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Pequot Lakes February 1,2005 Page 2 of 3 C. Possible CSAH 11 Realignment • We have provided both the City and the County a draft proposal of tasks for a study to look at a possible realignment of CSAH 11 to basically Woodman Street(2 blocks south of Main Street). • We have not yet received comments from anyone on our proposed tasks. • Once we receive comments on our proposed tasks,we will put our time and effort to these tasks to come up with a cost, and then redistribute the proposal for cost-sharing discussions between the City and the County. D. GASB34 • It is our understanding that Government Accounting Standards Board No. 34(GASB34) requires an inventory of the City's infrastructure (streets, for example)and the respective ages of its different segments. • We have pulled together some approximate costs per foot for different roadway sections for Staff to use in responding to this requirement. E. Plat/Permit Reviews • At the last Council meeting, some comments were made about consultants reviewing plats and permits and then the applicant being charged for them. Thus,we bring these two situations to the Council. • I would prefer not to refer to specific names in open Council,but instead would rather get the Council's general direction on how we should proceed. • We received a letter from Landecker&Associates on January 11,2005 in regards to a preliminary plat for Sibley Acres. I will refer to this as the "Plat Review"item. The question relates to what the City's"standard" is for a cul-de-sac turn-around. I anticipate it might take about two hours to review and send out a letter with our answer. Should we proceed? • In 2004,we were asked by Staff to assist with the review of some stormwater/roadway/ utility related items on a building permit application for Mr. Babinski. I will refer to this as the"Building Permit Review"item. A question I just received from Staff relates to stormwater/erosion control requirements. I anticipate it might take about four hours to review the file on what the City had requested of Mr. Babinski in meeting the City's ordinances,what his latest submittal is (which in glancing at it is completely different from the one I saw last year),how it compares to the City's ordinances, and to send out a letter documenting our review. However, this is a very rough estimate; past experience with this person and situation is that it is difficult to know for sure. Should we proceed? • Should we update the Council on such future requests and our estimate of effort before proceeding? '1 There will definitely be a time lag from the time the request is received, to when we update the Council and get your approval to proceed, to when we schedule time to work on it, to when we actually do our review and send out our results. H:\JOB\130PQLAK\0000-GENERAL\CORR\FEBRUARY 1,2005 CITY COUNCIL UPDATE-MEMO.DOC