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7550 Sunwood Drive NW • Ramsey, MN 55303 City Hall: 763.427.1410 o Fax: 763.427.5543 www.cityoframsey.com 9/23/2021 Congressman Tom Emmer 9201 Quaday Avenue NE Suite 206 Otsego, MN 55330 Dear Congressman Emmer: On behalf of the City of Ramsey, I want to thank you again for your consistent and meaningful support for critical improvements to the US TH 10/169 corridor in our City and throughout Anoka County. We recognize that it was largely a result of your involvement, and that of your staff, that we were able to secure the $40m INFRA grant to the Ramsey Gateway project. That grant solidified the project as a nationally recognized need on the US Trunk Highway System and opened the door to a variety of other state and regional funding opportunities. We are extremely pleased to report to you that collectively, the resources now committed to the Ramsey Gateway project have resulted in the project being fully funded. This is a remarkable accomplishment and one that could not have happened without your support. Having the Gateway fully funded and other critical improvements such as Thurston/Fairoak in the City of Anoka scheduled to get underway soon, there remains only one final priority of the Anoka County Highway 10 Coalition that still needs to be addressed. That improvement is the proposed third lane addition in the City of Coon Rapids. We know you're familiar with this project and why it is so important to efficient movement of traffic through the corridor. Failure to expand US TH 10 to three lanes in each direction in Coon Rapids will create a bottleneck that will choke off much of the benefit of the other improvements that are now scheduled. The City of Ramsey, as a partner in the Highway 10 Coalition, wants you to know that we are in full support of the efforts that are underway to secure the funding necessary to construct the third lane. Please add our voices to those of the other Coalition members in encouraging the identification and solicitation of whatever funding opportunitiesmay arise to address this important priority. It is our mission to work together. to responsibly grow our community, y, and to provide quality, cost-effective and efficient government services.