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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL—April 26, 2010 7 7.A. Municipal State Aid Update (continued) Civil Engineer Kristine Giga stated on April 15, 2010, Staff provided the City Council a memorandum summarizing a meeting held with Mn/DOT State Aid staff on April 8. The City Council had follow up questions regarding the payback to State Aid if a segment of North Snelling Avenue is removed from the system. If a part or all of a state-aid route is revoked for which state-aid construction money has been spent, the district state-aid engineer shall determine the remaining life of the project and compute the value of the items that were financed with state- aid money. In the case of North Snelling Avenue, this length in 0.09 miles, and the remaining life .is 6 years. If the segment were removed from the system in 2010, there would be a one-time payback of$10,545.56. If the segment were removed in a future year, the amount of the payback will decrease, because the remaining life has decreased. The payback would be subtracted from the next state-aid reimbursement requested by the City. The payback would not be reduced from the next annual allocation. Staff is requesting Council to provide direction to Staff on how to proceed with revisions to the City's Municipal State Aid street designations. Councilmember Grant asked Civil Engineer Giga to clarify what roads would be added back into the MSA system. Civil Engineer Giga stated McClung Drive and Colleen Avenue are one street but the name changes about a third of the way and the other segment would be to realign the non-existing road and would cover part of Gateway Road and extend over to the existing Parkshore Drive. Councilmember Grant asked what the designated length of road is before and after the changes. Civil Engineer Giga stated currently the City is at 6.17 miles, which is the maximum allowable, and after the revision the designated length would be 6.15 miles. Councilmember Grant asked if the State Aid staff had indicated any concerns with designating � g three routes that connect the same road segments. Civil Engineer Giga stated there had been no concerns expressed in this area because it is a larger neighborhood. Councilmember Grant clarified the City has adequate MSA eligible roads for the future. He asked if there was a disadvantage to designating longer segments with more mileage. Civil Engineer Giga stated the City would not be able to designate more than the maximum allowed. The City would need to look at un-designating some roads in order to add longer segments. When TCAAP is developed the City will gain additional mileage that can be designated to the MSA system. Cities are not allowed to designate more than the maximum allowable mileage for MSA. Councilmember Holden stated she would be interested in making these changes later rather than sooner. Making the change at this time would cost the City in excess of $10,000. She recommended leaving the designations as they are at this time and bring this item back to the Council at a future date.