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• <br />RESOLUTION 92-44 <br />A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF FALCON HEIGHTS <br />A RESOLUTION DEALING MUNICIPAL STATE AID MII.EAGE <br />FOR TURNBACK RAMSEY COUNTY ROADS <br />• <br />n <br />LJ <br />WI~REAS, the 1991 Minnesota Legislature . established a Ramsey County Local <br />Government Services Study Commission (RCLGSSC) to "report on the advantages and <br />disadvantages of sharing, cooperating, restructuring, or consolidating..." activities in five azeas <br />of public service including: public health, attorney's functions as they relate to criminal law, <br />libraries, public works, and police communications, crime lab and investigative functions; and <br />WHEREAS, the commission's recommendations concerning public works includes <br />adoption of a plan for functional consolidation of roadways within Ramsey County; and <br />VVHEI2EAS, the consolidation plan provides for reclassification of roadways and <br />corresponding changes in jurisdiction including trunk highway turnbacks from the State to <br />Ramsey County and transfer of local and state aid roadways between the County and <br />municipalities; and <br />WI-~REAS, the plan also~provides $3.13 million for the improvement of roadways to <br />acceptable levels prior to transfemng jurisdiction over roadway segments from Ramsey County <br />to municipalities; and <br />WHEREAS, the plan also provides for establishment of appropriate County State Aid <br />Highway and Municipal State Aid designations; and <br />WHEREAS, the plan causes operations, maintenance, service, and financial impacts to <br />municipalities within Ramsey County; and <br />WHEREAS, if the proposed consolidation plan proceeds, the City will be able to <br />negotiate the terms and conditions under which the roadways aze returned to the City; and <br />NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, the City of Falcon Heights requests that the <br />Commissioner of Transportation increase the portion of its municipal roadway system that is <br />eligible for Municipal State Aid (MSA) designation to accommodate the additional 1.63 miles <br />of roadway placed under its jurisdiction as a result of the proposed consolidation plan; and <br />xE.~-ooo.ac <br />