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Item No: 7E Meeting Date: 4/13/2015 Type of Business: CB Administrator Review: ____ City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Don Peterson, Interim Director of Public Works Item Title/Subject: Approve Resolution 8395 Approving the Revocation of MSAS Streets. Background/Discussion: The Municipal State Aid Street System (MSAS) is intended to be a mechanism to identify and fund a “backbone” system of collector and arterial streets. The City is allowed to identify roads to be built or upgraded to certain MSAS standards as part of this system. The total mileage of these roads can be up to 20% of the City’s total street miles. The City then receives Municipal State Aid Street funds based upon the cost to construct these streets to the MSAS standards. These funds can then be used to construct the streets designated on the MSAS System. Attached, as Exhibit A is a map showing the existing approved Mounds View MSAS System. Each year the City submits to the State a streets needs and mileage application for MSAS funding. The State performs routine audits of these applications submitted by cities. During last year’s audit the State found a mistake on the City of Mounds View application, indicating that the City was over the total allowed street mileage for MSAS funding by 1.33 miles. The State requested the City perform an internal audit and review the designated MSAS streets and the total mileage on all streets. Staff, with the assistance of Stantec, found the City was over the mileage by 1.33 miles. Stantec contacted the State to inquire on what steps the City must take in order to resolve this error. The State indicated that the City must revoke some streets listed as MSAS streets in order to comply with the State guidelines. Stantec recommended that Staff look for streets that have not had any work done within the last 19 years, thus keeping the possible pay back lower. The oldest street that has been receiving State aid for the past 20 years is Bronson Drive, last reconstructed in 1996. Quincy Street – (Wooddale to County Road H2), Wooddale Drive - (Edgewood Drive to Quincy Street) and Jackson Street (County Road I to Hillview Road) have not drawn any funding within the last 25 years from the MSAS program.