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Anoka County board unanimously approves multiple transportation contracts and parking change
Summary
The Anoka County Board approved a transportation consent package that includes a parking regulation change on Lovell Road, design and construction contracts for bridges and road reconstructions, and two BNSF railroad crossing repairs; all items passed in a unanimous roll-call vote.
The Anoka County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to approve a transportation consent agenda that included a regulated parking change on Lovell Road and several design and construction contracts for road and railroad projects.
The consent package—approved by roll call—covers Resolution 2025TR15 to change the north side of Lovell Road in Lexington from a two-hour parking limit to four hours, a joint powers agreement with the city of Andover for a roundabout at Crosstown Boulevard and Nightingale Street (Contract C0010688), a professional services contract with WSB for the Bridgestone Road bridge replacement (Contract C0011540), two BNSF Railway crossing repair contracts (C0011599 and C0011600), and reconstruction contracts for 109th Avenue in Blaine (C0011543, Dressel Construct Contracting, $1,232,013.96) and Viking Boulevard in Oak Grove (C0011544, Park Construction, $3,257,893.55).
Why it matters: the projects authorize near-term construction and design work that county staff say will address traffic flow, bridge condition and railroad crossing safety across multiple communities in Anoka County.
Most important details first: county staff told the board that for the Bridgestone Road design contract, the lowest bidder was disqualified because its proposal was incomplete; the board therefore awarded the work to WSB after the evaluation committee eliminated the incomplete bid. For the 109th Avenue and Viking Boulevard reconstruction projects, the winning bids were substantially below the county engineer’s estimates (Dressel’s bid was about $600,000 below estimate; Park Construction’s was more than $1.2 million below estimate), a point county leaders said they welcomed.
Supporting details: the BNSF crossing repairs are scheduled this summer, with the crossing near 220 Ninth Avenue Northwest (about 500 feet east of Flintwood Street NW, Oak Grove/Saint Francis) set for the week of June 9 and the Cedar Drive NW crossing (about 600 feet southeast of 200 First Avenue NW, Oak Grove) scheduled for the week of June 2. Construction for the Andover roundabout and the Blaine and Oak Grove road reconstructions was described as planned to begin this summer.
Board action and vote: the transportation consent agenda was moved and seconded during the meeting and approved by a unanimous roll-call vote in which Commissioners Jepsen, Meissner, Heinrich, Brasstead, Reinert, Gamache and Schulte recorded “Aye.”
Background and next steps: the contracts authorize county staff and their contractors to move forward with design, environmental documentation, and construction scheduling. Project timelines and community notifications will be handled by the county and, where applicable, the affected cities (Andover, Lexington, Saint Francis, Oak Grove, Blaine).
