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� ' <br /> • ORONO COUTICIL T�4EETING HE�,b NOV�I���R 8, 19'�6 Page 2 <br /> � The time to mark the shoulders �t� a bi�Ce t�ai�. BzhE/HSKE TRAILS <br /> �is as soon as they are widen�c� for ��is ptirpt�Se, (Continued) <br /> :ot after traffic is accustome� �o �i�ing trem as <br /> � traffic lanes. Even though trail links may not <br /> lead into completed trail system, bike route signs <br /> ♦ should go up as soon as shoulders are improved <br /> for this purpose. The existence of signs would <br /> • aid enforcement; without signs, such trail� cannot <br /> , be safely used by bicyclists. <br /> � Butler moved, P�iassengale seconded, to adopt RESOLUTION #�724 <br /> Resolution �#724, A Resolution To Request Hennepin Bike/Hike Trail Signs <br /> � County Highway Department To Post Bike/Iiike Sic�ns <br /> On County Roads. T�Totion, Ayes (3) - Nays (Q) , <br /> • <br /> Jane Olson, Bike/Hike Trails Committee member, <br /> � also stated that at the October 12 , 1976 Joint <br /> • Trails Committee neeting, Bill Short of Beckman <br /> Yoder and Associates, Inc. , planners and landscape <br /> � architects, presented a proposal for a trail system <br /> for the Joint Trails Committee cornmunities. The <br /> � cost of such a joint-community plan would be less <br /> than if each community approached professional <br /> � planners on their owno A formula to make each <br /> community's share of the cost eguitable �vould be <br /> � worked out, and would reflect number of communities <br /> � participating, population, land area, existing <br /> rails and those already planned, mileage of new <br /> � _rails to go in, etc. Besides the cost savings, <br /> another advantage of a joint-community systern <br /> � would be that funding for a specific secfinent of <br /> trails can be raore easily obtained if funding <br /> • sources can see a definite trail system is planned. <br /> � Beckman Yoder feels the Proposed Performance <br /> � Schedule, consisting of the areas of: 1) Goals <br /> and Policies, 2) Corridor Selection & Use Definition, <br /> � 3) Specifications of Prototypes, 4� System <br /> Irnplementation, and 5) System Adoption, can be <br /> � corapleted in 8 to 12 months, the cost would be <br /> about $26,000 -- each community to share according <br /> � to the formula> Steps 1 through 5 �vould cost the <br /> corununity $3,000 to $10,000 dependinc� on factors <br /> S in the formula. <br /> � The Joint Trails Committee members are to take the <br /> � plan to their respective Councils and try to get <br /> an agreenent to the concept of regional planning <br /> • for communities. <br /> � At our Committee rieeting, several points were made <br /> � concerning the Joint Trails Cor,unittee proposalo <br /> � uId it be �elpful for the Joint Trails Committee <br /> to talk to a member of the Plymouth Trails Committee <br /> � (Beckman Yoder did their trail system planning) as (Continued) <br /> • <br /> � <br />