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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 2004-18 RESOLUTION No. 2004-18 BEING A RESOLUTION REQUESTING MUNICIPAL STATE AID SYSTEM CONSTRUCTION FUNDS FOR OTHER LOCAL TRANSPORTATION USES WHEREAS, the City of Columbia Heights receives Municipal State Aid System (lVISAS) funds for construction and maintaining 20% 0fitS City Streets, and WI:rEREAS, 11.65 MSAS miles are currently authorized, and WHEREAS, 11.65 MSAS streets have been built or resuffaced since 1964, and WHEREAS, the City currently has 47.08 miles of municipal streets that require maintenance and upgrade, and WH-EREAS, the majority of these streets have insufficient strength and poor surface drainage, and WHEREAS, it is proposed to systematically install or repair concrete curb and gutters for improved surface water drainage and additional strength to the streets for traffic survivabihty, and WHEREAS, the City State Aid routes are improved to State Aid standards and are in an adequate condition that they do not have needs other than additional resuffacing, and WHEREAS, it is authorized by MN Rules 8820.1800 to use part of the MSAS construction appropriation of our City's State Aid allocation on local streets not on the approved State Aid system, and WHEREAS, the City proposes to rehabilitate the City-owned underground utilities as needed and rebuild the street in the process, and WHEREAS, it is proposed to use a portion of the City's population allocation funds to upgrade the local street, to wit: WHEREAS the City indemnifies save and holds harmless the State of Minnesota and its agents and employees from claims, demands, actions, or causes of action arising out of or by reason or matter related to constructing the local street as designed, and WltF, REAS, the City further agrees to defend at its sole cost any claims arising as a result of constructing the local street, and WHEREAS, the final approval of the State Aid for Local Transportation Division is therefore given, NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, 1VIINNESOTA that: the City of Columbia Heights, Anoka County Minnesota, requests the release of MSAS construction funds for the upgrade and reconstruction of City municipal streets, to wit: 7th Street (40th to 42"a Avenues), Quincy Street (37a to 39a Avenues), Quincy Street (south of 40th Avenue), Jackson Street (37th to 40th Avenues), and Van Buren Street (37~ to 40th Avenues). Dated this 12th day of April 2004. Offered by: Seconded by: Roll Call: Nawrocki Williams Ayes: Wyckoff, Williams, Nawrocki, Ericson, Kelzenberg Nay: None Attest: ~atricia Muscovitz, CMC Deputy City Clerk/Council Secretary