Osseo To Take Time to Assess Road and Sewer Needs
Mayor Duane Poppe said the City of Osseo will, in effect, pause road construction projects for the most part this year as the city examines the needs and scope of projects moving forward.
“Twelve years ago, we milled and overlaid half of the city, and then from that point, we did about a million dollar project a year and went through the underground utilities that needed to get done,” Mayor Poppe told CCX Media’s Dave Kiser. “Those were the streets that got in order, and now we’ve completed that. Now, it’s time to take a breath and then understand now, do some televising of the sewers, because, obviously, things change over time.”
Poppe said the city will likely do a pavement management study across the city to assess what the needs are and then “kind of look at the next five years and what we need to do for” infrastructure in Osseo.
Meanwhile, the city continues to work on plans for its new municipal cannabis store. Poppe said he and other city leaders are in contact with Anoka city leaders after they opened a similar operation earlier this year.
“We’ve got some good ideas, just operationally, on how to handle things,” he said.
The store will go in the city-owned former Press building, along with an adjoining business.
“There’s a lot of things that need to happen to the structure itself to make it a viable location for that and talking to another tenant for the other half of it that would activate that entire building,” said Poppe.
City Administrator and Police Chief Shane Mikkelson told CCX earlier this month that the city hopes to have the outlet open by the end of the year.
