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every effort to acquire property through direct purchase we anticipate the need for council authorization to commence eminent domain proceedings in April. The City was awarded $400,000 from Mn/DOT's Cooperative Agreement program for the interim interchange improvements. However, these funds are only available through the end of State Fiscal Year 2006 which in on June 30, 2006. Therefore, the City will need to determine whether or not to continuing pursuing the interchange reconstruction. Completing the interim improvements, while improving the system during the short term, will likely result in the interchange improvements being delayed nearly a decade. 35E /Main Street Interchange The 35E interchange has received a recommendation for funding as part of the STIP process. These dollars would be available in 2010. In addition the project has received $1 million in federal appropriations for engineering design. The total project cost, including right -of -way and engineering is approximately $15 million. With the existing and proposed federal funding of $6.5 million approximately $8.5 million is needed to construct the project. The unfunded portion of the project will need to be shared between Anoka County, Mn/DOT, and Lino Lakes. Contributions from neighboring communities is also being considered. The City of Hugo has announced its inclusion of $100,000 for the interchange in its 2006 budget. Anoka County has also submitted a 2007 federal appropriations request to Senator Coleman and Congressman Kennedy for consideration. The City of Centerville has informed staff of their intent to submit legislation to the state for $14,100,000 to cover federally eligible costs associated with the CSAH 14 reconstruction project and the 35E /Main Street interchange that are not covered by federal funds due to maximum funding caps. Centerville has requested a letter and /or resolution of support for the legislation. While we agree with their intent to get additional funding for the project, staff does not recommend supporting the legislation for several reasons. 1) As with our own bill there is little opportunity for success; 2) It is likely to compete with and impact any chance we have for our Lake Drive legislation which should be our number one priority at this time; 3) We are uncertain whether there is support for the bill from our local state legislators. Preliminary Design of the interchange is anticipated to commence within the next two months. City staff participated with Anoka County and Mn/DOT on the consultant selection process. SRF Consulting Group was selected for the project. SRF is the engineering consultant for the CSAH 14 project and recently completed Mn/DOT Interregional Corridor Study that evaluated long term operation of 35E and 35W. The federal grant for the preliminary design covers 80% of the cost. The local share of approximately $62,500 is proposed to be split 50/50 between Anoka County and Lino Lakes. This amounts to approximately $31,250. Additionally, the final design of the project is anticipated to start in 2007. Again federal participation will cover 80% of the total design cost of approximately $940,000. This leaves approximately $190,000 to be shared by the City and County. This amounts to approximately $95,000 in city costs. While both the City and County will pursue additional cost participation from adjacent 2