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DRAFT Regular City Council Meeting Monday,October 10,2011 Page 15 1 2 Roll Call(Super Majority) 3 Ayes: McGehee; Willmus: Johnson;Pust; and Roe. 4 Nays: None. 5 6 10. Presentations 7 8 a. Receive County Road C-2 Cost Estimates 9 Mayor Roe, in introducing this item, reminded the audience that this was a pres- 10 entation by staff to the City Council, at the City Council's request for discussion 11 purposes only at this time, on projected costs to make a connection of County 12 Road C-2 between Lexington and Hamline Avenues. Mayor Roe advised that this 13 was to provide an opportunity for questions and answers by the City Council and 14 staff; however, he noted that he would recognize public comment following the 15 presentation and City Council discussion, as long as they were specifically fo- 16 cused on the presentation and not - . •- : . .. .. • •. - arguing the merits 17 of opening or keeping C2 closed. Mayor Roe noted that this meeting had there- 18 fore not been formally noticed to affected property owners as a meeting where an 19 action would be taken; and his suggestion to the City Council would be that the 20 City Council take this issue under advisement following the presentation and any 21 formal action be taken at a future meeting. 22 23 City Engineer Debra Bloom summarized cost estimates for two (2) different sce- 24 narios as detailed in the RCA dated October 10, 2011, with the total cost estimate 25 for Scenario 1 being $404,000; and the total cost estimate for Scenario II being 26 $956,000. Ms. Bloom also briefly summarized the current City Assessment Poli- 27 cy related to such a project; and Minnesota State Aid (MSA) funds available, as 28 well as a summary of projects programmed over the next five (5) years and esti- 29 mated MSA funds encumbered for those projects. 30 31 At the request of Councilmember Willmus, Ms. Bloom identified the width of 32 County Road C at Griggs, exclusive of the right-of-way, as 32'. 33 34 At the request of Councilmember Willmus, Public Works Director Duane 35 Schwartz advised that the funds currently available in the Pavement Management 36 Plan(PMP) was approximately$12 million. 37 38 Councilmember Willmus questioned if, in the past, the City had undertaken corn- 39 pletion of existing sections of rights-of-way without assessing them. 40 41 Ms. Bloom advised that such segments were usually undertaken as part of a rede- 42 velopment project, such as Josephine Woods Development and their installation 43 of a new road, which will be paid 100%by the developer. Ms. Bloom noted that 44 one exception had been the City's acquisition of rights-of-way in Twin Lakes. 45