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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,December 8, 2014 Page 39 Specific to comments by Councilmember McGehee that the City had lost poten- tial business to New Brighton, Councilmember Willmus opined that one over- whelming factor in that was that the City of New Brighton controlled the land versus multiple private owners of this area in Roseville. Councilmember Willmus stated that his focus was how to move the community forward and work with neighbors and property owners for everyone's future best benefit, and not continue looking over their shoulder. Councilmember Willmus opined that the best scenario to accomplish that was to pursue an updated traffic study and determine impacts based on information received today. Councilmember Etten sought additional information on the cost of an updated traffic study as part of the larger work currently being done for the City by SRF. City Engineer Culver advised that SRF would rerun the model to make sure they had an up-to-date and accurate projection of 2030 traffic volumes, as well as im- pacts to traffic infrastructure in this area. Mr. Culver anticipated that update could be accomplished for an estimated additional fee of$8,000 to $10,000. Councilmember Etten asked Mr. Culver if he saw any benefit of working with Ramsey County for financial assistance for Lydia Avenue and/or County Road D improvements. Mr. Culver responded that staff continued to pressure Ramsey County for updates for Lydia and Fairview, but their cooperation would be dependent on receipt of federal grants or other grant funding to accomplish the work. Mr. Culver opined that updated traffic numbers would certainly further that cause, however, he could not guarantee it would come to fruition. Councilmember Etten questioned if the City would derive more benefit from this through working with other entities to relive some of the funding pressures. Mr. Culver responded that it had already been determined with the 2007 AUAR that these improvements would ultimately be needed, and opined that an updated traffic study would allow the City to put pressure on those other entities to move those remedies forward. Mr. Culver advised that staff had informally continued to discuss with those entities the shifting of their focus to Lydia Avenue, County Road D and Fairview Avenue. Councilmember Laliberte noted that, at the beginning of tonight's meeting, she had sought to delay this discussion. Laliberte moved, McGehee seconded, not acting on this design services contract at this time; inviting Public Works staff and Commissioner McGuire to discuss