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RESOLUTION No: <br />A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING LEGISLATION AUTHORIZING THE <br />ESTABLISHMENT OF MUNICIPAL STREET IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS <br />WHEREAS, Minnesota contains over 135,000 miles of roadway, and over 19,000 miles— <br />or 14 percent --are owned and maintained by Minnesota's 853 cities; and <br />WHEREAS, 84 percent of municipal streets are ineligible for dedicated Highway User Tax <br />Distribution Fund dollars; and <br />WHEREAS, the more than 700 Minnesota cities with populations below 5,000 are ineligible <br />for dedicated Highway User Tax Distribution Fund dollars; and <br />WHEREAS, city streets are a separate but integral piece of the network of roads supporting <br />movement of people and goods; and <br />WHEREAS, existing funding mechanisms, such as Municipal State Aid (MSA), property <br />taxes and special assessments, have limited applications, leaving cities under -equipped to <br />address growing needs; and <br />WHEREAS, maintenance costs increase as road systems age, and no city --large or <br />small—is spending enough on roadway capital improvements to maintain a 50 -year <br />lifecycle; and <br />WHEREAS, for every one dollar spent on maintenance, a road authority saves seven <br />dollars in repairs; and <br />WHEREAS, the Council of the City of finds it is difficult to develop <br />adequate funding systems to support the City's needed street improvement and <br />maintenance programs while complying with existing State statutes; and <br />WHEREAS, cities need flexible policies and greater resources in order to meet growing <br />demands for municipal street improvements and maintenance. <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF <br />supports enabling legislation that would authorize <br />cities to establish street improvement districts to fund municipal street maintenance, <br />construction and reconstruction. <br />ADOPTED by the <br />2013. <br />City Council this day of <br />WS 03-20-18 <br />Item 4 <br />Exhibit C <br />