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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL - DECEMBER 8.1997 2 . various issues related to the streets included in the Feasibility Report. As a result, Staff is recommending a scaled down 1998 street program, Mr. Gregory Brown, City Engineer, explained that he will be presenting a project overview, financing. and implementation, He explained that prior to 1995 the City maintained roadways based upon a comprehensive review and ranking of all City streets based upon its condition of deterioration. In 1995, the City and its consulting engineer conducted a pavement condition survey of all of the streets and also developed a multi-year improvement program. Mr. Brown explained how the pavement condition ranking is used to determine if and when a street should be rehabilitated or reconstructed and to develop a five-year plan, Mr. Brown then displayed pictures depicting asphalt roadways at various levels of deterioration, base failures, and cross sections for a typical City street. Mr. Brown read a list of streets which were slated for reconstruction and overlay and explained that due to the high cost over the budget, only the following streets are recommended to remain in the project scope: reconstruction of Fairview Avenue, Edgewater Avenue and Stowe Avenue; and overlay of Edgewater Avenue, Glenpaul A venue, and Sandeen Road, Staff is recommending the other streets identified in the Feasibility Report be dropped from the 1998 Street Improvement Project. Mr. Brown reviewed the estimated project costs and explained that financing will be comprised of the General Fund, PIR Fund, Surface Water Management Utility, City of New Brighton, and . residential assessments, The assessment rates will be based on the benefit to the property. not the actual cost. The 1997 assessment rates were $37,96 per foot for reconstructed streets and $4.97 per foot for overlaid streets, He stated the contract would probably be let in February of 1998. construction startcd in April or May of 1998, and construction completed in July or August of 1998. Mr. Brown offered to answer questions, Mayor Probst explained the issue at this public hearing is whether the project should proceed. not the costs or level of assessments which will be addressed at a future public hearing (if the project proceeds). He noted the recommendation of Staff on the number of streets to be included. He asked if anyone is present from a street that is proposed to be dropped who would like the street included, A resident of Ham line Avenue indicated she wants Hamline Avenue to remain dropped from the 1998 Street Improvement Project. A resident stated that Indian Place has been dropped from reconstruction but it has not been sealcoatcd or overlaid since construeted and should be looked at. Mayor Probst stated Indian Place was slated for reconstruction but the Council has chosen to not invest in a lesser improvement since it would be needed again in a short time frame, He stated it will be back on the list as a candidate for next year's project. . Mitch Bendix, 1948 Edgewater Avenue, stated he lives on a comer lot that has three big evergreens and asked if the City will be improving Prior Avenue any time soon,