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Motion carried. Voting Yes: Mayor Gamec, Councilmembers Beahen, Beyer, Haas Steffen and Zimmerman. Voting No: None. Case #3: 1998 Annual Street Maintenance Program Mayor Gamec adjourned the regular portion of the City Council meeting at 7:38 p.m. in order to conduct the public hearing. Public Hearing Mayor Gamec called the public hearing to order at 7:38 p.m. Presentation Mayor Gamec stated that every year the City has a street maintenance program. This year's project consists of twelve projects. City Engineer Jankowski stated that the City has had such a program since 1981, and up to 1990, the policy was to assess the total cost of the improvement to the resident. Beginning in 1991, the City began paying one-half of the cost while the other half was divided equally among the benefited properties. The City has a considerable amount of investment in the nearly 132 miles of paved roadway for which it is responsible. The goal is to apply a sealcoat to new pavements, including overlays, after a five-year period and to reseal an overlay as needed at seven-year succeeding intervals. The 12 projects in this year's program cover 12.54 miles, which will receive sealcoating preceded by crack filling of cracks wider than a quarter inch. In addition, 9.01 miles of street in five projects, #98-08 through #98-12, will receive 1-1/2 inch bituminous overlays. Mr. Jankowski explained that Project #98-01 is somewhat unique in that it incorporates 29 individual subdivisions, all but two of which have sewer and water. These subdivisions have many common characteristics including similar lot areas and frontages. All are new pavement ranging from three to six years old, and all have had developer escrows contributed toward the first sealcoating. Mr. Jankowski explained that this is why they have all been aggregated into a single project. He continued that Project #98-12 proposes a bituminous overlay on 5.5 miles of Minnesota State Aid (MSA) streets which includes 167th Avenue from T.H. #47 to C.S.A.H. #5, 153rd Avenue from C.S.A.H. #5 to Roanoke Street, and Variolite Street and 155th Avenue west of County Road #56. The total project cost on these roadways is estimated to be $353,063 and is anticipated to be funded through the City's MSA construction account which currently has a balance of $685,000. Past practice has been to assess properties fronting on MSA roads, which have no other frontage on local streets, an amount equal to the average assessment which other properties receiving a similar benefit had been assessed in that year's program. This was done with 153rd/155th Avenue in the 1995 program and with 167th Avenue in 1992. He summarized the 1998 program as follows: to sealcoat and overlay 22.8 miles of City streets, there is a total project cost of $706,191. Financing of the program is anticipated as follows: City Fund and Developer Escrows - $208,026; Assessments - $191,153; MSA Funds - $353,063 - total $752,242. City Council/March 10, 1998 Page 8 of 24