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The Town of Minden prides itself on having an excellent trash- collection program, and in order to maintain this superior level of ser- vice, there are a few guidelines we ask our residents to follow. To- gether we’ll make an amazing team! • Make sure your can is out by 6:00 a.m. to ensure that it is there in time for pick up. • Place your desig- nated container in the street next to the curb in front of your house. Homes with alley service should place their can on the designated side of the alley. • Allow 12 inches of clearance between cans, and 5 feet be- tween other obstructions such as cars, power poles and fire hydrants. This spacing is crucial since we use an auto- mated truck to pick up the cans. • Placing your trash into trash bags inside the curbside con- tainer is very helpful, espe- cially during windy conditions. • Do not secure the lid with bungee cords, rocks, bricks, etc. • Do not stack extra trash on top of the lid. • On extra trash day, which is on your third pick-up day of the month, place the extra trash a minimum of five feet away from the curbside container. They will come by twice— once to get the can and again to get the extra items. • It is up to you to keep your can clean. Feel free to hose it out as often as needed. • The brown green waste recy- cling containers must only be used for acceptable lawn and garden waste. Do not use plastic bags for green waste and do not use your green waste can for regular trash. We will not empty your green waste can if there is trash inside. • Hazardous waste must not be placed in our residential cans or dumpsters. For more infor- mation on the handling of such waste, please call our office. We’re happy to help! Here’s to keeping a clean and happy com- munity!! . This summer brought lots of great events to downtown Minden, from Summer Concerts to Farmers Markets to Street Fairs. We would like to extend a huge thank you for supporting these func- tions, as well as your cooperation with the special parking arrange- ments, street closures, and other temporary inconveniences neces- sary for the success of these events. We would also like to invite you all to this year’s holiday festivi- ties. We have revamped the kickoff weekend to the Christ- mas season and will be hosting Minden’s Weihnachts Fest in conjunction with the traditional lighting of the gazebo and Pa- rade of Lights. The Weihnachts Fest is a traditional German Christmas Market with spe- cialty booths, German food, entertainment, and plenty of holiday cheer! We hope to see you there! Town of Minden 2009 Newsletter David Sheets Chairman Robert Hadfield Vice Chairman Ross Chichester Member Steve Thaler Member John Stephans Member Minden Town Board Thanks for keeping us busy! Town of Minden Special Holiday Trash Schedule: • If your trash day falls on a holiday such as Thanksgiving or Christmas, make sure to have your can out NO LATER THAN 6:00 A.M. that day. Our trash collectors will be using two trucks in order to complete their route as quickly as possible so that they can get home to their own families to celebrate the holidays. Go Trash Team! Yay! Upcoming Events: • CVCT Performance, Moon over Buffalo Oct. 9-11, 16-18 • Haunted Minden Tour Oct. 22 • CVAC Concert, Bearfoot Oct. 23 • CVAA Art Show Nov. 6-8 • Library Book Sale Nov. 14-15 • Kiwanis Turkey Bingo Nov. 21 • Elks Spaghetti Feed Dec. 4 • Minden’s Weihnachts Fest Dec. 4—6 7 Gazebo Lighting and Santa Dec. 4 7 Parade of Lights Dec. 5 ---PAGE BREAK--- Town Administrative Staff: Trish Koepnick, Senior Secretary Amber Smith, Accounting Clerk Town Maintenance Staff: Greg Hill, Public Works Superintendent Andy Concannon, Maintenance Supervisor Tom Haar, Maintenance Specialist III B.J. Strauser, Maintenance Specialist II James Smith, Maintenance Specialist II Shane Mortensen, Maintenance Tech II Rick Humphrey, Maintenance Tech II James Anderson, Maintenance Tech II Willie Dutton, Maintenance Tech II Mark Cirillo, Maintenance Specialist I Don Wilcks, Maintenance Assistant I Robert Kelly, Maintenance Assistant I Steve McGee, Seasonal Maint. Assistant Sunita Broderick, Seasonal Maint. Assistant 1604 Esmeralda Ave Suite 101 Minden, NV 89423 for 3 to 7 years and is a very cost effective treatment which requires just a one-day road closure rather than the multiple weeks of construction that is involved with the more intensive rehabilitation efforts. The slurry seal tends to lose some of the aggregate within the low traffic areas for the first three months and will require some street sweeping to remove the loose aggregate that collects in the gutters. Additionally, in the first few weeks after the initial application, hard turns on the slurry seal may show wheel marks which do not affect the seal and will disappear with time. After three to six months (or shorter with heavier traffic flows), the slurry seal should become relatively smooth and will no longer ravel. Within a year of application, the color of the slurry seal will fade to a gray that matches most asphalt roadways. The table below provides a comparison of the cost for preventative maintenance such as Gilsonite and Slurry Sealing to major reha- bilitation methods such as Overlays and Re- construction. Each year, Minden evaluates its residential roadways to determine the best preventative maintenance or rehabilitation method to ex- tend the life of the Town’s roads and improve those that have reached the end of their useful life. By undertaking a program of planned pavement maintenance, considerable savings in rehabilitation costs may be achieved. One of the many tools for preventative mainte- nance is the placement of slurry seal. Being much more cost-effective than some of the other maintenance strategies, the Town of Minden recently decided to test it out in the Mackland subdivision to see whether or not this is a procedure we will consider to fulfill future preventative maintenance needs. The slurry seal is a mixture of fine aggregate and emulsified asphalt that is mixed together and then applied to residential roadway sur- faces to extend the life of the existing asphalt. The slurry seal protects against the elements Slurry Sealing in Mackland The Minden Town Board Meeting is held the first Wednesday of every month at 6:00 p.m. in the CVIC Hall. Agendas and Minutes are posted at: http://cltr.co.douglas.nv.us/agendas.asp Streets are swept on Fridays. The schedule is as follows: 1st Week: Old Town / County Road 2nd Week: Mackland / Westwood 3rd Week: Old Town / Wildrose / Deseret 4th Week: Winhaven / Lucerne / Ironwood East / Buckeye Road / La Costa Please keep vehicles off of the street on the Friday of the week your neighborhood is scheduled for sweeping. Preventative Maintenance and Rehabilitation Methods Approximate Cost per Square Foot Gilsonite Street Sealing $0.10 to $0.11 Slurry Sealing $0.15 to $0.20 2’ Grind and Overlay with Pav- ing Fabric $2.00 to $2.25 Road Reconstruction $3.50 to $4.50 Phone: [PHONE REDACTED] Fax: [PHONE REDACTED] E-mail: [EMAIL REDACTED]