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work would all be done by the county and almost all expenses would be absorbed by the county. Wayne Leonard of the Ramsey County Department is here to present a short summary of some of the detail. MR. LEONARD: I'm Wayne Leonard, design engineer for Ramsey County. I have a drawing colored to represent the improvement essentially from the west city limits over to Highcrest - over to Cleveland. The present roadway is operating in the area from 35W west over capacity that we feel is a safe capacity for that stretch of roadway. It's also creating a maintenance problem in that the structural section of the road has deteriorated where we can hardly maintain it any longer. We have asked the Council, along with St. Anthony and New Brighton, to let us be heard and present a proposal for the improvement of the road. The county policy here is essentially that the cost of the road improvement - so far as the road surface - would be borne by the county from Highway State Aid Funds. Right of way would be borne by the county state aid funds. Any oversizing of the storm sewers, which in this case we don't anticipate because Roseville drains to the south and New Brighton to the north, but in that event (inaudible) not required for roadway purposes so it would be considered for payment by the city, and the major thing here would be the curb and gutter. We ask that 75% of the cost, or approximately $3.00 assessable front foot be paid for by the city. Another important consideration is that we have recently acquired new railroad signal crossings at.the railroad next to 35W ramps. The state has installed signals. We have signals at (inaudible) Highway 8. With this improvement we would also hope to install new signals at old Highway 8 intersection. In that case, three legs of the intersection are owned by the county or operated by the county, and the fourth leg is that of the city, in which case the city would be expected to partic- ipate to one-fourth of the cost. So, without going into fur- ther detail - what we're talking about is a 52 foot roadway - two lanes in each direction with a 24 inch gutter and 26 inch high curb on either side, coming essentially from Silver Lake Road past the schoolhouse, past Highcrest, and continuing over to the vicinity of the PDQ store at which point we introduce the medians. 2