| Each year city engineers must submit the necessary information that explains their road, structure, and railroad crossing funding Needs to the Commissioner of Transportation via the State Aid system. The municipal screening board uses this information to make recommendations to the Commissioner regarding the money needs of each urban municipality. An urban municipality is a city having a population of 5,000 or over, based on the latest federal census, State Demographer’s and Metropolitan Council’s population estimates or in the case of a new municipality, the Articles of Incorporation. An urban municipality’s Municipal State Aid Street (MSAS) system is comprised of 20 percent of a city’s county road and local improved mileage. County roads and County State Aid Highways (CSAH) that have reverted back to the municipality may be included above the 20 percent mileage limitation.
A screening board, appointed by the Commissioner of Transportation is composed of one city engineer from each of the eight Mn/DOT districts, 2 engineers from the Metro Division, and one engineer from each of the first class cities (100,000 or more population), shall annually review all information as to the money needs of the MSAS system and shall submit to the Commissioner on or before the first day of November of each year, its recommendations as to each urban municipality's money needs. The screening board directs State Aid as to the desirable contents of the needs studies within the limits of the law, and determines the methods or procedures and limitations to be used in the measurement of need. Each engineer is furnished with a current copy of the Screening Board Resolutions.
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