Agenda - Council Work Session - 10/07/2008

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-3 --- CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION Topic Report: Consider Assessment Policy for the Reconstruction of Municipal State Aid (MSA) Streets By: Steven Jankowski, City Engineer Bnckground: The City has had few paved streets reconstructed. Thosetew streets thl;lt have been reconstructed were done so in conjunction "vith sewer and water improvements. The costs associated with the street replacement were finunced.as a cost associated with the installation of the utility. Thus the City has no assessment policy which pertains specifically to street reconstruction, The attached policy has evolved over many years as a guide tor the assessment of sealcouting and overla.y improvements done in conjunction with the annual Street Maintenance Program. This spring a proposed overlay of Andt1e Street and 165U1 Lane in the North Fork subdivision was suggested to be transtbnned into an expanded scope project which would result in the reconstruction of these roadways with concrete curb and gutter replacing the existing bituminous berm curb. The purpose of this case will be to provide direction on the development of a policy tor the assessment of reconstructed streets andparticull.ll'ly MSA streets. Such a policy will also allow for the completion of the financing section of the feasibility study on IP 08-32, Andric Street/ 164tl1 Lane Itnprovements. Attachments: . PW Committee J.ileeting of July 15, 2008 - Consider Establishing an Assessment Policy jor lv/SA Construction Projects. This case presents an analysis estimating the MSA street need costs and revenues over the next ten years. The conclusion of this analysis was that need costs will exceed available MSA revenues, and that special assessments should be used whenever benefit to adj~lcent properties can be demonstrated. . Ramsey's cw.rent Street j"'laintenance Program prac:tices. 'nus is the basis tor the assessment of the sealcouting (which will be phased out by 2014) and bituminOl.lS overlays on City streets. Note that policy i~'l11s 9 and 10 deal specifically with MSA streets. These policies are S\Jcl1 that assessments on MSA streets would be no greater than similar improvements on non MSA streets; . Results ofet 2006 survey qf Clssessmentpolicies qfother Minn~sotCl communities-Although specifics vary considerably between communities, the survey shows a general tendency to assess between $3,300 and $6,000 fbr reconstructed improvement, or roughly between 30 to 60 percent of the project cost. -21-