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UNAPPROVED Mayor Coughlin stated this was received in the Council office. Mayor Coughlin stated he spent a fair amount of time this morning digging through those documents and reading them. Mayor Coughlin cannot speak for anyone else, but in light of the realignment nothing seemed to be important. We also received a memo from Mr. Jopke as well pertaining to the first part of your question. Ms. Olson asks if there are any plans so that the citizens that are here as well as the ones at home could see where the actual realignment is going and what part of City Hall it is facing. Ms. Olson stated she thought that when a preliminary approval came back, what we are going to look at with that for changes it was stated that MNDOT did not necessarily say that is the curvature or alignment that Edgewood had to be in order to give them a comfort level. Ms. Olson stated because of this storm sewer pond that needs to be built that we are having discussion on, whether it should going to the east, or west. Ms. Olson would like to make sure everyone is comfortable that because of the storm sewer holding pond issue that was quite a surprise to everybody that it was a trunk sewer system that evidently prior Council did not know, or care, that it created some conflict. Ms. Olson stated she would like to make sure that is really where we are going to do the alignment. Mayor Coughlin stated we separated the issues between the road alignment per SE and the ponding control. Mr. Ulrich stated this project was brought to Council, at least preliminary plans and specifications at the February work session, and at that time there were many items that were in the preliminary stage. The plan was sent to MNDOT and the comment sheet that was addressed to Barry Peters, is where MNDOT engineers went through everything and decided what would qualify for State aid and what would not qualify,and if there was any changes that needed to meet the State aid specifications and standards on the street. I believe the alignment Ms. Olson was speaking about, was set by MNDOT many months ago in the early concept stages of this project. Because of the 90 degree intersection that is required there,which also basically established the road or the dry through on this theater project. Mr. Ulrich stated none of this has changed. There is still discussion about which side of the street the pond will go on, these plans and specifications at this time need to be authorized in order to provide for an effective and efficient bidding schedule, so we can get the turn lanes in and a temporary intersection prior to the theater opening. Mr. Wendell Smith, representing Mrs. O'Neil, Carmike Cinemas, and Anthony Properties of Dallas, Texas, in regards to the theater property as it is designated on the opposite side of Highway 10. Mr. Smith stated we have been working on this project for many years. Much time and much expertise has gone into this. Mr. Smith stated he is satisfied that the engineers at MNDOT, our own consultants, and your very hard working staff have gotten through this design. We have looked at inside and out, and we are comfortable that this particular design is one that will work not only for the theater project, but for the City as a whole. We are looking forward to the beginning of construction of this project as soon as possible, with the light winter,hopefully we can get this done even faster than has been anticipated. One of our goals is open as quickly as possible. Mr. Smith stated the way in which we want to do that is to have our temporary access onto Highway 10, while 8C:\ADMIN\MINUTES\CC\2-22-99.CC