City of Lincoln

74 Santee Road Office 258-7969 Police 258-2403 Emergency 911

City Hall Office Hours Monday-Thursday 8:00 AM- 5:00 PM

Friday 8:00 AM- 12:30 PM www.cityoflincolnnd.com

Please remember if you would like to place an item on the agenda, you need to contact the City Auditor’s office Thursday by 8:00 am the week prior to the meeting for consideration. This allows our council to be more prepared for the topics on the agenda. If you would like to submit an insert or article for the newsletter, the

deadline is the first of each month.

2016

The City of Lincoln is looking for volunteers to help stuff envelopes for the water bills. We meet on the 2nd Wednesday of the month at 1pm. Please call the City Office if interested to be added to our volunteer list.

FROM THE MAYOR’S DESK

April 2016 Spring is here! Children are out playing in the streets, please drive careful.

I have some good news and some not so good news. First the good. We're having a parade on June 11! We are looking for venders and volunteers. If interested, the next meeting is 6:00pm on April 11th at city hall or go to Lincoln Days Committee on Facebook. Now the not so good. Due to the practice of dumping grease, hygiene products, toys and other not so nice items into the sewer system, we had a blockage that caused some residences in town a very unpleasant experience. Please be careful on what goes into the system so we don't have this problem. Thank You Gerarld L. Wise

Pet Licenses Don’t forget that ANY pets 6 months or older need to be licensed annually. Spayed/neutered is $5.00, and non-spayed/unneutered is $10.00. Please also bring in a copy of your pet’s updated rabies vaccinations.

HELLO EVERYONE! There has been a slight schedule change for the 2016

Lincoln City Wide Rummage Sale. As we all know summer is really busy with graduations, school getting out and vacations starting. The new schedule for the rummage sale with hopefully work better for most of you and allow more of our "Lincoln Family" to participate.

The dates and times for 2016 will be: Friday, May 13th from 3 pm - 8 pm; Saturday, May 14th from 8 am - 7 pm; and Sunday, May 15th from 10 am - 3 pm. These times are just a general guideline, of course you all have the choices as to when you would like to be open but these are the times that will be listed in the advertisements.

The fee this year will be $8.00 per home **CASH ONLY, PLEASE HAVE CORRECT AMOUNT** Please stop by the office to pay your fee's and fill out your information sheet by April 22nd. The information sheet is what we will use for the advertisements. The contact this year is Jan Wolf. You can email any questions at janwolf.ts@hotmail.com or shoot her a text at 701-391-0930.

*Also don't forget to pick up your food permit when you stop by the city if you plan on serving food during your sale*

Clean-up Day The City is planning their annual cleanup day for

June 11th. Please meet at the Tumbleweed parking lot at 8 am. Volunteers are needed. Please call or stop by the City office if you are able to volunteer. You will need to sign a waiver. If we don’t get enough volunteers, we CANNOT have the cleanup.

Please keep in mind that spring is here and it is a good time to start cleanup around your yard as the beautification committee will be going around addressing yards that need cleaning up. Thanks ahead of time for your efforts to keep our city Clean!

Computer screens and TV’s are not acceptable items for cleanup. Also household remodeling material is not accepted. There will be a disposal charge for tires. Any item containing Freon has to have a certified Freon Free sticker to be removed. No fuel, paint, or chemicals will be picked up.

Please remember to contact the city office if you are

starting/stopping utility service, replacement or

addition of a garbage container or if there is a street

light out. Thank you.

Go to our website to view: Qtr 1: 6 Storm

Water Facts on the 26th Anniversary of MS4

CITY OF LINCOLN COMMUNITY INFORMATION

MEETING DATES: Planning & Zoning ~ April 5th at 7:00pm at the City office

Lincoln City Council ~ April 7th at 7:00pm at the City office Park Board Meeting ~ The 3rd Tuesday of every month at the Park Shelter- 32 McDougall Drive 7:00pm

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Peace Lutheran Church of Lincoln @ 3310 66th St. SE would like to invite everyone to worship with them on Sunday mornings @ 9:30 AM with Sunday School classes and Adult Bible Study classes immediately after church at 10:30 AM. Prayer or pastor needs contact Kevin Nelson at 333-8164. Visit our website www.peacelutheranoflincoln.com We will be having 1st Communion classes for Kindergartners - 3rd Grade on 26 April 2016 at 6:30 PM. Then again on 28 April 2016 for 4th Grade on up at 6:30 PM. All will celebrate their 1st Communion at the 1 May 2016 Church Service which starts at 9:30 AM. Last Day of Sunday School for the Summer is 15 May 2016. Join us again in September when Sunday School classes resume.

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Burleigh County Bookmobile Thursdays: March 10th, April 14th, May 12th

Lincoln Cenex Gas Station………………3:10-3:30 Lincoln-Lakota Lane………………….…3:35-3:55 Lincoln-Edgerly Lane………………....….4:00-4:30 Lincoln-Allen Drive………...………….....4:35-5:00

Drop Boxes: For your convenience, there is a double gray drop box in front of the City Building at 74 Santee Rd. This box is secure and checked daily. The upper slot is for your City Water Bill, Pet License, Police Fines etc. and the lower one is for MDU bills. Please do not place Capital Electric bills in either the city drop box or the MDU drop box. There is a Capital Electric drop box at Dakota Community Bank. Using the wrong box may result in your payment never reaching them.

Council Members: Mayor Gerarld Wise, 214-9620 Oversees all portfolios

Karen Daly, 751-1442 or 527- 4819 Council President, Parks, Beautification and Forestry Tom Volk, 218-791-5233 Fiscal Affairs/Police Dept.

Ervin Fischer, 390-8208, Public Works, Engineering and Police Dept.

March Bills INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE $10365.97, ND TAX COMMISSIONER $14.74, ADVANCED BUSINESS METHODS $395.58, AIRE-MASTER

OF NO DAK $14.00, AK TECHNOLOGIES $530.00, BISMARCK TRIBUNE $727.73, BORDER STATES ELECTRIC SUPPLY $6.69, BROWN

& SAENGER $81.95, BURLEIGH COUNTY DETENTION CTR $525.00, BUSINESS RADIO LICENSING $120.00, BUTLER MACHINERY CO

$275.93, CAPITAL ELECTRIC $3,613.68, CARDMEMBERS SERVICE, $744.92, CENTRAL DAKOTA FORENSIC NURSE $105.00, CITY OF

BISMARCK $1,070.98, DAKOTA DUSTEX $62.95, DAKOTA TOWING $210.00, EIDE FORD $45.28, FETZER ELECTRIC $97.05,

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPT $67.55, KNIFE RIVER $124.40, KRAMER AGENCY $22,305.00, MACS, INC., $18.63, MARTENS

ATTORNEY AT LAW $2,675.00, MIDCONTINENT $234.13, NAPA AUTO PARTS $244.15, ND CLERKS ASSOCIATION $60.00, ND DEPT OF

HEALTH – MICROBIOLO $48.00, ND LEAGUE OF CITIES $10.00, ND ONE CALL, INC $7.10, PITNEY BOWES INC $820.99, RUNNING

SUPPLY, INC. $62.85, RUSTY MASON $150.00, SHORT ELLIOTT HENDRICKSON INC $13,934.04, Tri-Energy Cooperative $732.20,

WASTE MANAGEMENT OF WI-MN $13,855.06, BORSTAD, JOSH E $64.64, DALY, KAREN $123.47, FISCHER, ERVIN WALTER $184.70,

GREISCH, JEFFREY $64.64, Isakson, Charles $277.05, Panchol, Reuben, $64.64, VOLK, THOMAS $184.70, Wise, Gerarld $212.40,

ND TAX COMMISSIONER $7.05, SARAH MAENZA $37.28, STEVE BERG $200.00, ADVANCED BUSINESS METHODS $376.86, AFLAC

$297.36, AL DICKSON $320.50, BISMARCK TRIBUNE $233.23, BORDER STATES ELECTRIC SUPPLY $101.17, BRADY MARTZ

$3,890.85, BROWN & SAENGER $138.50, CENTRAL DAKOTA FORENSIC NURSE $210.00, CITY OF BISMARCK $17,715.54, DAKOTA

DUSTEX $7.65, DAKOTA SANITATION, INC $289.00, EIDE FORD $45.28, FERGUSON WATERWORKS $1,492.54, FETZER ELECTRIC

$150.00, FLASH PRINTING $56.00, GUARDIAN LOCK & SAFE, INC $76.00, MDU $545.93, MENARDS $25.19, OK TIRE STORE $31.95,

PITNEY BOWES INC $327.00, ROTO-ROOTER SEWER DRAIN SERVICE $1,250.00, SHORT ELLIOTT HENDRICKSON INC $23,180.00,

VERIZON WIRELESS $411.06, WORKFORCE SAFETY & INSURANCE $6,820.28, JUDY ANDERSON $62.80, BLUE CROSS BLUE SHEILD

OF ND $6,531.69

The CCR Rule requires all community water systems to issue annual drinking water quality reports to their

customers. It will give consumers information on their drinking water and opportunities to get involved in

protecting their source of drinking water. The Consumer Confidence Report (CCR) is available at:

www.cityoflincolnnd.com

Quarter 1: 6 Stormwater Facts on the 26th Anniversary of MS4

It’s been 26 years since the Environmental Protection Agency began the Phase I Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) permit program in November of 1990.

The NPDES MS4 permit is designed to protect our rivers, lakes and streams from polluted stormwater runoff. In honor of the anniversary, we connected with SEH MS4 specialist April Ryan, PE, who shared some key facts about stormwater, pollution, permitting and MS4.

1. Stormwater is precious and powerful. Stormwater is precipitation (rain or snowmelt) that falls to the ground then flows over land rather than percolate into the ground. In essence, it is the combination of earth’s most precious resource, water, and its most ubiquitous force, gravity. An inch of rain on an acre of land is equivalent to 27,154 gallons. It weighs about 113 tons. That’s powerful.

2. Stormwater affects the water you drink. When precipitation hits the ground, some water trickles down into groundwater aquifers, while the rest flows on the surface to lakes, streams and rivers. Depending on where you live, your drinking water comes from either surface water (lakes and rivers) or a groundwater aquifer.

3. Today’s stormwater moves faster than ever. Prior to urbanization, the majority of precipitation was naturally, and slowly, filtered by soil and grasses. As development occurred and pavements became widely used, stormwater conveyance systems (ditches, gutters, storm sewers) were constructed which quickly transport water from streets to surface waters, like lakes, rivers, wetlands and streams. The NPDES permit program controls water pollution by requiring MS4s to treat stormwater prior to discharging into surface waters.

4. Polluted stormwater runoff is the number one water pollutant. As stormwater moves across developed areas it picks up garbage, debris, sediment, chemicals, automotive fluids, fertilizers, leaves and other pollutants from parking lots, yards, streets, roofs and other hard surfaces. If left untreated, these enter directly into our waterways.

The Tartan Crossing redevelopment project combines surface water treatment with a stunning aesthetic centerpiece at an abandoned

mall site in Oakdale, Minnesota.

5. Stormwater pollution is classified in two ways. Water pollution comes either from “point” or “nonpoint” sources. A point source is identifiable, such as a pipe or drain discharging a pollutant directly into a body of water. A nonpoint source is more difficult to define. It entails all the polluted stormwater within a certain geography, like a watershed, for example.

6. An MS4 battles against stormwater pollution. MS4 refers to conveyance or system of conveyances (including roads with drainage systems, streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters, ditches, man-made channels, and storm drains) which is owned or operated by a state, city, town, county, district, association, or other public body (created by or pursuant to state law).

This summary is part of a larger write-up originally published on Novevmber 24th, 2015 entitled 25 Stormwater Facts on the 25th Anniversary of MS4 - See more at: http://www.sehinc.com/news/25-stormwater-facts-25th-anniversary-ms4#sthash.sunVbv4L.dpuf