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153rd Avenue between C.S.A.H. 5 and S.T.H. No. 47 is eligible for MSA funding if it is completed this year. MSA streets are eligible for a one time sealcoating if it is completed within five years of the final surfacing. The other sections of 153rd have been sealcoated and would have to be financed by City funds. To minimize the cost, City could use aggregate saved from previous projects. All of the other proposed seal costing projects will be on streets over 6 years old and would be financed by special assessments. ACTION: Recommend to the City Council that they order feasibilities on the projects. CASE #4: Street Maintenance Program BACKGROUND: In addition to the proposed sealcoating projects, Mr. Mevissen and myself reviewed areas that had been sealcoated eight years ago. Two of the areas will need major improvements prior to additional sealcoating. Hall's Doves Acres is one area and Woodland Green is the other. The streets in Hall's Dover Acres are only 20 feet in width and should be widened and overlayed. The streets in Woodland Green have numerous cracks and should be overlayed. Both areas are approximately 15 years old which was the expected life of the streets. I recently attended the. annual City Engineer's conference and one session was on pavement management. They recommended that it is most cost effective to-maintain or repair streets before they are completely destroyed by traffic and weather. The main problem on overlaying or reconstructing streets is the financing. Ramsey ordinance states that overlays and sealcoating are to be assessed 100%. However, the charter allows residents to petition against a project. Therefore, the majority must be in favor of the project. In most of the cities surveyed, overlays were paid by the city with only two cities assessing 25 to 30 percent of the cost. Several of the cities stated that they used part of the infrastructure tax levy to fund street maintenance programs. cities can levy up to 2 mills for infrastructure improvements outside of the levy limits. ACTION: Action should be based on discussions by they road and bridge committee.