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• 6 <br /> 1 Mr. Childs asked what it would cost in terms of legal terms to do that. <br /> 2 He said Briggs and Morgan' s costs up to this time were $26,573 and the <br /> 3 City' s share of using the Leisch firm was $13 ,000, for a total of <br /> 4 $39, 000 . <br /> 5 Mr. McDonald said he didn' t perceive it would cost the City much just to <br /> 6 keep an eye on things. He also pointed out it might not be good for the <br /> 7 City to have their injunctive claims in the Summary Judgment entirely <br /> 8 dismissed but it might be better to keep those pending so St. Anthony <br /> 9 can continue to have some say in the remedy strengthen the lawsuit. He <br /> 10 added that: <br /> .11 *the City doesn' t know exactly what' s going to happen at the <br /> 12 Summary Judgment hearing September 23rd and the legal defense <br /> 13 costs of resisting that motion by the defendants would only last <br /> 14 between now and the hearing and would cease after that; <br /> 15 *the next legal expenses would be the cost of monitoring the Army <br /> 16 and MPCA input during the public process during which attorney <br /> 17 would be allowed input along the way; <br /> 18 *for instance, after the feasibility study is done, and the pre- <br /> 19 liminary list of alternatives is offered by the Army, the City <br /> 0 might want to look at those and suggest which makes sense and <br /> 1 which don' t; <br /> 22 *in other words, the City would want to try to direct the Army and <br /> 23 MPCA towards an alternative which would be beneficial for the <br /> 24 City; <br /> 25 *this would involve some attorney participation combined with City <br /> 26 Manager/Council input with Bruce Leisch. <br /> 27 Councilmember Makowske asked whether the City was providing data <br /> 28 developed by the Leisch firm to the EPA' s engineering studies tracking <br /> 29 the contaminant plume or whether the two studies would be combined <br /> 30 later. <br /> 31 Mr. McDonald told her the Leisch people have been meeting with the EPA <br /> 32 and their technical experts have met with the Army to try to convince <br /> 33 them that the plume had reached St. Anthony. The Leisch people will be <br /> 34 monitoring the off side investigative process which will be mainly done <br /> 35 by the MPCA and the EPA. Mr. McDonald said he felt fairly comfortable <br /> 36 that there was not too much in that area to worry about because the MPCA <br /> 37 have already stated that the plume had already reached St. Anthony and <br /> 38 gone beyond. He also stated he didn' t expect a lot of involvement by <br /> 39 the attorneys over the technical issues. <br /> w40 Councilmember Ranallo said that was the point he wanted to make that it <br /> 1 might not be necessary for the City to be monitoring the process but it <br />