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ds View City Council lar Meeting Page Ten October 28, 1991 Councilmember Rickaby's Statement (cont'd) After the meeting I drew up flyers to inform my neighbors of my mistake and that the rumors were correct. The statement from the flyers that Councilmember characterized as a misquote was never intended to be an exact quote. That is why is was not enclosed in quotation marks. .Rather it was intended as a paraphrase of what she said. The statement read, "Phyllis Blanchard says she thinks the brunt of the traffice SHOULD BE on Groveland Road because it is wider than the rest." When Councilmember Blanchard accused me of libel at the last meeting I asked her to clarify what her words were. This is what she said, "What I said at that time was: Groveland Road was built to take more traffic than Knollwood or Red Oak Drive. It is wider; is built up better. It was the place where with this intersection coming in the traffic is going to be coming down Groveland Road. There is no-doubt about the fact that Groveland is going to get more. And that is what I said. I did not say that it should be. I said that this was the logical road of the three. It will get more traffic because it was built, it is constructed at this time to take more traffic. I stand by my memoray of what Councilmember Blanchard said and the paraphrase of it in my flyer. I believe any court of law would find her clarification similar enough to the paraphrase to find NO false statement involved. I am not going to apologize for informing my neighbors that the rumors and there fears were correct and that my reassurances were mistaken. Nor do I consider it a "disservice" to put out that flyer to only part of Groveland as Mayor Linke suggested. I put it out to the part of Groveland that would be most impacted by the clsoing of the Red Oak access. According to the sudy done by the City, if the Red Oak access is closed, the traffic on Groveland will DECREASE when the interchange goes through. However, if the Red Oak access is closed, the traffic on Groveland will INCREASE. However the portion of Groveland south of Sherwood would be least impacted because of vehicles heading over to Red Oak Drive at Ardan and Sherwood to access Highway 10 at the traffic light. Therefore i did not pass out flyers. to resident of Groveland South of Sherwood where Councilmember Blanchard lives. Nor do T consider the closing of the Red oak access a dead issue just because the Mayor elected not to pursue it after his • canvassing of the Council at the work session. Part of this agreement with MNDOT was that the access can be later closed if the council so requests. If Mayor Linke was bold enough to