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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION Date: November 30, 2020 Item No.: 9.g Department Approval City Manager Approval Item Description: Approve Resolution Approving Petition for Partial Transfer of Ramsey County Ditch 4 1 B ACKGROUND 2 At the July 27, 2020 meeting, the City Council approved a Cooperative Agreement with the Rice 3 Creek Watershed District for Improvement to Ramsey County Ditch 4 (RCD 4). This agreement 4 laid out cost participation and terms for a project to place the current open ditch segment of RCD 4 5 between County Road C and Terrace Drive into a pipe section for the betterment of the drainage 6 system as well as water quality improvements downstream. As part of this agreement, the City also 7 agreed to accept the transfer ofownership of this portion of the RCD 4 as well as the currently piped 8 portion south of County Road C and the lateral south and east of the identified segment. A map 9 showing the segments in question is included as Attachment C. 10 Per Minnesota State Statutes Section 103E.812, the City must formally petition the watershed 11 district for this transfer of ownership. This is an official acknowledgement that we are willing to 12 take on permanent ownership and maintenance of these drainage ways. Again, the City has already 13 committed to this per the recently approved Cooperative Agreement. 14 A resolution is attached approving the petition and authorizing the Mayor and City Manager to 15 execute the formal petition and return it to the Rice Creek Watershed District. 16 F INANCIAL I MPACTS 17 The petition itself does not carry any direct costs to the City in order to execute the transfer of 18 ownership. While section 15 of the attached petition indicates that the City is responsible for all 19 costs related to the transfer, the aforementioned and recently approved Cooperative Agreement 20 (referred to as a Memorandum of Agreement within the petition) supersedes this portion of the 21 petition, which is required by State Statutes. Per the agreement, any costs related to any future 22 public hearings or notifications of impacted property owners, attorney fees, engineering costs, etc., 23 will be paid by the Rice Creek Watershed District. 24 The future ownership and maintenance costs of the newly transferred sections will cost the City 25 about $3000 per year on average, according to estimates by City staff based on recent maintenance 26 activities of similar piped sections. Future operating budgets and CIP’s will be adjusted as necessary 27 to account for these additional costs but we do not recommend any changes to the 2021 budget as a 28 result of this transfer. 29 S TAFF RECOMMENDATION 30 Staff recommends Council approve a resolution approving a petition for the partial transfer of 31 Ramsey County Ditch 4 from the Rice Creek Watershed District to the City of Roseville. Page 1 of 2