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-5- her our fiscal consultants could work with the Council on their decisions re- garding assessments. Councilman Sauer then withdrew his motion to amend the resolution. Mayor Miedtke withdrew the resolution. Motion by Councilman Stauffer, seconded by Councilman Sauer to table action on the Street Improvement Project until the Council has received all the inform- ation it had requested regarding soil borings results, a decision on MSA funding and assessing advice from a fiscal consultant. Motion carried. Mr. Comstock tried to estimate the time it would take to get the infozmation the Council needed. Motion by Mayor Miedtke to direct the Engineer to prepare a plan for upgrading 29th Avenue with a 40 foot, back to back, 9 ton road utilizing all the existing curbing possible. The motion died for lack of a second. Councilman Stauffer then expressed a desire for more information on the costs for a road of lesser design and wanted to know if trucks could legally be kept off a 5 ton road. The City Attorney said that if the street is a municipal street the city can impose reasonable restrictions on trucking. He said he felt reasonable restrict- ion might mean not cutting off the flow of existing traffic. The Council and the Engineer again discussed the methods of changing a designat- ion of a street from a Minnesota State Aid to a municipal street. Mayor Miedtke reminded the Council that if the street is removed from MSA the act- ion will result in a drop in allocation of MSA funds for the whole community. He told them that he and State Senator Stowkowski had discussed future legislation dealing with the practice of municipalities designating a good percentage of their streets as MSA streets in order to get state funding. He asked the Council to consider whether they wanted to take 29th off MSA designation and lose funding or if they wanted to designate another street to take its place to retain the funding. Councilman Stauffer wanted to consider the alternatives of (1) making a smaller road (2) paying the full amount of construction costs of such a road and (3) making the best efforts possible to limit traffic on 29th. She also wanted to consider the drawbacks of waiting for a decision. Councilman Sundland felt that, if the completion of construction of Highway 8 might alleviate the truck traffic problem on 29th, the Council should wait and see. Tom Shaffer, 2513 29th Avenue N.E. , accused the Council of ignoring the first petition the residents had delivered to the Council at the May 28th meeting which • he said stated that the road did not require replacement and the residents did not wish replacement. He said "The present petition is only a holding action".