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PROCEEDINGS OF THE MOUNDS VIEW CITY COUNCIL 1 CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW 2 RAMSEY COUNTY, MINNESOTA 3 4 Regular Meeting 5 August 28, 2006 6 Mounds View City Hall 7 2401 Highway 10, Mounds View, MN 55112 8 7:00 P.M. 9 10 11 1. MEETING IS CALLED TO ORDER 12 13 2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 14 15 3. ROLL CALL: Mayor Marty, Councilmember Stigney, Councilmember Gunn, 16 Councilmember Flaherty, and Councilmember Thomas 17 18 NOT PRESENT: None. 19 20 4. APPROVAL OF AGENDA 21 22 A. Monday, August 28, 2006 City Council Agenda 23 24 MOTION/SECOND: GUNN/FLAHERTY. To Approve the Monday, August 28, 2006 agenda 25 as presented. 26 27 Ayes – 5 Nays – 0 Motion carried. 28 29 5. PUBLIC INPUT 30 31 Tom Nelson, 8315 Red Oak Drive, stated he is concerned about traffic on his road. He 32 mentioned there are many children on Red Oak Drive and there are lots of vehicles cutting 33 through. He noted the speeds are very high and there are many more large trucks and buses. He 34 stated if there is an accident on Highway 65 or on 35W, the traffic is even worse. He asked if 35 there is anything the City can do to curb the cut through traffic. 36 37 Mr. Nelson noted that there was a study done 10 years ago and the Mayor at that time had said 38 there was no problem. He stated that the traffic is horrendous and out of control. He asked the 39 City to do something to slow traffic down and deter cut-through. 40 41 Mayor Marty stated he spoke with Public Works Director Lee and noted a traffic count was done 42 several years ago and the City should have it in their records. He suggested Public Works 43 compare the traffic counts from then and those that were done more recently. Director Lee stated 44 Public Works is aware of the problems and there are traffic counts for every odd year back 45