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City Engineer Jankowski explained that there were 52 signatures on the petition; ten <br />duplicates were discounted, five property owners who signed were on side streets so <br />those were discounted, one party was a former resident so that signature was discounted <br />and one property had a name change; however, it was verified and that signature was kept <br />in. There were 35 valid signatures and 24 signatures were needed. <br />Mr. Kingston explained he feels the petition is valid. He explained that residents <br />approached the City to change the scope of the project from an overlay to a <br />reconstruction. The purpose for the petition was against the sidewalk but in favor of the <br />reconstruction. <br />Brian Lether, 16250 Andrie Street NW, stated he is in favor of the reconstruction and <br />opposed to the sidewalk. The funds are better spent on reconstruction only. <br />Motion by Councilmember Wise, seconded by Councilmember Jeffrey to close the public <br />hearing. <br />Motion carried. Voting Yes: Mayor Ramsey, Councilmembers Wise, Jeffrey, Dehen, <br />Look and McGlone. Voting No: None. Absent: Councilmember Elvig. <br />Council Business <br />Mayor Ramsey called the regular portion of the City Council meeting back to order at <br />7:25 p.m. <br />Councilmember Look questioned the next steps in the process. We wait 60 days for a <br />counter petition, Council would order the project, and then staff would prepare <br />plans /specs with the sidewalk as an alternate and go out to bid. He asked about the MSA <br />balance. <br />Director of Public Works Olson responded that the City utilized MSA funds in recent <br />years due to the risk of losing the funds if they are kept over from year to year. We <br />expect to get about $880,000 in funds in 2009 that we can use for this project. <br />Councilmember Look asked if staff is concerned about spending that amount on this one <br />project. <br />Mr. Olson responded that a much smaller project was planned for but we proposed a <br />sidewalk internally and we should have some kind of indication where the City Council <br />stands on this. There are some concerns about spending all this money on one project <br />because we have a lot of needs in the City. It is not a simple overlay — it is expensive and <br />there are some concerns, but we can accomplish this if it is the desire of the Council. <br />Councilmember Dehen stated he is not sure he is in favor of a sidewalk or not but one of <br />the stated policies of the City Council was to recognize walk - ability of our <br />City Council /January 13, 2009 <br />Page 6 of 32 <br />