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Honorable Mayor and City Council September 20, 2000 Page Three least two construction seasons to complete. This would indicate that the interchange will not be fully operational until sometime in 2005. Therefore, a temporary signal installed early next year would be operational for four to five years. For the City Council's consideration, we have prepared a draft resolution that would indicate to the County that the City Council wants the temporary signalization of this intersection to proceed. 6. East Elk River Public Improvement Project There are several projects ongoing in the East Elk River area. Work is proceeding on Tyler Street south of County Road 12. This portion of the City project will be substantially complete with the final lift of bituminous and signing and striping of the road yet this fall. North of County Road 12, the road has proceeded as far as it can prior to connecting to County Road 13. The first lift of blacktop is on this portion of Tyler Street north of County Road 12. The Main Street/TH 169 project is starting to take shape. As of the time of this correspondence, the first lift of blacktop was on all portions of Main Street east of TH 169. The watermain was all installed west of TH 169 and the Contractor was in the process of reconnecting services to the new watermain, after which the paving of the roadway can proceed. We believe that within the next three weeks Main Street will be opened to unrestricted traffic. The County Road 12 project has begun this fall. The Contractor is only going to construct the first approximately 3,000 feet of the roadway. That would go from the intersection of County Road 13 to about 400 to 500 feet east of Tyler Street. This should be complete with curb and gutter and the first lift of blacktop before the onset of winter. The completion of the northern end of Zane Street in Elk River Crossing has begun this week. The surcharge is being removed, utilities installed, and a temporary street surface put in place. The roadway will be temporary in nature because there may be some minor additional settlement that can be anticipated through the next year. Therefore, this roadway will be monitored to determine if settlement continues to occur. Approximately a year from now, a decision will be made relative to the completion of the final roadway including the concrete curb and gutter. Until such time, a portion of the Developer's money will be withheld to ensure that there are sufficient funds available to construct the permanent roadway. The other project in this area is 175th Street improvements. City Council had originally directed that this project should proceed in 2001. Staff is continuing work on this schedule, anticipating that a neighborhood meeting would be held on October 17. At that meeting, the concept of landowners giving easements in exchange for no street assessments will be discussed with the residents and easement documents will be distributed. This will initiate the land acquisition phase. As I have indicated in the past, plans for this project are approximately Howard R, Green Company O:\PROJ~230000M\0325\Itr 9-20-00 Coun~pJ~-fl'fF~JG ENGINEERS