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Mounds View City Council November 13, 2007 <br />Regular Meeting Page 3 <br /> <br />MOTION/SECOND: Mueller/Flaherty. To Postpone this Item to the November 26, 2007 City 1 <br />Council Meeting. 2 <br /> 3 <br /> Ayes – 4 Nays – 0 Motion carried. 4 <br /> 5 <br />B. Public Hearing to Consider Resolution 7182 Approving the Feasibility 6 <br />Report, Ordering the Project, Authorizing Plans and Specifications for the 7 <br />County Road 10 Trailway Project: Segments 1 - 5 8 <br /> 9 <br />Public Works Director Lee provided an explanation of the Feasibility Report for the Highway 10 10 <br />Trailway Project. Funding for the project will come from a Federal Transportation Grant and the 11 <br />remainder from the City’s TIF funds. 12 <br /> 13 <br />Acting Mayor Stigney opened the public hearing. 14 <br /> 15 <br />Mr. Helzer said that he is surprised that more people are not concerned about this and said that 16 <br />this is costing almost $100,000 for a tenth of a mile. He then said that he does not think that the 17 <br />City needs this right now. 18 <br /> 19 <br />Hearing no further comments, Acting Mayor Stigney closed the public hearing. 20 <br /> 21 <br />Council Member Flaherty indicated that the project has gone up $500,000 in 18 months. He then 22 <br />said that he does not think this needs to be moved on right now. 23 <br /> 24 <br />Public Works Director Lee explained that the funds are available in 2009 and there is 25 <br />approximately 12 to 18 months after that to use the funds. 26 <br /> 27 <br />Council Member Mueller indicated that she would be willing to discuss this further at the work 28 <br />session but would hate to see the City lose the grant funds. 29 <br /> 30 <br />Acting Mayor Stigney said that he has heard similar comments from other residents regarding the 31 <br />cost of this project. 32 <br /> 33 <br />MOTION/SECOND: Flaherty/Mueller. To Refer this Back to the Work Session for Further 34 <br />Discussion. 35 <br /> 36 <br /> Ayes – 4 Nays – 0 Motion carried. 37 <br /> 38 <br /> C. First Reading of Ordinance 800, Revising the Mounds View City Charter 39 <br /> Pertaining to Miscellaneous and Transitory Provisions Associated with the 40 <br /> Frequency of the Preparation of the City Newsletter 41 <br /> 42 <br />Assistant to the Administrator Crane explained that the intent of this is to reduce the number of 43 <br />issues of Mounds View Matters from six down to four. This will save the City money with 44 <br />printing and delivery for those additional two issues. 45