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~~ ~~ <br />K ~, <br />'~ <br />~~~ {~ S `~ <br />'~ <br />Mounds View City Council <br />August 26, 1990 <br />Duane W. McCarty <br />8060 Long Lake Rd. <br />Mounds View, .Minn. 55112 <br />Questions regarding the Mayor's repeated .claims that various <br />problems of this council are directly related to actions (or <br />implied inactions) of past City Councils and restrictive state <br />laws regarding recent City .issues. <br />New Highway 10/610 (118) <br />In a Focus news article dated April 4, 1990 regarding the new Hwy. <br />10 plans, Mayor Hankner was quoted as stating that ..."'previous <br />Mounds View councils had failed to take any action on the issue... <br />which is why we find ourselves in this position "'. This statement <br />was repeated on several occasions and in fact was included as part <br />of Council Resolution #3024 approving new Highway 10/610 and <br />Realigning County Road J. <br />I personally presented this council with a lengthy list of actions <br />( • taken by past councils regarding the Hwy 10 project. That list <br />was only a partial record of the many times Hwy ZO was addressed <br />by Mounds View City Councils dating back to 1971. For what ever <br />reasons-- funding, right-of-way acquisitions etc. new state <br />highway constructions take a very long time. And, the public <br />hearing processes connected therewith are extremely important to <br />those projects. All past hearings, except one, held by the <br />Minnesota Department of Transportation, to receive comments or <br />approvals from local units of government were attended by past <br />Mounds View Officials. The MNDOT process began with corridor <br />selections, specific alignment selection, environmental impact <br />statements, and final design and location plans. <br />Official transcripts of those hearings show that the only hearing <br />not attended, or response missing from Mounds View, was the <br />critical Design and Location hearing held in October of 1986. <br />Mayor Hankner's charges are not totally without merit. It is true <br />that members of the majority of this council, who were in office <br />at that time, did not respond on behalf of Mounds View residents. <br />Question: <br />Why was that missed representation on the final design and <br />location process in 1986 (which this council failed to provide) <br />often represented as blame upon other City Councils by this <br />,;~ administration? <br />