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• 8 and 33rd Avenue N.E. She explained the project had first been consider- ed in 1970 and brought up for reconsideration when the City of Roseville requested City participation in rebuilding the street which is owned by both cities. The Council was receptive to the proposal because there is now Municipal State Aid funding available to both cities for the project and Highcrest is the last street in the City to be completed. She said the sanitary sewer backup problems experienced by property owners on Highcrest during recent heavy rainfall seemed to indicate the need for replacement of sanitary sewer lines in the street which could be undertaken at the same time and there was also a possibility that an access into Rose- ville for excess flood waters could also be provided by building a meter station on Highcrest. Mr. Soth read the Notice of the Hearing which had gone out to all affected property owners and Mr. Fornell reported he had received no written state- ments regarding the proposal from any residents . The project engineer, Rodger Short of Short-Elliott-Hendrickson, Inc. , ex- plained to about 25 residents present that before the City may utilize the MSA fuds available for the project the street must be constructed to standards set by the Department of Transportation for such an improvement which in this case calls for a 36 foot wide 9 ton street. His firm had made the preliminary studies of the project for both cities and St. Anthony had • entered into a nonbinding joint powers agreement with Roseville to con- sider, but not necessarily complete, the project. A slide presentation of the roadway conditions was given by Mr. Fornell . Another member of the same firm, Steve Campbell, gave a presentation of the deteriorating condition of the Highcrest roadway as well as an estimate of costs of building the road based on anticipated 1979 construction costs . He explained the 9 ton designation is based on a Department of Transporta- tion formula for such a MSA funded road. Soil borings in the roadway, the engineer said, indicate possible replacement of two to three feet of poor soil in some areas. Determination of how much of the sanitary sewer line will have to be replaced will be based on televising of the lines by the Public Works Department this spring. Driveways to the property line will be replaced with matching materials and Mr. Campbell assured Brian Amund- son, 3424 Highcrest, if any damage should occur to trees or shrubbery on the boulevards through the construction, they will be replaced. Mr. For- nell said if replaced they would be located out of the right-of-way. Mr. Fornell told the property owners present that, although the purpose of the hearing that evening was not to determine how the costs of the con- struction would be assessed to benefiting properties the question of how the City 's 1976 assessment policy would be applied to the project was cer- tainly germane to the consideration of the proposal. He read the portions of the policy applicable to the project and discussed the alternatives • open to the Council under No. 5 of the policy as he had perceived them in his February 7, 1979 memorandum to the Council . Costs of the sanitary sewer replacements will be paid out of the Sewer Fund and not assessed to abutting properties, the Manager said. He differentiated the assessments (3)