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Mounds View, Minnesota Project No: 435-08132-0 <br />Street and Utilities Committee Page 2 <br />If the RCWD Board accepts the proposal, the Design Team and City Staff will work with RCWD Staff to <br />attempt to develop a written Agreement between RCWD and the City to expand the SIP and eliminate the <br />requirement for the Spring Creek Regional Pond. RCWD Staff has already indicated in our meeting with <br />them that the Agreement will need to detailed and specific in regards to the requirements and actions. <br />The result of the meeting with RCWD Staff was positive and encouraging. It appears that there will be the <br />opportunity to explore expanding the SIP to potentially eliminate the Spring Creek Regional Pond. <br />However, the RCWD Board must also agree with this approach, and then the detailed Agreement must be <br />worked out. Given the statements by RCWD Staff regarding the Agreement, it is likely that the <br />development of the Agreement would be a thorough, methodical process that would take some amount of <br />time. It is probably realistic to anticipate that the Agreement could take 3 months or longer to develop. It <br />must also be kept in mind that the potential exists that an acceptable Agreement will not be able to be <br />developed. <br />SCHEDULE <br />Assuming the RCWD Board accepts the proposal on October 8, 2008, by January 1, 2009 it should be <br />known whether or not an acceptable Agreement will be able to be reached. <br />If it appears an Agreement will be possible and will be completed shortly after January 1, 2009, then <br />development of the Street Project in Area B should be able to proceed for 2010 as originally scheduled. <br />Looking at the typical project schedule, the first activity for the Area B project would likely be the second <br />Neighborhood Meeting, which would be held in March 2009. <br />However, it must be kept in mind that although preliminary indications are positive, there is significant work <br />to determine whether the concept will work and if an acceptable Agreement can be reached. There is a <br />possibility that this approach could fail, or that an acceptable Agreement cannot be reached. If either of <br />those scenarios occurred, then it would be necessary to reevaluate how to proceed on the question of the <br />Spring Creek Regional Pond. <br />As mentioned in previous correspondence, it would not be advisable to proceed with the Street Project in <br />Area B until the question regarding the Spring Creek Regional Pond has been answered. Therefore, if by <br />early 2009 the answer is not known if the expansion of the SIP would work and if an Agreement will be <br />reachable, then it would be prudent for the City to be ready to proceed with the development of the Street <br />Project in Area C as an alternate plan for 2010. That would allow sufficient time to resolve the Spring <br />Creek Regional Pond issue, with Area B re-scheduled for 2011. <br />If the alternate plan to develop the Street Project in Area C were necessary, it would be necessary to have <br />the preliminary survey completed so that the Feasibility Report could be prepared. The preliminary survey <br />would need to be completed this fall in 2008, with the Feasibility Report likely ordered in January 2009. <br />This would allow the project for Area C to develop approximately per the typical project schedule. <br />Again, the development of the project for Area C would only be considered if the Spring Creek Regional <br />Pond issue, which impacts Area B, were not resolved in time to allow Area B to stay on schedule for 2010.