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2005 Street Improvement Project December 20, 2004 Page 2 Trunk Highway 10 to Main Street. There currently is a pedestrian facility along Main Street which branches out to many other areas within the City. It is anticipated that in the near future Upland Avenue north of Trunk Highway 10 (County Road 44) will be reconstructed and will include a pedestrian facility. The 2005 Street Improvement Project has three roads that access Trunk Highway 10 with minimal traffic flow. Seymour Avenue at the far west of the project is a dirt roadway. Rush Avenue and Quinn Avenue furtherto the east are paved roadways, accessing Trunk Highway 10. We are going to propose to the public at the informational meeting that all three of these access points be closed. As the City Council is aware, the MnDOT Inter Regional Corridor (IRe) Study for Trunk Highway 10 does not anticipate any access points like this in the future and MnDOT has worked with the City on several projects in the past in attempts to eliminate unneeded local access to the trunk highway system. We have had preliminary discussions with MnDOT about their participation in this project. They have agreed to fund the closure and ancillary work involved. Attached for the City Council's consideration is a resolution which MnDOT requires to prepare a cooperative agreement for their portion of the funding of the closing these three accesses. If in fact a decision is made in the future to not close all or any of these access points, there is no requirement in this resolution that they must be closed. This resolution simply starts the process with MnDOT; the City can end the process at any time if it chooses not to move forward. Therefore, I would request that the City Council adopt the attached resolution to initiate the cooperative agreement process. Bryan Adams of the Elk River Municipal Utilities is anticipating a minor amount of water improvement work with this project which, as in the past, the Municipal Utilities will fund in its entirety. We have reviewed the sanitary sewer televising tapes and are recommending some lining of the existing sewer mains which are beginning to show wear. We anticipate that this work will be funded through the sanitary sewer enterprise fund. The remaining street and storm drainage improvements are estimated to cost in the neighborhood of $1.5 million including project overhead. Weare recommending that the assessment rate for the 2005 Street Improvement Project be set at $6,000 per residential unit. This should approximate the City's goal when the Pavement Rehabilitation Program was established of street and storm drainage costs being 1/3 assessed and 2/3 funded by the City. Relative to schedule, we anticipate a public informational meeting to be held in mid-] anuary. The minutes from that meeting will become part of the official Feasibility Study which will be presented to the City Council in early February. A public hearing will be held in late February. Bids will be opened in April and an assessment hearing held shortly after the bid opening with construction anticipated to begin in May of 2005. If you have any questions regarding this information, I will be available at your December 20, 2004 City Council meeting. Sin?A: Te~ City Engineer S:\CLERK\ENGINEER\200S Improvement Projects\12 20 04 CC memo.doc