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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, October 17,2011 Page 19 a decision on what they intended to do about those changes, such as needing to re- train their children and/or pets,just as others have done or will need to do. Regarding what problem this is solving, Councilmember Pust opined that opening C-2 would serve to solve a community-wide traffic problem in Roseville, which was part of the City Council's job to solve; and that this particular traffic problem had to do with there not being enough east/west connectors to move traffic, and since C-2 was intended to be connected, it made sense to her to connect it. Councilmember Pust opined that such action would also address the increasing traffic on County Road C, recognizing that it was probably caused by Highway 36 congestion, but further opined that the City Council could not solve all problems everywhere by simply putting up barriers like it had done on Wheeler. Council- member Pust opined that this issue was not about commuters from neighboring suburbs from using Roseville streets; this was about getting Roseville traffic to work better. Councilmember Pust noted, in her review of the Parks and Recreation Master Plan, the huge improvements planned for neighborhood parks in this area, which would be funded by the entire community; and how unfair it would be to the overall community of Roseville to ask them to invest in those parks, while not providing a way to access those community assets. MOTION In the best long-term efforts of the City Councilmember Pust moved, and Coun- cilmember Willmus seconded, to connect County Road C-2, as detailed in Sce- nario One (connect roadways between Griggs and Dunlap Street) in the Re- quest for Council Action (RCA) dated October 17, 2011; to do so in this fiscal, not necessarily calendar,year at the discretion of staff and as logistically possi- ble; to use Minnesota State Aid (MSA)-designated funds for this project; to in- stall a concrete sidewalk at the additional costs as outlined on page 3 of the RCA;that the project be paid through MSA funds with no assessment to adjoin- ing property owners; that stop signs be installed as needed; AND that the project be coordinated with the Pulte Homes development to extent possible and feasible and if not logistically possible, that the project be done or completed in 2012. At the request of Mayor Roe regarding the fiscal year, Ms. Bloom responded that the state funds were based on the calendar year, ending December 31, 2011; creat- ing the need to proceed into 2012. Councilmember McGehee stated that she would not support this motion; and con- curred with Mayor Roe in"doing no harm;" and to leave things as they are served to "do no harm. Councilmember McGhee opined that there was no need to harm the existing neighborhood; and no benefit to the larger community. Based on her