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Mr. Jay Hartman' 59 July 19, 2000 Page 4 Materials that would need to be purchased from Traffic Control Corporation would include five (5) detectors (as described above),cable to operate,each detector,the cabinet control equipment to operate the EVP system,and a card rack within.the controller cabinet to.house the EVP cabinet control equipment(the controller cabinet at this intersection does not contain a card rack to mount.this equipment, whereas the previous three intersections do contain this card rack). Hennepin County would have relatively minor work to complete at this intersection to make the EVP system operational (approximately 5 hours of labor and some materials). The County estimates that this work can be completed for approximately $350. With this intersection somewhat sharing jurisdiction with the City of Roseville (with Roseville emergency vehicles often going from westbound to northbound through this intersection), the City of Roseville was approached on behalf of the City of St. Anthony to see if Roseville would be open to providing funding for this EVP system. According to Doug Strong of the City of Roseville, since the use of this intersection by Roseville emergency vehicles is somewhat minor, and since emergency vehicles can make the westbound to northbound movement via use of a free right condition(island provides for this movement), Roseville emergency vehicles do not need to access the signalized portion of the intersection. Coupling this with a lack of available funding,the City of Roseville indicated that they are not able to provide any funding for this EVP system. 5. Silver Lake Road/Kenzie Terrace at StAnthony Boulevard Many conflicts exist with sight distance for all intersection approaches, due to curves in the roadway (northbound, southbound and eastbound) and due to the close proximity of the nearest signalized intersection to the east (at New Brighton Boulevard). In addition, with this intersection being a main intersection for both the police and fire departments,proper and effective detection is imperative to each agency for quick timing of the EVP system. To accommodate emergency fire department traffic from the nearby fire station to this intersection (and for emergency vehicles turning right at this intersection and continuing east to the New Brighton Boulevard signal system),it is recommended that push buttons be installed in the garage area of the fire station to call both this signal system and the signal system at New Brighton Boulevard. A separate button would be installed to activate the EVP system at each intersection,thus fire station traffic'continuing north on Silver Lake Road would not need to activate the EVP system for New Brighton Boulevard and tie traffic up at that intersection. With southbound Silver Lake Road to eastbound St. Anthony Boulevard being a principal route for emergency police traffic,detection needs to be designed to not only advance call this signal system but also the signal system at New Brighton Boulevard (and thus clear traffic from both intersection approaches). The recommended way to provide detection to each EVP system is to install a detector on the inplace street • light near the signal controller cabinets(southeast corner of the intersection). This detector would not only provide adequate sight distance for southbound traffic to this signal system but would also provide early call time to the EVP system at New Brighton Boulevard (thus starting to clear traffic out from the area