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Ms. Susan Hoyt September 9, 1994 Page Four Since the City contracts for snowplowing and most maintenance services the turnback of these roadways would directly increase the City's maintenance cost. Larger communities which have full service maintenance departments may not see a direct dollar increase for ongoing maintenance since they could easily add a small amount of additional mileage to snowplowing or other maintenance operations. Since the City's current capital improvement program has already programmed projects out to approximately the year 2000, it is unlikely any of these proposed turnback roadways would be addressed for any major improvements within the next 5 to 7 years. At this point we are only assuming that each of the roadways will meet the criteria to be placed on the Municipal State Aid System. If in fact one or more of them is not allowed by the District State Aid Engineer this would reduce even more the small amount of increase the City may see in their annual allotment. The turnback of these roadways would increase annually the amount of roadway in the ongoing seal coating program, thus increasing the annual cost for this work. We have been successful in contacting the City of Roseville and the City of Lauderdale relative to their plans for the turnback of roadways in their community. Neither Roseville nor Lauderdale desires to have the border roadways turned back in the short term. The would prefer to stretch out the turnback process as far as possible within the ten year window. E. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS The County has indicated they would like to accomplish the turnback of all roadways within a ten year window. They have asked each City to review the roadways within their community and indicate to the County the type of turnback option they would see utilizing and the time frame to do that. As previously mentioned only Option 1 would apply to the City of Falcon Heights. Based on the other information detailed in this letter I would recommend that the turnback roadways be postponed as long as possible. Since all are border roads with other communities it may not be possible to extend them to the end of the ten year period. Certainly the City should try to postpone the actual turnback as long as possible. However, it may be necessary to coordinate and cooperate with bordering communities and do some of them earlier than you would generally prefer. momo-om.up S0 cl lfkJ cl 1 s VS W 0#� 8 I I JA if G —G 1 8