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Date: <br />To: <br />From: <br />WORK SESSION STAFF REPORT <br />Work Session Item No. 1 <br />Council Work Session, Wednesday, March 23, 2005 <br />City Council <br />Gordon Heitke, City Administrator <br />Re: Supporting Legislation Request for Appropriating Money for <br />Engineering for the Reconstruction and Expansion of I35 Between 1- <br />694 and I -35W. <br />Background: <br />The North I -35W communities are requesting that the Legislature appropriate $500,000 <br />to be used for the development and evaluation of alternative concepts for the <br />reconstruction of I -35W north of I -694 in Arden Hills, Mounds View and New Brighton. <br />The requested funds will be used to identify roadway design options, evaluate the <br />operational characteristics of selected alternatives and to provide for community <br />involvement in the planning process. Mr. Robert Benke, North Metro I -35W Corridor <br />Coalition has requested an opportunity to appear before the City Council to request a <br />resolution supporting the legislation. <br />As you know, the City of Lino Lakes has had bills introduced, which call for the <br />appropriation of state bond funds for improvements to the I35W /CSAH 23 (Lake Drive) <br />interchange. The funding request of the North I -35W communities is also a request for <br />the appropriation of state bond funds. Since the amount of proposed projects will most <br />likely exceed the total bond amount, it is reasonable to require that the North Metro I- <br />35W Corridor Coalition, in turn, support Lino Lakes' legislation request for interchange <br />improvement funding if the City of Lino Lakes supports this funding request, in order to <br />not put ourselves at any disadvantage to receive funding. <br />The resolution has been adopted by New Brighton, Mounds View, Circle <br />Pines, Arden Hills, Blaine, Shoreview, Lexington and the Ramsey County <br />1 <br />