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City Council Minutes March 14, 2005 Page 4 . 5.6 Transportation Priorities City Engineer Terry Maurer explained the State of Minnesota's Professional and Technical Services Master Contract. This contract allows the City to prepare work orders for items that are relatively small that MnDot can help to finance. He is hoping that this process will work well for the potential Trunk Highway 10 access closings that have been discussed with the 2005 Street Reconstruction Project and the King Avenue Parking Lot Improvement. Councilmember Motin asked if this would change our procedures and bind the City in any way. City Engineer Maurer explained that it would bind us to wage requirements only. MOVED BY COUNCILMEMBER MOTIN AND SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER FARBER TO APPROVE RESOLUTION 05-20, A RESOLUTION ENTERING INTO A PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL SERVICES MASTER CONTRACT WITH THE STATE OF MINNESOTA. MOTION CARRIED 5-0. City Engineer Maurer explained that Sherburne County had prepared a right-of-way map for County Road 40 in 2003. The City Council approval of this right-of-way plat was delayed as the discussions of the roadway turnback proceeded. The turnback agreement will be written based on the right-of-way plat for County Road 40. The County Attorney is recommending that the City Council act on the plat of County Road 40 at this time. . MOVED BY COUNCILMEMBER FARBER AND SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER GUMPHREY THAT THE CITY HAS REVIEWED THE RIGHT -OF-WAY MAP FOR COUNTY ROAD 40 AND IS GIVING THEIR APPROVAL FOR THIS PLAT AND AUTHORIZES THE MAYOR AND CITY ADMINISTRATOR TO SIGN THE PLAT. MOTION CARRIED 5-0. City Engineer Maurer explained that he prepared three lists of transportation projects. The first list is projects that have been completed that past several years; the second list is projects that are currently being worked by city staff; and the third list is projects that have been discussed or mentioned in the Transportation Plan. On February 8th these three lists were presented to the Planning Commission with significant amount of discussion taking place regarding the third list and what should be the priority for transportation projects going forward. The four top items based on weighted scores were: · Elk Hills Drive Corridor Study · 193rd Avenue Corridor Study for Easterly Section · Corridor Study for School Street Alignment West to Upland Avenue · County Road 44 (Meadowvale Road) Reconstruction. . Mr. Maurer is looking for direction as to what are the top priorities that the Council would like to see taking into consideration the recommendation of the Planning Commission. After the priorities are chosen he will put together a detailed work plan and tentative schedule for each of the priorities that will then be presented back to the City Council. Once these are approved staff will begin working on the future transportation project priorities.