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ITEM #4.4. . Howard R. Green Company CONSULTING ENGINEERS March 4, 1999 File: 800110J-0060 Honorable Mayor and City Council City of Elk River 13065 Orono Parkway P.O. Box 490 Elk River, MN 55330-0490 RE: CSAH 12/CSAH 13 UPDATE Dear Council Members: City Administrator Pat Klaers asked me to prepare this memo updating you on the status of the CSAH 13/CSAH 12 improvements. As of the date of this memo, I have been unable to contact Dave Schwarting, County Engineer, for a specific update. I will, however, continue to try to contact Dave and have a more detailed update for you on Monday evening. . It is my understanding that the County is still working to acquire the necessary easements along CSAH 12 for the completion of their project. As you are aware, the project has federal money in it, much like Tyler Street. We completed the plans for the County several months ago, and they have been submitted to MnDOT. I believe that at this point they are rather stagnant at MnDOT until the County can document that they have the right-of-way necessary to build the project. At the joint meeting between the City Council and the County Board, a brief discussion of the financing was initiated, but was rather superficial since the County Board had not been presented with the proposal that we had discussed with their engineer. Attached is a copy of the information I had available for that joint meeting but did not distribute. This is the same information that was discussed with the City Council at a meeting a couple of weeks ago, with one addition. The last item on the list talks about the City's contribution for CSAH 12. As you may be aware, the County developed and adopted a cost participation policy last year. According to the cost participation policy, our estimate was that the City's contribution to CSAH 12 would have been over $300,000. We took exception to the policy and documented what we thought were fair and equitable charges to the City, in the range of just over $100,000. However, our objections to the policy did not stop the County from adopting it. The one change that has transpired since the County adopted this policy is that Sherburne County was granted more ISTEA monies for the CSAH 12 upgrade. After the County received additional ISTEA money, the County Board made a policy decision that on federally funded projects, the ISTEA money would be split between the City and the County. This essentially reduced the City of Elk River's estimated cost participation for the CSAH 12 upgrade from over $300,000 to the $150,000 range. . \ \SPNWFS\vOLl \DA T A \PROJ\80011Oj\ 11O-0304.mar.doc 1326 Energy Park Drive. 51. Paul, MN 55108 . 651/644-4389 fax 651/644-9446 toll free 888/368-4389