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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 2-21-84 PAGE 5 Consensus of the Council is that it should be laid out exactly as presented; that the estimate is from $340 to $420 but could .run as high as $750; and that all four lots in the Morris Addition should be on the assessment role. e. 50th Street .... 0akdale's Request Thursday, January 26, 1984, a meeting was held between representatives of the City of Oakdale and representatives of the City of Lake Elmo, along with the County Engineer, to discuss ways that 50th Street from CSAH 13 to TH 36 can be improved and upgraded. Bohrer stated that there are two ways that 50th Street could receive State Aid designation. First would be to petition the State Aid Screening Committee to add 1.33 miles of State Aid mileage to the Washington County system. This alternative is most desirable but the chances of success are estimated to be less than 50%. The second method would be to remove an equal length of CSAH designation from some existing route and transfer it to 50th Street. The most talked about alternative in the past would be to remove CSAH designation from that portion of DeMontreville Trail between 50th Street and TH 36 which is 2.15 miles in length. A change in designation would make 50th Street a County State Aid Highway and that portion of DeMontreville Trail a County Road. The disadvantages to the second method is if the road needs reconstruction in the future. If it were strictly a County Road, County State Aid funds could not be used to reconstruct it. Secondly, under present law, a County Road can be turned back to a municipality simply by County Board resolution. The municipality would have no choice but to accept the road as a local street. Under present law, a County State Aid Highway cannot be turned back to a municipality without the municipality's concurrence. Bohrer further stated that the following action should take place: - Chuck Swanson will approach the State Aid Screening Committee when it meets in May to petition for 1.33 miles of additional CSAH mileage to be added to Washington County CSAH system, thereby raising the status of 50th Street from County Road to County State Aid Highway. - The Lake Elmo City Council should discuss the ramifications of concurring in a re -designation of DeMontreville Trail between 50th Street and TH 36 as County Road, transferring the CSAH designation to 50th Street. Lake Elmo would seek assurance from Washington County that if that portion of DeMontreville Trail were ever turned back to the City of Lake Elmo, it would be upgraded with bituminous overlay and shouldering prior to turnback. Bohrer stated there is a committee studying the jurisdictional classification of all highways, county roads, and local roads; because we have seen that there are some trunk highways under the state jurisdiction that no longer function as trunk highways. There are some County State Aid Highways that do not function as county highways; they may function as state trunk highways, or local roads. What may come out of this study is a re -distribution as far as who is responsible for what roads. The cities could end up with these low volume county roads and county highways. Eder stated it may be better to negotiate our way to a good solution with the County Board on upgrading rather than just letting this happen. It may be better to bargain now, and get some kind of an agreement from the County Board, than to leave it go and get it back without any improvements at all. The County is pressed for money and unless we get it into some CIP, it may never happen.