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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes September 8, 2015 Page 6 2 Street & Utility Reconstruction 3 • Stinson Boulevard from 376 Avenue NE to Silver Lane NE 4 • 37th Place N from Stinson Boulevard to 37`h Avenue NE (Columbia Heights 5 Improvements) 6 7 Trail and sidewalk Improvements 8 • 8' bituminous trail along west side of Stinson Boulevard between 37t' Place N and 40`h 9 Avenue NE (Columbia Heights improvements) 10 • Salo Park sidewalk replacement 11 12 Railroad Crossing Improvements 13 • Re lace existing crossing on Stinson Boulevard NE located between 371' Avenue NE and 14 37 Place NE (This design anticipates the future HSIP project being constructed) 15 16 Decorative Lighting and sidewalk Improvements 17 • Ease side of Stinson Boulevard NE between 37th Avenue NE and Silver Lane NE 18 19 The timing on this project was revised in June 2015. They have received a number of complaints 20 due to the condition of Stinson Blvd as well as some water main breaks. The sidewalk 21 improvements will be done with the HSIP program. 22 23 Mr. Messner stated the Sanitary Sewer will be replaced with an 8 -inch plastic pipe along with all 24 the manholes. There are actually two sanitary sewers along this roadway and Columbia Heights 25 does not plan to replace their sanitary sewer at this time however they will replace all manholes. 26 27 Mr. Messner stated a number of drainage improvements will be done in the area. The project 28 cost is $3.9M. 35% of the improvements are assessable in the residential areas. The City will 29 apply for State Aid funding for these improvements. Mr. Messner reviewed the St. Anthony 30 Funding Sources, assessable and City portions, and Columbia Heights participation in the cost. 31 He reviewed the funding sources as Special Assessments, Street & Utility Reconstruction Funds 32 and Municipal State Aid Funds. 33 34 Mr. Messner reviewed the Project Schedule. Construction would begin in May 2016 and final 35 paving would be done in June 2017. 36 37 Councilmember Jenson asked what percentage the MSA would pay and Mr. Messner stated the 38 City is eligible to request the total amount for street reconstruction and a calculation of the storm 39 sewer reconstruction can be requested. Within the next few years we will start incurring a State 40 Aid Fund balance. We will make the claim and as money is put back into the fund it will be 41 returned to us for use. It generally runs between 55 -60% of participation on the State side for the 42 storm sewer. 43 44 45 Mayor Faust asked if it would be safe to say that because we have been building roads, that we 46 used up our MSA credit with the State. Whereas if we haven't been building roads we would