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Ramsey County owns and operates over 290 miles of roadway. County Roads are classified as <br />either County State Aid Highways or County Roads. Funding comes from various sources; a large <br />source of funding comes from the gas tax that gets deposited in the County State Aid Highway Fund <br />account. These funds can only be used on County State Aid Highways (CSAH). There are several <br />variables that determine the amount of money is allocated to each roadway, sometimes referred to <br />as “needs”. <br />Ramsey County recently completed a countywide study to determine if any roadway classifications <br />should be changed from CSAH or County Road (CR) status. The objective of this study was to <br />maximize the needs of our CSAH system to maximize the funding allocated to our CSAH roadway <br />network (which is over 85% of our miles). The study identified several short sections of roadway in <br />Gem Lake that draw higher needs that other CSAH segments elsewhere in the county. The <br />reallocation of Otter Lake Road, Scheuneman Road, and Labore Road from County roads to CSAHs <br />will create more needs, and therefore bring in more annual funding to Ramsey County for roadway <br />construction and maintenance. <br />The roadway classification does not impact how, or when, we program roadway improvements – <br />instead it simply identifies which pot of money is used to fund these improvements. This action is <br />administrative in nature and requires impacted Cities to pass a resolution <br />supporting/acknowledging the modifications. That is the resolution request that was sent to you <br />along with our board action detailing all of the modifications throughout the county.