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Jankowski reported findings of a survey that was conducted in 1994. Some projects were close to receiving the majority support for paving, however, none of the projects appeared to have significant support to be successful. The Committee directed that the City Engineer research options for funding paving and bring them back for discussion at a subsequent Committee meeting. Case #4: Update on T.H. #47 Local Initiative Project City Engineer Jankowski reported that he met with a committee of MnDOT representatives to discuss the T.H. #47 Local Initiative Project. MnlX)T felt that 142nd Avenue should not be signalized, but instead have a divided median preventing all but right turning movements. City staff pointed out that this would force a large residential area to travel an additional half mile to utilize the CSAH #5/Xkimo Street intersection or cut through the Rivers Bend Plaza. It would also severely impact the southbound access into Rivers Bend Plaza, which would need to turn left onto Xkimo Street nearly one-half mile before reaching the Plaza. It would affect the ability of northbound traffic to reach businesses on the west side of T.H. #47 even more severely, as it would virtually eliminate access altogether. Mr. Jankowski continued that the City had also made a commitment to the businesses in the area at the time of the C.R. #116/T.H. #47 project to work toward the signalization of 142nd. Staff had indicated to the business people that left turning movements at a signalized 142nd Avenue would allow safe left turning movements, which would allow opposite direction traffic to safely enter these businesses. Mr. Jankowski let MnDOT know that the City would have an extremely difficult time supporting any project which did not include the signalization of 142nd Avenue as an element. MnDOT will be revisiting this element of the project with an internal projects review committee and he (Jankowski) would have more information available at the next meeting. Councilmember Haas Steffen felt that all this would be a short term solution for T.H. #47 and suggested that the City schedule a meeting with the City of Anoka and Anoka County to discuss some long term plans for T.H. #47. Case #5: Modification of MSA System and System Needs City Engineer Jankowski explained that the Minnesota State Aid (MSA) system is a mechanism which has been in place since 1958, and returns a portion of the State's gas tax revenue to municipalities in order to support their collector and arterial street systems. Cities are allowed to designate up to 20% of their total mileage as part of the MSA system. The City of Elk River recently asked the City of Ramsey to consider designating a 0.8 mile segment of Jarvis Street, concurrently with them. Ramsey's cooperation would be necessary since one-half of the roadway is located in our City. This is a logical addition to our MSA system and would bring the total mileage to virtually 100% of the allowable maximum. Motion by Councilmember Haas Steffen and seconded by Councilmember Zimmerman to recommend Council add Jarvis Street to the MSA system. Motion carded. Voting Yes: Councilmembers Haas Steffen and Zimmerman. Voting No: None. Absent: Councilmember Beyer. Mr. Jankowski stated that the second part of this case is that he received a proposal from Bolton and Menk, Inc. to review the City's total needs on our MSA system. He reported that he has annually added newly designated segments to the list of the City's needs. A comprehensive review of the entire system has not been performed over the past seven years. Ramsey's needs of MSA designated roadway is $393,645 per mile, which ranks 104 out of 119 cities in the State. In 1990, Ramsey ranked 88th of 110 communities. The State average cost per mile is $555,853 with a Road and Bridge Committee/March 11, 1997 Page 2 of 3