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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,April 13, 2015 Page 21 them on their mix designs and experiences, staff would consider that the problem had been resolved. At the request of Councilmember Willmus, Mr. Culver advised that Ramsey County does not sealcoat and they use a heavier mix, as well as doing mill and overlays more frequently than municipalities. Mr. Culver also noted that they have heavier traffic in both volume and loads on their roadways, while the City looks at a full mill and overlay at year 25, the County does so in a shorter timeframe due to that heavier wear and tear. To-date, Mr. Culver advised that he had not heard of Ramsey County experiencing this delamination on their road- ways, which industry experts and staff were attributing to their lack of sealcoating activities. At the request of Councilmember Laliberte, Mr. Culver reported that staff antici- pated suspending sealcoating indefinitely at this time, but hoped it would be only for a 3-4 year timeframe as new pavements were monitored, since most of the dis- tresses were found in mixes applied in 1999 — 2000, and within 2-3 years, a de- termination should be evident. Councilmember Laliberte questioned the impact to patching costs in time and ma- terials. Mr. Culver advised that he was unable at this point to predict an accurate annual amount or increase, since time and resources were spent in sealcoating to extend the life of pavements and reduce the need for crack sealing and patching. How- ever, since staff was currently spending an extreme amount of time and effort in patching those delamination areas, there may be some balance. Councilmember Laliberte stated that, at some point, the City Council would need some idea of that increase in time and patching, and if a 3-4 year suspension was anticipated, the budgets would need to be reviewed for that impact. Since the PWETC had discussed this at their meeting, Councilmember Laliberte asked for a copy of their meeting minutes. Mr. Culver apologized for the inadvertent omission of those minutes as part of the RCA. At the request of Councilmember Etten, switching funds to mill and overlay from sealcoating, Mr. Culver anticipated an additional one mile of roadway for that treatment annually. In responding to whether there would be any of those funds to match through leveraging state aid dollars, Mr. Culver advised that the City re- ceived an annual allocation of MSA funds of just over $1 million. However, Mr. Culver noted that those funds were exclusive to use on state aid roads, represent- ing approximately 20% of the City's local system.