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Item # 6.2. <br />t~ver <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: Mayor and City Council <br />FROM: Terry Maurer, Public Works Director <br />DATE: February I I, 2008 <br />SUBJECT: Public Works Legislative Update <br />I recently attended the annual City Engineer's Association winter conference. At that <br />conference I received uifoxmation regarding the transportation funding bill that was passed <br />last session but vetoed by the Governor and information about what the League of <br />Minnesota Cities is proposing for this legislative session. Attached you will find a handout <br />from the Transportation Alliance surnmaxizing the transportation finance omnibus bill that <br />was vetoed by the Governor last session. Attached to that bill is a summary of what cities <br />could expect to receive in annual increases over a 10-year period if the bill had become law. <br />For the City of Elk River, over a 10-year period we would have received approximately $3.6 <br />million in additional monies. Also attached is a memorandum from Ann Finn, Assistant <br />intexgovemmental Relations Director far the League of Minnesota Cities. That memo is <br />attached to draft legislation that the League of 1~linnesota Cities is proposing for this <br />legislative session fox a Municipal Street Improvement District. <br />The final two items attached are asign-up sheet from the 'I"xansportation Alliance fox the <br />Progress in Motion Drive, whereby they are trying to get as many supporters as possible to <br />sign on united behind a goal of having a transportation funding package become law this <br />session that is comparable to or larger than the legislation that the Governor vetoed in 2007. <br />Also, from the Transportation Alliance is an invitation to the Minnesota Transportation Day <br />at the Capital, which is Wednesday, March 5, 2008. <br />The purpose of providing all of this information to you is to ask whether or not you want <br />me to represent Elk River at the Transportation Day at the Capital, where I will have an <br />opportunity to meet with our legislators and indicate to them what the City Council would <br />like to see out of the legislature xegaxduig transportation funding. <br />I will be in attendance at this evening's meeting to discuss this issue with you further <br />S:\PUBLIC WORKS\Enp}neexing Division\2008 CC Memos\Tcansp fu~dnig 417-0S.doc <br />