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RESOLUTION 92-44
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF FALCON HEIGHTS
A RESOLUTION DEALING MUNICIPAL STATE AID MII.EAGE
FOR TURNBACK RAMSEY COUNTY ROADS
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WI~REAS, the 1991 Minnesota Legislature . established a Ramsey County Local
Government Services Study Commission (RCLGSSC) to "report on the advantages and
disadvantages of sharing, cooperating, restructuring, or consolidating..." activities in five azeas
of public service including: public health, attorney's functions as they relate to criminal law,
libraries, public works, and police communications, crime lab and investigative functions; and
WHEREAS, the commission's recommendations concerning public works includes
adoption of a plan for functional consolidation of roadways within Ramsey County; and
VVHEI2EAS, the consolidation plan provides for reclassification of roadways and
corresponding changes in jurisdiction including trunk highway turnbacks from the State to
Ramsey County and transfer of local and state aid roadways between the County and
municipalities; and
WI-~REAS, the plan also~provides $3.13 million for the improvement of roadways to
acceptable levels prior to transfemng jurisdiction over roadway segments from Ramsey County
to municipalities; and
WHEREAS, the plan also provides for establishment of appropriate County State Aid
Highway and Municipal State Aid designations; and
WHEREAS, the plan causes operations, maintenance, service, and financial impacts to
municipalities within Ramsey County; and
WHEREAS, if the proposed consolidation plan proceeds, the City will be able to
negotiate the terms and conditions under which the roadways aze returned to the City; and
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, the City of Falcon Heights requests that the
Commissioner of Transportation increase the portion of its municipal roadway system that is
eligible for Municipal State Aid (MSA) designation to accommodate the additional 1.63 miles
of roadway placed under its jurisdiction as a result of the proposed consolidation plan; and
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, the City requests that the Commissioner of
• Transportation grant a variance regarding proposed consolidation initiatives which allows
removal of roadways from the MSA system without incurring penalties set forth in governing
MSA rules.
Adopted by the council this 14thday of October, 1992.
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Shirley Chenoweth, City Clerk
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Tom Baldwin, Mayor
Moved by Gehrz
BALDWIN
Absent CIERNIA 4 In Favor
GEHRZ
JACOBS 0 Against
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