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Alternatives: Alternative #1 — Motion to deny adoption of Resolution #17-02-044 at this time, to postpone the public hearing for Improvement Project #17-00, Sunwood Drive Reconstruction, until February 28, 2017, and to revise the Feasibility Report by incorporating the attached assessment map and roll. Alternative #2 — Motion to deny adoption of Resolution #17-02-044 at this time, to postpone the public hearing for Improvement Project #17-00, Sunwood Drive Reconstruction, until February 28, 2017, and to revise the Feasibility Report as follows, Alternative #3 — Motion to adopt Resolution #17-02-044 accepting the Feasibility Report and ordering Plans and Specifications for Improvement Project #17-00, Sunwood Drive Reconstruction. Funding Source: City staff prepared the Feasibility Report in-house as part of staff's normal duties. The engineer's opinion of probable costs for the proposed improvements on Sunwood Drive as outlined in the Feasibility Report is $607,000. Estimated costs include 23% indirect costs for administrative, engineering, finance and legal costs. A summary of the engineer's opinion of probable costs is included in Appendix B of the Feasibility Report. NTI completed a Geotechnical Exploration and Engineering Review at a cost of $4,400 which is included in Appendix Dof the Feasibility Report. WSB and Associates, Inc. completed Pavement Evaluations and Recommendations at a not -to -exceed cost of $2,687.50 which is also included inAppendix D, Assessable industrial parcels are preliminarily proposed to be assessed for 25 percent of eligible project costs totaling $151,750. The City will pay the remaining 75% of project costs including $447,950 from the 5 year Street Reconstruction and Overlay Program bond funds, and $7,300 from stormwater utility funds. The preliminary Assessment Map and Roll included in Appendix C of the Feasibility Report were preliminarily approved by Council on January 24th. Attached are a revised assessment map and revised assessment roll that reflect staff proposed adjustments to the preliminary assessments for this project. If Council accepts the adjustments proposed by staff, the assessment map and roll included in the attached Feasibility Report will be replaced with the revised map and roll attached. Alternatively, Council may direct staff to make other adjustments to the assessment roll, in which case such revisions would be incorporated into the Feasibility Report before the Public Hearing. Recommendation: Staff recommends Alternative #1 or #2, depending on whether Council directs any modifications to the Feasibility Report. Staff does not support Alternative #3 since the property owners staff met with were informed Staff's recommendation would be to postpone the hearing until February 28, 2017. It is the recommendation of City staff that City Project No. 17-00 is feasible, necessary, and cost-effective from an engineering standpoint, and that this project would best be constructed as a stand-alone project as proposed in the Feasibility Report. The following Staff recommendations related to the proposed project are presented for Council consideration and concurrence: 1. Staff recommends reconstructing the segment of Sunwood Drive between Ramsey Boulevard/CSAH 56 and Bunker Lake Boulevard /CSAH 116 as proposed in 2017 thereby meeting current State Aid design standards and allowing all project costs to be eligible for the use of special assessments per the City's Special Assessments Policy. 2. Staff recommends ordering a benefit appraisal consultation report to ensure the preliminary assessments as