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Schedule If directed by the Council to proceed, we will solicit engineering proposals for this project by March 2011. Construction could then begin by August 2011. 5) State Aid Updates Every year we are required to review and update our State Aid system in accordance with State rules. These updates assure the City of Elk River receives the proper amount of allocated funding from the State. The updates required are completed in two separate steps. At the beginning of the year every State Aid community must certify the amount of miles they have in their system and then by April every State Aid community is required to have their `needs' updated. It is a combination of our certified miles, system needs, and population that ultimately makes up the amount of State Aid funds Elk River receives. Our estimated state aid allocation for 2011 is $1,016,107. Schedule I have already completed and submitted the Certification of Miles for this year. Over the next three months I will be completing the evaluation of our system needs and or any system revisions that need to be completed. 6) TH 10 & TH 169 Preliminary Design and Environmental Assessments The Environmental Assessment (EA) documents have been through the public comment period. MNDOT and their consultant are working on addressing the comments and completing the final document. Schedule MNDOT expects the EA's will receive official final approval by June 2011. Upon approval of the documents, we will begin working with MNDOT to solicit funding for the projects. It is anticipated the ultimate funding for these projects will come from special legislation, appropriations, or a combination thereof. To generate support for this type of funding we need to continue lobbying efforts at both the State and Federal levels. 7) County Road 77 Turnback Discussion We have had discussions with Sherburne County Public Works Director John Mentor and County Engineer Rhonda Lewis about the possibility of them turning back County Road 77 to the Ciry. The segment that has been discussed includes County Road 77/Proctor Road, from County Road 1 to County Road 33. The County will be completing a $500,000 resurfacing improvement project to this segment in 2011. We originally asked the County to consider widening of the roadway to accommodate biking or pedestrian movements along the segment with their project. The improvements the County is proposing will not accommodate our request without changing the scope considerably. The additional width would alter their project to include grading into the ditches and back slopes where they have limited to no additional right-of--way. N:\Public Bodies\Ciry Council\Coundl RCA\Agenda Packet\1-10-2011\Engineer Update.docx