HomeMy WebLinkAboutEDA Resolution 06-EDA-218CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW
COUNTY OF RAMSEY
STATE OF MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION 06 -EDA -218
SUPPORTING A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION BEFORE THE
MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE THAT WOULD PROVIDE AN ADDITIONAL
$400,000 IN FUNDING FOR THE PROPOSED NOISE WALL EXTENSION ON
THE SOUTH SIDE OF TRUNK HIGHWAY 10
WHEREAS, there has been a longstanding issue of highway noise due to
traffic on Trunk Highway 10, and that this noise is negatively affecting the
homeowners in the Laport Meadows neighborhood; and
WHEREAS, MnDOT has previously programmed $300,000 to extend the
existing Noise Wall that terminates on the south side of Trunk Highway 10 at the
edge of Ardan Park in the City of Mounds View; and
WHEREAS, the City of Mounds View has previously considered in 2004
the costs to extend the Noise Wall, that the cost estimates ranged from
approximately $700,000 to $830,000, and that it desires to collaborate with the
State of Minnesota to resolve this issue; and
WHEREAS, the new Medtronic campus project is currently under
construction and that as part of the approval process the reverter clause, a
property interest by the State, was removed through legislation during 2005; and
WHEREAS, Governor Pawlenty has submitted his supplemental budget
recommendations and that one of those is a $1,221,000 transfer from the
General Fund to the Trunk Highway Fund as part of the Mounds View Land
Conveyance; and
WHEREAS, legislative amendments have been prepared to direct those
dollars to benefit the City of Mounds View and surrounding communities, that
$400,000 would be allocated for the proposed Noise Wall Extension on the south
side of Trunk Highway 10, and that these funds would be in addition to the
$300,000 previously programmed by MnDOT for the Noise Wall Project in
Mounds View; and
WHEREAS, the Noise Wall Extension costs that exceed $700,000 would
be the responsibility of the City of Mounds View, and that the Noise Wall project
is a TIF eligible activity that would avoid a general fund impact in the current
fiscal year.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, THAT the Mounds View
Economic Development Authority does hereby support a supplemental
appropriation before the Minnesota Legislature that would provide an additional
$400,000 in funding for the proposed Noise Wall Extension on the south side of
Trunk Highway 10.
Adopted by the Board of Commissioners of the Mounds View Economic
Development Authority this 27th day of March, 2006.
ATTEST:
(seal)
Kurt Ulrich, Executive Director