#115 09-05-78 Authorize Participate TH 12 Task ForceResolution #115
September 5, 1978
Member Anderson introduced and read the written resolution and moved its
adoption:
RESOLUTION
(Authorizing Participation in Highway #12 Task Force)
WHEREAS, the Golden Valley City Council recognizes the necessity to
upgrade Highway #12 to better serve the needs of Golden Valley and the over
all transportation needs of the Minneapolis and the Western Suburbs and:
WHEREAS, the Golden Valley City Council is committted to and supports
an improvement program for T.H. #12 and;
WHEREAS, T.H. #12 crosses the borders of Golden Valley, Minnetonka,,
Minneapolis, Plymouth, St. Louis Park and Wayzata, and;
WHEREAS, this creates the need for communities to meet to work cooper-
atively to iddntify improvements to T.H. #12 that would be to their common
benefit and;
WHEREAS, the Mayors of these communities have met to share their ideas
about the needs for T.H. #12 and;
WHEREAS, further cooperation could best be facilitated through establish-
ment of a group of joint community task forces, and;
WHEREAS, the Minnesota Department of Transportation has agreed to provide
assistance to such task forces and encourages such efforts to provide it with
input in preparation of the final environmental impact statement on its request
for Federal Interstate Freeway Funds to upgrade T.H. #12 and;
WHEREAS, such task forces will not be decision making bodies, but rather
each communities representatives will be responsible for reporting back to their
respective City Councils who shall retain full authority for committing their
communities relative to improvement of T.H. #12.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Golden Valley City Council hereby
approves participation in:
1. A task force to study the area from Penn Avenue to Zarthan Avenue
to be composed of Representatives of Minneapolis, Golden Valley and
St. Louis Park.
2. A task force to study the area blest of Zarthan to and includinq
Winnetka to be composed of Representatives from Golden Valley and
St. Louis Park.
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3. A task force to study the interchange and service roads for the
County Road #18 interchange (West of Winnetka to County Rd. #73)
to be composed of Representatives from Plymouth, Minnetonka, St.
Louis Park and Golden Valley.
4. A task force to study the areas West of County Road #73 to Wayzata
to be composed of Representatives of Minnetonka, Plymouth Wayzata.
FURTHER, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of Golden Valley shall
1. Two Representatives and two alternates, if desired, to the task
forces it is named to participate in.
2. Appoints it Mayor who shall, along with the Mayors of other
communities,which border T.H. #12 east of 494, and the President of
the Minneapolis City Council, meet with MNDOT to monitor the progress
of the Task Forces.
ROBERT R.HOOVER, MAYOR
ATTEST:
JOHN MURPHY, CIN CLERK
The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded
by Member Johnson and upon vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor
thereof: Anderson, Hoover, Johnson, Stockman and Thorsen and the following voted
against the same: none, whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and
adopted, signed by the Mayor and his signature attested by the City Clerk.
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