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ti • could be done in the work session next Monday. Mr. Marty would like to move to postpone to the February 8 Council meeting, so we can meet with Tony Bennett and Paul (Kirkwald) next Monday night at the work session. Motion/Second: Marty/Thomason. Motion to postpone consideration of the realignment discussion until the next meeting, which is February 8, and also direct staff to present this at the Council work session February 1. Mayor Coughlin stated he failed to mention in his report that he had extended an invitation to our commissioner, Tony Bennett, to speak before our Council at a work session and in talking with his assistant said that February 1 work session would be a good time for Tony's schedule to be here. Mr. Quick asked if the county commissioner and someone who deals with county roads, are they going to have any information on U.S. Trunk Highway. Mr. Quick stated postponing this will just slow down the process of realigning the street. Mayor Coughlin stated it is his understanding that this section of Highway 10 is being turned back to the county level some time in late spring, early summer. Rick Jopke stated that the word staff has received is that the turn back could occur as soon as July of this year. Since it is a funding of State, we still have to approve plans. Mr. Stigney stated the ponding issue dealing with this road needs some additional discussion. Wendell Smith, representing Anthony properties of Dallas, Texas. Mr. Smith objects to postponing and tabling approving the preliminary plans. Mr. Smith states he was working on this project for over three years and have been working with Council and City staff during that period of time and in good faith we have followed through in working with the resolutions that the City has passed in regards to this. We have spent millions of dollars on this project. This project is now scheduled for completion April 15. We have moved ahead based on good faith working with the Council and City staff. You have before you a schedule that was provided by SEH, your architectural engineering consultant with the City in which construction is to begin on the intersection, of the "right in," and "right out," to the theater as of April 12, 1999. In order to get to that point in which the theater then could open no later than May 1, 1999, by tabling or postponing the giving of these plans to the State of Minnesota, you are jeopardizing the opening of that theater and the ability of that theater to do its business. Mr. Smith stated if this is tabled tonight and we find ourselves not being able to open on time based on that, then we have to look at our legal avenues we must have to take from the City standpoint individually so that we may progress based on what the City has stated. Gary Collis, 2390 Pinewood Circle. Mr. Collis stated: "This intersection looks good, but he proposes that this be postponed because of not addressing Edgewood Drive, up at County Road I.