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-11- Mr. Childs told the Council members he had protested "any further delays at a time when the contamination levels are rising in the City wells and residents are drinking water the three parties had contaminated" . The Manager said he had told the Board they could expect a "packed house of St. Anthony residents at their next meeting on the issue" . Mr. Childs said he had also "facetiously" stated that he believed it was unfortunate that the residents of St. Anthony had not also been issued the same type of "yellow rubber suit" protection provided the workers cleaning up the contamination at the arms plant. He also said he had been amazed to hear testimony during the hearing that Honeywell had already removed 20 tons of TCE from the contaminated ground. The Council concurred that State Senator Dieterich and Representative Rose should be alerted to the roadblocks which had been placed in the path of a final solution of New Brighton 's and St. Anthony' s water contamination problems and the names of several residents who might best be able to articulate the City' s positions at the next MPCA meeting were suggested for staff to contact. Two proposals from engineering firms to do a preliminary engineering study relating to the possible reconstruction of St. Anthony Boulevard from the Burlington Northern bridge to Ridgeway Parkway on the City ' s eastern boundary had been included in the agenda packet along with the Manager ' s July 13th memorandum reporting staff ' s recommendation that the low bidder, Reike, Carroll , and Muller, be retained to do the study. Mr. Childs commented that RCM had also been the engineers who had provided the city with • such a "thorough, imaginative" study on the water contamination problem. He also said Mr. Hamer would be seeking a source of funding for the project which staff recognized had a high priority in the eyes of both the Council and City residents. When Councilmember Marks expressed some concern that "the street would become a ' speedway' once it is repaired" , the Manager said he perceived striping the roadway as had been done on Silver Lake Road, might help to prevent that happening. Motion by Councilmember Ranallo and seconded by Councilmember Marks to authorize Reike, Carroll , Muller Associates to prepare a preliminary engineering report related to the reconstruction of St . Anthony Boulevard from the railroad bridge to the south City limits with the understanding that the City would pay $4,000 for the study at this time and, if and when, the project is done with MSA funds , would be reimbursed for those costs. Motion carried unanimously. Copies of correspondence related to the transfer of cable stock had been provided in the agenda packet for informational purposes only, according to the Manager, who had also included in the packet a copy of the July 16th response from the Ramsey County construction engineer on the County Road D reconstruction project which had been sent as a follow-up to the July 14th meeting with the project contractor which the Manager had attended. Mr. Childs reported the project managers had indicated they intended to complete the reconstruction of the intersection closest to the Amoco station and then open up the traffic in the completed west lane running north and south on Silver Lake Road, turning next to the southeast corner of that intersection where the old house had been removed. The plans are to detour traffic past the Rapid Oil station almost to the new pizza store► where it would then