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-2- We concur in your request to provide funding for the construction of Little Canada Road to the east of Station 14 +00- Equation- 56 +60, assuming all work will be eligible for county state aid highway funding. I believe in order to be eligible, the minimum width of the road, face of curb to face of curb, must be 50 feet. Another concern is the 0.20% grade. Earl VanBerkom may want to check if State Aid will approve that as a minimum grade. We will assume the construction costs on Centerville Road so long as they too are eligible for county state aid highway funds. As you know, Centerville Road is a county road - -not a county state aid highway. However, I believe that the proposed construction would be eligible because it is connecting to Little Canada Road, a county state aid highway, and the construction is necessary,to make the Centerville /Little Canada Road intersection operate properly. My staff is concerned about the warrants for the proposed Little Canada Road and Centerville Road signal. The proposed construction of the intersection, adding turn lanes, may remove existing warrants. If the signal is warranted as part of the overall warrants for the interchange, please request federal participation in this signal. If federal participation is not available, the signal would be funded, under current policy, two - thirds CSAH and one -third County Road and Bridge. If the signal is not warranted under CSAH procedures, we recommend it not be constructed because the total construction cost would be County Road and Bridge funds. We would then construct the signal at some future date when it is warranted. As you know, Little Canada is very anxious to get this project under construc- tion. Joe Chlebeck indicates a willingness to participate in the bridge con- struction and the City's portion of the CSAH improvement in accordance with present policies, which include the City acquiring all necessary road rights of way and construction easements for the proposed construction. The City also would like a cost breakdown of three alternates for the construc- tion of Little Canada Road: 1) terminating construction immediately east of Centerville Road; 2) the present proposal limits; and 3) extending the proposed construction to McMenemy Street. We believe this request is reasonable as the cost breakdown for City participation and proposed assessments may be sub- stantially affected by the extent of the improvement selected. When we receive your cost estimate for these three alternates, we can furnish Little Canada with a breakdown of the City's estimated portion of the costs. The City has also requested an extension of bike path construction along the east side of Centerville Road from Little Canada Road northerly to' an existing pathway on Water Department right of way near the end of the proposed construction