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<br />CITY OF ELK RIVER/SHERBURNE COUNTY <br />ENGINEERING MEETING <br />ELK RIVER CITY HALL <br />TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2004 <br /> <br />Attendees: <br /> <br />Arne Engstrom, Sherburne County Commissioner; Rachael Leonard, <br />Sherburne County Commissioner, Brian Bensen, Sherburne County <br />Administrator; Dave Schwarting, Sherburne County Engineer; Louise <br />Kuester, Elk River City Councilmember; Dan Tveite, Elk River City <br />Councilmember; Pat Klaers, Elk River City Administrator; Terry Maurer, <br />Elk River City Engineer <br /> <br />1. Count;y Road 40 Turnback Discussion <br /> <br />Terry Maurer started out the discussion by reviewing the last joint meeting held on Tuesday, <br />July 27, 2004. At that meeting, the pros and cons of the tumback of County Road 40 were <br />discussed along with the discussion of the $719,104 of Federal money available and how it <br />would be allocated to City and County costs. At the July 27<1> meeting conclusion, Terry and <br />Dave were directed to work together to come up with a more detailed cost estimate and to <br />identify other engineering issues so that further discussions could be held today. Terry <br />indicated that Dave and he have met several times to discuss the County road reconstruction <br />cost estimate. A staff member from Dave's office and from Terry's office had done much <br />of the work in preparing cost estimates and reviewing them. The County had supplied soil <br />borings and a geotechnical report, along with preliminary topography which was also used in <br />the preparation of a cost estimate. Tetty indicated as late as this morning, Dave and Terry <br />were malting fmal revisions to it; therefore, a hard copy of the cost estimate prepared by the <br />City and the County joindy was not available at this time, but would be available in the <br />future. <br /> <br />Terry went on to indicated that the estimate for the road reconstruction including overhead <br />was approximately $3.1 million. This did not include any sanitary sewer or watermain <br />construction that the City may choose to add to the street project. Of the $3.1 million, <br />approximately $720,000 was Federally funded. The remaining costs of the road construction <br />were divided approximately $1.3 million for the County and $1 million for the City according <br />to the County's cost participation policy. The County's share is all construction and <br />overhead costs. The City's share is broken into approximately $750,000 for construction <br />and overhead costs and approximately $250,000 in estimated land acquisition. The County <br />had prepared a plat for the land acquisition required. It showed approximately 20 acres of <br />land to be acquired from adjacent property owners. In this estimate Dave and Terry had <br />anticipated a lesser right-of-way width than 100 feet, and also anticipated how much of the <br />right-of-way the City could acquire through developments and platting. Therefore, the cost <br />estimate for land acquisition assumes that the City will be acquiring through purchase <br />approximately 4 acres out of the 20 acres originally shown to be needed by the County right <br />of way plat. <br /> <br />Terry indicated that he and Dave both still felt that the tumback of County Road 40 was a <br />reasonable goal and would request that both parties present at the meeting would concur <br />with that and agree to bring this issue back to the City Council and the County Board for <br />their concurtence. Terry indicated that it is hoped the County would take the lead on <br />preparing a tumback agreement and that the City would be in the reviewing role. Terry <br />