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Our Mistion: To work together to resposibly grow our community, and to provide quality, cost-effective, and efficient government services. CC Regular Session 6. 1. Meeting Date: 03/24/2015 By: Bruce Westby, Engineering/Public Works Information Title: PUBLIC HEARING: Adopt Resolution #15-03-073 Authorizing Plans and Specifications for 2015 Street Maintenance Program - Division B; Improvement Project 15-00 Purpose/Background: Purpose: The purpose of this case is to conduct a public hearing and authorize plans and specifications for Division B of the 2015 Street Maintenance Program; City Improvement Project #15-00. Background: On February 10th, 2015 the Ramsey City Council ordered a feasibility report for Division B of the 2015 Street Maintenance Program which proposes to mill and overlay existing bituminous pavement sections on approximately 3 -miles of public streets in four developments as follows: • Northfork - 160th Lane, Inverness Lane, Royal Road, Turnberry Court, Turnberry Turn, and York Circle • Pondvale Estates - 150th Lane and Helium Street • Rolling Green - 165th Lane, 166th Lane, Coquina Street, Dolomite Street, and Ebony Street • Woodland Green - 156th Lane Figures showing the proposed project locations and street segments identified above are attached for reference. Council accepted the Feasibility Report on March 10th, and ordered a Public Hearing for March 24th, 2015. The purpose of this Public Hearing is to present information about the project to the public including a description of the proposed improvements, estimated project costs, and proposed funding sources, which includes the use of special assessments. Property owners may then address the City Council with their questions or concerns regarding this project. Special assessments are preliminarily proposed at $1,280 per benefiting property, which includes all properties having direct access to each of the improved streets. The preliminary assessment rate equals 25% of the project costs based on the estimated costs identified within the Feasibility Report. To be consistent with previous projects, and because each of the properties proposed to be assessed for the improvements all receive roughly the same level of benefit, the proposed assessment rate of $1,280 per property was applied equally over all street segments within the overall project. It is important to note that City staff visually inspects each public street segment throughout the City, generally on an annual basis, to determine pavement conditions. Staff uses the Pavement and Surface Evaluation Rating (PASER) method to assign a numerical rating between 1 and 10 to each street segment. Streets rated with a 1 are considered to be failed pavements in need of complete reconstruction, while streets rated with a 10 are considered to be in excellent condition requiring no improvement. The street segments proposed to receive overlays in 2015 had 2014 PASER ratings of 3 or 4 making them excellent candidates for bituminous pavement overlays, which will