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MEMORANDUM
TO: City Council
FROM: Tina Allard, City Clerk
DATE: July 5, 201 I
SUBJECT: Tobacco Compliance Checks
On Friday, June 24, 2011 Sherburne County Public Health along with the Elk River Police
Department conducted compliance checks on tobacco licensees. Attached is the report from
Sherburne County Public Health.
Of the 19 licensee's there was one failure by BP Amoco of Elk River. A letter will be sent to
the licensee explaining that: (1) they may request a hearing before the City Council, or (2)
they need to submit the administrative penalty of $75 for afirst-time violation within a 24
month rolling period.
This item will be placed on a future agenda if BP Amoco requests a hearing.
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Public Health
Prevent. Promote. Protect.
June 28, 2011
City Council
City of Elk River
13065 Orono Parkway
Elk River, MN 55330
Dear Elk River City Council:
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This letter is to inform you of the results for the Tobacco Compliance Checks for the City
of Elk River. The checks were conducted on Friday, June 24, 2011 during the hours. of
10:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Eric Balabon, Police Officer Elk River Police Department, Mark
Lees, Community Health Coordinator Sherburne County Health & Human Services
Department and one under aged youth checked nineteen businesses that are licensed
through the City of Elk River.
BP Amoco of Elk River sold to our under aged youth. Feel free to contact me if you have
any questions or concerns on this matter. Thank you for your time on this matter.
Sincerely,
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Mark Lees, Community Health Coordinator
Slerburne County Health ~ Human Services
13880 Business Center Drive
Elk River, Minnesota 55330-4601
763-241-2750 ^ 1-800-433-5237 ^ Fax: 763-241-2976
http://www.co.sherburne.mn, us/pubhealth
E-mail: publichea/th @ co. sherburne. mn. us
Public Health
Prevent. Promote. Protect.
City of Elk River
Tobacco Compliance .Results
June 24, 2011
Al's Smoke Shop Pass
Beaudry Express Pass
Broadway Bar & Pizza Pass
JT's BP of Elk River-Hwy 10 Pass
BP Amoco of Elk River-Evans Fail
Charlie Brown's Pass
Coborn's Pass
Cub Foods Pass
Eagles Pass
Holiday Store-Business Center Pass
Holiday Store-Freeport Pass
Northbound Liquors Pass
Super America-Main Pass
Super America-193rd Pass
Super America-Yale Court Pass
Walgreen's Pass.
~T~'a1TMart Pass
Wash-N-Fill Pass
Westbound Liquors Pass
Compliance Rate in June 2011 for the City of Elk River is 95%
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http://www. co, sherburne, mn. us/pubhea/th
E-mail: publichealth@co.sherburne.mn.us
INFORMATION
MEMORANDUM
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Justin Femrite, P.E.
DATE: July 5, 201 I
SUBJECT: Letter of Support to the City of Rogers -Interchange Project
on TH I O I at CR 144
At the request of the Rogers City Council, their staff came to City Hall last week to meet
with Tim Simon and myself to ask for consideration of a Letter of Support and financial
contribution of $100,000 for an interchange project on TH 101 at CR 144. This intersection
is the last remaining intersection on TH 101 between I94 and Elk River that has a stop light
for north bound traffic. I have attached a memo prepared by Roger's City Engineer
regarding their request and the estimated benefit to the City of Elk River residents who
commute along this route. Rogers has received partial funding for the project through a State
Safety and Mobility (SAM) grant. They are currently putting together an application for
additional funding through the MNDOT Metro and MetCouncil process. Through this
application process, the City of Rogers feels their ability to show regional benefit and
cooperation for the project will be very much enhanced with neighboring communities
letters of support and financial contribution.
In our meeting we posed the question "If Elk River were to make the same request of
Rogers in the future would they make a contribution towards a project here?". Roger's City
Administrator, Steve Stahmer, responded by saying any improvement project on the Trunk
Highway system in Elk River would likely have limited benefit to their residents because the
general direction people commute to work is to the southeast toward the metro. That said,
Steve identified if we could show direct benefit to Rogers residents, similar to the benefit
they estimated for Elk River residents in the attached memo, they would consider our
request.
We left the meeting by saying we would check with our Mayor and Council to gauge any
interest in supporting the project.
1) Does the City Council have interest in supporting the Rogers financial request to allow
their staff to make a presentation on the project at an upcoming Council Meeting?
2) Do you have interest in approving a Letter of Support? If so, it will be included as a
consent item on an upcoming meeting.
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Memorandum
Planning Environmental Construction
To: Steve Stahmer
City of Rogers City Administrator
From: Bret A. Weiss PE, President
City of Rogers City Engineer
Date: June 2, 2011
Re: Calculation of annual benefit for the City of Elk River related to
the removal of the CSAH l44/TH lOl at grade intersection
701 Xenia Avenue South
Suite 300
Minneapolis, MN 55416
Tel: 763-541-4800
Fax: 763-541-1700
This memorandum provides additional detailed information related to the benefit that could be
realized by City of Elk River residents by constructing an interchange at TH 101 and CSAH 144 in
the City of Rogers. The City of Rogers is requesting funding participation and a letter of support
from Elk River for this important regional project.
We have estimated a $1.5 million local share of the estimated $22 million project cost that must be
paid by the City of Rogers and our partners. We identified benefits including the reduction of
crashes, reduced delay and increased economic development due to improved access to the City of
Elk River. The CSAH 144 intersection is on the City of Rogers northern border and has limited
impact to our residents and businesses from a delay and crash standpoint. The Rogers City Council
is most interested in the improved safety and access to the school facilities but recognizes the
regional benefit and is supportive of this project. It is difficult to quantify economic benefits
associated with better access, so we are not trying to justify that number with this memo. A
calculation of benefit related to crashes and delay is a much more recognized method.
This memo only addresses the reduction in delay and crash costs that can be attributed to the volume
of traffic passing through the intersection from the City of Elk River residents. Additionally, we
only used Elk River residents using TH 101 for their work commute. We could have attempted to
increase the number of trips using non-work related trips, but we wanted our analysis to be as
defendable as possible for the City Council.
Using only crash and delay savings for work related trips on TH 101, we have calculated an
estimated annual savings to Elk River residents of approximately $221,600 /year.
June 2, 2011
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The remainder of this memo will address how we arrived at those annual savings and provide our
methodology for the calculation. It should be noted that the savings we have identified are realized
by the residents and businesses and not directly to the City of Elk River. Those residents and
businesses will realize additional time and fuel savings, along with increased safety through crash
reduction. It can be assumed that providing Elk River residents with additional time could result in
increased volunteer and charitable work or could provide them more time at work or with their
families. We have requested and have received preliminary approval of $100,000 contribution from
the City of Otsego. Due to the number of residents using TH 101, their annual savings was
$160,000 per year or approximately $60,000 per year less than Elk River. We are requesting a letter
of support and a contribution of $100,000 from Elk River as well.
The City of Rogers would be willing to establish an agreement with the City of Elk River to make
the contribution subject to the completion of the project and payable in 2014.
Please do not hesitate to contact me at 763-287-7190 with any questions.
June 2, 2011
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Delays & Crash Savings Analysis for the TH 101/CSAH 144 Interchange
City of Elk River Residents Using TH 101 for Their Work Commute:
The first part of the analysis involves determining how many residents leave the city limits and pass
through this intersection on a daily basis on their travels to and from work. As was stated
previously, we did not include the Elk River residents who pass through this intersection on non-
work related trips. We utilized information from the U.S. Census Bureau as shown on the figures
below to establish the percentage of working residents who travel south and southeast daily for their
jobs. This information was from 2009. We are sure that there is some margin error in the
information that was provide by the U.S. Census Bureau, however, we are confident that the
information is reasonable for this calculation. We utilized an occupancy rate of 1.35 persons per
vehicle to reduce the resident working population of 4,309 to 3,192 vehicles. One way ADT on TH
101 is 20,250 which amounts to 15.8% of the ADT on TH 101 is from Elk River residents traveling
to and from work.
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S 10 m08s 1727 10096 1727 100% h Oie (SAFI 144
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One W Pro' Area ADT 20,250 vehicles
E& River of ADT 15 89G vehicles
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Savings Related to Reducing Crashes
The table below identifies the number of crashes that occurred at this intersection for the years 2007
through 2009. The cost of each crash is categorized using the following criteria:
K =Crash involving a fatality
A =Incapacitating injury or one that is likely to require ambulance service
B =Non incapacitated injury that may or may not require ambulance service
C =Possible injury and property change
N =Property damage only
Crash costs are generated by Mn/DOT and the US Department of Transportation and are average
across the system. As is shown on the table, we converted the three year crash information into a
one year average and used the crash cost to arrive at a total crash cost for the intersection. At this
location, we assumed that HWY 101 would experience a crash reduction of 80% resulting in an
annual crash savings of $74,239/year related to Elk River travelers.
It should be noted that in the application Mn/DOT prepared for the SaM (Safety and Mobility)
funding, Mn/DOT added crashes to this intersection that previously occurred at South Diamond
Lake Road. These crashes were eliminated with the flyover project, but Mn/DOT has assumed that
they will resurface at this intersection. We did not assume the cost of these crashes in this
calculation in an effort to be conservative in our analysis.
Elk River Percentage i 5.895
Eqc River Crash CosUyr $92,799
Proposed Crash Reductior- 8095
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Savings Related to Reducing Delay
This calculation is related to the total amount of delay for the roadway network associated with this
intersection. Currently there is an existing pm peak hour intersection delay of 203 hours, which
would be reduced to three hours after the proposed interchange is constructed. This will result in a
total time savings of 200 hours. There are many different ways to calculate the value of time delay
with the most common method incorporating a dollar per hour per person for their time which
includes operation and maintenance of the vehicle. This is calculated to be $13.80 per hour per
person, or using the 1.35 occupancy rate, arriving at an $18.63 value per vehicle. The $13.80 value
was provided from the U.S. DOT Guidance of Travel Time in Economic Analysis, 2003. The
annual delay savings as calculated below amounts to $147,414/year.
PM Peak Hour