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Pequot Lakes - Hwy 371 North August 21, 2005 Page 2 of 14 The City needs to keep working through the various issues with MnDOT for two main reasons: a. So the City knows what its costs are estimated to be. b. So the project is ready when the funding is available (there have been past instances where the State Legislature provides "money"dumps to fund transportation projects). 5. MnDOT will present a Final Layout for City concurrence in accordance with the Municipal Consent Law. At this point, the City will be asked to pass a resolution to accept MnDOT's Final Layout. Can the City give municipal consent yet have conditions on areas that are still in discussion? 6. MnDOT has a policy on what they will pay for and what the City has to pay for. All of this will need to be worked out in a cost participation Agreement between the City and MnDOT after both the State and the City approve the Final Layout. The City will need to work with a financial consultant on bond sales to cover their costs. WSN will be preparing a list of improvements and related estimated City costs. 7. The chance of the around the edge of town option being reconsidered was brought up early in the Committee process. MnDOT said that this basically is not an option anymore. 8. MnDOT said they would work with the City on identifying locations for and using, as much as they can, the trees the former Township planted. 9. Service road completion before highway construction and access interruption: to enhance safety, access, and circulation during construction. MnDOT will make this decision during the final design phase as construction phasing is laid out. 10. MnDOT will put the "guts" of pre-emption equipment in stoplights as a part of this project. However, it is the City's responsibility to obtain and install the proper vehicle equipment. 11. The City will be working with the County, as there will be several interactions between City streets-service roads and County Roads. 12. It varies depending on the direction coming into town,but it appears that roughly half of the trips are thru trips (less than 10 minutes) while roughly the other half are either extended through trips (10 minutes to 1 hour) or local traffic (greater than 1 hour). Therefore, this highway needs to be designed to allow the thru trips to safely get"in and CADocuments and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\OLKB\082105 Overall List of Issues-memo.doc