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City Engineer Jesse Freihammer provided a brief review and update on projects and maintenance activities listed in the staff report dated September 25, 2018. Mr. Mark Culver stated in regard to the Long Lake Project the most significant changes besides a trail is the improvements at Long Lake Road and County Road C. He stated currently Long Lake acts as an extension of the freeway offramp between the southbound offramp and County Road C. The signal has been deficient in design for quite some time and doesn't have a dedicated left turn phase for the southbound traffic. That is a significant movement through the intersection and as part of this project the County will be adjusting the geometries primarily on the north approach to provide a duel left and a dedicate right with a through movement. The southside is set up to align with the new geometries on the north side. That should improve the operations of that intersection significantly. He noted that would be the biggest improvement of the project, in his opinion. Member Wozniak thought it was great that the City took advantage of this project to make the connection to the diagonal trail and the County Road C trail because the Commission has looked at making that connection for a long time and as part of the work the Commission has done on the trail management program he thought the City has always looked at a chance to make that connection. Member Wozniak wondered when the project would be completed. Mr. Freihammer stated the project would start early 2019 and would take the duration of the summer and should be completed by the end of summer 2019. Mr. Culver stated this project has been on the City's radar for some time and the County has made a couple of applications for Federal funds for this project and the County finally decided to get it done. Mr. Culver noted for the abutting property owners along County Road C the City will be proposing to levy assessments for this project. It is the City's special assessment policy for full reconstructs. It is defined as when the City replaces all of the curb and gutter on a roadway and reconstructing the full depth of pavement. That is considered a reconstruct project and at that point the City does assess the benefiting property owners if the property owners have not been assessed. In this case, the property owners have not had an assessment for improvements on the roadway. The Engineering Department will be putting together a feasibility study which will be presented to the City Council in November and that will have estimated assessments for the properties. Member Kruse asked if the no previous assessment is based on historical information or is it based on the owner of the property. Mr. Culver indicated it was historical and does not matter if the property has changed ownership or not. Page 2 of 12