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<br />City Council Regular Meeting - 02/28/05 <br />Minutes - Page 12 <br /> <br />financial and Ramsey County perspective, the Herschel <br />alternative seemed most favorable. Councilmember Maschka <br />questioned whether this option could be included in the City's <br />Pavement Management Plan (PMP). <br /> <br />Public Works Director Duane Schwartz advised that no money <br />was in the PMP for specific projects of this type of new <br />constructi on. <br /> <br />Discussion included bonding ability and authority; purpose of the <br />PMP for neighborhood street replacement without the need to <br />bond; systematic changes required to receive bonding authority; <br />lack of funding available or committed in a five or ten year <br />Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) for this type of project; funding <br />options and implications; reserve fund availability; business and <br />residential impacts; and County Road C construction timing. <br /> <br />Councilmember Kough noted the need to get the cross-over <br />reopened and the impacts to businesses and residents; and the <br />need to get the James Addition involved in choosing alternatives. <br /> <br />Councilmember Schroeder questioned staff on the possibility for <br />assessing a portion of the costs through Chapter 429 <br />improvement scenarios. Councilmember Schroeder sought <br />clarification regarding MnDOT's interpretation or definition of <br />the City's "commitment to funding a City project to improve <br />access to the James Addition Neighborhood." <br /> <br />Councilmember Maschka opined his interpretation from the <br />meeting he had attended with Lt. Governor and Transportation <br />Commissioner Carol Molnau, had been that once included in the <br />City's CIP and committed to a timeline, MnDOT would reopen <br />the cross-over, not at the actual time of construction. <br /> <br />Discussion included state participation in funding for signal <br />improvements at the railroad crossing; special assessment <br />bonding authority requirements; calculation for bonding <br />authority; project costs; beneficiary demonstrations; various <br />sources, at the Council's discretion, for funding options; <br />construction cost projections; and composition of the James <br />Addition Task Force. <br />