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VI-8 MEMO To: From: Date: Re: Honorable Mayor and City Council Nick Egger, City Engineer September 27, 2007 Resolution Ordering Feasibility Study for Proposed 2008 Downtown Improvements Program The City Council Planning Committee, HRA, and EDC workgroup met this morning and recommended that staff bring forward a request that the full Council order a feasibility study to be performed for the Downtown Street & Utility Improvements. The feasibility study process will also include analysis by staff of options and alternate design ideas for accommodating parking losses, and a breakdown of project segment costs for consideration. The workgroup will reconvene with staff once this intermediate analysis work has been completed to provide further input and recommendation to the full Council. Enclosed for Council considerations is a resolution requesting the study this project for construction in 2008. PROJECT 2008-2. DOWNTOWN STREET & UTILITY IMPROVEMENTS This project would involve reconstructing Ramsey Street, Tyler Street, and a portion of 1 st Street. Also to be constructed and reconstructed would be a trunk watermain line between the 2nd Street crossing beneath the TH 61 Mississippi River Bridge east to Lea Street, and sewer, watermain, and storm sewer improvements in Ramsey and TIler Streets, and the Mississippi River Trail extension from Tyler Street to Bailly and 2n Street. Much of these street segments are in very poor condition, with inadequate curb and gutter and insufficient storm drainage capability. Sanitary sewer and watermain utilities are currently nonexistent in some areas, and the parts of these systems that are in place date back to the time of the original system installation in the early 20th century. The trunk watermain is necessary to bring fire flow capacity up to an acceptable level for all of the area east of the railroad crossing, as well as to provide looping redundancy for the water system in this area. Installing the trunk watermain at this time will also allow for the continuance of work towards improving Levee Park. These improvements will also provide the downtown redevelopment parcels with the services necessary to allow their improvement. COUNCIL ACTION REQUESTED Council is requested to adopt the enclosed resolution ordering a feasibility study for Project 2008-2, Downtown Street & Utility Improvements.