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Resolution No. 2005 -64 $700,000 to the project to cover the cost of repairs to the bridge and bridge approaches. ODOT informed the City that, if the City could not provide the additional funding, this section of the roadway would be eliminated completely from the resurfacing project; and WHEREAS, on December 14, 2004 the Mayor of the City of North Olmsted wrote a letter to ODOT stating that there was not enough money in the municipal budget for the City to contribute an additional $700,000 to the project. Thereafter, on December 29, 2004 the City received a letter from ODOT stating that the resurfacing project would be changed so as to not include the approaches to the bridge over Interstate -480, or the bridge itself, and that the project would terminate at the south limited access right of way of Interstate 480; and WHEREAS, in a meeting held on March 7, 2005 between the City and ODOT, ODOT suggested that the City try to obtain funding from other sources such as NOACA or OPWC Issue 2; and WHEREAS, since the City was only recently informed that its total share of the project cost would be approximately $750,000, instead of $51,000, the City is not prepared to and cannot provide the additional funding requested by ODOT. Moreover, not only does an application for Issue 2 funding require time to process and, even if granted, would arrive too late for this year's ODOT's resurfacing project, but there is no guarantee that the City would be awarded Issue 2 funding for this project; and WHEREAS, this project is desperately needed for the year 2005, because, according to the Cuyahoga County Engineer's Office traffic count data, in 1998 the average daily traffic passing through the intersection of Great Northern Boulevard and the north I -480 ramps was 57,389 vehicles per day. According to the Cuyahoga County Engineer's data, this is the 10th busiest intersection in Cuyahoga County. The pavement base replacement project on the approaches to the Interstate 480 Bridge over State Route 252 will benefit at least 57,389 people per day; and WHEREAS, this project is further desperately needed for the year 2005, because the City of North Olmsted routinely receives complaints about the present deteriorated condition of the pavement on the approaches to the Interstate 480 bridge, which have been communicated to ODOT. This section of State Route 252 is one of the worst in North Olmsted. The City of North Olmsted Service Department has done extensive patching of the holes and joints to maintain the pavement, but it is projected that soon patching alone will not be enough to maintain the pavement on these approaches; and WHEREAS, the Mayor and this Council believe that, given the City's current fiscal condition and the extreme need for the road and bridge repairs in question, the City of North Olmsted has no practicable means of addressing the deteriorated condition of State Route 252 at its approaches to the bridge over Interstate 480, and the bridge itself, other than to petition ODOT to reconsider and, upon reconsideration, to reincorporate the section of State Route 252, from Country Club Boulevard to Al Moen Drive, including the approaches to and the bridge over Interstate 480, back into the 2005 Urban Repaving Program, and for ODOT to assume and pay the additional $700,000.00 in costs related to repairs to the approaches to and the bridge over Interstate 480;