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e Honorable Mayor and City Council January 19, 1995 Page Two to be built in 1995. MnDOT also indicated that they do have access control across the Emmerich property and would find difficulty in participating in a Cooperative Agreement for that section of road. They also indicated that the City's proceeding with the initial construction phases indicates that the City is serious about the construction of these roads and the timing for their extensions. Monday evening, there will be four items for the City Council's consideration and recommendation. They include the following: 1. Review of the attached concept for frontage roads in the western area of the City. This needs to be reviewed and approved or modified such that it can be submitted to MnDOT. 2. MnDOT has indicated they have a signal programmed for the intersection of TH 10 and Upland, and that these monies could be reprogrammed for a signal system at Joplin and TH 10. The City Council should consider whether or not they would like to request MnDOT move this funding such that a signal at Joplin and TH 10 could be constructed sooner. e 3. We need to review with the City Council those items which we can indicate to MnDOT as a benefit to the trunk highway system. The clearest and best benefit would be providing access control along the entire south side of TH 10 from the Gagne property to the west City limits. Other items would include potentially closing medians which are no longer needed if frontage roads are constructed, or possibly changing full access medians to right- in/right-out only. I will be prepared with an aerial strip map of the area to discuss this in more detail. The size of that map did not allow for it to be included with each individual Council packet. 4. After the above three items are discussed, there is attached a draft resolution which we would ask City Council to consider and adopt. This is necessary for submittal to MnDOT's Cooperative Agreement Program. e Once our submittal is reviewed by MnDOT, it will be ranked low, medium, or high. High ranking would assure funding in the next cycle. MnDOT has indicated that the next time they will have Cooperative Agreement monies available in any substantial amount would be Fiscal Year 1997, which begins in July 1996. If our project is ranked in the high category, the City Council will be asked to consider whether or not you would like to proceed with plans and specifications, anticipating funding in July of 1996, which would allow construction to begin immediately. We anticipate that the review of our packet will take approximately three months, so it will likely be late spring or early summer before we have any response from MnDOT relative to the ranking. 230/257-1904.jan