspended proximately $4,000 to assist in pur- until further notice. The fall removal program may chasing the teaching materials including workbooks. The Crime Prevention Fund and roo k' n Center the Lions Club headed the drive for the additional $14,000 required to run the program for one year. In ad- 6301 Shingle Creek Parkway dition, the fund acts as the official Brooklyn Center, MN 55430 depository for donations from busi- nesses and civic groups. CITY COUNCIL Residents can help support the Dean Nyquist .................... Mayor D.A.R.E. program this year in two Phil Cohen ....................... Councilman ways: Todd Paulson .................... Councilman Jerry Pedlar ..................... Councilman First, please attend the Dudley Celia Scott ....................... Councilwoman Softball Tournament scheduled in June as part of Earle Brown Gerald Splinter ................... City Manager Days, and second, please send donations to the program in care SERVICE DIRECTORY of the Brooklyn Center Crime Prevention Fund, 6301 Shingle j Emergency Number (24 Hours) Creek Parkway, Brooklyn Cen- 1 POLICE - FIRE - MEDICAL .................... 911 ter, MN 55430. Please make the Police (non- emergency, information) .......... 569 -3333 check out to Brooklyn Center City Hall Offices .............................. 569 -3300 Crime Prevention Fund- D.A.R.E. (Monday- Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) Community Center ........................... 569 -3400 313131 4