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<br />Item No: 2 <br />Meeting Date: June 4, 2012 <br />Type of Business: Work Session <br />City of Mounds View Staff Report <br />To: Honorable Mayor and City Council <br />From: James Ericson, City Administrator <br />Item Title/Subject: Presentation from Tri-City County Road 10 Task Force <br />Regarding Assigning a Name to County Road 10 <br /> <br />Introduction: <br /> The City Councils from Mounds View, Blaine and Spring Lake Park met in joint session on <br />Wednesday, May 25, 2011. One of the issues discussed concerned the ongoing and <br />persisting confusion regarding the name of County Road 10. The City Councils directed <br />the administrators to organize a task force to consider a consistent, unified name for the <br />corridor from 35W in Ramsey County to Highway 47 (University Avenue) in Anoka County. <br /> <br />Discussion: <br /> <br />Subsequent to the May 2011 tri-city Council meeting, each city made appointments to the <br />Task Force. Mounds View appointed residents Helen Chambers and Joan Bosard and <br />business representative Jason Helgemoe from Western Bank in January of 2012. The <br />Task Force met on February 29, March 21 and again on April 11 in conjunction with the <br />Mounds View Business Council. The Task Force discussed its purpose, desired <br />outcomes, anticipated duration and reviewed corridor background information and previous <br />work efforts. After considering some guidelines for what the name should be or represent, <br />numerous suggestions were made and subsequently voted upon. A primary name <br />recommendation was made by the Task Force, that being “Northtown Boulevard.” A <br />secondary recommendation was also made in the event consensus could not be reached <br />among the three City Councils, that being “Mounds View Boulevard” in Ramsey County <br />and “Northtown Boulevard” in Anoka County. Despite the secondary recommendation, the <br />Task Force believes it would be much better to have ONE name from I-35W to University <br />Avenue (Highway 47.) <br /> <br />Recommendation: <br /> <br />Members of the Task Force plan to attend the meeting and provide feedback to the Council <br />regarding their naming recommendation of the County Road 10 corridor. Staff would like <br />some direction from the City Council as to their level of support for the recommendation. <br />Spring Lake Par and Blaine will be meeting later this month to consider the Task Force’s <br />recommendation. <br /> <br />Respectfully submitted, <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />________________________ <br />James Ericson <br />City Administrator <br />