Resident urges Isanti to fix angled curb joint and revisit speed study on Dogwood Street

Alyssa Mahoney, a homeowner who gave her address for the record, asked the Isanti City Council to require the contractor who repaved her street to return and fix an angled curb joint she says was completed incorrectly.

Mahoney told the council, "We already paid in full for the street on our end. So, we just expect that it to be fixed," and said the contractor previously told her they would come back and correct the work. Staff acknowledged the joint was skewed and explained options. City engineer Jason said removing and replacing the full curb panel would require cutting into the roadway and could create a patch that "would look worse" and could perform worse over time; he recommended sealing the joint now to reduce water intrusion and delay further deterioration.

Mahoney pushed that the city hold the original contractor accountable under warranty rather than having residents pay to fix the work. Staff agreed to contact the contractor, pursue warranty options and explore whether a cosmetic solution could be found that would not damage the roadway. Council members asked staff to return with options and to coordinate with the resident.

On the separate traffic issue Mahoney raised, staff reviewed portable speed sign data for the street. The city reported an 85th‑percentile speed of roughly 26.5 miles per hour — close to the 25 mph limit — and that nine vehicles were flagged in the recent collection, one of them exceeding 40 mph; earlier data (before the project) recorded seven cars over 40 mph and three over 50 mph. Council members and the resident agreed to rerun speed monitoring in a comparable warm‑weather window (May–June) using better equipment and to review the full data then.

The council asked staff to follow up on both the warranty inspection and a spring speed study; Mahoney said she would consider private repair only if the contractor and city failed to remedy the joint under warranty.