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Sherburne County/City of Elk River Transportation Meeting April 26, 2005 Page 3 such as CSAH 1 and County Road 33/77 and to also discuss timing on letting the Parks and Recreation Department know about upcoming future County road projects. 4. County Road 44 Upgrade . Tumback to City and Reconstruction . Mill and Overlay by County in 2005 Teny started the discussion by indicating this was the main topic for today's meeting. He relayed some of the history of County Road 44 with it being included in the County bonding for road construction a few years ago, but because of overruns and project scope creep, there was not sufficient bond money to reconstruct County Road 44. In the last couple of meetings, the discussion about County Road 44 was potential turnback to the City and reconstruction using County Road 40 turnback as a model. At this point, the Mayor indicated that she felt the City and the County ought to work on a global agreement to have the City take back all County roads within Elk River. She indicated that as Elk River continues to develop, there will be issues such as access to these County Roads that are key to the development of the City, and she felt the City would be better off having control of the roads and thus control of their own development. She did indicate that there are certain roads such as CSAH 1, CSAH 12, and CSAH 13 which would remain with the County in her mind because they serve an area larger than just Elk River. The other roadway that Commissioner Engstrom indicated should remain with the County was CSAH 33 east of TI-l169 because of the potential turnback of County Road 22 in Anoka County to MnDOT and the long-term plan to build a highway connection from I 35 in Wyoming to TI-l169 in Elk River. There was some discussion about the Mayor's idea for the global agreement turning back County roads. It was agreed that the Elk River and Sherburne County staffs would continue to discuss the issue and report back at the next meeting with pros and cons that they see with this proposal. T eny also indicated that the Elk River City Council has a workshop on transportation coming up at which this idea could be discussed. The County could discuss it also, they indicated, at an upcoming workshop. T eny went on to indicate that Rhonda Lewis had posed an alternative for the County Road 44 issue. That is, she had suggested the County could mill and overlay the project, recycling the existing bituminous, adding base material, and then re-paving the surface to provide a new driving surface which would have a 10-15 year life. T eny indicated that this may be a . viable option for the City to pursue, since the City has a number of transportation issues on its plate at this time and funds to construct all of them are at a premium. This would allow the City to not spend Municipal State Aid dollars on County Road 44 in the short term, but to earmark those funds for another project. The City could still take back County Road 44 with the global agreement that the Mayor had suggested, knowing that the road would not need any significant work for a number of years. Councilmember Gumphrey stated that he was not in favor of this type of idea. He felt that the road needed more than an overlay and that it should be done right at this time, rather than do an overlay and potentially some time in the future dig it up to reconstruct it to an urban section. It was concluded that Elk River would discuss this issue at their June transportation workshop and be prepared to provide the County direction at the next meeting. 5. Other Business . Aerial Photos . Next Meeting July 26,2005