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194 SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING May 15, 1985 Page -2- provided for holding ponds with an outlet across 4th Avenue to the west. When it came time for the developer to complete his ponding and drainage Mr. Davidson advised the Council that it may not be wise to complete this until there was some provision for the water once it was ditched across 4th Avenue. He was concerned there would be problems with private property on the west of 4th Avenue. A temporary drainage easement has been obtained from Mr. LeBlond but part of this agreement was the City would develope a drainage management plan within two years. This discussion tonight is to determine time frames that the County would be looking for improving Main Street, Mr. Davidson would like to move ahead with development of municipal state aid plans so that this City could use municipal state aid funds for acquiring nec- essary right of way for the full ditch section rural system, est- ablishing positive drainage outlets, ask RCWD for help to improve the ditch systems to the point where there will be a permanent outlet facility also that the City be allowed to use MSA funds for ditch cleaning, be allowed to improve the ditches under some kind of a MSA program. Because the City has tributary areas beyond the corporate boundaries west and north, it would be advisable to go into some sort of a watershed project and how would this be acc- omplished. He asked for ideas from RCWD as it relates to the _ overall management of ditches and what the county is going to build into their Main Street systems and how it will affect the Lino Lakes drainage systems, what schedule can the City plan on. Mr. Ruud explained the reconstruction of Main Street from 4th Avenue to 35 W is scheduled for 1986. The survey is completed and they are now working on plans. The county recognizes the drain- age problem in this area and the county policy is that the County tries where possible to share with the local municipality in solv- ing drainage problems. Generally the portion funded by the county is a portion of the total area that is benefited by the improvement. The county takes the area of their right of way and doubles it. If they have an acre of right of way they double this in terms of assessments. If there was a proposal to the solution of the drain- age problem he would take it to the highway committee (both he and Mrs. Langfeld are members of this committee) and the County Board for their consideration. He would look forward to having some outlets available for the storm water along south county Road #14 to help them implement the project and would consider paying their share of the cost of the program. Mayor Benson explained one of the problems is the county ditches have now filled in with silt and other debris making it difficult for them to handle run -off. Something has to be done to clean the ditches and he asked Mr. Ruud who is responsible for this project. 1 1