Agenda - Council Work Session - 01/24/2012

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Minnesota Department o Trans on Metropolitan District 1500 West County Road B -2 Roseville, MN 55113 TO: Rhonda Sivarajah Anoka County Commissioner /Board chair FROM: Scott McBride, MnDOT Metro District Engineer Pat Born, Met Council Regional Administrator DATE: January 17, 2012 SUBJECT: Trunk Highway 10 MnDOT and the Metropolitan Council appreciated the opportunity to meet with Representative Jim Abeler, Senator Mike Jungbauer, and Anoka County and City of Ramsey sey officials and staff on November 21, 2011. The meeting allowed all parties to explain and discuss their perspectives and understandings regarding the TH10 corridor and the properties acquired along TH10 through the Right - of-Way Acquisition Loan Fund (RALF) program. As a result of that meeting, this memo summarizes MnDOT's and the Met Council's position on TH1 and replaces the September 19, 2011 letter to Doug Fischer, Anoka County Engineer. As we move forward with TH1 , all stakeholders (including Anoka County, City of Ramsey, City of Anoka, MnDOT and Council) need to continue to work together to determine the future improvement strategy, both near - term and long- term, for the corridor. lear_Term Im roverr ent Strate - MnDOT's Corridor Investment Management Strategy (CIMS) Approach • Over the past two decades, MnDOT, the MPOs and local partners have developed plans and visions for every major transportation corridor in the state, including TH10. These plans were developed at a time when the economy was booming, the system was in better condition, and revenues were increasing. Even under those more prosperous conditions, anticipated funding levels prevented the metro area corridor plans from being adopted into the region's Transportation Policy Plan. Today we are facing more challenging trends and our stakeholders are asking how to move forward together in light of these challenges, Some rethinking of these plans and strategies has already occurred, particularly in the Twin Cities Metro Area, but MnDOT has not systematically examined these trends and their implications for all our major corridors around the state. At the December 12, 2011 CIMS Workshop, MnDOT introduced a new approach for collaborative investment planning and programming on the major trunk highway corridors in light of these current challenges. We appreciate that Commissioner Andy Westerberg as well as Anoka County staff Jack Corkie and Kate Garwood attended the workshop. The presentation given at the workshop outlining the new approach to corridor planning and collaboration is attached for your reference, • The CIMS process will focus on developing a near term improvement ent strategy for the next 10 years. MnDOT will be meeting with corridor stakeholders to share information on system condition and performance trends, anticipated funding, investment priorities and the resulting implications for potential improvements on each corridor over the next 4-10 years. MnDOT will identify the improvements planned and needed on each corridor to keep the roadway in a safe and sound condition. Given the near term funding outlook, these needs will focus primarily on pavement, bridge, and spot safety improvements. Local partners on each corridor will be asked to identify local priorities and other efforts in the corridor to determine if there are partnering or synergistic opportunities to maximizing available investments in the corridor. An Equal Opportunity Employer 0 D