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. ,- . -i/,I~-.I- CONSULTING ENGINEERS Maier Stewart & Associates Inc. July 15, 1993 File: 520-043-70 Ms. Dorothy Person City Administrator City of Arden Hills 1450 West Highway 96 Arden Hills, MN 55112 RE: RAMSEY COUNTY FUNCTIONAL CONSOLIDATION Dear Ms. Person: We have reviewed the letter of June 24, 1993, from Paul Kirkwold, Ramsey County Engineer, to Mayor Sather. Basically, this letter indicates that the County Board has authorized $800,000 to do improvements on roadways which are to be turned back to various cities within the County. These are the funds that would be used to seal coat Old Snelling Avenue should the City . ultimately decide to accept that roadway back from the County. What this letter is asking the City to do is to pass a resolution indicating they are willing to take back all of the roadways listed in the Functional Consolidation Study. Ramsey County would then use this $800,000 to bring each of these roadways up to a condition level 90, according to their Pavement Management Program. This would typically involve seal coating or cold in-place recycling of the roadways. I have discussed briefly the contents of this letter with TIm Mayasich at Ramsey County. He indicated that if the City is willing to pass such a resolution, it could have a contingency in it stating that the City will not accept the roadways back until such time that the Municipal State Aid system provides additional mileage and funding for the City to put these roadways on their MSA system. Even if the resolution contains such a contingency, it would still be the County's intent to go out and utilize their available funding to bring these roadways up to level 90 and maintain them under their jurisdiction until such time that the contingency can be met. The one item that is not discussed in the County's letter is the fuct that if the cities are unwilling to pass such a resolution, these roadways remain in the County's jurisdiction. That would mean that they should be evaluated with all other roadways through the Pavement Management process and would likely see seal coating and recycling as needed. At this point in time, I see no advantage to the City of Arden Hills passing a resolution indicating that they are willing to take these roadways back with or without the contingency regarding the Municipal State Aid mileage and funding. Therefore, I would recommend at this time that the City of Arden Hills do nothing . in response to the County's request. 1959 SLOAN PLACE. SUITE 200, ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA 55117 612.774-6021 9800 SHELARD PARKWAY. SUITE 102, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55441 612.546--0432 . Equal Opportun;ly Employer ------- ----