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INFORMATION MEMORANDUM TO: Mayor and City Council FROM: Justin Femrite, P.E. DATE: July 5, 201 I SUBJECT: Letter of Support to the City of Rogers -Interchange Project on TH I O I at CR 144 At the request of the Rogers City Council, their staff came to City Hall last week to meet with Tim Simon and myself to ask for consideration of a Letter of Support and financial contribution of $100,000 for an interchange project on TH 101 at CR 144. This intersection is the last remaining intersection on TH 101 between I94 and Elk River that has a stop light for north bound traffic. I have attached a memo prepared by Roger's City Engineer regarding their request and the estimated benefit to the City of Elk River residents who commute along this route. Rogers has received partial funding for the project through a State Safety and Mobility (SAM) grant. They are currently putting together an application for additional funding through the MNDOT Metro and MetCouncil process. Through this application process, the City of Rogers feels their ability to show regional benefit and cooperation for the project will be very much enhanced with neighboring communities letters of support and financial contribution. In our meeting we posed the question "If Elk River were to make the same request of Rogers in the future would they make a contribution towards a project here?". Roger's City Administrator, Steve Stahmer, responded by saying any improvement project on the Trunk Highway system in Elk River would likely have limited benefit to their residents because the general direction people commute to work is to the southeast toward the metro. That said, Steve identified if we could show direct benefit to Rogers residents, similar to the benefit they estimated for Elk River residents in the attached memo, they would consider our request. We left the meeting by saying we would check with our Mayor and Council to gauge any interest in supporting the project. 1) Does the City Council have interest in supporting the Rogers financial request to allow their staff to make a presentation on the project at an upcoming Council Meeting? 2) Do you have interest in approving a Letter of Support? If so, it will be included as a consent item on an upcoming meeting.